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