The Lewis Center for the Arts' Performance Central series will present a talk by archeologist Joan Breton Connelly entitled "Recovering the Ephemeral: Archaeologies of Performance in the Ancient Mediterranean World," on Tuesday, November 20, at 5 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Frist Campus Center's Film and Performance Theater on the Princeton University campus.
A member of Princeton’s Class of 1976 and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her work on Athenian myth, cult, and image, topics explored in her forthcoming book, Parthenon Revisited, Ms. Connelly is a professor of classics and art history at New York University and director of NYU’s Yeronisos Islands Excavations program, which hosts projects dedicated to both archaeological research and ecological preservation. As a field archeologist she has excavated in Greece, Kuwait, and Cyprus. (Town Topics)
