The Colloquium will take place on Saturday, February 26 in 108 Clark Hall, with a reception to follow in the Mural Room.
Breakfast
will begin at 9:00 a.m. in the hallway outside of 108 Clark Hall, with the first set
of graduate student papers to follow at 9:30 a.m.
A
Tale of Two Cities: Homeric Ephyra and Corinthian Identity in the Archaic
Age
Jay Fisher (Department of Classics, Princeton University)
Using
the Past to Undermine the Present: Tracing the Rhetoric of Liberation
throughout Thucydides's History
Aaron Chait (Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University)
Contesting
the Lessons of the Persian War
Bernd Steinbock (Classics Department, University of Michigan)
Orientalist
Discourse Materialized: The Role of Archaeology in the Construction of
Modern Turkish Identity
Ufuk Soyoz (University of Texas, Austin)
There will a lunch break, followed by the keynote address at 1:30 p.m.
Archaeology
and the Politics of Origins: The Search for Pyramids in Greece
Mary R. Lefkowitz
The second
set of graduate student papers will follow after a short break.
Tenuere
Tamen Arcem Sabini: Tarpeia, Ethnic (Re)Imagination, and the Social War
Bill Short (Classics Department, University of California, Berkeley)
Augustine
the Non-Augustan: Vergilian Exempla and Theodosius in the City
of God
Brian Dunkle, S.J. (Canisius College Jesuit Community)
A
Program of Imperial Recovery: Ammianus and Julian as Students of History
Robert Chenault (University of Michigan)
The University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville, VA, 110 miles southwest of Washington D.C. and 68 miles west of Richmond.
The city of Charlottesville is served by five airports:
- Charlottesville (CHO)
- Richmond International (RIC)
- Washington-Dulles (IAD)
- Washington-National (DCA)
- Baltimore Washington International (BWI)
The Amtrak station, served by two daily trains, is conveniently located one half-mile from the University.
Other details:
- Online maps of the campus
- Places to Stay in Charlottesville (the Red Roof Inn is closest to campus)
- Driving Directions to Charlottesville
Housing can also be arranged with graduate students. Please email Justin Carreker for details.