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• Classics at the HRI Symposium, Dec. 11th

  Thursday, December 06, 2018 | By egreene

  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!

  

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• Cypriote Museum evacuation drill in the Brock News

  Thursday, December 06, 2018 | By egreene

  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.”

  Evacuation drill teaches artifact preservation

   

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• Archaeology and Makerspace in the Brock News

  Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | By egreene

  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.”

  Makerspace technology enhances student experiences

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• Greene to speak in Toronto, Nov. 29th

  Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | By egreene

  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.

  

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• Glazebrook to deliver Brock Talk at the Public Library

  Thursday, November 22, 2018 | By egreene

  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.

  

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• Dolansky chapter in Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual

  Monday, November 19, 2018 | By egreene

  Kudos to Prof. Fanny Dolansky for her contribution, “Household and Family,” in the newly released Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual, edited by R. Uro, J. J. Day, R. Demaris, and R. Roitto. 

  

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• Archaeology Day event featured in Brock News

  Thursday, October 25, 2018 | By egreene

  Check out the Brock news for a writeup of the Department’s International Archaeology Day event, planned by Dr. Murray!

  Celebrating International Archaeology Day

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• Nickel and Rappold on why Antigone matters, Oct. 31

  Thursday, October 25, 2018 | By egreene

  Save the date for an interdisciplinary panel discussion on the Department of Dramatic Arts’ production of Sophocles’ Antigone and the play’s contemporary relevance. Featuring Dr. Nickel and Dr. Rappold as panelists, the discussion will take place on Wednesday, October 31 from 3:00-4:15 pm in the Cairns Atrium.

  See the writeup in the Brock News.

  

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• BMCR review of Smith et al. volume on Ayia Sotira

  Thursday, October 18, 2018 | By egreene

  

  Don’t miss Yannis Galanakis’ (University of Cambridge) review of R. Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, Evangelia Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, James C. Wright, Ayia Sotira. A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece, Prehistory Monographs 56. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2017. Pp. xxviii, 202; 54 p. of plates. ISBN 9781931534901. $80.00.

  Galanakis writes: …the Ayia Sotira publication of these six small and modestly furnished Mycenaean chamber tombs is the best of its kind yet available in Aegean archaeology. It confirmed a number of aspects previously suspected or hypothesized in scholarship, while also adding extra layers of knowledge with regard to the use of Mycenaean tombs and their associated practices. One can only reiterate the wish of the authors of this volume (pp. 181–182) that similarly rigorous methodologies will be extended in the future to “all Mycenaean cemetery excavations” so that these results can be compared, contextualized, and scrutinized, and so that they may stand as the foundation for further discussion and debate.

  Read the rest of the review here or buy a copy by clicking this link.

   

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• Rappold consults on Antigone production

  Tuesday, October 16, 2018 | By egreene

  Don’t miss the new mainstage production of Sophocles’ Antigone from Brock’s Department of Dramatic Arts (DART), adapted and directed by Mike Griffin. Classics professor Adam Rappold served as a consultant for the performance. In an interview with the Brock News, he explains,

  “It is a work which manages to be, at once, both bewitchingly alien while still also familiar enough that it could have been ripped from today’s headlines. More pressingly for our current moment, it is likely the voice and personality of Antigone herself who continues to speak to audiences — a powerful and decidedly female scream of rage against iniquity and oppression, which, even after more than two centuries, refuses to be silenced.”

  Antigone runs Oct. 26 and Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 28 at 2 p.m., and Nov. 2 and 3 at 7:30 p.m. There will be a high school matinee on Nov. 2 at 11:30 a.m. The evening performance on Nov. 2 will include an American Sign Language interpreter for members of the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

  The production will run at the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre at Brock’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts in downtown St. Catharines.

  Tickets for the show are $18 for adults and $15 for students and seniors. There’s also a $10 group rate and a $5 eyeGo high school program rate available. Tickets are available through the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre box office at 905-688-0722 or on the PAC website.

  Read more here: https://brocku.ca/media-room/2018/10/15/antigone-explores-modern-ideas-through-classic-greek-tragedy/

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