Upcoming Events

November 10, 2009

Professor Don Lateiner

"Ancient Greek and Roman Kissing: Occasions, Protocols, Methods and Mistakes"

4:00 p.m. in CWSC 161

Past Events

Elizabeth Sears, “Medieval and Renaissance History Writing"  7 p.m., Conrades♦Wetherell Science Center

Susan Heuck Allen, Archaeological Institute of America
“History of Excavations at Troy including Heinrich Schliemann”
CWSC 163 at 8 p.m.

Virgil Vigil: Complete reading of Virgil’s Aeneid in the Sturges lowest floor, starting at 9 p.m. All students and faculty are welcome to participate.

A talk by Dr. Noel Fallows, Spanish Medieval Literature, Dept. Head, Romance Languages, University of Georgia
“Practical Chivalry in the Renaissance”
Bayley Room, Beeghly Library 7 p.m.

Mercedes Vaquero, Professor at Brown University
“The Poema de Mio Cid and the Canon of the Spanish Epic”

Joseph Farrell, Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
“Literature and Society in the First Modern Period” (Late Hellenistic and Roman)
8 p.m. Corns 312

A talk by Dr. Elizabeth B. Davis, The Ohio State University, Spanish
“Perilous Crossings: Spanish Poetry in Relationship to the Transatlantic Crossing (1500-1650)”

A talk by Dr. Rowena Hernández-Múzquiz, History
“Humanism and Shifting Paradigms: The New Consciousness of 1492 in Light of Neo-Classical Ideologies”

Ohio Classical Conference
Ohio Wesleyan University (various locations)

A talk by Dr. Ramon A. Carreno, Zoology
“The Black Death in the Middle Ages”

A talk by Dr. Juan A. Rojas, Modern Foreign Languages
“Elements of the ‘real maravilloso/Marvelous Reality’ in the XVI Century Chronicles and Accounts of the Present U.S. Southwest”

Student and Faculty Welcome Picnic

Year-End AMRS Picnic

A talk by Dr. Kenneth Krabbenhoft, New York University, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages
“Busting It to Fix It: Idealization and Parody from Petrarch to Góngora”

A talk by Dr. Jeremy Baskes, Professor of History
“Hurricanes, Pirates and Floods: Risk and Maritime Insurance in the Spanish Transatlantic Trade”

A talk by Dr. Tom Wolber, Professor of German
“Ancient and Medieval Themes in Goethe’s Works”

An all campus marathon reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
9 a.m. - 9 p.m. in the Bayley Room, 2nd Floor, Beeghly Library