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.

2024-2025 event information coming soon!

Fall 2023

The Principles of Anatolian Poetry
Presented by: Anthony Yates, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages
and Cultures and Indo-European Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Thursday, October 19, 4:30 p.m.
Jepson 109

Spring 2024

13th Annual Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient World Lecture
When Women Ruled the World
Presented by: Dr. Kathlyn Cooney, Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture and Egytologist
UCLA

Thursday, March 28, 4-4:45 p.m., Open House
Humanities Building, 419-Ancient World Gallery

Thursday, March 28, 5 p.m., Lecture
Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall

Lectures from the Archaeological Institutes of America

Faith: Community Archaeology and the Search for America's Oldest Black Baptist Church
Presented by: Jack Gary, Director of Archaeology, Colonial Williamsburg

Thursday, October 12, 6 p.m.
Jepson 118

(postponed from last October; here is a recent news article about the site and finds)

Human-animal-divine relationships in Cyprus: a social zooarchaeology of sacrifice
Presented by: Kathryn Grossman, North Carolina State University

Thursday, November 9, 6 p.m.
Jepson 109

Monumentality in early Etruria: recent discoveries at Poggio Civitate
Presented by: Kate Kreindler, Assistant Professor, Roman Art and Archaeology, University of Virginia 

Thursday, February 8, 6 p.m.
Jepson 118

From the City of Victory to the Foothills of the Himalayas: An Archaeologist in India
Presented by: Bernard Means, Associate Professor, World Studies and Virtual Curation Lab, Virginia Commonwealth University

Thursday, March 21, 6 p.m.
Jepson 118

Sacred Spectating in Late Antique Egypt: Monastic Painting as Spiritual Experience
Presented by: Agnieszka Szymanska, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Richmond

Thursday, April 11, 6 p.m.
Jepson 118