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Undergraduate Student Recipient of Harry C. Maynard Scholarship

Wednesday, May 01, 2024 | By jhawman

A hearty congratulations to Classics and Archaeology undergraduate student Katie Mazurkiewicz on recently being awarded the prestigious Harry C. Maynard Scholarship! The Department of Classics and Archaeology has a long history of success in encouraging students to apply for this award; we are delighted to welcome Katie to their number.

The Harry C. Maynard Scholarship is awarded annually to students studying Classics in memory of the late Harry C. Maynard who taught Classics at the University of Toronto for many years. The Ontario Classical Association (OCA) has undertaken, by arrangement with the Trustees, to advertise the scholarship, receive applications, and rigorously access applicants. With recommendation from the OCA, the Trustees of Maynard’s estate select the recipients of this prestigious scholarship.

Congratulations, Katie Mazurkiewicz!

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Undergraduate Student Recipient of Harry C. Maynard Scholarship

Wednesday, May 01, 2024 | By jhawman

A hearty congratulations to Classics and Archaeology undergraduate student Andréa Szpika on recently being awarded the prestigious Harry C. Maynard Scholarship! The Department of Classics and Archaeology has a long history of success in encouraging students to apply for this award; we are delighted to welcome Andréa to their number.

The Harry C. Maynard Scholarship is awarded annually to students studying Classics in memory of the late Harry C. Maynard who taught Classics at the University of Toronto for many years. The Ontario Classical Association (OCA) has undertaken, by arrangement with the Trustees, to advertise the scholarship, receive applications, and rigorously access applicants. With recommendation from the OCA, the Trustees of Maynard’s estate select the recipients of this prestigious scholarship.

Congratulations, Andréa Szpika!

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2024 Summer Reading Challenge in on!

Wednesday, May 01, 2024 | By jhawman

The Department of Classics and Archaeology is launching a Summer Reading Challenge this year through Instagram for the @BrockHumanities community to read fiction and non-fiction about the ancient world! Share your reviews and thoughts on classical books and get a chance to win prizes at the departmental Fall Open House in October!

For more information and a list of book recommendations, see the Classics and Archaeology Summer Reading Challenge page.

Don’t forget to check out and follow @BrockHumanities on Instagram!

We can’t wait to see your posts! Now, time to get reading…

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Humanities Research Institute’s Spring Term Symposium

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | By egreene

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 egreene

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 egreene
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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Prof. Katharine von Stackelberg discusses Valentine’s Day

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | By egreene

Did you know that in mid-February ancient Roman women were more likely to be struck by a strip of goat skin than gifted a box of chocolate?

An interview in Pelham Today featured Dr. Katharine von Stackelberg on the ancient and historical traditions that led to modern-day Valentine’s Day celebrations:

“Modern day Valentine’s Day celebrations may also have roots in the Lupercalia festival, which was traditionally held on Feb. 15. The reasons for the ancient rites aren’t totally clear, but von Stackelberg said it was likely related to good fertility and health. The festival began with an animal sacrifice, followed by the Feast of Lupercal.

“What would happen is a goat would be ritually sacrificed and the skins would be cut up into thongs. The sources are conflicting but nude or nearly naked men would run around the sacred boundaries of Rome and they would strike women with those bloody strips of goats,” she said. “It was considered very lucky if you as a woman were struck by one of the thongs. If a woman got hit by one of these, it meant you had improved chances of getting pregnant and having a safe birth.”

Read more here.

Andrea Camassei, Lupercalia, ca. 1635.

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Brock welcomed Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis for final 2023-24 AIA Lecture Series talk

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | By jhawman

Brock welcomed a renowned guest on Friday, March 15, 2024 when Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis, CEO and Director of the Aga Khan Museum, gave a public lecture “An Alternate Perspective on “The Museum.” This was the closing event of Brock’s 2023-24 Public Lecture Series on Archaeology, sponsored by the Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. Other topics this year included the Bronze Age Collapse of 1177 BCE, and the lives of early Black Canadians in Niagara. We look forward to more great public programming for our 2024-25 season!

For more information on the Niagara Peninsula Society AIA please visit https://brocku.ca/humanities/classics/outreach/aia-niagara/.

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Prof. Allison Glazebrook recognized for International Women’s Day at Brock University

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | By jhawman

On Thursday, March 7th, 2024, to celebrate International Women’s Day, Brock University took the time to acknowledge 12 of the many women researchers at Brock who contribute to the betterment of our society. The Department of Classics and Archaeology’s own Professor Allison Glazebrook was one of the women featured in the Brock News piece.

Allison Glazebrook, Professor of Classics and Archaeology, researches the social and cultural history of ancient Greece, focusing on women, gender, sexuality and slavery.

“Ancient Greek texts generally provide the perspective of elite male members of society. As a historian influenced by feminist, gender and queer theory, I reframe such texts to investigate the groups marginalized in those same narratives,” she says. “I focus on women, enslaved people and sex labourers; the diversity of experiences, agency, mobility and statuses within these sub-groups; and think about how these various identities intersected and emerged in different spatial and temporal contexts. I strive to broaden the questions asked and expand the approaches taken in my field and thus look beyond the dominant discourse as presented in the sources.”

To read the full story, click here: https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2024/03/international-womens-day-how-brock-women-researchers-are-creating-meaningful-change/.

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Humanities Graduate Student Symposium, “Narratives of Identity

Monday, February 12, 2024 | By egreene

Kudos to Daniel Belanger, Miranda King, and Cassidy Robertson for their roles in the 2024 Humanities Graduate Student Symposium, “Narratives of Identity,” which took place on Saturday, February 10th. King spoke about “The Small Finds from the Sanctuary of Venus at Pompeii” in Panel 2: Voicing the Visual. Belanger presented, “Hepatitis Bee: The influence of Roman culture on their understanding of bee disease” in Panel 4: Negotiating Nature. Robertson served as Administrative Coordinator for the conference. Click here for more information about the papers and presenters in this celebration of Brock Humanities graduate student research.

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