Giving Day Highlight: Res Difficiles
On March 20th, 2021, Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University) and Joseph Romero (University of Mary Washington) held the second annual Res Difficiles conference, where panelists and participants gathered to discuss problems that face researchers and teachers of the ancient Mediterranean at all levels. In this conference series, we discuss “difficult subjects” – res difficiles – of several kinds, relating both to the challenges inherent to the subject matter of ancient texts and to the inequities of contemporary education and society more broadly. A fully online conference hosted over Zoom, this year we welcomed over 300 registrants. This year’s keynote speaker was Professor Patrice Rankine (Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Richmond): “Power/Memory: Reception, Classicism, and Some Considerations on the Current State of Play.” Video recordings of the conference are now available to view on the conference website – resdifficiles.com – and on our YouTube playlist.
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