Colloquia and Events 2017/18
The weekly Classics Colloquia provide an informal meeting ground for the College's lively community of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Each year, the series brings to campus a number of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archaeological, and historical subjects.
Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library on the campus of 老王论坛. Tea will be held at 4 p.m. in the Quita Woodward Room, College Hall.
Spring 2018 Classics Colloquia
Welcome Back Tea
Friday, January 26, 4 p.m.
Quita Woodward Room, College Hall
Carolyn Snively
Gettysburg College
鈥淕olemo Gradi拧te at Konjuh: Exploration of a Late Antique City in Dardania鈥
Friday, February 2, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Carlos Nore帽a
University of California, Berkeley
鈥淟aw and the Imperial Imaginary in Republican Rome鈥
Friday, February 9, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Andrew McClellan
Florida State University
鈥淶ombieland: The Living-Dead in Latin Epic鈥
Friday, February 16, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Adri脿 Pi帽ol-Villanueva
Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona
鈥淭he Greek Polis and the Foreigner: Access to Sanctuaries, Cults and Religious Offices鈥
Friday, February 23, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Francisco Barrenechea
University of Maryland
鈥淐omic Miracles: Humor and Religion in Aristophanes鈥 Wealth鈥
Friday, March 2, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
The Agnes Michels Lecture, sponsored by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin & Classical Studies
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
University of Chicago
鈥淏eyond Odysseus: Aeneas鈥 Political Fictions鈥
Friday, March 23, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Umberto Pappalardo
Director of the International Center for Pompeian Studies
鈥淧ompeii: Wall Paintings and Mosaics鈥
Friday, April 6, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Mark Usher
University of Vermont
鈥淪ustainability: A Prehistory鈥
Friday, April 13, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Anja Slawisch
Cambridge University
鈥淗ow fast does a city recover from destruction? A new view of the creation of the Severe Style鈥
Friday, April 20, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Yelena Baraz
Princeton University
鈥淰ictor and/as Victim: The Unsettling of Pride in Vergil鈥檚 Aeneid鈥
Friday, April 27, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Fall 2017 Classics Colloquia
Aur茅lia Masson-Berghoff
Curator for Egyptian Archaeology at the British Museum
"Egypt and the Mediterranean World: New Research on Naukratis and the Western Nile Delta"
Friday, September 8, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
Welcome Back Tea (Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
"News from Abroad: Reports from the Field"
Friday, September 15, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Laura Massetti
University of Cologne
"The Arrow of Desire, the Bridle of Love: Some Mythological Reflexes of Greek Erotic Magic and Their Background"
Friday, September 22, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Bernard Frischer
Indiana University
鈥淪impiricism Comes to Archaeology. A Case Study of the Horologium Augusti鈥
Friday, September 29, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
The C. Densmore Curtis Lecture presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Elspeth Dusinberre
University of Colorado
"Power and the Ideal in the Ancient Persian Empire"
Friday, October 6, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Clara Zatta
University of Siena
"Interconnectedness: The Living World of the Early Greek Philosophers鈥
Friday, October 23, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Irini Fotini Viltanioti
K.U. Leuven & Oxford
鈥淧orphyry as a Reader of Homer: The Place of De Antro Nympharum in Porphyry's Work鈥
Friday, October 27, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Graduate Group Symposium Keynote Lecture
Kenneth Lapatin
Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum
"Surplus, Excess, and Luxury: Some ancient perspectives on Man and Nature"
Friday, November 3, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Catherine Pratt
University of Western Ontario
"Panathenaic Amphorae and the Economy of Archaic Athens"
Friday, November 10, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Serena Connolly
Rutgers University
鈥淢echanical Caesar鈥
Friday, November 17, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Gerd van Riel
K.U. Leuven
"Platonic Perception, Passion, and Pleasure in Augustine"
Friday, November 29, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Polly Low
University of Manchester
"Explaining Empire in Classical Greece"
Friday, December 1, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
Chiara Ferella
Humboldt University of Berlin
鈥淭he Pythagorean Symbola and Early Greek Philosophy鈥
Friday, December 8, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)
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