The Fragrant and the Foul: the Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination

Toulouse , France

The classical tradition has long confined Antiquity to an immaculate, sanitized whiteness : thus idealised, it was deprived of its multi-sensorial dimension, and conveniently limited to the visual paradigm. Olfaction, in particular, has often been overlooked in classical reception studies due to its evanescent nature which makes this sense difficult to apprehend. And yet, the […]

Classics and Classicists: A colloquium in honour of Christopher Stray

Corpus Christi College Merton Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

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 […]

Film and History Conference: Classical Antiquity panels – Classical Antiquity: Screening the “political animals” of the Ancient Mediterranean world

Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club 1 W Dayton St, Madison, WI, United States

Classical Antiquity: Screening the “political animals” of the Ancient Mediterranean world An area of multiple panels for the 2018 Film & History Conference: Citizenship and Sociopathy in Film, Television, and New Media   Full details at: www.filmandhistory.org/conference DEADLINE for abstracts: June 1, 2018 Aristotle famously defined humans as “political animals”: organizing themselves within the social […]

AMPRAW 2018: Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World

University of Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal

It is with great pleasure that we announce the Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World. AMPRAW 2018 will be a two-day conference aiming to provide postgraduate students from all disciplines with the opportunity to present their research to the growing academic community focusing on classical reception. A third day, Saturday, will be […]

Medea on the Contemporary Stage and Screen

Western Washington University Bellingham, WA, United States

  Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) In recent years, the afterlives of Greek tragedy have received special attention in the rapidly expanding field of classical reception studies. With reincarnations ranging from Japanese Noh theater to the Mexican screen, Euripides’ Medea is now more than ever a truly global “classic.” The time is ripe […]

The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations

Corpus Christi College Merton Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

Description: The conference will look at writings on ethics and morality from Late Antiquity and Byzantium with the aim of examining their distinctive features and dialogue with existing philosophical models. This is a strand of research that has not previously been subject to systematic investigation, which has precluded a thorough appreciation of the reception of […]

Classical Displacement(s)

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London

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 […]

Translating Greek Tragedy in 16th-century Europe

St Hilda's College, Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom

St Hilda’s College (Oxford) - Vernon Harcourt Room (APGRD, La Réunion and St Hilda’s)   Programme: 10.00-10.30 Registration and Coffee (Vernon Harcourt Room) 10.30-11.00 Welcome from Fiona Macintosh and the organizers; presentation of APGRD Translating Ancient Drama project by Cécile Dudouyt 11.00-12.00 Southern Europe I – Chair: Sarah Knight (Leicester) Elia Borza (Université Catholique de Louvain) – Neo-Latin Sophocles; an Overview […]

Glacie circumdatus uror – Der neulateinische Petrarkismus

Bonn University Bonn, Germany

Donnerstag, 24.1.2019 18.00–18.30 Grußworte Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg, Dekan der Philosophischen Fakultät Prof. Dr. Marc Laureys, Sprecher des CCT PD Dr. Beate Hintzen, Alexander Winkler Abendvortrag 18.30–19.30: Michael Bernsen (Bonn): Der Petrarkismus als europäischer Gründungsmythos anschließend Weinempfang Freitag, 25.1.2019 I. Der neulateinische Petrarkismus in der Romania     10.00–10.45  Gernot Michael Müller (Eichstätt): Überbietende Synthesen. Petrarca […]

The Nineteenth-Century Archive as a Discourse of Power

Durham University Durham, United Kingdom

Interdisciplinary Conference at the Durham Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, supported by the British Association for Victorian Studies and the Royal Historical Society. What is a nineteenth-century archive, broadly defined? Do archival holdings today still run the risk of perpetuating the ideological frameworks within which they were created? Moreover, what are the discourses of imperial power […]