Wellspring Series: Her Infinite Variety: Cleopatra from Antiquity to the Present
Arts & entertainment
Her Infinite Variety: Cleopatra from Antiquity to the PresentArchaeological evidence of Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt from 51-30 BC, depicts her as an independent and powerful monarch whose authority stemmed from Zeus, king of the gods. In contrast, the public image of Cleopatra is shaped by…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - November
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength…
Hearts In and Out of Crisis: New perspectives on the heart
Symposium
This event aims to bring together researchers across medicine, health, the humanities and the creative arts to explore new perspectives on the heart in and out of crisis. The symposium brings together a range of interdisciplinary researchers from across the humanities, arts, medicine and…
Hippolytus’ Meadows: Weaving together Aesthetics and Ascetics in Christian reuses of Euripides’ ‘chastity hymn’ (Eur. Hippolytus 61-87)”
Seminar
In Euripides’ Hippolytus, the titular character enters on stage singing a hymn to Artemis with his hunting companions. He then proceeds to offer a garland to her statue which he says was woven from a meadow untouched by agriculture, and frequented by bees. This paper will trace the development of a…
A Reading and Conversation between Ellen van Neerven and Elfie Shiosaki
Other
Please join us for a reading and conversation between the Indigenous H.C. Coombs fellow Ellen van Neerven and Associate Professor Elfie Shiosaki reading their poetry and discussing their approaches to poetics. A light welcome lunch will be provided on arrival at 12.30pm. To join in…
Book Launch of McOndo Revisited by Dr. Thomas Nulley-Valdés
Book launch
Please join us to celebrate the publication of McOndo Revisited by Dr. Thomas Nulley-Valdés The controversial McOndo anthology, edited by Chileans Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, was envisaged as a forceful contestation of local and global perceptions of Latin American literature…
Order and Disorder: Aspects of Homeric Hospitality
Seminar
Homeric hospitality is a total social phenomenon in which interactions with the ‘other’ are regulated to maintain social order and to confer mutual benefits on guest and host alike. The theatre of social interactions in Homeric society is the oikos. The underpinning principles of paradigmatic…