Events

Current Events

The 43rd Annual Gail A. Burnett Lecture in Classics: Kush and the African Encounter with Greece

Dr. Stanley Burstein
Professor of History, Emeritus
California State University, Los Angeles

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Fowler Family Ballroom
Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center

Dr. Stanley Burstein’s long and distinguished career spans more than four decades. During that period he wrote numerous books and articles on all aspects of Greek history but especially on Greek relations with Egypt and Nubia (modern Sudan). His lecture for April 17 uses archaeological evidence to analyze the role of Greek culture in the kingdom of Kush from the fifth century BCE to the early Middle Ages.

View the 4/17 flyer (.pdf)

Past Events

Classics Today Spring 2012 Lecture Series

Friday, February 24, 2012 1:30-2:30 p.m.
AL 105

The Classics in Prison: Why classicists should care about prison education
Nancy Rabinowitz, Ph.D.
Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College

View the 2/24 flyer (.pdf)

Spring 2012 Lectures

The Eighteenth Annual John R. Adams Lecture in the Humanities

Friday, February 3, 2012, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center

“What Are The Humanities Worth?”
Dr. Stanley Fish
The Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law
Florida International University

View the flyer for the Spring lectures (.pdf)

Register now for a “Reasonable World” September 16-18, 2011

The Department of Classics and Humanities is co-sponsoring “Toward a Reasonable World: The Western Heritage of Humanism, Skepticism, and Freethought” September 16-18, 2011 at the Town and Country Resort. Conference speakers include Annie Laurie Gaylor (of the Freedom From Religion Foundation), S. T. Joshi (author of The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism), and others. Visit the website for complete program, presenters, and registration: http://reason.sdsu.edu

View the conference flyer (.pdf)

“Classics Today” Lecture Series starts September 30

Maria Rybakova
Friday, September 30, 2011
1:30-2:30 p.m. • AL 102

“Virgil’s Orpheus reenacted: Tsvetaeva, Rilke, Pasternak”

Analyzing their extant letters and poems, Dr. Rybakova argues that the poetic trio (Tsvetaeva, Rilke, and Pasternak, who introduced them) have mysteriously repeated the pattern of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, albeit with a gender twist: the role of Orpheus falls to the woman poet Marina Tsvetaeva, and that of Eurydice to Rilke, the author of the famous poem “Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.”

Save the dates for future “Classics Today” — October 28 and December 2.
All lectures are in AL 102, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

View the "Classics Today" flyer (.pdf)

The Forty-Second Annual Burnett Lecture In Classics

Celebrity, Scandal, and the Artist's Model
Ancient Answers to Modern Dilemmas

Helen Morales
University Of California, Santa Barbara

Helen Morales, Professor of Classics (UCSB), is an international authority on the ancient novel and the portrayal of women in the ancient world. She edits the influential classical journal Ramus, and has now edited Penguin Classics' new editions of Petronius' Satyricon (2011) and Greek Fiction (2011).

Friday, April 29, 2011
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Hardy Tower room 140

Per-Hour Visitor Parking in Structures 1 or 4 or in Ace Parking lot near the SDSU trolley stop. See campus map at site: https://sunspot.sdsu.edu/map//index.jsp

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Study Abroad in Florence

Join Dr. Maria Rybakova for a six week summer study program in Florence Italy! Live in the heart of Renaissance Italy and take SDSU classes. Program Dates are as follows: May 27 to July 9, 2011.

Learn more about the program...

The Seventeenth Annual John R. Adams Lecture Presents: Dr. Anthony B. Pinn

"Taking Up Space: The Importance of Embodiment for the Study of African American Religion"

Monday, November 8, 3:30 p.m.
Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center
San Diego State University

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