Last weekend, Emily Baragwanath had the honor of presenting at a conference titled “Creolizing the Greeks: Inventions, Resistances, and Transformations”. The conference was hosted by the Department of Philosophy at Penn State University and organized by Christopher Moore and Eduardo … Continued

Professor Tim Shea and Melanie Godsey will be presenting papers, “Deathscapes and lifescapes between the sea and the asty: the Phaleron cemetery” (J. Buikstra, E. Prevedorou, and T. Shea), and “The Early Iron Age and Archaic Period around Porto Rafti … Continued

Donald Haggis and colleagues present an overview of agropastoral production, mobilization, processing and consumption of food at Azoria, in eastern Crete, in the article “Commensal Politics and Identity Performance at Azoria an Archaic City on Crete,” a contribution to a … Continued

Conversations/Conversazioni The Language of Objects: Susan Sellers and Hérica Valladares Tuesday, November 8, 2022 – 6:00pm CET AAR Lecture Room Via Angelo Masina, 5 Rome, Italy Susan Sellers (2023 Resident) and Hérica Valladares (2009 Fellow, 2023 Resident) will explore hidden … Continued

Professor of Classics Sharon L. James has edited and published a volume of essays on the Roman elegiac poet Propertius.  Golden Cynthia: Essays on Propertius, from the University of Michigan Press, includes two substantial posthumous essays by the late Barbara … Continued

On Saturday, 6 November 2022, the Orange County Historical Museum is organizing a program on Preston H. Epps, the long-time Classics professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Featuring remarks from Preston Mitchell, Epps’ grandson and author of … Continued

Jen Gates-Foster’s fieldwork and public programming project at Old Fort is featured in an article in this month’s Carolina Arts and Sciences. The work is a component of the Catawba Vale Cooperative , a collaboration of the Department of Classics, … Continued

During the 2021-22 academic year, Cole Warlick, a PhD student in Classical Archaeology at UNC, was the Ackland Art Museum Digital Content Fellow. Cole’s fellowship was part of the university’s Humanities for the Public Good Program, which aimed to offer … Continued

Join Amanda C. Ball next Monday, 9/12, to learn about her recent work! Ball, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Classics, spent the summer surveying on the Greek island of Samothrace. She will be presenting a preliminary report of … Continued

Jim O’Hara, George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at UNC, has been named President-elect of the Vergilian Society, and will serve in that position for a year before taking over as President for 2017-2019. The Vergilian Society, founded in 1937 … Continued