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.
Locating the Ancient World in Early Modern Subversive Thought
Newcastle UniversityThe aim of this conference is to expand on this revived appreciation of the classical influence in early modernity by looking specifically at the role played by the ancient world in that sphere from which it has most usually been excluded: subversive literature. The idea that the texts, philosophies, and exempla of the ancient world […]
Middle ground or no man’s land? The Classical tradition between Modern Languages and Classics
Durham University Durham, United KingdomPanel at Our Uncommon Ground: Modern Languages and Cultures for the 21st Century Chairs: Barbara Graziosi (Durham) and Carlo Caruso (Siena) In November 2016 the Centre for Classical Reception at Durham University organised a workshop on the future of what is commonly defined as ‘Classical reception’. After a long period of progressive and very promising […]
The Classics in 20th Century British Sculpture
University of Reading Reading, United KingdomA workshop at the Ure Museum to celebrate sculptures by Eric Stanford On the occasion of the installation in the Edith Morley Building of two works (on loan from the University Art Collection) by the celebrated direct stone sculptor, Eric Stanford -Helen (Ure Museum) and Protesilaos (Department of Classics)- the Ure Museum is delighted to […]
VIVAM! Ovid is alive 2,000 years after his death: An evening of readings and discussion
Royal Geographical Society London, United KingdomJoin us for a lively discussion about Ovid’s work, his wit, his irony and his gift for ventriloquism, between Classics for All Patron Natalie Haynes and Professor Stephen Heyworth (Wadham College, Oxford), chaired by Dr Peter Jones MBE on Tuesday 17 April 2018. The evening will commence with a reading of selected passages of Ovid […]
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.