Lectures & events 2009—10
Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Aldo Setaioli, Emeritus, University of Perugia, Italy
"Philospohy as Therapy, Self-Transformation, and Life-Style in Seneca”
Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, 2:30 pm, Economic Growth Center, 27 Hillhouse, Room 30
Alain Bresson, UChicago and Ausonious-Bordeaux
"The Origin of Lydian and Greek Coinage: Cost and Quantity"
Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Andrea Cucchiarelli, L’Università degli studi di Roma
"Virgil and the Invention of the Augustan Age: Divine Models and Political Language in the Eclogues and Georgics"
Monday, Oct. 12, 2009, 4:30 pm, Beinecke Library
David Ganz, Institute for Advanced Study
"Einhard at the Beinecke: The Testimony of Ninth Century Manuscripts of Carolingian Legislation"
Tuesday , Oct. 27, 2009, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Judy Barringer, University of Edinburgh, AIA lecture
"Olympia Before the Temple of Zeus"
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, 5:30 pm, The Graduate Club
Deborah Boedecker, Brown University. Yale/Brown at Yale.
"Harems and Harridans? Gender Relations in Herodotus' Persian Courts"
Response by Emily Greenwood, Yale University
Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, 4:00 pm, 6:00 pm, CT Hall 104
Gail Fine, Cornell University
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy. "Aristotle's Two Worlds: Knowledge and Belief in Posterior Analytics 1.33"
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, 5 pm, Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Second Annual Rostovtzeff Lecture.
Ian Morris, Stanford University. Second Annual Rostovtzeff Lecture.
"What is Ancient History?"
Reception to follow in Room 108. Download Rostovtzeff Poster
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Susan Wood, Oakland University. AIA lecture
"The Flavian Women: A Family Drama on Coins"
Friday, January 29, 2010 - 3:00 pm, PH 407
Rachel Sternberg, Case Western Reserve University
"Cyrus the Great in 18th Century English Drama"
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 3:00 pm - PH 407
Anthony Corbeill, University of Kansas
"Androgynous Gods and Androgynous Nouns in Archaic Rome"
Monday, March 1, 2010, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Nancy Wilkie, Carleton College, AIA lecture
"Archaeology in Sri Lanka: Challenges and Prospects for the Future"
Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 5:30 pm, LC 102
Jan Bremmer, University of Groningen—co sponsored with Divinity School and Department of Religious Studies
"Tours of Hell: Greek and Roman, Jewish and Christian"
Tuesday, March 25, 2010, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Stephen Oakley, Cambridge University
"Tacitus' Agricola, Dictys of Crete, and a Scribe who Ended up in New Haven"
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 4:30 pm - PH 407
Sian Lewis, St Andrews (Exchange Scholar)
Title to be determined
Sian Lewis will also hold two graduate seminars during her visit — dates and times to be determined.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 4:30 pm - PH 407
Caroline Kroon, The Free University of Amsterdam
Title to be determined
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 5:30 pm
Yale/Brown Seminar at Brown IUniversity.
Christina Kraus — speaker
Respondent and title to be determined.
Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 4:30 pm - PH 407
Monica Gale, Trinity College Dublin
Title to be determined
