Events

• 2025 CAC Lecture
  
  Friday, November 14th, 3 p.m, LEC 201, Hungry like the wolf or the pig? Early Greek Imagery of Animal Hunger: Lecture by Dr. Emily Varto, Department of Classics, Dalhousie University. 

• 2025 Undergraduate Student Conference, Wednesday, April 9th, 9 a.m., BL 106
  
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• 2025 Ian Storey Lecture
  
  Friday, January 31st, 2p.m, Event Space (TSC 1.07), Student Centre, Mythological world-building from Atlantis to Middle-earth: Lecture by Dr. Kevin Whetter, Trent English and Classics graduate in 1992, Department of English and Theatre, Acadia University.

• 2024 Fall Bagnani Lecture
  
  Monday, September 30th, 5 p.m., An Earthquake that Shook the World? Localizing the Crete Mega-Earthquake of 365 CE: Lecture by Dr. Cam Grey, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
   
• 2024 CAC Lecture
  
  Monday, September 23rd, 10 a.m., A Sapphic Scandal and Scholarly Ethics: The Sappho fragment was initially thought to derive from a painted mummy cartonnage panel, with which it was simultaneously dissolved, but this was discovered to the a confusion of processing. 
  
  Lecture by Dr. Mike Sampson, Associate Professor, Department of Classics at University of Manitoba. 
   
• Celebration of Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  
  Thursday, September 19th: This in-person ceremony is to celebrate and honour our award-winning students and faculty in academic disciplines that foster creativity, critical thinking, and exceptional communication
   
• 2024 Winter Bagnani Lecture
  
  Wednesday, March 6th, 5 p.m., The Falerii Novi Project: Lecture by Dr. Seth Bernard, University of Toronto Department of Classics. 

2023 Colloquium Program

Monday, April 17, 2023

Location: ECC 208

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2022 AGRS Undergraduate Colloquium

Tues., April 19,   9-11:40am.  This year's colloquium will be held over zoom and features 5 excellent papers written by Trent students in upper level AHCL and ANTH courses during the 2021-22 academic year.  Paper presentations include essays on ancient mystery cults, witchcraft, Theodosius II, sexuality, and near-death experience. 

Full Program with abstracts.

Link to join  

• AGRS and the Classical Association of Canada present Toppling Statues Then and Now: Roman Emperors, Pagan Idols, Queen Victoria.  A lecture by Dr. Lea Sterling, University of Manitoba.  Friday, September 24, 2021 at 3pm in ENW 117.  RSVP required to attend in person or join via Zoom.
• 2021 AGRS Undergraduate Colloquium happened on Monday, April 12 and featured 9 excellent papers written by Trent students in upper level AHCL and ANTH courses. Paper presentations including philological essays on Homer and Herodotus, topical studies on Middle Comedy, Attila, the house church at Dura-Europos, and pre-Constantinian Christian epigraphy in the city of Rome. Full program with abstracts.
• As part of this year’s AGRS Colloquium, there was a book launch for Dr. Ian Begg’s Lost Worlds of Ancient and Modern Greece. Gilbert Bagnani: The Adventures of a Young Italo-Canadian Archaeologist in Greece, 1921-1924. You can find a full version of Dr Begg’s presentation here.

• On October 1, 2020, as part of the 2020 Classical Association of Canada lecture series, the Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Program of Trent University will be presenting "“Alexander the Great’s Ill-Fated Court Historian (Or, Will the Real Callisthenes Please Stand Up?).” More details will become available closer to the lecture date.
• Dr. Noel Lenski of Yale University presented a public lecture entitled "Roman Refugees: Settling Extra-Territorial Peoples Inside a World Empire" on Thursday, March 7, 2020. This lecture was presented by the Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Program of Trent University.
• Dr. Simon J. Young, the Founder and Executive Archaeologist at Lithodomos VR, presented a public lecture entitled "Virtual Reality: A Powerful Technology to Experience and Observe the Lost Environments of Ancient History" on Friday January 10, 2020. This lecture was collaboratively sponsored by the Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Program, the Anthropology Department, and the History Department at Trent University.

• 2019 AGRS Undergraduate Colloquium happened on Friday, April 12  and featured 8 papers written by Trent students in upper level AHCL and ANTH courses. Paper topics ranged from the archaic Hymns to the Seleucid Empire. Full program.
• Dr. Timothy Newfield of Georgetown University presented a public lecture entitled "Just Another Day or Volcanic Apocalypse? The 536 Event, Climate Cooling and the Fall of Rome" on Friday, November 1, 2019 in Bagnani Hall, Traill College. The lecture included commentary and responses from Trent University's Stephen Bocking (School of the Environment) and Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez (History).
• Dr. Arlene Allan of the University of Otago presented a public lecture entitled "Hercules on the Big and Little Screens in the 1960s: Steve Reeves and The Mighty Hercules Cartoon" on Wednesday, October 9, 2019. This lecture was presented by Trent's Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program, and the Ian Storey Visiting Speaker Fund.
• Dr. Brendan Burke of the University of Victoria presented a public lecture entitled "The Golden King: Midas of Phrygia and the Myths of Wealth in the Greek Imagination" on Monday, September 30, 2019. This was a 2019 Classical Association of Canada lecture, supported by the Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Program at Trent.

• On April 9, 2018, AGRS hosted its first Undergraduate Colloquium. Six papers were delivered, on topics ranging from ancient hetairai to PTSD in Greek tragedy. Full program.

• Professor Peter Toohey of the University of Calgary presented a talk on "Disability in the Roman Digest" on Friday, October 20, 2017 in Champlain College Room 307.  This was part of the 2017 Classical Association of Canada Lecture Tour and supported by the Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Program at Trent.  All welcome.

• Hugh Elton presented a public lecture on Siege Warfare in Late Antiquity at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. Sponsored by AIA Ottawa and the Canadian War Museum.
• Professor Tom Strasser, Providence College, RI visited Trent. He gave a lecture to students in the first year Trojan War class. In the evening, he gave a presentation on the earliest human settlements in Greece, focussing on his fieldwork in Crete. The well-attended and delightfully delivered talk was followed by a reception supported by the Bagnani Trust.

• Hugh Elton carried out a Classical Association of Canada lecture tour of western Canada. He lectured on “The Lost City of Alahan” at University of Winnipeg, University of British Columbia, and University of Victoria, and on “The Late Roman Army and the Huns” at University of Manitoba, Calgary University,and University of Victoria.
• Hugh Elton carried out a Classical Association of Canada lecture tour of western Canada. He lectured on “The Lost City of Alahan” at University of Winnipeg, University of British Columbia, and University of Victoria, and on “The Late Roman Army and the Huns” at University of Manitoba, Calgary University,and University of Victoria.
• Hugh Elton presented a paper on “The Changing Landscape of Euchaita: some results from the Avkat Archaeological Project” at a conference on Landscape dynamics and settlement patterns in Northern Anatolia during the Roman and Early Byzantine period, Amasya, Turkey

• Conference Paper by R. J. Cook. “Narratives of Decline in the Irrigation System of the Roman Fayum,” International Fayum Conference, Leipzig, Germany.
• Conference Paper by R. J. Cook. “Reinterpreting Innovation in the Irrigation System of the Ptolemaic Fayum,” Technology and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
• Public Lecture: "Canadians Take the Field throughout Greece" by Professor David W. Rupp