Lecture
Melinda Powers, ‘Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomSebastian Matzner, ‘Forgetting Plato: Classical Alternatives to Theorizing Male-Male Desire in Fin de Siècle Germany’
Durham University Durham, United KingdomYou are warmly invited to attend the inaugural LGBT History Month Annual Public Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University: Thursday, Feb. 7th, at 4pm in PG21, Palace Green, Pemberton Building, Durham DH13RL. A drinks reception will follow in the Ritson Room, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 […]
Martin Revermann, ‘Translation Prefaces’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomOlga Taxidou, ‘The Dancer and the Übermarionette: Duncan, Craig and Modernist Performance’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomDavid Scourfield, ‘Annexing Arcadia: Classical Space in the Short Fiction of E. M. Forster’
University of Roehampton , United KingdomRoehampton and SW London Branch of the Classical Association Talks will take place between 5.30-7.00pm (doors open at 5.15pm) at the University of Roehampton, Howard Building Room 002. Please contact me at shushma.malik@roehampton.ac.uk with any queries.
Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown) “Speaking (of) Greek: Reflections on Value in Post-9/11 Receptions of Epic”
University of Warwick CoventryClassical Connections Seminar Series - IAS Visiting Fellow Public Lecture
Isobel Hurst, ‘The Mask of a Very Definite Purpose’: Edith Wharton and the Classics’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe annual Classics & English lecture. Free, all welcome, no booking required!
Queer loss, queer Classics: A.E.Housman’s ‘lost country’
Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomJennifer Ingleheart talks about how A E Housman's losses and unrequited love as a queer man were reflected in his poetry. Queer people have often experienced losses, such as missing the opportunity for marriage and children, the pain of unrequited love, and the potential loss of reputation and liberty. A. E. Housman (1859-1936) writes movingly […]
Iconising the Classical: Pompeii in Silent Cinema
University of CambridgeProfessor 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 […]
21st Century Responses to the Homeric Iliad
British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United KingdomSince the turn of the 21st century there has been an unprecedented wave of creative responses to the Iliad, by prizewinning novelists and poets as well as cinema and TV producers. Professor Edith Hall (KCL) will explore the similarities and radical divergences between several of these responses, to ask why a poem with roots in […]