public lectures
Interview with Blues Singer Bobby Rush
Founder's Day Celebration
International House, University of Chicago
October 3, 2023
Panel and Blues Performance with Katherine Davis
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
November 11, 2022
The Norton Lectures, Archaeological Institute of America
Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship
San Francisco (November 4, 2021); Eugene (November 10, 2021); Portland (November 11, 2021); Buffalo (March 9, 2022); New York City (March 10, 2022); Philadelphia (March 15, 2022); Ann Arbor (March 17, 2022)
The Munro Lecture, The University of Edinburgh
Flows, Boundaries, and Entanglements: Unraveling Colonial Encounters in Ancient Mediterranean France
April 4, 2019
Lecture at the British Academy, London, in symposium on "Alcohol and Humans: A Long Social Affair"
Alcohol as Embodied Material Culture: Perspectives from Anthropology and Archaeology
September 14, 2018
Liquid Material Culture: Anthropological Explorations of Alcohol and Drinking Vessels
September 6, 2018
Hosting a Panel on "The Future of the Blues" at the Logan Center Bluesfest, University of Chicago
October 14, 2017
The Boshell Lecture: The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Dionysos Comes to Gaul: Wine, Culture, and Colonialism in the Ancient Mediterranean
May 21, 2017
The Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, IL
Archaeological Institute of America, Rockford Society
Vinum, Vidi, Vici: Wine, Culture, and Colonialism in Ancient Gaul
September 20, 2016
Dionysos Comes to Gaul: Wine, Culture, and Colonialism in the Ancient Mediterranean
February 11, 2016
The Pritchett Lecture, University of California, Berkeley
Scale and the Archaeology of Colonial Encounters
November 2, 2015
Getty Museum, Malibu, California
Vinum, Vidi, Vici: Wine, Culture, and Colonialism in Ancient Gaul
Buddy Guy's Legends, Chicago, Illinois
Science and Sound Program (UChicago/Argonne/Fermilab)
Chicago Blues: Sound and Social Science
June 3, 2015
