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SUMMARY:Plato and Lyric Poetry Conference Oct. 18-19
DESCRIPTION:Conference Schedule:\n\nFriday October 18th\, 2024:\n9 am. Breakfast\n9.25 am Opening remarks\n\nSession 1\n9.35 am-10.35 am. Glenn Most (University of Chicago): “Pindar’s nomos basileus (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) in Plato” \nPindar’s Nomos basileus fragment (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) is one of his most celebrated and controversial texts. Papyrus discoveries have extended our textual knowledge of Pindar’s poem but have not resolved its interpretative difficulties. The most celebrated and controversial ancient discussion of it is provided by Callicles’ citation and interpretation of it in Plato’s Gorgias. But even the text of this quotation is uncertain\, to say nothing of the meaning attributed to it. I will discuss the extant remains of Pindar’s poem and this passage in the Gorgias\, bringing to bear upon these other ancient testimonia\, especially Herodotus 3.38 and Plato’s Laws 4 715a\, in the hope of complicating and perhaps even revising the communis opinio. \n10.45 am-11.45 am. Paper 2. John Tennant (Stanford University): “Speaking lyrically\, speaking proverbially.” \nPlato’s quotation of excerpts from lyric poetry in the dialogues highlights the status of those excerpts as detachable statements\, removed from their original\, textual context. This invites the question\, what makes a statement detachable? What quality allows for a text’s quotability as a “stand-alone\,” a “detachable?” I argue in this paper that an essential element of detachability consists in a statement’s capacity to function proverbially – as a stand-alone aphorism\, maxim\, proverb. Plato’s quotations from various lyric poets – among them Simonides\, Theognis\, Solon\, Pindar\, and Phocylides – illustrate how lyric poetry seems especially possessed of this capacity to generate detachable\, proverbial statements. Readings from Plato’s quotation of lyric poets in Protagoras\, Meno\, and Republic reveal that within the context of the dialogic exchange\, to speak lyrically is to speak proverbially – that is\, to marshal lyric quotation as stand-alone proverb in the dialectic. In addition\, lyric “proverbs” often seem to contradict one another\, even when composed by the same poet and within the very same poem (e.g.\, Simonides’ “Ode to Scopas” in Protagoras\, verses from Theognis in Meno). Aside from noting the connection with the sophistic educational practice of the antilogiae – itself consonant with the antilogical arrangement of ancient gnomic anthologies with their assorted proverbs gathered from different texts – I argue that the positioning of contradictory proverbs in the lyric poetry of Simonides and Theognis (“contradictory” at least\, in Plato’s act of citation) enjoys a correspondence with modern counterparts\, such as Robert Frost’s dueling proverbs in “Mending Wall.” Moreover\, lyric detachables in both Plato and Frost highlight the Janus-faced nature of proverbial expression\, revealing that contrary to popular belief\, proverbs are hardly univocal but rife with paradox and ambiguity\, qualities essential to lyric poetry. \n12.00- 1.40 pm:  Lunch break \nSession 2\n1.45 pm-2.45 pm. Marcus Folch (Columbia University) “Lyric and the geographic imagination in Plato’s Laws”  \nWhat does Plato do with lyric and what does lyric do for Plato in his last and longest work\, the Laws? To answer that question\, this paper examines allusions to elegiac poetry in Books 1&2. Plato’s engagement with poetry in the Laws has been a topic of several fascinating publications in the past decade. Taken together\, these works have advanced our understanding of Plato’s late thought on mimetic poetry\, his engagement with ancient performance culture\, and the indebtedness of fourth-century philosophy to the poetic tradition. In this paper I move away from the questions of mimetic poetry and performance culture\, and consider instead how lyric poetry in Plato is deeply embedded within\, and invites readers to reconsider\, the history of space and geography. Plato’s lyric engagements will be shown to provide a provocative guide to the allusive and argumentative tactics employed in the formation of philosophy as a literary genre. It will also illuminate the position of lyric poetry in the fourth century as a site of shared memory\, a discursive space in which diverse authors\, poets\, and presumably their audiences debated and sorted out their own collective identities\, tensions between local history and Panhellenism\, and the ethical underpinnings of legislation and colonization—the central preoccupations of the Laws as a whole. \n2.50 pm.-3.50 pm. Michael Brumbaugh (Tulane University) “Plato\, music\, and the colonial project.”   \nEarly modern Europeans were fascinated with the musical talents of the Guaraní\, the indigenous peoples of greater Paraguay. Indeed\, their travelogs\, private correspondences\, and official reports are full of testaments to their amazement. One European visitor among the Guaraní recorded in a letter that he had witnessed a twelve-year-old indigenous boy flawlessly reproduce the most challenging of Italian concertos during an impromptu cello recital. Another remarked that “[the Guaraní] were endowed with the ingenuity of birds\, whom nature herself inspires to sing.” While this interest in Guaraní musicality was doubtless influenced by European tendencies to exoticize non-European cultures\, its roots can be traced back to Plato’s interest in music as a phenomenon belonging both to the world of nature and the world of the polis. This paper investigates ways in which music – and choral music in particular – operated at the intersection of nature and culture in the early modern tradition and how some even saw it as central to the European colonial enterprise. These observations\, in turn\, offer new and provocative heuristics for interrogating Plato’s Laws\, a text framed as a colonial venture that figures music as a powerful and enigmatic force necessary for animating and perpetuating the political experience. \n3.50-4.10 pm: Coffee break \nSession 3\n4.10 pm-5.10pm. Pierre Destrée (Université catholique de Louvain) “Plato and iambic humor” \nAthenaeus wrote: “The story goes that when Gorgias read the dialogue named after him\, he said to his friends: ‘Plato’s quite talented at writing abuse-poetry (iambizein)’. Hermippus says in his On Gorgias: ‘When Gorgias visited Athens after dedicating the gold statue of himself in Delphi\, and Plato saw him and said: ‘Our fine\, gold Gorgias has arrived!’\, Gorgias responded: ‘And this is a fine new Archilochus that Athens has produced!’” (505d-e\, trans. Olson). In this paper\, I unpack these assertions (allegedly) made by Gorgias\, and I analyze a few samples of Platonic passages that echo Archilochus’ poetic devices. \n\nSaturday October 19th\, 2024\n9 am. Breakfast \nSession 1\n9.30 am-10.30 am. Giulia Sissa (UCLA) “No hymns to Eros? Platonic rhythms and rhymes in the Symposium” \nThis paper will study the continuities and discontinuities between lyric/melic poetry and the Symposium\, as a hybrid dialogue in which narrative\, praise\, banter\, and refutation come together.  I would like to start with the lamented lack of a hymn to Eros and go from there. The premise is that lyric poetry can be understood at large\, including theatrical choruses. And the hypothesis I would like to test is that the polyphonic and multi-genre conversation at Agathon’s drinking party deploys the poetic function of language both in in the speech-act of extolling Eros\, and in the verbal\, musical composition of that kind of utterance. It may sound funny. But who has the last laugh? \n\n\n10.45 am-11.45 am. André Rehbinder (University of Paris\, Nanterre) “Plato’s encounter with lyric in the Phaedrus” \nLyric poetry’s influence on Plato in the Phaedrus has long been underestimated\, so much so that Ch. Rowe\, in his edition of the dialogue\, treats Socrates’ praise of Sappho and Anacreon at 235c as ironic. In two major papers\, both published in 2007 \, E. Pender has shown the deepness and the extent of Platonic borrowings from lyric in the Phaedrus\, not only in the central myth\, but starting with the famous description of the locus amoenus in the Prologue. However\, Pender’s conclusion was highly deceptive: in the image of the bad horse falling on its knees with its jaws full of blood\, she saw an “ugly conclusion”\, where the “the lightness of Anacreon’s verse is destroyed”. At this point\, Pender says\, Plato “parts company with the poets”\, because his scope is fundamentally different: where poets were only describing desire and the abandonment of oneself to it\, the philosopher wants to show how the “best inner-ruler” (takes control over the lower parts of the soul\, in order to achieve the contemplation of Forms. The purpose of the present work is\, while acknowledging the deep relationship shown by Pender between Plato and lyric poetry\, to reevaluate it: Plato is not just quoting lyric poetry as a good description of the shock of love and using it for its own purpose; rather he valorizes lyric experience as a whole and reveals its philosophical meaning. He is not opposing lyric mania to the control of the reason-charioteer\, as Lysias does when he boasts about “not being defeated by love\, but controlling [him]self” (233c1-2\, οὐχ ὑπ᾽ ἔρωτος ἠττώμενος ἀλλ᾽ ἐμαυτοῦ κρατῶν). On the contrary\, for Plato\, to be defeated by love and to lose every control on oneself is the very means for the charioteer to obtain the greatest good\, the regrowth of the wings. In sum\, my claim is that Sappho and Anacreon could be seen as platonic lovers according to the Phaedrus: they experience the real pathos of love\, which manifests itself in the mania they described so vividly. \n12.00- 1.10 pm: Lunch break \nSession 2\n1.15 pm-2.15 pm. Julia Pfefferkorn (University of Trier): “The gods’ rewards: Plato\, lyric poetry\, and divine retribution” \nThe question what role lyric poetry plays in the Republic is an important one\, for at least two reasons: first\, it remains exempt from the formal critique of poetry in Book 3 which condemns epic and drama. And second\, the entire argument of the Republic takes its start from references to Pindar\, in the context of Cephalus’ worries about divine retribution in the afterlife\, and to Simonides\, whose poetry provides the first tentative definition of justice. In order to shed light on this question\, I turn to a hitherto neglected passage in Book 2 (362d1–368b1) in which Adeimantus joins his brother Glaucon in exhorting Socrates to praise justice in itself. He adds\, in particular\, that although some poets do praise justice\, they focus only on the honours and rewards that ensue from it\, and concludes that this will be insufficient to convince anyone of its intrinsic value. While the first part of Adeimantus’ discourse is based mostly on Homer and Hesiod\, at the end he conspicuously resorts to lyric poetry (with quotations from and implicit references to\, again\, Pindar and Simonides\, a mention of Archilochus\, and further probable references to Solon and/or Theognis). This occurs precisely when he switches to a first-person perspective\, picturing himself as a young man who is confronted with ambivalent representations of the gods and the way they reward virtue or vice. I contend that Adeimantus’ way of introducing lyric poetry in this passage anticipates important aspects of the critique of poetry\, with regard to both contents and form\, and that it may help to explain why lyric poetry\, while it is certainly included in the critique of poetic contents\, is left untouched by the formal critique: it is through Pindar’s “whether … or” (πότερον … ἤ\, 365b2) that Adeimantus presents the young man as a responsible first-person agent who makes a choice\, in a way that foreshadows the Myth of Er. While the lyric recount of divine retribution\, just as the Myth of Er\, can only be an addition (612b6–c2) to the philosophical account of justice\, establishing this perspective on one’s life is fundamental. \n2.25 pm.-3.25 pm. Kathryn Morgan (UCLA) “The great contest: exploring life choices through Pindar in Plato’s Republic” \nThis paper starts from a group of Pindar quotations and reminiscences early in Plato’s Republic and proceeds to explore the ways in which Pindaric lyric\, particularly epinician\, informs the dialogue.  Concerns with ponos\, with the correct objects of praise and blame\, and with the accurate assessment of achievement are common to both\, and Socrates’ frequent references to rewards\, prizes\, and contests reinforce the agonistic atmosphere.  Yet the nature of the contest and prizes under consideration is different\, and is reflected in a tension between the threnodic and epinician modes that is resolved in the closing pages of the dialogue. \n3.30-3.50 pm: Coffee break \nSession 3\n3.50 pm-4.50pm. Eleonora Rocconi (University of Pavia): “The role of melopoiia in Plato’s taxonomy of lyric genres”   \nIn a well-known passage of Republic Book 3 (399a–400c)\, Plato deals with the musical attributes of lyric poetry discussing which musical modes and rhythmical patterns should be allowed in Kallipolis for educating the guardians.  While commenting on their mimetic (and consequently ethical) capacity\, this passage also seems to describe which technical elements were perceived by the ancients as belonging to a specific poetic genre and gave it such a clearly recognisable character (thus anticipating what will be said in Laws 3\, 700a–c\, where a distinct μέλους εἶδος is advocated for each type of composition).  Interestingly\, these remarks are echoed in later Aristoxenian handbooks on music theory\, such as Cleonides’ Isagoge (2nd cent. CE?) when discussing modulations in μελοποιΐα (a term used by Plato too to indicate the selection of rhythms and harmoniai in poetic compositions\, cf. Symp. 187d and 205c).  The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of melopoiia in Plato’s conception of poetry by bringing the technical interpretations (both musical and philosophical) of these passages into dialogue with those more focused on the question of poetic genres. \n5.00 pm-6.00 pm. David Blank (UCLA): “The presence of Plato in Diogenes of Babylon’s treatise On Music” \n\nThe first Herculaneum papyrus to be unrolled\, so that its last 37 columns could be read (nearly) continuously contained the fourth book of Philodemus’ treatise On Music. This text\, so disappointing to its first readers\, who were dismayed not only because it was not Aeschylus or Sappho\, but also because it contained an attack on the art of music\, is an Epicurean demolition of a book by Chrysippus’ student\, Diogenes of Babylon\, and it does in fact have a great deal to contribute to our understanding of Stoic epistemology and ethics. Diogenes is clearly building on Platonic and\, to a lesser extent\, Peripatetic theories of the emotional and dispositional effects on behavior and moral character. My paper will not only examine Diogenes’ borrowings from and citations of Plato\, which extend from individual phrases to a general conception of musical êthos; I shall also trace Diogenes’ tactics in connecting Stoic theory to the Academy and vindicating the claims of the Stoa to belong to the Socratic tradition. In this\, he anticipated the later Academic\, Antiochus of Ascalon. \n 
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: International Conference on “Plato and Lyric Poetry” Change of venue: May 10 - May 11 Dodd Hall 248
DESCRIPTION:At the urging of the faculty of the UCLA Classics department\, and in light of the situation on campus\, the conference on Plato and Lyric has been cancelled. \n\n\nConference Schedule:\n\nFriday May 10th\, 2024:\n9 am. Breakfast\n9.25 am Opening remarks\n\nSession 1\n9.35 am-10.35 am. Glenn Most (University of Chicago): “Pindar’s nomos basileus (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) in Plato” \nPindar’s Nomos basileus fragment (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) is one of his most celebrated and controversial texts. Papyrus discoveries have extended our textual knowledge of Pindar’s poem but have not resolved its interpretative difficulties. The most celebrated and controversial ancient discussion of it is provided by Callicles’ citation and interpretation of it in Plato’s Gorgias. But even the text of this quotation is uncertain\, to say nothing of the meaning attributed to it. I will discuss the extant remains of Pindar’s poem and this passage in the Gorgias\, bringing to bear upon these other ancient testimonia\, especially Herodotus 3.38 and Plato’s Laws 4 715a\, in the hope of complicating and perhaps even revising the communis opinio. \n10.45 am-11.45 am. John Tennant (Stanford University): “Speaking lyrically\, speaking proverbially.” \nPlato’s quotation of excerpts from lyric poetry in the dialogues highlights the status of those excerpts as detachable statements\, removed from their original\, textual context. This invites the question\, what makes a statement detachable? What quality allows for a text’s quotability as a “stand-alone\,” a “detachable?” I argue in this paper that an essential element of detachability consists in a statement’s capacity to function proverbially – as a stand-alone aphorism\, maxim\, proverb. Plato’s quotations from various lyric poets – among them Simonides\, Theognis\, Solon\, Pindar\, and Phocylides – illustrate how lyric poetry seems especially possessed of this capacity to generate detachable\, proverbial statements. Readings from Plato’s quotation of lyric poets in Protagoras\, Meno\, and Republic reveal that within the context of the dialogic exchange\, to speak lyrically is to speak proverbially – that is\, to marshal lyric quotation as stand-alone proverb in the dialectic. In addition\, lyric “proverbs” often seem to contradict one another\, even when composed by the same poet and within the very same poem (e.g.\, Simonides’ “Ode to Scopas” in Protagoras\, verses from Theognis in Meno). Aside from noting the connection with the sophistic educational practice of the antilogiae – itself consonant with the antilogical arrangement of ancient gnomic anthologies with their assorted proverbs gathered from different texts – I argue that the positioning of contradictory proverbs in the lyric poetry of Simonides and Theognis (“contradictory” at least\, in Plato’s act of citation) enjoys a correspondence with modern counterparts\, such as Robert Frost’s dueling proverbs in “Mending Wall.” Moreover\, lyric detachables in both Plato and Frost highlight the Janus-faced nature of proverbial expression\, revealing that contrary to popular belief\, proverbs are hardly univocal but rife with paradox and ambiguity\, qualities essential to lyric poetry. \n12.00- 1.30 pm:  Lunch break \nSession 2\n1.30 pm-2.30 pm. Eleonora Rocconi (University of Pavia): “The role of melopoiia in Plato’s taxonomy of lyric genres” \nIn a well-known passage of Republic Book 3 (399a–400c)\, Plato deals with the musical attributes of lyric poetry discussing which musical modes and rhythmical patterns should be allowed in Kallipolis for educating the guardians.  While commenting on their mimetic (and consequently ethical) capacity\, this passage also seems to describe which technical elements were perceived by the ancients as belonging to a specific poetic genre and gave it such a clearly recognisable character (thus anticipating what will be said in Laws 3\, 700a–c\, where a distinct μέλους εἶδος is advocated for each type of composition).  Interestingly\, these remarks are echoed in later Aristoxenian handbooks on music theory\, such as Cleonides’ Isagoge (2nd cent. CE?) when discussing modulations in μελοποιΐα (a term used by Plato too to indicate the selection of rhythms and harmoniai in poetic compositions\, cf. Symp. 187d and 205c).  The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of melopoiia in Plato’s conception of poetry by bringing the technical interpretations (both musical and philosophical) of these passages into dialogue with those more focused on the question of poetic genres. \n2.35 pm.-3.35 pm. David Blank (UCLA): “The presence of Plato in Diogenes of Babylon’s treatise On Music” \nThe first Herculaneum papyrus to be unrolled\, so that its last 37 columns could be read (nearly) continuously contained the fourth book of Philodemus’ treatise On Music. This text\, so disappointing to its first readers\, who were dismayed not only because it was not Aeschylus or Sappho\, but also because it contained an attack on the art of music\, is an Epicurean demolition of a book by Chrysippus’ student\, Diogenes of Babylon\, and it does in fact have a great deal to contribute to our understanding of Stoic epistemology and ethics. Diogenes is clearly building on Platonic and\, to a lesser extent\, Peripatetic theories of the emotional and dispositional effects on behavior and moral character. My paper will not only examine Diogenes’ borrowings from and citations of Plato\, which extend from individual phrases to a general conception of musical êthos; I shall also trace Diogenes’ tactics in connecting Stoic theory to the Academy and vindicating the claims of the Stoa to belong to the Socratic tradition. In this\, he anticipated the later Academic\, Antiochus of Ascalon. \n3.35-3.50 pm: Coffee break \nSession 3\n3.50 pm-4.50pm. Julia Pfefferkorn (University of Trier): “The gods’ rewards: Plato\, lyric poetry\, and divine retribution” \nThe question what role lyric poetry plays in the Republic is an important one\, for at least two reasons: first\, it remains exempt from the formal critique of poetry in Book 3 which condemns epic and drama. And second\, the entire argument of the Republic takes its start from references to Pindar\, in the context of Cephalus’ worries about divine retribution in the afterlife\, and to Simonides\, whose poetry provides the first tentative definition of justice. In order to shed light on this question\, I turn to a hitherto neglected passage in Book 2 (362d1–368b1) in which Adeimantus joins his brother Glaucon in exhorting Socrates to praise justice in itself. He adds\, in particular\, that although some poets do praise justice\, they focus only on the honours and rewards that ensue from it\, and concludes that this will be insufficient to convince anyone of its intrinsic value. While the first part of Adeimantus’ discourse is based mostly on Homer and Hesiod\, at the end he conspicuously resorts to lyric poetry (with quotations from and implicit references to\, again\, Pindar and Simonides\, a mention of Archilochus\, and further probable references to Solon and/or Theognis). This occurs precisely when he switches to a first-person perspective\, picturing himself as a young man who is confronted with ambivalent representations of the gods and the way they reward virtue or vice. I contend that Adeimantus’ way of introducing lyric poetry in this passage anticipates important aspects of the critique of poetry\, with regard to both contents and form\, and that it may help to explain why lyric poetry\, while it is certainly included in the critique of poetic contents\, is left untouched by the formal critique: it is through Pindar’s “whether … or” (πότερον … ἤ\, 365b2) that Adeimantus presents the young man as a responsible first-person agent who makes a choice\, in a way that foreshadows the Myth of Er. While the lyric recount of divine retribution\, just as the Myth of Er\, can only be an addition (612b6–c2) to the philosophical account of justice\, establishing this perspective on one’s life is fundamental. \n5.00 pm-6.00 pm. Kathryn Morgan (UCLA) “The great contest: exploring life choices through Pindar in Plato’s Republic” \nThis paper starts from a group of Pindar quotations and reminiscences early in Plato’s Republic and proceeds to explore the ways in which Pindaric lyric\, particularly epinician\, informs the dialogue.  Concerns with ponos\, with the correct objects of praise and blame\, and with the accurate assessment of achievement are common to both\, and Socrates’ frequent references to rewards\, prizes\, and contests reinforce the agonistic atmosphere.  Yet the nature of the contest and prizes under consideration is different\, and is reflected in a tension between the threnodic and epinician modes that is resolved in the closing pages of the dialogue. \n\nSaturday May 11th\, 2024\n9 am. Breakfast \nSession 1\n9.30 am-10.30 am. Giulia Sissa (UCLA) “No hymns to Eros? Platonic rhythms and rhymes in the Symposium” \nThis paper will study the continuities and discontinuities between lyric/melic poetry and the Symposium\, as a hybrid dialogue in which narrative\, praise\, banter\, and refutation come together.  I would like to start with the lamented lack of a hymn to Eros and go from there. The premise is that lyric poetry can be understood at large\, including theatrical choruses. And the hypothesis I would like to test is that the polyphonic and multi-genre conversation at Agathon’s drinking party deploys the poetic function of language both in in the speech-act of extolling Eros\, and in the verbal\, musical composition of that kind of utterance. It may sound funny. But who has the last laugh? \n\n\n10.45 am-11.45 am. André Rehbinder (University of Paris\, Nanterre) “Plato’s encounter with lyric in the Phaedrus” \nLyric poetry’s influence on Plato in the Phaedrus has long been underestimated\, so much so that Ch. Rowe\, in his edition of the dialogue\, treats Socrates’ praise of Sappho and Anacreon at 235c as ironic. In two major papers\, both published in 2007 \, E. Pender has shown the deepness and the extent of Platonic borrowings from lyric in the Phaedrus\, not only in the central myth\, but starting with the famous description of the locus amoenus in the Prologue. However\, Pender’s conclusion was highly deceptive: in the image of the bad horse falling on its knees with its jaws full of blood\, she saw an “ugly conclusion”\, where the “the lightness of Anacreon’s verse is destroyed”. At this point\, Pender says\, Plato “parts company with the poets”\, because his scope is fundamentally different: where poets were only describing desire and the abandonment of oneself to it\, the philosopher wants to show how the “best inner-ruler” (takes control over the lower parts of the soul\, in order to achieve the contemplation of Forms. The purpose of the present work is\, while acknowledging the deep relationship shown by Pender between Plato and lyric poetry\, to reevaluate it: Plato is not just quoting lyric poetry as a good description of the shock of love and using it for its own purpose; rather he valorizes lyric experience as a whole and reveals its philosophical meaning. He is not opposing lyric mania to the control of the reason-charioteer\, as Lysias does when he boasts about “not being defeated by love\, but controlling [him]self” (233c1-2\, οὐχ ὑπ᾽ ἔρωτος ἠττώμενος ἀλλ᾽ ἐμαυτοῦ κρατῶν). On the contrary\, for Plato\, to be defeated by love and to lose every control on oneself is the very means for the charioteer to obtain the greatest good\, the regrowth of the wings. In sum\, my claim is that Sappho and Anacreon could be seen as platonic lovers according to the Phaedrus: they experience the real pathos of love\, which manifests itself in the mania they described so vividly. \n12.00- 1.00 pm: Lunch break \nSession 2\n1.15 pm-2.15 pm. Marcus Folch (Columbia University) “Lyric and the geographic imagination in Plato’s Laws” \nWhat does Plato do with lyric and what does lyric do for Plato in his last and longest work\, the Laws? To answer that question\, this paper examines allusions to elegiac poetry in Books 1&2. Plato’s engagement with poetry in the Laws has been a topic of several fascinating publications in the past decade. Taken together\, these works have advanced our understanding of Plato’s late thought on mimetic poetry\, his engagement with ancient performance culture\, and the indebtedness of fourth-century philosophy to the poetic tradition. In this paper I move away from the questions of mimetic poetry and performance culture\, and consider instead how lyric poetry in Plato is deeply embedded within\, and invites readers to reconsider\, the history of space and geography. Plato’s lyric engagements will be shown to provide a provocative guide to the allusive and argumentative tactics employed in the formation of philosophy as a literary genre. It will also illuminate the position of lyric poetry in the fourth century as a site of shared memory\, a discursive space in which diverse authors\, poets\, and presumably their audiences debated and sorted out their own collective identities\, tensions between local history and Panhellenism\, and the ethical underpinnings of legislation and colonization—the central preoccupations of the Laws as a whole. \n2.25 pm.-3.25 pm. Michael Brumbaugh (Tulane University) “Between nature and culture: Platonic chorality in the Guaraní Republic of Paraguay” \nEarly modern Europeans were fascinated with the musical talents of the Guaraní\, the indigenous peoples of greater Paraguay. Indeed\, their travelogs\, private correspondences\, and official reports are full of testaments to their amazement. One European visitor among the Guaraní recorded in a letter that he had witnessed a twelve-year-old indigenous boy flawlessly reproduce the most challenging of Italian concertos during an impromptu cello recital. Another remarked that “[the Guaraní] were endowed with the ingenuity of birds\, whom nature herself inspires to sing.” While this interest in Guaraní musicality was doubtless influenced by European tendencies to exoticize non-European cultures\, its roots can be traced back to Plato’s interest in music as a phenomenon belonging both to the world of nature and the world of the polis. This paper investigates ways in which music – and choral music in particular – operated at the intersection of nature and culture in the early modern tradition and how some even saw it as central to the European colonial enterprise. These observations\, in turn\, offer new and provocative heuristics for interrogating Plato’s Laws\, a text framed as a colonial venture that figures music as a powerful and enigmatic force necessary for animating and perpetuating the political experience. \n3.30-3.50 pm: Coffee break \nSession 3\n3.50 pm-4.50pm. George Gazis (Durham University) “Dialectic lyricism: subjectivity and the search for true doxa” \nPlato’s relationship with poetry is arguably one of the most intriguing and complicated topics relating not only to the philosopher’s oeuvre in general but also both to his epistemological and metaphysical approach to fundamental concepts such as truth\, phenomenology and objective virtue\, to name just a few. In this paper\, I would like to argue that despite Plato’s and Socrates’ negative criticism of poetic composition as an uninformed and often dangerous product of human ignorance\, there appears to be a subtly drawn distinction by the philosopher concerning different poetic genres and the source of inspiration that leads to their very conception. \nMore specifically\, I argue that although Plato seriously discredits epic and dramatic poetry\, he appears to be more sympathetic towards lyric\, since the latter poets do not claim direct inspiration from a divine source\, but rather present personal interpretations not only of divine narratives but also and more importantly of the ways in which human beings can achieve a (philosophically) good life. Through a reading of Socrates’ analysis of Simonides’ ode in the Protagoras\, and Stesichorus’ Palinode in the Phaedrus\, I aim to set the initial foundations for a further examination of the use of the lyric genre in Platonic dialogues as a subjective and self-examining process that is closely reminiscent of the philosophically motivated Socratic inquiry. I will argue that a holistic reading of the Platonic corpus shows that lyric poetry is indeed the only genre that retains its standing both in terms of entertainment and educational value\, even after a strict and unforgiving Socratic elenchus (e.g. Phaedo 60a\, Laws 7.799a\, Republic 10.607a\, etc.). \n5.00 pm-6.00 pm. Pierre Destrée (Université catholique de Louvain) “Plato and iambic humor” \n\n \n \nAthenaeus wrote: “The story goes that when Gorgias read the dialogue named after him\, he said to his friends: ‘Plato’s quite talented at writing abuse-poetry (iambizein)’. Hermippus says in his On Gorgias: ‘When Gorgias visited Athens after dedicating the gold statue of himself in Delphi\, and Plato saw him and said: ‘Our fine\, gold Gorgias has arrived!’\, Gorgias responded: ‘And this is a fine new Archilochus that Athens has produced!’” (505d-e\, trans. Olson). In this paper\, I unpack these assertions (allegedly) made by Gorgias\, and I analyze a few samples of Platonic passages that echo Archilochus’ poetic devices
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/international-conference-on-plato-and-lyric-poetry/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 248
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231001
DTSTAMP:20230802T140853Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Graduate Student Conference
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Graduate Student Conference 2023 \nSeptember 29-30\, 2023 \n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA \nKnowing and Knowing Nothing: Learning\, Teaching\, and Apprenticeship in the Ancient Mediterranean \nKeynote Address by Rebecca Futo Kennedy\, Associate Professor & Chair of Classical Studies at Denison University\, “Knowing and Not Knowing Others: Ethnography as an Unreliable Teacher.” \nThis conference will be held in person. Schedule TBA \nFor more information: https://uclaclassicsgradconference.wordpress.com
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/ucla-graduate-student-conference/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230519T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230520T170000
DTSTAMP:20230517T172528Z
CREATED:20221118T193404Z
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SUMMARY:Elemental Readings I: Air
DESCRIPTION:[gravityform id=”3″ title=”true” description=”true”]A Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Conference\, co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English\, UCLA. May 19th – 20th\, 2023. \nPlease register for this in-person only conference using the form above. \nOrganizers: Louise Hornby (English) & Alex Purves (Classics) \nKeynote Speaker: John Durham Peters\, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies\, Yale University. \n\nConfirmed Speakers/Participants \n\nShane Butler\, Johns Hopkins University\nElizabeth DeLoughrey\, UCLA\nKatharine Earnshaw\, University of Exeter\nLouise Hornby\, UCLA\nHsuan Hsu\, UC Davis\nEleanor Kaufman\, UCLA\nKarla Nielson\, Huntington Library\nJohn Durham Peters\, Yale University\nJustine Pizzo\, University of Southampton\nVerity Platt\, Cornell University\nJames Porter\, UC Berkeley\nAlex Purves\, UCLA\nMario Telò\, UC Berkeley\nBen Tran\, Vanderbilt University\nVictoria Wohl\, University of Toronto\nDora Zhang\, UC Berkeley\nRecent work across a range of fields in the humanities and arts\, as well as in environmental\, media\, and digital studies\, has paid increasing attention to the role of the elements in shaping our experience and understanding of the world. This conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are seeking to redefine the role of air\, atmosphere\, and the weather in traditionally non-scientific media (predominantly poetry\, writing\, music\, photography\, and film). The topic invites discussion of the mutability of weather as an invisible ontology (and marker of climate change) as well as discussions of atmosphere (whose porous and unfinished nature embraces a broad range of entities\, from modes of knowing and feeling\, to the stuff we breathe\, to outer space). In each of these cases\, air’s mediating possibilities across fields\, materials\, and periods are especially rich for collaboration and the exchange of ideas. \nOur conference seeks fruitful points of contact between two colleagues in English and Classics at UCLA\, who both work on air and the elements\, joining with scholars from media studies\, art history\, and environmental humanities\, for a multifaceted discussion of a common object. \nPlease send any inquiries to purves@g.ucla.edu \nPlease note that the conference will be on-site only. \nSchedule \nFriday\, May 19th \n1:20 Opening Remarks \nLouise Hornby & Alex Purves\, UCLA \n1:30-3:30 Panel 1: Sentient Air \nHsuan Hsu\, University of California\, Davis\, “Smellscape as Distributed Memory” \nVictoria Wohl\, University of Toronto\, “Intelligent Air” \nResponse: Dora Zhang\, University of California\, Berkeley \n3:30 Coffee Break   \n4-5:30  Keynote \nJohn Durham Peters\, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies\, Yale University \n“On Sensing and not Sensing the Air and the Weather” \n  \nSaturday\, May 20th \n8:00 am  coffee\, tea & light refreshments \n8:30-10:45 Panel 2: Meteorologies \nVerity Platt\, Cornell University\, “Air in Unexpected Places: Foam\, Breath\, and Philostratus’ Truth in Painting” \nLouise Hornby\, UCLA\, “Outside Air: Cloud Forms in the Work of Tacita Dean and Ali Smith” \nJustine Pizzo\, University of Southampton\, “Character Studies and the Changing Climate of Victorian Realist Fiction” \nResponse: Karla Nielson\, the Huntington Library \n10:45 Coffee break \n11-12.45  Panel 3: Violence in the Air \nBen Tran\, Vanderbilt University\, “Unburied Sound and the Atmosphere” \nMario Telò\, University of California\, Berkeley\, “Achrony and Aeropolitics in Aulis” \nResponse: Liz DeLoughrey\, UCLA \n1-2 Lunch break \n2- 4:15 Panel 4: Ambience \nEleanor Kaufman\, UCLA\, “Mudimbe’s Air in French Philosophy” \nKatharine Earnshaw\, University of Exeter\, “Thought Bubbles and Feeling Blue (or\, Micromeditations on affective Chromacities)” \nShane Butler\, Johns Hopkins University\, “First Atmosphere: Ashes” \nResponse: Jim Porter\, University of California\, Berkeley \n4:30-5 Closing Remarks \nLouise Hornby & Alex Purves\, UCLA \n 
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/elemental-readings-i-air/
LOCATION:Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center\, UCLA\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Co-sponsored event,Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230324T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230324T160000
DTSTAMP:20230215T212028Z
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SUMMARY:Res Difficiles 4 | Difficult Conversations in Classics
DESCRIPTION:The 2023 Res Difficiles conference will take place on March 24th 2023. Register for the conference here. \nClassics at the University of California Los Angeles\, and Classics\, Philosophy\, & Religious Studies at the University of Mary Washington present Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics. Co-organized by Hannah Čulík-Baird and Joseph Romero. \nMay 24th 2023. All times Eastern Standard Time.  \n9-9.30 Settling In \n9.30-10 Suzanne Lye\, “Can We Please Get Back to Research?: Creating Space Through Service” \n10-10.30 Tori Lee\, “Networking in the Margins: Towards a Future for Affinity Groups in Classics” \n10.30-10.45 Q&A \n10.45-11.15 Tara Wells\, “The Dangers of Reception: Harmful Uses of Classical Art for the Oppression and Othering of Indigenous Americans — Why it Matters” \n11.15-11.45 Ashley Lance\, “Rez Diff: Indigenous Philosophies and Ancient Thought” \n11.45-12 Q&A \n12-12.30 BREAK \n12.30-1 Lylaah Bhalerao\, “Black Carthage: Rethinking Perceptions and Presentations of Race in the Punic City” \n1-1.30 Jermaine Bryant\, “Beyond Reception: On the Limits of Classical Reception and New Directions” \n1.30-1.45 Q&A \n1.45-2.15 Javal Coleman\, “Comparative Slaveries in Ancient and Modern Contexts” \n2.15-2.45 Farnoosh Shamsian and Gregory Crane\, “Re-reading Plato In Persian: Linguistic Diversity Through Digital Annotations” \n2.45-3 Q&A \n3-4 Keynote: Jackie Murray\, “Race\, Slavery\, and Tyranny in Plato’s Republic” \nAll times are US Eastern. The event will be live-streamed via Zoom and use automated Zoom captioning. Participants/viewers may live-tweet the event on the hashtag #ResDiff4
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/register-now-for-the-2023-res-difficiles-conference-on-march-24/
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220402
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220403
DTSTAMP:20220401T153345Z
CREATED:20211027T224401Z
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SUMMARY:On Outgroups and Muted Groups: A Conference in Honor of Amy Richlin
DESCRIPTION:Professor Amy Richlin will be retiring at the end of the coming academic year. We look forward to celebrating her path-breaking career and reuniting with her many UCLA students at this conference in her honor. The conference will take place on April 2nd in the Legacy Room at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center. There will also be a reception in Dodd on Friday night and a party off campus on Saturday. If you are planning to attend the conference\, please register using the form below.\n\nPlease note that this conference will take place in person (not on zoom).\nTo see a schedule of papers please scroll down. \nRSVP Form \n[gravityform id=”3″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n  \nSaturday April 2nd\, 2022\, Luskin Conference Center\, UCLA \n9-9:30: Coffee \n9:30-11:15 Panel 1\, Legacy AB Room: Comedy and Satire \nConference welcome: Alex Purves \nModerator: Tianran Liu \nHans Bork (PhD 2018)\, Stanford University\, “The Artistry of Insult in Plautus” \nBrian Walters (PhD 2011) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, “Womanly Vomicae” \nKristin Mann (PhD 2015)\, Indiana University\, “Hens\, Eunuchs\, and Goddesses: Teaching Jokes in Phaedrus’s Fabulae” \nElliott Piros (PhD 2019)\, CSU Northridge & UCLA\, “Painted Faces in Martial’s Epigrams” \n11:30-12:30 Lunch \n12:45-2:30 Panel 2\, Legacy AB Room: History \nModerator: Mary Anastasi \nAnthony Vivian (PhD 2018)\, UCLA\, “Slippery Athenians” \nNathan Kish (PhD 2018)\, Tulane University\, “Xenophobia and Violence in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita” \nMik Larsen (PhD 2015)\, CSU Long Beach\, “Public Abuse and the Problem of Speech in Roman Declamation” \nCaroline Cheung (Post Bacc 2009)\, Princeton University\, “Dangerous Work” \nHenry Gruber (Post Bacc 2015) Harvard University\, “Recovering Armentaria\, Mother of Gregory of Tours\, through her Favorite Miracles” \n2:30-3:00 Coffee \n3:00-4:30 Panel 3\, Legacy AB Room: Gender and the Body \nModerator: Rachel Morrison \nCelsiana Warwick (PhD 2018)\, University of Iowa\, “Homoerotic Heroes and the Anxieties of Masculinity” [Zoom]\nHilary Lehmann (PhD 2016)\, Knox College\, “Antigone and the Egyptians: Sex and Other Commodities in Hypereides’ Against Athenogenes” \nSuzanne Lye (PhD 2016) UNC Chapel Hill\, “Rage Becomes Her: Angry Women and Cursed Bodies” \nKatie Tardio (Post Bacc 2014) UNC Chapel Hill\, “Esse Quam Videri: Role Playing as a Pedagogical Tool” \n4:30-4:45 Wrap-up: Robert Gurval \nProfessor Richlin writes:\nAs I look towards retirement in June 2022 after 45 years of teaching\, I am honored by the department’s decision to hold a conference for me. Its theme\, “On Outgroups and Muted Groups\,” comes from the self-description on my UCLA webpage\, and well describes the work that has occupied me for all these years of writing history from below. I began from the study of Roman satire which led me\, to my surprise\, into the then brand-new field of the history of sexuality and made me into an outspoken feminist. I was lucky enough to begin this work in the heyday of Second Wave feminism\, and\, thanks to the supportive network of the Women’s Classical Caucus and the quadrennial “Feminism and Classics” conferences\, I had a lot of people to talk to. After jobs at Rutgers\, Dartmouth\, and Lehigh\, I moved to USC in 1989\, teaching jointly in Classics and Gender Studies\, which meant that my Classics students read a lot of feminist theory and my Gender Studies students learned a lot about antiquity. At UCLA\, from 2005 onwards\, I have taught graduate seminars in “Roman History and the Theory of History\,” satire\, comedy\, epistolography\, ancient sexuality\, and Roman women’s history\, with undergraduate courses to match\, while serving from 2011 onwards as director of the post-bacc program. All of this goes to explain why I wanted my dear students to be the speakers at this final conference\, for in teaching them I have learned a great deal. They will be returning from where their far-flung jobs have taken them\, to speak here on history\, comedy\, satire\, and gender\, and tell me something new\, as they always do.
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/on-outgroups-and-muted-groups-a-conference-in-honor-of-amy-richlin/
LOCATION:Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center\, UCLA\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211209T180000
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SUMMARY:Sappho and Alcaeus Conference
DESCRIPTION:Panel 1: 2:00-3:20PM | Sapphic Selves \nGrant Hussong\, “Desire and the Sapphic Subject” \nJennifer MacPherson\, “Bad Mom Helen: How Sappho Queers Parenthood” \nRachel Morrison\, “”Suffering Sappho!”: Reading Sappho alongside Heather Love’s Feeling Backward“ \nPanel 2: 3:30-4:20PM | Emotion and Accusation in Alcaeus \nMarco Saldaña\, “Damos or politai: Who’s to Blame in Alcaeus?” \nPatrick Callahan\, “The Panicked Alcaeus” \nPanel 3: 4:35-6:00pm | Sapphic Shades \nLiam Albrittain\, “Epic Paints\, Sapphic Brushstrokes: Color and Visual Contrast in Sappho\, Hesiod\, and Homer” \nCollin Moat\, “Staying Awake\, Defying Death: Sappho’s Nighttime Scenes as Liminal Spaces” \nBen Davies\, “Anaktoria’s Ghost? Absence and Hauntings in Sappho 16\, 94\, and 96”
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/sappho-and-alcaeus-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210625T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210625T170000
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SUMMARY:Previous Department Events
DESCRIPTION:Visit our past events from the department here!
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/previous-events-by-the-department/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Palevsky Lecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191013
DTSTAMP:20191021T232211Z
CREATED:20190730T165701Z
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SUMMARY:Metamorphosis and the Environmental Imagination from Ovid to Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:Narratives of metamorphosis\, from human into other living and mineral forms\, have long provided an important tool for thinking through the complexities of our relationship with the world around us. From Ovid to David Cronenberg\, thinkers and artists have used the trope of physical transformation to figure the ways in which human and non-human agencies have evolved from and adapted to one another in a relationship characterized by fluctuating perceptions of friction and symbiosis\, distance and proximity. This conference seeks to locate the theme of metamorphosis in the early history of the western environmental imagination\, from Classical antiquity to the Early Modern period; and to explore the ways in which the various cultural and historical manifestations of metamorphosis from this earlier period resonate with the environmental approaches and concerns of our present day. \nOrganized by Francesca Martelli (Associate Professor of Classics\, UCLA) and Giulia Sissa (Distinguished Professor of Classics and Political Science\, UCLA). \nClick here to see the complete schedule and additional details.
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/metamorphosis-and-the-environmental-imagination-from-ovid-to-shakespeare/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190125T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190126T170000
DTSTAMP:20191023T231319Z
CREATED:20190122T185746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T231319Z
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SUMMARY:Failures and Flaws in Classical Antiquity - UCLA Classics Grad Conference 2019
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on January 25-26th at UCLA for the Classics Graduate Conference featuring keynote speaker Emily Greenwood (Yale University). Professor Greenwood will speak on “Failure and Attribution: The Ethics and Politics of Reading Classical Failure” in Royce Hall 314 on Friday\, January 25th at 5:00 pm. The conference will take place the following day\, January 26th. Please feel free to visit the conference website for a detailed overview of the day: https://gradconference2019.wordpress.com.
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/failures-and-flaws-in-classical-antiquity-ucla-classics-grad-conference-2019/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181005T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181006T190000
DTSTAMP:20180608T160856Z
CREATED:20180608T160856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180608T160856Z
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SUMMARY:Author.Net: A Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Authorship
DESCRIPTION:This conference will explore distributed authorship in ancient and new media\, by placing scholars who work on this topic in the texts and practices of classical antiquity in dialogue with scholars who work on comparable modes of distribution in the digital domain. By staging a conversation with this particular mix of scholars\, we aim to capitalise on the divergent perspectives that they will bring to the conference’s central theme: long associated with pre-modern cultures\, distributed authorship still serves as a mainstay for the study of Classical antiquity\, which takes ‘Homer’ as its foundational point of orientation. Yet in recent years\, the dynamic possibilities of distributed authorship have accelerated most rapidly in media associated with the digital domain\, where modes of communication have rendered artistic creation increasingly collaborative\, multi-local and open-ended. The participants at this conference are seeking to expand the theorising of authorial distribution in the digital domain\, and to explore the insights that its operations in this sphere might lend into the mechanisms of authorial distribution at work in ancient media. \nFor more information\, please visit: http://www.whatthethundersaid.net/ 
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/author-net-transdisciplinary-conference-distributed-authorship/
LOCATION:Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center\, UCLA\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T170000
DTSTAMP:20170405T174226Z
CREATED:20170405T174027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170405T174226Z
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SUMMARY:Mellon Program in Post-Classical Latin | Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Mellon Program in Post-Classical Latin is pleased to present a conference\, “Approaching the Unknown: “They Saw it With Their Own Eyes.” Please view the entire program here.
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/mellon-program-post-classical-latin/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161021T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161022T180000
DTSTAMP:20161025T232212Z
CREATED:20161019T064300Z
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SUMMARY:Classics Graduate Conference | "Into the Wild: Flora and Fauna in the Classical World"
DESCRIPTION:The graduate students in the Classics Department at the University of California Los Angeles are pleased to announce the forthcoming graduate conference “Into the Wild: Flora and Fauna in the Classical World”\, which will take place October 21-22\, 2016 in the Humanities Conference Room (314) of UCLA Royce Hall. This conference provides a venue for graduate students to present their new perspectives on animals and wildlife in Ancient Greece and Rome.  Please view our Conference Schedule for more details. \nThe keynote address will be delivered on Friday\, October 21 by Professor Mark Payne of the University of Chicago. \nPlease contact us at florafauna2016ucla@gmail.com with any questions.
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/wild-flora-fauna-classical-world/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151102T170000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T224731Z
UID:2027-1446483600-1446490800@classics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Sasha-Mae Eccleston | "Twitter: The Rhetoric of Chatter in Apuleian Corpus"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/sasha-mae-eccleston-twitter-rhetoric-chatter-apuleian-corpus/
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150420T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150420T180000
DTSTAMP:20161026T003922Z
CREATED:20161025T230653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T003922Z
UID:2042-1429538400-1429552800@classics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:USC/UCLA Classics Colloquium | Objects in Ancient Literature and Material Culture
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/uscucla-classics-colloquium/
LOCATION:Young Research Library 11348
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150309T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150309T190000
DTSTAMP:20161025T231855Z
CREATED:20161025T231855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T231855Z
UID:2045-1425920400-1425927600@classics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Luuk Huitink | "Enargeia and the Language of Immersion"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/luuk-huitink-enargeia-language-immersion/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 275\, 405 Hilgard Avenue\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150209T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150209T170000
DTSTAMP:20161025T231955Z
CREATED:20161025T231955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T231955Z
UID:2046-1423468800-1423501200@classics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jeremy Rau | "Archaism and Innovation in Homeric Language"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/jeremy-rau-archaism-innovation-homeric-language/
LOCATION:Public Affairs 2250
CATEGORIES:Conferences
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150206T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150207T170000
DTSTAMP:20161025T232334Z
CREATED:20161025T232334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T232334Z
UID:2050-1423209600-1423328400@classics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Classics Graduate Conference | "Bodies in Revolt"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://classics.ucla.edu/event/classics-graduate-conference-bodies-revolt/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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