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Department Colloquium and Alumni Event: Emily Wilson (Penn) "Why Read Homer in 2021?"

Feb 18, 2021 at

Title: "Why Read Homer in 2021?"



Sheila Ager (University of Waterloo) Hyde Lecture: "Power and Precarity: Murdering Royal Women in the Hellenistic Age"

Mar 25, 2021 at

Speaker: Sheila Ager, Professor and Dean of Arts, University of Waterloo

Hyde Lecture: "Power and Precarity: Murdering Royal Women in the Hellenistic… Read More



First Friday Meeting -- next session on Anti-Racism: February 5

Feb 5, 2021 at -

Our next First Friday will be this Friday, Feb 5 from 2-3:30 PM. This month, we will be doing a session on anti-racist pedagogy led by Professor Kate Meng Brassel and Jamiella Brooks, Associate Director of the CTL.… Read More



Dissertation Defense: Isabella Reinhardt "Language and Reality in Early Greek Thought"

Jan 15, 2021 at -

Isabella Reinhardt will defend her dissertation,

Language and Reality in Early Greek Thought
 
with a public presentation on

Friday 15 January 2021, 11am-12:30pm (… Read More



Department Colloquium: Sarah Derbew (Department of Classics, Stanford University) "A Language for Blackness"

Apr 15, 2021 at

Speaker: Sarah Derbew, Assistant Professor of Classics, Stanford University

Title: A Language for Blackness



Department Colloquium: Donald Lavigne (Department of Classics, Texas Tech University) "Old Media, and New: Early Greek Epigram"

Apr 8, 2021 at

Speaker: Donald Lavigne, Associate Professor of Classics, Texas Tech University

Title: Old… Read More



Department Colloquium: Katharina Volk (Department of Classics, Columbia University) "Pythagoreanism, Magic, Child Sacrifice (and Other Pastimes of Late Republican Roman Senators)"

Apr 1, 2021 at

Speaker: Katharina Volk, Classics Professor, Columbia University

Title: Pythagoreanism, Magic, Child Sacrifice (and Other Pastimes… Read More



Department Colloquium: Judith Kaplan (Penn) "The Nineteenth-Century Debate About Color"

Mar 18, 2021 at

Speaker: Judith Kaplan, Integrated Studies Teaching Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania

Title: "The Nineteenth-Century Debate About Color"



Department Colloquium: Melissa Mueller (Department of Classics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) "In the Bardo with Tithonos: Reading Sappho with Homer and Eve Sedgwick"

Mar 4, 2021 at

Speaker: Melissa Mueller, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Title: In the… Read More



Department Colloquium: Lisa Mignone (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York) "Iuno Loci: Juno at Home, Rome at War"

Feb 25, 2021 at

Speaker: Lisa Marie Mignone, Research Affiliate at NYU-ISAW

Title: "Iuno Loci: Juno at Home, Rome at War"