Reading & Book Signing: "Nero"
Edward Champlin
Princeton Professor of Classics and Cotsen Professor of Humanities

Location: Princeton University U Store - 36 University Place

Lunch Talk: Forbidden Portraits: When Were Portraits First Banned in Republican Rome?
Harriet Flower
Princeton Professor of Classics

Location: McCormick 103
Please bring your brown bag lunch. Drinks and desserts will be provided.
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

Lecture: Classical Theories of the Laughable: The Early-Modern Debate
Quentin Skinner
Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge

Location: 40 McCosh Hall
Copies of Professor Skinner's talk are available in the Department of English, 22 McCosh Hall.
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English

Lecture: "Ponêroi vs. Chrêstoi: The Ostrakophoria of 415 and the Struggle for Hegemony in Late Fifth-Century Athens"
David Rosenbloom
Visiting Associate Professor, Princeton University
Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington

Location: 161 East Pyne

Lecture: Short Cuts: Martial's Ovid
Stephen E. Hinds
Professor of Classics, University of Washington

Location: 161 East Pyne

Lecture: Hellenistic Philosophers on the Phenomenon of Changing Colors
Katerina Ierodiakonou
Oxford University, University of Athens, Institute for Advanced Study - Princeton

Location: 161 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Department of Philosphy, and the Program in Classical Philosophy

Lunch Talk: Two Riddles of the Sphinx
Joshua T. Katz & Mark Buchan
Department of Classics

Location: McCormick 103

Please bring your brown bag lunch. Drinks and desserts will be provided.
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

The Program in Classical Philosophy Colloquium - Aspects of Ancient Science: Medicine, Mathematics, and Music

Saturday, December 6 - 1:30-3:30 pm
101 McCormick (this is a change!)
Heinrich von Staden, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
"Medicine and the Soul" Commentator: Mark Schiefsky, Harvard University
3:30 Refreshments (Tower Room, 1879 Hall)
4:00-6:00 Andrew Barker, University of Birmingham: "The Journeying Voice: Melody and Metaphysics in Aristoxenian Science" Commentator: Eleonora Rocconi, University of Pavia
6:00 Memorial gathering for Heda Segvic
7:00 Cocktails at Prospect House, followed by Dinner at 8:00

Sunday, December 7
Bowl Room 16, Robertson Hall
9:00-10:00 Coffee and Rolls (Tower Room, 1879 Hall)
10:00-12:00 Reviel Netz, Stanford University: "Towards a Reconstruction of Archimedes' Stomachion" Commentator: Stephen Menn, McGill University

Copies of the papers will be available in early November from the Department of Philosophy by first class mail for $2.00 (please make
checks payable to Princeton University and mail them to Kelly Stover, Department of Philosophy, 1879 Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1006).
Note: papers will not be read in full at the sessions, and everyone attending is strongly requested to read the papers in advance. There is no charge for papers picked up by hand.

2004 Magie Lecture
"Suicide & Sectarian resistance in Augustine's Africa"
Brent Shaw
University of Pennsylvania

Location: McCormick Hall, Room 101

A reception will follow

Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

The Joukowsky Lecture
"Arthur Evans, the Palace of Minos, and the Dawn of European Civilization"
John K. Papadopoulos
University of California, Los Angeles

Location: 010 East Pyne

Presented by The Archeological Institute of America, Princeton Society, Department of Classics - Princeton, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

"Bulwer Lytton's Athens: The First Radical and Romantic History of Greece"
Oswyn Murray
University of Oxford

Location: Humanities Program Building - Room 103

Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies

"Olympic Games in Antiquity: Great History and Stories"
Panos Valavanis
University of Athens

Location: TBA

Conference: Speaking Your Mind/Minding Your Speech in Classical Antiquity: A Graduate Conference
Details: visit website

Location: Princeton University

Department of Classics

"Philosophers or Technocrats: Plato's Relational Rulers"
Malcolm Schofield
Cambridge University

Location: Humanities Program Building - Room 103

Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Program in Classical Philosophy

"One Man's Piety: Xenophon and the Divine in the Anabasis"
Robert Parker
Oxford University

Location: 106 McCormick

Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

"Whose Septuagint: Recovering the Greek Bible"
Tessa Rajak
University of Reading, UK/Institute for Advanced Study

Location: East Pyne Room 010

"Athenian Prostitution as a Liberal Profession"
Edward Cohen
University of Pennsylvania

Location: 209 Humanities Programs Building

Brown bag lunch. Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

The Eberhard L. Faber Memorial Lecture
"Beards and Time: Dawn in the Dog-Days, Age Class in Athens"
James Davison
Reader in Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick

Location: Betts Auditorium

Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Humanities Council

"Alcibiades: Constructing Masculinity in the Late Fifth Century"
Alan Schapiro
Johns Hopkins University

Location: 103 Humanities Programs Building

Brown bag lunch. Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

Works in Progress
"Literacy and Liberation: Africian American Writers and Classical Tradition"
William W. Cook, Dartmouth College; and James Tatum, Princeton University Center for Human Values and Dartmouth College

Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

Sponsored by The Program in African American Studies and the Department of Classics

"Sappho Recomposed: Musical Notes on Metrical Translation"
Yopie Prins
Fellow of the Humanities Council, Princeton University

Location: 010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature

Elegy and Narrativity - A Conference at Princeton University

Download a PDF of the conference schedule here.

For more information, email Patricia Salzman.

Location: Friend Center Bowl 008

Free admission. Organized by Princeton University and St. Peter's College

Elegy and Narrativity - A Conference at Princeton University

Continued from April 30th.

"Inventing Roman Republicanism: On Writing Passion and Politics"
Joy P. Connolly
Department of Classics, Stanford University. Visiting Fellow, Center for Human Values - Princeton University

Location: 010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Department of Classics