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 2008-2009
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". Coming soon is a Sawyer Seminar web site with a frequently updated series of events for the two-year period of this grant, 2008-2010.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
4:30 p.m., Kresge Hall 1-500 (Department of Classics Seminar Room)
Political Theory Colloquium and the Classical Traditions Initiative present
Keith Werhan, Tulane University
The Classical Athenian Ancestry of American Freedom of Speech
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October 3-4, 2008
Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Seventh Conference
Beauty, Harmony, and the Good
This conference brings together topics that were fruitfully intertwined in antiquity. We tend to be surprised nowadays by the idea that values like beauty and goodness not only could relate to each other but could actually bring in mathematics. Yet the ancients developed the thought that the universe embodies mathematical relations that offer the key to truth, beauty, and goodness. We will study this exemplay confluence of ideas in Greek antiquity in order to explore problems that continue to puzzle us today. See printable program.
Friday, October 3
Afternoon session at Northwestern University
Norris Student Center, Big Ten Room
2:00-3:45 p.m.
Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College; speaker)
Gabriel Lear (University of Chicago; commentator)
4:00-5:45 p.m.
Rachel Barney (University of Toronto; speaker)
Paula Gottlieb (University of Wisconsin; commentator)
6:30 p.m.
Dinner in Evanston at Prairie Moon restaurant
Saturday, October 4
Morning session at University of Illinois at Chicago
Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall
Lower level, 701 South Morgan Street
8:30-9:00 a.m.
Coffee and rolls
9:00-10:45 a.m.
Andrew Barker (University of Birmingham; speaker)
Carl Huffman (Depauw University; commentator)
11:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Reviel Netz (Stanford University; speaker)
Alexander Lee (University of Chicago; commentator)
Saturday, October 4
Afternoon session at University of Chicago
Franke Institute for the Humanities
Regenstein Library, S102, 1100 East 57th Street
1:15-2:00 p.m.
Catered lunch for all participants at University of Chicago
2:00-3:45 p.m.
Terence Irwin (University of Oxford; speaker)
Anton Ford (University of Chicago; commentator)
4:00-5:45 p.m.
Richard Kraut (Northwestern University; speaker)
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago; commentator)7:00 p.m.
Dinner for participants at a restaurant in Chicago's Chinatown
Schedule updates to be posted at Graduate Study in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy in the Chicago Area; for further information, or to register for conference dinners, contact Richard Kraut
