Each year, the Classics Department welcomes a number of international scholars to present lectures and host colloquia, contributing to the lively program of intellectual exchange. Feel fee to subscribe to our email list if you are interested in receiving announcements about our lectures and events.
Below is a list of the planned Classics lectures for the 2018-2019 academic year. Check back soon for more details on the lectures as plans are finalized. We hope you save the dates and are able to join us!
Fall 2018
Thursday, September 13, 2018, 12:00pm
Cultures & Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (CRAM)
Urartian Inscriptions in Late Antique and Medieval Armenia
Where: Rhode Island Hall, Room 008
Description: Paper by Felipe Rojas, JIAAW
Thursday, September 27, 2018, 5:30pm
Women In and Out of Time: Atalanta & Sappho
Where: Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Description: Lecture by Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College
Friday, October 5, 2018, 12:00pm
Classics Lunchtime Colloquium: Evander & the Invention of the History of Latium in Virgil's "Aeneid"
Where: Macfarlane House, Room 101
Description: Presentation by Sergio Casali, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 12:00pm
Cultures & Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (CRAM)
Conflict, Trauma, and the Formation of an Early Christian Identity
Where: Rhode Island Hall, Room 008
Description: Paper by Jonathan Conant, History
Thursday, October 18, 2018, 5:30pm
Civil War, Sovereignty, and the Poetic "State of Exception" in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
Where: Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Description: Lecture by Thomas Biggs, University of Georgia
Modern Greek Studies Lecture
Monday, October 22, 2018, 5:30pm
Fifty Shades of Blame: On Early Phanariot Invective
Where: Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Description: Lecture by Nikos Panou, Stony Brook University
Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 5:30pm
Michael C.J. Putnam Lecture
"The little of our earthly trust": Virgil's Aeneid and the Geography of Loss
Where: Friedman Hall, Room 208
Description: Lecture by Sarah Spence, Medieval Academy of America
Thursday, November 1, 2018, 5:30pm
"Race Mixing" & The Fall of Rome: The Role of Eugenics in Early Twentieth-Century Classical Scholarship
Where: Friedman Hall, Room 208
Description: Lecture by Denise Eileen McCoskey, Miami University
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 5:30pm
"This young man deserves special mention": John Wesley Gilbert at Brown University, 1886-1888
Where: Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Description: Lecture by John Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
Co-Sponsored with the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Monday, November 12, 2018, 5:30pm
Travelling with Portuguese Explorers: On a Critical Edition of Giovanni Pietro Maffei's "Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI"
Where: Annmary Brown Library
Description: Lecture by Leni Ribeiro Leite, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo
Co-Sponsored with the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 12:00pm
Cultures & Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (CRAM)
From an Imperial Family to an Imperial College: Family Portraits on Roman Central Coinage, 138-284 CE.
Where: Rhode Island Hall, Room 008
Description: Paper by Sam Caldis, History/Classics
Modern Greek Studies Lecture
Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 5:30pm
Macdedonian Question: The Trap of History and the Recent Greece-FYROM Agreement
Where: Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Description: Lecture by Kostis Karpozilos, Director, Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI), Athens
Thursday, November 15, 2018, 5:30pm
Aristotle on the Value of Comedy
Where: Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Description: Lecture by Pierre Destrée, University of Louvain & Princeton, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Friday, November 16, 2018, 12:00pm
Classics Lunchtime Colloquium: TITLE TBD
Where: Macfarlane House, Room 101
Description: Presentation by Leni Ribeiro Leite, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo
Monday, December 3, 2018, 8:00pm
71st Annual Latin Carol Celebration
Where: First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main Street, Providence, RI
Description: Every December, on the second Monday following Thanksgiving, the Department of Classics hosts its annual program of readings and songs in the spirit of the season, conducted entirely in Latin (with some readings in Greek and Sanskrit). English translations of the readings are provided for those whose spoken Latin may be a little rusty.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 12:00pm
Cultures & Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (CRAM)
Late Antique Collegia: Epigraphic Culture and Social History in Roman Salona
Where: Rhode Island Hall, Room 008
Description: Paper by Dora Ivanisevic, Classics/Religious Studies
Spring 2019
Wednesday, March 19, 2019, 5:30pm
Classics Lecture
Where: Rhode Island Hall, Room 108 (tentative)
Description: Lecture by Ellen Finkelpearl, Scripps College
April 1, 2019, 5:30pm
Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Memorial Lecture
Where: TBD
Description: Lecture by Maurizio Bettini, University of Siena
Past Lectures & Events (2018-2019)
Summer 2018
Classical Association of New England Summer Institute
Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106
Monday, July 9-14, 2018
"Empires Ancient & Modern: Reactions to Imperial Power from Athens to the Americas"
The Classical Association of New England (CANE) and Brown's Department of Classics invite you to join us for the 2018 CANE Summer Institute public lecture series! The CANE Summer Institute is a week long event that provide a unique and rich opportunity for teachers and students of the Classics -- as well as other disciplines -- from all levels. Whether you are a high school or college teacher of Latin and/or Greek, History, English, the Arts, or other related disciplines, an undergraduate or graduate student, or a devoted lifelong learner, you will enjoy this thoughtful and enriching experience.
Additional information about the times and topics of each daily lecture can be found on the CANE website.