Anne Carson’s ‘Eros the Bittersweet’ at Spike Island Studio

Spike Island Studio 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX

Laura 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 Kingdom

The 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 Kingdom

Since 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, Netherlands

With 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 […]

Charles Martindale, ‘Reception Revisited’

University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom

Leeds 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  

Re-/Un-working Tragedy: Perspectives from the Global South

University of Cambridge

Join 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 ability to comment on present crises, and the global politics of adaptation. Summary Building on ideas explored in the Re- Interdisciplinary Network's CRASSH events, the conference […]

Rape, Revenge and Transformation: Tereus Through the Ages

University of Roehampton , United Kingdom

The 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, Sophocles and Accius, before being adapted by Ovid. These different versions raise questions about the reconstruction of the myth and representation of women, family violence, […]