The Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition at Bristol is pleased to announce that the 2022 Morse Lecture will be delivered by Professor Dean Hammer on the 13th May at 5pm BST.
This is an online event and free to attend.
The Sixth Annual Sir Jeremy Morse IGRCT Lecture, 13th May, 5pm BST
Dean Hammer
Professor of Classics and Professor of Government, Franklin and Marshall College
‘Communities of Strangers: Citizenship, Identity, and Belonging’
Ancient Rome provides a revealing glimpse into the fragile relationship between citizenship, identity, and belonging. The modern nation-state is premised on the notion that identity and belonging are organized by juridical membership rather than by our different genealogies. But there lingers a haunting question, one made more salient in a globalized world: Who are We if We are comprised entirely of Theys with different memories, identities, and pasts? Rome portends how communities attempt to answer this question by casting citizens as Strangers, elevating particular claims of national identities and fragmenting State identities. We see this fragmentation play out in our contemporary politics, including in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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