Mark Roblee (UMass Amherst): "Healing-Place for the Soul": Diodorus, Egyptian Libraries, & Renaissance Reception

Date: 

Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 4:00pm

Location: 

650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA

Sponsor: Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Wednesdays

Mark Roblee’s research interests include intellectual and cultural history in Late Antiquity, Neoplatonism, and philosophy of history. As a public historian, he wonders about the allure of objects from the far past. He is currently teaching History and Its Publics at UMass Amherst and West and the World I at Assumption College in Worcester. He also serves as the Alumni Relations Coordinator for the UMass History Department.

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