The following event for this Thursday has unfortunately been canceled. They plan to reschedule. CANCELED: Erika Zimmerman Damer (University of Richmond) <https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d141822714> [image: Add this event to your calendar] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__eventactions.com_eventactions_boston-2Darea-2Dclassics-2Dcalendar-23_actions_atmc_0cxf4ce619tc80yw0ewcdzwfhd&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=RtGOEBHo_ZzhauKV4z80lTJbPTX2zz0j8Z40szVwMzk&m=k50GeNufpetIKa0NSLv3-bE3rJupVGO-iIccJraXKwk&s=cE367pil7z0-L4GqdbsYTdgT4kDhMtGNx3-RIg3AgWs&e=> Date Thursday, February 20, 2020 Time 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST Where WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall, Room 120, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 Description "Cynthia, Mimicry, and Slavery in Roman Elegy" Dr. Zimmermann Damer’s research focuses on sexuality, gender, embodiment, and the urban environment in Roman texts of the Augustan period. Her book, *In the Flesh: Embodied Identities in Roman Love Elegy* <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__uwpress.wisc.edu_books_5593.htm-23pk&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mjXQDi--_aOLKsaH7sEUfd4UdNW5Z9T8AWpRCj3BWgQ&m=epOlWdssyYv3lIJ0HNSuW780om85X9OsiVu4bK5-C6c&s=DKnxMoTgvEGLRwKw2BvPIanGzYt7NPiP38ih3426gas&e=> examines the many forms of human embodiment in the elegiac poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, ranging from the poet-speaker and the puella, to wealthy rivals and the marginalized and enslaved, and argues that elegy constructs identities that influence shifting Roman ideologies of sexuality, gender, class, and status characterizing the emergence of the Principate. This project weds feminist new materialist philosophical thought with medical, legal, and philosophical texts contemporary with Roman elegy to see the human body as a necessary precondition for elegiac identities. https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5593.htm#pk <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__uwpress.wisc.edu_books_5593.htm-23pk&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=RtGOEBHo_ZzhauKV4z80lTJbPTX2zz0j8Z40szVwMzk&m=k50GeNufpetIKa0NSLv3-bE3rJupVGO-iIccJraXKwk&s=qlfDoZuBU9RN1AVU1ghg9zYrvG-E0n5Zzc4NSJo-z58&e=>