Reception, Susception, Acception: The Use and Re-use of Classical Studies, 1-2 December ANU

In-person free conference. Program follows:

THURSDAY DECEMBER 1 AUDITORIUM, RESEARCH SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ANU
09:30–10:30

Marguerite Johnson – Add Nymph and Mix: The Eroticisation of The Australian Landscape

11:00–12:30

Catherine Walsh – How do we judge feminist classical receptions?

Aimee Turner – Livia in London: The reception of the imperial consort in Tudor and Stuart England

Anne Rogerson – Who is Ascanius? Staking claims on privilege in the 18th century

13:30–15:00

Madeleine Dale – “A bright banner of disruption”: Alice Oswald’s Memorial, Homeric Reception, and Contemporary War Narrative.

Donna Storey – Here at the Border of the Fatherland: Exploring pre-fascist use of romanità in Italian political propaganda

Craig Barker – Stamping History: The use of Cypriot antiquities and archaeology by the Cyprus Postal Service and their role in forging a national identity

15:30–17:00

Jonathan Wallis – John Glover’s Bath of Diana. Colonial Classicism in Van Diemen’s Land

Helen Nicholson – Pictures on plates

Jo Russell-Clarke – The Influence of Virgil’s Georgics on Visions of Human-Landscape Relations: The
cyclic rise and fall of Rus in Urbe experiments, up to a present Anthropocene retelling

17:30–18:30

Alastair Blanshard – How queer is the homoerotic? Thinking through the classicising rhetoric of mid-
century physique culture.

FRIDAY DECEMBER 2 AUDITORIUM, RESEARCH SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ANU
09:00–10:00

Simon Perris – Rethinking Classical Reception in (and through) Maori Literature

10:00–11:30

Ross Davis – The Science Behind “Classics”: Is it Time to Care?

Anushka Dhanapala – Classics in Modern Sri Lanka

Tracey Walters – Classics at Howard University

12:00–13:00

Joan Stivala – From Plutarch’s Lives to 20th-Century Film

Erica Steiner – “All the Britons paint their bodies with woad”: Uncovering an historiographical “blue” herring

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