[Usyd_Classics_Events] Critical Antiquities Workshop #4 Tom Geue

[Ben Brown]

Dear Friends of Critical Antiquities,

Please join us for our final Critical Antiquities Workshop for Semester 1, 2023.

Thursday, June 22, 9:30-11am AEST

It is our great pleasure to host

Tom Geue (Classics, Australian National University)

‘Major Corrections: The Materialist Philology of Sebastiano Timpanaro.’

The event will take place on Zoom on Thursday, June 22, 9:30-11am Sydney time. Here is the time in other locations:



  *   New York: Wednesday, June 21, 7:30pm
  *   Chicago: Wednesday, June 21, 6:30pm
  *   Mexico City: Wednesday, June 21, 5:30pm
  *   Los Angeles: Wednesday, June 21, 4:30pm
  *   Beijing/Singapore/Perth: Thursday, June 22, 7:30am
  *   Tokyo: Thursday, June 22, 8:30am
  *   Adelaide: Thursday, June 22, 9am

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Here is the abstract:

Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the tightest and brightest thinkers of the 20thcentury. Trained as a classical philologist in the most German sense of the word, Timpanaro also maintained an unwavering, antagonistic, and near life-long commitment to the realisation of socialism. But his intellectual contributions go well beyond one or the other sphere of philology or politics: studies on 19th century European cultural history, Freudian psychoanalysis, the evolution of linguistics, the history of classical scholarship, and 19th century Italian literature rolled off Timpanaro’s typewriter to make him a rare and genuine example of the thing we always say we want to be, interdisciplinary. While Timpanaro himself maintained a strict separation between his philological pursuits and ‘the rest’, self-effacingly side-lining his classical activity as narrow and dry, this talk will read against the grain to trace the ongoing value of philology to Timpanaro’s varied intellectual output. We will hopefully see how philology as toolkit and worldview can sometimes be used for good rather than evil, serving in exceptional cases not necessarily as a vehicle for oppression, but as a technique for propelling justice, equality, and struggle.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Ben and Tristan


DR BEN BROWN
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School of Humanities A18
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Co-director Critical Antiquities Network
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