SOME RECENT AND FORTHCOMING LECTURES AND PROGRAMS

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, Boston, Nov. 2008

Respondent, Panel on “Roman religion and early Christianity,”  International SBL meeting, Pontifical Univ. Rome, June 2009

Director, Plan II (UT Honors Program) study abroad program, summers 2008 and 2009

“Der römische Kaiserkult und das frühe Christentum,” plenary lecture, annual meeting of the German Rel. Studies Association, Bochum, September 2009

“In the Shadow (or not) of the Imperial Cult: A Cooperative Agenda",” annual SBL meeting, New Orleans, November 2009

Note: the SBL lectures were part of a 3-year program on the contextualization of early Christianity and the Roman empire; the papers are being prepared for publication.

At Explore UT {March 2009]: Program on Greece and Rome in film

"Are We Rome - Really?" Brown Symposium on "Imperium," Southwestern Univ., Feb. 2010

Organizer, conference on "Memoria Romana - Functions of Memory in Rome," April 2010 (UT Austin)

"The self-representation of the Roman emperor: pontifex, divus and civilis princeps," Keynote lecture, Intern. Conference on "Icon and Idol," Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, June 16, 2010

"Constructions of the imperial cult in current NT scholarship," Intern. Conference on "The Cult of the Roman Emperor," Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Sept. 23, 2010

Organizer, Intern. conference on "Memory and Roman Culture", Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Nov 12-14, 2010

Chair and respondent, panel on "Memory in Greco-Roman and Christian Religion," Annual SBL Meeting, Atlanta, Nov. 20-22, 2010

"Back to basics," Keynote at Conference on Vergilian criticism, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Nov. 26-27, 2010

"Memoria in Rome: realities and theory," Univ. of Athens, December 7, 2010

"Napoleon - ein zweiter Augustus?", Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, March 29, 2011, in connection with exhibition "Napoleon und Europa: Traum und Trauma."

"La costruzione del mito augusteo: a look at the construction site," Keynote at Conference on "La costruzione del mito augusteo", Univ. of Udine (Italy), June 9, 2011

Organizer, Intern. conference on "Memory in Rome and Rome in Memory," Amer. Academy in Rome, Oct. 14-16, 2011

Chair, panel on "Nero in Christian, Jewish, and Roman Memory," Annual SBL Meeting, San Francisco, Nov. 22, 2011

I am very honored by other invitations I have received (e.g.. Tel Aviv, Murcia, London), but had to turn down esp. in view of the various Memoria Romana
conferences I have been organizing.