READS makes its debut at the SCS Annual Meeting! As always, this is an interactive workshop. Registration and preparation are required. Details available here. Please note: this workshop is only open to attendees at the SCS Annual Meeting.

A special session of the READS series: click here for details. Please note: registration is now closed.

In October 1969, Wole Soyinka, who had spent twenty-two months in prison for his political opposition to the Nigerian Civil War, was released. By the end of that year, he had completed the script of The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite, which would debut at the National Theatre in London in 1973. In this play, Soyinka blends the mythology of Dionysus with that of Ogun, the Yoruba god of iron and palm wine. Join us on Thursday, March 5 for two events celebrating this play that helped earn Soyinka the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. First, Patrice Rankine, Dean of Arts and Science at the University of Richmond and author of several books including Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience (2013), will deliver a public lecture, ‘Eternal Drama: Wole Soyinka and the Greeks’, at 4:00 pm in Thompson Library Multipurpose Room (2nd floor, room 165). Later that evening, Tom Dugdale (OSU, Theatre) will direct a reading of Soyinka’s play in the arena in Plumb Hall at 7:30 pm, featuring a cast of professional and OSU student actors.

For more information, questions, or comments, please contact Tom Hawkins at hawkins.312@osu.edu.

These events are co-sponsored by a Ronald and Deborah Ratner Teaching Award, the Classics Coffee Hour, and the Departments of African American and African Studies, and Classics.

We would like to invite you to participate in our workshop at the upcoming annual meeting of CAAS in Philadelphia (Saturday, Oct. 6, 2:30 to 4:30pm), where we will be discussing Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘The Anniad’ (1949). The event’s aim is to encourage classicists to incorporate texts by members of the African diaspora into their teaching and scholarship, to develop more inclusive pedagogy, and to work through perceived barriers to incorporating this material into the work of our field. Please go to this link (https://goo.gl/forms/EUr6VtQ21a40atND3) to sign up for the workshop and access the primary text. We will email questions that will guide our discussions to all subscribers.

Please join us for lunch at the SCS Annual Meeting in San Diego!

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Marina Grand Ballroom G

1:00 pm-2:00 pm

“This young man deserves special mention:” John Wesley Gilbert at Brown University, 1886-1888

John W.I. Lee (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Thursday, November 8, 2018 5:30 pm

Rhode Island Hall, 108

Dr. John W.I. Lee is an Associate Professor at the UCSB Department of History. He studies the history of ancient West Asia with a focus on war and culture in the Greek and Achaemenid world from ca. 650-330 BC. He is currently writing two books: one about Civil War and Revolt in Achaemenid Persia; and another about John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923), the first African American to attend the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the first African American to receive an advanced degree from Brown (Class of 1888).

We would like to invite you to participate in our workshop at the upcoming annual meeting of CAAS in Philadelphia (Saturday, Oct. 6, 2:30 to 4:30pm), where we will be discussing Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘The Anniad’ (1949). The event’s aim is to encourage classicists to incorporate texts by members of the African diaspora into their teaching and scholarship, to develop more inclusive pedagogy, and to work through perceived barriers to incorporating this material into the work of our field. Please go to this link (https://goo.gl/forms/EUr6VtQ21a40atND3) to sign up for the workshop and access the primary text. We will email questions that will guide our discussions to all subscribers.