Here‘s the latest from UMW Religion (’01) grad, Kelly Murphy, assistant professor of Religion at Central Michigan University. Professor Murphy teaches a course on AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” and she contributed this piece on the zombie apocalypse to The Washington Post.
The faculty in Classics are pleased to announce that Teddy Dillon, Ellen Field, and Amanda Liverette have been accepted to and intend to attend the Kenchreai Archaeological Field School this summer. The program as administered by Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Stay tuned for a report this fall. Well done, Ἑλληνοφιλοί!
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 […]
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 […]