Seminar
Stephanie Moser, ‘Birmingham’s classical treasures: the extraordinary artist’s archive of Lawrence Alma-Tadema’
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomResearch Seminar at the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham. Seminar starts at 4 pm, and takes place in the Museum (Room 305 in the Arts Building) Everyone is welcome!
Martin Revermann, ‘The Greek Presence in Brecht’s ‘Small Organon for the Theatre”
University of Nottingham Nottingham, United KingdomThe 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 KingdomThis 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. […]
Mathias Hanses, ‘Black Cicero: (Re-)Reading the Classics with W. E. B. Du Bois’
University of Warwick CoventryWarwick Classics WiP Research Seminar Guest Speaker
Laura Jansen, ‘Readers of Classical Absences: Italo Calvino and Alberto Manguel’
University of LiverpoolLiverpool Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Seminar Room 10, Rendall Building, University of Liverpool. Please direct any inquiries to me (benjamin.cartlidge@liverpool.ac.uk).
Tessa Roynon, ‘Black Classicism: some theory, some practices and some dilemmas’
University of Warwick CoventryWarwick Classical Connections Seminar Series
Liz Pender, ‘Classics and Classicists in WW1’
University of Leeds Leeds, United KingdomUniversity 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 KingdomCambridge 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, IrelandThe 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 KingdomJoin 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 […]