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Jeremy Hartnett to Give Stahl Lecture November 4
Story posted November 01, 2004
Jeremy Hartnett, assistant professor of classics at Wabash College in Indiana, will deliver the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lecture in the Humanities at 4:45 p.m., Thursday, November 4, in the Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. (Note new time.)
Hartnett's talk, titled "Chaos and Control on the Streets of Pompeii," introduces a new theory of public space in the ancient Roman world, based on his recent award-winning dissertation and field research. Hartnett's work examines interactions from ancient street performance and graffiti to conflict and violence in the streets.
Jeremy Hartnett earned his A.B. in classics at Wabash College, and went on to earn his M.A. in Latin and in classical art and archaeology at the University of Michigan. He earned his Ph.D. in classical art and archaeology at Michigan, where he wrote the dissertation "Streets, Street Architecture, and Social Presentation in Roman Italy." In 1998 and 2003 he was the trench supervisor for the Bowdoin College/University of Michigan excavations in Paestum, Italy.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information call 725-3782.
The Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship in the Humanities was established in 1970 by the bequest of Jasper Jacob Stahl '09, Litt.D. '60. The fund is used "to support a series of lectures to be delivered annually at the College by some distinguished scholarly and gifted interpreter of the Art, Life, Letters, Philosophy, or Culture, in the broadest sense, of the Ancient Hebraic World, or of the Ancient Greek World or of the Roman World, or of the Renaissance in Italy and Europe, or of the Age of Elizabeth I of England, or that of Louis XIV and the Enlightenment in France, or of the era of Goethe in Germany."