Past Events
Tuesday 17 April 2012
The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities
An international conference to be held at Durham University, 17th-18th April 2012, under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition.
Thursday 22 March 2012
Classical beauty. Reflections on Ancient Aesthetics
An international conference sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics, the Institute of Advanced Study Durham, and the Department of Classics and Ancient History.
Contact e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 12 November 2011
Fra Giovanni Giocondo 1511-2011: Celebrating 500 years of the first illustrated edition of Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture, the man and his legacy
Contact e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Saturday 19 February 2011
Receptions of Carthage and the Phoenicians
A workshop, part of a series on Ancient Carthage: Models of Cultural Contact
Contact carthage-conference@hotmail.co.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 15 July 2010
Workshop: The Afterlives of Ancient Poets in Medieval and Renaissance Biography
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 8 July 2010
Durham Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition: A Study Day on the Classical Tradition
A Study Day on the Classical Tradition for Undergraduate Students (in any year), interested in pursuing postgraduate studies in the Classical Tradition.
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 7 July 2010
Dante: The Author and His Image - A Day Celebrating Dante
Conference Venue (daytime): Leech Hall, St John’s College, Durham University, 3 South Bailey
Concert Venue (evening): University Music School, Palace Green, Durham
An event jointly organized by the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Musicon.
The evening features a slide-show of Monika Beisner's illustration of Dante's Divina Commedia, with readings of Dante in English and Italian, and music from John Cage's Freeman Etudes. It explores the power of the imagination in the Divina Commedia and the Medieval world; the illustrations, the readings, and the music offer different yet complementary ways of experiencing the work's distinctive universe. The event has been inspired by the London-based artist Monika Beisner, who completed one-hundred illustrations for the Divina Commedia in 2003. The originals are in the private library of the Dante collector Livio Ambrogio.
Further Information:
The Conference Part of the Programme (11.00 am - 6 pm) is free of charge, and includes coffee, lunch, and a buffet dinner. There is no official registration, but, for planning purposes, anyone planning to attend should notify Ingo Gildenhard (ingo.gildenhard@dur.ac.uk) by 20 June 2010, including any special dietary or access requirements.
Tickets for the Musicon Evening (6 - 8.30 pm) are available at £10 (£4 for students and £1 for under 18s) from Durham Tourist Information Centre (0191 3847641) or on the door.
The Durham Tourist Information Centre is also able to advise on parking in Durham, for those arriving by car. (Parking in the vicinity of St. John's College is very limited and only available on a temporary basis.)
Please click here for the full programme.
Wednesday 3 February 2010
The Debate over Classics in Eighteenth Century Education
Work-in-Progress seminar.
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 6 November 2009
Post-classical Latin: three seminars
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk, l.l.hodgson@durham.ac.uk, j.e.powell@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 3 September 2009
TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF SOLITUDE: Exile After Ovid
An international conference to be held at St. John’s College, Durham University, 3rd-4th September 2009, under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition.
Contact jennifer.ingleheart@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 13 March 2009
Cicero rewriting Plato: three seminars
Contact l.l.hodgson@durham.ac.uk, ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 15 October 2008
Being Human : Classical Perspectives
A public lecture series
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Thursday 25 September 2008
Myths of Transformation
Workshop to be held on 25-27 September 2008 Sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Study and the Durham Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition.
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Friday 4 July 2008
The image of the author
Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.