Colloquia and Events 2016/17

The weekly Classics Colloquia provide an informal meeting ground for the College's lively community of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Each year, the series brings to campus a number of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archaeological, and historical subjects.


Fall 2016 Classics Colloquia


Student Reports Poster
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Student Reports from Fieldwork and Programs Abroad

Sept. 9


Stamatopoulou Poster
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Zoe Stamatopoulou
Washington University

"Plutarch's Lives and
Hesiodic Wisdom

Sept. 16
 


Stramaglia Poster
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Antonio Stramaglia
鲍苍颈惫别谤蝉颈迟脿 di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale

"'Comic Books' in Greco-Roman Antiquity"

Sept. 23


Densmore Curtis Poster
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The Densmore Curtis Lecture presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Lisa Nevett
University of Michigan

鈥淥濒诲 City, New Questions: Some Preliminary Results from the Olynthos Project, 2014-2016鈥

Sept. 30


Vessey Poster
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Mark Vessey
Green College, University of British Columbia

鈥淗辞飞 Much 'Literature' Is There in Late Antiquity Anyway?鈥

Oct. 21


Bai Poster
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Bai Chun Xiao
Zhejiang University

"The Cyclic View of the Human Condition in ThucydidesArchaeology and Sima Qians Preface to Historical Records"

Oct. 28


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Hannah Silverblank
Oxford University

鈥淢辞苍蝉迟谤辞耻蝉 Sounds: Listening to the
Voice of the Monster in Greek Poetry

Nov. 4
 


Beck Poster
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Deborah Beck
University of Texas, Austin

"If At First You Dont Succeed:
Heroism, Failure, and Formula in Homeric Epic"

Nov. 11


Surtees Poster
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Laura Surtees
Bryn Mawr College

"Its a Hard Knock Life: Urbanism
and City Living in Hellenistic Thessaly"

Nov. 18
 


Dieleman Poster
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Jacco Dieleman
UCLA

"Textual Amulets from Egypt
to Phoenicia and Greece"

Dec. 2
 


Strauss Poster
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Barry Strauss
Cornell University

"The Death of Caesar: New Light
on the Ides of March and its Aftermath"

Dec. 9
 


Spring 2017 Classics Colloquia


Tober Poster
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Daniel Tober
魅影直播 College
"Megarians' Tears: Localism
and Dislocation in the Megarika"

Jan. 20
 


Betancourt Poster
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Roland Betancourt
University of California, Irvine

鈥淏别濒濒颈肠辞蝉别 Things: The Inner Lives
of Byzantine Warfare Implements

Jan. 27
 


Carbon Poster
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Jan-Mathieu Carbon
鲍苍颈惫别谤蝉颈迟茅 de 尝颈猫驳别

鈥淢辞惫别补产濒别 Feasts? On Butchery, Consumption, and Distribution at Greek Sacrifices

Feb. 3


Hawes Poster
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Greta Hawes
Australian National University

鈥淢测迟丑蝉 Which Survive in Ruins: Pausanias and the
Necessary Infrastructures of Storytelling

Feb. 10
 


Meeusen Poster
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Michiel Meeusen
Katholieke University Leuven

鈥淧濒耻迟补谤肠丑耻蝉 Aristotelicus? An Introduction to Plutarchs Science of Natural Problems

Feb. 17


Mac Sweeney Poster
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Naoise Mac Sweeney
University of Leicester

鈥淭丑别 Deviant Daughters of Miletus:
Foundation Myths in Ionia

Feb 24
 


Clay Poster
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The Agnes Michels Lecture, sponsored by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies
Jenny Strauss Clay
University of Virginia

鈥淐补苍 We Talk About Homeric Religion?鈥

March 17


Champlin Poster
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Edward Champlin
Princeton University

鈥淭颈产别谤颈耻蝉 from Myth to History

March 31
 


Waters Poster
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Matthew Waters
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

鈥凌辞测补濒 Reachings: Representation of
the Achaemenid King and the Divine

April 7
 


SantamariAlvarez Poster
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Marco Antonio Santamar铆a 脕lvarez
University of Salamanca
鈥'滨鈥m Dionysos, the Son of Winejar': Allegorical Interpretations of the God of Wine鈥浓赌&苍产蝉辫;

April 21


Bauer Poster
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Alexander Bauer
Queens College, City University of New York

鈥淐辞苍迟补肠迟, Colony, and Community in the Black Sea Region: The First Two Seasons of Excavations at the Kale of Sinop, Turkey鈥浓赌&苍产蝉辫;

April 28

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