Past Events

Past Events

Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez - Beyond the Legend: site formation processes at Antikythera shipwreck

Friday Archaeology invites you to an engaging talk with Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, exploring the Antikythera shipwreck! Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez is an underwater and coastal archaeologist. He is a Postdoctoral researcher at ICArEHB. Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB) FCHS, University of Algarve and at the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, Haifa University. Snacks and drinks will be provided. All are welcome to attend!
McMillan Hall, G052

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: A Latinist’s Paradise

Classical Club of St. Louis
Tim Moore, Washington University in St. Louis
the Newman Auditorium on the campus of John Burroughs School | 755 South Price Road, STL, 63124

Meet WashU Classics: Graduate Info Hour

Online via Zoom | https://wustl.zoom.us/j/96459498403?pwd=6dzqmjjEgXEYAq1qkVLAKqQ8GSKbbJ.1

Fall 2025 Major-Minor Fair

Each fall, the College holds a Major-Minor Fair, where students can talk to faculty members and get more information on many majors and minors at one time and in one place.
WashU Athletic Complex

George E. Mylonas Lecture in Greek Archaeology : Pilgrimage, Prayers, and Picnics at a Greek Mountaintop Shrine: Art and Mysteries at the Birthplace of Zeus

Mary Voyatzis, University of Arizona
St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium

The Artemis Azariadis Memorial Lecture in Greek Studies: American Ideas of Freedom in the Greek Enlightenment and the Greek Revolution

Professor Paschalis Kitromilidis,
Athens Academy of Arts and Sciences
Third Floor, Millennium Student Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Chryseis, Philoctetes, and the Making of the Homeric Iliad

Gregorgy Nagy, Harvard University
Seigle 301 or Zoom

Biggs Department of Classics Welcome Open House

Umrath Hall (Bridge) Conference Room 224

Adult Summer Reading Keynote Presentation: The Odyssey

University City Public Library Auditorium

WashU Classics Undergraduate Graduation Party

Lopata House Multipurpose Room | northwest side of campus, lower level

WashU Classics Graduate Student Graduation Party

Busch 18

Classics End-of-Semester Party

Danforth University Center 234

Hundred-Gated Thebes: Ancient Egypt as told by the Greeks and Romans

Greg Viessman, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
John Burroughs School | Newman Auditorium

Classics Workshop

Busch 018 Conference Room

A Wonder to Behold: Jesus’ Miracles and Late Ancient Receptions of the Story of the Woman Taken in Adultery

Jennifer Knust, Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University
Umrath Lounge

Classical Slave Names and Container Theory: An African American History

Emily Greenwood, James M. Rothenberg Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Steinberg Auditorium

Language Use and the Language of Use: Fictions of Normativity in Apollodorus

Emily Greenwood, James M. Rothenberg Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Seigle 301

‘Suffering is not seldom the reward for service …’: Anna Julia Cooper and the Black Feminist Prometheus

Emily Greenwood, James M. Rothenberg Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Umrath Lounge

2025 Biggs Family Residency in Classics

Emily Greenwood, James M. Rothenberg Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Check each event for location.

Classics Workshop

Umrath Conference Room 224

Ancient Philosophy Workshop with David Kaufman

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics
Ridgley 107 and Umrath Conference Room 224

Structure and System of Greek Lyric Meter

Angelo Mercado (Grinnell College)
Wilson 104

Ancient Philosophy Workshop with Sosseh Assaturian

Sosseh Assaturian, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington
DUC 240 and Umrath Conference Room 224

Classics Workshop

Umrath Conference Room 224

Classics Club Meeting of St. Louis

Nate Jones, Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis
John Burroughs School | Newman Auditorium

Classics Club of St. Louis Meeting

Book Signing, TBA
John Burroughs School | Newman Auditorium

Joint Reception, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Illinois, and the University of Missouri AIA/SCS Annual Meeting

The 2025 AIA/SCS Joint Annual Meeting will be held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown from Thursday, January 2nd to Sunday, January 5th, 2025.
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown | Meeting Room 305

Current Work on the Washington University Papyri

Roger Bagnall, Honorary Professor of Classics, John & Penelope Biggs Department of Classics
Alexander Free, University of Munich, Visiting Researcher John & Penelope Biggs Department of Classics
Will Sieving, M.A. student, John and Penelope Biggs Department of Classics
Olin Library 142

Classics Workshop

Umrath Hall Conference Room 224

What’s Important in Verse Translation?

Diane Arnson Svarlien, Independent Scholar
Goldberg Formal Lounge | DUC

Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs Signing

Diane Arnson Svarlien
Independent Scholar
Washington University Bookstore | Mallinckrodt

Greek Drama as Musical Theater

Tim Moore, John and Penelope Biggs Department of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis
John Burroughs School | Newman Auditorium

Classics Workshop

Busch Hall Room 18

Ancient Philosophy Workshop

Daniel Kranzelbinder
UChicago and Humboldt-Berlin
Life Sciences 117