Sep
25
2020
Classics Welcome Event
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Please join the Classics faculty, students, and friends to celebrate the launch of the 2020-2021 academic year at the Classics...
Past Events
Sep
2
2020
Weinberg Academic Directions Fair
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join Classics at the virtual Weinberg Academc Directions Fair on Wednesday, September 2, 11am – 12pm. For more information visit...
Jun
19
2020
Classics Class of 2020 Celebration!
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Classics majors and faculty will convene virtually to celebrate the Class of 2020!
Jun
16
2020
Now Virtual: Classics Expo and Murley Awards Ceremony
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
The Classics Expo and Murley Awards Ceremony will take place from 3-4 pm, virtually.
May
20
2020
CANCELLED: Latin literary portrayals of Phoenician female speech and their American legacy: from Plautus and Vergil to Emma Lazarus and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
5:15 PM - 6:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join Northwestern Classics for a lecture with Judith Hallett (Professor of Classics and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Emerita at the University of...
May
13
2020
CANCELLED: Warnock Lecture Series: Jennifer Trimble (Stanford University)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Northwestern University Department of Art History presents the Warnock Lecture Series. "Substance, surface, and space: looking at Roman relief sculpture with...
May
8
2020
CANCELLED: Political Thought in Ancient China
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join us for Professor Loubna El-Amine's talk, "Political Thought in Ancient China." El Amine is faculty for Northwestern University Political...
May
1
2020
CANCELLED: Nicole Spigner
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Nicole Spigner (Northwestern, African American Studies), will present a talk for the classical Receptions Workshop. Title forthcoming. A light lunch...
Apr
16
2020
CANCELLED: 1177 BC: Is the Collapse at the End of the Late Bronze Age of Relevance Today?
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join us for a talk with Professor Eric Cline (The George Washington University), who will present “1177 BC: Is the Collapse...
Mar
2
2020
Ancient Philosophy Workshop: Marta Jimenez [Emory]
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by NU Ancient Philosophy Workshop
Olympiodorus on Rhetoric and Experience in Plato's Gorgias: A Defense of the Decent Politician
Feb
28
2020
The (W)Hole Story: People, Pots, and Planes along the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan - Morag Kersel
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
The Global Antiquities Research Workshop presents Professor Morag Kersel (Archaeology, DePaul University): The (W)Hole Story: People, Pots, and Planes along the...
Feb
25
2020
Ancient Philosophy Workshop: Russell Jones [U. of Oklahoma]
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Ancient Philosophy Workshop
"The Intellectualist Foundations of Plato's Republic"
Feb
20
2020
New Directions in Greek Archaeopolitics
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join us for the winter installment of #ClassicsNow: The Urgency of Re-Imagining Antiquity series with Professor Johanna Hanink, Brown University,...
Feb
13
2020
Colonizing the Past: The Case of Argos in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Professor Jonathan Hall's talk, "Colonizing the Past: The Case of Argos in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," will...
Feb
4
2020
The Annunciation to Mary between Text and Image
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Professor Glenn Most (University of Chicago and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) will present the talk “The Annunciation to Mary...
Jan
30
2020
Northwestern Library's Horace Collection
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join Martin Antonetti, the Director of Distinctive Collections at Northwestern, for a discussion of Northwestern Library's Horace collection, from 5:00-6:00...
Jan
17
2020
Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Afghanistan
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Professor Gil Stein (University of Chicago) will discuss the Oriental Institute's Cultural Heritage Preservation Projects in Afghanistan from 12-2pm in...
Dec
5
2019
Book Discussion with Taco Terpstra and Daniel Immerwahr
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Come take part in a book discussion with Taco Terpstra and Daniel Immerwahr from 12:00 to 2:00 pm in Kresge...
Nov
15
2019
Tour of Block Museum
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join us for a tour of Classics-related works in the Block Museum of Art with Assistant Curator of Collections, Essi...
Nov
7
2019
“Classics and Social Class, 1689-2019”
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Professor Edith Hall (King’s College), will present the talk “Classics and Social Class, 1689-2019” as part of the #ClassicsNow: The...
Nov
1
2019
"Three Oresteia in Spring 2019 (Washington DC, Lyon, Paris): What They Taught me About Aeschylus' Play"
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Anne-Sophie Noel (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) will present the talk "Three Oresteia in Spring 2019 (Washington DC, Lyon, Paris):...
Oct
22
2019
"Do Objects Have Something to Say? Performance, Agency and Ontology of Objects in Greek Tragedy"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Anne-Sophie Noel (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) will present the talk "Do Objects Have Something to Say? Performance, Agency and...
Oct
18
2019
Making Classics Public
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join us for "Making Classics Public," with Professor Sarah Bond (U Iowa) and Dr. Donna Zuckerberg for the talk, "Making...
Oct
4
2019
Ancient Philosophy Workshop: Sukaina Hirji [UPenn]
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by NU Ancient Philosophy Workshop
"How Virtue is a Means to Contemplation"
Jun
6
2019
Anthropology Four-Book Party
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Celebrate the release of four new books by anthropologists: Robert Launay: Savages, Romans, and other Despots: Thinging about Others from Montaigne...
Jun
6
2019
Humanity from Ancient to Modern Times Book Party!
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Taco Terpstra hosts a book party
Jun
5
2019
Classics Expo and Award Ceremony
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join us for the award ceremony!
May
22
2019
An Iranian Assyria
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Richard Payne (University of Chicago) lectures on "An Iranian Assyria: Empire, Religion, and Social Change in Late Antiquity" Organized by the...
May
20
2019
Plato on the Nature of Rule
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Melissa Lane (Princeton) lectures on "Plato on the Nature of Rule" Organized by Political Theory Colloquium
May
17
2019
The Reception of Ancient Near East Art Workshop
All day, sponsored by Department of Classics
Organized by the Art History Department
May
16
2019
Workshop - Fiona Macintosh (Classics, St. Hilda's College, Oxford)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by English Department
This interactive workshop, “Theatre, Comparatism, and the ‘Classic’: Interactions between Shakespeare and the Greeks,” invites participants to ponder, along with Professor Fiona...
May
10
2019
From Homer to Freestyle Rap: Oral poetry in the 21st century – a lecture and performance by the Mudkids
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Free lecture and performance, From Homer to Freestyle Rap: Oral poetry in the 21st century – by Indianapolis-based rap artists,...
May
3
2019
Equine Poetics
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Lecture by Ryan Platte on his book "Equine Poetics"
Apr
11
2019
Historicizing the Classical: The Case of Fifth-Century Greek Art
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge) discusses fifth-century Greek art. This is part of the #ClassicsNow speaker series.
Apr
5
2019
Censorship and Self-Censorship in India
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Lecture By Wendy Doniger, Professor Emeritus of the History of Religions at the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations,...
Mar
18
2019
Richard Patterson (Emory)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by NU Ancient Philosophy Workshop
Abstract coming soon
Feb
21
2019
2000 Years of Public Health: From Ancients Plagues to Modern Pandemics
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Professor Kyle Harper, of University of Oklahoma, will present his talk "2000 Years of Public Health: From Ancients Plagues to...
Feb
6
2019
Caravans of Gold Guided Tour
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Take a guided tour of the Block Museum's exhibit Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval...
Feb
5
2019
Iopas, Vergil's Phoenician Bard
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Andrea Rotstein (Tel Aviv University), will present "Iopas, Vergil's Phoenician Bard." Organized by the Classical Receptions Workshop.
Feb
4
2019
The Invention of Chaos
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Glenn Most (U Chicago), will present his talk, "The Invention of Chaos," organized by the Classical Receptions Workshop.
Jan
29
2019
The Invention of Chaos
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Professor Glenn Most (U Chicago), will present his talk "The Invention of Chaos" as part of the Classical Receptions Workshop.
Jan
18
2019
Panel on Aristotle
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Edith Hall (King's College London) and Richard Kraut (Northwestern) discuss Aristotle. This event is organized by the Graduate Classics Cluster.
Jan
16
2019
Why are the Furies Female:? A Brief History of Gender and Revenge
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Edith Hall (King's College London) will present "Why are the Furies Female:? A Brief History of Gender and Revenge." Organized...
Dec
3
2018
Ancient Philosophy Workshop - Emily Fletcher (Wisconsin)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by NU Ancient Philosophy Workshop
Please join the Ancient Philosophy Society for our second workshop of the quarter, featuring Professor Emily Fletcher from Wisconsin! Abstract: Coming...
Nov
16
2018
Ancient Philosophy Workshop - Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame): "Intelligibility, Intelligence, and Insight"
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by NU Ancient Philosophy Workshop
Title: ‘Intelligibility, Intelligence, and Insight’ Aristotle claims that ‘intelligence’ (νοῦς) is the form of its objects. On its face, the idea appears...
Nov
16
2018
Intelligibility, Intelligence, and Insight
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) will discuss Aristotle's psychology. This event is organized by the Ancient Philosophy Workshop Series.
Nov
14
2018
Thinking about Poetic Redundancy with Vergil and the Hebrew Bible
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
A talk by Professor Andrea Rotstein, Tel Aviv University The tendency to say similar things twice is a feature of Vergil’s...
Nov
9
2018
Classics After the Ontological Turn: New Horizons of History and Critique
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Greg Anderson, of Ohio State University, will present his talk "Classics After the Ontological Turn: New Horizons of History and...
Nov
2
2018
Panel on Ancient Law
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Northwestern's Global Antiquities Group presents a Panel on Ancient Law.
Oct
26
2018
Classics Social
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
This social is a chance to network with Classics faculty and peers, catch up on the latest Classics news, and...
Oct
24
2018
Chiraq Screening
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
The Classics department will be showing Chiraq, Spike Lee's adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata. This adaptation, set in Chicago, is one...
Oct
19
2018
Plato's Philosophy: Eros, Polis, Cosmos
All day, sponsored by NU Ancient Philosophy Workshop
A conference sponsored by the Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy. For more information, visit https://erospoliscosmos.wordpress.com/.
Sep
24
2018
Weinberg Academic Directions Fair
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Considering Classics as a Major or Minor? Visit our table at the Weinberg Academic Directions Fair.
May
24
2018
A conversation with Terry McCabe: Artistic Director of City Lit Productions
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Terry McCabe will discuss City Lit's current production of Prometheus Bound.
May
8
2018
Documentalities: between the homeless shelter and classical literature
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Dan-El Peralta (Princeton) will present the talk "Documentalities: between the homeless shelter and classical literature." The event is co-sponsored by the...
Apr
27
2018
A talk with Sean Graney, Artistic Director of The Hypocrites
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join a lecture with Sean Graney, Artistic Director of The Hypocrites, who will talk about the company’s latest project, a...
Apr
19
2018
The Youth of Antiquity: Classical Receptions and the History of Sexuality
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Shane Butler, Johns Hopkins University, works on Latin literature from antiquity through the Renaissance. His special interests include media history...
Apr
13
2018
Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Classical Receptions Workshop with Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton
Apr
12
2018
The Splendid Appearance of Things Mundane: Victorian Artists and the Allure of Ancient Egypt
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton, will present "The Splendid Appearance of Things Mundane": Victorian Artists and the Allure of Ancient Egypt,...
Mar
16
2018
Department of Political Science & TGS Graduate Classics Cluster Presents Ryan Balot
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
“The Motions of War in Plato’s Laws” Ryan Balot Professor of Political Science and Classics University of Toronto
Mar
6
2018
Mirroring China's Past: Emperors, Scholars, and Their Bronzes
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
This event is a Receptions Workshop for art history, global antiquities, and classics. There will be a panel on the...
Feb
16
2018
Weeping Heraclitus and Laughing Democritus
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Glenn Most, University of Chicago, will present “Weeping Heraclitus and Laughing Democritus,” as part of the Classical Receptions Workshop. The opposition...
Feb
2
2018
Old and New Materialisms and Greek Tragedy
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Edith Hall, of Kings College London, will present the lecture: “Old and New Materialisms and Greek Tragedy.”
Feb
1
2018
Classicist Foremothers and Why They Matter
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Edith Hall, of Kings College London, will present the lecture: "Classicist Foremothers and Why they Matter."
Dec
8
2017
Workshop with Helma Dik
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Classics will host a workshop with Helma Dik, U Chicago, about Latin and Greek texts in Perseus
Nov
10
2017
Why Tragic Playwrights Love to Hate Tyrants
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Professor Paul Woodruff, University of Texas at Austin, will present his talk "Why Tragic Playwrights Love to Hate Tyrants" as...
Oct
20
2017
The Air in Epic: Women Writers and Homer, and a New Translation of the Iliad
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Professor Katie Hartsock will present her talk, "The Air in Epic: Women Writers and Homer, and a New Translation of...
Sep
26
2017
Classics, Greek, and Latin Information Session
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Insterested in studying ancient Rome and Greece at Northwestern? Learn about the Classics, Greek and Latin major and minor programs...
Apr
28
2017
Recovering the Bodies: Simonides, Timotheus, and other objects
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Professor Sarah Nooter, of University Chicago, will present her talk Recovering the Bodies: Simonides, Timotheus, and other objects. This talk is hosted...
Mar
8
2017
The Rise and Defamation of Ancient Greek Democracy, and the Election of Donald J. Trump
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
The Department of Classics and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies present - The Rise and Defamation of Ancient Greek Democracy,...
Feb
27
2017
That Goblin Word: Why We Need to Rethink What We and Aristophanes Mean by Demagogue
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
The Departments of Political Science and Classics present Edith Hall, Professor in the Classics, Department and Centre for Hellenic Studies...
Nov
4
2016
New and Old Legal Curse Tablets from Athens
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Department of Classics Brown Bag talk: New and Old Legal Curse Tablets from Athens, by guest speaker Zinon PapakonstantinouAssociate Professor of...
Oct
21
2016
On the Poetics of Redundancy in Vergil’s Aeneid
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Professor Andrea Rotstein, from Tel Aviv University, will present her talk: On the Poetics of Redundancy in Vergil’s Aeneid. Taking a...
Oct
14
2016
“Augustan Mapping and Aposiopetic Topography in Ars Amatoria Book 1”
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Nandini PandeyAssistant Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, will present“Augustan Mapping and Aposiopetic Topography in Ars Amatoria Book 1” as...
Sep
12
2016
Wildcat Welcome (New Student Orientation)
All day, sponsored by University Academic Calendar
Wildcat Welcome (New Student Orientation)
May
11
2016
Poetry and Mind: Recursion, Reflexivity and Thinking Experiments
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Laurent Dubreuil, Professor of French, Francophone & Comparative Literature at Cornell University will present his talk Poetry and Mind: Recursion,...
Dec
4
2015
The Renaissance (In)Humanism of Angelo Poliziano
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
William N. West, of Northwestern University, will present his talkThe Renaissance (In)Humanism of Angelo Poliziano, as part of the Department...
Nov
2
2015
On the origins of the idea of a beastly human nature. Plato and the sophists
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Chloe Balla, of University of Crete at Rethymnon, will present her talkOn the Origins of the Idea of a Beastly...
Oct
30
2015
Medea and Circe in Apollonius’ Argonautica
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Cecilia Cozzi, of Trento University, Italy, will present her talk Medea and Circe in Apollonius’ Argonautica, as part of the...
Oct
16
2015
Commenting on Iliad 1
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Professor Seth Schein, of University of California, Davis, will present "Commenting on Iliad 1."