Professional Papers and Lectures:

Overview:

More than 180 professional papers and lectures presented (1984-2007) at international/national conferences and symposia, on university campuses, and to the general public, including at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Skirball Cultural Center and Museum in Los Angeles:

2007a   Panel Discussion of From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible; National Geographic Society; 19 September 2007

2007b      Digging at Megiddo and Kabri: GWU Excavations in Israel.  GWU Heritage Luncheon, Washington DC;

                9 May 2007

2007c       The Discovery of King Tut’s Tomb. GWU Alumni Association, Philadelphia Chapter; 22 April 2007

2007d      The Discovery of King Tut’s Tomb. North Chevy Chase Elementary School, Chevy Chase, MD; 23 March 2007

2007e   The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel: Where Did They Go and Where are They Now?  Temple Beth El, Bethesda, MD; 18 March 2007

2007f   Bronze Age Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East: A Reassessment.  Presented at “Putting Aegean States in Context: Interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southeastern Europe during the Bronze Age;” School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM; 11-15 March 2007

2007g   Canaanites and Minoans in the Middle Bronze Age Palace at Tel Kabri, Israel.  University of Illinois at Urbana/Champagne, Urbana, IL (National AIA Kantor Lecturer); 8 March 2007

2007h   Canaanites and Minoans in the Middle Bronze Age Palace at Tel Kabri, Israel.  University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, Chicago, IL (National AIA Kantor Lecturer); 7 March 2007

2006a      Megiddo and Armageddon.  Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 19 November 2006

2006b      The Discovery of King Tut’s Tomb. GWU Alumni Association, Chicago Chapter; 30 September 2006

2006c  Minoans in Israel: A Bronze Age Mystery.  Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 24 May 2006

2006d  Poetry in Motion: Canaanite Rulership and Minoan Narrative at Kabri (co-written/co-presented with Assaf Yasur-Landau, Tel Aviv University).  EPOS Conference: “Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology,” UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 20-23 April 2006

2006e  The Discovery of King Tut’s Tomb. GWU Alumni Association, Ft. Lauderdale Chapter; 17 March 2006

2006f  “A Trout in the Milk”: A Brief Reassessment of Mycenaean-Hittite Relations in Light of Recent Discoveries and Hypotheses.  Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium, NY; 10 March 2006

2006g  A Questionable Correspondence: The Case of the Missing Ahhiyawa Letters.  Conference and workshop on the Mycenaeans and Anatolians in the Late Bronze Age: The Ahhijawa Question; Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 5 January 2006.

2005a  Minoans and Canaanites at Tel Kabri, Israel.  American Friends of the Israel Exploration Society, JCC of Greater Washington, Rockville, MD; 14 December 2005

2005b  Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace.  ASOR Outreach Lecture (part of ASOR annual meetings), Philadelphia, PA; 19 November 2005

2005c  Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace.  Purchase College, Purchase, NY; 13 November 2005

2005d  Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace.  University of Judaism, Los Angles, CA; 7 November 2005

2005e  Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace.  Judaic Studies Dept, American University, Washington DC; 6 October 2005

2005f   Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace.  AIA lecture, Lincoln/Omaha Society, Lincoln, NB; 18 September 2005

2005g  The Battles of Armageddon.  Dept of Classics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB; 16 September 2005

2005h   Excavating Armageddon: New Discoveries and Old Debates at Megiddo. Sigma Xi chapter, The George Washington University, Washington DC; 12 May 2005

2005i   Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace.  Sigma Xi chapter, National Institutes for Standards and Technology (annual banquet), Gaithersburg MD; 10 May 2005

2005j   Troy and the Trojan War.  Wesleyan University Classics Dept, Middletown CT; 18 April 2005

2005k   Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel.  Gelman Library, Washington DC; 31 March, 2005

2005l   Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace.  Temple Beth El, Saul Bendit Adult Education, Bethesda MD; 30 March, 6 April, and 13 April, 2005 (3 week course)

2005m    Troy and the Trojan War: Homer, History, and Hokum.  UT Austin Classics Dept, Austin TX; 25 March 2005

2005n   Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace.  UT Austin Center for Middle East Studies, Austin TX; 24 March 2005

2005o   Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace.  Virginia Festival of the Book 2005, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, VA; 17 March 2005

2005p    Excavating Megiddo: New Discoveries and Old Debates.  Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 15 March 2005

2005q    The Battles of Armageddon.  Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 15 March 2005

2005r   Excavating Megiddo: New Discoveries and Old Debates.  Phi Beta Kappa, Washington DC Society; 3 February 2005

2005s    Black Athena Revisited: Possible Interactions between Egypt and Greece during the Second Millennium BCE.  ARCE/DC Society, Washington DC; 21 January (evening) 2005

2005t  Jerusalem Besieged.  GWU Emeriti Society, GWU, Washington DC; 21 January (noon) 2005

2004a   Excavating Megiddo: New Discoveries and Old Debates.  American Friends of the Israel Exploration Society, JCC Rockville, MD; 15 December 2004

2004b   Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace.  ASOR annual meetings, San Antonio, TX; 18-21 November 2004

2004c   Chair of Ancient Mediterranean Trade session.  ASOR annual meetings, San Antonio, TX; 18-21 November 2004

2004d   Troy as a “Contested Periphery”: Archaeological Perspectives on Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Interactions Concerning Bronze Age Anatolia.  Presented at “Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia: An International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction;” Atlanta, GA; 17-19 September 2004

2004e   “The Story Behind the Stories: 1) Abraham and the Patriarchs; 2) Moses and the Exodus; 3) David and Solomon; 4) The Ark of the Covenant.”  Four lectures during weekend retreat for Temple Shalom at “The Woods,” West Virginia; 23-25 April 2004

2004f    The Battles of Armageddon.  GWU Emeriti Society, GWU, Washington DC; 16 April 2004

2004g   The Multivalent Nature of Imported Objects in the Ancient Mediterranean World.  Presented at the International Conference “Emporia: Mycenaeans and Minoans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean;” Athens, Greece, 14 April 2004 (read for author by J.S. Phillips)

2004h   Excavating Megiddo: New Discoveries and Old Debates.  Graduate Seminar, Bryn Mawr College; Bryn Mawr, PA; 3 April 2004

2004i    Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace.  C. Densmore Curtis Invited Lecture, Bryn Mawr College; Bryn Mawr, PA; 2 April 2004

2004j   New Names, Old Faces: World Systems Theory and the Economy of the Late Bronze Age Aegean.  AIA annual meetings, San Francisco, CA; 3 January 2004

2004k   Co-organizer (with P. Nick Kardulias) — Colloquium: The Role of the World Systems Theory in the Study of Ancient Societies: The Eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia as Test Cases.  AIA annual meetings, San Francisco, CA; 3 January 2004

2003a   The Stories Behind the Stories in the Hebrew Bible.  Montgomery College, Rockville, MD; 11 December 2003

2003b   Chair of two sessions (Plenary; Trade in the Late Bronze Age).  ASOR annual meetings, Atlanta, GA; 19-22 November 2003

2003c   The Battles of Armageddon.  AIA lecture, Richmond, VA; 13 November 2003

2003d   The Battles of Armageddon.  The First Annual Kayser Lecture.  Colonials Weekend, GWU, Washington DC; 18 October 2003

2003e   Abraham and Archaeology.  St Columba’s Episcopal Church, Washington DC; 24 September 2003

2003f   Troy and the Early Bronze Age.  Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 16 July 2003

2003g   Early Cities and States in the Ancient Near East: Introduction and Overview.  Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 9 July 2003

2003h   The Battles of Armageddon; Fifth World Archaeological Congress, Washington DC; 25 June 2003

2003i   Jerusalem Besieged; Fifth World Archaeological Congress, Washington DC; 24 June 2003

2003j   The Ark of the Covenant.  In “From Abraham to the Exodus and Beyond: The Story Behind the Stories,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 16 May 2003

2003k    Greece in the Late Bronze Age: Contact, Conquest or Colonization? Washington Classical Society; Rosslyn, VA; 9 May 2003

2003l   David and Solomon.  In “From Abraham to the Exodus and Beyond: The Story Behind the Stories,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 9 May 2003

2003m   Egypt and the Exodus.  In “From Abraham to the Exodus and Beyond: The Story Behind the Stories,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 2 May 2003

2003n    Abraham and the Patriarchs. In “From Abraham to the Exodus and Beyond: The Story Behind the Stories,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 25 April 2003

2003o    Co-ordinator for Smithsonian Four-week Seminar: “From Abraham to the Exodus and Beyond: The Story Behind the Stories,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 25 April – 16 May 2003

2003p   Jerusalem Besieged.  AIA lecture, Long Island, NY; 30 March 2003

2003q    Treasures of the Dead Sea Scrolls.  In “Mysteries of the Ancient World: Secrets from Past Civilizations,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 5 March 2003

2003r  The Trojan War – Myth or Reality?  In “Mysteries of the Ancient World: Secrets from Past Civilizations,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 5 February 2003

2003s   Jerusalem Besieged: Ancient Conflicts, Modern Propaganda.  Temple B’nai Tzedek, Potomac, MD; 28 January 2003

2003t   Atlantis – Fact or Fiction?  In “Mysteries of the Ancient World: Secrets from Past Civilizations,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 22 January 2003

2003u   Co-ordinator for Smithsonian Six-week Seminar: “Mysteries of the Ancient World: Secrets from Past Civilizations.”  Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 22 January – 12 March 2003

 2003v   The Temple Mount Controversy: An Archaeologist’s Perspective.  BAS Weekend Seminar, Palm Beach FL; 18 January 2003

2003w    Jerusalem Besieged: From David to the Romans.  BAS Weekend Seminar, Palm Beach FL; 17 January 2003

2003x    Battles of Armageddon Reprised.  BAS Weekend Seminar, Palm Beach FL; 17 January 2003

2002a   Chair of three sessions (Plenary; Egypt and Canaan II; Trade in the Late Bronze Age).  ASOR annual meetings, Toronto, Canada; 22-25 November 2002

2002b   Iron Age Palace and Stables.  Co-authored and presented with Ann E. Killebrew, Penn State University.  ASOR annual meetings, Toronto, Canada; 23 November 2002

2002c   Contact, Conquest, or Colonization?  New Kingdom Egypt and Mycenaean Greece during the Late Bronze Age.  Joint meeting of the Calgary Society for Mediterranean Studies (CSMS) and the Calgary chapter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (SSEA); Calgary, Canada; 15 November 2002

2002d   The Battles of Armageddon.  Chacmool Conference; Calgary, Canada; 15 November 2002

2002e   The Battles of Armageddon.  George Washington University National Council for Arts and Sciences; Washington DC; 2 November 2002