Name: Remembering Differently
Start: 2022-11-17T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-11-17T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Penn Museum

Remembering Differently

Classical Studies Program, UPenn

Classical Alibis in contemporary fiction from Fran Ross to Ocean Vuong
Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 5:00pm
Penn Museum, Widener Hall

Penn Museum

<p>In the third of her Penn Public Lectures on Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary World, Emily Greenwood, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, will examine the use of classical, mythological alibis to center marginalized, queer subjects in American fiction of the last fifty years. Tracing an arc from Philadelphia novelist Fran Ross to the works of Ocean Vuong, the lecture will consider these classical alibis as hopeful figures for the constructive role that the study of ancient Greek and Roman Classics can play in the recovery of loss in recent American history.</p>

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