18 Monday Mar 2024
Please join us this Thursday for a lecture by Dr. Bernard Means, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Virtual Curation Lab at VCU and one of our own society board members: “From the City of Victory to the Foothills of the Himalayas: An Archaeologist in India.” As usual, 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.
02 Friday Feb 2024
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On Thursday, February 8 at 6:00 pm, Dr. Kate Kreindler (University of Virginia) will present “Monumentality in early Etruria: recent discoveries at Poggio Civitate,” an AIA Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology. The lecture will be free and open to the public, in Jepson Hall 118 on the University of Richmond campus (building #221 on the campus map). Please join us!
02 Tuesday Jan 2024
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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”
30 Monday Oct 2023
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Our November lecture will be presented by Dr. Kathryn Grossman (North Carolina State University):
“Human-animal-divine relationships in Cyprus: a social zooarchaeology of sacrifice”
2023-2024 Kershaw Lecture in Near East Archaeology
Thursday, November 9, 6:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies, the free lecture will be held in Jepson Hall 109 on the UR campus.
28 Thursday Sep 2023
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Please join us for our first lecture of the academic year: on Thursday, October 12 at 6 pm, Jack Gary (Director of Archaeology, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) will present “Restoring Faith: Community Archaeology and the Search for America’s Oldest Black Baptist Church” (click here for recent news coverage of the project). 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.
12 Tuesday Sep 2023
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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
20 Thursday Apr 2023
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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.
04 Tuesday Apr 2023
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Please join us on Thursday, April 13 at 6:00 pm for a lecture by
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.
06 Monday Mar 2023
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Part of the AIA’s National Lecture Program, our March event will be held on Thursday, March 16 at 6 pm:
Emilia Oddo (Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Tulane University)
“In case of emergency, break pots: use and function of Marine Style pottery in Minoan Crete”
Abstract: Regarded as one of the most iconic and elegant ceramic styles of Crete, Marine Style vessels are included in general summaries of Minoan culture, together with other staple images of the Palace at Knossos and the bull-leaping fresco. The depictions of elaborate octopi with tentacles embracing the pot’s surface or nautili plunged in a landscape of rocks and seaweed are striking and hard not to consider artistic products. So, why do we find so little Marine Style in Crete? And why is it commonly found in shattered, not mendable, pieces? Something does not add up. This lecture takes you on a journey through the strange and elusive phenomenon that is Marine Style pottery. We will investigate who made Marine Style pots and for what purpose; we will explore how Marine Style was used and where. In the end, you will see that Marine Style was everything but typical.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Richmond, the free lecture will be held in Jepson 109 (just down the hall from our usual location).
26 Thursday Jan 2023
Our first lecture of 2023 will be held on WEDNESDAY (not Thursday as usual), February 8 at 6 pm:
Chris Motz (Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Richmond)
“Connecting Ecology, Economy, and Craft in the Roman Fish-Salting Industry”
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.
The lecture will be preceded by a reception honoring the Mediterranean Society of America, 5:15 – 6:00 pm in the same location.
AIA Richmond Society 