Come to a fascinating talk by Dr. Mark Vessey (UBC) on "Later Latin Literature, the Newest Late Antiquity, and the Period of the Western Classic: A Critical Juncture for Humanities Research?"
WHEN: Thursday, November 14, 4-5:30 pm
WHERE: SJ2 2003, St. Jerome's University
TICKETS: http://ow.ly/uLiC50wU8kO
Description: Classicists’ interest in Latin (as well as Greek) texts from late antiquity has spiked just as the twentieth-century historiographical concept of “late antiquity" has gone into crisis. What could be at issue here for our disciplines, and for our cultural and cross-cultural understandings? This talk will review some of the recent and not-so-recent discourse and debate, with one eye to constructions of the West that rely on the high modernist sense of a “western classic” as the joint inheritance of classicism and Christianity, and the other eye to the chance we may now have to use the “literature” of Latin late antiquity towards an historical account of the culturing of wests and the West.
Co-hosted by the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Classical Studies.
