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  • Congratulations to our June 2024 graduates!

    Friday, June 21, 2024 | By

    The Department of Classics and Archaeology is so proud of our graduates who received their diplomas at June Convocation!

    The following students earned a Bachelor of Arts in Classics:

    Anna Harley, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Classics (Ancient Art and Archaeology)
    Samuel Hough, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Classics and History
    Samuel Kelly, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Classics (Ancient Art and Archaeology)
    William Kiernan, Bachelor of Arts in Classics and Sociology
    Jessica Kroeze, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Classics with First-Class Standing (Ancient Art and Archaeology), minor in Business and Management
    Frederick Loucks, Introductory Certificate in Ancient Greek and Latin Language
    Lucie Mackintosh, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Classics with First-Class Standing (Greek and Roman Studies)
    Connor O’Rourke, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Classics with First-Class Standing (Classical Civilization)
    Kathryn Pye, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Classics with First-Class Standing (Classical Civilization), minor in Italian Studies

    Two students received a Master of Arts in Classics:

    Madelyn Huston, Master of Arts in Classics (Text and Culture)
    Jessie Simpson, Master of Arts in Classics (Art and Archaeology)

    We enjoyed teaching and learning from all of you over the past few years and wish you many future successes, which we hope you will share with us through the alumni portal. Please keep your contact information updated so we can stay in touch. Surgite!

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  • Connor O’Rourke awarded the Desmond Conacher Scholarship

    Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | By

    Congratulations to recent graduate, Connor O’Rourke, who was awarded the Desmond Conacher Scholarship by the Classical Association of Canada to support his M.A. study in the Department of Classics and Archaeology here at Brock.

    This scholarship is offered in memory of Desmond Conacher, formerly Professor of Classics at Trinity College, Toronto, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Honorary President of the CAC. The scholarship has been endowed through donations from his family, friends, colleagues, and universities with which he was associated. Its purpose is to assist and encourage a young scholar entering graduate studies in classics. The scholarship is administered by the CAC through its Awards Committee. One award of $4,000 is offered each year.

    After spending his summer working with Carrie Murray on the excavations at Pantelleria, Connor will return to Brock to begin research with Angus Smith on regional trade and interaction in the Minoan World as visible through the circulation networks of Marine Style pottery.

    Marine style ceramics

     

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  • Madelyn Huston awarded the Spirit of Brock Award

    Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | By

    Check out the Brock News’ profile of graduating M.A. student, Madelyn Huston who received the Spirit of Brock Award at Convocation. Huston earned the highest academic average in all Humanities graduate programs, while also competing as a member of the Brock Badgers women’s cross-country team and the women’s track and field team. Congratulations Madelyn!

    Sports history, athletics connect Humanities grads to community

     

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  • Lucie Mackintosh profiled in the Brock News

    Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | By

    Don’t miss the Brock News’ profile of Lucie Mackintosh, who graduated this with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics, in the Greek and Roman Studies stream, on Friday, June 14 during Brock’s 115th Convocation. Congratulations, Lucie!

    Classics grad perseveres through mental health challenges

     

     

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  • Department members active at the CAC Annual Meeting

    Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | By

    Current and former department members were active at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, held at the University of Laval in Quebec City on May 13-16.

    Faculty members spoke on their current research initiatives: Allison Glazebrook delivered a paper titled, “Vulnerability, Sex, and Labour in Lysias 4: A Case Study.” Glazebrook also chaired a session titled, “Beauty and Ugliness.” Adam Rappold presented, “Meeting the God: Religious Innovation, Epiphany and Memory in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo”

    M.A. student Madelyn Huston spoke on a topic emerging from her Major Research Paper, “Briseis’ Lament and the Agency of Enslaved People.” M.A. alumna and Ph.D student at Western University, Stephanie Dennie, discussed her dissertation research, “Legitimizing the Spartan Dyarchy: The Return of the Herakleidai in Tyrtaios fr. 2 West.” She recently defended her dissertation, “Creating Legitimacy: The Dyarchy in Spartan Social Memory.” Simone Mollard, now a Ph.D. student at McMaster completed her term as Chair of the Graduate Student Caucus of the CAC.

    Congratulations to all!

    CAC logo

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  • Greene elected corresponding member of the DAI

    Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | By

    Congratulations to Elizabeth Greene, who was elected as a corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI). Founded in 1829, the German Archaeological Institute is one of the leading international archaeological organizations. It has its headquarters in Berlin and a worldwide network of departments and branches, including its long-established departments in Athens, Rome, Cairo, Istanbul, and Madrid. It has sponsored numerous important excavations around the world and publishes some of the leading archaeological journals and monograph series.

    Each year the Board of Directors of the DAI elects a small group of Corresponding Members from among those “individuals who are most meritorious concerning the literature and monuments of the ancient world” (homines eximios et de litteris monumentisque aetatis antiquae). She was presented with a diploma by Prof. Dr. Ortwin Dally, Director of the Rome division of the German Archaeological Institute, at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in January 2024.

    Greene receives diploma from Ortwin Dally

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  • Classics and Archaeology High School Day

    Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | By

    On Saturday, April 6th, fourteen students (and three parents) from six high schools in the Niagara Region visited the Department to participate in Classics and Archaeology High School Day, an event organized by our Recruitment Committee.

    Katharine von Stackelberg, Angus Smith, Allison Glazebrook, Michael Carter, and Adam Rappold introduced students to ancient artifacts, Roman coins, the Greek alphabet, and traditions of games and play–including a scavenger hunt in the Department.  We hope the experience leads some of our visitors to choose Brock for their studies!

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  • Humanities Research Institute’s Spring Term Symposium

    Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | By

    The Department of Classics and Archaeology will be well represented at the Humanities Research Institute’s Spring Term Symposium, featuring in-progress work by graduate students and faculty in the Humanities. Nadine Brundrett and Michael Carter will present in the morning session, “Rediscovering a lost Roman inscription: From provenance to provenience for CIL X 1074.” In the afternoon Fanny Dolansky and M.A. student Sarah Murray will address, “Pedagogies in progress: Creating a Latin commentary for classroom use as a component of a Major Research Paper in Classics.” The full program is available here.

    Join the event in person on Monday, April 15, 2024, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the Charles A. Sankey Chamber or virtually via Lifesize. For best performance use the Chrome browser.

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  • Madelyn Huston to present at Mapping the New Knowledges

    Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | By

    Congratulations to Classics (Text and Culture) M.A. student Madelyn Huston, who will deliver a presentation titled “Briseis’ Lament and the Agency of Enslaved People” at Brock’s Mapping New Knowledges Research Conference on Wednesday, April 10th. The conference includes 21 paper sessions and a poster presentation featuring graduate and undergraduate research across campus, as well as a keynote address by Dr. Adam Dickinson (Department of English Language and Literature) titled, “Writing Metabolism: Art, Science, and Research Creation.” The full program is available here.

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  • A busy February for Classics and Archaeology faculty

    Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | By

    February was a short month, but Classics and Archaeology faculty kept busy with an assortment of lectures and publications.

    • On February 2, Carrie Ann Murray presented “Religious Worship and Mobility at the Lago di Venere Sanctuary, Pantelleria” for the University of Toronto’s Classics Department Lecture Series.
    • On February 5th, Allison Glazebrook delivered the Joseph C. Miller Memorial Talk at the Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies of the Universität Bonn. Her lecture was titled, “Slavery in the Athenian Sex Trade.”
    • Elizabeth Greene wrote two short articles for the Institute of Nautical Archaeology Quarterly, “The Archaic Shipwreck at Pabuç Burnu and Stories of Everyday Mobility” and (with J. Leidwanger), “The Marzamemi 2 ‘Church Wreck’ and a Changing Late Antiquity.”
    • Katharine von Stackelberg published “The World of Nature” in J. Toner (ed.) The Cultural History of Leisure Vol. I: A History of Leisure in Antiquity. (Bloomsbury, February 2024).

    Stop by the Department to chat with faculty about their current research!

     

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