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FAQ			News and Events AIA Lecture: Gordon Kelly on the trireme (ancient Greek warship) (01/24/2008) Classics Undergraduate Reception (11/20/07) AIA Lecture: John Peter Oleson on underwater archaeology and Roman concrete (11/08/07) Guest Lecture: Geoffrey Bakewell on Ovid and Mel Gibson (11/29/06) Cultural Heritage Issues: The Legacy of Conquest, Colonization and Commerce, Oct. 12-14, 2006 (6/28/06) First Oregon Undergraduate Conference in Classics, April 22, 2006 (3/30/06) Program News March 2005 (3/27/05) Professor Nicgorski Named New Associate Dean (1/16/03) National Teaching Award for Professor McCreery (1/5/03) AIA LECTURE: THE TRIREME: Ancient and Modern Prof. Dr. Gordon Kelly (Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon) Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:30 pm 245 Winter St. SE Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201) Free     CLASSICS UNDERGRADUATE RECEPTION: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:15 - 12:45 at the CENTER FOR ANCIENT STUDIES AND ARCHAEOLOGY YORK HOUSE (right-hand entrance) Find out more about: Classics Major, Classics Minor, Archaeology Special Major Summer Oportunities Study Abroad Opportunities Student Awards and Fellowships Classics Club, etc. Pizza and dessert served   AIA LECTURE: Dr. John P. Oleson on underwater archaeology and Roman concrete BUILDING FOR ETERNITY: Investigating the secrets of Roman hydraulic concrete Dr. John P. Oleson University of Victoria, British Columbia) Thursday, November 8, 2007 7:30 pm 245 Winter St. SE Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center Paulus Lecture Hall (Room 201) Free   GUEST LECTURE: GEOFFREY BAKEWELL ON OVID AND MEL GIBSON Deque Viro Factus, Mirabile, Femina: Tiresias, Mel Gibson, and What Women Want Dr. Geoffrey Bakewell Michael W. Barry Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at Creighton University (Omaha, Nebraska) Wednesday, Nov 29th 2006 7:00 pm Eaton Hall, Room 412 Free We human beings are perennially fascinated by the opposite sex: how does the other half really live and love? In "What Women Want", Mel Gibson follows in the footsteps of ancient myth and explores what it purportedly means to be a woman. Come find out why a dead white European male, the male Roman poet Ovid, may be more of a feminist than twenty-first century film director Nancy Meyers. CULTURAL HERITAGE ISSUES: THE LEGACY OF CONQUEST, COLONIZATION, AND COMMERCE From October 12-14, 2006, Willamette University will host a major international conference, open to the public, that brings together archaeologists and legal scholars, art historians, museum curators, and experts from the FBI and U.S. State Department to discuss the law and policies of cultural heritage management. More than two dozen internationally recognized experts from Australia, Canada, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Nigeria and the United States will engage the audience in a critical dialogue about the legal and ethical dimensions of cultural heritage issues. For more information, see the conference web site. UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE APRIL 2006 The First Oregon Undergraduate Conference in Classics at Willamette University on April 22, 2006, was a huge success. Six student speakers gave talks that created a lively discussion among the 40 conference participants (see the conference program). Students and faculty from five of the six Oregon undergraduate programs in Classics attended, Portland State University, Reed College, University of Oregon, University of Western Oregon, and Willamette University. One of the presenters wrote, "I had a wonderful time and felt really lucky to have had the opportunity to present a small portion of my thesis for such an intellegent and interested group of classicists." And an out-of-town faculty member remarked, "The standard of all the papers was extremely high and the students did an excellent job in responding to some tough questioning!" PROGRAM NEWS MARCH 2005 Willamette's Classical Studies Program continues to grow. As of this month, we have 8 majors and 20 minors, up from 1 major and 4 minors in Spring 2004. Because of the unabatedly strong demand, we are also able to offer two sections each of Elementary Latin I and II for the third year in a row. In February 2005, Ortwin Knorr received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. He also had two articles accepted this Spring. "Three Orators and a Flawed Argument (Hor. Sat. 1.10.27-30)" will appear in The Classical Journal 100.4 (2005), and "Cherchez la Femme: Horace's Ship Ode, Carm. 1.14" will be published in the Transactions of the American Philological Association. In early November 2004, Ortwin presented a paper entitled "Terence's Topsy-Turvy Comedy" at the Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in Portland, OR. Next June, he will speak about "Metatheatrical Farce in the Comedies of Terence" at the international "Terentius Poeta" conference which will be held at the Freie Universitaet Berlin in Germany. In addition, Ortwin continues to organize a series of six or more speakers for the lively Salem society of the AIA and just wrote a report on the 2003-2004 job market for the Joint AIA/APA Committee on Placement that will be published in the next APA newsletter and on the APA's website.   An article by Mary Bachvarova, entitled "Topics in Lydian Verse: Accentuation and Syllabification" will soon appear in the Journal of Indo-European Studies 32 (2004). Three other articles are also forthcoming: "The Eastern Mediterranean Epic tradition from Bilgames and Akka to the Song of Release to Homer's Iliad" in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 45 (2005), "Relations Between God and Man in the Hurro-Hittite 'Song of Release'" in Journal of the American Oriental Society, and "Oath and Allusion in Alcaeus fr. 129" in Horkos: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Oath, eds. A. Sommerstein (Nottingham) and J. Fletcher (Western Ontario). In September, Mary co-organized an international conference, "Greeks, Hittites and their Neighbors", at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, along with Billie Jean Collins (Emory) and Ian Rutherford (Florida State/Reading). She herself presented a paper on "The Poet's Point of View and the Prehistory of the Iliad" at this occasion. Currently, she is preparing the conference proceedings for publication. In January 2005, Mary also presented "Actions and Attitudes: Understanding Greek and Latin verbal paradigms" at the 136th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association in Boston, and at the recent Langford Conference at Florida State University (February 2005), she spoke about "Divine Justice Across the Mediterranean: The Context of Orestes' Trial in Aeschylus." For late April, she has been invited to give a talk entitled "Local word-smiths and supra-local audiences: Hittite perspectives" at the "Poeti vaganti" conference at Cambridge University in the U.K.   Furthermore, we are excited to welcome Scott Pike, a geoarchaeologist focusing on Mediterranean archaeology, to Willamette University. He will join Willamette's faculty as an Assistant Professor of Geology and Environmental Science in Fall 2005. Scott received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia with a thesis on the archaeological geology and geochemistry of Pentelic marble. From 1995-1997, he directed the Wiener Laboratory at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Currently, he is involved in a major international excavation in Italy, the Sangro Valley Project. Scott comes to us from Lynchburg Collge in Virginia, where he served as the treasurer of the local AIA society. While he was hired to teach in the Environmental Sciences Program, we hope that he will at some point be able to offer courses in his particular specialty, geoarchaeology. He has already said that he is trying to get funding to take students along with him to his excavation in Italy. PROFESSOR NICGORSKI NAMED NEW ASSOCIATE DEAN Salem, OR, Jan. 16, 2003. (ok) Ann M. Nicgorsky, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, has accepted an appointment to the position of Associate Dean for Willamette University's College of Liberal Arts for a three-year term, beginning August 2003.       Professor Nicgorski, a member of the Classical Studies Executive Committee, is not only very popular and highly respected on campus, she also brings extraordinary organizational skills to this important position. In the past, she has displayed her talents in this regard in particular as Faculty Coordinator of the World Views program on Ancient Athens, Program Coordinator of the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Faculty Curator of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, and last, but not least as Chair of the Academic Programs Committee. PROFESSOR McCREERY WINS NATIONAL TEACHING AWARD New Orleans, LA, Jan. 5, 2003. (ok) David W. McCreery, Professor of Religion at Willamette University and specialist in Near Eastern Bronze Age Archaeology, has been awarded the prestigious Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching annually presented by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), the national organization of American archaeologists. Numerous students and alumni as well as faculty colleagues testified to Professor McCreery's deep knowledge, infectious enthusiasm, and innovative teaching methods that have now earned him this well-deserved national recognition.       Professor McCreery received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburg in 1980. From 1981 to 1988, he served as Director of the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman (Jordan). An internationally renown expert in palaeobotany, he has excavated in Cyprus and at numerous sites in Jordan, most notably Bâb edh-Drâh' and Numeira. Currently, he is Co-Director of the Tell-Nimrin Excavation, also in Jordan, and President of the very active Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, which he helped found.       With the students in his Archaeological Methodology course, Professor McCreery regularly digs into the pre-history of Willamette's campus (founded in 1842). Over the past ten years, students have found a 50 year old time capsule, remains of the old music building, the old gymnasium, the former Kimball School of Theology, and a button from a Civil War uniform. Most recently, they uncovered the mud-caked trunk of a 700 year old tree under Smith Auditorium, felled by a flash flood of Mill Creek around AD 1500 (cp. The Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts 12 (2002) 57-68). The final exams in this class are famous and for many students a memorable experience. Students handle real artifacts, some of them more than 2000 years old, and are asked to identify them.       Professor McCreery maintains an archaeological laboratory on campus in which he and his students analyze recent finds. At Willamette, he teaches Old Testament History, a writing-centered Survey of Syro-Palestinian Archaeology, a hands-on Introduction to Archaeological Methodology, and a sequence of courses in Classical Hebrew. 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