Department of Classics Calendar
Fall 2012
Fri & SatAugust 24 & 25
7:30 pm
"Orestes"
To be partially performed in Greek
University of Kansas
Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall
September 20
4:30 pm
Greg Crane
Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library
"The Humanities in a Digital Age"
For more information, see Digital Humanities Forum, September 20-22.
November 13
TBA
Rebecca Ingram
Texas A&M University
Archaeological Institute of America Steffy Lecturer 2012-2013
"A Seventh-Century Byzantine Shipwreck Excavated at the Theodosian Harbor at Yenikapi in Istanbul, Turkey"
University of Missouri Kansas City
Location TBA
November 14
7:30-9:00 pm
Stephen Greenblatt
John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
Humanities Lecture Series
"The Swerve: How the World Became Modern"
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
Spring 2013
FridayFebruary 1
4:00-5:30 pm
Omar Sultan
Former Deputy Minister of Culture and Information, Afghanistan
"The Cultural Heritage of Afghanistan"
Malott Room, Kansas Union
February 7
3:30-5:00 pm
Seán Easton
Department of Classics and Peace Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College
"Singing and Dying: Heroism and the End of Ovid's Aeneid"
English Room, Kansas Union
March 27
2:30-4:30 pm
Graduate Student Conference in Classical Studies: CAMWS 2013 preview
Lizzy Adams
"Esse videtur: Occurrences of Heroic Clausulae in Cicero's Orations"
Stephen Froedge
"This is Not an Exit: A Reexamination of Euripides' Hippolytus"
Josh Parr
"Lycaon and the Giants: Metamorphosis Defined"
Ben Slagowski
"Dating the Epidicus of Plautus"
Location To Be Announced
April 2nd
2:00-5:00 pm
The 8th Annual Paul Rehak Symposium on Greek and Roman Art and Gender
Children in Antiquity
Jeannine Diddle Uzzi
University of Southern Maine
"What Rome Wants: Politics and Pederasty in Roman Imperial Art"
Amy Richlin
University of California at Los Angeles
"Roman Pet Boys in Nineteenth-Century Germany:
Theodor Birt and the Pueri Minuti."
Eve D'Ambra
Vassar College
"The Beauty of Roman Girls: Portraits and Dolls"
Conference Room, Hall Center
for the Humanities.
April 9
3:30-5:00 pm
Andrew KOH
Department of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
Archaeological Institute of America Lecturer
"A Cretan in Korea and a Korean in Crete: Restoring a Late Byzantine Chapel of the Cretan School"
University of Kansas
Malott Room, Kansas Union
April 18
7:30 pm
Carrie Hritz
Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
Archaeological Institute of America Kershaw Lecturer, 2012-2013
"Spying on the Past: Satellite Imagery and Archaeology in Southern Mesopotamia"
University of Missouri Kansas City
Room 111 of Royal Hall, 800 East 52nd Street
April 26
3:30-5:00 pm
End of Semester Gathering and Honors Ceremony
With KU Classics Alum Speaker Brian Channing Walters
Visiting Lecturer in Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Healing the State with Violence: Political Diseases and Late-Republican Rhetoric"
English Room, Kansas Union
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