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Classical Displacement(s)
November 23, 2018
An interdisciplinary colloquium that explores the involvement of Greco-Roman antiquity, appropriated by societies throughout history, in the displacement and marginalisation of minority identities. The event, generously supported by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, will also consider the response of those marginalised voices: how groups excluded from and through the Classics have used antiquity to reassert themselves.
Keynote Speaker: Dr Katherine Fleming, QMUL
PROGRAMME:
09.30-10.00 – Registration & Welcome
10.00-11.25 – Panel 1: Gendered Displacements.
Peter Swallow, KCL – The Birds and the Bees: Dis-/Re-/Redis-placement(s) in Aristophanic Performance.
Kathryn Adams, University of Exeter – Elagabalus: The Worst of them All? Why Cultural Attitudes to Gender Caused 18th- and 19th-Century Historians to Brand a Roman Emperor the Worst Figure in all of History.
Oliver Baldwin, KCL – Queer Medea: Construction and Deconstruction of the Gendered Self in Luis Riaza’s Medea is a good boy.
11.25-11.45 – Refreshment Break.
11.45-13.35 – Panel 2: Who Owns Antiquity?
Matthew Mordue, University of Roehampton – The Appropriation of the Classics by the Alt-Right.
Claire Frampton, The Museums Association – Performance Of Classical Stories With Traditionall Marginalised Groups
Karl Goodwin, University of Kent – Ancient Culture and Modern Ethnicity: Regaining Voices through Narratology.
Fiona Hobden, University of Liverpool – Akala’s Hip-Hop Odyssey: The Politics of Race and the Classical Tradition on British Television.
13.35-15.00 – Lunch
15.00-15.05 – Afternoon Welcome.
15.05-16.30 – Panel 3: Displacing Ideologies: Classical Contestations
Virginia Ghelarducci, SAS – Slaves and Masters: Aristotle’s Politics in Valladolid (1550–1551).
Angelica Baker Ottaway, KCL – Identifying with Homer: Simone Weil’s Return to the Trojan War.
Adam Lecznar, UCL – Children of Antaeus: Classical Displacement in Léopold Sédar Senghor.
16.30-16.50 – Refreshment Break.
16.50-17.50 – Keynote Lecture:
Katherine Fleming, QMUL (Title TBC)
17.50-18:00 – Closing Remarks.
18:00-18:45 – Wine reception (followed by an informal dinner).