Events
Each year the Department of Classics sponsors a series of lectures by speakers from other universities as well as from Pitt. Included in this series is an annual public lecture and seminar by a distinguished classicist funded by the Friends of the Classics Department in the Pittsburgh community.
The department also organizes conferences or symposia on classical subjects every few years. Each year, in addition to its own events, the department co-sponsors one lecture with the Department of History of Art and Architecture, two or three with the departments of Philosophy and History & Philosophy of Science, and three with the local chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America.
The department also sponsors occasional lectures with other departments and programs, such as the Program in Cultural Studies and the Program in Asian Studies. Each year more informal lectures are also given by faculty and advanced graduate students in the department.
Schedule for Fall and Spring Semesters 2009-10
Friday, September 18, 2009
"Hector and the Will of Zeus in the Iliad ”
Wolfgang Bernard, Heinrich Schliemann-Institut, University of Rostock
4:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244A
Friday, October 2, 2009
"Herodotus and Thucydides on Blind Decisions in Taking Military Action"
Hans-Peter Stahl, A.W. Mellon Professor of Classics, University of Pittsburgh
4:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244B
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
"Sacred Law, Sacred Money: The Problem of Authority in the Early Greek Polis "
Jeremy McInerney, Davidson Kennedy Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Society
4:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 306
Monday, November 2, 2009
"Thucydides rector: Pericles' Speech in Indirect Discourse "
Edith Foster, Assistant Professor of History, Ashland University
4:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 208B
Thursday, November 19, 2009
"Recent Work on Carthage"
Mark W. Graham, Assistant Professor of History, Grove City College
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Society
4:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244A
Thursday, November 19, 2009
"Walking and talking: reflections on Stoic divisions of the soul"
Brad Inwood, Professor of Classics and Philosophy, University of Toronto
Sponsored by the Program in Classics, Philosophy, and Ancient Science
4:00 PM, Cathdral of Learning 208A
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
"The Mosaic of the Birth of Helen and the Dioscuries from Leptiminus"
Nejib ben Lazreg, Researcher and Curator, Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunisia
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Society
4:30 PM, Venue TBA
Schedule for Fall and spring Semesters 2008-9
Friday, November 14, 2008
"Sappho In Byzantium"
Edwin Floyd, Department of Classics, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored by the University Honors College
2:15 PM, Cathedral of Learning 3500
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
“At Home in Archaic Athens: the Archaeologoy of a House near the Athenian Agora”
Kathleen M. Lynch, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Society
4:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 204
Friday, December 12, 2008
"The Development of Early Pythagorean Cosmology"
Carl Huffman,
Robert Stockwell Professor of Greek Language and Literature and Professor of Classics, DePauw University
Sponsored by the Program in Classics, Philosophy, and Ancient Science
3:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244B
Friday, January 9, 2009
"Excavating an 8th Century BC Anatolian Settlement "
Joshua Cannon, University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences 09'
Sponsored by the University Honors College
3:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 3500
Friday, February 24, 2009
"Zincirli and the Kuttamuwa Stele"
Joshua Cannon, University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences 09'
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Society
4:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 304
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
“Project Paphlagonia: Multi-period Archaeological Survey in north-central Turkey"
Roger Matthews, Institute for Archaeology at University College, London, UK
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Society
4:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 304
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
“Escaping one’s own notice knowing: Meno’s paradox again"
MM McCabe, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, King's College, London, UK
Sponsored by the Program in Classics, Philosophy, and Ancient Science
3:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 144
Friday, April 3, 2009
"The Lost Memoirs of Augustus"
Anton Powell, Visiting Professor, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Co-sponsored by the University Honors College
4:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244A
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
"Chasing a Roman Soldier"
James Russell, Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Society
4:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 208A
Schedule for SPRING Semester 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
“Republic X and the Role of the Audience in Art”
Verity Harte, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Yale University
Sponsored by the Program in Classics, Philosophy, and Ancient Science
3:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244A
Friday, February 1, 2008
"The "New" Sappho: How Many Poems? How Many Traditions?"
Edwin Floyd,
Department of Classics, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored by the University Honors College
2:15 PM, Cathedral of Learning 3500
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
"Portraits of Barbarians in Roman Art”
Elizabeth Bartman, Independent Scholar, President of the New York Society of AIA
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Society
4:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 313
Monday, February 18, 2008
"Ill-omened Dawn? Odyssey 19.571"
Edwin Floyd, Department of Classics, University of Pittsburgh
4:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 142
Friday, February 22, 2008
"Aristotle on the Pleasures of Tragedy"
Pierre Destree,
Université catholique de Louvain and University of Maryland
Co-sponsored by the Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science
3:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244A
Friday, March 21, 2008
"Animae dimidium meae: Vergil and Horace"
Jana Adamitis,
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Christopher Newport University
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
4:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244A
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
"The Magic of Art and Writing in Ancient Egypt ”
Lanny Bell, Professor of Egyptology, Brown University
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Society
4:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 363
Friday, April 11, 2008
"The Commentariolum Petitionis as an Attack on Election Campaigns in the Roman Republic"
Michael C. Alexander, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sponsored by the Classics Department
4:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244B
Friday, April 25, 2008
"Aristotle on Living Matter"
Alan Code, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Co-sponsored by the Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science
3:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning Room 244A
Schedule for Fall Semester 2007
Friday, September 14, 2007
"Etymology and Literary Criticism in the Odyssey, Books 19 and 23 ”
Edwin Floyd, Department of Classics, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored by the University Honors College
2:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 3500
Monday, September 17, 2007
"The Function of the Third Actor in Greek Tragedy”
Mae Smethurst, Department of Classics, University of Pittsburgh
4:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 142
Friday, September 28, 2007
"Tragic Theory and its Consequences: the Case of Sophocles' 'Antigone' ”
Wolfgang Bernard, Heinrich Schliemann-Institut, University of Rostock
4:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244A
Friday, October 5, 2007
"Sotto 'l buono Augusto: Pindaric Praise in Augustan Rome ”
Richard Thomas, Harvard University
4:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244A
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
"God's Transcendent Activity –Ontotheology in Metaphysics Λ”
Markus Gabriel, Univeristy of Heidelberg
Sponsored by the Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science
12:00 Noon, Cathedral of Learning 817R
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
"Exploring the Ancient Greek City: Excavations at Azoria on Crete”
Margaret Mook, Iowa State University
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Society
4:30 PM, Cathedral of Learning 239
Friday, October 12, 2007
"Tacitus and the Mentality of the Roman Soldier of his Time”
Jaime
Gómez de Caso Zuriaga, University of Alcala, Meco, Madrid
Co-sponsored by the University Honors College
4:00 PM, Cathedral of Learning 244A
