Date/Time
Date(s) - 25 Apr 2014
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location
Princeton University East Pyne
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Please join Leonard Barkan (Princeton) and Emily Gowers for FARRAGO, a lunchtime convivium on food and Latin satire, 12:00-1:30 pm on April 25, 2014, in East Pyne 161.
Lunch will be served (of course). Short (but juicy) primary texts will be pre-circulated. RSVP by April 17th to [email protected]. Thanks to the Council of the Humanities for their continued support.
Yours, Aaron Kachuck and Leon Grek
Leonard Barkan is the Class of 1943 University Professor and Chair of Princeton’s Department of Comparative Literature. His books include The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism, Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism, Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture, Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome, Michelangelo: A Life in Paper, and, most recently, Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures. In 2011, he delivered the Jerome Lectures, on “Unswept Floor: Food Culture and High Culture, Antiquity and Renaissance.”
Emily Gowers is University Reader in Latin Literature, Fellow and Director of Studies at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. Her books include The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature, the edited volume Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond, and, most recently, a commentary for Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series, on Horace: Satires I. In Spring 2014, she is a visiting professor in Princeton’s Department of Classics.