Events

1 May
Joe Goodkin’s Odyssey
11am-12.30pm

9 May
In Conversation: Chella Ward 1pm-2pm

16 May In Conversation: Lynn Fotheringham 1pm-2pm

23 May Marika Russell - By A Thread 5pm-7pm

23 May ODYSSEY: SURVIVOR SAGA

29 May Jane Draycott - Cleopatra VII and the Problem(s) with Women in Classical Video Games 5pm

TBC June Valeria Spacciante - Circe, Ariadne, Medusa:(Dis)empowering Isolation in Contemporary Novel Retellings of Greek Myths

Richard A and Siobhan’s 2019 Germanicus conference, which included reception content.

Masterclass - 'Nero - the man behind the myth' (British Museum, 27 May - 24 October 2021): How to put an exhibition together - by Dr Francesca Bologna – delivered over Teams, 18th November 2021, 1-2pm.

Book launch for Bob Eaglestone’s Truth and Wonder: A Literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle – 3rd March 2021, 1pm-3pm, featuring Genevieve Liveley (Bristol), Miriam Leonard (UCL), John Sellars (Royal Holloway), Jennifer Wallace (Cambridge) – on Teams, c.30 attendees inside and outside RHUL.

'Race' and Racism in the Roman World and its Reception: Online Roundtable – 8th June 2021 - Nandini Pandey (Johns Hopkins University), Lylaah Bhalerao (New York University), Bet Hucks (Universität Heidelberg), and Sam Agbamu. C.60 attendees inside and outside RHUL (and internationally).

Liz – with Adam Roberts and Dell Olsen – Blazing Worlds, 12th November, 4pm, part of the COP26 programming - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blazing-worlds-climate-adaptation-and-the-imagination-tickets-205784435787

Sam Agbamu seminar to celebrate the first year of the Leverhulme: Monday 5th December 2022 at 2pm, virtually. 'Shades of Dido: Carthage's Queen in Post-Classical Contexts’.

‘Teaching Race and Ethnicity in the UK HE Classics Classroom’, in partnership with Sam Agbamu (Reading); Wednesday 1st November 2023 2pm-5pm

Efi’s done a PhD Development day in partnership with drama that she’s written about on the Myth & Voice blog

The Gramsci Research Network Annual Meeting #4 - 29th June 2023

This year’s title is “Women as subaltern? Gramsci’s thought, Women’s history, and Gender history”. Dr Coré Ferrer-Alcantud (Universitat Jaume I de València) will be giving a lecture titled “The history of women in the Roman Republic: gender approaches or women's history?”, followed by a Q&A. Starting from the problems and themes raised by the lecture, a round-table will discuss methodological, theoretical, and historical issues surrounding the study of gender in antiquity, and, more broadly, the relationship between historiography and theoretical inputs from Feminist and Gender studies, with scholars of Marxism, Feminism, History, Gender Studies, and Classics. We will be exploring the relationship between women’s history and the Gramscian concept of “subalternity” and the impact of this concept onto post-colonial and feminist theories, with an eye on the potential benefits of analysing women in ancient Rome, or in other specific historical contexts, as an independent subaltern group. Can Social Reproduction Theory and Gramscian theory contribute to the history of gender in the ancient world?

The event will be held in hybrid form, and participation is free, for both members and non-members of the Network. Tickets are available via Eventbrite. 

Past Events

In autumn 2022, Dr. Sam Agbamu gave a seminar titled "Shades of Dido: Carthage's Queen in Post-Classical Contexts" to mark the successful completion of the first year of his Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with the department before his move to Reading. In January 2023, we hosted a virtual book launch for Comics and Archaeology, co-authored by Dr. Zena Kamash, Dr. Katy Soar and Dr. Leen Van Broeck. In summer 2023, we welcomed back Dr. Andrew Roberts of English Heritage to talk about his interpretation projects at Richborough and Wroxeter, and our HRA Dr. Aven McMaster gave a workshop on podcasting.  

In autumn 2021, we co-hosted a workshop on "Performing Greek Tragedy in the 21st Century: Problems and Possibilities", organised by Dr. David Bullen, and a masterclass with Dr. Francesca Bologna on putting together the British Museum exhibition 'Nero - the man behind the myth'. In spring 2022 we hosted a virtual book launch for Prof. Robert Eaglestone's Truth and Wonder: A Literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle.

In summer 2021, the Centre offered a series of masterclasses with creative practitioners, featuring Josephine Balmer, Claire Pollard and Emily Hauser. These 'in conversation' sessions focused around the choices that creative writers make when engaging with classical material. The Centre also hosted Oliver Baldwin to talk about gay representations of Medea as part of his British Academy-funded Queer Tragedy project. 

In 2018-19, the Centre ran a Celebration of the Centre  for the Reception of Greece and Rome attended by academics, alumni, students and other interested members of the public. We hosted an exciting seminar series, featuring Yun Lee Too, Margaret Malamud and Martin Revermann. In June 2019 the Centre also co-organised a Wikipedia Workshop, Rediscovering the Women of Royal Holloway and Bedford College, with the Bedford Centre and the sponsorship of Royal Holloway's RoWaN network. Members of the Centre were involved in Drawing on the Past – The Pre-modern World in Comics, Heidegger and the Classics and Tacitus For The Twenty-First Century: An Interdisciplinary Workshop. 

Previous research events held under the auspices of the Centre include readings by poet and playwright Tony Harrison (Artist in Residence, RHUL, 2011); a conference on Civilisational Collapse at the British Library; the conference Eight Years in Babylon: The Iraq War and the Classics; Classics and Class (at the British Academy); Ancient Aesthetics and Social Class; a conference on Antiquity and the Ruin in Paris; The Classics and France; Derrida and the Classics; Psychogeographies in Latin Literature; Classics and New Faces of Feminism; Poetics of War; and Women Writing the Classics.