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London Classicists of Colour Summer Symposium
August 15, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm UTC+0
For the first time ever, LCoC is hosting its own symposium! The aim of the event is to provide a platform for university students at all levels across the UK, and as such we have an exciting array of speakers for the day. Each one will be presenting their own research and interests concerning the topic of Classics, decolonisation and race.
The symposium will take place online on Sunday 15 August 2021, 12 – 5pm (BST / UCT +1). Follow this link to Eventbrite to register for tickets.
We know that 12-5 is a long time, so feel free to grab yourself a ticket and drop in and out of the event as you like. There will also be breaks throughout the day, and an LCOC social Kahoot at the end for people to unwind! The various speakers are listed below, grouped by theme (with a full timetable to be released in the upcoming weeks):
GREEK TRAGEDY, IDENTITY AND RACE
– Asia Choudhry (MA Classics, UCL) “Bicultural and biracial representation in Euripides’ Bacchae”
– Zara Khan (BA Ancient History, Kings College London) “How have modern playwrights responded to the place of Antigone in the universalisation of the ancient Greeks in European thought?”
INTERSECTIONALITY, RACE AND GENDER IN LATIN LITERATURE
– Ben Oliver (MA Classics, UCL) “How gender and masculinity intersect with race and class in the Indian Civil Service and in Virgil’s Aeneid”
– Antonia Aluko (MA Classics, Royal Holloway) “The connection between intersectional theory and Latin literature, primarily in the Poenulus of Plautus”
– Amir Khan (BA Classics, Nottingham University) “The tragedy of Dido’s death through a Critical Race lens”
HISTORICAL RECEPTIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
– Asyia Iftikhar (BA Classics, UCL) “The use of Herodotus in Grote and the general use of Greek literature during the 19th century to promote scientific racism”
– Anne-Marie Schunke (PhD, UCL) “Classical Reception in Anglophone Caribbean Literature of the Twenty-First Century”
– Xanaa Obsiye (BA Classics, Kings College London) “Who does Ancient Egypt belong to?”
ART, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE
– Hardeep Dhindsa (PhD, Kings College London) “Codifying White British Identities from the Glorious Revolution to the Seven Years War”
– Natasha Rao (MA Classics, UCL) “Orientalism, competition and theft: British interactions with Persepolis in the nineteenth century”