The St Andrews Reception Research Group is meeting weekly for a series of work-in-progress seminars on classical reception.
The group meets at 6pm GMT on Thursdays in S11 Swallowgate, School of Classics, St Andrews, online attendance is also available via Teams. If you would like the Teams link please email Anna Coopey.
Schedule
29 January
Lynaea Pace (St Andrews):
“Queerly Something’s Changed: Reimaginings of Dionysus Through Modern Psycho-Social and Queer Theory”
5 February
Emily Bedford (St Andrews):
“The Eternal Slave: Receptions of Robots in the Age of AI”
11 February
Clara Leonora Burbank (Erlangen-Nurnberg):
“Actually Romantic: The Topos of Love in Byron’s Don Juan in Comparison with the Classical Epics”
18 February
Raven Jane Adilene (St Andrews):
“Lesbian and Juventius: From Romanticised Ancient Muse to Blasè Contemporary Ex-Lover”
25 February
Christopher Anaforian (St Andrews), Emily Strba (Edinburgh):
“Matrilineality, Materialism, and Minoans: The Radical Use of Bronze Age Crete in Feminist-Communist Discourse”
11 March
Thomas Phillips (St Andrews):
“A Long Time Ago in a Republic Far Far Away: Star Wars, Pop Culture and the Late Republic”
18 March
Charlotte Glynn (St Andrews):
“‘Rubbish… It’s Just A Story About Rabbits: Anthropomorphic Compromises, Mythmaking and Storytelling in Richard Adams’ Watership Down“
25 March
Brady Thomson (St Andrews):
“‘Reproduction and Birth in Beauty’: Platonic Philosophy in Romantic Poetry”
1 April
Toni Andres (St Andrews): “Courting Classical Education: The Not-So-Secret Economies of Dark Academia”