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.
On May 18, 2015, the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) at Oxford University will celebrate the launch of The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Amerias, a project Kathryn Bosher first set in motion. Congratulations to the editorial team for seeing this spectacular collection through to publication. The volume is the first to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present.
“In a herculean effort to learn from the past, Northwestern University’s department of classics is documenting the pervasive — but often overlooked — influence of Greek and Roman history throughout the Chicago area.” Read the full Northwestern News article here.
Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences ran this feature article on the Bosher Collection and the Classicizing Chicago Project and showcased the newly launched website on the WCAS homepage.
In January 2015, Emmy Award winner Yannis Simonides returned to Northwestern to give an encore performance of his one-man show, Socrates Now, a theatrical recreation of Plato’s Apology. Read and watch more on “new ways to keep fresh the very old practice of utilizing ancient models to reflect on one’s own times.”