Lectures & Events
Lectures & Events
The following lectures and events have been scheduled so far for the 2018-2019 Academic Year.
Please check back to this page for updates as we schedule more events.
| Fall 2018 | ||
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| Friday, October 26 Claxton & Kirkland rooms Elliott University Center 9 a.m. coffee & pastries 10-4:15 presentations | Classical Studies Undergraduate Symposium Full Schedule | Keynote Address: "How the Sirens Lost their Wings: Teratology and the Transformation of Homer's Musical Monsters" by Dr. Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne High Point University |
| Thursday, November 8 118 School of Education Building 5:30 p.m.* *reception at 5 p.m. | Climate on a Human Scale: Exploring Seasonality in Late Bronze Age Crete co-sponsored by the Archaeology Program and others | Dr. Jennifer Alice Moody Research Fellow Department of Classics University of Texas, Austin Dr. Moody is a recipient of the 1989 MacArthur genius award for her interdisciplinary archaeological research of the development of the landscapes of Crete and other Aegean Islands, drawing from ecology, geography, and anthropology. |
| Saturday, November 10 9:30 a.m. | Fall Forum and Classics Day | NC Junior Classical League & UNCG Classical Society |
| Spring 2019 | ||
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| Wednesday, March 27 6 p.m. SOEB 118 * wine & cheese reception at 5:30 p.m. | The Archaeology of Monastic Cooking and Baking in Egypy Abstract co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America | Dr. Brooks Hedstrom Professor, Director of Archaeology, and Chair Department of History Wittenberg University |
| Tuesday, April 16 6 p.m. MHRA 1215 * wine & cheese reception at 5:30 p.m. | Going to the Games in Glorious Technicolour: circus mosaics and the realities of Roman chariot racing Oliver Lecture co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America | Dr. Hazel Dodge Louis Claude Purser Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology Department of Classics Trinity College Dublin |
