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Summer 2012 Course Descriptions

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Departmental Tea: 1:45 p.m. Wednesday in the Common Room

Events

NEH Summer Institute, "Roman Comedy in Performance."

Outstanding Undergraduates

Murphey Hall continues to be home for high-achieving undergraduates!
The Classical Association of the Middle West and South has honored Caitlin Hines with a Manson A. Stewart Scholarship. One of six undergraduates recognized for being "outstanding young Classicists," Caitlin will use the $1,000 award to further her Classical studies here.
Also, Caitlin, Rachel Mazzara, and Henry Ross were inducted into the University's Phi Beta Kappa chapter for their exceptional academics.
We congratulate these promising juniors for their great accomplishments!

AIA's Best Site

The department is excited to share that Prof. Donald Haggis has garnered the Archaeological Institute of America's Best Practices in Site Preservation Award for the Azoria Project in Crete, Greece. Co-director Margaret Mook and Prof. Haggis work with local specialists to preserve the site as they excavate, creating a sustainable eco-archaeological tourist site. We applaud their innovative work, and invite you to learn more about and to support the Azoria Project.

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    Classics hosts NEH Summer Institute in 2012

    "Roman Comedy in Performance" theme planned for June 24-July 20 event

    This summer Murphey Hall will ring with Latin meter, clever slaves, braggart soldiers and cooks, enticing courtesans, and shouting fathers: a group of 25 participants -- 22 professors and three graduate students -- will study and experiment with aspects of performance of Roman Comedy during the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. From June 24 to July 20, participants will create multiple performance versions of scenes from Plautus and Terence, experimenting with the effect of different choices of staging, actors, translation, choreography, and more. Visiting faculty will provide particular expertise for the event.

    UNC Classics Prof. Sharon L. James explained, "Our overarching questions are: how can a genre that is so incredibly fun also sometimes be so troubling? Would Romans respond the same way we do to scenes we find funny or disturbing? What do these ancient plays have to say to our own society?"

    Co-directors are Prof. James and Prof. Timothy J. Moore, a  graduate of the department's Ph.D. program who currently teaches at University of Texas at Austin and, as of July 1, will be a John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Ted Gellar-Goad, an UNC Classics graduate student (Ph.D. 2012, expected) and an expert in Roman Comedy and an accomplished composer, will create original music for the performances.

    Videotaped performances will be available on the web and by DVD by mid-August 2012.

    Visit the NEH Institute website to learn more about this event.

    For further information, e-mail either Sharon James or Timothy Moore (timmoore@mail.utexas.edu)

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