Kelly McArdle has won the Society for Classical Studies Graduate Student Paper Award for her 2020 SCS paper, “Rethinking Julia Balbilla: Queer Poetics on the Memnon Colossus.” This award, presented by the Lambda Classical Caucus, acknowledges the best paper presented … Read more

Professor Patricia A. Rosenmeyer has received a Curriculum Development Award for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) through Connecting Carolina Classrooms with the World, with support from the Chancellor’s Global Education Fund. The award will support planning for COIL activity during … Read more

The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography  First Edition Edited by Frank Coulson and Robert Babcock Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of … Read more

Pots, Pepper Charcoal and Bread: The Material Economy of the Eastern Desert in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods The purpose of this workshop is to create an analytical framework for understanding the complex and interconnected economies of the Ptolemaic and … Read more

Professor Baragwanath’s editorial emphasizes the value of interdisciplinary training, rigorous analysis, and broad perspective on the complexities of human behavior in the study of Classics. Emily Baragwanath, “Defending Classics, for the sake of democracy,” The New Zealand Herald, Wednesday, December … Read more

Professor Hérica Valladares’ monograph, Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2021), connects the emergence of Latin love elegy and a new, tender style in Roman wall painting in the late first century B.C.E. Tenderness is … Read more

The Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study at University of London, has awarded Patricia Rosenmeyer the Dorothy Tarrant Fellowship for 2020-21. The Dorothy Tarrant Fellowship commemorates the contribution of a pioneering figure in UK classics. The Fellowship is … Read more

On October 29, 2020, UNC Classics hosted Prof. Patrice Rankine in a Zoom Q&A with graduate students and faculty during a class session of CLAS 720: “Methods, Resources and Perspectives”. Patrice Rankine is Professor of Classics and Dean of Arts … Read more

(Virtual) Lectures in Art History Timothy Shea, Duke University and UNC at Chapel Hill “Fictive Funerary Landscapes? Mourning Scenes on Athenian Funerary Vessels in Context” October 20, 2020, 6:30 PM Register to attend here Zoom link will be emailed to … Read more

Professor Jennifer Gates-Foster will be giving a virtual lecture October 11 at 2 PM with the North Carolina Museum of Art. Continue reading to find out more and remember to register here.