01 Tuesday Oct 2024
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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
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.
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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African American archaeology, Colonial Williamsburg, community archaeology, historical archaeology, International Archaeology Day
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.
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