CALL FOR PAPERS: With the generous support of the foundation Patrum Lumen Sustine (PLuS) the Department of Ancient Studies of the University of Basel and the Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron (SIAC) are jointly organising the international conference Cicero in Basel. The conference aims at charting the presence of the statesman, orator, and philosopher M. Tullius Cicero in the cultural… Continue reading Cicero in Basel. Reception Histories from a Humanist City
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1 event,Narratives of metamorphosis, from human into other living and mineral forms, have long provided an important tool for thinking through the complexities of our relationship with the world around us. From Ovid to David Cronenberg, thinkers and artists have used the trope of physical transformation to figure the ways in which human and non-human agencies… Continue reading Metamorphosis & the Environmental Imagination, from Ovid to Shakespeare |
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Egypt played a prominent role in Freud’s personal life and writings. From his childhood encounter with the Phillipson Bible, through his psychobiography of Leonardo da Vinci (in which the Egyptian goddess Mut becomes a key to the artist’s sexual and creative identity) to his final work Moses and Monotheism in which he makes the scandalous claim… Continue reading Between Oedipus and the Sphinx: Freud and Egypt
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Work in Progress Research Seminar Series, Dept of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick
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Interested in hearing about all the latest developments in research and interpretations of the Iliad and Odyssey? Martha Kearney will chair a panel of experts as they discuss their most recent findings and the current trends in reading Homer. A reception in the Hellenic and Roman Library will follow. Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol University) will explore… Continue reading Homer Today |
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1 event,Lisbon Classics Seminars Room B1 School of Arts and Humanities University of Lisbon |
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Professor Maria Wyke (UCL) 'How Cinema Takes Elite Engagements with Pompeii and Democraticises Them as Image/Word/Music for Mass Consumption' Professor Paul Cartledge (Emeritus A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge) A leading figure in the emergence of Classical Reception Studies since the 1990s, Wyke is perhaps best known for her pioneering work on ancient… Continue reading Iconising the Classical: Pompeii in Silent Cinema |
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