3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
This talk tells the story of virtual unwrapping, conceived during the rise of digital libraries and large-scale computing, and now...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Please join us on Friday, February 20 at 12:30pm in the Trienens Forum (Kresge 1515) for a lecture by Professor...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
This is a celebratory reception honoring our graduating majors and minors. Graduating students are welcome to bring guests.
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join us for an afternoon of lunch, presentations, and awards. Open to all members of the Classics Community.
8:15 AM - 5:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Ancient Economies May 23, 2025 Sponsored by: Northwestern Center for Economic History Joel Mokyr, Joe Ferrie, and Walker Hanlon, co-directors Organizers: Walker Hanlon and Taco...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Visiting Lecture by Glenn Most Starting from Alfred Hitchcock's classic distinction between suspense and surprise, I ask how much of each...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Please join us on Friday, April 18 at noon in the Classics Seminar Room (Kresge 4364) for a lecture by...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Beautiful but Wrong: Hipparchus on Aratus’ Phaenomena and their Ancient Reception Aratus’ Phaenomena (ca. 270 BCE), a poem about constellations, enjoyed...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
Recent scholarship has intervened against established scholarship to assert that the Mishnah, the foundational second century rabbinic code of law,...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Please join us on Friday, February 28 at 12:00pm in Kresge 4364 (Classics Seminar Room) for a lecture by Patrice...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Nick Winters, Classics, Northwestern University Title "Rival Arithmetics of Ancient Greece" Abstract The origin of European theoretical mathematics is usually placed by historians in...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Already in his own lifetime, Euripides was known for pushing the boundaries of what a tragedy could be. While recent...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
Let’s Talk about Atlantis: Engaging with Archaeology and History Misinformation "Over the last few decades, pseudoarchaeological narratives about Atlantis and Lost...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Reception studies are now a core part of classical studies. Yet, the study of ancient art and architecture has lagged...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Statius' Achilleid takes as its subject the hero Achilles prior to his participation in the Trojan War. Even though this...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
As was the case throughout most of the Mediterranean, for the prehistoric (Indigenous) Nuragic communities of Sardinia, the Iron Age...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
This is a celebratory reception honoring our graduating majors and minors. Graduating students are welcome to bring guests.
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Open to all members of the Classics Department
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
The extant literature of ancient Rome has a representation problem. How can we understand the experiences of women, non-citizens, freedpersons,...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
In this workshop, we will examine Northwestern’s set textbooks for Intro and Intermediate Latin: whose voices are promoted? what perspectives...
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
This workshop brings together early and mid-career faculty in Classics from Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana for informal peer review. Papers...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
RSVP at classics@northwestern.edu
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Please contact classics@northwestern.edu for RSVP.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
This pedagogical event will be hosted at the Art Institute of Chicago with Lisa Cakmak and Ashley Aricho. Contact Prof. Ryan...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Lucian’s Megillos has often found himself at the center of contemporary border wars over identity in modern scholarship. Is Megillos...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
At the intersection of scholarly life and marginalized gender identity lies a unique set of challenges. In 2020, in answer...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
On top of the normal pressures of school life, trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming students often feel like we’re barely getting...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Nava Cohen (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literary Studies, Classics Cluster) will offer a public preview of her dissertation prospectus: “The Old...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Mechanically simple and mathematically sophisticated, the sundial was a triumph of ancient astronomy and technology. In this lecture and workshop,...
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
The panel will address how a 2023 performance adapted from Joseph Addison's "Cato, A Tragedy” — a play favored by...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
In this hybrid workshop, Tom Hendrickson will provide us key background on print-on-demand, collaborative research, and the current status of...
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
You’re invited to a presentation about the Mellon Sawyer seminar series featuring brief remarks from the project leaders and a...
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM, sponsored by "On Decolonizing Theatre" Mellon-Sawyer Seminar
What: Launch Event for “On Decolonizing Theatre” When: September 21, 2023 from 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Where: Regenstein Hall of Music...
12:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Join us Friday, May 26 from 1:00–6:00pm for the Department of French and Italian's spring quarter conference: Symposium on Plato's Symposium:...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
In this workshop, Professor Valdivieso will share her process for researching and assembling a current work-in-progress, “Virgil in the Cane...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Dido is omnipresent in early modern imitations of the Aeneid, but there is no Dido figure in Latin epics from...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Elizabeth Hunter, Classics Cluster Certificate alumna (Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre & Drama 2018) and Assistant Professor of Drama at Washington...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Xenophanes wrote poems in dactylic hexameters and in elegiac couplets (and also, though this may be doubted, in iambic trimeters)....
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
Andrea Augenti (University of Bologna) will be presenting "From the Ashes? Transformations of Italian Cities during Late Antiquity and the...
All day, sponsored by Global Antiquities
Northwestern University’s Global Antiquities group is hosting a one-day symposium on the topic of “Teaching Antiquity.” This symposium will bring...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
Global Antiquities Workshop. In-Person. Description to come.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
E. W. Gudger described Pliny’s Natural History as “the most popular Natural History ever published” and it has been regarded...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Innumerable types of graphic marks populated the visual environment of Mediterranean cities in the later Roman empire. Different sign systems...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
To Jack Lindsay (1900-1990), the Australia-born British communist poet and man of letters, discovering Marxism felt like coming home. He...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Further to the publication of Aristotle's Way (2019), which aimed to make Aristotle's secular ethics accessible to a wide audience...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
Sergey Ivanov (British Academy Fellow; Northwestern University Visiting Scholar) will be presenting a Global Antiquities Workshop in the Classics Seminar...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
The title of this talk poses a question that has seldom if ever been asked, and that appears simple, but...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
Jason Neelis (Wilfrid Laurier University) will be presenting a Global Antiquities workshop entitled "Capillary Networks in a Contact Zone: Upper...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
In his tragedy The Trojan Women, Euripides makes use of verbal, visual and structural allusions to the recently built Parthenon...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
In Plato’s Euthydemus, Socrates offers a famous protreptic argument—that is, one intended to exhort his audience to practice philosophy. Socrates'...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Description to come.
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Much has been written about the interest in Greek and Roman antiquity and its appropriation under National Socialism, but among...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
The consequences of the increasingly striking interventions by humans on their living environment, with the various types of pollution that...
10:00 PM - 11:45 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
This event is now postponed until the fall. Date to be announced. Kick Off for the Marathon Reading of the Aeneid:...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
This event is now postponed until the fall. Date to be announced. Kick Off for the Marathon Reading of the Aeneid:...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
The historian Diodorus Siculus tells us that Alexander left a memorandum with his last orders. These included a supply of...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
My paper first examines the Latin literary portrayals of two fictional women—both described as what ancient Greeks and Romans called...
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Until recently, modern Europe and the cultures that derive from it accorded an unquestioned privilege to the Classical traditions they...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
For more than three hundred years during the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500 BC to 1200 BC, the Mediterranean...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
In 1993 the tomb of Shi Rao, a low-level local official working for the Governor of the Donghai commandery who...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Antiquities
The study of over a dozen horses buried at Phaleron represents one of the largest scientific studies of horses in...
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Real and suspected plots to overthrow democracy periodically dominated life in classical Athens, but scholars have been slow to see...
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by NU Ancient Philosophy Workshop
The NU Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop Series will host University of Illinois, Chicago's Justin Vlasits.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
The Department of Classics is delighted to present Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky) on Friday, October 8, at 3:00-5:00 PM CST. Title:...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
This year’s Academic Directions Fair for incoming students will be virtual. The Department of Classics presentation is on September 8th...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Join us for congratulations and friendly conversation at the Classics Graduation Meetup event on Sunday, June 13th, 2-3pm. In the...
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Classics Expo and Awards Ceremony on June 3 will showcase research by undergraduate students. Email classics@northwestern.edu for for more information.
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
Global Antiquities is delighted to present Ann Gunter (Professor of Art History, Classics, and in the Humanities), "A Culture of...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Interactions of Slavery and Visual Culture in Ancient Rome Northwestern University Department of Art History presents the Warnock Lecture Series This lecture...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
An afternoon with Famoro Dioubate: a performance and discussion of the poetic and musical heritage of West African song and...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
“The Values of Athens” in Contemporary White Ethnonationalism Classical scholars who are familiar with the admiration for ancient Sparta among contemporary...
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Classics
The Suppliants Project by Theater of War Productions featuring performances by David Zayas (Dexter), David Denman (The Office), Andrea Patterson...
