Past Events



Discovering Language and Humanities Data

Feb 7, 2020 at

You are cordially invited to celebrate Penn’s 2019-2020 Academic Theme, the Year of Data, with an event co-sponsored by the Linguistic Data Consortium, the Price Lab for Digital Humanities and Van Pelt Library… Read More



Jill and John Avery Lecture in the History of Art - Milette Gaifman (Yale University) "The Compressed Image and the Modern History of Greek Art"

Mar 26, 2020 at

Today, when we speak of a compressed image, we typically mean a digital image whose size has been reduced by deleting or grouping together some of the initial file’s components. The lecture shows how various… Read More



"Forging Kinships" Symposium - Wolf Humanities Center

Feb 21, 2020 at

Forging Kinships invites scholars from multiple disciplines and academic institutions to think upon how the bonds of kinship are created, lived, and realized. The organizing theme of this day-long symposium focuses… Read More



Department Colloquium: Carol Raddato

Apr 16, 2020 at



Department Colloquium: Caroline Petit

Apr 9, 2020 at



Department Colloquium: Sheila Ager

Apr 2, 2020 at



Department Colloquium: Wiebke-Marie Stock (Notre Dame) "A daemon within? Plotinus and Iamblichus on our allotted guardian spirit"

Mar 26, 2020 at

Title: A daemon within? Plotinus and Iamblichus on our allotted guardian spirit



Department Colloquium: Liana Brent (Penn) "Not All Roads Lead to Rome"

Mar 19, 2020 at

Title: Not All Roads Lead to Rome



CANCELLED Department Colloquium: Andrea Augenti (University of Bologna) "What do we talk about when we talk about late antique cities? An archaeological point of view"

Mar 5, 2020 at

More than 30 years ago, a debate that took place in the journal Archeologia Medievale marked a turning point in the study of post-Roman urbanism. The subject was: can we consider… Read More



Department Colloquium: Kim Bowes (Penn) “Beyond GDP: Getting by in the Roman world”

Feb 27, 2020 at

Title: Beyond GDP: Getting by in the Roman world