Plato wrote four dialogues dramatizing the last days and death of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. “Dyng Angry” will focus on Socrates’s behavior and performance —and weirdness—in Phaedo. Harry Berger Jr. came to Cowell College and UCSC from Yale in 1965 when our campus opened. He was the first appointment in English Literature, […]

The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture How does tragedy start and stop – and what does it tell us about the ends of man? Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge where he also runs the university's interdisciplinary research center. He has […]

Lawrence Weschler Lawrence "Ren" Weschler will present a special lecture "Convergences" in advance of his visit to Bookshop Santa Cruz to promote his latest book, Uncanny Valley.  In his talk Weschler will consider a spectrum of such convergent effects, from apophenia (the tendency of humans to see patterns where none exist) through co-causation, fractalization, influence […]

The UCSC Classical Studies Program and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present the annual Carl Deppe Lecture: In light of David Malouf's 2009 novel Ransom, based on Priam's supplication of Achilles in Book 24 of Homer's Iliad, the lecture will consider the figure of Priam as a vehicle for reconciling cultures and histories via […]