Star Wars and Classical Reception

In this second part of our CC Shorts interview with Dr Jody Cundy (University of Toronto), Jody tells the story of how she began studying Classics, and shares some of her favourite ancient and modern texts - including Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and Marcel Detienne's 'Gardens of Adonis'. Image: ‘Adonis Garden’. Detail from Athenian red-figure lekythos, c. 425-375 BCE Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum B39. Photo. Mus. R8057 © Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe.

The interviews in this episode of Classics Confidential were recorded at a workshop entitled The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and the Classical Body. The workshop took place at Kings College in June 2018: it was organised by Dr Ellen Adams, Senior Lecturer in Classical Art & Archaeology at Kings College London, and Dr Emma-Jayne Graham, Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University. Programme structure and timecodes: 0.00 Introduction to the programme; Ellen Adams on the background to the workshop. 3.31 Lennard Davis on the background to Disability Studies, and the language of disability in the modern world (and its retrospective application to antiquity) 6.41 Ellen Adams on previous scholarship on disability in antiquity 8.39 Christian Laes on Greek and Latin vocabulary 13.04 Edith Hall on the myth of Hephaestus, Orion and Cedalion, and pain in the Philoctetes. 17.55 Michael Squire on classical sculpture and the Venus De Milo 20.18 Lennard Davis on (non)representations of disability in the contemporary film industry 22.44 Stephanie Evelyn Wright on skeletal evidence from Roman burials 26.55 Jane Draycott on the literary and archaeological evidence for ancient prostheses 30.20 Tom Shakespeare on studying disability in the past, and the importance and danger of imagination. 33.19 Ellen Adams on the surprises, highlights and challenges of the workshop 37.07 Conclusion and acknowledgements

In this CC Shorts episode, Elton talks to Dr Jody Cundy (University of Toronto) about her work on Pausanias' Description of Greece. The conversation ranges over the themes of wonder, travel writing, and paradoxography ('the cataloguing of marvels'), and how Pausanias represents Greece as a place of enchantment - from its most famous ruins to a simple rock on the ground.

This episode of Classics Confidential is linked to Weaving Women’s Stories – a series of events organised by Dr Emma Bridges and Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts, as part of the 2018 Being Human Festival. It features, in order of appearance: Emma Bridges (Institute of Classical Studies) on Homer, Penelope, Ovid and reception Ursula Rothe (The Open University) on different kinds of fabrics and archaeological evidence for textile production Mary Harlow (University of Leicester) on weaving as practice, and the importance of textile production as a theme in ancient history Ellie Mackin Roberts (Royal Holloway, University of London) on the Arrephorroi and sensual approaches to ancient weaving Ben Ferris (Sydney Film School) on his 2009 feature film, Penelope Anna Fisk (University of Glasgow) on her work as knitting practitioner and academic researcher Keep an eye on the Twitter hashtag #WeavingWomensStories, where Emma (@emmabridges) and Ellie (@EllieMackin) will be sharing photos and links of the events as they happen.

This is the second in a pair of audio programmes on ROMAN MEMORY. This episode features (in order of appearance) Maggie Popkin (Case Western Reserve University) on the Roman souvenir trade, incl. the glass bottles from Baia and Pozzuoli. Zena Kamash (Royal Holloway, University of London) on a small cattle figurine from Marcham Frilford. Ernst Künzl on the history of souvenirs in the Roman Empire and beyond. Sonia Muro Castillo (Souvenirs Agrigento) on her campaign to rid Sicily of Mafia-related souvenirs. Emma-Jayne Graham (The Open University) on the Roman glass bottles, and the links between place and memory. Valerie Hope (The Open University) on Roman mourning and death-related mementoes. (Image from http://www.freebibleimages.org/illustrations/paul-demetrius-artemis/)

A programme about Roman memory, featuring David Tollerton, Karl Galinsky, Maggie Popkin and Peter Wiseman. Recorded and produced by Jessica Hughes. Find out more on www.classicsconfidential.co.uk

An audio documentary about Roman food, featuring Zena Kamash, Steven Ellis, Mike Beer, Salvatore Gabbiano and Patricia Rodrigues de Souza. Recorded and produced by Jessica Hughes. Find out more on www.classicsconfidential.co.uk

Episode 4 of Classics Confidential, recorded at the Classical Association conference 2017. Featuring the voices of Benjamin Howland, Sonya Nevin, Tony Keen, Joanna Komorowska, Tristan Taylor and Jessica Hughes. For more details, see the Classics Confidential website www.classicsconfidential.co.uk

Welcome to the third episode in our new series of audio podcasts! We're delighted to have teamed up with Carla Bocchetti from IFRA (French Institute for Research in Africa) in Nairobi to produce an episode all about a new volume that she's edited, East Africa, Global History and the Classical Traditions.  The volume is a special issue of the journal Les Cahiers d'Afrique de l'Est: you can read the entire text on the IFRA Nairobi website. As Carla explains, her aim in editing this volume was to bring Classics into a conversation with other disciplines (including the study of 'Global History'), to show how "the global circulation of classical references in Africa make it possible to open a new dialogue with other traditions circulating in the rim of the Indian ocean world." This episode features the voices of five authors who wrote chapters for the volume: Carla Bocchetti (IFRA Nairobi) Phiroze Vasunia (University College London) Daniel Orrells (King's College London) Sarah Longair (University of Lincoln) Gordon Omenya (Pwani University) Info at http://classicsconfidential.co.uk/2017/06/13/east-africa/ Join in the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #classicsconfide Image credit: McMillan Library, Nairobi, completed 1931, designed by John Sinclair and Messrs. Rand Overy and Blackburn. Photograph: S. Longair. From Sarah's chapter "Visions of the Global: the Classical and the Eclectic in Colonial East African Architecture".

Welcome to the second Classics Confidential audio programme! It's on the topic of 'Linked Data'. This episode features the voices of Valeria Vitale (King's College London) Maxim Romanov (University of Leipzig) Kai-Christian Bruhn (Institute for Spatial Information and Surveying Technology, Mainz) Rob Sanderson (The Getty Trust) ...as well as Elton Barker (who interviewed all the people listed above at the Linked Pasts conference in Madrid) and Jessica Hughes. The Recogito website, which we discuss at the start of the programme, can be accessed at http://recogito.pelagios.org/ The Pelagios Investigative team is Elton Barker, Leif Isaksen Rainer Simon, Valeria Vitale and Rebecca Kahn.