To mark the Auckland concert by Bob Dylan, Patron of the University of Auckland’s Creative Thinking Project join us for a conversation, between the Academic Director of the Creative Thinking Project and a Harvard Professor who is an expert on classical Greek and Roman poetry and the work of Bob Dylan. Together they discuss Dylan’s creativity and the nature of his creative process.
Friday, 24th August 2018, 5 – 6 pm
OGGB 5 (260 – 051) Owen Glenn Building, 12 Grafton St
About the speakers:
Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. He was educated at the University of Auckland (BA 1972, MA, 1973) and The University of Michigan (PhD 1977). His teaching and research interests are focused on Hellenistic Greek and Roman literature (chiefly Callimachus, Theocritus, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Tacitus), intertextuality, translation and translation theory, the reception of classical literature, and the works of Bob Dylan. His most recent book, Why Dylan Matters, traces Dylan’s intertextual relationship with the ancient poets.
Professor Peter O’Connor is the Academic Director of the Creative Thinking Project at the University of Auckland. Peter is an internationally recognised expert in applied theatre and drama education. His research focuses on applied theatre in marginalised and vulnerable communities. Peter’s most recent research includes multi and interdisciplinary studies on the creative pedagogies and the arts, the nature of embodied learning and the pedagogy of surprise. Peter is a lifelong Dylan enthusiast.
Supported by the Department of Classics and Ancient History and The Creative Thinking Project at the University of Auckland
August 6, 2018 at 11:46 am
Great that the themes imbedded in Dylan’s songs are being critically evaluated.
Local poet , Bob Orr was influenced by Dylan’s song writing craft. He is highly underrated in my humble opinion.
He was highly influenced by the life examples of James K. Baxter and the ChCh artists _ Dean Buchanan, Allen Maddox, Philip Clairmont & Tony Formison who studied together at the UoC’s School of Fine Arts, in the suburb of Ilam.
November 12, 2018 at 1:12 pm
Thanks for your insights! CTP Project.