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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please join the Critical Antiquities Workshop for an interview between CAN co-director
<b>Ben Brown (Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney)</b> and <b>Charles Stocking (Classics, University of Texas, Austin).</b> The interview will centre on Charles’ recent book,
<b><i>Homer’s</i> Iliad <i>and the Problem of Force </i>(Oxford University Press, 2023)<i>,</i></b><i>
</i>and the larger questions about early Greek epic poetry that lie behind it. The interview will explore the nature of Homeric poetry’s critical dimension, the place of the
<i>Iliad </i>in the history of the human subject, and the tensions in epic poetry’s relationship with the historical context of its performance—and ask finally: if epic had a critical dimension then what social-historical end did the
<i>Iliad’s </i>critique serve?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The event will take place on Zoom on <b>Thursday,
</b>October 12<b>, 9:30-11am Sydney/Canberra/Melbourne time</b>. Here is the time in other locations:</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Los Angeles/Vancouver: Wednesday, October 11, 3:30pm</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mexico City: Wednesday, October 11, 4:30pm</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Chicago: Wednesday, October 11, 5:30pm </span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">New York: Wednesday, October 11, 6:30pm</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Santiago/Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro: Wednesday, October 11, 7:30pm</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dublin/Belfast/London: Thursday,
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">October 12</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">, 11:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Paris/Berlin/Rome/Johannesburg: Thursday,
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">October 12</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">, 12:30am<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Athens/Cairo: Thursday,
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">October 12</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">, 1:30am<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Beijing/Singapore/Perth: Thursday, October 12, 6:30am</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tokyo: Thursday, October 12, 7:30am</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Darwin: Thursday, October 12, 8am</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Brisbane:<b>
</b>Thursday, October 12, 8:30am</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Adelaide: Thursday, October 12, 9am</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Here is the book’s blurb:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="color:black;background:white">The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="color:black">Iliad</span></i><span style="color:black;background:white">,
ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject. This book seeks to address that problem through a full-scale treatment of the language of force in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="color:black">Iliad
</span></i><span style="color:black;background:white">from both philological and philosophical perspectives. Each chapter explores the different types of Iliadic force in combination with the reception of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="color:black">Iliad</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="color:black;background:white">in
the French intellectual tradition. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the different terms for force in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="color:black">Iliad
</span></i><span style="color:black;background:white">give expression to distinct relations between self and "other." At the same time, this book reveals how the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="color:black">Iliad</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="color:black;background:white">as
a whole undermines the very relations of force which characters within the poem seek to establish. Ultimately, this study of force in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="color:black">Iliad</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="color:black;background:white">offers
an occasion to reconsider human subjectivity in Homeric poetry.</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We hope to see you there,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Tristan and Ben<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tristan Bradshaw</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> <br>
Lecturer, School of Liberal Arts | Co-director, Critical Antiquities Network<br>
Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | Building 19 Room 1085</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Wollongong</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> NSW
2522 Australia<br>
<b>T </b>+61 2 4221 3850</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Honorary Associate</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Sydney<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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University of Wollongong CRICOS: 00102E</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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