The
Classics
Department of DePauw University invites you to attend the 2004
Burleigh lectures by:
David
Konstan
(John Rowe Workman
Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic
Tradition at Brown University)
"The Emotions of the Ancient
Greeks" Tuesday, March 30 at 4pm
When the ancient Greeks spoke of
anger, of envy, of shame, did they mean exactly the same
thing that
we mean by those terms? Did their definitions correspond
to ours? If
not, why not? This talk will examine how the Greeks spoke
about the
emotions, and how they acted them out in their literature and
lives. Some
surprising differences will emerge in comparison with modern
ideas of
the emotions.
"Sacrifice and Revenge in
Euripides" Wednesday, March 31 at 4pm
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the relation between
self-sacrifice, revenge, and honor in several<> tragedies of
Euripides.<>
<>Both of these convocations
will be
held in the Peeler Auditorium <>in the Peeler Art
Center and are free
and open to the public.
<>The lectures are made possible by the<>
Burleigh Fund for Classical Studies at
DePauw.
<>For further information contact Carl Huffman
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The
Classics
Department
of Wabash College cordially invites you to attend a lecture by:
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John Bodel
(of Brown
University)
"The
Elements of a Roman Funeral"
Wednesday, February
25, 2004
Lovell Lecture Room in Baxter Hall at 8:00 p.m.
Refreshments will follow the lecture
Contact at Wabash: Prof. Leslie Day
For more information, click
here.
The
Classics
Department
of Wabash College cordially invites you to attend a lecture by:
Leslie V. Kurke
"Aesop and
Delphi:
Popular Resistance to Elite Hegemony"
Tuesday, September
24, at 8:00 p.m.
Lovell Lecture Room in Baxter Hall
Refreshments in Rogge Lounge following the lecture
Contact at Wabash: Prof. Joe Day (
dayj@wabash.edu; 765-361-6348)
The sanctuary of the god Apollo at Delphi played a key role in the
development
of the city-state in Greece; but it did so in a way that fostered the
social
and political power of elite individuals and families. In a
lecture
that illustrates her "cultural studies" or "cultural poetics" approach
to
Greek Antiquity, Prof. Kurke will show how an ancient biography of the
fable-teller
Aesop, in particular the story of Aesop's death at the hands of the
citizens
of Delphi, points to the existence of an anti-elite tradition.
Kurke
will argue that already by the fifth century BCE, Aesop had become
"good
to think with": people told stories about him to give voice to a
lower
class or popular critique of elitist privileges in the religious
institutions
of Delphi. This critique is a symptom of an ongoing political
conflict
of ideological positions within Greek cities. However, without
this
sort of careful teasing of meaning out of typically neglected and later
texts
like the Life of Aesop, we only rarely get at the non-elite voices in
these
conflicts.
Leslie Kurke is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at
the
University of California at Berkeley. She also currently holds
prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. She earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr
College
and Ph.D., from Princeton University. She was a Junior Fellow in
the
Society of Fellows at Harvard, and has been at Berkeley since
1990.
She has studied, taught, and lectured in Cambridge, London, Athens,
Tübingen,
Oxford, Berlin, and many universities in this country. Earlier this
year,
Prof. Kurke won a Distinguished Teaching Award at Berkeley. Her
undergraduate
teaching includes, besides a range of Classics, Greek, and Latin
courses,
classes in Ancient Greek and Ancient Chinese literatures, the history
of
Sexualities, and Ideologies of Sex and Gender.
Leslie Kurke has authored or edited four books:
- The Cultures Within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict,
Collaboration
(edited with Carol Dougherty, Cambridge UP 2003)
- Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning
in
Archaic Greece (Princeton UP 1999)
- Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance,
Politics
(edited with Carol Dougherty, Cambridge UP 1993)
- The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social
Economy
(Cornell UP 1991)
Professor Kurke has also written some 20 articles in edited volumes and
peer-reviewed
journals.
Tuesday, April 9, 2002 at 7:30 p.m.
Maya Magic
Anne K Pyburn, Indiana University-Bloomington
Lecture Hall Room103, IUPUI
325 University Boulevard (at Vermont Street) in Indianapolis
Reception to follow.
Tuesday, April 16, 2002 at 7:15 p.m.
Beyond the Grave: Object Biographies from Early Greece
Susan Langon, University of Missouri-Columbia
(Lecture courtesy of the Schrader Fund for Classical Archaeology as
part of
the IU Graduate Program in Classical Archaeology Alumni Series.
Co-sponsored
by the Central Indiana Society and the Department of Classical Studies
at
IUB.)
Fine Arts Room 102
Indiana University-Bloomington
Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of
Pompeii
and Herculaneum: a symposium
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the History of Art
Department,
the Center for Italian Studies, the Center for Ancient Studies, and the
Graduate
Group in Art and Architecture of the Mediterranean World invite paper
proposals
for a symposium entitled Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and
Herculaneum
to be held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology
on Saturday, October 6, 2002. The symposium will coincide with the
exhibition
Antiquity Recovered: Pompeii Herculaneum in Philadelphia Collections on
view at the Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania from
September
13 to November 20, 2002.
The aim of the symposium is to explore how the archaeological
excavations
in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and other sites in the Bay of Naples
influenced
responses to the classical tradition from the eighteenth century
through
the modern era in both Europe and America. The discoveries emerged as a
touchstone
for a rigorous, multifaceted revival of antiquity in which elements
from
antiquity were incorporated into wide-ranging aspects of civic and
cultural
life. Political entities (including the newly-independent United
States) espoused
and reinterpreted the material as an appropriate vocabulary for
national
identity. Herculaneum and Pompeii continued to play an important role
in
nineteenth- and twentieth-century society as the sites became the
catapult
for Sturm und Drang fantasies, a model for refined and opulent leisure,
and
one of the most significant archaeological and tourist sites in the
Mediterranean.
The symposium will be organized into three broad categories of
Archaeology,
Travel, and Reception, and we encourage papers drawn from a wide range
of
methodological approaches and disciplines--including, but not limited
to,
history, archaeology, literature, film, art and architectural history,
and
the history of science. Papers that explore any aspect of this legacy
from
the eighteenth century to the modern era are welcome.
Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words and C.V. by May 15 to:
Victoria Coates and Jon Seydl
History of Art Department
University of Pennsylvania
3405 Woodland Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6208.
Limited travel support is available for speakers.
Direct any questions to the symposium chairs and curators of the
exhibition,
Victoria Coates and
Jon Seydl.
Symposium date: Saturday, October 6, 2002
ICC SPRING
MEETING
March 1 and 2, 2002
at Valparaiso University