Lectures
Lectures
Upcoming Events
Mark Letteney (UW History)
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Denny 303 and zoom
Kenneth Lapatin (Getty)
University of Puget Sound, Room TBD
Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham University)
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UW Campus TBD
Past Events
- The Narrative of the Goddess on Some Theran Frescoes (co-sponsored by Hellenic Studies) -
- International Archaeology Day Lightning Talks, hosted by the Puget Sound Society of the Archaeological Institute of America -
- POSTPONED – Rhetorical Indignation: The Ethical Quality of Juvenalian Anger -
- CANCELLED – Re-translating Homer (2019-20 McDiarmid Lecture) -
- (1) Fate, Achilles, and Counterfactuals (2) Muliebris Fraus: The Death of Germanicus and Gendered Magical Language in Tacitus' Annales 2.69-72 -
- "That very clever man": Ulysses in medieval Ireland -
- An Archaeology of the Bronze Age Senses: the tastes, smells and colors of new finds from east Cretan excavations (AIA) -
- Triple-header: Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Edgar Adrián García, Sophie Emilia Seidler -
- Touching Time: Female Weaving, Materiality and Temporality in Greek Literature -
- Politics is for the Dogs: Diogenes the Cynic and Political Refusal (Simpson Center Lecture) -
- Death Comes to Oplontis: Victims of Mt. Vesuvius Reveal Life in 79 AD -
- The Social Life of Roman Soldiers: The role of wives, children and families in Roman military communities (AIA) -
- Thucydides on Diversity, and Vice Versa: Unlikely Dialogues -
- Etruscan Forgeries (The 2019-20 Ridgway Lecture) -
- Women in and out of Time: Atalanta and Sappho -
- Color, Vision, and Variegation -
- Metapoetic Self-Referentiality in the Artwork Poems of Martial’s Apophoreta -
- (1) 'Moechos arrogantes: Roman Comedy and Elegy in Horace Carm. 1.25' (2) 'The name of Clytemnestra in the Odyssey' -
- A Romantic Past: What does a white muslin gown have to do with Pompeii? -
- Connecting the Dots: New Perspectives on Mobility and Gathering in Ancient Mediterranean Sanctuaries -
- Women, Weapons and Warfare: An Examination of Weapons as Female Burial Goods in Early Bronze Age Anatolia -
- Sappho on Papyrus: Reading Some New Poems -
- Easily He Wielded It: Paronomasia in Homer’s Lexical Ring Structures / Etymological Resonances Between the Argiletum and the Forum Transitorium -
- Gods and Robots -
- Quidque te in colendo oporteat facere: The Dystopian Political Didactics of Varro’s de Rebus Rusticis -
- The reign of Janus: towards a semiotics of mid-republican Rome -
- Archaeology, War, and Museums in the 21st Century -
- Assessing the Evidence for the Trojan War: Recent Excavations at Troy (AIA Puget Sound Ridgway Lecture) -
- Remembering Boudica: Monuments of a Barbarian Queen (AIA Puget Sound Society, Joukowsky Lecture) -
- The Egyptian Homer? Recognition, Marks of Identity, and Thighs in Heliodorus' An Ethiopian Tale -
- Ovid's wife and the limits of fiction -
- In the glassy stream. Some further thoughts on Callimachus and Pindar -
- Hermes in Homer: A Friend to All and No One -
- Pious Dissent: Tradition, Translation, and Subversive Allusion in Luís de Camões' Lusiads -
- The Wise Crocodiles: New Ancient Music for Euripides' Helen -
- On the purported incompatibility of philosophy and the city: reputation in Plato’s Gorgias and Theaetetus -
- Chad Carver, 'Pindar’s ὅπλων κρίσις: Ajax and Athens in Three Aeginetan Odes.' Grace Funsten, 'A Learned Dog: Roman Elegy and the Epitaph for Margarita.' -
- How to Spot a Roman Emperor -
- How and Why to Talk to a Dictator about Philosophy, Poetry, and Dancing Naked: Cicero and Caesar in Cicero's speech Pro rege Deiotaro -
- Reading Women's Experiences in New Comedy -
- Department Tea-Time Colloquium (double-header): 'Lesbius, Gellius, and Catullus: Rivals for the Lesbian Muse' (DC) 'Seeing Teucer Doubled: Ambiguity and Prophecy in Horace, Odes 1.7' (EAG) -
- Hebrew Traditions in Hellenistic Jewish sources: Philo of Alexandria and the Epistle to the Galatians -
- Finishing the Aeneid: translators' handling of Maffeo Vegio's Book 13 -
- Brothels and Prostitution at Pompeii -
- The Politics of Greek Meter in Modern Asia -
- The Late Bronze Age Eruption of Thera -
- 'Efficacior Pictura: Morality and the Arts in Valerius Maximus' -
- Was Virgil Reading the Bible? Original Sin and an Astonishing Acrostic in the Orpheus and Eurydice -
- Elite Negotiation and Consensus Building: Rewriting early Roman Imperialism -
- Conceptualizing premodernities: What, Why, Who, How? -