Conferences , Lectures & Seminars

The Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies Annual

Tracy Lecture

Since 1984, the Classics Department of UIC has sponsored an annual public lecture named in honor of Fr. Theodore J. Tracy, S.J., one of the department's founding members, and a member of the Department from 1970 until his retirement in 1981. Fr. Tracy had received his PhD from Princeton in 1962, and was the author of Physiological Theory and the Doctrine of the Mean in Plato and Aristotle (Mouton, 1969), as well as many articles and reviews. He died in 2006.

An in memoriam tribute to Father Tracy by Prof. J.T.Ramsey

 

The Tracy Prize click here

Previous Tracy Lectures

1. John K. Newman (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),
"The New Gallus Fragments: an Interpretation", May 24, 1984.

2. John D'Arms (Univ. of Michigan),
"Roman Banquets and The Idea of Equality" , May 21, 1985.

3. John P. Anton (Univ. of South Florida),
"Nietzsche, Aristotle, and the Tragic Emotions", May 1, 1986.

4. Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard University),
"The World of Ovid's Metamorphoses", May 5, 1987.

5. David Furley (Princeton University),
"The Greek Poet-Philosophers", May 3, 1988.

6. John C. Yardley (Univ. of Ottawa),
"Is there any love in Roman poetry?", April 28, 1989.

7. Rosamond Kent Sprague (Univ. of South Carolina),
"Aristotle As Teacher", April 26, 1990.

8. James C. McKeown (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison),
"The Influence of Rhetoric on Classical Poetry", April 25, 1991.

9. Barry P. Powell (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison),
"Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet", April 24, 1992.

10. Anna Marguerite McCann (JASON Project, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution),
"Exploring the Deep Frontier: New Directions in Underwater Archaeology", April 23, 1993.

11. William Slater (McMaster University),
"The Theatricality of Ancient Justice", April 29, 1994.

12. Alan Cameron (Columbia University),
"Hypatia: Lynching Ancient and Modern", April 28, 1995.

13. Anthony Spawforth (Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne),
"The Romanization of Athens", April 24, 1996.

14. Mary Lefkowitz (Wellesley College),
"The Origins of Greek Civilization: the Afrocentric Theory", April 28, 1997.

15. Glen W. Bowersock (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton),
"The Roman Emperor as Russian Czar: Tacitus and Pushkin on Tiberius", April 17, 1998.

16. Kurt A. Raaflaub (Center for Hellenics Studies & Brown Univ.),
"Leaders in War and Bravery: The Ideology of War in Late Fifth-century Athens", 8 April 1999.

17. Peter Green (Universtiy of Texas, Emeritus),
"Delivering the Go(o)ds: The Oddities of Hellenistic Divine Kingship", 14 April 2000.

18. Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University),
"Oval Arena, Convex Mirror: The Amphitheatre as a vehicle of Public Policy under Augustus?", 27 April 2001.

19. Tonio Hölscher (University of Heidelberg),
"Fathers and Sons, Gods and Heroes: The Ideal Ruler in the Greek World", 13 March 2002.

20. John Matthews (Yale University),
"The Nature of Power in the Graeco-Roman World: Three Moments of Truth", 4 April 2003.

21. Jon Solomon (University of Arizona):
"Opera and the Ancient World: Aida & the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon and Empire", 16 April 2004.

22. Stephan Heilen (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster):
"Astrology and Horoscopes in the Ancient World", 7 April 2005.

23. Walter Ludwig (University of Hamburg):
"The Humanist Origins of the Educational Journey", 13 April 2006.

24. Hunter R, Rawlings, III (Cornell University):
"Thucydides and the Truth in History", 5 April 2007.

25. Christopher Pelling (Oxford University):
"Why read Thucydides?", 15 April 2008.