Just a note to say that the new season of Accordia Lectures, The Italy
Lectures, starts soon.  Accordia Lectures are open to all, and everyone is
welcome.

The first Lecture will be as follows:

Tuesday October 17 in the Institute of Classical Studies, 3rd floor, Room
329-300, Senate House, London WC1 at 17.30

	Dr Ray Laurence, University of Reading
	"Does size matter?  Rethinking the Roman city"

After the Lecture there will be traditional Accordia hospitality in the
Common Room of the School of Advanced Study, also on the 3rd floor of
Senate House (just follow the corridor).  We look forward to seeing
everyone there.


The complete new program is as follows:

Accordia Lectures, 2000 - 2001
all joint events
with the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) at Senate House, Malet
Street, London WC1,
or with the Institute of Archaeology UCL (IOA) in Gordon Square, London WC1

all on a Tuesday, @ 17.30:  either ICS in Room 329-300 Senate House, or IOA
in Lecture Room G6

Oct 17	ICS	Dr Ray Laurence, University of Reading
		"Does size matter?  Rethinking the Roman city"


Nov 14	IOA	Dr Stephen Keates, University of Birmingham
		"The ancestors and the land:  new perspectives on North Italian
 		Copper Age ritual and cosmology"


Dec 12	ICS	ACCORDIA ANNIVERSARY LECTURE
		Professor Larissa Bonfante, New York University
		"Sex and Magic in Etruscan Painting and Art"

2001

jan  23	IOA	Dr Robin Skeates, University of East Anglia
		"From thunder-stones to the Iceman:  collectors and
		collections in Italian prehistory"

feb  13	IOA	Dr Peter van Dommelen, University of Glasgow
		"Colonising the nuraghi of Sardinia: a Carthaginian response
		to a prehistoric landscape."

mar 6	ICS	Dr Gillian Shepherd, University of Birmingham
		"Dead but not buried: child disposal in archaic Sicily"

may  8	IOA	Dr Chris Smith, University of St Andrews
		"The Archaeology of the GENS: another look at evidence from
		Osteria dell'Osa and Satricum"

There will be traditional Accordia hospitality after each Lecture in the
form of a small reception.  Everyone is welcome.

In the ICS, the reception will take place in the Common Room of the School
of Advanced Study, also floor 3, Senate House (just follow the corridor).

In the Institute of Archaeology, the reception will normally take place in
the common room at the end of the 6th floor of the Gordon Square building
(turn left as you come out of the lift).

A new Accordia poster to go on your wall will be winging its way to
everyone on the Accordia Mailing-List very soon now. If you are not sure
that you are on our Mailing List, please drop me a line.  If you are in a
position to put up one or more posters in a prominent place, please write
in for some extra copies.

John Wilkins
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