On Sunday, 11 November 2012, I will be giving a lecture at a St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church in Chicago. My topic will be:

Of Hanukkah and Holy War:
The Clash of Hellenism and Judaism
in 1 & 2 Maccabees
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On Saturday, 27 October 2012, I will be giving a lecture as part of the Basic Program’s daylong Autumn Symposium on Statesmanship and Crisis: Pericles, Lincoln, and Churchill to be held at the Gordon Center on the University of Chicago Hyde Park campus. My topic will be:

Words at War:
Rhetoric as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

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On Friday, 7 September 2012 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:

Fighting Theater with Theater:
Plato’s Dialogues as
Philosophical Dramas

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