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Friday 22 July 2016
UCL Institute of Advanced Studies Common Ground
Researchers in classical reception are increasingly intrigued by the political significances of antiquity for subsequent cultures and societies. The field has been energised by the recent publication of Classics and Communism (2013) and Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform (2015).
'Revolutions and Classics' examines the manner in which classical texts and artefacts have been deployed in societies undergoing rapid and radical social change. This one-day workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary discussion of intersections between classics and revolutions; substantial time will also be given to discussion of teaching across classical reception, classics, and politics.
The
workshop is hosted by The Classical Reception Studies Network and the
Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network, with the support of the
Department of Greek and Latin at UCL, and the Department of Classics at
the University of Reading. In line with the aims of the Classical
Receptions Studies Network, the day is designed to be especially useful
for doctoral researchers and early career academics. To that end, we have several postgraduate bursaries available.
To register for this free event, please visit our Eventbrite page
Should you have any questions, please contact the organisers: Barbara Goff, University of Reading and Rosa Andújar, UCL.
The organisers are very grateful for the generous support of the A. G. Leventis Fund at UCL, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the Classical Association, the UCL Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Council of University Classics Departments (CUCD).
Programme
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10:00-10:10 Coffee and Welcome (Rosa Andújar, University College London and Barbara Goff, University of Reading)
Session 1 (Chair: Rosa Andújar, University College London)
10:10-10:40 Rachel Foxley, University of Reading, Innovation and revolution in seventeenth-century England
10:40-11:10 Nicholas Cole, Pembroke College
Oxford, The Classics and the American Revolution - two centuries of controversy
11:10-11:20 Break
Session 2 (Chair: Phiroze Vasunia, University College London)
11:20-11:50 Sanja Perovic, King's College London, The Legend of Pythagoras: Narrating Revolutionary Failure in Sylvain Maréchal and Vincenzo Cuoco
11:50-12:20 Sebastian Robins, Independent, Ancient Greek Texts in the Age of
Revolution: John Gillies Orations of Lysias and Isocrates 1778 and Aristotle's
Ethics and Politics 1797
12:20-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:00 Early Career Teaching Roundtable (Chair: Katherine Harloe, University of Reading)
Emma Cole, University of Bristol, Classical Reception Pedagogy in Liberal Arts Education
Luke Richardson, University College London, Teaching the Classical Reception "Revolution"
Carol Atack, University of Warwick, Precarity and protest:
performing politics in Aristophanes' Lysistrata
14:00-14:30 Discussion
14:30-15:00 Teaching Presentations (Chair: Barbara Goff, University of Reading)
Susan Deacy, University of Roehampton, Black Athena in the classical classroom
Joanna Paul, Open University,
Livy, Latin Pedagogy, Revolutions and Receptions
15:00-15:45 Discussion,
followed by tea
Session 3 (Chair: John Bloxham, University of Nottingham)
15:45-16:15 Rosa Andújar, University College London, Plato and Pater's Greeks in the Mexican Revolution
16:15-16:45 Benjamin Gray, University of Edinburgh, Studying the modern German Left as Ancient History: from Jean Jaurès to Alexander Kluge
16:45-17:15 Michael Simpson, Goldsmiths',
University of London, Of Minotaurs and
Macroeconomics: Greek Myth and Common Currency
17:15-18:00 Reception
