The IRH and ILS are co-sponsoring a lecture by ACLS President Joy Connolly, titled “From Classical Studies to Ancient Studies: All the World’s Pasts.”
Abstract:
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the time of the emergence of what is now generally called in north America “Classics” or “Classical Studies,” ancient Greece and Rome were understood as the source of the best of human aspiration and achievement and as the foundation of what was then defined as “culture.” In this lecture, I discuss and critique the still-potent construct “GreeceandRome” and its role in the organization of knowledge in contemporary academia. I make the case for an alternative approach to organizing the study of the past on a global scale that is responsive to the needs and interests of the twenty-first century.
Lecture sponsored by the University Lectures Committee, the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, and the Integrated Liberal Studies Program.
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