Colloquia and Events

The weekly Classics Colloquium provides an informal meeting ground for the College's lively community of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Each year, the series brings to campus a number of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archaeological, 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 p.m. in the Cloisters, Old Library. For information call 610-526-5198; or email ocardona@brynmawr.edu.

Spring 2023 Classics Colloquia

Jan. 20

Erin Lam
Bryn Mawr College

"Cruising Rome: Queer Orientations in Ovid's Ars Amatoria"

Jan. 27

Asya Sigelman
Bryn Mawr College

This Classics Colloquium will take place at the Community College of Philadelphia. Looking ahead to our joint production of James Ijames' Medea, Asya Sigelman will be in conversation with CCP Professor of English Kathleen Murphey on the subjects of myth, Medea, and Greek tragedy in general.

The Classics Colloquium Tea will be held at the usual time and place, at 4 pm in the Quita Woodward Room at Bryn Mawr College.

Feb. 3

Marcus Folch
Columbia University

"Prison before Race: Classical Athens and the History of Incarceration"

Feb. 10

Yasmin Haskell
University of Western Australia; Institute for Advanced Study

"Ludus Iesu: Latin Poetry, Play and Team Spirit in the Early Modern Jesuit Classroom"

Feb. 17

C. Densmore Curtis Lecture 2023
presented by the graduate students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

Marc van de Mieroop
Columbia University

“Before and After Babel: What happened when people stopped writing cuneiform and used other scripts instead?”

Feb. 24

Carman Romano
Bryn Mawr College

"A Theology of Ψ: The Orphic Hymns as/in a Collection"

March 17

Helen Morales
University of California, Santa Barbara

‘Sacrifice, solidarity, and survival in Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding’s opera ...(Iphigenia), and the art of Harmonia Rosales’

March 24

SPEAC Conference: Building Bodies: Investigating Bodies in the Ancient Mediterranean

Keynote Address by
Debby Sneed, California State University, Long Beach

"Technology and the Limits of the Human Body in Archaic Greece"

*Via Zoom in Carpenter Library B21 at 4:00 pm

Click here to register.

Following a successful first conference, Bryn Mawr College’s SPEAC (Students Promoting Equity in Archaeology and Classics) is happy to announce their second biennial research conference, to be held virtually. As a group, they are dedicated to amplifying the voices of academically marginalized and underrepresented communities (including but not limited to, BIPOC, FGLI, disabled, and LGBTQ+ scholars) in the fields of Classical Studies, Classical Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (broadly conceived).

March 31

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

Victoria Wohl
University of Toronto

"Paratactic Politics: Anaxagoras and the Things"

April 14

Mario Telò
University of California, Berkeley

"Medea's Marine Mother: Reading Alice Diop's Saint Omer"

April 21

Jessica Lamont
Yale University

"New Work on Ancient Greek Magic"

Fall 2022 Classics Colloquia

Sept. 2

Welcome Back Tea

Join Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies for a Classics Colloquium Welcome Back Tea to meet new faculty and students and enjoy some delicious snacks!

Sept. 9

"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.