Evoking the Dead Michael Brian Murphy at the 23rd annual symposium

at the 23rd annual symposium of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land

outlining what will be presented

power and conflict

and discontent begins to rumble

but not to be of it

Evoking the Dead Michael Brian Murphy at the 23rd annual symposiumHow Romans built their past and made it speak. During the turbulent transition from Republic to Empire, Romans became intensely preoccupied with their own past. In Evoking the Dead, W. Martin Bloomer examines how memory was constructed, organized, and put to work in this moment of political uncertainty and how literature became one of its most powerful instruments. Bloomer focuses on a group of authors writing in the late Republic and early Empire,