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Welcome to the Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, home to three disciplines engaged respectively in the study of classical languages and civilization, philosophical thought, and the scholarly study of religion. Here you will find information on our three majors, Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, our department faculty, events, student activities, and some resources including discipline specific search engines and other links useful for further research and study.
UPCOMING LECTURES
CPRD 299 Mysterium Humanum Studies on the Theme “Imagination”
all lectures open to the public, Trinkle Hall 204, 3:00 pm
2/1 Liane Houghtalin: “Imaging the Imagination: Imaginary Landscapes in Roman Wall Painting”
2/6 David Ambuel: “Aristotle: No Thinking without Imagining”
2/8 Joe Romero: “Tradition and Originality in Greco-Roman Poetry”
2/13 David Ambuel: “Descartes: Imagination, Body, and Mind”
2/15 Angela Pitts : ”Healing with the Imagination in Ancient Greece”
2/20 David Ambuel: “Kant on the Structure of Judgment”
2/22 David Ambuel: “Kant: the Imaginative Mediation of Concepts and Perceptions”
2/27 Mark Johnson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon: “Imagination Incarnate”
2/29 Karen Lang, Professor of Religion, University of Virginia: “The Power of Imagination in Tibetan Buddhist Practice”
3/12 David Ambuel: “Imaginative Constructions and Deception in Buddhist Thought”
3/14 Jim Goehring : “Imagining Eternity: Bodies, Angels, and Texts”
3/19 Mary Beth Mathews: “America’s Landscape in the Religious Imagination”
3/21 Ed Sarath, Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation, University of Michigan, and president of the International Society for Improvised Music : “Improvisation, Imagination, and Interiority”
3/21 8 pm “Improvisation, Imagination, and Interiority” musical performance featuring Ed Sarath
Lee Hall, room 412
3/26 David Cain : ”Kierkegaard and the End of Imagination.” \
3/28 Joe Dreiss, Professor of Art History: “The Work of Art as Analogon: Sartre’s Notion of the Immateriality of Art”
4/2 Patricia Cox Miller, W. Earle Ledden Professor of Religion, Syracuse University: “Religious Imagination in Antiquity”
4/4 David Ambuel: “Husserl: Imagination and Intentionality”
4/9 Craig Vasey :“The Irrealizing Function of Consciousness”
4/11 Chris Kilmartin, Professor of Psychology: “The Use of Humor and Storytelling in Psychotherapy”
4/16 Jason Matzke : “The Role of the Imagination in Ethics”
4/18 David Ambuel: “Arnheim on Visual Thinking”
4/23 Nina Michalevsky: “The Practices of Philosophy and Wittgenstein’s Invitation to Imagine”
Previous Events Spring 2012:
The 2012 Jefferson Lecture on the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
“Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?”
Professor John Fea, Department of History, Messiah College
January 26, 2012 7:30 PM
Previous Events Fall 2011:
Dr. Jakub Jinek
Wednesday October 5, 2011 4:00pm Trinkle Hall room 204
“On Doing One’s Own: The Origin and Scope of the Political in Plato” by Jakub Jinek, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic on
Dr. Rose Mary Sheldon: “Rome vs. Parthia: The Cold War that Never Was”
Thursday Oct. 27, 2011
Lee Hall 411, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg Campus. By Dr. Rose Mary Sheldon, Professor of History, Virginia Military Institute, expert on Rome’s interactions with ancient Iran and Iraq(Parthia), and author of “Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods but Verify” and “Rome’s Wars in Parthia: Blood in the Sand.” Reception to follow lecture. Part of the “When Rome Faced East” lecture series. 7 pm. Free. 540/654-1023.
Dr. Sethuraman Suresh: “Ancient Roman Contacts with South and South East Asia”
Wed. Sept. 7, 2011
Lee Hall 412, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg Campus. By Dr. Sethuraman Suresh, Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC, and author of numerous scholarly articles on Roman finds in India and S/SE Asia. Reception to follow lecture. Part of the “When Rome Faced East” lecture series. 7 pm. Free. 540/654-1023.
Dr. Sethuraman Suresh: “Roman Coin Finds in India and Sri Lanka”
Thurs. Sept. 8, 2011
Lee Hall 411, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg Campus. By Dr. Sethuraman Suresh, Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC, and author of numerous scholarly articles on Roman finds in India and S/SE Asia. Reception to follow lecture. Part of the “When Rome Faced East” lecture series. 7 pm. Free. 540/654-1023.
Dr. Steven Sidebotham: “The Site of Berenike in Roman Egypt and its Maritime Trade Connections with the East”
Thurs. Sept. 22, 2011
Lee Hall 411, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg Campus. By Dr. Steven Sidebotham, Professor of History, University of Delaware, excavator of Berenike, and author of “Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route” Reception to follow lecture. Part of the “When Rome Faced East” lecture series. 7 pm. Free. 540/654-1023.
