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New Hires | George B. Walsh Lecture | Conferences

New Hires

We welcome Sarah Nooter as a new Assistant Professor in the Department. Educated at Amherst College, King’s College Cambridge, and Columbia University, where she received her Ph.D. in 2008, Professor Nooter’s interests include Greek poetry (especially tragedy), Greek religion, literary theory, linguistics and contemporary poetry and theatre. Her dissertation, which she is currently expanding into a book, explored the poetic power of Sophocles’ heroes.

George B. Walsh Lecture

Claude Calame, Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, will deliver the 2008 Walsh Memorial Lecture, entitled “Heroic Death, Political Cult, Tragedy and Gender in Classical Athens: Praxithea, Erechtheus and their Daughters.” The lecture will take place in CL 110 at 4pm on Friday, October 31.

Calame is a remarkably prolific scholar, who brings the tools of cultural anthropology and a distinctive literary sensibility to bear upon a vast range of texts and problems. His publications include Thésée et l’imaginaire athénien, The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece, Pratiques poétiques de la mémoire: representations de l’espace-temps en Grèce ancienne, Myth and History in Ancient Greece, and Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece, as well as an edition of Alcman and numerous edited collections.

Each year, a distinguished classicist is invited to give a lecture in honor of the memory of George B. Walsh, BA 1967, eminent classicist, literary scholar, and both member (1971-1989) and chair (1988-1989) of the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures.

For a list of previous Walsh lecturers, click here.

Conferences

“CONTRADICTORY SELVES: MULTIPLICITY AND CONFLICT IN ROMAN REPRESENTATIONS OF CHARACTER”
October 17-19, 2008.

This weekend-long conference will explore the representation of self-contradictory characters in the Roman literature of the first centuries BCE and CE as well as the relation between literary representations and broader issues such as Roman ethics and reception. Participants include Joy Connolly (New York University), Cynthia Damon (University of Pennsylvania), Lowell Edmunds (Rutgers University), Christopher Gill (University of Exeter), Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina at Columbia), James O'Hara (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Michael Putnam (Brown University), and Ralph Rosen (University of Pennsylvania).

For more information, click here.

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