2024 - 2025 Archive
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Spring 2025
Ross Family Lecture
Michael Zerjadtke, University of Virginia
"The Story of a Shield: Manufacture, Technology, and Society in Ancient Greece"
Wednesday, 30 April, 3:30-6:00pm
Harrison Insitute Auditorium, Special Collections Library
Reception to follow
A Conference on Religion and Roman Literature
A Conference honoring the scholarship of John Miller, Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics
Saturday, 26 April, 9:00am - 5:00pm
101 Nau Hall
9:00 Coffee and Breakfast
9:30-9:45 Opening Remarks
9:45-10:45 Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania, “Nonum ... prematur in annum: Volume 1 of the Library of Digital Latin Texts”
10:45-11:45 Anke Walter, University of Zurich, “Class and the Calendar in Ovid’s Fasti?”
11:45-12:00 Break
12:00-1:00 Chris Nappa, Florida State, “Persephone in Italy: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter”
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:15 Lily Panoussi, William and Mary, “Imagining Isis: Cross-cultural Encounters in Roman Elegy”
3:15-3:30 Coffee
3:30-4:30 Kelly Shannon-Henderson, University of Cincinnati, “Greek Poetry and Roman Religion in Phlegon of Tralles”
5:30-8:00 Reception Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Sponsored by the UVA Classics Department, the Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office, the Page-Barbour Fund, the Cary Fund, the Forum on Religion and Democracy, & the Society of Fellows
Archaeology DMP student research presentations
Katie Haines, Henry Hesford, Cannon Slayton, and Grace Saunders
Friday, 18 April, 12:00-2:00pm
Fayerweather Lounge
Each student will be giving 15–20-minute presentations of their projects, with time for a short Q&A session at the end.
Light refreshments will be served.
Archaeology Brown Bag Workshop
Omokolade Omigbule, University of Virginia
"Global Trade, Local People: Black Atlantic Archaeology in the Bight of Bonny (C. 1600-1900 CE)"
Abstract: Black Atlantic archaeology on the West African coast has contributed to understanding African participation in the transatlantic and global political economies in the last 500 years. While historical records attest to the Bight of Bonny's significant role in this economic system, its archaeology has the potential to contribute to current debates on African agency in the transatlantic economy. As a step toward exploring the material vestiges of the transatlantic economy in the Bight of Bonny, I present preliminary archaeological and ethnographic data from its major coastal entrepots: Bonny Island and Old Calabar. I discuss emergent Atlantic entanglements in the region through exotic architecture and accompanying material culture. Drawing on ideas within daily life archaeology, I examine household objects to foreground the role of African elites and non-elites in the Black Atlantic and the Bight of Bonny specifically.
Dustin Thomas, University of Virginia
"3D Modeling as an Analytical Tool for the Study of Rock-Cut Tombs across the Roman Empire"
Abstract: As a “tomb-type,” rock-cut tombs are distinctive yet understudied in present scholarship about death and burial in the Roman world. This funerary architecture was used almost exclusively in the provinces of the Roman Empire from the 1st century BCE through 4th century CE, especially in its eastern territories. During this period, rock-cut tombs were largely absent from the Italian Peninsula. Collectively, this geographic distribution suggests that the funerary customs associated with these tombs closely reflected the sociocultural dynamics of the imperial provinces. As a part of a broader doctoral dissertation project that uses these tombs as a springboard for examining the cultural complexity of the Roman Empire, this paper will discuss how 3D recording and modeling methodologies – principally handheld LiDAR and photogrammetry – can be a fundamental tool in conducting comparative analysis of tombs from disparate geographical regions. It will conclude with a showcase of models made of rock-cut tombs from Cyprus, Malta, and Spain demonstrating the advantages of 3D models as a means of examining and illustrating their nuanced details.
Friday, 18 April, 4:00-5:30pm
Brooks Hall, 2nd floor conference room
Light refreshments will be served.
Friday Classics Luncheon
Ian McCready-Flora, University of Virginia
“Security and Precision: Aristotle’s Psychology of Knowing"
Friday, 18 April, 1:00-1:45pm
Wilson 142
Boxed lunches provided by the Department of Classics will be available at 12:30pm, the talk will start at 1pm, and we will close at 1:45pm, so those who need to can make it to 2pm classes.
29th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium
Invention, Power, and Meaning of Personal Names in the Greco-Roman World
Saturday, 5 April, 9:00am - 6:00pm
Keynote: Athanassios Vergados, Newcastle University
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
4-5 April
The Siren Project: Found in Translation: Female Translators of the Classics
Stephanie McCarter, University of the South
Monday, 31 March, 5:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
Meeting ID: 944 1142 9239
Passcode: 999293
Certamen
29 March
Archaeological Institute of America Joukowsky Lecture
Dimitris Plantzos, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
"Dying as a Macedonian in Egypt: Styling Social Identity through Hellenistic Burial Practices"
Thursday, 27 March, 6:00pm
Campbell Hall 158
CAMWS Meeting
19-22 March
Friday Classics Luncheon
Nina Raby, University of Virginia
“Caesar in the Eye of the Storm: Lucretius 2.1-61 and Lucan 5.508-677"
Friday, 7 March, 1:00-1:45pm
Wilson 142
Boxed lunches provided by the Department of Classics will be available at 12:30pm, the talk will start at 1pm, and we will close at 1:45pm, so those who need to can make it to 2pm classes.
Stocker Lecture
James Uden, Boston University
"Finishing off Caesar: Conflict and Continuation in Gallic War 8"
Monday, 24 February, 5:00pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
When Caesar was assassinated in 44 BCE, he left behind seven books of the Gallic War, which chronicled his campaigns from 58-52, and three of the Civil War, covering events in 49 and 48. What about the gap in the middle? In the months following Caesar's death, the consul designate Aulus Hirtius published a work narrating the missing years 51 and 50, only to die himself soon afterwards, at the Battle of Mutina in 43. Literary historians have tended to file away Hirtius' book as the efforts of a 'Caesarian continuator', yet what it meant to continue Caesar's work was the foremost question of the age. This talk aims to rediscover Gallic War 8 as a vital document of the post-assassination period – and a text much more ambivalent about Caesar's legacy than is typically assumed.
reception to following in the Dept of Classics
Friday Classics Luncheon
Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia
“Religious Drama: Defining Sacred Space on Vases and Reliefs"
Friday, 14 February, 1:00-1:45pm
Wilson 142
Boxed lunches provided by the Department of Classics will be available at 12:30pm, the talk will start at 1pm, and we will close at 1:45pm, so those who need to can make it to 2pm classes.
Ross Family Lecture Series
Michael Zerjadtke, University of Virginia
"The Story of Sheild"
Wednesday, 12 February, 3:30-6:00pm
Harrison Institute Special Collections Auditorium
Reception to follow
The Siren Project: Found in Translation: Female Translators of the Classics
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, University of Chicago
Wednesday, 29 January, 5:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
Meeting ID: 944 1142 9239
Passcode: 999293
Friday Classics Luncheon
Tony Corbeill, University of Virginia
"Communicating on Rome's Edges: Tongues, Gesture, and Art"
Friday, 24 January, 1:00-1:45 pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Boxed lunches provided by the Department of Classics will be available at 12:30pm, the talk will start at 1pm, and we will close at 1:45pm, so those who need to can make it to 2pm classes.
Fall 2024
The Siren Project: Found in Translation: Female Translators of the Classics
Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, 18 November, 5:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
Meeting ID: 944 1142 9239
Passcode: 999293
Friday Classics Luncheon
Will Nichols, University of Virginia
"Choral and Cosmic Harmony in Plato’s Laws"
Friday, 8 November, 12:30pm
Wilson 142
Boxed lunches provided by the Department of Classics will be available at 12:30pm, the talk will start at 1pm, and we will close at 1:45pm, so those who need to can make it to 2pm classes.
Archaeology Brown Bag Workshop
Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida
"3D Archaeology of Archaeology: remote sensing and digital mapping to rediscover the ancient Greek city of Heloros (Sicily)"
Thursday, 7 November, 4:00-5:30pm
Brooks Hall, 2nd floor conference room
Light refreshments will be served.
Heloros, located on Sicily’s Ionian shore, is believed to be the first sub-colony of the Greek city of Syracuse. Despite its historical significance, it remains relatively obscure. The Heloros Advanced Digital Exploration and Surveying (HADES) project seeks to clarify the site’s architectural and topographical evolution from its uncertain foundation in the late 8th century BCE to its heyday, in the Late Hellenistic period, and beyond. By digitizing and verifying legacy data and integrating them with newly acquired 3D geospatial documentation—employing global positioning, digital photogrammetry, drones, LIDAR, and ground-penetrating radar—this project reveals new insights into Heloros' history, including its pre-Greek occupation and revised interpretations of key structures. Using Heloros as a case study, this talk illustrates how the 'digital excavation' approach can yield substantial archaeological knowledge without new physical digs. The process of datafication, which involves creating new data through the layered collection of natively digital and digitized legacy data, guided the efforts for virtual reconstruction and future planning. This methodology resurfaced unpublished or previously unknown information about the site, verified interpretative hypotheses, and generated significant new data to rewrite the history of this important yet little-known Greek city.
Friday Classics Luncheon
John Dillery, University of Virginia
"Interpretative problems in Herodotus Book 2"
Friday, 1 November, 12:30pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Boxed lunches provided by the Department of Classics will be available at 12:30pm, the talk will start at 1pm, and we will close at 1:45pm, so those who need to can make it to 2pm classes.
Annual Archaeology Event
Pizza party and information session for ALL archaeologists at UVA
Tuesday, 29 October, 6:30pm
Fayerweather Lounge
Hear about field schools, research, and internships
Learn about Archaeology on-Grounds and in our community
Meet current and prospective Archaeology majors and minors
Chat with Archaeology faculty, alumni, and graduate students
Pizza will be served so please come and bring a friend!
Constantine Lecture
Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania
"The Singularity of the Tragic Day"
Thursday, 24 October, 5:00pm
Gibson Room, Cocke Hal
reception to follow
The Siren Project: Found in Translation: Female Translators of the Classics
Jenny Clay, University of Virginia
Wednesday, 16 October, 5:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
Meeting ID: 944 1142 9239
Passcode: 999293
Classics Lecture
Fabio Stok, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
"Commenting on Vergil in the Early Modern Age"
Monday, 7 October, 5:00PM
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
reception to follow
Friday Classics Luncheon
Michael Zerjadtke, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr, Hamburg
"The cost of hoplite equipment and who could afford it"
Friday, 4 October, 12:30pm
Bryan Hall 229A
Boxed lunches provided by the Department of Classics will be available at 12:30pm, the talk will start at 1pm, and we will close at 1:45pm, so those who need to can make it to 2pm classes.
Classical Association of Virginia Meeting
Saturday, 21 September, 5:00PM
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
Archaeology Brown Bag Workshop
Informal beginning of the year get together
Friday, 20 September, 4:00-5:30pm
Fayerweather patio
Light refreshments will be served.
Annual Margaret Lowe Undergraduate Lecture
Suzanne Lye, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Bringing Down the House: Women’s Anger and Magical Retaliation in the Ancient Greek World"
Thursday, 19 September, 5:00PM
Gibson Room, Cocke Hall
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