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With the participation of Scholars of the Onassis Foundation
Thursday, May 15, 2003 at 7:00 p.m.
Mythological Atlas of Greece.
Places and Myths Pedro Olalla Gonzalez de la Vega Professor of Classics, National Capodistrian University of Athens Author of Mythological Atlas of Greece - Academy of Athens Award 2002 Winner Pedro Ollala Gonzalez de la Vega was born in the Spanish city of Oviedo, in 1966. He studied Philology, Art History, and Philosophy in his birthplace, and received a degree in Romance Philology. He settled in Athens in 1994 in order to work in the fields of research, creation and education in a country to which he has been strongly linked over the last ten years. He was a professor of Modern Greek at the University of Oviedo and a lecturer of Spanish at the University of Syracuse, New York. Living in Greece, he was for three years editor-in-chief of the bilingual monthly periodical El Sol de Atenas and director of the Cultural Bulletin of the Embassy of Spain. At present he teaches at the National Capodistrian University of Athens (Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program in Translation and Translation Studies), the Greek Parliament and the Cervantes Institute.
As a photographer he has held over 30 one-man exhibitions in Spain and other countries; as a writer he has published literary works and over 100 articles and studies on Greek culture and Spain, in several languages; as a lexicographer he works with a scholarship of the A.G. Leventis Foundation. Moreover, he has applied his many talents to a series of projects relating the two cultures - of Greece and Spain: a book and exhibition with the Cyclades as setting; organizing various courses of Modern Greek for Spaniards in Spain and in Greece; delivering seminars and lectures on Spanish language and culture, in Athens and Thessaloniki; planning an educational itinerary for Greeks following the route of Medieval pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela; dubbing in Spanish of a television series on Alexander the Great; translations into Spanish of books, essays and lectures by Greek authors, and of the biography of Queen Sophia from Spanish to Greek, et al.
In 1999, he was awarded a scholarship by the A.S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation to conduct research in connection with the Mythological Atlas of Greece (cartography, photography and philological documentation. Academy of Athens Award 2002), on which he has been working since 1995, covering one hundred thousand kilometers all over the country, tracing the spoor of the ancient myths. Due to his work in the field of Greek Mythology he was a guest speaker at the University of Aegean Sea, Trace, Athens, the National Research Foundation, the National Book Center and other Greek cultural institutions and mass media.
With the participation of Scholars of the Onassis Foundation Tuesday,
May 27, 2003 at 7:00 p.m.
"Anger and other Passions by the Ancient Greeks" by David Konstan
The John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition and Professor of Comparitive Literature, Brown University David Konstan is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition and Professor of Comparitive Literature at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Before arriving at Brown University in 1987, he taught at Wesleyan University from 1967 to 1987. He also taught at Brooklyn College (1965-1967) and Hunter College (1964-1965). David Konstan has held Visiting Professor appointments at the University of Otago in New Zealand, at the Universtiy of Edinburgh, at the Universidade de S?o Paulo, the University of La Plata in Argentina, the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, the University of Sydney, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and at the American University in Cairo.
His interests include Greek Philosophy, Greek and Roman history, and Greek drama. He is the author of a number of books, including Some Aspects of Epicurean Psychology (1973); Catullus' Indictment of Rome: The Meaning of Catullus 64 (1977); Roman Comedy (1983); Simplicius on Aristotle's Physics 6 (translation) (1989), winner of the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Books; Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres (1994); Friendship in the Classical World (1997); Greek Comedy and Ideology (1995); Philodemos on Frank Criticism: Introduction, Translation and Notes (with Diskin Clay, Clarence Glad, Johan Thom, and James Ware, 1998); Commentators on Aristotle on Friendship: Aspasius, Anonymous, Michael of Ephesus on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics 8 and 9 (translation) (2001); introduction and notes for Euripides Cyclops (translated by Heather McHugh, 2001); and Pity Transformed (2001).
David Konstan is currently working on Aspasius' Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics(translation), and on The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (revised version of Robson lectures). His articles have appeared in publications such as Classical Philology, Comparative Drama, Apeiron, and the Journal of Early Christian Studies. David Konstan is an Associate Editor of Arethusa, and sits on the Editorial Boards of Scholia, Intertexts, Apeiron, Writings from the Greco-Roman World Series of the Society of Biblical Literature, Phaos (Universidad de Campinas, Brazil), Logo: Rivista de Retórica y Teoria de la Comunicacion, the Cincinnati Classical Series, and Ordia Prima (Cordoba, Argentina). David Konstan has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center and a Research Grant from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation in Athens, Greece, among others.
Tuesday, April 8, 2003
On the occasion of the exhibition "The New Acropolis Museum: Design and Original Exhibits From the Acropolis Collection" Dr. Jenifer Neils Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Chair, Museums and Exhibitions Committee, Archaeological Institute of America "The 'Restoration' of the Parthenon Marbles" Dr. Anthony M. Snodgrass Laurence Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK Chairman, British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles "Long Division: How Did it Come About?"
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Admiral Susan Blumenthal, M.D. Assistant Surgeon General Senior Science and E-Health Advisor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Sciences Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown and Tufts University Schools of Medicine "The Hippocratic Oath: Implications for Current Public Health Challenges"
Professor Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D. Professor Emiretus of Medicine and Medical Bioethics, Georgetown University "Moral Authority and the Hippocratic Oath"
Professor Antonio M. Gotto Jr., M.D. Professor of Medicine and Dean of Weill Medical College, Cornell University "Professionalism and Medical Education: Modern Expressions of the Hippocratic Oath"