Talk: Beyond Empty Homogeneity - Rethinking Serial Form By Kyra Sutton (University of California at Berkeley, Rhetoric) Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: Across literary studies, film studies, game studies, and critical theory, recent decades have seen a flurry of interest in “the serial”—a form dynamized by a tension between, to draw on Clare Pettitt, “the […]

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Talk: What is (Epic) Truth? Apollonius of Rhodes on the Amazons of Terme (Samsun) By Brian D. McPhee (Durham University, Loeb Postdoctoral Research Fellow) Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024 Time: 1230-1320 Room: H232 Abstract: This paper uses the curious example of Apollonius of Rhodes’ portrayal of the Amazons to explore the contested relationship between “myth” and “history” in learned Hellenistic […]

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Title: The Inevitability of Corporate Character By Kendy M. Hess (Holy Cross, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: If we assume — as I will, here — that firms and other highly organized groups can qualify as rationally autonomous actors in their own rights, I argue that they will necessarily possess Aristotelian characters as well. […]

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Talk: Who built Göbekli Tepe? Of Inspired individuals and charismatic leaders (including a summary of recent fieldwork)  By Lee Clare (Göbekli Tepe Fieldwork and Research/ German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul) Date: Wednesday 13 March 2024 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: FFB 22 Abstract: tbd. About the speaker: tbd Event organized by the Department of Archaeology

Talk: Small things, big stories: re-writing prehistory from new perspectives By Emma Baysal Date: Wednesday 21 March 2024 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: H-232 Abstract: Prehistory is generally characterised in terms of grand narratives of human development – technology, symbolism, domestication and sedentary life among others. However, the human experience is often lost in the vast scales of time and space that […]

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Phrygians at the Black Sea? Exploring Ritual Landscapes in Northern Anatolia By Julia Koch (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Archaeology) Date: Wednesday 27 March 2024 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: H-232 Abstract: The Kingdom of Phrygia is traditionally located in the western Anatolian Plateau centering on the capital at Gordion on the Upper Sangarios River. Recent scholarship, however, has reconstructed the territorial expansion […]

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Talk: Translating for the Revolution: Soviet Transformations of Dos Passos By Zachary King (University of Chicago, Slavic Languages and Literature) Date: Friday, March 29, 2024 Time: 1030-1200 Room: H232 Abstract: The 1930s in the Soviet Union witnessed the historic elevation of writers into, as Stalin memorably stated, “engineers of human souls.” Soviet and international writers, critics, and cultural figures participated […]

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