The annual Classics Expo & Awards Ceremony was held on June 6. Congratulations to all of the presenters and award winners!
June 6, 2025
2024-2025
June
May
Professor Taco Terpstra co-organized an "Ancient Economies" conference with the Department of Economics.
May 23, 2025
Professor Francesca Tataranni contributed a translation of an inscription to the Art Institute of Chicago’s current "Myth & Marble" Exhibit.
May 21, 2025
Professor Glenn Most Delivered a Guest Lecture, "Suspense and Surprise in Greek Tragedy" on May 16.
May 16, 2025
Professor Nick Winters gave a guest lecture titled, "The Arts and Artifacts of Ancient Astronomy" at a CIERA Colloquium.
May 13, 2025
Congratulations to graduating senior Classics minor, Callie Stolar, and junior Classics major Isabel Tolman-Bronski on being Inducted into the Northwestern chapter of ΦΒΚ (Phi Beta Kappa) this Year.
May 2, 2025
April
Professor Sarah Derbew (Stanford University) delivered a guest lecture on "Horizontal Reading Practices in Greek and Ethiopian Satire" on April 18.
April 18, 2025
The Classics Graduate Cluster hosted a guest lecture by Professor Francesca Schironi (University of Michigan) on April 11.
April 11, 2025
The Classics Undergraduate Advisory Board led a day trip to visit the replica of the Athenian Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee.
April 5, 2025
March
Congratulations to Nava Cohen (Classics Cluster/Comparative Literary Studies) on winning the Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences for the academic year 2024-2025!
March 12, 2025
February
Professor Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago) led a workshop on "Revisiting August Wilson's Reading of Aristotle's 'Poetics'" on February 28.
February 28, 2025
December
Professor and Classics Department Chair, Sara Monoson, delivered a lecture at the The Department of Classical Studies at the Hebrew University.
December 11, 2024
November
Classics students and faculty attended the Wirtz Center's production of Antigone.
November 23, 2024 – from Wirtz Center
The Classics Undergraduate Advisory Board (CUAB) hosted a trivia night on November 19th.
November 17, 2024
The CUAB hosted a Certamen Tournament for Classics majors and minors.
Professor Elizabeth Macaulay (City University of New York) led a discussion on "Ancient Exempla: Moving Towards a Global Reception of Ancient Architecture and Monuments" on November 15th.
November 15, 2024 – from Planit Purple
Professor Charles McNelis (Georgetown University) delivered a guest lecture on November 1, titled, "Achilles and Odysseus in Statius' 'Achilleid.'"
November 1, 2024 – from Planit Purple
October
We welcomed back students and faculty with the Classics Fall Social on October 18th.
October 22, 2024
September
Watch Professor Taco Terpstra's interview, "Trade and Economic Growth in the Ancient World", with Bill Hurst at the Cambridge Center for Geopolitics.
September 27, 2024 – from Youtube