Past Events

Fall 2021 Events

• Partice Rankine, University of Chicago
  December 1, 2021
  “Black Classicism: Moving Forward”
• Caitlin Gillespie, Brandeis University
  November 8, 2021
  “The Mind, Once Manly, Now Effeminate: Gender and the Failure of Language in Sallust”
• Gorefest
  October 29, 2021
  A Halloween Reading of Greek and Roman Tragedy
• Careers After Classics-Publishing
  October 20, 2021
  Classics alums discuss their careers after BU and how their Classics degree has helped along the way
• Kendra Eschleman, Boston College
  October 18, 2021
  “Unlettered in Paradise: Non-Readers in Early Christian Reading Culture”

Spring 2021 Events

• Classical Studies Graduate Conference
  April 10, 2021
  A Traveller in an Antique Land: Travel and Traveling in the Ancient World
• Nicole Spigner, Northwestern University
  April 6, 2021
  “Niobe in Noir”: The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley and H. Cordelia Ray.
• Spring Comedy Play
  March 30, 2021
  Plautus’ Menaechmi
• Res Difficiles 2.0
  March 20, 2021
  A Conference on Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity in Classics
• Matthew Christ, Indiana University Bloomington
  March 15, 2021
  Discussion of Chapter 6 (on the “Anabasis”) of his new book on Xenophon and the Athenian Democracy: The Education of an Elite Citizenry
• Q&A with Filmmakers of Queens of Syria 
  March 4, 2021
• Screening of Queens of Syria 
  March 2, 2021
• Simone Beta, Università di Siena
  February 22, 2021
  “Lysistrata’s voices: ten ways to translate an Aristophanic comedy”

Fall 2020 Events

• Seth Schein, University of California, Davis
  November 13, 2020
  “Green and Yellow Commentary on Iliad 1.188-253″
• International Education Week
  October 30, 2020
• Gorefest!
  October 30, 2020
  A Halloween Reading of Greek and Roman Tragedy
• Emily Greenwood, Yale University
  October 26, 2020
  “‘Her brown hands bore me alabaster smooth’: Sculpting Cleopatra in Stone and Word”
  
• Margaret Malamud, New Mexico State University
  October 19, 2020
  “Black Classical Philology: Writing back to a deadly metaphor in Aristotle’s Politics”

Spring 2020 Events

• Res Difficiles
  May 15, 2020
• George Baroud, Emerson College
  February 21, 2020
  “Tacitus’ Annals and the Aesthetics of History”

Fall 2019 Events

• Incubating the Mirror
  November 22, 2019
• Nykki Nowbahar, Rutgers University
  November 18, 2019
  “’Quae Fugit a Sexu’: Understanding Gender though Female Transvestism in Roman Literature”
• Sarah Derbew, Harvard Society of Fellows
  November 13, 2019
  “Sun-kissed Greeks: Theorization of Blackness in Ancient Greek Literature”
• Fall Undergraduate Reception: Latin vs Greek
  November 12, 2019
• Graduate Conference
  November 9, 2019
  Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empowerment
• Yujan Claros, Columbia University
  November 4, 2019
  “Classical Coloniality; Marginality, Subalternisms, and Gender Trouble in the Hellenized Imperial Poetry of Alexandria and Rome”
• Mark Janse, University of Ghent
  October 23, 2019
  “More Maculate Musings: New Wordplays in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata”
• Martha Graham Dance Company
  October 22, 2019