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Kirk Lecture Series 2001

Perceptions and Representations of the Past in Ancient Civilizations

  1. Monday, Oct. 1: Erich Gruen (Berkeley)
    “Cultural Borrowings: Fiction and Fable in the Fabrication of the Past”
    7:30 pm, Crystal Room
  2. Monday, Oct. 22 Philip Rousseau (Catholic University)
    “Early Christian ‘Schooling’: Old Rules Put to New Purpose”
    7:30 pm
  3. Monday, Nov. 5 Fred Kleiner (Boston University)
    “Representing and Misrepresenting the Past in Roman Art
    7:30 pm
  4. Monday, Dec. 10 Richard Davis (Brown University)
    “Caste and Moral Women in the Historical Writings of 11th Century
    China”
    7:30 pm
  5. Monday, Feb. 4 Peter Machinist (Harvard University)
    “The Voice of the Historian in History-Writing from the Ancient
    Near East”
    7:30 pm,
  6. Monday, Feb. 25 Jan Assmann (Heidelberg and Yale)
    “Meaning and History: Representing the Past in Egypt and the Ancient
    Near East”
    7:30 pm
  7. Monday, March 11 Anthony Grafton (Princeton)
    “The Past as Text: Premodern Ways of Representing Historical Time”
    7:30 pm

Made possible by generous grants of the Kirk Foundation, the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, and the Charles K. Colver Lecturships Fund at Brown University, with further support by the Department of Classics and the Program in Ancient Studies.For further information: Maria Sokolova, (401) 863-1994

All events are free and open to the public.