2025–26 UTM Annual Classics Seminar Series

UTMACS 2025-2026 poster

Please join us for this years UTMACS for our exciting talks on a wide range of topics! All in-person events will take place in CDRS (MN 3230) from 3-6 pm, unless noted differently below. We will also broadcast live via Zoom for those who cannot attend in person. Our events begin with a seminar-style discussion from 3-4 pm focused on one item as listed below. After a short break from 4:00-4:20 pm, we resume for the lecture by our guest researcher from 4:20–6:00 pm. Further details will be announced as the information becomes available.

Zoom link and readings will be circulated one week in advance.

  • Nov. 12 - MN 5128 - Patrick Baker (Université Laval): “Revisiting an Inscription from Xanthos: A Critical Reappraisal”
  • Nov. 28 - Aldo Tagliabue (University of Notre Dame): “The Conflict between the Avenging Venus and the Providential Cupid: A Religious Reading of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche”
  • Jan. 23 - Grace Funsten (University of Pittsburgh): "Subaltern Authorship and the Functions of Allusion in Roman Columbarium Inscriptions"

 

 


Look back at the incredible Classics Seminar Series from past years:

 

A full list of seminars is available on the Department of Classics' Events Page.