Rhetoric & Poetics Spring Schedule 2018

March 27 –– Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies, UChicago), “Aeneas dissimulans and the politics of fiction”) N.B. This meeting will take place on a Monday

April 5 –– Irene Peirano Garrison (Associate Professor of Classics, Yale), “Epic demagoguery: Virgil’s rewriting of the Homeric council”

April 19 –– Andrew Riggsby (Lucy Shoe Meritt Professor in Classics, Professor of Art History, UT Austin), “Archival Order and the Image of Power”

May 3 –– Kate Miller (PhD student in Classics, UChicago), TDB

May 31 –– Rik Peters (PhD Student in Classics and the Committee on Social Thought, UChicago), “Thaumatophobia in Hellenistic historiography and philosophy”

*All meetings will take place at 3:30pm in Classics 21 and will be followed by a reception.