Events

For the department's previous academic year's events, please see the Event Archive

For current events university-wide, consult the university's Online Calendar: Plan-it Purple

Department of Classics and

The Classical Traditions Initiative

Events Academic Year 2009-2010

October 9-11, 2009

Department of Classics at Northwestern hosts the

2009 Illinois Classical Conference Meeting

(See the ICC website for registration and program)

October 29, 2009

5:00 p.m.

John Evans Alumni Center -- map and directions

First event of the Sawyer Seminar Series 2009-2010

Classical Muses: How 19th- and Early 20th-Century Women Re-imagined Greek Tragedy for the American Stage

Helene Foley

Barnard College, Columbia University

October 30-31, 2009

Conference, Choral Mediations in Greek Drama

Hosted by Prof. Marianne Hopman, Classics, Northwestern University

Participants include

Anton Bierl, Basel
Claude Calame, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Yael Farber, Farber Foundry
Renaud Gagne, Cambridge
Reginald Gibbons, Northwestern University
Susanne Godde, Munich
Simon Goldhill, Cambridge
Jonas Grethlein, Heidelberg
Albert Henrichs, Harvard
Marianne Hopman, Northwestern University
Alexander Kirichenko, Trier
Barbara Kowalzig, RH London
Graham Ley, Exeter
Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania
Gregory Nagy, Harvard
Robert Wallace, Northwestern University
Northwestern acting students directed by Linda Gates

(See conference website for complete schedule and poster, or contact choruses2009@gmail.com)

December 4-5, 2009

John Evans Alumni Center -- map and directions

Part of the Sawyer Seminar Series 2009-2010

Greek Drama in 19th-Century America:

Academic and Professional Stages

Hosted by Prof. Kathryn Bosher, Classics

and Dr. Amanda Wrigley, Classics

Northwestern University

(See full schedule here)

January 22-23, 2010

John Evans Alumni Center -- map and directions

Part of the Sawyer Seminar Series 2009-2010

Greek Drama in America, 1900-1970

Hosted by Prof. Kathryn Bosher, Classics

and Dr. Amanda Wrigley, Classics

Northwestern University

March 12-13, 2010

John Evans Alumni Center -- map and directions

Part of the Sawyer Seminar Series 2009-2010

Greek Drama in African-American Theatre

Hosted by Prof. Kathryn Bosher, Classics

and Dr. Amanda Wrigley, Classics

Northwestern University

May 14, 2010
Conference, Ordinary Virtue in Ancient Greece and Rome

Mitzi Lee, University of Colorado
David Reeve, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Eric Brown, Washington University
Hendrik Lorenz, Princeton University
(See also the Department of Philosophy web site)

May 20-22, 2010

John Evans Alumni Center -- map and directions

Part of the Sawyer Seminar Series 2009-2010

Classicizing Chicago

Hosted by Prof. Kathryn Bosher, Classics

and Dr. Amanda Wrigley, Classics

Northwestern University

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The Classical Traditions Initiative and the Department of Classics announce that they have received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for a John E. Sawyer Seminar Series entitled "Theatre after Athens: Reception and Revision of Greek Drama". The Sawyer Seminar web site is frequently updated with events covering the two-year period of this grant, 2008-2010.