28 Friday Jan 2022
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Please join us on Zoom on Thursday, February 10 at 6 pm EST for a lecture by Dr. Melinda Yang, Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Richmond: “Using ancient DNA to study human history – perspectives on East Asia.”
02 Tuesday Nov 2021
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On Thursday, November 11 at 6 pm, Dr. Carrie Atkins (University of Toronto, Mississauga) will present a webinar lecture entitled “Religious Ritual On Board the Greco-Roman Ship.” Please join us!
Click here to register for the Zoom webinar
Abstract: For Greco-Roman sailors or passengers aboard a ship, aspects of daily life occurred within a ship’s physical boundaries while at sea. These activities were related not only to sailing and trading, but also to eating, sleeping, and performing rituals. The material remnants of these ritual activities have been little studied, yet represent key evidence in understanding the impact of mobility on ritual practices aboard the Greco-Roman ship. In this lecture, I discuss archaeological evidence for potential ritual objects from shipwrecks in the Mediterranean alongside textual and iconographic depictions of these rituals. Not all ritual objects found in shipwrecks provide evidence for shipboard ritual but instead were likely transported as cargo. For some multifunctional objects that had a potential use both in religious ritual or for general activities, I suggest these objects could construct temporary sacred spaces aboard the ship when employed at poignant times in the voyage. These rituals, however, were not prescriptive nor ubiquitous but instead were chosen by individuals, shaped by cross-cultural connectivity and mobility.
16 Monday Aug 2021
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Mark your calendars for our fall lectures, which will again be held as Zoom webinars, with the links posted here about a week before each lecture:
Thursday, October 7, 6 pm: Marcello Canuto (Tulane University), “Taking the High Ground: Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns as Seen through LiDAR“
Thursday, November 11, 6 pm: Carrie Atkins (University of Toronto), “Religious Ritual on board the Greco-Roman Ship”
04 Tuesday May 2021
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This year our May event will be held in partnership with the Charlottesville Society of the AIA: a book talk and Q&A with UVa’s Fiona Greenland (Sociology & Anthropology), author of Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2021). This new book situates the emergence of national symbols and icons in Italy’s longer historical entanglements of cultural elites, state officials, and tombaroli (‘tomb robbers’). The event will take place over Zoom on Thursday, May 13 at 6 pm EDT. Click here to register!
02 Tuesday Feb 2021
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Join us on Thursday, February 11 at 6 pm for a webinar presentation of the AIA’s Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology. Hilary Becker, Assistant Professor of Classics at Binghamton University, will present “The Etruscan helmets from Vetulonia: new evidence for the life of an Etruscan soldier.”
Click here to register for the Zoom webinar
Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies
30 Saturday Jan 2021
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Our spring lectures will again be on Zoom, co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies. For each lecture, a UR Zoom webinar registration link will be posted here and sent to our email list about one week before the lecture. Registration for our annual spring member event (this year a Zoom book talk and author Q&A, see below) will be available here in March.
Thursday, February 11, 6 pm
Hilary Becker (Binghamton University), “The Iconography of a Life in Arms: The Etruscan Soldier at War, at Home, and at the Tomb” (Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology)
Thursday, March 18, 6 pm
Jeremy Pope (The College of William and Mary), “Nubian Queen: How an Ancient African Kingdom Became a Symbol of Feminine Power and Vice Versa”
Thursday, April 15, 6 pm (This lecture has been postponed to next year)
Melinda Yang (University of Richmond), “Using ancient DNA to study human history – perspectives on East Asia”
SPRING MEMBER EVENT
Thursday, May 13, 6 pm
Book talk and Q&A with Fiona Greenland (University of Virginia), author of Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
[Registration details will be available here in April.]
26 Thursday Nov 2020
On Thursday, December 3 at 6 pm, Dr. Peter Schertz (Jack and Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) will give a behind-the-scenes curator’s talk about the exhibition currently on view at the VMFA, through 18 January 2021.
Register here for the Zoom webinar
This free webinar presentation is co-sponsored by the AIA Richmond Society and the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies.
For more information about the Sunken Cities exhibition at the VMFA, see https://www.vmfa.museum/exhibitions/exhibitions/treasures-ancient-egypt/
06 Friday Nov 2020
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Join us on Thursday, November 12 at 6 pm for a webinar presentation of this year’s Nancy Wilkie Lecture in Archaeological Heritage:
Dr. Patty Gerstenblith, Director for the Center for Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law at DePaul University, will present “Preserving the Past: Archaeological Heritage, the Art Market and Conflict in the Middle East”
Register here for the Zoom webinar
Abstract:
Archaeological sites are looted for the value of artifacts that are sold onto the international art market. The acceptance of undocumented, possibly looted, artifacts by the market and, in particular, by museums, means that we lose the contextual evidence needed to understand and reconstruct the past and knowledge of whether an object is authentic or a forgery. As we now know, the looting of archaeological sites in the Middle East and elsewhere may also help to fund armed conflict and terrorism. This lecture will explore the intersection of these issues and the legal and ethical responses that are intended to reduce the incentives to traffic in looted archaeological materials and thereby promote preservation of the archaeological heritage.
Click here for free registration on Zoom. Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies.
19 Monday Oct 2020
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Join us on Sunday, October 25 at 2:30 pm for a webinar lecture hosted by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in connection with the Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities exhibition.
Dr. Robert Ritner, Professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, will present “Re-Membering Osiris: Overcoming Death in Ancient Egypt.”
Register here for the Zoom webinar.
05 Thursday Mar 2020
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Our next lecture will be presented by Dr. Hilary Becker, Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at Binghamton University, on Thursday, March 19 at 6 pm in Jepson Hall 118 at the University of Richmond:
“The Iconography of a Life in Arms: The Etruscan Soldier at War, at Home, and at the Tomb.”
Dr. Becker is co-editor of Votives, Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion (2009) and the AIA’s Ferdinando And Sarah Cinelli Lecturer In Etruscan And Italic Archaeology for 2019/2020.
Co-sponsored by the Richmond Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the UR Department of Classical Studies, the lecture will be free and open to the public.
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