BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69da95d9f39d7 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260226 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260227 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/events/ hellenistic-families-conference-february-26th-27th-2026 SUMMARY:Hellenistic Families Conference (February 26th & 27th\, 2026) CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Hellenistic families\n[https://hellenisticfamilie.wixsite.com/h ellenistic-families]\nconstitute an underexplored area of the ancient worl d that PhD\nstudents Natasha Parnian and Penelope Carpentier are putting o n the\nagenda at Macquarie University\, Sydney. Together with their superv isor\nDr. Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides and an international team of students a nd\nestablished scholars\, they explore a variety of family lives\, models \,\nand relations\, highlighting regional differences and exploring the\nc onditions of migration. Unsurprising for the Hellenistic period\, a\nlot o f our evidence concentrates on the royal families. The first\nkeynote (Dr. Stefan Pfeiffer\, Halle-Wittenberg) will therefore explore\nthe innovativ e construction of the Ptolemies (‘Family\, Dynasty\, and\nGenealogy in t he Representation of the Ptolemies: A Prospective\nCommunity of Memory\n[h ttps://hellenisticfamilie.wixsite.com/hellenistic-families/abstracts]’)\ ,\nwhereas the second (by Dr. Altay Coskun) will challenge the modern\ntre nd of claiming a New Female Agency\n[https://hellenisticfamilie.wixsite.co m/hellenistic-families/abstracts]\nfor Seleucid queens. Participation is f ree to everyone interested. \n\nThe only condition is that you calculate c orrectly your local\nattendance times for Panel 1 (SYDNEY\, AUSTRALIA: Th. \, Feb. 26\, 5-9 PM\;\nTORONTO\, CANADA: Th.\, Feb 26th\, 1-5 AM) and/or P anel 2 (SYDNEY\,\nAUSTRALIA: Fr.\, Feb. 27\, 9-11:30 AM\; TORONTO\, CANADA : Th.\, Feb. 26\,\n5-7:30 PM).\n\nPlease\, register here\n[https://helleni sticfamilie.wixsite.com/hellenistic-families/events/hellenistic-families-c onference-2026-1]. X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE DTSTAMP:20260411T184130Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69da95da0a7b5 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260424 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260425 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/events/ homer-appreciation-day SUMMARY:Homer Appreciation Day CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Homer Appreciation Day will bring together some of the lead ing\nscholars of the Homeric Epics\, their world and reception\, as well a s\nlovers of this poetry engaging creatively with it.\n\nMore info to foll ow early next year. X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE DTSTAMP:20260411T184130Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69da95da0b642 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251006 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251007 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/events/ female-roles-ancient-foundation-legends SUMMARY:Female Roles in Ancient Foundation Legends CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Please join us on October 6 for a Workshop at the University of  \nWaterloo.  DRAGEN Lab\, St Jerome's University. \n\nWhile women tend ed to play only marginal roles in ancient military and\npolitical matters\ , they not rarely figure as important characters in\nhistorical\, legendar y or mythical accounts of exploration\, settlement\,\nor early urban devel opment. In these they often appear as largely\nartificial and symbolic cha racters\, but this should not prevent us\nfrom digging deeper and asking o urselves about the effective\nhistorical roles that women played either at the time of foundation or\nmuch later when an origin was remembered – o r rather construed –\nto explain\, justify\, or change interethnic relat ions. Examples\ndiscussed at this workshop will range from the Amazons ove r Medeia and\nKirke to Dido and Lavinia\, but they also include the Biblic al Sheerah\n(_1 Chronicles_ 7:20-29) and the romanticized Gallic ‘prince ss’\nGyptis/Petta\, the daughter of the Segobrigian king Nannos. In cert ain\nways\, these ladies shaped the legends of early-modern\nMatoaka/Pocac hontas and Malinche\, and never ceased to invite new\ninterpretation and i nstrumentalization\, as an example from National\nSocialist Germany will i llustrate.\n\nAt this workshop\, we shall collect\, compare\, and analyse diverse\nstories featuring such women and aim for developing a typology. T he\nbetter we understand these female roles in the various literary\ntradi tions\, the better we may understand these traditions of origin\nand ident ity as well as the agency ascribed to or claimed by women in\ndifferent ti mes and places of the ancient world. Their roles but also\nthe foundation stories in which they acted were always subject to\nsociopolitical change at the local level and to major ideological\nshifts inducing the redefinit ion of ethnic identity and alterity on a\nmuch broader scale. The ultimate aim of this workshop\, and of the\ninternational and interdisciplinary co llaboration that it forms part\nof\, is to help us better understand the i nclusive and exclusive\ndynamics of storytelling and identity construction in societies of the\npast and the world we live in.  \n\nFor the full pr ogram including paper abstracts\, see\nhttps://www.altaycoskun.com/female- roles-2025. Attendance is open to\neveryone and free\, but registration is required. Please\, contact ALTAY\nCOSKUN AT UWATERLOO DOT CA for registr ation. X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE DTSTAMP:20260411T184130Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69da95da0c53f DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221101T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221101T190000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/events/ lecture-dr-stylianos-katakis-university-athens SUMMARY:Lecture by Dr. Stylianos Katakis (University of Athens) CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies\, in association with\nthe Hellenic Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce a lecture b y\nDr. Stylianos Katakis (University of Athens) on Tuesday November 1\nfro m 7-8 pm at the Isabel Bader Theatre (University of Toronto).  The\ntitle of the lecture is\, \"The City and the Sanctuary of Asklepios at\nEpidaur os.  New Research on the beginning and the end of the Ancient\nCult\"  D oors open at 6:30 and there is a reception to follow.  All\nare welcome.    DTSTAMP:20260411T184130Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69da95da0cfed DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220916T090000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220917T173000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/events/ arts-allusion-greek-intertextuality-over-time-conference SUMMARY:Arts of Allusion: Greek Intertextuality Over Time (Conference) CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:\"Arts of Allusion: Greek Intertextuality over Time\"\, a confe rence\norganized by Regina Höschele\, Peter Bing\, and Andrew Faulkner\, will\ntake place on September 16-17\, 2022 in Room 220 of the Lillian Mass ey\nBuilding.  DTSTAMP:20260411T184130Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69da95da0d947 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191015T180000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191015T180000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/events/ hhf-wihs-hellenic-discoveries-lecture-series LOCATION:Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen’s Park Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre\, Level 1B\, Presidents Choice School Entrance Toronto ON M5S 2C6 Canada SUMMARY:HHF-WIHS Hellenic Discoveries Lecture Series CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join senior Greek scholar Professor Kostas Buraselis as he expl ores\nthe ancient and modern relevance of the Battle of Marathon. Through\ nnew analyses of archaeological and historical evidence\, Professor\nBuras elis will discuss the global importance of this moment in Greek\nhistory. DTSTAMP:20260411T184130Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69da95da126f8 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180928 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180930 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/events/ peripatetics-and-hellenistic-philosophy-2nd-century-bce SUMMARY:The Peripatetics and Hellenistic Philosophy in the 2nd century BCE: \nCritolaus et al CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Peripatetic Critolaus of Phaselis (c. 200-c. 118 BCE) trave lled\nfrom Athens to Rome in 155 BCE with the Academic Skeptic Carneades a nd\nthe Stoic Diogenes of Babylon. X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE DTSTAMP:20260411T184130Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69da95da1348d DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180928 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180930 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/events/ comparing-roman-hellenisms SUMMARY:Comparing Roman Hellenisms CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Hellenism\, defined as the \"adoption or limitation of (element s of) the\nancient Greek language\, culture\, philosophy\, etc.\" (OED) is central to\nRoman civilization throughout long periods of its history.  Yet the\nmatter of what scholars do when they compare different types of R oman\nHellenism\, and the practical and conceptual issues that such acts o f\ncomparison presuppose and raise\, have never received a focused study\n of their own.  These pertain to processes of acculturation at Rome\,\nhow the Romans' created meaning and identity\, the ways in which\nvarious art forms expressed cultural values\, an X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE DTSTAMP:20260411T184130Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69da95da141ab DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180426T090000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180426T090000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/events/ localism-hellenistic-world SUMMARY:Localism in the Hellenistic World CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies\n[https://uwater loo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/] and\nthe Parochial Pol is Research Network [http://www.hansbeck.org/local/]\nat McGill University will jointly host a conference on “Localism in\nthe Hellenistic World ” in April 2018. The Hellenistic period is\ngenerally seen as a time of expanded horizons and shifting frontiers\,\nwith a diffusion of Greek cult ure throughout the Mediterranean and the\nNear East unprecedented in any p revious era. DTSTAMP:20260411T184130Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69da95da14e68 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170206T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170206T160000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/events/ lecture-professor-phil-harland SUMMARY:Lecture by Professor Phil Harland CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Department of Classical Studies and the Waterloo Institute for\nHellenistic Studies present a lecture by Professor Phil Harland (Yor k\nUniveristy)\, \"Climbing the Ethnic Ladder: Ethnic Hierarches in Philo\ ,\nPaul and Josephus\" on Monday February 6th from 4-5:30 in HH 139. \nPl ease see poster\n[/waterloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/sites/ca.wat erloo-institute-for-hellenistic-studies/files/uploads/files/phil_harland_p oster.pdf]\nfor more information. DTSTAMP:20260411T184130Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR