Brown University
Department of Classics
Lectures, Spring Semester 2008
Thursday, Jan. 31
5:30 pm, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St.
Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago)
“Persius’s Poetic ‘Corpus’: Indigestion and Its Remedies in the Satires”
Monday, Feb. 4
12 noon, 48 College St., Room 102
Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
Frances Muecke (University of Sydney)
“Silius Italicus in the Renaissance”
Tuesday, Feb. 12
5:30 pm, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St.
Joseph Reed (University of Michigan)
“Omnia iam vulgata: Poetry and Power in Virgil and Others”
Thursday, Feb. 14
8 pm, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Co-sponsored by the Joukowsky Inst. for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Margaret Miles (University of California, Irvine)
“Art as Plunder: Then and Now”
Thursday, Feb. 21
5:30 pm, Petteruti Lounge, 75 Waterman St.
Michèle Lowrie (New York University)
“Refoundation at Rome”
Monday, March 3
5:30 pm, 106 Smith-Buonanno Hall, Pembroke Campus
Edan Dekel (Williams College)
“Fighting for Troy: The Aeneid, the Odyssey, and the Iliadic Aftermath”
March 7-9
Ancient Studies Conference (co-sponsored by Classics)
“Sixty Years After: Reconsidering The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man”
Lounge at the Inn at Brown, 101 Thayer St.
Information: www.Brown.edu/Departments/Ancient_Studies
Tuesday, March 11
5:30 pm, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St.
A Medieval Circle lecture, co-sponsored by Classics
Bret Mulligan (Haverford College)
“Impotent Intellects: Sexual Invective and Intellectual Criticism in Claudian
and Ausonius”
April 4-6
Ancient Studies and Joukowsky Institute Conference
“Highways and Byways in the Ancient World”
Information: www.Brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute
Tuesday, April 8
5:30 pm, Faculty Club (1 Magee St.)
Brown-Yale Meeting (limited to faculty and graduate students)
Celia Schultz (Yale University)
“The Romans and Ritual Murder”
Comments: John Bodel (Brown University)
Tuesday, April 22
5:30 pm, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.
Co-sponsored by the Joukowsky Inst. for Archaeology and the Anc. World
Manuela Mari (University of Cassino, Italy)
“The Cults of Amphipolis: Religious Life as Evidence on the Identity and
Self-Perception of an Ancient Greek City”
Wednesday, April 23
12 noon, 48 College St., Room 102
Josine Blok (University of Utrecht, Holland)
“Perikles’ Citizenship Law: A New Solution to an Old Problem”
Tuesday, April 29
4:30 pm, MacMillan Hall 115, 167 Thayer St.
Michael Putnam Farewell Lecture
“Sannazaro’s Ekphrastic Vision”
Please note further
CRAM meetings: Thursdays (not Tuesdays): 2/21, 3/6, 4/3. Information
www.brown.edu/Departments/Ancient_Studies/
Cogut Humanities Center seminars: Classics faculty on 2/26 (Konstan), 3/18 (Raaflaub)
Information: www.brown.edu/Departments/Humanities_Center/
BACAP:
April 10, 7:30 pm, Philosophy Dept. Room 119
Heike Sefrin-Weis (University of South Carolina):
“Pros hen and the Foundations of Aristotelian Metaphysics”
Comments: Daniel Devereux (University of Virginia)
Ancient Studies
Pierre Briant (Collège de France): lecture on April 7
Medieval Graduate Student Conference: March 1-2. Information:
www.brown.edu/Departments/Medieval_Studies