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
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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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2 events,CONVENOR: David M. Pritchard (Queensland/Strasbourg) SUMMARY Registration is now open for The Athenian Funeral Oration: 40 Years after Nicole Loraux. This international conference is taking place at the University of Strasbourg from 9 to 11 July 2018. English-, French- and German-speakers often read Pericles’s famous funeral oration at school or university. Once a year, in democratic… Continue reading The Athenian Funeral Oration: 40 Years after Nicole Loraux Application deadline: Wednesday 31 January 2018 The International Cavafy Summer School is a major international annual scholarly event organised by the Cavafy Archive and the Onassis Foundation, the first such regular event to be devoted exclusively to Cavafy and the impact of his work. Following the inaugural Summer School that took place in July 2017,… Continue reading International Cavafy Summer School: Cavafy and Antiquity |
3 events,We 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… Continue reading Approaching Landscape in the Classical Tradition |
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Found 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… Continue reading Leave. To Remain (An Aristophanic Brexit Tale)
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1 event,This 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… Continue reading Classics, the Left & the Sublime |
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Expanding 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… Continue reading Greek Matters |
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1 event,Since 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… Continue reading The Frightful and the Familiar: Exploring the Uncanny in the Ancient World |
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