Lectures

We explored one passage from each of Homer's epics that contains a ludicrously inappropriate formula. Our examination will reveal how Homer’s formulas conveyed greater significance within their oral traditions than we recognize when we read them as written texts and how both epics use humor differently to reverberate their deeper thematic concerns

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.

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.

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.