Festival of Imagined Worlds

East Oxford Community Classics Centre Cheney School, Cheney Lane, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom

We are delighted to announce our Festival of Imagined Worlds on Friday 9th February 2018. This event will celebrate novels set in imaginary worlds, exploring how ancient myths and histories have often inspired these worlds. The event will include author talks and book illustration workshops, as well as a wide range of stalls, activities and […]

Madeline Miller in Conversation with Kate Mosse

The British Library 96 Euston Road, London

The UK launch of Madeline Miller's new novel Circe On a rare visit from the US, Madeline Miller, author of the 2012 Orange Prize-winning best-selling novel The Song of Achilles, celebrates the UK publication of her new novel Circe, the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer’s Odyssey. See her in conversation […]

Kamila Shamsie, ‘Home Fire’ (Being Human)

Swansea University

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 […]

David Scourfield, ‘From The Ides of March to Augustus: Literary Form, Historical “Reality”, and Philosophical Exploration in Two Novels of Ancient Rome’

Maynooth University Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland

The Maynooth University Department of Ancient Classics is pleased to announce the following programme of research seminars for the second semester of 2018-2019.  Except where indicated, seminars are held on Friday afternoons at 16:00 in John Hume Lecture Theatre 7 (Maynooth University, North Campus).  All are most welcome to attend.