Conference in honor of Prof. Judith Hallett's retirement
June 26, 2018
In honor of Professor Judith Hallett's retirement after 35 years of devoted service to the Department, a conference was held on April 27, 2018, co-hosted by Classics and History. See the program below and the attached Ovationes composed by four...
In honor of Professor Judith Hallett's retirement after 35 years of devoted service to the Department, a conference was held on April 27, 2018, co-hosted by Classics and History. See the program below and the attached Ovationes composed by four of her students. For a video of their performance, go to
Conference on Women and Classical Scholarship, celebrating the retirement of Judith P. Hallett, Professor of Classics and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, April 27, 2018
Tawes Hall 2115, University of Maryland, College Park
9-9:15 AM Welcome by Lillian Doherty (Classics), Philip Soergel (History)
9:15-10 AM Keynote address by Amy Richlin (University of California at Los Angeles): “Nice Jewish Girls.”
Victoria Pedrick (Georgetown University), presiding
10 AM-Noon Diana Robin (University of New Mexico and Newberry Library): “Three 15th Century Feminists: Their Latin Oratory”
Sandra Cypess and Eyda Merediz (Spanish and Portuguese): “Classical Subversions in Baroque Mexico from (Proto) Feminist Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz”
Jane Donawerth (English): “ ‘Who so various as Cicero?’: Hallie Quinn Brown, Elocution, and Classical Oratory”
Francisco Barrenechea (Classics), presiding
Noon-1 PM Buffet lunch
1-2:30 PM Henriette Harich Schwarzbauer (University of Basel): “Jewish Sappho: the ‘ends’ of the academic career of Gertrud Herzog-Hauser (1894-1953)”
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (University of Lille): “Nicole Loraux (1943-2003), Florence Dupont (1943-): two ways of challenging the Classical Tradition”
Arthur Eckstein (History): “Mentoring and Scholarship as Life-Changing Experiences: Evelyn Venable Mohr, Mortimer Chambers, Judith Ginsburg, Erich Gruen”
Rose-Marie Oster (Germanic Studies), presiding
2:45-4:15 PM Corey Brennan (Rutgers): “Lily Ross Taylor and Mussolini’s Italy”
John Weisweiler (History): “Sabine MacCormack (1941-2012): Female Scholars and the History of Late Antiquity”
Eric Adler (Classics): “Women Classical Scholars in the Era of the Culture Wars: Some Reflections”
Jorge Bravo (Classics), presiding
4:30-6:00 PM Stephen Rojcewicz (Comparative Literature): “Judith P. Hallett and her Students”
Keynote address by Donald Lateiner (Ohio Wesleyan University): “Judith Peller Hallett Detective: Tracking Early American Female Classicists, not least Edith Hamilton”
Response by Judith P. Hallett
Gregory Bucher (Classics) and Christina Clark (Marymount University), presiding.
6:00-7 PM Reception
Supported by the Departments of Classics and History, and the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park and EuGeStA (European Gender Studies in Antiquity)