Margaret Malamud
Monday, October 22, 2020 Margaret Malamud a Professor of Ancient History and Islamic Studies at New Mexico State University gave a lecture titled “‘Her brown hands bore me alabaster Smooth’: Sculpting Cleopatra in Stone and Word. Malamud is the author of the book African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition, and Activism. This lecture was the […]
Incubating the Mirror
Friday, November 22, 2019 College of Fine Arts, Boston University Our program in Modern Greek Studies hosted a performance featuring mezzosoprano Lea Luka Sikau, guitarist Jérôme Mouffe, and current Modern Greek students, entitled “Incubating the Mirror.” Sikau and Mouffe performed music and our students read self- written poetry around the theme of “Mirrors at the […]
Martha Graham Dance Company
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 Boston University Dance Theater The Martha Graham Dance Company (MGDC) gave a stunning lecture- demonstration to over 200 audience members on Tuesday, October 22, 2019. The lecture included archival footage of the Company’s repertoire and a discussion led by Janet Eilber, the Artistic Director of the MGDC. Two of the Company’s […]
2020/2021 Eleni Gatzoyiannis Scholarship Application Open
Application Deadline: May 1, 2020 Eleni Gatzoyiannis Scholarship Application 2020/2021 Boston University is currently accepting applications for the 2020-2021 Eleni Gatzoyiannis Scholarship through May 1, 2020. The scholarship is available to fulltime undergraduate and graduate students of Greek birth or ancestry who have completed at least one semester at Boston University, are in good academic […]
Professor Samons Gives Lecture at the US Naval Academy
Professor Loren J. Samons II delivered the 40th annual George Bancroft Memorial lecture at the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland, on January 13, 2020. The Bancroft lecture honors American historian George Bancroft (1800-1891), who founded the U.S. Naval Academy in 1845. Previous scholars who have delivered the Bancroft lecture include Gordon Wood, Eugene […]
Prof. Uden wins New Directions Fellowship from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Congratulations to Associate Professor James Uden, who has won a New Directions Fellowship from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowship, which is awarded to 12-15 recipients nationally each year, gives mid-career scholars in the humanities the time and resources to develop skills in a new field of research. Professor Uden is the second faculty […]
Classics students present at UROP Symposium Fall ’18
Last Friday three Classics undergrads, Hailey Hart-Thompson ’21, Elizabeth Kotsalidis ’20, and Chance Pompay ’19, presented at the Fall 2018 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, or UROP, symposium. UROP facilitates undergraduate participation in faculty-mentored research projects, and these three students join a long line of Classics UROP scholars. A warm congratulations to the three on their […]
Professor Curtis Runnels awarded the AIA Gold Medal Award!
Professor Curtis Runnels has been awarded the prestigious Gold Medal from the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), and there will be a session honoring his legacy to archaeology on Jan 4, 2019 at the annual meeting. The Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement is awarded by the Archaeological Institute of America in “recognition of […]
Prof. Zsuzsanna Varhelyi wins the 2018 Frank and Lynn Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching!
What a treat to share this good news! Professor Zsuzsanna Varhelyi has received the 2018 Frank and Lynn Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Varhelyi’s outstanding teaching includes the creation of CL121: The Good Life. CL121 undertakes a close examination of literary and philosophical texts from the ancient world and modern psychology that address […]
Senior Evan Armacost Wins BU Alumni Award for Writing Excellence
Congratulations to senior Evan Armacost, who has won the prestigious BU Alumni Award for Writing Excellence. Only two such awards are made each year to students in CAS, and they recognize the very best research writing at Boston University. Evan’s paper, ‘Food and Fictionalization in Juvenal’s Eleventh Satire’, explores a relatively little-explored poem by the […]