Calendar of Events
Classics Events for 2011-2012 (updates added as available)
Friday, November 4, 2011
5:00 p.m.
Yelena Baraz
Princeton University, Department of Classics
Author of A Written Republic: The Cultural Politics of Cicero's Philosophy, which locates the body of philosophical work Cicero produced in the 40s BCE under Caesar's dictatorship in its historical and cultural context (forthcoming Spring 2012, Princeton University Press), Professor Baraz speaks on the topic of Cicero's philosophical works.
Contact John Schafer, Department of Classics
Friday, February 3, 2012
12:00 p.m., Classics Seminar Room (Kresge Hall 1-500)
John Schafer
Northwestern University, Department of Classics
Brown Bag Lunch Presentation
"Horace Ode 1.7 and Aeneid 1"
Please bring your lunch and join the group. All welcome.
February 24-26, 2012
The Department of Classics is pleased to announce the international conference entitled "Constructing the Human: Culture and the Body from Antiquity to Vesalius," organized and hosted by Northwestern University professors Daniel H. Garrison (Classics) and Cynthia Nazarian (French and Italian).
Evanston Campus, Northwestern University
Conference underwritten by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Presenters are:
Catherine Belling (NU Feinberg School of Medicine)
Cammy Brothers (University of Virginia, School of Architecture)
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University, Dept. of Classics)
Vivian Nutton (University College London, Centre for the History of Medicine)
Karen Reeds (Princeton Research Forum and University of Pennsylvania)
Jonathan Sawday (Saint Louis University, Dept. of English)
Michael Schoenfeldt (University of Michigan, Dept. of English)
Claudia Swan (Northwestern University, Dept. of Art History)
Iolanda Ventura (CNRS Orléans, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes)
See conference website and poster for program details--
http://sites.weinberg.northwestern.edu/constructing-the-human/
"What role does knowledge about the body play in constructing our humanity? The ancient humoral system attempted to link four particular bodily fluids to human temperament and character. Homer suggested that our bodies are what we are; the Orphics believed the body is a tomb, a notion echoed by Stoicism and Christianity. The early modern period took up the Presocratic and Hippocratic idea that the body is a microcosm. In recent years, scholars from disciplines across the humanities have addressed what some have termed “medical humanities.” The objective of this symposium is to explore the relationship between the body and its cultural, artistic and literary representations from the time of Galen to Vesalius. How did successive periods understand corporeality and affect, illness and identity?"
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Friday, April 13, 2012
4:00 p.m.
Kresge Hall 1-500, Classics Seminar Room
Clemente Marconi
Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology; University Professor; Director, IFA Excavations at Selinunte
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
"The Birth of an Image: The Painting of a Statue of Herakles and Theories of Representation in Ancient Greek Culture"
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Tuesday and Wednesday, April 24-25, 2012
The Joint Northwestern University / University of Pisa Conference
The John Evans Alumni Center, 1880 Sheridan Road, Evanston
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Friday, April 27, 2012
2:00 p.m.
Kresge Hall 1-500, Classics Seminar Room
James Ker
Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
"The Order of the Day: Time, Self, and Community in Roman Literature"
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April 23, 2012 & May 2, 2012
Pierre Judet de La Combe
EHESS scholar Judet de la Combe's visit to Northwestern is in the context of the FIG NU/EHESS exchange.
Pierre Judet de La Combe (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) will give two lectures on the theme “Theatre and Cognition”:
“Theatre and Cognition, part I: Law and Politics in Aeschylus' Oresteia”
Monday, April 23rd from 12-2pm, Scott Hall 201 (Ripton Room)
“Theatre and Cognition, part II: Philosophy in Aristophanes' Clouds”
Wednesday, May 2nd from 5-6:30pm, Kresge 2-370 (Kaplan Institute Seminar Room)
These events are sponsored by the French Interdisciplinary Group, the Classics Department, and the Classics Cluster
See Department of Philosophy (NU) Event Schedule
See Kaplan Institute for the Humanities (NU) Event Schedule
Please see the Event Archive for previous years' events.
In 2008-2010, the Department of Classics hosted an extensive program of events on the theme "Theatre After Athens: Reception and Revision of Ancient Greek Drama," sponsored by a Sawyer/Mellon grant
