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McDiarmid Lectures
Past Events
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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
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Edith Hall (Durham University): Classics and Apocalypse (John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture) -
April 20, 2022
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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
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Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania): CANCELLED – Re-translating Homer (2019-20 McDiarmid Lecture) -
March 13, 2020
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Leslie Kurke (Univ. of California, Berkeley): Sappho on Papyrus: Reading Some New Poems -
January 11, 2019
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Sharon James (UNC Chapel Hill): Reading Women's Experiences in New Comedy -
March 2, 2018
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Alessandro Barchiesi (NYU) -- John B. and Mary K. McDiarmid Lecture: Virgil's Geopoetics -
February 3, 2017
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Gregory Nagy (Harvard): A rethinking of Sappho in the light of the newest fragments -
January 12, 2016
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Sarah Iles Johnston (Ohio State): Wondering About, and Wondering At, Metamorphosis in Ancient Myth -
April 10, 2015
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John Marincola (Florida State): Plutarch and the Character of History -
March 7, 2014
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Maria Wyke (University College, London): Antiquity in Silent Cinema -
March 8, 2013
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James J. O'Hara (North Carolina): Teaching, Pretending to Teach, and the Authority of the Speaker in Roman Didactic and Satire -
March 2, 2012
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Cynthia Damon (Pennsylvania): Pliny's Planetary Theory: Soundings -
November 5, 2010
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Tim Whitmarsh (Corpus Christi, Oxford): Unscrolling the Text: Greek Literature and the Hellenistic Diaspora -
March 5, 2010
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Peter Bing (Emory): Inscribed Epigrams In and Out of Sequence or "Valorous-hearted as well were they who fought at Eïon" -
October 23, 2008
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Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of Wisconsin, Madison): From Syracuse to Rome: The Travails of Silanion's Sappho -
October 12, 2007
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Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck College, University of London): Silent Protest: The Politics of Death in Tacitean Rome -
October 27, 2006
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Diskin Clay (Duke University): The New Empedocles -
November 18, 2005
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David M. Halperin (Michigan): How to Destroy the History of Sexuality -
November 5, 2004
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Denis Feeney (Princeton): Transitions into History: Founding and Refounding, the City or Rome -
February 27, 2004
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Helene Foley (Barnard): Choral Identity in Greek Tragedy -
November 4, 2002
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Simon Goldhill (Cambridge): Artemis and Greek Culture in the Roman Empire: Structuralism, Polytheism, and Mess -
January 11, 2002
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John Henderson (Cambridge): Love in Copenhagen: Thorvaldsen's Museum -
March 5, 2001