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Classics Calendar of Events, 2008-2009 (click for Fall 2008; click for Spring 2009)

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Fall 2008

(click here for Spring 2009)

Thursday, September 9th, 3:30-5:00 pm

Richard Ring , Kansas University, Dept of History, KU Libraries
"The Origins of the Medieval Economy and the Missing Mancus"

Before 1500 Seminar, Hall Center
Kansas University


Thursday, September 18th, 5:30-8:00 pm

Classics Annual Fall Reception


John Younger's house, 852 Broadview Dr, Lawrence



Tuesday, September 16th, 7:30 pm

Steven Tuck, Miami University
"Death and Mythology in the Arena: Sculpture from the Ampitheater at Capua"


Archaeological Institute of America, Kansas City and Kansas University Society
University of Missouri-Kansas City, University Center, 111 Royall Hall




Tuesday, October 14th, 3:30-5:00 pm

Valija Ewalds Kansas University, Dept Art
"Beards, Clocks and the Angel with the Sundial at Chartres Cathedral"

Before 1500 Seminar, Hall Center
Kansas University


Tuesday, November 10th, 4:00-5:30 pm

Malcolm Bell University of Virginia, McIntire Dept of Art
"Modern Museums, Ancient Sites, and the Rights of Antiquities"


Kansas University, Kansas Union, Kansas Room


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

Sergey Dolgopolskii Kansas University, Dept of Religious Studies
"The Talmud Backwards in Time: Reading Self in Rabbinic Literature""

Before 1500 Seminar, Hall Center
Kansas University
Please request a seminar paper in advance by contacting the

Hall Center


Tuesday, December 2nd, 3:30-5:00 pm

Margaret Woodhull Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Colorado
"Women Building Rome: Gender and the Built Environment in the Early Roman Empire"

Before 1500 Seminar, Hall Center
Kansas University
Please request a seminar paper in advance by contacting the

Hall Center


Spring 2009

(click here for Fall 2008)

Thu., February 5, 2009, 7:30-9:00 pm

Anthony Corbeill Professor of Classics, University of Kansas
"Androgynous Gods, Androgynous Nouns, and the Invention of Heterosexuality in Ancient Rome"

Humanities Lecture Series
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union, University of Kansas


Tuesday, February 10th, 3:30-5:00 pm

Hanne Sigismund Nielson Graduate Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Calgary (Canada)
"Who Invented the Univira?"

Before 1500 Seminar, Hall Center
Kansas University
Please request a seminar paper in advance by contacting the

Hall Center


Tuesday, March 3rd, 2:00-5:00 pm

The 4th Annual Paul Rehak Symposium in Ancient Art

"Mycenae and Its Art"

Anne Chapin, Brevard College
Kim Shelton, University of California, Berkeley
Nancy R. Thomas, Jacksonville University

Conference Room, Hall Center
Kansas University




Tuesday, March 10th, 7:30 pm

Elizabeth Bartman, Independent Scholar
"The Cultural Messages of Roman Erotic Sculpture"


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




Tuesday, April 7th, 7:30 pm

Lanny Bell, Brown University
"Tutankhamun: The Life and Death of a God King"


Archaeological Institute of America, Kansas City and Kansas University Society
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Place TBA




Monday, May 4th, 4:00 pm
Annual End-of-the-Year Gathering and Honors Ceremony

With Speaker Eleanor Winsor Leach, Professor, Department of Classics, Indiana University
"All that Glitters is Glass: Mosaic Decorated Fountains in Roman Campania"


English Room, Kansas Union, University of Kansas


Tuesday, May 5th, 3:30 pm

Eleanor Winsor Leach, Professor, Department of Classics, Indiana University
"Epistolary Dialogues: Constructing Selves and Others in Cicero's and Pliny's Letters"


Hall Center Seminar Room, University of Kansas





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.