Black Cicero: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Ancient Romans

A Panel discussion with Mathias Hanses on his new book Black Cicero: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Ancient Romans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford University Press, 2026. 

Participants:

• Mathias Hanses (Associate Professor of Classics, Penn State University) in conversation with 
• Hannah Čulik-Baird (Associate Professor of Classics, UCLA)
• Harriet Fertik (Associate Professor of Classics, Ohio State University)
• Andrea Kouklanakis (Associate Professor of Classics, CUNY) 
• Jesse McCarthy (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Harvard University)
• Jackie Murray (Associate Professor of Classics, SUNY Buffalo)
• Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Professor of Classics, Arizona State University)
• Diontay Wolfries-Thomas (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Classics, Harvard University)

 The panel will be introduced and moderated by Emily Greenwood (James F. Rothenberg Professor of the Classics, Harvard University)

 
After the panel there will a tie-in EOS Reads event (from 3:30-5 pm), focusing on Du Bois’s classicism: details and readings to follow.