Graduate Colloquium

This year's successful colloquium was held March 23-25. Beginning 8:30 a.m. Sat., March 24, all were invited to spend the day with Keynote Speaker Kristina Milnor, associate professor at Barnard College, and select graduate students from across the country who will discuss their research.

Prof. Milnor presented her paper, "Images and Graffiti Texts in the Pompeian Cityscape," at 4 p.m. in Murphey Hall 116. Angelina Phebus, a first-year Classical Archaeology graduate student in the department, participated in the 10:45 a.m. panel.

For more information please email Erika Weiberg at eweiberg@email.unc.edu.

The graduate students of the Department of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University jointly organize a graduate colloquium each year. Flyers from past colloquiums are listed below.

2011 - Refuse and Reuse: The Challenges of Repurposing and Re-Imaging in the Classical World

2010 - New Graduate Research in the Classics

2009 - Dialogues of the Vulnerable: Children and the Elderly in the Ancient World

2008 - Acts and Ethics of War and Violence in the Graeco-Roman World

2007 - Possessing Knowledge: Archiving, Collecting, and Displaying in the Ancient World

2006 - Lies, Deception, and Misdirection: Manipulating Image and Text in the Ancient World

2005 - House, Home, and Household

2004 - Fashion, Trend, and Novelty

2003 - Raising the Dead: Re-examining Ancient Ideas about Death in the Ancient World (Keynote Speaker: John Bodel)

2002 - Imago Mundi: Travel and Foreigners in Classical Antiquity (Keynote Speaker: Carol Dougherty)

2001 - Gods and Monsters: Divinization and Demonization in the Ancient World (Keynote Speaker: Sarah Iles Johnson)

2000 - The Animal in Antiquity