Festival of Imagined Worlds
East Oxford Community Classics Centre Cheney School, Cheney Lane, Headington, Oxford, United KingdomWe are delighted to announce our Festival of Imagined Worlds on Friday 9th February 2018. This event will celebrate novels set in imaginary worlds, exploring how ancient myths and histories […]
LGBT+ Classics: Teaching, Research, and Activism
University of Reading Reading, United KingdomThe Women’s Classical Committee UK is organising a one-day workshop on Classics and Queer studies to highlight current projects and activities that embrace the intersections of research, teaching, public engagement, […]
Queens of Syria: screening and Q&A
University of Edinburgh Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomA group of Syrian women, now refugees exiled in Jordan, created an extraordinary modern retelling of Euripides’ 'The Trojan Women'. On stage the women courageously explore parallels between the ancient […]
Rejecting the Classics
University College London London, United KingdomThis half-day workshop, generously supported by UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies and the A. G. Leventis Foundation, will take place at UCL’s ‘Common Ground’ on Wednesday 21st February, 2018. As […]
Jennifer Ingleheart, A Shropshire Lad in Ancient Rome: A. E. Housman and Ancient ‘Homosexuality’
Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, United KingdomStudies of A. E. Housman assume a strong divide between his life as a poet - whose verses suggest his homoerotic desire - and as a well-respected Professor of Latin. […]
‘Strong Woman’ – A Rare Musical Drama on the Martyrdom of a Japanese Noblewoman
Bristol Music Club 76 St Paul's Road, Bristol, United KingdomThis year, for its Donors Celebration, the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition has teamed up with the University of Bristol’s Madrigal and Baroque Ensembles to present a […]
Historical Fictions Research Network
Stoke-on-Trent9:30-11:15 garden and registration 11:15-12:10 Jerome de Groot 12:10-1pm lunch 1-2:30 1 Fedorova Russian Revolt on the Screen Pooley It’s Not the Wallpaper that Worries Me: Genre Trouble and Historical […]
Erika Fischer-Lichte, ‘Tragedy’s Endurance’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomAPGRD Public Lecture
The Landscape Garden: Britain’s Greatest Eighteenth-century Export?
British School at Rome via Antonio Gramsci 61, Rome, Italy'The 18th-century English Landscape Garden'. - Dr Laura Mayer, Independent scholar and author. 'Roman influences on Georgian Stourhead'. - Prof John Harrison, Ph.D., Open University. 'Gardens at La Trappe: neo-classical […]
Mistaken Identities: Roman Emperors in Modern Art
Bush House Auditorium 30 Aldwych, London, United KingdomThe 2018 Rumble Lecture, delivered by Mary Beard, will explore some of the ways modern artists have re-imagined ancient Roman emperors: it will uncover some ‘missing persons’, and reveal some […]