Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Italian and Italian Studies
Bryn Mawr College
“Anachronism, the Late Medieval Patrona Statue of Lucera, and a Modern Angevin Cult”
Category Archives: Symposium
March 27 – “Ovid’s Pygmalion and a Poetics of Touch”
lecture by
Melissa Haynes
Princeton University
Friday, March 27
4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B21
Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room
March 24 – “Hybrid and Monstrous Creatures in Minoan Iconography”
Graduate Seminar sponsored by the Onassis Foundation (USA) University Seminars Program
Eleni Mantzourani
Professor, Department of Archaeology & History of Art
University of Athens
Tuesday, March 24
9:00 am
Carpenter Library B15
March 23 – “Disease and Therapy: Medical and other therapeutical practices in prehistoric eastern Mediterranean”
lecture by:
Eleni Mantzourani
University of Athens, Onassis Foundation
Monday, March 23
4:30 pm in Thomas Hall 224
-Refreshments at 4:00 pm in the London Room-
CANCELLED – March 20 – “New Discoveries at Pompeii: The University of Cincinnati excavations of a ‘lost’ Pompeian neighborhood”
lecture by
Steven Ellis
University of Cincinnati
Friday, March 20
4:30 pm in Carpenter B21
-Tea at 4:00 pm in the Quita Woodward Room-
February 27 – “Psyche amongst the Victorians: An Aspect of Apuleian Reception”
lec
ture by
Stephen Harrison
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Friday, February 27
4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B21
Graduate Group 10th Anniversary Celebration-April 4th and 5th
Friday April 4
5:30 Opening of A Curious Group in the Kaiser Reading Room, Rhys Carpenter Library
6:15 Drinks in the Cloisters, Thomas
7:00 Dinner in Thomas Great Hall
7:15 Welcome Catherine Conybeare
After-dinner speaker: Elizabeth Cropper, Ph.D. ’72
Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery
Saturday April 5
9:00 AM -1:00 PM
Symposium Carpenter B-21
Featuring students from the Graduate Group’s first ten years:
Diane Amoroso O’Connor (Ursinus College)
Ben Anderson (Cornell University)
Nick Blackwell (American School of Classical Studies in Athens)
Andrea De Giorgi (Florida State University)
Rebecca Dubay (Kansas City Art Institute)
Matt Feliz (LaSalle University)
Eric Hutchinson (Hillsdale College)
Michael Jay McClure (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Evrydiki Tasopoulou (Villanova University)
1:00 PM Lunch in Rhoads Dining Hall.
Speaker: Dale Kinney, Professor and GSAS Dean Emerita.
3:00 – 5:00 PM Memorial event for Professor Gridley McKim-Smith
Goodhart Music Room
Reception in Taft Garden
“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.