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Irene Elias Dissertation Defense

Apr 12, 2024 at -

IRENE ELIAS

will defend her dissertation

ELITISM AND IDENTITY AT THE ROMAN-ERA SYMPOSIUM
 
All are welcome. Please join us for this significant moment in a graduate career!



2024 Stephen A. Levin Family Dean's Forum: A Conversation with Margaret Atwood - Moderated by Emily Wilson

Margaret Wood
Apr 17, 2024 at -

The Stephen A. Levin Family Dean's Forum welcomes poet and author Margaret Atwood!

Conversation… Read More



Past Events The Penn Public Lectures on Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary World Department Colloquium: Joseph Medeiros (Performer) "The Odyssey, Book 2: Gathering" Performance

Joseph Medeiros, Broadway and Off-Broadway Actor
Apr 19, 2024 at -

This event will take place near 47th and Osage in West Philadelphia. If you plan to attend, please email gishkrau@sas.upenn.edu to find out if there… Read More



Department Colloquium: Joseph Medeiros (Performer) "The Odyssey: Beginnings; a performance of Homer in Greek"

Joseph Medeiros, Broadway and Off-Broadway Actor
Apr 18, 2024 at -

*4:15-4:45 pm: Coffee and cookies in Cohen Hall 2nd Floor Lounge. All are welcome.



Department Colloquium: Sara Myers (UVA) “Bodies and Boundaries: Narrative Patterns in Ovid’s Italian Rape Myths”

Sara Myers, Professor of Classics, University of Virginia
Apr 11, 2024 at -

*4:15-4:45 pm: Coffee and cookies in Cohen Hall 2nd Floor Lounge. All are welcome.



Past Events The Penn Public Lectures on Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary World Department Colloquium: John Bodel (Brown) "Roman teamsters: muliones (muleteers) and the (dis)organization of land transport in the Roman empire"

John Bodel, W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics, Brown University
Apr 4, 2024 at -

*4:15-4:45 pm: Coffee and cookies in Cohen Hall 2nd Floor Lounge. All are welcome.



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