Classics EDI Lecture 2026

Dr Jermaine Bryant, from the Harvard Society of Fellows, delivered this year's Cambridge Classics EDI Lecture on Thursday 7th May 2026:

"Rhythmic by Nature: Léopold Sédar Senghor's Ethnological Philology"

Dr Bryant is a Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, associated with the departments of Classics and African Studies. He is currently working on two projects: a monograph, developed from his Princeton PhD, centred on an analysis of the mental and emotional wounds in Propertius and Tibullus, with a view at the reconstitution of Roman society after the civil wars of the first century BCE; and a new project centred on postcolonial theorist, poet, and first president of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor's thinking about antiquity.