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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Friends of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are delighted to invite you to the seventh presentation of Semester 2, 2025 in our Classics and Ancient History research seminar series.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">October 20th (Mon, 12.15pm UTC+11)
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<p class="MsoNormal">V. Gordon Childe Boardroom (Level 2, Madsen Building)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Zoom link: <a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939">
<span style="color:#0078D4">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sarah Lawrence (University of New England)</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Reading Caesar Backwards</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic"">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abstract</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Caesar’s Gallic Wars could be read as a textbook exemplar of imperialistic and colonial ideology. Modern readers needn't look far to find familiar techniques of division, intimidation, and manipulation in Caesar’s account of his interaction
with the Gallic and German peoples. In this paper, I examine Book 6, chapters 11-28 - the ethnographic excursus. While some scholars are reluctant to accept this section was written by Caesar, I argue it is in keeping with the overall project and provides
a useful point of comparison for discussions of how anthropology and ethnography have been implicated in colonialism in the modern world. With this in mind, I ask whether Caesar’s description of Gallic and Germanic customs might also be used as a resource
for decolonisation, if we look at it as a guide to some of the things that need to be un-done.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sarah Lawrence is the Charles Tesoriero Assoc. Prof. in Latin at UNE. She is also currently the Assoc. Dean Teaching and Learning: Strategy and Quality. Her research focuses on using underloved Latin texts to access Roman thinking. She
is also keenly interested in pedagogy and social justice in teaching.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best, Ben</p>
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