Princeton University
History of Science Workshop

February 16-17, 2007Dickinson 211

Images of Philology

A colloquium sponsored by
Program in the History of Science; Classics Department; Davis Center; Humanities Council;
Program in Hellenic Studies; Department of Comparative Literature


 

Friday, February 16  • 5:00 pm • Opening Lecture

Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
Did He Have Vine Leaves in His Hair?

Reception to follow

 

Saturday, February 17
8:00-9:00 a.m. Breakfast
Session 1 - 9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
BENJAMIN ELMAN
Princeton University
Philology and Its Enemies: Changing Views of Late Imperial Chinese Classicism
Respondent: Bob Kaster
- Classics
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10:15 - 10:45 p.m. - Coffee
Session 2 - 10:45 - 12:00 p.m.
TUSKA BENES
The College of William and Mary
Living Words and Deceitful Old Women: The Philologist as Philosopher in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Respondent: Joshua Katz
- Classics
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12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch

Session 3 - 1:00 - 2:15 p.m.
BEATRICE GRUNDLER
Yale University
Pre-Modern Arabic Philologists: Poetry's Friends or Foes?
Respondent: Beate Pongratz-Leisten
, Near Eastern Studies
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2:15 - 2:45 p.m. - Coffee
Session 4 - 2:45 - 4:00 p.m.
JOHN HAMILTON
Harvard University
Sounding the Depths of Language: Philology and Music in the Work of Pascal Quignard
Respondent: Daniel Heller-Roazen
, Comparative Literature
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Session 5 - 4:15 - 5:00 p.m.
ROBERT E. NORTON
University of Notre Dame
Wilamowitz at War
Respondent: Constanze Güthenke, Classics and Hellenic Studies
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Updated Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 2:15 p.m.