2019-03-26 - Illinois Classics undergraduates Brendan Labbe and Alexander Augustynski participated in the 2019 Eta Sigma Phi convention at St. Olaf's College. In the annual Certamen, they received second place, and Alex was elected to the national office of Treasurer (Chrysophylax). Undergraduate Greek student Yanxin Li received 1st place in the national translation competition of Koine Greek...

2019-03-26 -   A series of lectures in collaboration with the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago and the Department of the Classics at UIUC (Spring 2019). Professor Angeliki Tzanetou will moderate the talks.  May 2, 2019: Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine): ...

2019-03-13 - The Department of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time 9-month, non-tenure track appointment at the rank of Lecturer in the area of Modern Greek language and culture, with a start date of August 16, 2019. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Modern Greek, Classics, Comparative Literature or in an immediately relevant field by June 1, 2019...

2019-02-25 - Professor Angeliki Tzanetou presented the talk "Bleeding Bodies, War & Collective Trauma in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon" on February 21, 2019. Full video is found here....

2019-02-21 - Classics Summer Youth Camps (Ages 9-12) registration is now open. Registration closes as sessions fill up. For more information click here.  

2019-02-19 - Upcoming workshop on Race Work in the Classics on February 21 and 22 featuring speakers from the US and Canada and plenary speaker Professor Emma Dench (Harvard University). Full program can be found here.  

2019-02-01 - A major gift from Mr. George Reveliotis funds the Modern Greek Program and Greek studies at Illinois. The gift will be partially used to fund a lecturer to teach Modern Greek and Civilization classes. The full story can be found here.

2019-01-29 - Professor Augoustakis has just published a new book on Flavian Campania, published by Oxford University Press, with co-editor Joy Littlewood. This collection of essays examines various aspects of Campania just before and after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, during the period of the Flavian emperors. More information can be found...

2019-01-03 - LAS blog features alumna Sneha Adusumilli (BA 2018) recounting her experience excavating in Italy last summer. Sneha's LAS blog can be found here.

2018-12-13 - Congratulations to Daniel Leon for being awarded the prestigious Arnold O. Beckman Research Award for his project "Disability and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia." This Campus Research Board award comes with a substantial budget to conduct field work and research in Greece on this fascinating book project.

2018-11-28 - Congratulations to Brett Kaufman on the publication of the edited volume Metallurgical Design and Industry: Prehistory to the Space Age (Springer 2018).   ​This edited volume examines metallurgical technologies and their place in society throughout the centuries. The authors discuss metal alloys and the use of...

2018-11-13 - Clara Bosak-Schroeder is one of the six assistant professors who have been recognized as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their contributions and potential in teaching and research. Click here for more information.

2018-10-18 - Check out the Modern Greek Program tab under Academics with the Modern Greek class offerings for Spring 2019.

2018-10-11 - ICS 43.1 (2018) is now available on JSTOR and ProjectMuse. Click here for the Table of Contents. 

2018-10-02 - This past summer found me halfway across the world, living out the culture of Italy in Rome. I spent six weeks working with The Paideia Institute, a non-profit that is dominating educational service work in the classics field. Despite its prominence, however, I had never heard of the institute before the spring semester. Fortunately, a member...