Announcements
Current Announcements:
Clinical Asst. Professor Mustapha Kamal receives 2012 Silver Circle Award
For the second year in a row, a Professor in the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies has received the Silver Circle Award. (Jennifer Tobin was honored in 2011.) Recipients are chosen each year by graduating seniors, and represent some of UIC's best teachers.
Associate Professor Jennifer Tobin receives 2011 Silver Circle Award
Winners of the Silver Circle Award have been chosen by UIC's graduating seniors since 1966.
NEW BOOK: Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess by Nanno Marinatos (U of Illinois Press, 2010). 280 pp.
See the review by Colin Renfrew in THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, February 4, 2011.
David Reisman, Assoc. Professor of Arabic and Islamic Thought
It is with deep regret that the Department announces the death of our former colleague David Reisman, who until last semester was an associate professor of Arabic-Islamic Thought in our unit. David died suddenly on 2 January 2011, at the age of 41, in London, England, where he had recently accepted the position of Research Fellow at King’s College, London. David was a distinguished Islamic scholar, who specialized in Arabic philosophy, and he was a past visiting fellow of the School for Advanced Study at Princeton and Mellon fellow in 2004-05.
His family has requested that remembrances in David’s honor be directed to his son Lorcan Sargeant, c/o H. Ruel, VSECU (Vermont State Employees Credit Union), PO Box 67, Berlin VT 05601-0067.
LASURI Award received by Classics major Briana Jackson for the project "Ancient Ideas and Modern Forgeries"
Ms Jackson, in collaboration with Professor Nanno Marinatos as faculty director, has received an LAS Undergraduate Research Initiative (LASURI) Award for 2010-11 to investigate a reputedly ancient Minoan ring of circa 1600 BC, which is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It will be argued that the ring is a modern forgery of the 20th century. The sources that influenced its design were Victorian theological concepts about the afterlife, especially those found in Sir James Frazer's anthropological work The Golden Bough. Further influence seems to come from ancient Egyptian sources, such as the Book of the Dead, which circulated widely during this time.
Past Announcements:
FACULTY MEMBER RECEIVES GRANT
The Institute of Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) has awarded to Professor Nanno Marinatos a grant of $7,000 in support of her undertaking to organize the archives of her father, the distinguished archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos (1901-1974), who is best known for his excavation of Santorini. The documents comprise letters in four languages from the mid-war period 1930-1939, university lecture notes, newspaper articles, excavation notes and hundreds of photographs. Most interesting among the letters and photographs are ones of Sir Arthur Evans, Martin P. Nilsson, Georg Karo, Sir Denys Page. Also included are such world leaders as the king of Sweden, General Montgomery, and the king of Greece.
Nanno Marinatos is preparing a book on Sir Arthur Evans and Spyridon Marinatos based on this material.
Sebastian Anderson, a December 2009 graduate in Classical Languages and Literatures, investigated the strik- ing similarities between the archaic Greek conception of the cosmos and that of Ancient Egypt. READ ON.
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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March 19, 2010: Classics Spring Lecture: Menelaos Christopoulos: Helen of Troy - Innocence, Guilt and Politics
March 17, 2010: John Briscoe - Nonius Marcellus and the Fragments of the Lost Roman Historians
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Archaeologist Edward Maher awarded an NEH fellowship |
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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November 2008
Seminar, Menelaos Christopoulos and Efimia Karakantza
University of Patras:
On Oedipus and the Winkling of his Eye.
SUNY, Buffalo:
"Writing as Performance: An Early Greek Conceptualization of the Alphabet”
REVELATION IN ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION?
Institute for the Humanities
Speakers:
ROBERT PARKERUniversity of Oxford:
“Ignorance and Knowledge of the Divine”
ROGER WOODARD
SUNY, Buffalo:
“Script as Sacrifice;
Writing as Revelation”
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 other news:
"In memoriam: Theodore J. Tracy" by Prof. J.T. Ramsey
