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 Pittsburgh): Title TBA
Past Events 2024–25
Please join us for this years UTMACS for our exciting talks on a wide range of topics! All in-person events will take place at CDRS (MN3230) from 3–6 pm. 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.
Schedule - Fall 2024
- Oct. 18 - Cillian O’Hogan (University of Toronto): "Martial’s books and the novelty of the codex"
- Nov. 22 - Fabio Colivicchi (Queens University): “The gift of Clepsina: a water feature at Caere and the formation of Roman Etruria” - online only via Zoom
Schedule - Winter 2025
- Feb. 28, 9am-5:45pm - Religion, Cognition, and Community in Antiquity: A Colloquium in Memory of Roger Beck
- Mar. 13-14 - Classics and the World Today 7
- Apr. 11 - Moshe Blidstein (University of Haifa): "Can we write a history of ancient vowing? Close and distant readings"
Past Events 2023–24
The theme for this year's UTM Annual Classics Seminar (UTMACS) is centre and periphery. The speakers will challenge and explore this topic from various perspectives. For those who have not yet attended a UTMACS seminar, the sessions are in two parts, consisting of (1) a lecture (1:10–approx. 2:40pm) followed, after a short break, by (2) a seminar-style discussion (3–4pm) that is centred on the ‘focus item’ specified by the lecturer.
All events take place 1-4pm in-person at UTM in Maanjiwe nendamowinan 3230, and broadcast live via Zoom (except for on February 2, which is virtual only). Further details will be announced as the information becomes available.
Zoom link and readings will be circulated one week in advance.
Schedule - Fall 2023
- Sept. 22 - Eric Csapo (Cambridge): Rivalry between Centre and Periphery in the Theatre Industry of the Fourth Century BC
- Oct. 20 - Sailakshmi Ramgopal (Columbia University): Romans as Others: Mobility, Status, and Power Abroad
- Oct. 27 - Cliff Ando (University of Chicago): Republican Religion in Imperial Rome: The View from the Periphery
- Dec. 1 - Katherine Harloe (Institute of Classical Studies, London): The Beyond Notability Project: Re-evaluating Women's Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage, 1870-1950
Schedule - Winter 2024
- Jan. 26 - Dominik Maschek (University of Trier): The Dynamics of Violence in the Late Roman Republic: From the Periphery to the Centre, and Back Again
- Feb. 2 - Carrie Murray (Brock University) (virtual): Religious Worship and Mobility at the Lago di Venere Sanctuary, Pantelleria
- Mar. 15 - Concluding Session
A full list of seminars is available on the Department of Classics' Events Page.