All lectures will be held in at 6 pm on the University of Richmond campus in Jepson Hall, Room 118 (unless marked*), co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies

Thursday, October 16 – “Using Archaeology to Reveal the Intellectual Contributions of the Enslaved: Archaeology at Montpelier” by Matthew Reeves, Director of Archaeology and Landscape Restoration, Montpelier – Lecture for International Archaeology Day and Virginia Archaeology Month

Thursday, November 13 – “Ceramic Production and Community at Archaic and Classical Eleon in Central Greece,” Janelle Sadarananda (Skidmore College)

MONDAY, February 9 – “What Do We Owe to Already-Looted Objects?,” Elizabeth Marlowe (Colgate University)

*SUNDAY, March 29, 3:00 PM – lecture on Egyptian coffin construction by Carrie Arbuckle MacLeod (University of Saskatchewan) – 15^th  Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient World Lecture, followed by open house reception at the Ancient World Gallery, Humanities Building 419

Thursday, April 16 – “Digging in Circles: Miami’s Prehistoric Legacy,” Robert S. Carr (Archaeological and Historical Conservancy) – AIA’s Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture

Monument 155, Toniná, Chiapas, Mexico, c. 700 CE

The lecture on the captive body in Maya art by Caitlin Earley has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 17 at 6 pm. Mark your calendars!

Due to inclement weather, the lecture on Maya art scheduled for tomorrow evening (“Bound in Stone: The Captive Body in Maya Art”) has been postponed. Details will be posted here when the new date is confirmed.

Tonight’s planned tour of “Neoclassical art and archaeology” in the the VMFA’s European galleries has been postponed. We hope to reschedule soon!

Our annual business meeting has bee rescheduled for Thursday, May 23 at 5 pm. The meeting will be hybrid, in the Archaeology Lab at the University of Richmond and on Zoom (use this link to register for Zoom). We will elect officers and plan our lectures and events for next year. If you’d like to become more involved in our society or just want to see the lab and talk with other people interested in archaeology, please join us!

(The Archaeology Lab is on the ground floor of the Humanities Building, room 115. For GPS directions, use 106 UR Drive. The building is #106 on the campus map, and there is visitor parking available in the Lot U6: https://www.richmond.edu/visit/maps/print/parkingmap.pdf.)

The business meeting planned for tomorrow, May 9, will be postponed to a later date. Details will be posted here when it has been rescheduled.

All AIA members affiliated with the Richmond Society are invited to attend our annual business meeting on Thursday, May 9 at 5 pm. The meeting will be hybrid, in the Archaeology Lab at the University of Richmond and on Zoom (use this link to register for Zoom). We will elect officers and plan our lectures and events for next year. If you’d like to become more involved in our society or just want to see the lab and talk with other people interested in archaeology, please join us!

(The Archaeology Lab is on the ground floor of the Humanities Building, room 115. For GPS directions, use 106 UR Drive. The building is #106 on the campus map, and there is visitor parking available in the Lot U6: https://www.richmond.edu/visit/maps/print/parkingmap.pdf.)

Tomorrow’s lecture by Sonia Alconini on “Rethinking Andean and Amazonian Relations” will also be viewable via Zoom at https://urichmond.zoom.us/j/81025759227.

The lecture by Jack Gary (Colonial Williamsburg) scheduled for May 12 has been postponed to October 13, when we will celebrate International Archaeology Day and Virginia Archaeology Month with our first in-person lecture in more than two years! For our spring gathering, we are planning a social event at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts later this spring/summer – check back here for more information, or click on the ‘Contact’ tab and enter your information to join our email list.