2nd Annual Postgraduate Symposium in Classical Reception
Dept of Philology, University of Patras Patras, GreeceReception is conceived not as a subdivision of Classics but as a mode of historicised inquiry and constant self-critique intrinsic in Classical Studies. In this respect, the reader assumes the role of the decoder who examines reception of the ancient world from the 8th century BC onwards: from Antiquity to Byzantium, the Middle Ages, the […]
The old lie: I Classici e la Grande Guerra/Classics and the Great War
Università di Bologna , ItalyThe Old Lie, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (Horace, Odes, III): more than two thousand years later, the line was resumed by Wilfred Owen as a polemical and bitter seal for one of his poems, written between 1917 and 1918, a sharp accusation against the atrocities of war, which is often mystified by […]
‘The Gods Are Still Not to Blame’
University of Bristol Bristol, United KingdomThe University of Bristol is holding the UK premier of ‘The Gods Are Still Not to Blame’, a Nigerian cinematic adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex. The event will take place at the Wills Memorial Building (room 3.32) on Wednesday 21st March, 5pm. Opening remarks will be given by Oyefunke Fayoyin, the film’s director and producer. […]
Anachronism and Antiquity: Configuring Temporalities in Ancient Literature and Scholarship
Florida State University Tallahassee, FL, United StatesThe Anachronism and Antiquity team is delighted to announce ‘Anachronism and Antiquity: Configuring Temporalities in Ancient Literature and Scholarship’, a conference to be held at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, on March 23-24, 2018. Speakers and their titles are: Carol Atack, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, ‘Plato’s Queer Time: Dialogic Moments in the Life and Death […]
OVID METAMORPHOSES 10: Public Reading with Kithara Accompaniment
Magdalen College Chapel OxfordOn Friday 23rd March, in Magdalen College Chapel, students and faculty will read their translations of the Metamorphoses. In doing so they will join their voices to hundreds more across the world, participants in a worldwide celebration of Ovid’s poetry. They will be accompanied by Michael Levy on a kithara - an ancient lyre traditionally used for performances […]
Classical Association Conference
We welcome proposals for papers of twenty minutes (to be followed by ten minutes’ discussion) and proposals for coordinated panels (comprising three, four, or exceptionally seven papers on any classical topic) for the Classical Association Conference 2018 in Leicester. Panels of four or seven papers should include a Respondent as the final speaker. In particular, […]
Echoes: A Symposium on Classic-Modern Relations
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomThis symposium explores the impact, legacy and use of the classical world in modern art and culture. Speakers from fields as diverse as literature, museum studies, art history and architecture will discuss their research. The day is free and open to all.
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)
‘For an empty tunic, for a Helen’
University College London London, United KingdomA film screening on the life of ancient and modern Helens, introduced by Dr Antony Makrinos with music composed by Belinda E.S.