Thursday, November 19, 2020 

5:30PM EST 

A live streamed event. 

 

 

What is the relation between identity and self-expression, between ourselves and our clothes? Do clothes, and the fashions in which we wear them, conceal or reveal who we are? Are we as political animals also fashionable animals?

 

Gwenda-lin Grewal is the Onassis Lecturer in Ancient Greek Thought and Language at the New School for Social Research in New York. She previously taught at Vassar, Sarah Lawrence and the University of Dallas in both Italy and Texas. She has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard, the Center for Hellenic Studies, and the American Academy in Rome and been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities at Yale and the Blegen Research Fellowship in Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar. Her recent work includes a translation of Plato’s Phaedo (Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018), and two books—Thinking of Death: On Plato’s Euthydemus (with a translation) and Philosophy & Fashion: On Good Looks and Good Looking (forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic). She is currently editing a collection of essays on “Poetic (Mis)quotations in Plato” (forthcoming from the Center for Hellenic Studies), working on an interpretation and translation of Plato’s Cratylus, and finishing three co-translations: Plato’s Alcibiades I,  Menexenus, and Laches. She has a joint Ph.D. in Philosophy and Classics from Tulane University.