Past Events



The Penn Undergraduate Classics Board Presents: "The State of Humanities Education"

A Spring Roundtable to discuss current issues facing humanities education
Apr 14, 2025 at -

Our Speakers:

Peter Struck, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences

Karen Detlefsen, Professor of Philosophy

James Ker, Professor… Read More



Public Trust for Mis(sed) translations

A symposium about the problems and processes of translation
Apr 4, 2025 at -

The first annual symposium of the Francophone, Italian & Germanic Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania, the event will probe the breaches between texts and their… Read More



Passions and Politics in Late Medieval Culture: An International Workshop

Apr 3, 2025 - Apr 4, 2025 at -

Thursday, April 3, 2025

3.30 Opening Roundtable
"Theorizing Emotions - Affect and the Political* Rita Copeland (Penn)
Deven Patel (Penn)
Donovan Schaefer (Penn)

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Prof. Dimitris Plantzos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) "The Birth of Archaeopolitics"

Mar 24, 2025 at -

Speaker: Prof. Dimitris Plantzos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens



Department Colloquium: James Ker (Penn) "Seneca’s First Intervention"

Mar 6, 2025 at -

Speaker: James Ker, Professor of Classical Studies and Graduate Chair of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures at the University of… Read More



Coastal Survey and the Museum: A conversation with Dr. Leslie Reeder-Myers and Dr. Tom Tartaron

Feb 21, 2025 at -

Join PMGAC in a conversation with Dr. Leslie Reeder-Myers (Temple) and Dr. Tom Tartaron (Penn) on their work with coastal landscapes around the globe, from California to Honduras, Greece to India. Dr. Reeder-Myers… Read More



Department Colloquium: Florencia Foxley (Dartmouth) "Eliminating the Other in Juan Radrigán’s Medea mapuche?"

Feb 12, 2025 at -

Florencia Foxley, Lecturer at Dartmouth College



Department Colloquium: Carman Romano (Bryn Mawr) "Mortal divinity: Epiphanic feeling in the Theogony, Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and beyond"

Feb 6, 2025 at -

Speaker: Carman Romano, Visiting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College



Department Colloquium: Dylan Kenny (University of Cincinnati) "Pindar’s second Paean and the idea of order at Abdera"

Jan 30, 2025 at -

Speaker: Dylan Kenny, Assistant Professor in Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati