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, literary and political culture and the implications of these encounters on discourses such as nationhood, colonialism, race, religion, gender, sexuality and death. A roundtable will […]
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 (ICS) Room 349, South Block, Senate House, Malet Street, London
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) and Emma Bridges (ICS) Room G35, South Block, Senate House, Malet Street, London
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 page. By examining both what is left of the original play and how it has inspired new responses, we hope to discover what can be […]
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 has flourished in English departments, especially at the Open University. Yet the connections between these fields of research, which often pursue parallel aims in seeking […]
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 Vesuvius with shots of Pompeii, the ancient city of the dead. An Excursion in Ancient Greece (1913) takes its elegant sightseers up the Corinthian canal to view […]
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 Greeks and the Irrational first appeared in 1951, and has since become a classic in our field. It is also one of the small handful […]
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 […]