27 Thursday Feb 2025
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Monument 155, Toniná, Chiapas, Mexico, c. 700 CE
The lecture on the captive body in Maya art by Caitlin Earley has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 17 at 6 pm. Mark your calendars!
19 Wednesday Feb 2025
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Due to inclement weather, the lecture on Maya art scheduled for tomorrow evening (“Bound in Stone: The Captive Body in Maya Art”) has been postponed. Details will be posted here when the new date is confirmed.
11 Tuesday Feb 2025
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Please join us next Thursday, February 20, for our first lecture of 2025! Caitlin Earley (Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Washington and current Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks) will present “Bound in Stone: the Captive Body in Ancient Maya Art.”
This lecture is a Nadzia Borowski Lecture in the AIA’s endowed lecture series and is co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies. It will be held on the UR campus in Jepson Hall 118 (building #221 on the campus map) at 6 pm, preceded by a light reception.
16 Thursday Jan 2025
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Tonight’s planned tour of “Neoclassical art and archaeology” in the the VMFA’s European galleries has been postponed. We hope to reschedule soon!
01 Friday Nov 2024
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Please join us on Thursday, November 14 for the AIA’s Anita Krause Bader Lecture in Mediterranean Archaeology and the Richmond society’s memorial lecture for Maggie Mayo (VMFA curator of ancient art from 1978–2004), presented by Dr. Nadhira Hill (Assistant Professor of Classics and Director of Archaeological Studies at Randolph-Macon College): “Women and Wine in the Ancient Mediterranean.” Co-sponsored by the UR Dept. of Classical Studies, the lecture will be free and open to the public, in Jepson Hall 118 (building #221 on the campus map), preceded by a light reception.
01 Tuesday Oct 2024
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15 Sunday Sep 2024
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Join us for two exciting lectures this fall, and ‘save the dates’ for three lectures in the spring! All lectures are free and open to the public, co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies. Unless marked with an asterisk (*) below, all lectures will be held at 6 pm in 118 Jepson Hall, 221 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA 23173 (https://www.richmond.edu/visit/).
*Thursday, October 10 – Michael Clem (Virginia Department of Historic Resources), “The Discovery of and Excavations at Eyreville. A 17th century Plantation Site on Virginia’s Eastern Shore” – Celebration of Virginia Archaeology Month and International Archaeology Day – JEPSON HALL, ROOM 109
Thursday, November 14 – Nadhira Hill (Randolph-Macon College), “Women and Wine in the Ancient Mediterranean” – Memorial lecture for Maggie Mayo (VMFA curator of ancient art from 1978–2004)
Thursday, February 20 – Caitlin Earley (University of Washington; Dumbarton Oaks), “Bound in Stone: The Captive Body in Ancient Maya Art” – AIA’s Nadzia Borowski Lecture
Thursday, March 20 – Geoff Emberling (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan), “Archaeology, its Colonial Past, and its Collaborative Future: A Community Project in El-Kurru, Northern Sudan” – AIA’s Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture
*Sunday, April 6, 3 pm – John McKesson Camp II (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor Emeritus of Classics, Randolph-Macon College; Director of Agora Excavations, Athens, 1994–2022; Winner of the AIA’s 2024 Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement), “The Archaeology of Democracy: Recent Excavations in the Agora of Athens” – 14th Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient World Lecture in the Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall, followed by open house reception at the Ancient World Gallery, Humanities Building 419, University of Richmond
08 Wednesday May 2024
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Our annual business meeting has bee rescheduled for Thursday, May 23 at 5 pm. The meeting will be hybrid, in the Archaeology Lab at the University of Richmond and on Zoom (use this link to register for Zoom). We will elect officers and plan our lectures and events for next year. If you’d like to become more involved in our society or just want to see the lab and talk with other people interested in archaeology, please join us!
(The Archaeology Lab is on the ground floor of the Humanities Building, room 115. For GPS directions, use 106 UR Drive. The building is #106 on the campus map, and there is visitor parking available in the Lot U6: https://www.richmond.edu/visit/maps/print/parkingmap.pdf.)
08 Wednesday May 2024
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The business meeting planned for tomorrow, May 9, will be postponed to a later date. Details will be posted here when it has been rescheduled.
17 Wednesday Apr 2024
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All AIA members affiliated with the Richmond Society are invited to attend our annual business meeting on Thursday, May 9 at 5 pm. The meeting will be hybrid, in the Archaeology Lab at the University of Richmond and on Zoom (use this link to register for Zoom). We will elect officers and plan our lectures and events for next year. If you’d like to become more involved in our society or just want to see the lab and talk with other people interested in archaeology, please join us!
(The Archaeology Lab is on the ground floor of the Humanities Building, room 115. For GPS directions, use 106 UR Drive. The building is #106 on the campus map, and there is visitor parking available in the Lot U6: https://www.richmond.edu/visit/maps/print/parkingmap.pdf.)
