11 Sunday Apr 2021
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This week’s lecture on ancient DNA by Dr. Melinda Yang (UR Dept. of Biology) has been postponed to next year. Our next event will be on May 13, co-sponsored with the Charlottesville AIA: a book talk and Q&A with Dr. Fiona Greenland (UVA Dept. of Sociology), author of the new book Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy. See the registration link for more details!
12 Friday Mar 2021
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Please join us for a webinar lecture by Jeremy Pope, Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary: “Nubian Queen: How an Ancient African Kingdom Became a Symbol of Feminine Power and Vice Versa”
Thursday, March 18, 6:00 pm
Click here to register for the Zoom webinar
Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies
02 Tuesday Feb 2021
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Join us on Thursday, February 11 at 6 pm for a webinar presentation of the AIA’s Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology. Hilary Becker, Assistant Professor of Classics at Binghamton University, will present “The Etruscan helmets from Vetulonia: new evidence for the life of an Etruscan soldier.”
Click here to register for the Zoom webinar
Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies
30 Saturday Jan 2021
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Our spring lectures will again be on Zoom, co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies. For each lecture, a UR Zoom webinar registration link will be posted here and sent to our email list about one week before the lecture. Registration for our annual spring member event (this year a Zoom book talk and author Q&A, see below) will be available here in March.
Thursday, February 11, 6 pm
Hilary Becker (Binghamton University), “The Iconography of a Life in Arms: The Etruscan Soldier at War, at Home, and at the Tomb” (Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology)
Thursday, March 18, 6 pm
Jeremy Pope (The College of William and Mary), “Nubian Queen: How an Ancient African Kingdom Became a Symbol of Feminine Power and Vice Versa”
Thursday, April 15, 6 pm (This lecture has been postponed to next year)
Melinda Yang (University of Richmond), “Using ancient DNA to study human history – perspectives on East Asia”
SPRING MEMBER EVENT
Thursday, May 13, 6 pm
Book talk and Q&A with Fiona Greenland (University of Virginia), author of Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
[Registration details will be available here in April.]
26 Thursday Nov 2020
On Thursday, December 3 at 6 pm, Dr. Peter Schertz (Jack and Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) will give a behind-the-scenes curator’s talk about the exhibition currently on view at the VMFA, through 18 January 2021.
Register here for the Zoom webinar
This free webinar presentation is co-sponsored by the AIA Richmond Society and the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies.
For more information about the Sunken Cities exhibition at the VMFA, see https://www.vmfa.museum/exhibitions/exhibitions/treasures-ancient-egypt/
06 Friday Nov 2020
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Join us on Thursday, November 12 at 6 pm for a webinar presentation of this year’s Nancy Wilkie Lecture in Archaeological Heritage:
Dr. Patty Gerstenblith, Director for the Center for Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law at DePaul University, will present “Preserving the Past: Archaeological Heritage, the Art Market and Conflict in the Middle East”
Register here for the Zoom webinar
Abstract:
Archaeological sites are looted for the value of artifacts that are sold onto the international art market. The acceptance of undocumented, possibly looted, artifacts by the market and, in particular, by museums, means that we lose the contextual evidence needed to understand and reconstruct the past and knowledge of whether an object is authentic or a forgery. As we now know, the looting of archaeological sites in the Middle East and elsewhere may also help to fund armed conflict and terrorism. This lecture will explore the intersection of these issues and the legal and ethical responses that are intended to reduce the incentives to traffic in looted archaeological materials and thereby promote preservation of the archaeological heritage.
Click here for free registration on Zoom. Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies.
19 Monday Oct 2020
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Join us on Sunday, October 25 at 2:30 pm for a webinar lecture hosted by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in connection with the Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities exhibition.
Dr. Robert Ritner, Professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, will present “Re-Membering Osiris: Overcoming Death in Ancient Egypt.”
Register here for the Zoom webinar.
01 Thursday Oct 2020
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We are later than usual in announcing our 2020-2021 lecture schedule but excited about our first-ever line-up of live online webinars, co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies. For all but the first lecture, which will be hosted by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the UR Zoom webinar registration link will be posted here and sent to our email list one week before the lecture.
Sunday, October 25, 2:30 pm
Robert Ritner (University of Chicago), “Re-Membering Osiris: Overcoming Death in Ancient Egypt” (co-sponsored with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in connection with the Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities exhibition). Register here.
Thursday, November 12, 6 pm
Patty Gerstenblith (DePaul University), “Preserving the Past: Archaeological Heritage, the Art Market and Conflict in the Middle East” (Nancy Wilkie Lectureship in Archaeological Heritage)
Thursday, December 3, 6 pm
Peter Schertz (Jack and Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), “Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities at VMFA”
Thursday, February 11, 6 pm
Hilary Becker (Binghamton University), “The Iconography of a Life in Arms: The Etruscan Soldier at War, at Home, and at the Tomb” (Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology)
Thursday, March 18, 6 pm
Jeremy Pope (The College of William and Mary), “Nubian Queen: How an Ancient African Kingdom Became a Symbol of Feminine Power and Vice Versa”
Thursday, April 15, 6 pm
Melinda Yang (University of Richmond), “Using ancient DNA to study human history – perspectives on East Asia”
Details for our annual May event will be determined in March or April.
07 Tuesday Jul 2020
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On Thursday, July 9 at 5 pm, Franck Goddio, Founder and President of the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology, will present (online) the opening lecture for the Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Register here: https://www.vmfa.museum/calendar/events/opening-talk-sunken-treasures/.
07 Thursday May 2020
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We are sorry that we have had to cancel the rest of our spring programming due to COVID-19 but are looking ahead to next year. On Thursday, May 14 at 4 pm, we will have our annual spring business meeting via Zoom video/phone conference. All members are welcome to join the meeting, and we especially encourage anyone who would like to get more involved in leadership and organization of our local AIA society. At the business meeting, we will discuss plans for next year’s lectures and events and elect new officers.
Anyone who would like to attend can request the Zoom link by sending an email to ebaughan@richmond.edu. Please also send an email if you are interested in becoming a board member or officer or if you have any questions about the AIA and the Richmond society.
