tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24415845119960155502011-07-28T23:32:59.393-04:00Greeks, Romans and BarbariansRandom thoughts on the intersections between Classical culture and contemporary AmericaRF Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09189847760200499244noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441584511996015550.post-78981007206451065902010-09-18T11:14:00.007-04:002010-09-20T14:07:09.475-04:00Orientalism and Classics--Part 1In preparing for a new research project, I have been rereading two books that have become important in the world of classical scholarship and to those who study Greek tragedy especially--Edward Said's Orientalism and Edith Hall's Inventing the Barbarian. I was caught up in the reasons presented by these two scholars in their prefaces for why tragedy and Orientalism go together and I want to jot RF Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09189847760200499244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441584511996015550.post-25449360515583297772010-05-17T20:06:00.005-04:002010-09-18T16:39:50.169-04:00Classics, Liberal Education and American PresentismIt has been awhile since I posted. This is because I have started work at a new university and went through the first year adjusting to life in a new school for the fourth time in 7 years. Such is the life of an academic, especially in the ever shrinking world of the humanities and classics. This year, the year of the massive budget cuts, has seen the demise of a handful of classics departments RF Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09189847760200499244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441584511996015550.post-79460912480981039912009-02-24T15:14:00.001-05:002009-02-25T17:28:25.017-05:00How Obama Became American: the Rhetoric of ethnos and the 2008 Election<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>RF Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09189847760200499244noreply@blogger.com