Samford University’s Howard College of Arts and Sciences will host MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award Winner Joan Breton Connelly for the free and public 2015 J. Roderick Davis Lecture Oct. 29. Connelly, an archaeologist, author and professor of classics and art history at New York University, will discuss the ways human material culture preserves and projects values.

Connelly’s controversial and compelling book, The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West’s Most Iconic Building and the People who Made It, will serve as the centerpiece of her talk.

The Davis Lecture will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Samford’s Wright Center Concert Hall.