Department of Classics Calendar

Spring 2012

KU Classics Club Reading,
followed by tour of Wilcox Classical Museum by John Younger, Department of Classics

"Love and the Classics"

Wilcox Classical Museum

The 7th Annual Paul Rehak Symposium in Ancient Art

Etruscan Art

Nancy De Grummond
M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics, Florida State University

"Raunchy Rituals in Etruscan Tomb Painting"

Jean Turfa
Rodney Young Fellow, Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

"Desperate Etruscan Housewives: The Intertwined Fortunes of Women and Slaves"

Hilary Becker
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Davidson College

"The Iconography of a Life in Arms: the Etruscan Soldier at War, at Home, and at the Tomb"

Conference Room, Hall Center for the Humanities.

End-of-semester gathering and Honors Ceremony
with speaker Sue Curry, Department of Classics, University of New Hampshire

To Be Announced

Kansas Union, Centennial Room

Vassilis Lambrinoudakis
Professor Emeritus, University of Athens

"Fortified Classical Cities of Western Greece (Aetoloakarnania)"*

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Theatre
*This lecture includes information about Iniades, the newest Sister City of Lawrence

Kansas Union, Jayhawk Room