Departmental Lecture Series
Please consult the full schedule for more information.
Semester Schedule
January 31, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Departmental Lecture
Persius's Poetic 'Corpus': Indigestion and Its Remedies in the Satires
Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago)
Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St.
February 4, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Departmental Lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
Silius Italicus in the Renaissance
Frances Muecke (University of Sydney)
Seminar Room 102, 48 College St.
February 12, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Departmental Lecture
Omnia iam vulgata: Poetry and Power in Virgil and Others
Joseph Reed (University of Michigan)
Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St.
February 14, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Departmental Lecture, co-sponsored by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaelogy and the Ancient World
Art as Plunder: Then and Now
Margaret Miles (University of California, Irvine)
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
February 21, 2008 at 12 noon
Departmental Lecture
Refoundation at Rome
Michèle Lowrie (New York University)
Petteruti Lounge, Faunce House, 75 Waterman St.
March 3, 2008
Departmental Lecture
Fighting for Troy: The Aeneid, the Odyssey, and the Iliadic Aftermath
Edan Dekel (Williams College)
Smith-Buoanno 106, Meeting St., Pembroke Campus
March 7-9, 2008
Ancient Studies Conference
Sixty Years After: Reconsidering The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer Street
Information: www.Brown.edu/Departments/Ancient_Studies
March 11, 2008 at 5:30 pm
A Medieval Circle Lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Impotent Intellects: Sexual Invective and Intellectual Criticism in Claudian and Ausonius
Bret Mulligan (Haverford College)
Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St.
April 4-6, 2008
Ancient Studies and Joukowsky Institute Conference
Highways and Byways in the Ancient World
Information: www.Brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute
April 8, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Brown-Yale Meeting (limited to faculty and graduate students)
The Romans and Ritual Murder
Celia Schultz (Yale University)
Comments: John Bodel (Brown University)
Faculty Club, 1 Magee St.
April 22, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Departmental Lecture, co-sponsored by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaelogy 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)
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
April 23, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Departmental Lecture
Perikles' Citizenship Law: A New Solution to an Old Problem
Josine Blok (University of Utrecht, Holland)
Seminar Room 102, 48 College St.
April 29, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Michael Putnam's Valedictory Lecture
Sannazaro's Ekphrastic Vision
Michael Putnam (Brown University)
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