Graduate Group Events

November 17 - Special Collections Presentations

Ammy Haavik-MacKinnon and Tiefong Ho

5:30 pm in the Rare Book Room, Canaday Library

November 20 - “Men, Metamorphosis, and the Transforming Power of Wine”

Lecture by Annetta Alexandridis, Cornell University

at 4:00 pm in Carpenter Library B21

(Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room)

Dec 4-5 -The Seventh Biennial Bryn Mawr College Graduate Group Symposium

The Seventh Biennial Bryn Mawr College Graduate Group Symposium

“The Anxiety of Influence and Appropriation”

Featured Respondent:
Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor, History of Art, Yale University

Sponsored by the Graduate Group, the Center for Visual Culture and the Departments of Classical and near Eastern Archaeology, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, and History of Art

December 11 - “Philostratus’ Heroicus: Paideia in the Local Landscape”

Lecture by Janet Downie, Princeton University
at 4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B1
(Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room)

November 13 - “The Argive Heraion, Revisited”

Lecture by Carla Antonaccio, Duke University

at 4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B21

(Tea at 4:00 pm n the Quita Woodward Room)

November 12 - “Telling Other People’s Stories: The Circulation of History and Legend Between Asia and Europe in the 16th Century”

Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam  is delivering the Bryn Mawr College Mary Flexner Lectures this fall. This is a three-part lecture series titled “Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness in Early Modern Eurasia.” Please go to http://news.brynmawr.edu/?p=3779 for details.

The Graduate Group and the Bryn Mawr College Libraries are pleased to co-sponsor a special lecture by him with the title “Telling Other People’s Stories: The Circulation of History and Legend Between Asia and Europe in the 16th Century.”

The event will take place on Thursday, November 12th, 12:30-1:45 in Dalton 300 (refreshments will be served).

November 12 - “Peace as the Highest Good and End? The Role of Peace in Roman Thought and Politics” Kurt A. Raaflaub, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Brown University

Lecture by Kurt A. Raaflaub, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Brown University on Thursday, November 12, from 5:30-7:00pm in Carpenter Library B21. The lecture is sponsored by the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art and is followed by a reception in the Quita Woodward Room (7:00-8:00pm).

Professor Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History at Brown University and one of the leading, internationally renowned ancient historians. He has published widely on numerous aspects of Greek and Roman history, in particular on Athenian democracy and Greek political thought, the social and political history of the Roman republic, and the comparative history of the ancient world. His many books and edited volumes include “Social Struggles in Archaic Rome. New Perspectives on the Conflict of Orders” (1986; rev. ed. 2005), “Aspects of Athenian Democracy” (1990), “Democracy 2500? Questions and Challenges” (1997), “War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds” (1999), “The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece” (rev. engl. ed. 2004), “Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece” (2007), “War and Peace in the Ancient World” (2007) and “A Companion to Archaic Greece” (2009). His new book on “Geography, Ethnography, and Perspectives of the World in Premodern Societies” will be published in February 2010 by Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.

November 6 -“Does Dying Hurt? Philodemus’ De Morte and Asclepiades of Bithynia”

Lee Pearcy, Episcopal Academy & Bryn Mawr College

4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B21

(Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room)

October 30 - “East Meets West at the Archaic Temple of Hera at Mon Repos, Corfus”

Lecture by Philip Sapirstein, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania University Museum, Mediterranean Section

4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B21

(Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room)

October 29 - Edward N. Luttwak, Author Military Strategist and Historian

Dr. Edward Luttwak will give a public lecture entitled “Attila the Hun and Roman Strategy: A Comparison between the Earlier Romans and the East Empire” this Thursday evening (October 29th) from 5:30-7:00pm in Carpenter B21. The lecture is sponsored by the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art and the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund.
Dr. Luttwak is a well-known military historian and strategist as well as international defense consultant, whose books include “Coup d’etat: A Practical Handbook” (1968; rev. ed. 1979), “A Dictionary of Modern War” (1971), “The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third” (1976), and “Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace” (1987, rev. ed. 2002). His new book on “The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire” will be published this fall by Harvard University Press.

The lecture is followed by a reception in the London Room (7:00-8:00pm).