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News & Events: Lectures and Conferences sponsored or co-sponsored by the Department of Classics 2011-12
NB: This schedule is in a continual state of evolution and change….
AUTUMN QUARTER 2011
Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (UW Classics)
Lunchtime Colloquium
Thursday, Oct. 20, 12:30-1:20
"Helen with a Blue Dress On: Strauss' Die Ägyptische Helena"
Faculty-Graduate Lounge, Denny 215A
David Mirhady (Simon Fraser)
Friday, 28 October, 3:30, Denny 216
"What did an Athenian rhetor do?"
Andrew Goldman (Gonzaga)
AIA Lecture
Thursday, November 3, 7:30 PM, 210 Kane Hall
"The Intriguing Case of the Octagonal Gemstones
from Gordion (Turkey)"
(click here for the website of the Seattle Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America)
Alison Wylie (UW Philosophy)
Lunchtime Colloquium
Thursday, December 1, 12:30-1:20 PM
Faculty-Graduate Lounge, Denny 215A
"From the Ground Up: Philosophy of Archaeology"
WINTER QUARTER 2012
Margaret Laird (UW Art History)
Thirteenth UW Annual Faculty Lecture, co-sponsored by Classics and the AIA
Tuesday, 24 January, 7:30 PM
210 Kane Hall
"The Collegio degli Augustali: an ancient Elks Lodge at Herculaneum"
John Dugan (SUNY Buffalo)
Friday, 10 February, 3:30 PM
290 Paccar Hall
"Ambiguous Legacies: The Causa Curiana as mise en abyme in Cicero's Brutus"
Bridget Langley (UW Classics)
Lunchtime Colloquium
Thursday, February 16, 12:30-1:20 PM
Faculty-Graduate Lounge, Denny 215A
"Absent presents: desire, distance and the donum in Ovid Amores 2.15"
Christopher Hallett (UC-Berkeley)
2011-12 AIA Ridgway Lecturer
Thursday, February 23, 3:30 PM, Thomson 125
Departmental Lecture
"The Study of Roman Art: Current Developments and Future Prospects"
Friday, February 24, 7:30 PM
210 Kane Hall
Ridgway Lecture
"The Archaic Style in Sculpture in the Eyes of Ancient and Modern Viewers"
(click here for the website of the Seattle Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, with a list of former Ridgway Lecturers)
Jim O'Hara (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Friday, March 2, 3:30 PM
2011-12 McDiarmid Lecturer
290 Paccar Hall
"Teaching, Pretending to Teach, and the Authority of the Speaker in Roman Didactic and Satire"
(Click here for a list of former McDiarmid Lecturers)
Jaime Volker (UW Classics)
Lunchtime Colloquium
Thursday, March 8, 12:30-1:20
Faculty-Graduate Lounge, Denny 215A
"Conspiracy in the Clades Variana? Sallustian echoes in Velleius Paterculus' Historiae, 2.117-118"
SPRING QUARTER 2012
Bonna Wescoat (Emory)
AIA Lecture
Thursday, April 12, 7:30 PM, 210 Kane Hall
"Passage and Perception in the Sanctuary of the
Great Gods, Samothrace"
(click here for the website of the Seattle Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America)
Melissa Funke and Alex Kennedy (UW Classics)
Lunchtime Colloquium (a double header!)
Thursday, April 26, 12:30-1:20 PM
Faculty-Graduate Lounge, Denny 215A
MF: "“The Peculiar Case of Heracles’ Apology in Euripides’ Auge"
AK: "Neaira and Phormio: The Problem of Natural Slavery and Manumission"
Alex Purves (UCLA)
Friday, April 27, 3:30 PM
190 Paccar Hall
"Who, Sappho?"
Riemer Faber (Waterloo)
Friday, May 18, 3:30 PM
216 Denny Hall
"Cultural Poetics and Ekphrasis: Shield-Portraits and Shield Description in Imperial Epic"
Catherine Connors (UW Classics)
Lunchtime Colloquium
Thursday, May 24, 12:30-1:20 PM
291 Paccar Hall
"The Lost Scrapbook of Miss Mattie Hansee"
Martha Lois Hansee (1859-1939) taught Latin and Greek at the University of
Washington in 1881-4 and 1895-1903. Extensive archival materials relating to
her life and academic career offer an unusual personal perspective on the
teaching of Classics in the Pacific Northwest and the history of women's
education.
Tentative 2012-13 Speakers
Dr. Nikos Xanthoulis (Academy of Athens, Greece)
2012 AIA Kress Lecturer
Friday, 2 November 2012
7:30 PM, venue TBA
"Ancient Sounds of Greece"
Christopher Faraone (Chicago)
Date and topic TBA
Rabbi Oren Hayon (Hillel UW)
Lunchtime Colloquium
Thursday, October 18
Faculty-Graduate Lounge, Denny 215A
Topic TBA (but generally on Greco-Roman and Jewish contact in the ancient world)
Robert Parker (New College, Oxford)
Friday, 22 February 2013
Topic TBA
Maria Wyke (University College London)
2012-13 McDiarmid Lecturer
7-8 March 2013
Topic TBA
Josiah Ober (Stanford)
2012-13 Katz Lecturer, 15-19 April 2013
Katz Lecture:
Tuesday, April 16, 7:00 PM
Topic and venue TBA
Richard Talbert (North Carolina)
2012-13 AIA Ridgway Lecturer
Tentative dates: 7-8 Feb. 2013
Topic TBA
Brooke Holmes (Princeton)
May 2013
Specific day and topic TBA
Other relevant events on campus and elsewhere
Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University)
Wednesday, February 29, 7:00 p.m.
Communications 226
"The Mummy, The Book, and the Tomb: Rereading Early Egyptian Christianity Through Its Artifacts"
(see below for a description of this talk, which is also being given at UPS)
Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University)
Redford Lecture in Archaeology
University of Puget Sound
Thursday, March 1, 7:00 PM, WY 109
"The Mummy, The Book, and the Tomb: Rereading Early Egyptian Christianity Through Its Artifacts"
In 1945, the world of early Christian studies was changed forever by the discovery deep in the Egyptian desert of a cache of twelve ancient books containing writings that had literally been “lost” for 1,600 years. Those writings – including the only complete copy of the Gospel of Thomas purporting to report the “secret words” of Jesus – profoundly altered our understanding of early Christianity. But have their nature and purpose been widely misunderstood? This lecture offers a radical new way of interpreting how, and why, these ancient Egyptian books were buried and uncovers a tale of Christian mummies, magical books, and a tomb robbing that changed the world.
Nicola Denzey Lewis (Ph.D. 1998, Princeton University) is Senior Lecturer in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University, where she also holds an affiliated faculty status with the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. The author of The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Ancient Christian Women (2007), Denzey Lewis also has two books forthcoming, both on Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism. She is an associate editor of the Cambridge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religion and currently at work on a Cambridge Companion to Gnosticism. |
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