Professor Elizabeth Vandiver (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Whitman College, USA) Abstract: The use of vers libre was one of the hallmarks of Imagist poetry; one of the six principles of Imagism printed in the Preface to the 1915 anthology Some Imagist Poets (edited by Amy Lowell) said, ‘We believe that the individuality of a poet may… Continue reading Elizabeth Vandiver, ‘“The best Greek poets used a kind of free verse”: the Imagists, vers libre, and ancient metrics’
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Experts from Classics, English and Drama as well as playwrights and theatremakers will discuss their own take on the lost plays, producing an engaging and informative workshop addressed at colleagues, students, theatre artists and members of the public interested in the undiscovered dramas of Greek civilisation. The speakers will explore past and current trends in the… Continue reading Reconstructing & Adapting Fragmentary Ancient Greek Tragedy: Methodologies & Challenges for Classicists and Theatre Practitioners
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1 event,A postgraduate conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh on 4-5 June 2018. Keynote: Professor Simon James, Durham University Other confirmed speakers: Dr Roger Rees, University of St Andrews Throughout history, authors have grappled with how their texts are presented to their audience. Critics and theorists have responded to this in kind with a multitude… Continue reading The Literary Self: from Antiquity to the Digital Age |
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An 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 and National Socialist Antiquities and Materialities PART I - FASCIST ANTIQUITIES Jan Nelis (Ghent) - On Fascist and National Socialist Classicism Han Lamers (HU Berlin)… Continue reading ‘What Remains?’: Fascist and National Socialist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar Era to the Present Day
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The 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 the Politics of Blame’. This lecture investigates the climate of simmering anger that disfigures most modern democracies, expressing itself in blaming and targeting of unpopular… Continue reading Professor Martha Nussbaum on ‘Anger, Powerlessness, and the Politics of Blame’
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Barefaced 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), produced for online broadcast, aim to reach new audiences internationally, and to inspire a love of Greek language and drama in the twenty-first century. This… Continue reading New films, old drama: an evening with Barefaced Greek |
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Registration 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 Research Papers: Alexia Dedieu (Université Grenoble Alpes), ‘Translating Euripides into Latin: the manuscript of François Tissard Astrid Khoo (King’s College London) ‘“Videre Suis Oculis”: Visuality… Continue reading Society for Neo-Latin Studies Postgraduate Event: Editing Neo-Latin Texts |
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This 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 in the long nineteenth century. The programme is not primarily designed to deepen research into one specific topic, but rather to reflect on the range… Continue reading Classical Receptions in the Nineteenth Century |
1 event,Editing 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 June at TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford. We invite abstracts from graduate students and early career researchers working on editorial practices… Continue reading Editing Contexts: Historical Editions of Literary Works and their Afterlives
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1 event,The 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 Tuesday 26 June (at Royal Holloway, Egham). This year’s theme will be: ‘Misdirections and Misconceptions in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’.… Continue reading Misdirections and Misconceptions in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama |
1 event,"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 translation of the Odyssey Richard Whitaker studied Greek and Latin at the Universities of the Witwatersrand (B.A.), Oxford (M.A.), and St Andrews (PhD). He is now Emeritus… Continue reading Richard Whitaker, The Odyssey of Homer: A Southern African Translation |
1 event,At 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 ways in which knowledge is formed in the popular imagination, and how this relates to reception studies as a field. This prompted discussion surrounding how… Continue reading Tea With The Sphinx: Reception of Ancient Egypt’s Myth, Magic, and Mysticism |
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