Tea-time Colloquium, featuring UW graduate students
Denny 257 (Meg Greenfield Room)
SPEAKER 1: Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld
PAPER 1: “‘May the Thief Become as Liquid as Water’: Persuasion and Power in a Curse Tablet from Roman Bath”
SPEAKER 2: Edgar Adrián García
PAPER 2: “Serta Mihi Phyllis Legeret: Epigrammatic Echoes in Vergil’s Eclogues”
SPEAKER 3: Sophie Emilia Seidler
PAPER 3: “Proserpina’s Pomegranate and Ceres’ Anorexic Anger: Food, Sexuality, and Denial in Ovid’s Account of Ceres and Proserpina”
One of a series of informal Teatime Colloquia occasionally held in the Department of Classics, a later afternoon variation on our traditional Lunchtime Colloquium format. With three short papers and discussion after each, the event is expected to run about 120 minutes.