Category: Blog

Posted on October 29th, 2024 in Blog, Featured by Sydney Bielefeld

The 2024 International Festival, commonly known as iFEST, took place in the Taylor Courtyard on October 3rd. It was a beautiful sunny day and over 1,200 attendees from the campus and community came to visit the over 50 displays representing international programs and activities hosted at IU Indianapolis and a few of our community partners. …

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Posted on September 3rd, 2024 in Blog, Classes by ethill

Still looking for that perfect course to fill out your semester? Check out late-start Classical Studies courses, still available for enrollment in Fall 2024! All late-start classes are Online Asynchronous and can be applied to the Classical Studies Minor. 2nd 5-week session (Sep 30 – Nov 01) CLAS-B 311 Sex and Gender in the Ancient World …

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Posted on August 13th, 2024 by ethill

This post was originally published on the Classical Studies Program website, so if you want you can hop through this time portal to read it there. If there is one thing we know about undergraduate students, it is that they are enthralled by the administrative minutia of the university system. So we are happy to …

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Posted on August 13th, 2024 in Blog by ethill

Episode 79: In which a British tourist decides to carve up an ancient wall, and the Roman gods consider carving up the tourist. This episode of Real Housewives of Mt. Olympus brought to you by the latest archaeological news on CNN.com – and by CLAS-B 312 Plague, Disasters and Death in the Ancient World. This …

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A printed map of Zhenjiang Prefecture ("Chinkiang") between the Yangtze and Lake Tai east of Nanjing ("Kiangning"), from Martino Martini's 1655 Novus Atlas Sinensis. The river marked west of the city is the Grand Canal.
Posted on July 31st, 2023 in Blog by jaskelly

Congratulations to Professor Zhang for his new book, The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China, published by Harvard University Press! The story of globalization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as experienced by ordinary people in the Chinese river town of Zhenjiang. Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers …

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