Classical Reception and Children’s Culture: A Show and Tell
Cardiff University Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United KingdomSpecial Collections & Archives Seminar Room, Arts and Social Studies Library, Cardiff University 10-1: Morning session - each participant brings along a children’s classical-themed object to talk about 1-2: Lunch […]
Unprivileged Pasts, Unwritten Origins
University College Cork College Road, Cork, IrelandRoom G27, O’Rahilly Building, University College Cork How do we moderns conceptualize the “roots” and the “beginning” of our collective identities? How have the traditions and habits we recognize as […]
Cicero in Basel. Reception Histories from a Humanist City
CALL FOR PAPERS: With the generous support of the foundation Patrum Lumen Sustine (PLuS) the Department of Ancient Studies of the University of Basel and the Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron (SIAC) are jointly […]
Queer loss, queer Classics: A.E.Housman’s ‘lost country’
Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomJennifer Ingleheart talks about how A E Housman's losses and unrequited love as a queer man were reflected in his poetry. Queer people have often experienced losses, such as missing […]
Metamorphosis & the Environmental Imagination, from Ovid to Shakespeare
UCLA Los Angeles, United StatesNarratives of metamorphosis, from human into other living and mineral forms, have long provided an important tool for thinking through the complexities of our relationship with the world around us. […]
Between Oedipus and the Sphinx: Freud and Egypt
University College School LondonEgypt played a prominent role in Freud’s personal life and writings. From his childhood encounter with the Phillipson Bible, through his psychobiography of Leonardo da Vinci (in which the Egyptian […]
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 […]
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 […]