BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//https://classics.washington.edu//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.41.90// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:35303031-3936-4162-b531-643561656439 X-WR-RELCALID:7663eb4b-c942-4b71-ba05-45eecb92b950 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-CALNAME:Subscribe to this calendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles TZUNTIL:20280312T100000Z BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20241103T020000 RDATE:20251102T020000 RDATE:20261101T020000 RDATE:20271107T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20250309T020000 RDATE:20260308T020000 RDATE:20270314T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:66020202-cb26-4282-a4ae-84f6f7008b35 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Student Activities CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240119T205924Z DESCRIPTION:Join some of this year's senior essay and senior thesis writers for an informal discussion of their research in a round table format. \nA ll are welcome to attend and celebrate their work! Reception will follow i n Denny Hall.  \nTo attend by Zoom\, please pre-register here.\nQuestions? Please email clasdept@uw.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240531T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240601T000000 LAST-MODIFIED:20240524T172925Z LOCATION:Denny (DEN) 112 and Zoom SUMMARY:: Undergraduate Senior Essay Symposium TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-05-31/undergraduate-senior- essay-symposium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b5ee4f9f-fd95-445c-a805-04008adf2d38 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20231011T223650Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda \n\nApproval of minutes\nAnnouncements\nLaura Harris’ di ssertation prospectus\nDiscussion of departmental bylaws\nReport from the DEI committee\nOld/New business\nAdjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240604T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240605T000000 LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T184658Z LOCATION:Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-06-04/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f06b4e27-8b13-45b9-b063-39ec37d55ea1 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Special Events CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20231120T193201Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240607T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240608T000000 LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T184207Z LOCATION:DEN 303 SUMMARY:: 2024 Classics Graduation Celebration TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-06-07/2024-classics-graduat ion-celebration END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d2df9c7a-49dd-4ae9-bee2-35b1ef9a9143 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20231011T223750Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda:\n\n\n Approval of minutes\n Announcements\n Calendar of 20 25 faculty meetings\n Discussion of anonymous voting on personnel matters\n Revisiting the Greek and Latin PhD reading lists\n Report from the DEI comm ittee\n Old/New business\n Adjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241001T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241002T000000 LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T232745Z LOCATION:Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-10-01/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ba3e65e8-66d2-4a70-be2c-fe30d6dadc9d DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Student Activities CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240910T170310Z DESCRIPTION:Are you a Classics major or minor\, or are just interested in C lassics? Join us for lunch and an introduction to opportunities and resour ces in the Department of Classics available to undergraduates! Please regi ster here by Wednesday\, October 16th.  DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241018T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T191903Z LOCATION:Meg Greenfield Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Undergraduate Pizza Lunch TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-10-18/undergraduate-pizza-l unch END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f397b66c-ceca-440c-8be7-1045a52edfdb DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240910T215903Z DESCRIPTION:Classical Athens is widely known for being the birthplace of de mocracy\, a political system in which any free male could participate in t he governing of the city-state. Yet this democratic system excluded a rang e of individuals from citizenship\, including women\, slaves\, and immigra nts. This talk will explore the archaeological evidence for one of these g roups: immigrants\, including both Greeks from other city-states and non-G reeks such as Phoenicians or Egyptians. Despite coming from a range of pla ces around the Mediterranean and Black Seas\, all of these immigrants all died in Athens and were laid to rest in one of the city’s cemeteries. The archaeological evidence of these burials will be used to tell the stories of some of these immigrants\, including a man from the island of Chios\, a young girl from the island of Lesbos\, and a community from the region of Messenia. By re-creating these ancient funerals\, this talk sheds light o n the lived experience of migrants and centers them as agents rather than “victims” of the Athenian state.\n\nPre-register for the zoom link here. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T215842Z LOCATION:UW campus DEN 112 and zoom SUMMARY:: Living and Dying as an Immigrant in Classical Athens TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-10-25/living-and-dying-immi grant-classical-athens END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2529d1c1-ef56-40a0-8394-f37b9de81ad2 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, AIA Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240722T202004Z DESCRIPTION:Nearly 300 years before the establishment of Alexandria\, Egypt was home to communities of Greeks\, as well as Carians\, Cypriots\, and P hoenicians\, who settled in the Nile Delta. Some would have arrived as mer cenaries in the services of the Egyptian Pharaoh\, while others arrived as traders who took advantage of the Nile Delta as a gateway between Egypt a nd the wider Mediterranean world. This talk explores these communities at sites including Memphis\, Naukratis\, and Tell Defenneh\, where these migr ants lived\, traded\, worshipped\, and buried their dead. The archaeologic al evidence reveals how individuals from different cultures around the Med iterranean fused seemingly different traditions and practices to negotiate these multicultural spaces.\n\nTo register for the zoom link\, click here . DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241026T153000 LAST-MODIFIED:20240915T222206Z LOCATION:Denny 112 and on zoom SUMMARY:: Merchants and Mercenaries Greeks in Egypt in the Late Period TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-10-26/merchants-and-mercena ries-greeks-egypt-late-period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a61ac161-00e7-4e3b-a02d-4272229c287f DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240724T141613Z DESCRIPTION:Professor Gruen will address the age-old issue of the roots of antisemitism in antiquity and the degree to which it may have arisen in th e Jewish experience in the Greek and Hellenistic worlds. The presentation offers a brief resumé of scholarship on the subject over the ages and then it explores the principal events and texts that are regularly taken as ev idence of Hellenic hostility toward Jews: the harsh literary depictions of Jews by Greek and Greco-Egyptian writers\, the notorious persecution in J erusalem ordered by the Greco-Syrian king\, Antiochus IV\, leading to the Maccabean uprising\, and the horrific 'pogrom' in the Greek city of Alexan dria that threatened to wipe out the large Jewish community in that city. \n\nPreregister for the Zoom link here: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting /register/tJctdeuvrTMjGdJ2sJ0MInBOxhK…\n\nCo-sponsored by the Stroum Cente r for Jewish Studies. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T180000 LAST-MODIFIED:20241013T141729Z LOCATION:DEN 112 and Zoom SUMMARY:: Were the Ancient Greeks Responsible for Antisemitism TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-10-29/were-ancient-greeks-r esponsible-antisemitism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:12882a07-a67b-4b4b-a523-0b05c24c0737 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lunchtime Colloquiums CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241031T203000Z DESCRIPTION:One of a series of informal Lunchtime Colloquia regularly held in the Department of Classics. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241031T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241031T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20241031T203301Z LOCATION:DEN 257\, Meg Greenfield Room SUMMARY:: Sapphic Biographies in Baudelaire s Lesbos TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-10-31/sapphic-biographies-b audelaire-s-lesbos END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f612d049-c3e9-4b7a-93a2-f0d0b3f7f722 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20231011T223836Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda\n\n1.    Approval of minutes\n2.    Announcements\n3.    College budget update\n4.    Vote on Department Retention Policy\n5.    L auryn Hanley’s prospectus\n6.    Discussion/vote on departmental bylaws\n7 .    Report from the DEI committee\n8.    Old/New business \n9.    Adjourn ment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241105T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241106T000000 LAST-MODIFIED:20241101T204326Z LOCATION:Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-11-05/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5b5f4854-b36f-4f3c-86d6-e89436cd694f DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240724T143405Z DESCRIPTION:One of the understudied topics in Vergilian scholarship has bee n slaves and slavery in the Aeneid. This paper seeks to fill that void by examining where and how Vergil includes enslaved persons in his narrative. Re-centering the focus on slaves in the Aeneid reveals they are far more prevalent and integral to the narrative than generally recognized. Depicti ons of slavery in the Aeneid reflect a blend of the epic tradition and con temporary realities. Shining the spotlight on the slaves brings new attent ion to them\, shows that they play critical roles in the poem\, and raises larger issues of the place of slaves in ancient Rome.\n\nPreregister for the Zoom link here: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsdOurqz wtGdMRa57vpo-ZivB… DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T200849Z LOCATION:Denny 212 and Zoom SUMMARY:: Slaves and Slavery in Vergil s Aeneid TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-11-15/slaves-and-slavery-ve rgil-s-aeneid END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1ba357b8-e903-4461-b181-c960144cd730 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240911T154153Z DESCRIPTION:Weaving and the production of textiles have often been read in contemporary feminist criticism of ancient Greek and Latin epic poetry as metaphors for female creativity and poetic composition or narration and as channels for the female voice\, providing a feminine counterpart to the m ale-authored text. The “voice of the shuttle” has become a symbol for fema le agency\, empowerment\, and resistance\, particularly in the face of the sexual violence that pervades the genre. In this lecture\, Prof. Hu exami nes the implications of textiles and textile metaphors for narration in Hy psipyle’s narrative of her rape in Statius’s Thebaid\, showing how they fu nction to (re)produce\, both in Statius’s text and in scholarly interpreta tions of Statius’s text\, the power dynamics at the core of sexual violenc e narratives. \n\nPlease register at https://forms.gle/HoyL49dLzxTAkaMz9 t o receive the URL to attend the lecture virtually\, via zoom. You will rec eive the URL by email. And if you want to attend by person\, please do so. It is in ETC 208\, on the Reed College campus. Please direct any question s to Nigel Nicholson at nnichols@reed.edu. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T203000 LAST-MODIFIED:20241011T181413Z LOCATION:Zoom SUMMARY:: Hypsipyle s Voice of the Shuttle Narrating and Reading Rape in St atius s nbsp Thebaid nbsp CAPN Fall Talk TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-11-21/hypsipyle-s-voice-shu ttle-narrating-and-reading-rape-statius-s-nbsp-thebaid-nbsp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ebf79a03-85ae-4646-94e6-563b50000f5c DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20231011T223934Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda:\n\n\n Approval of minutes\n Announcements\n Revising the P hD reading lists: next steps\n Report from the DEI committee\n Old/New busin ess \n Adjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241203T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241204T000000 LAST-MODIFIED:20241127T173117Z LOCATION:Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-12-03/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d324e995-07ce-45e8-b513-eea2556b695b DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lunchtime Colloquiums CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241119T004319Z DESCRIPTION:One of a series of informal Lunchtime Colloquia regularly held in the Department of Classics DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241205T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241205T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20241120T020240Z LOCATION:zoom SUMMARY:: Repeating Nymphs and Repeating Trauma Queer Time and the Narrativ e Structure of the nbsp Metamorphoses TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-12-05/repeating-nymphs-and- repeating-trauma-queer-time-and-narrative-structure-nbsp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:88937e7a-3493-4d21-9b59-efeaf01239b4 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lunchtime Colloquiums CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241119T004900Z DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Clark presents ''They Prayed to Become Her Sheep': Rea ding Eroticized Animals and Servitium Amoris in Daphnis and Chloe' and Cat Chase presents 'The Visual Properties of Water in Statius' Silvae 2.3.' O ne of a series of informal Lunchtime Colloquia regularly held in the Depar tment of Classics. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241210T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241210T140000 LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T220213Z LOCATION:Zoom SUMMARY:: Double Header Reading Eroticized Animals and The Visual Propertie s of Water nbsp TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2024-12-10/double-header-reading -eroticized-animals-and-visual-properties-water-nbsp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e18865a7-096d-465b-b500-df6192a3aa6f DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241004T182154Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda:\n\n\n Approval of minutes\n Announcements\n Check-in about PhD reading lists\n Report from the DEI committee\n Old/New business\n Adjou rnment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250107T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250107T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250103T180332Z LOCATION:Classics Seminar Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-01-07/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e4a836bf-e10e-4d53-9d8a-6e362796590b DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Student Activities CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250108T231728Z DESCRIPTION:Are you a Classics major or minor\, or just interested in Class ics? Join us for lunch a short program about opportunities available to un dergraduates in the Department of Classics! Please register here by Wednes day\, January 22nd.  DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250124T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T232705Z LOCATION:Meg Greenfield Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Winter 2025 Undergraduate Pizza Lunch TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-01-24/winter-2025-undergrad uate-pizza-lunch END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b2798685-64dd-4372-b61b-26dd6890e170 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, Annual Faculty Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241026T183346Z DESCRIPTION:To attend virtually\, register for the zoom link here: https:// washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOyhrjIsGNDFBKjqj59ndz4… DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250125T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250125T153000 LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T175112Z LOCATION:Denny 303 and zoom SUMMARY:: Prison Abolition Ancient Incarceration and the Mirror of the Past AIA Faculty Lecture TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-01-25/prison-abolition-anci ent-incarceration-and-mirror-past-aia-faculty-lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:271b0c6a-7a5f-4234-b000-7b862c038b21 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241004T182302Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda \n\n\n Approval of minutes\n Announcements\n Update on grad uate admissions\n PhD reading lists: discussion and vote\n Report from the D EI committee\n Old/New business \n Adjournment\n   DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250204T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250204T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250204T172940Z LOCATION:Classics Seminar Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-02-04/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9931d2a6-895f-4323-92ca-8934fe848b43 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240724T145047Z DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I consider survival as a problem central to Stat ius’s Thebaid. While we often think of survival as a transformative or tri umphant experience\, the Thebaid’s many survivors tell a different story: the experience of survival in Statius’s epic of aftermath is overwhelmingl y a negative one\, an intolerable state to which survivors feel they have been condemned. This unusually negative vision of survival in the Thebaid not only drives the epic’s plot but\, I argue\, forms a “poetics of surviv al\,” through which Statius figures his own poetic activity in a long-live d and crowded agonistic Latin epic tradition against the backdrop of an im perial system fundamentally altered by the upheavals of the 1st century CE . Reading the Thebaid’s poetics of survival through the lenses of trauma t heory and postmemory\, I will explore the questions that the Thebaid asks about how to value the experience of survival and the burdens and obligati ons that come with it\, and the possibilities—and the limits—of narrative in confronting survivors’ trauma. The exploration will in turn provide a b asis for considering the possibilities and limits of using trauma and post memory as theoretical approaches to Latin epic poetry.\n\n\nTo attend this talk via Zoom\, please register here: \nhttps://washington.zoom.us/meetin g/register/AOKVfTSyQ0i8w87onKP_2Q DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250207T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250207T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T174958Z LOCATION:Denny 212 SUMMARY:: Working through survival with Statius the uses and limits of trau ma in Latin epic TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-02-07/working-through-survi val-statius-uses-and-limits-trauma-latin-epic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a107342e-5382-4b5d-aa8c-d3c2f028dcba DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lunchtime Colloquiums CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250211T232845Z DESCRIPTION:Madalena Parsons presents 'The Maiden’s Materials: The Composit ion of Pygmalion’s Statue in Ovid’s Metamorphoses' and Anna Muh presents ' Bacchic Belief or Transphobic Translation? Using Ugarit Translation Alignm ent Editor to identify transphobic bias in translations of Euripides’ Bacc hae' DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T233936Z LOCATION:DEN 257\, Meg Greenfield Room SUMMARY:: Double header 1 The Maiden s Materials and 2 Bacchic Belief or Tr ansphobic Translation TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-02-20/double-header-1-maide n-s-materials-and-2-bacchic-belief-or-transphobic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:43dd1bb2-bc15-4359-ad57-d5c8312d6ba9 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, AIA Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250123T231431Z DESCRIPTION:Kenneth Lapatin is curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum\, specializing in Greek and Roman art. He's curated exhibitions on themes ranging from Athenian vases\, polychrome sculpture\, and Hellenisti c bronzes to antiquity in the Middle Ages and the modern reception of Pomp eii. His principal research interests include the materials\, techniques\, and functions of ancient art\; the history of collections\; luxury in anc ient art\; and forgery.\n\nFor the zoom link\, please email sarahlr@uw.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250222T153000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T172743Z LOCATION:Trimble Forum (Trimble Hall Room TR116)\, University of Puget Soun d\, Tacoma\, WA and on zoom SUMMARY:: Reconstructing Wonders of the Ancient World How Pheidias Created the nbsp Athena Parthenos nbsp and nbsp Zeus Olympios AIA Ridgway Lecture at University of Puget Sound TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-02-22/reconstructing-wonder s-ancient-world-how-pheidias-created-nbsp-athena-parthenos END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7e1d1461-caeb-4271-aafc-bc1689463f84 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, McDiarmid Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241102T191121Z DESCRIPTION:After a brief introduction to the history of Indigenous North A merican writers' engagements with Greco-Roman antiquity\, in this lecture I focus on two themes in particular: the Roman Empire and Greek democracy. I review Native writers' comparisons of the United States to the Roman Em pire as both source of citizenship and paradigm of collapse\, as well as I roquois uses of the eighteenth-century European ethnographic trope accordi ng to which the Iroquois are 'the Romans of the New World.' Second\, I con sider how Iroquois writers from the nineteenth century to today have sugge sted that their own people's ancient and still-living governance systems m ore fully embody the concept of 'democracy' than those of ancient Athens o r the United States.\n\nTo attend this talk via Zoom\, please register her e:\nhttps://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/Lb-UFNCGSKmc5ko7in_l-w#/re g… DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T222717Z LOCATION:Denny 212 SUMMARY:: Democracy Citizenship and Empire Native American Writers on Greec e Rome and the United States TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-02-28/democracy-citizenship -and-empire-native-american-writers-greece-rome-and-united END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:bd68eb0d-44c3-4ce8-aaa7-6d99eba0b877 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241004T182503Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda \n\n\n Approval of minutes\n Announcements\n Nominations fo r undergraduate awards\n Vote to admit Guy Rahat to the PhD program\n Report from the DEI committee\n Old/New business\n Adjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250304T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250304T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250228T211100Z LOCATION:Classics Seminar Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-03-04/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:da854057-15b2-42cd-a5a6-4b2dd2181134 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241004T182553Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda \n\n\n Approval of minutes\n Announcements\n Vote on Jonath an Clark’s dissertation prospectus\n Discussion of budgetary matters\n Vote to admit A.M. Davis to the PhD Program \n Vote to admit Liam Dulany to the PhD Program\n Old/New business\n Adjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T183555Z LOCATION:Classics Seminar Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-04-01/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f5270e59-6c41-43e9-984b-568ec5daa3af DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, McDiarmid Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241102T191609Z DESCRIPTION:Polari\, often described as a secret language used by gay men\, flourished in London in the first seventy years (or so) of the twentieth century. Polari is a language that is obsessed with sex\, money\, food\, a nd body parts\; it is full of competitive\, bitchy insults and provides th e perfect vehicle for racy and inventive gossip.\n\nPolari and its milieu have a lot in common with the personal poetry of Catullus. A young man on the make in the dying days of the Roman republic\, his colourful verses we lcome his readers into a world of vivid anecdotes about life and love in t he city\, and obscene but funny over-the-top insults. Catullus’ self-consc iously subversive poems flout the standards of the stuffy older generation \; he writes love poems to both women and boys and willingly adopts toward s these “inferiors” what looks to Roman eyes like a pose of degrading subm issiveness. His poems waver between aggressive\, competitive displays of h is masculinity and moments of vulnerability and tenderness. The world that Catullus created in his verse has many fore-echoes of the world of Polari and its speakers\, and the grimy gay scene in the London of the 50s\, 60s \, and early 70s.\n\nIn this talk\, I perform some of my Polari versions o f Catullus and set them in a wider tradition of Catullan translation. No k nowledge of either Polari or Catullus will be assumed.\n\nTo attend this t alk via Zoom\, please register here:  \nhttps://washington.zoom.us/meeting /register/-qKkhnPvT1yY7fRHf6xYVA DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250404T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250404T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T220802Z LOCATION:UW Campus CMU 120 SUMMARY:: Polari Catullus John B and Mary K McDiarmid Lecture 2024 reschedu led TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-04-04/polari-catullus-john- b-and-mary-k-mcdiarmid-lecture-2024-rescheduled END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e2113178-42b2-49de-9d0f-06b671f279e5 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240724T192357Z DESCRIPTION:The Italians were beneficiaries of Roman imperial expansion and exploitation and simultaneously the victims of the same phenomena. Long a fter Rome's conquest of Italy\, the indigenous peoples of Italy remained s econd class subjects in the peninsula\, a stark contrast to their experien ces in the provinces\, where the distinction between Romans and Italians w as limited\, if not imperceptible. Their untenable circumstances in Italy led to the Social War of 91 - 87 BCE\, which concluded with Rome's begrudg ing grant of citizenship to Italian communities south of the Po River Vall ey. Yet the Italian struggle continued\, as their difficulty in enrolling in the census and voting assemblies attests.\n\nThis paper offers a fresh consideration of Italian subjecthood in the context of Italian demands for self-determination and the Social War from a provincial perspective. Draw ing on literary and epigraphic evidence\, it examines how Italians strateg ically emphasized their distinctive position under Roman rule vis-à-vis Ro man citizens and non-Romans in the provincial cities of Sicily\, Asia\, an d Greece from the late second century to the late first century BCE\, and the role of monumentalization and local\, collective action in doing so.\n \nClick here to register for the zoom link [restricted to UW faculty\, stu dents\, and staff]: \n\nhttps://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/nflVSo 1MQ3GiLOGrbSLrPg DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T164214Z LOCATION:Denny 112 on UW campus and Zoom SUMMARY:: CANCELLED to be rescheduled When is an Italian a Roman TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-04-11/cancelled-be-reschedu led-when-italian-roman END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:59a9e376-6bed-49bb-a270-f931f025de4d DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240724T193234Z DESCRIPTION:'Inspired by and in dialogue with Olga Levaniouk’s groundbreaki ng paper Penelope in the Aśoka Grove\, I will suggest that marriage is as much at the heart of archaic Sanskrit and Greek epics as warfare and that\ , considered together\, the poems sketch a full range of marriage types – and their consequences. With all due caution these anecdotal accounts can be evaluated against the structured typologies of marriage found in the Sa nskrit legal texts.'\n\nStephanie Jamison is the Distinguished Professor o f Asian Languages and Cultures and of Indo-European Studies\, and the Chai r of the Program in Indo-European Studies at UCLA. She works on Indo-Irani an\, especially Vedic Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan languages\, as well a s literature and poetics\, religion and law\, mythology and ritual\, and g ender studies in these languages. She is the author of multiple monographs \, including: The Ravenous Hyenas and the Wounded Sun: Myth and Ritual in Ancient India (Cornell 1991)\, Sacrificed Wife / Sacrificer’s Wife: Women\ , Ritual\, and Hospitality in Ancient India (Oxford 1996)\, The Rig Veda b etween Two Worlds: Four Lectures at the Collège de France (2007)\, and\, w ith J. Brereton\, The Rigveda: the earliest religious poetry of India (Oxf ord 2014)\, the first complete scholarly translation of the Rigveda into E nglish in over a century. Jamison’s research also involves comparative myt hology and poetics\, especially with Greek materials. Her publications in the latter area include\, among others\, “Draupadī on the Walls of Troy: I liad 3 from an Indic Perspective” (Classical Antiquity 13\, 1994) and “Pen elope and the Pigs: Indic Perspectives on the Odyssey” (Classical Antiquit y 18\, 1999).\n\nTo attend this talk via Zoom\, please register here:  \nh ttps://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/UPvdSohkSGWunRuTunYMDw DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250418T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250418T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T212828Z LOCATION:UW Campus DEN 112 SUMMARY:: What Are Epics Really About nbsp Typologies of Marriage in the Gr eek and Sanskrit Epics TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-04-18/what-are-epics-really -about-nbsp-typologies-marriage-greek-and-sanskrit-epics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5cd7e860-95b6-4b9f-8e08-1f5c78286955 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Information Sessions CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250203T024924Z DESCRIPTION:Meet with Deborah Kamen\, the Chair of UW Classics\, to learn m ore about our courses\, our majors and minors\, and our Department's study abroad opportunities! Please bring whatever questions you have!\n\nRegist er for the Zoom link at https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/lK40I6 hSQGm26uR_DyYZ2Q DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T163000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T025932Z LOCATION:Zoom SUMMARY:: Zoom Q amp A Session for Admitted Students amp Families TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-04-22/zoom-q-amp-session-ad mitted-students-amp-families END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:de239d96-c9af-4bba-87df-13ec3e446a1e DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, Harmon Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240724T153220Z DESCRIPTION:Agrippina the Younger (15-59 CE) has pivotal roles in Tacitus’ and other histories of the early Roman empire\, and during her lifetime sh e was celebrated by coins and sculptural installations. Review of her rece ption after her murder in 59 CE\, however\, shows her relative infrequency as a subject\, as well as an unfixed\, shifting persona over the centurie s. This illustrated talk surveys Agrippina’s varied portrayals from Flavia n times to the 20th century. In antiquity she is treated relatively benign ly (even by Juvenal!) until Tacitus\, Suetonius\, and Cassius Dio. A dynam ic Agrippina emerges in Boccaccio’s Lives of Famous Women (1360s)\, Europe ’s first “modern” collection of women’s lives. Also in that era\, however\ , Agrippina features as an abject cadaver dissected under Nero’s gaze. Han del’s hugely popular Agrippina (1709) presents her as a canny and successf ul kingmaker – yet her few historical paintings objectify her as victim. T he array reveals not only Tacitus’ nuanced impact but also enduring fear o f women in power.\n\nTo attend by Zoom\, preregister at https://washington .zoom.us/meeting/register/zIGO1KlXRM2NxcLZBQqiWA DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250425T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250425T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T041946Z LOCATION:CMU 120 and on Zoom SUMMARY:: The Afterlife of Agrippina Daniel P Harmon Visiting Lecture TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-04-25/afterlife-agrippina-d aniel-p-harmon-visiting-lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c6dca76d-49ea-4ec8-95c0-59cd128f33a6 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241004T182638Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda \n\n\n Approval of minutes\n Announcements\n Discussion of budgetary matters\n Vote to admit Liam Dulany to the PhD program\n Terminati ng (obsolete) PhD concentrations\n Report from the DEI committee\n Old/New b usiness\n Adjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250506T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250506T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250502T210139Z LOCATION:Classics Seminar Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-05-06/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ec082119-ab77-45ae-a59b-72bdeb32c4c4 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240724T194229Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250506T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250506T203000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T005123Z LOCATION:THO 101 SUMMARY:: Gender of Leadership in Ancient Synagogues hosted by Stroum Cente r TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-05-06/gender-leadership-anc ient-synagogues-hosted-stroum-center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:facd05f1-6243-45cd-9467-3674ace105d7 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Workshops CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240724T194725Z DESCRIPTION:RSVP for Professor Brooten's workshop. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250507T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250507T140000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T005431Z LOCATION:THO 317 SUMMARY:: Jews and Christians as Enslavers and Enslaved in the Early Roman Empire hosted by Stroum Center TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-05-07/jews-and-christians-e nslavers-and-enslaved-early-roman-empire-hosted-stroum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a47dac82-451c-4fcf-8a10-5ecfe61d3204 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240724T194932Z DESCRIPTION:Register for this zoom event here DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T173000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T005611Z LOCATION:Zoom SUMMARY:: Jewish and Christian Women Desiring Women in the Early Roman Empi re hosted by Stroum Center TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-05-08/jewish-and-christian- women-desiring-women-early-roman-empire-hosted-stroum-center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:98d003d3-9408-4862-8d69-3ea0e617e47e DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20240724T193630Z DESCRIPTION:First diagnosed in 1986\, Ron Athey uses his HIV-positive body— through piercing\, bloodletting\, penetration\, and medical procedures—as text for performance pieces shown in galleries\, theaters\, and nightclub spaces. Connecting the ritual and spectacle of the Pentecostal tradition i n which he was raised to ancient classical drama\, Athey views Greek Trage dy as an act of ‘pagan worship\,’ which can ‘abduct the viewer into a heig htened abstract\, unexpected state.’ This talk explores Athey’s redeployme nt of two figures from Athenian drama: Helen of Troy\, reborn as Trojan Wh ore (1995)\, and Philoctetes in Incorruptible Flesh (Perpetual Wound) (200 6).\n\nTom Sapsford is a scholar of performance\, gender\, and sexuality i n ancient Greece and Rome\, with a specialization in imperial Latin verse. He is the author of Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Medit erranean Cultures (Oxford 2022) and is currently writing a book on Classic s and the Gay Counterculture.\n\nTo attend by Zoom\, preregister at https: //washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/zVHagEWRRPG1o1YjcBYY2w DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T214536Z LOCATION:DEN 212 SUMMARY:: Ron Athey s Tragic TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-05-09/ron-athey-s-tragic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8746be37-f8c7-4356-80bc-78f635e5c6b7 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250120T235856Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250512T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250512T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T044129Z LOCATION:CMU 120 SUMMARY:: Strike Labor Unions and Resistance in the Roman Empire co sponsor ed by History and Labor Studies TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-05-12/strike-labor-unions-a nd-resistance-roman-empire-co-sponsored-history-and-labor END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a45f5f3-4345-40bd-adae-3429aa827782 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250212T043119Z DESCRIPTION:Scholarship on atheism in classical Athens has reached an impas se\, with irreconcilable views on its definition and extent. The talk shif ts perspective by adopting a phenomenological approach\, viewing atheism t hrough the modern lens of a “moral panic\,” and reassessing the surviving evidence. At stake\, it is argued\, is less the existence of the gods than what humans expect from divinity\, and how these expectations are or are not fulfilled\, particularly when it comes to justice. Understanding the i mportance of questions of theodicy to fifth-century thought allows for a n ew theological dialectic to emerge\, in which atheism is one part of a muc h wider inquiry into divinity and traditional belief.\n\nTo attend by Zoom \, preregister at: \nhttps://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/yCTNPNIKS 9S2jQ96ckryRQ#/reg… DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T214603Z LOCATION:DEN 212 and on Zoom SUMMARY:: Atheism and Theodicy in Classical Athens TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-05-16/atheism-and-theodicy- classical-athens END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8c231c01-3c08-4d01-b4b0-466da3428575 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241004T182720Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda \n\n\n Approval of minutes\n Announcements\n Update on budg etary matters\n Discussion about suspending graduate admissions for 2025-26 \n Other graduate student business\n Report from the DEI committee\n Old/New business\n Adjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T173016Z LOCATION:Classics Seminar Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-06-03/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:122db081-faac-4c60-a1aa-845467a32024 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lunchtime Colloquiums CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250512T175813Z DESCRIPTION:One of a series of informal Lunchtime Colloquia regularly held in the Department of Classics.  DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250605T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250605T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T175955Z LOCATION:DEN 257 SUMMARY:: The Term in Aristophanic Contexts TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-06-05/term-aristophanic-con texts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f0afd231-afda-457f-8b01-1b066afe0b9c DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Special Events CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250219T195039Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250613T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250613T123000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250227T220325Z LOCATION:DEN 112 SUMMARY:: Classics Senior Essay Symposium TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-06-13/classics-senior-essay -symposium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1477c84a-e2eb-452f-b853-06eaeffd6849 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Special Events CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250210T221557Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250613T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250613T143000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T222213Z LOCATION:DEN 303 SUMMARY:: Classics 2025 Graduation Celebration TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-06-13/classics-2025-graduat ion-celebration END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b8faf989-ad66-49a9-9811-23ec9e26849d DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lunchtime Colloquiums CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250909T213941Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250925T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250925T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T162437Z LOCATION:DEN 257 SUMMARY:: Echoes of Injustice Legal Texts and Beliefs about Sexual Violence in Ancient Greece TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-09-25/echoes-injustice-lega l-texts-and-beliefs-about-sexual-violence-ancient-greece END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1c940efe-24ba-4acd-922a-d1190d8a6e57 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241004T182804Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda Approval of minutesAnnouncementsVote on 2026 faculty mee ting datesUpdate on staffing mattersReport from the DEI committeeOld/New b usinessAdjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251003T225034Z LOCATION:Classics Seminar Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-10-07/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:81e9253e-e31b-4e29-906a-b737c0b19c32 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, AIA Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250908T000141Z DESCRIPTION:For three decades\, the Centre d’Études Alexandrines has reshap ed our understanding of Alexandria\, moving its history from ancient texts to a tangible reality. Terrestrial digs reveal the city's daily life\, wh ile underwater excavations at the site of the legendary Lighthouse have yi elded spectacular monumental discoveries. These integrated findings presen t a multi-layered city\, allowing us to write a new history of Alexandria grounded in its material culture of adaptation and reuse.To watch on zoom\ , register here: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/FYRBpJodS9yd9 Kbb2DJubA DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T190000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T183912Z LOCATION:Dempsey 112 [note: this building is near Denny] and on zoom (regis tration link in description) SUMMARY:: Alexandria New Archaeological Perspectives on the City and its Le gendary Lighthouse Ridgway TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-10-14/alexandria-new-archae ological-perspectives-city-and-its-legendary-lighthouse END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a8e82917-30e0-4cdf-aa7b-b6709f15e6d4 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, Harmon Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250616T212707Z DESCRIPTION:Many UW students and alumni know that the University of Washing ton's Rome Center is housed in the magnificent Palazzo Pio\, located in th e ancient heart of Rome just off the Campo de' Fiori. Many are also aware that Palazzo Pio rises on the foundations of the Theater of Pompey\, dedic ated in 55 BCE. But where are its ruins? Although the Theater of Pompey wa s one of ancient Rome's largest and most celebrated buildings\, it was so thoroughly digested and absorbed into later construction that even its loc ation was lost to memory. In this lecture\, Dr. Lansford will trace the hi story of the Theater of Pompey from its construction in Antiquity\, to its dissolution in the Middle Ages\, to the eventual rediscovery and identifi cation of its remains in the Renaissance.To join us on zoom\, please regis ter in advance here: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/a8W6A1aBR eGYya2DMdOdfg DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T185138Z LOCATION:Denny 212 and on Zoom SUMMARY:: Death amp Transfiguration Pompey s Theater and the Remaking of Ro me Daniel P Harmon Lecture TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-10-17/death-amp-transfigura tion-pompey-s-theater-and-remaking-rome-daniel-p-harmon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:cf701da6-beba-4b27-8c5c-fd819993351b DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Information Sessions\, Student Activities CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250626T172537Z DESCRIPTION:Students and families are welcome to drop in to UW Classics Off ice Hours / Open House\, offered as part of UW Family Weekend. There will be good conversation\, chances to learn about opportunities to explore Gre ek and Roman Classics on campus and beyond\, some snacks\, and our ever po pular free book giveaway table.  DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T150000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251007T205252Z LOCATION:Denny Hall 257 Meg Greenfield Room SUMMARY:: UW Family Weekend Office Hours TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-10-24/uw-family-weekend-off ice-hours END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d89b07b7-834e-4698-a773-b185385ddb29 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250921T195529Z DESCRIPTION:In the spring of 45 BCE\, Cicero’s 20-year-old son Marcus left for Athens to study. While there\, he wrote an affective letter (Fam. 16.2 1) to the family’s freedman Tiro\, in which he mentions his father’s firin g of his Athenian rhetoric teacher Gorgias and his close relationship with the Peripatetic philosopher Cratippus. This talk will discuss how Marcus deploys his rhetorical artistry in describing his life in Athens to guilt- trip Cicero for the dismissal of Gorgias. By reading Marcus’ description o f his dinner parties with Cratippus against the Alcibiades episode in Plat o’s Symposium\, I argue that Marcus mischievously invites comparisons of h imself with Alcibiades and Cratippus with Socrates\, which evokes Socrates ’ charge of corrupting the youth. The Platonic intertextuality in turn hel ps Marcus question Cicero’s similar accusation against Gorgias. Yet\, to s hield himself from criticism\, Marcus also invokes the Roman apprenticeshi p model of tirocinium fori\, which stresses the close relationship between older mentors and teenager mentees. In other words\, by mixing\, twisting \, and playing with Greek and Roman traditions\, particularly Cicero’s own playbook of sexual invectives\, Marcus crafts and inflicts a rumor of sex ual misbehaviors upon himself to both arouse Cicero’s anxiety and to bemoa n his arbitrariness in firing Gorgias\, all the while shushing his eloquen t father who might be reading the letter over Tiro’s shoulders.Please regi ster via this Google Form to obtain the Zoom link. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251030T203000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T182156Z LOCATION:Zoom (see below to register\; hosted by University of Oregon) SUMMARY:: Marcus Symposium in Athens Father Son and Roman Study Abroad CAPN Fall Talk via zoom TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-10-30/marcus-symposium-athe ns-father-son-and-roman-study-abroad-capn-fall-talk-zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0bdbabf0-9dde-42ba-9e8c-1db3679981e4 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, Special Events CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250903T212721Z DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the release of Prof. Alex Hollmann's bo ok\, Magica Levantina (Brill 2025)\, with a short talk and a reception. Mo re information about the book can be found here. To attend the book talk o n Zoom\, register here.  DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251031T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251031T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T195456Z LOCATION:DEN 212 and Zoom SUMMARY:: Book release party for Alexander Hollmann s Magica Levantina TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-10-31/book-release-party-al exander-hollmann-s-magica-levantina END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b5641c2c-4f6b-450d-8777-d61c90b86343 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241004T182848Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda Approval of minutesAnnouncementsUpdate on staffing matte rsReport from the DEI committeeOld/New business12.45-1.15 Discussion with Divisional Dean of Humanities Brian ReedAdjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T203857Z LOCATION:Classics Seminar Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-11-04/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4bfa9395-965c-4c6f-a121-29d1aa090269 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250919T163008Z DESCRIPTION:It goes without saying that the horse rears his majestic head a t the very heart of Trojan mythology\, but as we seek to sharpen our under standing of the complex semiotic communication encoded into the hippologic al component of this culturally essential narrative network\, it behooves us to expand the parameters of our scholarly pasture so that we begin to s nuffle at and eventually graze on conceptually overlapping archaeological evidence\, as well as genealogically related mythico-religious evidence fr om North India and Ireland. As a contribution to the ongoing examination o f the equine lore in question\, this presentation will scrutinize the pers istent interrelationship between socially prominent women and horses in th e mythical and ritual traditions of Greece\, North India\, and Ireland. To pics investigated during the presentation include the roles of Helen and o f other hippophilic princesses and queens belonging to Helen’s extended fa mily tree\, North Indian stallion sacrifice\, Irish mare sacrifice\, and t he cooperative significance of the animal and human burials inside the so- called heroon at Lefkandi.To register for the zoom link\, click here. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T182207Z LOCATION:Denny 212 and on zoom (registration link in description) SUMMARY:: Helen and the Horse between myth and reality hippophilic heroines and the Lefkandi shaft graves TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-11-14/helen-and-horse-betwe en-myth-and-reality-hippophilic-heroines-and-lefkandi-shaft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b4a79981-395a-4eeb-9f62-187d2c9dd651 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20251118T164019Z DESCRIPTION:Lauryn Hanley\, “Bilingual Bonds: Freedpeople and Identity Form ation in Etruscan-Roman Chiusi” Jonathan Clark\, “A Queer Galatea? Garcila so de la Vega’s Use of Vergil’s Second Eclogue”Laura Harris\, “Nescit enim quid amor: Asexual Gender in Ovid’s Hermaphroditus Episode” Luke Giuntoli \, 'A Clash of Epics: The Metapoetic Implications of Apollonius' Talos'To watch on zoom\, register here. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T163000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T165026Z LOCATION:Denny 257 (Meg Greenfield Room) and on zoom (registration link in description) SUMMARY:: Quadruple Header Etruscan Chiusi Queer Galatea Asexuality in Ovid Apollonius s Talos TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2025-12-05/quadruple-header-etru scan-chiusi-queer-galatea-asexuality-ovid-apollonius-s-talos END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:48377556-1f32-41dc-9959-d9441e9bea59 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Information Sessions\, Study Abroad CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20251230T034558Z DESCRIPTION:What better way to learn about the ancient Romans than to live in the very heart of Rome and to immerse yourself in the monuments\, art\, and landscapes of the ancient city? Growing to a population of a million at the height of the Roman Empire\, the city of Rome was home to individua ls from Europe\, the Middle East\, and Northern Africa. In this session\, you will learn more about Classics Rome: The Ancient Roman City study abro ad program (August 24-September 18 2026)\, from  academic credit to financ ial aid and scholarship (the Classics department aims to meet all financia l need!). Applications are due February 15 through the UW Study Abroad web site! To join on zoom\, register here: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/ register/gcDhiVHUT4qdNiQH5YUzyg DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260116T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260116T160000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T035755Z LOCATION:Denny 257 (Meg Greenfield Room) and on zoom (registration link in description) SUMMARY:: Information Session for Classics Rome The Ancient Roman City Stud y Abroad Early Fall 2026 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-01-16/information-session-c lassics-rome-ancient-roman-city-study-abroad-early-fall-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a693d5dd-9c54-45cb-973c-8be1c440a340 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260105T231834Z DESCRIPTION:Please join the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies as they celebr ate the recent publication of SCJS faculty member and history professor Ma rk Letteney's new book: Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration\, co-authored by Matthew D. C. Larsen. This book examines spaces\, practices\, and ideol ogies of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean basin from 300 BCE to 600 CE. Analyzing a wide range of sources—including legal texts\, archaeol ogical findings\, documentary evidence\, and visual materials—Matthew D. C . Larsen and Mark Letteney argue that prisons were integral to the social\ , political\, and economic fabric of ancient societies. Ancient Mediterran ean Incarcerationtraces a long history of carceral practices\, considering ways in which the institution of prison has been fundamentally intertwine d with issues of class\, ethnicity\, gender\, and imperialism. By foregrou nding the voices and experiences of the imprisoned\, Larsen and Letteney d emonstrate the extraordinary durability of carceral structures across time and call for a new historical consciousness around contemporary practices of incarceration.Letteney will be joined by Stroum Center faculty and his tory professor Joel Walker and classics professor Sarah Levin-Richardson t o discuss the book\, unpack what role prisons played in ancient societies and how this history continues today\, and answer questions. Light refresh ments will be provided before the talk and the book will be available for purchase. This event is being co-sponsored by UW's Department of History.  Register to attend here. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T203000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T233053Z LOCATION:Walker-Ames\, KNE 225 (open to the public\, registration required\ ; see link below) SUMMARY:: Book Launch Mark Letteney Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration hos ted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of History TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-01-22/book-launch-mark-lett eney-ancient-mediterranean-incarceration-hosted-stroum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8b7b65da-fd7c-4e8f-89bf-c313bde2fd79 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, McDiarmid Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20251027T174324Z DESCRIPTION:The seventh and sixth centuries saw the rise of a new form of p oetry\, namely “iambic” invective.  I argue that within this emerging genr e\, we can see two distinct strains: “elitist” and “middling” invectives\, which demonstrate different strategies of negotiation with regard to soci al class.  In particular\, elitist invective argues that social status is inborn\, and therefore independent of changes to the physical body.  Middl ing invective\, demonstrated most clearly by Archilochus and Hipponax\, su ggests that changes to the physical body bothrepresent and bring about cha nges in social class.To see this talk on zoom\, register here DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260123T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260123T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260108T203545Z LOCATION:Denny 212 and on zoom (registration link below) SUMMARY:: Bodies and Social Class in Archaic Greek Invective McDiarmid Lect ure TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-01-23/bodies-and-social-cla ss-archaic-greek-invective-mcdiarmid-lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3dbe7e1d-ae5a-4bf7-b158-7e628712c24e DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20241004T182942Z DESCRIPTION:Department of Classics Faculty MeetingFebruary 3\, 2026 1. Appr oval of minutes2. Announcements3. Vote on extension of adjunct professor s tatus for Scott Noegel (MELC)4. Vote on extension of adjunct professor sta tus for Joel Walker (History)5. Report from the DEI committee6. Discussion about campus safety7. Old/New business8. Adjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T174443Z LOCATION:Classics Seminar Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-02-03/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2acc346e-fc66-4072-bc45-508befa71838 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260126T032630Z DESCRIPTION:Ancient architects tell us that every Roman settlement should h ave a prison at its center\, and archaeology suggests that most cities did . Purpose-built prisons populated the ancient Mediterranean and so did pra ctices of incarceration: sentences of prison time stood beside manual labo r in cities\, in bakeries\, and in mines. Less fortunate souls entered fac ilities to await execution\, sometimes for years. This lecture explores th e evidence for ancient incarceration in vignettes: reading letters that pr isoners wrote on papyrus\, investigating spaces where they were held\, and analyzing depictions of captives in monuments\, law-courts\, and homes. R oman evidence does not model a just society\, but it does offer a mirror w here we can see modern practices of incarceration in a new light\, asking which aspects of contemporary prisons are unique to modernity\, and which reflect longer histories.Registration is required: https://events.uw.edu/e vent/HLS2026/summary DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260204T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260204T210000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T033136Z LOCATION:Kane 130 SUMMARY:: Roman Prisons and the Mirror of History sponsored by UW History TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-02-04/roman-prisons-and-mir ror-history-sponsored-uw-history END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:898c3e7a-837b-4ada-93a2-c7b6ff1bd9ad DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Conferences\, Annual Teachers' Conferences CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20251010T194830Z DESCRIPTION:The 2026 UW Department of Classics Teachers' Conference will in clude presentations from Professor Christopher Waldo discussing his resear ch on receptions and transformations of classical Greek and Roman material in Asian American literary works\, and Deirdre Duffy (North Shore School District) discussing approaches to teaching the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.  All are welcome to join us. There will be ample opportunity for discussio n of classroom strategies for working with Classical Greek and Roman mater ials in a global and comparative perspective. We anticipate providing two clock hours.We will meet in person on the UW campus in Denny Hall 259 and will also provide a zoom link. Please use this form to register. Questions ? Contact Prof. Catherine Connors cconnors@uw.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T120000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T141534Z LOCATION:Denny 259 SUMMARY:: Teachers Conference Greek Myth in a Global Context II TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-02-07/teachers-conference-g reek-myth-global-context-ii END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:741ae213-b95a-4f38-af8b-dfb7d4ed13d8 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, Special Events CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260127T180656Z DESCRIPTION:CEREAS (Center for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies\, Jackson School for International Studies) invites you to their  Winter EU Democracy and Security Symposium: Europe - Cradle of Democracy. Tuesday\, February 10th\, 3:00-4:30pm in Thomson Hall 317Coffee and cookies will be provided. We’ll hear presentations from the following speakers: Alexander Hollmann (Chair of Classics\, Chair of Hellenic Studies) presenting on 'Wh at do we know about the beginnings of democracy in Athens?”Ray Lahiri (Cla ssics) presenting on “Consensus and Dissensus in the Roman Republic.”Timot hy Bourns (Scandinavian Studies) presenting on “The Alþingi: The Birth of a Democratic Tradition in Medieval Iceland”  DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T163000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T191558Z LOCATION:Thomson 317 SUMMARY:: Winter EU Democracy and Security Symposium Europe Cradle of Democ racy hosted by CEREAS TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-02-10/winter-eu-democracy-a nd-security-symposium-europe-cradle-democracy-hosted-cereas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5bc52576-c86c-4fab-924e-3c824bf01723 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260227T181215Z DESCRIPTION:Department of Classics Faculty MeetingMarch 3\, 2026 1. Approva l of minutes2. Announcements3. Discussion and vote on Liam Dulany’s doctor al prospectus4. Discussion re nominations for CAS graduate fellowships and graduate medal5. Discussion re division of fields in Modern Language Exam 6. Report from the DEI committee7. Old/New business8. Adjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260227T183444Z LOCATION:Classics Seminar Room - Denny 257 SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-03-03/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:155db02b-9c39-4216-8ca5-4e30ce9464f3 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, AIA Lectures\, Annual Faculty Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260205T212321Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260307T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260307T153000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T213015Z LOCATION:Seattle University: Rolfe Community Room\, Advancement and Alumni Building SUMMARY:: Classical Cascadia co hosted by Seattle University and the Puget Sound Society of the AIA TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-03-07/classical-cascadia-co -hosted-seattle-university-and-puget-sound-society-aia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:589e4b17-9c7a-4eee-bb6c-6c2b8bf5da36 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures\, AIA Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20250908T001650Z DESCRIPTION:After the Iberian Peninsula was conquered and its territory bro ught into the Roman Empire\, its abundant ores were mined on an unpreceden ted scale\, feeding into coinage\, lead pipes\, and other objects\, and co ntributing to levels of pollution not seen again until the Industrial Revo lution. This talk examines mining and its effects on the communities and e cologies of southeast Iberia following the conquest of this region during the Second Punic War. This region also had botanical and marine resources\ , long exploited by local communities\, who reacted to Roman mining in div ergent ways. Weavers of local grasses shifted their production strategies\ , supplying equipment for Roman mining. By contrast\, harvesters of a larg e mollusk species\, who once collaborated closely with miners\, broke ties with the industry. Ultimately\, the talk shows the important role that lo cal decision making played in the organization of production and the exper ience of empire in Roman Iberia.To watch on zoom\, register in advance her e: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/Li5shO_MTVCuA07REKb2Pw DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T190000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T004649Z LOCATION:Denny 212 and on zoom (registration link in description) SUMMARY:: On Metals Grasses and Mollusks A Local History of Ecology Economy and Empire in Roman Iberia TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-04-17/metals-grasses-and-mo llusks-local-history-ecology-economy-and-empire-roman-iberia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fa605576-a197-4edc-a970-ebff7e35ae46 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260217T190949Z DESCRIPTION:Ancient Greece was rife with all manner of migrants. Major wars \, internal stasis\, economic opportunity\, and environmental disasters va riously combined to drive migration across the Mediterranean. In modernity \, the study of migration from disciplines as varied as anthropology and g eography is ever-expanding. Approaches to modern migration may be applied profitably to the ancient data\, although many avenues remain unexplored. While ancient migrants were not subject to the nation state or to expansiv e global institutions\, they nevertheless shared important characteristics with modern ones. But just what is a migrant? And what factors or charact eristics matter when classifying types of migrants? While scholarship on a ncient migration has exploded in the past 10 years\, there has been no att empt to create a systematized way of comparing migrants in ancient Greece with each other or with their modern counterparts. In this talk\, Prof. Ca mpa proposes the possibility of a formal typology for ancient Greek migran ts and an attendant digital database in order to encourage fruitful compar ison\, engagement with modern approaches\, and a deeper understanding of i ndividuals and institutions in the migration process.Prof. Campa is an Ass istant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her PhD in Classics from the University of Washington and is the author of Freedom and Power in Classical Athens (Cambridge UP 2024).Attending this talk by Zoom is an option only for those with a UW NetID. Registering in advance i s necessary. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260501T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260501T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T190605Z LOCATION:DEN 212 SUMMARY:: Possibilities in Greek Migration TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-05-01/possibilities-greek-m igration END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:058d5c9a-eb0a-4259-b9b4-73728c9c3ee0 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Meetings\, Faculty Meetings CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260429T165636Z DESCRIPTION:Agenda:1. Visit of Gretchen Davis Richey (Director of Research and Kevin Gertz (Grants Specialist)2. Approval of minutes3. Announcements5 . Discussion re re-opening of graduate admissions6. Report from the DEI co mmittee7. Old/New business8. Adjournment DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260505T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260505T133000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T165953Z LOCATION:Denny Hall SUMMARY:: Classics Faculty Meeting TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-05-05/classics-faculty-meet ing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10f336a9-634d-443b-b203-9f0a3aa1e08a DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20251119T002429Z DESCRIPTION:Hidden for decades in a locked cabinet at the Center for Asia M inor Studies in Athens\, Eva Palmer Sikelianos’s love letters (1900-1910)— personal\, creative\, and revealing networks of desire and kinship—challen ge expectations about what belongs in Greece’s archival record. These scat tered\, stuttering papers sat uneasily within an institute dedicated to Or thodox Christian refugee history\, raising new questions about whose lives and stories find a place in official memory.What happens when a collectio n resists straightforward histories—when archiving itself becomes an act o f negotiation\, improvisation\, and listening for what’s unsaid? What can these fragments teach us about the possibilities of cultural memory\, and how listening to stutters and silences might open new ways of understandin g the past?In this talk\, I explore the process of archiving Palmer’s coll ection: the hurdles\, improvisations\, and acts of care involved in bringi ng these materials from secrecy to public view. Inspired by Patricia Kelle r’s idea of the “stutter in the archive\,” I show how gaps\, interruptions \, and incomplete stories invite us to rethink what archives can do\, and how they respond to lives lived beyond conventional narratives. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260508T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260508T163000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260506T162451Z LOCATION:Suzzallo - Allen Library\, Petersen Room (485) SUMMARY:: Secrecy Stutter and Care Eva Palmer s Hidden Letters cohosted wit h Hellenic Studies TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-05-08/secrecy-stutter-and-c are-eva-palmer-s-hidden-letters-cohosted-hellenic-studies END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d09eeef3-e73e-443f-b663-9ba19831a89f DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260404T234516Z DESCRIPTION:We often assume that the categories “man” and “woman” are timel ess and self-evident. But what if they aren’t? In this talk\, Professor Ra fael Neis invites us to explore a surprising question: did “men” and “wome n\,” as fixed and stable categories\, always exist in the way we imagine t hem today? Turning to the Talmud\, Neis shows how the rabbis wrestled with bodies\, identity\, and social roles in ways that don’t always fit neatly into modern assumptions. By setting aside what we think we already know a bout gender\, we can discover fresh and unexpected ways of reading these a ncient texts—and gain insight into how the rabbis themselves understood hu man difference. Along the way\, Neis opens up intriguing new perspectives on rabbinic thought\, revealing a tradition that is more curious\, complex \, and inventive than we might expect. Registration is required. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260512T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260512T210000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260405T182831Z LOCATION:Kane Hall\, Walker-Ames Room 225 SUMMARY:: Did Men and Women Always Exist What the Talmud Can Tell Us hosted by the Stroum Center TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-05-12/did-men-and-women-alw ays-exist-what-talmud-can-tell-us-hosted-stroum-center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:d0ebf0ed-3bbd-4f11-b506-fe4b575fc298 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260404T234944Z DESCRIPTION:Walk through the ancient world and you would have been surround ed by images of all kinds of beings—human figures\, animals\, hybrids\, an d creatures that blur the line between the familiar and the fantastic. The se images appeared everywhere: in streets and homes\, bathhouses and synag ogues\, public buildings and sacred spaces. In this talk\, Professor Rafae l Neis explores a handful of striking examples from ancient Jewish art and asks what happens when we look at them with fresh eyes. Instead of sortin g these figures into modern boxes about “human\,” “animal\,” “male\,” or “ female\,” Neis invites us to step back and see how ancient artists and com munities imagined bodies more broadly. By letting go of some of our presen t-day assumptions\, we begin to notice new patterns and possibilities—and gain insight into how people in the ancient world understood identity\, di fference\, and the sacred. The result is a richer\, more surprising pictur e of Jewish visual culture\, filled with creativity\, complexity\, and ima gination.Registration required. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T173000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260405T182916Z LOCATION:HUB 214 SUMMARY:: Monsters Hybrids and Holy Images Rethinking Bodies in Ancient Jew ish Art hosted by the Stroum Center TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-05-14/monsters-hybrids-and- holy-images-rethinking-bodies-ancient-jewish-art-hosted END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:65a91b67-ba70-4f0d-ae02-a6990f6eee75 DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Lectures CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260217T191418Z DESCRIPTION:At Iliad 1.155 Achilles describes his homeland as ἐν Φθίηι ἐριβ ώλακι βωτιανείρηι “in Phthia of the rich-clodded earth\, man-nourishing.’’ This translation ‘man-nourishing’ is traditional but how does the word me an that? Usually compounds with a verbal element put that element second i n Ancient Greek and in English\, as in the frequent πουλυ-βότειρα ‘much-no urishing’. According to some recent accounts\, the first part βωτι- is an ancient noun frozen in the compound\, what would be *βῶσις`nourishment’\; others take it as a more recent verb-form related to βόσκω `nourishing\, f eeding’. The morphology of this compound is disputed and weighs on how we interpret the Homeric language: Does the tradition preserve here a pristin e archaism passed down through millennia? Or are we witness to the creativ e potential of the bards working within hexameter constraints? Put differe ntly\, is the word very old or relatively new? To answer those questions\, we will range from compounding practices in Mycenaean Greek and Sanskrit\ , through variant readings in our manuscripts and scholia\, and end with a n examination of metrical lengthening and what makes the language of Achil les unique.Register to watch on zoom here. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260515T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260515T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T193147Z LOCATION:Denny 212 and on zoom SUMMARY:: Why is Phthia man nourishing Il 1 155 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-05-15/why-phthia-man-nouris hing-il-1-155 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7147ff4e-db38-4489-a220-ec3553cd2fee DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Special Events CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260306T215844Z DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how asexuality can produce a unique asexual gender formation through a process of ungendering. Not only does this appe ar in modern sociology\, but also in ancient Roman literature where the Ro man sex/gender system in which one’s role in sex could be determinative of gender heightens this effect. This talk argues that Hermaphroditus in Ovi d’s Metamorphoses\, a long poem from the first century CE telling of trans formations\, can be read as asexual and that in his story asexuality can b e understood as producing and literalizing a unique gender formation creat ed through a process of ungendering. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T193514Z LOCATION:Padelford B110 G SUMMARY:: Creating an Asexual Gender Hermaphroditus in Ovid s Metamorphoses GWSS certificate capstone TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-05-20/creating-asexual-gend er-hermaphroditus-ovid-s-metamorphoses-gwss-certificate END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:00f826bf-87ac-48d3-afb3-7a7d4b2312ef DTSTAMP:20260520T005758Z CATEGORIES:Ceremonies\, Special Events CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260203T191202Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260612T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260612T140000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T191933Z LOCATION:Walker Ames Room\, Kane Hall SUMMARY:: Classics 2026 Graduation Celebration TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://classics.washington.edu/events/2026-06-12/classics-2026-graduat ion-celebration END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR