OUT OF THE SHADOWS OF EMPIRE: Institute of Classical Studies’ Classical Reception Seminar Series

The Classical Reception Studies Network and Institute of Classical Studies (University of London) are excited to announce the commencement of this year’s summer term seminar series on 22 April 2024. This year’s theme is ‘Out of the Shadows of Empire.’  Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of […]

Justine McConnell: Graeco-Roman Shades and Colonial Shadows in the Caribbean

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Justine McConnell (King's College London) Graeco-Roman Shades and Colonial Shadows in the Caribbean Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/graeco-roman-shades-and-colonial-shadows-caribbean 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 […]

Madhlozi Moyo: The obelisks of Matabeleland: Cecil John Rhodes, conquest, and the Classics

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Madhlozi Moyo (University of the Free State) The obelisks of Matabeleland: Cecil John Rhodes, conquest, and the Classics Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/obelisks-matabeleland-cecil-john-rhodes-conquest-and-classics 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 […]

Michael Okyere Asante: Reception Seminar Title TBC

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Michael Okyere Asante (University of Environment and Sustainable Development/Stellenbosch University) Title tbc  Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/classical-reception-seminar-title-tbc-0 Out of the Shadows of Empire Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline […]