UVic Lansdowne Public Lecture Presented by Greek and Roman Studies

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Monday, February 28th, 2022
1:00 PM

The Department of Greek and Roman Studies welcomes this year’s Lansdowne Lecturer:

Dr. Kostas Vlassopoulos

Associate Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, University of Crete

This is an online event; register here: https://uvic.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUude2prjsiGtAFP6JfChacxvx9SNh40aqm

Dr. Vlassopoulos will present a lecture entitled:

What Is Slavery? A Global Perspective

Dr. Vlassopoulos has written extensively about the history of slavery in the ancient Greek world, globalization and intercultural encounters in antiquity, the history of political thought, and the history of historiography. He is the author of Historicizing Ancient Slavery; the co-editor of Violence and Community: Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World and Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World; and has written numerous articles on slavery in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and on the practice of Greek history.