Special Events

Spring 2013

January 2013

• 22 January (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea (fourth Tuesday of the month + second Tuesday of the semester average out to a third Tuesday, right?), 3:30pm-4:30pm, Crown Center 572

February 2013

• 12 February (Tuesday): Dr. Todd Hickey, University of California, Berkeley, will discuss "Reading the Papyri from the Temple of a Crocodile God" for the Ancient Societies Workshop and the Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium of the University of Chicago, 3:30pm, Classics 21, University of Chicago; a reception will follow.
• 18 February (Monday): Jacqueline Long, Loyola University Chicago, will discuss "Crisis Management 418-419: Honorius and the Schism of Boniface and Eulalius," for the Medieval Studies Center, 5:30pm, Crown Center Auditorium
• 19 February (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Crown Center 572
• 19 February (Tuesday): Prof. Franco DeAngelis, University of British Columbia, will discuss "Settling the West: Comparing Frontier Development Between the New World and Ancient Greece," 4:00 p.m., Kaplan Institute Seminar Room, Kresge 2-221, Northwestern University. Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Northwestern University, and the Onassis Foundation.
• 20 February (Wednesday): Prof. Franco DeAngelis, University of British Columbia, will discuss "From Backwardness to Leapfrogging? Rethinking the 'Greek Miracle' in the Cultural Development of Pre-Roman Italy," 3:00 p.m., Classics Seminar Room, Kresge 1-500, Northwestern University. Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Northwestern University, and the Onassis Foundation.
• 20 February (Wednesday): Dr. Michael Cosmopoulos, University of Missouri at St. Louis, will discuss his work at the site Iklaina, "Digging Homer: the Exciting Discovery of a New Mycenaean Palace near Pylos," 6:00pm, Ward Theater, Field Museum. Sponsored by the Field Museum and the Chicago Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
• 21 February (Thursday): Prof. Franco DeAngelis, University of British Columbia, will discuss "Soil, Seeds, and Stomachs: The History and Civilization of Ancient Greek Sicily," 4:00 p.m., MMLC Classroom, Kresge 1-379, Northwestern University. Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Northwestern University, and the Onassis Foundation.
• 21 February (Thursday): Dr. Christina Nielsen, Art Institute of Chicago, will discuss "Tradition Transformed: Late Antique and Byzantine Art" for the Classical Art Society of the Art Institute of Chicago. 6:00pm-7:00pm, Morton Auditorium, Art Institute of Chicago. Lecture free with museum admission - which is free to Loyola students, staff, and faculty thanks to the Art Institute's University Partner Program.

March 2013

• 14 March (Thursday): Tonio Hölscher, Emeritus, University of Heidelberg, will discuss "Penelope in Persepolis—The Power of Images to Stop War with an Arch-Enemy" for the Art Institute of Chicago. 6:00pm-7:00pm, Morton Auditorium, Art Institute of Chicago. Lecture free with museum admission - which is free to Loyola students, staff, and faculty thanks to the Art Institute's University Partner Program.
• 15 March (Friday; the Ides): Beware! The Exitium Caesaris will be enacted, under the direction of Dr. Patricia Graham-Skoul, Piper Hall. Please contact Dr. Graham-Skoul for information.
• 15 March (Friday): Dr. Patricia Graham-Skoul will lead a group to see Julius Caesar in Chicago Shakespeare's Courtyard Theater. Please contact Dr. Graham-Skoul for information.
• 19 March (Tuesday): Dr. Patricia Graham-Skoul will discuss "The Trajectory and Resolution of Desire: Eros, Charis, and Telos in the Poetry of Sappho" as a Work-in-Progress Colloquium at Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Crown Center 572.
• 27 March (Wednesday): Ms. Shannon Wright will discuss "Men Acting Like Women Acting Like Men" at a Work-in-Progress Colloquium, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Crown Center 572.

April 2013

• 4 April (Thursday): Jens Daehner, J. Paul Getty Museum, will discuss "Ariadne's Thread—Antiquity Reawakened in Modern Art" for the Art Institute of Chicago. 6:00pm-7:00pm, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago. Lecture free with museum admission - which is free to Loyola students, staff, and faculty thanks to the Art Institute's University Partner Program.
• 5-6 April (Friday-Saturday): "East and West, Constantinople and Rome: Empire and Church in the Collectio Avellana," conference of the Collectio Avellana Project organized by Dr. Alexander Evers of the John Felice Rome Center and sponsored by the Istituto Patristico "Augustinianum," Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut te Rome, and Loyola University Chicago John Felice Rome Center: Dr. Jacqueline Long will discuss " 'The sacred command of the lord my brother the emperor should have come as something not to neglect' ".
• 5-7 April (Friday-Sunday): 85th Annual Convention of Eta Sigma Phi, national honorary society for Classical Studies, hosted by the Beta Iota Chapter of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. Ms. Shannon Wright of Loyola's Iota Kappa Chapter will present her paper, "Men Acting Like Women Acting Like Men" to the Convention.
• 10 April (Wednesday): Mr. Ryan Pilipow will discuss "Pagan Persecution in the 4^th Century: Evidence from the Codex Theodosianus" at a Work-in-Progress Colloquium, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Crown Center 572.
• 11 April (Thursday): Felix Budelman, Magdalen College, Oxford University, will discuss "The Wedding of Hector and Andromache between Epic, Lyric, and Ritual: Sappho's Fragment 44," Kresge Hall 1-500 (Classics Seminar Room), Northwestern University, 5:00pm-6:30pm. Sponsored by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Classics, Northwestern University.
• 11 April (Thursday): Dr. Sabine Ladstätter, Austrian Archaeological Institute, will discuss "Ephesus: Harbor, City, and Hinterland," 7:30pm-8:30pm, Cuneo 002. This public lecture is co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Reception sponsored by Loyola's Department of Classical Studies to follow.
• 16 April (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Crown Center 572.
• 20 April (Saturday): LUROP Research Symposium, 12:30pm-4:30pm, Mundelein Center. Mr. Ryan Pilipow will present his paper, "Pagan Persecution in the 4^th Century: Evidence from the Codex Theodosianus."
• 23 April (Tuesday): Jas Elsner, Oxford University, will discuss "Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism, and the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition," Kresge Hall 1-500 (Classics Seminar Room), Northwestern University, 4:00pm.
• 24 April (Wednesday): Dr. Julie Ward, Department of Philosophy, will discuss "Aristotle's Posterior Analytics II, 19: Routs, Battle Formations, and the Starting Points of Scientific Knowledge" at a Work-in-Progress Colloquium, 4:00pm-5:30pm, Crown Center 572.
• 26 April (Friday): End-of-Semester Celebration: come share the good will. 3:30pm, Crown Center 572 and vicinity.

This file last updated 19 April 2013 by jlong1@luc.edu.