The department commemorates his life and contributations to the university. Read more >>
While many of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences' students will travel abroad this winter, 20 of them are headed to places likes Israel, Palestine, London, Switzerland, Greece, and Turkey thanks to awards from Mason's Center for Global Education. Read More >>
Martin Winkler adds to his impressive list of publications on Classics and cinema with a new study published by Cambridge University Press. Cinema and Classical Texts interprets films as visual texts and provides the first systematic demonstration of the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema. It examines major themes from classical myth and history such as the question of heroism and patriotism in war and the representation of women like Helen of Troy and Cleopatra as products of male desire and fantasy. Read More >>
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences announces a memorial service for Jeffrey Chamberlain, professor and chair of Modern and Classical Languages, who died in September. The memorial will take place on Wednesday, Feb.3, 2010, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Center for the Arts. Chamberlain served on the Mason faculty for 26 years. Read More >>