01/28: Boris Maslov (University of Chicago, Comparative Literature): “Genre substrata in Pindaric epinikion: the cases of prooimion and hymnos”

02/02: Tobias Joho (University of Chicago, Classics and Social Thought):  “Thucydidean Style and Historical Necessity” (NB: this is a Tuesday talk, starting at 3:30).

02/11: Linda Haddad (University of Chicago, Classics): TBA

02/17: Paul Woodruff (University of Texas at Austin, Classics and Philosophy):  The Ajax Dilemma (co-sponsored with the Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop; NB: this is a Wednesday talk, starting at 4:30)

02/25: Ray Kania (University of Chicago, Classics): Virgil’s Second Eclogue and a Lyric Mode of Fiction.

03/13: Special event: ‘Filmmaker in Person.  ‘The Last Happy Day’. An Evening with Lynne Sachs  (co-sponsored with the Film Studies Center and the Department of Jewish Studies).

Oct 1: Jürgen Schwindt (University of Heidelberg): “Thaumatographia. Original Scenes of Philology: The Hunt of Actaeon. Languages of Transformation (Ov. Met. 3, 131-259)”.

Oct. 15: Aaron Seider (University of Chicago): “Remembering, Forgetting, and Time’s Revolutions in Vergil’s Aeneid”.

Oct. 22: Peter Wiseman (University of Exeter): “The Complaints of Ariadne”

Nov. 5: Meike Wortmann (University of Münster): “Virgil’s Eclogues about Authorship”.

Nov. 12: Emily Jusino (University of Chicago): “Reporters and Deception in Sophocles’ Trachiniai”

Nov. 19: Deborah Cromley (University of Chicago): “Lost in Limbo:  The Precarious State of the Human in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses“

Dec. 3: Dan Bandstra (University of Chicago): “Pedagogy and the Nature of ‘Nature’ in the Peri Hupsous of Longinus”.

This workshop is concerned with the literature and poetry of classical Greece and Rome, considered either in their own terms or in relation to the literature and poetry of other cultures. It invites presentation of critical arguments completed or in progress, and from the broadest possible range of perspectives.

The workshop meets on alternate Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. in Classics 21, unless otherwise noted. To receive information about upcoming events, please join our listserver at: https://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/rhetoric-and-poetics

Faculty Sponsors

Michèle Lowrie
Sarah Nooter

Student Coordinator

Bart Van Wassenhove

University of Chicago Department Of Classics

http://classics.uchicago.edu