Prof. Emily Baragwanath is co-organizer together with Luca Grillo (University of Notre Dame), Andrew Feldherr (Princeton University), and Christopher Krebs (Stanford University) of the upcoming international conference on ‘Rhetoric & Historiography: New Perspectives’, May 19-20, University of Notre Dame, Rome … Continued
The Department of Classics is proud to announce Katie Tardio’s recent publication in the Carolina Graduate School Magazine. Please consider supporting the article, titled Ancient food economies and centuries-old connections, by reading it on the Carolina Graduate School Magazine’s website. … Continued
On Tuesday, 7 March 2023, beginning at 5:00 PM in Murphey Hall 104, Professor Jennifer Gates-Foster (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) will present a lecture entitled, “Life at Berkou: A Newly-Discovered Roman Praesidium in Egypt.” A description follows: In … Continued
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