Past Events



COLLOQUIUM: Bettina Reitz-Joosse, UPENN, "The City and the Text in Vitruvius’ De Architectura"

Jan 15, 2015 at -

Consistently at the beginning and end of major sections of De Architectura, Vitruvius reflects on the order in which he presents his material. He frequently stresses that the design of his treatise follows a… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania, "Centaurs and the Uses of Hybridity"

Jan 29, 2015 at -

This paper is concerned with the figure of the centaur in the imagination of the Greeks. Beginning with the Lefkandi centaur, the Greeks manufactured centaur figures in a variety of media: terra… Read More



CLST Solstice Luncheon

Dec 11, 2014 at



SCS-AIA practice session

Dec 11, 2014 at



Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity

Jun 15, 2012 - Jun 16, 2012 at -

Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values, VII

University of Leiden

The ‘… Read More



Landscapes of Value

Jun 19, 2014 - Jun 21, 2014 at -

The Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values, VIII

University of Pennsylvania

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Dramatic Reading of Euripides' Bacchae

Dec 1, 2014 at

As translated by Prof. Emily Wilson and performed by the Classics UAB (& friends) Chorus of cross-dressing maenads! Madness, mayhem, and murder! Missing it would be a tragedy! στεῖχέ νυν, ὦ παῖ!… Read More



AAMW Lunch: Julian Siggers

Nov 21, 2014 at

Dr. Siggers is the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.



AAMW LUNCH: Caroline Solazzo and Lorenz Rahmstorf

Nov 14, 2014 at

Dr. Caroline Solazzo of the University of York and the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute will speak on "Proteomics in archaeology: methodologies, applications and limitations. Biomolecular analysis of… Read More