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Penn Public Lecture: Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) Non-Return and Non-Arrival: Interdependence through Exclusion, Captivity and Incomplete Restitution (with a brief response from Kim Bowes, Classical Studies))

Nov 9, 2023 at -

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Penn Public Lecture: Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) The Exile as Weapon: Moving People to Challenge Autonomy and Exert Authority – Hellenistic Decrees & Televised Push-back (with a brief response from Cam Grey, Classical Studies)

Nov 7, 2023 at -

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Penn Public Lecture: Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) Who is the Host?: Asylum requests, Sovereignty and Recognition in the Polis of Greek Tragedy and Among Nations Today (with a brief response from Anne Norton, Political Science)

Nov 2, 2023 at -

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Department Colloquium: Katherine Blouin (University of Toronto) "Doing Classics on Indigenous Land"

Nov 16, 2023 at -

Speaker: Katherine Blouin, Associate Professor of History and Classics, University of Toronto

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Department Colloquium: Deven Patel (Penn) "New Directions in the Study of Indian Classical Humanities"

Oct 26, 2023 at -

Speaker: Deven Patel, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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Department Colloquium: Arsen Nisanyan (Harvard) “Kindling the song of Humanism: How one translation of Homer's Iliad changed intellectual life in Turkey”

Oct 19, 2023 at -

Speaker: Arsen Nisanyan, PhD candidate at Harvard University

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Department Colloquium: Matthew Leigh (St Anne's College, Oxford) “Declamatory Fictions and the Crimen Maiestatis - Seneca, Controversiae 9.2”

Sep 28, 2023 at -

Speaker: Matthew Leigh, Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, St Anne's College, Oxford

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Department Colloquium: Hérica Valladares (UNC Chapel Hill) "Women Writers from Pompeii: Epistolary Fictions in Roman Wall Painting"

Oct 5, 2023 at -

Speaker: HéricaValladares, Assoicate Professor, Department of Classics, UNC Chapel Hill

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The Odyssey, a play based on Emily Wilson’s translation, at Penn Live Arts

Sep 30, 2023 - Oct 1, 2023 at -

The Odyssey, a play based on Emily Wilson’s translation, at Penn Live Arts.  Talkback by Penn Public Lecturer Elena Isayev on 9/30. 

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Book Launch at the Free Library for Emily Wilson’s "Iliad"

Sep 26, 2023 at

Book Launch at the Free Library for Emily Wilson’s Iliad. 

In conversation with Sheila Murnaghan, chair of the classics… Read More