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

2006-7 "What the Gods Want: Theological Poetics in the Homeric Poems," Richard Martin, Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics, Stanford University

2005-6 "A Roman Writes a Postcard Home: Pliny the Younger, Roman Imperialism, and 84 Charing Cross Road," Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History, University of St. Andrews

2004-5 "The History of the Impossible: Ancient Utopias," Page duBois, Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego

2003-4 "Vergil and Tibullus 1.1: Two Versions of Pastoral," Michael Putnam, W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics, Brown University

2002-3 "Horse Power and Donkey Work: Equines and the Ancient Greek Imagination," Mark Griffith, Professor of Classics and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley

2001-2 "Place of Pleasure: Revisiting Ancient Baiae," Nicholas Purcell, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Oxford

2000-1 "Choral Identity in Greek Tragedy," Helene P. Foley, Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University

1999-2000 "Why Propertius Is a Woman: French Feminism and Latin Love Elegy," Paul Allen Miller, Professor of Classics, Classical Tradition, Critical Theory, and Gender Studies, University of South Carolina

1998-99 "Ancient Greek Board Games and How To Play Them," Leslie Kurke, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

1997-98 "Ars and the Man: The Politics of Art in Vergil's Aeneid," Shadi Bartsch, Associate Professor of Classics and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley (as of July 1998, at the University of Chicago)

1996-97 "Did Athenian Women Attend the Theater in the Eighteenth Century?" Marilyn Arthur Katz, Professor of Classics, Wesleyan University

1995-96 "Natural Law and Poetic Justice," James E.G. Zetzel, Professor of Classics, Columbia University

1994-95 "Friends and Patrons," David Konstan, John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition; Professor in Comparative Literature, Brown University

1993-94 "Passion and Petrifaction: The Gaze in Apuleius," Niall W. Slater, Professor of Classics (as of 2004, Emory Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek), Emory University

1992-93 "The Origin of Woman and Woman as the Origin: The Case of Hesiod's Pandora," Froma Zeitlin, Charles Ewing Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Princeton University

1991-92 "Medea in Ovid: Scenes from the Life of an Intertextual Heroine," Stephen Hinds, Professor of Classics; Faculty Member, Program in Theory and Criticism; Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, Washington University

1990-91 "How Not to Read a Poem: Unmixing Simonides from Protagoras," Anne Carson, poet and Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

1989-90 "Signals from the Unconscious in Early Greek Poetry," Anne Pippin Burnett, Professor Emerita of Classics, University of Chicago