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On Campus Lectures and Presentations 2011-12:

Meet the Majors:

Fall 2011:

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 (Brandeis Thursday), 3:30-5:00p.m.
Location: Mandel Foyer, second floor


Spring 2012:

Thursday, March 8, 2012, 3:30-5:00p.m.
Location:  Mandel foyer, second floor


Martin Weiner lectures:

Fall 2011:

Tuesday, October 18, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Professor Richard Thomas, Department of Classics, Harvard University, "Virgil, The Nineteenth Century and The Aesthetics of Empathy."
Location:  Mandel G12, reception to follow 
Richard Thomas shows the way individual and unorthodox readings of Virgil's Eclogues and Aeneid helped shape the reception and the artistic renewal of Virgil in the nineteenth century.  He focuses on the poetry of Tennyson and of William Barnes, and the music of Hector Berlioz, and on the ways their art goes against the grain of traditional understandings of the Roman poet.


Spring 2012:

Monday, March 5, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Professor Eric Moormann, Department of Classics and Classical Archaeology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, "The Marble and Wall Paintings in Nero's Golden House in Rome."
Location:  Olin Sang 101
Professors Paul Meyboom and Eric Moormann are about to publish a new monograph that analyzes the decorations in Nero's Golden House in Rome in the context of their architectural setting.  Professor Moormann's lecture presents the most important observations from his research involving the function and use of the larg building on the Exquiline and its construction chronology.  Although the complex was known to artists and antiquarians from the late fifteenth century onwards, it has rarely been studied thoroughly by archaeologists and art historians, as Meyboom and Moormann have now done.


Senior Presentations:

Monday, April 2, 2012
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Location:  Mandel Center for the Humanities, conference room 228

 Thursday, March 8, 2012
Meet the Majors
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location: Mandel foyer on second floor with refreshments 

 

2011-12 Classical Studies Film Series

Fall 2011

Thursday, September 22, 2011, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
The Classical Studies Film Series
300, written by Frank Miller and directed by Zack Snyder with Gerard Butler and Rodrigo Santoro, Warner Bros Pictures, 2007.
Location: Mandel G12

Thursday, October 6, 2011, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
The Classical Studies Film Series
Hercules directed by John Musker & Ron Clements, Walt Disney Pictures.
Location: Mandel G12

Thursday, October 27, 2011, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
The Classical Studies Film Series
Spartacus directed by Stanley Kubrick with Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, John Galvin, Tony Curtis, and more, Universal Pictures, 1988.
Location: Mandel G12

Thursday, November 10, 2011, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
The Classical Studies Film Series
Cleopatra directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz with Elisabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, and more, Twentieth Century Fox, 1963.
Location: Mandel G12

Thursday, December 1, 2011, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
The Classical Studies Film Series
Lightning Thief written by Rick Riordan and directed by Chris Columbus with Logan Lerman, Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, and more, Fox 2000 Pictures, 2010
Location: Mandel G12

Spring 2012

Thursday, February 2, 2012
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
The Classical Studies Film Series
Monty Python’s  Life of Brian written by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and dir. by Terry Jones, Python (Monty) Pictures LDT, 1979 & Criterion Collection, 1999.
Location: Lown 2

Thursday, February 16, 2012  
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
The Classical Studies Film Series
The Trojan Woman
directed by Michael Kacoyannis with Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave,Irene Papas, and Genevieve Bujold.Joseph Schafter Productions, 1971
Location: Lown 2

Thursday, March 1, 2012,
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
The Classical Studies Film Series
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules written by Norman Maurer and Elwood Ullman, directed by Edward Bernds with Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Joe DeRita.
Location: Lown 2

Thursday, March 15, 2012                
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m
The Classical Studies Film Series
Troy directed by Wolfgang Peterson with Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Brendan Gleeson, and Peter O’Toole, Warner Bros, 2004.
Location: Lown 2

Thursday, March 29, 2012
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
The Classical Studies Film Series
Clash of the Titans directed byDesmond Davis with Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Maggie Smith, and Ursula Andress. Turner EntertainmentCo and Time Warner, 1981 and 2002.
Location: Lown 2  

Photo Credits: [left] Medea Escapes in Serpent Chariot, marble sarcophagus, Roman, mid-second century CE, now housed in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin (Photo Credit: Barbara McManus, 1992), courtesy of the VRoma Project; [Middle] Antinous, marble bust, from Villa Hadriana, now exhibited as Inv. No. 251, Sala Rotonda, Pio-Clementino Museum, The Vatican (Photo Credit: Jastrow); [right] Girl pouring perfume into a vial, wall painting, Villa Farnesina, 1st century B.C.E., now at the Terme Museum, Rome (Photographic Credit: Barbara McManus, 1979), courtesy of the VRoma Project.