No upper bound: language science beyond the lab
Seminar
Presented in-person and Online via ZoomDespite its abstract and ivory-tower character, the science of language, in all its subdomains and manifestations, can come in handy in many facets of life. The multiple benefits include scientific thinking alongside the acquisition of a range of lifelong…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - December 2025
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - November 2025
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
Springtime, with Fences: Ruth Park’s Teenage Years and the Emergence of a Writer (1930–1937)
Seminar
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.“The Three Wise Men of Gotham loved the springtime so greatly they could not bear to see it vanish. So they built a fence around the cuckoo.” (A Fence Around the Cuckoo, 1992)With this epigraph, Ruth Park opens the first volume of her two-…
Collections as Data for Humanists
Seminar
Books tend to be well defined as something with a start and a finish and often have a cover, serving as a nice physical boundary representing where they start and end, and generally researchers trained in the Humanities are comfortable with these objects. However, as the world of cultural…
Snakes
Seminar
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.In May 1770, Joseph Banks described sea snakes near the coast of ‘New South Wales’ as ‘beautifully spotted’. In 1788, Watkin Tench noted the ‘[l]arge snakes beautifully variegated’ around Botany Bay and Port Jackson. The one snake…
Ovid in Homer: Ovidian Re-imaginings of Troy in the Ilias Latina
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 7presented in-person and online via ZoomThe Ilias Latina is a Latin version of Homer’s Iliad, in 1070 hexameter verses, likely composed during the reign of Nero (c. AD 60–65). As with all Latin ‘translations’ of Greek poems, it is as much a…