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Professor John Paul Russo of the University of Miami (http://www.as.miami.edu/english/people/#d.en.17664) discusses the challenges facing the Humanities today. John Paul revisits this key issue, the subject of his book The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society (University of Missouri, 2005). What role can the Classics play in this struggle?
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Professor John Paul Russo of the University of Miami (http://www.as.miami.edu/english/people/#d.en.17664) discusses the challenges facing the Humanities today. John Paul revisits this key issue, the subject of his book The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society (University of Missouri, 2005). What role can the Classics play in this struggle?
Join the debate by watching our interview.


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