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Fall 2024

Lunch Talk
December 11, 2024
Troy and Gordion: An Excavator’s Perspective on Two Legendary Sites in Anatolia
C. Brian Rose (University of Pennsylvania)
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
144 Louis A. Simpson International Building
An expressionist painting in blues with a weeping figure in white.
Symposium
December 6, 2024
Boethius: A Symposium
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
161 East Pyne

Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.

Faber Lecture
December 3, 2024
Philhellenism, Germanophilia, and Max Meyerhof’s (1874–1945) Greco-Arabic ‘Tradition’ of Science
Aileen Das (University of Michigan)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council

Lunch Talk
November 22, 2024
Elagabalus, Charicleia, and Pantomime: A Trans-media Reading of the Afro-Syrian Novel Aethiopica in Light of Severan Greek Historiography
Yanxiao He (Tsinghua University)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
161 East Pyne
Lecture
November 20, 2024
Parmenides in Babylon: A Dialogue on Tunnel Vision
Sophus Helle (Princeton University)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Jones Hall 100

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature, and Near Eastern Studies

Richard Wilson's Painting "Apollo Destroying the Children of Niobe," a landscape with small figures of people shooting each other with arrows
Prentice Lecture
November 12, 2024
Niobe's Transformations, Between Ovid and Wheatley
Ellen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
Performance
November 7, 2024
Anon(ymous), a conversation with Naomi Iizuka
Naomi Iizuka, Playwright
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Berlind Rehearsal Room, McCarter Theatre Center
Graduate Student Workshop
November 2, 2024 - November 3, 2024
Of Marble and Mines: The Politics of Architecture, Freedom, and Oppression in the Roman World
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
301 Laura Wooten Hall

Co-sponsored by the Forum for the History of Political Thought of the University Center for Human Values, the Humanities Council, the Department of Classics, the Program in the Ancient World, and the Center for Collaborative History

Lecture
October 24, 2024
Euripides’s Orestes and Post-Critique
Jonathan Ready (University of Michigan)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
Workshop
October 4, 2024
New Approaches to Ekphrasis
161 East Pyne

Co-sponsored by the classics departments of Princeton University and Humboldt University in Berlin.

Program in the Ancient World Lecture
October 1, 2024
Refounding Sikyon: the creation of a monumental landscape
Yannis Lolos (University of Thessaly)
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
209 Scheide Caldwell House

Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World, Princeton University Humanities Council

Book Launch
September 23, 2024
Classics, Love, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini
Barbara Graziosi, in conversation with Dan-el Padilla Peralta
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
161 East Pyne

Co-sponsored by the Program in Italian Studies, the Department of Classics, and the Department of French and Italian

Daniel Mendelsohn in a blue linene shirt seated ata round glass breakfast table in a dining room with robin's egg blue walls and classical statuettes of women carrying amphorae as the table centerpiece.
THE ROBERT FAGLES LECTURE FOR CLASSICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS
September 17, 2024
What’s the Ancient Greek for “Picnic”?: Adventures in Translating the Odyssey
Daniel Mendelsohn (Bard College)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Friend Center, Room 101
and on Zoom: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/92880958555

Support for this project is provided in part by Princeton's Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature, Humanities Council, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University Public Lectures Committee, Program in Humanistic Studies, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Lecture
September 10, 2024
After Transformation: Refiguring Christianity and the Late Roman World
Maia Kotrosits (Harvard University)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne

Summer 2024

Conference
July 10, 2024 - July 11, 2024
Greek Colonization and Indigenous Communities: Rethinking Encounters in the Ancient World
Princeton Athens Center

Co-sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World, Princeton International Fund, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, and the Department of Classics.

Spring 2024

Cover of the book "Theater and Crisis" by Patrice Rankine, featuring a black and white photo of a protest
Prentice Lecture
May 6, 2024
Theater and Crisis: Myth, Memory, and Racial Reckoning in America, 1964–2020
Patrice Rankine, University of Chicago
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
A chinese newspaper on which is clearly visible a picture of the Capitoline Wolf
Lunch Talk
May 3, 2024
The She-Wolf goes, and stays, in China: Thoughts on the Development of Western Classical Studies
Sven Günther, Northeast Normal University (东北师范大学)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
161 East Pyne
Lecture
April 30, 2024
Computing the Difference Greece-Near-East
Jacobo Myerston, University of California at San Diego
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
A Pompeiian mosaic of three seated women in theatre masks.
Faber Lecture
April 25, 2024
"Flentem Dicere Verum:" On non-satirical Latin Satires
Kurt Smolak, University of Vienna
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Online

Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council

Black figure vase painting of two women fluffing pillows
Lunch Talk
April 19, 2024
Belief, uncertainty and mental effort in ancient Greek rituals of hosting the divine: literary readings and theoretical reflections
Felix Budelmann & Saskia Peels, University of Groningen
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
161 East Pyne
A black and white photograph of Martha Graham in a long dress leaning forward at a right angle with one leg kicked high up behind her.
Lecture
April 17, 2024
Cosmopoetics: Three Lecture on the Ecologies of Nature, Poetry, and Ethics – No. 3

Poetry without Redemption (Rachel Bespaloff)

James Porter, University of California, Berkeley
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
105 Chancellor Green

Organized by the Bain-Swiggett Fund (Department of English), and cosponsored by the Classics and English Departments.

Artus Wolffort. The Four Elements, before 1641. Oil on canvas. 158 x 200 cm, framed.
Lecture
April 16, 2024
Cosmopoetics: Three Lecture on the Ecologies of Nature, Poetry, and Ethics – No. 2

Love, Strife, and the Roots of All Things (Empedocles)

James Porter, University of California, Berkeley
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne

Organized by the Bain-Swiggett Fund (Department of English), and cosponsored by the Classics and English Departments.

Bronze Figurine of a Kitharode (lyre player). Geometric Period 900-800 BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Heraklion – Crete, Greece.
Lecture
April 15, 2024
Cosmopoetics: Three Lecture on the Ecologies of Nature, Poetry, and Ethics – No. 1

Introduction: Kosmopoiia + Biorhythms: The Bow and the Lyre (Heraclitus)

James Porter, University of California, Berkeley
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
105 Chancellor Green

Organized by the Bain-Swiggett Fund (Department of English), and cosponsored by the Classics and English Departments.

Poster for Spectral Cartographies, featuring a marble torso
Graduate Student Workshop
April 12, 2024 - April 13, 2024
Spectral Cartographies: Haunting and Greco-Roman Antiquity
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
,
9:30 am - 3:00 pm
301 Laura Wooten Hall

Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics, Department of Comparative Literature, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, Humanities Council, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies (with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund), the University Center for Human Values, and the Graduate School.

A statue of Cosimo de Medici before the Palazzo della Carovana at the Scuola in Pisa
Round Table
April 10, 2024
Classical Studies in Italy

 a conversation with Barbara Graziosi

Alessandro Schiesaro, Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Classics
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
161 East Pyne
A painting of Pygmalion, garbed in Renaissance orange, speaking animatedly to the statue of a seated marble woman
Lecture
April 9, 2024
Pygmalion's Poetics: Nature, Gender, and the Critic
Alessandro Schiesaro, Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Classics
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Humanities Council and Department of Classics

A bronze relief of two Centaurs battling Kaineus
Lecture
April 4, 2024
Antinoos on the risks of getting too drunk
Philomen Probert, University of Oxford
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
161 East Pyne
Terence in manuscript illumination
Lecture
April 1, 2024
Reading Against the Grain: Vulnerability Dynamics in Terence's Phormio
Susan Lape, University of Southern California
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
Fred Moten in a black and white headshot, wearing a knit cap
Workshop
March 27, 2024
The Gorgias Nothings: Dickinson, Plato, and the Philosophical Blues (Version 2)

Paper will be circulated in advance; to receive a copy, please register by March 18 with [email protected].

Fred Moten, New York University
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
161 East Pyne
A stone relief carving of a Roman school
Lecture
March 19, 2024
Competing Visions of Paideia in Imperial Greece
Kenneth Yu, University of Toronto
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne