Colloquia and Events 2015/16

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.

Colloquia and Events 2015/16

Fall 2015 Classics Colloquia

News from Abroad: Reports from the Field

Joseph Solodow Yale University “Livy XXI: Historical Aims and Methods”

Carlo Scardino Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf “From Athens to Rome and from Alexandria to Baghdad: A Comparison Between Two Cultural Transfers”

Peter Magee Bryn Mawr College “When and How Was the Dromedary Camel Used for Overland Trade in the Ancient Near East?”

The C. Densmore Curtis Lecture, presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Daniel Potts Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU “Recent Explorations in the Highlands of Southern Armenia"

Peter Agócs University College London “Pindar's Hyporchemes and the Problem of Reconstructing Lost Genres"

Deborah Steiner Columbia University “Fabricating the Chorus: Weaving,Textile-Production and Choral Performances in the Early Greek Visual and Poetic Sources”

Catherine Conybeare Bryn Mawr College “An Eccentric Approach to Augustine of Hippo”

Luca Graverini University of Siena “How to Read a Novel: Curiosity and the Emotions in Apuleius”

C. Brian Rose University of Pennsylvania “The Golden Age of King Midas: Recent Excavations at Gordion, Turkey”

Spring 2016 Classics Colloquia

Mark Garrison Trinity University "The Seal of Arsama, 'Prince of the House': Persepolis, Egypt, and Oxford"

Roy Gibson University of Manchester “To Como Then I Came: on Writing the Modern Biography of an Ancient Roman”

Celia Schultz University of Michigan “Must There be Blood? Ritual Sacrifice Among the Romans”

Christopher Moore Pennsylvania State University “When Could the Greeks Say ‘Become a Philosopher!’?”

William Van Andringa Université de Lille 3 “The Monument and the Tomb: About the Forms and the Time of Memory in the Necropolis of Porta Nocera at Pompeii (1st cent. AD)”

The Agnes Michels Lecture presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. David Konstan NYU and Brown University (Emeritus) “Of Love and Loyalty: Ancient Greece and Today”

Giuseppe Pezzini Oxford University “Terence, Menander, and the Color Vitae: an Idea of Realism”

John Tully “Display on Delos, Hegemony in the Hellenistic Aegean”

Stavros Kouloumentas Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin “Prodicus on the Origins of Religion”

Sarah Bassett Indiana University “Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art"

Caroline Stark Howard University “Lysistrata(s): Aristophanes to Spike Lee”

Joann Freed Adjunct Professor, University of Alberta; Professor Emerita, Wilfrid Laurier University "Paul Gauckler versus Père Delattre: The Struggle to Control Archaeology at Carthage at the Turn of the 20th Century"

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News from Abroad:
Reports from the Field

Joseph Solodow
Yale University
“Livy XXI: Historical Aims and Methods”

Carlo Scardino
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
“From Athens to Rome and from Alexandria to Baghdad: A Comparison Between Two Cultural Transfers”

Peter Magee
Bryn Mawr College
“When and How Was the Dromedary Camel Used for Overland Trade in the Ancient Near East?”

The C. Densmore Curtis Lecture, presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Daniel Potts
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
“Recent Explorations in the Highlands of Southern Armenia"

Peter Agócs
University College London
“Pindar's Hyporchemes and the
Problem of Reconstructing Lost Genres"

Deborah Steiner
Columbia University
“Fabricating the Chorus: Weaving,Textile-Production and Choral Performances in the Early Greek Visual and Poetic Sources”

Catherine Conybeare
Bryn Mawr College
“An Eccentric Approach to Augustine of Hippo”

Luca Graverini
University of Siena
“How to Read a Novel:
Curiosity and the Emotions in Apuleius”

C. Brian Rose
University of Pennsylvania
“The Golden Age of King Midas:
Recent Excavations at Gordion, Turkey”

Mark Garrison
Trinity University
"The Seal of Arsama, 'Prince of the House':
Persepolis, Egypt, and Oxford"

Roy Gibson
University of Manchester
“To Como Then I Came: on Writing the
Modern Biography of an Ancient Roman”

Celia Schultz
University of Michigan
“Must There be Blood?
Ritual Sacrifice Among the Romans”

Christopher Moore
Pennsylvania State University
“When Could the Greeks Say
‘Become a Philosopher!’?”

William Van Andringa
Université de Lille 3
“The Monument and the Tomb: About the Forms and the Time of Memory in the Necropolis of Porta Nocera at Pompeii (1st cent. AD)”

The Agnes Michels Lecture presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies.
David Konstan
NYU and Brown University (Emeritus)
“Of Love and Loyalty: Ancient Greece and Today”

Giuseppe Pezzini
Oxford University
“Terence, Menander, and the
Color Vitae: an Idea of Realism”

John Tully
“Display on Delos, Hegemony
in the Hellenistic Aegean”

Stavros Kouloumentas
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
“Prodicus on the Origins of Religion”

Sarah Bassett
Indiana University
“Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art"

Caroline Stark
Howard University
“Lysistrata(s): Aristophanes to Spike Lee”

Joann Freed
Adjunct Professor, University of Alberta; Professor Emerita, Wilfrid Laurier University
"Paul Gauckler versus Père Delattre: The Struggle to Control Archaeology at Carthage at the Turn of the 20th Century"