Lectures

Upcoming Events

Breasts and Bees: An Excerpt from The Seven Wonders Project

Clara Bosak-Schroeder (Illinois)
May 3, 2024 - 3:30pm
Denny 112 or on Zoom

Teaching Rome, the InVisible City (The inaugural Daniel P. Harmon Visiting Lecture)

Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania)
May 10, 2024 - 3:30pm
Denny 112 and by Zoom

Past Events

Glynnis Fawkes (Center for Cartoon Studies, White River Junction, VT): The Making of 1177 BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed - April 26, 2024
William Brockliss (U. Wisconsin-Madison): Is Actaeon a Human? - April 19, 2024
Book release party for Deborah Kamen's Greek Slavery - March 29, 2024
Jen Trimble (Stanford; AIA Ridgway Lecture): damnatio memoriae and Confederate statue destructions today - March 2, 2024
Jen Trimble (Stanford): Religious art and the visibility of slaves in Pompeii - March 1, 2024
Christopher Chinn (Pomona): Getting Back to Nature: Inverted Metapoetic Metaphors in Latin Poetry - January 12, 2024
Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown University): Mettle, Metal, and Medal, or Autotheorizing Contemporary Classical Scholarship - December 1, 2023
Christopher Waldo: Reimagining the Trojan War in Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered and Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Fall CAPN Lecture) - November 16, 2023
Chris van den Berg (Amherst): POSTPONED -- WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO A LATER DATE - October 27, 2023
Katharine Huemoeller (University of British Columbia): The Exemplary Domina: Slaving and Female Virtue in the Roman World - October 13, 2023
Jonathan Clark (UW PhD program in Classics): For Whose Benefit? Masturbation and Servile Status on the Berlin Foundry Cup - September 28, 2023
Suzanne Lye (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Homer's Hypertextual Underworlds - May 12, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting: Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest - March 10, 2023 to March 11, 2023
Stephanie Selover (UW MELC): Excavating War: Violence, Power and Urbanism in Prehistoric Anatolia (annual AIA Faculty Lecture) - March 4, 2023
Emilia Oddo (Tulane University): Adventures in Minoan Crete: Reconstructing Life from Pottery Sherds - March 3, 2023
Anna Serotta (Metropolitan Museum of Art): Caring for Archaeological Materials: Ethical Considerations and Practical Approaches - February 24, 2023
Arum Park (University of Arizona): Ismene’s Antigone: Rereading Sophocles through Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire - January 27, 2023
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton): The epistemics of mass enslavement in Greco-Roman antiquity: some initial hypotheses (John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture) - January 13, 2023
Mary McNulty (UW PhD program in Classics): 'Dying with': Self-Starvation and Women’s Grief in Appian’s Proscription Narratives - December 8, 2022
Marie La Fond, Brian Gutierrez, Verletta Kern, and Eddie Sams (UW): Designing and Teaching Distance-Learning CLAS 430 (Greek and Roman Mythology) - November 3, 2022
Saidiya Hartman (Columbia University): An Evening with Saidiya Hartman - October 26, 2022
Kim Shelton (Berkeley): Petsas House, Mycenae: pottery, production, and the palatial economy of the 14th c. BCE (AIA Ridgway) - April 22, 2022
Edith Hall (Durham University): Classics and Apocalypse (John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture) - April 20, 2022
Miriam Stark (Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa): The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia (AIA) - March 5, 2022
Yurie Hong (Gustavus Adolphus College): Birthing Ideas in Ancient Greece and the Modern World: A Personal and Professional Story - March 4, 2022
UW Humanities First Career Panel - March 3, 2022
Sarah Derbew (Stanford): Blackness and Race in Lucian's Satires - February 18, 2022
Randall Souza (Seattle University): "Mixed multitudes": displacement and belonging in ancient Sicily (Annual AIA Faculty Lecture) - January 21, 2022
Chris Waldo (UW Classics): Storytelling across Millennia (UW Alumni Book Club) - December 7, 2021
Amy Gusick (Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County): Migrations, Marginality, and Maritime Landscapes: A New World Paleocoastal Occupation (AIA) - October 22, 2021
Stephanie Selover (UW NELC): 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) - October 7, 2021
Lauri Reitzammer (University of Colorado): Theôria the Pornê and Theoric Mothers: Sacred Sightseeing in Aristophanes' Peace and Lysistrata - May 21, 2021
Jeffrey M. Hurwit (History of Art and Architecture and Classics, University of Oregon): The Archaic Smile: It’s No Laughing Matter (AIA) - April 9, 2021
Deborah Kamen (UW Classics): Insults in Classical Athens (annual AIA Faculty Lecture) - February 20, 2021
Bernadette Brooten (Brandeis University): Outside of the Frame: Enslaved Persons in New Testament Ethics (UW Jewish Studies) - February 11, 2021
Valeria Riedemann, Ph.D. (University of Washington): Greek Myths on Etruscan Sarcophagi - February 11, 2021
Ben Marwick (Anthropology, University of Washington): What Does the Archaeological Record Reveal About the Human Experience of Past Epidemics? (AIA) - January 29, 2021
Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Roman Diversity: Aestheticizing and Commodifying Human Variety, Then and Now (The 2020–21 John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture) - January 12, 2021
Tea-time Colloquium, featuring UW graduate students: Double-header: Mary McNulty, Emma Brobeck - December 11, 2020
Tea-time Colloquium, featuring UW graduate students: Triple Header: Joshua Zacks, Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Grace Funsten - December 4, 2020
Dimitri Nakassis (University of Colorado, Boulder): Places, spaces, and memory: a landscape archaeology of the western Argolid, Greece (The 2020-21 AIA Ridgway Lecture) - November 20, 2020
Dimitri Nakassis (University of Colorado, Boulder): Map is not territory: culture-history and archaeology in the Aegean Bronze Age - November 19, 2020
William M. Murray (Department of History, University of South Florida, Tampa): My 40 Year Search for the Battle of Actium (AIA) - November 7, 2020
Nanno Marinatos (University of Illinois, Chicago): The Narrative of the Goddess on Some Theran Frescoes (co-sponsored by Hellenic Studies) - October 29, 2020
Stephanie Selover, Ulrike Kroscheck, Ian Randall, Aislinn Melchior, and Dale Croes: International Archaeology Day Lightning Talks, hosted by the Puget Sound Society of the Archaeological Institute of America - October 17, 2020
Michael Ritter (University of Washington): POSTPONED – Rhetorical Indignation: The Ethical Quality of Juvenalian Anger - May 28, 2020
Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania): CANCELLED – Re-translating Homer (2019-20 McDiarmid Lecture) - March 13, 2020
Joseph Bringman (1), Mary McNulty (2): UW PhD program in Classics: (1) Fate, Achilles, and Counterfactuals (2) Muliebris Fraus: The Death of Germanicus and Gendered Magical Language in Tacitus' Annales 2.69-72 - March 6, 2020
Barbara Hillers (Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Indiana U): "That very clever man": Ulysses in medieval Ireland - February 28, 2020
Thomas Brogan (Director, Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete): An Archaeology of the Bronze Age Senses: the tastes, smells and colors of new finds from east Cretan excavations (AIA) - February 1, 2020
Tea-time Colloquium, featuring UW graduate students: Triple-header: Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Edgar Adrián García, Sophie Emilia Seidler - December 6, 2019
Andromache Karanika (University of California at Irvine): Touching Time: Female Weaving, Materiality and Temporality in Greek Literature - November 22, 2019
Joel Alden Schlosser (Bryn Mawr/UW Simpson Center Visiting Fellow): Politics is for the Dogs: Diogenes the Cynic and Political Refusal (Simpson Center Lecture) - November 20, 2019
Kristina Killgrove (Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): Death Comes to Oplontis: Victims of Mt. Vesuvius Reveal Life in 79 AD - November 1, 2019
Elizabeth M. Greene (Western Ontario): The Social Life of Roman Soldiers: The role of wives, children and families in Roman military communities (AIA) - October 25, 2019
Emily Greenwood (Yale University): Thucydides on Diversity, and Vice Versa: Unlikely Dialogues - October 18, 2019
Richard De Puma (Iowa): Etruscan Forgeries (The 2019-20 Ridgway Lecture) - September 28, 2019
Kirk Ormand (Oberlin College): Women in and out of Time: Atalanta and Sappho - May 17, 2019
Jennifer Stager (Johns Hopkins University): Color, Vision, and Variegation - May 10, 2019
Emma Brobeck, UW PhD program in Classics: Metapoetic Self-Referentiality in the Artwork Poems of Martial’s Apophoreta - March 21, 2019
Grace Funsten (1), Anna Simas (2), UW PhD program in Classics: (1) 'Moechos arrogantes: Roman Comedy and Elegy in Horace Carm. 1.25' (2) 'The name of Clytemnestra in the Odyssey' - March 8, 2019
Aislinn Melchior (University of Puget Sound): A Romantic Past: What does a white muslin gown have to do with Pompeii? - March 2, 2019
Troels Myrup Kristensen (Aarhus University): Connecting the Dots: New Perspectives on Mobility and Gathering in Ancient Mediterranean Sanctuaries - February 22, 2019
Stephanie Selover (UW Near Eastern Languages & Civilization): Women, Weapons and Warfare: An Examination of Weapons as Female Burial Goods in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - February 15, 2019
Leslie Kurke (Univ. of California, Berkeley): Sappho on Papyrus: Reading Some New Poems - January 11, 2019
Megan O'Donald (1) and Emma Brobeck (2), UW Classics: Easily He Wielded It: Paronomasia in Homer’s Lexical Ring Structures / Etymological Resonances Between the Argiletum and the Forum Transitorium - December 7, 2018
Adrienne Mayor (Stanford): Gods and Robots - December 3, 2018
Sarah Culpepper Stroup, UW Classics: Quidque te in colendo oporteat facere: The Dystopian Political Didactics of Varro’s de Rebus Rusticis - November 29, 2018
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton): The reign of Janus: towards a semiotics of mid-republican Rome - November 13, 2018
C. Brian Rose (University of Pennsylvania): Archaeology, War, and Museums in the 21st Century - November 9, 2018
C. Brian Rose (University of Pennsylvania): Assessing the Evidence for the Trojan War: Recent Excavations at Troy (AIA Puget Sound Ridgway Lecture) - November 8, 2018
Alison Futrell (Arizona): Remembering Boudica: Monuments of a Barbarian Queen (AIA Puget Sound Society, Joukowsky Lecture) - October 26, 2018
Lawrence Kim (Trinity University, San Antonio): The Egyptian Homer? Recognition, Marks of Identity, and Thighs in Heliodorus' An Ethiopian Tale - October 12, 2018
Marko Marinčič (University of Ljubljana): Ovid's wife and the limits of fiction - October 5, 2018
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Ohio State): In the glassy stream. Some further thoughts on Callimachus and Pindar - September 28, 2018
Jenny Strauss Clay (Virginia): Hermes in Homer: A Friend to All and No One - May 18, 2018
Matthew Gorey: Pious Dissent: Tradition, Translation, and Subversive Allusion in Luís de Camões' Lusiads - April 30, 2018
John C. Franklin (University of Vermont): The Wise Crocodiles: New Ancient Music for Euripides' Helen - April 27, 2018
Andreas Avgousti (Visiting Scholar in UW Department of Political Science): On the purported incompatibility of philosophy and the city: reputation in Plato’s Gorgias and Theaetetus - April 12, 2018
Chad Carver and Grace Funsten (UW PhD program): 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.' - April 6, 2018
Mary Beard (Cambridge): How to Spot a Roman Emperor - March 24, 2018
Brian Krostenko (University of Notre Dame): How and Why to Talk to a Dictator about Philosophy, Poetry, and Dancing Naked: Cicero and Caesar in Cicero's speech Pro rege Deiotaro - March 6, 2018
Sharon James (UNC Chapel Hill): Reading Women's Experiences in New Comedy - March 2, 2018
Daniel Conner and Edgar Adrián García (UW Classics PhD program): 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) - February 28, 2018
Michal Bar Asher Siegel and Elitzur Bar Asher Siegel: Hebrew Traditions in Hellenistic Jewish sources: Philo of Alexandria and the Epistle to the Galatians - February 20, 2018
Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia): Finishing the Aeneid: translators' handling of Maffeo Vegio's Book 13 - February 9, 2018
Sarah Levin-Richardson (UW Classics): Brothels and Prostitution at Pompeii - January 23, 2018
Tamara Chin (Comparative Literature, Brown University) : The Politics of Greek Meter in Modern Asia - November 17, 2017
Floyd McCoy (Univ. of Hawaii) (AIA Joukowsky Lecturer): The Late Bronze Age Eruption of Thera - October 27, 2017
Emma Brobeck, PhD Student, University of Washington: 'Efficacior Pictura: Morality and the Arts in Valerius Maximus' - October 11, 2017
Julia Dyson Hejduk (Baylor University): Was Virgil Reading the Bible? Original Sin and an Astonishing Acrostic in the Orpheus and Eurydice - October 6, 2017
Nicola Terrenato (Michigan) (Ridgway Lecturer): Elite Negotiation and Consensus Building: Rewriting early Roman Imperialism - September 28, 2017
Wiebke Denecke, East Asian Literatures & Comparative Literature, Boston University: Conceptualizing premodernities: What, Why, Who, How? - May 5, 2017
Kristina Milnor (Barnard): “And they made a pact between themselves”: Female Financial Relationships in Roman Pompeii - May 4, 2017
Joel Walker, UW Department of History : The Dragon and the Pearl: Late Antique Christian Renditions of an Eurasian Motif - April 11, 2017
Joy Connolly (CUNY Graduate Center): Why Hannah Arendt reads the Romans - April 7, 2017
Guy Hedreen (Williams College) -- 2016-17 Ridgway Lecture: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Creativity in the Vase-Painting of Euphronios - March 3, 2017
Guy Hedreen (Williams College): Materialist Theories of Perception, Belief in Gods, and the Question of Centaurs in Lucretius and Art - March 2, 2017
Josiah Osgood (Georgetown): Family History in Augustan Rome - February 24, 2017
Steven L. Tuck (Miami University): De Arte Gladiatoria: Recovering Gladiatorial Tactics from Artistic Sources - February 11, 2017
Alessandro Barchiesi (NYU) -- John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture: Virgil's Geopoetics - February 3, 2017
David Lupher (Whitman College): On the Trail of Ancient Greeks and Romans in Plymouth Plantation - October 8, 2016
Dr. Laila Lalami: Creativity, Art and Scholarship: the research and writing of The Moor's Account - May 7, 2016
Stephen Heyworth, Professor of Latin, Bowra Fellow & Tutor in Classics, Wadham College, Oxford: Problems and Pleasures in [Tibullus] 3 - April 8, 2016
Philip Hardie, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge: Metamorphosis and mutability in late antique epic - March 28, 2016
John Lee (Santa Barbara): Warfare in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BC (2015-16 Ridgway Lecture) - March 10, 2016
Menelaos Christopoulos, University of Patras, Greece: Thetis in Trojan Myth - March 4, 2016
Menelaos Christopoulos, University of Patras, Greece: Aspects of Greek Myth in European Opera - March 2, 2016
Yopie Prins (Michigan): 'Sapphic Stanzas: How do we read the rhythm?' - March 1, 2016
Kathleen Lynch (Cincinnati): 'Sex and Other Things Sell: Athenian Potters and their Foreign Consumers' - February 6, 2016
Gregory Nagy (Harvard): A rethinking of Sappho in the light of the newest fragments - January 12, 2016
Eric Orlin (Univ. of Puget Sound): Constructing Memory in Augustan Italy - December 3, 2015
Craig Williams (Illinois): “Orpheus Crosses the Atlantic: Native Americans Writing Latin in the Colonial Period” - November 13, 2015
Nancy Felson (Georgia): 'Shaping Audience Perceptions through Deictic Patterns: Aeschylus' Persians' - October 27, 2015
William Childs (Princeton) : ''The Strangeness and Beauty of Cypriot Art" - October 23, 2015
Elizabeth Barber (Occidental College): Reconstructing Dance in the Stone Age? Observations on the Comparative Method - October 9, 2015
Kathryn Topper (UW Classics): Coming of Age at Thermon: Marriage and Its Discontents on the Metopes of Temple C - May 19, 2015
Andrew Faulkner (Waterloo): The Psalms and Homer: Late Antique Classicizing Poetry and Christian Exegesis - May 8, 2015
Sarah Iles Johnston (Ohio State): Wondering About, and Wondering At, Metamorphosis in Ancient Myth - April 10, 2015
Sarah C. Stroup (UW Classics): 'Gladiators and Spectacular Violence in Ancient Rome' - March 15, 2015
James Uden (Boston University): Horace, Lucan, and the Beginnings of the Eighteenth-Century Gothic - February 26, 2015
Thomas A. Schmitz (Bonn): Pyrenaean Mountains and Deep-Valleyed Alps. Geography and Empire in the Garland of Philip - January 30, 2015
Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (Thessaly): Homer and Archaeology - January 15, 2015
Hanna Roisman (Colby): Setting and Sense in Sophocles' and Euripides' Electras - December 8, 2014
Mark Payne (Chicago): The choric con-sociality of nonhuman life: Schiller, Hölderlin, and the place of Nature in Hellenistic poetry - December 5, 2014
Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Occidental College): Penelope and the Origins of Greek Art - November 6, 2014
Joe Farrell (Pennsylvania): Imperial Landscapes: Poetry, Demography, History, Geology - October 2, 2014
Dr. Yannis Maniatis and Laura Wynn-Antikas: 'Finding' King Philip II of Macedon, Missing Since 336 BC - May 27, 2014
Barbara Kellum (Smith College): Family Affairs: A New Interpretation of the Porticus Octavia and Its Neighbors in Augustan Rome - May 2, 2014
Barbara Kellum (Smith College): Weighing In: the Priapus Painting at the House of the Vettii - May 2, 2014
Alexander Hollmann (UW Classics): 'Now now, quick quick!' Cursing and magic in late-antique Antioch - April 8, 2014
John Marincola (Florida State): Plutarch and the Character of History - March 7, 2014
Stephen E. Hinds (UW Classics): Marvell's Latin and Wordsworth's Greek: literature and literalism in the classical tradition - February 25, 2014
Sarah Levin-Richardson (University of San Diego): Masculinity and Social Relationships in Pompeii’s Brothel - February 10, 2014
Claudia Moser (Brown University): Fleshing out the Remains: The Local and Regional Context of Roman Republican Sacrifice - February 7, 2014
Lindsey Mazurek (Duke University): The Sophist at Home: Herodes Atticus' Villa at Marathon and its Egyptian Sanctuary - January 31, 2014
Brooke Holmes (Princeton): Sympathy: The Early Life of An Idea - January 24, 2014
Dylan Sailor (UC Berkeley): Youth and Rejuvenation in Tacitus' Agricola and Dialogus - November 22, 2013
Thomas Howe (Southwestern University): The Garden of Flora: New Discoveries at the Roman Seaside Villas of Stabiae Near Pompeii - November 8, 2013
Sandra Joshel (UW History): Ancient Roman Slavery and American History - October 23, 2013
Ruby Blondell (UW Classics): Prof. Blondell to present at GeekGirlCon 2013 - October 19, 2013
Brooke Holmes (Princeton): NB: THIS LECTURE ('Sympathy: The Early Life of An Idea') HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014. - June 7, 2013
Prof. Sarah Stroup (UW Classics): University Lecture Series 2013: Jews, Greeks, And Romans in The Ancient World: From Marginalization to Multiculturalism - April 10, 2013 to April 24, 2013
Anne McClanan (Portland State): The Borghese Mosaics, Its Gladiators, and Late Roman Spectacles of Death (Lecture sponsored by UW Art History) - March 4, 2013
Robert Parker (New College, Oxford): The Universal Polytheism: Interpretatio Graeco-Romana - February 22, 2013
Richard Talbert (Chapel Hill): The Roman World Seen Through Portable Sundials - February 7, 2013
Yongyi Li (Chongqinq University): Moral Concerns in the Reception of Roman Poetry in China - November 30, 2012
Christopher Faraone (Chicago): Writing Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times - November 2, 2012
Dimitris Tsougarakis (Ionian University, Corfu; Onassis Foundation): Why do we know Plato: Byzantium and the Classics - October 12, 2012
Riemer Faber (Waterloo): Cultural Poetics and Ekphrasis: Shield-Portraits and Shield Description in Imperial Epic - May 18, 2012
Alex Purves (UCLA): Who, Sappho? - April 27, 2012
Christopher Hallett (UC Berkeley): The Study of Roman Art: Current Developments and Future Prospects - February 23, 2012
John Dugan (SUNY Buffalo): Ambiguous Legacies: The Causa Curiana as mise en abyme in Cicero's Brutus - February 10, 2012
David Mirhady (Simon Fraser): What did an Athenian rhetor do? - October 28, 2011

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