This is a past event
Conference at the Grierson Centre, in association with the Centre for Early Modern Studies, and the Centre for Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies, 15-17 January 2016
The conference commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Herbert Grierson (1866-1960), Inaugural Chalmers Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen, who was also a Classicist. The objective is to provide new analyses of the ways in which Classical learning was changed, manipulated, re- and mis-interpreted, performed, and subverted (deliberately or otherwise) in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the early modern world. The ‘Subversions of Classical Learning’ project as a whole comprises a series of events (in 2015 and 2016) to consider some of the most dynamic and exciting transformations and subversions of Classical themes. This international, interdisciplinary conference is the highlight of the series. A selection of papers will be published in a conference volume.
Confirmed speakers include:
Ralph M. Rosen (University of Pennsylvania), Anna Caughey, (Keble College, Oxford) and Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen)
The organizer is Dr Aideen O’Leary: a.oleary@abdn.ac.uk.