Classics Department Events
Academic Year 2020-2021
Senior Reception Saturday, May 29th 4:30-6 Trotter Lawn Tent Seniors and their guests are welcome
CANCELLED: Tuesday, April 6 2021 Helen North lecture, 5:00 pm, Science Center 199, presented by Catherine Conybeare, the Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College: "Quid est ergo tempus? Augustine, Music, and Time."
We hope to reschedule the lecture by Catherine Conybeare in the Fall 2021 semester.
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." |
