Conferences
An archive of previous calls for papers is available here
Conferences 2010
Seduction and Power - IMAGINES II: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts
September 22-25
Sponsored by the University of Bristol (Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition) and the University of Wales at Lampeter
Seduction and Power (IMAGINES II) is the second in a series of major international and interdisciplinary conferences focusing on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts. It explores the impact in post-classical imagery of the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power attributed to historical or legendary characters and events of the Ancient World. For the main outlines of the IMAGINES project and past and future conferences see project website: www.imagines-project.org
APGRD Annual Conference: Choruses: Ancient and Modern
September 13-14
This conference on the reception of the ancient chorus will take place in the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies and the Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Confirmed speakers include: Karen Ahlquist (George Washington), Josh Billings (Oxford), Claudia Bosse (theatre director), Laurence Dreyfus (Oxford), Zachary Dunbar (Central School of Speech and Drama), Simon Goldhill (Cambridge), Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität, Berlin), Albert Henrichs (Harvard), Martin Revermann (Toronto), Ian Rutherford (Reading), Roger Savage (Edinburgh).
For further details please contact naomi.setchell@classics.ox.ac.uk.
‘From Sappho to ... X’: Classics, performance, reception
August 20-22, 2010
A conference presented by the Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies and the Classical Studies Program of Monash University, in partnership with the Victorian College of the Arts and Music, the Australasian Classical Studies Reception Network, and Malthouse Theatre.
To coincide with Malthouse Theatre’s staging of the play Sappho...in 9 fragments, Monash University, the Victorian College of Arts and Music and the Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network are hosting a 3 day interdisciplinary conference on the relationship between performance and the Classics. The conference will bring together Classical scholarship, theatre studies, translation studies and cultural studies to investigate how performance manipulates and embodies our understanding of the classical world. Using the figure of Sappho as a metaphor for the many gaps we have to fill as we grapple with the otherness of the ancient world, the conference will explore how readers, translators, performers and spectators endlessly recreate the Classics in our imaginations and our embodiments.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)
Professor Page Du Bois (University of California, San Diego)
Professor Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
Professor Lorna Hardwick (Open University)
Professor Stanley Lombardo (University of Kansas)
Dr Margaret Reynolds (Queen Mary’s College, University of London)
Professor Peter Snow (Monash University)
A call for papers is located here.
Classics and Class
July 1-2, 2010
The Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome at Royal Holloway is delighted to announce that registration is now open for its British Academy-sponsored conference, 'Classics & Class', to be held at the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH, on July 1st and 2nd 2010.This is a change from the previously advertised venue of Bedford Square.
Speakers include Jonathan Rose (Keynote, Author of The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes), Chris Stray, Ed Richardson, Ekaterina Basargina, Adam Roberts, John Holford, Peter Rose (Closing Lecture), Paula James, Annie Ravenhill, Graham Oliver, Robert Crawford, Sarah Butler, Richard Alston, Margaret Malamud, and Katharine T. von Stackelberg.
In addition, there will be a Performance Event on the evening of July 1st with poetry and prose looking at the history of Classics through the prism of social class, featuring Tony Harrison and chaired by Peggy Reynolds (BBC's Adventures in Poetry). Separate registration for both the conference and the event (both of which are entirely free of charge and open to the public) is now open online at http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2010/classicsandclass/index.cfm. Places for attendees other than speakers and chairpersons are limited to 60, and will be offered on a firmly first-come first-serve basis. For further information please contact edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk.
Classics in the Modern World - a Democratic Turn?
An International Conference to be held at The Open University, Milton Keynes
18-20 June 2010
Classical texts, material culture and ideas seem in the last thirty or forty years to have become more widely and radically used and re-used among many groups and communities, irrespective of whether or not they have had a classical education of any kind. Furthermore, such rewritings and re-imaginings of classical material have frequently been used as part of the advocacy of liberation and emancipation or in social and political critique. Discussions about the relationship between classical languages and the vernacular or the demotic continue, as do debates about whether ancient historiography and philosophy provide a usable basis for decision making today. Such contested appropriations are not new and there is a long history of examples in which classical referents have been used by all sides in struggles for power and in aesthetic debate. This Conference will provide a forum for vigorous review and debate of these and other knotty issues. For a full programme and conference details, see http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/Conf2010/confpage2010.htm
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