Department of Classics Lecture and Events Schedule, FALL 2011
Classics Department Lecture Series (6:30 PM in RI Hall 108 unless otherwise noted)
Thurs. Sept. 15 Marcus Folch (Columbia): “The Shackles that Bind Men Together: Imprisonment Before the Prison in Archaic and Classical Greece”
Thurs. Sept. 22 Tim Whitmarsh (Oxford): “Race, Intermarriage and Greek Literary History”
Thurs. Sept. 29 Nathan Arrington (Princeton): “Heroes, Generals, and the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens” (co-sponsored with the Joukowsky Institute)
Wed. Oct. 19 Michèle Brunet (Lyon 2): “Delos: Water in Country and Town” (co-sponsored with the Joukowsky Institute)
Mon. Nov. 7 (6pm) Christer Bruun (Toronto): “King Antiochus of Sicily and the Political Aims of the First Sicilian Slave Rebellion” Thurs. Nov. 10 Bob Ousterhout (Penn): “The Life and Afterlife of Constantine's Column”
(co-sponsored with the Joukowsky Institute and MEMS) Classics Special Events
Tues. Oct. 4 Annual Brown-Yale Meeting (at Yale)
Stratis Papaioannou: “Authorship in Byzantium”; respondent: Rob Nelson (Yale, Art History)
Oct. 13-15 Conference: “The Classics Renewed: New Approaches to Latin Poetry”
Organized by Joseph Pucci (Brown) and Scott McGill (Rice University)
More information at http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/late-latin-poetry-conf
Fri. Oct. 28 Mini-conference in conjunction with LATIN 1060H, “Julius Caesar: I came, I saw, I wrote”
Andrew Riggsby (UT Austin) (Title TBA), with Kurt Raaflaub (Brown respondent); organized by Lisa Mignone (Brown)
Sat. Nov. 12 Concert presented by Cappella Romana (Sayles Hall, 7pm)
“From Jerusalem to Constantinople: Byzantine Music for St. Catherine and Epiphany” Preceded by a lecture (at 4 pm) on Byzantine Music by Alexander Lingas (City University, London)
Mon. Dec. 5 Annual Latin Carol Service
8pm, First Baptist Church in America (75 North Main Street, Providence)
Department of Classics Lecture and Events Schedule, Spring 2012 Mon, Feb 13th Peter Agocs (Univ. of Cambridge) @ 5:30 in RI Hall 108 “Some Thoughts on Text and Texuality in early Greece” Mon & Tues, Feb 13th &14th Ancient Religion/Modern Tech in Petterutti Lounge Tues, Feb 14th CRAM , Johanna Hanink (Brown Univ.)@ noon in RI Hall 108 “The Great Dionysia of 404 BCE” Tues, Feb 28th Grimshaw Gudewicz: J. Strauss Clay (Univ. Of Virginia) @ 5:30 in MacMillian 117 “Mapping the Trojan Plain and Plotting the Greek Catalogue” Fri-‐ Sat March 2-‐3 Archaeology of Turkey: State of the Field 2012 in RI Hall Tues March 6th Andre Malta (Univ.Sao Paulo) @ noon in the Classics Seminar Room (MacFarlane) “ Dream, Reality, and Rhesus’ Death: Iliad 10.494-‐497” Thurs March 22nd Simon Goldhill (Cambridge Univ.) @ 5:30pm in in Salomon 001 “Breaking the Lyric Voice: Sophocles’ Choral Experiments” March 29th –Apr 1 The Amer. Comp Lit Association Conference @ Brown
Mon, April 2nd Charles Alexander Robinson Lecture: Nicholas Purcell (Oxford Univ.) @ 5:30 in Salomon 001 “Roman Diasporas and the Texture of Empire” Tues, April 3rd Margaret Mullett (Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks)) @ 5:30 in RI Hall 108 "'Tales Told in a Tent': Ephemeral Experiences under the Komnenoi" Mon, April 9th Christopher Stray (Institute of Classical Studies @ Univ. of London) @ 5:30 in RI Hall 108 “’Our Two Friends’: The Making and Remaking of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-‐English Lexicon” Friday-‐ Sunday April 13-‐15 W Scheidel (Stanford) and J. Bodel (Brown Univ.) Conference Location and Time: TBA “Being Nobody? Understanding Slavery Thirty Years After Slavery and Social Death” Thurs, April 19th Peter Fibiger Bang (Univ. of Copenhagen) @ 5:30 in Classics Seminar Room (MacFarlane) “Elephant of India” Fri, April 20th Liz Irwin (Columbia Univ.) @ noon in Classics Seminar Room Friday-‐ Saturday, April 27-‐28 SAMR Conference in RI Hall 108 Mon, April 30th Peter Struck (Univ. of Pennsylvania) @ 5:30 in RI Hall 108 “Divination in Augustine and Iamblichus” Tues, May 8th Batrice Caseau (Univ. Paris-‐Sorbonne, Paris IV) @ 5:30 in RI Hall 108 “Shaping the Body for God”