Classics Graduate Student Amy Vandervelde Wins Prestigious Teaching Award

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Classics PhD student Amy Vandervelde has been selected as a recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ prestigious Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants Award, the college has announced. Venetria K. Patton, the Harry E. Preble Dean of the College of...

The UIUC Talk Show with Professor Brett Kaufman

In this wide-ranging and deeply reflective discussion, Professor Kaufman explores what archaeology really is—not treasure hunting, but the study of the human experience under pressure. He explains how civilizations collapse, how political systems and environmental instability interact, and why...

University of Illinois Classics Department Hosts Persian Wars Mini-Conference

presenters at the Persian Wars Mini-Conference
To close out the semester, the University of Illinois Classics Department hosted a mini-conference organized by Dr. Dan Leon at which graduate students in Greek 520: The Persian Wars shared their original research. Students practiced every stage of the conference process, from initial research and...

Classical Reception in the Midwest Colloquium

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On Friday, November 7th, the Classics Department, supported by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Central Illinois, and the SLCL Support for Conferences and Workshops Award, will host a colloquium on Classical Reception in the Midwest from 2:30 - 4:30 P.M. in the Lucy Ellis Lounge....

Dr. Marylynn Salmon (Smith College) Ancient Evidence for Congenital Syphilis in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece: Texts and Artworks Wednesday, September 17th at 5:00pm in Lincoln Hall 1002

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For centuries, syphilis and other treponemal diseases (bejel and yaws) were understood as “New World” exports, brought to Afro-Eurasia as part of the Columbian Exchange after 1492. But recent paleopathology and aDNA studies have demonstrated the presence of these diseases in the “Old World,” too,...
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