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 (15-20 mins.) on some aspect of their M.A. research, such as for the thesis or presentation at a scholarly conference. The atmosphere of the Colloquium is informal, congenial, and collegial, and those attending may bring their lunch.

All Spring 2022 colloquia will take place on Fridays from 11:00-12:30pm in Harvill 322C (COVID permitting).

SPRING 2022 SCHEDULE 

• Friday, February 4, 11:00-12:30pm
  • The Centrality of Alexander: Focalization and World Conquerors in Diodorus’s Bibliotheke Historika, Alex Kiprof
  • Normative Mithraism: Questioning the "Ritual" Experience of the London Mithraeum, Colin Omilanowski
• Friday, February 18, 11:00-12:30pm
  • Stuck in the Middle: The Liminality of Artemis Ephesia, Savhanna Long
  • “I Shall not Again Think of the Bloody Fighting”: Ironic Prophecy and Achilles’ Return, Jackson Abhau
  • Helpers of Heroes: A Connection between the Potnia Hera and Athena and the Mycenaean Wanax/Anax, Rebecca Sanders
• Friday, March 4, 11:00-12:30pm
  • The Revamping of Vulcan During the Age of Augustus, Griffin Fleischaker
  • Aphaia: A Goddess On Her Own, Jordyn Pursell
  • Reconsidering Spolia: Architectural Reuse of Greek Temples in the Early Roman Empire, Katrina Kuxhausen-DeRose

  Friday, March 18, 11:00-12:30pm

  • Imperial Ambitions: Athenian Statecraft in the Use of Colonies and Cleruchies, River Ramirez
• Friday, April 1, 11:00-12:30pm
  •  Intermediation and Derivation: Origins and Implications of the Neoplatonic Soul-Vehicle, Thomas McMacth
  • Syncretization and the Seven Against Thebes, Lauren Tomanelli
  • (Un)like Mother, (Un)like Son: Agrippina the Younger and Nero as Literary Witches, JuliAnne Rach
• Friday, April 15, 11:00-12:30pm
  • The Innovation of Apulian Red-Figure Vessels, Nicholas Jones
  • The Purple Tide: Murex Dye and the Formation of the Minoan State, Darcy Stubbs

• Friday, April 29, 11:00-12:30pm
  • The Question of Widespread Governance in Etruria: An Application of Childe's Prerequisites for Urbanization as Proxy for State Formation, Amelia Symm
  • Franchised Medical Temples - The Asclepia of Ancient Greece, Allyson Blanck
  • Marks of Trade on Attic Vases: Distribution and Social Networks, Cole Smith