Humanities

Organized and moderated by Professor Giulia Sissa (Classics, Political Science, Comparative Literature - UCLA). Follow this link to register to attend online with Zoom. “Decolonizing Classics” is a novel challenge for scholars in the Humanities and, even more pointedly, for those who study the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. The stake is not merely relevance,… Continue reading Roundtable: Neoclassic or New Classics? Challenges, Debates, Perspectives

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER About the Lecture “Fortress Europe” is not a fortress. The metaphor is useful and successful however, because it points a process which seems self-evident, even if it is far from making sense when we take a closer look: the fact that migration policies have mostly become border policies. European states seek… Continue reading Chowra Makaremi: “Reticular, Thick and Liquid: Europe’s New Borders”

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER About the Lecture In his History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault intends to offer a "genealogy of the subject of desire" and of the "arts of existence" through the experience of the flesh, in the comparative passage from the Greco-Roman paradigm to Christianity in the first centuries. Relying on philosophers, moralists, physicians,… Continue reading Claude Calame: “The Creation of Eve and Pandora in ‘Differential Comparison’: Myths of Foundation and Michel Foucault’s ‘Aveux de la Chair'”