Oxford’s Antiquity: a Critical Reappraisal of the Study of Classics in Oxford
Thursday 29 - Friday 30 September 2022
Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Byzantine and Classical Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford
Thursday 29 September 2022
10.15 Welcome from the organisers
10.30 - 1 pm Panel 1
Chair: Constanze Güthenke
Nikhil Krishnan (University of Cambridge) ‘How Socratic is the Oxford tutorial?’
Emily Rutherford (University of Oxford) ‘Pedagogic Eros: Greats, Pedagogy, and Homosexuality’
12-12.15 short coffee break
Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University) ‘What was Classics?’
LUNCH
2.30 - 5 pm Panel 2
Chair: Jo Quinn
Emily Greenwood (Harvard University) ‘Absence, Loss, and the Presence of Coloniality: Caribbean perspectives on Oxford Classics’ [*remote]
Grant Parker (Stanford University and Stellenbosch University) ‘Universalism (theme and variations)’ [*remote]
4 - 4.15 short coffee break
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University) ‘Exiting classics: a meditation on Qadri Ismail’
RECEPTION
Friday 30 September 2022
10.30-12.30 Panel 3
Chair: Jas Elsner
Richard Hingley and Martha Stewart (University of Durham): ‘Oxford and Roman Britain: Haverfield to 2022’
John Ma (Columbia University) ‘Oxford contra mundum: Innovation and immobility in the practice of ancient history’
LUNCH
1.30-3pm Panel 4
Chair: Tim Rood
Heather Ellis (Sheffield University) ‘Classical authors and ‘scientific research’ in early nineteenth century England’
Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge) ‘Herodotus versus the Higher Criticism: George Rawlinson, Anglican Historian and Translator’
3.30-5pm Final Roundtable
Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago) [*remote]
Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown University) [*remote]
Katherine Harloe (Institute of Classical Studies, London)
Christopher Stray (Swansea University)
RECEPTION
The event is free to attend and open to the public.
