Colloquia and Events 2018/19
The weekly Classics Colloquium provides 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 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
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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*
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, Feb. 1-
Konstantinos Nikoloutsos
St. Joseph's University
“From Epic to Tragedy: Transgenericity and Nation-Building in Cruz Varela‘s Dido (1823)”
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, Feb. 8-
Diane Fruchtman
Rutgers University
“Destabilizing Death in Prudentius’s Peristephanon”
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, Feb. 15- Thomas Kruse
Austrian Academy of Sciences
“Family, Business, Official Duties and War: The ‘archive’ of the Strategos Apollonios”
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, Feb. 22- Rubina Raja
Aarhus University
"Representations of Palmyrene Priests and the Structure of the Religious Life of Palmyra"
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, March 1- Katerina Ladianou
University of Crete
“Voices in and as Fragments: Sappho 31 and Catullus 51”
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, March 22- 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”
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, March 29- Ewen Bowie
Oxford University
"Sappho in Imperial Greek Literature"
PLEASE NOTE: The Colloquium Tea will be in the London Room, Old Library.
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, April 5The 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”
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, April 12-
Kostas Paschalidis
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
"Mycenae Shaft Grave IV in Grave Circle A: New and Unexpected Light on a Very Old Story"
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, April 26- Timothy Moore
Washington University
“Musical Repetition in Euripides”
Fall 2018 Classics Colloquia
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, Sept. 7-
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dan-El Padilla Peralta
Princeton University
"Classics as a Form of Racial Knowledge"
Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room, Old Library
4:30 pm • Carpenter Library B21
Friday, Nov. 16-
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
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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
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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
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Jeremy Lefkowitz
Swarthmore College
"Fabulous Style: Learning to Write Fables in the Progymnasmata"
Tea at 4 p.m., Quita Woodward Room
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