Events

The Classics & Archaeology Learning Community Series is a community building program designed to assist CLAR majors and minors in forming community with their peers and faculty and acquire academic skills and habits through attending the annual lecture series and related events. The 1-unit per semester course aims to enrich students' experiences by connecting them with fellow majors, introducing them to the faculty, exposing them to all of the opportunities in the department and on campus, and having fun talking about the diverse subject matter of our interdisciplinary program. It is an in-person experience and therefore an in-person class. It may be repeated for credit for up to 4 units.

Join us on Thursday, January 16th 2025 at the Classics & Archaeology department (UNH 3700) for our annual new year welcome and raffle event. All are welcome!

Join us on Thursday, January 30th 2025 at the Ahmanson Auditorium (UNH 1000) for a Q&A with the honorable Christina Valassopoulou, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles. The Consul General will discuss Greece's role as a current member of the United Nations Security Council. The Q&A will be hosted by Prof. Katerina Zacharia, director of the Classics & Archaeology Learning Community Series. The presentation will be followed by a reception. All are welcome.

Join us on February 13-15, 2025 at the Ahmanson Auditorium (UNH 1000) for a series of screenings of selected documentaries and short fiction films that explore the city of Elefsina (Eleusis) and its complex identity, bridging its ancient past with its evolving present. This cinematic journey includes multiple works produced throughout the artistic program of 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture (ECoC), The Mysteries of Transition and constitute part of its intangible legacy. This screening series brings together works that document, interpret, and reimagine Elefsina’s myths, landscapes, and contemporary social fabric. The audience is invited to engage with Elefsina not just as an ancient site, but as a living, breathing entity—one that continues to evolve and inspire.

Join us on February 27th, 2025 at 5:30 pm at the Ahmanson Auditorium (UNH 1000) for a special screening of Bucha. Bucha is a dramatic feature film based on the true story of a refugee from Kazakhstan who, in the spring of 2022, risked his life to save hundreds of Ukrainians in towns of Kyiv region occupied by Russian troops (2024, 118 mins, English subtitles). The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film's producer and screenwriter Oleksandr Shchur. The event will be hosted by Father Cyril Hovorun, director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute, and Professor Katerina Zacharia, director of the Classics & Archaeology Learning Community Series. The screening and Q&A will be followed by a reception. All are welcome!

Join us on Friday, February 28 and Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Ahmanson Auditorium (UNH 1000) for a two-day conference on Kin and Clan in Roman Antiquity. The event is organized and hosted by Dr. Jordan Christopher and Dr. Elliott Piros. All are welcome!

Join us for the second annual LMU Greek Cinema Week from March 11-18, 2025 at the Broccoli Theater and Ahmanson Auditorium (UNH 1000). The event is hosted and curated by Katerina Zacharia, with the support of the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival. The film screenings will be supported by students in Prof. Zacharia’s course on Representations of Greece: Ancient & Modern. Our curated Homage to Xenios Zeus Greek cinema program is hosted by the departments of Classics & Archaeology and Film, Television & Media Studies, and is co-sponsored by the Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, and the Dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts.

Join us on March 27th, 2025 at 5:30 pm at the Classics & Archaeology village (UNH 3700) for a presentation by Prof. Adriana Vasquez titled "Dido in a New World: Further Voices of the Feminine Indigene in Brazilian Arcadian Epic." This talk considers the American feminine indigene as a site for epic’s ‘further voices’ in the two epics produced under the umbrella of 18th century Brazilian Arcadianism. The presentation will be followed by a reception. Prof. Adriana Vazquez is an Assistant Professor of Classics at UCLA specializing in Latin literature of the Augustan period. All are welcome!