Classics Professor Sasha-Mae Eccleston will be giving a presentation for the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) as part of their "What I'm Thinking About Now" series. The series is an ongoing, informal workshop/seminar to which faculty and graduate students are invited to present and discuss recently published works and works in progress.
Classics graduate student, Erika Valdivieso, will be giving a presentation at the John Carter Brown Library entitled, “Guadalupe (MS. 1594, BNM): Text, Context, and the Virgilian Tradition.”
On Saturday, October 6, 2018, as part of the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Prof. Sasha-Mae Eccleston will be presiding over a workshop in her capacity as Co-President of Eos Africana, a scholarly society dedicated to Africana receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Classics faculty member, David Buchta, spent his summer involved in research and travel. In July, he traveled to Vancouver for the 17th tri-annual World Sanskrit Conference. August took David to Singapore, where he participated in a workshop on Indian Philosophy.
The Department of Classics at Brown University has been authorized to announce a search for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Roman History and Latin Prose, to begin July 1, 2019. The Department invites applications for this position.
The Classical Association of New England (CANE) and Brown's Department of Classics invite you to join us for the 2018 CANE Summer Institute! The CANE Summer Institute is a weeklong event that provide a unique and rich opportunity for teachers and students of the Classics -- as well as other disciplines -- from all levels.
The Department of Classics at Brown University has been authorized to announce a search for a one-year visiting appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July, 2018. This is a non-tenure-track position, and is renewable for one year only.
Congratulations to Classics graduate student, Erika Valdivieso, on winning the J.M. Stuart Fellowship Award from the John Carter Brown Library! According to the JCB website:...
Classics Professor Stratis Papaioannou has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim fellowship. According to the website of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Prof. project is "a narrative History of Byzantine Literature (330 CE-1453 CE)." Professor Papaiannou is an Associate Professor of Classics and is also the Director of Brown's Medieval Studies Program.
Classics Alumna Madeline Miller, '00, will be at the Brown Bookstore on Thursday, April 26th to present her new book, Circe. This is the highly anticipated follow-up to her New York Times bestseller The Song of Achilles. You can find more information about the event on Brown Bookstore's website and additional information about the book on the publisher's website.
