The Gino and Adriana Zarbin Memorial Lecture Program
The Gino and Adriana Zarbin Memorial Lecture Program brings scholars to campus every fall to present on a topic of interest in the field of Classics. The program was established in July 2010 by Dr. Marco A. Zarbin '78 in memory of his father, Gino Franco Luigi Zarbin MD, and mother, Adriana Virginia Corasanti Zarbin.
Previous Gino and Adriana Zarbin Memorial Lectures
2025 -Tinted Antiquity, from Cornish to Constantinople, Ellen Perry, College of the Holy Cross
2024 -Race and Anti-Immigration Prejudice in Classical Athenian Law and Rhetoric, Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Denison University
2023 - Ovid's Undersea World, Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University
2022 - Black Classical Receptions and the Problem of Sigmund Freud's Oedipus - Patrice Rankine, University of Chicago
2021 - Living with the Dead: Urbanism in the Roman Suburb, Allison Emmerson, Tulane University
2020 - Diversitas: The Roman Roots of Racial Capitalism - Dr. Nandini B. Pandey, University of Wisconsin
2019 - Petsas House, Mycenae: pottery, production, and the palatial economy of the 14thc. BCE - Kim Shelton, University of California at Berkeley
2018 - How to Do the History of Nature - Brooke Holmes, Princeton University
2017 - Framing Victory: Salamis, the Athenian Acropolis, and the Agora - John Papadopolous, University of California, Los Angeles
2016 - A useable classical past? Novelty and tradition in Cicero, Vergil and Hannah Arendt - Joy Connolly, City University of New York
2015 - Excavating a Mycenaean Palace at Ayios Vasileios, Near Sparta - Adamantia Vasilogamvrou, University of Athens, Greece
2014 - How Greek is Greek Art? Originals, Mashups, and Identity in the Past - Carla Antonaccio, Duke University
2013 - The Cinematography of Vergil's Aeneid - Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University
2012 - Sacred Landscapes in Samnium: Rural Cult Places and State Formation in Republican Italy - Tesse Stek, Leiden University
2011 - Life and Death at a Port in Roman Greece: Recent Investigations at Kenchreai - Joseph Rife, Macalester College