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Spring 2024

Course Lecture
February 27, 2024
Recovering the Roman Garum: From Pompeii & Baelo Claudia to Experimental Archaeology
Darío Bernal-Casasola, Universidad de Cádiz
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
A71 Louis A. Simpson Building

Hosted by "The Science of Roman History," co-taught by Caroline Cheung and Leigh A. Lieberman

Fall 2023

Lecture
October 30, 2023
Declamatory Fictions & the Maiestas Trials: Seneca, Controversiae 9.2
Matthew Leigh, University of Oxford
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
161 East Pyne
Lecture
September 21, 2023
The Plataian Community in Athens: An Enclave?
Naomi Campa, University of Texas at Austin
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
An image of William S. Scarborough, perhaps the first known African American classicist, is superimposed on the title page of his book "First Lessons in Greek."
Lecture
September 18, 2023
African Americans and Xenophon, c. 1800–1910
John W.I. Lee, University of California at Santa Barbara
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
010 East Pyne
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

 

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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
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
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

 

 

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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

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
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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
 

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

Photograph of the upper torso of Artemis of Ephesus in the Naples Archaeological Museum. Black skin with cream adornments, including a tower-shaped headdress and rows of breast-like protuberances.
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

image from the Tomb of the Haterii
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
Fortson Image
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

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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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
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
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
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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

Heliodorus.
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