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Events & Campus Life
The MCLL department sponsors frequent events that enhance the intellectual life of the CNU campus, including public readings of great works like the Odyssey and Aeneid, interdisciplinary panels, conversation groups, and lectures by notable scholars and public figures, including the Elizabeth F. Jones lecture in Classical Studies.
The MCLL department has several active clubs and student groups. Members host on-campus activities as well as trips to museums and lectures. |
Check back periodically for updated information about
MCLL happenings and Club events
International Slide Night, October 1, 2009
Every Fall, MCLL hosts an evening of presentations by students who have studied abroad in the past year.
International NIght, Fall 2009 (PPT)- Including presentations by Sam Stone (Spain), Keeley Tagtmeyer (France), Christopher Young (German), Michelle Keyser (Italy).
Latin Day, January 17, 2009
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures hosted the 4th Annual Hampton Roads Latin Day in conjunction with the Tidewater Classical Symposium. Over 100 students from fourteen local schools attended the event!
The event began with an interactive keynote address on "Decoding Ancient Graffiti: Voices from Ancient Pompeii" by Rebecca Benefiel, Assistant Professor of Classics at Washington and Lee University. Throughout the day students engaged in a variety of workshops and activities, in which they made illuminated manuscripts and mosaics, learned Italian, examined ancient myths in modern movies and performed some mythic dramas of their own, and experienced a day in the life of a Roman soldier.
Students get a lesson in Greek dancing.
Members of Legio IX Hispana demonstrate Roman military techniques. For more information on the Virginia chapter of Legio IX Hispana, go to http://www.reenactor.net/units/leg_ix_va/
Modern-day scribes design their own illuminated manuscripts.
Department Honors Reception, 2008
Department Honors Reception,
2007
International Night, hosted by MCLL every Fall
Learn about the wonderful experiences of students who went abroad!
International NIght, Fall 2008 (PPT)- Featuring presentations by Sam Stone (Switzerland),
Daniel Alexander (Germany), Michael Sullivan (Greece), Sarah Couture (France),
and Brooke Falck (Costa Rica)
International Night, Fall 2006 (PPT) - Featuring presentations by Nicole Budzius (Costa Rica);
Benjamin Cook (Dominican Republic); Crystal (France); Lauren (Belgium); Cait Finnegan, (Germany);
Thomas Barton & Genevieve Conger (CNU Seminar in Greece)
Classics
The Classical Studies Program belongs to the Williamsburg Society for the Archeological
Institute of America (AIA), with which it co-sponsors a series of lectures. For further information
on AIA, please visit their website, http://www.wm.edu/aia
The Classics Club
In Spring 2008, the CNU Classics Club sponsored a performance of Euripides' Medea.
Check out the playbill (the link will leave the CNU web site).
 Euripedes' Medea at the Trible Library
French
The French Club
German
German Conversation Hour
Italian
The Italian Club
Spanish
The Latin-American Cultural Association
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