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Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz presented invited lectures at the Institute of Classical Studies in London and at the University of Cambridge.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz was an invited speaker on March 9 at the Brock University Archaeological Society’s Scholarly Symposium “Classics in Education: Ancient and Modern.” Her talk was titled “Academic Activism: Teaching Classics at Marcy Correctional Facility.”

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz presented her work on the Hamilton Oneida Prison Education (HOPE) Project at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, was a guest lecturer in a week-long seminar at New York University (NYU) on “Troubling Talk from Antiquity Onward: Sensitive Topics in the Classroom.”

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, gave a paper titled, “Marriage or Rape? Aeschylus’ Suppliants and Charles Mee’s Big Love” at the British Classical Association meetings in Exeter, U.K.  

Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz presented a paper titled “Ancient Myth and Feminism: Prison Activism and the Medea Project” at an international conference on “Classical Greek and Roman Literature: Gendered Perspectives in Reading and Reception” at the University of Maryland, College Park.  

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, recently presented her ongoing work to faculty of the University of California at San Diego and Friends of Classics, and at the University of San Diego.

Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz published an article titled “O’Neill and Dove: The Civil War through Tragedy” in the inaugural issue of the journal Logeion: A Journal of Ancient Theatre. The article is a result of Rabinowitz’s research on the political uses of Greek tragedy.

Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz chaired a workshop titled “Classics in Action” at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association Jan. 5-8 in Philadelphia. The session as a whole raised the question of how Classics as a discipline engages with the wider society.

Nancy S. Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented a lecture titled "Why We Turn to Greek Tragedy in Times of War" at the conference "Eight Years in Babylon: The Iraq War and the Classics Eight Years On" on March 18 in London.