Conferences , Lectures & Seminars
3 April 2009, 3 PM: 26th Annual Tracy Lecture, : Richard Thomas (Harvard University) "Reading Virgil in the Nineteenth Century: Berlioz to Tennyson." Public Invited. Reception to follow
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Previous Conferences organised by the
Department of Classics & Mediterranean Studies
November2008: Faculty seminar, Ahmed Achrati, “Islamic Arts: An Epistemology of the "Ab-surd,".
November 2008: Seminar, Menelaos Christopoulos and Efimia Karakantza (University of Patras):On Oedipus and the Winkling of his Eye.
November2008: Seminar, 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: Faculty Seminar, 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 : “Is the Underworld in the Sky? The Beyond in the Odyssey and its relationship to Egyptian Thought”- Nanno Marinatos
March 2008 : 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
October2003: 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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