GICS in dialogue

GIKS IN DIALOGUE is a series of meetings building on the GIKS Round Tables which aim to compare past and present through a number of broad themes. Today, the epistemological foundations of the study of antiquity—particularly Greek and Roman antiquity—are increasingly being called into question. Is it still possible to practise the discipline, that is, to teach ancient languages, literature, art, and history in the same way as was done in the past? The contemporary world is a site of conflict, but also of new ideas and opportunities, from which classical studies cannot remain detached.

GIKS in Dialogue aims to address topics that are relevant to the present day and to place them in dialogue or critical comparison with similar issues in the ancient world. The format brings together two speakers who are invited on the basis of the heterogeneity of their personal, intellectual, and research backgrounds.

GIKS in Dialogue will open on 11 May at 6:00 p.m. at De Krook with a discussion of Sophocles' Antigone. The speakers are writer Stefan Hertmans (currently writer in residence at Ghent University) and Marta Lietti, postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, who has written a dissertation on Sophocles' play.