[Usyd_Classics_Events] Critical Antiquities Workshop #2, 2023: April 27 Mario Telò

[Ben Brown]

Dear Friends of Critical Antiquities,

At the next Critical Antiquities Workshop, we have the pleasure of hosting Mario Telò (University of California, Berkeley) for his talk, ‘Geopower, Blackness, and the Pandemic: Reading Antigone with Du Bois and Hartman.’

The event will take place on Zoom on Thursday, April 27, 9:30-11am. Here is the time in other locations:


  *   New York: Wednesday, April 26, 7:30pm
  *   Chicago: Wednesday, April 26, 6:30pm
  *   Mexico City: Wednesday, April 26, 5:30pm
  *   Los Angeles: Wednesday, April 26 29, 4:30pm
  *   Beijing/Singapore/Perth: Thursday, April 27, 7:30am
  *   Tokyo: Thursday, April 27, 8:30am
  *   Adelaide: Thursday, April 27, 9am

To register, please sign up for the Critical Antiquities Network mailing list here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LOXpCGv0oyCBLR9WzsKmGBP?domain=signup.e2ma.net<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LOXpCGv0oyCBLR9WzsKmGBP?domain=signup.e2ma.net>

Here is the abstract:

Seizing on the anachronism inherent in every act of reading while refusing the dichotomy between ancient text and modern reception, this paper shows how Greek tragedy can speak to us about the pandemic as well as the crises it has aggravated and come to epitomize. Re-reading Antigone in light of Saidiya Hartman’s Litany for Grieving Sisters and W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Comet helps us conceptualize the relationship between tragedy and the end of the world, or the end of the human, a prospect that the pandemic and climate change have made palpable. More importantly, this affective and interpretive re-engagement with Sophocles’ play might allow us to locate imaginative forms of being beyond extraction and beyond human extinction.

We look forward to seeing you there.
Tristan and Ben


DR BEN BROWN
Classics and Ancient History
School of Humanities (SoH)
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