You are invited to join us at the next School of History and Heritage’s Research Seminar: Wednesday 27th April 5-6pm

Dr Shushma Malik (University of Roehampton) ‘Corrupting the ‘Gift’ of Citizenship in Roman Historiography’. Abstract Grants of citizenship are described by Roman writers as forms of transfer – citizenship is ’given’, ‘gifted’, ‘shared’, and so forth.

This paper uses theories of transfer developed by anthropologists and philosophers as a framework to explore how the Roman historian Livy variously understood the social and political ramifications of mass citizenship grants made in the context of war, and how the vocabulary of a ‘gift’ could highlight the corruption of the process.

Dr Shushma Malik is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Roehampton. Before moving to London, she lectured at the University of Manchester in the UK and the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She is the author of The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm (CUP, 2020). All welcome.

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