Fall 2011

August 2011

• 31 August (Wednesday): Student Organization Fair - come meet and greet, catch up with friends, find out about the Classics Club and plan for the year, sign up for e-mail notifications, and all that good stuff. 1:00pm-4:00pm, 2nd floor Halas Gym.

September 2011

• 2 September (Friday): Happy New Academic Year party, 3:00pm-5:00pm, Crown Center 572 and environs
• 15 September (Thursday): Dr. John P. Hale, University of Louisville, will give the J. William Holland Memorial Lecture for the Classical Art Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, "In Search of Cleopatra: Archaeological Discoveries and the Last Queen of Egypt," 6:00pm, Price Auditorium. Event free with admission to the Art Institute (members free always, Thursday evenings free until 8:00pm; re-confirm here).
• 20 September (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea - renew the tradition! 3:30pm-4:30pm, Crown Center 572
• 20 September (Tuesday): Dr. Amphilochios Papathomas, University of Athens, will deliver a lecture, "A World Full of Words and Emotions: Late Antique Greek Letters on Papyrus," 7:00pm, Crown Center 530. Open to the public. Sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA). Reception to follow.
• 23 September (Friday): Dr. Amphilochios Papathomas, University of Athens, will present a workshop about "Editing Greek Papyri: An Enigmatic Name List from Ptolemaic Egypt," 2:30pm-4:00pm, Crown Center 530. Sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA).

October 2011

• 4 October (Tuesday): Dr. Jennifer Tobin, University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss "The Freedom-Loving Lycians: Sarpedon and Cockfighting at Xanthos," 5:00pm, Galvin Auditorium, Sullivan Center. Open to the public. Reception to follow.
• 13 October (Thursday): Dr. Mark Mazower, Columbia University, will discuss "Alfred Zimmern, Ancient Greece, and the Idea of International Relations," 7:00pm, Room 122, Social Sciences Research Building, University of Chicago, 1126 E. 59th Street. Reception to follow. For assistance and further information ahead of time, please contact Ms. Kathleen Fox, 773-702-8514.
• 13-15 October (Thursday-Saturday): The Classics Renewed - The Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity, Session Two of a Bi-Coastal Conference, Brown University. Speakers include Dr. Jacqueline Long, "Two Brothers: Youth, Promise, and Prominence in Claudian's Roman Empire." Report of the conference in the Brown Daily Herald.
• 18 October (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Crown Center 572
• 20 October (Thursday): Prof. Robert Nelson, Yale University, will give a keynote address for the Byzantine Studies Conference, "The Medieval Art of Power in Byzantium," 6:00pm-7:00pm, Fullerton Auditorium, Art Institute of Chicago. Event free with admission to the Art Institute (members free always, Thursday evenings free until 8:00pm; re-confirm here).
• 21-23 October (Friday-Sunday): Byzantine Studies Conference, DePaul University. Speakers include Dr. James Keenan, "Sale of a Moorish Slave Girl, A.D. 629(?)"
• 23 October (Sunday): Dr. Patricia Graham-Skoul will lead a group to the Hypocrites' performance of "Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses" at the Chopin Theater, 1543 W Division. The 4 hour event will begin at 3:00 P.M., include a "catered vegan meal from Sultan's Market," and cost $28.00 per person. Please e-mail Dr. Graham-Skoul to sign up or get more information.
• 27 October (Thursday): Dr. Geoff Emberling, University of Michigan, will lecture about "The Supernatural in the Art of the First Cities: Mesopotamia, 3200 B.C." for the Classical Art Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 6:00pm, Morton Auditorium. Event free with admission to the Art Institute (members free always, Thursday evenings free until 8:00pm; re-confirm here).
• 31 October (Monday): Furibunda Productions presents Seneca's "Thyestes" - a departmental classic. 4:00pm, Simpson Living and Learning Center Multipurpose Room.

November 2011

• 10 November (Thursday): Dr. Glen W. Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study, will give the Art Institute of Chicago's President's Lecture 2011, "The Bonds of Prometheus - Thoughts on Creativity." 6:00pm-7:00pm, Fullerton Auditorium, Art Institute of Chicago. Tickets will be available beginning 20 September.
• 11 November (Friday): Dr. Jacqueline Long, "Two Brothers: Youth and Prominence in Claudian's Panegyric," Work-in-Progress Colloquium, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Crown Center 572
• 13 November (Sunday): Dr. Patricia Graham-Skoul will lead a group to "An Iliad" at the Court Theater, University of Chicago, 7:30pm. Tickets will cost $15.00 per person. Please e-mail Dr. Graham-Skoul to sign up or get more information.
• 15 November (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Crown Center 572
• 22 November (Tuesday): Dr. Patricia Graham-Skoul will lead a group to "Ariadne auf Naxos" at the Civic Opera House, 7:30pm. First-floor tickets will cost $47.00 per person, balcony $34.00 per person. (Also possible is Monday, 28 November, at the same prices, $47.00 first floor & $34.00 balcony.) Please e-mail Dr. Graham-Skoul to sign up or get more information.
• 24-26 November (Thursday-Saturday): Second International Conference of the "Imperium" und "Officium" Project: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom. Speakers include Dr. James Keenan, "Sale of a Moorish Slave Girl, A.D. 629(?)"

December 2011

• 2 December (Friday): an Ancient Market will be hosted by the Classics Club, 2:00pm-6:00pm, Centennial Forum Student Union Lobby. Come see how it all comes together!
• 6 December (Tuesday): Dr. Brian Lavelle, "Hippokleides and the Greater Panathenaia," Work-in-Progress Colloquium, 4:00pm-5:30pm, Crown Center 572
• 9 December (Friday): Saturnalia-Kronia festival, 3:00pm-5:00pm, Crown Center 572 and environs. Come celebrate together!

Spring 2012

January 2012

• 20 January (Friday): Party for the new semester - rejoin friends, 3:00pm-5:00pm, Crown Center 572 and environs
• 24 January (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Crown Center 572
• 25 January (Wednesday): Jason Rheins (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) will discuss "The Enigma of Plato's Demiurge: A New Solution to a Perennial Mystery [?]" (passages from Plato's Phaedrus, Timaeus, and Laws) for the Department of Philosophy, 1:30pm-3:30pm, Crown Center 530

February 2012

• 2 February (Thursday): Dr. Laura Gawlinski will discuss "Putting Community on Display—The Spectacle of the Ancient Religious Procession" for the Classical Art Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 6:00pm-7:00pm, Morton Auditorium, Art Institute of Chicago. Event free with admission to the Art Institute (members free always, and Illinois residents will have the benefit of Free Winter Weekdays 2 January through 10 February 2012: re-confirm here).
• 7 February (Tuesday): Dr. Sinclair Bell of Northern Illinois University will discuss "Foreign Faces: Africans and Others in Ancient Roman Art," 5:30pm, DePaul University
• 17 February (Friday): Dr. Ari Bryen of the University of California at Berkeley will discuss "Martyrdom, Rhetoric, and the Politics of Procedure," 4:00pm-5:30pm. Reception to follow.
• 21 February (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Crown Center 572
• 27 February (Monday): Dr. Jacqueline Long, "Making a New Tradition: Poetry at a Consular Inauguration in Late-Antique Rome", 7:00pm, DePaul University

March 2012

• 15 March (Thursday): Dr. Barbara Barletta of the University of Florida will discuss "The Parthenon—How Innovative Is It?" for the Classical Art Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 6:00pm-7:00pm, Morton Auditorium, Art Institute of Chicago. Event free with admission to the Art Institute (members free always, and Chicago residents receive $2 discount on presentation of a valid photo ID that includes residence address; re-confirm here).
• 20 March (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Crown Center 572
• 28-31 March (Wednesday-Saturday): 108th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Loyola Classical Studies speakers include Dr. John Makowski, "Transgression and Triangulation: Petronius' Women and Bisexual Men", 3:30pm, Thursday 29 March

April 2012

• 16-18 April (Monday-Wednesday): Romosexuality - International Conference on the Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities, Collingwood College, Durham University, Durham, England. Loyola Classical Studies speakers include Dr. John Makowski, "Gallus as Cinaedus: A Problem for Roman Identity," 4:30pm-5:00pm, Tuesday 17 April
• 17 April (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Crown Center 572
• 19 April (Thursday): Dr. Susan Rotroff of Washington University in Saint Louis will discuss "Phrasikleia and the Merenda Kouros: Beauty, Victory, Death, and Marriage in Archaic Athens" as the AIA Norton Lecture at the National Hellenic Museum, 6:00pm, 333 South Halsted St., Chicago
• 19 April (Thursday): Dr. Eric Varner of Emory University will discuss "Portraits, Plots, and Politics—Memory Sanctions and the Images of Roman Imperial Women" for the Classical Art Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 6:00pm-7:00pm, Morton Auditorium, Art Institute of Chicago. Event free with admission to the Art Institute (members free always, and Chicago residents receive $2 discount on presentation of a valid photo ID that includes residence address; re-confirm here).
• 27-29 April (Friday-Sunday): Classics and the Jesuit Educational Tradition, sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies with the support of the Dean's Office of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Provost's Office of Loyola University Chicago

Summer 2012

May 2012

• 24-27 May (Thursday-Sunday): Feminism and Classics VI - Crossing Borders, Crossing Lines, Brock University, Toronto, Canada. Loyola Classical Studies speakers include Dr. John Makowski, "Transgression and Triangulation: Petronius' Women and Bisexual Men", 2:30pm, Saturday 26 May