Colloquia and Events 2024/2025

 

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