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CLASSICS AND CLASSICISTS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

APRIL 8TH-10TH 2014

Venue: The Brotherton Room, Special Collections, The Brotherton Library

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

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, University House

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-1.00pm Lunch

1.30pm-3.30pm Leeds Postgraduate Papers and Panel Discussion: Classical Scholarship in WWI.

Andrea Basso; Anthi Chrysanthou; Henry Clarke; Natalie Enright; Ben Greet; Philippa Read

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

For further information: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125147/research/2197/legacies_of_war

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