Ingenious Soil (Being Human)
Devon and Exeter Institution 7 Cathedral Close, Exeter, United KingdomCome and join us for an evening of ‘ingenious soil’, Latin, and art, during which we will be presenting the first screening of an artwork by Laura Hopes. Inspired by Virgil’s Georgics, the ancient Roman agricultural poem, the film ‘Marginalia’ has emerged from a collaboration between artist Laura Hopes, Katharine Earnshaw (Classics, University of Exeter), and Mary Quicke (Quicke’s […]
Weaving Women’s Stories (Being Human)
St Margaret's House London, United KingdomExplore the connections between storytelling and textile-making in women’s lives from ancient Greece to modern London. Come along and enjoy the stories of our craftivist foremothers in artefacts and poetry from the past; hear the voices of these ‘subversive stitchers’ with an evening performance from By Jove Theatre, introduced by experts on ancient craft. This […]
Weaving Women’s Stories Activity Day (Being Human)
St Margaret's House London, United KingdomExplore the connections between storytelling and textile-making in women’s lives from ancient Greece to modern London. In this hands-on activity day, drop by in the morning to try your hand at spinning fleece into yarn, or at weaving on a replica loom. Make artefacts – from clay and cloth – inspired by archaeological evidence from ancient […]
Recycling Roman Ruins (Being Human)
University College London London, United KingdomJoin archaeologist Beth Munro, glassworker Shelley James and metalsmith Necole Schmitz to explore how ancient craftspeople transformed Roman glass mosaics and metal pipes to make objects inspired by Roman recycling. This event will highlight recent archaeological research on Roman villa recycling and investigate the properties of ancient materials through exciting hands-on making. You will work […]
Classics and the Now: ‘Zeus Panomphaios’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomRenaud Gagné (Cambridge) - 'Zeus Panomphaios'
Maxine Lewis, ‘Censoring Juventius? The reception of Catullus’ homoerotic poems by Tiffany Atkinson, Nathaniel Moore and C. K. Stead’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom'Censoring Juventius? The reception of Catullus’ homoerotic poems by Tiffany Atkinson, Nathaniel Moore and C. K. Stead' Dr Maxine Lewis (University of Auckland) Since the seventeenth century, a steady stream of Anglophone writers has used Catullus’ poems as inspiration for their translations, poetic adaptations and novels. Many of the works have both emphasised the female […]
Medea in Exile: Origins of a Myth (Being Human)
University of Bristol Bristol, United KingdomWe think we know Medea, the scorned lover and her act of monstrous revenge, but Euripides’ tragedy was just one of approximately 19 classical plays to feature her, and in antiquity she was also a familiar figure from epic and lyric poetry. ‘Medea in Exile’ features the world premiere of a trilogy of new plays […]
‘Shaping Fables with Marcia Williams’ (Being Human)
University of Roehampton , United KingdomAccompanying an exhibition of illustrated children’s classics, popular author-illustrator Marcia Williams discusses her creative process in conversation. The direction of the conversation will be shaped by the questions asked by the audience. Perhaps you want to know how and why an artist chooses scenes to illustrate? Or you’re curious about what comes first, the image […]
Kamila Shamsie, ‘Home Fire’ (Being Human)
Swansea UniversityOver the last 20 years Kamila Shamsie has established herself as one of the most vital and interesting novelists at work today. Her books, often grand in scope yet always emotionally intimate, have captured the minds and hearts of readers across the world. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and winner of this […]
Classical Displacement(s)
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonAn interdisciplinary colloquium that explores the involvement of Greco-Roman antiquity, appropriated by societies throughout history, in the displacement and marginalisation of minority identities. The event, generously supported by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, will also consider the response of those marginalised voices: how groups excluded from and through the Classics have used antiquity to […]