Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 Lecture Schedule

Phelps Hall, 407,
344 College Street,
New Haven

The lectures take place at 4:30 p.m. when scheduled on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, unless otherwise noted.   Friday lectures are scheduled for 4:00 p.m.

Fall Semester 2007

Friday, Sept. 14          
Matt Roller (Johns Hopkins) - "Exemplarity and Historicism in Roman Historical Consciousness: The Case of Gaius Duilius"

Friday, Sept. 28          
Irad Malkin (Tel Aviv) - "Greek Networks in the Archaic Mediterranean"

Thursday, Oct. 4               
Joseph G. Manning (Stanford) -  "Despots, Economic Planners or Bandits?  Understanding the Ptolemaic State in its Historical Context"

Thursday, Oct. 11
Joshua Sosin (Duke) - "Charitable Foundations in the Hellenistic World"

Tuesday, Oct. 16             
Yale/Brown seminar - to be held at New Haven Lawn Club

Friday, Oct. 19
Tim Rood (Oxford ) - " A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon's Scillus"

Monday, Oct. 22         
AIA Lecture, Heather McKillop

Thursday, Oct. 25           
New England Historical Colloquium Meeting (Schironi/Struck) to be held at Graduate Club. Guests should arrive at 5:30pm. For further information, contact celia.schultz@yale.edu.

Thursday, Nov. 1              
Gary Reger (Trinity College, Hartford) - "Formation of Taste and Fashion: Perfumes and Imitations in the Hellenistic and Early Imperial World."

Friday, Nov. 9             
Clemente Marconi - "The Birth of an Image: The Painting of a Statue of Herakles and Theories of Representation in Classical Greek Culture"

Friday, Nov. 16          
Fall Recess Nov. 17- Nov. 26

Friday, Nov. 30           
Joy Connolly (NYU) - "Marvels and Moral Choice in the Elder Seneca"

December 6th
Marc Domingo Gygax (Princeton) - "Benefaction and Rewards in the Hellenistic Polis"

Friday, Dec. 7             
Last day of classes, reading period begins

 

Spring Semester 2008

Monday, Jan. 14               
First day of spring semester

Friday, Jan. 18
Open

Friday, Jan. 25            
Open

Tuesday, Jan. 29         
AIA Lecture, Martin Beckmann, OAG 200

Friday, Feb. 1             
Open

Tuesday, Feb. 5 -  Friday, Feb. 8
Grant Parker visit

Friday, Feb. 8             
Open

Friday, Feb. 15           
Elizabeth Keitel (Amherst)

Friday, Feb. 22
Open

Friday, Feb. 29
David Sansone (Uni. of Illinois) - confirmed

Tuesday, March 4
AIA Lecture, Marjorie Venit

Friday, March 7           
Spring break begins next day

Tuesday, Mar. 25
Albert Henrichs

Friday, March 28/ Saturday, March 29       
Corinne Pache conference, "Epic Heroes Then and Now" Whitney Hum. Center

Thursday, April 3
Emily Greenwood, Public Lecture

Friday, April 4, 11:20 a.m.-1:20 p.m.   
Greenwood Grad seminar, Chair’s office

Friday, April 4 / Saturday, April 5                
Curtis Eastin and Greg Viggiano ‘Hoplites’ conference

Tuesday, Apr. 8
Brown/Yale Seminar at Providence

Thursday, April 10, 4-6 p.m.        
Emily Greenwood Grad. Seminar

Monday, April 14, 4:30 p.m.
Bernard Frischer (UVA)

Friday, Apr. 18, 4:30 p.m.
André Lardinois (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

Tuesday, April 22 
John Scheid - "Ritual and the Meaning of Religion"
(jointly with Religious Studies and the Yale Divinity School)
To be held in Linsly-Chittenden

Friday, April 25/ Sat. April 26 
Felix Racine, Tristan Taylor graduate student conference - "Provincials and Empire"

Wednesday, April 30             
Last day of classes