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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Spring 2025 Classics Colloquia

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Friday, January 24

Pauline LeVen

Yale University

“Allusion As Alluvium: Reading Helen's Liquid Commons”

 

^{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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*Tuesday, January 28

Benjamin Stevens

Howard University

“Virgil’s Otherworldly Sense of Wonder; or, Towards a Fractal Geometry of Ancient ‘Fantasy?”

 

^{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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*Thursday, January 30

Clayton Schroer

Emory University

“Heterogenous histories of contending peoples:" Postcolonial readings in (post-) Vergilian Epic.”

 

^{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, January 31

Helen North Lecture at Swarthmore College

(5 pm, Lang Performing Arts Center Cinema 101)

Mary Beard

University of Cambridge

“The Boy Who Breathed on Glass at the British Museum”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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*Tuesday, February 4

Miriam Kamil

Bryn Mawr College

“The Politics and Poetics of invidia in Ovid's Metamorphoses”

 

^{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, February 14

Kelli Rudolph

University of Kent

“Can Stoic Cosmopolitanism Bridge the Motivation Gap?”

 

 

^{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, February 21

Ava Shirazi

Haverford College

“Bronze and the Sensory Field”

 

^{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, February 28

Sofia Torallas Tovar

Princeton Institute for Advanced Study

“Sleeping for Answers: Dream Requests and their Petitioners in Antiquity”

 

 

^{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, March 21

David Kaufman

Transylvania University

“Caelius Aurelianus on Groundless Emotions, Emotional Blindness, and Madness”

 

^{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, March 28

Jackie Murray

SUNY Buffalo

“The Idea and Image of Slavery in Plato’s Republic”

 

^{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, April 4

Michels Lecture: Barbara Kowalzig

New York University

“A Wealth of New Gods: Mediterranean port-cities between religious plurality and economic growth.”

 

^{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, April 11

Alexandra Madela

University of Warsaw

“Making Orpheus Great Again: Orpheus' Argonautica and the Ancient Scholarship on Homer”

 

^{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, April 18

James Taylor

Colby College

“The Mortality of the Earth: Geological Processes and the Presocratics”

 

 

 

^{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, April 25

Annual Classics Majors Speaker Event

Emily Allen Hornblower

Rutgers University

“That Crazy Bitch”

 

 

^{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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Fall 2024 Classics Colloquia

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Friday, September 6

Asya Sigelman

Bryn Mawr College               

"Aporia in the Trachiniae of Sophocles"

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Friday, September 13 

"News from Abroad: Reports from the Field"

Students who have engaged in scholarly activities beyond the walls of Bryn Mawr and Haverford, report on their experiences, be it in the excavation trenches, in the libraries with research fellowships, or even in online coursework.

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Friday, September 20

Amy Koenig 

Hamilton College                                                                                                        

"The Emperor's Command: Voice, Authority, and the Case of Cladius" 

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Friday, September 27

Martin Ostwald Lecture at Swarthmore College

Sheila Murnaghan

University of Pennsylvania                                                                                            

"Taming the Extraordinary: Shifting Motives and the Psychology of Tragic Actors"

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Friday, October 4

Celia Sanchez-Natalias

University of Zarazoga 

"Magic in Roman Carthage: Context, Texts and Agents"   

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Friday, October 25

Nathan Arrington 

Princeton University                                                                                                          

"Thinking Through Skin: Art, Philosophy and Medicine in Ancient Greece" 

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Friday, November 1 

Sebastian Zerhoch

Freie Universitat Berlin

"Heroic Libations: Ritual and Emotion in Homer"

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Friday, November 8

Thomas Clements 

University of Manchester  

"Hollow Lakedaimon? Spartan Power, Territoriality, and Overlapping Identities"

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Friday, November 15 

C. Densmore Curtis Lecture

Professor Daniele Morandi 

Bonacossi

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Friday, November 22

Lea Schroeder

Purdue University

"Seeing Motion and Moving Objects in Plato's Timaeus and Theatetus"

                           

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Friday, December 6

Mary Hamil Gilbert 

Mississippi State University                                                                                           

"Hecuba and the Politics of Care in Euripides' Trojan Women"

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Friday, December 13

Graduate Group End of Term Presentations

Spring 2024 Classics Colloquia

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Friday, Jan. 26

Radcliffe Edmonds
Bryn Mawr College

“Magic and Mystery: The Rhetoric of Secrecy”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, Feb. 2

Charles Kuper
Sapienza Università di Roma

"Gained in Translation: Some Observations on the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Manuscript of the Life of Euphrosyne"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, Feb. 9

Miriam Kamil
Bryn Mawr College

“Sappho in Paris”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Please note this Colloquium is canceled and will be rescheduled.

Friday, Feb. 16

Amy Koenig
Hamilton College

“The Emperor's Command: Voice, Authority, and the Case of Claudius”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, Feb. 23

Benjamin B. Olshin
Maryland Institute College of Art

"Ancient Latitudes: Global Geographies in Classical Sources"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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* Friday, March 1
@ 4:45 pm

Keynote Lecture for the “Discovering Dionysos in the Sinai Palimpsest: New Mysteries of the Ancient Orphica?" Conference

Keynote Speaker: Alberto Bernabé
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

"The Palimpsest of Dionysus: Problems of Interpretation"

*Please note: The lecture will begin at 4:45 pm

Tea will be from 4:00 pm to  4:45 pm in the Great Hall, Old Library.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, March 22

Nancy Worman
Barnard College

"Tempo and Form in Sappho, Swinburne, and Thom Gunn"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, March 29

Sarah Iles Johnston
The Ohio State University

"Supernatural Horror, Then and Now: A Look at How Ancient and Modern Examples of the Genre Make You Think about Religion"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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* Friday, April 5 

The Helen North Lecture at Swarthmore College
5:30 pm
Place: Science Center 199, Swarthmore College

Eleanor Dickey
The University of Reading

“Why Did Greek Speakers Use Latin Words?

*Please note the lecture will be at Swarthmore College.

 

 

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*Tuesday, April 9

Katherine Backler
Trinity College, Oxford

“Women Enforcing and Relaxing  Status Distinctions in Attic Religious Space and Time”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, April 12

The Agnes Michels Lecture
presented by the graduate students in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

Karen ní Mheallaigh
Johns Hopkins University

"Astronomy at play in Lucian's Icaromenippus"

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Friday, April 19

Alexandra Schultz
Dartmouth College

"What Does the Library of Alexandria Have to Do with ‘Western Civilization’?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, April 26

Supratik Baralay
Society of Fellows, Princeton University

 "Parthian Imperialism and Kinetic Communities"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fall 2023 Classics Colloquia

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Sept. 8

C. Densmore Curtis Lecture presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

Dr. Robin Osborne
King's College, University of Cambridge

"Turning Archaeology into History: The Case of Archaic Athens" 

Tea will precede the lecture at 4 p.m. in the Quita Woodward Room.

The Lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Old Library 110, and will be followed by a reception on Wyndham Terrace. 

 

 

 

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Sept. 15

"News from Abroad: Reports from the Field"

Students who have engaged in scholarly activities beyond the walls of Bryn Mawr and Haverford, report on their experiences, be it in the excavation trenches, in the libraries with research fellowships, or even in online coursework.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sept. 22

Barbara Graziosi
Princeton University

"Distributed Authorship: The Case of Sappho"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sept. 29

Rocco Palermo
Bryn Mawr College

“The Archaeology of Rurality in Late 1^st Millennium BCE Mesopotamia. Evidence from the Erbil Plain and Gird-i Matrab (Iraqi Kurdistan)”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oct. 6

Matthew Leigh
St. Anne’s College, Oxford and Institute for Advanced Study

"Passing through Oricum: Trade Routes and Culture Routes in Horace, Propertius, and Others"

 

 

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Oct. 27

Ryan Warwick
Haverford College

“Cicero’s Lamp: Enslavement, Technology, and the Light of Roman Authorship”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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*Nov. 3 at 5:00 pm

Martin Ostwald Memorial Lecture at Swarthmore College

Brad Inwood
Yale University

"Doing the right thing: from Socrates to Cicero and beyond"

5:00 pm
Singer Hall 033, Swarthmore College

* Please note that the lecture will be at Swarthmore College

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Nov. 10 and 11

Graduate Group Symposium: Timecraft: From Interpreting the Past to Shaping the Future

Nov. 10 *

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Sarah Symons, McMaster University 

“The Birth of the Hours: Short Time Measurement in Ancient Egypt.”

*Please note that the Keynote will begin at 5:00 pm in Old Library 110. The tea will be held at 4:30 pm in the Quita Woodward Room, Old Library.

If you would like to participate remotely via Zoom, please click here to register.

The symposium will be accompanied by an exhibition.

Visit the symposium webpage for more information.

 

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Nov. 17

Robert Santucci
Haverford College

"Seneca's Stoic Seafood"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dec. 1

Katherine Krauss
Australian Catholic University

"Imperialism and Post-Roman Identity in the Anthologia Latina"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dec. 8

Felipe Rojas Silva
Brown University

"Dance as History in Roman Anatolia"