We’re excited to host one of our own Richmond Society members again for our April lecture: Dr. Agnieszka Szymanska, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Richmond, will present “Sacred Spectating in Late Antique Egypt: Monastic Painting as Spiritual Experience” on Thursday, April 11. The lecture will be free and open to the public, at 6:00 pm in Jepson Hall 118 at the University of Richmond (building #221 on the campus map), co-sponsored by UR’s Department of Classical Studies.

Welcome to 2024! We will kick off our spring events next week (Thursday, January 11 at 6 pm) with a gallery talk on Roman coins at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts with Dr. Peter Schertz, Jack and Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art (more details coming soon).

Mark your calendars for our spring lectures, co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies and to be held on the UR campus on Thursdays at 6 pm (exact location TBA). All will be free and open to the public:

Thursday, February 8 – Dr. Kate Kreindler (University of Virginia), “Monumentality in early Etruria: recent discoveries at Poggio Civitate” – AIA Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology 

Thursday, March 21 – Dr. Bernard Means (Virginia Commonwealth University), “From the City of Victory to the Foothills of the Himalayas: An Archaeologist in India”

Thursday, April 11 – Dr. Agnieszka Szymanska (University of Richmond), “Sacred Spectating in Late Antique Egypt: Monastic Painting as Spiritual Experience”

Save the dates for our fall lectures at the University of Richmond, co-sponsored by UR’s Dept. of Classical Studies:

Thursday, October 12, 6 pm, Jepson Hall 118 – Jack Gary (Colonial Williamsburg), “Restoring Faith: Community Archaeology and the Search for America’s Oldest Black Baptist Church” (postponed from last October; for a recent news article about the site and finds, see https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-oldest-black-churches-first-baptist-williamsburg-180981962/)

Thursday, November 9, 6 pm, Jepson Hall 109 – Kathryn Grossman (North Carolina State University), “Human-animal-divine relationships in Cyprus: a social zooarchaeology of sacrifice” – AIA’s 2023-2024 Kershaw Lecture in Near East Archaeology

A video recording of Eric H. Cline’s lecture “1177 BC Revisited: Updating the Late Bronze Age Collapse” (April 13, 2023 at the University of Richmond) is available by clicking on the image above or using this link.

Please join us on Thursday, April 13 at 6:00 pm for a lecture by

Dr. Eric Cline

Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at George Washington University

“1177 BC Revisited: Updating the Late Bronze Age Collapse”

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.