Elena Theodorakopoulos, ‘Helen’s eidolon in the poetry and prose of Laura Riding’
University of Nottingham Nottingham, United KingdomCLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH WORKSHOPS, University of Nottingham Humanities Building A02, University Park All are welcome! Please get in touch about any queries with theodora.jim@nottingham.ac.uk.
Genevieve Liveley, ‘Reception Unboxed: Anne Carson and remediating the Classics’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group.
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 in Britain. Hosted at London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE where the tablets were discovered, Dr Josephine Balmer’s poetry will be performed by students from the University […]
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 collaboration with Stockholm-based artist Meriç Algün’s current exhibition at Spike Island Studio, “Finding the Edge”, which engages intimately with Carson’s book Eros: The Bittersweet (1983).
Holly Ranger, ‘Sylvia Plath’s Classical Palimpsests’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group
21st Century Responses to the Homeric Iliad
British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United KingdomSince the turn of the 21st century there has been an unprecedented wave of creative responses to the Iliad, by prizewinning novelists and poets as well as cinema and TV producers. Professor Edith Hall (KCL) will explore the similarities and radical divergences between several of these responses, to ask why a poem with roots 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 is designed to bring together early-career researchers in the field of classical reception studies, and will be held for the ninth consecutive year. It aims […]
Sharon Marshall, ‘Tragedy and national identity in Hélisenne de Crenne’s Aeneid I-IV’
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonMeeting of the Virgil Society Room G22/26, Senate House South Block
Maria de Fatima Silva & Susana Marques, ‘Modern Portuguese Poets and the Greeks: a poetic theory’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group.
Charles Martindale, ‘Reception Revisited’
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