Literature Meets Life
Join us to explore how the world’s tradition of Wisdom Literature can enrich your life and your leadership.
About the Event
How to live and how to lead are questions that every human community has sought to answer. Join University of Chicago Professor David Wray and three lifelong learners in his current class, World Wisdom Literature, for a global tour of literature exploring ethics and leadership. From the Greek philosopher Plato to the Chinese philosopher and teacher Confucius to Daoist sages Laozi and Zhuangzi to the Mayan Popol Vuh, we will examine foundational literature and discuss how their influences are still felt today.
Who's Speaking
Cara Brennan Allamano
Chief People Officer, Lattice
Cara has deep experience scaling HR operations, recruiting, and learning & development at fast-moving, global companies. Prior to joining Lattice as Chief People Officer, she was SVP of People at both Udemy (UDMY) and Planet Labs (PL) and previously served in HR leadership roles at Pinterest (PIN), Efficient Frontier - now Adobe, Young and Rubicam, and Knight Ridder, among others. Cara is also co-founder of PeopleTech Partners, a group of HR leaders working to bring new HR/recruiting technologies to market. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Kentucky, holds a master's degree from the University of San Francisco, completed graduate studies at Stanford University and is finishing her Master's degree in Leadership and Ethics at the University of Chicago.
David A. Allan-Matheson
Head of Human Relations & Medical Affairs (ESC G1) for the 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command
Dr. Allan-Matheson graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science in 2004. He holds a Master of Science in International Relations from Troy University; a Master of Business Administration from Boston College; a Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; a Doctor of Education (EdD) from the University of Southern California; Master of Health Administration at Cornell University, and is completing a Master of Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago; and is a long-term Doctor of Philosophy in Evidence-Based Health Care Candidate at the University of Oxford. Dr. Allan-Matheson is also a graduate of the Field Artillery Officer Basic Course, Military Intelligence Captains Career Course, Command and General Staff College (JPME 1), and Joint Forces Staff College (JPME II), achieving the distinction of Joint Qualified Officer (JQO). He is a graduate of the two-year Canadian Joint Command and Staff Programme (DL) and The Air Command and Staff College with a Master of Military Operational Art and Science (2022).
Finally, Dr. Allan-Matheson is from Brooklyn, NY and currently lives in West Orange, NJ with his wife, Hajnalka F. Allan-Matheson, and their three daughters, Elizabeth (11), Olivia (8), and Julianna (2).
Daniel Castelo
Educator and Administrator
Daniel Castelo is a Mexican American who has lived in the USA most of his adult life. After living in Seattle for over a decade, he now lives in North Carolina. He has been a teacher of religious studies at different schools, and now he also serves as an administrator.
David Wray
Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, The Department of Comparative Literature, and the College
David Wray is is an associate professor in the Department of Classics, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the College. He is the author of Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood (Cambridge 2001), a coeditor of Seneca and the Self (Cambridge 2009), and is currently writing Ovid at the Tragic Core of Modernity. His research and teaching interests include Hellenistic and Roman poetry (especially Apollonius Rhodius, Catullus, Lucretius, Virgil, Tibullus, Ovid, Seneca, Lucan, and Statius); Greek epic and tragedy; Roman philosophy; ancient and modern relations between literature and philosophy; gender; theory and practice of literary translation; and the reception of Greco-Roman thought and literature, from Shakespeare and Corneille to Pound and Zukofsky. He is a member of the Poetry and Poetics program.
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