Classics and the Now: ‘Positions / Perspectives’

Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United Kingdom

Felix Budelmann (Oxford), Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol) - 'Positions / Perspectives'

Ancient and Popular Reception of the Ancient Near East seminar

SOAS Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom

'The statue that looked like a sheikh: towards a critical historiography of ancient Egyptian art', Professor Christina Riggs – Department of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

Connie Bloomfield, ‘Pornographic Ovid, grotesque translations, and proto-surrealism in nineteenth-century Brazil: Bernardo Guimarães’ A Origem do Mênstruo’

Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom

'Pornographic Ovid, grotesque translations, and proto-surrealism in nineteenth-century Brazil: Bernardo Guimarães’ A Origem do Mênstruo' Connie Bloomfield (KCL) The erotic poem ‘A Origem do Mênstruo’ , published in 1875 by the nineteenth-century Brazilian Romantic poet Bernardo Guimarães, claims to be a translation of a translation of a lost Ovidian aetiology, unearthed in the Pompeiian excavations. Whilst […]

Liz Pender, ‘Classics and Classicists in WW1’

Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, London, United Kingdom

Fellows' Seminar, Institute of Classical Studies Liz Pender (Leeds) Classics and Classicists in WW1. (Room 234)   Coffee and tea will be provided. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunches. Everyone is welcome.

‘On Translating Sappho’, Josephine Balmer

University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Research Seminar, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham. Arts 201 on the Edgbaston Campus.  Everyone is welcome!

Jen Grove, ‘From EP Warren to Alfred Kinsey: Collecting Classical Erotica and Theorising Sexuality in the first half of the 20th century’

University of Reading Reading, United Kingdom

University of Reading, Classics Research Seminar Jen Grove (Exeter): ‘From EP Warren to Alfred Kinsey: Collecting Classical Erotica and Theorising Sexuality in the first half of the 20th century.’   All seminars will take place in Edith Morley Building, room G25  and all will be followed by light refreshments in Edith Morley G40.

Sarah Derbew, ‘The Metatheater of Blackness: Danaids, Dunbar, and Ellison’

University of Warwick Coventry

The Classics and Ancient History department at the University of Warwick is pleased to launch the Classical Connections Seminar Series, dedicated to exploring connections between Greek and Latin antiquity and different geographical and temporal contexts. Our first lecture in the series will be:   Dr Sarah Derbew (Harvard University) Thursday 25th October 2018 5pm-6.30pm OC 1.06 (Oculus […]