Lorna Hardwick & Justine McConnell, ‘Classics and Poetry Now: words and the company they keep’
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.
Simone Mucci, ‘Antonio Gramsci, Luciano Canfora and the Classics in the Next Century’
University of Warwick CoventryWork in Progress Research Seminar Series, Dept of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick
Homer Today
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonInterested in hearing about all the latest developments in research and interpretations of the Iliad and Odyssey? Martha Kearney will chair a panel of experts as they discuss their most recent findings and the current trends in reading Homer. A reception in the Hellenic and Roman Library will follow. Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol University) will explore […]
Andromeda
Nottingham Playhouse Wellington Circus, Nottingham, United KingdomA hero saves a princess from a monster. Two girls meet on a starry night. Andromeda is a queer reimagining of Euripides’ Andromeda, constellating fragments from Greek myth with a contemporary queer love story. What happens when we get stuck between a rock and a hard place? Part of the Amplify Festival.
Elizabeth Vandiver & Stephen Harrison, ‘Going digital with World War 1 poetry: Wilfred Owen and Charles Hamilton Sorley’
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.
Daniel Orrells, ‘Printing Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century’
University of Lisbon Cidade Universitária, Lisbon, PortugalLisbon Classics Seminars Room B1 School of Arts and Humanities University of Lisbon
Mark Padilla, ‘‘Reading Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps” through John Buchan and Homer’s Odyssey’
University of Edinburgh Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomUniversity of Edinburgh Research Seminar in Classics/Classical Association of Scotland Meadows Lecture Theatre (Old Medical School, Doorway 4).
Josephine Balmer, Fiona Cox, & Elena Theodorakopoulos, ‘Farewells, Debts and Ale: poetic inspiration from non-literary texts’
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.
Alena Sarkissian (Czech Academy of Sciences) ‘Theatre as a Space of Spiritual Contemplation: Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre of Prague during the Nazi occupation (1939 – 1945)’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomIconising the Classical: Pompeii in Silent Cinema
University of CambridgeProfessor Maria Wyke (UCL) 'How Cinema Takes Elite Engagements with Pompeii and Democraticises Them as Image/Word/Music for Mass Consumption' Professor Paul Cartledge (Emeritus A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge) A leading figure in the emergence of Classical Reception Studies since the 1990s, Wyke is perhaps best known for her pioneering work on ancient […]