[SydPhil] Critical Antiquities Workshop - Mario Telò, Andrew Benjamin, Jacques Lezra and Andres Matlock

[Callista Sheridan]

Dear all,
 
At the next Critical Antiquities Workshop, we are very excited to host Mario Telò (University of California, Berkeley), Andrew Benjamin (Monash/Melbourne University), Jacques Lezra (University of California, Riverside), and Andres Matlock (University of Georgia) as they launch their book Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory (Ohio State University Press 2024). 
 
Greta Hawes (Macquarie University) and James Collins II (University of Sydney) will be discussants for the launch. 
 
The event will take place on Zoom on Thursday, September 5, 09:30-11:00am (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane time). 
 
The event will be in a hybrid format broadcast from the School of Humanities Common Room (Rm 822, Brennan-MacCallum Building, University of Sydney). 
 
Here is the time in other locations:
 
·       Los Angeles/Vancouver: Wednesday, September 4, 4:30-6pm
·       Mexico City: Wednesday, September 4, 5:30-7pm 
·       Chicago: Wednesday, September 4, 6:30-8pm
·       New York: Wednesday, September 4, 7:30-9pm
·       Santiago/Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro: Wednesday, September 4, 8:30-10pm
·       Dublin/Belfast/London: Thursday, September 5, 12:30-2am
·       Paris/Berlin/Rome: Thursday, September 5, 1:30-3am
·       Johannesburg/Athens/Cairo: Thursday, September 5, 2:30-4am
·       Beijing/Singapore/Perth: Thursday, September 5, 7:30-9am
·       Tokyo: Thursday, September 5, 8:30-10am
·       Darwin/Adelaide: Thursday, September 5, 9:00-10:30am
  
To register, please sign up for the Critical Antiquities Network mailing list to receive Zoom links and CAN announcements: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/bALbCvl1rKiOVvmWXSQf9uQ8g84?domain=signup.e2ma.net
 
Here is the abstract:
 
A marginalized but persistent figure of Greek tragedy, Niobe, whose many children were killed by Apollo and Artemis, embodies yet problematizes the philosophically charged dialectics between life and death, mourning and melancholy, animation and inanimation, silence and logos. The essays in Niobes present her as a set of complex figurations, an elusive mythical character but also an overdetermined figure who has long exerted a profound influence on various modes of modern thought, especially in the domains of aesthetics, ethics, psychoanalysis, and politics. As a symbol of both exclusion and resistance, Niobe calls for critical attention at a time of global crisis. Reconstructing the dialogues of Phillis Wheatley, G. W. F. Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, and others with Niobe as she appears in Aeschylus, Sophocles, Ovid, and the visual arts, a collective of major thinkers—classicists, art historians, and critical theorists—reflect on the space that she can occupy in the humanities today. Inspiring new ways of connecting the classical tradition and ancient tragic discourse with crises and political questions relating to gender, race, and social justice, Niobe insists on living on.
 
We hope to see you there, 
Callista, on behalf of Tristan and Ben 
 
Callista Sheridan 
Critical Antiquities Network 
criticalantiquities.org <https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/gL4ACwV1vMf0roMLpTqhMuJO_Xr?domain=criticalantiquities.org>
 
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