Happening @ Michigan

Symposium | Graffiti in Ancient Nubia and Beyond

This half-day event features nine scholars from around the world who will discuss graffiti in ancient and medieval Nubia and the broader...

Saturday Sampler Tour | University of Michigan Excavations

Approximately half of the Kelsey Museum's collections come from archaeological excavations around the Mediterranean and Middle East....

Sunday Drop-In Tour | A Glimpse of the Kelsey Museum in French and English

Prepare your passport! This tour will take you back in time to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Greece, Egypt and Rome through...

Imperial Allusion for the Masses: Awash in Innuendo at the Baths of Caracalla

Maryl Gensheimer

Sponsored by the Ann Arbor Society of the Archaeological Institute of America...

The Premodern Colloquium. Reading Storied Ground in Medieval Rome

Erik Inglis, Oberlin College

This paper argues that medieval Romans read elements in the city-scape to discover the evidence of sacred history. I use three case studies...

MEMS Lecture Series. 'It Began with a Picture', or, Inventing Stories to Make Sense of Images in the European Middle Ages.

Erik Inglis, Oberlin College

This paper examines medieval discussions of iconography, what an image represents. It concentrates on what Dale Kinney has called narrative...

Saturday Sampler Tour | Mythology

Once you start to look closely, you’ll be amazed at how many Kelsey artifacts are decorated with heroes, gods, goddesses, and mythological...

Verbal and Visual Rhetoric in 3rd Millennium BCE Egypt

Julie Stauder-Porchet, Swiss National Science Foundation & Université de Genève

At Qubbet el-Hawa, the elite necropolis associated with the trading town of Elephantine (near Aswan), a series of inscribed tombs were dug...

Saturday Sampler Tour | Read and Look: "The Museum"

“When I see a work of art, something happens in my heart.”...

Sunday Drop-In Tour | Rome Through the Eyes of its Emperors

For over 500 years Rome was ruled by emperors. Some enjoyed decades in power, while some lasted less than a year. Being an Emperor could be...

Family Day | Graffiti and Ancient Kush

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The Via Pumpaiiana: a Biography

Eric Poehler

Sponsored by the Ann Arbor Society of the Archaeological Institute of America...

Saturday Sampler Tour | Archaeology

When you visit the Kelsey Museum, do you find yourself wondering how the artifacts on display were excavated? What techniques were used in...