Digging Politics: The Ancient Past and Political Present in East-Central Europe
Durham University Durham, United KingdomThis workshop will explore political uses of ancient pasts and archaeology in east-central Europe in the states during the Cold War and post-communist period. While studies have often focused on […]
Neville Morley, ‘Remaking Thucydides’
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonInstitute of Classical Studies Classical Reception Seminars Co-sponsored by the ICS and The Open University, in conjunction with the Classical Reception Studies Network Convenors: Joanna Paul (Open University) and Emma Bridges […]
Classical Encounters: Receptions of antiquity in the long nineteenth-century
Durham University Durham, United KingdomClassical Encounters: Receptions of antiquity in the long nineteenth-century’ will bring together scholars from a broad range of disciplines to explore encounters with the ancient world in nineteenth-century visual, material, […]
Ika Willis, ‘Signal-boosting and preposterous histories: what reception tells us about the past’
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonInstitute of Classical Studies Classical Reception Seminars Co-sponsored by the ICS and The Open University, in conjunction with the Classical Reception Studies Network Convenors: Joanna Paul (Open University) and Emma Bridges […]
Chiara Rolli, ‘The trial of Warren Hastings: classical oratory and reception in eighteenth-century England’
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonInstitute of Classical Studies Classical Reception Seminars Summer 2019 Co-sponsored by the ICS and The Open University, in conjunction with the Classical Reception Studies Network Convenors: Joanna Paul (Open University) […]
Performance [in] Pieces
University of Notre Dame 1 Suffolk Street, London, United KingdomThis conference aims to consider dramas from ancient Greece and Rome that now exist in fragmentary form and their subsequent reception throughout time, be it on the stage, screen or […]
Reading the Classical Past: A Collaborative Workshop
FutureLearn 1-11 Hawley Crescent, London, United KingdomAt the same time that classical reception studies have become an important and vibrant part of the broader discipline of classical studies, research into the history of books and reading […]
Entering the Classical World through Silent Cinema
The Bloomsbury Theatre 15 Gordon Street, London, United KingdomThis live screening draws audiences to ancient Greece and Rome through four rarely seen but remarkable films. Pompeii and Vesuvius (1906) juxtaposes disturbingly the damage caused by the modern eruption of […]
The Greeks and the Irrational, Revisited
University College London London, United KingdomWe invite you to join us on this day of discussion of Dodds' classic as we unpack the term 'irrational' and the power dynamics behind it. E. R. Dodds' The […]
Classical Theatre and the Middle East: Greek drama and the “classic(s)” in the Arab-speaking world and Iran
St Hilda's College, Oxford Oxford, United KingdomA one-day conference on Greek drama and the ‘classic(s)’ in the Arab-speaking world and Iran 10am Welcome: Marilyn Booth (Khalid bin Abdulla Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary […]