Dear friends,

We are going out with a bang this year: no fewer than 3 lectures are scheduled in the coming week. All are free and open to the public:

Tuesday April 17 at 7:30 pm in the McClung Museum:
Frederick H. van Doorninck, Jr., Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University, “The Eleventh-Century Serçe Limanı Shipwreck: Bulgarian Seafaring Merchants in Muslim Syria.” Lecture organized by the East Tennessee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the McClung Museum. Sponsored by the Haines-Morris Distinguished Lecture Fund, Department of Classics and by Marco.
This lecture will in particular discuss how archaeological evidence from the shipwreck points to very close, peaceful relations between Christians and Muslims in Medieval Syria.


Thursday, April 19: two lectures by Thomas G. Palaima, Dickson Centennial Professor of Classics, University of Texas:

12:40-1:55pm, DOR = Dougherty 501: guest lecture in Classics/Anthro 442 (Intensive Survey of the Archaeology of the Prehistoric Aegean). Topic is "Turning Gold into Silver and Other Recent Critical Issues in Mycenaean Paleography."

5:00-6:30 pm, UC Shiloh Room: 2012 Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Classics: "Power in Mycenaean Palatial Territories: Where to Find It, How to Use It, How to Make It Last."

We hope to welcome you at those events!

Aleydis

Aleydis Van de Moortel, PhD
Lindsay Young Associate Professor
Department of Classics
1101 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone (865) 974-8279
Fax (865) 974-7173
Co-director Mitrou Archaeological Project
http://www.mitrou.org/
Secretary-treasurer East Tennessee Society (AIA)
http://web.utk.edu/~classics/aia/aia.html