Spring 2019 Schedule

April 1- Chris Faraone, University of Chicago

“Circe’s Instructions to Odysseus as the First Sibylline Oracle (Od. 10.507-40)”

April 11- Cléo Carastro, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

“The City of Thucydides. Conflicts, Writing and Rationalities.”

April 18- Michael Moore, University of Chicago

“The Promising Early Life of the Unnatural Greek Circle”

May 9- Gary Remer, Tulane University

“Thomas More’s Utopia and Its Ciceronian Roots”

May 16- Jenna Sarchio, University of Chicago

“On the Inside of Roman Elegy”

May 30- David Perry, University of Chicago

“Knowledge and Authority in Latin Dialogue”

All workshops take place at 3:30pm in Classics 21. Please contact the workshop coordinator (rosaliestoner@uchicago.edu) if you need an accommodation to attend this event.

Rhetoric & Poetics Winter 2019

January 10– Johanna Hanink, Brown University
“Did Euripides Influence the Funeral Orators? Tragic Plots and the Catalogue of Exploits”
 
January 24– Marcos Gouvêa, University of Chicago
“The ‘Homeric’ Life of Vergil”
 
February 7– Rebekah Spearman, University of Chicago
“Singing Springs and Cyrenian Things in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo”
 

February 28– Rosalie Stoner, University of Chicago

“The Significance of Voluntas in Quintilian’s Project of Moral Education”
~This session will be co-sponsored with the Early Christian Studies Workshop.~
 
March 7– David Orsbon, University of Chicago
“Spoliastic Aesthetics and Scholarship as Art: Notes Toward a Theory of Late Antique Aesthetics”
 
All events will take place at 3:30 pm in Classics 21. Please contact the workshop coordinator (rosaliestoner@uchicago.edu) if you need an accommodation to attend this event. 

Rhetoric and Poetics Fall 2018 Schedule

Rhetoric and Poetics Fall 2018
All events will be held at 3:30pm in Classics 21. Please direct questions to rosaliestoner@uchicago.edu.
 
October 4- Marianne Hopman, Northwestern University
“Io and the Gendering of Politics in Prometheus Bound” 
 
October 18 Joshua Katz, Princeton University
“Dice in Iliad 24: Geometry, Fate, and Sex” 
 
November 1- Luke Parker, University of Chicago
“Thoreau’s Homer in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”
November 15- Kate Miller, University of Chicago
“Political Dialogue and Dramatic Form in Sophocles’ Ajax
 
November 29- Leon Wash, University of Chicago
“Nomos and Physis in Empedocles” 
~This session will be co-sponsored with the Literature and Philosophy Workshop~