Welcome!

The Department of Classics invites students to share in the study of the language, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and the civilizations they helped to shape. We offer an undergraduate major and minor, including honors option, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Because we are a small and collegial department, students have the opportunity to work closely with distinguished faculty and to develop individualized or collaborative research programs.

• Congratulations to Prof. Greg Thalmann, who has received a resident fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for spring 2010.

• Congratulations to Prof. Vincent Farenga, who has been promoted to Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
• Congratulations to Prof. Danny Richter on being elected a Fellow to the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., and to Prof. Kevin van Bladel, who has received a Graves Award in the Humanities for his research on the Arabic Hermetica.

• Congratulations to our recent Ph.D.'s students Sarah Blake and Chiara Sulprizio, who will be joining the faculty at York University and Hamilton College, respectively. Sarah has been teaching at Wellesley College as a Visiting Instructor while the Department has had the pleasure of having Chiara as a Lecturer this past year.

• Welcome to James Collins, who has joined the Department as Assistant Professor. James graduated from Stanford, where he studied Greek philosophy and literature. For the past year, he has been a full-time Lecturer in Classics.
• Congratulations to Jason Harris, who has been named the Eugene Vanderpool Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for 2009-2010. Jason is currently a Philip Lockhart Fellow at the same institution.

• Congratulations to the fifteen graduates who received their B.A. in Classics with the Class of 2008. They made up one of the biggest graduating years in Department history: Jessica Baldwin, Sridhar Chadalavada, Niideka Chiaghana, Sarah Dubina, Whitney Fountas, Paige Harrington, Kevin Hiler, Andrew Hogan, April Hosford, Amy Hutchinson, Mik Larsen, Chris Pappavaselio, Marta Podlesnik, Monique Ramirez, and Alissa Rutledge. Good luck to all of you on your future endeavors!

Upcoming Events

	Weekly: Wed 08/26/2009 - 11/11/2009; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Meet USC
	Saturday 11/07/2009: 9:00 AM Human Time, Geological Time: The Tour
	Monday 11/09/2009: 12:00 PM Black, White, South African, African
	Monday 11/09/2009: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Faculty Book Party
	Tuesday 11/10/2009: 12:00 PM Asian Religions in Transnational Perspective
	Tuesday 11/10/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Seminar by Dr. John Paul of Univ. of South Florida
	Tuesday 11/10/2009: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Robert Darnton
	Thursday 11/12/2009: 7:30 PM Sacred Language, Spoken Language
	Sunday 11/15/2009: 4:45 PM - 7:00 PM Jewish Values, Identity and Ideals, from South Florida to Capitol Hill
	Monday 11/16/2009: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM The Convenience Principle: Communal Relations in the Medieval Mediterranean
	Tuesday 11/17/2009: 6:00 PM The Sweet Hereafter
	Tuesday 11/17/2009: 7:00 PM An Evening with Isabel Allende
	Wednesday 11/18/2009: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Feeling at Home: Hometown Associations and Their Role in Immigrant Integration
	Thursday 11/19/2009: 4:00 AM Seminar by Dr. Elaine Ostrander
	Thursday 11/19/2009: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM New Directions in Feminist Scholarship
	Thursday 11/19/2009: 3:00 PM Clay Tablets to Cameras: Recording Objects as Classification, Communication and Control
	Thursday 11/19/2009: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Writer in the Community
	Friday 11/20/2009: 7:00 PM Native America Next: Short Films by Native American Students
	Weekly: Mon 11/23/2009 - 12/21/2009; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Meet USC
	Weekly: Mon 11/23/2009 - 12/21/2009; 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Meet USC
	Monday 11/23/2009: 7:00 PM Russell Banks, Atom Egoyan and the Scripting of Time
	Monday 11/23/2009: 7:00 PM Russell Banks and Atom Egoyan: The Scripting of Time
	Tuesday 11/24/2009: 4:00 PM Birthday Party: The Origin of Species
	Tuesday 12/01/2009: 12:00 PM Islam and Nationalism
	Tuesday 12/01/2009: 4:00 PM Cultural Borderlands and Ambiguities of Empire
	Tuesday 12/01/2009: 7:00 PM Intimacies: A World AIDS Day Performance by Michael Kearns
	12/02/2009, 12/09/2009: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Meet USC
	Thursday 12/03/2009: 4:00 PM Seminar by Dr. Virginia Armbrust
	12/09/2009, 12/11/2009, 12/18/2009, 12/23/2009: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Meet USC
	Monthly on the 1st Fri 01/08/2010 - 04/02/2010; 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM First Fridays
	Saturday 01/23/2010: 2:00 PM - 6:45 PM Dreaming of Peace: Vietnamese Filmmakers Move from War to Reconciliation
	Wednesday 01/27/2010: 7:00 PM Lay of the Land: A Performance by Tim Miller
	Thursday 02/11/2010: 7:00 PM Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values
	Friday 02/12/2010: 3:00 PM Professionalism, Electronic Records and the Physician-Patient Relationship
	Friday 02/26/2010: 7:00 PM The Big Con: An Evening with Ricky Jay
	Friday 03/05/2010: 6:00 PM Kourtrajm�: A New New Wave in French Urban Cinema
	Friday 03/12/2010: 3:00 PM Dying Well: The Meaning and Value of Death
	Thursday 04/01/2010: 7:00 PM Con-Man: A Musical Apocalypse
	Tuesday 04/06/2010: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM From Nietzsche to Star Wars: The Wagnerian Power of The Ring
	Monday 04/19/2010: 4:00 PM Marking Time: On Time and Place in Poetry and Film
	Tuesday 04/20/2010: 7:00 PM Pride, Prejudice, Bigotry and Genius: Richard Wagner's World
	06/07/2010, 06/14/2010, 06/19/2010, 06/21/2010: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Wagner's Ring Cycle: Meanings, Sources, Influences