Professor Richard Thomas on ‘Dylan and the Classics’
University of Bristol Bristol, United KingdomThe Third Sir Jeremy Morse Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition Lecture
Classical and Western Legacies Revisited (1500-1900) – The translation of cultures and the making of histories
King's College London London, United Kingdom10.30 Registration and Coffee 11.00 Welcome and Introduction 11.15 - 12.45 Simon Ditchfield (University of York) ‘Eleven thousand times eleven thousand’: the cult of St Ursula and her companions in the making of a world religion Sarah Knight (University of Leicester) ‘For Latine is our mother tongue’: cultural and linguistic translation at […]
From Antiquity to Modernity: Performing Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Europe
Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences Praha 1, 110 00, Czech RepublicMay 22, 2019 17.30 Registration 18.00 Welcome drink May 23, 2019 8.30 Registration 9.00 Institutional greetings Panel 1: Modes of Performing Classical Drama Around Europe and Beyond 9.20 KEYNOTE: Edith Hall, King’s College, London ‒ Performing Euripides and Ezra Pound’s Metrical Modernism 10.00 C. W. Marshall, University of British Columbia ‒ Performing Tragedy in The […]
The Restitution of the Classics in Ancient Régime France
Université de La RéunionOrganisers: Tristan Alonge (Unité de Recherche Déplacements, Identités, Regards, Ecritures– Université de La Réunion) Giuseppe Pezzini (University of St Andrews, Director of the Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama– University of St Andrews) Description: Ancient Régime France is a period troubled by debates prompted by the confrontation with ancient models – […]
Women’s Spaces, Pleasure, and Desire in the Belle Époque
St Hilda's College, Oxford Oxford, United KingdomCALL FOR PAPERS: Convenors: Sasha Rasmussen (St Hilda’s), Rhiannon Easterbrook (Women in the Humanities Post-doctoral Writing Fellow) and Mara Gold (St Hilda’s). Even as women asserted their presence in universities and the new department stores that proliferated to cater to their desires, at the turn of the century many still imagined feminine space in traditional […]
Shushma Malik, ‘Montesquieu’s Romans and the ‘Problem of Diversity’’
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 349, South Block, Senate House, Malet Street, London
Freud’s Archaeology
The Warburg Institute Woburn Square, LondonFreud’s interest in antiquity and his self-described obsessive collecting of ancient artefacts is well documented. His library, as well as his own texts, are replete with references to excavation, buried cities, and to the works of archaeologists and philologists. The dialogue between analysis and excavation that prevails throughout Freud’s thought has since generated a history […]
Efi Spentzou, ‘Girl in transit: Eurydice in the 21st century’
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
Digging Politics: The Ancient Past and Political Present in East-Central Europe
Durham University Durham, United KingdomThis workshop will explore political uses of ancient pasts and archaeology in east-central Europe in the states during the Cold War and post-communist period. While studies have often focused on individual episodes such as Dacomania in Romania or the Thracian past in Bulgaria, this workshop will bring together different approaches and disciplines in a collaborative, […]
Neville Morley, ‘Remaking Thucydides’
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