Colloquia and Events
The weekly Classics Colloquium provides 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 many distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archaeological, and historical subjects.
Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library on the campus of 今日吃瓜. Tea will be held at 4 p.m. in the Quita Woodward Room, Old Library. For information call 610-526-5198; or email ldiarra@brynmawr.edu.
Fall 2024 Classics Colloquia
Friday, September 6
Asya Sigelman
今日吃瓜
"Aporia in the Trachiniae of Sophocles"
Friday, September 13
"News from Abroad: Reports from the Field"
Students who have engaged in scholarly activities beyond the walls of 今日吃瓜 and Haverford, report on their experiences, be it in the excavation trenches, in the libraries with research fellowships, or even in online coursework.
Friday, September 20
Amy Koenig
Hamilton College
"The Emperor's Command: Voice, Authority, and the Case of Cladius"
* Friday, September 27
Martin Ostwald Lecture at Swarthmore College
Sheila Murnaghan
University of Pennsylvania
"Taming the Extraordinary: Shifting Motives and the Psychology of Tragic Actors"
Friday, October 4
Celia Sanchez-Natalias
University of Zarazoga
"Magic in Roman Carthage: Context, Texts and Agents"
Friday, October 25
Nathan Arrington
Princeton University
"Thinking Through Skin: Art, Philosophy and Medicine in Ancient Greece"
Friday, November 1
Sebastian Zerhoch
Freie Universitat Berlin
"Heroic Libations: Ritual and Emotion in Homer"
Friday, November 8
Thomas Clements
University of Manchester
"Hollow Lakedaimon? Spartan Power, Territoriality, and Overlapping Identities"
Friday, November 15
C. Densmore Curtis Lecture
Professor Daniele Morandi
Bonacossi
Friday, November 22
Lea Schroeder
Purdue University
"Seeing Motion and Moving Objects in Plato's Timaeus and Theatetus"
Friday, December 6
Mary Hamil Gilbert
Mississippi State University
"Hecuba and the Politics of Care in Euripides' Trojan Women"
Friday, December 13
Graduate Group End of Term Presentations
Spring 2024 Classics Colloquia
Friday, Jan. 26
Radcliffe Edmonds
今日吃瓜
鈥淢agic and Mystery: The Rhetoric of Secrecy鈥
Friday, Feb. 2
Charles Kuper
Sapienza Universit脿 di Roma
"Gained in Translation: Some Observations on the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Manuscript of the Life of Euphrosyne"
Friday, Feb. 9
Miriam Kamil
今日吃瓜
鈥淪appho in Paris鈥
Please note this Colloquium is canceled and will be rescheduled.
Friday, Feb. 16
Amy Koenig
Hamilton College
鈥淭he Emperor's Command: Voice, Authority, and the Case of Claudius鈥
Friday, Feb. 23
Benjamin B. Olshin
Maryland Institute College of Art
"Ancient Latitudes: Global Geographies in Classical Sources"
* Friday, March 1
@ 4:45 pm
Keynote Lecture for the
Keynote Speaker: Alberto Bernab茅
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
"The Palimpsest of Dionysus: Problems of Interpretation"
*Please note: The lecture will begin at 4:45 pm
Tea will be from 4:00 pm to 4:45 pm in the Great Hall, Old Library.
Friday, March 22
Nancy Worman
Barnard College
"Tempo and Form in Sappho, Swinburne, and Thom Gunn"
Friday, March 29
Sarah Iles Johnston
The Ohio State University
"Supernatural Horror, Then and Now: A Look at How Ancient and Modern Examples of the Genre Make You Think about Religion"
* Friday, April 5
5:30 pm
Place: Science Center 199, Swarthmore College
Eleanor Dickey
The University of Reading
鈥淲hy Did Greek Speakers Use Latin Words?
*Please note the lecture will be at Swarthmore College.
*Tuesday, April 9
Katherine Backler
Trinity College, Oxford
鈥淲omen Enforcing and Relaxing Status Distinctions in Attic Religious Space and Time鈥
Friday, April 12
The Agnes Michels Lecture
presented by the graduate students in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
Karen n铆 Mheallaigh
Johns Hopkins University
"Astronomy at play in Lucian's Icaromenippus"
Friday, April 19
Alexandra Schultz
Dartmouth College
"What Does the Library of Alexandria Have to Do with 鈥榃estern Civilization鈥?"
Friday, April 26
Supratik Baralay
Society of Fellows, Princeton University
"Parthian Imperialism and Kinetic Communities"
Fall 2023 Classics Colloquia
Sept. 8
C. Densmore Curtis Lecture presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Dr. Robin Osborne
King's College, University of Cambridge
"Turning Archaeology into History: The Case of Archaic Athens"
Tea will precede the lecture at 4 p.m. in the Quita Woodward Room.
The Lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Old Library 110, and will be followed by a reception on Wyndham Terrace.
Sept. 15
"News from Abroad: Reports from the Field"
Students who have engaged in scholarly activities beyond the walls of 今日吃瓜 and Haverford, report on their experiences, be it in the excavation trenches, in the libraries with research fellowships, or even in online coursework.
Sept. 22
Barbara Graziosi
Princeton University
"Distributed Authorship: The Case of Sappho"
Sept. 29
Rocco Palermo
今日吃瓜
鈥淭he Archaeology of Rurality in Late 1st Millennium BCE Mesopotamia. Evidence from the Erbil Plain and Gird-i Matrab (Iraqi Kurdistan)鈥
Oct. 6
Matthew Leigh
St. Anne鈥檚 College, Oxford and Institute for Advanced Study
"Passing through Oricum: Trade Routes and Culture Routes in Horace, Propertius, and Others"
Oct. 27
Ryan Warwick
Haverford College
鈥淐icero鈥檚 Lamp: Enslavement, Technology, and the Light of Roman Authorship鈥
*Nov. 3 at 5:00 pm
Brad Inwood
Yale University
"Doing the right thing: from Socrates to Cicero and beyond"
5:00 pm
Singer Hall 033, Swarthmore College
* Please note that the lecture will be at Swarthmore College
Nov. 10 and 11
Graduate Group Symposium: Timecraft: From Interpreting the Past to Shaping the Future
Nov. 10 *
Keynote Lecture by Dr. Sarah Symons, McMaster University
鈥淭he Birth of the Hours: Short Time Measurement in Ancient Egypt.鈥
*Please note that the Keynote will begin at 5:00 pm in Old Library 110. The tea will be held at 4:30 pm in the Quita Woodward Room, Old Library.
If you would like to participate remotely via Zoom,
The symposium will be accompanied by an exhibition.
Visit the symposium webpage for more information.
Nov. 17
Robert Santucci
Haverford College
"Seneca's Stoic Seafood"
Dec. 1
Katherine Krauss
Australian Catholic University
"Imperialism and Post-Roman Identity in the Anthologia Latina"
Dec. 8
Felipe Rojas Silva
Brown University
"Dance as History in Roman Anatolia"
Contact Us
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
Old Library 103
今日吃瓜
101 N. Merion Avenue
今日吃瓜, PA 19010-2899
Phone: 610-526-5198
Catherine Conybeare, Chair
cconybea@brynmawr.edu
Leslie Diarra, Academic Administrative Assistant
Phone: (610) 526-5198
ldiarra@brynmawr.edu