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October 7, 2009 5 PM
Archaeology in Sri Lanka: Challenges and Prospects for the Future
Professor Nancy C. Wilkie
Carleton College
Location: TBA
Malaria, Witchcraft, Infant Cemeteries, and the Fall of Rome
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Dr. David Soren, University or Arizona
Time and place TBA
Homer and the Art of Overtaking
Friday, November 7, 2008 3 PM
Professor Alex Purves
Dept. of Classics, UCLA
Humanities and Social Sciences Building McCune Room 6020
Power of Laughter
Mary Beard
Sather Professor, UC Berkeley
Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge,
with co-sponsorship from Depts of History and Religious Studies, the IHC Research Focus Group n Ancient Borderlands, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
November 14, 2008; 3PM HSSB Room 1174
Mary Beard, distinguished Classicist and Roman cultural historian, is delivering this fall’s Sather Lectures at UC Berkeley. Their topic is “Roman Laughter: What made the Romans laugh?” Was Rome a world of practical jokes, Bakhtinian carnival and hearty chuckles? Or (for the elite, at least) was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear -- a world of wit, irony and knowing smiles? Prof. Beard comes to UCSB to deliver the third lecture in the series, which focuses on how laughter mediates power: Roman emperors and the control of laughter.
Reassessing the Pantheon in Rome
Professor Rabun Taylor, University of Texas at Austin
January 28, 2009 - 5 PM
Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 4020
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Department of Classics.
Star Power in Imperial Rome:Astral Theology, Castorian Imagery,
and Dual Heirs in the Transmission of Power
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5 PM
Farrand Hall Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Professor John Pollini, University of Southern California AIA Metcalf Lecturer
Virgil’s Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin:
Latin poetry and ethnohistory in colonial Mexico
Thursday, April 9, 2009 1 PM
McCune Room 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building
with co-sponsorship by the Departments of Chicana and Chicano Studies,Spanish and Portuguese,
the Comparative Literature Program, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center,
Professor Andrew Laird,
University of Warwick and National Autonomous University of Mexico
THE JP SULLIVAN MEMORIAL LECTURE IN CLASSICS
IRONY AND TRUTH IN PERSIUS
Friday, May 15, 2009 3:00 P.M.
Humanities & Social Science Bldg. (HSSB), Room 1173
Reception immediately following in the Classics Reading Room (HSSB 4073) The public is invited.
Paul Allen Miller
Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
University of South Carolina |
