DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY

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Research

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• Thucydides project
• Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
• Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts

Conferences

Full details of forthcoming research seminars and conferences, including the Bristol Blackwell Lectures, can be found on the website of the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA).

2013 events

• 31 July - 2 August 2013: The Sixth Bristol Myth Conference. For more information see Call for papers: Greek Myths on the Map

2012 events

• 5 - 6 September 2012: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance: Revenge and Gender from Classical to Early Modern Literature. For more information see Call for papers.

2011 events

• To Receive Is Never Neutral: The Ethics of Reception
  • Locaton: University of Bristol
  • Date: 7-8 September
• Colloquium in honor of Gillian Clark
  • Location: University of Bristol
  • Date: 2 August
  • Organiser: Dr. Bella Sandwell

2010 events

• Thucydides Project Workshops
• Imagines II: Seduction and Power
  • Location: University of Bristol
  • Date: September 22-25, 2010
  • Organiser: Dr. Silke Knippschild (Bristol), Dr. Marta García Morcillo (Lampeter)
• Reception and the Gift of Beauty in the Western Tradition
  • Location: Univeristy of Bristol
  • Date: 8-9 July, 2010
  • Poster
• Desiring the Text, Touching the Past: Towards an Erotics of Reception
  • Location: University of Bristol
  • Date: 10 July 2010
  • Poster
• Bristol Undergraduate Classics Conference 2010
  • Location: University of Bristol
  • Date: April 28
• What's in a Variant? Conference on Greek and Roman Myths (Word 704.5 kb)
  • Location: University of Bristol, 3-5 Woodland Road, Lecture Theatre 1
  • Date: January 27, 2010
  • Organiser: Professor Richard Buxton

2009 events

• University of Bristol, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 9 September 2009
  • What We Do, and Why: Interpretation and Methodology in Classics. The 8^th BIRTHA Postgraduate Conference
• Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London, 3-6 September 2009 (organized by the University of Bristol)
  • Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis
• Royal Fort House, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol, 21-22 March 2009:
  • Critical Approaches to Ancient Philosophy
• University of Bristol, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 19-20 March 2009
  • Just for Show? Displaying Wealth and Performing Status from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

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Past events

• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002

2006

'Ruins and Reconstructions: Pompeii in the Popular Imagination'

Dates: 17-19 July 2007
Location: Clifton Hill House, The University of Bristol
Organisers: Shelley Hales (University of Bristol) and Joanna Paul (University of Liverpool)

'Future Music and the Classical Past: Wagner and his Legacy'

Dates: 11 March 2006
Location: Victoria Rooms
Organisers: Dr Liz Potter

'Myth and the New Science' - 4th Marks Conference

Dates: 27-29 July 2006
Location: Burwalls, The University of Bristol
Organisers: Dr Ellen O'Gorman

2005

'Crossing Cultures: Identities in the Material World'

Dates: 7-9 January 2005
Location: 43 Woodland Road
Organisers: Dr Tamar Hodos, Dr Shelley Hales
Co-sponsored by: Departments of Archaeology and Classics & Ancient History

2004

'Commemoration for Jacques Derrida'

Dates: 28 October 2004
Location: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Dr Miriam Leonard

‘Cypriot Identity in History and Prehistory’

Dates: 4 September 2004
Location: Victoria Rooms
Organisers: Robert Fowler, Tamar Hodos
Co-sponsored by: Departments of Archaeology and Classics & Ancient History

‘Stravinsky/Cocteau/Oedipus: Myth, Music and Modernism’

Dates: 7 July 2004
Location: Victoria Rooms

‘Iphigenia in the Arts’

Dates: 14 May 2004
Location: Burwalls
Organisers: Dr Pantelis Michelakis
Co-sponsored by: Archive of Performance of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford

‘Reception and Reception-theory and Antiquity’

Dates: 1 May 2004
Location: Institute of Advanced Studies
Organisers: Professor Charles Martindale, Professor Richard Thomas (Harvard)

‘Kant’s Third Critique: Its Value Within the Arts and Humanities Today’

Dates: 24-5 April 2004.
Location: 11 Woodland Road
Organisers: Professor Charles Martindale, Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn, Dr Carolyn Wilde
Co-sponsored by: Departments of Classics and Ancient History and of Philosophy

2003

‘Translation and the Classic

Dates: 7 May 2003
Location: Clifton Hill House
Organisers: Dr Aleka Lianeri

‘The Idea of Decadence, Ancient and Modern’

Dates: 12-14 July 2003
Location: Burwalls

2002

‘Classical Myth and Feminist Thought’

Dates: September 2002
Location: Burwalls
Organisers: Dr Vanda Zajko

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