On Thursday, November 29th, Elizabeth Greene will deliver a lecture to the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Turkish Studies titled, “Fluid Technologies: Amphoras and Exchange Mechanisms on the 6th-Century BCE Shipwreck at Pabuç Burnu, Turkey.” The lecture will take place at 6:00 p.m. in 4 Bancroft Hall, Room 200B, at the University of Toronto.
On Thursday November 22, Prof. Allison Glazebrook will deliver a lecture titled “Working Women in Classical Athens.” Sponsored jointly by the Brock Talks series and the Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, the talk will take place from 7-9 pm in the Mills Room of the St Catharines Public Library.
Check out the Brock news for a writeup of the Department’s International Archaeology Day event, planned by Dr. Murray!
Save the date for an interdisciplinary panel discussion on the Department of Dramatic Arts’ production of Sophocles’ Antigone and the play’s contemporary relevance. Featuring Dr. Nickel and Dr. Rappold as panelists, the discussion will take place on Wednesday, October 31 from 3:00-4:15 pm in the Cairns Atrium.
See the writeup in the Brock News.
On Saturday, September 29 at 11:00 am, Allison Glazebrook will deliver a lecture titled, “The Erotics of Characterization: Problematizing Desire in Lysias 3 and 4.” She is speaking at the Midwestern Ancient Greek History and Theory Colloquium at the University of Toronto. The colloquium will take place 29-30 September in Room 205, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park.
Join the students from Greek Lyric and the Roman Villa for presentations of their research projects. Talks begin at 10 AM and continue until 5 PM according to the program below:
10.00-10.30 Vanessa Cimino, A Place for the Invisible: The Allocation of Slave Space in Roman Villas
10.30-11.00 Taylor Johnston, Villas à la Martial: A Study of Villas in Book 10
11.00-11.30 Francesca Patten, Mental and Emotional Wellness in Greek Lyric
11.30-12.00 Jeff Masse, In Search of the Better: Naturalizing the Epistemology of Xenophanes
12.00-1.00 Lunch
1.00-1.30 Nicole Gavin, Recreating an Imperial Roman Garden: The Reflection of the Villa of Livia’s Garden Room
1.30-2.00 Natalie Armistead, Blurred Lines: Landscape Paintings in the House of Menander in Pompeii
2.00-2.30 Heather Roy, These Floors were Made for Walking: Socio-Political Pathways at Piazza Armerina
2.30-3.00 Rick Castle, The Nature of Memory (or Memory of Nature) in Sappho’s Poetics
3.00-3.30 Tea/Coffee
3.30-4.00 Esther Knegt, The Network of Lesbian Trade in the Archaic Period
4.00-4.30 Brian Abfal, The Cotswolds Estates: Assessing Roman Villa Culture in Southwest Britain
4.30-5.00 Marina Ekkel, The Homeric ideal of Κλέος in the poetry of Callinus and Tyrtaeus
Join us for the 29th annual Brock University Archaeological Society (BUAS) scholarly symposium. Please support our students for what should be a fantastic event featuring speakers from McGill, York, and Brock who explore the borders of the ancient world!
Here are the talk titles:
The event will take place in Academic South 217 from noon to 5 PM on Saturday March 10th. Contact society officers:[email protected] to reserve tickets for the symposium or banquet.
On Wednesday, February 28th, Carrie Murray will deliver a lecture as part of the Brock Talks series. Dr. Murray’s talk is titled, “Female Votive Figures: Religious Worship in the Ancient Mediterranean.” The lecture will take place at 7 PM in the Mills Room at the Central Library. Find more information plus directions and parking here: http://www.stcatharines.library.on.ca or contact 905-688-6103 ext 211.
An abstract of the talk follows:
The Lago di Venere (Lake of Venus) on the Italian island of Pantelleria is a volcanic crater lake that attracted people to its shores for millennia. At the end of the 1800s, the discovery of a small cache of votive figurines near the lake suggested that the area might have been the focus of ancient religious activity. The Brock University Archaeological Project at Pantelleria (BUAPP) has been investigating the lake site for four years. The figurines bring about important questions concerning religious worship in the Mediterranean. Complicated issues of where the votives were produced and who brought them to the island are still being investigated.
Join the graduate students for their conference, “Entertainment and the Expression of Identity in Greco-Roman Antiquity.” The conference is on Saturday, February 24th in IC 104 from 9 AM to 5:15 pm. Alison Keith (Department of Classics, University of Toronto) is the keynote speaker. 
We’re looking forward to the AIA/SCS Annual Meeting in Boston on January 5-7, 2018. Many Brock faculty will discuss their current research:
On Friday, January 5th:
Allison Glazebrook, “Dangerous Liaisons: Sex, Slavery, and Violence in Classical Athens;”
Justin Leidwanger (Stanford University), Elizabeth S. Greene, and Numan Tuna (Middle East Technical University), “From Burgaz to the Knidia: Contextualizing the Maritime Landscape of the Datça Peninsula.”
On Saturday, Jan. 6th:
Deborah Beck (University of Texas at Austin) and Katherine von Stackelberg, Roundtable Discussion Session, “Mapping Roads Toward Real Inclusivity;”
Adam Rappold, “For the Wheel’s Still in Spin: The Evolution of the Skira Festival in Classical Athens.”
On Sunday, Jan 7th:
R. Angus K. Smith, “Ritual Feasting in the Early Neopalatial Period: Middle Minoan III Pottery from the Gournia Palace”. The panel, titled “Whats New at Gournia? The Gournia Excavation Project, 2010-present”, is organized by Brock alumnus D. Matthew Buell (Concordia University) and Kevin T. Glowacki (Texas A&M University).
Be sure to stop by the book exhibit at the conference to see books published in 2017 by department faculty. These include Ovid’s Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays, by Paul Murgatroyd, Bridget Reeves, and Sarah Parker; Housing the New Romans. Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World, edited by Katharine von Stackelberg and Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Themes in Greek Society and Culture: An Introduction to Ancient Greece, edited by Allison Glazebrook and Christina Vester; and Ayia Sotira: A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece, by R. Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, Evangelia Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, and James C. Wright.
