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The George B. Walsh
Lecture | The
Danziger Lecture | Regular
meetings of workshops and research groups | Departmental
Potluck (Fall Quarter) | Departmental
Barbecue (End of Spring Quarter) | The
Quarterly Convivium
Walsh Lecture
A distinguished classicist is invited annually to give a lecture in honor of the memory of George B. Walsh, eminent classicist, literary scholar, and member of the University of Chicago Classics Department. This year's lecture will be given on November 11 by Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Previous Walsh Lecturers
1989/1990: Anne Pippin Burnett, "Signals from
the Unconscious in Early Greek Poetry"
1990/1991: Anne Carson, “How Not to Read a Poem:
Unmixing Simonides from Protagoras"
1991/1992: Stephen Hinds, "Medea in Ovid: Scenes
from the Life of an Intertextual Heroine"
1992/1993: Froma Zeitlin, "The Origin of Woman
and Woman as the Origin: The Case of Hesiod's Pandora"
1993/1994: Niall Slater, "Passion and Petrifaction:
The Gaze in Apuleius"
1994/1995: David Konstan, “Friends and Patrons”
1995/1996: James E.G. Zetzel, “Natural Law and
Poetic Justice”
1996/1997: Marilyn Arthur Katz, “Did Athenian
Women Attend the Theater in the Eighteenth Century?”
1997/1998: Shadi Bartsch, “Ars and the Man:
The Politics of Art in Vergil’s Aeneid”
1998/1999: Leslie Kurke, "Ancient Greek Board
Games and How To Play Them"
1999/2000: Paul Allen Miller, "Why Propertius
Is a Woman: French Feminism and Latin Love Elegy"
2000/2001: Helene Foley "Choral Identity in Greek
Tragedy"
2001/2002: Nicholas Purcell: "Place of Pleasure:
Revisiting Ancient Baiae"
2002/2003: Mark Griffith, "Horse Power and Donkey
Work: Equines and the Ancient Greek Imagination."
2003/2004: Michael Putnam, "Vergil and Tibullus
1.1: Two Versions of Pastoral."
2004/2005: Page duBois, "The History of the Impossible: Ancient Utopias"
2005/2006: Greg Woolf, "A Roman Writes a Postcard Home: Pliny the Younger, Roman Imperialism, and 84 Charing Cross Road"
2006/2007: Richard P. Martin, Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of ClassicsDept. of Classics, Stanford University,
"What the Gods Want: Theological Poetics in the Homeric Poems"
Danziger Lecture
The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr., Distinguished Lecture
in the Humanities is an annual lecture in which a distinguished
humanist is invited to address a broad public. Recent
Danziger lecturers include Simon Goldhill (King's College,
Cambridge) and Josiah Ober (Princeton).
Departmental Potluck
and Barbecue
The Department celebrates the beginning of the new
year with a potluck in the home of a faculty member
and the end of the year with a barbecue in one of the
campus’ many green spaces.
The Quarterly
Convivium
Undergraduates taking classes in the Classics department
at all levels are encouraged to attend these once-a-quarter
social events on ancient themes. Convivia have ranged
from a trip to the Art Institute, to a showing of Profefssor
John Eaton’s opera, Clytemnestra, to
a Roman banquet, and a slide show from a student’s
summer trip to retrace the path of Jason and his Argonauts!
Please contact David Wray (dlwray@uchicago.edu)
or Lee Behnke (mhbehnke@uchicago.edu)
for details on this year’s Convivium events.
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