Date: November 14, 2024
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
The Speakers:
Christopher Parmenter (Ohio State University)
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)
Harriet Fertik (Ohio State University)
Join us to celebrate the release of Christopher Parmenter’s new book, Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE. In these pages, Parmenter argues that the ancient Greeks developed an ideology of race to explain and justify their rapid expansion across the Mediterranean world in the mid-first millennium BCE. Utilizing models from the study of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, he employs a variety of evidence—including merchant letters, votive assemblages at Greek sanctuaries, vase painting, and more—in making the claim that the Greeks interpreted others through the lens of race.
This event will include brief presentations by Parmenter himself, Harriet Fertik (OSU) and Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton). Audience engagement is encouraged, and refreshments will be served.
To attend virtually via Zoom please use this registration Link: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcequqz4qHN28G40SHJ3BcRJoF0-y9m5d