2024
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Friday, December 13, 2024 IDEA_Lab
New Annandale House 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. |
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Friday, December 6, 2024 IDEA_Lab
New Annandale House 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. |
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Open House
Olin Language Center 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5Meet faculty, students, and staff, learn about new courses, explore study abroad opportunities, and enjoy food and drink at the FLCL Open House! |
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Friday, November 29, 2024 IDEA_Lab
New Annandale House 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. |
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Friday, November 22, 2024 IDEA_Lab
New Annandale House 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. |
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024 K-pop's Classics Lessons: Greco-Roman Receptions and Mythological Pantomimes on the Social Media Screen
Olin Humanities, Room 202 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5This talk reflects on the increasing presence of Greco-Roman receptions in a global popular culture industry based in South Korea, commonly referred to as K-pop. After providing an overview of key Greco-Roman themes in K-pop, this discussion delves into the reception of Cupid and Psyche in the girl group NewJeans’ 2023 song “Cool with You.” Drawing on the original context of the story as presented by the 2nd-century Roman author Apuleius and its connection to Roman pantomime dance, the talk explores how the reception of Cupid and Psyche functions as a meta-commentary on interracial romance, mediated through the lens of social media, in K-pop. |
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Monday, November 11, 2024 Ancient Greek Coinage from Lydia to Athens
Dr. Ute Wartenberg Kagan, PresidentAmerican Numismatic Society Olin Humanities, Room 102 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm EST/GMT-5 An introduction to Greek coinage and currency, designed for beginners in the field. An opportunity to explore this most tangible of Greek art forms (and you will get to touch some examples!) |
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024 Metal in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Prof. Del Maticic, Blegen Fellow in Greek and Roman Studies, Vassar CollegeOlin Humanities, Room 202 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Metals are everywhere in Ovid's Metamorphoses, and they have been interpreted widely for their mythical, poetological, and historical significance. In this talk, I will suggest a more general theory about what metal means in Ovid's metamorphic world. In particular, I argue that Ovid returns again and again to metal's function as a connector and mediator. As monetary currencies, technologies of war, markers of temporal periodization, and medium through which gods mix with mortals, metals magnetize an ecology of relation around them in the world of the poem, conducting connectivities of all kinds. This force of metallic mixture is occasionally a source of positive outcomes for characters in the poem, but much more often is a force of deterioration and violence. In this way, metal's agential power in the Ovidian world is as something of an agent of Heraclitean strife, binding the world together in tension. |
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Monday, March 4, 2024 Particle Accelerators, Artificial Intelligence, and Ancient Greek Literature: The Vesuvius Challenge and the Future of Classics
Rob Cioffi, Chuck Doran, and Jay ElliottStevenson Library 4th Floor Reading Room 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5 On the afternoon of August 24th, 79 CE, an unusual cloud in the shape of a pine tree could be seen across the Bay of Naples. As night turned to dawn on the morning of the 25th, Mt. Vesuvius was erupting with lethal force: buildings shook violently, the sea was absorbed back into itself, and black clouds rent by fire coursed through the sky. The eruption buried cities, killed tens of thousands, and terrified countless others. Yet, Vesuvius’ destruction was also, paradoxically, responsible for stunning acts of preservation. In Pompeii, the volcanic ash created a time capsule of Roman life in 79 CE, and in Herculaneum the deadly, hot gas preserved a whole library: nearly 1,000 ancient Greek and Latin book rolls that had been carbonized during the eruption. The only problem has been reading them. For 250 years scholars have tried to unravel the Herculaneum texts with varying degrees of success—and substantial loss of material. On the morning of February 5th, 2024 CE, all that changed. The Vesuvius Challenge announced three winners, who, thanks to advanced imaging technologies and artificial intelligence, have used a non-destructive process to read a significant portion of a new Herculaneum text. It is very likely by the epicurean philosopher Philodemus. Their discovery has the potential to change the landscape of Greek literature. It has already become major news and has featured in stories on NPR and in the Guardian. This informal seminar will present these findings to the Bard community, lay out their groundbreaking significance for anyone interested in Greek literature and ancient philosophy, and discuss their potential further applications. |