Speaker Series
Each year the Department of Classical Studies brings noteworthy speakers and scholars to Richmond to present lectures or seminars. These events are free and open to the public. Students always benefit from gaining new perspectives and from interacting with these scholars.
Spring 2025
Disability and Infanticide in Ancient Greece
Presented by: Debby Sneed, Assistant Professor of Classics
California State University, Long Beach
Thursday, April 3, 4:30 p.m.
Humanities Commons, 220
14th Annual Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient World Open House and Lecture
The Archaeology of Democracy: Recent Excavations in the Agora of Athens
Presented by: 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
Sunday, April 6, 3 p.m.
Weinstein Hall, Brown-Alley Room
Reception: following the lecture, Humanities 419
Lectures from the Archaeological
Institutes of America
Bound in Stone: The Captive Body in Ancient Maya Art
Presented by: Caitlin Earley
University of Washington; Dumbarton Oaks
Thursday, February 20, 6 p.m.
Jepson 118
Archaeology, its Colonial Past, and its Collaberative Future:
A Community Project in El-Kurru, Northern Sudan
Presented by: Geoff Emberling
Kelsey Museum of Arcaheology, University of Michigan
Thursday, March 20, 6 p.m.
Jepson 1118