British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Classics and Class
The British Academy, 1 & 2 July
Thursday, 1 July 2010
9.30 Registration and refreshments
10.00 Welcome (Edith Hall, Arts Faculty Research Professor, Royal Holloway University of London
10.15 Session 1: Education
Chaired by Professor Paul Cartledge (Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge)
Dr Chris Stray (Honorary Research Fellow, Dept. of History and Classics, Swansea University)
Classics and Social Closure: Boundary-Maintenance and the Organisation of Knowledge
Professor Ekaterina Basargina (Saint-Petersburg, Institute for the History of Science and Technology of Russian Academy of Sciences)
Dmitriy Tolstoy's Reform and Development of Classical Education in Russia, 1866-1918
Professor John Holford (Professor of Adult Education, University of Nottingham)
The Classical Ideal and British Workers' Education in the Twentieth Century
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Keynote Lecture
Chaired by Professor Edith Hall
Professor Jonathan Rose (Drew University)
A Self-Educated Bricklayer: The Unclassical Education of Winston Churchill
15.00 Session 2: Visual Culture
Chaired by Professor Oliver Taplin, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford)
Dr Paula James (Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies, Open University)
The Art and Ideology of Trades Union Imagery 1850-1925
Dr Graham Oliver (Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Culture, University of Liverpool)
Revealing Ancient Cultures in the English City: Liverpool from the 18th to the 21st Century
17.00 Performance Event
Chaired by Dr Peggy Reynolds (Broadcaster and Reader in English, QMUL)
The event, which will include an intermission for light refreshments, will feature readings by the poet and dramatist Tony Harrison, the storyteller Stephe Harrop, and actors (details to be confirmed). Their texts will bring vividly to life specific connections between ancient Greece and Rome and class consciousness, including works by Swift, Keats, Dickens, Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Louis MacNeice.
19.30 Public Drinks Reception
Friday, 2 July 2010
9.00 Session 3: Literary Culture
Chaired by Dr Fiona Macintosh (Reader in Classical Reception, University of Oxford)
Professor Adam Roberts (Professor of English Literature, Royal Holloway University of London)
Walter Savage Landor on Classics, Class, & Being Clean
Professor Robert Crawford (Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews)
Classics and Radicalism in Scottish Culture
Dr Edmund Richardson (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princetonm University)
The Classical Nadir
11.00 Refreshments
11.30 Session 4: Classical Class Warriors
Chaired by Pat Easterling, FBA (Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Cambridge)
Dr Sarah Butler (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Ancient Class Warriors and Modern Reformers in the Nineteenth-Century Press
Professor Margaret Malamud (Professor of Ancient History & Islamic Studies, New Mexico State University)
19th-Century Radical Reformers and Roman History in the USA
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Session 5: Social Spaces
Chaired by Professor Patrice Rankine (Professor of Classics, Purdue University, Indiana)
Professor Richard Alston (Professor of Roman History, Royal Holloway University of London)
Class Cities: Metropolitan Architectural Idioms and Class Society
Professor Katharine T. von Stackelberg (Assistant Professor in Classics, Brock University, Ontario)
Fantasy Landscapes: Discourse and Didactics in Graeco-Roman Gardens 1873-1974
16.15 Refreshments
16.45 Closing Lecture
Chaired by Professor Sara Monoson (Depts of Classics and Politics, Northwestern University, Illinois)
Professor Peter Rose (Dept. of Classics, Miami University of Oxford, Ohio)
Putting the Class Back into Classics