A.A. Long
Brackenridge lecture series features renowned classics professor
(Feb. 4, 2003)--A.A. Long, professor of classics at the University of California-Berkeley, will speak at The University of Texas at San Antonio as the 16th annual Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professor.
Long will speak on "Greek Cosmology as Divine Craftsmanship" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20 in the Business Building University Room (2.06.04) on the 1604 Campus. A second lecture, "Greek Ethics as the Craft of Life," is at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, also in the University Room.
"Dr. Long's work overlaps with so many of our studies in the humanities -- classical studies, philosophy, language and literature," said Linda Woodson, chair of the UTSA Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy. "We hope that many will attend these events, and we particularly encourage students to come."
Long is a professor of classics, the Irving Stone Professor of Literature and an adjunct professor of rhetoric at UC-Berkeley. He received his B.A. in classics from University College London with first class honors, and his Ph.D. from the University of London.
His other university teaching positions include: lecturer in classics, University of Otago, New Zealand; lecturer in classics, University of Nottingham; lecturer in Greek and Latin, University College London; and Gladstone Professor of Greek, University of Liverpool.
He was a visiting professor at the University of Munich and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, a Senior Fellow of the Council of Humanities at Princeton, a Bye Fellow at Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, among others.
Long's honors include the Cromer Greek Prize of the British Academy; Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships; the Cardinal Mercier Professor of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium; and the University of California President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities.
He has published many articles and books, including "Language and Thought in Sophocles," "Problems in Stoicism," "Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics Epicureans Sceptics," "The Hellenistic Philosophers," "The Question of Eclecticism" and "The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy."
The Brackenridge lecture series, endowed by the George W. Brackenridge Foundation, is free and open to the public.
For more information, call (210) 458-4374.
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