#MeToo and Roman Rape Culture with Darah Vann Orr
Ancient historian Darah Vann Orr explains how modern feminist historians are re-evaluating Roman culture in the wake of the #MeToo era.
Speaker: Darah Vann Orr
Darah Vann Orr is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston, studying Women, Gender, and Sexuality of the Early Roman Empire. Her dissertation in progress, ‘Rape and Imperialism: Rome’s Violent Conquest of Land and Bodies,’ seeks to explain how the Romans associated sexual violence with warfare. She recently gave a talk for the University of Houston’s Ancient World Research Group titled ‘Myths, Memes, and #Metoo’ where she discussed some of the theoretical background of her dissertation project, explaining how Roman myths and history can be analyzed by using the ideas from the #metoo movement.