Monday, March 29, 2010

Week #9 - 1

You have until 11:59pm on Sunday, April 4th to submit your response.

Week #9 - 2

You have until 11:59pm on Sunday, April 4th to submit your response.

Week #9 - 3

You have until 11:59pm on Sunday, April 4th to submit your response.

Week #9 - 4

You have until 11:59pm on Sunday, April 4th to submit your response.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Save Classics at Leeds

An excerpt from the University of Leeds' Classics Blog.

Sign their petition to help save the Classics department.

Why?

In the context of current government cuts in funding to UK universities, the University of Leeds is going through an ‘economies exercise’.

We already know that the number of staff in Classics will be reduced from next year, and as a result we have been forced to discontinue our degrees in Greek and Latin. The final intake onto these degree programmes will be in September 2010.

But the University is also considering a proposal to remove Classics altogether. This would mean the end of over one hundred years of Classical research and teaching at Leeds.

We recognise that some restructuring is necessary and even desirable, but we do not accept that it is desirable or necessary to destroy popular and healthy degrees in Classical Civilisation (BA) and Classical Studies (MA) – particularly now that they will provide the only platform for teaching the ancient languages at Leeds.

What can you do?

We invite you to support our efforts to remind the University of the value of Classics as a subject, the contribution that Classics at Leeds has made both nationally and internationally, and the need to protect the expertise and provision of the only remaining Classics department in Yorkshire.

Monday, March 22, 2010

More Hints

Hint for Bonus #1 (finding the letters of the Greek alphabet).

Take as many different routes to the common room as possible. Look in all directions.

Also remember that next week is the last week for the Classics Challenge!

Challenge #8

You have until 11:59pm on Sunday, March 28th to submit your response.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Challenge #8

You have until 11:59pm on Sunday, March 28th to submit your response.

More Bonus Points ...

You have until 11:59pm on Sunday, March 28th to submit your response.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Hint for Bonus #1

Remember that you still have until the end of the contest to submit your answers for Bonus Question #1 (finding all the letters of the Greek alphabet around the school).

Hint: You'll find 'rho' when you're feeling hungry (rho is the letter that looks like a p and sounds like an r).

Challenge #7

You have until 11:59pm on Sunday, March 21st to submit your response.

Challenge #7

You have until 11:59pm on Sunday, March 21st to submit your response.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Colloquium Schedule

Schedule and details for the colloquium.

Room - 3D01 - University of Winnipeg (3rd floor, Duckworth, room 1 - this room is just on the Duckworth side of the overpass that crosses Spence St. between the Duckworth building and the main building).

Time - 2:30 until approximately 7pm (this Saturday, March 6th)

Snacks and refreshments will be served, but we intend to eat supper afterward at Tavern United on Hargrave St. (where they have graciously offered to give us 10% off of food and drinks), followed by a night of general merry-making.

Spectators are welcome.


Schedule

Dr. Jane Cahill (UW)

Jennesa Dyck (UW) - Humanizing Antiquity: The Skeletons of Herculaneum

Scott Berthelette (UM) - Imperial Ambition or Filial Devotion: An Investigation into the Relationship between Tiberius and Sejanus.

Alex Kroeger (UW) - Greek Mythology in Contemporary Children's Literature

Joseph Gerbasi (UW) - Epicurus and the Problem of Physiologia

Curtis Burbella (UW) - Alexander the Great: Son of Phillip; Son of Zeus

Melina Sturym (UW) - Water in Ancient Religious and Magic Rituals

Lisa Latour (UM) - Slingers in Homer

Brittany Restall (UW) - Hegesias on the Birth of Alexander the Great

Brittany Romano (UW) - The Use of Wool in Sacrificial Rituals

Devon Berofe (UW) - Hero of Alexandria

Sasha Suarez Amaya (UW) - Fathers in Plautine Comedy

Kaitlyn Boulding (UW) - The Medea Messenger Speech: From Graphic Horror to Comic Humour.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Dr. Whately is giving a talk!

This Friday, March 5th at 4pm at 376 University College (UofM) Dr. Whateley will be giving a talk entitled "Moesian Vexillations".

Come out and show your support!

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