Horace in English Since 1900

Universität Bonn Am Hof 1, Bonn, Germany

The Centre for the Classical Tradition at the University of Bonn is delighted to invite you to the first lecture of its annual CCT lecture series. This year our speaker is Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College. The title of his talk is "Horace […]

Classical Receptions in the Nineteenth Century

Classics Department, University of Durham 38 North Bailey, Durham, United Kingdom

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 […]

Connie Bloomfield, ‘Pornographic Ovid, grotesque translations, and proto-surrealism in nineteenth-century Brazil: Bernardo Guimarães’ A Origem do Mênstruo’

Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom

'Pornographic Ovid, grotesque translations, and proto-surrealism in nineteenth-century Brazil: Bernardo Guimarães’ A Origem do Mênstruo' Connie Bloomfield (KCL) The erotic poem ‘A Origem do Mênstruo’ , published in 1875 by the nineteenth-century Brazilian Romantic poet Bernardo Guimarães, claims to be a translation of a translation of a lost Ovidian aetiology, unearthed in the Pompeiian excavations. Whilst […]

Sebastian Matzner, ‘Forgetting Plato: Classical Alternatives to Theorizing Male-Male Desire in Fin de Siècle Germany’

Durham University Durham, United Kingdom

You are warmly invited to attend the inaugural LGBT History Month Annual Public Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University: Thursday, Feb. 7th, at 4pm in PG21, Palace Green, Pemberton Building, Durham DH13RL. A drinks reception will follow in the Ritson Room, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 […]

The Nineteenth-Century Archive as a Discourse of Power

Durham University Durham, United Kingdom

Interdisciplinary Conference at the Durham Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, supported by the British Association for Victorian Studies and the Royal Historical Society. What is a nineteenth-century archive, broadly defined? Do archival holdings today still run the risk of perpetuating the ideological frameworks within which they were created? Moreover, what are the discourses of imperial power […]