On Friday, November 7th, the Classics Department, supported by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Central Illinois, and the SLCL Support for Conferences and Workshops Award, will host a colloquium on Classical Reception in the Midwest from 2:30 - 4:30 P.M. in the Lucy Ellis Lounge. Topics and speakers will include "The Chicago Forum and The Forum Romanum: Classical Reception in the late 19th-century South Side", by Ryan Platte (Northwestern), "Athena of the Portland Cement Safety Trophy (1924): Classical Reception and the American Working Class" by Chris McDonough (The University of the South), and "Re-casting the Gregory Collection: Plaster Cast 'Antiquities' and the Formation of 'Taste' at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign," by our own Victoria Austen.