Colloquium: James I. Porter, “Future-Proofing The Ancient Self”
Friday Colloquium
November 19, 2021
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Dr. James I. Porter is a Professor of Rhetoric and Classics and the Irving Stone Chair in Literature at the University of California Berkeley. Prof. Porter's talk is entitled "Future-Proofing the Ancient Self''.
Prof. Porter's research interests include: Greek and Roman literature and philosophy; Modern philosophy (materialism, aesthetics, ethics, subjectivity, Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault, Critical Theory); Interactions between politics, culture, and critique; History and theory of classicism and postclassicism. His publications include The Sublime in Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2016), for which he received The Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies; (ed.) Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach (Princeton UP, 2013); The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience (Cambridge UP, 2010); Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future (Stanford UP, 2000). Prof. Porter's most recent book is Homer: The Very Idea (U of Chicago Press, 2021).
Date posted
Jul 13, 2021
Date updated
Nov 16, 2021