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Archived Events
AIRG Schedule 2023-2024
Fall 2023
September 8, 12:30-1:30pm
Dr. Robyn Walsh, University of Miami (Religious Studies)
“(I’ve Got the) Magic Stick: Sticks, Wands, and Scrolls in Roman Imperial and Early Christian Art”
Humanities Center Conference Room
October 9, 12:30-1:30pm
Dr. Jennifer Ferriss-Hill (Classics)
“Dead Poets' Society: Persius' Choliambic Prologue and its Parade of Ghosts and Birds”
Humanities Center Conference Room
Spring 2024
Friday, January 19, 2024, 12:30-1:30pm.
Dr. Paul Johnston, University of Miami (Classics)
“From Urban to Imperial Literature: Language and Geography in the Roman Literary System”
Location: Religious Studies Seminar Room (511), 5th Floor of Ashe
Friday, March 8, 2024 12:00-1:30pm.
Dr. Gretel Rodriguez, Brown University “Looking at the Other: Empathy in Roman Commemorative Art”
Location: Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 12:00-1:30pm.
Dr. Dina Boreo, The College of New Jersey "The Holy Man Revisited: Symeon the Stylite and his Historical Context”
Location: Center for the Humanities Conference Room
AIRG Schedule 2022-2023
Fall 2022
Wednesday, September 21, 11:30am - 1:00 pm
Dr. Robyn Walsh, University of Miami (Religious Studies): "Early Christian Literature and the Nouveau Riche"
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Wednesday, October 19, 11:30am - 1:00pm *Postponed*
Dr. Bijan Omrani, University of Exeter (Classics): "Touchstones of the Mystery Cults"
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
'Highways, Byways,' Feasts, and Funerals:
Papers in Honor of John Bodel's Visit to the University of Miami
Wednesday, November 2
Panel 1: 11:00am - 1:30pm
Richter Library, Room 102B (Learning Program Flexible Space)
Zoom link: bit.ly/AIRGconference
Panel speakers:
Charlie Bartlett, “Translating the Spatial Categories of Roman Property”
John Paul Russo, "John Ashbery: Poetry at the End of the World"
Robyn Walsh, "The Miracle Mongers: Critiques of Christianity from Silence in the Second Century"
Karen Mathews, "Visual Markers of Space and Place: Cartographic Mentalities in Medieval Italy"
Wednesday, November 2
Keynote lecture: 5:00 - 7:00pm
John Bodel, "The Gods of the Household and the Practice of Everyday Life in Ancient Rome"
Donna A. Shalala Center, Senate Room 302
Zoom link: bit.ly/AIRGconference
Thursday, November 3
Panel 2: 9:30am - 12:00pm
Richter Library, Conference Room 323
Zoom link: bit.ly/AIRGconference
Panel speakers:
Sam Blankenship, "Bematism: A Survey"
Caleb Everett, Title TBD
Jenn Ferriss-Hill, "Horace, Satires 1.5: A Literary Journey"
Will Shearin, “Omne nefas: Legal aspects of tombs and other sacred spaces in Lucan”
Thursday, December 8, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Samantha Blankenship, University of Miami (Classics): "Achaemenid-Style Historiography in Ezra-Nehemiah"
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Spring 2023
Friday, February 17, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Eastern Time / Richter Library, 3rd floor, Faculty Exploratory Room
Samantha Blankenship, University of Miami (Classics): "Achaemenid-Style Historiography in Ezra-Nehemiah"
Thursday, March 30, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Eastern Time / Richter Library, 1st floor, Center for the Humanities Conference Room (on Zoom)
Bijan Omrani, “Mystery Cults and Early Christianity"
Monday, April 10, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Eastern Time / Richter Library, 1st floor, Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Erin Roberts, “Some Aspects of Matthean Cosmology”
Thursday, April 27, 12:00 - 1:30pm, Eastern Time / Richter Library, 1st floor, Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Allannah Karas, University of Miami (Classics), "Enchantment, Inducement, and the Gods of Greek Rhetoric"
AIRG Schedule 2021-2022
Fall 2021
Monday, October 11, 2021 3:00 pm
Dr. Robyn Walsh, University of Miami (Religious Studies): “Wonder-Culture: The Rise of Popular Literature and the Aspirational Class.”
Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 12:30 pm
Dr. Wilson Shearin, University of Miami (Classics): “Lucan’s Laws.”
Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 12:30 pm
Dr. Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, University of Miami (Classics): "Aristophanes in Roman Literature."
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AIRG Schedule 2020-2021
Fall 2020
*Please note that all Fall 2020 meetings will take place via Zoom
September 8, 4:00 pm
Dr. Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, University of Miami (Classics): “Catullus 32: Sleeping with the Muse”
October 8, 12:00 pm
Dr. Mark McClay, University of Miami (Classics): “A Kid in Milk: Genealogical Imagination and Kinship Symbols in Bacchic Mysteries.”
November 17, 4:00 pm
Dr. Sarah Rollens, Rhodes College (Religious Studies): “The Early Christian Mission: An Outdated Concept?”
December 8, 12:30 pm
Dr. Bijan Omrani, University of Exeter: “Mystery Cults and Early Christianity: A Question Resurrected”
Spring 2021
Tuesday, February 9, 12:30 pm
Dr. Richard Hutchins, University of Miami (Classics): "Animals as Individuals in Anyte of Tegea”
Tuesday, March 9, 12:30 pm
Dr. Robyn Faith Walsh, University of Miami (Religious Studies): “Virtue Signaling: Paradoxographical Subjects, the Literary Thauma, and Faith in Imperial Imagination”
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AIRG Schedule 2019-2020
Fall 2019
Friday, September 13, 12:00-1:00 pm
Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, Associate Professor of Classics
Title: "Dionysus’s Mistake: Re-Thinking the Victory of Aeschylus in Frogs"
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Wednesday, October 30, 12:00-1:00 pm
Mark McClay, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Title: "Who is Mnêmosynê in the Orphic Lamellae"
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Tuesday, December 3, 12:00-1:00 pm
James Townshend, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Title: "Camilla and Virgil's aesthetics of the grotesque"
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Spring 2020
Wednesday, January 29, 12:30-1:30 pm
Dabney Glenn Park, Modern Languages and Literatures
Title: TBA
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Thursday, February 13, 12:30-1:30 pm
Mihoko Suzuki, Professor of English
Title: "Challenging the Ideology of Classical Epic: Genealogy and Form in Anne Bradstreet and Lucy Hutchinson"
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Thursday, March 5, 12:30-1:30 pm
Dr. Gwyn Davies, FIU Dept. of History
Title: "Stamping out the Embers: Masada and the end of the First Jewish Revolt"
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Thursday, March 19, 12:00-1:30 pm
Meeting with Dr. Suzanne Marchand (Boyd Professor of History, Louisiana State Univ)
Title: "Herodotus and the Egyptian Priests: A Modern Historiographical Hot-Spot"
Location: Lowe Art Museum, Beaux Arts Room
Monday, April 13, 12:30-1:30 pm
Robyn Walsh, Professor of Religious Studies
Title: "Dialogue Hymns and New Comedy: Religious Competition in Late Antiquity"
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Spring 2019
Thursday, 31 January 2019, 12:30-1:30 pm
Dr. Hanna Golab, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Title: “The King and the Falcon: Euripides in an Egyptian Ritual”
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 12:30-1:30 pm
Dr. Drew Billings, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Title: "The Devil Inside Her: Gendered Performances of Demonic Reality in Early Christianity and its Legacy"
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Fall 2018
Thursday, 13 September 2018, 12:30-1:30 pm
Dr. Wilson Shearin, Associate Professor of Classics
Title: "Saussure's cahiers and Lucretius' elementa"
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Monday, 22 October 2018, 12:30-1:30 pm
Dr. Dexter Callender, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Title: “Revisioning Religious Archetypes: Cognitive Schemas and Material Anchors in Biblical Criticism”
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Wednesday, 28 November 2018, 12:30-1:30 pm
Stephanie Skenyon, Ph.D. student in History
Title: “English Twelfth-Century Benedictine Monastic Culture”
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Spring 2018
Thursday, Feb 1st 12:30-1:30 pm
Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Mihoko Suzuki, Director, Center for the Humanities and Professor of English
Gender and Genre: Early Modern Women and Epic
Wednesday, Feb 14th 12:30-1:30 pm
Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Gretel Rodriguez, ABD, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas
The Iconography of Captives in Late Roman Monumental Art
Tuesday, March 20th 12:30-1:30 pm
Ashe 511
Han Tran, Department of Classics
When the Nereids Became Mermaids: Arnold Böcklin’s Paradigm Shift
Tuesday, April 24th 12:30-1:30 pm
Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Amy Koenig, Department of Classics
The Tongueless Nightingale: Loss of Voice in the Literature of the Roman Empire
SPRING 2017
February 3, 2016 at 10:00-11:30 am
Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room
Joshua Katz, Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics
Princeton University
“The Goddess and Damned Wrath: How a Linguist Reads the Iliad"
April 20, 2016 at 12:30-1:30 pm
Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Rebecca Katz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Miami
These Aren't the Spoils You're Looking For
Antiquities IRG Meeting
FALL 2016
September 29, 2016 at 12:30-1:30 pm
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room Suite 100
Gretel Rodríguez, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas (Austin)
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Miami
The Roman Arch at Orange and the Tradition of Trophy Monuments in Gaul
Click here for Abstract
October 5, 2016 at 10:00-11:00 am
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room Suite 100
Dr. Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity
November 10, 2016 at 12:30-1:30 pm
Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room Suite 100
Dr. Karen Mathews, Assistant Professor in Art History, University of Miami
Reanimating the Power of Holy Protectors: Merchants and their Saints in the Visual Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Venice
SPRING 2016
LECTURE:
Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 4:30 pm
CAS Gallery / Wesley Foundation
David Konstan, Professor of Classics, New York University
Of Love and Loyalty: The View from Classical Antiquity
 Listen to the Podcast
Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 11:30 am
Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Dan Bertoni, Department of Classics
Garden of Empire
CANCELED EVENT :
Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 11:30 am
Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Amina Gautier, Department of English
Even Bearing Gifts
DATE CHANGED:
Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 11:30 am
MLL Conference, Merrick Bldg Rm 210-0
Ernesto Fundora, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
The Besieged City: Homer and Arrufat
FALL 2015
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
12:30-1:30 pm
Richter Library, Center for the Humanities
Conference Room Suite 100
Dr. Jennifer Ferriss-Hill
Associate Professor, Department of Classics
The Art of Living: Re-reading Horace's Art of Poetry
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Richter Library, Center for the Humanities
Conference Room Suite 100
Dr. Robyn Walsh
Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Reconsidering the Synagogue-Basilica of Elche, Spain
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Ashe Building, Room 511
Dr. William Pestle
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Islands in the Stream: Conceptualizing the role of water in the prehistoric Caribbean
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