Reception Seminar: Michaelmas 2024
All seminars take place in the Cambridge Classics Faculty, room 1.02
Thursday October 17, 6pm
Curating the Classics: Museums and Materiality.
Speakers: Graham Borland (Lightning Talk), Leah Wild, Connor Phillips & Miriam Mitchell.
Plus, drinks reception in the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
Thursday October 24, 6pm
Professor Phiroze Vasunia (UCL): ‘Colonies ancient and modern: Reflections on the early history of the concept’.
Thursday October 31, 5:30pm
Textual Bodies: From Italy to England.
Speakers: Lewis Roberts & Ruoci Song.
* NOTE CHANGE OF DATE: Tuesday November 5, 4:30pm*
The Dark Side of Classics: from Slavery to the Far Right.
Speakers: Cecily Bateman & Jackson Hartigan
Thursday November 14, 6pm.
Professor Stephen Harrison (Oxford): ‘Versions of Catullus in Ireland 1973-2020’.
Tuesday November 19, 5:30pm
Ovidian Afterlives: from Victorian Poetry to Contemporary Art
Speakers: Emily McConkey & Polly Shorrock
Thursday November 28, 6pm
Professor Fiona Macintosh (Oxford): 'Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon'.
*NOTE CHANGE OF TIME*: Friday December 6, 5pm
Professor Gábor Betegh (Cambridge): What does Jean-Michel Basquiat have to do with Socrates, Hypatia, and the Punic Wars? An interpretation of Basquiat’s Jawbone of an Ass (1982)’.
Plus, Saturnalia pub social!
Friday January 31, 4pm - Saturday February 1, 7pm
Classics Beyond the Canon: A Wikipedia edit-a-thon