Programs range from lectures for a general audience to seminars and symposia with a scholarly focus. We also offer a wide range of lecture and conversation series.
Programs at the Getty Villa explore the art and culture of the ancient Mediterranean from the perspectives of experts in a variety of fields, including art history, archaeology, classics, and conservation.
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At the Getty Center
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839–1842 Award-winning historian and journalist William Dalrymple recounts the First Anglo-Afghan War, an infamous 1839 British invasion of the remote kingdom of Afghanistan, with penetrating, balanced insight, illuminating the uncanny similarities between the West's first disastrous entanglement with Afghanistan and the situation today.
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At the Getty Villa
The Archimedes Palimpsest: Beyond the Surface
Reviel Netz and William Noel, authors of The Archimedes Codex, discuss how they used modern technology to uncover the secrets behind one of the world's most treasured books: a 13th-century prayer book that contains erased treatises by the great ancient scientist, Archimedes.
Free; a ticket is required.
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Uncorking the Past: Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages
Patrick McGovern, scientific director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, explains the biomolecular archaeological approach behind the discovery of some of the oldest alcoholic beverages in the world.
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