[Usyd_Classics_Events] Studio for Critical Antiquities: Harriet Fertik

[Tristan Bradshaw]

Dear all,

The Studio for Critical Antiquities is very excited to host Harriet Fertik (Ohio State University) to discuss her new project 'Between Traditions: Reading Antiquity with W. E. B. Du Bois and Hannah Arendt'. Harriet is in the early stages of this research, so will not be circulating a draft of her own work. By way of preparation for the session, Harriet recommends we read a couple of short extracts from Du Bois and Arendt (totalling about 7 pages). If you would like a copy of these extracts and intend to participate in the session, please send an email to tom.geue at anu.edu.au<mailto:tom.geue at anu.edu.au> by Wednesday 5 August. We also ask that you register for the Critical Antiquities Network mailing list if you haven't done so already (see below).

This event will be held on Zoom on Wednesday 26 August, 9.30-11am (Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne time).

Here is the time in other locations:


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Los Angeles/Vancouver: Tuesday 25 August, 4.30-6pm
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Chicago: Tuesday 25 August, 6.30-8pm
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Mexico City: Tuesday 25 August, 5.30-7pm
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New York: Tuesday 25 August, 7.30-9pm
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Santiago: Tuesday 25 August, 7.30-9pm
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Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro: Tuesday 25 August, 8.30-10pm
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Dublin/Belfast/London: Tuesday 25 August, 12.30am-2am
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Paris/Berlin/Rome: Tuesday 25 August, 1.30am-3am
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Johannesburg: Tuesday 25 August, 1.30am-3am
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Athens/Cairo: Tuesday 25 August, 2.30am-4am
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Beijing/Singapore/Perth: Wednesday 26 August, 7.30-9am
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Tokyo: Wednesday 26 August, 8.30-10am
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Darwin: Wednesday 26 August, 9.00-10.30am
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Adelaide: Wednesday 26 August, 9.00-10.30am
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Auckland/Wellington: Wednesday 26 August, 11.30am-1pm


To register, please sign up for the Critical Antiquities Network mailing list to receive Zoom links and CAN announcements: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/rXR6CoV1kpfBzwNWGh1fq8hpYPpg?domain=signup.e2ma.net<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/rXR6CoV1kpfBzwNWGh1fq8hpYPpg?domain=signup.e2ma.net>

The Studio for Critical Antiquities is a new initiative of the Critical Antiquities Network, hosted by the Australian National University. This forum is designed to support work in formation for early career scholars working at any kind of interface between antiquity and critical theory. It runs twice a semester alongside the Critical Antiquities Workshop. More information about the Studio (including forthcoming events) can be found here<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/lC3BCp81lrtv8wr6LfDh2NhGesPO?domain=criticalantiquities.org>.

Here is Harriet's abstract:

Between Traditions: Reading Antiquity with W. E. B. Du Bois and Hannah Arendt

What happens if reading a tradition that is implicated in violence against you is essential for understanding yourself and your place in the world? What new perspectives on classical antiquity, and on what classical antiquity can mean for us today, could this ambivalent way of reading offer—if we read the classics as destructive but also generative, as damaging but also, ultimately, necessary? W. E. B. Du Bois, a Black American writer, sociologist, and civil rights activist, and Hannah Arendt, a German Jewish refugee, essayist, and political theorist, allow us to answer these questions. I focus on texts in which Du Bois and Arendt explore the perspective of the outsider, the other or the outcast, on cultural monuments. In doing so, they sketch a theory of tradition in which the figure of the self-conscious outsider plays an essential role. This figure, whom Du Bois associates with double consciousness and Arendt names the “pariah,” becomes in their readings 1) a privileged reader or viewer of cultural monuments which are imagined to be exclusive and 2) an essential participant in sustaining and innovating on the tradition to which those monuments belong. This talk derives from my current book project which explores the complex triangulation between Black Americans, German Jews, and Greco-Roman antiquity through Du Bois’s and Arendt’s writing and the powerful but ambivalent relationship they each had with the classics.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Tristan Bradshaw
Ben Brown
Tom Geue
Andy Poe


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