CRGR - Events 2009-10
Conference and Performance Event at the British Academy/Royal Society
July 1st to 2nd 2010
Classics and Class
The Centre is delighted with the success of its British Academy-funded conference, which was free and open to the public and absolutely packed out—not a seat to spare—throughout. In addition, there was an evening Performance Event on the evening of July 1st, featuring Tony Harrison reading from his own works and chaired by Peggy Reynolds (BBC's Adventures in Poetry). In the second half of the evening, actors from Live Canon, directed by Helen Eastman, performed poetry and prose looking at the history of Classics through the prism of social class. The performance event, with Tony Harrison in dialogue with Edith Hall and Philip Dodd, was featured on BBC Radio's 'Nightwaves'.
Since this was a pilot conference, our collective purpose was to identify new areas for research and gaps in the existing scholarship, in order to develop a platform for the future examination of the history of our discipline from a class-conscious perspective. For further details click here.
Abstracts of all the papers will be published on this website shortly. For the full conference programme click here.
CRGR Panel at the Annual Meeting of the CA
Wednesday 7th April - Saturday 10th April 2010
Romans from Mexico to Spain
A CRGR panel at the Classical Association Annual Conference 2010, held in Cardiff Wednesday 7th April - Saturday 10 April 2010, was convened by RHUL postgraduate Katie Billotte on the theme of the Hispanic reception of ancient Greece and Rome. For further details click here.
Arts Faculty Interdisciplinary Event
16th December
MOONSTRUCK!
The CRGR is co-organising, with the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway, a faculty-wide interdisciplinary event at the Egham campus looking at narratives centring on moon travel, from Lucian and Plutarch to the 21st century. All RHUL staff and graduate students are welcome.
Departmental Research Seminar
1st December, 6.00pm
Shelley Hales (Bristol):
Living with Arria Marcella: Novel Interiors in the Maison Pompéienne
RHUL, Management Building 003
Dabis Lecture
9th November, 5.30pm
Peggy Reynolds (Reader in English at QMUL and BBC Broadcaster):
George Eliot and the Classics
RHUL, Main Lecture Theatre, followed by a Reception
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- Tony Harrison in Conversation (19th January 2011)
- Conference: Civilisational Collapse (1st March 2011)
- Conference: Eight Years in Babylon: The Iraq War and the Classics (18th March 2011)
- Annual Postgraduate Symposium with Oxford Archive for Performances of Greek & Roman Drama: This year's theme is Journeys, the date is 27-28 June 2011. More Details Soon
- Conference: Ancient Aesthetics and Social Class (July 5th-6th 2011)
- Graduate Training Programme: Communicating Ancient Greece & Rome
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- Bringing Iphigenia Home with Tony Harrison
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