Graduate Students at CANE
Four of our graduate students will present papers at CANE (Classical Association of New England) Annual Meeting, St. Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire March 7-8, 2014 March 7 Paper Session II (10:10-11:25) Amanda Jarvis, “Visual Perception and the Graspable Image in Ovid” Karen Mower, “Circe’s Understanding of Rape Victims in Ovid” March 8 Paper Session […]
Workshop with Alice Oswald
The English poet Alice Oswald will conduct a workshop on her book-length poem, “Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad”, Thursday, Feb. 20 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Mugar Library 424 (771 Commonwealth Ave). All are most welcome.
Graduate Student Conference Announced
The sixth annual Graduate Student Conference of Classical Studies at Boston University is scheduled for Saturday, March 8, 2014 in the Colloquium Room (RM 906) of the Photonics Building. We are very excited to have Professor Maria Liston of the University of Waterloo deliver the keynote at the conference. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. For more information, […]
Workshop on New Sappho
Students and faculty gathered together for a two-hour workshop to discuss the recently discovered fragments by Sappho, with the focus on the better preserved “Brothers Poem” and its interpretation, constitution of the text, and reception. For more information about the findings, please click here.
The 2014 Boston Area Roman Studies Conference Announced
The 2014 Conference will be held on Friday, April 25, 2014, with registration opening at 3:30 p.m. and the program starting at 4:15 p.m. in Barristers Hall of the School of Law (765 Commonwealth Avenue, 1st Floor). For more information, please click here.
Professor Nikolaev tells “The Story of Writing”
For those of you who missed Prof. Nikolaev’s exciting lecture on “The Story of Writing: the Origins and Development of Writing Systems,” here is a recording and some pictures of it (BU login and Kerberos password required for access). Also check out the BU Quad coverage of the lecture.
Classics Major Places Second at UROP Symposium
Sydney Shea (CAS’14, Ancient Greek and Latin) won 2nd place poster in the Sixteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium last week for outstanding presentation of her research, Alexandria’s Influence: the Culture of Editing Homeric Manuscripts. For more about undergraduate research in the Classical Studies Department, visit our webpage.
BU Classics Major leads Massachusetts Junior Classical League to Victory
Classical Studies’ own Michael Howard (CAS ’14) was a co-coach of the Massachusetts Junior Classical League’s victorious 2013 Certamen team. At this year’s national competition, the team won the Advanced Certamen competition for the first time ever and won the Intermediate Certamen competition for the second year in a row. Congratulations everyone!
Alexander Nikolaev joins the Department
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Alexander Nikolaev will join the department as Assistant Professor of Classical Studies as of July 2013. He completed his dissertation, “Historical Poetics and Language History: Studies in Archaic Greek Poetry,” at Harvard University in 2012. Professor Nikolaev is both a classicist and a linguist, and he is most […]
Professor Esposito “talks-back” about “The Penelopiad”
On Sunday, February 24, Professor Esposito served as a panelist in a “talk-back” after a BU CFA School of Theater production of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, a feminist rewrite of Homer’s Odyssey. The performance (minus Professor Esposito) continues through March 2 at the Boston Center for the Arts.