***Special Guest Episode on Classics and Race/Ethnicity w/Rebecca Futo Kennedy***
The History of Ancient Greece
Ryan Stitt
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 115 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be. So, The Hello I'm Ryan Stitt and welcome back to the History of Ancient Greece. |
| 0:45.0 | We are taking a break from a regularly scheduled programming for another special guest episode today. |
| 0:51.0 | This will be the second episode in a series where I converse with |
| 0:54.1 | classicists about either books or articles that they have published, their |
| 0:57.7 | current research interests, or just unique classes and topics that they are |
| 1:01.4 | teaching and exploring further. |
| 1:03.7 | In today's special episode, I am joined by Dr. Rebecca Fudo Kennedy, associate professor |
| 1:08.8 | of classical studies at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. |
| 1:13.0 | Her primary teaching and research areas include the history of archaic in classical Greece, |
| 1:18.0 | race and ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean, and women Sexuality in Antiquity. |
| 1:23.7 | She is the author and editor of a number of books and articles, including Immigrant Women in |
| 1:28.1 | Athens, The Rutledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds. |
| 1:34.2 | Race and Ethnicity in the Classical world and anthology of sources, and most recently, Brill's |
| 1:39.4 | companion to the reception of Escales. |
| 1:42.0 | She is currently working on the reception of ancient theories of race and ethnicity in the early Smithsonian. On the way inheritance and property laws reflect Athenian understanding of ethnic identity and a new book project on ancient theories on race and ethnicity and their contemporary complications. |
| 1:59.0 | In the first hour of our conversation, Dr. Kennedy and I have a lively discussion about race, ethnicity, immigration, |
| 2:05.2 | and multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean. |
| 2:08.4 | Along the way, we point out many of the misconceptions that there are on these topics and in the second hour we discuss |
| 2:14.4 | how these misconceptions were shaped by early modern European and American political |
| 2:18.6 | thought. In doing so we discuss a course that Dr. Kennedy is currently teaching called ancient art, modern politics, |
| 2:26.6 | which examines art and architecture in ancient Greece and Rome and the history of its appropriation |
| 2:31.3 | by modern fascist governments and |
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