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‘Queer and The Classical: Future and Potentialities’ – Seminar Series at the University of Oxford

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The WCC UK is delighted to share the program of the 2020 Michaelmas Term edition of the Corpus Christi College Seminar Series at the University of Oxford co-convened by Marcus Bell and Eleonora Colli.

The title of the series is ‘Queer and The Classical: Future and Potentialities’, and the seminars will take place online every Wednesday at 5 PM from the 21st of October to the 9th of December.

21st October

Sebastian Matzner (King’s College London) – Queer Theory and Ancient Literature: Now What?

28th October:

Hannah Silverblank (Haverford College) – Queer Assemblages in Anne Carson: Reception and Abjection in ‘Red Doc>’ and ‘Decreation’

4th November

Kadji Amin (Emory University) – Pederasty and the Politics of Scholarship

11th November

Emily Rutherford (University of Oxford), Mara Gold (University of Oxford), and Professor Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham University)–  In Conversation: Queer Scholarship and Classical Reception

18th November

Ella Haselswerdt (UCLA) – Sappho’s Body / Towards a Deep Lez Philology

25th November

Jordan Tannahill and Jeremy O. Harris – In Conversation: Title TBC

2nd December

Kay Gabriel – Classics’ Transfeminine Object 

9th December

Stephanie Burt (Harvard University) and Mark Payne (University of Chicago) – After Callimachus: Reading and Conversation

If you are interested in this seminar series and wish to take part in one or more of the events listed, you can express your interest by writing at oxfordqueerclassical[a]gmail.com.

For any other queries, and to get in touch with the convenors, please email marcus.bell[a]classics.ox.ac.uk and eleonora.colli[a]classics.ox.ac.uk. 

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