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Classical Literature and the Mind of Europe, week 2

Hölderlin’s European Mind
Speakers
Charlie Louth, 
Joshua Billings
Date

Week Two, Hölderlin’s European Mind

  • Speaker: Charlie Louth (Oxford)
  • Respondent: Joshua Billings (Princeton)

Recordings

Recordings of the speakers and respondents (but not the live Q&A) will be uploaded to a dedicated playlist on the APGRD's YouTube Channel

Programme

  • Week 1: Ovidian Exiles and Juvenal’s Lash: Aesthetic Republicanism in Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony. 
    12 Oct. 11:30am
    Speaker: Boris Maslov (Oslo); Respondent: Philip Bullock (Oxford).
  • Week 2: Hölderlin’s European Mind. 
    19 Oct. 11:30am
    Speaker: Charlie Louth (Oxford); Respondent: Joshua Billings (Princeton)
  • Week 3: Latin and the modern Greeks 
    26 Oct. 11:30am
    Speaker: Michael Paschalis (Crete); Respondent: Constanze Güthenke (Oxford).
  • Week 4: Gildersleeve and the relationship with Germany, the USA, and modern Greece. 
    2 Nov. 11:30am
    Speaker: Constanze Güthenke (Oxford); Respondent: Emily Greenwood (Yale)
  • Week 5: Leopardi and the idea of Europe. 
    9 Nov. 11:30am
    Speaker: Rosa Mucignat (KCL); Respondent: Emanuela Tandello (Oxford)
  • Week 6: Hungarian translations of Latin prose, especially Tacitus. 
    16 Nov. 11:30am
    Speaker: Péter Hajdu (Hungarian Academy of Sciences); Respondent: Stephen Harrison (Oxford)
  • Week 7: Early Modern Latin Literature and the Mind of Europe. 
    23 Nov. 11:30am
    Speaker: Victoria Moul (UCL); Respondent: Colin Burrow (Oxford)
  • Week 8: Christendom and anti-Hellenism: Walter Shewring’s sallies. 
    30 Nov. 11:30am
    Speaker: David Ricks (KCL); Respondent: Justine McConnell (KCL)