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.