Graduate Group Events

January 18, 2012 – Graduate Group Luncheon

Please join us for lunch on Wednesday, January 18 in the London Room, from 12:30-2:00.

The Cosmic Text of Aratus’ Phaenomena

lecture by

Katharina Volk
Columbia University

Friday, December 2
4:30 pm – Carpenter Library B21
Bryn Mawr College

-Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room , Thomas Hall -

The Attic Ritual Theatre and the ‘Socially Unquestionable’ in the Tragic Genre

lecture by

Synnøve des Bouvrie
University of Tromsø, Norway & Center for Hellenic Studies

Friday, November 18
4:30 pm
Carpenter Library B21
Bryn Mawr College

-Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room, Thomas Hall-

November 11 & 12 – Graduate Group Symposium – “Feed Your Head: Food as Material and Metaphor”

Friday, November 11

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Darra Goldstein
Williams College, Founding Editor of Gastronomica

4:00 – 4:30 pm
Teatime (Quita Woodward Room, Thomas Hall)

4:45 – 6:00 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Darra Goldstein

“The Hungry Gaze: Food and Its Cultural Representations”

6:00 – 6:30 pm
Food as Material and Metaphor Exhibit
(Kaiser Reading Room, Carpenter Library)

A collection of objects, prints, photos, and paintings from Bryn Mawr’s Special Collections

6:15 – 7:30 pm
Open Reception (Ely Room, Wyndham Alumnae House)

Saturday, November 12

Schedule

November 4 – “The Materiality of Minoan Writing”

Lecture by

Georgia Flouda
Stanley Seeger Research Fellow, Princeton University

Friday, November 4
4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B21

Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room

October 28 – “Socrates’ Poetic Initiation”

Lecture by

Andrea Capra
Università degli Studi di Milano & Center for Hellenic Studies

Friday, October 28
4:30 pm
Carpenter Library B21

Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room

“Double Take”- Opening 9/27/11

“Double Take”, photography exhibition curated by History of Art graduate student Carrie Robbins.
Tuesday September 27
Talk at 4:30 in CARP 21, followed by a reception.

Whiting Fellows Presentations and Reception

Research Project Presentations
Tuesday, October 18
4:30 in CARP 21; reception following in the Dorothy Vernon Room.

This year’s Whiting Fellows are Mey-Yen Moriuchi (History of Art), Jessica Sisk (Classics), and Laura Surtees (Archaeology)

October 21 – “Women in the Linear B Tablets: Aristocrats, Priestesses, and Laborers”

lecture by

Barbara Olsen
Vassar College & Center for Hellenic Studies

Friday, October 21
4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B21

Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room

September 30 – “A world full of words and emotions: The late antique Greek letters on papyrus (A.D. 4th-8th cent.)”

lecture by

Amphilochios Papathomas
University of Athens

4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B21

Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room