By Jug Suraiya In Plato’s Symposium, a conversation between real and imagined participants, one of the speakers, Aristophanes, recounts how the concept of love came into being. Humans originally were ...
The kylix drinking cup in ancient Greek symposiums revealed who was an aristocrat and who didn’t belong to the elite circle.
On March 11, supporters of academic freedom filled Meharry Hall for a “Read-A-Thon” of “The Symposium” by Plato. 20 readers ...
This is not a new tradition. Its genealogy runs from the surrealists through Anaïs Nin and Georges Bataille, through Angela Carter's visceral mythologies and the lysergic prose poems of ...
BC Philosopher Richard Kearney has written new books on the importance of the sense of touch and the need to engage in narrative exchanges with others Photo of Richard Kearney by Lee Pellegrini. A lot ...
On a Monday evening last May, Danielle S. Allen, a political theorist at Harvard, strode into the university’s Faculty Club wearing sneakers and a bright orange blazer. The occa ...
This Williamsburg, Virginia, symposium will take place both in person at the William & Mary School of Education (301 Monticello Avenue) and virtually over Zoom. William & Mary The Lemon Project: A ...
Join us for this exciting 1-day symposium, sponsored by Catalysis Science & Technology. The event will showcase cutting edge research across all areas of catalytic science and technology, and will ...