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Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz was an invited speaker on March 9 at the Brock University Archaeological Society’s Scholarly Symposium “Classics in Education: Ancient and Modern.” Her talk was titled “Academic Activism: Teaching Classics at Marcy Correctional Facility.”

Denise Eileen McCoskey, associate professor of classics and an affiliate in black world studies at Miami University of Ohio, will deliver a lecture titled “Race Matters: Re-Casting Identity Among the Greeks and Romans,” on Thursday, March 14, at 4 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Taylor Science Center.  Her lecture is sponsored by Hamilton’s Classics department and is free and open to the public.

Brent Shaw, the Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics and chair of the Program in the Ancient World at Princeton University, will present the Winslow Lecture titled “The End of Sacrifice,” on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.  His lecture is sponsored by the Hamilton Classics Department and is free and open to the public.

Although they are sometimes hard to see through the smog and light pollution, the stars illuminate the night sky as they have for millions of years. While many of us enjoy driving out on country roads to admire the star-studded landscape of the night, few can look into the heavens and see thousands of years of human history like Anthony Aveni can.

Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, was the outside examiner on a dissertation for a Ph.D. candidate in University of Toronto classics department.

Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the meeting of the American Philological Association (APA) Jan. 3-6 in Seattle. The annual gathering of educators and scholars is the main meeting for classicists.

Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, has published an article on "Literary Patronage" in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (ed. R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A Erskine, and S. Huebner; Blackwell 2013).  This appears in the Wiley Online Library.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, was invited to be a guest at the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in Saint Louis.  While there she gave a lecture titled "Juvenal the Roman Satirist: One Man or Many?"  She also gave a workshop for faculty and graduate students on "What is a Cinaedus?"

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, attended and spoke at an invited, international conference at the Fondation Hardt in Geneva, Switzerland, in October.  This conference center is the site of small international conferences on specific topics in classical studies, Entretiens sur l'Antiquité classique.

Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold published an article, “Juvenal: The Idea of the Book,” in A Companion to Persius and Juvenal, edited by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood (Wiley-Blackwell 2012).