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“Ceramic Production and Community at Eleon in Central Greece”

03 Monday Nov 2025

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Please join us on Thursday, November 13 for a lecture by Dr. Janelle Sadarananda (Skidmore College): “Ceramic Production and Community at Archaic and Classical Eleon in Central Greece.” We are excited to welcome Janelle back to Richmond – she joined the AIA as a student at UR and has been affiliated with our Richmond Society ever since! The lecture will be held in Jepson Hall Room 109 at 6 pm, preceded by a light reception sponsored by the UR Department of Classical Studies and the School of Arts & Sciences.

“Using Archaeology to Reveal the Intellectual Contributions of the Enslaved”

06 Monday Oct 2025

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Join us next Thursday, October 16 at 6:00 pm to celebrate Virginia Archaeology Month and International Archaeology Day with a lecture by Matthew Reeves, Director of Archaeology and Landscape Restoration, Montpelier: “Using Archaeology to Reveal the Intellectual Contributions of the Enslaved: Archaeology at Montpelier.” The lecture will be free and open to the public, in Jepson Hall 118 at the University of Richmond (building #221 on the campus map), co-sponsored by UR’s Department of Classical Studies.

Maya art lecture this Thursday

13 Sunday Apr 2025

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On Thursday, April 17,we will hold our rescheduled February lecture: 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. Please join us!

Lecture on Sunday, April 6: “The Archaeology of Democracy”

26 Wednesday Mar 2025

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Our April lecture will be the 14th Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient World Lecture: “The Archaeology of Democracy: Recent Excavations in the Agora of Athens” by John M. 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 lecture will be held at 3:00 pm on Sunday, April 6 in the Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall, University of Richmond (this is the building next to Jepson Hall, where we usually hold our lectures). After the lecture, there will be an open house reception across the quad in the Humanities Building at the Ancient World Gallery (4th floor hallway). Please join us!

Lecture on March 20: “Archaeology, its Colonial Past, and its Collaborative Future”

11 Tuesday Mar 2025

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Please join us on Thursday, March 20 for this year’s Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture by 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.”

This lecture 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 6:00 pm, preceded by a light reception.

Lecture abstract:

Archaeology is among the most colonial fields of research, with its roots in extractive relationships that aimed to bring objects from colonized communities back to the museums of Europe and the United States. Many archaeologists are now trying to find ways to rethink archaeological practice so that the benefits of our fieldwork extend to local colleagues and communities where we work.

 El-Kurru is known in archaeology as the site of a royal pyramid cemetery of ancient Kush, but it is also a village of perhaps 3,000 people, mostly belonging to the Shaigiya tribe, who have their own perspectives on heritage. This talk describes the move from traditional archaeological research to a more collaborative model in the community of El-Kurru in northern Sudan.

Archaeology, its Colonial Past, and its Collaborative Future: A Community Project in El-Kurru, Northern Sudan

Lecture on Thursday 2/20: “Bound in Stone: the Captive Body in Ancient Maya Art”

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.

“Women and Wine in the Ancient Mediterranean”

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.

Lecture for Va. Archaeology Month and International Archaeology Day

01 Tuesday Oct 2024

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2024-2025 Lecture Schedule

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

April 11 lecture on “Sacred Spectating in Late Antique Egypt”

03 Wednesday Apr 2024

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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.

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Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Archaeology Day 2017, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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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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