Events and Outreach

Mar 27, 2025 - Yvonna Trnka-Amrhein & John Gibert (Colorado): Unraveling Tragedies: Translating new lines from Euripides’ lost plays (Polyidus and Ino on an Egyptian papyrus fragment).

Mar 3, 2025 – Molly Swetnam-Burland (Wes ’95), William & Mary: Behind the Scenes at the Palace: Working for the Roman Emperor.

Feb 16, 2024 – Robert O’Meally (Columbia): Time to Get Back to the Water: Romare Bearden’s Odyssey Blues.

Apr 6, 2023 – Rhodessa Jones & Angela Wilson, The Medea Project: Once Upon a Time in a Place Called Now: Whose Classics?

Nov 3, 2022 – David Halperin (Michigan): How Queer Were the Greeks? How Queer Are We

Nov 21, 2019 – Donna Zuckerberg (Eidolon): Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age.

Sep 19, 2019 – Mark Babej & William Wylie: Urban Space, Roman Couture and a Living Past: Views of Pompeii and Pantheon.

Apr 11, 2019 – Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison): Race and Environment from Hippocrates to the Smithsonian.

Nov 29, 2018 – Joy Connolly (CUNY): Migrancy as Theme and Ethic in Late Republican Roman Literature.

Nov 8, 2018 – James Romm (Bard): OCEAN in Greek and Roman Myth and Thought.

Mar 8, 2018 – Johanna Hanink (Brown): “Fake Olds”: History and Alternative Facts in Classical Athens.

Nov 11, 2017 – Zacharoula Petraki (U. Crete): Hideous Bodies and Deified Heroes.

Sep 28, 2017 – Joe Goodkin’s Odyssey (musical performance).

April 18, 2017 – Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University, "Late Antiquity and the Invention of Textuality".

February 16, 2017 – Maurizio Forte, Duke Digital Humanities Lab, "Archaeology of Etruscan Cities: The Vulci Project".

October 6, 2016 – Josiah Ober, Stanford University, "Demopolis: Political Participation and Civic Dignity, Ancient and Modern".

April 18, 2016 – Konstantinos Poulis, Athens, Greece, "Literature and Writers in Times of Crisis."

March 24, 2016 – Britta Ager, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, "Magic and Divine Visitations in Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche."

February 22, 2016 – Courtney Walsh and Rush Rehm, Stanford Univeristy, "Clytemnestra: Tangled Justice."

November 12, 2015 – Joanna Kenty ('08), University of New Hampshire, "Lysistrata in Liberia: Reading Aristophanes with Leymah Gbowee's 'Mighty Be Our Powers'."

October 30, 2015 – Madeline Goh, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, "Chariot Warfare in Homer."

May 6, 2015 – Zacharoula Petraki, University of Crete, "Painting the Ideal City in Plato's Republic."

February 26, 2015 – Jessica Clark (Wesleyan Classics and Archaeology 2002, Florida State University), "Winning Isn't Everything: The Moral Power of Defeat at Rome."

October 9, 2014 – Seth Schein, University of California, Davis, "War, What is it good for in Homer's Iliad and Four Receptions?"

March 26, 2014 – Peter Meineck, NYU, "The Face of Ancient Drama: Emotion, Empathy and the Masks of Greek Theatre."

March 5, 2014 – Brook Holmes, Princeton University, "Galen on the Chances of Life."

February 26, 2014 – J. Theodore Pena ('78), University of California, Berkeley, "Investigating the Life History of Objects at Pompeii."

November 14, 2013 – Thomas Martin, Holy Cross, "Reinventing God: Response to Inexplicable Defeat in Ancient Athens."

April 25, 2013 – Peter Struck, University of Pennsylvania, "Divination in the Ancient World: A Cognitive Approach."

April 9, 2013 – Jeremy Hartnett, Wabash College, "Listening to Pompeii: Hearing History in the Roman City."

February 20, 2013 – Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School, "What Can Ancient Gareece Teach Us About Contemporary Institutional Design?"

November 1, 2012 – Noah Messing, Yale Law School, "How Lawyers Write."

April 12, 2012 – Adreas Thomas Zanker, Harvard University, "Why Did the Romans Talk About Decline? Why Do We?"

November 17, 2011 – James Uden, Boston University, "The Images and Ideology of Childhood Education in Statius' Achilleid."

November 3, 2011 – Marcus Folch, Columbia University, "How to Kill a Prisoner: The Poetics of Bondage in Ancient Greece."

October 20, 2011 – Margaret Imber, Bates College, "Daughters, Whores and Anxious Fathers: The Function of Women in Roman Declamation."

November 4, 2010 – David Konstan, Boston University, "Lucretius and the Epicurean Attitude toward Grief."

April 8, 2010 – Helene Peet Foley, Barnard College, "How 19th- and Early 20th-Century Women Re-imagined Greek Tragedy for the U.S. Stage."

March 25, 2010 – Emily Allen Hornblower, Rutgers Unaiversity, "Metaphors of Pain in Ancient Greek Tragedy."

February 25, 2010 – Ann Hanson, Yale University, "Is there a Healer in the House? Therapies an Recipes from Greek and Roman Antiquity."

December 3, 2009 – Carol Dougherty, Wellesley College, "Ships, Walls, Men: Re-Solving the Riddle of the Athenian City."

November 11, 2009 – Dan Bahat, University of Toronto, "The Dead Sea Scrolls, Discovery and Meaning."

November 5, 2009 – Sarah Ruden, Yale Divinity School, "Coping with the Author as Other: A Pacifist Translating the Aeneid's War Scenes."

October 14, 2009 – Paul Woodruff, University of Texas, The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Compassion, and Comunity."