Lectures Spring 09
Monday, Jan. 26, 5:30 pm, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106
Shadi Bartsch (Brown University)
“Metaphor in Senecan Philosophy”
Date tba (before Feb. 20): 12 noon, Seminar Room
Marcelo Boeri (University of the Andes, Santiago, Chile; visiting scholar at Brown)
“Happiness and ‘Attaining Happiness’: Eudaimonism in the Light of Stoic Ontology”
Date tba (before early March): 12 noon, Seminar Room
Jane Chaplin (Middlebury College)
“Livy’s Periochae”
Monday, Feb. 23, 5:30 pm Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr., Memorial Lecture
, Macmillan Hall, Room 117
Raymond Westbrook (Johns Hopkins University)
“The Early History of Law: A Theoretical Essay”
Tuesday, March 10, 6:00 pm, Smith-Buonanno, Room 106
Jonathan Edmondson (York University, Canada)
“A Tale of Two Colonies in Roman Spain: Augusta Emerita (Mérida) and Metellinum (Medellín)”
(Prof. Edmondson will also talk Wednesday, 3/11, 3-5:20) in John Bodel’s epigraphy seminar
Thursday, March 19, 6:30 pm, Annmary Brown Memorial, Middle Gallery, 21 Brown Street.
Panagiotis Agapitos (University of Cyprus)
“From Persia to the Provence: Tales of Love in Byzantium and Beyond”
(Co-sponsored by Medieval Studies)
Tuesday, March 31, time and place tba
Charles Butterworth (Univ. of Maryland)
“What Might We Learn from al-Farabi about Plato and Aristotle with Respect to Lawgiving?”
(Comp. Lit., co-sponsored by Classics)
Thursday, April 9, 5:30 pm: Brown-Yale Meeting at Brown
Faculty Club. Limited to Classics and Archaeology faculty and graduate students
Kirk Freudenburg (Yale University): Title tba
Respondent: tba
Tuesday, April 14, 12 noon, Seminar Room
Éva Jakab (University of Szeged, Hungary)
“Women in Roman Private Legal Documents”
Tuesday, April 14, 6 pm
Gerhard Thür (Universities of Graz and Vienna, Austria)
“Jurisdiction in Archaic Gortyn and Athens”
Monday, April 20, 12 noon, Seminar Room
Tomas Hejduk (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; visiting scholar at Brown)
“Socrates’ Unconventional Eros”