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The first lecture will be on March 30, 2023 @ 4:30pm
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BLUEGRASS CLASSICS LECTURES Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:30 pm ET Via Zoom to Register: https://rb.gy/w17q24 Or scan the QR code

Elementary Latin at UKY this fall! Contact us for placement if you took some Latin in high school. https://mcl.as.uky.edu/classics Open seats in these sections: 9 am, 2 pm and Tues and Thur 6-7:40 pm.

Featured Course for summer 2022
A historical introduction to the development of the Christian religion from a social and cultural perspective, from its origins in the 1st century CE to its divisions in the sixteenth century. The course examines the formation of Christian thought, polity, and religious practice and its changes as Christianity moved through different social contexts and cultural epochs up to the dawn of the modern era.
https://mcl.as.uky.edu/classics
No prerequisites. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities

The Uprooting Medea Tour is coming to UK! On April 18, 2022 at 5:30 pm in the James F. Hardymon Theater, Khameleon will discuss their new film, directed by Riffy Ahmed, which reimagines the Greek Tragedy Medea. Their adaptation will feature an all-global cast and crew, original compositions, movement, and spoken word commissioned by the company. Shivaike Shah has been teaching classes, presenting drama workshops, and leading roundtable conversations with students and staff across the country at several universities. It will be an honor and a pleasure to have them visit Lexington Come and interrogate the history and legacy of Classics with Khameleon’s Medea tour!
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Dr. Murray (me) gave a lecture for the Manchester University Classical Association.

Racing Greek Epic: Ancient and Modern Racecrafts in Contra-Tension Professor Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky) speaks to:the Manchester Classical Association: https://www.manchesterca.org.uk/ &Manchester Centre for Publ...

Join us if you can!

Classics and the Far Right: (mis)appropriation of classical antiquity and the future of the discipline | Massey College On March 30 from 4:00-5:00pm, join an expert panel discussing how is the far right (mis)appropriating classical antiquity to push their political and ideological agenda? How should the field of Classics react to this phenomenon? This dialogue between Professor Jackie Murray and Professor Katherine B...

Also coming up next week in the Bluegrass Classics Lecture Series, Prof. Denise McCoskey with present her recent work on Race and Classical reception: "Race-Mixing" and the fall of Rome: The Role of Eugenics in Early 20th Century Classical Scholarship". Prof. McCoskey's lecture is sponsored by Transylvania University's Classics Department. Here's the registration link: https://transy.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkcOuspj4jGNSfL-XMDtNDc8P6x66iMcSW
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Next up: the Bluegrass Lecture Series presents Sam Cooper of Cairo University will discuss Black Pather and Classical Reception. His lecture is sponsored by Transylvania University's Classics Department. Thursday, March 24 at 4:30 PM ET.
to join the talk: https://transy.zoom.us/j/83241362526?pwd=dnRBT0tadVBlWGxzT1RVekRub0pEUT09

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Reminder to join us this today at 6:30 PM ET via zoom for our second lecture in the Bluegrass Classics Lecture Series, Drusilla Dunjee Houston: Matriarch of the West. Dr. Peggy Brooks Bertram shares with us her experiences learning and writing about this almost forgotten figure of African American History. The author of "The Wonderful Ethiopians of the Cush*te Empire" (1924). This lecture has been generously sponsored by the Gaines Humanities Center and is part of the 2022 Mini Grant Series. For more Bluegrass Classics Lectures: https://bluegrassclassicslectures.weebly.com
To register: https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdeytrjksGdx_1jxT7sFP6cuHWma_XGFj

Join us this Thursday, February 17 at 6:30 PM ET via zoom for our second lecture in the Bluegrass Classics Lecture Series, Drusilla Dunjee Houston: Matriarch of the West. Dr. Peggy Brooks Bertram shares with us her experiences learning and writing about this almost forgotten figure of African American History. The author of "The Wonderful Ethiopians of the Cush*te Empire" (1924). This lecture has been generously sponsored by the Gaines Humanities Center and is part of the 2022 Mini Grant Series. For more Bluegrass Classics Lectures: https://bluegrassclassicslectures.weebly.com
To register: https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdeytrjksGdx_1jxT7sFP6cuHWma_XGFj

For those of you who may have missed Emma Vanderpool's wonderful presentation, the recording is now available at
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BLUEGRASS CLASSICS LECTURES Thursday, February 10th 6:30 pm ET Via Zoom

Bluegrass Classics Lecture - Passport to the World: Year of Equity - Ancient Greek & Latin, Global Languages

Please join us on Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 6 pm ET (via zoom) for our inaugural 2022 Bluegrass Classics Lecture by
Emma Vanderpool who will share her adventures writing Latin Novellas and how they have enhanced your teaching and appreciation for Latin. To register: https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrdO-qrTIoH909EikE784yL0GhfYaP2NNo

Undergraduate classes for Spring 2022. Check out the flyer!

Caroling at UK!

Ancient Stories in Modern Films. Come join the conversation.

The Latest Center for Hellenic Studies Live Stream: with a A live reading and discussion of monologues from Greek tragedy and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with guest speakers Suzanne Lye (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky).

Selected source texts for this episode include Agamemnon (Seneca), Agamemnon (Aeschylus), Ajax (Sophocles), Hecuba (Euripides), Iphigenie (Jean Racine), Lysistrata (Aristophanes), and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.

Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies (https://chs.harvard.edu/), the Kosmos Society (https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/), and Out of Chaos Theatre (https://www.out-of-chaos.co.uk/). For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact [email protected]. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6A.... Learn more about the upcoming Playing Dionysos competition at https://www.out-of-chaos.co.uk/playin....

Credits in order of appearance:
Clytemnestra (Agamemnon) - Colleen Longshaw
Cassandra - Ayanda Nhlangothi KaNokwe
Hecuba - Tamieka Chavis
Clytemnestra (Iphigenia) - Kim James Bey
Homeric Hymn to Demeter - Rad Pereira
Nurse (Hippolytus) - Evelyn Miller
Tecmessa - Noree Victoria
Lysistrata - Nikaury Rodriguez

Director - LeeAnet Noble

More information about the cast and featured speakers can be found at
https://chs.harvard.edu/programs/read...

https://youtu.be/o3U-DNiy_9M

Goddess and the Women of Gods - Reading Greek Tragedy Online A live reading and discussion of monologues from Greek tragedy and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with guest s...

In case you are interested in archeology!

Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Exploration and Roman Villa Excavation Field School (Transylvania 2022)

Our 2022 integrated Geophysics (GPR) Exploration and Roman Villa Excavation is up and running. After a successful 2021 campaign, we are ready to tackle the 2022 field season, fully versed in both Covid-19 prophylactic measures and field realities to keep our participants, staff and hosts safe, while engaging in another amazing exploration season.

The program combines an intensive 5-day training program in GPR survey, data acquisition and analysis, with 3 weeks of excavation of a Roman Villa and Settlement in Transylvania (Roman Dacia). The GPR module is designed to offer our participants a very practical, useful and concrete set of professional and research skills that would provide an edge in today’s field/urban survey and exploration job market, together with field archaeology excavation training. Our participants will acquire in a very short time not only the necessary practical and analytical skills to conduct independent GPR field research, but also valuable experience in exploration and excavation theory and practice as pertaining to an archaeological dig.

One of the unique aspects of the program is its comparative approach, as our participants will learn to operated two different GPR systems, equipped with different transducers, respectively at 500MHz and 250MHz peak frequency, in two field configurations, cart and rough terrain. The two GPR antennas and configurations we deploy during this module are the systems of choice in archaeology, forensics and shallow subsurface urban mapping (SUM), for locating buried structures, graves, utilities, root systems, etc., as well as identifying variations in pedology and geology down to about 4-6m (or 13-19ft) depth. The acquired skill set is thus applicable (and transferable) to field research not only in forensics, anthropology, archaeology, cultural resource management (CRM), Classics, and/or history, but also in earth sciences, geology, geography, urban planning, architecture, surveying, civil engineering, environmental engineering, environmental studies, and/or landscaping.

Each GPR field team consists in 3 participants on each system, conducting at least 2 full days of data collecting. Each group will be trained in setting up their own survey grids to optimize data collection and integration, assembling each field system, and collecting the same grid data with each of our two GPRs. Also, our participants will be trained in using SenSoft’s EKKO Software Suite to become proficient in analyzing GPR data, maximizing the results. All the data collected will be analyzed by each GPR crew, comparing, integrating and extrapolating the data/results obtained from both 500MHz and 250MHz antennas.

Concurrently, the Roman Villa and Settlement Excavation offers a very extensive approach to the anthropology and archaeology of the Roman frontier environments, respectively the northern Dacian Provinces (i.e. modern historical Transylvania, Romania), through field work, laboratory analysis and lectures. The integrated outcomes of our various approaches have already yielded extraordinary results: a palatial size villa with a rural built space of ca. one hectare, surrounded by massive fortification walls decorated with exterior and interior frescoes, richly built two-story buildings containing exceptional artifacts (well preserved bronze statues, jewelry, mint condition coins, writing implements, etc.). Our 2022 target excavation, the “central building” of the villa, has already presented us with a very complex and surprising occupation sequence and living practices. Local Roman Provincial realities, born out of economic, cultural, social and political creolization, constant and dynamic negotiation of power, and shifting populations, have outlived the ideological centers that have claimed historical ownership of these regions.

Program details:

Geophysics (GPR) Exploration and Roman Excavation (4 weeks, integrated GPR and excavation project) - Dates: June 12-July 9, 2022 (session 1); July 10-August 6, 2022 (session 2).

GPR Field Applications Workshop (5-day, GPR-only project) – Individual Session Dates: June 12-18, 2022; June 19-25, 2022; June 26-July 2, 2022; July 3-9, 2022; July 10-16, 2022); July 17-23, 2022; July 24-30, 2022; July 31-August 6, 2022.

Location (Excavation): Rapoltu Mare, Transylvania, Romania

GPR Research Target Sites: medieval Uroi Castle, medieval Sanpaul Castle, medieval fortified church of Meresti (Transylvania, Romania)

Website: https://www.archaeotek-archaeology.org/applied-field-geophysics-gpr

Application Form: https://www.archaeotek-archaeology.org/application-excavation-and-gpr

Contact: Dr. Andre Gonciar at [email protected]

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Have you seen this CAMWS award? Apply now! https://camws.org/fauciaward

The Executive Committee approves the Anthony Fauci Award in STEM and Classics The Classical Association of the Middle West and South announces the Anthony Fauci Award in STEM and Classics. This $500 annual award recognizes an undergraduate student who demonstrates outstanding work in both Classics and a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).

University of Kentucky Latin & Ancient Greek updated their business hours.

We're gearing up for the Conventiculum! Conventiculum.com for more information

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Next Tuesday June 22 I will be part of Kathrine Harloe's BBC show "Detoxifying Classics" on the BBC Radio 4. It's at 11am London time, which is too early/late for me. But if you are awake, have a listen and let me know what you think.

BBC Radio 4 - Detoxifying the Classics Katherine Harloe explores the appropriation of ancient Greece and Rome by hate groups.

Dr. Jackie Murray and Dr. Rebecca Futo Kennedy defend Classics and argue that Howard show go back to its roots instead of cutting it’s Classics program.

https://theundefeated.com/features/classics-is-a-part-of-black-intellectual-history-howard-needs-to-keep-it/

Classics is a part of Black intellectual history – Howard needs to keep it Howard University’s decision to close its small classics department may seem like an unusual piece of education news to attract widespread media attention, espe…

It is with great pleasure that I announce our first recipient of the University of Kentucky's McClellan Scholarship for underrepresented students in Classics. Karrington Howard is an undergraduate student majoring in Classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures. In the Fall, Karrington will be joining the University Scholars program and will graduate in 2023 with her BA and MA in Classics from our program. Before she came to UK she was the co-founder of the National Latin Honors Society chapter at Tates Creek High school in Lexington, Kentucky, where she also participated in the International Baccalaureate program. Karrington is currently an officer of the UK Classics Club and she aims to pursue a career in education. Her goal is to become a high school Latin teacher. Kudos Karrington!!

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