Call for Papers A one-day conference at Senate House, University of London 4th October 2018 Keynote: Professor John Wylie (University of Exeter) In recent decades, the ‘spatial turn’ in critical theory has heralded an increased focus on geographical tensions across the humanities. Considering the nature of spaces and places allows us to elucidate the complex dialectics that… Continue reading Mythological Panoramas: Tracing Distortions and Fictions of Landscape Across Time and Space
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2 events,It’s the mark of a classic that it’s never out-dated. Many of the most exciting artists and writers working today are taking their inspiration from stories, concepts and forms now thousands of years old. This festival celebrates the legacy of the ancient Greeks and Romans by connecting it with innovative work being created today. A… Continue reading Metamorphoses Beset by terrorism, environmental degradation, as well as by alienation and social inequalities often fanned by war, the modern world suffers from depression. Modern means of relief, such as the newest technological advancements, impose mass behaviour and threaten all facets of freedom. On the other hand, it is intriguing how easily the modern reader relates… Continue reading Ancient World and Modern Societies: How Classics help reshape our world |
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Felix Budelmann (Oxford), Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol) - 'Positions / Perspectives'
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'The statue that looked like a sheikh: towards a critical historiography of ancient Egyptian art', Professor Christina Riggs – Department of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford |
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The Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome of the Classics Department at Royal Holloway are delighted to invite classicists, friends, alumni and colleagues to a celebration of the Centre’s recent and upcoming research at our Bedford Square building in central London. The academics who work in the centre will give some updates about… Continue reading A Celebration of the Centre For The Reception of Greece and Rome |
1 event,Studies have explored the cross-cultural engagement between Western civilisation and other cultures (Stephens and Vasunia 2010) as well as the legacy and reception of the Classics in the Arab world (Pormann 2015), India (Vasunia 2013), West Africa (Goff 2013; Goff and Simpson 2007) and recently, South Africa (Parker 2017). Classical reception studies thus continue to… Continue reading Classics and Global Humanities |
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1 event,This course looks at the fascination exerted by ancient Rome during the period of British colonial rule in India. It will be taught by distinguished academic experts from UCL, KCL, Birkbeck, and Royal Holloway. Topics will include the art and architecture of colonial India and Britain, the uses of Greek and Latin by the colonizers… Continue reading Rome and the Raj
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Hannah Silverblank (Haverford), Marchella Ward (Oxford) - 'Disability, Identity and the Now' |
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2 events,Myth: image and sound The digitalization of the last decades has caused a revolution in traditional artistic mediums (painting, sculpture, theater) and introduced new ones (video games, multimedia installations, performances). In the four previous conferences, organized by Asteria, International Association of Mythcriticism, in collaboration with Amaltea, Journal of Mythcriticism, we have seen the difficulties in attempting… Continue reading Myth and Audiovisual Creation: Classical Myths The classical tradition has long confined Antiquity to an immaculate, sanitized whiteness : thus idealised, it was deprived of its multi-sensorial dimension, and conveniently limited to the visual paradigm. Olfaction, in particular, has often been overlooked in classical reception studies due to its evanescent nature which makes this sense difficult to apprehend. And yet, the… Continue reading The Fragrant and the Foul: the Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination |
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Natalie Haynes (writer, journalist and broadcaster), 'The Female Hero and the Aeneid' (Presidential Address) Room 349, Senate House South Block Meetings take place in Senate House, Malet Street, London. All are very welcome to attend, and tea/coffee is usually served after meetings. For more on the Virgil Society, please see http://www.virgilsociety.org.uk/, and for membership enquiries, please contact… Continue reading Virgil Society Presidential Address: ‘The Female Hero and the Aeneid’ |
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Carol Atack (Oxford) - 'The Untimely End of Democracy in the Classical Now'
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‘A large question of policy’: the British government’s perception of archaeology in Iraq, 1917-1936', Dr Juliette Desplat – The National Archives |
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Fellows' Seminar, Institute of Classical Studies Liz Pender (Leeds) Classics and Classicists in WW1. (Room 234) Coffee and tea will be provided. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunches. Everyone is welcome. |
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The Classics and Ancient History department at the University of Warwick is pleased to launch the Classical Connections Seminar Series, dedicated to exploring connections between Greek and Latin antiquity and different geographical and temporal contexts. Our first lecture in the series will be:  Dr Sarah Derbew (Harvard University) Thursday 25th October 2018 5pm-6.30pm OC 1.06 (Oculus… Continue reading Sarah Derbew, ‘The Metatheater of Blackness: Danaids, Dunbar, and Ellison’ |
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Registration/coffee 10.30 11-1.15 Mary Beard (Cambridge) Classics? Jas’ Elsner (Oxford) Room with a Few: The Fraenkel Room, the Refugee Scholars Room and the reception of Reception Edith Hall (KCL) Classics Invented: The Emergence of a Disciplinary Label 1670-1733 1.15-2.15 Lunch 2.15- 3.45 Judy Hallett   (Maryland) Gender and the Classical Diaspora Lorna Hardwick… Continue reading Classics and Classicists: A colloquium in honour of Christopher Stray |
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Simon Goldhill (Cambridge) - 'Untimeliness and Theatre' |
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