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.

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).

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”

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!