We are later than usual in announcing our 2020-2021 lecture schedule but excited about our first-ever line-up of live online webinars, co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies. For all but the first lecture, which will be hosted by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the UR Zoom webinar registration link will be posted here and sent to our email list one week before the lecture.

Sunday, October 25, 2:30 pm
Robert Ritner (University of Chicago), “Re-Membering Osiris: Overcoming Death in Ancient Egypt” (co-sponsored with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in connection with the Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities exhibition). Register here.

Thursday, November 12, 6 pm
Patty Gerstenblith (DePaul University), “Preserving the Past: Archaeological Heritage, the Art Market and Conflict in the Middle East” (Nancy Wilkie Lectureship in Archaeological Heritage)

Thursday, December 3, 6 pm
Peter Schertz (Jack and Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), “Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities at VMFA”

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
Melinda Yang (University of Richmond), “Using ancient DNA to study human history – perspectives on East Asia”

Details for our annual May event will be determined in March or April.

Photo: Jérôme Delafosse © Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation

On Thursday, July 9 at 5 pm, Franck Goddio, Founder and President of the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology, will present (online) the opening lecture for the Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Register here: https://www.vmfa.museum/calendar/events/opening-talk-sunken-treasures/.

The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. will be holding its annual symposium on September 21, 2019. For more information: http://www.pcswdc.org/symposium-2019-e.

Once again, today’s cemetery workday has been cancelled due to rain. Anyone who would like to go can join the volunteer crew tomorrow (Sunday, October 28). See https://eastendcemetery.wordpress.com/about/ and https://friendsofeastend.com/ for more information.

Richmond Society AIA T-shirts will be available for sale at the Socrates movie on Thursday! $15 / $12 for members. Please bring cash or check if you would like to purchase one.

If you have not yet reserved your free ticket for “Socrates on Death Row,” now is the time to do so – it is nearly sold out.

Tickets are now available through Eventbrite for the screening of “Socrates on Death Row” in the Dome of the Science Museum of Virginia on October 18.

Our first event of the 2018-2019 academic year will be the presentation and discussion of “Socrates on Death Row,” an immersive reenactment of the trial, imprisonment, and execution of Socrates in 399 BCE, based on the archaeological remains of the Athenian Agora and the writings of Plato. This remarkable program was designed for the Ho Tung Planetarium at Colgate University by Professor Robert Garland and Joseph Eakin and their colleagues and students. Robert Garland is The Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics, and Joseph Eakin is the Technical Director and Designer of the Ho Tung Visualization Lab/Planetarium, and both will give short talks and respond to questions. The event will be free and open to the public, but tickets will be required – details about reserving tickets will be posted here soon.

Thursday, October 18, 6:00 p.m

The Dome of the Science Museum of Virginia

2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, VA

Join us next Thursday evening (November 9) for a special lecture and performance by musician and archaeological researcher Nikolaos Xanthoulis. “The Musician’s Life” will offer an interpretation of an ancient Greek painting found inside a cave near Corinth and will be followed by a live lyre performance.

The event is free and open to the public and will begin at 6 pm in Jepson Hall, room 118, on the campus of the University of Richmond. For directions and parking information, click here. Jepson Hall is #17 on the campus map. Visitor parking is available after 5 pm in all lots. For Google Map or GPS directions, use 37.578540, -77.537278.