On Thursday, March 7th, Carrie Murray will deliver a lecture to the Department of Classics at McMaster University titled, “Votives & Volutes: Investigating the Lago di Venere Sanctuary on Pantelleria (Italy).” The lecture will take place at 4:30 p.m. in TSH 701 on the McMaster campus.
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Click here to listen to Katharine von Stackelberg in discussion with Elizabeth Macauley-Lewis (CUNY Graduate Center) on her podcast, Antiquity in Gotham. Episode 7, “Designing Roman Villas and Gardens for the Gilded Age,” explores ancient gardens alongside the Pompeia in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA, two highly innovative and original reinterpretations of ancient houses, villas and gardens.
Expanding her exploration of ancient reception, von Stackelberg also delivered a lecture to the Department of Classical Studies at Western University in January, “Contentious Classics in the Achilleion: Homeric Receptions, Elisabeth of Austria, and Kaiser Wilhelm II.”
Take a look at these two new articles on Elizabeth Greene’s fieldwork in the harbors at Burgaz, Turkey, conducted in collaboration with Middle East Technical University, Stanford University, and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. Many Brock students participated in the fieldwork and post-excavation research.
Greene, E.S., J. Leidwanger, and N. Tuna. 2019. “Archaeological Investigations in the Harbors of Burgaz, Turkey: 2011-2015 Field Seasons.” International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 48.1.
Greene, E.S. and J. Leidwanger. 2019. “Knidian ‘Anyports’: A Model of Coastal Adaptation and Socioeconomic Connectivity from Southwest Turkey.”Mediterranean Historical Review 33.2.
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The Department of Classics was well represented at the 2019 Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies by faculty and graduates from our M.A. program. The conference took place from 3-6 January in San Diego, California.
Papers were delivered by Carrie Murray (Brock University), “Gathering at the Lake’s Edge: Report for the 2017 and 2018 Seasons at the Lago di Venere, Pantelleria (Italy),” and Allison Glazebrook (Brock University), “(Dis)Placing Timarchos: The Use of Place in Aeschines 1.” Elizabeth S. Greene (Brock University) and Brian I. Daniels (Penn Cultural Heritage Center) organized a roundtable titled, “Best Practices for the Treatment of Human Remains: A Mediterranean Regional Perspective.”
M.A. program alumni also shone with a paper by Elliott Fuller (University of Toronto), “Performing Death: Gender, Bodily Adornment, and Ideology at Grave Circle B at Mycenae.” and a poster by Lana J. Radloff (Bishop’s University), “Seafarers and Urban Networks: Mapping Maritime Movement in Mediterranean Settlements.
Congratulations to Angus Smith, who was recognized with the Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity at the annual Humanities Research Institute (HRI) fall symposium Tuesday, Dec. 11.
Read about Smith’s research in the Brock News.
The Humanities Research Institute (HRI)’s annual fall symposium takes place on Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 9 am to 12 noon in Sankey Chamber. This year’s theme, “A Learned Feast,” features three papers from members of the Classics Department:
Jeff Masse (MA, Classics) “The Iliad’s Social Network: Visualizing Heroic Speech Performance”
Katharine von Stackelberg (Classics) “How to Eat a Flamingo: Exploring the Ancient Sensorium”
Angus Smith (Classics) “The Archaeology of Feasts: Banqueting at the Minoan Site of Gournia on Crete”
Don’t miss hearing these great papers!
Alison Innes from the Brock News covers a simulated evacuation drill in the Department’s Cypriote Museum, staged as part of Elizabeth Greene’s Archaeological Ethics class (CLAS 4P28 / 5V28).
“When natural disaster or military conflict strikes, irreplaceable cultural heritage is put at risk.
Conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria, as well as September’s fire at the Brazil National Museum, are just a few recent examples of events that have caused cultural workers and community volunteers to mobilize in an effort to rescue irreplaceable artifacts.
Brock Classics students got a taste of the work involved in a museum evacuation during a simulation run Friday, Nov. 30 by internationally-recognized expert Brian Daniels.”
Check out the Brock News’ feature on Carrie Murray’s innovative use of Makerspace in CLAS 2P32 (Introduction to Archaeology).
“The 3D printing of real archaeological artifacts brings a new dimension of experiential learning to our Art and Archaeology courses in the Classics Department,” [Murray] said. “Students are researching artifacts from major international museums that have been 3D scanned and made available online. We will be printing one or more of the artifact replicas that the students propose in order to increase the experiential education opportunities in other Classics courses.”
On Thursday, November 29th, Elizabeth Greene will deliver a lecture to the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Turkish Studies titled, “Fluid Technologies: Amphoras and Exchange Mechanisms on the 6th-Century BCE Shipwreck at Pabuç Burnu, Turkey.” The lecture will take place at 6:00 p.m. in 4 Bancroft Hall, Room 200B, at the University of Toronto.
On Thursday November 22, Prof. Allison Glazebrook will deliver a lecture titled “Working Women in Classical Athens.” Sponsored jointly by the Brock Talks series and the Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, the talk will take place from 7-9 pm in the Mills Room of the St Catharines Public Library.
