Select Fridays between September 2015 and May 2016, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center becomes an intellectual salon. Scholars at Hallwalls features eight thought-provoking, award-winning lectures in the humanities, presented in the intellectual and inspiring setting of Hallwalls. Faculty Fellows will present their cutting-edge humanities research in terms accessible to those in other disciplines and outside academia. The events will continue to be social occasions as well, with complimentary hors d'oeuvres...
All lectures are free and open to the public.
Idol Hill and the Lives of Roman Idols
He presents preliminary results of excavations completed from 2010-13 with a team of UB Students on "Idol Hill," a Celtic burial mound in southern Germany. Constructed in the second millennium B.C., its medieval name, Idol Hill, connects it with the ancient Roman practice of worshipping images of the gods. Kiernan explores how burial mounds and idols are both sacred monuments and artworks with biographies, the function and meaning of which change over time.
