4:00 pm Zell B. Miller Learning Center (SLC/MLC) 150 Sponsored by: Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Contact: Dave Marr Communications specialist 706-542-2640 "Extreme Literature: Learning from the most challenging ancient and not-so-ancient literature,"  Robert Conner, an advocate for liberal education, the humanities and especially the ancient Greek and Roman classics.Connor is senior advisor and past president of the New York-based Teagle Foundation.The Teagle Foundation serves as an influential national voice and a catalyst for change in higher education to improve undergraduate student learning in the arts and sciences.Conner is an advocate for liberal education, the humanities and especially the ancient Greek and Roman classics. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, graduated from Hamilton College, and after a stint in Oxford, received his PhD in Classics from Princeton in 1961. A few years later, he returned to Princeton, where he taught and administered until 1989, when he became the president and director of the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina (1989-2003). He holds honorary degrees from several colleges and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.Part of the Spotlight on the Arts Festival.News release: http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/willson-center-spotlight-events-102312/ Willson Center