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 September 4th, 2025 at 12:00 pm at the Ahmanson Auditorium (UNH 1000) for our 3rd Annual Classics and Archaeology Meet and Greet & Alumni Speaker Event! Participants will have the opportunity to meet CLAR faculty, students, and alumni Alyssa Arredondo ('11) and Dan Priore ('11). Alyssa and Dan will both give presentations on how their CLAR educations have shaped their journeys beyond LMU. They will also give advice to students who are interested in a career in museum studies and education. All are welcome!

Join us on September 17th, 2025 or on September 24th, 2025 to a performance of Oedipus the King, Mama! at the Getty Villa Outdoor Theater in Malibu! L.A.'s beloved Troubadour Theater Company gets Sophocles’ Oedipus the King all shook up with the music of the King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley! In Oedipus the King, Mama, plot twists and pelvic thrusts are plentiful, and a live band accompanies the sordid story. Fighting to find out the ugly truth, Oedipus gives in to suspicious minds and digs deep into the past, only to find a forbidden future, and the meaning of blind ambition. Following the performance, attendees will have the opportunity to explore The Late Bronze Age Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Mycenaean Greece exhibition. The galleries will remain open until 7pm.

Join us on October 2nd, 2025 for a book launch celebration of The Pioneer Kingdoms of Macedon and Qin: A Triumph of the Periphery, the new monograph by our CLAR alum and current lecturer, Dr. Jordan Christopher published by Cambridge UP. The Pioneer Kingdoms critically compares the cultures of Ancient Greece and Early China in the first millennium BC through following the histories of two of its peripheral cases: Argead Macedon and Qin. Dr. Christopher undertakes a holistic comparison of these states from their earliest origins through to the reigns of Alexander the Great and the First Emperor, which highlights the particularities of Greek and Zhou cultures that often go under-appreciated as causal factors in history. All are welcome!