[Usyd_Classics_Events] Reminder: CAW#4 Tom Geue this Thursday
Dexter Hoyos
dexter.hoyos at sydney.edu.au
Tue Jun 20 23:31:24 AEST 2023
Dear Ben,
Please accept my apology for not being able to take part in Tom’s seminar. I was out most of today at the Classics schools day at Barker College, and have fallen behind in already late academic work here.
I’d be very grateful if you might be able to give my warm regards to Tom, whose brilliance in scholarship is a credit to the University and our Department.
Yours with best wishes,
Dexter
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Subject: [Usyd_Classics_Events] Reminder: CAW#4 Tom Geue this Thursday
Dear all,
Please find below the Zoom link and password for our final Critical Antiquities Workshop for session 1, where we are thrilled to host Tom Geue (Classics, Australian National University) for his paper, ‘Major Corrections: The Materialist Philology of Sebastiano Timpanaro.’
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:
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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
Here is the abstract:
Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the tightest and brightest thinkers of the 20th century. 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
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Classics and Ancient History
School of Humanities A18
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Co-director Critical Antiquities Network
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