Past Events

Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Travel: The Data of Classical Tourism"

Date

Friday, February 24, 2023. 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description: Classical Italy attracted thousands of travelers throughout the 1700s.

What’s the Problem with Eurocentrism? A conversation between Karine Chemla and Ian Morris, moderated by Reviel Netz

Date

Wednesday, February 22, 2023. 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Description: Karine Chemla, a sinologist and historian of global science, and Ian Morris, a classical archeologist and global historian, in a conversation about the…

Minh Thi Nguyen, Toward A Harmonious Transnational Feminism: Women's Love/Lot/Lack In Antigone By Sophocles And The Tale Of Kieu By Nguyen Du

Date

Friday, February 3, 2023. 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description: Since the early nineteenth century, The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du has been considered an important cultural heritage that could save both the Vietnamese language and…

Mateusz Fafinski, Widows and Wanderings: Current affairs in Jerome’s letters

Date

Friday, January 20, 2023. 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description: Jerome left us with a large, but highly curated set of letters.

Erik Pulz, Making history, making historiography: Sallust in dialogue with his characters

Date

Friday, November 11, 2022. 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description: For my research project here at Stanford I am working on different kinds of echoes between proems and character speeches in Sallust’s works.