Conferences , Lectures & Seminars
April 2010: 27th Annual Tracy Lecture : Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago): "Who's Who in the 'Royal' Cemetery at Vergina and Why it Matters"
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Conference in honor of John Vaio: Fables and People. Saturday Nov. 7 3PM. Institute for the Humanities, Lower Level Stevenson Hall
Paul Keyser: “The Will of Ajax and His Last Testament”
Kent Rigsby (Duke University): “Pericles' Law Censoring Comedy”
Danuta Shanzer (UIUC): “Quick Brown Fox and Lazy Dog”
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Previous Conferences organised by the
Department of Classics & Mediterranean Studies
April 2009: George Huxley (Oxford): “Ulixes Redux”.
April 2009: Danuta Shanzer (University of Illinois at Urbana): "From Text to Author: A Curious Correspondent of St. Augustine's."
April 2009: Chris Savoia (senior thesis): “Was Nero a Good Emperor?”
March 2009: The Apology of Socrates: Yannis Simonides plays Socrates. A play based closely on the Apology by Plato, Socrates' student.
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March 2009: Helmut Loeffler (Penn State University): “Mechanism of Catastrophe: Thycydides’ Description of the Sicilian Expedition.”
Februrary 2009: Nick Hugget (Philosophy Department): "Aristotelian Themes and Influences in Early Modern and Modern Physics".
Februrary 2009: Paul Fleck (senior thesis): “Lions and Boars: Simile and Character in the Iliad”.
February 2009: Alex MacGregor: “The Soul as Star-Stuff from Homer to Origen”
February 2009: Sebastian Anderson (senior thesis): “The Plan of Zeus in the Iliad”
November 2008: Ahmed Achrati: “Islamic Arts: An Epistemology of the "Ab-surd"
November 2008: Menelaos Christopoulos and Efimia Karakantza (University of Patras): On Oedipus and the Winkling of his Eye.
November 2008: Roger Woodard (SUNY, Buffalo): "Writing as Performance: An Early Greek Conceptualization of the Alphabet”
November 2008: Conference, REVELATION IN ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION?
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"
Kenneth Dowden (University of Birmingham): Respondent
Menelaos Christopoulos and Efi Karakantza (Univ. of Patras): Respondents
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October 2008: Seminar, Vasileios Syros (visiting ass. professor, University of Chicago): “Socrates' Image: Medieval and Renaissance Arabic and Jewish political thought”
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October 2008: Mustapha Kamal: “The Devil”
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”
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September 2008: Nanno Marinatos: “Is the Underworld in the Sky? The Beyond in the Odyssey and its Relationship to Egyptian Thought”
March 2008: Conference, Minoan Civilization Outside Crete - Griffins and Royal Ideology
November 2006: The Gospel of Judas and other Secret Gospels
Orient and Occident: Confrontation in Variations.
(East and West: Ancient Variations of a Eurasian conflict)
Walter Burkert at UIC Nov. 2006
November 2004: Paradise - the lexicon of felicity
October 2003: Religious and State Authority in the Eastern Mediterranean
November 2002: Pythagoreanism, Orphism, and Afterlife Beliefs
April 2002: Divine Epiphanies from Archaic Greece to the Christian Era
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