Sponsored by the School of Environmental Design, the Humanities Center, and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, it will explore the history of the garden as a sanctuary, a safe-haven, a refuge, and a place to play with plants and ideas. She was explaining the benefits of her garden. Peradotto edited the journal Arethusa from 1975 to 1995. Among the featured speakers will be Simon Goldhill, who will be coming to the colloquium from Cambridge, England, Froma Zeitlin, from Princeton University, and Gregory Nagy, from Harvard University. Over twenty other scholars from classics, anthropology, art history, history, and comparative literature will participate in workshops exploring the relationship of the discipline of classics to other fields of inquiry.
All events are free and open to the public.
The Colloquium is co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Department of Classics, and the Georgia Museum of Art, with additional support from the College of Wooster and the State University of New York at Buffalo.