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Mark Padilla, provost and professor of classics at Christopher Newport University, will present a lecture titled “Classical Myth in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock” on Thursday, March 10, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Brooks Haxton, author of six published collections of original poetry and professor of English at Syracuse University will present the Winslow lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, titled “Candor and Wisdom: the Poetry of Early Classical Greece,” is sponsored by the Department of Classics and is free and open to the public.
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Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino was invited to make two presentations at the University of South Carolina. On Feb. 10 he led a workshop for the University's Classics and Contemporary Perspectives group on "Horace, Odes 4.1: The Voices of Silence," and on Feb. 11 he gave a public lecture titled “Articulating Wonder in a Secular Age.”
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Kate Cooper, professor of ancient history at the University of Manchester (UK), will give the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 4:10 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center. The lecture “City, Empire, Family Belonging and Resistance in the Prison Diary of Perpetua of Carthage,” is free and open to the public.
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Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold gave a paper at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in San Antonio on Jan. 8. Her paper, "Teaching Ancient Comedy: Race Matters," was part of a panel on "Teaching Uncomfortable Subjects in the Classics Classroom."
More ...Visiting Assistant of Classics Professor James Wells and Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino, accompanied by classics students Amanda Barnes '12, Kelsey Craw '12, Lauren Lanzotti '14, Kirsten Swartz '12 and Anna Zahm '13, traveled to Union College on Oct. 23 to speak at the annual Institute of the Classical Association of the Empire State.
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Carl A. Rubino, Winslow Professor of Classics, delivered a paper titled “Long Ago, But Not So Far Away: Star Wars and the Ancient World” at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, held in Newark on Oct. 8. The paper was given at a panel he organized on “Getting In Touch With the Force: the Power of Classical Antiquity in Star Wars, Red River, and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock.”
