Queens of Syria: screening and Q&A
University of Edinburgh Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomA group of Syrian women, now refugees exiled in Jordan, created an extraordinary modern retelling of Euripides’ 'The Trojan Women'. On stage the women courageously explore parallels between the ancient […]
Rejecting the Classics
University College London London, United KingdomThis half-day workshop, generously supported by UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies and the A. G. Leventis Foundation, will take place at UCL’s ‘Common Ground’ on Wednesday 21st February, 2018. As […]
Jennifer Ingleheart, A Shropshire Lad in Ancient Rome: A. E. Housman and Ancient ‘Homosexuality’
Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, United KingdomStudies of A. E. Housman assume a strong divide between his life as a poet - whose verses suggest his homoerotic desire - and as a well-respected Professor of Latin. […]
‘Strong Woman’ – A Rare Musical Drama on the Martyrdom of a Japanese Noblewoman
Bristol Music Club 76 St Paul's Road, Bristol, United KingdomThis year, for its Donors Celebration, the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition has teamed up with the University of Bristol’s Madrigal and Baroque Ensembles to present a […]
Historical Fictions Research Network
Stoke-on-Trent9:30-11:15 garden and registration 11:15-12:10 Jerome de Groot 12:10-1pm lunch 1-2:30 1 Fedorova Russian Revolt on the Screen Pooley It’s Not the Wallpaper that Worries Me: Genre Trouble and Historical […]
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS): ‘Archaeo-politics and the Greek crisis’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom(in collaboration with the Cambridge Modern Greek Seminar) Prof. Dimitris Tziovas (Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham) The crisis has induced […]
Erika Fischer-Lichte, ‘Tragedy’s Endurance’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomAPGRD Public Lecture
The Landscape Garden: Britain’s Greatest Eighteenth-century Export?
British School at Rome via Antonio Gramsci 61, Rome, Italy'The 18th-century English Landscape Garden'. - Dr Laura Mayer, Independent scholar and author. 'Roman influences on Georgian Stourhead'. - Prof John Harrison, Ph.D., Open University. 'Gardens at La Trappe: neo-classical […]
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS): ‘Aztec Latinists: Classical learning and native legacies in post-conquest Mexico’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomProf. Andrew Laird (John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities, Brown University, USA) Soon after the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric […]
UCL Houseman Lecture: Bernard O’Donoghue (Oxford) on ‘Chosen Ancestors: Seamus Heaney and Virgil’
University College London London, United KingdomSeamus Heaney's translation of Aeneid VI had long been rumoured, so its posthumous appearance in 2016 was a major event. Heaney had said that he wanted to produce a 'poetic […]