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SUMMARY:The Queer Thing about Sin | Harry Tanner
LOCATION:Humanities Center Levinthal Hall\, 424 Santa Teresa Street\, Stan
 ford\, CA 94305
DESCRIPTION:In The Queer Thing About Sin (Bloomsbury 2025)\, Harry Tanner 
 reveals the ancient origins of homophobia. By the end of the 5th century 
 BCE\, Greek plays were being staged which ridiculed homosexuality\, by th
 e end of the next century Athenians were being tried for homosexuality an
 d Plato had explicitly condemned it in his Laws. In Rome\, the legal situ
 ation was hardly better and in the law codes of Leviticus same-sex sex is
  condemned. Why did this come to happen\, and what warnings does it hold 
 for us now?\n\nTanner will explore some of his findings in this talk and 
 then turn his attention to how to write and research academic research fo
 r a trade audience — he will argue that trade publishers have unfairly re
 ceived a reputation for simplifying research\, and his method for going f
 rom a PhD to a book proposal and an internationally published trade book.
  His talk will address the need to adapt scholarly writing and research a
 nd work with Artificial Intelligence to build new\, more human insights. 
 He will also talk briefly about his own experience of conversion therapy 
 and how it shaped his research in Classics.\n\nHarry Tanner earned a PhD 
 in Classics at the University of Galway\, Ireland (2023). He has publishe
 d on Greek Linguistics\, specifically on semantic change in Ancient Greek
 \, appeared on SiriusXM and a variety of podcasts including The Guilty Fe
 minist\, and written for The New York Sun. His book The Queer Thing About
  Sin was shortlisted for Book of the Year in the UK by Foyles. He \n\nhtt
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