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Lunch Hour Colloquium

In fall 2005 the Classics Department introduced a noon-time
colloquium for faculty and graduate students to share
current research projects with one another.
In addition to providing a forum for discussion of new work,
this is an opportunity for graduate students especially to
preview papers for conferences and job interviews.

Colloquia to date:

May 18, 2007 Apostolos Athanassakis "Water and Light
as Feminine or Masculine in the Iconography of Early Greek Epic."

Mar. 9, 2007 Jonas Grethlein "How (Not) to Remember the Past:
Metahistory in the Plataian Debate (Thuc. 3.52-68)."

Feb. 23, 2007 Robert Morstein-Marx "A Testimony to My Brilliance:
'Planted' Factual Information in Caesar's Helvetic Narrative."

Dec. 8, 2006 Frances Hickson Hahn "Potent Ritual: Supplication in the Augustan Ideological Program"

Nov. 3, 2006 Randy Pogorzelski "Virgil's Civilized War: The  'Reassurance of Fratricide' in the Aeneid."

Oct. 6, 2006 Brice Erickson "Artless Crete: The Aftermath of the Orientalizing Revolution ca. 700-400 BC."

Apr. 28, 2006 Robert Renehan "How to Become a Lexicographer Without  Really Trying."

Mar. 13, 2006 Tracy Jamison "Female Dionysus: The False Dichotomy of Gender in Euripidean Theatre."

Dec. 9, 2005 Benjamin Wolkow "A Comic Fragment of Pratinas?"

Nov. 4, 2005 Dorota Dutsch "Mel meum, si me amas, si audes: In search  of 'Female Latin.'"

Oct. 7, 2005 Francis Dunn "Commemoration and Responsibility: Pericles' Funeral Oration (Thuc. 2.35-46)."

 
 

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