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The 2021 Annual Joan Palevsky Lecture will be a Departmental Roundtable Panel, featuring a discussion among members of the UCLA Classics Department of plagues in antiquity, including the plagues of 5th century Athens, Antonine Rome and Justinian. In addition to discussing medical, literary, historical, and archaeological sources, we will also consider the nature of the...

This event is co-sponsored event between the UCLA Department of Classics and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu for Zoom information.

Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link. Featured speakers will include the following: Melissa Mueller (UMass Amherst), "Bodies in Bardo in Sappho’s Tithonos Poem" Alex Purves (UCLA), "Homer's Underwater Bodies" Susan Lape (USC), “Vulnerability, Ethics, and the Limits of Appropriation in Terence’s ‘Human’ Comedy” Brooke Holmes (Princeton), “Embodying Lucretius, with Isabel Lewis”