Online Open House | Immigration and Belonging: Phoenician Immigrants in 4th-Century BCE Athens, with Denise Demetriou
October 3, 2020
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We are pleased to welcome Denise Demetriou, University of California –
San Diego, for an Online Open House discussion entitled “Immigration
and Belonging: Phoenician Immigrants in Fourth-Century BCE Athens.”
The discussion will be live-streamed on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube channel on Friday, October 9, at 11 a.m. EDT, and will be recorded.
In preparation for this event, you might like to read this PDF handout of readings:
Immigration and Belonging Handout
Denise Demetriou
Denise
Demetriou is the Gerry and Jeannie Ranglas Chair in Ancient Greek
History and Associate Professor of History at the University of
California — San Diego, where she has also served as the Director of
UCSD’s Center for Hellenic Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Classics
from The Johns Hopkins University in 2005. Her research interests focus
on archaic and classical Greek history, with a particular interest in
exploring different kinds of cross-cultural interactions within the
Greek world and between Greeks and non-Greeks. Her first book, Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean: The Archaic and Classical Greek Multiethnic Emporia (Cambridge
2012), studied the construction of ethnic, civic, religious, and social
identities in the ancient Mediterranean from the seventh to the fourth
centuries BCE. She has co-edited (with Amalia Avramidou) Approaching the Ancient Artifact: Representation, Narrative, and Function (De Gruyter 2014).
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