Professor Maud Gleason of Stanford University will be in Cambridge on Monday to give the prestigious 2005 JH Gray Lectures in the Faculty of Classics on 'Identity Theft'.
Professor Maud Gleason of Stanford University will be in Cambridge on Monday to give the prestigious 2005 JH Gray Lectures in the Faculty of Classics on 'Identity Theft'.
Maud Gleason is one of the leaders of the current generation of classicists who are exploring the intersections between ideas of manhood, sexuality, citizenship, rhetoric and imperialism, working especially on the culture of Greece not in the heyday of democratic classical Athens, but under the Roman empire. Her book 'Making Men: Sophists and Self Preservation in Ancient Rome' (1995) was a turning point in the field, as well as being appealing and surprising in a variety of ways. Two of its chapters focused on the career of a man called Favorinus, a first century AD public speaker and guru, a eunuch prosecuted for adultery.
On Monday May 23 she will speak on ‘Disappearances and Anxieties’. Her lecture the following day is titled ‘Masquerades and Significations’. Both will be delivered at 5pm in Room G.19, Faculty of Classics.
The J H Gray Lectureship was endowed in 1926 by a gift of £1,000 from the Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club to commemorate the services of the Reverend Canon J. H. Gray as President of the Club since 1895. It was Canon Gray's wish that the income of the fund should be at the disposal of the Faculty of Classics to provide lectures, or courses of lectures, on subjects not adequately catered for in the regular routine.
Professor Gleason will also give a seminar on ‘Herod’s dysfunctional family’ on Wednesday 25 May at 2.15pm in Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics.
The lectures and seminar are open to all members of the University and others who are interested.
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