Hosted by | Yale Schwarzman Center; Yale Department of Classics; The Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; and The Whitney Humanities Center |
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Details | For those who want a deeper dive into Medea or were unable to attend the previous YSC Session on “Radical Imagination,” this intimate and interactive dialogue with Shivaike Shah and Eric Glover will serve as the culmination of this deep dive into the Classics through the lens of today’s society. Shivaike Shah is a British Indian producer who has worked in fashion, theatre, and film, who just finished production on a major Netflix feature film. After graduating in English from University College, Oxford, in 2019, he founded Khameleon Productions. Shah is currently touring major US universities with his Uprooting Medea project and is a Visiting Artist with the Brown Arts Institute, at Brown University. Eric Glover is an assistant professor adjunct of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at Yale where he is an expert on Black musical theater. Eric’s first book in progress, an antiracist history of the musicals and the antimusicals of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Glover is proud to be the first Black full-time dramaturgy and dramatic criticism faculty member at the David Geffen School of Drama. |
Admission | FREE |
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More Info | info link |