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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 6 February: Interdisciplinary Classical Reception Seminar, 5:30-7pm, Classics Faculty, room 1.02.
 “To sing a song that old was sung" - Shakespeare and the Classics

Tuesday 13 February: Professor David Scourfield, Maynouth University, 5:30-7pm, Classics Faculty, room 1.02
'Virgilian Transformations: Intertextuality, Sexuality, and Cultural Critique in E.M. Forsters' Other Kingdom'

Thursday 22 February: There's no place like Rome - Playing with the Past

Thursday 7 March: Rethinking Ancient Philosophy - A Global Perspective

 

 

 

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