This talk will outline the contents of a newly drafted book manuscript that queries the relationship(s) between classicism, understood as a system of aesthetic determination and calibration that is not…
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Maria Wyke | “Feminizing Ancient Rome: Women at the Cinema from the 1900s to the 1920s”
Published: October 2, 2022Audio / Visual Romans I Thursday April 20th 2023 Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor Maria Wyke, University College London “Feminizing Ancient Rome: Women at the Cinema from the 1900s…
Read MoreJohanna Hanink | Bones, stones, trees and roots: On the enduring urgency of Karkavitsas’ Archaeologist (1904)
Published: September 9, 2022This is a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture event co-sponsored by the Department of Classics. It will take place on Zoom. Please see attached flyer…
Read MoreKaren ní Mheallaigh | The Thulean zone: ancient science, fiction and the Arctic imaginaire
Published: August 15, 2022Professor Karen Ní Mheallaigh, Johns Hopkins University. Graduate Student Elected Speaker 22-23. All welcome. **Please note time change: this lecture now begins at 4pm. Image: Sandra Meech, Arctic Expressions sandrameech.com
Read MoreLaura Viidebaum | Who is an idiôtês in ancient literary criticism?
Published: August 2, 2022Brownbag Talk: Julio Vega-Payne, “Earth, water, and the uncertain (human) future in the Iliad”
Published: August 2, 2022Dodd 248, 12-1. All welcome!
Read MoreLydia Spielberg | Speeches, Dicta, and Livy’s Scipio Problem
Published: August 2, 2022Brownbag lunchtime workshop. Dodd 248, 12-1. All welcome!
Read MoreClassics & PIES Fall Reception
Published: August 2, 2022Please join us for our beginning of year reception and for the awarding of the Helen Caldwell Prizes in Beginning Greek and Latin.
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Published: June 23, 2022Warm congratulations to Nicholas Guymon, Cindy Liu, and Dido Wang, all winners of the 2022 Helen Caldwell Award for Outstanding Major. This is the highest honor the Department of Classics…
Read MoreCongratulations, Class of 2022!
Published: June 23, 2022Congratulations to the Class of 2022 on behalf of the Classics Department! You did it! On behalf of the entire Department of Classics, we want to congratulate you on all…
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