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 Greek tragedy and the catastrophe of today’s civil war. Their first-hand experience of a country in turmoil mirrors the Trojan women they portray, displaced and […]
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 part of the Institute’s current ‘Lies’ research theme it aims to explore the way that the privileged status of the ‘classical’ has been challenged 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. Professor Ingleheart explodes this myth by exploring in detail Housman's longest and most frank writing on homosexuality: his Praefanda, an article aimed at scholars, written […]
‘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 rare concert performance of Mulier Fortis, or ‘Strong Woman’. This musical drama, first produced in 1698 by Viennese Jesuit Johann Baptist Adolph and composer Johann […]
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 Faction Slugan Crime Reconstructions in Early Cinema: The Threat to Public Morals and The Fact/Fiction Distinction 2 Hardstaff Maybe One Day: Anticipation in the […]
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS): ‘Archaeo-politics and the Greek crisis’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom(in collaboration with the Cambridge Modern Greek Seminar) Prof. Dimitris Tziovas (Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham) The crisis has induced Greek society to rethink its values, to revisit its founding myths and to re-examine its earlier certainties. This involves to a certain extent a narrativisation […]
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS): ‘Aztec Latinists: Classical learning and native legacies in post-conquest Mexico’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomProf. Andrew Laird (John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities, Brown University, USA) Soon after the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric and Aristotelian philosophy to youths from the native Nahua or Aztec nobility. In his talk, Andrew Laird will explain the nature and purpose of that […]
UCL Houseman Lecture: Bernard O’Donoghue (Oxford) on ‘Chosen Ancestors: Seamus Heaney and Virgil’
University College London London, United KingdomSeamus Heaney's translation of Aeneid VI had long been rumoured, so its posthumous appearance in 2016 was a major event. Heaney had said that he wanted to produce a 'poetic remaking' of Book VI, by contrast with his more dutiful translation of Beowulf which he said he did 'not know or love enough' to remake. […]
Rodin and the art of ancient Greece
British Museum Great Russell Street, London, United Kingdom26 April – 29 July 2018 In 1881 the French sculptor Auguste Rodin visited London for the first time. On a trip to the British Museum, he saw the Parthenon sculptures and was instantly captivated by the beauty of these ancient Greek masterpieces. Like many archaeological ruins, the Parthenon sculptures had been broken and weathered […]
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS): The poetry of Richard Aldington (title TBC)
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomProf. Elizabeth Vandiver (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Whitman College, USA)