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October 20, 2008: Time, Place, and Title TBA
Elaine Gazda (University of Michigan)
Phi Beta Kappa National Lecture
*Professor Elaine Gazda, a Phi Betta Kappa National lecturer in 2008-2009, is Curator of Hellenistic and Roman antiquities at the Kelsey Musem of Archaeology, and Professor in the Department of the History of Art and the Interdepartmental Program in the Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan. She has published extensively on Roman sculpture and painting, the art of the Etruscans and of Graeco-Roman Egypt, and the impact of the Classical tradition on the west.
Rebuilding an Imperial City in Roman Galatia: Archaeology Meets Virtual Reality at Pisidian Antioch
In 1924, University of Michigan launched an excavation at the Roman imperial colony of Pisidan Antioch in Turkey. Made famous by an account in the Acts of the Apostles, which names the city as the first site of St. Paul's missionary journeys in Asia Minor, Pisidian Antioch was also an important center of the Roman imperial cult and, later, the seat of a powerful orthodox Christian bishop. In 2004, a group of archaeologists from Michigan returned to Antioch to study the remains of major public structures excavated in 1924 and, more recently, by Turkish archaelogists, and to compare those structures to analogous onse at other Roman cities in Asia Minor. The group then built a virtual model of the city as it may have appeared in its imperial heyday. This lecture follows in the archaeologists' footsteps, exploring en route how virtual reconstruction informs our understanding of changes in the city's topography, from its foundation as am imperial colony in the Augustan period to late antiquity, as the city's colonial identity gradually shifted from Roman to Christian.
November 7, 2008: 3:30pm, ICC 107
Professor Catherine Steel (University of Glasgow)
"Constructing the Late Republic: Woods, Trees, and other Metaphors"
*Reception to follow in the Department of Classics
February 23, 2009: 5pm, ICC Auditorium
The Nineteenth Annual Bodnar Lecture
Professor Erich Gruen (University of California, Berkeley)
* Reception to follow outside the ICC Auditorium
Date, Time, & Place TBA
Professor A.A. Long (University of California, Berkeley)
"Socratic Idiosyncracy and Cynic Exhibitionism"
April 3, 2009: Time & Place TBA
Professor Geoffrey Bakewell (Creighton University)
Title TBA
September 26, 2008: 3pm, Healy 105
Professor John T. Ramsey (University of Illinois at Chicago)
"Halley's Comet and the Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70"
October 12, 2007: 415pm, Healy Hall 321
Delivered by Dr. Marco Formisano (Humboldt-Univeritat zu Berlin)
"The Making of the Romacn Art of War: From Sallust to Machiavelli"
Octorber 02, 2007: 4:15pm, Lauinger Library Murray Conference Room
Delivered by John Matthews (Yale University)
"From Byzantium to Constantinople: Past and Present in an Urban Landscape"
April 27, 2006: 12:00pm, Healy Hall 321
Delivered by Netta Zagagi (Tel-Aviv)
"What do Greek Words do in Plautus?"
September 08, 2006: 2:00pm, Healy Hall 321
Delivered by Fred Brenk, SJ
"Sliding Atoms or Supernatural Light: Plutarch's Erotikos and the "On Eros" Lecture"
April 04, 2006: 11:30am, Healy Hall 321
Delivered by Thorten Fogen (Humboldt-Universitat - Berlin)
"Greek Made Latin: on the Translating of Technical Texts in Antiquity"
March 27, 2006: 4:15pm, ICC 117
Delivered by John Dillery (University of Virginia)
"Early Roman Historiography: Some Problems"
February 24, 2006: 3:00pm, ICC 204A
Delivered by Richard Rouse, UCLA
"Vegetius Recycled: A Crusading Manuscript for Charles IV of France"
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March 12th, 2008: 5:00PM, ICC Auditorium
The Eighteenth Annual Bodnar Lecture
Delivered by Hannah Cotton Paltiel (Shalom Horowitz Chair in Classics, The Hebrew University, Fellow of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
The Archives from the Judaean Desert and their Contribution to Jewish and Roman History
March 19, 2007:4:15pm, ICC Auditorium
The Seventeenth Annual Bodnar Lecture
Delivered by Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania)
Tragic Bystanders: Choruses and Other Survivors in the Plays of Sophocles
March 16, 2006: 4:15pm, Gervase Conference Room
The Sixteenth Annual Bodnar Lecture
Delivered by Richard Janko (University of Michigan)
From the Thera Volcano to Mopsus of Cilicia:
Greek Memories of the Aegean Bronze Age