Welcome to the 4th issue of the CRSN newsletter (February 2012)
1. Welcome:
We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new institutional members:
University of British Columbia: Classical, Near Eastern & Religious Studies
Case Western Reserve University: Department of Classics
University of Roehampton: Humanities Department
Shaker Heights High School- Foreign Languages
2. News:
CRSN on Twitter
The CRSN is now live on Twitter! Follow us (@CRSN_UK) for news of CRSN and
related events, as well as other items of interest, from new publications to upcoming
films and exhibitions. Tweet or email us if you would like us to help publicise your
event or announcement on Twitter.
Podcast introducing the Network
Both items can be found at:
http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/crsn/index.shtml
3. Forthcoming conferences in 2012
Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Conflict in World Fiction since 1989
5-6 July 2012
This conference kindly funded by and hosted at the British Academy, July 5th and
6th 2012, is co-organised by Edith Hall (soon to be in the Classics Department,
King's College London) and Katie Billotte (the Centre for the Reception of Greece
and Rome at Royal Holloway). This unprecedented conference will bring together a
global team of writers and scholars to discuss the importance of ancient Greek
myths in the recent fictional narration of war. Novels from every continent will be
discussed, including works by Maori, Chinese, African, Brazilian and Japanese
authors. The conference will ask whether it is the very difficulties involved in
addressing large-scale trauma that have elicited this new ‘mythical turn’ in the
medium; it will also explore the tensions involved in the use of canonical ancient
Greek texts central to the western ‘colonial’ curriculum in self-consciously
anticolonial and postcolonial writing. Speakers will include Aleksandar Gatalica, Yan
Lianke,Anna Ljunggren, Tom Holland, Fiona Macintosh, Patrice Rankine, Efie
Spentzou, Adam Ganz, Girgio Amitrano, Justine McConnell and Ferial Ghazoul.
Further information about registration will be available soon; meanwhile, please put it
in your diaries if you are interested and address any enquiries to
edith.hall4@btinternet.com.
Update
(location and time confirmed)
Athletic Foundations:
Identity, heritage and sport
18th of June, 17.30 to 20.00
Open University: London Regional Centre
APGRD Lecture Series
Ariane Mnouchkine Lecture
8th May, 2:15
For further details go to:
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events
Update
(website for conference)
Classical Greek and Roman Literature:
Gendered Perspectives in Reading and Reception
University of Maryland
1st April 2012
https://sites.google.com/site/genderedperspectivesconference/home
Reception Seminar at the
American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting
Brown University
29th March 1st April 2012
Preservation Amid the Ruins of Time: Classics and its Modern Contexts of Reception
Day 1: 30th March
Ariane Schwartz, Dartmouth College: "How should I live? Neo-Stoicism
and the case of Otto van Veen’s Emblemata Horatiana" (AV necessary)
Jonathan Mannering, Loyola University Chicago: "How does Seneca read
Virgil's Aeneid?
Leon Grek (with Aaron Kachuck), Princeton University: "Classical
(a)Temporalities in Ben Jonson's Sejanus and Catiline"
Andrew Hui, Stanford University: "Poetics of Ruins in the Renaissance"
Day 2: 31st March
Anastasia Bakogianni, The Open University: "Electra in Crisis: a
comparative study of an ancient tragedy and its contemporary
reincarnation for the stage (2011)" (AV necessary)
Athena Coronis, University of Patras, Greece: "War, Catastrophe, and
Loss in Euripides' Trojan Women and K. Hartman's Troy Women"
Philip Walsh, Washington College: "Preserving the Classics at a Small
Liberal Arts College" (AV necessary)
Boris Shoshitaishvili, University of Arizona: "The Maker of Plots:
Classicizing Borges"
Day 3: 1st April
Kathryn Stergiopoulos, Princeton University: "What is Greece if you
draw back?': Translating Hellenism into Modernism"
Raina Kostova, Jacksonville State University: "Mandelstam's Revolution
in Language"
Sebastian Momtazi, Columbia University: "Catullus in the 20th Century:
from Ezra Pound to Allen Ginsberg"
Gregory Baker, Brown University: “With the self-centred urbs passed
away the urbanus sermo”: Language purism and the recovery of Romanitas
in modern Wales"
Ricardo Apostol, Case Western Reserve University: "ὁ καιρὸς χωρὶς
κανένα χάσμα: Giorgos Seferis, the Classics, and the Moment of
Self-Negation in Gadamer’s Reception Theory"
Classical Reception Discussion Group, Faculty of Classics, University of
Cambridge:
15 March 2012
Dr. Damian Valdez (Cambridge, History/MML): ‘Ancient Greek freedom in the age of
Winckelmann and Herder: some aporias of German Philhellenism'.
Those interested in finding out more should contact the current chairs, Helen Roche
(hber2@cam.ac.uk) and Clare Foster (clef3@cam.ac.uk)
Classicists and Medievalists Day
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Saturday 10th March
The event will bring together classicists and medievalists to discuss topics in the epic
tradition.
Details and booking information can be found at:
http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/conf_classmed_epic.shtml
4. Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS: "THE MAKING OF THE HUMANITIES III"
The third international conference on the history of the humanities, "The Making of
the Humanities III", will take place at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, from 1
till 3 November 2012. See http://makingofthehumanitiesiii.blogspot.com/
GOAL OF THE CONFERENCE
This is the third of a biennially organized conference that brings together scholars
and historians of humanities disciplines to draw the outlines for a comparative history
of the humanities. Although histories of single humanities disciplines exist for quite
some time, a comparative history has only very recently been investigated and the
first monographs have just appeared.
THEME OF THE 2012 CONFERENCE
The theme of the meeting in 2012 will be "The Making of the Modern Humanities",
focusing on the period 1850-2000, as well as four general panels that cross all
periods. Topics include all aspects of the history of philology, linguistics, literary
studies, musicology, historiography, art history, theatre studies, (new) media studies
and other humanities disciplines, with an emphasis on their mutual influences.
PANELS
In addition to the theme of this year’s meeting, there will be four general conference
panels that cover all periods, areas and disciplines:
Panel I: Objectivity in the Humanities
Panel II: Methodology in the Humanities
Panel III: The Search for Patterns in the Humanities
Panel IV: The Sciences and the Humanities
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
John Joseph (University of Edinburgh)
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Jo Tollebeek (University of Leuven)
SUBMISSIONS
Papers can be submitted to the general theme or to one of the panels. Please
indicate on your abstract whether you want your paper to be considered for the
general theme or for one of the panels or both.
Send your abstract of maximally 400 words to:
HistoryHumanities@gmail.com<mailto:HistoryHumanities@gmail.com>
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 June 2012
For more information, see http://makingofthehumanitiesiii.blogspot.com/
ORGANIZATION
Huizinga Institute of Cultural History (Working Group History of the Humanities)
Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam
Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn (University of Amsterdam)
We hope you have a productive month!
Professors Helen King and Stephen Harrison (CRSN co-coordinators)
Anastasia Bakogianni (CRSN Administrator)