6 PM, RSVP HERE.

Join a free talk with Nashville artist Duncan McDaniel.

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6 PM, RSVP required

Join a free book club with the Archaeological Institute of America, Nashville Society! This quarter’s book is Digging for Richard III by Mike Pitts.

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11 AM Central, REGISTER

Join a free virtual talk with Sylvie Dumont, retired Registrar of Athenian Agora Excavations in Athens, Greece.

Registration required.

6 PM - RSVP required

Join a free book club with the Archaeological Institute of America, Nashville Society! This quarter’s book is The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.

6 PM - RSVP required

Join a free talk in the Naos on Level 2 by Dr. Tom Dawson, archaeologist and Principal Research Fellow at University of St Andrews. He will share his work on the history, archaeology, and heritage of Scotland’s coastal communities.

10 AM Central - REGISTER

Join a free virtual talk by Dr. Ioulia Tzonou, a Greek archaeologist and Associate Director at Corinth Excavations in Ancient Corinth, Greece. Dr. Tzonou will speak about the history of American excavations in Corinth from 1896-present.

6 PM Central - REGISTER

Join a free virtual talk with Dr. Franklin Kelly of the National Gallery of Art who will share about the life and works of American painter Sanford Gifford (1823-1880).

6 PM - RSVP required

Join a free book club with the Archaeological Institute of America, Nashville Society! This quarter’s book is Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips. All are welcome.

11 AM Central

Join a free virtual talk about ancient Greece & replicas with the Kotsanas Museum of Technology in Greece!

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6 PM, RSVP required

Join a free book club with the Archaeological Institute of America, Nashville Society! This quarter’s book is Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker.

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6 PM, RSVP required

Join a free talk in the Naos on Level 2 by Dr. Becky Martin, archaeologist and associate professor at Boston University. Dr. Martin will share her work on representations of Africans in the ancient Mediterranean.

6 PM

Join a free virtual talk with artists from the Tennessee Triennial art show on display.

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6 PM, RSVP required

Join a free book club with the Archaeological Institute of America, Nashville Society! This quarter’s book is Circe by Madeline Miller.

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9 AM Central

Join a free virtual talk about the art and science of archaeological conservation. Speaker Nicol Anastassatou is the Head Conservator at Corinth Excavations in Ancient Corinth, Greece, and will show examples and methods of conservation in order to preserve the past and help archaeologists better understand ancient lives.

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12 PM

Join a free virtual talk about casts of the Parthenon Marbles from the world’s leading expert on the subject, Dr. Emma Payne (University College London).

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12 PM

Join a free virtual talk by Dr. Kevin Smith, archaeologist and professor at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr. Smith will share his work to understand the pigments and colors used by Native Americans right here in ancient Tennessee.

Registration required.

6 PM

Join a free virtual talk by Maria Sellers, graduate student at George Mason University. Sellers will share her incredible research to reconstruct the color of the Pandora frieze at the base of the Athena statue.

Registration required.

6 PM Central

Join us the Parthenon a free virtual talk by experts from Reed’s Gold Leaf, and hear all about the 2002 project to add gold to our beloved statue of Athena. Registration required.

6 PM

What were people like in ancient Greece? In conjunction with our temporary exhibit The Odyssey: A Retelling, this free talk will share about ancient Greek identities. RSVP required.

6 PM Central — Virtual

Register for the free virtual talk “Monuments and Men: How Black Tennesseans Leveraged The Tennessee Centennial Exposition to Organize The Negro Department, Raise the Negro Building, and Demonstrate their Enterprising Acumen” by Dr. Crystal A. deGregory.

Registration on Zoom required.

6 PM (registration required)

Join a free virtual talk with Red Arrow Gallery founder Katie Shaw and artists from the Red Arrow - Show Up! Hear the history of the gallery, and meet the artists who will share their inspiration and stories behind their work. Registration required.

6 PM Central

Register to join a free virtual talk with expert archaeologist Heather F. Sharpe. Dr. Sharpe will speak about the drinking vessels used at ancient Greek Symposia and the game kottabos— the art of wine flinging!

Dr. Davide Tanasi will talk about fish and fish products! They are an important nutritive source for humans, rich in proteins, fats and fat-soluble vitamins and they were largely celebrated and discussed in various genres of Greek literatures.

Dr. Georgianna Moraitou will speak about archaeological conservation. Specifically, she will focus on bronze conservation and discuss common treatments and methods that can help to clean, stabilize and display bronze once unearthed by archaeologists. Dr. Moraitou will show examples of artifacts before and after conservation and explain some of the considerations that conservators take to carefully conserve and preserve archaeological evidence. In this way, she will help the audience understand how artifacts such as the Antikythera mechanism can transform from a bronze artifact with concretions to something that can be studied and scanned to make new discoveries.

Dr. Georgianna Moraitou will speak about archaeological conservation. Specifically, she will focus on bronze conservation and discuss common treatments and methods that can help to clean, stabilize and display bronze once unearthed by archaeologists. Dr. Moraitou will show examples of artifacts before and after conservation and explain some of the considerations that conservators take to carefully conserve and preserve archaeological evidence. In this way, she will help the audience understand how artifacts such as the Antikythera mechanism can transform from a bronze artifact with concretions to something that can be studied and scanned to make new discoveries.

After more than 40 years as Director of the Nashville Parthenon, Wesley Paine is retiring! Please join us on Wednesday, May 5 at 6 PM for a virtual celebration of Wesley's leadership of the Nashville Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Join The Archaeological Institute of America and the Nashville Parthenon for a virtual symposia held via Zoom on Thursday, February 25 at noon. This symposium is free and open to the public. Registration coming soon.

Join us on November 12 as Dr. Bill Murray, the Mary and Gus Stathis Professor of Greek History and Professor of Greek History and the Director of the Ancient Studies Center at the University of South Florida, discusses his 40 year search for the for the Battle of Actium.

Join us on October 29 at 6 PM for Philosophically Bound Together: African American and White Women and the Right of the Franchise, a free virtual symposium led by Assistant Director for State Programs at the Tennessee Historical Commission and Professor of History at Fisk University, Linda Wynn.

Join us on October 17, 2020 as the Archaeological Institute of America, Nashville Society, and the Nashville Parthenon celebrate International Archaeology Day throughout a morning of safe, educational archaeological activities that share the legacy of Greek culture and raise awareness of archaeological concepts.