The Penn Department of Classical Studies announces the following lectures in the ongoing series of “Penn Public Lectures on Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary World”:

Elena Isayev (Univerity of Exeter) will be speaking on “People Out of Place: Mediating Sovereignty and Power, Past and Present”

• November 2, 5:00 PM EDT: “Who is the Host? Asylum Requests, Sovereignty and Recognition in the Polis of Greek Tragedy and Among Nations Today”

• November 7, 5:00 PM EST: “The Exile as Weapon:  Moving People to Challenge Autonomy and Exert Authority – Hellenistic Decrees and Televised Push-backs”

• November 9, 5:00 PM EST : “Non-Return and Non-Arrival: Interdependence through Exclusion, Captivity and Incomplete Restitution”

Register for in-person or online attendance at https://www.classics.upenn.edu/events/penn-public-lectures