News

Debra Nousek gave a talk entitled "History Starts with a C: The Caesarian Corpus and Latin Literary Historiography" at McMaster University on January 30, 2025. 


Undergraduate student Stephanie Leith, supervised by Kyle Gervais, has been working on a research project examining medieval manuscript fragments found in the Archives and Special Collections in Western Libraries. Read the Western News article here, listen to the CBC Radio interview here, and read the CBC interview here.  


Congratulations to first-year MA student (and department alumnus) James Kenneth on his second Global Undergraduate Award in two years! Read the Western News article here


Bernd Steinbock presented a paper on “Social Memory and Trauma in Ancient Greece” and was a panelist for the round table discussion “Where Can Memory Be Found?” at the international memory studies conference ‘Searching for Memory between the Mind and the World’ at the University of Trento, Italy (August 28-30).


The Spring 2024 Study Tour to Italy featured in Western News.