International Congress of Classical Archaeology

XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology (AIAC)
Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities
Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
August 23-26, 2003

Reduced Early Registration fees extended through June 30 Save $50
off the regular registration fee if you register by June 30.
Register on-line at:
<URL:http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sites/aiac/ancongress.html>;
download a registration form from the AIAC congress web site to
register by Fax: or mail; or call the number listed below to have
one mailed to you.  Full-price registration begins on July 1, 2003.

Keynote Speaker announcement: We are pleased to announce George L.
Huxley will present the AIAC 2003 Keynote Address.  Huxley, a member
of the Royal Irish Academy, Honorary Professor of Trinity College,
Dublin, and former director of the Gennadius Library of the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens will deliver his talk "Art,
Science, and Unifying Vision in Classical Archaeology", on Saturday,
August 23.

Roundtable Discussions
Monday, August 25, 2003
12:30-2 pm
AIAC Today, Creating the FASTI On-Line
Chair, Elizabeth Fentress
Vice President of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia
Classica (AIAC)

    Discussion on latest plans for creating an on-line database of
    all excavations in Italy; expanding the project throughout the
    classical world; and goals of AIAC in the next five years.

New Developments and Potential Projects for the US/Italy Long-term
Loan Program
Chair, Bonnie Magness-Gardiner
Senior Cultural Property Analyst, U.S. Department of State

    This roundtable is intended to widen knowledge of the program,
    encourage participation, and discuss potential loan projects.

Hotel Reservations: A special discounted rate of $185.00 single or
double occupancy is still available for congress attendees at the
Sheraton Boston Hotel. The deadline for hotel reservations at the
discounted rate is July 30, 2003.  Make your reservations now to
secure lodgings during Boston's busy summer season.

Make your hotel reservations by phone, by email, or online:
Reservations: 1-800-325-3535 <boston.sales [at] sheraton__com>
<URL:http://www.starwood.com>

For on-line reservations:
    Congress Meeting Code: 13174;
    City Code: Boston

AIAC 2003   Congress Schedule

Saturday, August 23
9am-6pm     Congress Registration

11am-12:30pm Plenary Opening Session

Welcome Remarks:
    AIAC Organizing Committee
    President of AIAC

    I-A     Keynote Speaker: George L. Huxley

1:30-4:30pm Afternoon Sessions

    II-A    History of Archaeology
    II-B    Recycling in Antiquity
    II-C    Magic and Religious Practices
    II-D    Cultural Interactions in the Classical World I
    II-E    New Discoveries:  Greece, Balkans and Turkey
    II-F    Collections and Collectors of Antiquities in 19th
            Century Belgium (Colloquium)
    II-G    Allusions to Elsewhere:  Copies, Fakes and Souvenirs in
            the Roman World (Colloquium)

2-5pm       Exhibit Hall
6-8pm       Welcome Reception, Sheraton Boston Hotel

Sunday, August 24

7:30-9am    Continental Breakfast
9am-6pm     Congress Registration
9am-5pm     Exhibit Hall

9am-12pm    Morning Sessions

    III-A   Museums and Collecting in the Past
    III-B   Crossing Boundaries
    III-C   Post-Antique
    III-D   Numismatics and Epigraphy
    III-E   Investigating Dionysiac Imagery
    III-F   Building the Image of the "Urbs" in Antiquity
            (Colloquium)
    III-G   Revealing the "Logos" of "Techne": Ancient Technology
            through Modern Lenses (Colloquium)
    III-H   Testing Classical Boundaries:  Promises and Problems in
            the Study of the "Periphery" (Colloquium)

11:30am-1:30pm  Poster Session

2-5pm   Afternoon Sessions

    IV-A    New Discoveries: Italy
    IV-B    Houses, Palaces and Villas
    IV-C    Conservation and Restoration
    IV-D    New Discoveries: North Africa
    IV-E    Methods and Meanings in Funerary Practices
    IV-F    Education: Grounding our Knowledge
    IV-G    Roman Social History and Archaeology: New Models and
            Material Evidence (Colloquium)

6-8pm       Buses depart for Fogg Museum Reception and
            viewing of the special exhibition:
            The City of Sardis: Approaches in Graphic Recording

Monday, August 25

7:30-9am    Continental Breakfast
9am-6pm     Congress Registration
9am-5pm     Exhibit Hall

9am-12pm    Morning Sessions

    V-A     Ancient Society I
    V-B     Ancient Technologies I
    V-C     Elements of Architecture in the Ancient World
    V-D     Recording the Past
    V-E     Iconography in Sculpture
    V-F     Real-Time Reconstruction Models for Exhibition and
            Educations:  The Herodian Temple Mount Installation at
            the Davidson Center in Jerusalem (Colloquium)
    V-G     Children in Ancient Greece I (Colloquium)

12:30-2pm   Roundtable Discussions

    V-H     AIAC Today, Creating the FASTI On-Line
    V-I     New Developments and Potential Projects for the US/Italy
            Long-term Loan Program

2-5pm       Afternoon Sessions

    VI-A    Ancient Society II
    VI-B    Ancient Technologies II
    VI-C    Collecting in the Present
    VI-D    Landscapes
    VI-E    Iconography of Myth
    VI-F    Cultural Interactions in the Classical World II
    VI-G    Children in Ancient Greece II (Colloquium)

Tuesday, August 26
8:30am-9am  Closing Remarks

9am         Buses depart for day-long excursion to Hood Museum of
            Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, to view
            the exhibition: Coming of Age in Ancient Greece
9-11am      Exhibit Hall

For more information

    The Organizing Committee of AIAC 2003
    Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art and Numismatics
    Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    Harvard University Art Museums
    32 Quincy Street
    Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA
    617-495-3393
    Fax: 617-495-5506
    AIAC2003 [at] fas__harvard__edu
    <URL:http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/
        sites/aiac/ancongress.html>

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