Past Events

Apr
19
2024
Del Chiaro Center Event: Historical Culture in Iron-Age Italy
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Francesco de Angelis (Columbia), Grace Erny (Berkeley), Matthew Hodges (Kent), Duncan MacRae (Berkeley), Maureen Miller (Berkeley), Claudia Moser (UC Santa Barbara), Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton), Darcy Tuttle (Berkeley)
Apr
18
2024
Del Chiaro Center Event: Historical Culture in Iron-Age Italy
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Seth Bernard
Apr
16
2024
Nemea 100: From Blegen to Berkeley and Beyond
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s):
Apr
15
2024
Nemea 100: From Blegen to Berkeley and Beyond
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s):
Apr
4
2024
Rhetoric Lecture: "Fraternity: Classical Siblings and Revolution"
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: 7415 Dwinelle
Speaker(s): Miriam Leonard
Mar
20
2024
AIA SF Lecture: "Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: Zoom
Speaker(s):
Mar
15
2024
AIA SF Lecture: "The Emergence of an Urban Archaeology"
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s):
Feb
28
2024
ARF Lecture: Pompeii Artifact Life History Project
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Avenue
Speaker(s):
Feb
23
2024
Sather Center Colloquium: Transhistorical Communities
8:45 AM - 5:45 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s):
Feb
21
2024
Between Aidonia and the Argolid: The Southwest Korinthia in the Late Bronze Age
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Avenue
Speaker(s): Kim Shelton
Feb
2
2024
Robert Knapp Memorial
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: The Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
Speaker(s):
Nov
29
2023
Townsend Book Chat on Mario Telò, Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis: Reading through Pandemic Times (Bloomsbury 2023)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Speaker(s): Mario Telò, Debarati Sanyal
Nov
14
2023
Bonnie Honig in Conversation with Marianne Constable, Mario Teló, and Dora Zhang
5:00pm -
Location: Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Speaker(s): Bonnie Honig
Nov
14
2023
Lecture: "Archaeology Beyond the City: The Varied Landscapes of Rural Crete"
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker(s): Grace Erny
Nov
13
2023
Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Arendt, Cavell
5:00pm -
Location: Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Speaker(s): Bonnie Honig
Oct
26
2023
Democritus and the Poetics of Nothing
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Victoria Wohl
Oct
19
2023
Paratactic Politics: Anaxagoras and the Things
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Victoria Wohl
Oct
12
2023
Autobiography of a Daimōn: Empedocles’ Radical Materialism
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Victoria Wohl
Oct
6
2023
Elemental Day
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Dwinelle 3335
Speaker(s): Shane Butler, Louise Hornby, Jim Porter, Alex Purves, Debarati Sanyal, Mario Telò, Victoria Wohl, Dora Zhang
Oct
5
2023
Time, the Cosmos, and the Soul in Heraclitus
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Victoria Wohl
Oct
4
2023
Rural Variations: Settlement and Society in Archaic and Classical Crete
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Avenue
Speaker(s): Prof. Grace Erny, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
Oct
3
2023
"Vague and Non-Straightforward for Reasons: the argument in Plato, Philebus 28c6-31a4."
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Professor Satoshi Ogihara, Tohoku University
Sep
28
2023
Parmenides' Logos of Being
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Victoria Wohl
Sep
22
2023
DAGRS Fall Undergraduate Reception
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Ishi Court, Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s):
Sep
21
2023
The Poetry of Being
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: 315 Wheeler Hall
Speaker(s): Victoria Wohl
Sep
11
2023
Lecture: The Groans of Gaia
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Julio Vega-Payne
Sep
8
2023
Tracking Herodotus' Readers since 1700: The Travails of Writing Reception History
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: 3205 Dwinelle
Speaker(s): Suzanne L. Marchand, Boyd Professor of History, Louisiana State University
Sep
7
2023
Archaeology, the Bible, and Classical Antiquity in the 19th Century
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: 315 Wheeler Hall
Speaker(s): Suzanne L. Marchand, Boyd Professor of History, Louisiana State University
Sep
1
2023
Tyrant and Statesman: Knowledge and Accountability in Plato's Political Philosophy
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Prof. Eric Sanday, University of Kentucky
Aug
30
2023
Lecture: "Society and Economy in Roman Boeotia"
12 PM - 2 PM
Location: 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Prof. Yannis Kalliontzis (Ionian University, Corfu) and Prof. Nikolaos Papazarkadas (UC Berkeley/NHRF)
May
15
2023
AHMA/DAGRS Graduation Ceremony
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Alumni House
Speaker(s):
May
11
2023
Ancient Comedy: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle
Speaker(s):
Apr
27
2023
2023 MARIO DEL CHIARO ANNUAL LECTURE
5:00 PM -
Location: 315 Wheeler Hall
Speaker(s): Claudia Moser (UC Santa Barbara)
Apr
26
2023
Memorial for Andy Stewart (1948-2023)
1:30 PM -
Location: The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA
Speaker(s):
Apr
21
2023
Lecture: Prof. Jessica Gelber, "Necessity from an Assumption"
3 PM - 5 PM
Location: Dennes Room, Philosophy 234
Speaker(s):
Apr
20
2023
Materialities of Childbirth in the Roman Empire
5:00 PM -
Location: Dwinelle 7205
Speaker(s): Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan)
Apr
18
2023
Seminar: "An Unpublished Hellenistic Decree from Xanthos (Lycia) for a Great Benefactor"
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s):
Apr
17
2023
Lecture: How to Publish Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the 21st Century
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s):
Apr
14
2023
Lecture: Navigating LGPN-Ling (Lexicon of Greek Personal Names-Ling): Select Case Studies
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s):
Apr
12
2023
Seminar. Of Standing and Sitting: Etiquette at the Court of Later Roman Emperors
4:00 PM -
Location: Dwinelle 3401
Speaker(s): Professor Ignazio Tantillo (Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale)
Apr
11
2023
Lecture. Consistorium: The State Council of the Late Roman Emperors
4:00 PM -
Location: Dwinelle 3335
Speaker(s): Professor Ignazio Tantillo (Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale)
Apr
7
2023
Rhetoric is Music (and Contrariwise)
1:00 PM -
Location: 7415 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Sean Gurd
Dec
7
2022
Nemea Night 2022
7:15pm - 9:00pm
Location: Online
Speaker(s): Dr. Kim Shelton
Nov
30
2022
Latin subscriptions and tags in late antique papyri
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: 303 Doe Library
Speaker(s): Giulio Iovine (Center for the Tebtunis Papyri)
Nov
10
2022
Lecture: Masculinity and Imperial Representation in the Later Roman Empire
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Telegraph at the Residence Inn
Speaker(s): Prof. Susanna Elm, UC Berkeley
Nov
7
2022
Lecture: *Bacchae*'s Queer Hyperchorality
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: 3401 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Prof. Ella Haselswerdt, University of California at Los Angeles
Nov
3
2022
Sather Lecture: The Annual Disconnect
5:30 - 7:00
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Greg Woolf
Oct
27
2022
Sather Lecture: The Women's Season
5:30 - 7:00
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Greg Woolf
Oct
18
2022
Democratic Imaginaries in Late Antiquity
5:00 PM -
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Caroline Humfress, St. Andrews
Oct
13
2022
Sather Lecture: The Eagle in Winter
5:30 - 7:00
Location: 188 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Greg Woolf
Oct
12
2022
Jim Porter Book Chat
12:00 - 1:00
Location: Online
Speaker(s): James Porter with Mark Griffith and Mario Telò
Oct
6
2022
Sather Lecture: The Ripening Cities
5:30 - 7:00
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Greg Woolf
Sep
29
2022
Sather Lecture: Life on a Tilted Planet
7:00 - 8:30
Location: The Chevron Auditorium, International House
Speaker(s): Greg Woolf
Sep
22
2022
Fall 2022 Undergraduate Reception
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Ishi Court, Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s):
Sep
17
2022
W. S. Anderson Memorial
2 - 3
Location: Alumni House
Speaker(s):
Sep
15
2022
The Greek Bible and Scriptural Authority
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker(s): Erich Gruen
Sep
13
2022
AIA SF Field Reports
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall or by Zoom
Speaker(s):
Jun
4
2022
"Telling Stories in Ancient Greece," Day 2
10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: 370 Dwinelle
Speaker(s): see below
Jun
3
2022
"Telling Stories in Ancient Greece," Day 1
3:00 - 6:00pm
Location: 370 Dwinelle
Speaker(s): see below
May
10
2022
Virtual Book Launch: Queer Euripides: Re-readings in Greek Tragedy
10 am PST -
Location: Online
Speaker(s):
May
2
2022
The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440–320 BCE
5:00 pm -
Location: DAGRS Conference Room
Speaker(s): Alexa Piqueux (Université Paris Nanterre, Institut universitaire de France)
Apr
29
2022
ANNE CARSON'S EURIPIDES: Eight Takes on Trojan Women (2021) and H of H (2021)
9:00 AM PST -
Location: Online
Speaker(s): Kay Gabriel, Phoebe Giannisi, Laura Jansen, Rebecca Kosick, Sarah Nooter, Ian Rae, Patrice Rankine, Mario Telò
Apr
15
2022
Memorial for Ronald S. Stroud
4:30 - 7:00
Location: The Faculty Club
Speaker(s):
Apr
12
2022
Lecture: The Erotics of Again: Time and Touch in Sappho
5:00 - 6:30 pm PST
Location: Dwinelle 142
Speaker(s): Sarah Nooter
Mar
31
2022
Sather Lecture: Diminishing Returns
5:30 - 7:00
Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker(s): Emily Gowers
Mar
17
2022
Sather Lecture: Tiny Irritants
5:30 - 7:00
Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker(s): Emily Gowers
Mar
10
2022
Sather Lecture: Brief Lives
5:30 - 7:00
Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker(s): Emily Gowers
Mar
3
2022
Sather Lecture: Salient Snails
5:30 - 7:00
Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker(s): Emily Gowers
Mar
2
2022
Lecture: Epic Futurity, the Phaeacians, Carthage and the Tradition
12:00 - 1:30
Location: 300 Wheeler Hall
Speaker(s): David Quint
Feb
25
2022
Spring 2022 Undergraduate Lecture & Info Session
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Zoom: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/91731101353
Speaker(s):
Feb
24
2022
Sather Lecture: The Good of Small Things
7:00 - 8:30
Location: International House
Speaker(s): Emily Gowers
Feb
22
2022
Lecture: Through the Looking Glass: Perspectives on the Interaction between "Politics" and "Religon" in Ancient Greece
5:00 - 6:30 pm PST
Location: 820 Social Sciences/zoom
Speaker(s): Josine Blok
Feb
14
2022
Panel Discussion of the new opera Iphigenia
4:00 - 6:00
Location: Toll Room, Alumni House
Speaker(s): Rhodessa Jones, Helen Morales, and others
Nov
12
2021
Foucault's Seminars on Antiquity
5 pm - 7 pm
Location: 370 Dwinelle
Speaker(s): Paul Allen Miller
Nov
9
2021
Toward a Typology of Roman Prisons
5:00 - 6:30
Location: Dwinelle 370
Speaker(s): Mark Letteney (USC)
Nov
3
2021
Republican Religion in Republican Italy?
5:00 - 6:30
Location:
Speaker(s): Prof. Clifford Ando (Chicago)
Oct
27
2021
EVENT POSTPONED: The Romans Who Do Business Here: Identity, Place, and Citizenship
5:30 - 6:30
Location: Dwinelle 370
Speaker(s): Sailakshmi Ramgopal
May
17
2021
AHMA/Classics Commencement
1:00 - 2:00pm PST
Location: zoom
Speaker(s):
May
10
2021
Mini-conference on Aristophanes
9:30 - 12:30 pm, PST
Location: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/2126149759
Speaker(s): Mario Telò's Greek 116 class
May
5
2021
Padilla Peralta book discussion
11:00 am - 1:00 pm PST
Location: zoom registration link below
Speaker(s): Dan-El Padilla Peralta
Apr
25
2021
Talos Dreams
11:00 am - 12:00pm PST
Location: zoom registration link below
Speaker(s): Greek Chamber Music Project
Apr
16
2021
"To be different with”: Metoikia and Democracy in Aeschylus’ Suppliants
3pm - 4:30pm
Location: zoom (link below)
Speaker(s): Carol Dougherty
Apr
13
2021
"The Archaic Smile, It's No Laughing Matter"
6:00 - 7:00pm
Location: livestream
Speaker(s): Jeffrey Hurwit
Apr
3
2021
Sather Lecture: “The Shield and the Cave: Motion and Emotion in Plato's Republic”
11:00 am - 12:30 pm, Pacific Standard Time
Location: zoom registration link below
Speaker(s): Mary Margaret McCabe
Mar
13
2021
Sather Lecture: "Defying Grammar: Linguistic Privileges for the Gods"
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Standard Time
Location: zoom registration link below
Speaker(s): Maurizio Bettini
Mar
11
2021
"Roman Attitudes towards Egyptian Religion: Re-thinking the Visit of Lucius Memmius in P.Tebt. 1.33"
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: zoom link below
Speaker(s): Andrew Connor
Feb
27
2021
Sather Lecture: "Imperial Transgressions: Satire and Subversion in the Life of Elagabalus”
11:00 - 12:00
Location: zoom registration link below
Speaker(s): Mary Beard
Feb
11
2021
A Tale of Three Temples: 5th and 4th Century B.C. Architectural Sculpture in the Athenian Agora
5:00 - 6:30
Location: zoom registration link below
Speaker(s): Andrew Stewart
Feb
6
2021
Sather Lecture: "Art and Allusion: Image Construction in Attic Vase-Painting"
11:00 - noon
Location: register at link below
Speaker(s): François Lissarrague
Jan
29
2021
CTP Lecture: "A New Isis Narrative in the Oxyrhynchus Collection"
10:00 am - noon PST
Location: zoom information below
Speaker(s): Lucia Prauscello
Dec
9
2020
Townsend Book Chat: Mario Telò with Damon Young
12:00 - 1:00
Location: livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mEgL3GhlNw&feature=youtu.be
Speaker(s): Mario Telò in conversation with Damon Young
Dec
8
2020
Nemea Night
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: pre-register at link below
Speaker(s): Professor Kim Shelton, Nemea Center Director
Nov
23
2020
"The Fear of Death, the Noble Lie, and Men of Metal:  Post-Truth in Plato's Republic"
5pm - 6.30pm
Location: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/2126149759
Speaker(s): Karen Bassi, Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Oct
28
2020
Inequalities in the Ancient Mediterranean
12:10 - 1:00pm
Location: http://bit.ly/arf-channel
Speaker(s): Erich Gruen, Kim Shelton, J. T. Peña
Oct
19
2020
Reports from the (Virtual) Field
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: remote/online
Speaker(s): Jordan Brown, Trent Trombley, Rebekah McKay
Oct
16
2020
Rationality, Ritual, and Democratic Decision-Making: Perspectives from Classical Athens
10AM PST -
Location: zoom (registration link below)
Speaker(s): Sara Forsdyke (University of Michigan), Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
Sep
23
2020
The Signum Vortumni Project: Excavations at the Horrea Agrippiana in the Roman Forum (2016-2019)
12:10 - 1:00pm
Location: http://bit.ly/arf-channel
Speaker(s): Matthew J. Mandich
Sep
19
2020
"If you build it, they will come": the construction and care of Nemean hero worship
2:00 - 3:30
Location: live-streamed
Speaker(s): Kim Shelton
Apr
30
2020
Poetry Reading Live Online
5:30 - 6:00
Location: online
Speaker(s): Ellen Oliensis and John Shoptaw
Apr
29
2020
Townsend Book Chat
12:00 - 1:00
Location: on line
Speaker(s): Ellen Oliensis with Tim Hampton