Unprivileged Pasts, Unwritten Origins

University College Cork College Road, Cork, Ireland

Room G27, O’Rahilly Building, University College Cork How do we moderns conceptualize the “roots” and the “beginning” of our collective identities? How have the traditions and habits we recognize as ours been shaped in time? How do lost ancient peoples, civilizations, and myths survive in modern imagination? In an era of re-emergence of populisms, increase […]

Iconising the Classical: Pompeii in Silent Cinema

University of Cambridge

Professor Maria Wyke (UCL) 'How Cinema Takes Elite Engagements with Pompeii and Democraticises Them as Image/Word/Music for Mass Consumption' Professor  Paul Cartledge (Emeritus A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge) A leading figure in the emergence of Classical Reception Studies since the 1990s, Wyke is perhaps best known for her pioneering work on ancient […]