CSA at Davis

First Event of Winter

2009-01-11T09:52:00.000-08:00

Hello, folks!

Here's some infor you might find interesting...

What: First Meeting (come meet your fellow club-members, learn about this quarter's events, and eat food!)

When: Thursday, January 15, 5:00pm

Where: Baker's Square on 255 2nd St
http://daviswiki.org/Bakers_Square?action=show&redirect=Baker%27s+Square#

Bring some money if you want to eat dinner, PIE IS ON THE CLUB.

Hope to see you soon!

Questions? Comments? Shoot us an email.
csa.davis@gmail.com

End of Break Catch-Up

2009-01-04T21:45:00.000-08:00

Hey, sorry about the lack of updates. One of our many New Years Resolutions here at CSA is to update this website much, much more. Watch this space for our first meeting of Winter Quarter, tentativley scheduled for next week (1/12-1/16).

Here's a short update on last quarter's events!

The UC Davis CSA was kindly invited to the San Fransisco State Forum, where several undergraduate and graduate students (including our own Jennifer Devereaux, who shared her essay “Boys Will Be Boys: An Examination of Curse Tablets, Cognition, and the Origins of Invective”) presented on the topic of invective in the ancient world. For those of you new to the subject, invective is just like rhetoric, but more offensive—it’s meant as an attack. Highlights included a modern rap song translated by the president of SF State’s CSA into ancient Greek, complete with past participles and references to the Iliad. Following the forum, those of us who attended betook ourselves into Berkeley, where we found dinner (still on the Classical theme, of course—Oedipus Mex) and frozen yogurt. We had such a terrific day that we’re hoping to set up another trip sometime in the near-ish future. We hope you’ll join us!

Mid-November, the Classics Department’s newest member, Professor Akihiko Watanabe, gave a lecture on the reception of Greek works in Egypt and Japan. Professor Watanabe has worked with ancient papyrus scrolls, translating and interpreting them, and he shared his findings with us, in addition to a brief history of Greek theater in Japan.

Professor Mary Beard’s department-sponsored lecture on ancient humor explored a classical jokebook whose title translates as “The Laughter-Lovers”. She touched on the subtleties of ancient ethnic stereotypes and shared some of the jokes from the ancient book…some of which were actually pretty funny.

First Meeting of the Quarter!

2008-10-15T20:17:00.001-07:00

When: Friday, October 17, 6 pm
Where: Olson 105
What: Info/Movie Night with FREE FOOD!

Come on by and check us out!

If you have any questions, or need to set up a ride, please email us at
csa.davis@gmail.com

See you there!!

Trial by Blog

2008-10-09T00:09:00.000-07:00

Hey, folks!

CSA is going to be trying a new format of website-ing this year: the blog. We hope that with such a maleable resource, we'll be able to easily update you with upcoming events and information. Keep your eyes peeled, as there has been word that we MIGHT be doing some sort-of weekly update with little factoids/quotes to fill your nerd quota.

We will also be putting up a calendar of events, links to pictures (possibly forums), frequently updated polls, etc.

If you have any questions, suggestions, complaints, or sacrificial libations, please post a comment or email us at csa.davis@gmail.com and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.