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Special Events

27 August (Wednesday): Student Organization Fair, 1:00-4:00 p.m., Gentile Center
29 August (Friday): Welcome Back to Classical Studies: come catch up with old friends and meet new ones at the Departmental party, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Crown Center 572 and environs

16 September (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea - return to the rhythm of the term. 3:30-4:30 p.m., Crown Center 572
25 September (Thursday): Work-in-Progress Colloquium, Dr. Julie Ward, Department of Philosophy, Plato on human nature, 2:30-4:00 p.m., Crown Center 572
30 September (Tuesday): Laura Gawlinski, "Recent Discoveries from the Excavation of the Athenian Agora," 3:00-4:30 p.m., Crown Center 530

17 October (Friday): Theatre after Athens: Reception and Revision of Greek Drama, a Sawyer Seminar Series at Northwestern University. Inaugural lecture on "Counterpoint Athens" by Dr. Robert Wallace, Northestern University, response by Dr. Gregory Dobrov, Loyola University Chicago, and roundtable discussion. 3:30-6:00 p.m., Hagstrum Room, 200 University Hall, Northwestern University, 1897 Sheridan Rd., Evanston.
21 October (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Crown Center 572
24 October (Friday): Work-in-Progress Colloquium, Dr. Greg Dobrov, "The Dionysalexandros of Cratinus: Problems with a Lost Masterpiece," 3:00-4:30 p.m., Crown Center 572
29 October (Wednesday): Thyestes -the cult Classic is ba-ack!- 4:30-5:30 p.m., Finnegan Auditorium

13-15 November (Thursday-Saturday): CAMWS Southern Section 2008 Meeting, Asheville, NC. Loyola Classical Studies speakers include:
- Dr. John Makowski, "Petronius's Giton: gender and genre"
18 November (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Crown Center 572
20 November (Thursday): Work-in-Progress Colloquium, Dr. Laura Gawlinski, "Take My Wife, Please: Dangerous Comedy in Lysias I," 2:30-4:00 p.m., Crown Center 572

6 December (Saturday): Dr. Jacqueline Long, "The Problem with Scholarship (in the Historia Augusta)," part of a symposium honoring Alan Cameron, Columbia University, New York

8-11 January (Thursday-Sunday): 140th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association and American Institute of Archaeology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Loyola Classical Studies speakers include:
- Dr. Laura Gawlinski, "Take My Wife, Please: Dangerous Comedy in Lysias I"
- Dr. Zehavi Husser, "A Family Affair: Reconciling CIL 5, 5472 with Its Accompanying Image of Sacrifice"
- Dr. Jacqueline Long, "Knowing Laughter in the Historia Augusta"
20 January (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Crown Center 572

2-5 April (Thursday-Sunday): Shifting Frontiers VIII: Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity, Indiana University, Bloomington. Loyola Classical Studies speakers include:
- Dr. Jacqueline Long, "Culture-Vultures of the Historia Augusta, Circling over Roman Emperors"
21 April (Tuesday): Third Tuesday Tea, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Crown Center 572

28 June (Sunday): What's Religious about Ancient Mediterranean Religions? Inaugural Meeting of the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome. Loyola Classical Studies speakers include:
- Dr. Laura Gawlinski, "Finding the Sacred in Greek Sacred Law"

1-31 July: Dr. James G. Keenan will serve as Onassis Visiting Senior Scholar, directing the American Society of Papyrologists' Summer Institute in Papyrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, focusing on Byzantine and Coptic Egypt.

This file last updated 21 November 2008 by jlong1@luc.edu.