Humanities on the Hill: Mary Beard & Chris Celenza

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Join Mary Beard, one of Britain's best-known classicists, in conversation with Chris Celenza, dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, as part of the Humanities on the Hill series.

Mary Beard, Cambridge professor emerita, has written numerous highly acclaimed books, including Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, and Women & Power: A Manifesto, and Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern. Beard's most recent book, Emperor of Rome, delves a little deeper into what it actually meant to be a Roman emperor, offering insights into the nature of the person and the role.

Beard is a regular broadcaster and media commentator and has written and presented television documentaries on history and culture as well as the highly acclaimed TV series Meet the Romans with Mary Beard and Rome: Empire without Limit. Beard is classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, contributes regularly to the The New York Review of Books, and writes an engaging blog, A Don's Life.

Beard's scholarship has been recognized on both sides of the Atlantic, including by the British Academy, the American Academy, and the American Philosophical Society. She was made a dame in 2018 for services to classical scholarship, is a trustee of the British Museum, and has also been awarded the prestigious Getty Medal. Beard is currently based in Washington at the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts for the 2024-2025 academic year as Kress-Beinecke professor.