February 26 AIA Lecture: The Handmade’s Tale: Reading Cult and Society in Archaic Corinth
The Omaha-Lincoln Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), in partnership with
Creighton University's Department of Fine and Performing Arts and Joslyn Art Museum, continues its exceptional programming with another free public lecture.
"The Handmade’s Tale: Reading Cult and Society in Archaic Corinth from Terracotta Figurines” presented by Susan Langdon, Ph.D. (right), Professor, Ancient Greek Art and Archaeology, and Department Chair, Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri.
Dr. Langdon focuses on the social use of art and material culture in early Greece through pottery production, votive behavior, social ritual, and the emergence of iconographic traditions. She explores gender and ritual as dynamics in the creation of early figural art and is currently preparing a monograph on the Archaic terracotta votive figurines from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Corinth. Other interests include animals in Greek art and culture, the Early Iron Age in the Cycladic islands, and the role of children in early Greece.
Founded in 1879, the
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) was chartered by the United States Congress in 1906, in recognition of its role in the development and passage of the Antiquities Act, which Theodore Roosevelt signed into law that year. Today, the AIA remains committed to preserving the world's archaeological resources and cultural heritage for the benefit of people in the present and in the future. The Lincoln-Omaha Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, chartered in 1995, provides the residents of Nebraska and western Iowa opportunities to attend lectures by prominent international, national, and local archaeologists.