Public Event

Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago) The ‘Bacchae’ and the postcolonial turn (based on his new book Theater and Crisis: Myth, Memory, and Racial Reckoning in America, 1964-2020) Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/bacchae-and-postcolonial-turn Out of the Shadows of Empire  Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of empire and their […]

Lesego Chauke (University of Cape Town) Title TBC Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/classical-reception-seminar-title-tbc Out of the Shadows of Empire  Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of empire and their legacies. Not only was classical education central to colonial curricula, but classical motifs were weaponised in the justification of […]