Colloquia and Events 2012/13

Department Sponsored Events for Fall 2012

"News from Abroad: Student Reports"

September 14

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"Temples, Walls and Agora: The Polis in Homer and History"

lecture by: Jim Marks
Center for Hellenic Studies and University of Florida

September 21

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"Tomb Robbers, Art Dealers and the Trafficking of Antiquities: Archaeology in 19th-century Greece"

lecture by: Ioannis Galanakis
Center for Hellenic Studies and Oxford Ashmolean

October 5

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"The Thesmophoria and Related Festivals of Moveable Objects"

lecture by: Ioanna Patera
Center for Hellenic Studies and Max Weber Kolleg

October 26

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"Perspectives on Archaic Greek Epigrams: towards a new commentary and literary study"

lecture by: Sara Kaczko
Center for Hellenic Studies and University of Rome

November 2

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"Achilles, Penthesileia and the killing of Thersites"

lecture by: Marco Fantuzzi
Institute for Advanced Study and Columbia University

November 9

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"The Necropoleis of Pergamon: Early Excavations and Recent Discoveries"

lecture by: Ute Kelp
Universität zu Köln

November 16

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"Risen from Ruins: The Rebuilding of Miletos and Athens in the Fifth Century B.C."

lecture by: Astrid Lindenlauf
Bryn Mawr College

November 30

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"Pity and Fear in the Tragic Chorus: Negotiating the Emotional Politics of Athenian Democracy"

lecture by: Eirene Visvardi
Center for Hellenic Studies and Wesleyan University

December 7

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Department Sponsored Events for Spring 2013

"The Unity of Time in Menander"

lecture by: Robert Germany
Haverford College

February 1

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"Providence in 'Middle' Platonism"

lecture by: George Boys-Stones
Institute for Advanced Study & Durham University

February 15

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"From Books with Magic to Magical Books in Ancient Greece and Rome"

lecture by: Jan Bremmer
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World & University of Groningen

February 22

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"The Embryology of Central Italian Cities: Recent Insights from Archaeology"

lecture by: Nicola Terrenato
Institute for Advanced Study & University of Michigan

March 1

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

"Augustus and the Genius Augusti"

lecture by: Harriet Flower
Princeton University

March 22

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"'Cave of the Heart': The Medea of Martha Graham and Isamu Noguchi"

lecture by: Ronnie Ancona
Hunter College

March 29

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"Greek Cults in a Conquered Land: Reassessing the Early Roman Presence in the Sanctuaries of Greece (146-44 BC)"

lecture by: Milena Melfi
Center for Hellenic Studies & University of Oxford

April 5

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

"From Mistakes to Masterpieces: Craft Apprenticeship in Classical Antiquity"

lecture by: Eleni Hasaki
University of Arizona

April 12

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"Poetry and Knowledge: Greek and Chinese Perspectives"

lecture by: Wei Zhang
Center for Hellenic Studies & Fudan University

April 19

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"Sacrifice and Supersessionism in Early Christianity"

lecture by: Philippa Townsend
Ursinus College

April 26