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UofT #Classics alumna to be precise classics.utoronto.ca/news/an…
Canadian poet and #UofT alumna Anne Carson has won the 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature for "her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature." #UofTAlumni 🏆 uoft.me/np26
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“Classics graduates will be the leaders of tomorrow,” says #UofTArtSci alum John Spina.
To invest in that future, he's created the John Spina Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship in Classics.
Learn more: bit.ly/4yA01yN
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Interested in taking a Classics course this year? Check out the 2025-26 course list with descriptions on our website! classics.utoronto.ca/undergr…
We’re hiring!
The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
Application Deadline: Nov 6, 2025. For more information, visit uoft.me/hiring-academic.
Congratulations to Classics' Don McCarthy, recipient of the 2025 CI Teaching Excellence Award! classics.utoronto.ca/news/do…
Register now! The Arts & Science Lecture in Classics with special guest speaker, Professor Emily Greenwood! buff.ly/d77LGPH
April 25th, 2025
4-6:30pm
Design by Natasha Whyte-Gray.
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📢We're hiring!📢We invite applications for 2 full-time, one-year contractually limited-term appointment (CLTA) in the areas of Greek and Latin Literature and Culture, and Greek and Latin Language and Pedagogy.
More info: uoft.me/hiring-academic
We've just launched a senior search for a Classics / Medieval Studies position in Late Antique Latin Literature and Thought: classics.utoronto.ca/news/we…
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#ICYMI: @UofT researchers spoke to @CBCQuirks about summer fieldwork that took them deep underground, high up in the Earth’s stratosphere, and back down to Earth, to a Greek island that’s home to a mysterious Roman statue.
Listen here: bit.ly/4glfA4R
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This fall, join curators Madeleine Mant and Martin Revermann for The Theatre of Science — a new seminar series which explores the many modes in which sciences and theatre & performance art interact.
Hosted select Fridays, 1-4PM in CDRS.
Learn more at bit.ly/the-sci. ⬇️
ALT Poster image: Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632.
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In the Iron Age for the next two days! Talking about #wine production and its culture among a diverse range of topics across the #Mediterranean. Thanks to @bernard_prof + Sarah Murray for inviting and editing the subsequent OUP volume.
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While writing her PhD on the reception of Homer in contemporary women's writing, UCL’s Alex Meghji reflects on her time studying Atwood as a visiting student at UofT
Read more here: t.ly/giE5v
We are thrilled to announce that Kat Furtado, PhD candidate in @CSAMP_UofT, has won the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation at @UofT_Teaching ’s CI Teaching Excellence Award!
Congratulations, Kat!
Read more about Kat's outstanding work as a CI here: t.ly/19Smy
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Photo exhibit on display at #UofT celebrates the important role of Black Classicists đź“· uoft.me/atd
ALT Black Classicists in North America celebrates 18 prominent scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries
Wishing a fond farewell to John Magee upon his retirement, to Regina Hoeschele as she moves to a Chair at the LMU in Munich, and to Peter Bing, who has taught for us since 2016.
Thank you all for your invaluable contributions and best wishes for your future endeavors!
Prof Victoria Wohl received a SSHRC Connection Grant to support a conference titled “Elemental Readings II: The Poetics of Water,” co-organized with @CSI_UofT Prof James Cahill, to take place Oct. 4-5 at U of T
More info here: t.ly/ia3q8
Congratulations, Victoria!
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The Black Classicists in North America photo exhibit in the Lillian Massey Building celebrates 18 prominent Black scholars who advanced Greek and Latin language studies. It’s the first time this collection has been displayed in Canada.
Learn more: bit.ly/3Up7XkJ
ALT Portraits of three prominent scholars John Wesley Edward Bowen, Helen Maria Chesnutt and Orishatukeh Faduma.
Black Classicists Exhibition Featured in A&S News
@UofTArtSci covers the first-ever installation of the exhibition in Canada, after shows in the US & UK
Read the article: t.ly/3U8Hd
Visit the exhibition's event page: t.ly/0MlSJ
Photo credit: A&S News
