Departmental Lecture Series
2009/2010 – Semester I, Fall 2009 Schedule
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Departmental Lecture
Encolpius and Priapus: The Two Poems at Sat. 133.3 and 139.2 and Priapus' Role in the Satyrica
Aldo Setaioli (University of Perugia)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Departmental Lecture
Was Plato a Fundamentalist?
Wolfgang Bernard (University of Rostock, Germany)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Departmental Lecture
Pursuing Nemesis: Cratinus and Mythological Comedy
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Lecture
A Remote Central Place: Delphi as a Window onto the Classical World
John Davies (Liverpool University)
Salomon 001, Main Green
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Departmental Lecture
Imagined Biographies and Unwritten Readings: Authors and Texts in Premodern Indian Literatures
V. Narayana Rao (University of Wisconsin)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Departmental Lecture
Talking to Posterity: Cicero's Speeches as Text and Performance
James Zetzel (Columbia University)
List Art 110, 64 College St.
Monday, November 16, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Departmental Lecture
The Cultural Dimensions of Cicero’s Academici Libri
Ermanno Malaspina (University of Turin)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Thursday, December 3, 12:00 pm
Departmental Lecture
Mythopoiesis in a Fallen World: Catullus 64 and the Impossibility of Narrative Reliability
Jeri DeBrohun (Brown University)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Monday, December 7, 8:00 pm
Latin Carol Celebration
First Baptist Meeting House, 75 North Main St.
Related events:
Brown-Yale Classics faculty/graduate student meeting, at Yale, Thursday, October 29
(paper by Deborah Boedeker, "Harems and Harridans? Gender Relations in Herodotus' Persian Courts"; comment by Emily Greenwood)
CRAM discussions (at noon, Annmary Brown Memorial) [pre-circulated papers]
September 22, October 20, November 19, December 8, February 16, 2010, March 16, 2010, April 20, 2010
Sanskrit Conference on Epic Philosophy, April 9-11, 2010
Ancient Studies conference,
"The Gift in Antiquity," May 2-4, 2010
2008/2009 – Semester II, Spring 2009 Schedule
Monday, January 26, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Departmental Lecture
Metaphor in Senecan Philosophy
Shadi Bartsch (Brown University)
Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, reception to follow
Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Departmental Lecture
Happiness and "Attaining Happiness": Eudaimonism in the Light of Stoic Ontology
Marcelo Boeri (University of the Andes, Santiago, Chile; visiting scholar at Brown)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Monday, February 23, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
The Early History of Law: A Theoretical Essay
Raymond Westbrook (Johns Hopkins University)
MacMiillan Hall, Room 117, reception to follow
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Departmental Lecture
Livy’s Periochae
Jane Chaplin (Middlebury College)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Departmental Lecture
A Tale of Two Colonies in Roman Spain: Augusta Emerita (Mérida) and Metellinum (Medellín)
Jonathan Edmondson (York University, Toronto)
Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106
(Professor Edmondson will also talk Wednesday, March 11, 3:00-5:20, in John Bodel's epigraphy seminar: 48 College St., Room 101)
Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Medieval Studies Lecture, co-sponsored by Classics
From Persia to the Provence: Tales of Love in Byzantium and Beyond
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
Annmary Brown Memorial, Middle Gallery
March 31, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Comparative Literature Lecture, co-sponsored by Classics
What Might We Learn from al-Farabi about Plato and Aristotle with Respect to Lawgiving?
Charles Butterworth (University of Maryland)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Departmental Lecture
Lavinia's Pallor
Jay Reed (University of Michigan)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Brown-Yale Meeting
Lucilius Remade: The Afterlife of Satire's First Scoundrels
Kirk Freudenburg (Yale University)
Respondent: Shadi Bartsch (Brown University)
Faculty Club, One Magee Street. Limited to Classics and Archaeology faculty and graduate students
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Departmental Lecture
Women in Roman Private Legal Documents
Éva Jakab (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Departmental Lecture
Jurisdiction in Archaic Gortyn and Athens
Gerhard Thür (Universities of Graz and Vienna, Austria)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Monday, April 20, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Departmental Lecture
Socrates Unconventional Eros
Tomáš Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting scholar at Brown)
Macfarlane 101, 48 College St.
Related events:
CRAM seminars (Thursdays at 12 pm, Annmary Brown Memorial)
3/5 (Khalek), 4/9 (Boedeker), 4/23 (Bowes, Cornell Univ.), 5/7 (Satlow)
4/27, 12:00-4:30 pm: Assyriology Symposium: "The King and the Gods: The Interplay of Power, Propaganda, Scholarly Learning, and Religion in Ancient Assyria"
2008/2009 – Semester I, Fall 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Colloquium, shared by the Department of Religious Studies
Of Stewards and Mongeese, Storks, and Dogs: The Multiform Construction of the Dharma-King in the
Mahābhārata
James Fitzgerald (Brown University)
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Seminar
The Kallias Decrees
Charles Fornara (Brown University)
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Brown-Yale Meeting
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Athens and the Persian Empire in the 5th Century BCE
Kurt A. Raaflaub (Brown University)
Victor Bers (Yale University)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Departmental Lecture
Zenon of Rhodes and the Rhodian View of their Past
Ulrich Wiemer (University of Giessen, Henkel Visiting Fellow)
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Departmental Lecture
Solon's Political Imagery
Markus Dubischar (Lafayette College)
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Departmental Lecture, co-sponsored by the AIA and the Joukowsky Institute
Ulixes Redux: Why the Itaki of Today is Homer's Ithaca
George Huxley (Trinity College, Dublin)
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
Livia's Hands: Problems in the Representation of Kinship in Roman Art
Natalie Kampen (Columbia University)
Friday, November 7, 2008
Departmental Lecture
Debating the Past: Late Classical Views of Interstate Relations in the Fifth Century
Julia Wilker (Freie Universität Berlin, Visiting Scholar at Harvard)
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Departmental Lecture
Sophocles the Sophist
Ineke Sluiter (University of Leiden)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Departmental Lecture
Hera in the Iliad
David Wray (University of Chicago)
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Politics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman
Dimitri El Murr (Université Paris, Sorbonne)
Commentator: Christine J. Thomas (Dartmouth College)
Monday, December 8, 2008
Departmental Special Event
Latin Carol Celebration
Related event:
December 12-14, 2008
Ancient Studies Conference, co-sponsored by Classics
Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World
2007/2008 – Semester II, Spring 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Departmental Lecture
Persius's Poetic 'Corpus': Indigestion and Its Remedies in Satires
Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago)
Monday, February 4, 2008
Departmental Lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
Silius Italicus in the Renaissance
Frances Muecke (University of Sydney)
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Departmental Lecture
Omnia iam vulgata: Poetry and Power in Virgil and Others
Jay Reed (University of Michigan)
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Departmental Lecture, co-sponsored by the Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World
Art as Plunder: Then and Now
Margaret Miles (University of California, Irvine)
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Departmental Lecture
Refoundation at Rome
Michèle Lowrie (New York University)
Monday, March 3, 2008
Departmental Lecture
Fighting for Troy: The Aeneid, the Odyssey, and the Iliadic Aftermath
Edan Dekel (Williams College)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
A Medieval Circle Lecture, co-sponsored by Classics
Impotent Intellects: Sexual Invective and Intellectual Criticism in Claudian and Ausonius
Bret Mulligan (Haverford College)
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Brown-Yale Meeting
The Romans and Ritual Murder
Celia Schultz (Yale University)
Response: John Bodel (Brown University)
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Departmental Lecture, co-sponsored by the Joukowsky Institute for
Archaeology and the Ancient World
The Cults of Amphipolis: Religious Life as Evidence on the Identity and
Self-Perception of an Ancient Greek City
Manuela Mari (University of Cassino, Italy)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Departmental Lecture
Perikles' Citizenship Law: A New Solution to an Old Problem
Josine Blok (University of Utrecht, Holland)
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Michael Putnam's Valedictory Lecture
Sannazaro's Ekphrastic Vision
Michael Putnam (Brown University)
Related events:
March 7-9, 2008
Ancient Studies Conference, co-sponsored by Classics
Sixty Years After: Reconsidering The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
May 15-17, 2008
Symposium and Workshop
Second International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium and
Sanskrit Library Workshop