(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.