06 Monday Apr 2026
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Our last lecture for this academic year will be Thursday, April 16 at the usual time and place (6 pm, Jepson Hall 118 on the University of Richmond campus): “Digging in Circles: Miami’s Prehistoric Legacy,” by Robert S. Carr (Archaeological and Historical Conservancy). This lecture is part of the national AIA’s Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture series. There will be a light reception preceding the lecture. Please join us!
17 Tuesday Mar 2026
Our March lecture will be the 15th Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient World Lecture: “The Search for Coffins and Carpenters: Insights into Technology and Religion in Ancient Egypt” by Dr. Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod, Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at St Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan. This talk will explore the history of Egyptian coffins and the technical and religious choices of the carpenters who created them.
The lecture will be held at 3:00 pm on Sunday, March 29 in Jepson Hall 118 at the University of Richmond. 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!
21 Wednesday Jan 2026
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Please note that our first lecture of 2026 will take place on a MONDAY, rather than the usual Thursday:
“What Do We Owe to Already-Looted Objects?”
by Dr. Elizabeth Marlowe, Professor of Art History at Colgate University
Monday, February 9
6:00 pm
Jepson Hall 118, University of Richmond
A Manton Lecture of the Archaeological Institute of America, this lecture is co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies and will be free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served!
Abstract:
A key strategy in the fight to stop the looting of archaeological sites is to reduce the market demand for looted artifacts. To this end, in 2008, most U.S. museums ceased acquiring artifacts whose exportation from their country of origin cannot be proven either to have been legal or to have occurred prior to 1970. These well-intentioned guidelines also mean that many ancient artworks and artifacts that are already in private hands can no longer be donated to museums. What has been happening to these objects since 2008? How can we ensure their long-term care without further incentivizing looting? In this talk, I propose a possible solution grounded in partnerships between collectors, university museums, and source countries.
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.
06 Monday Oct 2025
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African American archaeology, historical archaeology, International Archaeology Day, Virginia Archaeology Month
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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