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Rhetoric & Poetics

Ancient Literature Workshop at the University of Chicago

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Hoplite Owl – illustration by Maria Ma

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Spring 2024 Schedule

April 4: Alexander Loney (Wheaton College) “Homeric Nostalgia” April 11: Sam Lee (UChicago Social Thought) “Nameless Galatea: Sprezzatura and the Aesthetics of Concealment in Ovid’s Pygmalion Myth” April 18: Jimmy White (UChicago Classics/Social Thought) “‘Where the Wild Things Are’: Narrative Empathy and Fellow-Feeling with Monsters in the Poetry of Stesichorus” May 2: Serena Ammirati (visiting scholar from Università Roma Tre) “Latinum est, non legitur: The Challenge of Latin Papyri” *co-sponsored with Regenstein Special Collections, held in Special Collections room 136 May 16: Seva Khusid (UChicago MAPH) “Prometheus Bound and Court Rhetoric in Modern Russia”

Leave a comment Posted on January 7, 2024January 8, 2024 by rposnerhess Uncategorized

Winter 2024 Schedule

Rhetoric and Poetics Winter 2024 Workshop Schedule Jan 9: Suzanne Lye (UNC Chapel Hill) “By Homer’s Design: Hypertextual Modeling in Ancient Underworld Scenes” Feb 1: Fazel Ahad Ahadi “Antigone, a Beginning to Stand Against Tyranny” (RSVP requested, location TBA) Feb 8: Laura Bevilacqua (PhD, Classics) “Lost in Translation: The Cost of Capitalization in Editorial Choices” Feb 15: Nathan Katkin “No More Utopias: The Classical Turn in Ursula Le Guin’s Last Novels” Feb 22: James Uden (Boston University) "Emotional Communities and Roman Rhetoric: New Approaches to Declamation" all workshops held at 3:30 pm in Classics 21 unless otherwise noted

Leave a comment Posted on September 27, 2023 by rposnerhess Uncategorized

Autumn 2023 Schedule

Oct 5: David Delbar "Devious Bodies: Disabled Masculinity in Homer" Oct 19: Michael Allen "Classical Self-Fashioning in the Carolingian Age: Cicero and Vergil, Einhard and Lupus of Ferrières" Nov 9: Hannah Čulík-Baird (UCLA) "E. B. Tylor and M. T. Cicero at the Dawn of Anthropology" Nov 16: Madelaine Thompson "Reconsidering Euclio in Plautus’ Aulularia"

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