April 5, 3:30 pm
Andreas Schwab (Classics, Heidelberg/Wisconsin-Madison)
“From God to Genealogy:
Achaemenid Royal Ideology in Xerxes’ Rhetoric (Hist. 7.8-11)”
Cosponsored by the Ancient Societies Workshop
April 12, 4:30 PM
Nathan Leidholm (History, UChicago)
“The Representation and Appropriation of the Persian Past in Middle Byzantine Court Rhetoric”
Cosponsored by the Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium. Location TBA. Note the later start time.
April 19, 3:30 pm
Jas Elsner (Divinity School, UChicago)
“Ark of Civilization: Fraenkel, Pfeiffer and Refugee Scholars in Oxford from 1933”
May 10, 3:30 pm
Clifford Ando (Classics, UChicago)
“The Epistemics of Sovereignty: Writing and Drawing Empire under Rome”
May 24, 3:30 pm
Konrad Weeda (Classics and Social Thought, UChicago)
“Catullus 64: Art, Aesthetics, History”
May 31, 4:30 pm
Demetra Kasimis (Political Science, UChicago)
“Reading the Republic as a Metic Space”
Cosponsored by the Political Theory Workshop
Note the later start time.
June 7, 3:30 pm
Leon Wash (Classics, UChicago)
On Phusis and the Vegetal