NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

(last updated 9 February 2011)

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INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

CLASSICAL RECEPTION GRADUATE WORKSHOP

17 Feburary 2011

Senate House South Block Room 102
Malet St, London WC1E 7HU

11-1 Roundtable: How to write a proposal. Topics to be covered include completing a PhD application for funding,  early career scholarships applications and book proposals.
Discussion led by Lorna Hardwick, Jessica Hughes (Open University) and Joanna Paul (Liverpool)

Agenda discussion: Establishing a national work-in-progress seminar for reception studies.

 2-5      Work-in-progress papers:

Greek Receptions:
Luke Richardson (UCL) Albert Camus and Greek myth: the myth of Sisyphus as an act of reception

Victoria Turner (UCL) The role of museum collections of classical antiquities: some
preliminary findings from an institutional perspective

Clare Foster (UCL and Cambridge) The tradition of the 'Greek play' in Britain

Roman Receptions:
Anastasios Tyflopoulos (KCL) The reception of Virgil in Solomos

Linda Grant (Birkbeck) Reading Amores 1.5 through John Donne’s ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’  and Thomas Nashe’s ‘A Choice of Valentines’ 

Katherine East (RHUL) HowGruterus wrote Cicero: constructing the Ciceronian text in the early seventeenth century

For further information contact: a.bakogianni@open.ac.uk

Organised by the Classical Reception Studies Network in collaboration with the Institute of Classical Studies and the Open University

This workshop is generously sponsored by the Classical Association

 

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INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

GENDER IN THE UNIVERSITY CLASSICS CURRICULUM

Wednesday 9 March 2011 from 2.00-5.00 pm

Stewart House Room 274/75

Among the questions to be explored in this half-day colloquium are:

- Is gender still a relevant Actions Issue in the teaching of Classics and Ancient History?
- Should we be highlighting ‘women’ or ‘gender’?
- Is ‘masculinity’ being taught at all?
- Can more male students be encouraged to do ‘gender’ (or ‘women’)? Should they be?

The focus will be on general discussion, but to get things started there will be some opening remarks from a panel of speakers:

Sue Blundell (the Open University)
Emmanuel Buenaventura  (former student, Roehampton)
Susan Deacy (Roehampton)
Mary Harlow (Birmingham)
Edward Harris (Durham)
Catherine Lund (former student, Roehampton)
Vanda Zajko (Bristol)

All are welcome to attend.

Organisers: Sue Blundell and Susan Deacy.

For further details please contact: Sue Blundell, sblundell@aaschool.ac.uk

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