分類： 其他公告
來源： 英美語文學系 - 鄭雨桑 - rainniesun@mail.ndhu.edu.tw
對象： 全校教職員_全校學生_單一窗口_系所助理_兼任教師_退休教職員_校友
標題： 3/18(一) 英美系演講公告“The Origins of Remorse”
日期： Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:57:33 +0800
附檔： 0318演講海報.bmp (3 MB)   

時間：3/18(一) 14:00–16:00
地點：人社一館A207
講者：Professor David Konstan
Department of Classics, New York University / Brown University

Professor David Konstan’s research focuses on ancient Greek and Latin literature, especially comedy and the novel, and classical philosophy. In recent years, he has investigated the emotions and value concepts of classical Greece and Rome, and has written books on friendship, pity, the emotions, and forgiveness. He has also written on ancient physics and atomic theory, and on literary theory, and is currently working on a book on the ancient Greek conception of beauty, and on a verse translation of the two Senecan tragedies about Hercules.

Professor Konstan’s B.A. was in mathematics; in senior year of college, he began ancient Greek and Latin, and went on to obtain a doctorate in classics. He taught at Wesleyan University from 1967 to 1987, and at Brown University from 1987 to 2010, when he joined the faculty at NYU.

Professor Konstan has held visiting appointments in New Zealand, Scotland, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and Egypt, among other places. He serves on the Editorial Boards of numerous journals around the world. He has been President of the American Philological Association, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been awarded NEH, ACLS, and Guggenheim fellowships, among others.