University of Kentucky Latin & Ancient Greek

03/22/2023

For this year’s Bluegrass Classics Lectures
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The first lecture will be on March 30, 2023 @ 4:30pm
To register https://rb.gy/w17q24

Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:30 pm ET Via Zoom to Register: https://rb.gy/w17q24 Or scan the QR code

07/20/2022

Elementary Latin at UKY this fall! Contact us for placement if you took some Latin in high school. https://mcl.as.uky.edu/classics Open seats in these sections: 9 am, 2 pm and Tues and Thur 6-7:40 pm.

04/13/2022

Featured Course for summer 2022
A historical introduction to the development of the Christian religion from a social and cultural perspective, from its origins in the 1st century CE to its divisions in the sixteenth century. The course examines the formation of Christian thought, polity, and religious practice and its changes as Christianity moved through different social contexts and cultural epochs up to the dawn of the modern era.
https://mcl.as.uky.edu/classics
No prerequisites. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities

04/12/2022

The Uprooting Medea Tour is coming to UK! On April 18, 2022 at 5:30 pm in the James F. Hardymon Theater, Khameleon will discuss their new film, directed by Riffy Ahmed, which reimagines the Greek Tragedy Medea. Their adaptation will feature an all-global cast and crew, original compositions, movement, and spoken word commissioned by the company. Shivaike Shah has been teaching classes, presenting drama workshops, and leading roundtable conversations with students and staff across the country at several universities. It will be an honor and a pleasure to have them visit Lexington Come and interrogate the history and legacy of Classics with Khameleon’s Medea tour!
https://bluegrassclassicslectures.weebly.com/uprooting-medea.html

03/26/2022

Dr. Murray (me) gave a lecture for the Manchester University Classical Association.

Professor Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky) speaks to:the Manchester Classical Association: https://www.manchesterca.org.uk/ &Manchester Centre for Publ...

03/25/2022

Join us if you can!

On March 30 from 4:00-5:00pm, join an expert panel discussing how is the far right (mis)appropriating classical antiquity to push their political and ideological agenda? How should the field of Classics react to this phenomenon? This dialogue between Professor Jackie Murray and Professor Katherine B...

03/23/2022

Also coming up next week in the Bluegrass Classics Lecture Series, Prof. Denise McCoskey with present her recent work on Race and Classical reception: "Race-Mixing" and the fall of Rome: The Role of Eugenics in Early 20th Century Classical Scholarship". Prof. McCoskey's lecture is sponsored by Transylvania University's Classics Department. Here's the registration link: https://transy.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkcOuspj4jGNSfL-XMDtNDc8P6x66iMcSW
For more lecturers coming up check out the website:
https://bluegrassclassicslectures.weebly.com

03/23/2022

Next up: the Bluegrass Lecture Series presents Sam Cooper of Cairo University will discuss Black Pather and Classical Reception. His lecture is sponsored by Transylvania University's Classics Department. Thursday, March 24 at 4:30 PM ET.
to join the talk: https://transy.zoom.us/j/83241362526?pwd=dnRBT0tadVBlWGxzT1RVekRub0pEUT09

https://bluegrassclassicslectures.weebly.com/

02/17/2022

Reminder to join us this today at 6:30 PM ET via zoom for our second lecture in the Bluegrass Classics Lecture Series, Drusilla Dunjee Houston: Matriarch of the West. Dr. Peggy Brooks Bertram shares with us her experiences learning and writing about this almost forgotten figure of African American History. The author of "The Wonderful Ethiopians of the Cush*te Empire" (1924). This lecture has been generously sponsored by the Gaines Humanities Center and is part of the 2022 Mini Grant Series. For more Bluegrass Classics Lectures: https://bluegrassclassicslectures.weebly.com
To register: https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdeytrjksGdx_1jxT7sFP6cuHWma_XGFj