‘What Remains?’: Fascist and National Socialist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar Era to the Present Day
The Old Library, Sidney Sussex College CambridgeAn interdisciplinary workshop of international experts, including historians of Germany and Italy, classicists, archaeologists and art historians Programme START OF WORKSHOP - 10am Helen Roche / Flaminia Bartolini: Introduction: On Fascist […]
Professor Martha Nussbaum on ‘Anger, Powerlessness, and the Politics of Blame’
University of Bristol Bristol, United KingdomThe Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition is delighted to welcome Professor Martha Nussbaum to speak at its second Sir Jeremy Morse Lecture. The title of Professor Nussbaum's lecture is ‘Anger, Powerlessness, and […]
New films, old drama: an evening with Barefaced Greek
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonBarefaced Greek celebrate classical Greek drama in performance by making accessible short films using text from Greek comedy and tragedy. These fresh new films (in the original language, with subtitles), […]
Society for Neo-Latin Studies Postgraduate Event: Editing Neo-Latin Texts
John Rylands Library, University of Manchester 150 Deansgate, Manchester, United KingdomRegistration now open (FREE for all postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers): if you would like to attend, please email p.m.white@leeds.ac.uk Programme 10:30-11:00 Welcome and introduction (Christie Room, John Rylands Library) 11:00-12:30 […]
Classical Receptions in the Nineteenth Century
Classics Department, University of Durham 38 North Bailey, Durham, United KingdomThis workshop, organised in collaboration with the Durham Centre for Classical Reception and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, gathers together scholars from different disciplines to discuss aspects of classical reception […]
Editing Contexts: Historical Editions of Literary Works and their Afterlives
TORCH Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road,, Oxford, United KingdomEditing Contexts is a one-day interdisciplinary conference on historical editions of literary works, kindly supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). It will be held on Friday 22nd […]
Misdirections and Misconceptions in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama
Royal Holloway University of London Egham, United KingdomThe 18thAnnual APGRD / Royal Holloway, University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Ancient Drama will take place on Monday 25 June (at the Ioannou Centre, Oxford) and […]
Richard Whitaker, The Odyssey of Homer: A Southern African Translation
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London"Tell me, Muse, of that resourceful man who trekked / far and wide . . .” The Odyssey of Homer: A Southern African Translation Richard Whitaker reads from and discusses his new […]
Tea With The Sphinx: Reception of Ancient Egypt’s Myth, Magic, and Mysticism
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomAt the first roundtable of ‘Tea with the Sphinx: Defining the Field of Ancient Egypt Reception Studies’ in September 2017 a debate arose surrounding the idea of ‘truth’, ‘facts’, the […]
Anna Jackson: I, Clodia and Other Portraits
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe New Zealand poet and academic Anna Jackson, author of catullus for children (2004) and I, Clodia and Other Portraits (2014), both collections which revivify Catullus for a modern audience […]