Filters Event Categories - Any -LectureSocialSymposiumConference / WorkshopSpecial Event Special Events/Series - Any -Book EventCo-Sponsored EventCourse LectureFaber Lecture Graduate Student ConferenceLunch TalkMagie LecturePerformance / ScreeningPrentice LecturePrinceton Paleography LabProgram in the Ancient WorldRobert Fagles Lecture for Classics in the Contemporary ArtsRound TableUndergraduate Student Event Jun 16 Special Event Bloomsday 2025 Ulysses and The Odyssey Mon, Jun 16, 2025, 4:30 pm This Bloomsday, we welcome all Princeton Joyceans to a classically themed celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses, led by Prof. Jesse Lundquist! Join us for a short talk on the classical influences… Location 143 East Pyne (Prentice Library) Sponsor Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Princeton Public Library May 23 Social Classics Alumni Brunch Reunions 2025 Fri, May 23, 2025, 10:00 am The Classics Department's annual Reunions Alumni Brunch. Join fellow alumni and current students and faculty for endless coffee and breakfast food, plus a special update on all things Princeton Classics! Location Prentice Library, East Pyne 143 May 1 Lecture The New Euripides Papyrus (P.Phil.nec 23 verso): The Agon in Polyidos Ioanna Karamanou Thu, May 1, 2025, 4:30 pm Location East Pyne 161 Speaker Ioanna Karamanou Affiliation Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Apr 29 Conference / Workshop After Babylon The Legacies of Cuneiform Culture Tue, Apr 29, 2025, 9:00 am The history of the region now known as Iraq is rarely told as one long and continuous story. It is instead split into periods between which little or no continuity is assumed to exist. A deep scholarly divide separates those who study the cuneiform cultures of ancient Mesopotamia from those who study the following periods, including the Islamic… Sponsor Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and the Program in Near Eastern Studies Apr 24 Lecture What does Jean-Michel Basquiat have to do with Socrates, the Punic Wars & Hypatia of Alexandria? An interpretation of Jawbone of an Ass (1982) Gábor Betegh Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 12:00 pm On the middle panel of Basquiat’s “Jawbone of an Ass,” we find a striking collection of names and historical events from Greco-Roman Antiquity. Interpreters have maintained that it is a random list without internal coherence, arranged alphabetically, that “stand for the richness of classical Greek culture.” In this presentation, I suggest an… Location Scheide Caldwell 209 Speaker Gábor Betegh Affiliation University of Cambridge Lunch Talk Apr 21 Lecture New Excavations at Pompeii: Seasonality and Non-Elite Lifestyles Allison Emmerson Mon, Apr 21, 2025, 4:30 pm Pompeii has long occupied a privileged place in modern imaginings of the Roman past. Beyond the city’s well-known monuments, however, lies a well of data that has barely begun to be tapped. This talk will introduce the research program of Tulane University’s Pompeii I.14 Project, an interdisciplinary excavation focusing on one large building… Location East Pyne 010 Speaker Allison Emmerson Affiliation Tulane University Sponsor Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Art & Archaeology and the Program in Archaeology Apr 17 Special Event A New Translation of The Odyssey Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Yelena Baraz Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 6:00 pm Join us as celebrated author, critic, classicist, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his new translation of The Odyssey. Widely known for his essays bringing classical literature and culture to mainstream audiences in the New Yorker … Location Labyrinth Books Speakers Daniel Mendelsohn Affiliation Bard College Yelena Baraz Affiliation Princeton University Sponsor Co-sponsored by Princeton University's Humanities Council and Labyrinth Books. Book Event Co-Sponsored Event Apr 10 Lecture Communicating on Rome's Edges: Tongues, Gesture, and Art Anthony Corbeill Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 4:30 pm How did Romans communicate along the expanding edges of empire—on the verbal, physical, and visual levels—when Latin is unavailable? This illustrated presentation treats four different periods and locations: 1) interactions between Etruscan and Roman culture in the early to middle Republic; 2) modes of contact during the late Republic and early… Location Jones 100 Speaker Anthony Corbeill Affiliation University of Virginia Apr 9 Lecture Entrepreneuring Women: The spaces of textile manufacture in classical Greek cities Lin Foxhall Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 4:30 pm Textile production was a vital part of classical Greek economies, predominantly managed and carried out by women. Recent scholarship, shaped by New Institutional Economics, suggests a division of labor where men wove luxury textiles in workshops for the market, while women created basic textiles at home for domestic use. However, this view,… Location East Pyne 010 Sponsor Program in the Ancient World Magie Lecture Program in the Ancient World Apr 4 Lecture Pragmatic Irony in Ancient Rome Luca Grillo Fri, Apr 4, 2025, 12:00 pm Ancient Romans had a great sense of irony, in theory and in practice. They used it abundantly and discussed what it is, what it achieves, and how it works and relates to other figures of rhetoric. And yet, their practice of irony seems to stretch beyond these theories. In this presentation I have two main arguments: pragmatics… Location 161 East Pyne Speaker Luca Grillo Affiliation University of Notre Dame Lunch Talk Apr 3 Lecture Euripides’ Proliferative Aesthetics Naomi A. Weiss Thu, Apr 3, 2025, 4:30 pm Already in his own lifetime, Euripides was known for pushing the boundaries of what a tragedy could or should be. While recent scholarship has tended to focus on discrete areas of experimentation, especially Euripides’ play with music and genre, this paper proposes the model of proliferation as a more holistic way of approaching his most… Location East Pyne 010 Speaker Naomi A. Weiss Affiliation Harvard University Mar 29 Symposium Consuming Ecologies: Environment and Society in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Environmental History Lab Sat, Mar 29, 2025, 10:00 am This one-day workshop aims to investigate late antique and early medieval ecologies as unfolding socio-environmental formations. Recent scholarship has highlighted some of the messy ecological entanglements that gave root to political ideologies and homegrown squashes across the Mediterranean world—feeding hairy pigs alongside… Location Julis Romo Rabinowitz Room A17 Co-Sponsored Event Mar 28 Lecture From Science to Narrative: Pottery Production and Social Dynamics in Archaic Rome Mattia D'Acri Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 12:00 pm What do simple clay vessels reveal about the rise of one of history’s greatest cities? This talk explores the social and economic changes that transformed Rome and Latium between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE, focusing on the people behind the pottery. From everyday cooking pots to refined tableware, these ceramics hold clues about the lives of… Location 209 Scheide Caldwell Speaker Mattia D'Acri Affiliation Princeton University Sponsor Program in the Ancient World Lunch Talk Program in the Ancient World Mar 27 Lecture Politics and the Art of Lying in Horace's Odes Peter Heslin Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 4:30 pm We are living, sadly, in an age of the big political lie: leaders avowing untruths so stark and incredible that their purpose is not so much to mislead as to assert control. In an emerging autocracy, the big lie serves to remind the populace that obedience is more important than truth. Among the lies promulgated by the emperor Augustus as he… Location East Pyne 010 Speaker Peter Heslin Affiliation Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow Sponsor Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Humanities Council Co-Sponsored Event Mar 20 Lecture Critical Classicality and (De)Colonial Vietnamese Writings: A Sneak Peek Kelly Nguyen Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 4:30 pm This talk offers a preview of my forthcoming book, which explores how Vietnamese writers from the French colonization era to contemporary times have engaged with the Greco-Roman classical tradition for different liberatory purposes. I will introduce my overarching theoretical framework, “critical classicality,” a decolonial approach that… Location East Pyne 010 Speaker Kelly Nguyen Affiliation University of California, Los Angeles Mar 19 Social Sophomore Open House Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 12:00 pm Calling all Princeton sophomores to the Classics Department's annual open house! Join faculty and current majors for merriment, refreshments, and conversation on all the department has to offer. Pizza will be served! Location Prentice Library, 143 East Pyne Undergraduate Student Event Mar 5 Lecture Ancient Egypt within its North-East African Context John Baines Wed, Mar 5, 2025, 4:30 pm Egypt’s most direct connections were and are within the Africa where it is sited. Ancient Egypt is often seen as a civilization on the edge of the ancient Near East rather than through the more immediate lens of the regions closest to it. Recent scholarship has enhanced understanding of the African context, and it uses a more holistic… Location A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Speaker John Baines Affiliation University of Oxford Sponsor Program in the Ancient World Program in the Ancient World Feb 16 Special Event Humanities Research / Creative Projects A Breakfast Conversation with Uberto Pasolini Sun, Feb 16, 2025, 11:00 am In a special collaboration through the Humanities Initiative's new Media & Meaning series, we are proud to offer a breakfast conversation with filmmaker Uberto Pasolini (The Full Monty, The Return) and Profs. Rachael DeLue, Barbara… Location East Pyne 161 Speakers Uberto Pasolini Affiliation Red Wave Films Rachael Z. DeLue Affiliation Director, Humanities Initiative Barbara Graziosi Affiliation Chair, Department of Classics Carolina Mangone Affiliation Director, Program in Italian Studies Sponsor Sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Humanities Council, the Humanities Initiative, and the Program in Italian Studies Co-Sponsored Event Round Table Feb 15 Special Event The Return: Q&A with director Uberto Pasolini with Barbara Graziosi Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 7:00 pm On February 15th, Uberto Pasolini, the director of THE RETURN, will be present at the Princeton Garden Theatre for a post-film discussion moderated by Barbara Graziosi, the Ewing Professor of Greek at Princeton University and chair of the Classics Department.In this retelling of Homer’s Odyssey, Ralph Fiennes… Location Princeton Garden Theatre Speakers Uberto Pasolini Affiliation Red Wave Films Barbara Graziosi Affiliation Princeton University Sponsor Co-sponsored by Princeton Classics and the Humanities Council Co-Sponsored Event Performance / Screening Feb 8 Special Event Princeton Certamen Sat, Feb 8, 2025, 9:00 am Empowered by a love for the Classical world and the JCL, a group of Princeton students — from states ranging from Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia, to Wisconsin — founded the first annual Princeton Certamen held on March 24, 2018. As the tournament enters its 6th year, we are excited to continue to promote love for Classics… Location McCosh 50 Jan 30 Lecture American Tempests: Virgilian Storms on Strange Seas Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 4:30 pm This talk offers a study of an epic topos – the storm at sea – in two of the earliest Latin epics written in Spanish and Portuguese America: José de Anchieta’s De Gestis Mendi de Saa (Coimbra 1563) and Francisco de Pedrosa’s Austriaca sive Naumachia (c. 1580). Anchieta and Pedrosa stand in a long tradition of early… Location 010 East Pyne Speaker Erika Valdivieso Affiliation Yale University Jan 27 Symposium Special Event Life, Liberty, Love, Food & Drink: On Poetry & the Creative Process A Celebration of the Special Poetry Issue of "The Classical Outlook" Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 4:30 pm A panel discussion on poetry, pedagogy, classics, and the creative process, celebrating the Special Poetry Issue of The Classical Outlook. featuringA.E. StallingsCharles MartinChris ChildersEmma HunterMeredith Bergmann… Location 010 East Pyne Sponsor Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature, the Humanities Council, and the Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English Dec 11 Lecture Troy and Gordion: An Excavator’s Perspective on Two Legendary Sites in Anatolia C. Brian Rose (University of Pennsylvania) Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 12:00 pm Location 144 Louis A. Simpson International Building Speaker C. Brian Rose Affiliation University of Pennsylvania Sponsor Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Art & Archaeology Lunch Talk Dec 6 Symposium Boethius: A Symposium Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 3:00 pm Please join us for a symposium honoring the life, work, and legacy of Boethius on the occasion of the (supposed) 1500th anniversary of his death!Short talks and discussions will be led by Claire Apostoli … Location 161 East Pyne Sponsor Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Next page Next › Last page Last »