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McClanahan Lecture Series

Revisiting the Column of Trajan

presented by Associate Professor Diane Conlin

Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 7PM in HUMN 150

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In an effort to recruit the most talented students, the University of Colorado Boulder will fundamentally restructure the support for doctoral studies in its six literature PhD programs with the new Consortium of Doctoral Studies in Literatures and Cultures.

Students accepted into the consortium programs will be guaranteed five years of support, of which the first and fifth years offer cost-of-living stipends and are free of teaching obligations. In the intervening years they will teach a reduced load and receive a substantial stipend during their four summers on campus. Students also will be encouraged to choose mentors from outside their departments, emphasizing a more cross-disciplinary approach. In combination with advising in literature, they might seek advising in law, popular culture or media, for example.  The consortium is also rethinking how the PhD in the humanities should be shaped in the coming decades. The Center for Humanities and the Arts received a coveted Next Generation PhD grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which brings 28 private and public universities together in an exchange of ideas and practices. Find out more on the new Consortium of Doctoral Studies in Literatures and Cultures and more about the Next Generation Humanities PhD .

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Who's Buried in Philip's Tomb?

Dr. Jeanne Reames, University of Nebraska-Omaha

Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 5pm

Eaton Humanitites 250

1610 Pleasant St Boulder CO 80309

In northern Greece on the afternoon of November 8, 1977, Manolis Andronikos opened an unlooted tomb, revealing spectacular grave goods.  Soon, he announced he’d found not only the tombs of ancient Macedonian royalty, but the bones of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.

A multinational museum tour was planned with a glossy, illustrated coffee-table book and a BBC Documentary.  Yet cracks in the identification soon appeared, and scholars began asking:

Just who was buried in “Philip’s Tomb”?

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Join us for

The Beginnings of Beer in the Ancient World

by Travis Rupp

Longmont Public Library on Thursday, October 13 at 7PM

Registration Required

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Join the Department of Religious Studies as the present:

Evil in Marcion's Conception of the "Old Testament" God'

A guest lecture by Dr. Dieter T. Roth Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Thusday, October 13, 2016 in HUMN 350 at 3PM

Marcion was one of the most significant "heretics" of the second century C.E. as evidenced both by the number of church fathers that wrote against him and the amount that they wrote against him. Though there is widespread agreement that a fundamental element in Marcion's version of early Christianity was his distinguishing between the Father of Jesus Christ and the "Old Testament" or creator god, the precise nature of Marcion's dualism is disputed. This lecture revisits this dispute, both among Marcion's modern interpreters and in the ancient sources, with a particular view towards considering the role that evil played in Marcion's conception of the "Old Testament" God.

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Please join us for a public lecture by

Professor Lisa Bailey, University of Auckland

“Servants of God, Servants of the Church: Service and Religion in Early Mediaeval France”

Tuesday, October 11 at 5PM in HUMN125

Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics and History.  Everyone welcome.

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