IPCAA (the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology) offers a course of doctoral study in the arts and material culture of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Formally sponsored by the Departments of Classical Studies and of The History of Art, and located in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, IPCAA draws on a distinguished range of faculty in several disciplines and on the rich museum and library resources of the University of Michigan. With its self-consciously interdisciplinary character, IPCAA is today widely acknowledged as among the very top programs in the country for the professional training of graduate students in Classical Archaeology.

Upcoming Lectures and Events

CAW– Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup

CAW was formed in the Fall of 2009 to encourage and develop an interdisciplinary intellectual and social community. The group's membership is open to all graduate students interested in archaeology. Its expressed functions include:

1. Supporting collaborative activities between departments and graduate students engaged in archaeological research.

2. Providing a forum for the free exchnage of ideas and problems related to the study of the material remains of the past.

3. Organizing events aimed at facilitating intellectual and social interaction between archaeologists.

4. Providing a collective voice to present student concerns to the wider community.

FAST – Field Archaeological Series on Thursday

The FAST-lecture-series was developed by IPCAA students Alexander Nagel and Adela Sobotková in 2006 and has since become a standard monthly event kindly hosted in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It continues to be organized by the current students in the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology. Although the lecture series was originally founded as a joint-venue for anthropological and archaeological questions and discussions, it has since grown to accommodate the wide interests and research questions of the IPCAA student body as well as the current projects of the Kelsey staff. As such the lectures present various methods, materials and types of fieldwork ranging from reports of current excavation work over chemical analysis of materials as well as research in museums and on finds from past excavations.


"The Valley of the Kings? Social Complexity of Inland Thrace during the First Millennium BC"
Adela Sobotkova (PhD candidate, IPCAA)
Date: 10/11/2011 ; 5:30PM
Location: Kelsey Museum Lecture Hall (434 South State St.)


"Looking Beyond Medea's Garden: A Preliminary Report on the First Season of the Eastern Vani Intensive Survey"
Ryan Hughes (PhD candidate, IPCAA)
Date: 11/10/2011 ; 5:30PM
Location: Kelsey Museum Lecture Hall (434 South State St.)


"Ancient Ceramics in Modern Afghanistan. Some Problems and Results"
Charlotte Maxwell-Jones (PhD candidate, IPCAA)
Date: 12/8/2011 ; 5:30PM
Location: Kelsey Museum Lecture Hall (434 South State St.)


"The Pharaoh's Owls: Coin Use in Egypt before the Ptolemies"
Henry Colburn (PhD candidate, IPCAA)
Date: 1/26/2012 ; 5:30PM
Location: Kelsey Museum Lecture Hall (434 South State St.)


"Patronage and Memorials. Expectations of Permanence and Architectural Benefactions in the Roman Period"
Prof. Diana Ng (History of Art, University of Michigan-Dearborn)
Date: 2/23/2012 ; 5:30PM
Location: Kelsey Museum Lecture Hall (434 South State St.)


Karen Laurence (PhD candidate, IPCAA)
Date: 3/13/2012 ; 5:30PM
Location: Kelsey Museum Lecture Hall (434 South State St.)


"A Secret in the Life of Bees: Cross craft interactions, chaines operatoires, and the unexpected outcomes of an interdisciplinary project about food storage in prehistoric northern Greece"
Despina Margomenou (Lecturer, Classical Studies, University of Michigan)
Date: 4/5/2012 ; 5:30PM
Location: Kelsey Museum Lecture Hall (434 South State St.)

KELSEY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY

EXHIBIT OPENING - Karanis Revealed Part II: Discovering the Past and Present of a Michigan Excavation in Egypt
Date: 1/27/2012 - 5/6/2012
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY BROWN BAG SERIES

"Welqamex Household Archaeology Project: Excavation and Survey in the Upper Fraser Valley, British Columbia"
Anna Antoniou (PhD student, UMMA)

"Middle & Upper Palaeolithic Excavations at La Chapelle-aux-Saints and Hohle Fels"
Lars Anderson (PhD student, UMMA)

Date: 9/29/2011, 12:00pm
Location: Rm. 2009, Ruthven Museum


"The Eastern Vani Survey: Report on the First Season's Work"
Ryan Hughes (PhD candidate, IPCAA)
Date: 10/13/2011 ; 12:00PM
Location: Room 2009, Ruthven Museum


"Undocumented Border Crossers, Material Culture, and Use-wear Analyses: Outlining an Archaeology of Structural Violence"
Prof. Jason DeLeon (Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Date: 10/20/2011 ; 12:00PM
Location: Room 2009, Ruthven Museum


"Pecica and the Carpathian Basin Bronze Age: Perspectives on a Very Complicated Time and Place"
Prof. John O'Shea (Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Date: 11/3/2011 ; 12:00PM
Location: Room 2009, Ruthven Museum


"Structures of Authority: Political Practices in Early Mesopotamian Cities"
Dr. Geoff Emberling (Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan)
Date: 11/10/2011 ; 12:00PM
Location: Room 2009, Ruthven Museum


"New Developments in the Study of Early Chinese State Formation"
Prof. Henry Wright (Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Date: 11/17/2011 ; 12:00PM
Location: Room 2009, Ruthven Museum


"The First Argonauts: Towards the Study of Earliest Seafaring in the Mediterranean"
Prof. Albert Ammerman (Classics, Colgate University)
Date: 12/1/2011 ; 12:00PM
Location: Room 2009, Ruthven Museum


"Constructing Dress in Colonial Peru"
Prof. Carrie Brezine (Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Date: 12/8/2011 ; 12:00PM
Location: Room 2009, Ruthven Museum


"Home Economics and the Emergence of Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eastern North America"
Andy White (PhD student, Anthropology)
Date: 12/15/2011 ; 12:00PM
Location: Room 2009, Ruthven Museum


"What lies beneath: Recent Magnetometry Survey at a pre-Inka Village in Cusco (400 - 100BC)"
Prof. Allison Davis (Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College)
Date: 2/9/2012 ; 12:00PM
Location: Room 2009, Ruthven Museum

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

10th Annual Arthur and Mary Platsis Symposium on the Greek Legacy: Ancient Conscience
Date: 9/25/2011 ; 2:00PM to 5:00PM
Location: Rackham Building Amphitheater (4th Floor)

"Ideas of Moral Conscience in Antiquity and Their Later Effects"
Prof. Richard Sarabji, Oxford University

"The Limits of Free Speech and the Right to Self-Expression in Ancient Greece"
Prof. David Konstan, New York University


Roger A. Pack Lecture in Papyrology - "A World Full of Words and Emotions: The Late Antique Greek Letters on Papyrus (4th-8th Century A.D.)"
Prof. Amphilochios Papathomas, University of Athens
Date: 10/5/2011 ; 4:00PM
Location: Classics Dept. Library (2175 Angell Hall)


Literature Brown Bag Series - "Reconstructing an ancient book-roll from Heculaneum: Philodemus, On Poems II"
Prof. Richard Janko
Date: 10/12/2011 ; 12:00PM
Location: Classics Dept. Library


Literature Brown Bag Series - TBA
Prof. Katherine Lu
Date: 11/9/2011 ; 12:00PM
Location: Classics Dept. Library (2175 Angell Hall)


Literature Brown Bag Series - TBA
Prof. Francesca Schironi
Date: 12/7/2011 ; 12:00PM
Location: Classics Dept. Library


Jean-Jacques Aubert Seminar - TBA
Prof. Jean-Jacques Aubert (Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Date: 1/25/2012 ; 4:00PM
Location: 2115A Angell Hall


"The Poetic Failure and Comic Success in Aristophanes' Peace"
Dr. Donald Sells (McMaster University)
Date: 1/30/2012 ; 3:00PM
Location: Classics Dept. Library (2175 Angell Hall)


Our Ancient Wars - Conference and Theater
Date: 3/22-3/24/2012

Public Lecture - "War as Spectacle"
Prof. Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
Date: 3/22/2012 ; 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: TBA

Welcome and Conference Papers
Date: 3/23/2012 ; 2:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: TBA

The Philocetes Project, "Theater of War"
Date: 3/23/2012 ; 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: Kahn Auditorium

Conference Papers
Date: 3/24/2012 ; 9:00am to 5:15pm
Location: TBA

The Philocetes Project, "Theater of War"
Date: 3/24/2012 ; 8:00pm to 10:00pm
Location: Michigan Theater


The Annual Gerald F. Else Lecture - "The Early Form of Tragedy Revisited"
Prof. Oliver Taplin (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Date: 3/29/2012 ; 4:00PM to 5:30PM
Location: Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union


The Undergraduate Archaeology Conference Keynote Lecture
"Methods in Archaeology"
Prof. Kathleen Morrison (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Date: 3/9/2012 ; Time TBA
Location: TBA


Theory in (Ancient) Greek Archaeology (TiGA) Conference
Date: 5/4/2012 to 5/5/2012 ; 8:00AM to 6:00PM
Location: Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union


Orality and Literacy Conference
Date: 6/27/2012 to 6/30/2012 ; 9:00AM to 6:00PM
Location: 3222 Angell Hall, 3rd Floor

MUSEUM STUDIES PROGRAM

Brown Bag Series - "Video Games as Museum Interpretive Tools: A Preliminary Look"
KT Lowe (MSI, Information)
Date: 9/23/2011 ; 12:00pm
Location: UM Museum of Art Commons


Brown Bag Series - "Exhibiting the Pituitary Gland: Engaging the Public in Current Scientific Research"
Shannon Davis (Post Doc, Biology)
Date: 10/14/2011, 12:00pm
Location: Multi-Purpose Room, UM Museum of Art


Brown Bag Series - "Designing Interests: Exhibition Design at the University of Michigan Museum of Art"
Andrew Gurstelle (PhD candidate, Anthropology)
Date: 11/11/2011 ; 12:00pm
Location: Multi-Purpose Room, UM Museum of Art


Brown Bag Series - "Fantasy in the Museum: Experiencing 'Reality' at the Getty Villa"
Emma Sachs (PhD student, IPCAA)
Date: 12/9/2011, 12:00pm
Location: Multi-Purpose Room, UM Museum of Art


"The Sonic Experience of Museums"
Prof. John Kannenberg, (School of Art & Design, University of Michigan)
Prof. Terry WIlfong (Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan)
Date: 1/15/2012 ; 2:00pm
Location: East Conference Room, 4th Floor, Rackham Graduate School

• What is IPCAA’s Mission?
• History of the Program
• Past IPCAA Graduates and their Current Positions

IPCAA’s logo, a sea-monster with dolphins, is based on a fragment of Roman wall painting, acquired from Puteoli in 1923 and now in the holdings of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (KM 2802). The marine motif emphasizes IPCAA’s Mediterranean focus, while the ‘hybrid’ quality of the sea-monster serves as a metaphor for the interdisciplinary character of the Program.