The CAMS Department has revived its distinguished lecture series, the Tracy Lecture, named in honor of one of its founding members, Fr. Theodore Tracy, S.J. This year’s speaker was Professor Christian Mann, of…
The CAMS Department hosted an Arabic Poetry Day, organized by students and faculty. Over two dozen students read and recited Arabic poems, with accompanying English translations projected onscreen. It was a celebration of…
Dr. Krishni Burns received a 2024 HOPE (Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence) Award presented by UIC Campus Housing in recognition of faculty who have positively made a lasting impact on Campus Housing residents. Congrats…
Rachel Chinchilla, class of 2023, has won a scholarship to the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate program at Loyola University Chicago where she will spend the year studying Latin. She is deciding whether to become a…
Homerathon was a huge success! Congrats CAMS!! The recent UIC/National Hellenic Museum Homerathon was covered in a segment on WGN. There’s a nice interview with Young Kim and a lot of shots of…
The Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies was saddened to learn of the passing on November 19, 2021 of Dr. John Vaio (1939-2021), Professor Emeritus of Classics. After receiving his doctorate from Columbia…
Krishni Burns, Lecturer of Latin, recently blogged about her new project Calliope’s Library: Books for Young Readers for the Society for Classical Studies. In the post, Burns details the project’s genesis as well…
The April 2021 adaptation of Plautus’s Casina by UIC Classics alumna Luana Davila was recently featured by the Society for Classical Studies. In an interview, Davila and her collaborator, Amy Gerwert Valdez, a Theater…
Young Richard Kim, Associate Profess and Head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, was awarded a grant under the University of Illinois System’s second Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and the…
Young Richard Kim, associate professor and head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies and associate professor of History, recently published an op-ed piece with Newsweek. In it he writes about multilingualism in American culture…
