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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… Continue reading Lesego Chauke: Shadows of Empire Seminar

Justine McConnell (King's College London) Graeco-Roman Shades and Colonial Shadows in the Caribbean Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/graeco-roman-shades-and-colonial-shadows-caribbean 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… Continue reading Justine McConnell: Graeco-Roman Shades and Colonial Shadows in the Caribbean

Madhlozi Moyo (University of the Free State) The obelisks of Matabeleland: Cecil John Rhodes, conquest, and the Classics Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/obelisks-matabeleland-cecil-john-rhodes-conquest-and-classics 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… Continue reading Madhlozi Moyo: The obelisks of Matabeleland: Cecil John Rhodes, conquest, and the Classics