Dr. Richard Warren
Honorary Research Associate
BA (Oxford), MA (Lund), PhD (Durham)
Contact: richard.warren@rhul.ac.uk
Research interests:
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The reception of the Classics in nationalist and colonial contexts in the nineteenth century.
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Nineteenth-century European painting, sculpture and monumental art, and its use of the
Classics.
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My AHRC-funded PhD project, ‘Tacitus and nationalism in nineteenth-century art’, explored
how British, German, Austrian and Czech artists used Tacitus’ texts to promote or
deconstruct the nationalisms of their time.
Prizes
London School of Economics Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), 2015
Nations and Nationalism Prize in the Memory of Dominique Jacquin-Berdal, for Nations and
Nationalism article, ‘Charles Gleyre's 'Les Romains': Classics and nationalism in Swiss art'.
Classical Association prize scholarship for research stay at Fondation Hardt, Geneva, August 2014.
Conferences
Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century, 22-23 June 2013, Durham
University, co-hosted with Dr. Thorsten Foegen and co-funded by the Institute of Classical Studies and
Durham University.
https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/classics/events/upcoming_events/ConferenceProgrammeAbstracts
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Papers:
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November 2015 Guest lecture, 'Arminius in Bohemia', Charles University Prague.
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June 2013 'Identity and Representation in Antiquity' conference, lecture, King's College
London.
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April 2013 Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History, lecture, University of
Cambridge.
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June 2012 81st Anglo-American conference 'Ancients and Moderns', lecture, University of
London.
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May 2012 Guest lecture, Humboldt University, Berlin.
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November 2011 Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Reception of the Ancient World, lecture,
University of London.
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October 2011 Guest lecture, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University.
Publications:
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Spring 2016, Foegen, T. & Richard Warren (eds.), Classics and the Idea of Nationalism in
the 19th Century: Case Studies (De Gruyter's).
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Summer 2015, ‘Charles Gleyre's 'Les Romains': Classics and nationalism in Swiss art',
Nations and Nationalism.
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Autumn 2015, 'Strachan's Calgacus: Scotland's classical past in the art of the Edinburgh
National War Memorial', Antike und Abendland.
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Warren, R. (2013), Review of Krebs, C. (2010), Tacitus’ Germania: A very dangerous book,
Journal of Roman Studies, Volume 103, pp 346-347.
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Warren, R (2013), Review of Goldhill, S. (2011), Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity,
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