Roger Macfarlane

Roger Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Comparative Arts & Letters


Herculaneum Papyri and Using Space-Age Imaging Technology to Recover Lost Texts from Antiquity
The Leonardo Lecture Series for Pompeii: the Exhibition, The Leonardo, April 24, 2020

Last Days of Pompeii: Reception, History, and Overview
The Leonardo Lecture Series for Pompeii: the Exhibition, The Leonardo,  April 17, 2020

The Dark Side of Vesuvius: An Archaeological Excavation on Vesuvius’ North Slope
The Leonardo Lecture Series for Pompeii: the Exhibition, The Leonardo, April 3, 2020

πολλοῖσιν γὰρ ἐγώ γε ὀδυσσάμενος τόδ᾿ ἱκανώ from the Coens to Homer: Mythological Adaptation in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Lecture, International Cinema, March 11, 2020

From the Ashes: New Discoveries from Herculaneum and the Bay of Naples
Lecture, The Getty Villa, October 21, 2019

Hercules Might NOT Be the Last Place You’d Look for a Christlike Exemplar…
Finding Christ in the Humanities, BYU Education Week, August 2019

Strauss’ Elektracution: the sound of matricide
Lecture, International Cinema, March 28, 2019

Roman Elements Among the Herculaneum Papyri: Discoveries and Losses
Herbert W. Benario Lecture in Roman Studies, October 19, 2017

Out of the Ashes: Recovering Ancient Texts with Space-Age Technology
Lecture, Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacionale, February 15, 2017

Pompeii, the Eruption of Vesuvius and 2000 year old Manuscripts
Lecture, Honolulu Museum of Art/Honolulu Chapter of American Institute of Archaeology, January 26, 2017