Professor Michele Ronnick of Wayne State University will give a lecture as part of the new exhibit, "14 Black Classicists," at the Art, Design, and Architecture Museum. The talk describes the work of African-American classical scholars who taught Greek and Latin at the college or university level following the Civil War. These scholars made pathbreaking achievements, […]

The Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group welcomes Prof. Eric Rebillard of Cornell University's Departments of History and Classics. The title of his talk is  "Res gestas martyrum digerere: North African Hagiography until the Time of Augustine." He is the author of Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity (Cornell, 2012).

The Commerce, Commodities and Material Culture Research Cluster will be hosting its first paper workshop this year to discuss Nicole De Silva's paper "Fashioning Chinese America Cultural Citizenship and the Transpacific Boycott of Japanese Silk Stockings, 1937-1940." The paper positions the Japanese silk stocking boycott of 1937-1941 as a staging ground that fostered the development […]