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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-number-form:oldstyle;mso-contextual-alternates:yes">Dear Ben,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-number-form:oldstyle;mso-contextual-alternates:yes"> Many thanks for the notice. I’m really sorry not to be able
to join the seminar, as it would be definitely informative and stimulating to listen to Sarah’s exposition. Jann and I have ongoing commitments Mondays at lunchtime, which always rule me out from coming in.
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</span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Usyd_Classics_Events <usyd_classics_events-bounces@mailman.sydney.edu.au> on behalf of Ben Brown via Usyd_Classics_Events
<usyd_classics_events@mailman.sydney.edu.au><br>
<b>Reply to: </b>Ben Brown <benjamin.brown@sydney.edu.au><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, 16 October 2025 at 9:11 am<br>
<b>To: </b>Ben Brown via Usyd_Classics_Events <usyd_classics_events@mailman.sydney.edu.au><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"CLASSICISTS@LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK" <classicists@listserv.liv.ac.uk>, _ARTS SOH Academics <_ARTSSOHAcademics@mcs.usyd.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Usyd_Classics_Events] Reminder: USYD Classics Research Seminar: Oct 20 Sarah Lawrence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif">Dear Friends of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif">We are delighted to invite you to the seventh presentation of Semester 2, 2025 in our Classics and Ancient History research seminar series.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif">October 20th (Mon, 12.15pm UTC+11)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif">V. Gordon Childe Boardroom (Level 2, Madsen Building)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif">Zoom link:
<a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939"><span style="color:#0078D4">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif">Sarah Lawrence (University of New England)</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif">Reading Caesar Backwards</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif">Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif">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" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond MT Pro",serif">Best, Ben<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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