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“Creating Gods through Narratives: The Ontology of Greek Mythic Characters” | Sarah Johnston
Royce Hall 306This paper opens with an overview of recent work on the ontology of fictional characters and then proceeds to arguments about the ontological status of characters who appear in fictionalizing narratives such as the Odyssey or the Ramayana who are simultaneously the objects of religious belief. Prof. Johnston suggests that such characters draw unique advantages...
The Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics | Dan-el Padilla Peralta
California Nanosystems Institute 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CAThe Department of Classics is pleased to present The Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics. The lecture will be given by Dan-el Padilla Peralta on "Citizenship's insular cases: from Greece and Rome to Puerto Rico." Padilla Peralta is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University.
Author.Net: A Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Authorship
Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, UCLA 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CaliforniaThis 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...