On 10-11 April 2025, UCLA’s Global Antiquity initiative hosted its second symposium, “Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions.” Mathias Hanses and I presented a paper which previews our in-progress book project, Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race. The recording is now available below and on YouTube. For the recordings from the rest of the symposium: https://globalantiquity.ucla.edu/video-library/

Mathias and I went on to give two subsequent papers on aspects of the project in the summer of 2025. We presented a paper entitled “Cicero’s Dream of Africa” at the Classics &/in Africa conference held at University College London (July 3, 2025), and another paper “Cicero and the Racecraft of Roman Slavery” at a panel organized by Jessica Clark and Dominic Machado at the Celtic Classics Conference in Coimbra, Portugal (July 18, 2025).