Guest Lecture This Thursday!

The Department of the Classics is pleased to present a lecture by Thomas Habinek, Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California, on Thursday 26 February at 3:30 PM in the Music Room of the Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana. The lecture is entitled "Seeing Like a Stoic: Ancient Thought, Modern Science, and an Ethics of Perceptual Alignment." Professor Habinek's research focuses on Latin literature, Roman cultural history, classical rhetoric, cognitive and evolutionary approaches to human culture, theory and practice of imitation, and antiquity in the genealogy of modernity. He is currently engaged in a project on changing concepts of mimesis in Western literature and art, especially in relationship to new developments in the cognitive and social sciences. Professor Habinek is the author of several books, including The Politics of Latin Literature: Writing, Identity, and Empire in Ancient Rome (Princeton University Press 1998), The World of Roman Song: From Ritualized Speech to Social Order (Johns Hopkins University Press 2005) and Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory (Wiley 2005).
This lecture is sponsored by the Department of the Classics, the Philosophy Department and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.