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 […]
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