News and Announcements

Current News

Classics and Class: CRGR Conference at the British Academy NEW

Our Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome is organizing a two-day conference entitled "Classics and Class". It is funded generously (£6,000) and hosted by the British Academy in London. It will take place from the 1st to the 2nd of July 2010.

Follow the link below for further details or e-mail Professor Edith Hall, the conference convenor: edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk

British Academy

 

Edith Hall on Radio 4

Professor Edith Hall is presenting a number of features on women in Greek myth for Radio 4's Woman's Hour. You can listen to the first programme on "Demeter and Persephone" online on the Woman's Hour website.

Edith also appeared on Melvyn Bragg's Radio 4 programme "In Our Time" on Thursday 19 November 2009 and talked about Sparta! A link to the podcast will be posted after the programme.

The Annual Hellenic Institute Lecture 2009: Thursday 25th March 2010 NEW

Baroness Greenfield will give the Ninth Annual Hellenic Institute Lecture on “The Greek Mind and the Modern World”, or alternatively “The Greek Mind in the Modern World”. Further information to follow.

Quid Novi

For the latest issue of the Classics Department Newsletter, Quid Novi, click here.

 

Dabis Lecture 2009 new date: Monday 9th November 2009

Dr Margaret Reynolds (Broadcaster and Reader at QMUL): "'George Eliot and the Classics"

Symopsis: 2009 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of *Adam Bede*, the first novel by George Eliot, who studied at Bedford College. This lecture addresses the inspiration which she found in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, especially Greek tragedy.

 

International Conference on Hellenistic Oratory

The conference organized by Dr Christos Kremmydas and Dr Kathryn Tempest (Roehampton University) took place in London, on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd of July 2009, and was a great success! Scholars and students of Graeco-Roman antiquity from 6 different countries enjoyed 16 stimulating papers and the llively discussions that followed them. The tangible outcome of the conference will be a collected volume with the papers, which is going to be published by a major publisher in the foreseeable future. Watch this space!

 

Past News

Edith Hall and Nick Lowe on Radio 4

On Monday 10 March 2008, Professor Edith Hall appeared on Andrew Marr's programme Start the Week to talk about her latest book The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey. To listen to the podcast click here.

On Thursday 13 March 2008, Dr Nick Lowe appeared on Melvyn Bragg's programme In Our Time to talk about Greek Myths with Professor Mary Beard of Cambridge University and Professor Richard Buxton of Bristol University. For more details and the podcast click here.

 

The Annual Hellenic Institute Lecture 2008

On Monday 10 March 2008, Professor Evangelos Chrysos, General Secretary, International Association of Byzantine Studies & President of the Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament, gave the Annual Hellenic Institute Lecture on "Byzantium and its Relevance in the Medieval and Modern World". Evangelos Chrysos is a distinguished Byzantinist, the author of many books and articles published in Greek, English, German and French. For more information about the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway click here.

Postgraduate Studentship in Reception

The Directors of the new RHUL Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome, invite applications for a postgraduate doctoral studentship (fee waiver plus bursary of at least £7,500 p.a.) in Classical Reception, to be held from
October 2008-2011.

Research proposals are particularly encouraged that relate to our overarching theme 'Citizenship Ancient and Modern.'

The Reception research interests of the Directors and Staff of the CRGR (Edith Hall, Richard Alston, Ahuvia Kahane, Nick Lowe and Efie Spentzou) encompass class identity, slavery, civic aspects of the reception of Homer and Latin poetry, town planning, political theory, mass-market translations, Classics in France, Classics in Russia, Classics after the Cold War, and the performance of civic identity in ancient and modern theatre, but all enquiries are warmly welcomed.

For further details email edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk

Dabis Centenary Lecture 2008

Germaine Greer will be giving a talk entitled "Sappho: Myth or History" on 4 February 2008 at 6:00 pm in the Windor Building (advert)

Greece, Rome, and Colonial India: one day conference

Imagining Slavery: two day conference at RHUL and the British Library

Major Grant for Archaeological project in Kalauria- Greece

New Philosophy Minor