Colloquia & Events
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.
Spring 2010 Colloquium Schedule
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
February 5 |
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Deborah Roberts
Haverford College
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Sheila Murnaghan
University of Pennsylvania
“Depicting Monstrosity: Visual Narrative in Illustrated Myth Books for Children”
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February 9 |
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Rosa Andújar
Princeton University
"Managing Mourning in Sophocles' Antigone"
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February 12 |
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Postponed until February 16 |
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February 16 |
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Asya Sigelman
Brown University
"The Power of the Prophetic Gaze: An Analysis of Time-Compression in Aeschylus' Agamemnon"
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February 19 |
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James Wells
Hamilton College
"Remodeling Pindar: Lyric Tradition and the Poetry of Reginald Gibbons"
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February 26 |
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CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
Andrej & Ivana Petrovic
Durham University & Center for Hellenic Studies
"'If you bring a pure mind, stranger, come to this place of sanctity': Greek Metrical Sacred Regulations as Divine CCTV"
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March 5 |
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March 19 |
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March 26 |
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April 9 |
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THE AGNES MICHELS LECTURE
presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies
John Miles Foley
University of Missouri, Columbia
"Homer and Comparative Oral Epic: Structure, Meaning and Translation"
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April 16 |
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THE C. DENSMORE CURTIS LECTURE
presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Bernard Knapp
Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute
"Materiality and Meaning: Trans-Cultural Contacts in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean "
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April 23 |
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Miguel Herrero de Jauregui
Universidad Complutense, Madrid & Center for Hellenic Studies
"Tharsei! Epic Models for Life and Afterlife in Greek Religion"
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April 30 |
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Andrej & Ivana Petrovic
Durham University & Center for Hellenic Studies
"'If you bring a pure mind, stranger, come to this place of sanctity': Greek Metrical Sacred Regulations as Divine CCTV"
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Fall 2009 Schedule
September 11 |
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News from Abroad: Student Reports
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*September 17 |
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Linda Hutcheon
University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto
“Critical Theory/Theories--In Many Tongues”
*Please Note: Lecture will be on THURSDAY, September 17 at 4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B21. There will be a reception following lecture in the Quita Woodward Room.
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September 25 |
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Aldo Setaioli
University of Perugia, Italy
“Encolpius and Priapus: The Poems at Petr. Sat. 133.3 & 139.2 and Priapus’ Role in the Satyrica”
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October 2 |
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October 23 |
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October 30 |
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Philip Sapirstein
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania University Museum, Mediterranean Section
"East Meets West at the Archaic Temple of Hera At Mon Repos, Corfu"
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November 6 |
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November 13 |
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November 20 |
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December 4 |
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The Seventh Biennial Bryn Mawr College Graduate Group Symposium
December 4-5, 2009
“The Anxiety of Influence and Appropriation”
Featured Respondent:
Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Sponsored by the Graduate Group, the Center for Visual Culture and the Departments of Classical and near Eastern Archaeology, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, and History of Art
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December 11 |
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