2002-03 International Focus Year Colloquium
Schedule of Events“Ancient Rome as a Religious Capital”
KARL GALINSKY, University of Texas
Feb.11, 2003
7:30 pm, Gallery Theatre Karl Galinsky is the Floyd Cailloux Centennial Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in the art, literature, and culture of the Augustan period of Rome. The author of many books and articles on Roman civilization, including Augustan Culture, he has also won numerous teaching awards. In summer 2002, he directed an NEH seminar on Roman religion at the American Academy in Rome. “Popes, Law, and Power in Medieval Rome”
GRETA AUSTIN, Bucknell University
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2003
7:30 pm, Willard Smith Library
Greta Austin has taught in the department of Religion at Bucknell since 2000. She specializes in the history of western Christianity and law in Medieval Europe. Prof. Austin is on leave spring 2003-fall 2004 as a National Endownment for the Humanities Fellow, researching and writing on the birth of western jurisprudence in the 11th century CE. “The Roman Salute: Film and Fascism”
MARTIN M. WINKLER, George Mason University
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
7:30 pm, Gallery Theatre
Martin Winkler is Professor of Classics at George Mason University. His classical education began in Münster, Germany, at the Gymnasium Paulinum (founded 797 CE). His books include The Persona in Three Satires of Juvenal and the edited collection Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema. He is also the author of numerous articles on Roman literature, on the classical tradition, and on classical and medieval culture and mythology in film. He has presented two extensive film programs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.: “Greek Tragedy from Stage to Screen” and “Hollywood’s Rome.” “Modern Rome: A Study Abroad Perspective”
ELISABETH HULETTE ’03
Monday, April 21, 2003 (Rome’s Birthday)
7:30 pm, Gallery Theatre
Elisabeth Hulette is a senior Classics major and minor in British Literature here at Bucknell University and spent spring 2001 in Rome at the Temple University Program. After graduation, she plans to pursue a career in journalism. She will present a slide show of her experiences of Rome. A member of the International Education Office will also be present to answer questions about studying abroad in Rome and will provide materials on the available programs. Birthday cake will be served.
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