Events for Fall '25

Lecture: Obstructing the People in the Late Roman Republic

Date: Tuesday, September 16th, 4pm 

Location: Big 12 Room, Kansas Union

Speaker: Christopher Erdman

Please join us for a talk by Christopher Erdman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis.

All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Film Screening: Jason and the Argonauts

Date: Friday, October 24, 4pm 

Location: Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Screening of Jason and the Argonauts (1963).   

Hosted by KU Classics and the Open Language Resource Center. Free Admission!

Lecture: Reproductive Choices in Plautus’ Truculentus

Date: Thursday, October 30, 5pm 

Location: Malott Room, Kansas Union

A talk by Cassandra Tran, Assistant Professor of Classics at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 

All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

(Note that this play involves a rape plot, which will be addressed at length in the talk.)

Lecture: Mary Ellen Wyman Lecture

Date: Tuesday, February 10, 6pm

Location: Malott Room, Kansas Union

The fourth annual Mary Ellen Wyman Lecture in Ancient Art and Archaeology, with Jeremy Hartnett (Professor of Classics and Charles D. and Elizabeth S. LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, at Wabash University) as speaker.

All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Events for Spring '26

Event: Departmental Honors and Awards Ceremony

Date: Monday, May 4

Location: TBA

Join us to celebrate the achievements of our wonderful students! Featuring atalk by Brian Walters, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, and KU Classics alum!

All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Event: Classics Graduation Picnic

Date: Saturday, May 16

Location: Centennial Park West Shelter, Centennial Park, 600 Rockledge Rd, Lawrence.

All Classics Faculty, Staff, Majors and Minors & Friends and Family are invited!