Hello, folks!
Here's some infor you might find interesting...
What: First Meeting (come meet your fellow club-members, learn about this quarter's events, and eat food!)
When: Thursday, January 15, 5:00pm
Where: Baker's Square on 255 2nd St
http://daviswiki.org/Bakers_Square?action=show&redirect=Baker%27s+Square#
Bring some money if you want to eat dinner, PIE IS ON THE CLUB.
Hope to see you soon!
Questions? Comments? Shoot us an email.
csa.davis@gmail.com
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
End of Break Catch-Up
Hey, sorry about the lack of updates. One of our many New Years Resolutions here at CSA is to update this website much, much more. Watch this space for our first meeting of Winter Quarter, tentativley scheduled for next week (1/12-1/16).
Here's a short update on last quarter's events!
The UC Davis CSA was kindly invited to the San Fransisco State Forum, where several undergraduate and graduate students (including our own Jennifer Devereaux, who shared her essay “Boys Will Be Boys: An Examination of Curse Tablets, Cognition, and the Origins of Invective”) presented on the topic of invective in the ancient world. For those of you new to the subject, invective is just like rhetoric, but more offensive—it’s meant as an attack. Highlights included a modern rap song translated by the president of SF State’s CSA into ancient Greek, complete with past participles and references to the Iliad. Following the forum, those of us who attended betook ourselves into Berkeley, where we found dinner (still on the Classical theme, of course—Oedipus Mex) and frozen yogurt. We had such a terrific day that we’re hoping to set up another trip sometime in the near-ish future. We hope you’ll join us!
Mid-November, the Classics Department’s newest member, Professor Akihiko Watanabe, gave a lecture on the reception of Greek works in Egypt and Japan. Professor Watanabe has worked with ancient papyrus scrolls, translating and interpreting them, and he shared his findings with us, in addition to a brief history of Greek theater in Japan.
Professor Mary Beard’s department-sponsored lecture on ancient humor explored a classical jokebook whose title translates as “The Laughter-Lovers”. She touched on the subtleties of ancient ethnic stereotypes and shared some of the jokes from the ancient book…some of which were actually pretty funny.
Here's a short update on last quarter's events!
The UC Davis CSA was kindly invited to the San Fransisco State Forum, where several undergraduate and graduate students (including our own Jennifer Devereaux, who shared her essay “Boys Will Be Boys: An Examination of Curse Tablets, Cognition, and the Origins of Invective”) presented on the topic of invective in the ancient world. For those of you new to the subject, invective is just like rhetoric, but more offensive—it’s meant as an attack. Highlights included a modern rap song translated by the president of SF State’s CSA into ancient Greek, complete with past participles and references to the Iliad. Following the forum, those of us who attended betook ourselves into Berkeley, where we found dinner (still on the Classical theme, of course—Oedipus Mex) and frozen yogurt. We had such a terrific day that we’re hoping to set up another trip sometime in the near-ish future. We hope you’ll join us!
Mid-November, the Classics Department’s newest member, Professor Akihiko Watanabe, gave a lecture on the reception of Greek works in Egypt and Japan. Professor Watanabe has worked with ancient papyrus scrolls, translating and interpreting them, and he shared his findings with us, in addition to a brief history of Greek theater in Japan.
Professor Mary Beard’s department-sponsored lecture on ancient humor explored a classical jokebook whose title translates as “The Laughter-Lovers”. She touched on the subtleties of ancient ethnic stereotypes and shared some of the jokes from the ancient book…some of which were actually pretty funny.
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