This year’s Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Public Lecture will be given by Suzanne Marchand, Boyd Professor of European Intellectual History at LSU. The lecture is part of her visit to UF Oct. 11-13. The purpose of the Visiting Scholar program is to have world-class scholars interact with undergraduate students through lectures, seminars and conversations.
Dr. Marchand’s lecture is entitled, “The Dialectics of the Antiquities Rush:”
Europeans in the 19th and early 20th centuries raced one another to exploit archaeological sites and antiquities markets farther and farther to the East. Each new effort to expropriate artifacts was eventually met with a series of local antiquities laws. These expropriating rushes, followed by bans on export and local oversight of excavation, have had the effect of pushing European (and later American and Japanese) archaeologists to seek ever new fields, and to learn more and more about the world’s cultures, at the price of stripping many places of their ancient treasures.
The lecture will be given in FAB Room 105, at 5:00 pm, Thursday October 12, with a reception with light refreshments following in the Libby University Gallery Courtyard at 6 p.m. Sponsors include the national and local offices of Phi Beta Kappa, the UF School of Art & Art History’s HESCAH Program, and the Department of Classics.