Conference
Anachronism and Antiquity: Configuring Temporalities in Ancient Literature and Scholarship
Florida State University Tallahassee, FL, United StatesThe Anachronism and Antiquity team is delighted to announce ‘Anachronism and Antiquity: Configuring Temporalities in Ancient Literature and Scholarship’, a conference to be held at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, on March 23-24, 2018. Speakers and their titles are: Carol Atack, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, ‘Plato’s Queer Time: Dialogic Moments in the Life and Death […]
Classical Association Conference
We welcome proposals for papers of twenty minutes (to be followed by ten minutes’ discussion) and proposals for coordinated panels (comprising three, four, or exceptionally seven papers on any classical topic) for the Classical Association Conference 2018 in Leicester. Panels of four or seven papers should include a Respondent as the final speaker. In particular, […]
Echoes: A Symposium on Classic-Modern Relations
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomThis symposium explores the impact, legacy and use of the classical world in modern art and culture. Speakers from fields as diverse as literature, museum studies, art history and architecture will discuss their research. The day is free and open to all.
Locating the Ancient World in Early Modern Subversive Thought
Newcastle UniversityThe aim of this conference is to expand on this revived appreciation of the classical influence in early modernity by looking specifically at the role played by the ancient world in that sphere from which it has most usually been excluded: subversive literature. The idea that the texts, philosophies, and exempla of the ancient world […]
Middle ground or no man’s land? The Classical tradition between Modern Languages and Classics
Durham University Durham, United KingdomPanel at Our Uncommon Ground: Modern Languages and Cultures for the 21st Century Chairs: Barbara Graziosi (Durham) and Carlo Caruso (Siena) In November 2016 the Centre for Classical Reception at Durham University organised a workshop on the future of what is commonly defined as ‘Classical reception’. After a long period of progressive and very promising […]
The Literary Self: from Antiquity to the Digital Age
University of Edinburgh Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomA postgraduate conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh on 4-5 June 2018. Keynote: Professor Simon James, Durham University Other confirmed speakers: Dr Roger Rees, University of St Andrews Throughout […]
Society for Neo-Latin Studies Postgraduate Event: Editing Neo-Latin Texts
John Rylands Library, University of Manchester 150 Deansgate, Manchester, United KingdomRegistration now open (FREE for all postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers): if you would like to attend, please email p.m.white@leeds.ac.uk Programme 10:30-11:00 Welcome and introduction (Christie Room, John Rylands Library) 11:00-12:30 Research Papers: Alexia Dedieu (Université Grenoble Alpes), ‘Translating Euripides into Latin: the manuscript of François Tissard Astrid Khoo (King’s College London) ‘“Videre Suis Oculis”: Visuality […]
Editing Contexts: Historical Editions of Literary Works and their Afterlives
TORCH Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road,, Oxford, United KingdomEditing Contexts is a one-day interdisciplinary conference on historical editions of literary works, kindly supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). It will be held on Friday 22nd June at TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford. We invite abstracts from graduate students and early career researchers working on editorial practices […]
Misdirections and Misconceptions in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama
Royal Holloway University of London Egham, United KingdomThe 18thAnnual APGRD / Royal Holloway, University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Ancient Drama will take place on Monday 25 June (at the Ioannou Centre, Oxford) and Tuesday 26 June (at Royal Holloway, Egham). This year’s theme will be: ‘Misdirections and Misconceptions in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’. […]
Tea With The Sphinx: Reception of Ancient Egypt’s Myth, Magic, and Mysticism
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomAt the first roundtable of ‘Tea with the Sphinx: Defining the Field of Ancient Egypt Reception Studies’ in September 2017 a debate arose surrounding the idea of ‘truth’, ‘facts’, the ways in which knowledge is formed in the popular imagination, and how this relates to reception studies as a field. This prompted discussion surrounding how […]