Iconising the Classical: Pompeii in Silent Cinema
University of CambridgeProfessor Maria Wyke (UCL) 'How Cinema Takes Elite Engagements with Pompeii and Democraticises Them as Image/Word/Music for Mass Consumption' Professor Paul Cartledge (Emeritus A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, […]
EN LOS MÁRGENES DEL MITO: Hibridaciones de la mitología clásica en la cultura de masas contemporánea
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Madrid, SpainUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Departamento de Filología Clásica
Excavating Roman Voices (Being Human)
London Mithraeum Bloomberg 12 Walbrook, LondonGain a new insight into Roman London at this evening of poetry inspired by the hidden voices present within the Bloomberg writing tablets, some of the earliest written documents found […]
Anne Carson’s ‘Eros the Bittersweet’ at Spike Island Studio
Spike Island Studio 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UXLaura Jansen (Classics) and Rebecca Kosick (Bristol Poetry Institute) will be leading a discussion of Anne Carson’s oeuvre with poet Alice Oswald, Oxford Professor of Poetry. The event emerges in […]
AMPRAW: Authority and Legitimacy
Radboud University 6525 XZ Nijmegen, NetherlandsWith great pleasure we announce our Call for Papers for this year’s Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW). AMPRAW is an annual conference that […]
Re-/Un-working Tragedy: Perspectives from the Global South
University of CambridgeJoin Jennifer Wallace, Simon Goldhill, Katie Fleming, Rosa Andujar, Renaud Gagne, Barabra Goff, Tina Chanter, Astrid van Weyenberg and many others from a variety of disciplines to discuss tragedy, its […]
Rape, Revenge and Transformation: Tereus Through the Ages
University of Roehampton , United KingdomThe story of Tereus preoccupied major authors in classical antiquity. References to it date back to the Homeric poems and the myth was addressed by renowned dramatists, such as Aeschylus, […]
Mathura Umachandran, ‘Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics for classical reception’
University of Bristol Bristol, United KingdomResearch Seminar, Dept of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol Senate House 5.22. Please send any queries to the Research Seminar Organiser, Dr. Paul Martin (paul.s.martin@bristol.ac.uk).
Classics and the Spectacular under Fascism: Classical Performance in the ‘Ventennio Fascista’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United Kingdom10.15-10.45 Registration and Coffee 10.45-11.00 Welcome from Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)Giovanna Di Martino and Sara Troiani present the APGRD and Laboratorio Dionysos Databases 11.00-12.00 Classicising the Spectacle – Chair: Oliver Taplin […]
Caroline Barron, ‘“A dupe to the puffs and tricks of all kinds of dealers!” Fake Latin inscriptions and their Collection in Eighteenth Century England’
Portico Library 57 Mosley Street, Manchester, United KingdomManchester Classical Association Public Lecture - open to all