Centres and institutes_
Lectures
We offer a range of public lectures throughout the year
These events are a great way to keep in touch with recent archaeological discoveries, as well as the chance to meet like-minded people who are fascinated by archaeology.
Upcoming public lectures
Ross Burns lecture: Damascus 1918
- Wednesday 26 September 2018
- 6:30-7:30pm followed by a light supper
- Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia, Level 4 Madsen Building F09, University of Sydney
Bookings essential—purchase tickets online or download our booking form (pdf, 205KB) for more information.
Seminar Series: Exploring the seven wonders of the ancient world
- August - September 2018
- Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia, Level 4 Madsen Building F09, University of Sydney
- Book online for individual lecture or entire series
For more information, download our booking form (pdf, 504KB).
August 2018
Engineering Internationalism: UNESCO’s Victory in Nubia
By Dr Lynn Meskell
July 2018
The Archaeology of Lawrence in Arabia
by Stephen Bourke
June 2018
Houses of Ghosts: Dolmen Tombs in Bronze Age Levant
Lecture and book launch by James Fraser
April 2018
The Gunpowder Empires
A NEAF Seminar Series
April 2018
The Sakdrisi Gold Mining Complex
A lecture by Thomas Stöllner
March 2018
Afghan Daze: Hazy recollections of warlords, looting and the Ghurids
A lecture and book launch by David Thomas
November 2017
Inaugural J. Basil Hennessy Lecture
by Stephen Bourke
October 2017
Lustre: The Pearl Trade in Antiquity
by Deborah Hope
September 2017
The Origins of Money: Silver Sources in the Ancient World
by Dr Gil Davis
August 2017
Cargoes of Cloth: Textile trade in the ancient world
by Christina Sumner
July 2017
Salt, Stone, Spice and Silk: Trade in the Ancient World
A NEAF Seminar Series
May 2017
Lapis Lazuli: King of the Blues. The Stone that Rocked the World
by Dr Wendy Reade
May 2017
From Cordoba to Kashgar: Islamic Cultures and the Wider World
A NEAF Seminar Series
March 2017
The Archaeology of Western Asia today: Challenges, old and new
by Professor Barbara Helwing
November 2016
Aleppo: A Lost City?
by Dr Ross Burns
September 2016
The Nabataeans Beyond Petra: New Insights into Ancient Arabia from Jordan’s Desert Inscriptions and Rock Carvings
by Glenn J. Corbett
August 2016
From Cordoba to Kashgar
A NEAF Seminar Series
July 2016
Ice Age Villagers of the Levant: Sedentism and Social Connections in the Natufian Period
by Dr Phillip Edwards
May 2016
Fire Temples and Towers of Silence: Zoroastrian Architectural Legacies
by Prof Alison Betts
April 2016
The Visible Dead: Dolmens and the landscape in Bronze Age Levant
by James Fraser
March 2016
The Foundations of Western Civilisations
The First Millennium CE.
March 2016
NEAF 2016 AGM: Shangri-La Beneath a Summer Moon
A film by the Kashmir Prehistory Project.
