Past Events



QUAKER DAYS 2018: CLASSICAL STUDIES OPEN HOUSE

Apr 19, 2018 at -

Visit the Classical Studies lounge, Cohen Hall, 2nd floor, to meet with students and faculty and share snacks and drinks.

NB: 2.00-3.00 the open house will move up to the 3rd floor lobby to a reception for all… Read More



QUAKER DAYS 2018: CLASSICS PALOOZA

Apr 18, 2018 at -

Stop by the Classical Studies and Ancient History table at College Palooza on College Green to receive an ORACLE and KNOW THYSELF!



Conversations/Conversazioni: Rome as City and Concept

Apr 17, 2018 at -

Featuring 

Mary Margaret Jones, Senior Principal, Hargreaves Associates “Large Landscapes and  eir Axes”

Craig Dykers, Managing Director and Partner, Snøhetta “Real and Unvreal Visits to Rome… Read More



"The Shrike and the Chipmunks, the Philologists and the Translators, Aeschylus and Apuleius" Sarah Ruden

Apr 10, 2018 at -

James Thurber in Fables for Our Time depicts cultural concerns and activities in hard categories dictated largely by gender: men are preoccupied with abstractions, women with practicalities. Corresponding… Read More



Gothic Arts: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Mar 23, 2018 - Mar 24, 2018 at -

This interdisciplinary conference, Gothic Arts, celebrates the polyvalent definition of ars in the long thirteenth-century of the medieval francophone world. The conference proposes… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Adam Foley, UPENN, "Towards a new Interpretation of Aristotle’s Edition of the Iliad “from the Casket"

Apr 26, 2018 at -

In his Life of Alexander Plutarch claims that Aristotle produced his own recension of the Iliad and then gave it to Alexander as part of his provisions on campaign. This edition eventually… Read More



THE ODYSSEY: A NEW TRANSLATION, A Reading With Author Emily Wilson

Feb 13, 2018 at

Emily Wilson will read from and discus her line-for-line iambic pentameter version of the epic poem, the first English translation by a woman. It… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Jochen Griesbach, Wuerzburg, "Position matters – Portrait monuments as evidence for structural change of the public sphere during the Hellenistic period"

Apr 19, 2018 at -

Honorific statues and their inscriptions evolved into a kind of early mass media thanks to the specific transformation of the ‚geo-political’ landscape during the Hellenistic period. This holds true at least in the… Read More



SENIOR COLLOQUIUM

Apr 12, 2018 at -

Senior Colloquium is devoted to celebrating this year’s graduating majors in Classical Studies and Ancient History, and reflecting on what their work tells us about what it means to do Classical Studies and Ancient… Read More