Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar - Pepe Romanillos

This seminar will explore the interdisciplinary space between human geography and classics (from the perspective of a geographer!). The history of this interdisciplinary space involves periods of significant collaboration - but for various disciplinary reasons, it is also a broader story of disengagement and forgetting on the part of contemporary geographers. After outlining this disciplinary landscape, the seminar introduces themes from my forthcoming monograph, Speculative Earth: Geophilosophy and Ancient Geographical Thought. The book represents a geographical attempt to re-engage with ancient geographical writings (and classical studies more broadly) to reconsider ancient understandings of earth and to challenge some of the disciplinary narratives (and methodologies) surrounding ancient/modern geographical thought.