A talk and Q&A with Shane Butler -- Beyond the Wine-Dark Sea UC Berkeley Italian Migration Studies Working Group
The distinguished guests at a dinner party in 1860s London debate the meaning of certain words in Homer. The British governor of a Caribbean island brutally suppresses a popular uprising and is charged with murder. At a New York gentlemen’s club, a Black journalist makes a shocking accusation of plagiarism. And high in the Swiss Alps, a queer Victorian expatriate dreams of Venetian sunsets. What links these scenes? Among other things, they are haunted by a rhythm both ancient and timeless, which we shall strain our ears to hear, again.
