CANCELLED (to be rescheduled) Distinguished Women Scholars Public Lecture

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Monday, March 23rd, 2020
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

A Distinguished Women Scholars Public Lecture will take place on Monday, 23 March at 3:30 pm in University Centre, A180, UVic

Dr. Joy Connolly (President, American Council of Learned Societies) will present a lecture entitled:

“Imagining Communities: Thinking Over and Across Borders”

This lecture examines Roman writers who saw imagination as a binding force for communal identity – raising timely questions for us today about cultural appropriation and imperialism.

Dr. Connolly’s research interests are broad: Roman rhetoric and politics; migration in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds; and the intersection between ancient Greek and Roman and modern political structures. Dr. Connolly published The State of Speech: Rhetorical and Political Thought in Ancient Rome (2007) and The Life of Roman Republicanism (2014), in addition to recent articles or chapters on ancient migrancy, the classical canon, and Rome and modern revolutionaries. Dr. Connolly is the President of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture series was established by the Vice-President Academic and Provost to bring distinguished women scholars to the University of Victoria.

https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/greekroman/