Apollonius Seminar Special Guest

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, The Ohio State University

Monday, 1 May, 3:30-4:45pm

Cicero Away Day

Saturday, 22 April

Premodern Encounters Colloquium Series

To launch the new graduate certificate in Premodern Cultures & Communities, a five-part colloquium series will take place over Spring – Fall 2023. Each colloquium brings together two scholars whose recent work engages with similar themes from different cultural and temporal eras. Rather than delivering formal talks, speakers will initiate a dialogue that places their related works in conversation. Participants are encouraged to have read their books in advance and will be invited to attend a casual pre-discussion of these works prior to the colloquium. Hard copy and .pdfs of scholarship will be made available to colloquium participants upon request.

Meeting 3 -  Premodern Ecologies and Environments

Thursday, 13 April, 5:00-7:00pm

Location TBA

Lydia Barnett, Northwestern University, author of After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe (2022) 

Adam Goldwyn, North Dakota State University, author of Byzantine Ecocriticism: Humans, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance (2018)

Premodern Encounters Colloquium Series

To launch the new graduate certificate in Premodern Cultures & Communities, a five-part colloquium series will take place over Spring – Fall 2023. Each colloquium brings together two scholars whose recent work engages with similar themes from different cultural and temporal eras. Rather than delivering formal talks, speakers will initiate a dialogue that places their related works in conversation. Participants are encouraged to have read their books in advance and will be invited to attend a casual pre-discussion of these works prior to the colloquium. Hard copy and .pdfs of scholarship will be made available to colloquium participants upon request.

Meeting 2 -  Premodern Textual Cultures

Thursday, 30 March, 5:00-7:00pm

Location TBA

Marina Rustow, Princeton University, author of The Lost Archive: Traces of the Caliphate in a Medieval Synagogue (2020) 

Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford, author of Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England: Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400–1500 (2022) 

Meetings of the “Paradoxes of Ancient Citizenship” DI Workshop

Late afternoon/early evening meeting

Friday, 24 March, 5:00-6:30pm

Matt Simonton (Arizona State) will discuss a precirculated paper on “Demagogues”

Classics Graduate Student Colloquium

Saturday, 18 March

Tuesday Classics Luncheon

Camilla Basile

'The Homeric Harvest-Metaphor in Thucydides’ Account of the Athenian Plague’

Tuesday, 14 March, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45

Wilson Hall 142

Tuesday Classics Luncheon

Angel Adams Parham, University of Virginia

discusses her latest book under the title "The Black Intellectual Tradition and Classics: A Dialogue"

Tuesday, 28 February, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45

Newcomb Hall 389

Archaeology Brown Bag Workshop

Kate Kreindler, University of Virginia

"Architectural Innovation and Metallurgy in Early Etruria: Evidence from Poggio Civitate"

Friday, 24 February, 4:00-5:15pm

Brooks Hall Commons

Abstract: The site of Poggio Civitate preserves some of the earliest known examples of monumental domestic and industrial architecture in peninsular Italy; in the second half of the seventh century BCE, inhabitants of Poggio Civitate constructed a monumental elite residence, an early temple, and a large industrial workshop, all of which were covered with terracotta tiled roofs.  These buildings were thought to be some of the earliest examples of structures with terracotta tiled roofs in the region.  Classical archaeologists long have thought that terracotta roofing technology was developed in Corinth at the start of the seventh century BCE and later was exported to Etruria.  However, the recent discovery of a new monumental residence at Poggio Civitate that was equipped with a tiled roof and dates to the start of the seventh century BCE challenges this narrative.  Moreover, evidence from this same building indicates that Etruscans may have developed terracotta roofing technology independently of Greeks, through the seemingly unrelated activity of processing and refining metallic ores.

Light refreshments will be served.

Tuesday Classics Luncheon

Tuesday, 7 February, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45

Newcomb Hall 389

Inger Kuin: "Coping Without the Gods? Adversity and Religious Doubt in Imperial Greek Literature"

Premodern Encounters Colloquium Series

To launch the new graduate certificate in Premodern Cultures & Communities, a five-part colloquium series will take place over Spring – Fall 2023. Each colloquium brings together two scholars whose recent work engages with similar themes from different cultural and temporal eras. Rather than delivering formal talks, speakers will initiate a dialogue that places their related works in conversation. Participants are encouraged to have read their books in advance and will be invited to attend a casual pre-discussion of these works prior to the colloquium. Hard copy and .pdfs of scholarship will be made available to colloquium participants upon request.

Meeting 1 - Race and Empire in the Premodern World

Thursday, 2 February, 5:00-7:00pm

Location TBA

Shao-yun Yang, Denison University, author of The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China (2019) 

Michael Gomez, NYU, author of African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa (2018) 

Archaeology Brown Bag lectures

Chris Motz, University of Richmond

"Connecting Ecology, Economy, and Craft in the Roman Fish-Salting Industry"

Friday, 27 January, 4:00-5:15pm

Brooks Hall Commons

People have salted fish as a means of preservation since prehistory, but the first and second centuries CE witnessed an explosion of fish-salting activity at an industrial scale that would not be seen again until at least the early modern period. In many ways, the story of this industry’s rise and fall exemplifies the complex transformations that characterized the Roman period. In this talk, I draw on a survey of 330 workshops from across Rome’s empire to explore how forces of the natural world and of human society—such as fish biology, physical and human geography, trade networks, social hierarchies, and modes of learning—interacted to shape the Roman fish-salting industry physically and socially at multiple scales, from the form and organization of vats, to the placement of factories, to the contours of the social networks that enabled the movement of people and knowledge.

light refreshments provided

Fall 2022

Archaeology Brown Bag lectures

Natasha Dakouri-Hild, University of Virginia

"The Kotroni Archaeological Survey Project (KASP): A Synthesis from Seasons 1-3 (2019, 2021)"

Friday, 2 December 4:00-5:15

Brooks Hall Commons

KASP is an international, interdisciplinary project that combines expertise across the Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Archaeology, Classics, History, Anthropology, Architectural Preservation). It utilizes a combination of historical research, architectural study, digital applications, and conventional and innovative field techniques (collection of surface artifacts, Geographic Information Systems, remote sensing, photogrammetry, geophysics, geological and geomorphological analysis), in order to evaluate the complex, multi-temporal cultural landscape at hand. KASP also seeks to highlight the relationship between the past, contemporary communities and academic practice in the framework of public archaeology by engaging communities at all scales (local, national and global/international).  The project operates under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Culture (Ephorate of Antiquities of East Attica) and the Irish Institute for Hellenic Studies at Athens (IIHSA), with the participation of the University of Virginia and several other US and European academic institutions.

If you cannot join us in person, here is the Zoom information:

You are invited to a Zoom meeting: Dec. 2, 4:00-5:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvcumoqDMsEtY82LyjvxDzRd00nMJZhdjj 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Greek Rituals class public lecture

Suzanne Lye, UNC Chapel Hill

"Conceptions of the Afterlife in Ancient Greek Underworld Narratives from Homer to Lucian"

Thursday, 17 November, 3:30-4:45pm

Meetings of the “Paradoxes of Ancient Citizenship” DI Workshop

Lunch Meeting

Friday, 4 November, 12:00noon-2:00pm

Bond House 116-118

Lunch Meeting (co-sponsored with Global Legal History Initiative in the History Department), featuring Ari Bryen (Vanderbilt):  “Law as Books:  Writing about Governance from Cicero to Ulpian”

Tuesday Classics Luncheon

Kate Kreindler, University of Virginia

"Domestic Architecture and Social Differentiation at Poggio Civitate"

Tuesday, November 1, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45

Newcomb Hall 389 

Annual Archaeology Program Informational meet and greet

Tuesday, October 25, 6:30pm

Fayerweather Lounge

pizza will be provided 

In honor of International Archaeology Day and to celebrate Archaeology at UVA, you are ALL warmly invited to attend this year's annual Archaeology pizza party and information event!

We will hear about archaeology field schools, classes, internships and other archaeology opportunities around Grounds.

This is a great way to chat with other students (both grad and undergrad!) as well as with the amazing Archaeology Program faculty. 

Tuesday Classics Luncheon

Evan Brubaker, University of Virginia

"Exul in Urbe: Novidio Fracco’s De Adversis, Ovid’s Tristia, and the Sack of Rome"

Tuesday, October 18, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45

Newcomb Hall 389 

Tuesday Classics Luncheon

Andrej Petrovic, University of Virginia

"More on the New Epigram from Teos"

Tuesday, October 11, lunch at 12:30, talk at 1:00, and adjournment at 1:45

Newcomb Hall 389 

Archaeology Brown Bag lectures

Jeffrey Hantman, University of Virginia

"Archaeology of Monacan Mounds, Ancestral Territory and Survivance, A.D. 1000-2022"

Friday, 23 September 4:00-5:15

Brooks Hall Conference Room

​In this talk I discuss the power of persistent places in consideration of Monacan Indian ancestral territory and contemporary heritage politics.  The talk is in two parts: first, I review the archaeological evidence for the distinctive Monacan ritual mound burial practice recorded in central and west-central Virginia since A.D. 1000.   I reconsider the concept of mounds as ‘monuments’ in the landscape of the daily lives of Monacan people, a label first considered by Thomas Jefferson in 1787.  The talk then emphasizes the evidence for Monacan ‘survivance,’ a term redefined by Anishinaabe writer and critic Gerald Vizenor to refer to the active Indigenous presence in the context of settler colonialism and the rejection of narratives of dominance and historical absence.  Archaeological methods and typologies contributed to the long-standing narrative of Indigenous disappearance and loss. But the ongoing critical and collaborative effort to rethink archaeological and documentary data provides a revised historical narrative that sheds light on the Indigenous practice of ‘(not) hiding in plain site(s)’ in Virginia, and beyond.  

Archaeology Brown Bag lectures

Welcome and Introductory Reception

Friday, 9 September, 4:00-5:15pm

Fayerweather Hall Patio

light refreshments 

Classics Association of Virginia meeting

Saturday, 10 September

Meetings of the “Paradoxes of Ancient Citizenship” DI Workshop

Introductory Meeting (with lunch!)

Wednesday, 7 September 12:00noon-1:30pm

Bond House 116-118

We will talk about the goals of the Workshop, and also discuss a pre-circulated paper: “Metics and Freedmen: Conflicts of Social and Juridical Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Greek World” by E. Meyer

Classics Undergraduate reception

Wednesday, 31 August, 4:00pm

Classics Lobby

Classics Welcome meeting

Friday, 26 August, 4:00pm