Colloquia

Spring 2006 Fall 2005

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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.

Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter 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 in Thomas Library. For more information, please call: 610-526-5198; or e-mail ocardona@brynmawr.edu

Events at Haverford College

PLACET(Philadelphia Area Classics Events Calendar)

COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE SPRING 2006
January
27	"Gladiator: The Second Biannual Carpenter Classics Challenge" featuring Rick Hamilton, Darby Scott, Radcliffe Edmonds, and Camilla Mackay Questions Answers
February
10	Jeffrey Rusten Cornell University "The Littlest Comic Angels: The Phanagoria Chous"
17	Joseph Rife Macalester College "Life and Death at a Roman Port in Roman Greece: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2005"
24	Joseph Russo Haverford College "The Greekness of Greek Proverbs: Folk Speech and World View"
March
17	Timothy Harrison University of Toronto The C. Densmore Curtis Lecture "Sea Peoples, Neo-Hittites and the 'Land of Padasatini': Recent Investigations at Tell Ta 'yinat on the Plain of Antioch"
24	Campbell Grey University of Pennsylvania "Late Roman Slavery: Some New Questions to Some Old Answers"
31	Yasar Ersoy Bilkent University "Early Iron Age Archaeology and Culture of the Eastern Aegean" (co-sponsored by the University of Pennylvania's Art and Archaelogy of the Mediterranean Program)
April
7	Christopher Pelling Christ Church Oxford "Sheep in the Forum and Other Ways of Doing Early Rome"
21	Amy Richlin University of California, Los Angeles The Agnes Michels Lecture "Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Slave Geography in Roman Comedy"
28	Peter Magee Bryn Mawr College "Apologies to Polybius: Archaeological and Palaeoclimatological Evidence for the Origin and Diffusion of the Qanat (a.k.a. falaj, karez, foggara) Irrigation System"
COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE FALL 2005
September
9	Student Presentations Reports from the Field
16	James Wright Bryn Mawr College "Space and Power in Minoan and Mycenaean Architecture"
23	C. Brian Rose University of Pennsylvania Museum "The Sanctuaries of Cybele and Athena at Troy "
30	John Franklin Center for Hellenic Studies "The East Face of Ancient Greek Music "
October
21	Rosaria Munson Swarthmore College "The Trouble With the Ionians: Herodotus and the Beginning of the Ionian Revolt (5.28-38.1)"
November
4	Alexander Jones University of Toronto "Publishing science on stone: an astronomical inscription from Hellenistic Rhodes"
11	Kevin Clinton Cornell University "The Mysteries of the Great Gods at Samothrace"
18	Rebecca Flemming King's College, London Lee Pearcy Episcopal Academy Ralph Rosen University of Pennsylvania "Prescription for Ancient Medicine"
December
2	Peter Lautner Pázmány Péter Catholic University "Perception and the Reflexive Activities of the Soul in Late Neoplatonism"
ARCHIVES: Colloquia 2004-2005 Colloquia 2003-2004 Colloquia 2002-2003 Colloquia Spring 2002

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