
Sather Professor
Spring 2025 Sather Lectures
A Reprise of Sather “Greatest Hits”:
Four Returning Sather Professors give lectures (in person, with simultaneous Webcast)

February 22
Victoria Wohl, Professor of Classics, University of Toronto
“Intelligent Air”
Heyns Room, Faculty Club, 1 PM
March 15
Josiah Ober, Stanford University
“Cleverness Revisited: Why wicked and excellent people are called deinoi (Aristotle NE 1144a21-22)”
Heyns Room, Faculty Club, 1 PM
March 22
Greg Woolf, Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
“A Distant Tyrant: Emperor, Empire, Impotence”
Heyns Room, Faculty Club, 1 PM
April 5
Emily Gowers, Cambridge University
“Various Trees”
Heyns Room, Faculty Club, 1 PM