Lectures
Lectures
Upcoming Events
Camille Reiko Acosta (UC Irvine; AIA National Lecturer)
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Kenneth Lapatin (Getty)
University of Puget Sound, Room TBD
Past Events
- Teaching Rome, the [In]Visible City (The inaugural Daniel P. Harmon Visiting Lecture) -
- Breasts and Bees: An Excerpt from The Seven Wonders Project -
- The Making of 1177 BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed -
- Is Actaeon a Human? -
- Past event with recursion - , , , ,
- Book release party for Deborah Kamen's Greek Slavery -
- damnatio memoriae and Confederate statue destructions today -
- Religious art and the visibility of slaves in Pompeii -
- Getting Back to Nature: Inverted Metapoetic Metaphors in Latin Poetry -
- Mettle, Metal, and Medal, or Autotheorizing Contemporary Classical Scholarship -
- Reimagining the Trojan War in Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered and Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Fall CAPN Lecture) -
- POSTPONED -- WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO A LATER DATE -
- The Exemplary Domina: Slaving and Female Virtue in the Roman World -
- For Whose Benefit? Masturbation and Servile Status on the Berlin Foundry Cup -
- Homer's Hypertextual Underworlds -
- Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest - , ,
- Excavating War: Violence, Power and Urbanism in Prehistoric Anatolia (annual AIA Faculty Lecture) -
- Adventures in Minoan Crete: Reconstructing Life from Pottery Sherds -
- Caring for Archaeological Materials: Ethical Considerations and Practical Approaches -
- Ismene’s Antigone: Rereading Sophocles through Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire -
- The epistemics of mass enslavement in Greco-Roman antiquity: some initial hypotheses (John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture) -
- 'Dying with': Self-Starvation and Women’s Grief in Appian’s Proscription Narratives -
- Designing and Teaching Distance-Learning CLAS 430 (Greek and Roman Mythology) -
- An Evening with Saidiya Hartman -
- Petsas House, Mycenae: pottery, production, and the palatial economy of the 14th c. BCE (AIA Ridgway) -
- Classics and Apocalypse (John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture) -
- The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia (AIA) -
- Birthing Ideas in Ancient Greece and the Modern World: A Personal and Professional Story -
- 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 -
- 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? -
- “And they made a pact between themselves”: Female Financial Relationships in Roman Pompeii -
- The Dragon and the Pearl: Late Antique Christian Renditions of an Eurasian Motif -
- Why Hannah Arendt reads the Romans -
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Creativity in the Vase-Painting of Euphronios -
- Materialist Theories of Perception, Belief in Gods, and the Question of Centaurs in Lucretius and Art -
- Family History in Augustan Rome -
- De Arte Gladiatoria: Recovering Gladiatorial Tactics from Artistic Sources -
- Virgil's Geopoetics -
- On the Trail of Ancient Greeks and Romans in Plymouth Plantation -
- Creativity, Art and Scholarship: the research and writing of The Moor's Account -
- Problems and Pleasures in [Tibullus] 3 -
- Metamorphosis and mutability in late antique epic -
- Warfare in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BC (2015-16 Ridgway Lecture) -
- Thetis in Trojan Myth -
- Aspects of Greek Myth in European Opera -
- 'Sapphic Stanzas: How do we read the rhythm?' -
- 'Sex and Other Things Sell: Athenian Potters and their Foreign Consumers' -
- A rethinking of Sappho in the light of the newest fragments -
- Constructing Memory in Augustan Italy -
- “Orpheus Crosses the Atlantic: Native Americans Writing Latin in the Colonial Period” -
- 'Shaping Audience Perceptions through Deictic Patterns: Aeschylus' Persians' -
- ''The Strangeness and Beauty of Cypriot Art" -
- Reconstructing Dance in the Stone Age? Observations on the Comparative Method -
- Coming of Age at Thermon: Marriage and Its Discontents on the Metopes of Temple C -
- The Psalms and Homer: Late Antique Classicizing Poetry and Christian Exegesis -
- Wondering About, and Wondering At, Metamorphosis in Ancient Myth -
- 'Gladiators and Spectacular Violence in Ancient Rome' -
- Horace, Lucan, and the Beginnings of the Eighteenth-Century Gothic -
- Pyrenaean Mountains and Deep-Valleyed Alps. Geography and Empire in the Garland of Philip -
- Homer and Archaeology -
- Setting and Sense in Sophocles' and Euripides' Electras -
- The choric con-sociality of nonhuman life: Schiller, Hölderlin, and the place of Nature in Hellenistic poetry -
- Penelope and the Origins of Greek Art -
- Imperial Landscapes: Poetry, Demography, History, Geology -
- 'Finding' King Philip II of Macedon, Missing Since 336 BC -
- Family Affairs: A New Interpretation of the Porticus Octavia and Its Neighbors in Augustan Rome -
- Weighing In: the Priapus Painting at the House of the Vettii -
- 'Now now, quick quick!' Cursing and magic in late-antique Antioch -
- Plutarch and the Character of History -
- Marvell's Latin and Wordsworth's Greek: literature and literalism in the classical tradition -
- Masculinity and Social Relationships in Pompeii’s Brothel -
- Fleshing out the Remains: The Local and Regional Context of Roman Republican Sacrifice -
- The Sophist at Home: Herodes Atticus' Villa at Marathon and its Egyptian Sanctuary -
- Sympathy: The Early Life of An Idea -
- Youth and Rejuvenation in Tacitus' Agricola and Dialogus -
- The Garden of Flora: New Discoveries at the Roman Seaside Villas of Stabiae Near Pompeii -
- Ancient Roman Slavery and American History -
- Prof. Blondell to present at GeekGirlCon 2013 -
- NB: THIS LECTURE ('Sympathy: The Early Life of An Idea') HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014. -
- University Lecture Series 2013: Jews, Greeks, And Romans in The Ancient World: From Marginalization to Multiculturalism - , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
- The Borghese Mosaics, Its Gladiators, and Late Roman Spectacles of Death (Lecture sponsored by UW Art History) -
- The Universal Polytheism: Interpretatio Graeco-Romana -
- The Roman World Seen Through Portable Sundials -
- Moral Concerns in the Reception of Roman Poetry in China -
- Writing Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times -
- Why do we know Plato: Byzantium and the Classics -
- Cultural Poetics and Ekphrasis: Shield-Portraits and Shield Description in Imperial Epic -
- Who, Sappho? -
- The Study of Roman Art: Current Developments and Future Prospects -
- Ambiguous Legacies: The Causa Curiana as mise en abyme in Cicero's Brutus -
- What did an Athenian rhetor do? -