Grimshaw-Gudewicz Lecture
"The Lion in the Path"
Hunter Rawlings, Cornell University
When: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 5:30 pm
Where: RI Hall 108
Description: A discussion of of the State of Humanities and the Academy
Andrew Laird, University of Warwick
When: Thursday, April 25, 2013, 5:30 pm
Where: Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
Jas' Elsner, Oxford/University of Chicago
When: Friday, May 3rd 5:30 PM
Where: RI Hall 108
Description: A Graduate International Colloquium sponsored by the Office of International Affairs, the Departments of Comparative Literature, Classics, Religious Studies, and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Past events from spring 2013
"The Kalinjar Fort and the Religious History of North India"
When: Monday, January 28, 2013 @ 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street
Description: "The Kalinjar Fort and the Religious History of North India" An illustrated lecture reporting new finds from manuscripts and fieldwork
*Sponsored by the Brown India Initiative and hosted by the Brown University Department of Classics
"Pericles the 'Moderate'?"
When: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 @ 5:30pm
Where: RI Hall 108
Description: Lecture given by Loren (Jay) Samons II, Boston University
"A polis of priests? Ptolemaic priestly decrees and the politics of translation"
When: Monday, February 4, 2013 @ 5:30pm
Where: RI Hall 108
Description: Lecture given by Ian Moyer, University of Michigan
CRAM
When: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 @ noon
Where: RI Hall 008
Description: “Roman Teamsters: muliones (muleteers) and the (dis)organization of transport in the Roman empire” Lecture given by John Bodel, Brown University
"How to protect your grave – Funerary Inscriptions in Greco-Roman Asia Minor"
When: Thursday, February 14, 2013 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, 60 George Street
Description: Lecture given by Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Center for Ancient World Studies
“Strategies for Putting Together and Delivering a Lecture”
When: Friday, February 15, 2013 @ noon
Where: Macfarlane House, Room 101, 48 College Street
Description: A pedagogical professional development workshop with Kurt Raaflaub, Stratis Papaioannou, and Lisa Mignone
" The New Economies of Ancient Athens: financial and institutional change
in the Hellenistic polis"
When: Thursday, February 21, 2013 5:30 P.M.
Where: List 110, 64 College Street
Description: Lecture given by Graham Oliver, The University of Liverpool
“Preserving or forging the past? Delphic monuments and 'documents' in ancient literature”
When: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 @ 5:30pm
Where: RI Hall 108
Description: Lecture given by Manuela Mari, University of Cassino
When: March 12, 2013, @ noon
Where: RI Hall 008
Description: "The Despotic Template: Authority, Politics and Religion in Ancient Greek and Hebrew Political Thought" Lecture given by Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University
When: Thursday, March 14, 2013 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: SmithB 106
Description: Lecture given by James Uden, Boston University. A look at Juvenal's eighth satire, on virtue as 'the only true nobility', in the light of similar arguments by contemporary Greek intellectuals. The poem uses Cicero and Seneca as moral examples, and alludes closely to their ideas, but its argument also shares intriguing similarities with texts by Greek sophists and philosophers closer to Juvenal's time, such as Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom and Favorinus. What emerges is a broader cultural competition, in a vibrantly multicultural Rome, between different concepts of genealogy
When: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:00 PM (noon) - 1:00 PM
Where: MacFarlane 101 (Seminar Room)
Description: Lecture given by Martin Devecka, Visiting Lecturer, Brown University.
Forty-Seventh Annual Charles Alexander Robinson Lecture
"Apuleius the Provincial"
Alessandro Barchiesi, Stanford University
When: Monday, April 8, 2013 @ 5:30pm
Where: SmithB 106
Description: There is wide agreement that the rise of the modern novel has something to do with the idea of the 'provincial' - a way of life, a style, a representation of space and national identity, a mediation between centers and peripheries. The novel of Apuleius, The Metamorphoses, is a rare example of a work from Classical antiquity that develops an approach to a 'provincial' identity, and addresses the relationship between centers and provinces (a concept different from 'margins' or 'peripheries'). In this respect, the Latin novel of Apuleius is one of the very few texts that can be assessed as 'Imperial literature' in a sense that goes beyond mere periodization or chronology.'
CRAM
When: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 @ noon
Where: RI Hall 008
Description: "Diodoros Siculous and the Hellenistic Mind" Lecture given by Ken Sacks, Brown University
Graduate International Colloquium
Jesus and Ritual Purity in the Apostolic Literature and in the Qur'an
When: Thursday, April 18, 2013 @ 6:30pm
Where: RI Hall 108
Description: Holger Zellentin, University of Nottingham
A Graduate International Colloquium sponsored by the Office of International Affairs, the Departments of Comparative Literature, Classics, Religious Studies, and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
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