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Faculty of Classics

 

The Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS) seeks to explore classical reception in all its dimensions and modalities.

Our events, which can cover any aspect of the reception of the ancient world, are designed to appeal to a wide interdisciplinary audience and interested parties from any department are warmly invited to attend. Seminars, consisting of an approx. 45-minute presentation followed by Q&A, are held several times a term (room may vary); there is usually also the opportunity to join the speaker for a drink in a social setting afterwards.

For further information, or to express interest in giving a paper at the CCRSS, please contact the new co-convenors: Jessica Glueck (jrg69@cam.ac.uk) and Frances Myatt (frym2@cam.ac.uk).

All welcome!

 

Tuesday 30 April, 6-7pm, Classics Faculty, room G.21
 Professor Maria Wyke (UCL): Feminising Roman History in Silent Cinema

Tuesday 7 May, 5:30-7pm, Classics Faculty, room G.21
 'Classical' Music: from Mendelssohn to Hip-Hop

Monday 13 May:  5:30-7pm, Classics Faculty, room G.21
 Feminism and the Classics: from Rodin to Margaret Atwood

Monday 20 May, 6-7pm, Classics Faculty, room G.21
 Dr Krishnan Ram-Prasad (Oxford): Race and Language in Philological Thought
 There will be a dinner with the speaker after this seminar - if you are interested in attending, please email Frances (frym2) or Jessi (jrg69)

Tuesday 28 May, 5:30-7pm, room TBC
 Classical scholarship: from  Kraków to Charleston

Tuesday 4 June, 5:30-7pm, Classics Faculty, room G.21
 Religion, Myth, and the Classics: from Augustine to Tolkien

Tuesday 11 June, 5:30-7pm, Classics Faculty, room G.21
 German Classicisms: from Nietzsche to Nazism

 

 

 

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