News
The ACRSN is always keen to hear about events or activities (e.g. performances, book launches, exhibitions) that may be of interest to other scholars in the field of classical reception studies. Please e-mail details to the ACRSN web co-ordinator (info@acrsn.org). An archive of past news and events is available here.
News and Events 2008
First Australasian Conference in Classical Reception
The first conference devoted to the topic of Classical Reception will be held at Monash University on 20-21 September. For further details, see 'Conferences & Calls for Papers'.
Exhibition: Of Deities or Mortals
William A. Sutton Gallery, Christchurch Art Gallery
16 November 2007 - 10 February, 2008
Titled after a line in John Keats' poem 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', Of Deities or Mortals takes eight objects from the University of Canterbury's James Logie Memorial Collection and invites eight contemporary New Zealand artisits to respond to the works.
Sara Hughes, Jamie Richardson, Neil Pardington, Reuben Paterson, Marian Maguire, Liyen Chong, Tony de Lautour and Francis Upritchard have each chosen a work from the Collection and their mixed media response will be displayed along with the original ancient treasures. This meeting of old and new will bring interesting and unexpected juxtapositions, and is anticipated to throw new light on objects from the ancient past. For further details, see the Christchurch Art Gallery website.
News and Events 2007
Performance: Sappho
14 November to 2 December
Stork Stage, Melbourne.
This is a one-person play about Sappho performed by Jane Montgomery Griffiths from Monash University at the Stork Hotel Theatre. Jane uses Sappho's poetry to weave together the stories of her reception with a contemporary love story - something of a research project into if (and how) reception can be staged. The season runs from 14th November to 2nd December, Wednesday to Saturday at 8 pm, and Sundays at 3 pm. For further details a flyer is available to download here. For reviews, see here.
Radio Lecture: What's so new about neo-Latin? (Lingua Franca, ABC Radio National)
Originally just a local language of ancient Rome, Latin became the language of the Roman Empire and then the classical language of Europe. But a knowledge of its later usage - as what is now called 'neo-Latin' - by the Renaissance humanists, is essential to a proper understanding of our own culture and history.
In this programme, Yasmin Haskell (Cassamarca Foundation Associate Professor in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia) discusses neo-Latin and its impact. An audio download of the lecture is available here.
Announcement: A CRSN workshop for research students
The CRSN will be holding a workshop for graduate students entitled 'Reception, Disciplinarity and Academic Careers'
on 7 November, 2007 at Birkbeck, University of London. For further details, see the Conferences & Calls for Papers section of this website.
Public Lecture: Mythology and Marketing in the Renaissance
Professor Philip Ford (University of Cambridge)
27 September 2007 at 5:30 pm
Refectory, Main Quad, The University of Sydney
Philip Ford specialises in French and neo-Latin literature, with special emphasis on the relationship between humanism and writing, particularly poetry. Publications include George Buchanan, Prince of Poets, a book on Ronsard's Hymnes (1997), and proceedings of eight conferences organised in Cambridge on the French Renaissance. His most recent book is Jean Dorat, Mythologicum, ou interprétation mythologique de l'Odyssée X-XII et de L'Hymne à Aphrodite (Geneva: Droz, 2000), and he is at present completing work on the reception of Homer in the Renaissance. He is first President of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies and Vice-President of the Société Française d'Etude du Seizième Siècle.
Research Seminar: Ancient History and Nineteenth-Century Historiography
Monday 24 – 25 September
Main Seminar Room, Drummond and Smith College
University of New England
What decisive contributions did some 19th-century classical scholars make to our understanding of various Greek and Roman historians, and how have their views stood the test of time in the century and more since then? This is the nub of the question on which a number of Classicists, Ancient and Modern Historians from various universities in Australia will be reflecting during the Seminar.
This research seminar is being run as a strand within the Australian Historical Association conference, being held at the University of New England from Sunday 23 to Wednesday 26 September 2007.
Speakers include: Norman Etherington (UWA), Paul Brown (UNE), Max Schmitz (UNE), Neil Morpeth (Newcastle), Greg Horsley (UNE), Graeme Bourke (UNE), James McLaren (ACU), Douglas Kelly (ANU), Edwin Judge (Macquarie), Tom Stevenson (UQ), Geoff Adams (Monash), and Ron Ridley (Melbourne).
Further details and a registration form are available here.
Classics and Comics
Proposals are invited for an edited volume to be entitled Classics and Comics.
Edited by George Kovacs (University of Toronto) and C. W. Marshall (University of British Columbia)
Comics have been a major element of popular culture in North America, Europe, and Japan for over a century. So far there has been very little work integrating the medium into a larger understanding of Western artistic and literary culture. In Classics and Comics, we shall begin this work by presenting the first extended integration of comics with the foundations of western culture, in a collection of 12-18 chapters, each approximately 5000 words in length. Further details about the project and abstract submission are available here.
Research Seminar: Protesilaus at Gallipoli, Thursday 6, September.
Associate Professor Chris Mackie (University of Melbourne)
5 pm, The Kevin Lee Room, The University of Sydney.
This talk is focused on the Cape Helles area at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula. This is where the British and the French forces were based in 1915 in their struggle with Turkish forces. It is an area with a rich military history in antiquity, and a place that has seen great activity in various periods since then. This talk will begin with a discussion of the French role at Gallipoli and their excavations at Eski Hissarlik, both in 1915 and in the years immediately after the war. As far as the ancient context is concerned the focus of attention will be on the city of Elaious, especially the hero shrine of Protesilaus. The argument will be put that the latent presence of the shrine helps to inform the tragic events that took place around it in April 1915.
Chris Mackie is Director of the Centre for Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne. His earlier research was on the Roman poet Vergil, but since then he has focused on the epics of Homer, and Greek mythology with an interest in 'reception studies'. His main research interest at the moment is the Dardanelles region, ancient and modern, which is the subject of this talk.
Public Lecture: Classical fantasies and ancient sexual realities
Paul Barrett Lecture Theatre, The University of New England
August 30, 2007, 1 pm.
Two leading Australian historians of sexuality are visiting the University of New England to present their recent research findings on sexuality in the ancient world and its echoes down the ages.
Robert Aldrich, who is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney and the author or editor of several books on the history of homosexuality, will explore some of the ways in which the idea of "Greek love" has inspired homosexual fantasies over the last couple of centuries in a paper titled "Classical fantasies and the modern homosexual". Dr Alastair Blanshard, who also lectures at the University of Sydney, will complement Professor Aldrich's paper by presenting the latest findings about the practice and significance of gay sex in the ancient world. Dr Blanshard is the author of Hercules: An Heroic Life. His paper will be titled "What's new about Greek homosexuality?".
Public Lecture: Thursday 21 June, 6-8 pm
The homes of A.B.Triggs and J.R.B.Stewart in NSW and their interior designs influenced by their numismatic interests
by Dr Nicholas Hardwick, Honorary Associate, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
Arthur B.Triggs (1868-1936) had a house at Yass called Linton, which contained a collection of coins, paintings, lace, manuscripts and books. Professor James R.B.Stewart of the University of Sydney (1913-1962) lived at Mt Pleasant, Bathurst (now Abercrombie House). He was a scholar of numismatics and had a coin collection, and his home contained an extensive library of fine and rare books on coins. The lecture will discuss an aspect of the history of house design and interior furnishing with the particular focus on the design requirements of collectors and scholars of coins for housing their collections and libraries.
Further details are available here.
Update: Hear Dr. Nicholas Hardwick discuss the subject of his lecture on Radio National's By Design programme. A podcast is available here.
PhD Scholarship at ADFA/UNSW
Applications are called for a PhD scholarship on the topic "Christopher Brennan’s annotations to texts in his Greek library and their implications for his poetry". For full details, see the Jobs page.
Report: ‘Classics Hell’: Re-Presenting Antiquity in Mass Cultural Media
‘Classics Hell: Re-Presenting Antiquity in Mass Cultural Media’ took place at the University of Reading on Tuesday, April 17th 2007. The event brought together speakers from UK universities from Edinburgh to Exeter. Topics for discussion included the reception of Classics by mass audiences in cinema, radio, television drama, video games, children’s literature, wargaming, news media, self-published novels, and pornography. The keynote speech by broadcaster and author Bettany Hughes (on communicating antiquity to a mass television audience) was followed by a total of five panels (thirteen papers in total including the keynote speech), plus opening and closing comments from the organisers, Dunstan Lowe and Kim Shahabudin.
Read the full conference report
Studia Humaniora Tartuensia - Volume 8
The editors of the journal "Studia Humaniora Tartuensia" (SHT) would like to announce that the journal is accepting papers for the 8th volume (2007).
SHT is a refereed journal of the humanities, which focuses on classical studies, ancient history, Neo-Latin studies, Byzantine studies, classical tradition, history of scholarship and philosophy. It is published on-line
only and is freely available to everyone (open access) at http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/. We accept papers in English, German, French or Latin. All submissions are anonymously refereed. Altogether seven volumes
(2000-2005) of the journal have been published.
Submissions to vol. 8 (2007) should be sent preferably by e-mail to the address sht.editors@gmail.com. Please check the above-mentioned web page for general submission guidelines. This year's volume has two major sections: A) classical studies and ancient history, and B) Neo-Latin studies. We would especially encourage you to submit to the latter
Research Seminars in Ancient History and Classics
Department of Classics and Ancient History
The University of Sydney
Next Seminar: Thursday 8 March
4-6 pm in the Kevin Lee Room
Nicholas Hardwick (4-5 pm):
An Etruscan vase from Leake's collection in the portrait of 'William Martin Leake' (painted 1838), National Portrait Gallery, London.
This seminar introduces the article by Nicholas Hardwick ‘Antiquities in British Nineteenth Century Paintings: Some New Discoveries’, The World of Antiques and Art, Issue 72 (February 2007-August 2007), pp. 110-2, which features the discussion of the vase in the portrait of Leake.
Classical Fantasies: The Use and Abuse of Same-Sex Love in Antiquity
A Panel Discussion
Sunday 25 February
Nicholson Museum, The University of Sydney
In the inspiring setting of the Nicholson Museum, a panel of six experts on sexuality will discuss issues arising from the modern use and perception of ancient same-sex love. The participants, many of whom have written extensively on the subject, include Professor Robert Aldrich, Dr Alastair Blanshard, Professor Stephen Garton, Dr Gail Hawkes, Assoc Professor Vrasidas Karalis, Dr Suzanne McAlister and Professor Elspeth Probyn. Proceedings will be highly entertaining and will include a champagne cream tea.
Time: 2.00pm-5.00pm
Cost: $25, $20 for members of the Friends of the Nicholson Museum and New Mardi Gras Members
Bookings essential: phone: (02) 9351 2812 or email m.turner@usyd.edu.au
This event is held in conjunction with the 2007 Mardi Gras Festival.
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