“The goal of the ‘Old Classical Humanities’ was to create a citizen suited for an activist world power.”
— W.R. Connor, Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics at Princeton, Emeritus
Rupturing Tradition is an open access online graduate seminar on Classics and Activism
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This course brings together two lines of inquiry not traditionally put in conversation: first, the history and practice of activism as a force for reconfiguring academic knowledge; second, primary texts from Greco-Roman antiquity.
By putting academic and activist knowledge on equal footing, Rupturing Tradition aims to incubate new modes of practicing knowledge of “the classics” as a public good.
Rupturing Tradition was taught online at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton and is now being disseminated to scholars & activists worldwide at no-cost by Activist Graduate School.
Map the methods and theories of disciplinary activism—the ways activists have ruptured tradition—to generate new directions, tactics and methods for transforming the study of the Classics, antiquities and academia more broadly.
Course Faculty
Brooke Holmes is Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Princeton
Dan-el Padilla Peralta is Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton
Chiara Ricciardone is Klemens von Klemperer Postdoctoral Fellow at Bard College and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities & the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Humanistic Studies at Princeton and co-founder of Activist Graduate School
Micah White is Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities & the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Humanistic Studies at Princeton and co-founder of Activist Graduate School