Upcoming Events...
Dr. Lillian Doherty will be giving a lecture at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 10:00 AM. The location is 4321 Hartwick Rd, Suite 220, just off campus. The title is "The Comedy of the Generation Gap, or, What Do Menander and Mike Nichols Have in Common?" She will be making a comparison between Menander's Samia and The Graduate. The lecture will be in memory of Dora Kennedy, a devoted Latinist colleague who passed away in February.
If you can attend, please RSVP to Sharon Simson, ssimson@umd.edu or 301-314-2582.
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Recent Events...
In conjunction with National Employment Disabilities Awareness Month
The Department of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park,
invites you to attend:
The Personal and Professional Challenges of Illuminating
the Greek and Roman Past:
A Conversation with Anna Julia Cooper of the M Street School (1858-1964) and
Grace Harriet Macurdy of Vassar College (1866-1946)
Featuring Shelley Haley, Hamilton College (as Cooper) and Barbara McManus, College of New Rochelle (as Macurdy)
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on Monday, October 12, 2009
at 5 PM
0104 Skinner Hall
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Sponsored by
The Classical Association of the Atlantic States (as part of the Maryland Initiative for Classical Reception Studies
and in connection with the "Representing Our Ancestors" Project)
The Department of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park
The Department of American Studies, , University of Maryland, College Park
Welcome to the new Undergraduate and Graduate students and returning students.
On August 27th 9:00am - 5:00pm there is a Graduate Teaching Assistant Workshop Orientation.
Location:
2407A Marie Mount Hall. Refreshments will be provided.
Dr. Lee T. Pearcy to Be Visiting Scholar in May
Dr. Lee T. Pearcy, Vice-President for Education of the American Philological Association and an Instructor at the Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, will be scholar in residence in the Honors Apartment in early May. He is an expert on the classical tradition. His latest book is The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America, was recently published (2005) by the Baylor University Press. He is also co-author with Peter M. Smith of a commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (1981), and the author of The Mediated Muse: English Translations of Ovid, 1560-1700 (1984), a commentary on The Shorter Homeric Hymns (1989), and The Structure of Bacchylides’ Dithyrambs (1976). During his stay in College Park, he will be participating in both Honors and Classics courses and giving public lectures (see the Pedagogy Conference above). This is the second consecutive year that the Classics Department and Honors have sponsored a visiting scholar. In spring 2008, Professor Susan Ford Wiltshire of Vanderbilt University resided on campus for three weeks in February.
Conference on the Future of Latin and Classics Teaching:
Saturday, May 2, from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM in Marie Mount Hall.
The conference was dedicated to the memory of Dora Funari Kennedy (1921-2009), who championed the study of Latin and fostered the development of innumerable Latin teachers as foreign language coordinator in the Prince George's County Schools and the UMCP College of Education and of Christine Dunbar Sarbanes (1936-2009), classics teacher at Goucher College and the Gilman School".
The conference opened with reminiscences about Christine Sarbanes by her son, Michael Sarbanes, and Maryland State Senator James Rosapepe. Senator Rosapepe also shared his memories about Dora Kennedy, as did Professor James Greenberg of the College of Education at UMCP.
More than thirty participants attended the all-day conference. Featured presenters were Henry Bender, The Hill School/College of the Holy Cross; Sherwin Little, President of the American Classical League/Indian Hill High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Lee T. Pearcy, Vice-President for Education, American Philological Association/Episcopal Academy, who is a visiting scholar in the UMCP Honors Program this May.
For further information, please contact Judith P. Hallett jeph@umd.edu
and 301-229-2706.
Eta Sigma Phi Initiation and Lecture by Dr. Heather Vincent: Thursday March 5, 2009
Dr. Heather Vincent (MA 1996), Assistant Professor of Classical Humanities at Eckerd College in Florida, gave a lecture on "Laughing Matters: Reading Visual and Verbal Humor in Satiric Texts" at the March 5th initiation for new members of Eta Sigma Phi, the national Classics honor society. After receiving her MA in Classics at Maryland, she continued her graduate work at Brown University, where she received her PhD in 2004. She has also taught at Southern Illinois University. Also attending the lecture were alumni Johnny Valter, Gautam Prakash, and Alex Hacker.
APA Executive Director Adam Blistein Visits College Park
On February 5, 2009, Dr. Adam Blistein, Executive Director of our national professional organization, The American Philological Association, came down from APA headquarters in Philadelphia to spend the day with us. After a buffet luncheon in the seminar room, he spoke to us on the state of the profession, the role of the APA, and career possibilities for students. Attending were undergraduates, graduate students and faculty from Maryland as well as graduate students and faculty from the Classics Department of Catholic University.
Faculty and Students Attend APA-AIA Convention, January 8-11, 2009.
At the annual joint meetings of the American Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of America held in Philadelphia, two members of the Classics faculty presented papers. Professor Judith Hallett spoke on “Greek (and Roman Ways and Thoroughfares: the Routing of Edith Hamilton’s Classical Antiquity” and Gregory Staley’s paper was entitled “Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Ovid: Transformation as Americanization.” Alumnus Ari Bryen (BA 2001), now a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, presented a paper on “The Rhetoric of Rights in Roman Egypt.” Also attending the convention were department Chair Hugh Lee, Professor Lillian Doherty, Academic Program Specialist Patricia Rhodes-Kelly, graduate students Erika Carlson, Jocelyn Cooper, Heather Day, Jose Ortiz, and James Rodkey, and undergraduate majors Aaron Hershkowitz and Azeem Gopalani. The meetings were also a chance to catch up with Johanna Braff (MA 2008), now a graduate student at CUNY.
Graduate Studies Talk with
Dr. Steven Rutledge and Dr. Kenneth Tuite
Friday, February 13, 2009
3:30 - 5:00 pm
2407A Marie Mount Hall
Have you ever wanted to know what's after Classics?
Well now is the time to come out and have your question answered.
We hope to see you there.
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