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Grad Colloquium: Transgressive Language in the Ancient World

Feb. 3, 2017

Transgressive Language in the Ancient World Keynote Address by Dr. Amy Richlin, UCLA “The Rise of the Low: Classics and the Study of the Abject” February 3-4, 2017 The Ƶ Classics Graduate Colloquium seeks papers from current graduate students addressing how the taboo, censorship, profanity, obscenity, or...

Andy Cain wins College Scholar Award

Jan. 17, 2017

Andy Cain has won a College Scholar Award that will allow him to extend his autumn 2017 sabbatical through spring 2018, as he completes his current major research project, Jerome’s Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles: Their Sources, Methods, and Influence (to be submitted to Oxford University Press). Many congratulations to Andy!

Statement from the Classics Department

Dec. 21, 2016

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Winner of McClanahan Essay Prize - Elizabeth Deacon

Nov. 30, 2016

Congratulations to Elizabeth Deacon , winner of this year’s Mary E. V. McClanahan Graduate Essay Prize. Elizabeth is fourth-year PhD student working on Apuleius. She receives the $1500 prize for her essay “Diotima and Isis: The Platonic Model behind the Metamorphoses ’ Eleventh Book”. She will present her essay as...

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Eliminating Classics - An Open Letter to SUNY

Nov. 22, 2016

Gregory A. Petsko writes about why he, a scientist at another university, is alarmed by planned cuts in foreign language programs.

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McClanahan Lecture Series - NOV 16

Nov. 16, 2016

McClanahan Lecture Series Revisiting the Column of Trajan presented by Associate Professor Diane Conlin Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 7PM in HUMN 150

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Doctoral Consortium in Literatures and Cultures

Nov. 14, 2016

In an effort to recruit the most talented students, the Ƶ will fundamentally restructure the support for doctoral studies in its six literature PhD programs with the new Consortium of Doctoral Studies in Literatures and Cultures. Students accepted into the consortium programs will be guaranteed five years...

Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Nov. 7, 2016

CU Ƶ will be accepting applications for the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. http://www.colorado.edu/innovate/funding/chancellors-postdoctoral-fellowship-program If you are interested in applying for the Chancellor's Postdoctoral fellowship program, please contact Jackie.Elliott@colorado.edu .

Who's Buried in Philip's Tomb?

Who's Buried in Philip's Tomb?- October 20 at 5 PM

Oct. 20, 2016

Who's Buried in Philip's Tomb? Dr. Jeanne Reames, University of Nebraska-Omaha Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 5pm Eaton Humanitites 250 1610 Pleasant St Ƶ CO 80309 In northern Greece on the afternoon of November 8, 1977, Manolis Andronikos opened an unlooted tomb, revealing spectacular grave goods. Soon, he announced he’d...

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Guest Lectutre by Dr. Dieter T. Roth - OCT 13 3PM

Oct. 13, 2016

Join the Department of Religious Studies as the present : Evil in Marcion's Conception of the "Old Testament" God' A guest lecture by Dr. Dieter T. Roth Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany Thusday, October 13, 2016 in HUMN 350 at 3PM Marcion was one of the most significant "heretics" of the...

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