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Homerathon

Homerathon poster
Don't miss ourannual Homerathon, a marathon reading of the Iliad organized by the Classics Club, Thursday, April 24th, from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM, in the 4th floor lobby of Blegen Library!
 
There will be pastries catered from Panera, as well as pizza from Domino's.
 
Poster: Jaelyn Robinson

Jan Driessen coming back to the Troubled Island

Trouble island poster

Our Rawson visinting scholar Jan Driessen gave a lecture titled “The Troubled Island 30 years later: The Bronze Age Santorini Eruption and its Consequences in the Aegean World in the Light of the Most Recent Research", with Dr Colin Macdonald (British School at Athens) at the Minoan Seminar/Cycladic Seminar in Athens.

 

Congratulations to Dr. Luiza Dos Santos Souza!

Luiza & committee
Many congratulations to Dr. Luiza Dos Santos Souza, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation "Feet, Chariots, and Ships: An Ovidian persona’s journey through literary space"!
 
Ph.D. Chair: Caitlin Hines
Ph.D. Committee: Daniel Markovich, Anna Conser
Ph.D. External Committee Member: Alison Keith, University of Toronto

Alison Keith on Sulpicia

poster keith lecture
Join us on Tuesday, April 22 at 5:30pm in Clifton Court Hall 1120 for a lecture by Professor Alison Keith, University of Toronto: "Sulpicia and Classical Female-authored Poetry"!

Luiza Dos Santos Souza receives award

Luiza's award
Many congratulations to Luiza dos Santos Souza, who has received the Graduate Student Government’s Outstanding International Graduate Student Award, a competitive university-wide award which is designed “to recognize and honor international graduate students who show promise of exceptional academic and leadership abilities.”
 
Dr. Frank Gerner, the GSG Faculty Advisor, and our own Alessandro Battaglia, the GSG VP, presented Luiza with the award.
 
Photo: Neelakshi Chatterjee, GSG President.