Please join the UCSC Classical Studies department for the 2012 Carl Deppe Lecture:
Professor Grant Parker
“Obelisks: exotic continuity and change”
Thursday, April 26 at 4:30 p.m.
(reception to follow)
Cowell Provost House
Since their first importation to Rome by Augustus in 10 BC, obelisks have had a privileged and prominent position in Roman imperial culture. Subsequent emperors - up to Theodosius and beyond - also imported obelisks and put them to innovative use. This talk is an attempt to balance the continuities and changes in their ancient Roman uses. Any such analysis has to take stock of their exotic status.
Grant Parker is Associate Professor of Classics at Stanford University. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Cape Town and his PhD. from Princeton University in 1999. He is the author of The Making of Roman India (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and The Agony of Asar: a thesis on slavery by the former slave, Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747 (Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001). He is also joint editor, with Carla Sinopoli, of Ancient India in its Wider World (Center for South and South East Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 2008), and with Miriam Cooke and Erdag Göknar, of Mediterranean Passages: readings from Dido to Derrida (University of North Carolina Press, 2008).
For more information on this event, please contact Jenny Lynn.
