Events
All Classics Department events are free and open to the public.
- Upcoming 2009-10 Events
- FALL 2009
- August 27
1:00pm - Curriculum Meeting (Closed)- 951 Van Hise Hall
August 28
10:00am - Graduate Student Orientation - 951 Van Hise Hall
12:00pm - Graduate Student Welcome Luncheon - University Club (Invitation Only)
September 1
10:00am - Graduate Foreign Language Exams - 951 Van Hise Hall
September 3
2:30pm - Department Meeting (Open, Closed, & Exec) - 951 Van Hise Hall
September 17
Classics Lecture Series in celebration of the Year of the Humanities
"Art & Text in the Classical World" - H. Alan Shapiro
W.H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology
Johns Hopkins University
- "Refashioning Anakreon: Songs, Symposium, and Sexuality in the Age of Perikles"
5:00pm, Chazen Museum of Art L150
September 18
12:00pm - Professor Shapiro Brown Bag Discussion - 951 Van Hise Hall
"Votive Reliefs, Vases, and Anthenian Popular Religions"
Refreshments and Desserts will be provided, bring your own brown-bag lunch to enjoy!
October 1
2:30pm - Department Meeting (Open, Closed, & Exec) - 951 Van Hise Hall
October 2-3
Classics Graduate Student Colloquium
"To Hell with Everybody: Death, Dying, and the Underworld"
October 9
Pillinger Talk - Dr. Alex Dressler
Visiting Assitant Professor of Classics
- Cicero and Seneca on Politics and 'Art'
12:00pm - 1418 Van Hise Hall
October 15
Classics Lecture Series- Seth L. Schein
Professor of Classics & Comparative Literature
University of California, Davis
- "Celebrating Aphrodite: Divine and Human in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite"
5:30pm - 114 Van Hise
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October 16
Career Conversations
- Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer
Department of Classics
- "Preparing for the Job Market"
12:00pm - 1418 Van Hise Hall
October 23
Pillinger Talk - Alexander Hall
Department of Classics
- Simonides' Protagoras Fragment and the Problem of Didactic 'Genre'
12:00pm - 1418 Van Hise Hall
October 30
Pillinger Talk - Professor Marc Kleijwegt
Department of History
- "Boars, Thrushes, Dates and Acorns at Trimalchio's Dinner-party"
12:00pm - 1418 Van Hise Hall
November 5
Classics Lecture Series
- Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Professor of Greek & Latin
Ohio State University
- "Between Inspiration and Aesthetics: Apollonius, Callimachus and their Muses"
5:30pm - 114 Van Hise Hall
November 12
2:30pm - Department Meeting (Open, Closed, & Exec) - 951 Van Hise Hall
November 13
Career Conversations
- Kris Ehrhardt
Department of Classics
- Working the System: Using Library Resources in Your Research
12:00pm - 1418 Van Hise Hall
December 4
Pillinger Talk - Dr. Grant Nelsestuen
Visiting Assitant Professor of Classics
- "Overseeing Res Publica: Farmers and Slaves in Roman Political Thought"
12:00pm - 374 Van Hise Hall
December 10
2:30pm - Department Meeting (Open, Closed, & Exec) - 920 Van Hise Hall