Join us as we kick-off another academic year together! There will be a full lunch and beverages provided and a talk by a special guest speaker, Professor Harriet Fertik, from OSU's Classics Department.
Harriet Fertik works on ancient political thought and classical reception. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Classics and an affiliate of the Departmentof Comparative Studies and the Melton Center for Jewish Studies. Her most recent projects include a study of "women's work" and political participation in the writings of Aristotle, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Anna Julia Cooper, and an essay on antiquity and anti-Blackness in Hannah Arendt's political thought. She is one of the founders of Eos (eosafricana.org), a society dedicated to Africana receptions of ancient Greece and Rome, and serves on its executive committee.
