Newsletter 2025:The Department of Classics & Archaeology has released our annual Newsletter! This Newsletter covers all the exciting events and updates over the past year!
To see what we've been up to, please click HERE to read the full Newsletter!
Dr. Cristiana Zaccagnino & Dr. Fabio Colivicchi presented at the Luoghi e tempi del sacro a Veio e Cerveteri:
nuovi dati archeologici a confronto on November 25, 2025!
Topic - Fabio Colivicchi: La Vigna Marini Vitalini e il paesaggio sacro dell’area centrale di Cerveteri
Topic - Cristiana Zaccagnino: L’area dell’Ipogeo di Clepsina nel periodo romano
For more information, you can read the program HERE!
Dr. Jan-Mathieu Carbon will be giving a paper at the International Conference Dodona: The Oracular Lamellae
Topic: Laying on hands: Dodona’s evidence for a common practice of healing
Date: October 11th, 2025
For more information, you can read the program HERE!
Dr. Styliani Skaltsa will be giving a paper at the International Colloquium in WĂĽrzburg, Germany!
Topic: Finding home together in a synoecized state: associations in Rhodes
Date: October 7th, 2025
Dr. Styliani Skaltsa will be giving a paper at the Amphoras and the Archaeology of Ancient Economies in Greece!
Topic: Aegean Imports in Rhodes: Observations of the Amphoric Material from a Public Monumental Building
Date: October 10th, 2025
Time: 5:00 pm
For more information, you can read the program HERE!
Dr. Jan-Mathieu Carbon will be giving a paper at the Ioannina Conference in Greece! - 2025
Topic: Why Did No One Confess to Asebeia (or Atheism) in the so-called “Confession Inscriptions”?
For more information, you can read the program HERE!
Congratulations to our own Dr. Beatrice Poletti, whose book, Dionysius and the City of Rome: Portraits of Founders in the Roman Antiquities (Lexington Books, 2023), was just enthusiastically reviewed in the prestigious Bryn Mawr Classical Review. They called the book "an innovative study" in which "Poletti demonstrates her mastery ... she has done Dionysian scholars a great service... This characterization-led approach to the Roman Antiquities has much more to offer to our understanding of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and his world in future scholarship. - 2025
To read the review, please click !
Dr. Cristiana Zaccagnino will be presenting her book at the Swedish Institute in Rome on May 27th, 2025!
To read more about it, please click the link!
Classics Association of Canada 2025! - Several members of the department, including Faculty and Alumni, will be participating in this year's Classics Association of Canada Conference in Winnipeg from May 14th - 16th
Dr. Beatrice Poletti: Session 2
Ethopoeia in Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Roman Antiquities: Crafting Characters in Judicial Speeches
Alumni Emily Croft: Session 3
Weaving the Past: Reconstructing Roman Udones as Experiential Archaeology
Alumni Andrew Field: Session 5
Catullan Intertext in the Prologue and Book One of Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae
Dr. Stella Skaltsa: Session 7
Daily Life in the Gymnasium: An Attempt to Quantify Oil Distribution
Dr. Jan-Mathieu Carbon: Session 7
Co-Chair of session 7
Click to see the Program! To visit the website, click !
Dr. Cristiana Zaccagnino & Dr. Jan-Mathieu Carbon will present at the Through the Animal Prism conference sponsored by the University of Liverpool! For more information, please click
Topic: Not Just Athena’s Bird: The Many Faces of the Owl.
The presentations take place on Saturday, January 11th, 2025, from 4:00 - 4:30, via Zoom.
The Department of Classics & Archaeology will be very well represented at the 2025 Archaeological Institute of America and Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting! It will be taking place from Thursday, January 2nd, to Sunday, January 5th, in Philadelphia, PA!
Speakers are: Dr. Fabio Colivicchi, Dr. Cristiana Zaccagnino, Dr. Stella Skaltsa, Dr. Joshua Paul, Julianna Taylor, Alexandra Freitas, Anton Strachan, Haley Miller, Sarah Karelsen, Olivia Foran, Edward Chaykowski.
Speaker Details!
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