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SCS 2022 Panel: Black Athena before Black Athena

A panel at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies:

Black Athena Before Black Athena

Maghan Keita (Villanova University): Black Athena before Black Athena: Elision and Dismissal

Vanessa Davies (Bryn Mawr College): Entangled on the Nile

Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky): "I did not want to approach my study of ancient history directed by WHITE scholarship": Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1876-1941) to Ivan van Sertima (1933-2006)

Yujhán Claros (University of New Hampshire): Modernist Poets at the Margins: The Prophetic Arts and Aesthetics of Kahlil Gibran and Melvin Tolson

Christopher Parmenter (New York University): Bernal, Snowden, and the Politics of Black Antiquity

Najee Olya (University of Virginia): Exiting Frank M. Snowden, Jr's Anthropological Gallery: Toward an Understanding of Egyptian Influence in Ancient Greek Visual Representations of Africans

Talawa Adodo (Temple University): Delineating the Two Cradles: Black Discourse on Kemetic Influence on Greece

Read the abstracts on the SCS website.