I am pleased to be delivering a keynote lecture at the upcoming international conference "Natales grate numeras?," celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Zadar, Croatia. I will be speaking on "The Odyssey and the Desires of Traditional Narrative."

The Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome will kick off its 2016-17 season with a talk by Dr. Mirko Canevaro on "Majority Rule vs. Consensus: The Practice of Deliberation in the Greek Poleis."

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/majority-rule-vs-conse...

I had the pleasure this morning of delivering a paper at the 5th International Seminar on Epic Studies and Oral Tradition Research, organized by the Chinese Academy of Social Science's Institute of Ethnic Literature, This year's seminar explores the challenges associated with the use of databases and digital corpora in research on oral traditions. My paper, "Digitizing the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature: Achievements, Challenges, Aspirations," presented recent digitization work in the Milman Parry Collection and Read more about 5th IEL International Seminar on Epic Studies and Oral Tradition Research