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Classics Everywhere - November 1, 2018 deadline projects

Nyansa Classical Community – New Orleans, LA
Angel Parham

Latin After-School Aequora Program – Jamaica Plain, MA
Kendra Eshleman and Christopher Polt

Wilson College Classical Chorus – Chambersburg, PA
Bonnie McCutcheon

Poetry and Performance – Memphis, TN
Kenneth Scott Morrell

Homerathon – Lincoln, NE
Mike Lippman

Indigo Bridge Bookstore Event – Lincoln, NE
Amy Pistone

Three C's - Classics, Cinema, and Conversation – Winston-Salem, NC
Lauren Rogers

Putting the "Lives of Early African American Classicists into the Hands of our Secondary Teachers" – ACL Centennial Meeting, NYC
Michele Valerie Ronnick

The Oresteia Project: Free Performance of Operatic Highlights – Washington, D.C.
Andrew E. Simpson and Sarah B. Ferrario

Black Classicists Outreach – Washington, D.C.
Caroline Stark

Symposium on Liberal Education and African American History: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Anna Julia Cooper – Washington, D.C.
David Withun

Classics Unit for Homeless Shelter Aftercare – Honolulu, HI
Daniel Harris-McCoy


Classics Everywhere - March 1, 2019 deadline projects

After the Antique: Mithras Now: A Painting Workshop – Berkshires, MA
Susan P. Bachelder

Greeking It Up with the Romans: Staging Plautus’ The Braggart Soldier – Starkville, MS
Donna Clevinger

Classical Drama LIVE! – Winston-Salem, NC
Lauren Rogers

Martha Graham’s Dance Interpretations of Ancient Greek Heroines – Boston, MA
Stephen Scully

Reading Classics Books to kids at low income Elementary Schools – Lexington, KY
Diane Arnson Svarlien

Ancients in the Parks!: Roman Engineering – OH and WV
Sarah Wear

Introductory Latin in Prisons: Summer 2019 – Hartford, CT
Nebojsa Todorovic and S. Zelda Roland

Voices of Ancient Palmyra – San Bernandino, CA
Carly Maris

New Directions in Classics – Winnipeg, Canada
Peter J. Miller


Classics Everywhere - May 15, 2019 deadline projects

Case Western Classics Day – Cleveland, OH
Evelyn Adkins

Classics Summer Camp – Madison, WI
William Aylward

Ancient Leadership Everywhere – MA, NY, D.C., NC
Norman Sandridge

Classics Beyond Whiteness – Winston-Salem, NC
T.H.M. Gellar-Goad

Casey Middle School Latin program – Boulder, CO
Andrew Cain

Electra International Tour – London, Berlin, Istanbul
Lily Grob

Jkids: Classics videos for kids – online
Sofia and Teodor Poinelli


Classics Everywhere - October 15, 2019 deadline projects

Classics Day V – Monmouth, IL
Robert Holschuh Simmons

More Latin Moments than Senior Moments – Branford, CT
Susan Craig

Mini Maker Faire: Roman Concrete – Baton Rouge, LA
Nathalie Roy

Public Face of Emotions: Greek Classics and the Role of Emotions in our Lives – Boston, MA
Emily Allen-Hornblower

The Stuff of Legend: Classical Mythology & its Impact on Creative Writing – Dublin, CA
Sarah Shin

Homer’s Odyssey in Homer – Homer, AL
Joe Goodkin

After-School Latin Program – Lawrenceville, NJ
Regina Koebele-Demaree

Printing the Past: Classical Studies & 3D Printing workshop – Schenectady, NY
Angela Commito

Morningside Heights Latin Camp – New York, NY
Lydia Palmer

Hive: An Art Exhibition at Krannert Art Museum – Champaign, IL
Amy Powell and Clara Bosak-Schroeder

Philosophy & Literature Circle: A Prison Education Program – San Antonio, TX
Mel Webb and Jessica Wright

Black Classicisms and the Black Atlantic: A Public Program – Detroit, MI
Michele Valerie Ronnick

Nyansa: A New Curriculum for the Youth – New Orleans, LA
Angel Parham

Penelope and the Geese: A Workshop & Opera Performance – Saugerties, NY
Cheri Magid

Homerathon in ChicagoLand – Chicago, IL
Krishni Burns

Classics and the World Today 4 – Mississauga, Canada
Boris Chrubasik

Classics in Humanities and University Education in Africa: The Way Forward: A Public Panel in Ghana – Ghana
Michael Kwadwo Okyere Asante

First-Generation Classics: A Special issue of Eidolon – online
Donna Zuckerberg


Classics Everywhere - February 20, 2020 deadline projects

Inside Classics: a Video and Podcast Project – Austin, TX
Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

Conversations with Homer – San Francisco, CA
Alexandra Pappas

Classical Crosswords – Charlotte, NC
Genevieve Romanelli

UNL Homerathon 2020 – Lincoln, NE
Mike Lippman

Inclusive Classics: Retelling Greco-Roman Myths for the 21st Century – Chicago, IL
David Tapper

Vermont Classical Play / City Dionysia (Aristophanes’ Clouds) – Burlington, VT
John C. Franklin

“Unchain My Heart”: Staging Prometheus Bound for Today’s Audiences Starkville, MS
Donna Clevinger

The Wars Within, The Wars Without: Lucan’s Civil War through Modern Veterans’ Eyes – Huntington, West Virginia
Christina Franzen

Martha Graham Interprets Greek Myths – Athens, Greece
Penny Diamantopoulou

Owls to Athens: An Odyssey through Ancient Greek Culture – Norwich, CT
Dayne Rugh

It Starts with the Stars: Learning Introductory Latin Through Western Zodiac’s Mythology – Boston, MA
Melissa Saunders

Cathartic History Conference – Carrollton, GA
Nadya Williams

Arachne’s Threads: Spinning and Fiber in the Ancient Mediterranean – Lubbock, TX
Sydnor Roy

Classical Words, Modern Heroes: Examples from the 21st Century – Italy
Rachele Pierini


Classics Everywhere - May 15, 2020 deadline projects

Ancient Ghosts, Hauntings, Spectres, and Superstitions – New York, NY
Erin Petrella

Ad Aequiora: Underrepresented Voices – online
Danielle Bostick

Bringing the Musical Joy of Classics to Small-Town America – California
Sarah Ying Bai

Novae Res Antiqui (“A Revolution of the Classics”) – Lectures/Podcast – New Jersey, Massachusetts, and online
Jonathan Fu

The Trojan Women: the Classics in a Pandemic – New York
Nancy S. Rabinowitz

Jkids Bits of Classics & History YouTube Channel – Belgium
Sofia and Teodoro Poinelli

Euripides’ Andromache – New York, Puerto Rico, Argentina
Cristina Perez Diaz and Alejandro Kauderer

Inspire 100,000 for Ancient Studies: A Social Media Campaign - A Project of Save Ancient Studies in America (SASA) – online
David Danzig

AGORA: (A)ncient (G)reek (O)bservations in (R)ediscovering (A)ntiquity – Illinois
Sara Kumar and Ariadne Merchant

Performing Tragedy Online – online
Joel P. Christensen and Paul O’Mahony

Classics at the University of Alberta’s U School: Engaging with and Enriching Under-resourced Students – Canada
Kelly MacFarlane

Panel Discussions around the new film “Ovid and the Art of Love” – online
Benjamin Weisman

Louisiana Junior Classical League Classics Fair – New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Stephen Beck and Katherine Norton


Classics Everywhere – October 26, 2020 deadline projects

Ancient Myths, Modern Problems: Discussing Helen Morales’ Book Antigone Rising – online
Yurie Hong

National Long Island E-Certamen – online
Vivan Wu

The Greek Myth Files – New Hampshire, online
R. Scott Smith

Ancient Wisdom Discussion Group (UNC and Orange County Department of Aging) – North Carolina, online
Michael Vasquez

The Orestes Project – Digital Performance Experience – UK, online
Christine Plastow

Classical Archaeology After School: An Enrichment Program for Students Aged 10-16 – California
Eva Prionas

Making Myths New: Classics and Creative Play – California
Marissa Henry

Peopling the Past – Canada, Washington, California
Chelsea Gardner

Classical Reception Podcast – Canada, online
Julia Perroni and Allison Marlyn

Loss, Separation, and Nostalgia: Classics in the time of Covid-19 – California
Olga Faccani

Greece and Rome Video Games – Arizona, online
Britta Ager

Classics Sacculus – Illinois
Lauren Tapper

Relative Theatrics: Homer’s Odyssey – online
Laura De Lozier


Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – February 19, 2021 deadline projects

New Atlantis: A Journey into the Classicism of W.E.B. Du Bois – Pennsylvania
Divya Nair

Classics as Pedagogical Tool: An Interactive/Multimedia E-Book – online
Marcus Bell and Nancy Rabinowitz

A Musical Adaptation of The Bacchae – online
J. Landon Marcus

All BAME Medea: A Short Film – U.K.
Shivaike Shah

The Ozymandias Project: A New Podcast – Illinois, online
Lexie Henning

The Laodamiad at the Center for Hellenic Studies – Washington, DC, online
Chas LiBretto

Society for Ancient Medicine Blog Series: “The Best Doctor is also a Historian” – online
Colin Webster

A Poem and a Mistake (a virtual performance inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses) – NY, NJ, VT, online
Sarah Baskin

The Trojan Women Project (a virtual performance/video) – California, online
Michael Morgan

Greek Tragedy / Masterclasses on Film – U.K., online
Paul O’Mahony

Educating Philosophy through Classics – India
Apoorwa Sinha

Neropolis: A New Podcast – Massachusetts, online
Virginia Closs


Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – May 14, 2021 deadline projects

Project Nota (Digitization of Latin texts by Women) – online
Sophia He and Laura Petersen

Honoring Esteemed Alumnae of Color: Helen and Dorothy Chestnutt – Ohio
Paul Hay

Plautus’ Amphitruo in a new verse translation – Vancouver, Canada
C.W. (Toph) Marshall

Sports Garb/led: Ancient Mosaics and Their Relevance for Girls Today – Massachusetts
Jennifer Demers

Barron C. Blewett Hunnicutt Classics Gallery and Antiquities Collection – Pennsylvania
Bonnie Rock-McCutcheon

COINS TO CASKETS: Low Relief Art that still tells a story – Massachusetts
Susan P. Bachelder

Talos Dreams – California
Ellie Falaris Ganelin

The Marsal Collections: Integrating Andalusian Rural Communities in an Archaeological Scientific Project – Spain
Ivan González Tobar

Calliope’s Library: Books for Young Readers – online
Krishni Burns

More Classics Books for Kids at a Low-Income Elementary School – Kentucky
Diane Arnson Svarlien

Ancient Worlds in our Community (AWOC) Certificate Program – Connecticut
Kelly P. Dugan

The Sculpture Shoppe at Ithaca Mall – New York
Verity Platt

A Student Commentary of Landivar’s Rustication Mexicana (A Latin Text about Guatemala) – Wisconsin
Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki


Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – October 15, 2021 deadline projects

Liber Architecturae: Neoclassical Influences on Chicago Architecture – a book project published on Amazon
Sara Kumar

A Free Oresteia for a Transformed Long Island – New York
Danny Higgins and Nicole Savin

Online Text-in-Translation Reading Groups of Save Ancient Studies Alliance – online
David Danzig

Olympics Musical – UK, Greece, US
Rob Castell

Theatre of Difference Project: Euripides’ Medea – Arizona
Joseph Ryan O’Neill

Harmonia Rosales: Entwined (an art exhibition on Afro-Cuban Artist H. Rosales at UCSB on intersections between Greek and ancient Toruba myths) – California
Helen Morales

“This is my native land: Black Classics in Texas” (an exhibition on 19th and 20th century Black Classicists in Texas) – Texas
Pramit Chaudhuri and Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

The Blues of Achilles at Loyola – Illinois
Jenn Finn

On-Campus Visits by Khameleon Productions – New York
Dan Curley and Stacey Raucci

Playing Dionysus – US and Canada
Joel Christensen

Peopling the Past: An Educational Multimedia Project about the Inhabitants of the Ancient World – online
Megan Daniels

Ancient Greek Drama on Film: Phaethon – Canada
Hallie Marshall

Enthralled: An Interactive Educational Game to Accompany Euripides’ Bacchae – California
Katerina Zacharia

Empire of Venus – Washington
Aislinn Melchior


Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – February 28, 2022 deadline projects

WesMyths – a school program between Wesleyan University and local Elementary School students – CT
Noah Coyle

Ancient Medicine for Modern Times: Engaging with Plants and Learning from Women – Greece
Maria Christodoulou

All STEM leads to Rome – Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Marwan Mikdadi

Penelope and the Geese (2) – New York
Cheri Magid and Milica Paranosic

All About the Ancient Worlds – online lecture series
Emily Prosch

Reading Greek Tragedy Live (2) – Massachusetts
Joel Christensen

Classical Archaeology After School (2) – California
Eva Prionas


Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – May 15, 2022 deadline projects

Classics Connected – a series of art installations and lectures on female figures from Greek and Roman mythology in Savannah, Georgia
Emily Waller Singeisen

Classics Camp – Kentucky
Kelly Kusch

Calliope’s Library: Books for Young Readers – online
Krishni Burns

The Congo is Flooding the Acropolis: W.E.B. DuBois and Reclassifying Classical Culture – a series of performances and interactive creative sessions on Classical Antiquity and the Harlem Renaissance in St. Paul, Minnesota
Sarah Guy-Levar

A Teenager Medea – a new adaptation and performance of Medea in Rockford, Illinois
Yoandy Cabrera Ortega

Expanding the Ancient World – a series of professional development workshops and online resources for K-12 educators by ISAW in New York
Alexander Jones

Classics Day VI – at Monmouth College, Illinois
Robert Simmons

The Eleon Learning Project – digital resources for K-12 educators
Devon Lohrasbe

Seneca’s Medea – a short film adaptation
Angela Hurley

Hymns – a series of music videos adapted from the Homeric Hymns
Mat Sweeney


Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – October 14, 2022 deadline projects

Archaeogaming Multimedia Learning Program – digital resources for middle school, high school, and college students as part of the Ozymandias Project
Lexie Henning and Dan Maday

Online Ancient Studies Text in Translation – online reading group programs organized by Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA)
David Danzig

Egyptomania – a public lecture on the impact of Egyptology on 20th century fashion in Cleveland, Ohio
Maggie Popkin

Queering the Past(s) – digital resources for developing a queer-friendly ancient studies curriculum for high school students
Nancy Rabinowitz

Community-Based Theater Performance “Antigone in Ferguson” by the Theater of War project – San Diego, California
Denise Demetriou

Classics Books for Low-Income Students – Lexington, Kentucky
Diane Arnson Svarlien

Stoic Tragedy and the Sources of Human Ethics – student-led performances of Seneca’s plays followed by public discussions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael Vazquez


Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – February 2023 deadline projects

La Puerta Electra: Translating Prominent Cuban Adaptations of Greek Tragedy into English – Online and UK
Rosa Andújar

The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice – Theatre show, workshop and online live stream
Hannah Barrie

Greek Drama/ Black Lives – a new version of Medea, Bryn Mawr and Community College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Catherine Conybeare

Greek Love: Gender, Sexuality, Desire and Queerness in Classical Antiquity – Melbourne, Australia
Tobias Fulton

Becoming Nobody: Performing the Odyssey in All 50 US States – Oklahoma and Idaho
Joe Goodkin

Mythical Journeys: Exploring the Stories of Ancient Greece and China for Elementary School Children in Great Neck, Long Island – Long Island, NY
Pei He

Revisiting Sperlonga: New Digital Documentation and Community Engagement – Italy
Rebecca Levitan

A Public Performance of 'The Love of the Nightingale' – Ghana
Gifty Etornam Katahena


Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – May 2023 deadline projects

Street Mythology – Michigan
Alex Tarbet

Red Coral Stories: Reimaging Classical Pasts for Indigenous Futures – Virtual and California
Kendall Lovely

Experiencing Antiquity: Digital Tools for Learning about the Ancient Mediterranean in Local Schools – Canada
Alex Hagler

Ancient Greek Performing Arts and Cultural Narratives in Contemporary Learning Environments – East and West Coast
Eva Prionas

Expanding the Ancient World: ISAW-QCC Community College Outreach Project – New York, NY
Alexander Jones and Marc LeBlanc

Electrifying Electra: Staging Sophocles' Electra for 21st century audiences – Mississippi
Donna Clevinger

Rendering the Past in Poetry – Canada
Peter Miller

Musing, Metamorphoses, and Medea – New Rochelle, NY
Claire E. Scott

Public Programming at the Hood Museum of Art – New Hampshire
Randall Kuhlman

Poetry in Motion: Homer Meets Gainsville – Florida
Anthony Smith


Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – October 2023 deadline projects

Classics Camp
Kelly Kusch

Black Classicists in History and the Future – Massachusetts
Nancy Antonellis

The Dioscorides Garden Project in Athens – Athens, Greece
Maria Christodoulou

The Terracotta Tile Making Workshop: Constructing our own Classical Past – London, UK
Queer and the Classical

Ancient Studies Text-in-Translation: Online Master Classes – Online
David Danzig

Heroes to Heroes: How Antiquity Mirrors Modern Military Exemplarity – Colorado
Christian Perales

Collaborative Classics – North Carolina
Kari Lindquist

The Symposium: Dinner, Philosophy and the Culture – Miami, FL
Camila Lorenzo Roca

Classics Unplugged – New York
Eden Riebling

Wide World of Ancient Sports – Louisiana
Morris Tichenor

Fast Forward Oeidpus Rex in 2023 – Philadelphia, PA
Madona Ganda

Playing Antigone – Online
Amy Pistone and Paul O'Mahony

Opera Forum Panel Discussion: Italian Visions of Gauls and Romans
Catherine Hughes


Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – February 2024 deadline projects

Diversity and Inclusivity through Classics: Working with imprisoned students in the Second Chance School of Larissa in Greece – Larissa, Greece
Effrosyni Kostara

Parthenos: Girls Like Us – Colorado, New York, California
Olivia Buntaine


Ancient Worlds Modern Communities – May 2024 deadline projects

Gaming Lab & Lecture – North Carolina
Aisha Dad

Camp FABLE: Greco-Roman Adventures – Massachusetts
Chris Wiley

Series of Lectures on the Translation of Ancient Greek Lyric – Puerto Rico
Cristina Pérez Díaz

Trinummus or Three-Dollar Day: Staging Plautus’ Comedy in the Age of AI – Mississippi
Donna L. Clevinger

Ancient Languages, Modern Terminology: Bridging the Gap between Classics/Classicists and Modern Medicine – Canada
Kelly MacFarlane

Gerard Butler with a Spear: Locating Modern Stereotypes for the Classical World in Generative Image AI – United Kingdom
Edward A S Ross

Cassandra in the Carceral System: The Quest for Redemption in A Trojan Woman, an Interactive Film – California
Emmanuela Schoinoplokaki

The Aeneid: Engaging People through Music – New York
Eric C De Sena

The Iliad in Performance – New York
Jay Leeming

Antigone in the Amazon – New York
Kimberly Olstad

ASSEMBLYWOMXN – Illinois
Maggie K. Rothberg

Sappho 1900/2024: A Poetry Reading – Pennsylvania
Miriam Kamil

A Women's Latin Reader – Massachusetts
Skye Shirley

New York City Classics Fest hosted by The Dalton School – New York
Spencer Yang, Jonathan Henkin

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