New Directions in Classics V
The Department of Classics’ New Directions in Classics series hosted its fifth season beginning in September 2021.
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If you’d like more information on New Directions in Classics, please email Dr. Peter J. Miller (pj.miller@uwinnipeg.ca), download the series poster (PDF version of the image below), , or .
Learn more about the previous New Directions in Classics series:
Watch all of our talks on our
3D models and the Classics Classroom,
Bethany Hucks, Heidelberg University
Friday, September 24, 2021
3:30 - 4:30 pm on Zoom
on the New Directions in Classics YouTube channel
Crafting an Image of Sincerity: Autobiography by Letter,
Dr. Chris Lougheed, University of Toronto
Friday, October 22, 2021
3:30 - 4:30 pm on Zoom
on the New Directions in Classics YouTube channel
Building a Narrative: Use and Misuse of Antiquity at the Manitoba Legislature,
Dr. Melissa Funke, UWinnipeg
Friday, November 5, 2021, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
3:30 - 4:30 pm on Zoom
on the New Directions in Classics YouTube channel
Heracles, Plato, and Philosophical Immortality,
Dr. Warren Huard, UWinnipeg
Friday, November 12, 2021, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
3:30 - 4:30 pm on Zoom
on the New Directions in Classics YouTube channel

Walls and Roads: Walking Around and Through Rome,
Dr. Melanie Racette-Campbell, UWinnipeg
Friday, February 4, 2022
4:00 - 5:30 pm on Zoom
on the New Directions in Classics YouTube channel
POSTPONED to Fall 2022
New Visions of the Vindolanda Stylus Tablets,
Dr. Alex Meyer, Western University
Local and Global Dynamics in a Roman Frontier Settlement: The Military Community at Vindolanda in the Early 2nd Century CE,
Dr. Elizabeth Greene, Western University
Part of the Bonnycastle Lecture Series
New Research on the Eurysaces Monument,
Dr. Max Goldman, Denison University
Classics, Indigeneity, and Modern Scientific Race
Dr. Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Denison University
Sponsored by the Society for Classical Studies Classics Everywhere Initiative