Orange County Society

LECTURES AND EVENTS

AIA Orange County Society offers monthly lectures from renowned professional archaeologists who share insights into Old and New World civilizations with the latest cutting-edge research.  Our lecturers’ topics span the globe and occasionally venture into space.
Each year AIA national provides our society with two lecturers. All other lectures are supported from donations by generous sponsors.  The cost to sponsors a lecture is $300, and both members and non-members have done this.  Mostly it’s the satisfaction of helping that generates a donation, but it is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Some of our past years’ events:

AIA-OC 2021-22 Calendar of EventsDownload

AIA-2020-21-Calendar of EventsDownload

AIA-OC 2019-20 Calendar of EventsDownload

AIA-OC 2018-19 Calendar of EventsDownload

AIA-OC 2017-18 Calendar of EventsDownload

AIA-OC 2016-17 Calendar of EventsDownload

AIA-OC 2014-15 Calendar of EventsDownload

2026 Upcoming Lectures:

• 2/1 – Corinth’s Lechaion Harbor and Settlement 2025. Presented by Dr. Paul Scotton, Professor of Classics, CSULB, Time & Location: 2pm, Concordia University, Grimm Hall South
• 3/1 – “Ancient Egyptian Kings from Below: Royal Power in Practice.” Presented by Dr. Luisa Osorio G. Silva, Asst. Prof of Art History, Archaeology, and Visual Studies, UC Irvine. Time & Location: 2pm, Concordia University, Grimm Hall South
• 4/12 – “Dung and Desert Copper: Environmental Archaeology and the Macro- and Microscale.” Presented by AIA National Lecturer, Dr. Zachary Dunseth. Time & Location: 2pm, Concordia University, Grimm Hall South
• 5/17- “Metals, Nomads, and the State: Interaction and Resource Procurement in Ancient Egypt and Nubia.” Presented by 2025 AIA-OC Grant Awardee, Matei Tichindelean, PhD candidate, UCLA. Time & Location: 2pm, Concordia University, Grimm Hall South

2025 Past Lectures:

• 9/21 – “Rice, Spice and Everything Nice: The Attractions of Early Urbanism in Ancient India.” Presented by Dr. Monica Smith, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA. Time & Location: 2pm, Concordia University, Grimm Hall South.
• 10/19 – “Rethinking Ancient Egypt in the 21st Century Museum.” Presented by Dr. Sara Cole, Assistant Curator of Antiquitues, Getty Villa. Time & Location: 2pm, Concordia University, Grimm Hall South
• 11/2 – Getty Villa Excursion to see special exhibit: The Kingdom of Pylos; Warrior Princes of Ancient Greece. Location: Getty Villa; Time: TBD. Attendees must arrange own transportation.
• 11/15 & 16 – “Alexander the Great and How He Changed the World.” Multiple Presenters at La Sierra University. Not affiliated with AIA; must arrange own transportation.