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...

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...

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...

On Friday, November 21st, at 2:30 pm in the Lucy Ellis Lounge, the Department of Classics will host Dr. Osman Umurhan of the University of New Mexico as he delivers a talk titled "Quantum Classics and the Enigma of Consciousness: Ancient World(s) in a Participatory Universe."   ...

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....

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,...