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.
Visit the Capitoline “Brutus” at the MFA
Don’t miss your chance to see one of the icons of Roman art on view in the MFA’s Roman Art Gallery only through May 1. The Capitoline “Brutus,” a world-famous bronze portrait of a Roman statesman is on loan from the Palazzo dei Conservatori/Capitoline Museum, Rome, for just a short time.
An Alumni Weekend to Remember
The special alumni reading of Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen was a great success. Thanks to all of the alumni who came to perform or enjoy the performance – it was wonderful to see you again!
James Uden Receives Peter Paul Professorship
Professor Uden is one of four recipients of the 2012 Peter Paul Professorship, an award established for the career development of new faculty. This award will further Professor Uden’s current project—a book about the Roman satirical poet Juvenal.
Classics Major a CAS Summer Research Scholar
Emily Mohr, an ancient Greek and Latin major, is a 2011 CAS Summer Research Scholar. Emily’s research is on Gender Distinction in the Religious Traditions of the Roman Empire and her mentor is Professor Varhelyi.