Mary White Lectureship in Classics

The Mary White Lectureship in Classics was established in 1979 by Trinity College in memory of Professor Mary Estelle White, who contributed much to Canadian classical scholarship. Mary White graduated from Queen's University in 1929, then obtained a BA and MA at Oxford before teaching briefly at McMaster University. She was a member of Trinity's Classics department from 1941 to 1974 and also head of the Graduate Department of Classical Studies at the University of Toronto from 1966 to 1971. Appointed the first editor of Phoenix in 1946, over a period of 20 years she set the high standards that earned the journal an international academic reputation. Since its inauguration, the Mary White lectureship has brought a series of distinguished scholars to Trinity.

Prof. Susanna Braund delivers the Mary White Lecture

Monday, January 30, 2012, 5:00PM

“Translation as a battle-field: the case of the frogs and the mice”

Through analysis of the earliest translations into English of the pseudo-Homeric miniature epic poem "The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice" Professor Braund will explore the poem’s reception. She will explore the challenges to the translator and the moral, political and literary causes to which the early translations are recruited. As we will see, the battlefield within the poem translates into a battlefield about translation that is conducted in-and-through the translations of the poem.

Professor Braund moved to UBC in 2007 to take up a Canada Research Chair in Latin Poetry and its Reception. She previously taught at the universities of Stanford, Yale, London, Bristol and Exeter. She is currently Acting Head of Classical, Near Eastern & Religious Studies at UBC and she has published extensively on many aspects of Latin literature, including translations of Lucan (Oxford World's Classics series) and Persius and Juvenal (Loeb Classical library series). This lecture is a rare venture for her into the world of Greek literature.

Location : Combination Room
Contact : Provost's Office
Reception to follow

Date	Speakers
2007	Peter Wiseman, Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Exeter, *Texts and History: Reflections on Catullus, Cicero and Ovid*
2005	Brian Stock, Professor of English, University of Toronto, *Ethics and the Creative Imagination*
2004	John Miles Foley, Professor of Classical Studies and English, University of Missouri-Columbia, *Homer and the South Slavic Oral Epic Poets*
2001	David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge, *Platonist Commentary and the Uniqueness of Socrates*
1999	Christopher Jones, Harvard University, *Roman Law and Greek Bilingualism*
1997	Jonathan Barnes, University of Geneva, *Changing Arguments*
1996	Edward J. Champlin, Princeton University, *Nero, from Myth to History*
1995	Desmond Conacher, Trinity College, *Euripides and the Philosophers*
1993	Elaine Fantham, Princeton University
1992	Dr. Alan Bowman, Christ Church, Oxford, *Letters and Literacy in the Roman Empire*
1991	Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley
1990	Richard Sorabji, King’s College, London
1989	Jasper Griffin, Oxford University
1988	G.W. Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
1986	John Herrington
1985	Susan Treggiari, Stanford University
1984	Anne Pippin Burnett, University of Chicago
1983	Malcolm McGregor, University of British Columbia
1981	W.G. Forrest, Wykeham Professor of Greek History, Oxford University
1980	Donald Wormell, Trinity College Dublin
1979	Michael H. Jameson, Stanford University