Ancient and Popular Reception of the Ancient Near East seminar

SOAS Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom

'Identifying the races of the ancient Near East: how European scholars in the 19th and early 20th centuries used ancient Egyptian representations of humans for racial classification', Dr Felix Wiedemann – Freie Universität Berlin

Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading 2018: Alice Oswald

Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

The Bristol Poetry Institute, in association with the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition, is delighted to invite members of the public and university alike to this year's annual poetry reading. We are very pleased to announce that this year's reader will be Alice Oswald. The event will comprise of a poetry reading […]

‘Antipodean Antigones’, Anastasia Bakogianni

University of Roehampton , United Kingdom

Roehampton and SW London Branch of the Classical Association Dr Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand) Antipodean Antigones   University of Roehampton, Howard Building Room 002. Please contact me at shushma.malik@roehampton.ac.uk with any queries.  

Katherine Harloe, ‘”A Useless, Pedantic, Ambiguous Rhapsodist”? Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s Reception in Great Britain.’

University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom

Manchester and District Classical Association Public Lecture Series 2018-19 Dr Katherine Harloe (University of Reading) ‘“A Useless, Pedantic, Ambiguous Rhapsodist”? Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s Reception in Great Britain.’ Samuel Alexander A7, University of Manchester All talks will take place at 5.30pm with refreshments to follow, and all attendees will be welcome to join the speaker for […]

Ancient and Popular Reception of the Ancient Near East seminar

SOAS Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom

'Displaying, hiding and replacing artefacts: on connecting the ancient and the modern Middle East in museums and public space', Dr Mirjam Brusius – German Historical Institute, London

Translating Greek Tragedy in 16th-century Europe

St Hilda's College, Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom

St Hilda’s College (Oxford) - Vernon Harcourt Room (APGRD, La Réunion and St Hilda’s)   Programme: 10.00-10.30 Registration and Coffee (Vernon Harcourt Room) 10.30-11.00 Welcome from Fiona Macintosh and the organizers; presentation of APGRD Translating Ancient Drama project by Cécile Dudouyt 11.00-12.00 Southern Europe I – Chair: Sarah Knight (Leicester) Elia Borza (Université Catholique de Louvain) – Neo-Latin Sophocles; an Overview […]

Performing Pindar

Corpus Christi College Merton Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

A performance directed by Helen Eastman with music by Alex Silverman, and public lecture by Nancy Felson (University of Georgia): What would Cyrene say? Strategies of Silencing and Elision in Pindar Pythian 9. MBI Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College, Oxford