updated 5 August 2009
Abstracts for the 2009 Annual Meeting
Podcasting and the Classics, a site organized for the special panel at the Annual Meeting
NEW: Pictures from the APA production of Thersites
Online Conference Registration: APA and AIA have extended the advance registration deadline to Friday, December 26, 2008. To avoid long lines on site in Philadelphia, preregister at http://www.accureg.com/aip09/regprod.html by December 26.
Housing Reservations: The main room block at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown has sold out; however, sleeping rooms are still available at the Loews Hotel, the official overflow hotel for the Annual Meeting, located just across the street from the Marriott. Special discounted hotel rates are valid for hotel reservations from January 2, 2009 through January 15, 2009 (based on availability) as follows:
Information on the program from the insert in the August 2008 Newsletter
The Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau has created a microsite specifically for attendees of the 2009 APA Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting Tours are now available for registration! Sign up today at: http://www.toursignup.com/AIA.
In addition to the tours listed below the Philadelphia Local Planning Committee of the AIA will offer exclusive Archaeological Tours in Philadelphia. AIA and APA members are welcome to attend. These tours will take place on:
Complete tour information and pricing will be available online by November 14, 2008. Please visit us again soon!
The Tours currently scheduled and available for sign-up include:
The city of Philadelphia possesses some of the finest examples of American architecture. In spite of its modest Quaker origins, William Penn's City of Brotherly Love grew into a worldly metropolis with a deep understanding of European cultural legacy. Our tour guided by Kostis Kourelis will track archaeology's influence on architectural design from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Moving east to west, from Third to Broad Streets, we will study the development of styles (Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic, Romanesque, Beaux Arts, Modern, and Postmodern) with particular attention to the archaeological prototypes that influenced them. We will also discuss the archaeological history of Philadelphia itself, the creation of Independence National Historical Park in the 1950s and the National Constitution Center in the 2000s.
The guide for this tour is Kostis Kourelis, an archaeologist and architectural historian specializing in the medieval Mediterranean. Trained as an architect, Dr. Kourelis has a particular interest in the relationship between archaeology and architectural design during the 19th and 20th centuries. His fieldwork on domestic architecture and urbanism spans across Greece, Italy, Tunisia, and Ukraine. Articles on the Grand Tour, on Modernism's discovery of Byzantium, on the filmic representations of medieval architecture, and on the archaeology of global migration represent theoretical preoccupations that supplement Kourelis' archaeological positivism. Dr. Kourelis received his Ph.D. from the graduate group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at Clemson University, Swarthmore College, Arcadia University, SUNY New Paltz, and he is currently visiting Assistant Professor at Connecticut College.