Martin Revermann, ‘The Greek Presence in Brecht’s ‘Small Organon for the Theatre”

University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom

The Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Nottingham is pleased to announce the following research seminars for the Spring Semester. Seminars take place at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in Room A3 of the Humanities Building on the University Park Campus (55 on the map here https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sharedresources/documents/mapuniversitypark.pdf). There are drinks afterwards and all are welcome. […]

Sex, Sexuality and Classical Reception

University of Exeter Exeter, United Kingdom

This event brings together early career researchers studying how the history of sex and sexuality intersects with the reception of the ancient world in the 19th and 20th centuries. The event is organised in conjunction with the Exeter Centre for Medical History, Exeter Classical Receptions Network, the national Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN), and the Rethinking Sexology project. […]

Liz Pender, ‘Classics and Classicists in WW1’

University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom

University of Leeds Classics Research Seminar All papers will be in the Michael Sadler Building room 1.01 (search here for directions:  https://www.leeds.ac.uk/campusmap) and begin at 5 pm.

Sofia Greaves, ‘The mythic method. Subversive classicism in Giorgio de Chirico and British painting of the late 1920s’

Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS) Room G.21, Faculty of Classics Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge   As Marinetti best expressed, the pre-war avant-garde rejected the classical tradition with belligerence in its ‘dance towards the common apotheosis of the Future’. Subsequently, post-war art of the 1920s has been evaluated pessimistically; ‘abstract’ has been taken to be synonymous […]

David Scourfield, ‘From The Ides of March to Augustus: Literary Form, Historical “Reality”, and Philosophical Exploration in Two Novels of Ancient Rome’

Maynooth University Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland

The Maynooth University Department of Ancient Classics is pleased to announce the following programme of research seminars for the second semester of 2018-2019.  Except where indicated, seminars are held on Friday afternoons at 16:00 in John Hume Lecture Theatre 7 (Maynooth University, North Campus).  All are most welcome to attend.

The London Renaissance Seminar: Ovid in Love and Trouble

Birkbeck University Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

Join us for a day of papers on Ovid in England; Ovid’s reproduction through Elizabethan textiles; models of abject creativity; gender and sex; the genre of love elegy Speakers include: Catherine Bates; Cora Fox; Linda Grant; Liz Oakley-Brown   Keynes Library (Room 114), 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck   Contact: s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk or elizabeth.scott-baumann@kcl.ac.uk   The London […]