Highlighted Events

A scholarly inquiry into Greek Cinema with an emphasis on contemporary issues and the discipline of Classics. Prof. Katerina Zacharia will select the topic and curate the annual Greek Cinema week, and will conduct all the post-screening discussions, which will be recorded by LMU staff/interns. This event is sponsored by the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts Dean and in collaboration with both the School of Film & Television Studies, and with our long-term community partner, the Los Angeles Greek film festival

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 Thursday, November 14, 2024 from 5:30 - 6:30 pm at the McIntosh Center (UNH 3999) for a presentation by Chris Childers for his new book ‘Greek and Latin Lyric Verse.’ Featuring poets from the 7th c. BCE to the 1st c. CE, including well-known classical poets such as Sappho, Ovid, and Horace, this anthology of Latin and Greek Lyric poetry offers a multiplicity of voices and personalities from the ancient Mediterranean. The book presentation will be followed by a reception. All are welcome.

Professor Andromache Karanika presents "Women's Epics: Wedding, Trauma, and the Female Storytelling in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey" as a part of the Classics and Archaeology Lecture Series. This talk will consider a range of different scenes in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey from the female perspective. It will look at how female characters weave their stories in the greater epic narrative with a focus on Helen, Penelope, Nausicaa, and Andromache. Join us on Thursday, October 10 at 5:30pm to 6:30pm in the McIntosh Center (UNH 3999). The presentation will be followed by a reception. All are welcome.

2nd Annual Classics and Archaeology Meet & Greet Alumni event, featuring a conversation with Molly Lower ('10).  Molly Lower has worked in education since 2016, starting as a history teacher at Bishop Alemany High School and currently serving as assistant principal at Redondo Union High School. Molly holds a master’s degree in school administration and a bachelor’s degree in classical civilizations from LMU as well as a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies from Tel Aviv University in Israel. Guided by LMU’s commitment to social justice and education of the whole person, Molly works to support student learning by providing equitable opportunities for all students, fostering meaningful relationships with families and community partners, and implementing restorative practices.

A book presentation of Artifactual by Elizabeth Anne Davis from the Anthropology Department at Princeton University with Katerina Zacharia of LMU Classics & Archaeology, and Chris Jackson of International Relations. The book explores how forensic investigations of missing persons lost to the violence of the Cyprus conflict, as well documentary films and archival photographs and footage, can retell and recontextualize conflicts between and within the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities. Reception is sponsored by the departments of Classics & Archaeology, Political Science and International Relations, and the Peace & Justice Studies program. Join us on Thursday, January 25th 5:30-6:30pm at UNH 1000. The presentation will be followed by a reception. All are welcome.

LMU alum, English Professor and Accomplished Screenwriter, TV writer and producer, off-Broadway playwright, and story consultant will share his insights with LMU students. His movie Candy Cane Lane, starring Eddie Murphy and produced by Brian Grazer, will be released this holiday season. LMU students email your questions to our moderator, Chair of Classics & Archaeology, Prof. Katerina Zacharia. Reception sponsored by the departments of: Classics & Archaeology, English, Theater Arts, Screenwriting, and Film, TV & Media Studies.

Prof. Katerina Zacharia is hosting a Short Film Screening with her "Greek Cinema" course. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director and screenwriter, both of whom are LAGFF's inaugural Student Fellows from the School of Film at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece Luncheon is sponsored by OISS. Synopsis: a coming-of-age story about two sisters leading their lives in different directions, who are summoned to a night of decision making.

The Greek Consul General in Los Angeles, the Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos, will be presenting on "Greece's Role in the Eastern Mediterranean". A Q&A with LMU students will follow. The event is sponsored by Classics & Archaeology, Global Policy Institute, International Relations and the BCLA Dean’s office.

Professor Katerina Zacharia co-moderated "A conversation with Harry Mavromichalis, director of the documentary Olympia (2018)”, with Associate Professor of Film, TV & Media Studies, Carla Marcantonio. The event was a tribute to Oscar-winning Greek-American actress Olympia Dukakis, and was hosted by Prof. Bryant Keith Alexander, Dean of Communications and Fine Arts, and Interim Dean of the School of Film & Television.

A conversation on Creativity and Collaboration with Blood of Zeus Netflix Anime series creators Charley & Vlas Parlapanides, moderated by LMU Professor of Classics Katerina Zacharia.

On January 21st 2015, Prof. Katerina Zacharia hosted and presented a BCLA-funded conference on “Channeling Grace through Art: Devotional Practices across spiritual Traditions.” The conference was comprised of four discussion panels on: ritual objects; ritual words, song, dance; congregational and solitary prayer; art making as devotional practice, each chaired by an LMU Professor. Twenty representatives of different faiths and traditions, and academic speakers from the Getty Museum, Fuller Seminary, Pepperdine University, UC Riverside, Stanford University, as well as Orthodox and Catholic clergy, a Buddhist monk, a Muslim and a Jewish calligraphist, and an Indian dancer, were among the speakers.