EVENTS
The UCLA Department of Classics sponsors a wide
range of Classics-related events. We hope to see you there!
SPRING QUARTER 2008
April 9, 2008, talk by Nikolai Theodossiev, Kress Lecturer, Socratism in Galen's Psychological Works, cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Classics, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and AIA. Time and location to be announced.
April 24, 2008 lecture by Professor Robert Gurval, Cinema and the Classics, cosponsored by UCLA Friends of Classics and Alumni Relations, Royce 314, time to be announced.
WINTER QUARTER 2008
January 14, 2008, 5:00 PM, lecture bylecture by Professor Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania, Socratism in Galen's Psychological Works, Dodd Hall 146.
January 17, 2008, 5:00 PM lecture by lecture by Pauline LeVen, Princeton University, New Songs for Old Gods, or Old Songs for New Gods? Paeans in the Fourth Century BC, Dodd Hall 161.
January 22, 2008, 5:00 PM, lecture by Dana Fields, Princeton University, Artist and Con Artist in Lucian's "Death of Peregrinus", Public Affairs 1222.
January 31, 2008, 5:00 PM, lecture by Mario Telò, University of Pisa, Embodying the Tragic Father in Aristophanes’ "Peace", Dodd Hall 161.
February 5, 2008, 5:00 PM, lecture by Jacob Mackey, Princeton University, Rethinking Roman Religion: Belief and Practice in Augural Ritual, Public Affairs 1222.
February 13, 2008, 5:00 PM, lecture by James Porter, UC Irvine & University of Michigan, Against λεπτότης: Rethinking Hellenistic Aesthetics, Dodd Hall 146.
February 19, 2008, 5:00 PM, lecture by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, University of Michigan, Between Inspiration and Aesthetics: Apollonius, Callimachus, and Their Muses, Dodd Hall 146.
March 5, 2008, 12:00 PM, lecture by Christofilis Maggidis, Field Director of the Excavations at Mycenae,Topic to be announced, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Seminar Room, Fowler A222.
FALL QUARTER 2007
October 18, 2007, 5:00 PM, lecture by Professor Thomas K. Hubbard, University of Texas, Austin, The Paradox of ‘Natural’ Heterosexuality with ‘Unnatural’ Women, Public Policy 1234.
November 13, 2007, 7:30 PM, lecture by Tom Davis,
Director, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, Nicosia, Current Archaeology in Cyprus, cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Classics, AIA LA Chapter, American Hellenic Council of California, Hellenic University Club of Southern California, CAARI, and the Hon. Consul General of Cyprus, Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum.
November 20, 2007, 5:00 PM, lecture by Dr. Teun Tieleman, University of Utrecht, The Gods of the Stoics, Dodd Hall 146.
November 29, 2007, 5:00 PM, lecture by Dr. Thorsten Fögen, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Visiting Scholar, Department of Classics, UCLA, Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder and his Attitude towards Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia, Dodd Hall 175.
SPRING QUARTER 2007
May 21, 2007, 4:00 PM, lecture by Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III, Bryn Mawr College, Extra-ordinary People: Mystai and Magoi, Magicians and Orphics in the Derveni Papyrus, location TBA.
May 15, 2007, 5:00 PM, lecture by Jan Bremmer, University of Groningen, Hephaestus: The Construction of a Marginal God, location TBA.
May 8, 2007, 7:30 PM, lecture by Christos Doumas, Professor Emeritus, University of Athens, and excavator of Cycladic Bronze Age site of Akrotiri on the island of Thera, Akrotiri, Thera: A Cosmopolitan Harbor Town of the Second Millennium B.C., Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum. Co-sponsored by the Onassis Foundation and UCLA Department of Classics.
May 7, 2007, 5:00 PM, lecture by Christos Doumas, Professor Emeritus, University of Athens and excavator of Cycladic Bronze Age site of Akrotiri on the island of Thera, The ‘Minoan’ Eruption of the Thera Volcano and its Echo in Greek Mythology”, location TBA. Cosponsored by the Onassis Foundation and UCLA Department of Classics.
May 3, 2007, 5:00 PM, lecture by Jennifer Ebbeler, University of Texas, Austin, (Mis)readings: Augustine and Consentius on Textual Interpretation, location TBA.
April 23, 2007, 5:00 PM, lecture by Stavros Vlizos,
Benaki Museum, Athens, Cult & Ritual in Roman Piraeus, Dodd Hall 161
April 19, 2007, 7:30 PM, Inaugural Friends of Classics event. The evening will feature a welcome and introduction by UCLA Department of Classics Chair John K. Papadopoulos and two lectures: Shadows of the Great Goddess: Power and the Female in Myths of Demeter by Professor Kathryn Morgan, and Cleopatra and HBO Rome: An Egyptian Queen for the 21st Century, by Professor Robert Gurval. UCLA Royce Hall 314. Cosponsored by UCLA Department of Classics, Alumni Relations and Humanities Development.
April 16, 2007, 12:30 PM, lecture by Shane Butler, Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Classics, The Surface of the Page, Dodd Hall 220.
WINTER QUARTER 2007
March 8, 2007, 5:00 PM, The Question of Hesiod's Identity and the Nature of Archaic Greek Didactic Poetry, Cashman Prince, University of Southern California, Dodd Hall 161
February 27, 2007, 5:00 PM, Disappearing Speech Acts?: Wing- and Heart-shaped Magical Words on Greco-Roman Amulets, Chris Faraone,
University of Chicago, cosponsored by UCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Dodd Hall 175
February 15, 2007, 5:00 PM, The Odyssey as Performance Poetry, Oswyn Murray, Balliol College, Oxford University, Dodd Hall 175
February 13, 2007, 4:00 PM, A Tomb of One’s Own: Heterarchy and Hierarchy in Roman Funerary Monuments, Kathryn McDonnell, Cornell University, Dodd Hall 175
February 6, 2007, 4:00 PM,
The Role of Non-Elites in the Shaping of Urban Space: Mapping Patterns of Social Activity and Habit in the Roman City, Steven Ellis, University of Michigan, Dodd Hall 175
January 29, 2007, 5:00 PM, The Image of Alexander the Great: Between Political Messages and Anthropological Models, Prof. Dr. Tonio Hölscher, Institute fur Altertumswissenschaften, University of Heidelberg, Dodd Hall 146
January 23, 2007, 4:00 PM, Honorarian Rome, Celestial Jerusalem and the Monumentalization of the Aurelian Wall, Hendrik W. Dey, University of Michigan, Dodd Hall 175
FALL QUARTER 2006
December 4, 2006, 4:00-6:00 PM, UCLA/USC Seminar, Imagining Early Greece: Art and Representation in Greek Archaeology. Speakers: Bryan Burns (USC), John Papadopoulos (UCLA), Eric Shanower (San Diego), Royce Hall 314
December 1, 2006, 1:15 PM, The Unsolved Mystery of the Agora Bone Well: Infant Death in Hellenistic Athens, Professor Susan I. Rotroff (Washington University, St. Louis), Fowler A222 (Archaeology Seminar Room)
November 30, 2006, 5:00 PM, Plutarch’s Pretensions, Professor Robert Lamberton, Washington University, St. Louis, Dodd Hall 175
November 10-11, 2006,
FREAKS!
Exploring the Unnatural in the Ancient World, UCLA Department of Classics graduate student conference, Royce Hall 314.
Keynote speaker Professor Page DuBois, University of Califonia, San Diego. For questions, contact erush@humnet.ucla.edu.
October 18, 2006, 5:00 PM, King Midas and Ovid in the Metamorphoses, Professor William Anderson, Department of Classics, UC Berkeley, Dodd Hall 161
SUMMER SESSIONS 2006
July 9-21, 2006, UCLA hosts an NEH Summer Institute, Models of Ancient Rome co-directed by Sander Goldberg (Classics) and Diane Favro (Architecture and Urban Design). Models will explore the contribution of various digital technologies to our understanding of the Roman world. Participating faculty include Mary Beard, Kathleen M. Coleman, Joy Connolly, Kenneth Lapatin, Robert Morstein-Marx, and Nicholas Purcell.
SPRING QUARTER 2006
April 20-23, 2006, 11th International AEGAEUM Conference, EPOS: Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology, organized by the University of Liège, UCLA and the J. Paul Getty Museum, at UCLA and the Getty Villa in Malibu.
May 22, 2006, 5:00 PM, Dodd Hall 175, “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent (an essay on translation)", Anne Carson, University of Michigan & Getty Research
Institute.
WINTER QUARTER 2006
January 19, 2006, 5:00 PM, Dodd Hall 161, "Revising Authenticity in Staging Ancient Mediterranean Drama" by Professor Mary-Kay Gamel, Chair, Department of Literature, UC Santa Cruz
February 13, 2006, 5 PM, Dodd Hall 146, "Books -- Dream -- Stories: How Sandman Comics Help Us Understand Ovid", Professor Christopher Marshall, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
February 24, 2006, 1:00 PM, Royce Hall 236, "An American Homer for the Twentieth Century: "The Iliad and Odyssey in Great Books Courses", Seth L. Schein, Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Davis. Cosponsored by UCLA Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature.
March 9, 2006, 5 PM, Dodd Hall 275, “Egyptians and Amazons, or the Production of Demotic and Graeco-Egyptian Literature in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt", Profesor Jacco Dieleman, Assistant Professor, UCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, and Ian Moyer
March 14, 2006, 5 PM, Dodd Hall 146, 'Reel' Greek Nationalism: Perceptions of Greece in New Greek Cinema (1975-2005), Professor Katerina Zacharia,
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, cosponsored by UCLA Departments of Classics & Comparative Literature
FALL QUARTER 2005
October 7, 2005, 4:00-6:00 PM, UCLA Department of Classics' Annual Reception, Ralph & Shirley Shapiro Courtyard (between Dodd Hall and the Law School)
November 21, 2005, 4:00 PM, Dodd Hall 161, Lecture by Professor Roger Bagnall, Sather Professor of Classical Literature, University of California at Berkeley (Fall 2005) and Professor, Department of Classics,
Columbia University, "Informal Writing in a Public Place: The Graffiti of Smyrna"
December 1, 2005, 4:00 PM, Dodd Hall 146, Lecture by Professor Maryline Parca, Department of the Classics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Demeter Goes to Egypt"
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