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Lecture on the Roman Fish-Salting Industry, WED. 2/8

26 Thursday Jan 2023

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ancient economy, Roman archaeology

Our first lecture of 2023 will be held on WEDNESDAY (not Thursday as usual), February 8 at 6 pm:

Chris Motz (Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Richmond)

“Connecting Ecology, Economy, and Craft in the Roman Fish-Salting Industry”

Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies, the free lecture will be held in Jepson Hall 118 on the UR campus.

The lecture will be preceded by a reception honoring the Mediterranean Society of America, 5:15 – 6:00 pm in the same location.

VMFA Ancient Mediterranean Gallery tour – Thurs. 1/12, 6 pm

09 Monday Jan 2023

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Please join us this Thursday evening for a special tour!

Thursday, January 12 at 6pm 

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Note: Meet in the Ancient Mediterranean Gallery

Join Dr. Peter Schertz, Curator of Ancient Art, for a tour of new acquisitions and installations in the Ancient Mediterranean Gallery! 

Following the tour, we will head to Best Café for libations and conversation. 

Attic Black-Figured Tyrrhenian Neck-Amphora  
Attributed to Goltyr Painter, Greek, active 6th century BC 
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 2021.582

Zoom option for November lecture

16 Wednesday Nov 2022

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Tomorrow’s lecture by Sonia Alconini on “Rethinking Andean and Amazonian Relations” will also be viewable via Zoom at https://urichmond.zoom.us/j/81025759227.

November lecture: “Rethinking Andean and Amazonian Relations”

04 Friday Nov 2022

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On Thursday, November 17 at 6 pm, Dr. Sonia Alconini (Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia) will present “Rethinking Andean and Amazonian Relations: The Taypi Yungas as Spaces of Encounter, Ethnogenesis and Sociopolitical Transformations.” Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies, the free lecture will be held in Jepson Hall 118 on the UR campus.

October lecture postponed

11 Tuesday Oct 2022

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Due to illness, Jack Gary’s lecture scheduled for this Thursday (Oct. 13) has been postponed to a future date, yet to be determined. We wish him a quick recovery and look forward to hosting him at another time. We will post an update here when we know more, and you can join our email list for notifications by using the ‘Contact’ form (accessed through the tab above).

October 13 lecture on new discoveries at Colonial Williamsburg (POSTPONED)

03 Monday Oct 2022

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African American archaeology, community archaeology, historical archaeology

Please join us for our first lecture of the academic year (and our first in-person event since Feb. 2020!): on Thursday, October 13 at 6 pm, Jack Gary (Director of Archaeology at Colonial Williamsburg) will present “Restoring Faith: Community Archaeology and the Search for America’s Oldest Black Baptist Church” (click here for recent news coverage of the project). Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies, the free lecture will be held in Jepson Hall 118 on the UR campus.

2022-2023 Lecture Schedule

11 Sunday Sep 2022

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Free lectures co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies

Lectures will be held at 6 pm in 118 Jepson Hall, 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA 23173. For directions and parking, see https://www.richmond.edu/visit/.

Thursday, October 13 – Jack Gary (Colonial Williamsburg), “Restoring Faith: Community Archaeology and the Search for America’s Oldest Black Baptist Church” (click here for recent news coverage of the project) [POSTPONED]

Thursday, November 17 – Sonia Alconini (University of Virginia), “Rethinking Andean and Amazonian Relations: The Taypi Yungas as Spaces of Encounter, Ethnogenesis and Sociopolitical Transformations”

WEDNESDAY, February 8 – Chris Motz (University of Richmond), “Connecting Ecology, Economy, and Craft in the Roman Fish-Salting Industry”

Thursday, March 16 – Emilia Oddo (Tulane University), “In case of emergency, break pots: use and function of Marine Style pottery in Minoan Crete”

Thursday, April 13 – Eric Cline (George Washington University), “1177 BC Revisited: Updating the Late Bronze Age Collapse”

AIA SAIG 2nd Annual Dissertation lecture Thursday, May 12, at 6 pm

10 Tuesday May 2022

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Though we had to postpone the lecture we had scheduled for this Thursday at 6 pm, you can still catch an archaeology lecture at that time! The AIA Student Affairs Interest Group will host its second annual dissertation lecture on Zoom: Amanda Gaggioli, doctoral candidate at Stanford University, will present “Earthquakes and the Structuring of Greco-Roman Society: the longue durée of human-geological environment relationships in Helike, Greece.” Click here to register!

Spring member event postponed

09 Monday May 2022

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The lecture by Jack Gary (Colonial Williamsburg) scheduled for May 12 has been postponed to October 13, when we will celebrate International Archaeology Day and Virginia Archaeology Month with our first in-person lecture in more than two years! For our spring gathering, we are planning a social event at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts later this spring/summer – check back here for more information, or click on the ‘Contact’ tab and enter your information to join our email list.

Recording of Reeder-Myers lecture, “Coastal Heritage and Climate Change”

28 Thursday Apr 2022

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Click on the image above or on the url below for a link to the recording: https://urcapture.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d07704d4-2fac-455f-9199-ae7800050178
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VMFA tour, May 2018
VMFA tour, May 2018
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Diggin' RVA: Archaeology Day at the Science Museum of Virginia, Oct. 2016
Diggin’ RVA: Archaeology Day at the Science Museum of Virginia, Oct. 2016
Diggin’ RVA: Bernard Means (Virtual Curation Laboratory, Virginia Commonwealth University) demonstrates 3D scanning
Diggin’ RVA: Bernard Means (Virtual Curation Laboratory, Virginia Commonwealth University) demonstrates 3D scanning
Diggin’ RVA: Map a Shipwreck! activity provided by NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
Diggin’ RVA: Map a Shipwreck! activity provided by NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
Diggin’ RVA: Katelyn Coughlan (Monticello Archaeology) explains how we can date ceramics
Diggin’ RVA: Katelyn Coughlan (Monticello Archaeology) explains how we can date ceramics
Diggin’ RVA: David Brown (Fairfield Foundation) presents “Public Archaeology in Virginia” (photo: Ellen Chapman)
Diggin’ RVA: David Brown (Fairfield Foundation) presents “Public Archaeology in Virginia” (photo: Ellen Chapman)
Diggin’ RVA: Joseph Jones (College of William and Mary) explaining skeletal analysis (photo: Ellen Chapman)
Diggin’ RVA: Joseph Jones (College of William and Mary) explaining skeletal analysis (photo: Ellen Chapman)
Diggin' RVA: stratigraphy activity
Diggin’ RVA: stratigraphy activity
Fotini Kondyli begins a fascinating lecture on Byzantine Athens, at the spring banquet in memory of Gertrude Howland, May 18, 2017
Fotini Kondyli begins a fascinating lecture on Byzantine Athens, at the spring banquet in memory of Gertrude Howland, May 18, 2017

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