McDiarmid Lectures
McDiarmid Lectures
Upcoming Events
Kirk Ormand (Oberlin College)
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Denny 212 and on zoom (registration link below)
Past Events
- Polari Catullus (John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture - 2024-rescheduled) -
- Democracy, Citizenship, and Empire: Native American Writers on Greece, Rome, and the United States -
- The epistemics of mass enslavement in Greco-Roman antiquity: some initial hypotheses (John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture) -
- Classics and Apocalypse (John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture) -
- Roman Diversity: Aestheticizing and Commodifying Human Variety, Then and Now (The 2020–21 John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture) -
- CANCELLED – Re-translating Homer (2019-20 McDiarmid Lecture) -
- Sappho on Papyrus: Reading Some New Poems -
- Reading Women's Experiences in New Comedy -
- Virgil's Geopoetics -
- A rethinking of Sappho in the light of the newest fragments -
- Wondering About, and Wondering At, Metamorphosis in Ancient Myth -
- Plutarch and the Character of History -
- Antiquity in Silent Cinema -
- Teaching, Pretending to Teach, and the Authority of the Speaker in Roman Didactic and Satire -
- Pliny's Planetary Theory: Soundings -
- Unscrolling the Text: Greek Literature and the Hellenistic Diaspora -
- Inscribed Epigrams In and Out of Sequence or "Valorous-hearted as well were they who fought at Eïon" -
- From Syracuse to Rome: The Travails of Silanion's Sappho -
- Silent Protest: The Politics of Death in Tacitean Rome -
- The New Empedocles -
- How to Destroy the History of Sexuality -
- Transitions into History: Founding and Refounding, the City or Rome -
- Choral Identity in Greek Tragedy -
- Artemis and Greek Culture in the Roman Empire: Structuralism, Polytheism, and Mess -
- Love in Copenhagen: Thorvaldsen's Museum -