Yale Classics faculty and students regularly host conferences, from smaller symposia to large international events. Some past and present conferences are listed below.
2022–2025
This colloquium will bring together Roman historians from German and US academic environments to explore their own work and discuss methodologies. Each speaker will offer a 40-minute presentation exploring the results of recent research and discussing how their particular academic environment influences their questions and methodologies: how does working in a contemporary German / American university impact one’s choice of problems, methodologies, and results?
On April 5 to April 7 Yale hosted an international conference on later Stoicism, the period from the second century BCE through to about 200 CE. Later Stoicism includes the best known and most influential authors (Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius) as well as lesser known but important philosophers. We had nine papers on various aspects of the school by leading scholars of the school, from France, Germany, Canada and the US. Comments were given by, among others, a number of Yale graduate students.
AMPRAW is an annual conference that is designed to bring together early-career researchers in the field of classical reception studies, and will be held for the tenth year. It aims to contribute to the growth of an international network of PhDs working on classical reception(s), as well as to strengthen relationships between early career researchers and established academics. AMPRAW 2022 was held at Yale University from Thursday, November 3 to Saturday, November 5, 2022, with the generous support of the Department of Classics at Yale University, the ARCHAIA program, and the Whitney Humanities Centre.
Organizers: Thomas Munro and Francesca Beretta.
2011–2019
April 11–12, 2019.
Organized by Treasa Bell, Christopher Londa, Rachel Love, and Joe Morgan.
April 14, 2018.
Monday, September 18, 2017, 9:00 am to Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 6:00 pm.
A Whitney Humanities Center conference presented by the Departments of Classics, German, and Religious Studies Departments.
Sponsored by the Humanities/Humanity program.
Friday April 21st, 2017
March 23 - 36. In chronological terms there can be little doubt that the fifth century is the pivot point of Late Antiquity. It is arguable that it also represents the major watershed between a monolithic world still dominated by the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries and the more tessellated worlds of the sixth and seventh. Whereas the fourth century is still very much an age of continuity with the earlier empire, the fifth can rightfully be viewed as the moment when Mediterranean Eurasia and North Africa witnessed profound political, social, religious, economic, and cultural transformations. Shifting Frontiers XII seeks to investigate the nature and impact of these changes.
Conference Poster
April 16, 2016
October 17, 2015
Organized by Ben Jerue and the Yale graduate students.
October 30–31, 2014
Sunday, October 5, 2014
April 25–26, 2014
Keynote speaker Damien Nelis (Geneva)
Organized by Thomas Biggs and Jessica Blum (Yale).
Friday, March 30–Sunday, April 1, 2012
Keynote speaker Hindy Najman (Yale)
Organized by Marco Formisano (Berlin) and Christina S. Kraus (Yale)
Wednesday July 6–Saturday July 9, 2011
Organized by Egbert J. Bakker for the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song.
Generously funded by the Department of Classics and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale University.
Friday April 1–Sunday April 3, 2011
Organized by Emily Greenwood, Milette Gaifman, Martin Devecka, and Chris Simon
Generously Funded by the Department of Classics and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale University