Mary Jane Dempsey
Remember to Forget: Journeying toward a Dissertation

In this talk, Mary Jane Dempsey will introduce her dissertation project before focusing on the specific research she has conducted during this Fellowship year.

Mary Jane Dempsey is the Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Romance Languages at Cornell University.

John Izzo
Tiro’s Ghost: Atlantic Slavery, Race, and a Roman Freedman

John Izzo is writing a dissertation on Marcus Tullius Tiro, a Roman freedman who had formerly been enslaved to Cicero. For his shoptalk, he will be discussing Tiro’s afterlives in the contexts of slavery and race in a number of sources from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

John Izzo is the Millicent Mercer Johnsen Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics at Columbia University.

The shoptalks will be held in English. They will not be streamed on Zoom.

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