Welcome to Classical Receptions in Late Twentieth-Century Drama and Poetry in English project site. This project has been established to document and analyse the theatrical and literary surge of interest in Greek texts and drama which is a phenomenon of the late twentieth century.
Recent Project News
New Appointment 2009
Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni has joined the project as a post-doctoral researcher.
She is working on a project about the reception of the classics in popular culture (1970 to the present). Previously she was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies in London. Her interests include Greek Drama and its Reception, particularly Modern Greek Receptions, Women in Antiquity and Classical Mythology. She is associate editor of New Voices.
International Conference
Classics in the Modern World – a Democratic Turn? An International Research Collaboration
to be held at Milton Keynes
18-20 June 2010.
This conference will be the culmination of the collaborative work that is being developed with colleagues in Australasia, Europe, South Africa and the US on the implications of the ‘Democratic Turn’, in which classical texts, material culture and ideas seem in recent years to have become more widely used among all sections of society and cultural groups, rather than restricted to elites. The conference will include case studies, analysis of the implications for how classical culture is perceived and transmitted, evaluation of approaches, methods and scholarship and, especially, critical examination of the extent to which the impression of more ‘democratic’ impact is, or is not, justified by the evidence. We expect the conference to lead to a substantial publication.
Conference organisers: Lorna Hardwick (The Open University), Stephen Harrison (Oxford University), Jess Hughes (The Open University) Kate Nichols (RHUL) and Carol Gillespie (The Open University). Further details (word doc 56K)
We also intend to run some special sessions for graduate students (who will be welcome to attend the whole conference).
May 2009
New Launch: Classical Receptions Journal
Edited by Professor Lorna Hardwick
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Classical Receptions Journal covers all aspects of the reception of the texts and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome from antiquity to the present day.
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The journal promotes cross-disciplinary exchange and debates at the interface between subjects. It therefore welcomes submissions from researchers in Archaeology, Architecture, Art History, Comparative Literature, Film, Intellectual History, History of Scholarship, Political Science, Theatre Studies and Translation Studies as well as from those in Classics and Ancient History.
In addition, the editorial team welcomes proposals for ‘Special Editions' on topics that involve cross-disciplinary collaborations.
How to submit : Full guidelines
All the content from the first issue has been made freely available at :
www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3791/1
Summary of Recent Project News
Modern productions and ancient classical plays
The first phase of our project documents modern productions of ancient plays and the processes associated with the creation of the performances (use menu on the left to access the database of performances and critical essays).
The Classical Texts and Modern Poetry
The second phase of our project investigates the relationship between classical material and modern poetry (c. 1970 to 2005). An Introduction, Case Study One , and Database pilot samples Michael Longley and Ted Hughes documented by Lorna Hardwick), are already available on the Project site. Rosemary Wilkinson, a research consultant to the Project, has documented two female poets, Eavan Boland and Olga Broumas (use menu on the left to access the database pilot samples.
The third phase of our project:
Classical historiography, ideas and material culture in the late twentieth century and the early twenty first century
Exhibiting Democracy, by Deborah Challis, is the first of a series of case studies that research different aspects of the receptions of classical historiography, ideas and material culture in the late twentieth century and the early twenty first century. |
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Suggestions of further topics are welcome (please email them to Carol Gillespie c.a.gillespie@open.ac.uk) These should both be significant in themselves and contribute to the overall aims of the Classical Reception project to research relationships between classical receptions from c.1970 to the present (on the wider word) and to consider their impact on cultural exchange and critique and on change in thinking and its paradigms.
Vacancies in Classical Reception Studies
This website was last updated: February 2010
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