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Ancient Greece and Rome have played key roles in shaping the United States’ political and civic institutions. They have also helped justify racialized enslavement, colonialism, and eugenics, and continue to be appropriated to support white supremacist ideologies and anti-immigrant policies – even from the floor of Congress. This course invites students to dialogue with D.C. practitioners and classics scholars from across the field who are working to set the public record straight about the multiculturalism of the Greco-Roman world, as well as to expose and repair the discipline's history of racism and exclusion. Students will host, introduce, and moderate public talks by pairs of scholar-practitioners, always including at least one DC-based guest; participate in hands-on workshops and museum tours; develop content for digital publication as part of the “Race in Antiquity” open-access educational resource (PI: Pandey) and potentially work with DC partners to identify opportunities for curriculum or policy outcomes. The speaker series at the heart of this course builds on a March 2024 symposium at Homewood, organized to synergize with Pandey’s Classics Research Lab.