Consult this page for experiences and events pertaining to race and antiquity. You can even retroactively partake in events like the “Futures of Ancient Race” (FAR) ‘unconference’ hosted at Johns Hopkins in March 2024, thanks to Johns Hopkins student correspondents. Please contact the administrator with events to share.
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Why & How Do We Teach Race in Antiquity?
A Record of Futures of Ancient Race (FAR): A March 2024 ‘Unconference’ at Johns Hopkins University
Introduced and edited by Marie Wei
From March 7-9, 2024, the Futures of Ancient Race (FAR) inaugural ‘unconference’ took place at the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University.
The event was staffed and supported by Professor Nandini Pandey’s Spring 2024 Classics Research Lab (CRL), the Race in Antiquity Project (RAP), and sponsored by the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), the Johns Hopkins Departments of Classics and the History of Art, the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI), and the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation (CTEI).
As an ‘unconference,’ the intellectual gathering generated interdisciplinary conversations towards creating teaching sources and expanding access to global histories of race. With the participation of scholars from various institutions across North America, the three-day event comprised casual yet interactive public conversations and internal brainstorming sessions between the panelists.
For individual ‘unconference’ write-ups, please visit the links below:
Emily Wilson @ Johns Hopkins
Join us for this Q&A with Emily Wilson, renowned female translator of Homer’s Odyssey and (most recently) Iliad! If you plan to attend, please submit your question in advance here. Unfortunately this event will not be streamed.
Reading: Collective Lyric "I"
Please join us for a reading from the Hopkins Review issue 17.1, guest-edited by Leila Eisa and Jennifer Stager, with special appearances by Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Pia Hargrove, and Eleni Theodoropoulos!
A brief collaborative history of race in antiquity
Join us in Gilman 50 to hear a brief history of race and antiquity via 20 questions/images/texts.
Why and how do we study race in antiquity?
Thanks for joining our discussion in Remsen 1 on how and why we study race in antiquity! Preview our slides/plan here. After our discussion, please upload your group’s notes and audio to this shared folder.