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Professor Ellen Oliensis, Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages & Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature.  University of California, Berkeley.

Friday, October 8, 2021.  3 PM in HSSB 4080.

Professors Dorota Dutsch (Chair of Classics at UCSB), Robert Morstein-Marx (recent Graduate Advisor ), and Rose MacLean (current Graduate Advisor) will go over some important “do’s and don’ts” regardless of where you are considering applying and answer your questions about an often bewildering process.

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UCSB Classics 2022 Argyropoulos Lecture

‘Tragedy and Revolución: Refashioning Ancient Greek Drama in the 20th Century Hispanic Caribbean’

By Professor Rosa Andújar, King’s College, University of London

This lecture discusses the manner in which ancient Greek drama assumed a new afterlife in the twentieth century Hispanic Caribbean. Focusing on the invocation of Greek drama in three distinctive political volatile contexts (the Cuban Revolution, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship, and amidst struggles for independence in US-occupied Puerto Rico), it illustrates the ways in which Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican artists turned to ancient tragedy and comedy to comment upon the urgencies of their present. The talk reveals Greek drama’s unique resonance across this distinctive cultural and hybrid space.