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The Director of the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies (Andrew Faulkner) and Director of Advancement of the Faculty of Arts (Kim Bardwell) attended the HHF Recognition Awards Dinner on Nov. 17, 2016 together with two of our students Holly Patrick and Matthew Coleman (pictured). We were proud to support Dr Savvas Chamberlain, distinguished Professor Emeritus of Waterloo, who received the HHF Lifetime Achievement Award (http://www.hhf.ca/recipients.php)!

On Wednesday, October 9 Mr. James Karas, President of the Pan-Macedonian Association of Ontario, was presented with a Plaque of Recognition from Drs. Faber and Faulkner on behalf of WIHS. The Institute expressed heart-felt thanks to the Association for its generous donation of $30,000 to the WIHS Director's Fund, and for its pledge of ongoing support. The donation is an important contribution to the campaign to meet the challenge of raising $100,000 to match a gift provided by NAE Engineering Associates Inc.

The Department of Classical Studies is proud to announce that Prof. Sheila Ager has accepted the position of Area Editor, Hellenistic World, Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley-Blackwell). In both print and on-line formats, the EAH is the definitive, modern reference work for the study of the ancient world. This is a wonderful recognition of Prof. Ager's noted expertise in Hellenistic history, as well as her editorial and leadership skills. As of Fall 2013. Prof.

It was a wonderful celebration a few weeks ago when the Institute, several of its Research Associates and Students from the University of Waterloo got to together at the launch party for the fruits of the Institute's first publication "Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World". Prior to the launch party a group of about 70 participants was privileged to listen to a lecture by Prof. Daniel Ogden (University of Exeter) on the "Legend of Seleucus".

The following book has just been published by Brill and may be of interest to many. Shifting Social Imaginaries in the Hellenistic Period is a collection of essays that explores the "shifting" relationships between east and west in the Hellenistic period and illustrates that these connections or "new spaces" of identity and culture were complex matrices of interaction, often long before the Hellenistic period proper. The volume includes essay by our Research Associates and should help further our understanding of the "fluid dynamics" of the Hellenistic world. 

On February 14, 2013, a delegation from the Greek Consulate General at Toronto visited the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies (WIHS). Friendly contacts had already been established in 2010, when the Hon. Consul General Dimitris Azemopoulos had been our guest of honour on occasion of the inauguration of the Institute. This time, Consul Despina Hatzidiakos, Director of Education, and Mr. Spyros Volonakis, Director of Education of the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Church of Canada, followed our invitation to the University of Waterloo campus.

The institute hosted Professor Elizabeth Carney, of Clemson University. Sponsored by the Onassis Foundation through its University Seminar Program, Prof. Carney lectured in a graduate course, participated in a senior undergraduate seminar on Hellenistic Portraits and Personalities, gave a presentation to the university community, and provided advice in research. A historian who has published on topics that include Alexander, Arsinoë, and women in military leadership, Dr. Carney is conducting a study into the lives and careers of Hellenistic women in political positions.