Over the weekend, a group of Classics Department grad students attended the NYC conference entitled, "Our Voices: A Conference for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy." This inaugural conference was meant to bring together Classical Studies educators who are interested in making the discipline "a more equitable and inclusive place."
The Department of Classics at Brown University shares the deep concern expressed by individuals relating to the climate around inclusivity in the Paideia Institute. Classics @ Brown is removing its support of the Paideia organization and will no longer use Department funds to support its students' participation in Paideia programs.
For the final project in Prof. Conant's Fall 2019 Course CLAS 1205: The Long Fall of the Roman Empire, student Maya Smith went above and beyond, recreating various elements of the Book of Kells using traditional methods of bookbinding.
A hand-bound book similar to the 9th century Book of Kells. A 3-D printed set of Diocletian coins. A documentary-style infomercial about how to rid demons from your life, 3rd-century style. In Professor Jonathan Conant's Fall 2019 Course CLAS 1205: The Long Fall of the Roman Empire, students were given a simple guideline for their final project or term paper: "you are limited only by your imagination and my permission".
Brown University made its presence known at this years SCS/AIA annual meeting! Each year, members of the Brown Classics Department and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World attend the annual meetings and participate in a number of activities.
Every winter, the Society for Classical Studies holds a joint meeting with the Archaeological Institute of America. Each year, members of the Brown Classics Department and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World attend the meetings and take part in the various activities. The next SCS/AIA meeting will be held January 2-5, 2020 in Washington, DC, where a number of Classics Department graduate students and faculty will be presenting at the meeting.
Congratulations to Christopher Jotischky-Hull (PhD, Classics) for winning the Modern Greek Studies Association 2019 Victor Papacosma Essay Prize for his essay entitled, The Crowning of the Lyre: Andréas Kálvos and the Appropriation of Pindaric Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Greek Diasporic Poetics!
Traveling to attend conferences and seminars is an important part of the graduate student experience at Brown. Being chosen to present at a conference can be an even more rewarding experience for their academic careers and growth as professionals. That’s why the department is pleased to help support our PhD students whenever they get the opportunity to present papers outside of Brown.
This Fall, Professor Candace Rice joins Brown University as Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Classics.
Born and raised in what Prof. Rice says, “might be best described as the middle of nowhere, Texas,” she first studied classical archaeology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was granted a BA in 2006. She then moved to the UK where she earned an M.Phil. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford in 2008, and a D.Phil. in Archaeology from Oxford in 2012 (with a thesis entitled, Port Economies and Maritime Trade in the Roman Mediterranean, 166 BC to AD 300).
Classics Department graduate student, Gaia Gianni (PhD, Classics) and undergraduate student Victoria Lansing (class of 2020), are in Rome teaching a Brown Pre-College program this summer.
