Aristotle Kallis, ‘Romanità on show: the idea of Rome in the Mostra Augustea della Romanità and the Exhibitions of E42’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomCambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series Seminars are held at 5.15pm in G.21, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge. For more information, or if you wish to present next term, please contact Sofia Greaves srg55@cam.ac.uk Zack Case zc270@cam.ac.uk Nathaniel Hess nh433@cam.ac.uk
Kate Nichols, ‘Classical Antiquity and the invention of Victorian art at the 1887 Manchester Jubilee Exhibition’; Clare Matthews, ‘Manufacturing and Classical Antiquity in Victorian Birmingham’.
University of Nottingham Nottingham, United KingdomCLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH WORKSHOPS University of Nottingham Humanities Building A02, University Park, Nottingham
Efrossini Spentzou, ‘Contemporary reworkings of the myth of Eurydice’
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomUniversity of Birmingham Research Seminar As usual, the seminars take place on Wednesdays at 4pm at the Arts building, Lecture Room 8. Everyone is welcome!
Sara Brio, ‘”The Sphinx’s seamless veil”: Exploring the Religious Reception of Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Fiction’
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomUniversity of Birmingham Research Seminar Arts building, Lecture Room 8. Everyone is welcome!
Emily Pillinger, ‘Musical machismo: classical masculinities in British opera of the 1980s’
Newcastle UniversityNewcastle Classics and Ancient History research seminar The seminars take place at 4pm on Wednesdays in room 2.50 of the Armstrong Building. All are welcome to attend! If you have any questions, please contact the seminar organisers Dr Athanassios Vergados (athanassios.vergados@newcastle.ac.uk) and Dr Anke Walter (anke.walter@newcastle.ac.uk).
Philip Ford Annual Postgraduate Day: Neo-Latin and the Vernacular
The Warburg Institute Woburn Square, LondonThe Society for Neo-Latin Studies is holding its annual Philip Ford Postgraduate Day in London on 20th March 2020. The focus of the event will be Neo-Latin and the vernacular. There will be an interactive session on bilingual writing/self-translation in the early modern period led by Dr Sara Miglietti and a talk by Professor Ingrid […]
Stephe Harrop, ‘Classics and Storytelling. Alcestis: in Bits’ (Performance, followed by discussion with Author and Performer)
Manchester Central Library Manchester, United KingdomManchester Classical Association
‘Cleft Lip’ (Dir. Erik Knudsen, 2018) Film Screening with Guest Introduction from Director, Prof. Erik Knudsen (UCLAN)
No 70 Oxford Street Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United KingdomManchester Classical Association presents a special screening of Erik Knudsen's 'Cleft Lip' (2018), a 21st century retelling of the Oedipus myth which asks the question of 'what happens when fertility becomes a commodity in a fractured society?'. We're lucky enough to be joined by the film's director for this event, which will also feature his […]
John Curran, ‘Freud, the Greeks and the Invention of Personality’
Queen's University Belfast University Road, Belfast, United KingdomClassical Association of Northern Ireland 0G/006 6 University Square, QUB
CFP: The Reception of Plato in Later Antiquity and the Middle Ages
University of Athens Athens, GreeceOur Approach: Taking start from our common interest in the Platonic tradition and its reception in later periods, our collaboration has to date yielded one edited volume (The Neoplatonists and their Heirs, Brill, 2020, ed. Ken Parry and E. Anagnostou-Laoutides), while a second one is anticipated to host select papers from the conference. We now […]