[MGSA-L] Event on African American travelers to Greece (ca. 1850-1900), Harvard, April 7, 4pm

[Roilos, Panagiotis]

Dear all,

I would like to invite you to the following event.

Sincerely,
Panagiotis Roilos
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Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Seminar on Modern Greek Studies
African American Travelers Encounter Greece, ca. 1850-1900 (online event; see registration details below)
John Lee, University of California Santa Barbara

While historians have examined nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American trans-Atlantic travel, they have emphasized western Europe and sometimes Egypt, while neglecting Greece. This talk examines the experiences of three Black Americans who went to Greece in the last half of the nineteenth century: David Dorr, who as an enslaved servant visited Syros (Syra) and Athens in May 1852; Frederick Douglass, who spent a week in Athens during March 1887; and John Wesley Gilbert, who spent 1890-91 in Greece as the first African American member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.


Thursday, April 7, 4pm


Register in advance for this meeting:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcO2qpz0sGdeABVAOOivrCs70wAK1WhfC<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJAqcO2qpz0sGdeABVAOOivrCs70wAK1WhfC&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=kQhyxcCOJ5pbHXm3U222khZ5k-nobB6p8LSg5N9ZC0o&m=_mtqBnMRS_AkYr0rr2lmanf6NSitRcxHuvjhbd8rxQPSJifSCEvJt8NpfhGtQh_g&s=vYEjAunCSUqPueS7L5xBoe1oete_RtbrkzaDV4EP-T0&e=>

Panagiotis Roilos
George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature
Department of the Classics and Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Founder and Director, Delphi Academy of European Studies
Greek Hauntologies and Disjointed Times: Temporality and Tropes of Indebtedness from British Aestheticism
to the Current European Crisis
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