On Friday, March 9, 2018, Jeri DeBrohun, Chair of the Department of Classics, was honored at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of New England (CANE) by being awarded the Barlow-Beach Award, CANE’s highest honor bestowed on a member of the association.

The Department of Classics will offer four Language Prize Exams in the month of April. Several financial prizes will be awarded for each exam. Eligibility to sit for each exam varies, so please read the details carefully.

The Department of Classics is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the 2018 David Pingree Prize in Ancient Science and Intellectual History. Submissions must be substantial papers examining the rigorous intellectual traditions of the ancient and medieval worlds and their textual sources. Open to all Brown undergraduates.

The Society for Classical Studies held their 2018 Annual Meeting in Boston, January 4-7.  Classics Professor, Johanna Hanink, delievered a paper at the conference as part of the SCS series, "Rhetoric: Then and Now." Professor Hanink spoke on "'truthiness,' both in the current presidential administration as well as in the Ancient Greek tradition."

You can see the video of the full presentation below and on the SCS YouTube Channel. 

Lauren Donovan Ginsberg (Brown Classics PhD, 2011), has received one of the 2018 Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) First Book Awards! CAMWS is an organization for educators, students, and lovers of classical antiquity, promoting appreciation of the classics through its members’ teaching, research, and public outreach.  The First Book Award is awarded to select CAMWS members for exceptional and thought-provoking first scholarly publications. 

Classics Professor Sasha-Mae Eccleston is currently organizing a conference to take place at Princeton University in March. 

Co-organized by Professor Dan-el Padilla of Princeton, Racing the Classics is a working conference dedicated to using and developing critical theories of race and ethnicity in all aspects of the field .   

The event seeks to pave new paths forward for what counts as knowledge in Classics and how we work together to produce that knowledge. 

Classics graduate student Michiel Van Veldhuizen presented his talk "From Helice to Houston: The Semiotics of Disaster."

This longstanding tradition is a community favorite, as it bring people from all over the region!

His recent publication, Christian Novels from the Menologion of Symeon Metaphrastes, is featured as Translation of the Month on the Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index website.

The Proctorship, created through the Office of the Provost's Departmental Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan and hosted by the Office of the Provost, offers doctoral students hands-on experience in higher education administration.