Dania De La Hoya Rojas
May 6, 2024
Alma Mater greets graduating students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Photo taken on Wednesday, May 10, 2023.

 

The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is celebrating the Class of 2024 with a convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 11.

The school hosts the annual ceremony for students earning degrees in the following units:

  • Classics
  • Comparative and World Literature
  • East Asian Languages and Cultures
  • French and Italian
  • Germanic Languages and Literatures
  • Linguistics (CS + Linguistics, Teaching English as a Second Language)
  • Religion
  • Slavic Languages and Literatures
  • Spanish and Portuguese
  • Translation and Interpretation

The ceremony will take place at Foellinger Auditorium from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

George Reveliotis and Antony Augoustakis
George Reveliotis (left) pictured after receiving the 2020 Special Service Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South at the association’s annual meeting at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. Pictured with Antony Augoustakis (right), professor of classics and associate dean for humanities and interdisciplinary programs in the College of LAS. 

This year's convocation speaker is George Reveliotis (BA, ’96, history). Reveliotis is the founder and managing partner of Reveliotis Law, P.C., a property tax and real estate law firm in Park Ridge, Illinois. He serves as the president of the Pan-Arcadian Federation of America and a board member of the Greek American Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He is also on the board of advisors of the PanHellenic Scholarship Foundation. A strong supporter of the Department of Classics, Reveliotis, in addition to previous gifts that funded teaching assistant and lecturer positions, pledged $1.5 million to set up The George N. Reveliotis Family Hellenic Studies Endowment in 2019. The gift, which Reveliotis pledged over 10 years, was designated to support a lecturer, scholarships, professorships, and graduate fellowships. In 2020, Reveliotis received the LAS Dean's Quadrangle Award, which recognizes extraordinary friends and supporters of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. 

For more information on this spring’s convocation, visit our graduation page.

To watch a livestream of the event, click here.