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Semi-Annual Yale/Brown Meetings

Inaugurated in the spring of 2004, with Michael C.J. Putnam delivering a lecture at Yale, these annual one-day events foster ties between the Yale and Brown Classics Departments.

Forthcoming Meeting

Thursday, October 29, 2009, at Yale University
Deborah Boedeker, Brown University
Harems and Harridas? Gender Relations in Herodotus' Persian Courts
Respondent: Emily Greenwood, Yale University

Past Meetings

Thursday, April 9, 2009, at Brown University
Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University
Lucilius Remade: The Afterlife of Satire's First Scoundrels
Respondent: Shadi Bartsch, Brown University

Thursday, October 2, 2008, at Yale University
Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Athens and the Persian Empire in the 5th Century BCE"
Respondent: Victor Bers, Yale University

Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at Brown University
Celia Schultz, Yale University
"The Romans and Ritual Murder"
Respondent: John Bodel, Brown University

Tuesday, October 16, 2007, at Yale University
Susan Alcock, Brown University
"Looking at Ararat: Archaeologies of a Mountain"
Respondent: Milette Gaifman, Yale University

Tuesday, September 26, 2006, at Brown University
Joseph Solodow, Yale University
"The Author in His Text: Three Firsts in Roman Literature"
Respondent: Jeri DeBrohun, Brown University

Thursday, April 6, 2006, at Yale University
Adele Scafuro, Brown University
"Athenian Decrees for Trial in Literary and Epigraphic Documents"
Respondent: Victor Bers

Tuesday, September 27, 2005, at Brown University
Ann Hanson, Yale University
"Hippocratics, Galen, and Pseudo-Galen on When a Fetus Becomes a Potentially Living Creature"
Respondent: Mary Louise Gill, Brown University

Thursday, April 7, 2005, at Yale University
Joseph Pucci, Brown University
"Ancient Diction and the Memory of Language in Auagustine's Confessions"
Respondent: Joseph Solodow, Yale University

Thursday, September 30, 2004, at Brown University
John Matthews, Yale University
"History in Lists"
"Respondent: John Bodel, Brown University

Thursday, April 8, 2004, at Yale University
Michael C. J. Putnam, Brown University
"Virgil and Tibullus 1.1: Two Versions of Pastoral"
Respondent: Susanna Braund, Yale University