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Classicism and Romanticism: visit of Jonathan Sachs as IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, 1st-5th March 2010
Organised by the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition and the Centre for Romantic Studies, University of Bristol.
Jon Sachs is Professor of English at Corcordia University, Montreal. His recent monograph, Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832, to be published by Oxford University Press later this year, examines how Romantic-period writers deployed Roman republican precedents to contest central aspects of political modernity, including the expansion of political franchise, the rise of mass democratic movements, and the consolidation and spread of empire. He is now working on a book about the idea of cultural decline in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, again focusing on the shifting interpretations, evaluation and deployment of the classical world in the ‘culture wars’ of this period. By exploring the origins and early development of ideas of the nature of ‘modernity’, his work goes to the heart of contemporary notions of culture and its importance.
1 March: research workshop on the uses of ancient ideas and examples in modern political discourse and debates, including contributions from Chris Bertram, James Thompson and Neville Morley. Seminar room G4, 3 Woodland Road, 4.30-6.00, followed by a reception in the Humanities Common Room.
2 March: Lecture: ‘The Cassandra of the State: Anna Barbauld’s Unknown Future and the Art of Prognosis’. With responses from Duncan Kennedy, Richard Sheldon and Ika Willis. The Link Rooms, 4.15-6.00, followed by a reception in the Humanities Common Room.
3 March: research workshop for postgraduates. Ground Floor Seminar Room, Graduate School, 2.00-4.00. Please contact n.d.g.morley AT bris.ac.uk to reserve a place and be sent the advance reading.
4 March: research workshop on ‘Classicism in Romanticism’, with contributions from Stephen Cheeke, David Hopkins, Bradley Stephens and Genevieve Liveley. 4.15-6.00, venue tbc.
All welcome. Any enquiries, please contact n.d.g.morley AT bris.ac.uk.
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