Classics Department Events
Academic Year 2021-2022
Welcome Reception Friday, September 10, 4:30-6:30 Trotter Lawn Tent
Martin Ostwald Memorial Lecture. Monday, October 25, 5:00 pm. Science Center 199
"Quid est ergo tempus? Augustine, Music, and Time" presented by Catherine Conybeare, the Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College.
Academic Year 2019-2020
Friday, September 6 Welcome back happy hour, 4:30 pm, Classics department hallway
Friday, October 4 Happy hour, 4:30 pm, Classics department hallway, Trotter
Monday, November 4 Martin Ostwald lecture, 4:30 pm, Science Center 199 presented by James I. Porter '77, UC Berkeley
Friday, December 6 Happy hour, 4:30 pm, Classics department hallway, Trotter
Friday, January 31 Happy hour, 4:30 pm, Classics department hallway, Trotter
Friday, February 28 Happy hour, 4:30 pm, Classics department hallway, Trotter
Wednesday, March 18 CANCELED: Curtis Dozier, Vassar, "The Big One: The Fall of Rome and Contemporary Hate Groups", 4:30 Trotter 203. "PHAROS: Doing Justice to the Classics", 6:00 pm, Trotter 203. Refreshments will be served from 5:30-6.
Tuesday, March 24 CANCELED: Mira Seo lecture, "Troubling Trans-species Relationships in Homer and Valmiki: Why Are We Friends?", Trotter 115, noon
Friday, March 27 CANCELED: Happy hour, 4:30 pm, Classics department hallway, Trotter
Monday, April 20 CANCELED: Helen North lecture, 4:30 pm, Science Center 199 presented by Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr College
Monday, May 4 CANCELED: Classics department end of year dinner, 5:00 pm, location to be determined
Monday, November 9 Ostwald Memorial Lecture, "Quid est ergo tempus? Augustine, Music, and Time", Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr, 5:00pm SC199
Academic Year 2018-2019
Friday, September 21 Happy hour, 4:30, Classics department hallway
Thursday, October 4 Welcome back dinner, 5:30 pm, Scheuer Room
Friday, October 26 Trotter Hall crawl, Classics department hallway
Monday, October 29 Martin Ostwald lecture, 4:30 pm, Science Center 199
Friday, November 9 Happy hour, 4:30, Classics department hallway
Friday, December 7 Happy hour, 4:30, Classics department hallway
Friday, February 1 Happy hour, 4:30, Classics department hallway
Friday, March 1 Happy hour, 4:30, Classics department hallway
Wednesday, April 3 Helen North lecture, 4:30 pm, Science Center 199
Friday, April 12 Happy hour, 4:30, Classics department hallway
Wednesday, May 1 End of year dinner, 5:30, Wister Center
Academic Year 2017-2018
Friday, September 8 Welcome back dinner, 5:30, Wister Center
Friday, September 22 Happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Monday, October 2 Martin Ostwald lecture, 4:30 SC199
Friday, October 27 Happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Friday, December 8 Happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Friday, February 2 Happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Friday, March 2 Happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Monday, March 26 Helen North lecture, 4:30pm SC199
Friday, April 27 Happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Monday, May 7 End of year dinner, Wister Center, 5:30
Saturday, May 26 Senior celebration, 4pm, Classics hallway
Saturday, June 2 Alumni celebration, 3:00pm, Classics hallway
Academic Year 2016-2017
Tuesday, September 6 Classics Department dinner, Wister Center, 5:30
Friday, September 23 Classics happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Wednesday, October 5 Annual Martin Ostwald lecture, SC 199, 4:30
Friday, October 21 Classics happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Friday, November 11 Classics happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Friday, December 9 Classics happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Friday, February 3 Classics happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Thursday, March 16 Classics happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Wednesday, March 22 Annual Helen North lecture, SC199, 4:30
Tuesday, April 4 Dante lecture, 4:30, Bond Hall
Thursday, April 13 Classics happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30
Tuesday, 5/2 End of year dinner, Wister Center, 5:30
Academic Year 2015-2016
Friday, September 4 Classics Department welcome back dinner, Wister Center, 6:30 pm
Friday, September 11 Happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30 pm
Friday, September 25 Happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30 pm
Tuesday, October 20 Annual Martin Ostwald Lecture, SC199, 4:30pm
Friday, November 6 Happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30 pm
Friday, November 20 Happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30 pm
Friday, December 11 Happy hour, Classics hallway, 4:30 pm
Friday, January 29 Happy hour Classics hallway, 4:30 pm
Friday, February 26 Happy hour Classics hallway, 4:30 pm
Thursday, March 3 Lisa Forman, Exploding the Classical Tradition, 4:30 pm, Scheuer
Tuesday, March 15 Annual Helen North Lecture, SC199, 4:30 pm
Friday, April 8 Happy hour Classics hallway, 4:30 pm
Tuesday, May 3 End of year dinner, 5 pm, Wister Center
Academic Year 2014-15
| September 7 | Classics Department welcome back dinner, Wister Center, 4:30 pm |
| September 12 | Classics Department Happy Hour, Trotter 115, 4:30 - all are welcome! |
| October 3 | Classics Department Happy Hour, Trotter 115, 4:30 - all are welcome! |
| October 4 | Classics Department trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City - 8:30 am departure |
| January 30 | Classics Department Happy Hour, Trotter 115 hallway, 4:30 -6; all are welcome! |
| February 3 |
Classics lecture, Mick Hunter '00, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University will present "Homer Meets the Chinese Classics: Prince Chong'er in Qi and Other Tales of Reluctant Wandering Heroes," 4:30 pm, Trotter 301
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| February 24 | Classics lecture, Sydnor Roy '02, will speak at 4:30 pm in Trotter 301 |
| February 27 | Classics Department Happy Hour, Trotter 115 hallway, 4:30-6; all are welcome! |
| March 20 | Classics Department Happy Hour, Trotter 115 hallway, 4:30-6; all are welcome! |
| April 10 | Annual Helen North lecture by Jas' Elsner, Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art at Oxford University, "Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism and the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition, 4:30 pm, Science Center 101 |
| April 21 | Classics lecture, Scott Gilbert, Senior Research Associate, Howard A. Schneiderman Professor Emeritus of Biology at Swarthmore, will present "The Mythic Traditions in Biology" at 4:30 in Trotter 301. All are welcome. |
| April 24 | Classics Department Happy Hour, Trotter 115 hallway, 4:30-6; all are welcome! |
| May 3 | Classics Department End of Year dinner, Wister Center, 5:00 pm - all are welcome! |
Academic Year 2013-14
| September 6 | Classics Department Happy Hour, Trotter 115, 4:30-6 pm - all are welcome! |
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October 11-12, 2013 |
"Plato and the Power of Images" Conference, Bryn Mawr College. See http://repository.brynmawr.edu/plato/ for details |
| October 24 | Annual Martin Ostwald lecture by Carol Dougherty, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classical Studies, Wellesley, Science Center 101, 5:30 pm |
| March 18 | Annual Helen North lecture by Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek, Christ Church Oxford, Scheuer Room, 4:30 pm: "Parallel Nostalgias: Plutarch on the Greek and Roman Past" |
| May 6 | End of year picnic, 5 pm, 507 Harvard Avenue |
Other Past Events
| Date | Description |
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| January 25, 2007 | The annual Helen F. North Lecture was given by Glenn W. Most. His lecture was entitled "The Child is the Father of the Man: From Rushdie to Homer, and Back." |
| March, 2007 | Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware, "Reception and Invention of Illustrated Clssical Manuscripts in the Carolingian Age." |
| December 2006 | Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University, "Oedipus and the Plague: Why the Best Tragedy Finished Second" |
| November 2006 | Radcliffe Edmonds, "Extra-ordinary People: Mystai and Magai, Magicians and Orphics in the Derveni Papyrus." |
| November 2006 | Joel Yurdin, USC Berkeley, "Aristotle on Imagination in Behavior and in Thought," |
| June 3, 2006 | Swarthmore College Department of Classics held alumni reception |
| March 29, 2006 | Swarthmore hosted Ancient Historians' Colloquium of the Atlantic States. Robert A. Kaster of Princeton University presented a paper entitled "Self-aggrandizement and praise of others in Cicero." |
