Classical Reception Studies Network

December 15
TRIPS to the MOON - Lunar Travel: Lucian to Kubrick via the Renaissance and 18th century. 10.00am–5.00pm, Royal Holloway, University of London.
A highly informal one-day festive symposium mainly (but by no means
exclusively) for the edification of those who can remember 1968 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 8 Mission and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Speakers include Brycchan Carey (Kingston University), Adam Roberts, Tony Keen, Nick Lowe, Richard Hawley, Edith Hall.
There is no registration fee, and sandwiches will be available for a small charge. Please contact edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk if you are interested in attending or giving a paper.

December 12
Classical Collections and British Country houses and Gardens, The Arts Faculty, the Open University, Milton Keynes.
We plan to consider the relationship between classical collections (of statuary, coins, architectural fragments or archaeological material ), their historical context at key points in the formation of the British country house and its setting, and their present survival as historic collections.
Questions we hope to address include: Do these collections acquire new meanings for each generation? Are they necessarily 'closed collections' in the range of meanings they can support today? How do we respond to themes of nation, identity and memory, for instance, as part of the cultural work produced by their historic owners?
We welcome papers (30 minutes) on any aspect of the topic, and especially from postgraduate students.
Please email your proposal (with brief a abstract) to Susie West (S.West@open.ac.uk) or Janet Huskinson (J.A.R.Huskinson@open.ac.uk ) by 1 September 2008.

December 9
Scottish Classical Scholarship : Sir William Duguid Geddes (1828-1900), Graham Whitaker ( University of Glasgow). 5 p.m in the Murray Room (Room 410), 65 Oakfield Avenue , Glasgow .
All are very welcome to attend, and to join us and the speaker for drinks and dinner afterwards; for further details please contact Luke Houghton, l.houghton@classics.arts.gla.ac.uk
Full programme of seminars available at www.gla.ac.uk/departments/classics/newsandevents/seminars/

December 6
Mars And Venus: Gender-Specific Communication In The Classical World, Arts Centre, University Of Nottingham, organised by the Department Of Classics and The Centre For Ancient Drama and its Reception (CADRE)
All are welcome. Cost will be £30 (including coffee, lunch, and tea) plus £20 (£10 for postgraduate students) for dinner. If you wish to attend, please contact Judith Mossman, (judith.mossman@nottingham.ac.uk).
Programme

December 3
Momigliano on Peace and Liberty (1940), Oswyn Murray.
The first Gilbert Murray Lecture on Classics and Internationalism, 5.00 pm at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies in Oxford.
It will be followed by a drinks reception.
Everyone is welcome. Please address enquiries to edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk (Chair, Gilbert Murray Trust).
The talk will begin from Gilbert Murray's public work for the League of Nations Union, and his lifelong concern for refugees. It will then move into the 1940 response of one refugee to the situation he found himself in, through his lectures on peace and liberty. It will talk about the lifeline of classics as a counter-culture in times of tyranny.
The event is supported by the Gilbert Murray Trust, the Institute of Classical Studies, the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University, the Department of Classics at Glasgow University, the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (Oxford) and the Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome (RHUL). This inaugural lecture is being held in Oxford in order to mark the centenary of Gilbert Murray's appointment to the Regius Professorship of Greek at Oxford.

December 3
Historicism and humanism in the Homeric 'accounts' of Michael Longley and Christopher Logue Professor Simon Dentith (Reading), University of Reading , Room: Palmer G03, 4 p.m.

November 26
Classical Reception Studies at the University of Reading : The Case of Catullus , Dr Peter Kruschwitz (Reading) University of Reading , Room: Palmer G03, 4 p.m.

November 24
Sirens: a lecture recital by Hannah Rosenfelder (mezzo-soprano) with Jennie-Helen Moston (piano) and Anneke Hodnett (harp) - 6.30pm Great Hall, King's College London, Strand Campus.
Sponsored by the Dept of Classics, King's College, the Onassis Programme for the performance of Greek Drama and the Hellenic Society.
Hannah Rosenfelder will examine attitudes to the female voice that have lent such symbolic power to these mythical figures, from Homer through to the present day. She will sing songs by Arne, Schumann, Liszt, Bizet and Gershwin as well as newly commissioned settings of Margaret Atwood's Siren Song (Julian Dawes) and of the Greek text of Homer's siren song (Benjamin Wolf). She will also sing Malcolm Lawson's 1883 setting of a translation of the Homeric text by G.C.Warr, erstwhile professor of Greek at King's.
The event is free and will be followed by a reception, to which all are invited.
Hannah Rosenfelder studied Classics at Downing College, Cambridge and trained as a singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Contact: William Fitzgerald (william.fitzgerald@kcl.ac.uk)

November 20
Old New Myths: Classical Reception and Modern Nationalism, Martin Lindner (Oldenburg). Department Of Classics & Ancient History, Exeter University Research Seminar, 4-6 pm in Amory 128.
Contact: classics@EXETER.AC.UK

November 17
'Romans on the American Stage, 1770s -1830s' a lecture by Margaret Malamud (Associate Professor of History, New Mexico State University) 2.15pm in the Classics Centre Lecture Theatre, 66 St Giles'.
The lecture will be followed by refreshments.
All are welcome.
Contact: apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk or 01865 288 210

November 14-16
WHONIVERSAL APPEAL: A Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference on Doctor Who and all its Spin-offs.
As part of the Whoniversal Appeal conference there will be a walking tour of Cardiff, including filming locations for Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane and cultural sites, on the afternoon of Thursday 13th November. The time is still to be confirmed, but provisionally starting at 1 or 2pm at the Students' Union. If you let us know that you're interested in coming on the tour when The deadline for registration is 20 October 2008.
Contact: Alex Smith (smitha9@CARDIFF.AC.UK)
Registration and Programme: http://www.dedoc.net/WhoniversalAppeal/

November 12
Noah and Noesis: Derrida between Greek and Jew Miriam Leonard.
5.00pm Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome, Royal Holloway Univ. of London.
Part of the Seminar Series 2008-9: France & the Classics. (Organised jointly with the Humanities and Arts Research Centre).
Contact: edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk

November 6-8
African Athena: Black Athena 20 Years On, Univeristy of Warwick
In order to register your attendance, please visit the conference website at: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/africanathena
Keynote Speakers: Martin Bernal, Paul Gilroy, Shelley Haley, Stephen Howe, Partha Mitter, Valentin Mudimbe, Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Patrice Rankine and Robert J. C. Young.
Please forward any inquiries to: Dr. Daniel Orrells, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.

November 5 and 6
Scholarship and/as Reception, A conference to be held at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Room 336 in the North Block of the Senate House. The conference is designed to move forward the study of the reception of Classics by examining the role played within it by classical scholarship.
Programme
Abstracts
Conference contacts: Lorna Hardwick (l.p.hardwick@open.ac.uk) and Christopher Stray (c.a.stray@swan.ac.uk).

November 3 Literature and the 'Imagined Community': the Making of Modern Greece, Roderick Beaton (King's College London) Leeds & District branch of the CA, 5.00pm for 5.30pm, room 101, Parkinson building, University of Leeds.
Contact Penelope Goodman (p.j.goodman@leeds.ac.uk) or Prof. Malcolm Heath (m.f.heath@leeds.ac.uk).

October 29
Lions, Bears and Pigs: Political Allegories of Homer in Renaissance France (Philip Ford). 5.00pm Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome, Royal Holloway Univ. of London.
Part of the Seminar Series 2008-9: France & the Classics. (Organised jointly with the Humanities and Arts Research Centre).
Contact: edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk

October 28
Rendering Horace , Poet Maureen Almond reads from her adaptations of Horace's Epodes to working-class Teesside [The Works, publ. Biscuit, 2004] and of Odes, Book 1 to the world of contemporary poetry [Chasing the Ivy, current work in progress]. Joint meeting with the Classical Association of Scotland Glasgow & West Centre.
7 p.m in the Murray Room (Room 410), 65 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow.
All are very welcome to attend, and to join us and the speaker for drinks and dinner afterwards; for further details please contact Luke Houghton, l.houghton@classics.arts.gla.ac.uk
Full programme of seminars available at www.gla.ac.uk/departments/classics/newsandevents/seminars/

October 27
' "Incidental" Music? Settings of Greek Tragedy by Judith Weir and Harrison Birtwistle' a lecture by David Beard (Lecturer, School of Music , Cardiff University ) at 2.15pm in the Classics Centre Lecture Theatre, 66 St Giles'.
The lecture will be followed by refreshments.
All are welcome.
Contact: apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk or 01865 288 210

October 23-25
9th UNISA Classics Colloquium: Greeks, Romans, Africans, University of South Africa, Pretoria.
Further enquiries relating to the colloquium should be directed to Philip Bosman bosmapr@UNISA.AC.ZA
Conference Website

October 22
Epic items: Greek myth in video games Dr Dunstan Lowe ( Reading ), University of Reading , Room: Palmer G03, 4 p.m.

October 14
"The Passion of Dido for Aeneas": translations by Denham, Godolphin, Waller and Dryden , Robin Sowerby (University of Stirling)
5 p.m in the Murray Room (Room 410), 65 Oakfield Avenue , Glasgow .
All are very welcome to attend, and to join us and the speaker for drinks and dinner afterwards; for further details please contact Luke Houghton, l.houghton@classics.arts.gla.ac.uk
Full programme of seminars available at www.gla.ac.uk/departments/classics/newsandevents/seminars/

October 7
Translatio Imperii: America as the New Rome c.1900, Margaret Malamud (New Mexico State University) 5.00 pm (tea 4.30) Room C6, Archaeology & Classics Building, Department Of Classics, University Of Nottingham Classics Research Seminar. All welcome!
Contact: konstantinos.vlassopoulos@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK

October 1
Lost Hollywood versions of Homer Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway). 3.00pm, room 101, Parkinson building, University of Leeds.
Contact Penelope Goodman (p.j.goodman@leeds.ac.uk) or Prof. Malcolm Heath (m.f.heath@leeds.ac.uk).

September 30
Scottish Classical Scholarship: "A Cup of Tea with Homer": John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895), Stuart Wallace (Florence)
5 p.m in the Murray Room (Room 410), 65 Oakfield Avenue , Glasgow .
All are very welcome to attend, and to join us and the speaker for drinks and dinner afterwards; for further details please contact Luke Houghton, l.houghton@classics.arts.gla.ac.uk
Full programme of seminars available at www.gla.ac.uk/departments/classics/newsandevents/seminars/

September 26-27
Poetry and Performance: A Conference in honour of Oliver Taplin Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies Oxford.
This conference is now full.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of The British Academy, The Classics Faculty Board, and the OUP's John Fell Fund.
Bill Allan & Adrian Kelly (conference organizers)
Programme

The Essay: Greek and Latin Voices will be broadcast (BBC Radio 3) Monday to Thursday nights, 11.00pm-11.15pm, in six fortnightly blocs, one week with a Greek focus and one week with a Latin focus. The series focuses on the works of the major figures of Greek and Latin literature, philosophy, history and politics, including Thucydides , Euripides , Plato , Horace , Augustine , Tacitus , Juvenal , Cicero and Virgil .
Co-produced by the Open University, for more details see website
The Essay is available for one week on Listen Online.

March 18
The Sacred and the Feminine in Cross-Cultural Perspective A one-day conference at Roehampton University. The conference seeks a multidisciplinary approach to the study of female religious beings in order to elucidate distinctive features of classical and other material. Its intention is to generate a dialogue with other disciplines including folktale studies, religious studies and anthropology, while providing a model for classicists to tackle comparative material. If you would like to offer a paper (c. 30 minutes), please send a title and abstract (c. 200 words) to Susan Deacy s.deacy@roehampton.ac.uk by Monday 3 December 2007.
Proposals from postgraduate students will be especially welcome.

March 15
Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History Saturday (AMPAH), 10.30 - 18.00 Hosted by the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History is a one-day conference which provides UK graduate students with the opportunity to present their work in a friendly environment, meet graduate students and faculty members from other universities, and gain a sense of current research in ancient history.
Bookings should be made, before 7 March, to ampah2008@classics.cam.ac.uk. When booking, please give your name, university, degree for which enrolled or position, and title of dissertation or field of interest. Block bookings by departments are encouraged. There is no booking fee.
Further details will be made available via the conference webpage: www.classics.cam.ac.uk/ampah2008/ Any enquiries should be made by e-mail to Ben Keim at ampah2008@classics.cam.ac.uk.

March 8
A Workshop on Ancient and Modern Narrative Fiction, University of Bristol, sponsored by CRSN and the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol.
Keynote Speaker: Dr Robert Carver, University of Durham.
This one-day workshop aims to rethink the modernity of the novel in all senses of that term. Through short presentations, round-table discussion, and keynote responses, we seek to open up new dialogues between ancient and modern and to create new ways of theorizing the relationship between historical context and narrative form. How do considerations of the ancient novel disturb the modernizing ambitions of arguments like Bakhtin's? Do analyses of the modern or contemporary novel shed any light on the study of the ancient novel? How can historical periodization inform or hinder the study of a genre or form?
Programme

February 22
Transnational Receptions, Institute of Greece, Rome and The Classical Tradition, Bristol University, 11 Woodland Road, G37 (Classics Seminar Room), 2.00-6.15pm
Dr Elinor Shaffer is general editor of an important series of volumes on the Reception of British Authors in Continental Europe, sponsored by the British Academy. She will be talking about this project, and the issues it raises; Stephen Bann will speak about editing the volume on Pater, Stefano Evangelista (formerly Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition) about his planned volume on Wilde. There will be another panel addressing other authors (including, if possible, Henry James) as well as broad theoretical issues. We hope to involve as many disciplines across the Faculty as possible. If you are interested in attending this workshop, or have MA or research students who you think would benefit from such attendance, please e-mail Ika Willis (Ika.Willis@bris.ac.uk).
Further details available at: www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/centres/institute/seminars.html

February 20
The Reception of Classics in Art, ICS Graduate Workshop,
'Classical Influences in Western Art' Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni (ICS) and 'Classical Influences in the painting of Nikos Engonopoulo's' Dr. Hara Thliveri (UCL), and includes a Guided Tour of the National Gallery, London
To book a place please email Anastasia Bakogianni: Anastasia.Bakogianni@sas.ac.uk

February 12-15 and then on tour throughout the UK
Cloudcuckooland, a version of Aristophanes Birds for children (and their childish parents). A world premiere of an Onassis Programme commission, with words by Stephen Sharkey and music by Alex Silverman.
Visit www.onassis.ox.ac.uk for more details.

February 7
A Reception Studies workshop to be held at the University of Nottingham1 PG suite Trent building, 0.00 - 16.30
Programme (word doc)
This workshop is open to anyone interested in Classical Reception Studies.
All those wishing to attend the workshop should send their names to Kyriaki Konstantinidou (abxkk1@nottingham.ac.uk) and Lynn Kozak (adxlk@nottingham.ac.uk).
Student bursaries are available for travel. Please apply to Betine van Zyl Smit (betine.van.zyl.smit@nottingham.ac.uk) as soon as possible.

2007

December 17-18
Imagining slavery/celebrating abolition at Royal Holloway, University of London and the British Library.
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British colonies.
The conferencewill bring together RHUL staff & PhD students, and an international team of researchers including Patrice Rankine, Brycchan Carey, William Fitzgerald, Greg Thalmann, Emily Greenwood, Ahuvia Kahane, Richard Alston, Deborah Kamen, Steve Hodkinson, John Hilton and Margaret Malamud. Accommodation will be provided at Royal Holloway's main site in Egham, a short train ride from central London and a taxi ride from London Heathrow airport. Contact: Edith Hall (edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk) or Leanne Hunnings (l.j.hunnings@rhul.ac.uk).
Further Information

December 14
Perspectives on Ancient Classical Architecture today. A workshop, held under the auspices of the Classical Reception Studies Network at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham.
All are welcome and entrance is free, but a charge will be made for lunch.
Those requiring lunch should email Edmund Thomas at e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk
For further details please see: www.dur.ac.uk/roman.centre/events/

December 1
The Ballad of Eddy Tyrone. Based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Written and produced by Zachary Dunbar (see details of author [word doc])
A podcast of this radio play is being given its world premier on December 1, 2007 (World AIDS Day). Brokeback Mountain meets the Oedipus story in this intimate and powerful depiction of two cowboys who, during the spread of AIDS in the mid-1980s, faced the odds way out in the heart of Texas.
In order to view the podcast page. On December 1 st , click to download the thirty-minute play and your donation goes to the Terrence Higgins Trust, the UK 's leading AIDS charity.
For more information please visit the site www.zebfontaine.com , or go directly to Podcasts.

December 1
International Perspectives (Cambridge: Further details awaited - contact series organiser or consult website below)
Keynote Speakers: Emily Greenwood (St Andrews), Geoffrey Hawthorn (Cambridge), Jon Hesk (St Andrews), Kinch Hoekstra (Oxford), Ned Lebow (Dartmouth), Jennifer Roberts (CUNY), Johannes Süssman (Frankfurt), Nadia Urbinati, (Columbia).
One of a series of AHRC- funded research workshops on THUCYDIDES: Reception, Reinterpretation & Influence. taking place at Bristol, Cambridge & Oxford.
Series organiser: Neville Morley, University of Bristol (n.d.g.morley@bris.ac.uk))Project site: http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/thucydides.html

November 26
Turning Classical Plays into Contemporary Theatre - Professor Blake Morrison, Goldsmith's College, London: 2:15pm in the Lecture Theatre, Classics Centre, 66 St Giles',
All are welcome.
Contact: apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk.

November 24
Prometheus on Stage and Screen
A joint study day organised by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, The Open University and the British Museum in the BP Lecture Theatre, The British Museum Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.
Provisional Programme
Conact: Russell Shone

November 23-25
The Orpheus Myth in Modern Culture CentreCATH at Leeds, The Opera North Centre. Over three afternoons, leading speakers from the arts and academic worlds explore the enduring potency of the Orpheus Myth - from Monteverdi's opera to American tv series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
As well as the discussions the conference will also feature film screenings (including Jean Cocteau's Orphee and Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus), poetry readings and live performance.
More information: www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/events/2007/1123/index.html

November 21
Teaching Reception Studies ICS Workshop
A workshop to explore issues relating to the teaching of reception studies at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Programme: Designing a new reception course and dealing with audio material (Anastasia Bakogianni, ICS); Teaching Reception: what do students need to know and when? (Lorna Hardwick (OU));· Teaching at BA and MA level and laying the foundations for doctoral research (Maria Wyke (UCL)); Classical Reception in popular culture: responsible pedagogy and dealing with ephemeral sources (Gideon Nisbet (Birmingham)); What Classicists do when they do reception (Nick Lowe (RHUL) ); · A comparative literature perspective (Isobel Hurst (Goldsmith)).
To book a place please email Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni Anastasia.Bakogianni@sas.ac.uk

November 17
Politics & Society (Oxford: Further details awaited - contact series organiser: Neville Morley, University of Bristol (n.d.g.morley@bris.ac.uk)).
One of a series of AHRC- funded research workshops on THUCYDIDES: Reception, Reinterpretation & Influence. taking place at Bristol, Cambridge & Oxford.
Project site: http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/thucydides.html

November 16
Horace Live and Kicking The poet Maureen Almond will be in conversation with Professor Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford at The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 1SE at 7pm.
Maureen has created story-worlds from her own experience which map on to the cultural worlds of the Roman originals. She will read poems from The Works (2004) which contains her versions of the Epodes of Horace and from her work in progress,Chasing the Ivy. based on Horace Odes, Book I. Stephen will give a commentary on Maureen's versions and on their 'fit' with the original Horatian texts.
The event is free, but audiences are limited and admittance is by ticket only.
To reserve tickets please call 0191 23 0192, email: library@litandphil.org.uk or collect in person from the Lit & Phil.

November 15-16
Greco-Roman Ghosts: Receptions Of The Classical World In The 19th And 20th Centuries
Royal Irish Academy , 19 Dawson Street , Dublin 2.
Programme details
Contact: Michael Lloyd

November 15
Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone & its Translation into Ancient Greek, Roehampton University, Duchesne Building 001, 5.00 – 6.00 pm. A talk by Andrew Wilson, hosted by The Classical Civilisation Programme.
The talk will primarily focus on the difficulties and techniques of adapting the content of Harry Potter to the language and culture of Ancient Greece and will bel be followed by 30 minutes of questions/discussion & a wine reception.
For further information or travel directions, please contact Dr Kathryn Tempest (k.tempest@roehampton.ac.uk).

November 12
'Tara Arts and the Greeks' Jatinder Verma (Artistic Director, Tara Arts Theatre Company)at 2.15pm in the Classics Centre Lecture Theatre, 66 St. Giles' , Oxford .
All are welcome.
Contact 01865 288210 or apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk

November 10-11
Heroes Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL) 2007
Registration is now open for the Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL) 2007, to be held at the University of Nottingham on Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th November.
This conference is free and is open to all postgraduates; this year's theme is 'Heroes'.
Further information, and registration form (available in both Word and PDF
format) is available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~abxsnm/ampal/reg.html.
All bookings must be received by 20 October 2007.
Contact: Toni Badnall (abxtpb@nottingham.ac.uk)

November 7
Reception, disciplinarity and academic careers
Classical Reception Studies Network workshop for research students
10am -5pm, Birkbeck, University of London (Room 152, Malet Street)
The study of classical receptions has come to occupy an assured place within many undergraduate programmes in Classics and Classical Studies, while some institutions offer MAs in the reception of antiquity and an increasing number of research students are working on projects in this area.
This workshop will offer a forum to explore the relationship of reception to Classics, but also to other disciplines such as History, English Literature and Art History. Reception projects are by their very nature inter-disciplinary but how does this affect the disciplinary identity of research students in particular? The theoretical issues at stake here are important in themselves but they also have a bearing on the more practical questions faced by research students in the reception of antiquity who would like to pursue an academic career. How can I convince prospective colleagues that what I do is a fundamental part of Classics? If Classics doesn’t seem the obvious home for my long-term future, how should I best approach departments of e.g.English or History or Art History? This workshop will offer the opportunity to share concerns and to learn from the experiences of distinguished academics with an interest in reception working in a variety of different institutional contexts.
No fee will be charged but space is limited. Those interested in attending should contact Catharine Edwards to book a place (C.Edwards@bbk.ac.uk).
Programme

November 7
War Music: A Celebration of Christopher Logue's versions from Homer. Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition Donor Event. 2pm- 6pm, Lecture Theatre 2, Classics, 11 Woodland Road, (entrance at 21 Woodland Road). Wine reception to follow. All welcome.
Since the 1960s, the poet Christopher Logue has been engaged on a sequence of innovative and widely-admired adaptations of episodes from Homer's Iliad, now known collectively as 'War Music'. This event will offer a celebration and appraisal of Logue's achievement, combining readings from the poem with reflections by Logue's former publisher, the distinguished poet Craig Raine, and three classicists who will consider 'War Music' as a response to Homer's original.
Keynote speaker: Craig Raine, distinguished poet, Fellow of New College Oxford, and formerly Logue's publisher.
Responses from three classicists: Michael Silk (King's College, London), Oliver Taplin (Magdalen College, Oxford), Vanda Zajko (Bristol)
Programme: The event will include (i) readings from Logue's version; (ii) reflections from Craig Raine on the experience of being Logue's publisher, and on the circumstances in which 'War Music' came into being; (iii) responses to Logue's version by three distinguished classicists with experience of reading Homer in the original. Contact: Cynthia Quek (cq5677@bristol.ac.uk)

November date tbc
Emma Rice, artistic director of Kneehigh , discusses their work and the company's popular approach to chorus and ensemble work.
For more information Visit www.onassis.ox.ac.uk.

October 31
Sirens: A lecture recital exploring the mythology of the lure of the female voice, from Homer onwards, featuring mezzo-soprano, Hannah Rosenfelder. At the Magdalen Auditorium, Oxford - a free event.
For more information, visit the Onassis website: www.onassis.ox.ac.uk

26 October - 17 November
Living Quarters by Brian Friel
Royal Lyceum Theatre, 30b Grindlay Street, Edinburgh
EH3 9AX
Further details: www.lyceum.org.uk/

October 13
Historiography
Venue: Burwalls Centre for Continuing Education, Bristol. For more information : http://www.bristol.ac.uk/burwalls/ or contact series organiser: Neville Morley, University of Bristol (n.d.g.morley@bris.ac.uk)).
One of a series of AHRC- funded research workshops on THUCYDIDES: Reception, Reinterpretation & Influence. taking place at Bristol, Cambridge & Oxford.
The work of Thucydides has had a far-reaching influence on the understanding of the modern world; he has been seen as the founder of critical history, as a pioneer in the critique of democracy and as a key thinker in the field of international relations. Remarkably, however, the history of the reception of Thucydides has never been studied in depth. The aim of these workshops is to bring together scholars from different disciplinary traditions to discuss how Thucydides has been read, studied and reinterpreted since the eighteenth century.
Project site: http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/thucydides.html

October 9-13
The Burial at Thebes: A version of Antigone, by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, at the Oxford Playhouse. On Wednesday October 10 Seamus Heaney talks about his travels in Greece and how they have influenced his work
To book and for further information, visit www.oxfordplayhouse.com or call 01865 305 305

September 14-15
Theorising Performance Reception. A conference organised by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.
Topics to be addressed include semiotics, the body, Shakespearean Performance history as comparand, audiences, authenticity, post-modernism and performance, paganism in the light of contemporary metaphysics, and the historical (re)constitution of the text.
For further details, and to register for the conference, please go to www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/conftheory.htm

September 4
Oedipus the East Ender: Greek by Stephen Berkoff and Mark-Anthony Turnage Professor Michael Ewans, University of Newcastle , New South Wales.
A seminar organised by the Classical Studies Dept. of The Open University.
Michael Ewans is Drama Performance Co-ordinator and Associate Professor of Music and Drama. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
He is the author of Janacek's Tragic Operas and Wagner and Aeschylus: the 'Ring' and the Oresteia', he has edited and translated for performance Woyzeck, and the complete tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles in four volumes. His new book Opera from the Greek; Studies in the Poetics of Appropriation, will appear in 2007.
Contact: Anastasia Bakogianni (a.bakogianni@open.ac.uk tel: 01908 655141)
Directions and Campus Map

July 17-19
Ruins and Reconstructions: Pompeii in the popular Imagination, Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol. [pdf.poster available]
This conference, sponsored by the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts, will explore the popular receptions and representations of Pompeii. Our aim is to provide a stimulating environment in which academics studying the city and its reception can be brought together with practitioners who have tried to bring Pompeii to life in media such as novels, painting, photography, documentary and journalism.
Confirmed keynote speakers include Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Mary Beard, Stephen Harrison, Stefano de Caro and Lindsey Davis. Contact: Shelley Hales (shelley.hales@bris.ac.uk) or Joanna Paul (Joanna.Paul@liverpool.ac.uk ).
Conference Website: www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/pompeii/index_html

July 12
Ancient Drama in Modern Opera, 1600-1800 an APGRD Conference, Classics Centre, Oxford.
The importance of Greek drama for the evolution of European opera is well known but tends not to be distinguished from the influence of Greek mythology more generally. In keeping the focus of this conference on the influence of ancient drama in the first 200 years of opera's development we hope to shed new light both on that development and on the reception of Greek drama. The speakers are drawn from the worlds of Classics, Modern Languages, and Music, and they include people involved in the performance of operatic works as well as some of the leading academics in this field.Further details and provisional programme are available from the
conference website : www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/confopera.htm

July 9-10
Image as Boundary, University College, Durham University.
An international conference which will explore the ways in which the image can be seen as an important boundary in the ancient world. It will form a forum for discussions of recent research on both the image as a physical object in the ancient world, and also literary constructions of images and imaginative ideas about them. Papers and discussion will address the social, cultural, and religious space occupied by images in antiquity; the form and function of human relationships with images; ancient discourses on the boundaries of and/or occupied by images; and the life of images both in antiquity and also of ancient images in the reception of the ancient world.
Programme details (word.doc).
Contact: Polly Weddle at polly.weddle@dur.ac.uk

July 3-6
Greek Drama IV Conference at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
The conference organisers invites papers and panels for a conference on Greek Drama. This will be the fourth of the Greek drama conferences held in Australasia. The first was in 1982 in Sydney, the second in 1992 in Christchurch and the third in 2002 also in Sydney. Papers are welcome on all aspects of Greek Drama including Nachleben. Deadlines for submissions will follow in due course, but in the meantime inquiries for further information can be made to: Professor John Davidson; Dr Matthew Trundle; Classics, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.

July 2-6
Rhetoric, Protests and the Economy 1 st biennial International Conference of The African Association for Rhetoric, University of KwaZulu-Natal , Durban , South Africa
Call for Papers abstracts by 15 March , of about 250 words each from interested researchers, academics and scholars who will provide new insight and methodological approaches into understanding public protests and dialogue as complementary social discourse necessary for the development of a healthy democratic society. The papers should be about 25-30 minutes long.
Further Details
Contacts: E-mail: Segun Ige or Phillipe J. Salazar

July 2-5
Aspects of Empire, Classical Association of South Africa, Golden Jubilee Converence. The 27 th CASA conference will be held at the University of Cape Town and will celebrate 50 years of the Classical Association's activities in southern Africa.
The general theme of the conference is Aspects of Empire , but we welcome offers of papers (20 minutes in length) on any theme related to the Graeco-Roman world and the Classical Tradition. Proposals for panel discussions and offers to coordinate panels will be welcome.
The keynote speaker is Prof. Simon Hornblower (University College London). The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is collaborating with CASA to send as special speaker Prof. Mario Capasso (Lecce and Naples).
Call for Papers We welcome the offer of papers from professional classicists and from students working at postgraduate level. Titles and brief abstracts (c. 250 words) should be sent to David Wardle (david.wardle@uct.ac.za) or Clive Chandler (clive.chandler@uct.ac.za) by e-mail by 5 April 2007.
Conference Website: www.expertise.und.ac.za/casa/casa_conference_2007.htm

June 18-22
Reception Studies Summer School, organised by the Institute of Classical Studies.
This Summer School-the first of its kind-will explore the reception of the Classics in a variety of genres: reception theory, reception in antiquity, the reception of the Classics in later literature, in theatre, art, opera, and popular culture. The course is designed to give participants an overview of some of the many paths in which reception can take them and to supply them with the research tools they will need to conduct their own research. We will discuss methodological approaches, theory and its application in the field. We also welcome students who are more advanced in their research, but who would like to learn more about methodology, reception theory and to sample some different areas of interest within the wide field of reception.
Teaching will be in the form of workshops and participants will be able to work with examples in a variety of media. This will allow participants to consider different methodological approaches to the material and to discuss how to use it in their own work.
Further information and Programme
Contact: Anastasia.Bakogianni@sas.ac.uk

July 5-6
Perceptions of Horace, University College London
Proposals for papers by 1st September 2006
Contact: Luke Houghton for further details.

July 2-5
Aspects of Empire, Classical Association of South Africa, Golden Jubilee Converence. The 27 th CASA conference will be held at the University of Cape Town and will celebrate 50 years of the Classical Association's activities in southern Africa.
The general theme of the conference is ASPECTS OF EMPIRE , but we welcome offers of papers (20 minutes in length) on any theme related to the Graeco-Roman world and the Classical Tradition. Proposals for panel discussions and offers to coordinate panels will be welcome.
The keynote speaker is Prof. Simon Hornblower (University College London). The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is collaborating with CASA to send as special speaker Prof. Mario Capasso (Lecce and Naples).
Call for Papers We welcome the offer of papers from professional classicists and from students working at postgraduate level. Titles and brief abstracts (c. 250 words) should be sent to David Wardle (david.wardle@uct.ac.za) or Clive Chandler (clive.chandler@uct.ac.za) by e-mail by 5 April 2007.
Conference Website: www.expertise.und.ac.za/casa/casa_conference_2007.htm

29 June Greece, Rome, and Colonial India
This conference, which is to be held at SOAS (London), is sponsored by the University of Reading, Royal Holloway, SOAS, the British Academy, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
The aim of the conference is to draw attention to the double anniversary marked by the year 2007 -- the 150th year since the Indian 'Mutiny' of 1857 and the 60th since Indian Independence in 1947 -- by disseminating the results of mutually illuminating research conducted by an international team of scholars (but as yet unpublished) into India's interactions with the (received and perceived) past of European antiquity. The event will bring together scholars from Classics, Drama, Cinema, History, Postcolonial Studies, Literature in Indian languages, English, and Italian in order to reflect on the connected histories of Europe and the Indian subcontinent.
For more information, please contact to Phiroze Vasunia at p.vasunia@reading.ac.uk or visit the conference website at www.reading.ac.uk/classics/grci/

June 16
Literature in English and Classical Translation 1850-1950, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
This interdisciplinary colloquium aims to investigate the impact of translation from the classical languages on literature written in English in the period between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of high modernism (circa 1950).
For further details, including Programme and Registration, please visit the conference website.

12-16 June
Molora (A South African Oresteia) by Yael Farber, Oxford Playhouse, Oxford.
Directed by Yael Farber.
South African director Yael Farber explores the extraordinary events of her country's experience of apartheid and its legacy through reworking the Greek classic of the Oresteia. Molora is set in one of the many South African halls where people gathered to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In a dramatic confrontation, Klytemnestra and Elektra, mother and daughter, perpetrator and victim, face one another in an attempt to come to terms with their violent past. Like South Africa , we hold our collective breath and watch this drama unfold.
The Chorus of Xhosa tribeswomen bring grace and humanity to the drama through their ancient art of 'split tone' singing, adding a haunting intensity to this evocative production.
To book tickets, visit the Oxford Playhouse website: www.oxfordplayhouse.com
For further information on the Onassis Project visit www.onassis.ox.ac.uk

May 18-20
Current Debates in Classical Reception Studies A three-day conference to be held at the Open University in Milton Keynes.
The conference will include strands on Poetry, Translation, Drama, Ideas, Ideology of Scholarship, Film, Teaching Reception Studies.
Contact Anastasia Bakogianni
Conference Website

Goddesses by Sue Blundell
16-18 May, 7.30pm at the Pleasance Theatre, Islington, London.
Directed by Karen Tomlin. Performed by final year Performing Arts students from London Metropolitan University.
Bringing the passion, beauty and horror of Greek mythology into a modern context, this newly devised play based on Sue Blundell's text Goddesses revives mystical tales of an ancient world. Innovative and thought provoking, the play highlights the consequences of idolisation and explores how comparisons can be drawn between the events in Greek mythology and those of today
(Includes scenes of an adult nature)
Tickets are free but you must book in advance. To book call 0207 609 1800.

May 17
A seminar: How the Ethiopian Changed His Skin Professor Daniel L. Selden University of California, Santa Cruz, Respondent: Professor Ian Rutherford, University of Reading. 4 p.m. Location: HUMSS 301, University of Reading.
Daniel L. Selden is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research and teaching interests include Afroasiatic languages and literatures, Greek and Latin, Hellenistic culture, the classical tradition, the history of criticism, and literary theory. He is the author of numerous influential publications, and is currently completing a manuscript on the Eurasian dissemination of the Alexander Romance.
For further information, please contact Phiroze Vasunia by email at p.vasunia@reading.ac.uk or telephone at 0118 378 6992.
Organised by the Department of Classics at the University of Reading and the Classical Reception Studies Network.

May 5 & 6
The Body and the Mask in Ancient Theatre Space: Perceptions, Coincidences and Diversions. A two day interdisciplinary conference at Handa Nô Studio, Royal Holloway University, Egham and King's College, London (Strand Campus).
Further details.
Call for Papers: Presentations are invited from scholars and practitioners in fields related to the work of the project including (but not limited to) Classics, Art History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Digital Art and Media, Psychology and Perception Studies, Dance, Mask making and Scenography.
Please send a brief abstract (250 words max.), brief biography and details of AV requirements to the conference organiser: Margaret Coldiron: margaret.coldiron@durham.ac.uk
Deadline for proposals: APRIL 15, 2007

April 27
Migrations A conference sponsored by the University of Reading and the Classical Reception Studies Network to be held at the University of Reading (England, UK).
As globalization and multiculturalism flourish in the modern world, there is an increasing need to understand the nature of cross-cultural encounters, exchanges, and interactions. What happens to peoples and traditions when they come into contact with each other? How useful is it to talk about a clash of civilizations? How can cultures or civilizations connect with each other in ways that are mutually beneficial? Was there a time when demarcations of East and West were less divisive, imposing, and rigid than they seem today? These questions have gained a certain urgency in an era when groups appear to meet and collide with increasing rapidity.
It is the aim of this conference to examine cultural encounters from the perspective of the reception of antiquity. The papers in the conference will explore how the reception of the ancient past has informed modern discussions about globalization and cultural contact. While the conference will focus on the modern engagement with the past, it will be limited to no one discipline, however, and will promote work in history, literature, philosophy, visual culture, archaeology, reception studies, and other fields. Among the themes to be addressed are migration, globalization, exile, asylum, and cosmopolitanism.
A small amount of funding is available from the CRSN to help graduate students with travel-related expenses for the conference.
Contact:Phiroze Vazunia
Conference Website: www.reading.ac.uk/classics/migrations/

30 April Is the Barcelona Alcestis papyrus a Latin pantomime libretto? Professor Edith Hall (RHUL, and APGRD). 2.15pm, Seminar Room, Classics Centre, 66 St Giles', Oxford.
Organised by the Archive for Perfomances of Greek and Roman Drama. All are welcome.
Contact: apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk or 01865 288 210.

27 April Receptions of Homer
A one-day conference in the reception of the Homeric epics from
antiquity to modern times will be held at Gustave Tuck Lecture
Theatre, UCL Wilkins Building organized by the Department of Greek
and Latin, UCL.
Contact: Antony Makrinos a.makrinos@ucl.ac.uk
Programme

17 April Classics Hell: Re-Presenting Antiquity in Mass Cultural Media A conference sponsored by the University of Reading and the Classical Reception Studies Network to be held at the University of Reading (England, UK).
Interest in reception studies has of course grown rapidly in recent times, and increasing emphasis has been laid on the validity and importance of mass culture, especially the diverse 'new media' that have emerged over the last few decades.
This aim of this conference is to shed light on assorted areas of popular and otherwise non-elite culture: from television to tourism, celluloid to cyberspace, pornography to politics. Speakers include Nick Lowe (RHUL), Gideon Nisbet (Glasgow), Paula James (Open), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Edinburgh) and our keynote speaker Bettany Hughes (Helen of Troy, The Spartans).
Full details of the conference including booking can be found at www.rdg.ac.uk/classics/hell

29 March
Roman Politics Revisited: The Use of Rome in Modern Political Discourse, 16.30 Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Senate House, Room NG16
Peter Stacey Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince

22 March
Roman Politics Revisited: The Use of Rome in Modern Political Discourse, 16.30 Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Senate House, Room N 336
Phiroze Vasunia Virgil and the British Empire

15 March
Roman Politics Revisited: The Use of Rome in Modern Political Discourse, 16.45 Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Senate House, Room N 336
Catharine Edwards: The Politics of Classical Education in Nineteenth-century Britain

12 March
Roman Politics Revisited: The Use of Rome in Modern Political Discourse, 16.30 Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Senate House, Room N 336
Wilfried Nippel Dictatorship and Caesaranism: Remodelling the Roman Case in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

8 March
Appropriations of Antiquity. A UCL Seminar.
Dr Dominic Janes (Birkbeck, University of London): 'A Ciceronian and not a Christian': late antiquity in Victorian England.
17:15, Room 106 Gordon House, 29 Gordon Square.
Admission free, all welcome.
Further details
Contact Luke Houghton. (l.houghton@ucl.ac.uk)

8 March
Roman Politics Revisited: The Use of Rome in Modern Political Discourse, 16.30 Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Senate House, Room N 336
Averil Cameron The Absence of Byzantium.

March 6
101 Things to do with a Greek Comedy: Aristophanes' Lysistrata from the 18th to the 21st Century, Simone Beta, Professor of Classics, University of Siena. 2.15pm, in the Lecture Theatre,Classics Centre, 66 St Giles.

3 March
Reception and the Political (II)
A colloquium featuring members of 'Contexts for Classics' from the University of Michigan and respondents from the Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition.
Colloquium Website and Full Programme

1 March
Roman Politics Revisited: The Use of Rome in Modern Political Discourse, 16.30 Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Senate House, Room N 336
Boris Johnson Thinking with Rome: Why a Modern Politician Reads Roman History.

February 19
Dead but not Extinct: On Reinventing Ancient Pantomime in the 18th Century Ismene Lada Richards
2:15, Lecture Theatre, Classics Centre, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU. (Please note the new location of the Classics Centre)
Organised by the Archive of Performances for Greek and Roman Drama.
All are welcome. The lecture will be followed by refreshments. Contact: apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk or 01865 288210

February 14
The Reception of Antiquity
Institute of Classical Studies, London.
A workshop for Postgraduates (supported by the Classical Studies Reception Network and the AHRC)
Further Details (ppt doc)
Contact: Anastasia Bakogianni

February 9-10
The Annual Postgraduate Conference in History and Classics
will be held at the University of Manchester. Papers will be given by MA and Level 1 PhD students on Historical and Classical topics, and there will be Masterclass Research Presentations from Classics and Ancient History Staff at Manchester. Details of the schedule, and a conference poster, can be downloaded from our website www.manchester.ac.uk/classics/apchc
contact: apchc@manchester.ac.uk

8 February
Roman Politics Revisited: The Use of Rome in Modern Political Discourse, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Senate House, Room N 336, 4.30pm
Justin Champion 'Roman-Cast' similitude: Political Thinking and Public Audiences in Early Modern England

7 February
Experience & Appropriation: The reading of Elizabeth Barrett and Lord Macaulay, Dr Katie Halsey, at Taviton 432, University College London, 5:15pm
The third in a series of Appropriations of Antiquity. Dr. Halsey is AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Reading Experience Database (RED), having previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge and St Andrews; she has published articles on literary influence, Jane Austen and Percy Shelley, and is currently
writing a monograph about Jane Austen's readers, as well as co-editing a collection of essays on the subject of conversation in the long eighteenth century.
Contact: Luke Houghton (l.houghton@ucl.ac.uk)
For more on the Reading Experience Database, see
www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/
A map of UCL's Bloomsbury campus.

February 5-7
28th Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference at Newcastle, Australia
Newcastle is hosting the 2007 ASCS Conference, ASCS 28 at Noah's on the Beach from 5th - 7th February. At this conference, there will be two special sessions (eight papers) devoted to the afterlife of Greek and Roman drama, epic and poetry in and after the Renaissance. Offers of papers are invited for these sessions. The papers may be devoted to any work or works which translate, adapt, imitate or were inspired by classical literature. For further information, please visit the conference's website: www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/ascs28homepage.html

January 27
Classics Rejected: A Reception Studies Conference
A one-day, interdisciplinary conference, will be held at Robinson College, Cambridge, UK.
An awkward note is the aptest one to strike - since this is an event which rather makes a virtue of the awkward (along with the inglorious and the unfortunate, the bitter and the hapless).
By way of some less-than-stellar moments from the reception of the ancient world (principally from the nineteenth century), it aims to discover whether hate and indifference can be as illuminating as love and obsession - especially when it comes to examining a relationship as long and as fraught as that between Britain and the classical past.
Further information and registration form are available at www.classicsrejected.co.uk. If you do have any questions about this event, please feel free to contact the convenor, Ed Richardson.

25 January
Roman Politics Revisited: The Use of Rome in Modern Political Discourse, 16.30 Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Senate House, Room N 336
Greg Woolf We other post-colonialists: The Romans after empire and after Classics for all

18 January
Roman Politics Revisited: The Use of Rome in Modern Political Discourse, 16.30 Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Senate House, Room N 336
Henrik Mouritsen The Power of the People: Ancient and Modern Perspectives

2006

2006

Michaelmas Term Seminars at APGRD, Oxford
Modern Receptions of Ancient Greek and Roman Cultures. A new series of interdisciplinary seminars organised by Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama will take place from 5pm to 6.30pm on Mondays of Michaelmas Term 2006 (beginning 16 October), in the History Faculty building (please check APGRD website for late changes/updates to the programme)
Programme.

Winter Term Seminars at Reading University
Organised by the Classics Department. All lectures are on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in HUMSS 128, unless otherwise specified.
Programme (word.doc)
For maps and directions, please see: www.rdg.ac.uk/maps/
Contact: Phiroze Vasunia (p.vasunia@READING.AC.UK)

Winter Term Seminars at Warwick University
Antique Sexicity: Modern Responses to Ancient Sex
Organised by Department of Classics and Ancient History
Programme (word.doc)

Academic Year 2006/7 Seminar series on:
English Literature and Classical Translation 1850-1950
This seminar series will begin on 2nd November 2006 and will conclude with a conference to take place at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in June 2007
The research seminar will address topics such as the 'canon' of classical literature in translation, classical translation and the formation of the modern literary canon, the role of translation in the reception of classical culture in the period, modern authors as classical translators, the influence of Latin and Greek translation on stylistic innovation, literary language, and modern literary criticism, the circulation of classical texts in translation. The seminar will bring together diachronic approaches that examine issues arising from the translation of particular classical authors or texts in the period, and approaches that consider the significance of the theory and practice of classical translation for a modern author or group of authors. The series will conclude with a conference to take place at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in June 2007.
Further Details available in word.doc
Or please contact Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College , Oxford).

December 6
Chris Simpson (Waterloo , Canada ): 'M. Aemilus Paulus. Brief speculations on his appointment and continued tenure as Pontifex Maximus, 44-13 BC' Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar in the David Hume Tower , Room 7.18. All welcome!
Contact : Ulrike Roth [u.roth@ED.AC.UK]

December 1
Didaskalia Call For Papers: The Mask
Didaskalia, an electronic journal and resource dedicated to the study of ancient Greek and Roman drama in performance , is looking for papers and discussions of the mask as it relates to Classics and the theatre, for a thematic issue to appear in 2007.
We are looking for discussions from academics and theatre practitioners to explore how the mask creates meaning and changes experience on the stage. All approaches are welcome, but we are particularly keen for interdisciplinary discussions (from psychology, Asian studies, anthropology, etc.) and for practical discussions of the effect of masks on actors and audience: anything that can cast light on the mask and its function in antiquity.
As an electronic resource, Didaskalia has no specific limits in terms of length, and multimedia submissions are encouraged, which take advantage of this electronic format.
Electronic submissions and requests for further information should be addressed to C. W. Marshall, Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia [toph@interchange.ubc.ca] before December 1, 2006. All submissions will be peer reviewed.

November 29
Gert-Jan Burgers (Royal Dutch Institute at Rome/KNIR): 'Walking Italian landscapes. Exploring rural developments in Italy in the early Hellenistic period' Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar in the David Hume Tower , Room 7.18. All welcome!
Contact : Ulrike Roth [u.roth@ED.AC.UK]

November 22
Appropriations of Antiquity: Bettany Hughes, "Helen of Troy"
University College London, Room 114 Foster Court, UCL, at 5:15 p.m
At the second in this year's series of Appropriations of Antiquity, UCL's occasional seminars on the reception of the classical world, we are delighted to be able to welcome author, broadcaster and historian Bettany Hughes, who will be talking on "Helen of Troy". Bettany is best known as the writer and presenter of a number of highly successful and critically acclaimed TV series, including "Helen of Troy", "The Spartans", "The Minoans", "The Moors" and "The Seven Ages of Britain". Her book "Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore" (Jonathan Cape, 2005) has been warmly received by reviewers, and has recently appeared in paperback.
For further details, please contact Dr Luke Houghton (l.houghton@ucl.ac.uk)at the Department of Greek and Latin. For a map of UCL's Bloomsbury campus, see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/location/maps/campus_2006_screen

November 22
Lawrence Keppie (Glasgow): Rediscovering the Antonine Wall: Scotland 's Roman frontier'
Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar in the David Hume Tower , Room 7.18. All welcome!
Contact : Ulrike Roth[u.roth@ED.AC.UK]

November 17-21
November 17 (8pm) and 18 (2pm) at the Oxford Playhouse, Oxford [www.oxfordplayhouse.com] and November 21 and 22 at 8pm at the Cochrane Theatre London, London [www.cochranetheatre.co.uk].
Translator Oliver Taplin. Adapted, directed, and starring Lydia Koniordou.Costume and set design Dionysis Fotopoulos. Original score by Takis Farazis.
Drawing on Greek tragedy, lyric poetry, folk songs and music, Swallow Song explores the experience of growing up and coming of age in Ancient Greece. Highlights include translated verses from Ion, Trojan Women and Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides, poetry by Sappho and verses from Oedipus by Sophocles. Six Greek principles and three musicians are joined on stage by a chorus of emerging young English actors.
For more information visit www.onassis.ox.ac.uk

November 16
English Literature and Classical Translation 1850-1950.
Senate House, London, (Room NG15 North Block) 17:30-19:30
Speaker: Katie Fleming on 'The "Factory in the Fields": Cecil Day Lewis' Translation of Virgil's Georgics' .
Second in a series of Seminars on Classical Translations.
Further Details (word doc) or
Contact: Stefano Evangelista

November 15
Katerina Kolotourou ( Edinburgh ): 'Music for the chase?'
Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar in the David Hume Tower , Room 7.18. All welcome!
Contact : Ulrike Roth [u.roth@ED.AC.UK]

November 8
Benet Salway (UCL): '"To be a pilgrim"? Or: "There and back again" - another look at the Bordeaux Itinerary'
Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar in the David Hume Tower , Room 7.18. All welcome!
Contact : Ulrike Roth [u.roth@ED.AC.UK]

October 18
Hugh Bowden (KCL): 'Who were the Kabeiroi?
Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar in the David Hume Tower , Room 7.18. All welcome!
Contact : Ulrike Roth [u.roth@ED.AC.UK]

October 11
Sian Lewis (St. Andrews): 'The tyrant and the women'
Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar in the David Hume Tower , Room 7.18. All welcome!
Contact : Ulrike Roth [u.roth@ED.AC.UK]

October 6-7
Interrogating Antigone at the School of Drama, Trinity College, Dublin. We are planning an international interdisciplinary symposium on the theme of Antigone. We intend to attract philosophers, feminists, poststructuralists, classicists and theatre and film scholars to investigate what the character of Antigone means for us today. We would encourage analyses of recent productions of Antigone , Oedipus at Colonus , Seven Against Thebes and Phoenician Women , or radical interpretations of the character of Antigone by Anouilh, Brecht, the Living Theatre, etc., reflections on the philosophical treatment of Antigone by Hegel, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Lacan, Zambrano, Butler, Zizek, etc., discussions on Antigone from a power politics, gendered, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, queer theory or poststructural perspective, as well as reinvestigations of the original ancient Greek texts. We hope to publish a book based on some of the presentations.
Contact: Steve Wilmer for further details.

October 4
Simon Trepanier ( Edinburgh ): 'Empedocles and his demons'
Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar in the David Hume Tower , Room 7.18. All welcome!
Contact : Ulrike Roth [u.roth@ED.AC.UK]

October 3 (and Tuesdays throughout term-time 2006/7) Department of Classics, University of Glasgow: Research Seminars
Unless otherwise indicated, seminars are at 5pm on Tuesdays in the Hutcheson Room, 67 Oakfield Avenue. Full Programme

September 28
Appropriations of Antiquity: An audience with Dominic Dromgoole The first in this year's series of Appropriations of Antiquity, UCL's occasional seminars on the reception of the classical world, will take place in Room 114 Foster Court, UCL, at 5:15 p.m. on Thursday 28th September.
We are very pleased to be able to welcome Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, in conversation on the Globe's current season, "The Edges of Rome". Mr Dromgoole is currently directing "Antony & Cleopatra" at the Globe, and has recently published a Shakespearean memoir, "Will & Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life" (Allen Lane, 2006). For further details, please contact Dr Luke Houghton.

September 27
Workshop on the history of classical scholarship: Mick Morris (OU): 'The battle of the grammars: the politics of classical textbooks in 1850s Edinburgh '
and
Chris Stray (Swansea ): 'Sir William Smith and his dictionaries: a study in scarlet and black'
Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar in the David Hume Tower , Room 7.18. All welcome!
Contact : Ulrike Roth [u.roth@ED.AC.UK]

September 26-27
Pronomos: His Vase and Its World organised by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Further Details on the APGRD website

September 20-23
Close Relations: The 'Spaces' of Greek and Roman Theatre at the University of Melbourne, Australia
An international, multi-disciplinary conference linking theatre and performance studies, archaeology, classical studies and reception studies. This conference examines the 'spaces' of Greek and Roman theatre and the relationships between them. 'Theatre' refers to something that is both a material entity (the performance space or theatre building) and the more fluid activity that takes place in it, and we are particularly interested in exploring the relationship between these two aspects in antiquity, over time, and in the contemporary world.
Call for papers and full conference details available at http://www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/close/

Oedipus by Sophocles
September 19 - December 1 on tour. See company website for venues and dates: aod website
Translator David Stuttard. Director Tamsin Shasha

September 8
How to be Happy: Ancient philosophers on the art of living and dying
6.30pm at the British Museum (the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre) Tickets: £5.00 (£3.00 concessions);
Box office : 0207 323 8181; email: boxoffice@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
This dramatic performance is based on letters written by the Greek philosopher Epicurus and the Roman thinker, playwright and politician Seneca. Though they lived at different times, and belonged to different philosophical schools, the two shared a belief in the importance of the simple life, and the need to face adversity and death with a calm mind. Their writings have been adapted by the classicist Sue Blundell, and are performed by Ian Redford, whose work as an actor has ranged from productions at the National Theatre to Coronation Street.

July 17-19
A cross- and interdisciplinary conference entitled Medea: Mutations and Permutations of a Myth will take place at Clifton Hill House, Bristol, UK, jointly organised by the Universities of Bristol and Nottingham. The focus will be on the following three areas: The reception of the myth from Antiquity to the twenty-first century in the fields of Classical studies: literature; fine and performing arts; film and media studies; music; popular culture; advertising; history; politics; alterity and gender studies; psychology; and medicine. A critical re-assessment of theories of myth and myth-making on the basis of the mutations and permutations of the Medea myth. The interpretation of the Medea myth to suit cultural, political, gender and scientific agendas.
Contact Heike Bartel heike.bartel@nottingham.ac.uk or Anne Simon a.simon@bristol.ac.uk
Further details on the Conference Website

July 12
Greek Drama and Modern Dance, an APGRD conference to be held at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK.
Full details of the conference (including application information, and student bursaries) and details of 'Martha Graham's Greek Journeys': An Exhibition of Max Waldman Photographs which will be on show in the foyer of Magdalen auditorium during the conference, are available from the APGRD website.

July 7-9
Troy and the European Imagination to be held at Clifton House, University of Bristol. An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Bristol Institute, for Research in the Humanities and Arts. It ranges from the C11th to the C19th, and includes discussion of foundation myths, political exploitation of the legend, heroes and heroines, and representations in art. Among the speakers are scholars from America, Australia, Italy, and Spain.
For details please see conference website

June 14-15
The Sixth Annual Postgraduate Symposium is being organised by the Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford . This two-day event will take place this year on Wednesday, 14th June at the Classics Centre, Oxford (Old Boys' High School, George Street) and Thursday, 15th June at Royal Holloway, Egham (Noh Studio).
This year’s Symposium will focus on the body in the revisitings of Greek tragedy and comedy throughout the centuries - from antiquity to the present day. Papers discussing physicality, gender or politics of the body in literary, theatrical and cinematographic adaptations are welcome.There will be no registration fee, but participants will have to seek their own funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses.
Call for papers Those who wish to offer either a short paper or a performance on the ‘Body’ are invited to send an abstract of up to 400 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk by Friday 7th April.
Further information

May 19
Sophoclean Drama and its Continuing Cultural Impact at University of California, Davis, USA. This Conference will include talks by scholars and practitioners of Classics, Theater Studies, and Comparative Literature. The Department of Theatre and Dance will stage Athol Fugard's The Island in coordination with the conference.

May 10
'Oedipus and Vienna : Theory and Theatricality in Early Psychoanalysis' a lecture by Richard Armstrong (Associate Professor of Classics, University of Houston ), 2.15pm in the Seminar Room, Classics Centre, Oxford . Part of the annual series of seminars organised by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. Further Details

April 29
Sophocles' Trachiniae Modern Perceptions Productions A one day conference organised by the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception , University of Nottingham.
The conference will centre around the few modern productions and adaptations that the play has seen, with attention also being paid to why the play has not been as popular in recent times as so many other Greek tragedies. A student production of the play (in English) will be included as part of the conference, with a practitioners' discussion of hte problems of adaptation and performance that the play presents.
Call for Papers: Papers (no longer than 20 minutes) are encouraged from those working in classics, theatre studies, and reception studies, as well as from theatre practitioners. Post-graduates are particularly encouraged to present. Abstracts not exceeding 500 words should be submitted to the conference organiser, Lynn Kozak (adxlk@nottingham.ac.uk) no later than December 31, 2005

April 28
Dealing with ancient Rome I : The Scholarship of Antiquity from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Venue: Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, Basement Lecture Theatre. This is the third in a series of Interdisciplinary Research Seminars entitled 'Rome: The Growth of the City from the Return of the Popes to the Present', jointly organised by the Italian Dept. of UCL and the School of the History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck. For more information contact l.caldwell@ucl.ac.uk or d.caldwell@bbk.ac.uk. Admission is free but places are limited, so if you wish to attend please contact Sue Carr (T: 020 7679 7784 or email: s.carr@ucl.ac.uk).
See Website for more information or programme flyer (word.doc).

April 21
Appropriations of Antiquity The first in a series of events on the Reception of the Classical World A one-day seminar on Twentieth-century Receptions of Greece and Rome. Confirmed speakers include Rachel Bowlby, Nick Lowe, Antony Makrinos, Dorothea McEwan, Horst Stemmler, Michael Trapp, Jula Wildberger and Maria Wyke. Admission free, all welcome. Tea and coffee will be provided. For further details please contact l.houghton@ucl.ac.uk

April 12
A workshop for all with an interest in supervising graduate students in Classical Reception Studies.
This will take place at the Institute of Classical Studies , Senate House, Malet Street , London, 11am-3.30pm. The day is being organised by the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) in collaboration with the ICS/AHRC project on graduate students and is grant supported by the Subject Centre for Classics and Ancient History. Further details

March 22
A Reception Studies colloquium for postgraduates, by postgraduates, working in this field and on other interdisciplinary research projects. Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House North Block 14, 10:30 - 4:30 Programme Details

February, Saturday 4th
A one-day conference on the study and teaching of classical subjects in Oxford in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, convened by Chris Stray and Stephen Harrison.
Speakers will include Heather Ellis, Stephen Harrison, Isobel Hurst, August Imholtz, James Morwood, Chris Stray and Graham Whitaker.
Offers of papers on any aspect of the topic are invited. The programme allows for 30-minute papers, but offers of shorter papers are also welcome. Please send a title and a summary (maximum 100 words) by 30 October to Chris Stray: c.a.stray@swan.ac.uk
Bookings for attendance are also now invited. The cost of the conference, to include tea, coffee and light lunch, will be £10. Please send payment to Professor Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford OX1 4JF. Cheques should be made payable to 'Corpus Christi College, Oxford'.

January, Tuesday 17th
Popularising the Past: The Ancient in the Modern World An Open University Research Conference to be held at the Harborne Study Centre, Birmingham. Programme and directions to venue
If you would like to attend or require further details please email Trevor Fear (t.fear@open.ac.uk) by 10th January, 2006

2005

December Friday 16th - to Saturday 17th
Ancient and Modern responses to Greek Tragedy a postgraduate conference to be held at St. Chad's College, Durham University.
The conference will address the cultural reception of Greek tragedy, from the earliest documented audience responses to the rediscovery of Athenian drama in/since the Renaissance. It is intended to bring together postgraduates from across the UK who are investigating ancient Greek tragedies and their reception. The theoretical and evidential problems facing students working in this area will be addressed in three main sessions: Theory, Art and Text. Each session will be led by a guest speaker and followed by papers given by postgraduates.
If you are interested in attending or have any enquiries then please get in touch with Rosie Wyles - mary-rose.wyles@dur.ac.uk or Ranja Knöbl - ranja.knobl@durham.ac.uk, Department of Classics, 38 North Bailey,
Durham DH1 3EU England . Telephone - 0191 334 1670 Fax - 0191 334 1671
Conference website www.dur.ac.uk/mary-rose.wyles/AMRGT/

December, Saturday 10th
Hegemony and Cornucopia: Classical Scholarship and the Ideology of Imperialism. A one-day conference at the University of Nottingham, UK. Call for Papers

November, Wednesday 2nd
A Meeting for Classics, Ancient History and Classical Archaeology PhD students at the Institute of Classical Studies (Room 349), 5.00pm
An informal meeting to discuss the training needs of PhD students. Topics for discussion: Generic courses, MA Modules, Greek and Latin, Modern Languages, Presentation Skills, Teaching Opportunities. Chaired by the Research Assistant for the AHRC Project Dr Anastasia Bakogianni with the assistance of Stavroula Kiritsi (Royal Holloway).
[This meeting forms part of the project on graduate student research training run by the Institute of Classical Studies and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council]
For further information please contact: Dr Anastasia Bakogianni.

Autumn 2005 - Spring 2006
Call for Papers - We are looking for speakers for our Autumn term 2005 and Spring term 2006 of the London Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminars, 4:30 on Fridays at the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London. If you would like to give a 45 minute paper at this friendly, informal post-graduate (MA and research students only) forum, please contact Luca Asmonti (luca.asmonti@kcl.ac.uk). Travelling expenses for speakers coming from outside the London colleges reimbursed. Post-paper drinks and nibbles supplied!

October, Wednesday 12th - November 23rd
Research Training Workshops for Graduate Students in Classical Reception Studies
A series of eight research training workshops will be held at the ICS on Wednesdays in the Autumn Term 2005, starting on October 12th 10.30-16.30. The workshops form part of the project on graduate student research training run by the Institute of Classical Studies and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Workshops are open to graduate students, from any institution, and all are welcome. Those from departments other than Classics/Ancient History are particularly invited to join. Attendance at the workshops is free but numbers will be limited and prior registration is ESSENTIAL. Further details