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Spring 2022

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
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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
 

Poster for Flame Project
Conference
March 18, 2022 - March 20, 2022
Networks in Transition: Monetary Exchange from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

How to register:
The event is open to the Princeton community as well as to the public. Registration is required for on-campus attendees, as well as those attending virtually. To do so, please visit: https://libcal.princeton.edu/event/8875023

 

For more information visit https://coinage.princeton.edu/flame-conference-march-2022/

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
East Pyne 010 and Firestone C10H

Co-sponsored by Princeton University Library’s Department of Special Collections, Center for Collaborative History, Center for Digital Humanities, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, Comparative Antiquity—A Humanities Council Global Initiative, Department of Art & Archaeology, Department of Classics, Princeton Humanities Council, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Program in the Ancient World, Program in Medieval Studies, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Sophomore Open House
Undergraduate Student Event
March 16, 2022
Sophomore Open House
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Upper Hyphen Chancellor Green - East Pyne
Uprooting_Medea
Lecture
February 24, 2022
Uprooting Medea

Buffet reception to follow.  Please RSVP for reception by Tuesday, February 22 to [email protected]

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

 

To attend virtually click here for the Zoom registration link.

Shivaike Shah, Khameleon Productions
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
East Pyne 010 and via Zoom

Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University

Event Poster
Conference
February 19, 2022
Antiquity in Early Modern France
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Zoom

Sponsored by Princeton University Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

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Lecture
January 27, 2022
"Breasts and Bees: An Excerpt from the Seven Wonders Project"

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.

Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
and via Zoom

Fall 2021

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Lecture
December 9, 2021
"Getting Lost and Finding Yourself in Ancient Rome."

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.

Evan Jewell, Rutgers University-Camden
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Betts Auditorium and via Zoom
Vase Image taken by Jay Fisher
Lunch Lecture
October 29, 2021
Greek Myth and Roman Empire 146 to 240 BCE

This event is open to Princeton faculty, staff and students

 

Pre registration is required.  

Lunch will be provided for in-person attendance.

Face coverings are required when not actively eating or drinking

 

In-Person attendance - Click here to register

Zoom Registration -  Click here to register

 

 

 

Jay Fisher, Rutgers University
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
161 East Pyne
Reproduction of painting Expanse by Alexander Deineka  SPUTNIK / Alamy Stock Foto
Conference
October 8, 2021 - October 9, 2021
Idyll and Utopia
Via Zoom

Sponsored by the German Department .

Co-Sponsored by the Program in European Cultural Studies, the Department of Classics, the Department of Art and Archaeology, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Program in Media and Modernity.

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Lecture
September 23, 2021
"A Festan Fest"
Ben Fortson, University of Michigan
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Via Zoom
Photo of Carolina Lopez-Ruiz
Lecture
September 9, 2021
Phoenician Horizons and the Other Mediterranean

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

To attend virtually click here for the zoom link.

Carolina Lopez-Ruiz, Ohio State University
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
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Co-sponsored by Near Eastern Studies

Spring 2021

Huascarán as seen from Yungay.  Photo by ZiaLater
Workshop
May 26, 2021
Quechua at Princeton

As a way to close out the first semester of the Quechua workshop, we'd like to invite you to stream with us the movie Yawar Mallku. This 1969 movie is incredible for many reasons, the least of which is that it is filmed in the communities in the highlands and the main language of the movie is Quechua. The film also had important political and social ramifications in Bolivia. 

The film is in Quechua with Spanish subtitles.

The plan is to stream the movie together (it's only 70 minutes) and leave time for discussion.

Please email Felice Physioc ([email protected]) if you have any questions.

https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93260978772

Open to the University community (students, faculty, staff).

 

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
via Zoom

Sponsored by Program in American Studies, Department of Classics, Center for Collaborative History, Program in Latin American Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, PIIRS

Labyrinth Flyer
Lecture
May 20, 2021
DIVINE INSTITUTIONS: RELIGIONS AND COMMUNITY IN THE MIDDLE ROMAN REPUBLIC

To register, click here.

DAN-EL PADILLA PERALTA, HANNAH CULÍK-BAIRD & LIV MARIAH YARROW
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
via Zoom
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Conference
May 14, 2021 - May 15, 2021
'Specialized Labor in Classical Antiquity: Economy, Community, Identity'

For more information, including the schedule, please visit https://sites.rutgers.edu/laborclassics21/

To register, please use the following link: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XFIoGtCQT0aV935avg4MVw
 

9:00 am - 5:30 pm
May 14, 2021
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9:00 am - 5:30 pm
May 15, 2021
Catalina Andgrango-Walker
Workshop
April 22, 2021
Criollismo and the Writing of Memory in Jerónimo de Oré’s Symbolo Catholico Indiano (1598)
Catalina Andrango-Walker, Virginia Tech
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
via Zoom

Sponsored by Program in American Studies, Department of Classics, Center for Collaborative History, Program in Latin American Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, PIIRS

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Conference
April 16, 2021 - April 17, 2021
“Contact, Colonialism, and Comparison”
11:00 am - 4:35 pm
April 16, 2021
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11:15 am - 5:05 pm
April 17, 2021

Organized by Antiquity in the Americas and co-sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Humanities Council, and the Comparative Antiquity Initiative

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Lecture
April 16, 2021
Latin letters and an Amerindian vernacular: The creation of Nahuatl literature in early colonial Mexico
Professor Andrew Laird, Brown University
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
via Zoom

Sponsored by The Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Classics

Olissippo quae nunc Lisboa ciuitas amplissima Lusi taniae, ad Tagum, toti Orientis, et multarum insularum Aphricaeque et Americae emporium nobilissimum
Lecture
April 15, 2021
“Receptive Tautology and Vergil’s Homer in Gabriel Pereira de Castro’s Ulisseia, ou Lisboa Edificada (1636)”
Adriana Vazquez, UCLA
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
via Zoom
J. M. W. Turner, Dido building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire, 1815
Prentice Lecture
April 1, 2021
"Wandering Dido: Reclaiming a Carthaginian Queen"
Josephine Quinn, University of Oxford
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
via Zoom
Photo of Daniel Heller Roazen
Lecture
March 30, 2021
Daniel Heller-Roazen & Hal Foster in Conversation: Absentees -- On Variously Missing Persons

This event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Classics, and Department of Art & Archaeology

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Virtual
Huascarán as seen from Yungay.  Photo by ZiaLater
Workshop
March 24, 2021
Quechua at Princeton

The Quechua workshop meets next on March 24 (4:30-6:30) to read and discuss Bruce Mannheim's,  The language of the Inka since the European invasion and Catalina Andrango-Walker's, El símbolo católico indiano (1598) de Luis Jerónimo de Oré : saberes coloniales y los problemas de la evangelización en la región andina. More information is available on our Canvas website; to be added to the site, please email [email protected]. Upcoming events include a guest lecture by Andrango-Walker and a summer boot camp on historical documents in Quechua. 

Open to the University community (students, faculty, staff).

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
via Zoom

Sponsored by Program in American Studies, Department of Classics, Center for Collaborative History, Program in Latin American Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, PIIRS

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia. Casa del Poeta tragico, Pompeii
Lecture
February 23, 2021
"Forecast Eyes: Rhythm, Vision, and Philosophy in Cicero’s Orator"
Christopher S. van den Berg, Visiting Fellow
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
via Zoom
Reading Group
February 18, 2021 - February 25, 2021
Eos READS: Toni Morrison, "Unspeakable Things Unspoken”
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
February 18, 2021 via Zoom
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
February 25, 2021 via Zoom
Huascarán as seen from Yungay.  Photo by ZiaLater
Workshop
February 17, 2021
Quechua at Princeton

Virtual Information Session

Come learn about Princeton's first workshop dedicated to Quechua, a pre-Columbian language spoken by over eight million people along the Andean cordillera. Scheduled events include a semester-long book club, lectures, and outreach to Quechua-speaking communities in New Jersey.

Open to the University community (students, faculty, staff).

RSVP to [email protected] to receive the Zoom link.

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
via Zoom

Sponsored by Program in American Studies, Department of Classics, Center for Collaborative History, Program in Latin American Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, PIIRS

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Lecture
February 11, 2021
"Screening Rome as Empire Nostalgia in Takeuchi Hideki’s Thermae Romae (2012)"
Monica Cyrino, University of New Mexico
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
via Zoom

Fall 2020

Image of woman holding a lantern in a body of water
Robert Fagles Lecture for Classics in the Contemporary Arts
November 3, 2020
Mary Alice Zimmerman

This webinar is limited to the Princeton University academic and alumni communities.

Please click on the link to register.

https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bDcqj2bRQa-TXakat05Drg

 

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
November 3, 2020

2019-2020 Spring

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Lunch Lecture
May 1, 2020
VIRTUAL - "Teaching and Discussing Race, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism with Intentional Action in Different Classics Classrooms"

Please RSVP for Zoom meeting information to [email protected]

Kelly P. Dugan, University of Georgia
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
161 East Pyne
Lecture
April 23, 2020
CANCELLED - "Reading Plautus with Frederick Douglass"
Matthew Leigh,Oxford University, Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
161 East Pyne
Lunch Lecture
April 17, 2020
CANCELLED - "(Re)Constructing the Past in Imperial Greece: The Cases of Corinth and Sparta"

Please RSVP by Monday, April 13th to [email protected]

Wolfgang Havener, Visiting Fellow, Assistant Professor, Seminar for Ancient History & Epigraphy, University of Heidelberg
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
161 East Pyne