Presentations by this year’s Whiting Fellows, Johanna Gosse (HArt) and Eleanor Mulhern (Classics).
Tuesday, October 29, at 5 p.m., Carpenter B21.
Reception from 6-7 p.m. in Carpenter atrium.
Category Archives: Graduate Group Event
“Plato and the Power of Images”
CONFERENCE: PLATO AND THE POWER OF IMAGES
Friday, October 11
Carpenter Library B21
Elizabeth Belfiore, University of Minnesota
“The Image of Achilles in Plato’s Symposium”
Francisco Gonzalez, University of Ottawa
“The Power of a Beautiful Image in Plato and the
Poets: Infatuation or Transcendence?”
Saturday, October 12
Thomas Hall 224
Louis-André Dorion, Université de Montreal
“Image and Comparison: The explanatory power of
the eikôn in the Republic”
Catherine Collobert, University of Ottawa
“Two images of the Soul in the Republic: The
three-headed Beast (Book IX) and the Sea
Creature Glaucus (Book X)”
Gerd Van Riel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
“Perspectivism in Plato’s Views of the Gods”
Elsa Grasso, Université de Nice
“Platonic images: where the truth lies”
Pierre Destrée, Université Catholique de Louvain
“Plato on images that make one laugh”
Zacharoula Petraki, University of Crete
“Viewing the invisible: Plato’s use of pictorial arts”
Christopher Moore, Pennsylvania State University
“The Images of Knowing Oneself”
Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge
“The serpent within: the afterlife of a Platonic
image”
Ninth Biennial Graduate Group Symposium
Keynote speaker:
Kostis Kourelis, Assistant Professor at Franklin and Marshall College
“The Membrology of Home: Tales from the Archaeological Underground.”
This week, and throughout the Symposium weekend, a complementary exhibit of domestic items from the Bryn Mawr Special Collections will be on view in the Kaiser Reading Room, Carpenter Library.
For more information, including times and locations, please visit our new site:
http://www.brynmawr.edu/gradgroup/gradgroupsymposium/
or contact the Symposium Committee at bmcsymposium@gmail.com
September 27 – “Modeling the Past: Hadrian’s Villa and Other Projects of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory”
lecture by
Bernard Frischer
University of Virginia
* Please note: this Colloquium will be in Thomas Hall 110 and will begin at 4:15 pm.
The Tea will be at 3:45 in the Quita Woodward Room.
September 6 – “Catullus Through the Looking Glass: Suffenus and Mamurra”
lecture by
Monica Gale
Trinity College
Friday, September 6
4:30 pm
Carpenter Library B21
-Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room-
September 4, 2013 – Graduate Group Luncheon
Welcoming event for new and continuing graduate students.
Thomas London Room
12:30 PM
Graduate Student Mixer 2.0- Friday, September 20
Graduate Student Mixer 2.0
Friday Sept 30, from 6:30-8:30 pm at Barcade in northeast Philly.
Barcade
1114 Frankford Ave Philadelphia, PA 19125
(215) 634-4400
April 18 – History of Art Graduate Group Mixer
7-9PM
City Tap House
3825 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19104
Mixer for grad students from Bryn Mawr, Penn and Temple.
For more information, please contact Tiffany Hunt (215) 662-0105
April 5 – “Greek Cults in a Conquered Land: Reassessing the Early Roman Presence in the Sanctuaries of Greece (146-44 BC)”
Lecture by
Milena Melfi
Center for Hellenic Studies & University of Oxf
ord
Friday, April 5
4:30 pm
Carpenter Library B21
-Tea at 4:00 pm n the Quita Woodward Room-
Graduate Group Gathering – Tuesday, March 26
A celebration of the work of Mark Castro, graduate student in History of Art, on the exhibition that has just opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Journeys to New Worlds: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection” (see http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/777.html).
Mark will give a brief talk at 5 p.m. in Carpenter 21; we shall then repair upstairs to the Quita Woodward Room for refreshments.