The Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, and the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies present a public lecture by Dr. Darlene Brooks-Hedstrom, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, and Director of Archaeology at Wittenberg University (Springfield, Ohio):“Digging for Monks: Monastic Archaeology in Egypt”In her talk, Professor Brooks-Headstrom will consider the following issues: Who […]
On March 17, 2015, the Library of Congress and Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland presented professor of Philosophy and Religion, Dr. Mehdi Aminrazavi, and his co-editor, Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr (George Washington University), in the African and Middle Eastern Reading Room at the Library of Congress. The lecture celebrated the completion of their five-volume anthology (I. B. Tauris Press).
On Wednesday, March 18th, Josiah Osgood, Professor of Classics at Georgetown University, delivered a lecture on the constriction and transformation of laughter in the Roman Republic from the hallmark of a free state to a mordant resistance to totalitarianism. The lecture was very informative, well-attended–and funny. The lecture was sponsored by the Beta Nu chapter of Eta […]
On Saturday, March 21st, over 100 students from eight area middle schools and high schools competed at 5 levels (1, 1A, 2, 3, Upper). The Certamen was organized by the UMW Classics Club and was, by all accounts, a rousing success. The results are as follows:Level 1 1st Ni River Middle School-Team B (David Yates, teacher), 2nd Spotsylvania High School, 3rd Spotsylvania […]
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