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Classics Calendar of Events, 2007-2008 (click for Fall 2007; click for Spring 2008)

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Fall 2007

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Tuesday, September 11th, 3:30-5:00 pm

Stanley Lombardo, Kansas University, Dept of Classics
"Translating Dante's Inferno"


Before 1500 Seminar, Hall Center
Kansas University




Wednesday-Saturday, September 12-14, 8 pm, and Saturday-Sunday, September 15 & 16, 2:30 pm

Bertolt Brecht's Antigone by Sophocles
with Samantha Reines in the title role and John Younger as Kreon


presented by the English Alternative Theater (KU)
Lawrence Arts Center (10th & New Hampshire)
reservations: 843-2787 ($6 students, $8 seniors, $10 others




Tuesday, September 18th, to Sunday, October 7th

"Views of Rome," an exhibit


Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas University, Teaching Gallery


Tuesday, October 2nd, 7:30 pm

Deborah Carlson, Texas A&M University
"A Monumental Cargo: The Roman Column Wreck at Kizilburun, Turkey"


Archaeological Institute of America, Kansas City and Kansas University Society
University of Missouri-Kansas City, University Center, Pierson Hall




Wednesday, November 2nd, 4:00-5:00 pm

Phil Stinson, Kansas University, Dept of Classics
""Field Observations from Two "Big Digs" in Western Turkey, Sardis and Aphrodisias"


Explorations (Graduate Students in KU Anthropology)
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union, Kansas University




Wednesday, November 14th, 3:30-5:00 pm

John Younger, Kansas University, Dept of Classics
"Classical Fetish Behavior of Ancient Greece and Rome"


Gender Seminar, Hall Center
Kansas University




Spring 2008

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Tuesday, February 12th, 3:30-5:00 pm

Eugene O'Connor (Managing Editor, The Ohio State University Press) & Kenneth Goings (Professor and Chair, African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University), Ohio State University, Dept of Classics
"Creating a 'Culture of Dissemblance': African American Resistance to the Suppression of the Classics at Historically Black Colleges"


Sponsored by African and African American Studies, and Classics

Before 1500 Seminar, Hall Center
Kansas University

Wednesday, February 13th, 4:00-5:00 pm

Eugene O'Connor (Managing Editor, The Ohio State University Press) & Kenneth Goings (Professor and Chair, African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University), Ohio State University, Dept of Classics
"Teaching the 'Forbidden Subject': The Role of the Classics in African American Uplift and Resistance"


Sponsored by African and African American Studies, and Classics

Kansas Union, Paul Adam Lounge
Kansas University




Tuesday, March 11th, 2:00-5:00 pm

The 3rd Annual Paul Rehak Symposium in Ancient Art
  • Mary Sturgeon, Professor of Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC "No Dead White Marbles for Me!! Color in Ancient Architectural Sculpture"
  • Mary Ann Eaverly, Associate Professor of Classics, The University of Florida, Gainesville FL "Shades of Meaning: Color and Gender in Greek Vase Painting ( or Why Can't Women Tan?)"
  • Janet Grossman, Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles CA "'Making the Whole Beautiful': Some Ideas about Color in Greek Art"

  • Conference Room, Hall Center
    Kansas University




    Tuesday, March 25th, 3:30-5:00 pm

    Judy Hallett, University of Maryland,
    "Edith Hamilton and Greco-Roman Mythology"



    Before 1500 Seminar, Hall Center
    Kansas University


    Tuesday, April 8th, 7:30 pm

    Anthony Grafton, Princeton University,
    "The Republic of Letters: Science, Scholarship and Civility"



    Conference Room, Hall Center
    Kansas University




    Friday, April 11th, 2:30 pm

    Stephen Hinds, University of Washington
    "Ovid in Exile AD 8-2008"



    English Room, Kansas Union




    Monday, April 14th, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

    Martin Bernal, Professor Emeritus, Department of Government and Ancient Eastern Mediterranean History, Cornell University
    "The Hybridity of Greek"


    Sponsored by African and African American Studies, and Classics

    Kansas Union, Centennial Room


    Monday, April 14th, 7:00 pm

    Martin Bernal, Professor Emeritus, Department of Government and Ancient Eastern Mediterranean History, Cornell University
    "Black Athena and the Reaction to Her""


    Marwa Lecture, Sponsored by African and African American Studies, and Classics

    Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium


    Tuesday, April 22nd, 3:30-5:00 pm

    Emma Scioli, Kansas University,
    "Dreams and the Visual in Latin Love Elegy"



    Before 1500 Seminar, Hall Center
    Kansas University


    Tuesday, April 22nd, 7:30 pm

    Alan Kaiser, University of Evansville, Evansville IN
    "The Excavations at Olynthus 1931: One Woman's Story"


    Archaeological Institute of America, Kansas City and Kansas University Society
    Kansas University, Kansas Union, English Room




    Friday, May 2nd, 4:30 pm
    Annual End-of-Year Gathering and Honors Ceremony

    with speaker Kathleen M. Coleman, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
    "Editing an Untitled Text of Uncertain Length by an Insecurely Identified Poet Celebrating a Disputed Occasion in Honor of an Unnamed Emperor: a.k.a. Keeping an Open Mind"



    Kansas Union, Centennial Room


    Friday, May 16th, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
    KU Graduate Student Conference on Ovid

    Kansas Union, Centennial Room


    Hall Center events are seminars, not lectures. Papers discussed are available in advance from the Center either from their website or by calling 864-4798.