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 ��. 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

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Carolyn Snively
Gettysburg College
“Golemo Gradište at Konjuh: Exploration of a Late Antique City in Dardania”

Friday, February 2, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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Carlos Noreña
University of California, Berkeley
“Law and the Imperial Imaginary in Republican Rome”

Friday, February 9, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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Andrew McClellan
Florida State University
“Zombieland: The Living-Dead in Latin Epic”

Friday, February 16, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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Adrià Piñol-Villanueva
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
“The Greek Polis and the Foreigner: Access to Sanctuaries, Cults and Religious Offices”

Friday, February 23, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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Francisco Barrenechea
University of Maryland
“Comic Miracles: Humor and Religion in Aristophanes’ Wealth”

Friday, March 2, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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The Agnes Michels Lecture, sponsored by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin & Classical Studies

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
University of Chicago
“Beyond Odysseus: Aeneas’ Political Fictions”

Friday, March 23, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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Umberto Pappalardo
Director of the International Center for Pompeian Studies
“Pompeii: Wall Paintings and Mosaics”

Friday, April 6, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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Mark Usher
University of Vermont
“Sustainability: A Prehistory”

Friday, April 13, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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Anja Slawisch
Cambridge University
“How fast does a city recover from destruction? A new view of the creation of the Severe Style”

Friday, April 20, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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Yelena Baraz
Princeton University
“Victor and/as Victim: The Unsettling of Pride in Vergil’s Aeneid”

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

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Aurélia 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)

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"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)

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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)

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Bernard Frischer
Indiana University
“Simpiricism Comes to Archaeology. A Case Study of the Horologium Augusti”

Friday, September 29, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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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)

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Clara Zatta
University of Siena
"Interconnectedness: The Living World of the Early Greek Philosophers”

Friday, October 23, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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Irini Fotini Viltanioti
K.U. Leuven & Oxford
“Porphyry as a Reader of Homer: The Place of De Antro Nympharum in Porphyry's Work”

Friday, October 27, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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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)

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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)

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Serena Connolly
Rutgers University
“Mechanical Caesar”

Friday, November 17, 4:30 p.m.
Rhys Carpenter Library B21
(Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, College Hall)

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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)

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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)

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Chiara Ferella
Humboldt University of Berlin
“The Pythagorean Symbola and Early Greek Philosophy”

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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