Public Event
Kamila Shamsie, ‘Home Fire’ (Being Human)
Swansea UniversityOver the last 20 years Kamila Shamsie has established herself as one of the most vital and interesting novelists at work today. Her books, often grand in scope yet always emotionally intimate, have captured the minds and hearts of readers across the world. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and winner of this […]
Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading 2018: Alice Oswald
Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomThe Bristol Poetry Institute, in association with the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition, is delighted to invite members of the public and university alike to this year's annual poetry reading. We are very pleased to announce that this year's reader will be Alice Oswald. The event will comprise of a poetry reading […]
Sebastian 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 […]
David 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.
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 […]
Anne Carson’s ‘Eros the Bittersweet’ at Spike Island Studio
Spike Island Studio 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UXLaura Jansen (Classics) and Rebecca Kosick (Bristol Poetry Institute) will be leading a discussion of Anne Carson’s oeuvre with poet Alice Oswald, Oxford Professor of Poetry. The event emerges in collaboration with Stockholm-based artist Meriç Algün’s current exhibition at Spike Island Studio, “Finding the Edge”, which engages intimately with Carson’s book Eros: The Bittersweet (1983).
Samantha Masters (Stellenbosch University, South Africa): ‘From Greece and Rome to South Africa: Wim Botha and Classical Statuary’
OnlineA free, online lecture by Samantha Masters (Ancient Studies Department, Stellenbosch University, South Africa) hosted by the University of Vienna ("Eranos Vindobonensis"). Join the event via this access link at 5pm CET (4pm UTC) on Thursday 14 January. In amongst a gallery of international artists that engage with classical antiquity, there are also several contemporary […]
Rhodessa Jones: ‘Medea in Lockdown’
OnlineRhodessa Jones, Visiting Artist for the Center for Hellenic Studies, will be presenting on 'Medea in Lockdown' at 11.30am EST (4.30pm UTC) on Friday 15 January. Free, online - register by emailing events@chs.harvard.edu to receive the Zoom link. Rhodessa Jones is Co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey. She is an […]
Edith Hall (KCL): ‘Why Homer’s Iliad is so popular in the 21st century’
OnlineA free online event considering why Homer’s Iliad is so popular in the 21st century. Part of the Historic-All lecture series organised by Cambourne Village College, and open to all via Teams.
Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus): ‘Uses of the Past: ERC-Funded Research at the Classical Influences and Irish Culture project’
OnlineAn online lecture hosted by the Classical Association in Northern Ireland at 6.45pm (UTC) on Wednesday 27 January. Visit the event webpage for more information.