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Spring 2016 Schedule

April 5, 3:30 pm
Andreas Schwab (Classics, Heidelberg/Wisconsin-Madison)
“From God to Genealogy:
Achaemenid Royal Ideology in Xerxes’ Rhetoric (Hist. 7.8-11)”
Cosponsored by the Ancient Societies Workshop
 
April 12, 4:30 PM 
Nathan Leidholm (History, UChicago)
“The Representation and Appropriation of the Persian Past in Middle Byzantine Court Rhetoric”
Cosponsored by the Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium. Location TBA. Note the later start time. 
April 19, 3:30 pm
Jas Elsner (Divinity School, UChicago)
“Ark of Civilization: Fraenkel, Pfeiffer and Refugee Scholars in Oxford from 1933”

May 10, 3:30 pm
Clifford Ando (Classics, UChicago)
“The Epistemics of Sovereignty: Writing and Drawing Empire under Rome”
 
May 24, 3:30 pm
Konrad Weeda (Classics and Social Thought, UChicago)
“Catullus 64: Art, Aesthetics, History”
 
May 31, 4:30 pm
Demetra Kasimis (Political Science, UChicago)
“Reading the Republic as a Metic Space”
Cosponsored by the Political Theory Workshop 
Note the later start time.
 
June 7, 3:30 pm
Leon Wash (Classics, UChicago)
On Phusis and the Vegetal
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Winter 2016 Schedule

January 12, 3:30 pm
Lisa Schwab (University of Goettingen)
“Bridging Past and Present via Virgil in Humanist Descriptions of Rome”
February 2, 3:30 pm
Glenn Most (Social Thought, UChicago)

“Bifocal Reception: Hecuba vs. The Trojan Women”

February 16, 3:30 pm
Rebekah Spearman (Classics, UChicago)
“Eros and Error in Plutarch’s Life of Alexander”
February 25, 3:30 pm
Joy Connolly (Classics, NYU)
“Another Anxiety of Influence: Imitating Virtue in 18th Century Revivals of Rome”
Please note that this talk will be on a Thursday!
March 1, 3:30 pm
David Wray (Classics, UChicago)
“Stoic Moral Perfectionism and the Queer Art of Failure”
March 4, 1:30 pm
Nancy Worman (Classics, Barnard/Columbia)
“Aesthetics and Politics in the Poetics” Please note that this talk will be on a Friday at an unusual time!
Please note that this talk will be on a Friday at an unusual time!
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Fall 2015 Schedule

All meetings take place in Classics 21 and are followed by a lavish reception.

October 15, 4:40 PM

Seth Schein (Comparative Literature, UC Davis)

“Commenting on Iliad 1”

 

November 10, 3:30 PM

Andrew Horne (Classics, UChicago)

“Libertas and Humanitas”

 

November 12, 4:30 PM

Joshua Billings (Classics, Princeton)

“Affect and the Temporality of Philhellenism”

 

November 20-21

Conference, “Individual and Community in Urban Upheavals: Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor”

Schedule TBA

 

December 1, 3:30 PM

Nicholas Bellinson (Social Thought, UChicago)

“The Frogs’ Chorus in Aristophanes”