Past Events



Professor Emily Wilson: Dickinson College's 23rd Annual Christopher Roberts Lecture Series

Mar 4, 2022 - Mar 5, 2022 at -

23RD ANNUAL CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS LECTURES 

Each fall the Department of Classical Studies at Dickinson College invites noted scholars to present a lecture containing at least one significant,… Read More



First Friday Meeting - "Labor, Identity, and the Body"

Feb 4, 2022 at -

Please join us for the first First Friday of the spring semester: February 4, 2:45 - 4:15 pm, in Cohen 337. Kim Bowes will lead a discussion on "Labor, Identity and the Body."



Collaborator, Translator, Constructor

Apr 21, 2022 at

This third lecture in the series lays out several ways the study of antiquities may still be understood as mattering for the public today, focusing on the process of scholarship and specifically the acts laid out in… Read More



The Skills of World-Making

Apr 19, 2022 at

The second lecture in the series considers the development of expert skills required to invest in rebuilding the deep past — philology, dialogue and dialectic, understanding through migration, the preservation and… Read More



Public Matters: Prompts for the Study of Ancient Cultures

Apr 14, 2022 at

The first lecture in the series examines several moments in the ancient and early modern scholarship of antiquity when scholars framed their research questions in response to current sociopolitical needs and… Read More



Quintessence Theatre Presents: Seamus Heaney's The Cure At Troy

Jan 26, 2022 - Feb 20, 2022 at -

Quintessence Theatre Presents: Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes



Senior Colloquium

Apr 26, 2022 at -

Senior Colloquium is devoted to celebrating this year’s graduating majors in Classical Studies and Ancient History, and reflecting on what their work tells us about what it means to do Classical Studies and… Read More



Department Colloquium: Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool) "Farming, food and diet: living on (and off) the land in early Greece"

Apr 7, 2022 at -

Speaker: Lin Foxhall, Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology,… Read More



Hyde Lecture: Catherine Morgan (Oxford) "Worship and society in Northwestern Greece - reflections from the archaeological record"

Mar 31, 2022 at -

Speaker: Catherine Morgan, Professor of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow… Read More