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The Twenty-Seventh Annual Carl C. Schlam Memorial Lecture

Ruins of the Acropolis of Athens
October 19, 2023
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Ohio Union - Interfaith Prayer & Reflection Room Third Floor 1739 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43210

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Add to Calendar 2023-10-19 15:30:00 2023-10-19 17:00:00 The Twenty-Seventh Annual Carl C. Schlam Memorial Lecture The Department of Classics invites you to theTwenty-Seventh Annual Carl C. Schlam Memorial Lecture  SpeakerProfessor Nandini Pandey (Johns Hopkins University)Lecture"Roman Diversity and the Classical Archive: Nine Muses of Critical Fabulation"We’ve all heard about the nine Muses: the daughters of Memory (Mnemosyne) and Power (Zeus, the king of the gods) who preside over ancient Greco-Roman literature, from epic to tragedy to history.But what of all the women forgotten by history and other elite genres, people without socioeconomic or political clout who nevertheless played essential roles in building the worlds, livelihoods, and imaginative landscapes that sustain our Greco-Roman archive and the discipline of “classics”?Via “nine muses of forgetting,” this experimental talk surveys evidential and methodological challenges and hopes of retelling ancient Mediterranean stories from below, recentering dominant narratives from marginalized perspectives, and innovating new directions in classical studies that honor diverse voices that didn’t get to speak for themselves within our literary and archaeological record.All are welcome and no prior knowledge of classics is expected!   Ohio Union - Interfaith Prayer & Reflection Room Third Floor 1739 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Department of Classics classics@osu.edu America/New_York public

The Department of Classics invites you to the
Twenty-Seventh Annual Carl C. Schlam Memorial Lecture
 

Speaker

Professor Nandini Pandey (Johns Hopkins University)

Lecture

"Roman Diversity and the Classical Archive: Nine Muses of Critical Fabulation"

We’ve all heard about the nine Muses: the daughters of Memory (Mnemosyne) and Power (Zeus, the king of the gods) who preside over ancient Greco-Roman literature, from epic to tragedy to history.

But what of all the women forgotten by history and other elite genres, people without socioeconomic or political clout who nevertheless played essential roles in building the worlds, livelihoods, and imaginative landscapes that sustain our Greco-Roman archive and the discipline of “classics”?

Via “nine muses of forgetting,” this experimental talk surveys evidential and methodological challenges and hopes of retelling ancient Mediterranean stories from below, recentering dominant narratives from marginalized perspectives, and innovating new directions in classical studies that honor diverse voices that didn’t get to speak for themselves within our literary and archaeological record.

All are welcome and no prior knowledge of classics is expected!