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Simon Goldhill (Cambridge) - 'Untimeliness and Theatre'
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1 event,Classical Antiquity: Screening the “political animals” of the Ancient Mediterranean world An area of multiple panels for the 2018 Film & History Conference: Citizenship and Sociopathy in Film, Television, and New Media Full details at: www.filmandhistory.org/conference DEADLINE for abstracts: June 1, 2018 Aristotle famously defined humans as “political animals”: organizing themselves within the social… Continue reading Film and History Conference: Classical Antiquity panels – Classical Antiquity: Screening the “political animals” of the Ancient Mediterranean world |
3 events,It is with great pleasure that we announce the Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World. AMPRAW 2018 will be a two-day conference aiming to provide postgraduate students from all disciplines with the opportunity to present their research to the growing academic community focusing on classical reception. A third day, Saturday, will be… Continue reading AMPRAW 2018: Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World The Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome (CRGR) at Royal Holloway, University of London is pleased to announce that a one-day workshop on the relationship between Martin Heidegger and the Classics will be held at Senate House, London on November 8th2018. ** Registration is now open. Prospective participants can find details on how to… Continue reading Heidegger and the Classics
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4 events,Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) In recent years, the afterlives of Greek tragedy have received special attention in the rapidly expanding field of classical reception studies. With reincarnations ranging from Japanese Noh theater to the Mexican screen, Euripides’ Medea is now more than ever a truly global “classic.” The time is ripe… Continue reading Medea on the Contemporary Stage and Screen CTC is an international network examining the use of the Greco-Roman past in 21st century political discourse. We welcome members from the global classical community, facilitating collaborative research and public engagement. To join, please sign up to our email list by the online form or reply to this email. CFP: Workshop: Friday 9th November 2018… Continue reading Claiming the Classical: 21st century political rhetoric and the Greco-Roman past |
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Sebastian Matzner (KCL) - 'Trans* Historicity: The Past - Queer and Now'arch
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'Aby Warburg and the liver models: the impact of cuneiform studies on art history', Babette Schnitzlein – Independent Researcher |
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2 events,This exhibition showcases discoveries made in the University of Roehampton’s extensive archive of children’s literature. Focusing on illustrations in children’s classics, it shows how ancient myths are brought alive to the imagination. Myths from ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt have given us iconic characters, such as heroes, gods, and monsters, whose stories are often first encountered… Continue reading Our Mythical Childhood (Being Human)
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Where did we come from? Where are we going? These questions will be explored in a very special night of storytelling hosted by the Institute of Physics and Global Generation who will discuss different ideas about the creation and fate of the universe. In the beautiful surroundings of the Skip Garden, join in a fireside chat… Continue reading Creation and Destruction: Stories by the Fire (Being Human) |
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Come 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… Continue reading Ingenious Soil (Being Human)
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Explore 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… Continue reading Weaving Women’s Stories (Being Human) |
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Explore 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… Continue reading Weaving Women’s Stories Activity Day (Being Human) |
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Join 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… Continue reading Recycling Roman Ruins (Being Human)
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We 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… Continue reading Medea in Exile: Origins of a Myth (Being Human)
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Accompanying 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… Continue reading ‘Shaping Fables with Marcia Williams’ (Being Human) |
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Over 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… Continue reading Kamila Shamsie, ‘Home Fire’ (Being Human) |
1 event,An 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… Continue reading Classical Displacement(s) |
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Constanze Güthenke (Oxford) - 'Reflections / Refractions'
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'Identifying the races of the ancient Near East: how European scholars in the 19th and early 20th centuries used ancient Egyptian representations of humans for racial classification', Dr Felix Wiedemann – Freie Universität Berlin |
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The Bristol Poetry Institute, in association with the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition, is delighted to invite members of the public and university alike to this year's annual poetry reading. We are very pleased to announce that this year's reader will be Alice Oswald. The event will comprise of a poetry reading… Continue reading Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading 2018: Alice Oswald |
1 event,Maynooth University Department of Ancient Classics research seminar Dr Christine Morris (Trinity College Dublin) ‘“Cretomania”: The Representation and Use of the Minoans in Modern Culture’ John Hume Lecture Theatre 7 (Maynooth University, North Campus). All are most welcome to attend. |
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