The Department of Classics Graduate Student Colloquium was inaugurated in the spring of 2000 when Christopher Trinacty presented a chapter of his M.A. thesis ("A Poetics of Desire: a Comparative Literary Study of the Hylas Myth"). All departmental graduate students are invited to make a presentation (c. 20 mins.) on some aspect of their M.A. theses, or if they are delivering a paper at a scholarly conference. The Colloquium is usually held at the noon hour, and those attending may bring their lunch (the atmosphere is informal, congenial, and collegial). Current graduate students who wish to make a presentation in 2012 should contact Anne Duray or David Wright.
SPRING 2012 SCHEDULE
Friday, March 23
The March 23rd Colloquium will be held in the Esther Tang Conference Room, LSB 107
Refreshments will be served, beginning at 2:00 p.m.
Anne Duray, “All about Alcibiades?: The Importance of Topography in Aristophanes’ Frogs”*
ca. 2:30 p.m
Emily Hulme, “Leaky Boats, Stormy Seas: Political Philosophy in De Tranquillitate Animi and De Otio”**
ca. 3:00 p.m.
Boris Shoshitaishvili, “The Maker of Plots: Classicizing Borges”***
ca. 3:30 p.m.
*To be presented at the CAMWS Annual Meeting in Baton Rouge, LA
**To be presented at CAMWS and the Ancient Philosophy Society Conference in San Francisco
***To be presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting at Brown University
Friday, April 6
The April 6th Colloquium will be held in the Classics Seminar Room, LSB 246
Refreshments will be served, beginning at 1:45 p.m.
Billie Rolla, “The Economy of Wine Production in Ancient Greece: Consideration of Space, Storage, and Distribution”
ca. 2:00 p.m.
Ben Gorham, “Liminality and Permeability in Greek and Etruscan Temple Design”
ca. 2:30 p.m.
Dave Wright, "Characterizations of Aeneas and the Trojans as Bandits in Augustan Literature"
ca. 3:00 p.m.
Friday, April 13
The April 13th Colloquium will be held in the Classics Seminar Room, LSB 246
Refreshments will be served, beginning at 1:45 p.m.
Robert Anderson, "Ovid and Peter Abelard: Great Minds, Similar Circles"
ca. 2:00 p.m.
Matt Schueller, "Herodotus and Disabiity in Classical Greece: Herodotus' Attitude toward Disability in the Histories"*
ca. 2:30 p.m.
Matt Ferguson, “Ring Composition in Suetonius’ De Vita Caesarum”
ca. 3:00 p.m.
*To be presented at the 1st Annual Graduate Conference in Ancient History of the Joint Collaborative Programme in Ancient Greek and Roman History at the University of Toronto
