LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP
NATIONAL TRAJECTORIES, TRANSNATIONAL TRENDS AND INFLUENCES
DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
January to July 2024
Coordinator: Michael Konaris
Oswyn Murray (Oxford), The Republic of Letters between East and West. Memories of the Cold War.
Thursday 11 January 2024, 17.00 (UTC +2).
Ichiro Taida (Toyo), Receptions of Western Classics in Japan in the Second Half of the 20th Century.
Friday 16 February 2024, 14.00 (UTC +2).
Constanze Güthenke (Oxford), Philology and Politics: German scholarship after 1945.
Thursday 21 March 2024, 13.00 (UTC +2). This lecture is organized in collaboration with the Princeton Athens Center for Research and Hellenic Studies.
Georgy Kantor (Oxford), Ancient History in the Soviet Union: between Marxism and Empiricism.
Thursday 11 April 2024, 17.00 (UTC +3).
Richard Hunter (Cambridge), Sidere Mens Eadem Mutato? Memories of an Australian Classicist.
Thursday 23 May 2024, 12.00 (UTC +3).
Glenn Most (Chicago), Four Weddings and a Funeral. Personal Reflections on Classics in America since the Second World War.
Thursday 13 June 2024, 18.00 (UTC +3).
Huang Yang (Fudan), Western Classical Studies in China since 1949.
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 14.00 (UTC +3).
Margalit Finkelberg (Tel Aviv), Classical Studies in Israel as a Mirror of Changing Identity.
Tuesday 16 July 2024, 17.00 (UTC +3).
Times are given in local time in Greece (UTC +2, after 31 March 2024, UTC +3 ). The lectures will take place online with the exception of the lectures of Constanze Guthenke and Georgy Kantor which will take place in hybrid form. To register your interest and receive the ZOOM links contact mkonaris@academyofathens.gr