While we couldn’t salute you in person on Saturday, May 9, we at CPR are extremely proud of the Graduates in Classics, Philosophy, and Religious Studies for 2020:
Frederick O. Altenburg, Alec D. Cameron, Charles M. Carlson, William E. Carpenter, Joelle A. Carter, Lydia G. Eisenberg, Anna K. …
While the University of Mary Washington is conducting classes remotely, the students in Professor Pitts’s Ovid class haven’t missed a beat. They recently used the Canvas Conference feature to engage with Randolph Macon Professor Bartolo Natoli to discuss his work on the “Silenced Voices” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Dr. Natoli was originally slated to come to […]
The Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religious Studies and the Khatib Program for Religion and Dialogue at UMW are happy to announce the 2020 Jefferson Lecture. Our own Professor Mary Beth Mathews will speak on “The Religious Worlds of Enslaved African Americans” on Tuesday, February 18th at 5 p.m. in the HCC Digital Auditorium. We […]
In the coming spring semester, CPR will offer its Mysterium Humanum Studies course for the thirteenth time since the department was created in 1979. This is a public lecture series exploring a theme of enduring importance to the human condition from a variety of academic points of view. The course was conceived when the […]
Open to all UMW students, CPR has two new courses for the spring semester! CPRD 299, Mysterium Humanum Studies: Madness, will use a multi-disciplinary set of guest lectures to explore the topic of madness. Approaches will include classics, philosophy, disability studies, religious studies, and art history, to name a few. The class meets on Tuesdays […]