Seminar
Efrossini Spentzou, ‘Contemporary reworkings of the myth of Eurydice’
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomUniversity of Birmingham Research Seminar As usual, the seminars take place on Wednesdays at 4pm at the Arts building, Lecture Room 8. Everyone is welcome!
Sara Brio, ‘”The Sphinx’s seamless veil”: Exploring the Religious Reception of Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Fiction’
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomUniversity of Birmingham Research Seminar Arts building, Lecture Room 8. Everyone is welcome!
Emily Pillinger, ‘Musical machismo: classical masculinities in British opera of the 1980s’
Newcastle UniversityNewcastle Classics and Ancient History research seminar The seminars take place at 4pm on Wednesdays in room 2.50 of the Armstrong Building. All are welcome to attend! If you have any questions, please contact the seminar organisers Dr Athanassios Vergados (athanassios.vergados@newcastle.ac.uk) and Dr Anke Walter (anke.walter@newcastle.ac.uk).
Seminar Series: Agamennone Classico e Contemporaneo
OnlineAn online seminar series on Aeschylus’ and Seneca's Agamemnon and their modern and contemporary reception, running from February to May 2021. Hosted by the University of Bologna. Agamennone Classico e Contemporaneo is a project that brings together research from the departments of Cultural Heritage and Classical Philology and Italian Studies of the University of Bologna, the […]
Hierarchies of Reception: the ICS and CRSN reception seminar
Online'Hierarchies of Reception' is the Summer 2021 seminar series co-hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Classical Reception Studies Network, with the support of the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. The seminar is co-convened by Caroline Spearing and Arabella Currie (University of Exeter). Sessions take place online at 4.30 BST (UTC+1). All […]
CRSN/ICS online seminar series: ‘Back To a Time Before I Had Form’: Ancient Origin Myth(s) of Queerness
OnlineThis year's CRSN/ICS online seminar series is organised by the Queer and the Classical collective. All events (listed below) will take place 4:30PM - 6:00PM BST and require advance registration. The programme with all the registration links is available on their website. ‘Back To a Time Before I Had Form’: Ancient Origin Myth(s) of Queerness […]
CfP 2025 Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in PHILADELPHIA, deadline 02/02/24
Panel Title: “Dance and Myth: The Reception of the Greeks by Martha Graham” Organized by Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center; and Nina Papathanasopoulou, College Year in Athens and Society for Classical Studies We invite abstracts for a panel at the 156th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Philadelphia in January 2025 […]
Classical Association 2024 Conference at University of Warwick
University of Warwick CoventryThe Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick will host the Classical Association Conference on 22-24 March 2024. The conference will take place on Warwick’s central campus (Oculus and new award-winning Faculty of Arts Buildings), close to the centre of Coventry, with its excellent rail, bus, and road transport links. University accommodation is available for booking on campus and delegates […]
Patrice Rankine: The ‘Bacchae’ and the postcolonial turn
OnlinePatrice Rankine (University of Chicago) The ‘Bacchae’ and the postcolonial turn (based on his new book Theater and Crisis: Myth, Memory, and Racial Reckoning in America, 1964-2020) Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/bacchae-and-postcolonial-turn Out of the Shadows of Empire Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of empire and their […]
Lesego Chauke: Shadows of Empire Seminar
OnlineLesego Chauke (University of Cape Town) Title TBC Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/classical-reception-seminar-title-tbc Out of the Shadows of Empire Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of empire and their legacies. Not only was classical education central to colonial curricula, but classical motifs were weaponised in the justification of […]