Friday-Saturday February 16-17 at UC Davis
Today, powerful forces push us to either idolize or neglect now-canonical works like Homer and the Bible, seeing them as either evidence of a unique Western genius or as exhausted and overplayed “greatest hits.” But before they were idols, worshipped or fallen, ancient Mediterranean cultural monuments were something quite different. This workshop will explore how the discoveries of criticism let us encounter them freshly, as if for the first time.
Friday 10am-5pm Putah Creek Lodge
Carolina Lopez-Ruiz, University of Chicago Classics and Divinity School
Claire Healy, UC Berkeley Classics and History
Joel Christensen, Brandeis University Classics
Walker Rhea, UC Davis Religious Studies
Keynote 4pm, Hyrbid format
Jamal Jones, University of Wisconsin Madison South Asian Studies
Saturday 10am-3pm Sproul 912
Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale University Divinity School
Kay White, Mt. Holyoke College
Seth L Sanders, UC Davis Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Anna Uhlig, UC Davis Classics
Roundtable: Conclusions
email counterhistoriesconference@gmail.com to register or for further info; refreshments will be served
Sponsored by UC Davis Religious Studies, Classics, Jewish Studies, and Comparative Literature