Wednesdays 5:00-6.30 PM (GMT)
Convenors: Constanze Güthenke & Hindy Najman (Oxford)
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/223170989437
For inquiries, please contact Stefania Beitia (stefania.beitia@oriel.ox.ac.uk)
Week 1 (19 January)
Chris Kraus (Yale) — The Ancient Quarrel Between Text and Commentary
Week 2 (26 January)
Tobias Reinhardt (Oxford) — Commenting on What is There and What is Not: The Case of Cicero’s Academica
Week 3 (2 February)
Glenn Most (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, External Scientific Member; Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, Visiting Professor) and André Lake (Sorbonne/Universidad Panamericana) — Applying the Principle of Charity: I. Charity and Allegoresis, II. Charity and Plato’s Laws
Week 4 (9 February)
Judith Schlanger (Oxford) — What Do Jewish Commentaries Look Like? Page Layouts in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
Week 5 (16 February)
Chris Minkowski (Oxford) — Outlandishness in Sanskrit Commentary
Week 6 (23 February)
Olivia Lester-Stewart (Loyola University, Chicago) — “I, write this greeting with my own hand”: Pseudepigraphy as Commentary in 2 Thessalonians and the Task of the New Testament Commentator
Week 7 (2 March)
Jeremiah Coogan (Oxford) — Doubled Recycling in Late Ancient Gospel Commentary
Week 8 (9 March)
Il-Kweon Sir (Cambridge) — Commenting on the Lesbian Poets: What’s It All For?