Colloquia and Events

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 p.m. in the Quita Woodward Room, Old Library. For information call 610-526-5083; or email llawrence@brynmawr.edu. * if noted with an asterisk the announcement is not a colloquia but a special event. Please read event for location.

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Fall 2025 Classics Colloquia

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Friday, September 5

Matthew C. Farmer

Haverford College

“The Comic City”

 

^{Carpenter Library B-21}

^{4:30 pm - 5:30 pm}

^{Bryn Mawr College}

^{Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room}

^{Click here to watch the Zoom event recording.} 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, September 12

Reports From The Field: News from Abroad

 

^{Carpenter Library B-21}

^{4:30 pm - 5:30 pm}

^{Bryn Mawr College}

^{Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, September 19

Marsha McCoy

Southern Methodist University 

"Mabel Lang and Bryn Mawr: A Greek Professor and Her Students"

 

^{Carpenter Library B-21}

^{4:30 pm - 5:30 pm}

^{Bryn Mawr College}

^{Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room}

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Friday, September 26

Bronwen Wikkiser

Hunter College, CUNY 

"λίθοι ὑγιεῖς: A medical vocabulary for architecture"

 

^{Carpenter Library B-21}

^{4:30 pm - 5:30 pm}

^{Bryn Mawr College}

^{Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room}

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Friday, October 3

Manuela Marai

University of Warwick

"Galen’s Science of Wound Treatment"

 

^{Carpenter Library B-21}

^{4:30 pm - 5:30 pm}

^{Bryn Mawr College}

^{Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room}

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Friday, October 24

Dr. Justine McConnell

King's College London

“Stitching the Odyssey Anew in Tayari Jones' An American Marriage”

 

^{Carpenter Library B-21}

^{4:30 pm - 5:30 pm}

^{Bryn Mawr College}

^{Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room}

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, October 31

Timothy Whitmarsh

Cambridge University

"Epic Reformed: The “New Poets” of Christian Byzantium"

 

^{Carpenter Library B-21}

^{4:30 pm - 5:30 pm}

^{Bryn Mawr College}

^{Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room}

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Friday, November 7

Jinyu Liu

Emory University 

"Tempus in Ovid’s Exile Poetry: Conceptualizing and Narrating Time at the Edge of the Empire"

 

^{Carpenter Library B-21}

^{4:30 pm - 5:30 pm}

^{Bryn Mawr College}

^{Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room}

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Friday, November 14

C. Densmore Curtis Lecture at Bryn Mawr College

John Ma

Columbia University

"From an Elephantine jar: gender, marriage and sex in early Hellenistic Egypt" 

 

Martin Ostwald Lecture at Swarthmore College

Richard Saller

Stanford University

"Pliny’s Natural History and the quest for comprehensive knowledge" 

 

^{Carpenter Library B-21}

^{4:30 pm - 5:30 pm}

^{Bryn Mawr College}

^{Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room}

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Friday, November 21

Ifigenia Giannadaki

University of Florida

"Athenian metics and the law: legal ‘isolation’ or political inclusion?"

 

^{Carpenter Library B-21}

^{4:30 pm - 5:30 pm}

^{Bryn Mawr College}

^{Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room}

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Friday, December 5

Jens Fischer

Universität Potsdam

"Mediated Authority – Rethinking Ancient Greek Pseudepigraphy as a Discursive Phenomenon"

 

^{Carpenter Library B-21}

^{4:30 pm - 5:30 pm}

^{Bryn Mawr College}

^{Tea at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room}

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Friday, December 12

End of Term Graduate Group Talks