Plotinus (Ennead 1.4) as a critic of the
preceding eudaimonist tradition
Friday, May 18, 2007 @ 4 pm, HSSB 1173
Anthony A. Long
Professor of Classics and Irving G. Stone Professor of Literature
University of California, Berkeley
Some Passionate Performances in Late Republican Rome
June 1, 2007 @ 3:00 PM, Room 1173 HSSB
Professor Robert Kaster, Princeton University
Fictitious Kinships and the Dissolution of Boundaries
November 2, 2007 @ 3:00 PM, McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)
Professor Erich Gruen, History, UC Berkeley
The talk would challenge the conventional concept of fashioning the "Other" to shape group identity and explore some invented genealogies that cross ethnic lines. Selected examples will be taken from Jewish, Greek, and Roman traditions
Euripides’ Ion: Reproducing Autochthony and Racializing Reproduction
November 30, 2007 @ 4 PM; HSSB 4041
Professor Susan Lape, University of Southern California
The Irony of Travel. Herodotus on Persian Democracy.
Friday, February 8,2008 @ 3 pm. UCEN
Santa Barbara Mission Room
Giulia Sissa
Geography, Tradition, and the Individual: The Case of Modern Greek Architecture
Please join us for a series of panels, lectures and discussion
February 15, 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
February 16, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Multicultural Center (MCCCC)
Driving Directions to UCSB
Traveling north on Highway 101:Take the Airport/UCSB exit (Highway 217) off U.S. 101 approximately eight miles north of Santa Barbara to the campus East Gate.
Traveling south on Highway 101: Take the Storke Road/Glen Annie Road exit off U.S. 101 approximately twelve miles north of Santa Barbara. Turn right on Storke Road and proceed two miles to El Colegio Road. Turn left on El Colegio Road and proceed to the campus West Gate entrance.
Parking for the Greek Architecture Conference is in Parking Structure 22 and the Conference is at the MultiCultural Center as marked below. An interactive map can be found clicking HERE
In Poseidon’s Realm: Underwater Archaeology in the Mediterranean
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 – 5 PM
Santa Barbara Museum of Art – 1130 State Street
Dr. John Hale, University of Louisville
Fantasising Phryne
Friday, April 4 3 PM HSSB 2252 East Asian Studies Conference Room
Dr. Helen Morales, Cambridge University
Analysing the ancient representations of the courtesan Phryne and her scandalous activities, this paper will take a fresh look at the psychology and ethics of ekphrasis.
Food Fit for Pharaohs
Food and Drink in Ancient Egypt
Monday, April 7 5 PM Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Dr. Salima Ikram, Egypt American University in Cairo
The AIA Santa Barbara Chapter.
The Disgrace of Matter in Ancient Aesthetics
Friday, April 11 3 PM McCune Conference Room (Room 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Building
Professor James Porter, Classics and Comparative Literature University of California, Irvine
Why are histories of ancient aesthetics and art so decidedly formalist? Why is a history of art attentive to materiality, to sensuous details, and to the palpable appearances of art, or else a historical aesthetics of materialism in art, lacking today? Recalling the sobering dictum that “dirt is [only] matter out of place,” this paper will begin with some general reflections on matter as a stigmatic category of thought and then turn to a brief sketch of the history of this stigma among philosophers, from Plato to Sartre. Plato and Aristotle distort our view of the ancient views. In order to arrive at a more positive of ancient aesthetics, one has to comprehend the emergence of the idea of matter and how that idea was first made available to artists in all media and to anyone who wished to reflect on art. To do this means going back to the Presocratics and looking ahead to the rise of the “material sublime.”
Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder’s Attitude Towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis historia
Friday, April 25, 3 PM
McCune Conference Room (Room 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Building
Professor Thorsten Fögen Professor of Classics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Visiting Scholar UCLA, Feodor Lynen Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
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