CSI 2025 Free Public Lectures

Join CANE Summer Institute next week for our free public lecture series! CSI is held at Stonehill College in Easton MA, located right off rt. 495. Questions? Contact CSI Director Mark Wright (summerinst@caneweb.org).

Monday, 7/7 at 4:30 PM

The Erinyes in Aeschylus–Recording Here

Craig Jendza, Denison University

Tuesday, 7/8 at 4:30 PM

The Politics of Martyrdom in Roman North Africa–Recording Here

James Patterson, Yale University

Wednesday, 7/9 at 4:30 PM

Psylloi in Pliny the Elder–Recording Here

Molly Jones Lewis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Thursday, 7/10 at 4:30 PM

The Mane Event: The Bearded Medusa in Some Premodern Images–Recording Here

Christopher Richards, Colby College

Friday, 7/11 at 4:30 PM

Flame of Vesta, Flame of Decadence: Early Christian Polemic and the Cult of the Vestals–Recording Here

Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University

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Three Weeks in Italy: A Report on the Renata Poggioli Award

There are gifts that bring a restitutive expansiveness to the life of the mind, and the Renata Poggioli Award is one of them. My grant proposal set out two intentions: to visit sites in Italy that had eluded previous itineraries, and to seek places that would nourish my doctoral work in Comparative Literature, where Ovid, Augustine, Dante, and Bonaventure are constant interlocutors.