All meetings take place on Thursday in Classics 21 at 3:30 pm unless otherwise stated. (Meetings at unusual times are starred.)

Apr. 4 – Emily Jusino (University of Chicago, Classics), “False Resolution and Long-term Consequences in Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus.”

Apr. 18 – Victoria Rimell (University of Rome, La Sapienza),
“Embodied Time and the Future of Epic: Statius’ Achilleid.”

*Apr. 25 (4:30 pm) – Julia Annas (University of Arizona, Philosophy),
“Changing from Within: Plato’s Later Political Thinking.”
(Co-sponsored with the Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop).

May 9 – Robert Lamberton (University of Washington – St. Louis), “Proclus on Plato on Poetry.”

May 16 – Bart van Wassenhove (University of Chicago, Classics), “Shame, Stoicism and Society in Seneca’s Consolations.”

*May 28 (Tuesday) – Leslie Kurke (University of California – Berkeley, Classics), “Before Statuary: Victor Statues, Commemoration, and Power.”
(Co-sponsored with the Ancient Societies Workshop and the Classical Lecture Society.)

*Updated 2/6/2013*

All meetings take place on Thursday in Classics 21 unless otherwise stated. (Meetings at unusual times are starred.)

Jan. 17 – Tobias Joho (University of Chicago, Classics and Social Thought), “Thucydides on φύσις and ἀνάγκη.”

Feb 7 – Benjamin Ogles (University of Chicago, Classics), “An Uncertain Embrace: The Brevity of Love in Propertius 1.19.”

Feb 14 – Julie Mebane (University of Chicago, Classics), “Pompey’s Head and the Body Politic in Lucan’s De Bello Civili.”

**Mar 11 (Monday!) (4:30 p.m.) – Justin Steinberg (University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures) “Virgil’s anacoluthon in Inferno IX.8: On messianic time, narrative suspense, and the interregnum.”

All meetings take place on Thursday in Classics 21 unless otherwise stated. (Please note the unusual time and place of first two entries!)

Oct. 4 (4:00 p.m. in Rosenwald 405): Kathy Eden (Columbia University, Classics and English),
“Cicero Redivivus, Style, and the Old Historicism”
(Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Workshop)

Oct. 17 (4:30 pm–NB Wednesday!– in Classics 21): Alex Lee (University of Chicago, Classics),
“The Persuasive Effect of Patterns in the Republic”
(Co-sponsored with the Ancient Philosophy Workshop)

Nov. 1 (3:30 p.m.): William Batstone (Ohio State University, Classics), “Why Latin Historiography?”

Nov. 8 (3:30 p.m.): Jonah Radding (University of Chicago, Classics), “Heracles in the City: Euripides’ Case for Epinician Poetry.”

Dec. 6 (3:30 p.m.): Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University, Classics), “Virgil the Magician.”

March 29 (3:30 pm): Simon Goldhill (King’s College, Classics), “Idealizing the Chorus: Sophocles and lyric in the Nineteenth Century”

April 11 (4:30 pm): Rana Saadi Liebert (University of Chicago, Classics), “Pity and Disgust in Plato’s Republic: The Case of Leontius”

Co-sponsored by the Ancient Philosophy Workshop

*Note that this meeting is taking place on a Wednesday*

April 20 (3:30 pm): Jeffrey Rusten (Cornell, Classics), “The Upheaval That Wasn’t: An Earth-Shattering Misreading of Thucydidean Kinesis.”

Co-sponsored by CLS

*Note that this meeting is taking place on a Friday*

April 26 (3:30 pm): Alison Lanski (University of Illinois, Classics), “‘Typical’ emissaries and authorial craft in Herodotus’
Histories”

May 24 (3:30 pm): Helene Foley (Columbia University, Classics), “Reconsidering ‘The Mimetic Action of the Chorus.'”

Jan. 19 (3:30 pm): John P. McCormick (University of Chicago, Political Science), Machiavellian Democracy

Feb. 2 (3:30 pm): Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago, Classics), Socrates and Sexuality in Persius’ Fourth Satire

Feb. 22 (4:30 pm): Alex Lee (University of Chicago, Classics), The Response to Dialectical Deficiency in the Republic

Mar. 1 (3:30 pm): Abigail Akavia (University of Chicago, Classics), The Sounds of Philoctetes

Mar. 8-10: Conference on Exemplarity/Singularity

This interdisciplinary conference considers antique and modern forms of exemplarity and their role in constructing subjectivity. It deals with the transformation of textual genres such as casus and exemplum, anecdote, and novella from antiquity to modernity and with the ways in which these genres shape the relationship between exemplarity and singularity. At issue are knowledge formation and transmission, memory and its media, the pragmatics of telling stories, the structure of the disciplines, and the interaction of the normative with the exceptional.

It is being organized by Michèle Lowrie (University of Chicago, Classics) and Susanne Lüdemann (University of Chicago, Germanic Studies), and will feature speakers from the University of Chicago as well as from many other American and British universities.

For a full schedule of the conference, please see the following link:

Chicago program exemplarity

And for more details, including location and contact info, please check the link on the Franke Institute’s website:

http://franke.uchicago.edu/tevents.html#/?i=1

Sept. 29 (3:30 p.m.): Bart Van Wassenhove (University of Chicago, Classics),  “Ecquid erubescitis? Admonition and Emotion in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales”

Oct. 13 (3:30 p.m.): Teresa Danze Lemieux (University of Chicago, Classics),”Destroyed by Pity: The Case of Oedipus Tyrannus”

Oct. 27 (3:30 p.m.): Brian Krostenko (University of Notre Dame, Classics), “The Personal, the Political, and the Semiotics of Naked Dancing in Cicero’s pro rege Deiotaro”

Nov. 10 (3:30 p.m.): Andrew Laird (University of Warwick, Classics), “From classical sublimity to the Sublime by another route: Parallels in Latin traditions”

Nov. 11 (1 p.m. in Rosenwald 405): Leonard Barkan (Princeton, Comparative Literature), Selections from Unswept Floor: Food Culture and High Culture, Antiquity and Renaissance.

Nov. 17 (3:30 p.m.): Jessica Seidman (University of Chicago, Classics), “Creative Memory Among the Ruins: Lucan and Caesar at Troy.”.

Mar. 31 (3:30 pm): Helma Dik (University of Chicago, Classics), “Mining Greek literature: algorithms and gender in Greek drama”

Apr. 7 (3:30 pm): Marcos Gouvea (University of Chicago, Classics), “Living by the Word: Asceticism and Education in Basil of Caesarea and Augustine”

Apr. 18 (4:30 pm): Claude Calame (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), “The Homeric Hymns as musical offerings: poetic and ritual relationships with the gods of the Greek cities”

Apr. 28 (3:30 pm): Rana Liebert (University of Chicago, Classics), “Poikilia and Poetic Pleasure in Plato’s Republic”

May 12 (3:30 pm): Emily Greenwood (Yale University, Department of Classics), “Almost Athenian: Troping Athenian Identity in Thucydides”

Jun. 2 (3:30 pm): Diana Moser (University of Chicago, Classics), “Roman Astrology and Criminality”

Jan. 20 (3:30 pm): Raymond Kania (University of Chicago), “Ecquis erit modus?
Virgil, Pastoral, and the Limits of Representation”

Jan. 27 (3:30 pm): Tobias Joho (University of Chicago, Classics and Social Thought), “Thucydides on Change in the Use of Words: Sophrosyne in Book 1”

Feb. 17 (3:30 pm): Marianne Hopman (Northwestern University), “Narrative and Rhetoric in Odysseus’ Tales to the Phaeacians”

Feb. 24 (3:30 pm): Christopher Faraone (University of Chicago), “Poetics of the Catalogue in the Hesiodic Theogony”

Mar. 3 (3:30 pm): Joshua Katz (Princeton University), “Cicero’s Elemental Beginning and other Examples of Greco-Roman Wordplay”

Sept. 30 (3:30 pm): Richard Buxton (University of Bristol), “Movement and stillness: Greek versions of Medea from Apollonios to iconography.”

Oct. 21 (3:00 pm): James Redfield (University of Chicago), “The Origins of the Socratic Dialogue”

Nov. 11 (3:30 pm): Sailakshmi Ramgopal (University of Chicago), “With or Without a City: Law and Citizenship in the Antigone”

Nov. 18 (3:30 pm): Will Hackman (University of Chicago), “Engendered Without the Graces: Pindar, Hölderlin and the Deviations of Nature”

Dec. 2 (3:30 pm): Geoffrey Benson (University of Chicago), “Apuleius’ Demonic Voice”

04/08: Peter Struck (University of Pennsylvania, Classical Studies): “Plato on Divination as a form of Non-Rational Cognition” (this talk is sponsored by the Classical Lecture Society).

04/22:  Ewen Bowie (Emeritus, Corpus Christi College, Oxford): “The Origins of the Theognida: A Modest Proposal”.

05/14 (Friday, 4:30 pm): Robert Kaster (Princeton University, Classics): “Cicero in Mourning” (this talk is sponsored by the Classical Lecture Society).

05/20: Nancy Worman (Columbia University, Classics and Comparative Literature): “Pindar, Proust, and the Flower of Metaphor” (co-sponsored with the Poetry & Poetics workshop)

05/27: Teresa Lemieux (University of Chicago, Classics), “Pitying Electra: The Agency and Affection of οἶκτος in Sophocles”.

06/03: Ursula Bergstrom (University of Chicago, Classics),”Who Done It? On the Nature of the Divine in Callimachus’ Bath of Pallas”.

All talks are at 3:30 pm in Classics 21 unless otherwise noted.

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"Who Done It? On the Nature of the Divine
in Callimachus' Bath of Pallas."