Grant Parker, Nelson Mandela: Conceiving a Life (BIOS Workshop)

Prof. Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics and Co-Director of the Center for African Studies, presents "Nelson Mandela: Conceiving a Life".
BIOS Workshops are funded from a Geballe Workshop grant from the Stanford Humanities Center.
Prof. Parker researches (mostly South) African culture, with a particular interest in monuments, collective memory, and the creative arts. His first book was The Agony of Asar: a thesis on slavery by the former slave, Jacobus Elisa Johannnes Capitein, 1717-1747 (Markus Wiener Publishers 2001), an annotated edition and discussion of a former west African slave's apparent defense of slavery. He has also edited a book, South Africa, Greece and Rome: classical confrontations (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press), which investigates intersections between modern South African and ancient Greco-Roman histories. In a new project, he is taking stock on statues honoring Nelson Mandela.