Dartmouth Events

On Thursday October 17th at 5pm the Dartmouth Department of Classical Studies will welcome Rebecca Futo Kennedy of Denison University to give a lecture titled "Race and Anti-Immigration Prejudice in Classical Athenian Law and Rhetoric". This Lecture is free and open to the public.

Rebecca Futo Kennedy is Professor of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Denison University. Her research and teaching interests focus on the social and political history of ancient Athens, especially immigration and gender. She has published widely on the tragedies of Aeschylus, race and ethnicity, immigration in Athens, women in Athenian law, and the reception of Greece and Rome in modern white supremacist contexts.

About the topic: Athens is often praised as the 'first democracy' and a model for the contemporary world. But, as with modern democracies, the Athenians struggled to find a balance between promoting privileges for citizens and encouraging prejudice against immigrants and foreign residents. This talk will discuss the Athenian system for immigrants, called metoikia, as a system of race-making technology for population management.