Events

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:

2025 Upcoming Lectures:

  • 2/23 – “On the Roads of Wind: Archaeology of the Origins and Expansions of the Indigenous Pacific Peoples.” Presented by Dr. Tianlong Jiao, Vice President of Collections, Bowers Museum. Time & Location: 2pm, Bowers Museum.
  • 3/23 – “Merchants and Mercenaries: Greeks in Upper Egypt in the Late Period.” Presented by Dr. Camille Acosta, Professor, UC Irvine. Time & Location: 2pm, Concordia University, Grimm Hall South
  • 4/27 – ” The Harbor of Ancient Corinth: Results from the 2024 Excavation Season.” Presented by Dr. Paul Scotton, Professor and Director of Classics Program, CSU Long Beach. Time & Location: 2pm, Concordia University, Grimm Hall South
  • 5/18 – TBA

AIA National Lectures via Zoom

Join Wednesday, February 26, at 8pm ET/5pm PT for AIA Archaeology Hour with Columbia University professor Zainab Bahrani! Professor Bahrani is the author of several books including “Mesopotamia: Art and Architecture” (2018) and has written widely on the destruction of the cultural heritage in Iraq including in popular publications such as The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal.

Join us as she presents Towards an Archaeology of Preservation, where she will discuss archaeological evidence of millennia of preservation and conservation practices in the landscapes of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan.