Space, Action, Image and Reception: Public Rituals and Urban Architecture, Reception FREE

17985 Pacific Coast Highway
Pacific Palisades, California 90272

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This lecture explores the visual impact of public actions within public spaces of Greek and Roman cities, focusing on religious rituals, such as processions, and political acts, such as citizens' assemblies and state ceremonies, in classical Athens and imperial Rome.

The Sather Lectures presented by Dr. Tonio Hölscher: Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome

The Sather Chair of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the most celebrated appointments in classical scholarship. Since 1914, 92 distinguished visitors have spent a term on the Berkeley campus and, among many other activities, have delivered a series of lectures on a topic of their choice.

During the 2006–07 academic year, Dr. Tonio Hölscher, professor of classical archaeology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, is the Sather Professor. Dr. Hölscher will present five of his Sather Lectures, which focus on visual power in ancient Greece and Rome, at the Getty Villa.

Greek and Roman culture was heavily based on visuality. While classical scholarship has traditionally concentrated on language and literature, the visual culture of antiquity has often been reduced to the aesthetic aspects of figural art. Dr. Hölscher's lectures attempt to explore the power of visuality in various realms of Greek and Roman life: rituals and urbanism, memory and monuments, person and appearance, reality and re-production, and, finally, living with images.

Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:00 pm Space, Action, Image and Reception: Public Rituals and Urban Architecture, reception to follow
Friday, March 23, 2007 1:00 pm Time, Memory, and Image: Public Monuments and the Danger of Collective Identity
Friday, March 23, 2007 3:30 pm Person, Identity and Image: Public Roles and the Appeal of the Individual, reception to follow
Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:00 am Images and Social Interaction: The Life of Artifacts
Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:30 am Images and the Order of Things: Towards a Theory of decorum

Official Website: http://www.getty.edu/visit/events/holscher_lectures.html

Space, Action, Image and Reception: Public Rituals and Urban Architecture, Reception FREE March 22, 2007

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