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Spring 2023

Classics logo Reunions 2023
May 26, 2023
Princeton Classics Alumni Breakfast
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Prentice Library - East Pyne
Edward Burne-Jones (Theseus and the Minotaur in the Labyrinth, design for a painted tile, 1861)
May 10, 2023
"Wooden Horses, Minotaurs and Catalogues of Ships"

To attend in person Please RSVP by Friday, May 5th to: [email protected]

 

 

 

Yiannis Doukas, University of Galway
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
East Pyne 161 and Zoom
photograph of Jose Rizal
Lunch Talk
May 5, 2023
“I Enter the Future with the Memory of the Past”: José Rizal (1861-1896), the Philippines, and Classical Antiquity

To attend in person please RSVP by Tuesday, May 2nd to Eileen Robinson, [email protected]

 

Tom Zanker, Amherst College
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
161 East Pyne
Piraeus actor stele
Lunch Talk
March 30, 2023
“Why were masks so essential for Greek tragedy?”

To attend in person please RSVP by Monday, March 27th to Eileen Robinson, [email protected]

 

Oliver Taplin, University of Taplin
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
161 East Pyne
Image of the Acropolis Museum
Colloquium
March 27, 2023
“The Future of Classics Graduate Education”

Dinner reception for members of the community to follow. Please RSVP to [email protected]by March 23.

 

 

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
010 East Pyne and via Zoom
Greek and Arabic Grammarians
May 4, 2023
The medieval transmission of ancient knowledge in colonial and post-colonial narratives: moving beyond them with help from the Greek and Arabic grammarians
Maria Mavroudi, University of California, Berkeley
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
East Pyne 010 and via Zoom

Sponsored by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council

image of Yasmin Haskell
Lunch Talk
April 28, 2023
‘Magister ex machina, or, Artificial Ingenuity: Who wrote the student poetry of the Old Society of Jesus?’

To attend in person please RSVP by Tuesday, April 25th to Eileen Robinson, [email protected]

 

Yasmin Haskell, University of Western Australia
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
East Pyne 161 and Zoom
Kent Monkman (Cree), Welcoming the Newcomers. 2019. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Lecture
April 20, 2023
"Our Muses Are Our Ancestors": Contemporary Indigenous Writers of North America and Greco-Roman Antiquity.
Craig Williams,Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Classics
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
A71 Louis Simpson and Zoom

Co-sponsored by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton

 

archival material, which come from the Gildersleeve papers at Johns Hopkins
Lecture
April 4, 2023
American Classical Scholarship, Comedy, and Disorientation
Constanze Güthenke, University of Oxford
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
a section from one of Winckelmann’s manuscripts and a portrait of him writing
Lecture
March 28, 2023
Winckelmann’s Epistolary Art
Katherine Harloe, University of London
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
Anna Maria Maiolino Image
Conference
March 4, 2023 - March 5, 2023
Ancient Graeco-Roman Medicine and Biology Workshop

for graduate and early career researchers

 

Please contact [email protected] or [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

 

 

10:00 am - 6:00 pm
03/04/2023
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10:00 am - 4:30 pm
03/05/2023
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Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301

Department of Classics, Department of Philosophy, Program in Classical Philosophy, Humanities Council, Program in the History of Science, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Center for Human Values, IHUM, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Program in the Ancient World

Image of ancient coin
Faber Lecture
February 23, 2023
“Securitas: Embodied Concept”
Michèle Lowrie, University of Chicago
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council

A domestic scene on a red figure pelike (BM E 396) superimposed on a fourth-century stele (Ag. I.6524/ IG II3 1 320)
Lecture
February 7, 2023
RESCHEDULED TO FALL 2023 "The Structure of Power in Classical Athens: From Oikos to Polis"

THIS TALK WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FALL OF 2023

Naomi Campa, The University of Texas at Austin
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne

Fall 2022

Greek Magical Papyri
Lecture
December 13, 2022
Compiling Magic: the Scribe at Work
Sofía Torallas Tovar, University of Chicago
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
East Pyne 010 and via Zoom
Jean Veber - Ulysses and Nausicaa, 1888
Lunch Talk
December 2, 2022
"A tree named for friendship: reading Homer’s phylia"

To attend in person please RSVP by Tuesday, November 29th to Eileen Robinson, [email protected]

Click here for the Zoom registration link 

 

Tim Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
East Pyne 161 and Zoom
Image Man in Moon
Prentice Lecture
November 8, 2022
"The Moon and the Map in the Ancient World"
Karen ní Mheallaigh, Johns Hopkins University
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne and Zoom
picture of sculpture
Lunch Talk
November 7, 2022
"Horses, Wheels, and Languages. Indo-European in the Ancient Near East."

To attend in person Please RSVP by Tuesday, November 1st, to Eileen Robinson: [email protected]

Click here for the Zoom registration link

Tom Davies, Ormond College, University of Melbourne
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Chancellor Green 105 and Zoom
sculpture which conveys the fragmentary nature of Sappho
Lunch Talk
October 28, 2022
Sappho Book 1: the beginning, the middle, and the end

To attend in person Please RSVP by Monday, October 24, to Eileen Robinson: [email protected]

Click here for the Zoom registration link

 

Patrick Finglass, University of Bristol
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
161 East Pyne and Zoom
Photograph of Luis Alfaro
THE ROBERT FAGLES LECTURE FOR CLASSICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS
October 11, 2022
‘THE ANCIENT THREAD INTO MODERN DRESS: Using the Greek Classics to Tell Contemporary Stories’

Please RSVP for the reception by October 3rd to [email protected]

Click here for the Zoom registration link

Luis Alfaro
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Betts Auditorium and via Zoom

Support for this project has been 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

Marzuolo Archaeological Project_Copyright
Lecture
October 3, 2022
Roman failure: inequality in practice
Astrid Van Oyen, Radboud University Nijmegen
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne and Zoom

 

 

symbols of the three political parties that Timpanaro, was part of over his life
Lecture
September 20, 2022
Major Corrections: the Materialist Philology of Sebastiano Timpanaro

Click here for the Zoom registration link

 

Face masks are required for in-person attendance

Tom Geue, University of St. Andrews
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne and Zoom
Picture of Sarah Derbew
Lecture
September 13, 2022
Doublespeak in ancient Greek and modern Ethiopian satire
Sarah Derbew, Stanford University
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Zoom

Spring 2022

copy of poster
Conference
May 21, 2022
“Comparative Mysticisms"

For more information and to register click on the following link.


https://comparativemysticisms.wordpress.com
 

9:45 am - 5:00 pm
Zoom

Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics

picture of a hand refusing a cocktail
Brunch Talk
April 29, 2022
“Xenophanes at the Symposium”

Professor Most will be a giving a virtual talk at 11:00am. 

To join us in-person for coffee and pastries RSVP to [email protected]. Please wear a mask when not eating or drinking.

To register for the Zoom link click here

 

Glenn Most, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (retired)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
161 East Pyne
and via Zoom
Image of Book Cover
Workshop and Lecture
April 22, 2022
The Epic of Gilgamesh

A workshop on the Epic of Gilgamesh 9am-3.30pm, East Pyne 161 
Sophus Helle on ‘Touch’
Erynn Kim on ‘Dreamscapes in Gilgamesh and Homer’
Evan Brandon on ‘The Generation Gap’
Johannes Haubold on ‘The End of Creation’ 
Tom Hare on ‘Three Views of the Two Brothers’ 
Josh Billings on ‘Gilgamesh and Psychoanalysis’
Register here for the workshop by April 19-Space is limited 

Readings and Q&A with Sophus Helle, in person and on Zoom 4.30pm-6pm, 
Louis Simpson A71
Register here for the Zoom link 

THESE EVENT ARE OPEN TO PRINCETON FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS

FACE MASKS ARE REQUIRED
 

9:00 am - 3:30 pm
EP161
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Louis Simpson A71
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Prentice Lecture
April 14, 2022
"Galen on Race, Health, and Disease: Medicine and Empire in the Roman World"

This event is open to Princeton faculty, staff and students.

In person attendance requires on-site registration and face coverings.

To attend virtually click here for the zoom registration link.

Rebecca Flemming, University of Cambridge
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
and via Zoom
Image of Speaker, Judson Herrman
Lunch Talk
April 8, 2022
“ A Discussion of Trends and Directions in Scholarship on Attic oratory”
Judson Herrman, Allegheny College
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
161 East Pyne
Artus Quellinus the Elder - Aeneas carrying his father Anchises away from the burning Troy
Lecture
April 5, 2022
"Epic Vulnerability: Anchises in the Aeneid"

This event is open to Princeton faculty, staff and students.

In person attendance requires on-site registration and face coverings.

To attend virtually click here for the zoom registration link.

 

James Uden, Boston University
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
East Pyne 010 and via Zoom
Athens Acropolis Museum frieze
Lecture
March 29, 2022
"After Happiness: Middle Platonist Ethics"

This event is open to Princeton faculty, staff and students.

In person attendance requires on-site registration and face coverings.

To attend virtually click here for the zoom registration link.

George Boys-Stones, University of Toronto
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
East Pyne 010 and via Zoom
Shamsie image
The Robert Fagles Lecture For Classics In The Contemporary Arts and the 17th Annual Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture
March 21, 2022
"Antigone of Pakistan: narrative violence and the impossibility of homecoming"

Reception to follow in Chancellor Green Rotunda
 
This event is open to Princeton faculty, staff and students.
Please RSVP by March 16th to [email protected]
 
In person attendance requires on-site registration and face coverings.
To attend virtually click here for the zoom registration link.
  

Kamila Shamsie
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Robertson Hall - Bowl 2

Support for this project has been provided in part by Princeton's Departments of Classics, English and Comparative Literature, Humanities Council, Humanistic Studies, Lewis Center for the Arts, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, the Program in Humanistic Studies, the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture Fund and the Princeton Committee on Palestine