Dan-El Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor of Classics, Princeton University
Classicism and Other Phobias
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
LOCATION:Virtual and In-Person at Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20220406T200000Z DTEND:20220406T200000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR