Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 18/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 19/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 18/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for doctoral students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 20/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

This seminar examines the entanglement of Roman-period literature with enslavement. It explores the involvement of enslaved workers (secretaries, performers, teachers et al.) in the production, reception, and circulation of Latin and Greek literary texts. It also asks how literary texts represent enslavement and how enslavement inflects Roman literature’s aesthetic and political projects. Participants will gain exposure to research methods in connected subfields (e.g. epigraphy, papyrology, book history) and will discuss recent interventions in archival theory. The seminar will also give special consideration to the relationship between enslavement and the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum’s collection of one hundred fifty Latin inscriptions from the Roman period.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Londa, Christopher
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

This graduate seminar investigates a range of Roman cultural practices through the lens of "play" and "ludism." Beginning with some classic studies of play (Huizunga and others) we will look at a variety of Roman practices lexically designated as "play" (esp. schooling, gladiatorial contests, and sex) and consider such activities' relationship to a broader range of "acting as if" activities, such as religious ritual, drama, and "exercises" of various types.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources. Co-listed with AS.040.305. Recommended Course Background: AS.040.205-AS.040.206.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Gerolemou, Maria
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/3
• PosTag(s): n/a

This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources. Co-listed with AS.040.307.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/3
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Study in preparation for a comprehensive oral exam, required to become a PhD candidate, and consisting of three fields in classics and related areas.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources. Co-listed with AS.040.308. Recommended Course Background: AS.040.207-AS.040.208.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This graduate seminar (welcoming advanced undergrads with instructor permission) examines epic literature’s entanglements with empire, colonialism, ethnicity, indigeneity, and slavery via critical readings of Vergil’s Aeneid. Students will gain methodological and pragmatic familiarity with movements to ‘decolonize’ and globalize the study of antiquity. As a counterbalance to Classics’ historical service to imperialism, we will read Vergil alongside other literary epics on race, identity, and belonging, representing diverse global languages, belief systems, geographies, and positionalities. We will also survey classics of postcolonial thought, from Fanon to Hartman, and apply their theories and methods to primary sources. Our hope is to incubate reparative approaches to the Aeneid and epic literature while also evaluating novel methodologies of comparison, reception, resistant interpretation, and critical fabulation. Classics graduate students will read the Aeneid in Latin. Undergraduate and non-Classics graduate students may read in translation but should plan on substantial engagement with an additional epic of their choice. All will hone professional skills as they produce a final research paper suitable for conference presentation or open-access web publication on race-time.net.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources. Co-listed with AS.040.306.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

This collaborative seminar meets jointly with students from MICA to design an exhibition concerning a cast collection of ancient Mediterranean sculpture, founded in 1881, that resided at both institutions during different moments in its history (part of the collection is still located at MICA, where art students regularly engage with it). Participants will explore the dynamic position of the collection between these two urban institutions and its existence as part of the ongoing history of the city. This course is associated with the Baltimore ReCast Classics Research Lab. Advanced undergraduates can contact the instructor about joining the course.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room: Gilman 108
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Study in preparation for a comprehensive oral exam, required to become a PhD candidate, and consisting of three fields in classics and related areas

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roller, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Anderson, Emily S.K.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Smith, Joshua M
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: ni Mheallaigh, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Butler, Shane
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

No Audits.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Pandey, Nandini
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

The ancient Egyptians played many games, as we do today. Board games, ball games, games of skill, etc., were not only part of daily life, but also had a role to play in religious practices and beliefs. Although the rules of the games are largely unknown to us, archaeological objects, funerary images, and texts help us to better understand their roles and meanings in ancient Egyptian culture. These various sources also show how games reflect (or contradict) some facets of the organization of the society, and reveal how the ancient Egyptians perceived some aspects of their world - social hierarchy, gender division, representation of death, relationship to chance/fate/divine will, etc. This course will present the evolution of games and play in Ancient Egypt from the 4th millennium BCE, with the first board game discovered in the tomb of a woman, through those deposited in the tomb of Tutankhamun, and up to the Roman period. By replacing the games in their archaeological, historical and cultural contexts, the course is also intended as an original introduction to the civilization of ancient Egypt. The course will consist mainly of lectures given by the professor, with several guest researchers. Examinations will be divided into three parts: two knowledge quizzes during the semester; at the end of the semester, an essay on an Egyptian game of the student's choice.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Arnette, Marie-Lys
• Room: Gilman 130G
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/12
• PosTag(s): n/a