This reading group meets roughly once a month to read and discuss materials related to racism and Classics.
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Spring schedule:
- Friday, January 28th, 12:15pm: CJ Rice on Anthony Abraham Jack’s The Privileged Poor.
- Friday, February 11th, 12pm: Multi-university conversation (Bryn Mawr SPEAC, Memorial University Newfoundland, and the University of Tennessee Knoxville) on approaches to Ovid’s reception and pedagogy.
- Friday, March 4th, 12pm: Members of the Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) presenting and gathering feedback for a draft syllabus on “Homer, Virgil, Dante and the African American Literary Tradition.”
- Friday, April 15, 12pm: Reading and discussion of Ch. 7 of Du Bois’ Souls of Black Folk (“Of the Black Belt”) and selections from Kyle Mays’ An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States.
- Thursday, April 21st, 5pm: Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton) will give a talk titled “W.E.B. Du Bois on the Native American: The Ancient Mediterranean as Conceptual Non-Resource.”
- April (Date and time TBD): Reading and discussing a selection of chapters from James Tatum and Walton Cook’s African American Writers and Classical Tradition.
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Please do not hesitate to reach out to the organizers if you have any questions, or are interested in proposing a topic or leading a session (we are open to anything, whether you’d like to lead an informal discussion, workshop a paper or syllabus, formally present relevant work, etc.):
Grace Macdonald - grace.macdonald@yale.edu