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Sarah Derbew, ‘The Metatheater of Blackness: Danaids, Dunbar, and Ellison’
October 25, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm UTC+0
The Classics and Ancient History department at the University of Warwick is pleased to launch the Classical Connections Seminar Series, dedicated to exploring connections between Greek and Latin antiquity and different geographical and temporal contexts. Our first lecture in the series will be:
Dr Sarah Derbew is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows; starting in the Fall of 2020, she will be an Assistant Professor of Classics in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. Her research focuses on critical and self-reflexive theorizations of race and skin color in ancient Greek literature and art from the fifth century BCE to the fourth century CE.
In this lecture, she will provide an interdisciplinary reading of Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women in conversation with Paul Laurence Dunbar and Ralph Ellison, touching upon the use of Critical Race Theory in dealing with ancient Greek literature and its reception.
The Lecture is generously funded by the HRC and IATL as part of the Classical Connections Seminar Series and as Public Lecture for the undergraduate module ‘Africa and the Making of Classical Literature’.
Lectures are free and open to all.