• 3 Mar 2008 - Prof. Patrice Rankine is currently in the Department of Classics & Humanities at Purdue University, where he is the director of the Humanities Program. He is also author of the first major critical and theoretical book on African American Studies and Classics, published in 2007 by Wisconsin: "Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Studies."
  
  The title of his talk is "Is Bigger Better? Aristotle On Black Character." He speaks tonight as a guest of Visiting National Scholar James Tatum. The talk is free and open to the public.