Michèle Lowrie

Research Grantee

2012-13 Report

Positions

• Professor of Classics and the College, University of Chicago

Papers at Conferences 2012

1. “Civil War: Lucan and Victor Hugo,” conference on Roman Error, University of Michigan, September 2013
2. “The Egyptian Within: A Roman Trope for Civil War,” keynote for Translatio Babylonis, a conference on Orientalism, Ludwig–Maximilians University, Munich, July 2013
3. Participant in panel reviewing Daniel Kapust's Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus
4. Discussant: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Roman Political Thought, Midwest Political Science Association, April 2013
5. “Security in Vergil's Georgics: labor, amor, cura,” invited lecture, Leiden, September 2012
6. Mini-conference on security, Harvard, April 2013
7. “Legal Language in Horace's Ars Poetica,” conference on the Ars Poetica, ELTE University of Budapest, September 2012
8. Humanities Day, University of Chicago, October 2012
9. “Le salut, la sécurité, et le corps du chef de César à Horace,” Ecole Normale Supérieur Lyon, June 2012, conference on Horace and Greek lyric
10. “The Exemplum and Exceptional Politics”, Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, Winter quarter 2013

Additional Fellowships/Grants/Awards

1. Fellowship as a research collaborator with Barbara Vinken at the Institute for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich
2. Participant in a faculty working group in Political Theology, Neubauer Collegium, the University of Chicago
3. Volume being organized on the reception of Roman exemplarity, co–edited with Susanne Luedemann