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 2011 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
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January 28 |
Robin Mitchell-Boyask Temple University
"Odysseus, Maker of Horses" |
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February 4 |
Regina Höschele University of Toronto
“A virgo infelix: Calvus' Io vis-à-vis other Cow-and-Bull Stories” |
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February 11 |
Johannes Haubold Durham University
"The succession of empires - Greek and Mesopotamian perspectives" |
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February 18 |
Dirk Baltzly Monash University, Australia
“The theme (skopos) of a Platonic dialogue and the maintenance of textual communities in late antique Platonism" |
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February 25 |
Nathan Arrington Princeton University
“Sacred Space and the Fallen Warrior: Death and Defeat on the Athenian Akropolis” |
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March 18 |
THE C. DENSMORE CURTIS LECTURE presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Barbara Barletta University of Florida
"The Temple of Athena at Sounion: Ionic Architecture in a Doric Context" |
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March 25 |
José González Duke University
“Aristotle on Theoria” |
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April 1 |
THE AGNES MICHELS LECTURE presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies
Kirk Freudenburg Yale University
"The Cinematography of Virgil’s Aeneid" |
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April 8 & 9 |
For complete program click on link below:
LOCUS ISTE : Sacred Spaces, Divine Places in the Ancient World |
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April 15 |
Jeremy McInerney University of Pennsylvania
“The Gods of (Con)fusion: Athena Alea, Apollo Maleatas and Athena Aphaia” |
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Fall 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
| Date | Speaker & Title | |
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September 10 |
News from Abroad: Student Reports |  |
September 17 |
Alex Gottesman Temple University
"Harpalus in Athens: Politics and Theatricality in the Late 4th Century" |
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September 24 |
Catherine Conybeare Bryn Mawr College
“The Laughter of Sarah” |
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October 1 |
Philip Horky Stanford University
"What is the Platonic Demiurge?" |
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October 22 |
Dimitrios Damaskos University of Ioannina
“Excavating cultural memory in Roman Macedonia: The Argos |
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October 29 |
Anton Bierl University of Basel
“Women on the Acropolis. Comic Body-Politics, Ritual and Metaphor in Aristophanes' Lysistrata” |
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November 5 |
Anthony Tuck University of Massachusetts, Amherst
““Poggio Civitate and the Earliest Cities of Tuscany”” |
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November 19 |
Karin Schlapbach University of Ottawa & Center for Hellenic Studies
““Ecphrasis and Enactment in Theocritus Idyll 15 and Beyond”” |
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December 3 |
Maria Teresa Marabini Moevs Rutgers University
“The Warren Cup and the Liberty Period in Italy” *PLEASE NOTE: Tea will be in the London Room |
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