Last night's lecture at the Penn Museum was excellent. Maria Iacovou (ya-CO-voo), a visiting scholar from Cyprus, gave the lecture and it was fantastic. Well structured, well delivered (much better than the last lecturer, and Dr. Iacovou clearly isn't a native English speaker), with really interesting content. She told us about the ancient city ( Read more... )

Last night's lecture was only so-so. There wasn't really a description of it other than the title on Penn's website, so we weren't sure really what the topic was. Basically, the lecturer talked about the relations between the Arabs and Turks in this particular region of the Middle East, 600-800 or so AD, and how this affected trade on the Silk ( Read more... )

This event was only okay. I had tried to get F to come with me, but it was his yoga night. My usual museum buddy, K, has been sick all week and opted to go right home after work. I'm glad she did, because it would have been no fun at all if she'd been there trying to be fun when really she was just sick. But it made for a lonely event for me, ( Read more... )

Tonight I went to a lecture at the Penn Museum on the Roman Theater at Corinth. The lecturer, Charles Williams, was clearly incredibly knowledgeable and intelligent--he used to direct the excavations at Corinth and is leading another dig there this spring--and he seemed really nice and funny. Sadly, he wasn't the best public speaker in the world ( Read more... )

Yesterday K and I took a long lunch to go to a lecture at the Penn Museum! The lunchtime lectures are 12:30-1:30 this year, as opposed to 12-1 like it was last year. K and I planned ahead and left the office by 11:45 and arrived at the Museum around 12:20--unlike at the two events last spring, we were so not late, we were actually early! We got ( Read more... )

Last night K and I went to the Penn Museum to attend ( Read more... )

Today K and I went to a lecture at the Penn Museum! The subject was "Recent Fieldwork: Troy, Gordion & the Granicus River Valley", and not much other info was offered on the website, but it was free and at lunchtime so we went. It turns out that C. Brian Rose (Deputy Director, Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section at the University of ( Read more... )