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Visiting Assistant of Classics Professor James Wells and Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino, accompanied by classics students Amanda Barnes '12, Kelsey Craw '12, Lauren Lanzotti '14, Kirsten Swartz '12 and Anna Zahm '13, traveled to Union College on Oct. 23 to speak at the annual Institute of the Classical Association of the Empire State.

Carl A. Rubino, Winslow Professor of Classics, delivered a paper titled “Long Ago, But Not So Far Away: Star Wars and the Ancient World” at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, held in Newark on Oct. 8.  The paper was given at a panel he organized on “Getting In Touch With the Force: the Power of Classical Antiquity in Star Wars, Red River, and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock.”  

Over the past 30 years, writer and director Pedro Almodóvar has created some fascinating and controversial films, and he has received worldwide recognition for it. Almodóvar's work has a surprising number of similarities with Greek tragic playwright Euripides. With an Emerson grant and guidance from Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Andres Matlock ’12 will analyze and compare the two.

Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold and Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino traveled to Tunisia (North Africa) in July where they visited an NEH seminar on "Augustine and Perpetua: Autobiography in its Roman Context."

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, gave an invited lecture to the Classics Department at Columbia University on April 21. The lecture was titled "Perpetua, Martyr: Athlete of God" and was part of Gold's book project on the Saint Perpetua for Oxford University Press.

A group of 14 Hamilton students and faculty traveled to Union College on April 16 for the fifth annual celebration of Parilia, an undergraduate Classics conference sponsored by Colgate, Hamilton, Skidmore and Union.

Hamilton's Winslow Professor of Classics Carl A. Rubino will present a talk titled “Articulating Wonder in a Secular Age" in the Imagining America series on Wednesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. at The Other Side, Utica. The Other Side is located at 2011 Genesee St. in Utica, across from the Uptown Theater and next to the Cafe Domenico. Parking is available, and admission is free.

Carl A. Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association, held in Albuquerque, N.M. on Feb. 10. The paper, “Long Ago, But Not So Far Away: Star Wars and the Ancient World,” was given at a panel Rubino chaired on "Alternate Takes: Greek Mythology in Science Fiction and Fantasy."

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, was interviewed for the Livescience.com Web site for a story titled "Valentines in Ancient Rome Were All About Pain" (2/14/10). "Unlike what you see in contemporary stores where we have valentines that are all clouds and dreamy and romantic, the Romans had a very different kind of take on love," said Gold, "It's not something that is a good feeling usually; it's something that torments you."

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells published two poems in the Summer/Fall 2009 issue of The Spoon River Poetry Review. The poems, “Illinois Ilissos” and “Migration,” are from Bicycle, a collection of poetry that Wells is currently writing.