The Department of Classics at Brown University

The Department of Classics is looking to hire an Undergraduate Student Teaching Assistant to work with Professor Eccleston.
To apply please see the job posting REQ 192604 in Workday.

Once again, Congratulations to all of our incredible 2024 graduates!

Congratulations to the Department of Classics Class of 2024!

To learn more about our amazing graduates, please visit our website: https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/

Congratulations to our Senior Honors Thesis presenters:
Viraj Kathuria, Kristen Quesada, Alexander Mayo, John Michaud, Grace Posorske and Aparajitha Anantharaman who did an excellent job sharing their work with us last week!

Join us today for the 2024 Classics Department Senior Honors Thesis Presentations. For more information or to join via Zoom:
https://events.brown.edu/event/285204-classics-department-senior-honors-thesis-presentation

We had two fabulous receptions last week! Thanks to everyone who helped celebrate this year’s new Classics concentrators, and congratulations to the Brown Classical Journal for finalizing their 36th volume.

Congratulations to the winner of our 6th Annual Button Badge contest, Ella Hochstadt!

This is what Ella said about her design: “This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Classics Department’s first Button Badge Contest in 2019, so I wanted to design a button badge that would pay homage to the previous five winning designs. And what better model to display the designs than a Classical bust with “Brown Classics” and “2024” as the inscription on its base? I selected a light pink background because it nicely complements the color schemes of the other button badges. Although my primary aim for the design was to celebrate the work of the previous Button Badge Winners, I wanted my design to also allude to the self-referential nature of Classical literature — especially as captured in Greco-Roman poetry and plays. If Classical poets and playwrights were accustomed to reflect upon the fundamental nature of their art form, why shouldn’t this button badge comment upon its nature as a button badge by containing smaller button badges on its surface.”

Thanks again to Christos Chomenidis, Translator Patricia Felisa Barbeito, and Professor Elsa Amanatidou for the fascinating discussion last Friday!

Conversations about Greece and beyond • TODAY

This event is free and open to the public, reception to follow.

For more information please follow:
https://events.brown.edu/classics/event/284273-conversations-about-greece-and-beyond

Happening today!

The Department of Classics and the Modern Greek Studies Program are happy to announce "Conversations about Greece and beyond".
For more information, please visit: https://events.brown.edu/classics/event/284273-conversations-about-greece-and-beyond

Many thanks to the great artist, singer, songwriter and music educator Alkinoos Ioannidis for his wonderful talk "The Word and the Note" - an event hosted by the Department of Classics, the Modern Greek Studies Program and RISD.
Thank you again to Professor Edith Hall, Durham University, who joined us for our Annual C.A. Robinson, Jr. Memorial Lecture. Professor Hall's fascinating talk, entitled "Achilles in Green: The Iliad, the Environment, and the Anthropocene" interpreted Homer's war epic from an ecologically sensitive perspective, and addressed our own battle for our planet's survival.

JOIN US this Wednesday for the “Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi Lecture Demonstration on the Lalgudi Bani.”

Achilles in Green: The Iliad, the Environment, and the Anthropocene • TODAY

The Brown Department of Classics cordially invites you to join us for the Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. Memorial Lecture presented by Professor Edith Hall, University of Durham.

This talk interprets Homer’s great war epic from an ecologically sensitive perspective, in order to instrumentalise it in our own battle for our planet’s survival. It analyses the poem’s celebration of excessive consumption of timber, especially in warfare and metallurgy, its evocation of gargantuan scale, and its dark portrayal of elemental and meteorological chaos and catastrophe.

The Maddock Alumni Center • 3:30 pm

This lecture is free and open to the public, reception to follow. We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information, please follow: https://events.brown.edu/classics/event/283536-achilles-in-green-the-iliad-the-environment-and

The Word and The Note: Alkinoos Ioannidis • TODAY
The Modern Greek Studies Program and the Department of Classics cordially invite you to attend a lecture by a renowned Greek-Cypriot singer/songwriter and music educator Alkinoos Ioannidis. Alkinoos Ioannidis has already left an indelible mark on the cultural production and collective memory of Greek-speaking communities around the world through a body of work that spans three decades and multiple genres. In his lecture, Alkinoos will explore questions of tradition, innovation, and authenticity while unpacking the core components of song and songwriting.
This event is free and open to the public. With the support of the C.V. Starr Lectureship Fund. For more information, please visit:https://events.brown.edu/classics/event/283286-the-word-and-the-note-a-lecture-by-greek-cypriot

"Achilles in Green: The Iliad, the Environment, and the Anthropocene"

This talk interprets Homer's great war epic from an ecologically sensitive perspective, in order to instrumentalise it in own our battle for our planet's survival. It analyses the poem's celebration of excessive consumption of timber, especially in warfare and metallurgy, its evocation of gargantuan scale, and its dark portrayal of elemental and meteorological chaos and catastrophe.

CLASSICS EVENT NOTICE:
In this lecture, Alkinoos Ioannidis will explore questions of tradition, innovation, and authenticity while unpacking the core components of song and songwriting. This is part of a two-day event, "The Word and the Note," which is sponsored by The Teaching and Learning Lab and the Dean of Faculty Office at RISD and the Modern Greek Studies Program at Brown University, in partnership with PVD World Music Festival, RISD Fleet Library, and RISD Studio for Research in Sound and Technology.
This lecture is brought to you with the support of the C.V. Starr Lectureship Fund.
For more information, please visit: https://events.brown.edu/classics/event/283286-the-word-and-the-note-a-lecture-by-greek-cypriot

JOIN US for AntiquiTEA this Friday 3/15 at 3:00 PM in Macfarlane! Start off your weekend with pastries, tea & classical conversations.

Thank you to Professor Nikolas Kakkoufa and Professor Vassiliki Panoussi for their fascinating lectures. Professor Kakkoufa delivered his lecture, “Can the Q***r Mediterranean Speak Back? Reclaiming Tenderness in the Archives of Memory in Cyprus” on February 28. Professor Panoussi, Chair of Classical Studies at the College of William and Mary, joined us for the Annual Micheal C.J. Putnam Lecture, “Searching for the Goddess with Countless Names: Isis, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Vergil and Ovid” on February 29.

Thank you to Professor Nikolas Kakkoufa and Professor Vassiliki Panoussi for their fascinating lectures. Professor Kakkoufa delivered his lecture, "Can the Q***r Mediterranean Speak Back? Reclaiming Tenderness in the Archives of Memory in Cyprus" on February 28. Professor Panoussi, Chair of Classical Studies at the College of William and Mary, joined us for the Annual Micheal C.J. Putnam Lecture, "Searching for the Goddess with Countless Names: Isis, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Vergil and Ovid" on February 29.

JOIN US TODAY 3/6/24! The Department of Classics cordially invites you for an evening of conversation on Hedva’s 2023 novel Your Love is Not Good.

Join Johanna Hedva (appearing via Zoom) and Professor Hannah Silverblank (Comp. Lit & Classics) for a reading and discussion of Hedva’s work and its invocations of tragedy, catharsis, doom, fate, time, disability, myth and astrology. All are welcome, reception to follow!

5:30 PM Stephen Robert Hall, 280 Brook Street

To view the livestream and to learn more follow this link:
https://events.brown.edu/event/281356-johanna-hedva-in-conversation-with-hannah

JOIN US TODAY for the Annual Michael C. J. Putnam Lecture, entitled "Searching for the Goddess with Countless Names: Isis, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Vergil and Ovid." The lecture is presented by Vassiliki Panoussi, Chancellor Professor and Chair, Department of Classical Studies, College of William and Mary. There will be a reception to follow, hope to see you there!

The Department of Classics cordially invites you for an evening of conversation on Hedva’s 2023 novel Your Love is Not Good! Join Johanna Hedva and Professor Hannah Silverblank for a reading and discussion of Hedva’s work and its invocations of tragedy, catharsis, doom, fate, time, disability, myth and astrology. Reception to follow.

JOIN US TODAY for a lecture by Professor Nikolas Kakkoufa, Columbia University, entitled "Can the Q***r Mediterranean Speak Back? Reclaiming Tenderness in the Archives of Memory in Cyprus".

Whose lives are worth photographing? Which bodies are worth keeping in a frame and on display and which hidden in the drawer? Effectively, which are the stories worth telling? What would their role be in our official histories? This talk takes Antonis Georgiou’s Ένα αλπούμ ιστορίες (Ροδακιό 2014) [An album of stories], among others, as a starting point to examine these questions as they pertain to the island’s official histories and multiple diasporas within and beyond the country’s main narrative of war traumas. In doing so, it also explores the essential question of whether it is useful or even possible to read Q***r Cypriot writing only in western terms and articulates an alternative paradigm for reading the q***r Mediterranean more broadly. Can the Q***r Mediterranean speak back with the tenderness of its own voice?

Reception to follow, all are welcome!

For more information, please visit: https://events.brown.edu/classics/event/281093-professor-nikolas-p-kakkoufa-can-the-q***r-mediterran

JOIN US TOMORROW for “‘The Witty Philosopher’: Lucian and the Serocomic” by Professor Keith Sidwell!

Please join us for the Annual Michael C. J. Putnam Lecture on Thursday, February 29, at 3:30 PM. The lecture this year, presented by Vassiliki Panoussi, is entitled, "Searching for the Goddess with Countless Names: Isis, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Vergil and Ovid." There will be a reception to follow, hope to see you there!

Happening Today!

Whose lives are worth photographing? Which bodies are worth keeping in a frame and on display and which hidden in the drawer? Effectively, which are the stories worth telling? What would their role be in our official histories? This talk takes Antonis Georgiou’s Ένα αλπούμ ιστορίες (Ροδακιό 2014) [An album of stories], among others, as a starting point to examine these questions as they pertain to the island’s official histories and multiple diasporas within and beyond the country’s main narrative of war traumas. In doing so, it also explores the essential question of whether it is useful or even possible to read Q***r Cypriot writing only in western terms and articulates an alternative paradigm for reading the q***r Mediterranean more broadly. Can the Q***r Mediterranean speak back with the tenderness of its own voice?

JOIN US next Wednesday, February 28, at 5 PM in Rhode Island Hall for a lecture with Professor Kakkoufa! We hope to see you there!

Stop by Macfarlane today from 3-4:30 today for AntiquiTEA! Feel free to study and/or enjoy some tea, snacks & good company.

Thank you again to Professor Richard Hunter and Professor Silvia Orlandi for their fascinating lectures. The Classics Department celebrated the beginning of the semester with Professor Hunter’s “Reading Euripides in Antiquity” on February 1st and Professor Orlandi’s “Writing Big: The Monumental Inscriptions Inside the Colosseum” on February 6th.