Conference programme for Classics and Classicists conference

Tuesday April 8th

1.00-2.00pm           Registration, Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds.

 

1pm onwards        Conference exhibition open

The Brotherton Room, Special Collections, The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

 

2.00-2.10pm           Welcome

 

2.10-3.10pm           Keynote: Christopher Stray (Swansea/London)

‘Classical Scholars at War: Europe and America, 1800-1930’.

 

3.10-4.10pm           Neville Morley (Bristol)

‘Thucydides and the Legitimization of War’.

 

4.10-4.30pm           Tea

 

4.30pm-5.30pm     Lynn Kozak and Miranda Hickman (McGill University in Montréal)

‘Poppies and Wild-Hyacinth: H.D.’s “Hellenic” Responses to the First World War’.

 

5.30pm-6.30pm     Keynote: David Scourfield (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

‘Classical In/stabilities: Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, and the Great War’.

 

Evening                 Conference Dinner

 

Wednesday April 9th

9.00am-10.00am               Alison Rosenblitt (Oxford)

‘“cast like Euridyce one brief look behind”: the classical underworld in E.E. Cummings and the idea of moving on’.

 

10.00am-10.30am             Coffee

 

10.30-11.30am                  Ingrid Sharp (Leeds)

‘Pacifism in Werfel’s Trojan Women, Berlin 1916’.

 

11.30am-12.30pm             Maarten De Pourcq (Nijmegen)

‘Tragedy in the Trenches: Classics and Cultural Politics in Flemish Theatre during WWI and its Aftermath’.

 

12.30pm-1.45pm              Lunch

 

2.00-3.00pm                     Marian Makins (Pennsylvania)

‘Classical Landscapes and Storied Locations in the Battlefields of WWI’.

 

3.00-4.00pm                     Lorna Hardwick (Open University)

‘“Legacies and refractions” (David Reynolds, The Long Shadow, 2013): how ancient texts and their receptions both contribute to and challenge modern constructs of WW1’.

 

4.00pm-4.30pm                Tea

 

4.30pm-5.30pm                Keynote: Angela Hobbs (Sheffield)

‘Who Lied? Classical Heroism and WW1’.

 

5.30pm onwards               Performance Events inspired by Euripides’ Trojan Women

Produced by Eleanor OKell (Leeds) and directed by George Rodosthenous (Leeds).

Parkinson Court, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds.

 

 

Thursday April 10th

10.00am-11.00am             Moa Ekbom (Uppsala)

‘Hic primum Fortuna fidem mutate novavit: the Sortes Vergilianae in World War I’.

 

Respondents to Postgraduate papers: Lorna Hardwick (Open University) & Christopher Stray (Swansea/London)

 

11.00am-12.00pm            Jasmine Hunter-Evans (Exeter)

‘Re-imagining Rome at the Fall of Western Civilization: David Jones and the Analogy of Decline’.

 

12.00pm-1.30pm             Lunch

 

1.30pm-3.30pm               Postgraduate Papers and Panel Discussion:

Classical Scholarship in WWI.

 

Conference organized by Elizabeth Pender (Leeds) and Edmund Richardson (Durham).

 

Venue: The Brotherton Room, Special Collections, The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

THE CONFERENCE HAS BEEN GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED       BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS,     UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS AND THE GILBERT MURRAY TRUST