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. theses, or if they are delivering a paper at a scholarly conference. The atmosphere of the Colloquium is informal, congenial, and collegial, and those attending may bring their lunch. All Spring 2020 colloquia will take place from 12:00-1:30 in Modern Languages 578, unless otherwise indicated below.
SPRING 2020 SCHEDULE
- Friday, February 7 (Colloquium 2020.1)--Learning Services Building 246
- “The Echo of Μῆνις: Contrasting the Wrath of Achilles and the Anger of Poseidon”, Elise Larres
- “Saga Poetica: The Metapoetics of Magic in Tibullus”, Michael Main
- “Text as Fossil? Remarks on the Viability of a Biophilology”, Zack Feldcamp
- Friday, February 21 (Colloquium 2020.2)--Haury 219
- “Socrates the Liturgist: Rehabilitating Poetry through the Liturgical Subject in Plato’s Ion”, Caleb Speakman
- “Inside a Roman’s Stomach: An Analysis of Class Diets of Early First Century AD Rome”, Monica Barcarolo
- “The Crisis of the Third Century as Seen through the Planning and Energetics of the Aurelian Wall”, Luke Munson
- Friday, February 28 (Colloquium 2020.3)--Modern Languages 578
- "Trick or Treat? Daimones in the Writings of Justin Martyr and Plutarch", Jordan Swanson
- My “Unmanly” Lament: Gender and the Lament in Xenophon of Ephesus, Nick Nelson
- “Hotep Culture: A Modern Variance of Afrocentrism in the Black American Community”, Miranda Lovett
- Friday, March 6 (Colloquium 2020.4)--Modern Languages 578
- Friday, April 10 (Colloquium 2020.5)--Modern Languages 578
- TBD, Ian Morgan
- TBD, Kayt Roberto
- “Virgilian Dreams (Are Made of This): The Cases of Dido and Turnus”, Michael Swantek