Professor Thomas Scanlon’s “Sports & War” presentation for Marathon2500
Professor Thomas Scanlon gave a wonderful lecture earlier this month for the Marathon2500 lecture series of the Reading Odyssey.
His talk, “Sports and War”, can be listened to here:
And here’s the presentation that accompanies the audio:
Arrian Reading Group Introductory Call
Slow Art Day 2011 resources
Slow Art Day 2011 host manual
Name badge template and separate image
Here’s the name badge template that I use in Ashland, Oregon for our Slow Art Day. I have attached a Word label template as well as a .png file. This template works with Avery 5883 labels (8 per sheet). If you have any compatibility problems with the Word file, the template is available for download at www.avery.com (search ‘5883’).
As you check folks in, ask them to write their first name on the badge and wear it throughout the event. In particular, this will help facilitate the post-viewing discussion, but in larger venues it might also help attendees to connect while they are viewing the art. (And just so you know, this art is not my own! I do love it, and it was kindly shared by another host for the first Slow Art event in the fall of 2009.)
Podcasts
1. Q&A with veteran and new hosts, Sunday April 10, 2011 (25 minutes)
Herodotus Books 8 & 9 Conference Call
Herodotus Books 8 & 9 Call Recording [Bruce’s Group]
Thanks to my entire Reading Odyssey group for concluding our Herodotus “campaign” on a terrific final note tonight. Here is the audio recording of our discussion (for posterity!). I hope to hear from you all again soon on the next set of book group calls or on an online lecture.
Herodotus Books 8 & 9 Conference Call
Slow Art site No. 77 — Ulm, Germany!
The Ulmer Museum — http://www.ulmer-museum.ulm.de/ — in Ulm, Germany, is the newest Slow Art Day venue. We’re at 77 now! Check out the Ulm page at http://slowartulm2011.eventbrite.com.
—James Lavadour’s Point
This is “Point” by James Lavadour, the Slow Art of the day, at the Boise Art Museum, a participating museum for Slow Art Day 2011. Please check out twitter and follow @SlowArtDay: http://twitter.com/#!/SlowArtDay.
What an Average Ancient Greek Looked Like
Museumgoers get their first glimpse of an average resident of ancient Greece.
Congratulations to Andre Stipanovic, Reading Odyssey moderator
Andre Stipanovic, longtime Reading Odyssey moderator for Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Arrian, has just been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Hockaday School in Dallas where he teachers Upper School Latin.
The Headmistress Jeanne Whitman said this of his appointment to the board:
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Dr. Andre Stipanovic has been elected as Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees. His two-year term begins July 1, 2011.