Lectures
Lectures
Upcoming Events
John McDonald (University of Missouri)
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Denny 212 and on zoom (registration link in description)
Linda Gosner (Texas Tech) (AIA National Lecture)
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TBD and on zoom (registration link in description)
Past Events
- UW Humanities First Career Panel -
- Blackness and Race in Lucian's Satires -
- "Mixed multitudes": displacement and belonging in ancient Sicily (Annual AIA Faculty Lecture) -
- Storytelling across Millennia (UW Alumni Book Club) -
- Migrations, Marginality, and Maritime Landscapes: A New World Paleocoastal Occupation (AIA) -
- Women, Weapons and Warfare: Weapons and Burial Goods from Old Kingdom Egypt to Early Bronze Age Anatolia (hosted by Willamette University and the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest)
- - Theôria the Pornê and Theoric Mothers: Sacred Sightseeing in Aristophanes' Peace and Lysistrata -
- The Archaic Smile: It’s No Laughing Matter (AIA) -
- Insults in Classical Athens (annual AIA Faculty Lecture) -
- Outside of the Frame: Enslaved Persons in New Testament Ethics (UW Jewish Studies) -
- Greek Myths on Etruscan Sarcophagi -
- What Does the Archaeological Record Reveal About the Human Experience of Past Epidemics? (AIA) -
- Roman Diversity: Aestheticizing and Commodifying Human Variety, Then and Now (The 2020–21 John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture) -
- Double-header: Mary McNulty, Emma Brobeck -
- Triple Header: Joshua Zacks, Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Grace Funsten -
- Places, spaces, and memory: a landscape archaeology of the western Argolid, Greece (The 2020-21 AIA Ridgway Lecture) -
- Map is not territory: culture-history and archaeology in the Aegean Bronze Age -
- My 40 Year Search for the Battle of Actium (AIA) -
- 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 -