You have until 11:59pm on Sunday, April 4th to submit your response.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Save Classics at Leeds
An excerpt from the University of Leeds' Classics Blog.
Sign their petition to help save the Classics department.
Why?
In the context of current government cuts in funding to UK universities, the University of Leeds is going through an ‘economies exercise’.
We already know that the number of staff in Classics will be reduced from next year, and as a result we have been forced to discontinue our degrees in Greek and Latin. The final intake onto these degree programmes will be in September 2010.
But the University is also considering a proposal to remove Classics altogether. This would mean the end of over one hundred years of Classical research and teaching at Leeds.
We recognise that some restructuring is necessary and even desirable, but we do not accept that it is desirable or necessary to destroy popular and healthy degrees in Classical Civilisation (BA) and Classical Studies (MA) – particularly now that they will provide the only platform for teaching the ancient languages at Leeds.
What can you do?
We invite you to support our efforts to remind the University of the value of Classics as a subject, the contribution that Classics at Leeds has made both nationally and internationally, and the need to protect the expertise and provision of the only remaining Classics department in Yorkshire.
Sign their petition to help save the Classics department.
Why?
In the context of current government cuts in funding to UK universities, the University of Leeds is going through an ‘economies exercise’.
We already know that the number of staff in Classics will be reduced from next year, and as a result we have been forced to discontinue our degrees in Greek and Latin. The final intake onto these degree programmes will be in September 2010.
But the University is also considering a proposal to remove Classics altogether. This would mean the end of over one hundred years of Classical research and teaching at Leeds.
We recognise that some restructuring is necessary and even desirable, but we do not accept that it is desirable or necessary to destroy popular and healthy degrees in Classical Civilisation (BA) and Classical Studies (MA) – particularly now that they will provide the only platform for teaching the ancient languages at Leeds.
What can you do?
We invite you to support our efforts to remind the University of the value of Classics as a subject, the contribution that Classics at Leeds has made both nationally and internationally, and the need to protect the expertise and provision of the only remaining Classics department in Yorkshire.
Monday, March 22, 2010
More Hints
Hint for Bonus #1 (finding the letters of the Greek alphabet).
Take as many different routes to the common room as possible. Look in all directions.
Also remember that next week is the last week for the Classics Challenge!
Take as many different routes to the common room as possible. Look in all directions.
Also remember that next week is the last week for the Classics Challenge!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Hint for Bonus #1
Remember that you still have until the end of the contest to submit your answers for Bonus Question #1 (finding all the letters of the Greek alphabet around the school).
Hint: You'll find 'rho' when you're feeling hungry (rho is the letter that looks like a p and sounds like an r).
Hint: You'll find 'rho' when you're feeling hungry (rho is the letter that looks like a p and sounds like an r).
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Colloquium Schedule
Schedule and details for the colloquium.
Room - 3D01 - University of Winnipeg (3rd floor, Duckworth, room 1 - this room is just on the Duckworth side of the overpass that crosses Spence St. between the Duckworth building and the main building).
Time - 2:30 until approximately 7pm (this Saturday, March 6th)
Snacks and refreshments will be served, but we intend to eat supper afterward at Tavern United on Hargrave St. (where they have graciously offered to give us 10% off of food and drinks), followed by a night of general merry-making.
Spectators are welcome.
Schedule
Dr. Jane Cahill (UW)
Jennesa Dyck (UW) - Humanizing Antiquity: The Skeletons of Herculaneum
Scott Berthelette (UM) - Imperial Ambition or Filial Devotion: An Investigation into the Relationship between Tiberius and Sejanus.
Alex Kroeger (UW) - Greek Mythology in Contemporary Children's Literature
Joseph Gerbasi (UW) - Epicurus and the Problem of Physiologia
Curtis Burbella (UW) - Alexander the Great: Son of Phillip; Son of Zeus
Melina Sturym (UW) - Water in Ancient Religious and Magic Rituals
Lisa Latour (UM) - Slingers in Homer
Brittany Restall (UW) - Hegesias on the Birth of Alexander the Great
Brittany Romano (UW) - The Use of Wool in Sacrificial Rituals
Devon Berofe (UW) - Hero of Alexandria
Sasha Suarez Amaya (UW) - Fathers in Plautine Comedy
Kaitlyn Boulding (UW) - The Medea Messenger Speech: From Graphic Horror to Comic Humour.
Room - 3D01 - University of Winnipeg (3rd floor, Duckworth, room 1 - this room is just on the Duckworth side of the overpass that crosses Spence St. between the Duckworth building and the main building).
Time - 2:30 until approximately 7pm (this Saturday, March 6th)
Snacks and refreshments will be served, but we intend to eat supper afterward at Tavern United on Hargrave St. (where they have graciously offered to give us 10% off of food and drinks), followed by a night of general merry-making.
Spectators are welcome.
Schedule
Dr. Jane Cahill (UW)
Jennesa Dyck (UW) - Humanizing Antiquity: The Skeletons of Herculaneum
Scott Berthelette (UM) - Imperial Ambition or Filial Devotion: An Investigation into the Relationship between Tiberius and Sejanus.
Alex Kroeger (UW) - Greek Mythology in Contemporary Children's Literature
Joseph Gerbasi (UW) - Epicurus and the Problem of Physiologia
Curtis Burbella (UW) - Alexander the Great: Son of Phillip; Son of Zeus
Melina Sturym (UW) - Water in Ancient Religious and Magic Rituals
Lisa Latour (UM) - Slingers in Homer
Brittany Restall (UW) - Hegesias on the Birth of Alexander the Great
Brittany Romano (UW) - The Use of Wool in Sacrificial Rituals
Devon Berofe (UW) - Hero of Alexandria
Sasha Suarez Amaya (UW) - Fathers in Plautine Comedy
Kaitlyn Boulding (UW) - The Medea Messenger Speech: From Graphic Horror to Comic Humour.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Dr. Whately is giving a talk!
This Friday, March 5th at 4pm at 376 University College (UofM) Dr. Whateley will be giving a talk entitled "Moesian Vexillations".
Come out and show your support!
Come out and show your support!
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