Departmental Colloquium
The Penn CLST Colloquium meets every Thursday when
classes are in session at 4:30 in Cohen 402 or 337. The Colloquium features speakers from the
department, the university, and the area, as well as from many other national and international
institutions. Attendance is open to the public. The Colloquium is preceded by a coffee hour in
Cohen 250 at 4:00.
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Fall 2009
September 10
Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania
"History's a Farce: Seneca and Tacitus on the Deification of Claudius"
September 17
Brian Rose and David Romano, University of Pennsylvania
“Archaeological Field Reports from Gordion and Mt. Lykaon”
September 24
Jürgen Paul Schwindt, University of Heidelberg
“Thaumatographia. Original Scenes of Philology:
The Hunt of Actaeon. Languages of Transformation
(Ovid, Met. 3.131–259)”
October 1
Cam Grey, University of Pennsylvania
“Dominance, Self-Interest, and Mutual Exploitation: Peasants and Potentates in Late Antiquity”
October 8
Constanze Güthenke, Princeton University
"From Symposium to Seminar. Scholarship and Platonic Eros in Nineteenth Century Germany"
October 15
Jenifer Neils, Case Western Reserve University
"The Parthenon Sculptures and Periklean Policies"
October 22
John Marincola, Florida State University and University of Edinburgh
"Eros and Empire: Virgil and the Historians on Civil War"
October 29
Alex Gottesman, Temple University
"Supplication and Street Theater in Athens"
November 5
Kenneth Rothwell with Pamela Jones, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“The De Pictura Sacra and Musaeum of Federico Borromeo:
Editing and Translating Two Seventeenth-Century Latin Treatises on Art and the Ambrosiana”
November 12
Emily Baragwanath
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Center for Hellenic Studies
"Why Return to Troy? Mythic Discourse in Herodotus"
November 19
Paolo Di Leo, University of Pennsylvania
"St. Augustine's De Genesi contra Manichaeos: The Temporalization of the Soul"
November 26
* Thanksgiving
December /3
John Paul Christy, University of Pennsylvania
"The Empire Writes Back: Tyrants in Greek Epistolography"
December 10
* APA/AIA Practice