This event is part of the series New Work in the Arts & Humanities: American Classics.

A conversation with the world-renown archaeologist Ian Hodder, Dunlevie Family Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, and the Italian archeologist and FAI president Andrea Carandini, about the present and future of archaeology in the US and Europe. The two will consider archaeology in theory and practice, heritage and politics, and the place of the past in a world of change.

The event will be held in English.

The 2016–17 Conversations/Conversazioni series is sponsored by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.