Classics and Classicists: A colloquium in honour of Christopher Stray

Registration/coffee 10.30

11-1.15

Mary Beard (Cambridge)

Classics?

Jas’ Elsner (Oxford)

Room with a Few: The Fraenkel Room, the Refugee Scholars Room and the reception of Reception

Edith Hall (KCL)

Classics Invented: The Emergence of a Disciplinary Label 1670-1733

1.15-2.15  Lunch

2.15- 3.45

Judy Hallett    (Maryland)

Gender and the Classical Diaspora

Lorna Hardwick (OU)

Tracking Classical Scholarship: myth, evidence and epistemology

3.45  Tea

4.15-5.45

Chris Kraus  (Yale)

‘Pointing the moral’ or ‘adorning the tale?’ Illustrations and commentary on Vergil and Caesar in 19th- and early 20th-century American textbooks.

Chris Pelling (Oxford)

Gomme’s Thucydides and the idea of a ‘historical commentary’.

5.45

Chris Stray (Swansea)

Closing remarks

6.00       Drinks

Cost to non-speakers: £15.00 (please bring cash on the day); graduate students free of charge.

To book a place please e-mail Stephen.harrison@ccc.ox.ac.uk by 1st October.