SOME RECENT LECTURES AND PROGRAMS

Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, Academy of Distinguished Teachers Freshman Books program (August, 2006, 2007)

"Outreach through NEH seminars and institutes," presentation at panel on "40 years of NEH support for Classics," Annual meeting of the Amer. Philological Assoociation, Montreal, Jan. 7, 2006

"Vergil's uses of libertas: some contexts," Annual meeting of the Class. Assoc. of the Middle West and South, Gainesville, FL, April 6, 2006

Director, Vergilian Society study tour to Malta and Tunisia, June 27-July 12, 2006

"Pax Americana and Pax Romana": St. Stephen's School, Austin TX (Nov. 2006)

"Roman Emperors: Good and bad," Lake Travis H.S., Austin TX (March 2007)

"Rome as a religious capital," Houston Museum of Nat. Science (April 2007)

NEH Summer Seminar (my 11th such grant) on "Roman religion in its cultural context," Rome, June 11 - July 20, 2007. Administered by the American Academy in Rome. Total grant funds: $131,584.

“Aeneas at Cumae,” Memorial Lecture for A.G. McKay, Ontario (Canada) Class. Association, April 2008

“Elitism,” Phi Beta Kappa Commencement Address, Southwestern Univ., May 2008

Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope, Academy of Dist. Teachers Freshman Books program, August 2008

"The Cult of the Roman Emperor: Uniter or Divider," Annual meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, Nov. 2008.