You’re invited to an intimate evening with Professor Benjamin A. Saltzman for a discussion of his new book, Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture.  

Join us for cocktails and conversation as Professor Saltzman delves into the fascinating gestures of aversion across history—from Plato’s Republic and Augustine’s Confessions to Christ’s Crucifixion and the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve. He will explore how these gestures have been refracted across visual media, philosophy, and politics into modernity, and how they continue to resonate in contemporary thought, art, and literature. 

Image: Michelangelo, “The Last Judgment,” Sistine Chapel.