Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Mar 5, 2020 | 6:30PM

The Haunted House of Classics

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Drawing on the writings of Avery Gordon, Saidiya Hartman, and César Sánchez Beras, Dan-el Padilla Peralta hopes to generate some critical momentum around the premise that Classics is a ghostly matter, haunted by its participation in global projects of race-making but insistent on denying responsibility for the violences committed in its name.   

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