View the film about Francesca Tataranni’s discovery and interpretation of artist Irene Siegel’s fresco visually interpreting the Aeneid for her time (1985) painted in the community room of the Sulzer Library, a branch of the Chicago Public Library in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. The film recounts the artist’s process, offers a deep reading of the painting and addresses the controversy it sparked.
Celebration of Kate Bosher’s Research
The Archive for the Performance of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford and Northwestern’s Classics Cluster will jointly host an online event on June 7, 2021 (5 p.m in Britain, & 11:00 in Chicago) in celebration of the publication of Kathryn Bosher’s Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily (Cambridge UP 2020), edited by Edith Hall and Clemente Marconi and prepared for publication by LaDale Winling. Speakers include Edith hall, Clemente Marconi, Sara Monoson, Justine McConnell, Patrice Rankine and Fiona Macintosh. Some discussion of Kate’s part in launching the Classicizing Chicago Project and what we have now named “The Bosher Collection” will also be part of the event.
Watch it live on the APGRD’s You Tube channel. https://youtu.be/X-jV16ubT9w
Vote for our own, Ancient Rome in Chicago, a nominee for the 2019 Award for “Best Use of Digital Humanities for Public Engagement”
Projects are nominated by and voted on entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight and engage DH users (and general public) in the work of the community. There are no financial prizes, just the honor of having won and an icon for the website.
To vote for ARC and/or other projects in this and other categories, please visit the link below (and share it!).Voting can be found at the bottom of the webpage and is open until March 1, 2020 http://dhawards.org/dhawards2019/voting/
Art Libraries Society of North America reviewed Classicizing Chicago’s early efforts back in 2014.
The Chicago Homer, a multilingual database that uses search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek, continues to attract many users.
The Chicago Homer Hosted by Northwestern University Library. Edited by Martin Mueller, Professor Emeritus of English and Classics, Northwestern and Ahuvia Kahane, formerly Professor Classics at Northwestern and now professor of Classics, Trinity College, Dublin.
Hear about The Horace Collection at Northwestern University with Martin Antonetti, Director of Distinctive Collections on January 30, 2020, 5-6 p.m. in Kresge 4-364.
The Court Theater will produce three Sophoclean dramas as “The Oedipus Trilogy” – Oedipus Rex in 2019, The Gospel at Colonus in 2020 and Antigone in 2021.
Kevin Willmott, screenwriter for Spike Lee’s ”Chiraq,” spoke at Northwestern on April 15, 2016.
Filmmaker Spike Lee spoke at Northwestern on March 2, 2016 about “Chiraq”
See these accounts of “An Evening with Spike Lee” at Northwestern during which he discussed Chiraq, his adaptation of Lysistrata,
Renown classicist Edith Hall was there and writes about it on her blog
Northwestern News story on Spike Lee March 2, 2016
See also:
Spike Lee stirs opinions, emotions at ‘Chi-Raq’ screening and discussion
The Field Museum’s special exhibit on “The Greeks” opened November 26 and runs until April 17, 2016
The Field Museum presents The Greeks: From Agamemnon to Alexander the Great
This special exhibit will run November 26, 2015 to April 17, 2016 adn feature a program of events in collaboration with the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago’s Greektown.