Department  of  Classics  Lecture  and  Events  Schedule,  FALL  2011  

Classics Department Lecture Series (6:30 PM in RI Hall 108 unless otherwise noted)

Thurs. Sept. 15 Marcus Folch (Columbia): “The Shackles that Bind Men Together: Imprisonment Before the Prison in Archaic and Classical Greece”

Thurs. Sept. 22 Tim Whitmarsh (Oxford): “Race, Intermarriage and Greek Literary History”

Thurs. Sept. 29 Nathan Arrington (Princeton): “Heroes, Generals, and the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens” (co-sponsored with the Joukowsky Institute)

Wed. Oct. 19 Michèle Brunet (Lyon 2): “Delos: Water in Country and Town” (co-sponsored with the Joukowsky Institute)

Mon. Nov. 7 (6pm) Christer Bruun (Toronto): “King Antiochus of Sicily and the Political Aims of the First Sicilian Slave Rebellion” Thurs. Nov. 10 Bob Ousterhout (Penn): “The Life and Afterlife of Constantine's Column”

(co-sponsored with the Joukowsky Institute and MEMS) Classics Special Events

Tues. Oct. 4 Annual Brown-Yale Meeting (at Yale)

Stratis Papaioannou: “Authorship in Byzantium”; respondent: Rob Nelson (Yale, Art History)

Oct. 13-15 Conference: “The Classics Renewed: New Approaches to Latin Poetry”

Organized by Joseph Pucci (Brown) and Scott McGill (Rice University)

More information at http://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/late-latin-poetry-conf

Fri. Oct. 28 Mini-conference in conjunction with LATIN 1060H, “Julius Caesar: I came, I saw, I wrote”

Andrew Riggsby (UT Austin) (Title TBA), with Kurt Raaflaub (Brown respondent); organized by Lisa Mignone (Brown)

Sat. Nov. 12 Concert presented by Cappella Romana (Sayles Hall, 7pm)

“From Jerusalem to Constantinople: Byzantine Music for St. Catherine and Epiphany” Preceded by a lecture (at 4 pm) on Byzantine Music by Alexander Lingas (City University, London)

Mon. Dec. 5 Annual Latin Carol Service

8pm, First Baptist Church in America (75 North Main Street, Providence)

Department  of  Classics  Lecture  and  Events  Schedule,  Spring  2012      Mon,  Feb  13th           Peter  Agocs  (Univ.  of  Cambridge)  @  5:30  in  RI  Hall  108             “Some  Thoughts  on  Text  and  Texuality  in  early  Greece”    Mon  &  Tues,    Feb  13th  &14th       Ancient  Religion/Modern  Tech  in  Petterutti  Lounge    Tues,  Feb  14th           CRAM  ,  Johanna  Hanink  (Brown  Univ.)@  noon  in  RI  Hall  108             “The  Great  Dionysia  of  404  BCE”    Tues,  Feb  28th           Grimshaw  Gudewicz:    J.  Strauss  Clay  (Univ.  Of  Virginia)  @  5:30  in  MacMillian  117             “Mapping  the  Trojan  Plain  and  Plotting  the  Greek  Catalogue”    Fri-­‐  Sat  March  2-­‐3         Archaeology  of  Turkey:  State  of  the  Field  2012  in  RI  Hall    Tues  March  6th                  Andre  Malta  (Univ.Sao  Paulo)  @  noon  in  the  Classics  Seminar  Room  (MacFarlane)             “  Dream,  Reality,  and  Rhesus’  Death:    Iliad  10.494-­‐497”    Thurs  March  22nd         Simon  Goldhill    (Cambridge  Univ.)  @  5:30pm  in  in  Salomon  001             “Breaking  the  Lyric  Voice:    Sophocles’  Choral  Experiments”    March  29th  –Apr  1         The  Amer.  Comp  Lit  Association  Conference  @  Brown  

 Mon,  April  2nd       Charles  Alexander  Robinson  Lecture:  Nicholas  Purcell  (Oxford  Univ.)  @  5:30  in                 Salomon  001       “Roman  Diasporas  and  the  Texture  of  Empire”          Tues,  April  3rd           Margaret  Mullett  (Director  of  Byzantine  Studies,  Dumbarton  Oaks))  @  5:30  in  RI  Hall  108             "'Tales  Told  in  a  Tent':  Ephemeral  Experiences  under  the  Komnenoi"    Mon,  April  9th           Christopher  Stray  (Institute  of  Classical  Studies  @  Univ.  of  London)  @  5:30  in  RI  Hall  108             “’Our  Two  Friends’:    The  Making  and  Remaking  of  Liddell  and  Scott’s  Greek-­‐English                   Lexicon”    Friday-­‐  Sunday  April  13-­‐15       W  Scheidel  (Stanford)  and  J.  Bodel  (Brown  Univ.)  Conference  Location  and  Time:  TBA             “Being  Nobody?  Understanding  Slavery  Thirty  Years  After  Slavery  and  Social  Death”    Thurs,  April  19th           Peter  Fibiger  Bang  (Univ.  of  Copenhagen)  @  5:30  in  Classics  Seminar  Room  (MacFarlane)             “Elephant  of  India”    Fri,  April  20th           Liz  Irwin  (Columbia  Univ.)  @  noon  in  Classics  Seminar  Room    Friday-­‐  Saturday,  April  27-­‐28       SAMR  Conference  in  RI  Hall  108    Mon,  April  30th         Peter  Struck  (Univ.  of  Pennsylvania)  @  5:30  in  RI  Hall  108             “Divination  in  Augustine  and  Iamblichus”    Tues,  May  8th          Batrice  Caseau  (Univ.  Paris-­‐Sorbonne,  Paris  IV)  @  5:30  in  RI  Hall  108              “Shaping  the  Body  for  God”