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 Arab World, Oxford) 10.15-11.30am - Classics and theatre in the Middle East (Chair: Marilyn Booth (Oxford)) Evelyn Richardson (Chicago): Greek myth and ancient history on […]
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 at a local café 2-4: Afternoon session – participants will have chance to peruse and discuss relevant items from Cardiff University’s Special Collections, including items […]
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 ours been shaped in time? How do lost ancient peoples, civilizations, and myths survive in modern imagination? In an era of re-emergence of populisms, increase […]
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 organising the international conference Cicero in Basel. The conference aims at charting the presence of the statesman, orator, and philosopher M. Tullius Cicero in the cultural […]
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 the opportunity for marriage and children, the pain of unrequited love, and the potential loss of reputation and liberty. A. E. Housman (1859-1936) writes movingly […]
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. From Ovid to David Cronenberg, thinkers and artists have used the trope of physical transformation to figure the ways in which human and non-human agencies […]
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 goddess Mut becomes a key to the artist’s sexual and creative identity) to his final work Moses and Monotheism in which he makes the scandalous claim […]
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 […]