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Taking Stock: Stereotypes from Asian America to the Ancient Mediterranean

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - Friday, May 30, 2025

Rehm Library, Smith Hall
This workshop supports the development of an edited volume called Taking Stock: Stereotypes from Asian America to the Ancient Mediterranean. 
 
Fifteen contributions draw on frameworks from social psychology and Asian American studies to analyze the function of stereotypes within ancient Greek and Roman cultures, and in the scholarship that investigates them, showing how stereotypes can function both to alienate and to assimilate, to challenge and reimagine structures of power and privilege.
 
Organizers & sponsors

The workshop is co-organized by Katherine Lu Hsu (College of the Holy Cross) and Tori F. Lee (Davidson College) and sponsored by the McFarland Center and the Department of Classics.
 
Contributors
  • Ryan Masato Baldwin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Kate Meng Brassel, University of Pennsylvania
  • Kristina Chew, Rutgers University
  • Joseph Droegemueller, University of Michigan
  • Katherine Lu Hsu, College of the Holy Cross
  • Young Richard Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Inger Kuin, University of Virginia
  • Tori Lee, Davidson College
  • Ximing Lu, University of Oregon
  • Dominic Machado, College of the Holy Cross
  • Walter Duvall Penrose, Jr., San Diego State University
  • Sanjana Ramanathan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Jane Sancinito, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Cassandra Tran, Wake Forest University
  • Christopher Waldo, University of Washington
  • Joseph Watkins, Boston University
     

Schedule

Wednesday, May 28 – Arrival

Participants arrive and group dinner

Thursday, May 29 – Full-Day Workshop

8:30 a.m.
Breakfast

9 - 10 a.m.
Session 1: Goal setting, introductions

10 - 10:30 a.m.
Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Session 2: Common readings & shared definitions/frameworks

11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. 
Lunch

1 - 3 p.m. 
Session 3: Concurrent section discussions

3 - 3:30 p.m.     
Coffee break

3:30 - 5 p.m.     
Session 4: Plenary reconvene

5:45 p.m. 
Dinner

Friday, May 30 – Discussion and Departure

8:30 - 9 a.m.     
Breakfast

9 - 10 a.m.     
Session 5: Refining overall volume structure

10 - 10:30 a.m.     
Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.    
Session 6: Reflections and moving forward

11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. 
Lunch

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