Tuesday, Oct. 21, 6:00 PM | Pendleton Room, Michigan Union | Guest Lecture
No less fierce today, the debate has been regarded as the purview of museum trustees, government officials, and lawyers. A. E. Stallings, herself a long-time resident of Athens, has seen that the terms of the debate, in part set by poets such as Keats and Byron, owe much to the 19th and 20th century cultural milieus surrounding the presence of the Marbles in Britain—and their long absence from Athens. In Frieze Frame, her recently published book, Stallings highlights the “strange stories and people surrounding the stones,” in the course of which she reveals the wide range of issues that the debate touches on, including “aesthetics, Classics, race theory, economics, geopolitics, [and] our shifting climate.”
A. E. Stallings is the author of three translations and five collections of poetry, for which she has received several awards. She has been a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work appears regularly in publications of note (e.g., Poetry, The New Yorker, and The Times Literary Supplement). She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2011.
Sponsored by Classical Studies, Modern Greek, History of Art
