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SUMMARY:Strauss in Beijing - Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer [gloknos lecture] - Shad
 i Bartsch-Zimmer (University of Chicago)
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:*gloknos Annual Lecture Series – Prof Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (
 University of Chicago) – 15 April 2021 | 17:00-18:30*\n\n*Abstract:*\nTh
 e popularity of the political philosopher Leo Strauss among a group of Chi
 nese public-facing academics has been noted with bemusement in the West. T
 his lecture takes a deeper look at just why it had to be Strauss. Part of 
 the answer is that his relationship to antiquity resonated with a China no
  longer seeking to imitate the West\; another part lies in his reading of 
 Plato. The Chinese Straussians claim that their readings of western texts 
 are not ideological because Strauss’s views cannot be boiled down to an 
 'ism'\, but of course their use of Strauss’s methodologies and political
  views would suggest otherwise. In keeping so high a public profile\, howe
 ver\, these neo-Straussians undermine the very tensions they claim to expo
 se\, suggesting that the overarching rationale for their writings is pro-X
 i nationalism.\n\nAttendance is free but spaces may be limited\, so please
  "email":mailto:sjp229@cam.ac.uk to reserve a space in the Zoom audience. 
 Please be aware that we will take a recording of this event\, which may in
 clude any questions and responses delivered by the audience.\n\n*Speaker:*
 \nShadi Bartsch is the founding Director of the Stevanovich Institute on t
 he Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago\, and the Helen A. 
 Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics. She has authored a
 nd edited some twelve books on ancient literature\, politics\, and culture
  in the early Roman empire. Bartsch’s new translation of Vergil’s Aene
 id is has just been issued by Random House\, and her book on the contempor
 ary Chinese reception of the classics is forthcoming from Princeton Univer
 sity Press in 2022. Bartsch has been a Guggenheim fellow\, edits the journ
 al KNOW\, and has held visiting scholar positions in St. Andrews\, Taipei\
 , and Rome.\n\n*Attendance is free but spaces may be limited\, so please "
 email":mailto:sjp229@cam.ac.uk to reserve a space in the Zoom audience. Pl
 ease be aware that we will take a recording of this event\, which may incl
 ude any questions and responses delivered by the audience.*\n\n*See the fu
 ll 2021 lecture series online "here":http://gloknos.ac.uk/research/activit
 ies/the-gloknos-annual-lecture-series*\n\n*gloknos is initially funded for
  5 years by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awa
 rded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022) ERC gr
 ant no. 724451.*
LOCATION:Zoom
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