Jason Pedicone from The Paideia Institute
5:00 PM in HUMN 1B80

Image from Society for Classical Studies May, 2017 Newsletter

This talk tells the story of the founding and growth of the Paideia Institute, and provides some lessons and advice Jason Pedicone has gleaned from the experience, which are designed to inform and inspire people graduating with a humanities degree to succeed in or beyond the academy. It also explores the data gathered as part of Legion Project and what we can learn from classicists who are finding success beyond academia.

Event sponsored by the Center for Western Civilization, Thought, & Policy, the Center for Humanities and the Arts, and the CU Â鶹ӰԺ Department of Classics.

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Elegizing the Roman Theater:
Ars Amatoria 1.89-134

Winner of the 2017 Mary E.V McClanahan Essay Graduate Prize, Samuel L. Kindick, will present his paper, "Elegizing the Roman Theater: Ars Amatoria 1.89-134", on Monday, December 4 at 5:00 PM in HUMN 250.

Although Ovid’s Ars Armatoria (2 BCE) has often been viewed as a mere handbook, it revolutionized the form and content of Roman elegiac poetry.  This paper explores how Ovid uses the Roman theater to bring epic and historiographic content into the world of elegy.

Samuel L. Kindick is a PhD candidate in the department of Classics at the Â鶹ӰԺ.

This event is sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan and the CU Classics Department.  The event is free and open to the public.

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Wednesday, November 29
7:00 PM in HUMN 150
presented by Tyler Lansford

Classical Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Among Shakespeare’s ‘Roman’ plays, Julius Caesar is arguably the most Roman in both substance and form: not only is the title character Rome’s premier imperialist – the very language breathes a uniquely authentic Roman atmosphere. A characteristic aspect of this Romanitas or ‘Roman-ness’ is the central importance of public eloquence: in true Roman fashion, it is persuasive speech that carries the day (‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!’). This talk explores the manner in which the ars rhetorica of Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian pervades and animates Shakespeare’s searching meditation on the justice of tyrannicide.

Tyler Lansford (Ph.D., University of Washington) is an instructor in the Department of Classics. Rhetorical demonstrations will be provided by Andy Walker, who played Decius Brutus/Pindarus in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s 2017 production of Julius Caesar.

Sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan and the Department of Classics. Parking available just north of the Eaton Humanities at 1610 Pleasant St.

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Talk by Professor Deborah Kamen, University of Washington
on Monday, October 23 at 5:00 PM in Humanities 250

Banter at festivals, biting satire on the comic stage, invective in the courtroom, forbidden slanderous speech, and violent acts of hubris: Athenian insults and abuse ranged from benign to deeply offensive. In this talk, I investigate the social and cultural role of insults in Athenian life, and explore the ways in which insults informed, and were in turn informed by, Athenian civic norms, prejudices, and practices.

This event is sponsored by the Graduate Committee on the Arts & Humanities, the Center for Western Civilization, Thought, & Policy, and the CU Â鶹ӰԺ Department of Classics.

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Travelers and Immigrants in Greek Mythology
presented by Professor Lauri Reitzammer

Wednesday, October 11th
7:00 PM in HUMN 250

Greek Mythology is filled with travelers, wanderers, immigrants, exiles, and refugees. This lecture discusses some famous travelers and immigrants from Greek mythology with an emphasis on the representation of foreigners and outsiders in classical Athenian tragedy and comedy. Although classical Athenian drama includes xenophobic depictions of “barbarians,� nevertheless, in tragedy and comedy, outsiders could also be portrayed as offering potential benefits to the Athenian polis.

Sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan and the Department of Classics.

Parking available just north of the Eaton Humanities building.

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Charles Partridge Adams, American (1858 – 1942), Sunrise on the Mountains at the Head of Moraine Park, Near Estes Park, Colorado, c. 1920, oil paint on canvas, 48 x 68 ¼ x 3 inches framed. Gift of Philip, Albert, and Charles P. Adams Jr., sons of the late Charles Partridge Adams, CU Art Museum, Â鶹ӰԺ, 86.1825. Photo: Jeff Wells, © CU Art Museum, Â鶹ӰԺ.

PhD Consortium - Classics

The Consortium of PhD Programs in the Literatures and Cultures is an innovative effort to maximize the benefits of intellectual and administrative collaboration while granting participating students autonomy in their pursuit of excellence within their chosen disciplines. We can offer graduate students funding and mentoring that allows them to complete their degree in five years without sacrificing intellectual depth and methodological diversity. Though students follow the curriculum of their home departments, they have full access to faculty in other departments, and will participate in joint workshops, speaker events, and digital humanities training. Summer stipends and internships will ensure that students’ focus remains on their research projects
and on their development as future teachers. As the Consortium grows, we envisage further collaborations, including joint placement guidance, language training, seminars, and the development of extra-academic job prospects. CU Â鶹ӰԺ’s stunning campus will provide the fitting background for this intellectual journey.

Highlights:
• 5 years of guaranteed support
• 1st and 5th year free of teaching
• Summer financial support
• Digital humanities training
• Cross-departmental mentoring
• Speaker events, workshops, seminars
• Professionalization guidance

Participating departments:
Asian Languages and Civilizations, Classics, English, French and Italian, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spanish and Portuguese

For more information, please contact:
Lauri Reitzammer (Classics), Associate Chair of Graduate Studies (reitzammer@colorado.edu) Núria Silleras-Fernández (Spanish and Portugese), Director of the PhD Consortium (silleras@colorado.edu)

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The University of Colorado Department of Classics and the
CU-Â鶹ӰԺ Outreach Committee with the
Colorado Classics Association and the Colorado Junior Classical League present:

Colorado Classics Day on Saturday, 30th September, 2017

See the full Colorado Classics Day 2017 Schedule!

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Talk by Greta Hawes
Tracking Heracles through Pausanias:
local myth and panhellenic knowledge

Monday, September 25
5:00 PM HUMN 250

Heracles is everywhere in Pausanias’ Description of Greece. He was the ‘panhellenic hero par excellence’, and innumerable local communities connected landmarks in their territories to his mythic adventures. Precisely because of his premier cultural status, Pausanias seldom recounts the best-known of his myths but assumes his readers already knows them. This situation offers a prime opportunity to think about what kind of mythic knowledge an educated Greek of the Imperial period was simply expected to know. In this paper, I develop three lines of enquiry, beginning with the basic knowledge of Heracles’ mythic data, taking in general ‘habits’ associated with him, and then ending with the narrative instincts which colour how he appears in Pausanias’ text, and how he impacted the physical landscape of Greece. I show that ‘mythic knowledge’ is in fact a more multifaceted concept than we might at first assume.

Greta Hawes is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the Australian National University, where she currently holds an Australian Research Council DECRA research fellowship. She is author of Rationalizing myth in antiquity (OUP, 2014), editor of Myths on the map: the storied landscapes of ancient Greece (OUP, 2017), and currently hard at work on a new book about Pausanias, landscape, and storytelling.

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On September 21 at 3:30pm in Old Main Chapel, professors of Art and Art History, Classics, Geography and Linguistics will give public lectures on their areas of expertise.

Three members of the Â鶹ӰԺ faculty have been named 2017 Professors of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their exceptional service, teaching and research. The new professors of distinction are of art and art history, of linguistics and of geography. This revered title is reserved for scholars and artists of national and international acclaim whose college peers also recognize as exceptionally talented teachers and colleagues. Honorees of this award hold this title for the remainder of their careers in the College of Arts and Sciences at CU Â鶹ӰԺ. The trio will be honored on Thursday, Sept. 21, at 3:30 p.m., in the  on campus. At the free and public event, each will give a 20-minute public presentation based on his or her research or scholarly work. Additionally, of classics, who was named professor of distinction in 2015 but was unable to deliver her lecture that year, will give join the 2017 honorees and deliver her lecture on Sept. 21.

A reception in the CU Heritage Center Museum on the third floor of Old Main will follow the presentations. Amerika’s artwork has exhibited internationally at venues such as the Whitney Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and the Walker Art Center. He will speak on “The Artist as Fictional Persona.â€� Palmer is a professor of linguistics and the Helen & Hubert Croft Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department. She is also an Institute of Cognitive Science faculty fellow, a co-director of CLEAR and an Association of Computational Linguistics fellow. Her lecture is titled “Capturing Meaning.â€� Serreze is a professor of geography, a fellow of the CU Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and director of the CIRES National Snow and Ice Data Center. He specializes in Arctic climate research, including atmosphere-sea ice interactions, synoptic climatology, boundary layer problems, numerical weather prediction and climate change. He will speak about “Shifting Priorities: A Personal Journey.â€� Newlands has been a professor of classics at CU Â鶹ӰԺ since 2009. Prior to that, she was an assistant professor at Cornell University, an associate professor at UCLA and a full professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, serving four years as the department chair. Her lecture is titled “Confronting the Classics: Ovid in the Caribbean.â€�

For a full listing of previously named professors of distinction, click . 

Carole Newlands - Classics

Carole Newlands has been a professor of classics at CU Â鶹ӰԺ since 2009. Prior to that, she was an assistant professor at Cornell University, an associate professor at UCLA and a full professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, serving four years as the department chair. She has held research fellowships at Clare Hall Cambridge and at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, as well as fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. She also served on the editorial board of the journals Viator, Classical Antiquity and American Journal of Philology and was a director of the Classics Association of America. In spring 2010, she was visiting NEH professor at the University of Richmond. In the summer of 2010, she held the position of William Evans Fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand. In 2016, she will be a research fellow at the Center for Humanities at the National University of Australia, Canberra. In addition, she is the author of more than 40 articles on classical and medieval topics, and she has published several books, including Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti (Cornell University Press 1995); Statius Siluae and the Poetics of Empire (Cambridge 2002); Siluae Book 2 (Cambridge Greek and Latin series 2011); Statius: a Poet between Rome and Naples (London 2012); Ovid: an introduction (London 2015). She is also co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Ovid (Oxford 2014); The Brill Companion to Statius (Leiden 2015); and Ancient Campania (Illinois 2015). Her new work involves travel in the imperial Roman world and the role that the classics played in Scottish culture.

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