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Kate Meng Brassel moderates a discussion between Jhumpa Lahiri and Ramie Targoff on "Reception, Tradition, and Translation"

Mar 5, 2024 at -

Kate Meng Brassel moderates a discussion between Jhumpa Lahiri and Ramie Targoff on "Reception, Tradition, and Translation" hosted by the US Ambassador at the Villa Taverna in Rome.



Emily Wilson will give Lecture III: "The Wisdom of Stories" as part of the Gennadius Library's 2023-24 Thalia Potamianos Lecture Series

Emily Wilson
May 8, 2024 at -

Register for in person ticket here or livestream on YouTube … Read More



Department Colloquium: Maghan Keita (Villanova) "Black Athena/Black Athenians"

Mar 28, 2024 at -

Speaker: Dr. Maghan Keita, Professor of History and… Read More



Department Colloquium: Ralph Rosen (Penn) "Ps.-Longinus on Comedy and the Sublime"

Mar 21, 2024 at -

Speaker: Ralph Rosen, Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Classical Studies at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania



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