Welcome!

The Department of Classics invites students to share in the study of the language, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and the civilizations they helped to shape. We offer an undergraduate major and minor, including honors option, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Because we are a small and collegial department, students have the opportunity to work closely with distinguished faculty and to develop individualized or collaborative research programs.

• Congratulations to Danny Richter on being elected a Fellow to the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., and to Kevin van Bladel, who has received a Graves Award in the Humanities for his research on the Arabic Hermetica.

• Congratulations to our recent Ph.D.'s students Sarah Blake and Chiara Sulprizio, who will be joining the faculty at York University and Hamilton College, respectively. Sarah has been teaching at Wellesley College as a Visiting Instructor while the Department has had the pleasure of having Chiara as a Lecturer this past year.

• Welcome to James Collins, who will be joining the Department as Assistant Professors. James recently graduated from Stanford, where he studied Greek philosophy and literature. For the past year, he has been a full-time Lecturer in Classics.
• Congratulations to Jason Harris, who has been named the Philip Lockhart Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for 2008-2009.
• Congratulations to Bryan Burns, who has received a grant from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory to begin an archaeological survey in Boeotia. He will be joined by Devon Harlow and Jody Valentine this summer for this project.

• Congratulations to the fifteen following graduating seniors on earning their B.A. in Classics, making this one of the biggest graduating years in the Department history: Jessica Baldwin, Sridhar Chadalavada, Niideka Chiaghana, Sarah Dubina, Whitney Fountas, Paige Harrington, Kevin Hiler, Andrew Hogan, April Hosford, Amy Hutchinson, Mik Larsen, Chris Pappavaselio, Marta Podlesnik, Monique Ramirez, and Alissa Rutledge. Good luck to all of you on your future endeavors!

• Congratulations and thank you to Bryan Burns for leading our graduate students on an amazing two-week study course in Greece. For more information, click
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Upcoming Events

	Weekly: Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 09/03/2008 - 11/08/2008; 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence
	Monday 09/08/2008: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM The Future of Publishing in the Digital Age: Two Views
	Tuesday 09/09/2008: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM How the New Global Media Is Reshaping World Politics
	Tuesday 09/09/2008: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Aesthetics and the Brain
	Wednesday 09/10/2008: 7:00 PM In the Name of God: Terror, Torture and Television
	Thursday 09/11/2008: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Author Discussion: Alan Weisman
	Monday 09/22/2008: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Reading (Post)Racism in Obama Internet Imagery
	Tuesday 09/30/2008: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM India, Emerging World Power
	Thursday 10/02/2008 - Thursday 10/30/2008; All day Vote Film 2008
	Thursday 10/02/2008: All day Eye for Eye
	10/02/2008, 10/03/2008, 10/04/2008: All day Imagining America Conference
	Friday 10/10/2008: 7:00 PM Roberta Flack in Concert
	Friday 10/10/2008: 7:00 PM Scoring the Past: Exploring the Origins of Musical Imagery
	Saturday 10/11/2008: 1:45 PM - 6:00 PM The Sound and the Fury: April Seventh, 1928
	10/14/2008, 10/15/2008: 7:00 PM Debate: Oil
	Tuesday 10/14/2008: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Comedy and Politics
	Wednesday 10/22/2008: 5:00 PM Forgive Us Our Sins: Institutional Evil and Personal Responsibility
	Friday 10/24/2008: 7:00 PM Queer Cabaret: Phranc and My Barbarian
	10/28/2008, 10/29/2008: 7:00 PM Water
	Wednesday 10/29/2008: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Generation Next Votes: Does Faith Matter?
	Monday 11/03/2008 - Thursday 11/06/2008; All day The Tokyo Quartet: A Residency
	Wednesday 11/05/2008: 7:30 AM Apollo [Part 3]: Liberation (A Work in Progress)
	Thursday 11/06/2008: 8:00 PM The Tokyo Quartet: Finale Performance
	Wednesday 11/12/2008: 7:00 PM Safari of the Soul: The Quest for Water in Africa
	Monday 01/12/2009: 12:00 PM The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
	Wednesday 01/28/2009: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM America's Most Wanted Inner Demon A Performance by Guillermo G�mez-Pe�a
	Tuesday 02/03/2009: 7:00 PM The Best Courtroom Drama Ever Filmed: Dean Howard Gillman Presents Anatomy of a Murder
	Wednesday 02/18/2009: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Who Voted and Does It Matter? A New Agenda in Washington
	Sunday 02/22/2009: 4:30 PM Captured on Film: Cultural Stereotypes and Public Memory
	Tuesday 02/24/2009: 7:30 PM Blacks and Latinos in Conflict and Cooperation: Writing Race in L.A.
	Friday 03/06/2009: 3:00 PM Of Mind, Medicine and Music
	Thursday 03/12/2009: 12:30 PM Political Repression, Forced Disappearances and the Struggle for Human Rights and Freedom in Contemporary Mexico: A Lecture by Senator Rosario Ibarra
	Thursday 03/26/2009: 5:00 PM Mystery Loves Company: An Evening with the Crime-Writing Kellermans
	Monday 03/30/2009: 4:00 PM Seeing Los Angeles: Exploring the InVisible City
	Friday 04/03/2009: 8:00 PM La Angry Xicana?! A Performance by Adelina Anthony
	Friday 04/17/2009: 7:00 PM Paved Paradise: John Kelly as Joni Mitchell
	Friday 04/24/2009: 7:00 PM Cinematic Cervantes: Adapting Don Quixote to the Screen