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29 Nov 2013: International workshop on vernacular literacy in medieval Europe and East Asia

The historical interaction of learned Classical languages and spoken vernaculars is a cross-cultural phenomenon. International scholarship on this topic up to now has been entirely focused on regional studies. Recent explorations, however, have revealed affinities in the relationships, on the one hand, between Classical Latin and Old Irish, Old High German and other vernaculars in early medieval manuscripts from western Europe and, on the other, Classical Chinese and Japanese and Korean vernaculars in contemporaneous manuscripts in the Far East.

We were very pleased to welcome Prof. John Whitman of Cornell/NINJAL (Tokyo) to Galway on 29 Nov 2013 to give a CAMPS Lab entited ‘Kundoku: What is it, and did anything like it exist in the medieval West?’. The Lab was followed with a workshop with colleagues Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Imre Galambos from Cambridge University to explore opportunities for future collaborations.

5 Nov 2013: Classics Society Talk

Dr Joanna Day, Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Classical Museum Curator at UCD, will be giving a paper entitled: 'Digging Scents: The Archaeology of Ancient Perfume Production and Consumption'
Tuesday 5 November 2013, 6.30pm

14 Oct 2013: Classics Society Talk

Prof. Brian Arkins on 'The Modern Reception of Catullus.
Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Wednesday Oct 16th, 6pm. Reception to follow.

23 Sep 2013: Classical Greek reading group

This group, co-ordinated by Michael Clarke (Classics) and Nick Tosh (Philosophy), meets on Wednesdays each week 11 a.m. –12.15 p.m. in Classics, room 506, to work through Plato’s Ion. Anyone with a basic grounding in Greek is welcome to join us: please email Michael at michael.clarke@nuigalway.ie.

28 Aug 2013: New appointment

We are delighted to accounce that Dr Eóin O'Donongue has returned to Classics at NUI Galway to take up a three-year post as University Fellow for Teaching and Research. Dr O'Donoghue is an experienced archaeologist with a specialism in pre-Roman Italy and a particular interest in gender identity. His expertise strengthens our teaching in ancient art and archaeology especially.

The previous incumbent in this role, Dr Amanda Kelly, has now taken up a new lecturing position in UCD. We appreciate enormously her contribution to Classics at NUI Galway and we wish her all the very best in her new post.

27 Aug 2013: Student handbooks 2013–14

New student handbooks are now availabe to download:

• Classics Handbook for First Year BA Students 2013–14
• Classics Handbook for Second and Final Year Arts and Postgraduate Students 2013–14

Our web pages are currently still being updated.

8 Aug 2013: Report on a research trip on East Asian glossing

Dr Pádraic Moran has just returned from a seven-day workshop in Japan exploring vernacular (Japanese, Korean) commentaries on Classical Chinese texts and their relationship to the European tradition. Read his report here.

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