Approaching Landscape in the Classical Tradition
University of St Andrews St Andrews, United KingdomWe invite expressions of interest and abstracts for ‘Approaching Landscape in the Classical Tradition’, which will form a 3-day panel at the 11th Celtic Conference in Classics, to be held at the University of St Andrews from 11th-14th July 2017. We are actively seeking abstracts from scholars at all stages in their career and from […]
Leave. To Remain (An Aristophanic Brexit Tale)
Cheney School Oxford, United KingdomFound In Translation Theatre Co. presents Leave. To Remain (An Aristophanic Brexit Tale) Cheney School In an absurd alt-reality Brexit Britain, the Government has outsourced democracy to a TV voting show, pizza is banned for its foreign origins and a visa to France now costs 30 Euros (£300). Eventually Dick has had enough and […]
Classics, the Left & the Sublime
King's College London London, United KingdomThis conference addresses the ‘missing’ Marxist/materialist theory of the artistically beautiful. It aims to bring together an interdisciplinary team of philosophers, literary theorists, cultural critics, art historians and classicists to address questions including these: Why has the Left (defined as Marxists/Cultural and Historical Materialists/New Historicists/Postcolonial theorists and some Feminists) evaded concepts of the Beautiful, the […]
Greek Matters
University of York York, United KingdomExpanding upon recent interest in the influence of Greek antiquity on early modernity, this workshop sets out to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue that explores the reception of texts alongside other encounters with the past: the circulation of images, the collecting of antiquities, archaeology, architecture, epigraphy, etc. From difficulties in printing the Greek alphabet to developments […]
Centre for Myth Studies seminar: ‘Return to Oedipus’
University of Essex Colchester, United KingdomOpen Seminar Centre for Myth Studies University of Essex Room EBS.1.1 Return to Oedipus Professor Marinos Pourgouris (University of Cyprus) If there is one story, one narrative, at the very centre of Freudian theory, it is undoubtedly structured around the myth of Oedipus. The story of Oedipus has become, as Shoshana Felman […]
‘For an empty tunic, for a Helen’
University College London London, United KingdomA film screening on the life of ancient and modern Helens, introduced by Dr Antony Makrinos with music composed by Belinda E.S.
The Frightful and the Familiar: Exploring the Uncanny in the Ancient World
University of LiverpoolSince its establishment as a fixed idea by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay Das Unheimliche, the concept of the Uncanny has been examined and developed by a range of thinkers and theorists from different fields, including Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva. This workshop aims to explore ancient conceptions and manifestations of the Uncanny and […]
Hogwarts Classics Summer School
Cheney School Oxford, United KingdomWe are delighted to be offering our fourth annual Classics Summer School this August at the Iris Classics Centre at Cheney. It will take place on the mornings of 27, 28 and 29th August 2018. This year the summer school will be themed on the world of Harry Potter and Hogwarts! The format for each […]
Ancient Greek Drama in Latin 1506-1590. Readership, Translation, and Circulation
King's College London London, United KingdomIn scholarly discussions of the strange and elusive presence of Greek drama, and tragedy especially, in and around sixteenth-century European drama, the availability of Latin translations of the ancient Greek plays has become an oft-invoked phenomenon. This conference focuses on the ways in which Greek drama ‘lived’ in Latin, leading up to and coinciding with […]
Drawing on the Past: the pre-modern world in comics
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonWe invite abstracts for papers, posters and interactive workshops on any aspect of comics set in the pre-modern world to be presented at a two-day conference at Senate House in London on 10-11th September 2018. Our brief has a broad chronological and geographical scope, from the Bronze Age onwards, including but not limited to Greece, Rome, Egypt, Near East, Ancient Norse, Mesoamerica etc. The […]