TEACHING AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD WORK
| 2013 | Aradetis Gora, Georgia |
| 1990 | Shidakartli, Georgia (SSR): survey |
| 1983- | Mozan/Urkesh (Director) |
| 1976-88 | Terqa (Co-Director) |
| 1974 | Caucasian Republics (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan): survey |
| 1971 | Dilbat Survey, Iraq |
| 1968 | Korucu Tepe, Turkey |
| 1966-67 | Nippur, Iraq |
| 1966 | Palmyrene Survey, Syria |
GRANTS
| 1999-2000 | Sabbatical, California State University, Los Angeles |
| 1997 Spring | Creative Leave, California State University, Los Angeles |
| 1994-95 | Sabbatical, California State University, Los Angeles |
| 1976-present | Excavation grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), The Ambassador International Cultural Foundation, Catholic Biblical Association, Kress Foundation, Ahmanson Foundation, Skaggs Foundation, National Geographic Society, San Carlos Foundation |
| 1987-94 | Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Research (RO-21543-87) for The Mozan Archaeological Project |
| 1987-88 | Panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to select grantees for Old World Archaeology |
CONFERENCES: Helped organize and presented papers
| 2012 | June Milan, Italy, Polytechnical University Department of Architecture |
| 2012 | 11-13 September, Moscow, Institute of Archaeology |
| 2012 | November Milan, Italy, Polytechnical University Department of Architecture |
| 2012 | December Milan, Italy, Ambrosian Library |
STUDY SEASONS: Helped organize and direct
| 2011 | Sept-Oct 5 weeks Beola, Italy |
| 2012 | June 4 weeks Beola, Italy |
| 2012 | Sept-Oct 4 weeks Beola, Italy |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2020 | “The Urkesh Mittani Horizon: Ceramic Evidence”, in Michele Cammarosano, Elena Devecchi and Maurizio Viano (eds), talugaeš witteš. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Stefano de Martino on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Kasion. Publikationen zur ostmediterranen Antike/Publications on Eastern Mediterranean Antiquity 2, Münster: Zaphon, pp. 237-256. |
| 2020 | “Continuity and Innovation at Urkesh in the ED III Period”, in Maria Elena Balza, Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, Lorenzo d'Alfonso, Mauro Giorgieri, Federico Giusfredi, and Alfredo Rizza (eds), Città e Parole, Argilla e Pietra. Studi offerti a Clelia Mora da allievi, colleghi e amici, Biblioteca di Athenaeum 65, Bari: EDIPUGLIA, pp. 296-310. |
| 2020 | “To Sift or Not to Sift... Research on the Effectiveness of Sifting”, in Nadja Cholidis, Elisabeth Katzy, and Sabina Kulemann-Ossen (eds), Zwischen Ausgrabung und Ausstellung. Beiträge zur Archäologie Vorderasiens. Festschrift für Lutz Martin, marru: Studien zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Vol. 9, Münster: Zaphon, pp. 259-265. |
| 2020 | “‘I'm again not doing well...’”, Backdirt 2020 (December) Archaeology and Pandemics, pp. 72-73 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2020 | “Distancing: One-on-One Heritage Archaeology across Three Continents”, Backdirt 2020 (December) Archaeology and Pandemics, pp. 92-97 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2019 | “Urkesh Ceramic Evidence for Function and Emulation Processes”, in A. Pieńkowska, D. Szelag and I. Zych (eds), Stories told around the fountain. Papers offered to Piotr Bieliński on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press; PCMA UW., pp. 285-304. |
| 2019 | “Images of Work in Urkesh”, in M. D'Andrea, M.G. Micale, D. Nadali, S. Pizzimenti, and A. Vacca (eds), Pearls of the Past. Studies on Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in Honour of Frances Pinnock, marru, Studies in Near and Middle Eastern Archaeology 8, Münster: Zaphon, pp. 413-427. |
| 2018 | “Urkesh Insights into Kura-Araxes Social Interaction”, in Attilla Batmaz, Giorgi Bedianashvili, Aleksandra Michalewicz, and Abby Robinson (eds), Context and Connection. Studies on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honour of Antonio Sagona, OLA 268, Peeters: Leuven, Paris, Bristol (CT), pp. 107-123. |
| 2018 | “Celebrating Life in Mesopotamia”, Celebrating Archaeology. Tributes to Lloyd Cotsen. Backdirt, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, December 2018, pp. 58-64. |
| 2017 | “Community Archaeology 1984: At the Interface between Practice and Theory”, Backdirt, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 2017, pp. 34-38 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2017 | “Archaeology for a Young Future: The New Syrian Life of the Ancient City of Urkesh”, Research Award 2017, pp. 227-243 (in English and Chinese); Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 2017 Shanghai Archaeology Forum (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2016 | “Urkesh: The Morphology and Cultural Landscape of the Hurrian Sacred”, in Paolo Matthiae et Marta D'Andrea (eds), Ebla e la Siria dall'età del Bronzo all'età del Ferro, Atti dei Convegni Lincei 304, pp. 97-115. |
| 2016 | “Women's Power and Work in Ancient Urkesh”, in S.L. Budin and J.M. Turfa (eds), Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 48-63. |
| 2016 | “The Urkesh Ceramics Digital Book”, in P. Corò, E. Devecchi, N. De Zorzi, and M. Maiocchi (eds), Libiamo ne' lieti calici. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Lucio Milano on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday by Pupils, Colleagues and Friends, Alter Orient Und Altes Testament 436, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, pp. 721-734. |
| 2016 | Georgia: Paese d'oro e di fede. Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina. |
| 2015 | “Power and Identity Construction in Ancient Urkesh”, in Paola Ciafardoni and Deborah Giannessi (eds), From the Treasures of Syria. Essays on Art and Archaeology in Honour of Stefania Mazzoni, pp. 111-130. |
| 2014 | “... Nor North: The Urkesh Temple Terrace”, in P. Butterlin et al. (eds), Mari, ni Est, ni Ouest, Beirut: Institut français du Proche-Orient, pp. 441-461 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2013 | “Landscape and Spatial Organization, An Essay on Early Urban Settlement Patterns in Urkesh”, in D. Bonatz and L. Martin (eds), 100 Jahre archäologische Feldforschungen in Nordost-Syrien – eine Bilanz. Internationales Symposium des Instituts für Vorderasiatische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin und des Vorderasiatischen Museums der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin vom 21. Juli bis 23. Juli 2011 im Pergamonmuseum, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 149-166. |
| 2012 | “Apprenticeship and Learning from the Ancestors: The Case of Ancient Urkesh”, in Willeke Wendrich (ed.), Archaeology and Apprenticeship, Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, pp. 203-223. |
| 2010 | “Mozan/Urkesh in the Late Chalcolithic Period”, in Jörg Becker, Ralph Hempelmann, Ellen Rehm, J. C. Finke (eds), Kulturlandschaft Syrien: Zentrum und Peripherie; Festschrift für Jan-Waalke Meyer, pp. 87-121. |
| 2009 | “Uqnitum and Tar'am-Agade, Patronage and Portraiture at Urkesh”, in J. C. Finke (ed.), Festschrift für Gernot Wilhelm, Dresden: ISLET, pp. 185-202. |
| 2009 | “The Great Temple Terrace at Urkesh and the Lions of Tish-atal”, in SCCNH (Festschrift Owen) 18, pp. 33-69 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2008 | “Using Image Analysis Software to Correlate Sherd Scans in the Field and X-Ray Element Maps in the Laboratory”, SAS Bulletin (Summer), pp. 8-12 (with Ellery Frahm and Marianna Nikolaidou). |
| 2008 | “The Ceramics of Urkesh: Statistics for a Browser Edition”, in Dominik Bonatz, Rainer M. Czichon, and F. Janoscha Kreppner (eds) Fundstellen Gesammelte Schriften zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altvorderasiens ad honorem Hartmut Kühne, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 315-326 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2007 | “Middle Euphrates Ceramics in the Third and Second Millennia: a View from Terqa”, in Michel Al-Maqdissi, Valérie Matoïan, and Christophe Nicolle (eds), Céramique de l'Âge du Bronze en Syrie II. L'Euphrate et la Région de Jézireh, Beyrouth: Institut français du Proche-Orient, pp. 119-151 (with William Shelby). |
| 2007 | “Urkesh and the Question of the Hurrian Homeland”, Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Science 175/2, pp. 141-151 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2006 | “Gilgamesh at Urkesh? Literary Motifs and Iconographic Identifications”, in P. Butterlin, M. Lebeau, J.-Y. Montchambert, J. L. Montero Fenollós, and B. Muller (eds), Les espaces Syro-Mésopotamiens. Dimensions de l'experience humaine au Proche-Orient ancient. Volume d'hommage offert à Jean-Claude Margueron, Subartu 17, pp. 403-414. |
| 2005 | “Urkesh as a Hurrian Religious Center”, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 47, pp. 27-59 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2005 | “Introduction to the Archaeo-zoology of the abi”, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 47, pp. 61-66. |
| 2005 | “Urkesh and the North: Recent Discoveries”, Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians 15, pp. 29-40 |
| 2004-2005 | “Urkesh Ceramics from the Palace Area”, Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriens 47-48, 2004-2005 (with Jamal Omar). |
| 2004 | “Andirons at Urkesh: New Evidence for the Hurrian Identity of Early Transcaucasian Culture”, in A. Sagona (ed.), A View from the Highlands: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney, Herent: Peeters, pp. 67-89. |
| 2004 | “Der monumentale Palasthof von Tall Mozan/Urkesh und die stratigraphische Geschichte des abi”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 135, pp. 13-39 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2003 | “Ein hurritischer Gang in die Unterwelt”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 134, pp. 131-148. |
| 2002 | “Tar'am-Agade, Daughter of Naram-Sin, at Urkesh”, in L. Al-Gailani, J. Curtis, H. Martin, A. McMahon, J. Oates, and J. Reade (eds), Of Pots and Plans. Papers on the Archaeology and History of Mesopotamia and Syria presented to David Oates in Honour of his 75th Birthday, London: Nabu Publications, London: Nabu, pp. 11-31 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2002 | “Die Große Schnittstelle. Bericht über die 14. Kampagne in Tall Mozan/Urkeš: Ausgrabungen im Gebiet AA, Juni-Oktober 2001”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 134, pp. 103-130 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2002 | “Ein hurritischer Gang in die Unterwelt”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin 134, pp. 131-148 (English version). |
| 2001 | “In Search of Hurrian Urkesh”, Archaeology Odyssey 4, pp. 16-27 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2001 | “Überlegungen zur funktionellen und historischen Bestimmung des Königspalastes AP in Urkesch. Bericht über die 13. Kampagne in Tall Mozan/Urkesch: Ausgrabungen im Gebiet AA, Juni-August 2000”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 133, pp. 59-96 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 2000 | “The Royal Palace of Urkesh. Report on the 12th Season at Tell Mozan/Urkesh: Excavations in Area AA, June-October 1999”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 132, pp. 133-183 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1999 | “Das archaeologische Projekt Tall Mozan/Urkesh”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, pp. 7-16 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1998 | “The Courtiers of the Queen of Urkesh: Glyptic Evidence from the Western Wing of the Royal Storehouse AK”, Subartu 4/2, pp. 195-216 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1998 | “The Workshops of Urkesh”, in G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati (eds), Urkesh and the Hurrians, Urkesh/Mozan Studies 3 = Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 26, Malibu: Undena Publications, pp. 35-50 (Chapter 3). |
| 1997 | “History of the Field: Archaeology in Syria”, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Vol. 3, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 42-47. |
| 1997 | “Mozan, Tell”, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Vol. 4, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 60-64 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1997 | “Terqa”, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Vol. 5, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 188-190 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1997 | “Urkesh. The First Hurrian Capital”, Biblical Archaeologist 60, pp. 77-96 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1996 | “Seals in Ancient Mesopotamia and Seals of God in Revelation”, Rivista della Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano 1, pp. 79-100. |
| 1996 | “Una manciata di secoli”, Bollettino dell'Associazione Archelogica Ticinese 7, pp. 16-23 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1996 | “Nuzi Viewed from Urkesh, Urkesh Viewed from Nuzi: Stock Elements and Framing Devices in Northern Syro-Mesopotamia”, Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians 8, pp. 247-268. |
| 1996 | “The Seals of the King of Urkesh: Evidence from the Western Wing of the Royal Storehouse AK”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 1996, pp. 65-100, Pls. I-VII (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1996 | “Terqa”, in J. Turner (ed.), The Dictionary of Art, London, New York: Macmillan, Grove, Vol. 31, p. 492. |
| 1995-6 | “The Royal Storehouse of Urkesh: The Glyptic Evidence from the Southwestern Wing”, Archiv für Orientforschung 42/43, pp. 1-32 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1995 | “The Identification of Urkesh with Tell Mozan”, Orient Express 1995/3, pp. 67-70 (with Giorgio Buccellati) |
| 1995 | “Mōzān (Tall)”, Reallexikon der Assyriologie 8 (5/6), pp. 386-393 (with Giorgio Buccellati) [online version]. |
| 1994 | “Mozan”, American Journal of Archaeology 98, pp. 131-133 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1991 | “Mozan”, American Journal of Archaeology 95, pp. 712-714 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1990 | “Tell Mozan”, in Mille et une capitales de Haute-Mesopotamie, Les Dossiers d'Archeologie 155 (December), pp. 18-23 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1990 | “Three Seasons of Excavation at Tell Mozan”, in S. Eichler, M. Wäfler, and D. Warburton (eds), Tall al-Hamidiya 2, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis: Series Archaeologica 6, Freiburg, Schweiz and Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Freiburg and Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, pp. 119-132. |
| 1990 | “Formal and Iconographic Analysis of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals”, included in Report on Data Processing Projects in Art, Pisa Scuola Normale and the Getty Information Center. |
| 1990 | “Trade in Metals in the Third Millennium: Northeastern Syria and Eastern Anatolia”, in P. Matthiae, M. Van Loon, and H. Weiss (eds), Resurrecting the Past: A Joint Tribute to Adnan Bounni, Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut, pp. 117-130. |
| 1990 | “A New Third Millennium Sculpture from Mozan”, in A. Leonard and B. Williams (eds), Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented to Helene J. Kantor, SAOC 47, Chicago: University Press, pp. 149-154, pl. 26. |
| 1988 | Mozan 1: The Soundings of the First Two Seasons (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1986 | “The Glory of Ancient Syria”, Terra 24/4, pp. 6-13 and 24/5, pp. 22-29 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1986 | Insight Through Images: Studies in Honor of Edith Porada, Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 21, 268 pp. and 64 pls. (editor, in collaboration with P. Matthiae [Rome] and M. Van Loon [Amsterdam]). |
| 1986 | “Sealing Practices at Terqa”, in Insight Through Images: Studies in Honor of Edith Porada, Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 21, 268 pp. and 64 pls. (editor, in collaboration with P. Matthiae [Rome] and M. Van Loon [Amsterdam]), pp. 133-142. |
| 1985 | “Figurine and Plaques from Terqa”, Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes, pp. 149-154. |
| 1985 | “Terqa and the Kingdom of Khana”, Ebla to Damascus, pp. 217-222 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1983 | “Terqa: The First Eight Seasons”, Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriens XXXIII, pp. 47-67. (with Giorgio Buccellati) |
| 1981 | “Miniature Art from Terqa 1700 B.C.: New Sources for Mid-Second Millennium Art in Mesopotamia”, in The Shape of the Past: Studies in Honor of Franklin D. Murphy, pp. 44-53. |
| 1979 | “The Outer Fertile Crescent Culture: Northeastern Connections of Syria and Palestine in the Third Millennium B.C.”, Ugarit Forschungen 11, pp. 413-430. |
| 1979 | “Iconographic and Formal Analysis of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals”, Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes XXXIX-XXX, pp. 273-284. |
| 1978 | “The Early Bronze Age Culture - Descriptive and Comparative Analysis”, in Korucutepe Final Report, Vol. 2, pp. 67-121, pls. 112-129. |
| 1978 | IIMAS Field Encoding Manual, Aids and Research Tools in Ancient Near Eastern Studies 2 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1978 | “Terqa Preliminary Reports, No. 6: The Third Season: Introduction and the Stratigraphic Record”, Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 2/6, pp. 115-164 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1978 | “Tall Asharah-Terqa”, Archiv für Orientforschung XXVI, pp. 149-151. |
| 1977 | New Archaeological Harvests from Syria, Pasadena (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1977 | “Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: A Preface”, Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 1, pp. 1-3 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1977 | “The Terqa Archaeological Project: First Preliminary Report”, Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes XXVII, pp. 71-96 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1977 | “Terqa Preliminary Reports, No. 3: Object Typology of the Second Season: The Third and Second Millennia”, Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 1, pp. 143-169 (with Linda Mount Williams). |
| 1977 | “Terqa Preliminary Reports No. 4: A Typology of Ceramic Vessels of the Third and Second Millennia”, Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 1, pp. 171-236 (with William R. Shelby). |
| 1977 | “Towards a Quantitative Analysis of Mesopotamian Sphragistics”, Mesopotamia XII, pp. 41-52. |
| 1974 | The Early Trans-Caucasian Culture: Geographical and Chronological Interaction, PhD dissertation, University of Chicago Microfilm, 400 pp. |
| 1974 | “The Excavations at Korucutepe, Turkey, 1968-70: Preliminary Report, Part V. The Early Bronze Pottery and its Affinities”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 33, pp. 44-54. |
| 1973 | “The Excavations at Korucutepe, Turkey, 1968-70: Preliminary Report, Part III: Statistical Description of Significant Groups of Pottery”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 32, pp. 434-439. |
| 1973 | “Statistics in Archaeology and Its Application to Ancient Near Eastern Data”, in Gelb Volume: Approaches to the Study of the Ancient Near East, Rome, pp. 195-211 (with Ernestine S. Elster). |
| 1971 | “Ma sua moglie guardò indietro... (Gen. 19:26)”, Bibbia e Oriente 13, p. 226 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
| 1967 | “Archaeological Survey of the Palmyrene and the Jebel Bishri”, Archaeology 20, pp. 305-306 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
Forthcoming [with date of submission]
| forthc. a | “The density of types. A website approach to archaeological typology”, in Between variability and singularity: crossing theoretical, qualitative and computer-based approaches to types and typologies in archaeology (with Giorgio Buccellati) [12/20/2022]. |
| forthc. b | “Un sistema multiplanare in atto. Lo Urkesh Global Record”, UCSC (with Giorgio Buccellati) [11/17/2022]. |
| forthc. c | “Temporal clustering at Urkesh. A structural analysis of strata, phases, horizons” (with Giorgio Buccellati) [8/31/2022]. |
PRESS
| 2021 | “Il Medio Oriente in due convegni a Mantova e Milano”. Article in Italian, Avvenire, November 14, 2021, p. II (section “Milano e Lombardia”). |
| 2021 | “Con la arqueología, la Biblia no resulta pura retórica”. Article in Spanish, Alfa&Omega, September 30-October 6, 2021, p. 22 (with Giorgio Buccellati); English translation available here. |
| 2021 | “‘Al Daesh, como a los talibanes, hay que combatirlos con las ideas y la arqueología es útil’”. Article in Spanish, ABC, October 12, 2021, online (with Giorgio Buccellati); English translation downloadable here. |
| 2017 | “Conserviamo il futuro”. Article in Italian, Tracce Feb. 2017, pp. 36-39 (with Giorgio Buccellati). |
FILM AND DOCUMENTARIES
| 1998 | Unwrapping Urkesh - Co-producer, a one hour TV documentary for the Radio Televisione Svizzera. |
INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES AND PAPERS GIVEN AT CONGRESSES
| 2021 | Politecnico, Milano, Italy |
| 2021 | Politecnico, Mantova, Italy |
| 2021 | Madrid, Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso (recording available here) |
| 2021 | Cotsen Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles |
| 2020 | CAMNES - BuNEER 2 (online video; Part 1; Part 2; Part 3) |
| 2020 | “Rondine Cittadella della Pace” Lecture (online) |
| 2019 | Shanghai, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
| 2018 | Cotsen Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles |
| 2017 | AUB Museum and UNESCO, Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2017 | Houston Museum of Natural Science |
| 2017 | Plato Society, Los Angeles |
| 2016 | CAMNES, Florence, Italy |
| 2016 | Museo Egizio, Torino, Italy |
| 2016 | San Marino |
| 2015 | Svaneti Museum, Georgia |
| 2015 | Humboldt Kolleg, Tbilisi, Georgia |
| 2015 | National Geographic, Washington, D.C. |
| 2013 | University of Rome (Sapienza) |
| 2013 | University of Rome (Sapienza) |
| 2013 | University of Venice (Ca' Foscari) |
| 2013 | Accademia dei Lincei |
| 2013 | Georgian National Museum |
| 2013 | University of Rome (Roma Tre) |
| 2013 | Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA |
| 2013 | Archaeological Institute of America |
| 2012 | University of Firenze |
| 2012 | Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow |
| 2011 | University of Naples (Federico II) |
| 2011 | Halaf Conference, Berlin |
| 2010 | University of Frankfurt |
| 2010 | University of Turin |
| 2010 | ICEVO Rome |
| 2009 | University of Turin |
| 2009 | Conegliano |
| 2009 | University Statale Milano |
| 2009 | University of Pavia |
| 2008 | Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA |
| 2008 | University of Genoa |
| 2008 | University of Bruxelles, ARCANE Conference |
| 2007 | University of Bologna |
| 2007 | University of Palermo |
| 2007 | S.Vito di Cadore |
| 2007 | University of Udine |
| 2007 | University of Venice |
| 2007 | Los Angeles: Bowers Museum |
| 2006 | Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA |
| 2006 | Austin TX: SAA |
| 2006 | Beirut: Archaeological Museum, AUB |
| 2005 | Salt Lake City: SAA |
| 2004 | Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA |
| 2003 | Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA |
| 2003 | Los Angeles: Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles |
| 2003 | Nashville: American Oriental Society (April) |
| 2002 | Houston: American Oriental Society |
| 2002 | Lugano: Facoltà di teologia |
| 2002 | Cleveland: The Catholic Biblical Association |
| 2001 | Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA |
| 2001 | Los Angeles: California State University, Los Angeles |
| 2001 | Philadelphia: The Kevorkian Lecture, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2001 | Philadelphia: The University Museum: University of Pennsylvania |
| 2001 | Tübingen: Eberhard Karls Universität |
| 2000 | Orientalisches Seminar, University of Tuebingen, Germany |
| 2000 | Ascona: Collegio Papio |
| 2000 | Saint Paul: AIA, Science Museum of Minnesota |
| 2000 | Palermo: Università degli Studi |
| 2000 | Agrigento: Università degli Studi |
| 2000 | Roma: Università degli Studi (Sapienza) |
| 2000 | Como: Musei Civici |
| 2000 | Venezia: Università degli Studi Ca' Foscari |
| 2000 | Trieste: Università degli Studi |
| 1999 | Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence, Italy |
| 1999 | Catholic University, Washington |
| 1999 | Kalamazoo College |
| 1998 | ISMEA, Rome, Italy |
| 1998 | Orientalisches Seminar, University of Tuebingen, Germany |
| 1998 | Semitic Museum, Harvard University |
| 1997 | Louvre Museum, Paris |
| 1997 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| 1996 | Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
| 1996 | David Lawrence Memorial Lecture, CSULA |
| 1996 | Conference for the Opening of the Deir ez Zor Museum (Deir ez Zor, Syria) |
| 1996 | Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego |
| 1995 | The Identification of Urkesh with Tell Mozan, American Schools of Oriental Research, Philadelphia |
| 1995 | Mozan/Urkesh and the Hurrian Civilization, UCLA |
| 1995 | In Search of the Hurrians: The Excavations at Tell Mozan, Vienna (Austria) |
| 1994 | Tales from a Hurrian Storehouse, UCLA Institute of Archaeology |
| 1994 | Alla ricerca della civiltà urrita nell'antica Mesopotamia, Lugano (Switzerland) |
| 1993 | Seal Impressions and Their Use, October, Powell College, Wyoming. |
| 1993 | Akkadian Seal Impressions from Mozan, American Oriental Society, March, Chapel Hill. |
| 1992 | Mozan Excavations, American Oriental Society, San Francisco and Archaeological Institute of America, Orange Co. |
| 1992 | Archaeological Evidence for Ancient Polytheism, San Diego State University |
| 1991 | Mozan Excavations, UCLA Institute of Archaeology |
| 1990 | Mozan Excavations, American Oriental Society, San Francisco, March. |
| 1989 | Tell Mozan, American Schools of Oriental Research, Western Branch, Claremont University. |
| 1988 | Nuove scoperte nella Siria del Nord, Verona, Italy |
| 1987 | The Third Millennium Metals Trade, Rencontre Assyriologique, Istanbul, Turkey. |
| 1987 | Hurrian Art at Mozan?, American Oriental Society, Los Angeles, March. |
| 1986 | The Art of Ancient Syria, lecture given at the Museum of Natural History in connection with the Ebla to Damascus Exhibit. |
| 1986 | Symposium: Terqa (with Giorgio Buccellati, M. Chavalas, A. Podany, S. Reimer) American Schools of Oriental Research, Anaheim, November. |
| 1986 | Mozan Excavations, American Oriental Society, Yale, New Haven, December. |
| 1986 | Mozan, Symposium on the Khabur Region, Bern Switzerland, Dec. 1986. |
| 1985 | Mozan Excavations, American Schools of Oriental Research, Atlanta, Ga. November. |
| 1984 | Wheaton College |
| 1984 | Rencontre Assyriologique, London, England |
| 1984 | Department of Antiquities lecture, Damascus, Syria |
| 1983 | Terqa. International Symposium on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Discovery of Mari, Deir-ez-Zor, Syria. October. |
| 1979 | Committee on Fine Arts, Marquette University, sponsored by the Ambassador International Cultural Foundation. |
| 1979-80 | Lectures Sponsored by The Archaeological Institute of America |
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MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
| Archaeological Institute of America | |
| Catholic Biblical Association | |
| Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft | |
| Society for American Archaeology |