Throughout the year, we host a variety of events that spotlight the wide world of classical antiquity and its reception in the modern world.

Tuesday March 28, 2023 – Common Hour – Rittenberg Lounge

The Blues of Achilles: a musical performance by Joe Goodkin

Joe will perform selections from his adaptation of the ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad, steeped in ancient and modern war literature as well as interviews and his experiences playing music at VA hospitals as part of recreational therapy for veterans experiencing PTSD and other related war traumas.

Joe’s first-person songs capture the horror, grief, and love that permeate the Iliad and the combat experience. Each song takes on the perspective of different characters, from warriors like Achilles and Patroclus, to kings like Priam, and women like Briseis, Helen, and Andromache.

 

Thursday, April 29, 2021 @6:00 pm via Zoom Webinar 

Ancient Rhetoric in The Antisalvery Activist Writings of Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford

Kelly Dugan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Trinity College

Thursday, April 22, 2021 @5:00 pm via Zoom Webinar 

Classics and White Supremacism in the United States: a Brief History.

Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Denison University

March 30, 2021 @ 6:00 pm via Zoom Webinar

“The Gospel Truth”: Animated Narrative in Disney’s Hercules (1997)

Dan Curley, Skidmore College

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classical Studies, English and the Film Studies program.

To view the recording

 

March 2, 2021 @ 1:10 pm via Zoom Webinar

Politics & Pestilence in Early Imperial Rome

Hunter Gardner, Professor of Classics,  University of South Carolina

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classical Studies and TIIS

To view the recording

 

February 25, 2021 @ 6:00 pm via Zoom Meeting

It’s What He Intended Translation, Authorial Intent & Racism in Classics

Shelley P. Haley, Hamilton College, NY

Co-sponsored by MRECC (Multiculturalism, Race, Ethnicity in Classics Consortium)

 

November 5, 2020

Joe Goodkin’s Odyssey

Joseph Goodkin of Quell Records, Inc. will present a webinar titled “Joe Goodkin’s Odyssey”. Joe will perform original compositions based on Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. Also Joe will perform some of his new work based on Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad.

To view the recording

October 17, 2019

Henry ‘Box’ Brown and Classical Rhetoric: A New Literacy Studies Approach to the Works of Formerly Enslaved Black Antislavery Activists in Antebellum America

Kelly Dugan, University of Georgia at Athens

Co-sponsored by Departments of English and History, Educational Studies Program, and Trinity Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies

March 28, 2019

Translating the Odyssey Again: How and Why

Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania

Co-Sponsored by Language and Culture Studies, The Dean’s Faculty Event Fund, English and the Women and Gender Resource Action Center

February 26, 2019

Athletes and Hero Cults: The Living and the Dead in Pindar’s Victory Songs

Hanne Eisenfeld, Boston College

Thursday, December 6, 2018

The Murder of Mesopotamia: War, Looting, and Cultural Heritage

Karen Foster, Yale University

Co-sponsored but The Trinity Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (TIIS), Art History, International Studies, Public Policy & Law

October 30, 2018

The OpenARCHEM project: A Collaborative Vision for Organic Residue Analysis & the Study of the Human Past

Andrew J. Koh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Co-sponsored by the First-Year Program, the Dean’s Faculty Event Fund, and the Program in Environmental Science

September 25, 2018

How to Build a Humanities Startup: Social Entrepreneurship and Future of the Liberal Arts
Jason Pedicone, Paideia Institute

Co-sponsored by Career Services, Dean’s Faculty Event Fund

September 20, 2018

The Aeneid in America: From First Contact to Final Frontier
Meredith Safran, Classical Studies Department

Part of the Faculty Research Committee Lecture Series


April 5, 2018

La MaMa’s Trojan Women Project: Ancient Greek Tragedy & International Conflict Today

Part of “Red Flags”, a series of events inspired by The Handmaid’s Tale.

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics, History, and Theater & Dance; the Programs in Women, Gender, and Sexuality; International Studies; Human Rights; and the Dean’s Faculty Event Fund.

March 20, 2018

A Woman or a Womb? Reproductive Legislation from Ancient Rome to Dystopian Futures

Serena Witzke, Wesleyan University

Response by Joan Hedrick, Department of History & Program in Women, Gender & Sexuality

Part of “Red Flags”, a series of events inspired by The Handmaid’s Tale. Hosted by the Trinity Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies.

March-April, 2018

Red Flags – A Series of Events Inspired by “The Handmaid’s Tale”

Organized by Meredith Safran, Classics; Laura Lockwood, Women and Gender Resources Action Center; and Sarah Raskin, Psychology & Neuroscience

November 13, 2017

Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

Emily Katz Anhalt,  Sarah Lawrence College

Co-sponsored by Departments of English, History, Philosophy & the First-Year Program

October 4, 2017

Tokyo on the Tiber: Screening Rome as Empire Nostalgia in Takeuchi Hideki’s Thermae Romae (2012)

Monica S. Cyrino, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Co-sponsored by Department of History

October 3, 2017

The Original Action Heroes – Biblical Epic Films in the New Century

Monica S. Cyrino, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Gateway Program

December 1, 2015

Founding Memories? Moving Toward Rome in Vergil’s Aeneid

Aaron Seider, College of the Holy Cross

December 1, 2015

Neuroscience & the Humanities: Shaping Memory

Panelists: Elizabeth Casserly, Psychology & Johannes Evelein, Language & Culture Studies
Special Guest: Aaron Seider, Department of Classics, College of the Holy Cross

Moderator: Meredith Safran, Classics

Part of “25 Years of Neuroscience at Trinity.” Co-sponsored by the Trinity Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies.

February 25, 2015

Winning Isn’t Everything: The Moral Power of Defeat at Rome

Jessica Clark, Florida State University

Co-sponsored by the Department of History