Events
The Classics Department is pleased to sponsor events that bring together scholars and students interested in all aspects of the ancient world. Click on an event's title or the menu to the left for current and historical information about these events. Directions to Brown and the Classics Department are available.
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Lecture Series and Other Events:
Departmental Lecture Series: a regular series of lectures on original research in antiquity that brings to campus scholars from around the world. Events of interest are also presented by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, the Program in Ancient Studies the Department of Religious Studies, and the Department of Egyptology and West Asian Studies.
Kirk Lecture Series: Made possible by generous grants from the Kirk Foundation, this annual interdisciplinary lecture series in the Program in Ancient Studies examines a topic of broad interest involving the ancient world.
Conferences: the Department frequently presents conferences on ancient culture.
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture: an endowed, annual lecture delivered by a distinguished scholar on a topic of interest to the broad community of scholars, students, and community members at Brown.
Annual Yale-Brown Meeting: Inaugurated in the spring of 2004, with Michael C.J. Putnam delivering a lecture at Yale, this annual one-day event fosters ties between the Yale and Brown Classics Departments.
Latin Carol Celebration: Every December, the Department of Classics welcomes the general public (including hundreds of high school Latin students) to an all-Latin event that includes readings by the departmental faculty, a Latin review of the passing year, and carols galore. This popular event is held in the historic First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main Street, Providence. Admission is free; street parking is available; the event lasts a little more than an hour; all are welcome.
Cultures and Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium (CRAM): An informal interdisciplinary group of faculty and students from many departments and programs. CRAM meets monthly to discuss a precirculated work-in-progress paper.
Graduate Student Symposium: In the spring of 2004, the Classics Department, with the generous support of the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Foundation, inaugurated a forum for graduate students to present work in progress to the community of scholars studying the ancient world at Brown.
Mellon Ancient Studies Workshop: This Mellon workshop brings together graduate students from the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature, Egyptology, History of Mathematics, and Religious Studies who are conducting dissertation research related to the ancient world.
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Founded in 1978, the renowned B.A.C.A.P. lectures rotate around Boston area colleges and universities.
Brown Ancient Philosophy Reading Group: brings together faculty and students from Brown and neighboring institutions for intensive discussion of a philosophical text. Recent reading groups have examined: the Pre-Socratics; Plato, Republic Book 10. The Brown Ancient Philosophy Reading Group is meeting this term to read Aristotle's Parts of Animals Book I. The group meets every other Monday, 7-9 p.m. For further information on upcoming events, please contact Mary_Louise_Gill@brown.edu.
Boston Area Classics Calendar: The Department of the Classics at Harvard kindly maintains a list of Classics events in the greater Boston Area.