Department Colloquium: Dr. Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown) "Mettle, Metal, and Medal or Autotheorizing Contemporary Classical Scholarship"

Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 4:45pm to 6:15pm

402 Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th St.

*4:15-4:45 pm: Coffee and cookies in Cohen Hall 2nd Floor Lounge. All are welcome.

**We request that you please wear a mask to this talk.

Speaker: Dr. Sasha-Mae Eccleston, John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics, Brown University

Title: "Mettle, Metal, and Medal or Autotheorizing Contemporary Classical Scholarship"

Abstract: This talk considers the racialized stakes of Classics research  by performing a deep dive into Suzan Lori Parks' play, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, and 3)(2015), and its purported  relationship to Homer’s Odyssey.