Calendar

Jun
2
Tue
2020 Capstone Colloquium @ Zoom
Jun 2 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Sep
24
Thu
Zoom webinar with Profs Morales and Morstein-Marx: How to apply to PhD programs in Classics
Sep 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Professors Helen Morales (recent Chair and Graduate Advisor at UCSB) and Robert Morstein-Marx (current Graduate Advisor at UCSB) will go over some important “do’s and don’ts” regardless of where you are considering applying and answer your questions about an often bewildering process.

Please register here.

Oct
23
Fri
Maria Leventi, “Backstories and vision in Ovid’s “Pyramus and Thisbe” (Met. 4.55-166)” (Significant Paper presentation)
Oct 23 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Zoom invitations will be issued in the week before the talk.

Oct
27
Tue
Humanities Decanted: “Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths”
Oct 27 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Join us online for a dialogue between Helen Morales (Classics) and Vilna Bashi-Treitler (Black Studies) about Morales’ new book, Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths.

Free to attend. Registration is required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link. To register, please click here.

 

Nov
20
Fri
Chris Erdman: “How to beat a veto: political theater and popular pressure in late-Republican assemblies”
Nov 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Significant paper presentation.

The high podium of the Temple of Castor in the Forum, site of the events under discussion.
Rose Hayden-Smyth, “That’s the Tweet: The Use of Social Media for Academic Practice” @ Zoom meeting
Nov 20 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

In order to attend this workshop on the ways academics can use social media platforms to engage with broader communities, please register here.

Dec
10
Thu
AIA/SCS Dry Runs @ Zoom
Dec 10 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Olga Faccani: “The use of storytelling in Euripides’ Heracles
Adam Parison: “Carrying More Than Water: Hadra Hydriae, Crete, and the Hellenistic Mediterranean
Dec
11
Fri
Carlos Noreña (UC Berkeley): “Republicanism and Imperialism in Ancient Rome” @ Zoom meeting
Dec 11 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

To register for this event, please click here.

Jan
8
Fri
Stephen Trzaskoma (University of New Hampshire): “Christian Moral Panic and the Greek Novel: The Test Case of Heliodorus” @ Zoom
Jan 8 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Jan
29
Fri
Dorota Dutsch: “Pythagorean Women Philosophers”
Jan 29 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm