Homer Today

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London

Interested in hearing about all the latest developments in research and interpretations of the Iliad and Odyssey? Martha Kearney will chair a panel of experts as they discuss their most recent findings and the current trends in reading Homer. A  reception in the Hellenic and Roman Library will follow. Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol University) will explore […]

Excavating Roman Voices (Being Human)

London Mithraeum Bloomberg 12 Walbrook, London

Gain a new insight into Roman London at this evening of poetry inspired by the hidden voices present within the Bloomberg writing tablets, some of the earliest written documents found in Britain. Hosted at London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE where the tablets were discovered, Dr Josephine Balmer’s poetry will be performed by students from the University […]

Anne Carson’s ‘Eros the Bittersweet’ at Spike Island Studio

Spike Island Studio 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX

Laura Jansen (Classics) and Rebecca Kosick (Bristol Poetry Institute) will be leading a discussion of Anne Carson’s oeuvre with poet Alice Oswald, Oxford Professor of Poetry. The event emerges in collaboration with Stockholm-based artist Meriç Algün’s current exhibition at Spike Island Studio, “Finding the Edge”, which engages intimately with Carson’s book Eros: The Bittersweet (1983).

Holly Ranger, ‘Sylvia Plath’s Classical Palimpsests’

Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United Kingdom

The Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group

Sex, Rage and Change: feminist adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Online

A public conversation hosted by the Department of Classics, the University of the South (Sewanee) with Nina MacLaughlin (author of Wake Siren: Ovid Resung, 2019), Paisley Rekdal (Poet Laureate of Utah and author of Nightingale, 2019) and Prof. Stephanie McCarter (Professor of Classics, University of the South, Sewanee and translator of Ovid's Metamorphoses). Email Stephanie McCarter […]

Conference: Christopher Logue and the Classics 3/2/24

Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United Kingdom

A one-day conference on Christopher Logue and the Classics, in the Classics Faculty at 66 St Giles, OX1 3LU; co-organised by Thomas Munro and Claire Barnes. Keynote speaker: Henry Power (Exeter). Speakers include: Claire Barnes (Oxford); Alexander Christensen (Oxford); Sarah Cullinan Herring (Oxford); Meg Dyson (Exeter); Francesca Kaminski-Jones (RHUL); Thomas Munro (Yale/UCL); Alex Silverman (Oxford).