Contexts for Classics (CFC) is an interdepartmental faculty initiative founded in 2000 that aims to rethink the discipline(s) of Classical Studies from various critical, historical, and pedagogical perspectives. CFC sponsors several events annually and emphasizes curricular offerings across the University that explore the relationship between antiquity and modernity and interrogate the construction of a Classical ideal.

For a more detailed account of the CFC project, please see the CFC Proposal.

Sponsors for the Contexts for Classics consortium include the Department of Classical Studies, the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, the Office of the Provost, the International Institute, and the Center for European Studies.

Steering committee for academic year 2006-2007:
Vassilis Lambropoulos, Professor, Department of Classical Studies & the Program in Comparative Literature
James I. Porter, Professor, Department of Classical Studies & the Program in Comparative Literature
Yopie Prins, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the Program in Comparative Literature, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies
Silke-Maria Weineck, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures.

Graduate Student Organizers: Cassandra Borges & Evelyn Adkins, Department of Classical Studies, and Michael Kicey & Matthew Pfaff, Program in Comparative Literature.

Webmaster: Michael Kicey, Program in Comparative Literature.

Would you like to get involved with the CFC organizing team? Contact us.