Renowned professor of African history, Toyin Falola, and other eminent scholars have extended the argument for decolonial studies, insisting that it is crucial globally to restore human dignity.
In this lecture, Robert S. Miola will argue that Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1623) reflects local and specific contemporary stereotypes about the barbarous Scots and the civilizing English just as it interrogates racial prejudices and the myths of national identity. If positive cultural encounters acknowledge others in their otherness to build mutual communication and trust, as Pope Francis would […]
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John Milton’s great epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) retells the story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve and their subsequent expulsion from the garden of Eden. In this talk Daniel Shore, professor and chair of the English Department at Georgetown University, will investigate the limits of possible experience through the motif of […]