Classical Religious Events
Yelena Baraz, Princeton University. “Ovid’s Bystanders. From Trauma to Complicity”
Apr. 8, 2025—Tuesday, April 8th, 2025. 4:10 pm. Cohen 203. This talk will examine Roman ideas about the ethically and emotionally fraught position of the bystander as explored by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. The figure of the bystander raises questions about responsibility, identification, trauma, and complicity. Ovid’s treatment implicates the reader by creating a parallel between the...
Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. “Visions and Frictions: Venice, the Mongols, and the New World Order (13th-14th centuries)
Apr. 8, 2025—Wednesday, March 26th, 2025. 4:10 pm. Cohen 203. What role did Mediterranean powers, particularly Venice, play in the new world order created by the Mongols? This talk will explore the motivations, challenges, and achievements of the Venetians who lived, traded and died in Mongol lands. The Mongol conquest offered unprecedented opportunities for new markets, safe...
2024/2025 Lecture Series Event – A History of Air: The First Centuries
Nov. 11, 2024—The Vanderbilt Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies is excited to Benjamin Folit-Weinberg, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University, to present A History of Air: The First Centuries as part of the Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies 2024/2025 Lecture Series. This lecture will be held on Wednesday, November...
Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies Distinguished Lecture: Book Panel in Honor of Peter R.L. Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind”
Mar. 14, 2024—The Vanderbilt University Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies is pleased to present the 2023-2024 distinguished lecture, Book Panel in Honor of Peter R.L. Brown’s Journeys of the Mind. Over the course of six decades, the work of Peter Brown, the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, emeritus at Princeton University, has defined our understanding of...
How to Be Healthy: Discussion + Signing
Feb. 15, 2024—On Tuesday, March 5th Adjoint Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, Katherine D. Van Schaik, will be hosting a reading of her new book, “How to be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness“. Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, James Zainaldin, will be joining Assistant Professor Van Schaik in conversation for the discussion....
2023/2024 Lecture Series Event – Remind Me of Anactoria: Models for Meaning from the Structure(s) of Early Modern Greek Poetry
Feb. 14, 2024—The Vanderbilt Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies is excited to welcome Joel Christensen, Professor of Classical Studies at Brandeis University, to present Remind Me of Anactoria: Models for Meaning from the Structure(s) of Early Greek Poetry. This event is the second of the department’s 2023/2024 lecture series. Professor Christensen will present his talk on...
James Zainaldin presents on comparative Greco-Roman and Chinese classics in distinguished global lecture series
Dec. 18, 2023—James Zainaldin, Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, delivered a presentation on December 15th, 2023, entitled in the distinguished Guangqi Classics Lecture and Seminar Series hosted by the Guangqi International Center for Scholars of Shanghai Normal University. The lecture, presented as a webinar and attended by more than 100 students and scholars around the...
2023/2024 Lecture Series Event: Epic Racecraft and the Race of Heroes
Sep. 26, 2023—The Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies welcomes Professor Jackie Murray to present the lecture, Epic Racecraft and the Race of Heroes, as part of the Classical and Mediterrranean Studies 2023/2024 Lecture Series. Jackie Murray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at University of Buffalo. This lecture will be presented on Thursday,...
2022/2023 Lecture Series Event: Sacral topography of the Archbishopric of Ohrid from its founding in the beginning of the 11th to the mid-13th century
Apr. 19, 2023—The Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies Lecture Series presents Sacral topography of the Archbishopric of Ohrid from its founding in the beginning of the 11th to the mid-13th century, a lecture by Dr. Ljubomir Milanović of The Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. This event will be held in...