2013 - 2014 ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS
经典见面会
On Tuesday, September 17, students gathered over free pizza to talk about all things
经典: the spring schedule, upcoming events, and life as students of antiquity.
Led by our Academic Council reps, Kat Smith and Marion Stack, the meet-and-greet was
这是开始新一年的好方法.
经典午宴
经典的学生 & faculty gather for food and conversation in the Test Kitchen of the Murray-Aikins Dining Hall once a month for a 经典 lunchtime symposium. 午餐 如有要求，可提供门票.日期:
- 星期五. 9/13/13, 12:20 – 1:15 PM
- 星期五. 10/23/13, 12:20 – 1:15 PM
- 结婚. 11/20/13, 12:20 – 1:15 PM
- 结婚. 2/26/14, 12:20 - 1:15 PM
- 结婚. 3/26/14, 12:20 - 1:15 PM
演讲嘉宾
Guest speaker: 教授essor Paolo Asso from the University of Michigan
演讲题目:非洲 & Africans in Ancient Roman Literary Imagination
教授. Asso's in-progress monograph, Africa in the Roman Literary Imagination, examines the ways in which ancient 希腊 and Roman literary sources treat Africa, her gods, peoples, animals, plants, and inanimate entities. His presentation will examine the portrayal of Africaness in two Latin epics: Virgil's "Aeneid" and the longest poem in ancient Latin literature, Silius Italicus's Punica. In both the Aeneid and Punica Africans were described with as much awe as fear. 然而，作为教授. 他会解释说，是种族主义造成的 not exist in the modern sense of the word. Romans were both fascinated by and frightened of the African war and African physique, but they were never prejudiced against Africans. Romans saw themselves as a part of a nation defined by the territories it conquered, 不是因为它的种族. Asso's focus will be on this unique perception of Roman identity that included both the conquerors and the conquered.
日期:2013年10月14日星期一
时间:下午5:30
Location: Palamountain Hall - Room 202
演讲嘉宾:博士. 帕特里斯·兰金，艺术学院院长 & 霍普学院的人文学科
Title of lecture: In nova…mutates…formas
corpora: Modernity, Performance, and the
对过去的执着
Naomi lizuka's Polaroid Stories is testament to the resilience of classical myth in
modern contexts, a reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses in company with Mary Zimmerman's
著名的适应. 的 play brings to life the first lines of Ovid's epic: "I
am moved to sing of figures fashioned into new bodies" (cited in the title in Latin).
How do these "new bodies" of Ovid's transformations work on the modern stage? 的
critical models of performance theory and classical reception studies provide a rich
framework for discussing some of the issues
raised when a classical work takes shape in the context of today's concerns, which
might include questions of race, gender, or urban decay. 教授essor Rankine will incorporate
theories and ideas from his book Aristotle and Black Drama and his forthcoming 希腊
Drama in the Americas (co-edited volume with Fiona Macintosh and Justine McConnell)
into a discussion of Iizuka's play.
Date: Thursday October 31, 2013
时间:下午
地点:戴维斯礼堂
主讲嘉宾:C教授. 布莱恩罗斯
Title of Lecture: "Troy Through the Ages"
More information about 教授essor Rose can be found on the UPenn website: http://www.经典.宾夕法尼亚大学.edu/bio/rose.
Read the Skidmore story about this presentation: http://www.csky88.com/news/2014/0224-classical-world-lecture-scheduled.php
日期:2月11日(星期四. 27th, 2014
时间:下午5:30
地点:戴维斯礼堂
Homerathon
Annual marathon reading of Homer. 将提供食物和饮料. 带上你的本垒打
and any other poetry you'd care to read. 这将是史诗般的!
日期:2月11日星期二. 11, 2014
地点:稍后通知
时间:晚上6时至9时
Annual 经典 bus trip to 的 大都会博物馆 of Art
Each spring students in CC200 的 Classical World travel to NYC to study and present objects in the Greco-Roman galleries of the 大都会博物馆 of Art.
日期:坐. 2014年4月5日
起飞时间:早上7:30
Bus departing from Skidmore (Case Parking Lot)
Returning to Skidmore: 11:00 PM
年度经典烧烤
Please join us for the annual 经部门 BBQ and festivities. 这是我们的 opportunity to celebrate the year, to wish our graduating seniors well, adn to welcome new students to our departmental community.
日期:2014年春季，待定
时间:稍后通知
地点:稍后通知