Classics and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Classics and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The Department of Classics is hosting a Colloquium on Latin, the Study of Greco-Roman, British and American Literature, and Historically Black Colleges & Universities on Saturday, April 17, 2010.
Leading scholars from the fields of classics, African-American studies and American literature will give interdisciplinary presentations. They will contextualize current efforts to teach Latin and classical Greco-Roman literature to minority populations.
The presenters will focus on the role played by both subjects, Latin and classical Greco-Roman literature, in the curricula of historically black colleges and universities during the 19th and 20th centuries; on the relationship between the study of classics and that of British and American literature; and on the academic leadership provided by several African-American scholars, chief among them William Sanders Scarborough (pictured on left, image courtesy of the Rembert E. Stokes Library, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce Ohio).
Presenters include: Professor Kenneth Goings, African American/ African Studies, Ohio State University; Eugene O'Connor, Ohio State University Press; Professor Elizabeth Renker, English, Ohio State University; and Professor Michele Ronnick, Classics, Wayne State University.
The panelists are Christopher Chambers, School of Continuing Studies, Georgetown University; Professor Jane Donawerth, English, University of Maryland; and Associate Professor Rudolph Hock, Classics, Howard University.
A concluding round-table will consider how to integrate the study of the classical past in the US African-American community into the present-day Latin classroom.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Judith Hallett.
First photo courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives. MAN ON LEFT: Wiley Lane (1852-1885), Howard University's first black professor of Greek; MAN ON RIGHT: James Monroe Gregory (1849-1915), Professor of Latin at Howard University