Spring Quarter Schedule 2014

Welcome to Spring Quarter 2014

Our current schedule for the Winter quarter follows.

17 April: Andrew Horne (UChicago)
Hypothêkai, or Giving Instructions in Archaic Hexameters.

24 April Jacobo Myerston (UChicago)
Towards a Philology of Liberation: Reading Bolaño and the Classics

1 May Damien Nelis (Université de Genève)
Naming the world: history and geography in Vergil’s Georgics

7 May (Wednesday), Luke Parker (UChicago)
Text and Poetics in Heraclitus and Plato

29 May: Jeremy Brightbill (UChicago)
The Scenarios of Roman Declamation

Updates on the schedule and room information will be available on our blog.

The Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop is concerned with the literature of classical Greece and Rome, considered either on its own terms or in relation to the literature and poetry of other cultures. It invites presentation of critical arguments completed or in progress from the broadest possible range of perspectives.

Faculty Sponsors:
Michele Lowrie
Sarah Nooter

Student Coordinator
Chiu, Yi-Chieh

Jonah Radding Thursday, 13th of March, 3:30pm in Classics 21

The Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop is proud to present

Jonah Radding
(The University of Chicago)

The Paean in Euripides’ Ion: Songs for Athens and Ionia?

Thursday, 13th of March, 3:30pm in 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/

David Wray: Thursday, 6th of March, 3:30pm in Classics 21

The Ancient Philosophy and Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop are proud to present

David Wray (The University of Chicago)

Seneca’s Shame

Thursday, 6th of March, 3:30pm in 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/agarp
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/