2019
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019 How Democracy Dies: The View from Ancient Greece
Olin Humanities, Room 102 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5A Conversation With: Carolyn Dewald, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies Chiara Ricciardone, Hannah Arendt Center Teaching Fellow James Romm, Professor of Classics Reflections on how the Greeks, inventors of democracy, lost that system of government and reverted to monarchy, and how their experience may help us understand the current political moment. Free and open to the public! |
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Monday, December 9, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Monday, December 2, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Wednesday, November 27, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Monday, November 25, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Monday, November 18, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Monday, November 11, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Monday, November 4, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Monday, October 28, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Monday, October 21, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Monday, October 14, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Monday, October 7, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Latin Study Room
120; Olin Language Center 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join! |
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019 The New Greek Renaissance
Mary Norris, American author, writer, and copy editor for the New YorkerCampus Center, Weis Cinema 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 More than a dozen works about Greece and Greek, modern and ancient, by translators, memoirists, novelists, scholars, essayists, lecturers, dramatists, and actors from England, America, Australia, Greece, and Italy have been published in just the past two years, and there are more in the works. The author of Greek to Me will celebrate recent work inspired by the language, literature, and landscape of Greece and inquire into whatever it is in our current situation that sends us back to the Greeks. |
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Monday, September 23, 2019 The Play of Conspiracy in Plato’s Republic
Demetra KasimisAssistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago Olin Humanities, Room 102 4:45 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Does Plato’s Republic enact a conspiracy? Ostensibly, the impetus for imagining a political regime radically different from the democracy of the discussion is a desire to illustrate a concept (justice), not to overthrow a real political order. On second glance, the Republic takes place during the Peloponnesian War, when conspiratorial zeal consumed Athens. Fears of secret power and political instability erupt into and shape the stylistics of the narrative, provoking doubt about what the dialogue claims it is doing and proposing. Whether we are made privy to a conversation about a political world that may never exist or exposed to a strategy for discussing revolution undetected remains unresolved. The Republic invites a hermeneutics of suspicion, drawing us into a democratic culture of mistrust and the seductions of conspiratorial thinking. As it tropes conspiracy, the Republic provides a searching, immanent, and still-relevant critique of a democracy undergoing what we might today call authoritarian drift. |
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Sunday, May 5, 2019 Sophocles’ Electra
Blithewood 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm EDT/GMT-4An Athenian tragedy performed on the Blithewood Manor porch. |
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Friday, May 3, 2019 – Saturday, May 4, 2019 Sophocles’ Electra
Blithewood 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm EDT/GMT-4An Athenian tragedy performed on the Blithewood Manor porch at sunset on Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4. Additional performance at 1:00 pm on Sunday, May 5. |
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Thursday, April 25, 2019 The Eccentric Augustine
Catherine Conybeare, Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr CollegeOlin Humanities, Room 102 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The writings of Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE) are fundamental to the Western European intellectual tradition. It is rarely taken into account, however, that he spent almost his entire life in North Africa. This talk will consider what the late Roman Empire looked like from the “eccentric” vantage points of Numidia and Africa Proconsularis—Algeria and Tunisia, in contemporary terms—and what effect that eccentricity may have had on Augustine’s thought. |
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019 "Ambiguity and Paradox in Herodotus’ Histories”
Carolyn Dewald, Professor Emerita of History and Classics, Bard CollegeOlin Humanities, Room 202 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join the Department of Classics |
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Poetry and Classical Myth: A Reading and Discussion
by Poet/Translator A. E. StallingsCampus Center, Weis Cinema 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 A. E. Stallings is an American poet who studied classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published three collections of poetry—Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives—and a verse translation (in rhyming fourteeners!) of Lucretius, The Nature of Things. She has received a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Stallings speaks and lectures widely on a variety of topics, and has been a regular faculty member at the West Chester Poetry Conference and the Sewanee Summer Writers’ Conference. Having studied in Athens, Georgia, she now lives in Athens, Greece, with her husband, the journalist John Psaropoulos, and their two argonauts, Jason and Atalanta. |