Conference
Translating Eurydice
University of East London Room US4.15, University Square Stratford, 1 Salway Road, Stratford, London, United KingdomA one-day conference on myth in the twenty-first century organised by the Centre for Myth Studies, University of Essex, and Psychosocial Studies, University of East London. Academic papers by Amber Jacobs, Anita Klujber, and Carol Leader. Presentations by Tom de Freston and Kiran Millwood Hargrave (on OE, a transmedia retelling of the myth), and Ghost […]
Lettori latini e italiani di Ovidio. Duemila anni di ricezione
Universita di Torino , ItalyDipartimento di Studi Umanistici – Università di Torino Comitato scientifico e organizzativo: Federica Bessone e Sabrina Stroppa ( Programma Sala Principe d’Acaja (Rettorato) 9 novembre 2017, ore 14.45 Presiede la sessione: Federica Bessone Introduzione ai lavori Mario Labate (Università di Firenze), Ovidio magister amoris e le disavventure di Encolpio a Crotone Luca Graverini (Università di Siena - Arezzo), Ovidio […]
AMPRAW
University of Edinburgh Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomWe are pleased to announce that the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow, will host the Seventh Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW) from 23-24 November 2017. This conference is generously supported by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology […]
Byron the Latinist
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomA one-day conference organised by Karen Caines, with support from Trinity College Oxford, to address a still under-explored area. The conference will address the broader context and examine Byron’s engagement with individual Latin authors and works. 9.30am: Registration and coffee 10am: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Welcome and Chair of Session 1 10.05am: Sir Drummond Bone (Oxford), Introduction […]
Hermeneutics of Symbol, Myth and “Modernity of antiquity” in Italian Literature and the Arts from the Renaissance up to the Present Day
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, ItalyThe hermeneutics of the “modernity of antiquity” is a still pioneering branch of research in Italian literature and art studies. Its aim is to discover the hidden meaning of works of literature and arts where other approaches failed or proved unsatisfactory. Its distinguishing trait consists in using, along with all the results of historical, critical […]
Historical Fictions Research Network
Stoke-on-Trent9:30-11:15 garden and registration 11:15-12:10 Jerome de Groot 12:10-1pm lunch 1-2:30 1 Fedorova Russian Revolt on the Screen Pooley It’s Not the Wallpaper that Worries Me: Genre Trouble and Historical Faction Slugan Crime Reconstructions in Early Cinema: The Threat to Public Morals and The Fact/Fiction Distinction 2 Hardstaff Maybe One Day: Anticipation in the […]
The Landscape Garden: Britain’s Greatest Eighteenth-century Export?
British School at Rome via Antonio Gramsci 61, Rome, Italy'The 18th-century English Landscape Garden'. - Dr Laura Mayer, Independent scholar and author. 'Roman influences on Georgian Stourhead'. - Prof John Harrison, Ph.D., Open University. 'Gardens at La Trappe: neo-classical display in the London suburbs'. - Dr Clare Hornsby FSA, Independent art & cultural historian. 'Painting and Planting: art, aesthetics and landscaping in Georgian England' […]
2nd Annual Postgraduate Symposium in Classical Reception
Dept of Philology, University of Patras Patras, GreeceReception is conceived not as a subdivision of Classics but as a mode of historicised inquiry and constant self-critique intrinsic in Classical Studies. In this respect, the reader assumes the role of the decoder who examines reception of the ancient world from the 8th century BC onwards: from Antiquity to Byzantium, the Middle Ages, the […]
The old lie: I Classici e la Grande Guerra/Classics and the Great War
Università di Bologna , ItalyThe Old Lie, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (Horace, Odes, III): more than two thousand years later, the line was resumed by Wilfred Owen as a polemical and bitter seal for one of his poems, written between 1917 and 1918, a sharp accusation against the atrocities of war, which is often mystified by […]