From its early days, Bryn Mawr has had an international reputation in classical languages and archaeology, and the College is home to a lively community of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Weekly classics colloquia provide an informal meeting ground as well as a schedule of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archeological and historical subjects.

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Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room 110 of Thomas Library on the campus of Bryn Mawr College. Tea will be held at 4:00 p.m. before the lectures in the Quita Woodward Room, which is also in Thomas Library. For more information,
please call: 610-526-5198;
or e-mail ocardona@brynmawr.edu

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE CLASSICS
COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
SPRING 2004

January
30	Richard Hamilton and Catherine Conybeare vs. Dale Kinney and Lisa Saltzman vs. Peter Magee and Jim Wright "Survivors: The Slide Show"
February
6	Darby Scott Bryn Mawr College "What's Wrong with the Fourth Book of Horace's Odes"
20	Susanna Braund Yale University "Who are the Barbarians? issues of Cultural Superiority in the Reception of Lucan's Epic and Seneca's Tragedies" Class of 1902 Lecture Co-sponsored by the Bi-College Program in Comparative Literature
27	Julia Gaisser Bryn Mawr College "Apuleius: A Celebrity and his Image"
March
*19	Derek Collins University of Michigan "The Magic of Homeric Verses" *location changed to Carpenter 21
26	Judith Hallett University of Maryland Agnes Kirsop Michels Lecture "The Rhetorical and Political Legacy of Cornelia "
April
*2	Eric Cline George Wahington University The 2004 C. Densmore Curtis Lecture "Jerusalem Besieged: 4000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace" *Time: 5:00-7:00 Place: Carpenter 21 Pre-lecture reception from 4:00-5:00 in the Quita Woodward Room
16	Dennis Trout University of Missouri "The Cult of the Saints in Latin Late Antiquity: Topography and Identity" Class of 1902 Lecture Co-sponsored by the Department of History of Art
23	Prudence Jones Rutgers University "Text and Textile: Literature, Philosophy, and the Technology of Greek and Roman Wool-Working"
*30	Leslie Kurke ‘81 University of California, Berkeley “Herodotus and Aesop: The Socio-politics of Greek Prose” *In Carpenter 21

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE CLASSICS
COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
FALL 2003

September
12	Student Reports from fieldwork and programs abroad
26	Martin Winkler George Mason University “The Roman Salute: Origin and Spread of a Fascist Symbol.” (illustrated)
October
3	Richard Hamilton Bryn Mawr College “Basket Case: Imagery on Classical Athenian Votive Reliefs” (illustrated)
*10 6:00 pm Carpenter B 21	GRADUATE GROUP SYMPOSIUM Keynote Speaker: Helen Rodnite Lemay SUNY-Stony Brook Title: "Representing the Body at Bryn Mawr in 1960 and 2003"
*21 (Tuesday) 7:30 p.m. Thomas Great Hall	Anne Carson University of Michigan Poetry Reading Bryn Mawr Creative Writing Program For tickets and prices, contact Helene Studdy: hstuddy@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-5210
*22 (Wednesday) 4:30 p.m. Gest 101 Haverford College	Anne Carson University of Michigan “Exits and Entrances: A Praise of Sleep” Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Program in Comparative Literature, the Classics Department at Haverford, and the Haverford Distinguished Visitors Program
31	Roy Gibson University of Manchester “Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and the politics of excess”
November
November 6-7 FORUM: “JEWS AND CHRISTIANS READING THE BIBLE”
*6 (Thursday) 7:30 p.m. Carpenter B 21	Daniel Boyarin University of California A response to the critique of his thought in David Dawson’s Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity
*7 (Friday) 1:30-3:30 Gateway Conference Room	Round-table discussion, chaired by Aryeh Kosman, Haverford College. Keynote participants: Paula Fredriksen, Boston University, and Mark Vessey, University of British Columbia. To be webcast live.
21	Ellen Millender Reed College “Women Behind the Throne: Wealth, Kingship, and the Spartan ‘Gynecocracy’”
December
5	Derek Collins University of Michigan "The Magic of Homeric Verses"

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