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Dr. Emily Wilson Will Explore The Myth, Magic and Mystery of the Ancient Greeks at the Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series
Mr. Andreas Zombanakis, Chairman of the Gennadius Library's Board of Overseers, noted that " Emily Wilson's dialogue with antiquity is an antidote reminding us of the continuing relevance of the Classics to modern day life and culture."
" as depicted in ancient Greek epic, drama and philosophy, and their receptions in later cultures including present day, will be the topics for my Thalia Potamianos Lecture Series," Dr. Wilson said. "The series will consider what elements of ancient Greek culture are most surprising, most reinterpreted or misunderstood, and most difficult to translate. Greek ideas about heroism, time, agency, poetics, politics, and ethics have informed and inspired scholars, students and communities for millennia." The lectures will overlay these themes onto present day culture.
Thursday, November 10, 2022
7:00 p.m. EEST ( Greece ) / 12:00 p.m. EDT (U.S.)
Cotsen Hall, Athens, Greece
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
6:00 p.m. EDT (U.S.)
Georgetown University , Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
6:00 p.m. EDT (U.S.)
St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City
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Emily Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities.
Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. and Corpus Christi College M.Phil.) and Yale University (Ph.D.). In 2006, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship. Between 2010 and 2016, Wilson was awarded three Penn Humanities Fellowships on the topics of Virtuality; Sex; and Violence; in 2017 to 2018 she was a Topic Director on Afterlives at Wolf Humanities Center; in 2019 through 2025 she was awarded MacArthur Fellowships; and in 2020, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Professor Wilson's books include ( Johns Hopkins 2005), ( Harvard 2007), and (Oxford UP, 2014). She is the Classics editor of the revised Norton Anthology of World Literature. Her verse translations include (2010, Oxford), four translations of plays by Euripides in the Modern Library (2016), (2020, Norton), and the (2017, with a Norton Critical Edition published in 2020). She edited a volume on Ancient Tragedy for Bloomsbury Cultural Histories (2019) and is now working on a new translation of the which is due to appear in 2023.
The Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series commenced in 2021 with inaugural speaker, Dr. Peter Frankopan, a Professor of Global History at Oxford University and the Stavros Niarchos Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. A world-renowned historian and award-winning author, he presented his series of lectures on "Global Greece: A History."
Each year, the Potamianos Lecture Series seeks to create a stimulating environment to draw both the academic community and public to the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . Every year, a highly distinguished, internationally renowned scholar is selected to conduct research and develop programs on a topic relevant to the Gennadius Library. The research will culminate in a minimum of three annual public lectures, which will be delivered in Athens and the United States .
Learn more about the lecture series: http://ascsa.edu.gr/potamianos-lecture-series
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