Contexts for Classics presents:
Classical Modernities
January 12, 2006
3-6 pm, Angell Hall 3222

Guest speakers:
Helen Deutsch from UCLA
Daniel Gross from the University of Iowa
Christian Thorne from Williams College

This event is part of an ongoing series of colloquia organized by Contexts for Classics, on the reception/construction of an idealized “classical antiquity” in the medieval and early modern period, the political deployment of this ideal, and the effects of this history on aspects of contemporary culture. The guests will speak to a wide interdisciplinary audience, and address questions of urgent contemporary relevance even though they focus on the classical ideal in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The audience will include humanists and literary historians interested in the early modern period, classicists, historians of early modernity, those interested in contemporary theory and the history of affect, and perhaps even some psychologists and political theorists.

Each speaker will talk for 30 minutes, followed by a 10 minute response from a University of Michigan faculty member, a 15 min open-question period and a short break before the next talk. The colloquium will be followed by a reception.