George B. Walsh Memorial Lecture
This annual lecture was endowed in 1989 in memory of Associate Professor of Classics George B. Walsh, BA 1967. The lecture's aim is to bring to the University community a lecturer whose scholarly endeavor has shown the restlessness and excellence characteristic of George B. Walsh's own work. Sponsored by the Department of Classics, the lecture nevertheless need not be confined to a classical subject.
Lecture Archive
| 2007-2008 |
Dennis Feeney Professor of Classics and Giger Professor of Latin, Princeton University "Crediting Pseudolus: trust, credit, and belief in Plautus' Pseudolus" |
| 2006-2007 |
Richard Martin Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics, Stanford University "What the Gods Want: Theological Poetics in the Homeric Poems" |
| 2005-2006 |
Greg Woolf Professor of Ancient History, University of St. Andrews "A Roman Writes a Postcard Home: Pliny the Younger, Roman Imperialism, and 84 Charing Cross Road" |
| 2004-2005 |
Page duBois Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego "The History of the Impossible: Ancient Utopias" |
| 2003-2004 |
Michael Putnam W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics, Brown University "Vergil and Tibullus 1.1: Two Versions of Pastoral" |
| 2002-2003 |
Mark Griffith Professor of Classics and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley "Horse Power and Donkey Work: Equines and the Ancient Greek Imagination" |
| 2001-2002 |
Nicholas Purcell Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Oxford "Place of Pleasure: Revisiting Ancient Baiae" |
| 2000-2001 |
Helene P. Foley Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University "Choral Identity in Greek Tragedy" |
| 1999-2000 |
Paul Allen Miller Professor of Classics, Classical Tradition, Critical Theory, and Gender Studies, University of South Carolina "Why Propertius Is a Woman: French Feminism and Latin Love Elegy" |
| 1998-1999 |
Leslie Kurke University of California, Berkeley "Ancient Greek Board Games and How To Play Them" |
| 1997-1998 |
Shadi Bartsch Associate Professor of Classics and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley (as of July 1998, at the University of Chicago) "Ars and the Man: The Politics of Art in Vergil's Aeneid" |
| 1996-1997 |
Marilyn Arthur Katz Professor of Classics, Wesleyan University "Did Athenian Women Attend the Theater in the Eighteenth Century?" |
| 1995-1996 |
James E.G. Zetzel Professor of Classics, Columbia University "Natural Law and Poetic Justice" |
| 1994-1995 |
David Konstan John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition; Professor in Comparative Literature, Brown University "Friends and Patrons" |
| 1993-1994 |
Niall W. Slater Professor of Classics (as of 2004, Emory Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek), Emory University "Passion and Petrifaction: The Gaze in Apuleius" |
| 1992-1993 |
Froma Zeitlin Charles Ewing Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Princeton University "The Origin of Woman and Woman as the Origin: The Case of Hesiod's Pandora" |
| 1991-1992 |
Stephen Hinds Professor of Classics; Faculty Member, Program in Theory and Criticism; Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, Washington University "Medea in Ovid: Scenes from the Life of an Intertextual Heroine" |
| 1990-1991 |
Anne Carson Poet and Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan "How Not to Read a Poem: Unmixing Simonides from Protagoras" |
| 1989-1990 |
Anne Pippin Burnett Professor Emerita of Classics, University of Chicago "Signals from the Unconscious in Early Greek Poetry" |