On Friday, October 11th, from 4:10–5 pm in 716 Philosophy Hall, the Classical Studies Graduate Program is hosting an information session for undergraduates interested in learning more about the BA/MA option through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The Classical Studies program offers a unique interdepartmental and interdisciplinary training in the study of the ancient world, drawing on faculty from the departments of Art History & Archaeology, Classics, History, and Philosophy. If you are a prospective applicant in your junior year or in the first semester of your senior year, we invite you to learn more about the requirements ahead of the application deadline on November 13th. We also welcome students who are considering applying in upcoming semesters.

Joshua Billings (Princeton University, Classics)
Friday, April 5, 2024, 11:00 am ET 
509 Hamilton Hall, Department of Classics, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027

Joshua Billings (Princeton, Classics) will discuss The Philosophical Stage: Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens (Princeton UP, 2023)

The Classical Studies Graduate Program is pleased to announce that Professor Joshua Billings (Princeton University), author of The Philosophical Stage: Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens (Princeton UP, 2021), will be on campus to discuss his book on Friday, April 5, at 11am in Room 607 Hamilton Hall.

This in-person event has an author-meets-reader format. We are circulating in advance "Tragedy in the Philosophical Age of the Greeks" (Introduction) and "Intrigue and Ontology" (Chapter 2) [excluding subsection “Language and Necessity: Sophocles’ Philoctetes (I)”] to prepare for the conversation (please see the selections attached).

After an introduction by Professor Dhananjay Jagannathan (CU Department of Philosophy), Prof. Billings will discuss the book, engage in dialogue with Jake Haagenson (CLST), and answer questions from attendees in a seminar-style format.

A short reception will follow the event. We hope that you can join us!

Jessica Lamont (Yale University)
Friday, October 6, 2023, 11:00 am ET 
509 Hamilton Hall, Department of Classics, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027

As part of its Classical Dialogues series, the Classical Studies Graduate Program at Columbia University is pleased to welcome Jessica L. Lamont, Assistant Professor of Classics at Yale University

Jessica L. Lamont will discuss her book In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece (Oxford UP, 2023), which offers "the first historical study of ancient Greek curse rituals, binding spells, and incantations" while uniting "epigraphic, historical, literary, archaeological, and material evidence to expand understandings of daily life in ancient communities." Introduction by Sailakshmi Ramgopal (Columbia University) with commentary by Giovanni Lovisetto (Columbia University)