Mathias Hanses, ‘Black Cicero: (Re-)Reading the Classics with W. E. B. Du Bois’
University of Warwick CoventryWarwick Classics WiP Research Seminar Guest Speaker
Laura Jansen, ‘Readers of Classical Absences: Italo Calvino and Alberto Manguel’
University of LiverpoolLiverpool Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Seminar Room 10, Rendall Building, University of Liverpool. Please direct any inquiries to me (benjamin.cartlidge@liverpool.ac.uk).
Ancient Images, Modern Eyes: The Classical World in Modern Media and Advertising
University of Warwick CoventryAn exciting day of interactive workshops, discussions and activities on the theme of Classical Antiquity as it appears in modern media and advertising. Beginning with the Renaissance and happening as recently as Ariana Grande’s video for the hit song 'God is a Woman', the ancient – and most often the Classical – world has been […]
Classical Antiquity and Local Identities: from Newfoundland to Nigeria and Ghana
Memorial University St John's, Newfoundland, CanadaThis conference, based on the collaboration of classicists at Memorial University (Canada), the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), and the University of Ghana, explores the presence of classical antiquity in different cultural traditions and geographical settings at the intersection of the local and the global. While Classics has become more global in perspective, scholarly networks on the […]
Tessa Roynon, ‘Black Classicism: some theory, some practices and some dilemmas’
University of Warwick CoventryWarwick Classical Connections Seminar Series
Liz Pender, ‘Classics and Classicists in WW1’
University of Leeds Leeds, United KingdomUniversity of Leeds Classics Research Seminar All papers will be in the Michael Sadler Building room 1.01 (search here for directions: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/campusmap) and begin at 5 pm.
Sofia Greaves, ‘The mythic method. Subversive classicism in Giorgio de Chirico and British painting of the late 1920s’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomCambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS) Room G.21, Faculty of Classics Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge As Marinetti best expressed, the pre-war avant-garde rejected the classical tradition with belligerence in its ‘dance towards the common apotheosis of the Future’. Subsequently, post-war art of the 1920s has been evaluated pessimistically; ‘abstract’ has been taken to be synonymous […]
David Scourfield, ‘From The Ides of March to Augustus: Literary Form, Historical “Reality”, and Philosophical Exploration in Two Novels of Ancient Rome’
Maynooth University Maynooth, County Kildare, IrelandThe Maynooth University Department of Ancient Classics is pleased to announce the following programme of research seminars for the second semester of 2018-2019. Except where indicated, seminars are held on Friday afternoons at 16:00 in John Hume Lecture Theatre 7 (Maynooth University, North Campus). All are most welcome to attend.
The London Renaissance Seminar: Ovid in Love and Trouble
Birkbeck University Malet Street, London, United KingdomJoin us for a day of papers on Ovid in England; Ovid’s reproduction through Elizabethan textiles; models of abject creativity; gender and sex; the genre of love elegy Speakers include: Catherine Bates; Cora Fox; Linda Grant; Liz Oakley-Brown Keynes Library (Room 114), 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck Contact: s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk or elizabeth.scott-baumann@kcl.ac.uk The London […]
Juliette Harrisson, ‘Greek and Roman Warfare in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld’
University of LiverpoolLiverpool Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Seminar Room 10, Rendall Building, University of Liverpool. Please direct any inquiries to me (benjamin.cartlidge@liverpool.ac.uk).