Below are a few starter resources for your inquiry into race and antiquity, featuring mostly non-classics students from Johns Hopkins.
Please revisit this site for further resources, and feel free to contribute a podcast of your own!
Podcasts and other media
ANCIENT OFFICE HOURS WITH THE OZYMANDIAS PROJECT
This special release is a recording from December 2022 with Dr. Nandini Pandey's class at Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
In the episode, you'll hear Lexie and Dan discuss with the class their preconceived notions before the course, things they wish they could tell future students, (de)constructing classics, perspectives on how the ancient world intersects with their modern interests, and of course, a reading of the poem Ozymandias by the whole class.
Follow the Ozymandias Project here!
FUTURES OF ANCIENT RACE (FAR)
The Futures of Ancient Race (FAR) inaugural ‘unconference,’ at the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University in March 2024, was staffed and supported by Professor Nandini Pandey’s Spring 2024 Classics Research Lab (CRL), the Race in Antiquity Project (RAP). This gathering generated interdisciplinary conversations about creating teaching sources and expanding access to global histories of race. Catch up on our findings and conversations here - with thanks to JHU students Marie Wei and Virankha Peter for conveying our findings.
GETTING CURIOUS WITH JONATHAN VAN NESS
This week, we’re traveling back to one of our favorite sites for curiosity: the ancient Mediterranean. Professors Sarah Derbew and Nandini Pandey join Jonathan to discuss how people across the region experienced cultural diversity, how they related to—and set themselves apart from—their neighbors, and what it looks like to approach the ancient past on its own terms rather than filtered through contemporary assumptions. Listen here.