Speaking Engagements

Dr. Milena Anfosso

The Skill of Public Speaking

One of the most essential skills for any scholar is public speaking. Speaking face-to-face to a live audience at conferences plays a significant role in sharing discoveries with the world.

I have refined my skills in presenting ideas effectively to a large audience through years of practice at conferences, symposiums, and workshops. I was also fortunate to attend many of Catherine Para-Tribot’s seminars on public speaking at Sorbonne University and CELSA (Paris) in 2016.

To be honest, public speaking was very frustrating for me at first. I was shy and intimidated, which manifested through heart palpitations and sweating. Giving a speech with really sweaty armpits is disgusting! Thus, I went to all of Catherine’s classes, hell-bent on learning how to overcome my fears and become an engaging orator. It took a lot of practice, but it eventually worked.

Having moved past my sweaty armpit days, I have confidently given many talks on various research topics at conferences to enthusiastic audiences worldwide and in multiple languages.

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Speaking Engagements - Dr. Milena Anfosso

Speaking engagements

The Skill of Public Speaking

(Invited Speaker) “Dialogues and Poetry Readings with Authors Milena Anfosso, Brad Leithauser, and Laura Sicignano.” PAROLE SPALANCATE – 31st International Poetry Festival of Genoa. Bogliasco Foundation, Bogliasco, Italy, June 2025.

(Invited Talk) “Bilingualism in Antiquity, or How to Deal With Dead Informants,” UCLA Workshop “Rethinking Bilingualism: Applied Approaches,” University of California, Los Angeles, USA, May 2024.

(Invited Talk) “Esperienze di una linguista storica nelle Università d’Europa e Stati Uniti,” Orgoglio Astigiano – La Voce di Asti Conference, “Da Asti alla conquista del mondo. Storie di crescita e di successo,” Teatro Alfieri, Asti, Italy, November 2023.

“Euripides’ Phrygian Slave and Timotheus of Miletus’ Phrygian Soldier: Musical References and Relative Chronology,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, San Francisco, USA, January 2022.

“A New Semantic Interpretation of Timotheus of Miletus’ Persae, 147–8,” International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, June 2022.

“'Godlike Askanios, from Faraway Askania,' or the Anatolian Connection of an Eponymous Hero,” 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago, USA, January 2021.

(Invited Talk) – “Askanios de la lointaine Askania : l’origine anatolienne d’un héros éponyme,” Journée d’Études Jeunes Chercheurs Asie Mineure, Lyon, France, April 2021.

(Invited Talk) – “Valentina Visconti, Domina di Asti,” pre-recorded talk on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of Valentina Visconti’s birth, Asti, Italy, June 2021.

(Invited Talk) – “Remarks on Some Features of the Neo-Phrygian Funerary Curses,” First International Phrygian Workshop, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, September 2021.

(Invited Talk) – “Radici pre-greche dei miti greci,” Lecture Series “La Storia dietro alle storie – Le radici culturali del mito,” Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica – Delegazione di Roma, Rome, Italy, October 2021.

“Remarks on the Neo-Phrygian Funerary Curse Apodosis με δεως κε ζεμελως κε Τιη τιττετικμενος ειτου,” 32nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA, November 2021.

“Timotheus of Miletus’ Persae, 150–161: Entwining Greek with Asian Speech,” 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Washington, D.C., USA, January 2020.

“Entwining Greek with Asian Speech: Timotheus of Miletus’ Persians 140–61,” Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., USA, November 2020.

“Timotheus of Miletus’ Persae, 147-148: A New Possible Semantic Interpretation,” 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, San Diego, California, USA, January 2019.

“Ritual Speech in the Neo-Phrygian Funerary Curse Formulae,” International Conference: Indo-European Religion and Poetics – A Comparative Approach: Myth, Ritual and Language, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2019.

(Invited Talk) – “Les inscriptions néo-phrygiennes : une revendication identitaire,” International Conference: Constructions identitaires en Asie Mineure, Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, October 2019.

“The Phrygians from Βρίγες to Φρύγες: Herodotus 7.73, or the Linguistic Problems of a Migration,” 31st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA, November 2019.

“‘Entwining Greek with Asian Speech’: An Example of Secondary Foreigner Talk in Timotheus of Miletus’ Persae” International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, August 2018.

“Phrygians and Trojans in Greek Tragedy: Synonyms?” 98th Anniversary Meeting of CAMWS–Southern Session, Hawthorne Inn and Conference Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, October 2018.

“Greek and Phrygian Interactions in the Neo-Phrygian Inscriptions: a Sociolinguistic Analysis,” 30th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA, November 2018.

(Invited Talk) – “Greek and Phrygian Interactions in the Neo-Phrygian Inscriptions: a Pragmatic and Sociolinguistic Analysis,” University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2018.

“I Frigi nell’universo tragico greco: riflessioni su una tragedia perduta di Eschilo,” International Conference “I Convegno Internazionale sul Teatro Classico: il Teatro Dimenticato,” Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy, December 2017.

“Changements et mélanges de code dans les inscriptions néo-phrygiennes (Ier–IIIe siècles après J. C.),” International Conference: “Le changement : conceptions et représentations dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine,” Maison de la Recherche, Paris, France, October 2016.

“Le Phrygien : une langue balkanique perdue en Anatolie,” Journée d’Études “L’Anatolie : de l’époque archaïque à Byzance,” Maison de la Recherche, Paris, France, November 2014.

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