Event Overview:
The Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) (formerly known as the American Philological Association) will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, January 4–7, 2018.
Sessions exploring artifacts, art, social systems, fashion, cooking vessels, trade networks, shipwrecks, architecture, inscriptions, and archaeological research methods of the classical and New World will be offered.
The AM's conference app allows attendees to create custom schedules from both the AIA and SCS programs. In addition to the nearly 100 sessions offered, attendees can interact with presenters in a one-on-one forum at the poster session or roundtables.
The AIA and SCS Joint Annual Meeting (AM) brings together professional and vocational archaeologists and classicists from around the world to share the latest developments from the field. This well-attended conference is the largest and oldest established meeting of classical scholars and archaeologists in North America.
The AM has grown tremendously over the past decade not only in attendance, but also in the scope of papers presented, demographic of attendees, and focus on professional development, cultural heritage management, new technologies and other topics of critical importance to the field. Each January nearly 3,000 attendees from over 30 countries and nearly every state in the union attend this Joint Annual Meeting, allowing for the exchange of knowledge and ideas between top professionals in the field, post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as archaeology enthusiasts, ARCHAEOLOGY magazine subscribers, and AIA local society members. In their entirety, our attendees represent over 700:
Colleges & Universities
Educational Institutions
Funding Agencies & Trusts
Government Agencies
Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, University Presses, and other Scholarly Publications
Cultural Resource Management Companies
Non-profit Organizations
International Institutes
Archaeological Research Centers
Museums and Research Institutes
Exhibitor Information:
Recent conferences are averaging over 2,400 conference participants. Our recent meeting survey indicated that most of those attendees plan to attend the 2018 AM in Boston. We expect 2,500+ total attendees.
More than 50 companies exhibit at the meeting, with 80% returning every year. The showroom floor is always expanding to accommodate new exhibitors. We welcome vendors for books, software, technologies, outdoor gear, archaeological supplies, and travel. We also welcome educational institutions, field schools, grant-making, and non-profit agencies. Additionally, we seek artisans related to classics/archaeology and local destination crafts and goods.
About AIA:
The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is North America's oldest and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology. The Institute is a nonprofit group founded in 1879 and chartered by the United States Congress in 1906. Today, the AIA has nearly 210,000 Members and more than 100 Local Societies in the United States, Canada, and overseas. Our members include professional archaeologists, corresponding members, students, and enthusiasts, all united by a shared passion for archaeology and its role in furthering human knowledge.
About SCS:
The Society for Classical Studies (SCS), founded as the American Philological Association in 1869 by "professors, friends, and patrons of linguistic science," is the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations. While the majority of its members are university and college Classics teachers, members also include scholars in other disciplines, primary and secondary school teachers, and interested lay people. For over a century this community has relied on the Association to produce several series of scholarly books and texts; the journal, TAPA; and an annual meeting each January in conjunction with the Archaeological Institute of America.
Session Block 1: Friday, January 5, 8:00 - 10:30 am
SESSION 1A: Workshop
New Directions in Seleucid Archaeology
SESSION 1B: Workshop
Probing, Publishing, and Promoting the Use of Digital Archaeological Data
SESSION 1C
Fieldwork in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece
SESSION 1D: Colloquium
Current Approaches to the Materiality of Texts in Greco-Roman Antiquity
SESSION 1E: Colloquium
Other Pasts: Comparing Landscapes, Monuments, and Memories across the Mediterranean
SESSION 1F: Colloquium
The Tetnies Sarcophagi at the MFA, Boston: New Discoveries and New Approaches
SESSION 1G: Colloquium
Musical Instruments as Votive Gifts in the Ancient Greek World
SESSION 1H
Advances in Aegean Prehistory
SESSION 1I
News from the Western Provinces
SESSION 1J: Colloquium
New Approaches to the Catacombs of Rome
Session Block 2: Friday, January 5, 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
SESSION 2A: Joint AIA/SCS Workshop
“The Classics Tuning Project”: Competency and Visibility in the Classics at Small Liberal Arts Schools
SESSION 2B
Architecture and Construction in Late Antiquity
SESSION 2C
Venus, Eros, and Eroticism: Religion and Society in the Roman World
SESSION 2D
New Methodological Approaches in Archaeological Problems
SESSION 2E
Eating and Drinking in the Ancient World
SESSION 2F
Landscapes and Topography in Greece
SESSION 2G
Multiscalar Interaction in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
SESSION 2H
Epigraphy and Inscribed Objects
SESSION 2I
Local Elites and Honorary Practices in the Roman World
SESSION 2J
Western Greece
SESSION 2K: Workshop
Digital Preservation: Tools and Strategies for Preserving Archaeological Data for Future Generations
SESSION 2L
Poster Session
Session Block 3: Friday, January 5, 1:45 - 4:45 pm
SESSION 3A: Joint AIA/APA Colloquium
Material Girls: Gender and Material Culture in the Ancient World
SESSION 3B: Colloquium
The Medieval Countryside: An Archaeological Perspective
SESSION 3C: Colloquium
Roman Villas and their Afterlife in Sicily and Malta
SESSION 3D: Colloquium
Cutting Edge Approaches to Archaeological Research on Ancient Sicily
SESSION 3E: Colloquium
Agriculture in the Prehistoric Aegean: Data vs. Speculation Three Decades On
SESSION 3F: Colloquium
Etruscan Ritual in Context: New Approaches and Insights
SESSION 3G
Cultural Change and Interaction
SESSION 3H
The Roman East
SESSION 3I
Harbors and Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean
SESSION 3J: Workshop
Turning Spatial with Pleiades: Creating, Teaching, and Publishing Maps in Ancient Studies
SESSION 3K: Gold Medal Colloquium
Understanding the long term. Engagements and entanglements inspired by Ian Hodder
Session Block 4: Saturday, January 6, 8:00 - 10:30 am
SESSION 4A: Joint AIA/APA Colloquium
Roman Freedmen: Community, Diversity, and Integration
SESSION 4B: Colloquium
Whose Life? The Display of Athenian Painted Pottery
SESSION 4C: Workshop
Race, Politics, and Pedagogy
SESSION 4D: Colloquium
Collective Identities and Memory: The Epigraphic Evidence
SESSION 4E: Colloquium
Accessing Subjectivity in Antiquity Through Texts and Artifacts
SESSION 4F
Walking through Roman Cemeteries
SESSION 4G
New Research on Etruscan Cities and Tombs
SESSION 4H
Recent Fieldwork on Crete
SESSION 4I
Domus and Palaces in Rome and Italy
SESSION 4J
Preventing Cultural Loss
SESSION 4K: Workshop
Funding Sources and Grant Writing
Session Block 5: Saturday, January 6, 10:45 am - 12:45 pm
SESSION 5A
Undergraduate Paper Session
SESSION 5B: Workshop
Philanthropy and Funding....In Today’s World
SESSION 5C
Managing Water in the Roman Empire
SESSION 5D: Colloquium
Yeronisos off Cyprus: Twenty-Five Years of Discovery on “Sacred Island”
SESSION 5E
Reading Images, Looking at Inscriptions
SESSION 5F
Greek Sanctuaries
SESSION 5G
Art & Artisans in Prehistoric Greece
SESSION 5H
Bodies, Dress, and Adornment
SESSION 5I
Historical Views on Archaeology and Archaeologists
SESSION 5J
Archaeological Approaches to Fortifications
Session Block 6: Saturday, January 6, 1:45 - 4:45 pm
SESSION 6A: Joint AIA/SCS Colloquium
Carthage and the Mediterranean
SESSION 6B
Monuments and Images for the Roman Emperors
SESSION 6C
Ancient Coins and Other Valuable Objects
SESSION 6D
Natural Resources Management: Archaeological Perspectives
SESSION 6E
Domestic Spaces and Household Industry
SESSION 6F: Colloquium
Sinope Citadel Excavations: a Precolonial and Early Colonial Nexus of Black Sea Communications
SESSION 6G: Colloquium
New Approaches to Caves and Worship in the Ancient Mediterranean
SESSION 6H: Workshop
New Approaches to Ancient Wall Painting in the Mediterranean
SESSION 6I: Workshop
Debating the Boston Throne: Dating, Function, & Meaning
SESSION 6J: Colloquium
Archaeology of Landscape in Southwestern Anatolia
SESSION 6K: Colloquium
Life and Death at Ancient Eleon: Reports from the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project
Session Block 7: Sunday, January 7, 8:00 - 11:00 am
SESSION 7A: Joint AIA/APA Colloquium
Coins and Trade: The Evidence of Long-Distance Exchange
SESSION 7B: Colloquium
Archaeology from a Distance: Dura-Europos in the New Millennium
SESSION 7C: Colloquium
Banal Objects with Divine Power? Tokens, Deities, and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean
SESSION 7D: Colloquium
Venetians Abroad: The Archaeology of Venice in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
SESSION 7E
Recent Research on the Early Helladic of Greece
SESSION 7F
Goddess Cult
SESSION 7G
Fieldwork in Italy
SESSION 7H
The Archaeology of Roman Economy and Production
SESSION 7I: Colloquium
Recent Research and Discoveries at Aphrodisias
SESSION 7J: Colloquium
Whats New at Gournia? The Gournia Excavation Project, 2010-present
SESSION 7K: Workshop
Conservation and Conservation Science in the Museum and in the Field
Session Block 8: Sunday, January 7, 12:00 am - 2:30 pm
SESSION 8A
Greek and Roman Architecture
SESSION 8B: Workshop
Teaching the Roman Provinces in North American University Classrooms
SESSION 8C: Colloquium
New Research on Funerary Monuments in Rome
SESSION 8D: Colloquium
Beyond the Walls: Bridging the Rural/Urban Divide in the Study of Roman Landscapes
SESSION 8E: Colloquium
Figure-Decorated Vases and Identity
SESSION 8F: Colloquium
Big Data and Ancient Religion: Gods in our Machines?
SESSION 8G: Colloquium
Anatolias Melting Pot? Reassessing Cross-Cultural Interaction and Migration in the Early Iron Age
SESSION 8H: Workshop
Between Dilapidation, Education, and Museum Nostalgia: American Collections of Plaster Casts, the Harvard Case
SESSION 8I: Colloquium
New Approaches to the Asklepieion at Epidauros
