Events

On Wednesday, February 28, Chicago-based musician and Classics degree holder Joe Goodkin will be bringing the awe-inspiring tales of Ancient Greece to CLAS 231 in PAS 2086 from 10:00-11:30.  This event is free and all are welcome.  For more information on other events that day - https://uwaterloo.ca/daily-bulletin/2024-02-12#a-modern-bard-s-retelling-of-the-iliad.

Join us for a celebration of outstanding work by undergraduate students from some of UW's culture-focused courses and programs.  Event is being held at Conrad Grebel Community Education Room 2202. 

The Classical Association of Canada in cooperation with Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo are proud to present the Annual Fall Lecture by Professor Conor Whatley, University of Winnipeg.  The title of the lecture is Woman and War in Roman Arabia and Palestine.  It will be held at Wilfrid Laurier University on Monday September 23 from 2:00-3:30 in Arts Building 1C 16.  All are welcome. 

Please join us at our Annual Meet the Prof event.  It will be held at the Grad House upstairs.  All are welcome. 

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Stephen Sherlock in an exploration of archaeological sites in Northeast Yorkshire from the Neolithic period to the Roman arrival.  His experience as an archaeologist spans four decades and he will present his work at Street House, a small yet archaeologically rich site on the Yorkshire coast.  He will also discuss his partnership with DRAGEN Lab and the experiential learning opportunities for students offered over the past two years.  The lecture will be held on Wednesday October 9 from 5:30-7:30 in SJ2 1004.  All are welcome. 

The Department of Classical Studies is proud to present a lecture by Sara Ennis, PhD Candidate in Literature and Linguistics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.  The title of the lecture is "Knowledge and Remembrance: Narrating Memory from  the Norman Conquest to Modern  Argentina". 

Dr Kroeker will be leading the group on January 30 from 4:30-6:30 in the boardroom at the Grad House.  All are welcome. 

In Xenophon’s Symposium (yes, Xenophon has a Symposium too!) he starts out with the statement that it is worth being mindful of the activities of “truly good” people (kaloikagathoi) even when they are relaxing and fooling around, and not just in their serious endeavours.  At one point the banqueters decide that they will discuss what each of them thinks is most worth knowing (3.3), and behind the question—and the joking that goes with it— seems to lie the serious question: what does it mean to be a truly good person; that is, what sort of knowledge makes one a truly good person?  So, what do you think?

All are welcome.