by Prof. Mark Fleishman At the beginning of 2019, the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies (previously the department of Drama and the School of … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #5
African BLOG TAKEOVER #4
Continuing the conversation with Charlayn von Solms… SM: Your first main work using the poetics of Homer, A Catalogue of Shapes, was the subject of a dissertation for your PhD … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #3
Homer in Cape Town: the sculptural assemblages of Charlayn von Solms In February’s African takeover blogs, I (Dr Samantha Masters, Stellenbosch University) speak to Charlayn von Solms, a contemporary South … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #2
Meet our African takeover team members! Prof. Mark Fleishman, Mandla Mbothwe and Jayne Batzofin, from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, are working on the exciting project entitled Reimagining … Read More
African BLOG TAKEOVER #1
Welcome to the African takeover of the Classical Reception Studies Network blog which will run roughly for the first half of 2021. We are a group of academics from Ghana, … Read More
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020): The Truth Will Set You Free?
By Amanda Potter As I write this I realise that many Wonder Woman fans across the UK, and the world, will not yet have been able to see Wonder Woman … Read More
Member Profile: Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas
It is a pleasure to introduce to the CRSN Professor Gaullier-Bougassas. Catherine wrote to us a while back hoping that we might be able to put her in touch with … Read More
Lusophone BLOG TAKEOVER #8
Our final takeover is dedicated to Brazilian poets, many of whom are also classicists! We will share some English translations of their Brazilian poetry and include some excerpts from interviews. … Read More
Lusophone BLOG TAKEOVER #7
It’s our seventh CRSN Takeover this month. This time Prof. Susana Marques tells us all about a project led by scholars at the University of Coimbra called ‘Rewriting the myth’, … Read More
Lusophone BLOG TAKEOVER #6
For this month’s takeover Maria de Fátima Silva tells us about one special area of classical reception research that she oversees at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. As Full Professor … Read More