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Department Colloquium: Sarah Derbew (Department of Classics, Stanford University) "A Language for Blackness"

Apr 15, 2021 at

Speaker: Sarah Derbew, Assistant Professor of Classics, Stanford University

Title: A Language for Blackness



Department Colloquium: Donald Lavigne (Department of Classics, Texas Tech University) "Old Media, and New: Early Greek Epigram"

Apr 8, 2021 at

Speaker: Donald Lavigne, Associate Professor of Classics, Texas Tech University

Title: Old… Read More



Department Colloquium: Katharina Volk (Department of Classics, Columbia University) "Pythagoreanism, Magic, Child Sacrifice (and Other Pastimes of Late Republican Roman Senators)"

Apr 1, 2021 at

Speaker: Katharina Volk, Classics Professor, Columbia University

Title: Pythagoreanism, Magic, Child Sacrifice (and Other Pastimes… Read More



Department Colloquium: Judith Kaplan (Penn) "The Nineteenth-Century Debate About Color"

Mar 18, 2021 at

Speaker: Judith Kaplan, Integrated Studies Teaching Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania

Title: "The Nineteenth-Century Debate About Color"



Department Colloquium: Melissa Mueller (Department of Classics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) "In the Bardo with Tithonos: Reading Sappho with Homer and Eve Sedgwick"

Mar 4, 2021 at

Speaker: Melissa Mueller, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Title: In the… Read More



Department Colloquium: Lisa Mignone (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York) "Iuno Loci: Juno at Home, Rome at War"

Feb 25, 2021 at

Speaker: Lisa Marie Mignone, Research Affiliate at NYU-ISAW

Title: "Iuno Loci: Juno at Home, Rome at War"



Department Colloquium: Lauren H. Braun-Strumfels (Department of Humanities, Social Science & Education, Raritan Valley Community College) and Kim Bowes (Penn) "Humanities and the Community College: Lessons for Classical Studies"

Feb 11, 2021 at

"Humanities and the Community College: Lessons for Classical Studies"

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Department Colloquium: Steven Smith (Department of Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, Hofstra University) "The Descendants of Aeneas in New Rome: Epigrams on the Fall of Troy from the Cycle of Agathias"

Feb 4, 2021 at

Speaker: Steven Smith, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University

Title: The Descendants of Aeneas in… Read More



Department Colloquium: Amy Russell (Department of Classics, Brown University) "Microcosm, macrocosm, and the question of scale in the ancient Roman city"

Jan 28, 2021 at

Speaker: Dr. Amy Russell

Title: Microcosm, macrocosm, and the question of scale in the ancient Roman city



Department Colloquium: Karen ní Mheallaigh (Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University) "The ancient glass imaginary"

Jan 21, 2021 at

Speaker: Karen ní Mheallaigh, Professor of Classics, Johns Hopkins University

Title: "The ancient glass… Read More