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Hyde Lecture Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool): "Political regimes and the rural economies of ancient Greece"

Mar 14, 2024 at -

Every spring, the Graduate Group in Ancient History hosts a week-long visit by a distinguished ancient historian, made possible by a gift by Walter Woodburn Hyde (1870-1966, Professor of Greek and Ancient History at… Read More



Department Colloquium: Rocco Palermo (Bryn Mawr) "The Making and Development of Imperial Landscapes in Mesopotamia. The View from the Erbil Plain in North Iraq"

Feb 22, 2024 at -

Speaker: Rocco Palermo, Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College



Department Colloquium: Kim Bowes (Penn) "Wage, slavery"

Feb 15, 2024 at -

Speaker: Kim Bowes, Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract: Most people today… Read More



Department Colloquium: Richard P. Martin (Stanford) "Self-fragmenting Artifacts and Comic Pragmatics"

Feb 8, 2024 at -

Speaker: Richard P. Martin, Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics, Stanford University



Department Colloquium: Verity Platt (Cornell) "The Stones of Posidippus: Elemental Media"

Jan 25, 2024 at -

Speaker: Verity Platt, Professor of Classics and History of Art, Cornell University



Department Colloquium: Brian Rose (Penn) "Recent Excavations at Phrygian Gordion"

Feb 1, 2024 at -

Speaker: Brian Rose, James B. Pritchard Prof. of Mediterranean Archaeology, Univ. of Pennsylvania



Department Colloquium: Peter N. Singer (Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin) "Living in the Moment – or Not? Past and Future Experience in Graeco-Roman Thought"

Jan 18, 2024 at -

Speaker: Peter N. Singer, Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin



Department Colloquium: Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers) & Nafeesah Goldsmith (COO at YFOF) "From our Classics and Incarceration series: Breaking the Silence: The Myth of Cassandra and the Voices of Incarcerated Women"

Dec 7, 2023 at -

Speakers: Emily Allen-Hornblower,, Associate Professor of Classics at Rutgers University  &… Read More



Department Colloquium: Cam Grey (Penn) "Locals, Leaders and the Reverberating Consequences of Disaster Intervention: Some Case Studies from the Late Roman World"

Nov 30, 2023 at -

Speaker: Cam Grey, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Title: "Locals, Leaders… Read More



Preservation Futures: Society featuring Prof Kim Bowes

Nov 16, 2023 at

This roundtable will take up the question of historic preservation’s contribution to and engagement with broader societal issues and needs. We seek to understand the ways in which preservation draws on the knowledge… Read More