Lunch Club

Archaeological site in India

Lunch Club provides affiliates of the Stanford Archaeology Center with a community-oriented forum for engagement with current issues in archaeology. The Lunch Club meets on Wednesdays from 12pm – 1pm and  a lunch served 10 minutes before the start of the event. Presenters include current Center affiliates as well as researchers from other Stanford programs and other universities. Lunch Club speakers are selected by a graduate student committee in consultation with the Director.

Upcoming Events

Olanrewaju Lasisi

Olanrewaju Lasisi

February
11

Lunch Club Series | Architecture of Ritual Movement: Indigenous Epistemologies, Archaeoastronomy, and the Making of Yoruba Sacred Landscapes

Time
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Olanrewaju Lasisi
Lara Fabian

Lara Fabian

February
18

Lunch Club Series |Tamgas: Signs of the Steppe, beyond the Steppe

Time
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Lara Fabian

Past Events

Khadene Harris

Lunch Club Series | A Conspiracy of Industry and Violence: Caribbean Plantations and the (un)making of the Plantationocene

Time
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Khadene Harris

Naseem Raad

Lunch Club Series | Network Modelling of Maritime Commerce in the Eastern Mediterranean: Wind, Wine, and Markets in late Antiquity

Time
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Naseem Raad

Rebecca Graff

Lunch Club Series| The Trowel in the White City: An Archaeology of Architecture and Disposability in Chicago

Time
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Rebecca Graff

Lunch Club Series| Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies

Time
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Laura Heath-Stout

Lunch Club Series | When Size Matters: Livestock Resilience in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond

Time
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 500, Archaeology Center
488 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
106
Speaker:
Shayla Monroe