Colloquia and Events 2018/19

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 Bryn Mawr College. Tea will be held at 4 p.m. in the Quita Woodward Room, Old Library.

Spring 2019 Classics Colloquia

Friday, Jan. 25

4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Sean Gurd
  University of Missouri, Columbia
  
  “Auditory Culture, Music, and the Senses in Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Rhetorical Works”
  
  *Welcome Back Tea at 4 p.m., London Room, Old Library*

Friday, Feb. 1
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Konstantinos Nikoloutsos
  St. Joseph's University
  
  “From Epic to Tragedy: Transgenericity and Nation-Building in Cruz Varela‘s Dido (1823)”

Friday, Feb. 8
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Diane Fruchtman
  Rutgers University
  
  “Destabilizing Death in Prudentius’s Peristephanon”

Friday, Feb. 15
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Thomas Kruse
  Austrian Academy of Sciences
  
  “Family, Business, Official Duties and War: The ‘archive’ of the Strategos Apollonios”

Friday, Feb. 22
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Rubina Raja
  Aarhus University
  
  "Representations of Palmyrene Priests and the Structure of the Religious Life of Palmyra"

Friday, March 1
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Katerina Ladianou
  University of Crete
  
  “Voices in and as Fragments: Sappho 31 and Catullus 51”

Friday, March 22
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Manon Brouillet
  École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
  
  “The Lyre as a Symbolon: An Ingoldian Reading of Materiality and Ritual in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes”

Friday, March 29
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Ewen Bowie
  Oxford University
  
  "Sappho in Imperial Greek Literature"

PLEASE NOTE: The Colloquium Tea will be in the London Room, Old Library.

Friday, April 5
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

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

• Richard Martin
  Stanford University
  
  “Panhellenic Poetry, Local Religion: Cults of Zeus in the Iliad”

Friday, April 12
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Kostas Paschalidis
  National Archaeological Museum, Athens
  
  "Mycenae Shaft Grave IV in Grave Circle A:  New and Unexpected Light on a Very Old Story"

Friday, April 26
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Timothy Moore
  Washington University
  
  “Musical Repetition in Euripides”

Fall 2018 Classics Colloquia

Friday, Sept. 7
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Carmen Arnold-Biucchi
  Harvard University
  
  "Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector. A preview of the forthcoming Loeb Classical Monographs 16 (2018)"
  
  Welcome Back Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, Old Library

Friday, Sept. 14

4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• News from Abroad Reports from the Field
  
   Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, Old Library

Friday, Sept. 21

4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Matthew Farmer
  Haverford College
  
  "Theopompus' Homer: Epic Parody in Greek Comedy"
  
  Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, Old Library

Friday, Sept. 28

4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Aleydis Van de Moortel
  University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  
  "Shipbuilding, Seafaring, and Human Mobility in the Early Bronze Age Aegean: The Role of the East Aegean"

Friday, Oct. 5

4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Bryan Reece
  University of Toronto
  
  "Aristotle on the Contemplation of the Divine"
  
  Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, Old Library

Wednesday, Oct. 10

4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Athanassia Zografou
  University of Ioannina
  
  "Divine Antagonisms in Ritual Recipes: Cronos in the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris"
  
  Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, Old Library

Friday, Oct. 26
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

The C. Densmore Curtis Lecture presented by the graduate students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

• Dimitri Nakassis
  University of Colorado, Boulder
  
  "Seeing Like a Mycenaean State"
  
  Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, Old Library

Friday, Nov. 2

4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Benjamin Earley
  Freie Universität, Berlin
  
  "The Thucydidean Turn: (Re)interpreting Thucydides' Political Thought before, during, and after the Great War"
  
  Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, Old Library

Friday, Nov. 9

4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

Keynote Address for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Conference on the Ancient World

• Dan-El Padilla Peralta
  Princeton University
  
  "Classics as a Form of Racial Knowledge"
  
  Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, Old Library

Friday, Nov. 16
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Michele Salzman
  University of California, Riverside
  
  "Why Gibbon Was Wrong: The Case for A.D. 472 and the Fall of Rome"
  
  Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, Old Library

Friday, Nov. 30

4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Jessica Paga
  College of William & Mary
  
  "The Construction of Athenian Democracy"
  
  Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, Old Library

Friday, Dec. 7

4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Pierre Destrée
  Université catholique de Louvain
  
  "Aristotle on Metaphor and Synesthesia"
  
  *Please note: The tea will be in the London Room, Old Library*

Friday, Dec. 14

4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21

• Jeremy Lefkowitz
  Swarthmore College
  
  "Fabulous Style: Learning to Write Fables in the Progymnasmata"
  
  Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room