Current Announcements:
Classics Major Sebastian Anderson received a grant award from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.Click here to read more.
UIC Student Adam Kuranishi Wins Critical Languages Scholarship
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Archaeologist Edward Maher awarded an NEH fellowship |
Past Announcements:
April 3, 2009: 26th Annual Tracy Lecture
Richard Thomas
Harvard University:
"Reading Virgil in the Nineteenth Century:Berlioz to Tennyson."
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March 30, 2009: The Apology of Socrates:
Yannis Simonides plays Socrates. A play based closely on the Apology by Plato, Socrates' student.
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Spring 2009 Courses and Schedule
Descripton of Topics Courses for Spring 2009
November 2008
Seminar, Menelaos Christopoulos and Efimia Karakantza
University of Patras:
On Oedipus and the Winkling of his Eye.
November 2008
Seminar, Roger Woodard
SUNY, Buffalo:
"Writing as Performance: An Early Greek Conceptualization of the Alphabet”
November 2008
REVELATION IN ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION?
Institute for the Humanities
Speakers:
ROBERT PARKER
University of Oxford:
“Ignorance and Knowledge
of the Divine”
ROGER WOODARD
SUNY, Buffalo:
“Script as Sacrifice;
Writing as Revelation”
ALBERT HENRICHS
Harvard University:
“Self-Revelation, Power,
Reciprocity: Why the
Greeks Believed in their
Gods"
KEN DOWDEN
University of Birmingham:
Respondent
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October 2008
Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O’Connor
Ohio State:
“Teaching the Forbidden
Subjects:
The Role of the Classics
in African American
Uplift and Resistance”
Kenneth W. Goings (Ph.D. Princeton)
is professor and former
chair of the Department of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University.
He specializes in 19th and 20th
century African American History.
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Prof. Pelling's Tracy Lecture 2008
Prof. Seaford's lecture: "Money and the beginning of philosophy", 2007
"Cavafy and Homer: Greek Language and Hellenism", 2007
Tracy Lecture, by H. Rawlings, "Thucidides and the truth in history", 2007
International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, 2006
Prof. Thomassen's Lecture on "The invention of Heresy", 2006
Prof. Burkert's Lecture on "East and West", 2006
- Announcements of Job Openings:
(currently none)
- Announcements of other news:
"In memoriam: Theodore J. Tracy" by Prof. J.T. Ramsey
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