(All meetings take place on Thursdays, at 3pm in Classics 21 unless otherwise noted)

April 2 – Jonah Radding (UChicago, Classics), “Homeric Authority: Echoes of the Iliad in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis”

Respondent: Abigail Akavia (UChicago, Classics)

April 16 – James Redfield (University of Chicago) on Xenophon and the Socratics

April 30 – Emily Dreyfus (UChicago, Germanic Studies), “Vom Dienste des griechischen Buchstabens befreit:” Poetics of liberation in Hölderlin’s Pindar Fragments”

Respondent: Simon Friedland (UChicago, Germanic Studies)

WED. May 13 – Jenny Strauss Clay (University of Virginia) on Parmenides, Empedocles, and the epic tradition

*Will be held at 4:30pm in Classics 21, jointly with the Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop

May 28 – Abigail Akavia (UChicago, Classics), “Listening to Electra”

Respondent: Jonah Radding (UChicago, Classics)

Rhetoric and Poetics Winter 2014 Schedule

1.12 – Renaud Gagné, Cambridge University, “Metaphors in Movement: The Chorus of Stars” (Co-sponsored with the Metaphor workshop) 4pm, Classics 21.

1.15 – Leon Wash, Chicago, “On Nietzsche and Prometheus Bound”

2.5 (Contemporary French Scholars on Classical & Medieval Texts) Clara Auvray-Assayas, Professor of Latin and Humanities at the University of Rouen, “Cicero, Renaissance humanism and modern receptions of ancient philosophy : the case of “The nature of the gods”” Presentation will take place at the Franke Institute (3pm).

2.19 Emily Beugelmans & Konrad Weeda on Virgil’s Georgics (Joint meeting with Literature and Philosophy workshop). Meeting will take place at 4:30pm in Foster 305. 

(if you need a copy of the text, please e-mail lukeparker@uchicago.edu)

3.5 – Richard Hunter, Cambridge University, “Death of a child: a grief beyond the literary”

3.12 – Seth Schein, University of California – Davis, Draft Commentary on Iliad I

Meetings are on Thursdays, 3:00 – 4:30, next to the Classics Cafe in CL 021 unless otherwise noted.

10.2 – Branden Kosch (Chicago, Classics) – “Isocrates’ answer to Plato’s criticism of writing”

10.16 – Christiane Veyrard-Cosme (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) – “To write or to rewrite in Carolingian Latin Culture: the stakes of a narratological approach to Alcuin’s writings.” (Franke Institute in Regenstein Library)

10.23 (at 4:30pm) – Eric Downing (University of North Carolina) “Sympathy for the Real: Painting, Magic, and Stimmung in Gottfried Keller’s Der Grüne Heinrich” 

11.13 – Bart Van Wassenhove (Chicago, Classics) – “Truth and Advertising: On the So-Called ‘Failure of Stoic Rhetoric'”

12.4 – Emily Greenwood (Yale University) – “The Great War / Great Wars: Thucydides through WWI Memoirs” Modern sources (novels and memoirs), in a brief document to read in advance, are available here.

The Rhetoric &Poetics Workshop is proud to present

Jeremy Brightbill (the University of Chicago)

The Scenarios of Roman Declamation

Thursday, 29 May, 3:30 Classics 21

A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of R&P events in 2014-5, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/

The Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Rhetoric & Poetics Workshops are proud to present

Luke Parker (the University of Chicago)

Text and Poetics in Heraclitus and Plato

Wednesday, 7 May, 4:30 Classics 21

A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of upcoming Ancient Philosophy and R&P events, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/
https://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/agarp/

The Rhetoric &Poetics Workshop is proud to present

Damien Nelis (Université de Genève)

Naming the World:History and Geography in Vergil’s Georgics

Thursday, 1 May, 3:30 Classics 21

In this talk I want to look first at some aspects of the handling of proper names in Vergil’s Georgics. This discussion will lead on to a study of time and space in the poem. Beginning with a close reading of the opening sections of book 1, I will attempt to show how Vergil there sets the scene and offers glimpses of the wider world in which agricultural labour takes place. I will go on to trace the ways in which the poem shifts between the general and the specific, as the reader is confronted with constructions of time and space that come to focus on Roman history and the place of Italy and Rome in the world. Overall, the aim is to investigate some of the ways in which the poem offers a universalizing vision, while both indulging in Hellenistic doctrina and commenting in a detailed way on contemporary Roman concerns.

A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of upcoming R&P events, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/

The Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop is proud to present

Jacobo Myerston (UChicago)

Towards a Philology of Liberation: Reading Bolaño and the Classics

Thursday, 24 April, 3:30 Classics 21

A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of upcoming R&P events, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/