Curiosi

Performing Ancient Greek Literature in a Time of Pandemic
2022-06-23 - 2022-06-24
Conference
23-24 June 2022
For more details see https://research.reading.ac.uk/curiosi/performing-ancient-greek-literature-in-a-time-of-pandemic/
“gli uccelli” compagnia mitmacher teatro romano

The Glory and the Grandeur
2020-03-04 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/London)
John Clarke Stobart and the defence of high culture in a democratic age
Dr Chris Stray (Swansea)
My subject is a pair of books published just before World War I: The Glory that was Greece (1911) and The Grandeur that was Rome (1912). These two books, now almost forgotten, were widely admired when they first appeared, went into several editions and were still in print fifty years later. Mentioning them now to classicists often provokes recollections of encounters with the books in school libraries or as prizes: they were aimed at the new and expanding readerships of the 1910s who were cultured but without Latin or Greek. In this paper I aim to situate the books in relation to (1) changes in the content and organisation of Classics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, (2) changes in the printing, publishing and marketing of books in the same period. I will also focus on the collaboration between their author John Clarke Stobart, later the first director of education at the BBC, and their publisher Frank Sidgwick, son of a celebrated classical scholar. The talk, like the books themselves, will be heavily illustrated.

Talk and Demonstration: Allen Seaby and Colour Wood-Block Printing
2019-10-12 10:30 - 11:30 | Edith Morley Building, Room 35, Department of Classics, University of Reading, Whitekights, Reading, RG6 6AA
Martin Andrews (Sessional Lecturer, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication) will be discussing the life and work of Allen Seaby, followed by a demonstration of how to create a colour wood-block print, a technique that made Allen Seaby famous. Come to the Classics Department and find out more about this style, try printing for yourself, and visit the Ure Museum’s exhibition “Allen Seaby’s Archaeology for Children“!

Dig it! Archaeology for Children in the Past
2019-09-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Ure Museum, Department Of Classics, University Of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AA, United Kingdom
A talk by Ure Museum Research Officer Amara Thornton on archaeology books for children. This event is in conjunction with a new temporary display at the Ure Museum on artist & author Allen Seaby, Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading.
Two “Peeps” books, dating to the early 20th Century.

Collectors, Curators, and Cataloguers: Hidden Women in Archaeology in 19th and 20th Centuries
2019-06-12 09:00 - 18:30 | Ure Museum, Department Of Classics, University Of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AA, United Kingdom
A workshop supported by the Heritage and Creativity Institute for Collections at the University of Reading.
The CFP is available here.
Annie Dunman Hunt Ure, first Hon. Curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading. (Image: Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology).

Team meeting
2018-06-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Chancelor’s building Room 3L45, University of Reading, reading, United Kingdom (UK), rg6
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Seminar
2018-05-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Chancelor’s building Room 3L45, University of Reading, reading, United Kingdom (UK), rg6
