Symposiarchs

Maggie Danaher, Clare Kearns

Presenters

• Hannah Silverblank (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics and Comparative Literature and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities)
  "Hephaestean Craftsmanship and 'Crip Technoscience'"
  April 14, 2023
• Caitlin Fennerty
  "Bacchylides' Dithyrambs Revisited: A New Formalist and Thematic Approach" (Prospectus Talk)
  March 17, 2023
• Kiran Mansukhani 
  "The Reactionary Plato of Kwame Nkrumah's Consciencism"
  March 10, 2023

Symposiarchs

Benjamin Driver, Clare Kearns

Symposiarchs

Benjamin Driver, Michael Ziegler

The 2020-2021 Graduate Symposia series was limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Presenters

• Fiona Sappenfield
  "Umoris Luxuria: the Role of the Sea in Latin Literature"
  Friday, March 26, 2021
• Christopher Jotischky-Hull
  "The Latin Poetics of Modern Greek Prose Literature, 1820-1960"
  Friday, February 19, 2021
• Ella Grunberger-Kirsh
  "'Despicable Creatures:' Domestic attendants and the making of text, c. 350-700 CE"
  Thursday, February 11, 2021

Symposiarchs

Benjamin Driver, Michael Ziegler

Presenters

• Marko Vitas
  “Pindar's Losers and Name Replacement as a Stylistic Device in Pindar's Odes"
  Friday, March 6, 2020
• Erika Valdivieso
  “Virgil and the Virgin of Guadalupe" (Job Talk)
  Friday, February 7, 2020
• Christopher Jotischky-Hull
  “The Crowning of the Lyre: Andréas Kálvos and the Appropriation of Pindaric Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Greek Diasporic Poetics"
  Tuesday, October 29, 2019
• Alvaro Pires
  “A Fiction of Nature and the Nature of Fiction: Allegory in the Physiologos"
  Thursday, October 10, 2019
• Avi Kapach
  “The Palinodes of Euripides: Inconsistency and Self-Contradiction in Greek Tragedy" (Prospectus Talk)
  Thursday, September 26, 2019

Symposiarchs

Benjamin Driver, Ella Grunberger-Kirsh

Presenters

• Avi Kapach
  “Déjà vu and False Phantoms: Politics and Intertextuality in Ovid's Myth of Anna Perenna (Fasti 3.543-656)”
  Wednesday, May 8, 2019
• Sam Butler
  “Inscribing Communities Across the Mediterranean: A Comparative Approach to the Lycian and Oscan Alphabets in the First Millenium BCE”
  Friday, March 1, 2019
• Christopher Jotischky-Hull
  “A 'Modern' Greece?: The Classical Legacy and the Enlightenment on Zakynthos”
  Friday, February 15, 2019
• Alvaro Pires
  “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Fact, Fiction, and Truth in the Physiologos”
  Friday, January 25, 2019
• Stephany Hull
  “The Interdisciplinary Teacher: Augustine's 'Contra Academicos' as a Dialogue about Rhetoric”
  Friday, December 7, 2018
• Prof. Leni Ribeiro Leite (University of Espirito Santo, Brazil)
  “Teaching Latin with Early Texts: A Round-Table”
  Friday, November 16, 2018

Symposiarchs

Ella Grunberger-Kirsh,  Alvaro Pires​

Presenters

• Gaia Gianni
  “Death and Family in Imperial Rome: Patterns of Commemoration in Sepulchral Inscriptions”
  Friday, April 27, 2018
• Ella Grunberger-Kirsh
  “Et bene mihi erat cum eis: The Place of Music in Late Antique Life-Writing”
  Friday, April 6, 2018
• Dr. Arlene Holmes-Henderson (University of Oxford)
  “Classics in the UK Elementary & High Schools: The Dawn of a New Era?”
  Friday, October 20, 2017

Presenters

• Erika Valdivieso
  “The Virgilian Tradition in Latin America”
  Friday, May 12, 2017
• Stevie Hull
  “The Model Teacher: Friendship and Pedagogy in Augustine's Dialogues”
  Thursday, May 11, 2017
• William Jacobs
  “Reshaping the Battlefield: Aftermath Narratives in Roman Historiography”
  Friday, April 21, 2017
• Michiel van Veldhuizen
  “Where the Woozle Wasn't": Tracking Monsters Across Land, Sea, and Literature”
  Wednesday, March 15, 2017
• Trigg Settle
  “Trauma and the Interpretation of Tragedy: Studies in Ancient Greek Theater and Drama”
  Friday, October 14, 2016
• Sjoukje Kamphorst (University of Groningen)
  “Carving Communities in Stone: Inscriptions as a Medium of Coordinating Cooperation”
  Friday, October 7, 2016

Presenters

• Michiel van Veldhuizen
  “Divining Disaster: Signs and Symptoms of Catastrophe in Ancient Greek Culture and Society”
  Friday, April 29, 2016
• Dominic Machado
  “Slaves, Soldiers and Citizens: Roman Responses to Protest, 200-50 BCE”
  Friday, March 18, 2016
• Rachel Philbrick
  “Utopian Rome in Ovid's Externalized View from Exile”
  Thursday, December 10, 2015
• Dasha Resh
  “Early Metaphraseis in Byzantine Hagiography (c. 800 - c. 1000)”
  Friday, October 16, 2015

Presenters

• Tara Mulder
  “He said, He said, She said: Citationality and the Search for Women in Ancient Rome”
  Friday, January 23, 2015
• Darrel Janzen
  “Tacitus and the Spaces of Imperial Court Society”
  Monday, December 15, 2014
• Tara Mulder
  “Adult Breastfeeding in Ancient Rome”
  Friday, December 12, 2014
• Jen Swalec
  “Epigraphic Evidence for Sacred Textiles: A Comparison of Inscriptions from Miletos and Andania”
  Friday, December 12, 2014
• Scott DiGiulio
  “Monumenta rerum ac disciplinarum? Varro's Reception and the Case of Gellius' Noctes Atticae Book 3”
  Monday, December 8, 2014
• Jen Swalec
  “The Textile as a Sacred Gift in Antiquity”
  Wednesday, October 8, 2014
• Rachel Philbrick
  “Credibility amidst the Incredible: Hyperbole and Persuasion in Ovid's Exile Poetry”
  Friday, September 26, 2014
• E. Perot Bissell
  “Subsumption, Totalization & Primacy in the Narratives of Ancient Greece, Rome & the Indian Subcontinent”
  Friday, September 19, 2014

Presenters

• Justin Byrd
  “Highest Good or Strong Poison: The Rhetorical Construction of Patronage in the Brahmin Tradition”
  Friday, May 2, 2014
• D. Thomas
  “Inscribing Roman Eleusis: Connecting Representations and Representing Connections”
  Wednesday, March 12,2014
• M. Dobrzanski (Wroclaw)
  “Military command in Hellenistic Thessalian Communities”
  Wednesday, March 5, 2014
• D. Grzesik (Wroclaw)
  “Worshipping Heroes: Inscribed Honors in Post-Classical Delphi”
  Friday, March 7, 2014
• Mitchell Parks
  “Paradoxical Praise: Isocrates and Political Encomium”
  Friday, February 28, 2014
• J. Kurz
  “The Carthaginians in Southern Iberia”
  Friday, February 21, 2014
• Scott DiGiulio
  “Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae Book II and the Didactic Logic of Miscellany”
  Wednesday, December 11, 2013
• Mitchell Parks
  “Mercenary Wisdom:  The Role of Simonides in Xenophon's Hieron”
  Friday, December 6, 2013
• Joe McDonald
  “Out of Bounds: Reassessing IG II2 204”
  Friday, November 22, 2013
• Tara Mulder
  “Don't Call the Doctor: De-Medicalizing Childbirth in the Roman Empire”
  Wednesday, November 20, 2013
• Ann McDonald
  “I'll Tell You When I'm Older: Comparing Plutarchs in De E Apud Delphos and Amatorius”
  Friday, October 11, 2013

Presenters

• Matthew Wallenback
  “Choral Visions: Studies in Greek Choral Poetry and Performance”
  Friday, May 17, 2013
• Adrianne LaFrance
  “The Epitaph for Bion: Agonism and Fictional Biography as Literary Criticism in Late Bucolic”
  Friday, May 10, 2013
• Darrell Janzen
  “Tacitus’ Use of Space in Valerius Asiaticus’ Cubiculum-Trial before Claudius in 47 CE”
  Friday, May 3, 2013
• Byron MacDougall
  “Gregory of Nazianzus and Festival Rhetoric”
  Friday, March 1, 2013
• Bryan Brinkman
  “Popular Expression and Imperial Control: Acclamation in the Roman Empire”
  Friday, February 22, 2013
• Scott DiGiulio
  “Aulus Gellius, the Noctes Atticae, & the Literary Logic of the Miscellany Under Roman Empire”
  Friday, February 1, 2013
• Ann Rabe
  “Breaking the Man: The Development of ad hominem Violent Language in Rome”
  Friday, December 14, 2012
• Joe Macdonald
  “Bad Religion: Conceptualizing Sacrelige in Ancient Greece”
  Friday, December 7, 2012]
• Jen Swalec
  “Literary Criticism Before the Frogs: Earlier Aristophanic Characterizations of ‘Euripides’”
  Friday, November 30, 2012
• Ann McDonald
  “Inquiry and Identity in Plutarch’s Platonic Dialogues”
  Friday, November 16, 2012
• Barbara Blythe
  “Petronius’ Satyrica: Anovel of Mystic Initiation”
  Friday, October 26, 2012
• Tara Mulder
  “ἀρίστη μαῖα: Claims of Expertise and Authority in the 2^nd Century CE”
  Friday, October 19, 2012
• Mitchell Parks
  “Measured Praise: The Politics of Encomium in Classical Athens”
  Friday, September 28, 2012

Presenters

• Chris Geggie
  Friday, April 20, 2012
• Karen Jones & Ann McDonald
  Friday, March 23, 2012
• Scott DiGiulio & Joe McDonald
  Friday, March 9, 2012
• Byron MacDougall
  Friday, October 7, 2011
• Emily Kneebone
  Friday, September 23, 2011
• E. Perot Bissell
  Friday, September 16, 2011

Presenters

• Karen Kelly
  Friday, April 29, 2011
• Melissa Sassin
  Friday, April 22, 2011
• Matthew Wallenback
  Friday, April 15, 2011
• Christopher Geggie
  Friday, February 18, 2011
• Tara Mulder
  "The Chorus of Initatiates in Aristophanes' Frogs: Their Thematic and Mediatory Roles in the Structure of the Plot"
  Friday, November 5, 2010, at 12:00 pm in Macfarlane House, Room 101 - 48 College Street
• Leo Landrey
  "Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica and the Limits of Unlimited Power"
  Friday, September 21, 2010, at 12:00 pm in Macfarlane House, Room 101 - 48 College Street

Presenters

• Leo Landrey
  "Clades Lemnia, Clades Romana: Valerius Flaccus and Contemporary History"
  Friday, April 30, 2010, at 12:00 pm in Macfarlane House, Room 101 - 48 College Street
• Timothy Haase
  "Watching Satire Unravel: Mode and Genre in Juvenal's Satires"
  Monday, May 3, 2010, at 12:00 pm in Macfarlane House, Room 101 - 48 College Street
• Bryan Brinkman
  "Graffiti from Roman Italy: a Study in Civic Religion"
  Wednesday, March 10, 2010
• Scott DiGiulio
  "Lucian's (?) Use of Herodotus and Rearticulation of Hellenic Identity in the De Dea Syria"
  Wednesday, March 3, 2010
• Lauren Donovan
  "Literary and Ideological Memory in the Octavia"
  Friday, February 19, 2010
• Mark Thatcher
  "Greek Identity in Hannibalic Italy"
  Friday, December 11, 2009
• Timothy Haase
  "Looking at 'Atomistic' Repetition in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius"
  Thursday, November 5, 2009
• Robin McGill
  "Prophecy, Identity, and Authority in Early Christian Latin Hymns"
  Thursday, September 24, 2009

Presenters

• Cynthia Swanson 
  "Ars Makes Exile Poetry" 
  Wednesday, April 15, 2009
• Asya Sigelman 
  "Myth-introducing Relative Pronouns and the Chronological Vortex in Pindar's Pythian 9" 
  Friday, April 3, 2009
• Leo Landrey 
  "Finding Ovid in Silver Epic: Phineus and Prometheus in Argonautica 4 " 
  Saturday, March 14, 2009
• David Yates 
  "Remembering the Persian War Differently " 
  Saturday, March 14, 2009
• Mark Thatcher 
  "Tiers of Identity in Greek Sicily and Italy" 
  Monday, March 2, 2009
• Leo Landrey
  "Was Hercules a Pompeian? Lucan's Role in Valerian Recuperation"
  Friday, February 13, 2009
• Timothy Haase
  "Callimachus Pseudopatôr: The Relationship of Lies and Poetry in the Corpus of Callimachus"
  Thursday, December 11, 2008

Presenters

• Lauren Donovan
  "Two Types of doctrina: The Limits of Conventional Learning in Apuleius' Metamorphoses"
  Thursday, April 17, 2008
• Jennifer Yates
  "Apuleius' Novel Tragedy" 
  Thursday, April 17, 2008
• Lauren Donovan
  "Medea Bound: The Role of Prometheus in Apollonius' Argonautica"
  Saturday, March 15, 2008
• Leo Landrey
  "Fortunatus Transformed: Pagan Elegy in Christian Poetry"
  Saturday, March 15, 2008
• David Yates
  "The Rediscovery of the Roman Republic in 11th and 12th Century Byzantine Historiography"
  Wednesday, March 19, 2008
• Asya Chernyak
  "Time, Sunrise, and Telos in Aeschulus' Agamemnon"
  Friday, December 7, 2007

Presenters

• Philip Walsh 
  Thursday, March 22, 2007
• Robin McGill 
  "'Coming' to Faith through Late Antique Latin Poetry"
  Friday, February 23, 2007
• Jennifer Thomas 
  "Seven Soldiers, Seven Snakes: A Closer Look at Lucan, Bellum Civile 9.619-937 "
  Friday, December 7, 2006
• Jeffrey Hunt 
  "Poetry and Oratory in Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus"
  Friday, October 20, 2006

Presenters

• Jennifer Thomas 
  "Concrete Anachronism in Lucan's Bellum Civile "
  Wednesday, March 22, 2006
• Robin McGill 
  "Why Three Eide? Rethinking Aristotle's Types of Rhetoric in Terms of Action"
  Friday, December 9, 2005
• Benjamin Low
  "Lucretius on Wild Beasts in War, and the Perversion of Progress"
  Friday, December 9, 2005
• Kevin Patterson 
  "Virgilian References in the Writings of Aldhelm"
  Friday, December 2, 2005
• Asya Chernyak
  "The Two Faces of Virgil's Dido"
  Friday, October 21, 2005

Presenters

• Miryana Vassileva 
  "Enigmatic Speech in Alcman's Louvre Partheneion"
  Wednesday, May 11, 2005
• Michael MacArthur
  "Exiled from History: Livy on the Soldiers of Cannae"
  Friday, May 6, 2005
• Carrie Thomas 
  "Hamilla in Euripides' Helen"
  Friday, March 18, 2005