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Articles and Reviews

Stephen Newmyer published "Paws to Reflect: Ancients and Moderns on the Religious Sensibilities of Animals." in Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica Volume 100, Number 2. He also published a review of Robert Lamberton's, Plutarch, in The Classical Outlook 80.2.

Conference Presentations

Jerry Clack offered a workshop in continuance of the department's out reach program, on Ariadne auf Naxos, describing the adaptation by Strauss and Hoffmansthal of this time honored theme to the opera stage.

Stephen Newmyer delivered the paper “Philo's Defense of the Biblical Concession to Humans of Dominion over Animals,” at the meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States in Wilmington, Delaware.

Grants and Awards

Jerry Clack received a NEH Endowment Grant for the preservation and enhancement of a portion of the Department's slide collection. 

Committees and Offices

Jerry Clack served

  • On the Student Standing Committee, Duquesne University

  • On the Executive Committee of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States

  • As the Archivist for the Classical Association of Atlantic States

  • As reader of articles for publication in Classical World

  • As the Secretary and Historian of the Pennsylvania Classical Association

  • As the Treasurer of the Classical Association of Pittsburgh and Vicinity

  • As the Conference Coordinator for the Fall meeting of the Pennsylvania Classical Association to be held in Pittsburgh

  • As treasurer and board member of the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh

  • As treasurer of Citizens for Global Solutions -- an organization having close connections with Duquesne's Department of Political Science

Lawrence Gaichas served

  • On the University Promotion and Tenure Committee, Duquesne University

  • On the University Educational Technology Committee, Duquesne University

  • As a mentor on the University Mentors Program, Duquesne University

  • As Co-chair on the College Computer Technology Committee, Duquesne University

  • As the Webmaster for the Classical Association of Atlantic States

  • As Abstract Reviewer for the Classical Association of Atlantic States Fall meetings

  • As the keynote speaker for the Induction Ceremony for Languages at Canon-MacMillan High School

Stephen Newmyer served

  • On the College Honors Committee, Duquesne University

  • On the Executive Committee of the Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literatures, Duquesne University

  • On the Editorial Board of Korot, Israeli journal of the history of medicine

  • On the Editorial Board of Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity

 

   
 
 
 
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