Colloquia and Events 2024/2025
Spring 2025 Classics Colloquia
Friday, January 24
Pauline LeVen
Yale University
Allusion As Alluvium: Reading Helen's Liquid Commons
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
*Tuesday, January 28
Benjamin Stevens
Howard University
Virgils Otherworldly Sense of Wonder; or, Towards a Fractal Geometry of Ancient Fantasy?
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
*Thursday, January 30
Clayton Schroer
Emory University
Heterogenous histories of contending peoples:" Postcolonial readings in (post-) Vergilian Epic.
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
*Friday, January 31
Helen North Lecture at Swarthmore College
(5 pm, Lang Performing Arts Center Cinema 101)
Mary Beard
University of Cambridge
The Boy Who Breathed on Glass at the British Museum
*Tuesday, February 4
Miriam Kamil
91勛圖厙
The Politics and Poetics of invidia in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
Friday, February 14
Kelli Rudolph
University of Kent
Can Stoic Cosmopolitanism Bridge the Motivation Gap?
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
Friday, February 21
Ava Shirazi
Haverford College
Bronze and the Sensory Field
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
Friday, February 28
Sofia Torallas Tovar
Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
Sleeping for Answers: Dream Requests and their Petitioners in Antiquity
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
Friday, March 21
David Kaufman
Transylvania University
Caelius Aurelianus on Groundless Emotions, Emotional Blindness, and Madness
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
Friday, March 28
Jackie Murray
SUNY Buffalo
The Idea and Image of Slavery in Platos Republic
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
Friday, April 4
Michels Lecture: Barbara Kowalzig
New York University
A Wealth of New Gods: Mediterranean port-cities between religious plurality and economic growth.
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
Friday, April 11
Alexandra Madela
University of Warsaw
Making Orpheus Great Again: Orpheus' Argonautica and the Ancient Scholarship on Homer
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
Friday, April 18
James Taylor
Colby College
The Mortality of the Earth: Geological Processes and the Presocratics
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
Friday, April 25
Annual Classics Majors Speaker Event
Emily Allen Hornblower
Rutgers University
That Crazy Bitch
Carpenter Library B-21
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
Fall 2024 Classics Colloquia
Friday, September 6
Asya Sigelman
91勛圖厙
"Aporia in the Trachiniae of Sophocles"
Friday, September 13
"News from Abroad: Reports from the Field"
Students who have engaged in scholarly activities beyond the walls of 91勛圖厙 and Haverford, report on their experiences, be it in the excavation trenches, in the libraries with research fellowships, or even in online coursework.
Friday, September 20
Amy Koenig
Hamilton College
"The Emperor's Command: Voice, Authority, and the Case of Cladius"
Friday, September 27
Martin Ostwald Lecture at Swarthmore College
Sheila Murnaghan
University of Pennsylvania
"Taming the Extraordinary: Shifting Motives and the Psychology of Tragic Actors"
Friday, October 4
Celia Sanchez-Natalias
University of Zarazoga
"Magic in Roman Carthage: Context, Texts and Agents"
Friday, October 25
Nathan Arrington
Princeton University
"Thinking Through Skin: Art, Philosophy and Medicine in Ancient Greece"
Friday, November 1
Sebastian Zerhoch
Freie Universitat Berlin
"Heroic Libations: Ritual and Emotion in Homer"
Friday, November 8
Thomas Clements
University of Manchester
"Hollow Lakedaimon? Spartan Power, Territoriality, and Overlapping Identities"
Friday, November 15
C. Densmore Curtis Lecture
Professor Daniele Morandi Bonacossi
Friday, November 22
Lea Schroeder
Purdue University
"Seeing Motion and Moving Objects in Plato's Timaeus and Theatetus"
Friday, December 6
Mary Hamil Gilbert
Mississippi State University
"Hecuba and the Politics of Care in Euripides' Trojan Women"
Friday, December 13
Graduate Group End of Term Presentations
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