#  Dan-el Padilla Peralta, 'Classicism and Other Phobias' (2 of 2) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 6, 2022** 

 04:00PM - 04:00PM EDT 

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 **Virtual and In-Person at Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

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 **Dan-El Padilla Peralta**, Associate Professor of Classics, Princeton University

 ***Classicism and Other Phobias***

- *Apr. 5, 4pm:*  *Epic Maroons* - Thompson Room, Barker Center and [Zoom](https://youtu.be/pmjYgRw-5CM)
- *Apr. 6, 4pm:*  *Zealots* - Thompson Room, Barker Center and [Zoom](https://youtu.be/moBYh2zI-js)

 These two lectures will take as their focus one question: is classicism, understood as a historically contingent technology for the assignment and distribution of aesthetic value, broadly compatible with the affirmation and protection of Black life? In the pursuit of some answers to this question, the lectures will concern themselves less with the enumeration of Black thinkers who write back to or otherwise unsettle White-centering paradigms of classicism (see, most recently, David Withun on W.E.B. Du Bois), and more with the consideration of those properties that may or may not align classicism as a political and affective economy with Black pasts and futures.

 Part of the [W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series](/annual-lecture-series)



 

 



 

 

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