Modes of Classical Reception in the 19th and 20th Centuries
The Department of Ancient Classics is delighted to host this twoday event to mark the retirement of our friend and colleague, Professor David Scourfield, and celebrate his distinguished career and invaluable contribution to scholarship in Ireland and beyond.
The department has gathered together a select panel of international scholars to present a collection of papers on the modern reception of the classical world. As this is a key research area of Professor Scourfield's, we have invited David to launch proceedings on the first evening of our meeting. A full programme of papers, on a broad array of topics, will follow then on the second day of the colloquium.
All are very welcome to come and celebrate David's career. All are most welcome to come, for further information contact: classics@mu.ie
Colloquium 8-9th September 2023
Friday, September 8th (Lecture Hall 7, First Floor, John Hume Building, North Campus)
4:00-5:30pm David Scourfield (Maynooth University, Emeritus),
‘Edward Fairfax Taylor’s Epic Task: A Victorian Aeneid’
5:30-6:30pm Drinks Reception
Saturday, September 9th (Lecture Hall 7, First Floor, John Hume Building, North Campus)
9:30-10:00am Christine Morris (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Thoroughly Modern Minoans: re-imagining the Cretan Bronze Age in poetry and art’
10:00-10:30am Shelley Hales (Bristol)
‘Once and Future Dead: remembering and forgetting London’s Grand National Cemetery’
Coffee Break
11:00-11:30am Will Desmond (Maynooth)
‘The absolute moment: Walter Pater’s aesthetic Platonism’
11:30-12:00pm Quentin Broughall (Independent scholar)
‘A Shropshire fad? British public-school classical reception in The Salopian, 1860-1914’
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:00pm Donncha O’Rourke (Edinburgh)
‘Heaney’s Dido’
2:00-2:30pm Charlie Kerrigan (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Virgil and Natalia Ginzburg’
Coffee Break
2:45-3:15pm Shushma Malik (Cambridge)
‘The Classicism of Mary Danvers Stocks and her Socialist Nero’
3:15-3:45pm Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh)
‘Beyond Böll: the Resonance of Antigone in Deutschland im Herbst’
3:45-4:00pm Concluding remarks and further refreshments