Adam Lecznar, ‘Dionysus After Nietzsche: reception, history and temporality’
University of Leeds Leeds, United KingdomLeeds Classics Research Seminars All seminars take place on Thursday at 5pm. in LAHRI Seminar Room 1 (3.01 Clothworkers South Building), University of Leeds, LS2 9JT All welcome! For further information, please contact Paul White p.m.white@leeds.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 (Oxford)Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen) - A Classical ModernityGiovanna Di Martino (Oxford) – Aeschylus, Modernity and the New ‘Classical’ Ideal 12.00-13.00 Classics and the Spectacular I: Ettore […]
Peter Black, ‘Christianising Virgil: The Aeneid in the art of Raphael and Parmigianino’
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonRoom G22/26, Senate House South Block
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
Calgacus in 2020
University College London London, United KingdomTo mark the septcentenary of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320, recognising Scotland’s independence from England, Tom Mackenzie (UCL) and Edith Hall (KCL) are convening a one-day symposium, on Calgacus and his reception, at UCL (IAS Common Ground) on Burns Night 2020 (25th January). Papers include discussions of the presentation of Calgacus in commentaries across […]
Postgraduate and Early Career Workshop: Baroque Latinity
The Warburg Institute Woburn Square, LondonThe Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising a postgraduate and early career event in London on 6th February 2020. The focus of the day will be Baroque Latinity, the theme of a recently established AHRC-funded research project. Specialists in the field will present papers on different aspects of sixteenth and seventeenth century Baroque Neo-Latin. Speakers […]
Natalie Haynes, ‘Troy Story’
Queen's University Belfast University Road, Belfast, United KingdomThe Classical Association in Northern Ireland 02/018 Peter Froggatt Centre 02/018, QUB
Henry Stead, ‘Left in Translation: The Curious Case of Jack Lindsay and Catullus’
University of St Andrews St Andrews, United KingdomSt Andrews Research Seminar All seminars take place in Swallowgate S11, 4.05pm Fridays, unless otherwise marked. All welcome!
Lucy Jackson, ‘An advocate for tyranny: two receptions of Sophocles’ Antigone in sixteenth- century Europe’
University of Bristol Bristol, United KingdomUniversity of Bristol research seminar All are welcome at our seminars, which take place every second Tuesday during term from 3.30 until 5, followed by drinks and then dinner, to which everyone is warmly invited. Please send any queries to the Research seminar organizer, Dr. Paul Martin (paul.s.martin@bristol.ac.uk).
Mathura Umachandran, ‘Myth after Freud: Herbert Marcuse and the cultural value of Eros’
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonInstitute of Classical Studies lunchtime seminar Each seminar begins at 13.00 and ends at 14.00 and takes place in room 234 of Senate House. Coffee and tea will be provided. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunches. Everyone is welcome.