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During the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 1900-1400 BCE), Cycladic islanders played key roles as intermediaries in regional exchange networks that linked the Minoan palaces of Crete and emerging elite societies on Aegina and mainland Greece.
This lecture will explore the influence and effects of chronic (aka toxic) stressors on adolescents and young adults. These stressors present unique challenges and obstacles youth must overcome on the journey to adulthood.
Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens, nestled in Rockefeller Park, are a community treasure. This Cleveland gem is inextricably linked to the history of immigration and migration to the city, and to the changing landscape of the Doan Brook Valley and University Circle.
This upcoming school year promises to be one of the most challenging ever faced by parents, students, educators, and legislators. This forum will discuss some of the issues confronting K-12 education in Ohio during 2020/2021. We will also take questions from viewers for the panelists
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This talk explores the relationship between images and inscriptions on ancient Greek pottery, with particular attention to a group of Athenian red-figure vases inscribed “Lykos kalos,” or “Lykos is beautiful.” Although usually interpreted as homoerotic praise of young Athenian aristocrats, such inscriptions can be read in multiple other ways.
The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded for the “benefit of all the people forever.” Behind the art that resides in the galleries are the stories of the people and events that made the museum what it is today as we continue that legacy into our second century.
Today, the name of Samothrace evokes the island's most famous archaeological find: the spectacular statue of the Winged Victory now in the Musée du Louvre. In antiquity, the island's claim to fame was the cult of the Great Gods, one of the Greco-Roman world's most renowned mystery cults.
In the final years of the suffrage struggle, Ohio women’s efforts to gain the vote took place within a national movement that accepted the regional disenfranchisement of African Americans as part of a bargain to overcome Southern resistance.
This paper investigates waste management at the Roman Pompeii, tracing the path of refuse it moved across the city and its suburbs. I argue that garbage was an unavoidable part of life in Pompeii, not because the city lacked systems for dealing with waste, but because those systems prioritized recycling and reuse over removal.
The modern-day landscape of Sudan, ancient Nubia, is dotted with temples and pyramids – remnants of great kingdoms that flourished in the 1st millennium BC. One of these, the Kingdom of Kush, rose to particular prominence as some of its kings ruled over Ancient Egypt as pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty.
Excavations have been underway at the ancient Greek and Roman city of Morgantina for over sixty years. Throughout that time, a near-uncountable amount of data has been acquired describing the architecture, artifacts, and people.
This talk examines the modern life histories of Pompeii’s body casts. Modern intervention, and even fabrication, have blurred the distinction between ancient and modern so that they are far from being snapshots of that infamous day.
How can we fill in the gaps in our artistic lives while live performances aren't happening? By listening to music and watching videos that provide emotional and psychological support, as well as enrichment. Here's an opportunity to program what we really want to hear, rather than what others tell us what we should hear.
Trajan's Column is best known for its sculpted spiral frieze depicting Trajan's victories in the Dacian Wars (101-106 AD), but it was also a great technological achievement requiring a great deal of site organization.
This presentation will employ archaeological, textual and art historical sources to discuss the practicalities of making and using light sources in ancient Egypt and the significance of providing illumination in the afterlife.
In the age of Photoshop and other photo editing software, people viewing professional and fine art often question the authenticity of photographs. Is that photo manipulated? How do they do that? Photographer Michael Weil will examine the impact of photo editing on the field of photography.
The Antikythera Mechanism is so named after the Greek island in whose waters it was salvaged in 1901 from a shipwreck datable to ca. 70-60 BCE. This remarkable geared device was constructed in the 2nd or 1st century BCE to calculate and display various astronomical, calendrical, and athletic time periods.
Join us for Siegal Lifelong Learning's Fall Kick-Off Lecture
After receiving critical acclaim around the country for his volume Text Me: Ancient Jewish Wisdom Meets Contemporary Technology, Rabbi Schein's travel was halted due to COVID 19, which also changed the way he thinks about the relationship between Judaism and Technology. Join Jeffrey
The year 2020 celebrates the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment and the story behind the struggle to extend voting
rights is both intriguing and inspiring. The lecture will also highlight some of the events and leaders in the century of women in politics, including a look at women who have run for the presidency.