Contact information
Name:
Markus Dubischar
Phone:
5293
Email:
dubischm@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - 7:30pm - 8:45pm
Where:
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights 104
Presenter:
Dr. Angeline Chiu, University of Vermont
Price:
Free
Prior to the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, the “Ides of March” (March 15) was the holiday when Rome celebrated the festival of the goddess Anna Perenna with drinking and cheer. The killing of Caesar, with its momentous political and religious implications, gave the “Ides of March” a different meaning.
Dr. Chiu will explore how Romans respondedto this clash of two different visions for how to mark one holiday. It will become clear that a society’s collective memory and religious practices are not static and “objective” but instead dynamic and subject to constant (re)negotiation.
Sponsored by:
Howard J. Marblestone Memorial Fund with support from the Offices of the President and the Provost, the Departments of FLL, Gov & Law, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, Hillel, and McKelvy