Upcoming Events:  

August 22 First Day of Classes

September 1, 6:30pm Fall Convocation

Archived Past Events

Tuesday, April 13, 2010. "Cato the Younger," a lecture by Classics Professor Francesca Behr. More info...

March 26-28, 2010. The second annual Dionysia. Follow the Diary of Electra now!

Monday, February 22, 2010: "The Aesthetics of Italian Fascism." As part of our Ethical Aesthetics series, this discussion featured presentations by UH Architecture Professor Michelangelo Sabatino and UH Italian Studies Professor Alessandro Carrera. They talked in particular about the aesthetics of architecture and music in Mussolini's Italy. More info...

Wednesday, January 27, 2010: "Do Intellectuals (Still) Matter?: A Conversation about Albert Camus and Jacques Derrida." The speakers drew from their recently published books: Robert Zaretsky, Albert Camus: Elements of a Life (Cornell UP) and David Mikics, Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography (Yale UP).  More info...

Monday, September 14, 2010,  Imaging the Iliad -- UH Classics Professor Casey Dué Hackney talked about the project to digitize Homeric manuscripts to a full audience in the Commons. For more information on the project, see the article here.  For the project web site, go here.