REcent events & lectures
HUMANITIES WEST - CARTHAGE, Feb 7, 2025
Patrick Hunt gave an invited address on “Hannibal’s Secret Weapon” for the Humanities West late winter conference on Carthage at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco.
PEREGRINUM SYMPOSIUM - PROPHECY IN ANTIQUITY - CAPUA, ITALY June 2024
Patrick Hunt presented an invited symposium paper: “Aeneid 4.60-65 & 622-26: Dido and Hannibal in Janus Figure Chronology” for the History-Changing Prophecies Conference at Università della Campania, Capua and Santa Maria Capua Vetere.
PEREGRINUM SYMPOSIUM - ORIGINES GENTIUM, VITERBO, ITALY June 2023
Patrick Hunt presented an invited symposium paper “Foundation Myths of Carthage” at Soriano nel Cimono, Viterbo.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA - NORTON LECTURESHIP 2022-2023
Patrick Hunt gave invited lectures on “Hannibal” and “Oetzi the Iceman” nationally for the prestigious Norton Lectureship in university venues including Niagara - Ontario Canada (Brock University), Memphis (University of Memphis & M.S.U., Bozeman (Montana State University), Bowers Museum of Santa Ana, Honolulu (University of Hawaii) and other venues.
SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDY, INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Patrick Hunt invited lecture “Lapis Lazuli: From God’s Eyes to Empyrean Skies…Through 8000 Years” March 7, 2022
NATIONAL EVENTS 2021-2022
Filmed for PBS Science Channel, 7 episodes for 2021-2022 Season “What on Earth” on Archaeological Conundrums WAGTV (beginning June 2021)
ArchaeoCon AIA April 24, 2021 (selected as a Featured Keynote Speaker for second ArchaeoCon)
INTERNATIONAL WEBINARS : ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Fall 2020
Patrick Hunt, “Climate Change and the Collapse of Civilizations,” Sept. 24, 2020;
Patrick Hunt, “Otzi the Iceman’s Prehistoric Medical Kit,” Oct. 22, 2020;
Patrick Hunt, “Five New World Plants That Changed History,” Nov. 19, 2020.
SELECTED INVITED PAPERS, CONGRESSES, EXHIBITIONS, INVITED LECTURES or SERIES (Recent):
“Problematic Provenance: Who Owns Priam’s Treasure?” Ludwig Maximilian University Munich; University of London, November 17, 2020.
“Otzi the Iceman” University of Toronto, Canada - Toronto AIA Society October 27, 2020
“Alexander von Humboldt’s Legacy” for National Geographic Learning Keynote Speaker at California Council for Social Sciences Convention, Feb.29, 2020, Southern California
Hannibal,” Pebble Beach Authors and Ideas Festival, Sept. 25-27, 2019
“Hannibal’s Secret Weapon” for National Geographic Learning, Keynote Speaker at California Council for Social Sciences Convention, March 19, 2019, Northern California
“Hannibal,” Bankhead Theater Invited Speaker’s Series, Livermore, February 7, 2019
“Science in Archaeology” First ArchaeoCon AIA, San Diego Annual Meeting, 2019 (selected as a Featured Keynote Speaker) also interviewed by Channel 8 CBS San Diego
“Hannibal’s Secret Weapon” Explorers Club, New York City, Dec. 2018
“Hannibal and His War Elephants” Harvard Club, New York City, October, 2018
“Where Did Hannibal Cross the Alps?” Humanities West (San Francisco), January 25, 2018
“Provenance Problems and Solutions”, Provenance Conference, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2018