Convocation
GALLATIN CONVOCATION 2007
Wednesday, August 29
10:00 am to 1:00 pm
The Cooper Union, Great Hall
7 East 7th Street (at Third Ave.)
Dean Susanne Wofford, Gallatin faculty, and staff welcome new students to Convocation, your academic rite of passage where your transition into Gallatin’s intellectual community begins.
We celebrate your new beginnings -- we welcome our new dean.
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At Convocation you will experience a lively, interdisciplinary discussion of the classic text Antigone, one of the three Theban plays written by the Greek dramatist, Sophocles. A panel of Gallatin faculty will discuss Antigone from varied perspectives.
About the Panel:
Before coming to Gallatin, Dean Wofford taught at Yale and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a distinguished scholar of epic poetry and of Renaissance and Early Modern literature. Her research interests include Shakespeare; Spenser; Renaissance and Classical Epic; Comparative European drama (esp. in England, France, Spain and Italy); Renaissance fiction and the novella; intercultural and transcultural studies of influence and literary relations; narrative and literary theory; theories of allegory, dramatic interpretation through performance.
Professor Eve Meltzer’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of visual studies, contemporary art history, photography, the rhetorics of digitality, material culture, and a range of philosophical and theoretical discourses including psychoanalysis, structuralism, and phenomenology.
Professor George Shulman teaches and writes on the history of political and social thought in Europe and the United States, as well as on the Greek and Hebrew—or tragic and biblical—traditions. His teaching and writing emphasize the role of narrative in culture and politics.
Professor Laura Slatkin studies and teaches ancient Greek and Roman poetry, especially epic and drama; wisdom traditions in classical and Near Eastern antiquity; comparative mythology; gender studies; anthropological approaches to the literature of the ancient Mediterranean world; and cultural poetics.
You are expected to join in the discussion!
You can purchase your copy of Antigone (University of Chicago Press edition) at the NYU Bookstore or online. You can also read Antigone on the following website:
We look forward to greeting you at Convocation.