2017-2018 Fall
Lecture
November 9, 2017
Shane Butler
Johns Hopkins University
"The Youth of Antiquity"
4:30 pm
Betts Auditorium
Sponsored by The Department of Classics, The Department of Comparative Literature, The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM), Postclassicisms and Office of the Dean of the Graduate School
Lecture
October 23, 2017
Mark Janse
Ghent University
"Medieval Greek Songs: Oral Transmission and Dialectal Variation"
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
103 Scheide Caldwell House
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, cosponsored by the Department of Classics
Lunch Lecture
October 20, 2017
Norman Sandridge
Howard University
By invitation only
"The Humanities as Proto-leadership: A Conversation on How to Talk to Others about the Importance of the Humanities for Teaching Leaders and Leadership."
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
161 East Pyne
Lecture
October 2, 2017
Alice Oswald
First Robert Fagles Lecture for Classics in the Contemporary Arts
"Long-winged Phrases"
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Comparative Literature, Humanities Council, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University Public Lectures Committee, Stanley J. Seeger '52 Center for Hellenic Studies
Lunch Lecture
September 27, 2017
Johanna Hanink
Brown University
"Greece at the Crossroads of East and West"
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
161 East Pyne
Faber Lecture
September 21, 2017
Amy Richlin
Professor, Department of Classics, UCLA
"Blackface and Drag in Early Roman Comedy"
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
106 McCormick
Lunch Lecture
September 15, 2017
Felix Mundt
By Invitation Only
"Between Heaven and Stage - Boundary Crossing in Plautus' Amphitruo and its Reception"
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
161 East Pyne
2016-2017 Spring
Lecture
May 15, 2017
Richard Hunter
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Callimachus and the Description of Rhetorical Style
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Lecture
Darja Šterbenc Erker
Institut für Klassische Philologie,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Augustus’ religion in the mirror of Ovid’s Fasti:The Case of Concordia Augusta
4:30 pm
161 East Pyne
Lecture
Ruth Webb
Université Lille 3; Visiting Professor in the Humanities Council; Old Dominion Fellow in the Department of Classics
Roman pantomime and Greek tragedy: reperformance and embodied knowledge
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Lecture
Catherine Steel
University of Glasgow
Populism and the Roman Republic: demagogues, democracy and the limits of debate
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Lecture
Miriam Leonard
University College London
Hannah Arendt’s Revolutionary Antiquity
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Council of the Humanities
2016-2017 Fall
Lecture
Peter Meineck
Professor of Classics in the Modern World, New York University
Prediction, Peripeteia and Practice. A new cognitive approach to ancient dramatic narrative.
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Lecture
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Classics; Director, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge; Editor, Classical Philology, University of Chicago
Read the Aeneid, Go Straight to Hell? How Fulgentius Saved a Classic for the Christians.
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Faber Lecture
Emily Greenwood
Professor, Department of Classics, Yale University
Seeing Citizens: re-reading the ring of Gyges' ancestor in Plato's Republic
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and funding from the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Council of the Humanities
Lecture
Duncan Kennedy
Emeritus Professor, Bristol University
Plato and Lucretius on the Theoretical Subject: A Metaphysical Inquiry
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Lecture
Lisa Maurizio
Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, Bates College
A Reconsideration of the Pythia’s Use of Lots at Delphi: Nymphs, Dice, and Second Chances
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
2015-2016 Spring
Lecture
Timothy Power
Rutgers University
Sacred Sound Through Space and Time: Listening to Ancient Greek ‘Songlines’
4:30 pm
Betts Auditorium
Lecture
Robert Fowler
Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, University of Bristol
The Text-World of Herodotus
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Lecture
Jennifer Morgan
New York University
Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Considering Slave Law, Intimacy, and Privacy for the History of Women in Slavery
4:30 pm
211 Dickinson Hall
Keynote lecture in Histories of Reproductive Risk Workshop
Lecture
Rebecca Flemming
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Cambridge
Galen and the Plague
12:00 pm
161 East Pyne
This event is by invite only - Faculty and Graduate Students. Must RSVP
Lecture
Gianfranco Agosti
Sapienza - Università di Roma
Poetry and Religion in Late Antiquity
4:30 pm
106 McCormick
2015-2016 Fall
Lecture
Edward Watts
Hypatia and Her 18th Century Reception
5:30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
101 McCormick Hall
With thanks to: Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, Classics Department, Council of the Humanities, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Center for the Study of Religion, Classical Philosophy
Lecture
R.R.R. Smith
Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
Aphrodisias in Caria: Recent Work, New Finds
4:30 pm
106 McCormick
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
Cynthia Damon
Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Paying full price: On value-assessment in Lucilian satire
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Lecture
Luca Graverini
Siena
Sub domina meretrice. Circe in the Latin West
12:00 pm
161 East Pyne
This event is by invite only - Faculty and Graduate Students. Must RSVP by Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Lecture
Carlotta Santini
Should the Classics still be a Model of Education? Friedrich Nietzsche on the Use and Abuse of Classical Studies
4:30 pm
103 Scheide Caldwell House
Sponsored by the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Lecture
Anna Marmodoro
Oxford
Divide and Empower. The metaphysics of Stoics blends
12:00 pm
161 East Pyne
This event is by invite only - Faculty and Graduate Students. Must RSVP by Thursday, November 19, 2015
Lecture
Christoph Markschies
Humboldt University
The Nag Hammadi Library: A Coptic-Gnostic Collection or Christian-Monastic Literature from Egypt?
4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
Sponsored by the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity