 | By Elizabeth Vo-Phamhi This fall, Professor Kate Meng Brassel joined Penn’s Department of Classics as a visiting assistant professor of classical studies. I was excited to get to know her, so we arranged to meet over Zoom for a Friday mo (More) |
| Looking Back, Thinking Forward: what Black Lives Matter means in our own department and discipline By Sara Chopra, Cate Simons, Elizabeth Vo-Phamhi In the first interview of the More) |
| Future Directions and Resources By Elizabeth Vo-Phamhi, Sara Chopra, Cate Simons For the third installment of our Black Lives Matter & Classics series, we invited Professor Cynthia Damon to talk about the relevance of the Bla (More) |
| A Translator’s Take on the Black Lives Matter Movement By Elizabeth Vo-Phamhi, Sara Chopra, Cate Simons Although several weeks have passed since the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Br (More) |
| Open Dimensions of Space, Socioeconomic Mobility, and Anxiety About Identity in Classical Athens By Elizabeth Vo-Phamhi 1. Introduction. World history from antiquity to the present day has abounded with examples of classism a (More) |
| By Elizabeth Vo-Phamhi Over the last two months, students have dealt with massive uncertainty amid the coronavirus outbreak. Yet for the sixteen seniors in Penn Classics, one thing has certainly remained constant: the importance of classics. A (More) |