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Classical Encounters: Receptions of antiquity in the long nineteenth-century
June 21, 2019 - June 22, 2019
Classical Encounters: Receptions of antiquity in the long nineteenth-century’ will bring together scholars from a broad range of disciplines to explore encounters with the ancient world in nineteenth-century visual, material, literary and political culture and the implications of these encounters on discourses such as nationhood, colonialism, race, religion, gender, sexuality and death. A roundtable will offer interdisciplinary interventions on classical receptions to discuss the future(s) of reception studies.
Confirmed contributors include Abigail Baker (Warwick), Athena Leoussi (Reading), Carrie Vout (Cambridge), Charles Martindale (York), Daniel Hartley (Durham), Edmund Richardson (Durham), Laura Jensen (Bristol), Liz Prettejohn (York), Rachel Bryant-Davies (Durham) and Shelley Hales (Bristol).
Programme
DAY 1
12.00– 13.15 Lunch and registration
13.15 – 13.30 Welcoming remarks
Panel 1
13:30 – 15:00 Classics, Race and Nation
Chair: Seren Nolan (Durham)
Sarah Budasz (Durham) : ‘Archeological racialization in French travel writing to the Orient: exploratory thoughts’
Athena Leoussi (Reading) : ‘Citizens and Athletes: Classical Greek concepts of humanity in the making of modern European nations in the long 19th century’
Daniel Orrells (King’s College London) : ‘Visualising Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century’
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee
Roundtable
15.30 – 17.00 Interdisciplinarity and the Futures of Classical Reception
Chair: Blaz Zabel (Durham)
Charles Martindale (York), Daniel Hartley (Durham), Edmund Richardson (Durham), (Further contributors TBC)
17.00 – 18.00 Drinks reception
19.30 Dinner
DAY 2
9.00 – 9.30 Coffee
Panel 2
9.30 – 11.00 Visual Encounters
Chair: Liz Prettejohn (York)
Helen Slaney (Roehampton) : Title TBC
Carrie Vout (Cambridge) : ‘The classical and biblical in dialogue: a conversation in Victorian sculpture’
Thomas Couldridge (Durham) : ‘South Kensington Cupid: A New Chapter?’
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee
Panel 3
11.15 – 12.45 Deathly Encounters
Respondent: Edmund Richardson (Durham)
Emily Dunn (Durham) : ‘Dr Price and the 1884 Cremation of the Christ Child’
Shelley Hales (Bristol) : ‘Mortal Remains and Immortal Ruins: Classical Archaeology and Cultures of Death in the Nineteenth Century’
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
Panel 4
14.00 – 15.30 Archaeological Encounters
Chair: Sarah Miles (Durham)
Maddalena Ruini (Durham) : ‘The Prime Minister and the Archaeologist: retelling the Homeric Age’
Abigail Baker (Great North Museum) : ‘Troy in London: making sense of Schliemann’s first exhibition’
Rachel Bryant Davies (Durham) : ‘‘Little Archaeologists’: the Impact of Schliemann’s Excavations at Hissarlik in Victorian Children’s Magazines’
15.30- 15.45 Closing remarks followed by coffee and cake