Bristol IGRCT

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📣 EVENT TIME CHANGE - 5PM 📣

Our book launch for Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature will now be starting at 5PM, not 4PM. We apologise for any inconvenience.

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⏰5PM-7PM, October 8th.
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.

Thankyou for joining us!

🏳️‍🌈 EVENT REMINDER 🏳️‍🌈

This Saturday at 4PM!

Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...

Or register for the webinar: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#lgbthistory #queerhistory

We're so excited for the first Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminar of the year!

Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after!

All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians

More information:

Travel bursaries: uob.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/grp-ig...

Event proposals: uob.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/grp-ig...

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📢 CALL FOR BIDS OPEN 📢

Deadline: October 27th

The IGRCT is accepting applications for travel bursaries from UoB students and for event proposals from UoB staff and PGRs. Please see our website for more information: igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/funding/.

Alexander Taylor and Nicky Sugar from the University of Bristol Special Collections will unveil the results of the current project to recatalogue the Symonds archive and increase engagement with his work. #queerhistory #lgbthistory

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🏳️‍🌈 EVENT REMINDER 🏳️‍🌈

Don't forget to get your tickets for this year's Symonds lecture!

The event will also be livestreamed, and you can register here: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM-6PM, 4/10.
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.

A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!

The event is open to all, and will consist of a talk by Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway), followed by a drinks reception.

The volume itself fuses three concepts in ancient literature that have never been applied together at the same time: ideas of time, grammatical tense, and literary genre.

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📣 ANOTHER EVENT! 📣

We are holding a book launch for the volume "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature", edited by Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and @edithmayhall.bsky.social.

🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰4PM-6PM, 8/10.
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.

The John Addington Symonds lecture is presented in collaboration with OutStories Bristol, and you can read more about the event on their website:
outstoriesbristol.org.uk/2025/09/4-oc...

#lgbthistory #lgbtqhistory

They will bring to life new information about Symonds’s life and work, but will also use the Symonds collection as a vehicle for discussing some of the current issues archivists have to balance when working on collections.

Alexander Taylor and Nicky Sugar from the University of Bristol Special Collections will unveil the results of their project to recatalogue the Symonds archive and increase engagement with his work.

The poster for the event discussed. It features various photographs and drawings from John Addington Symonds' life, such as a photograph of him on a sledge and a drawing of his dog.

🏳️‍🌈 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏳️‍🌈

For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see"
Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM, 4/10
📍Peel Lecture Theatre

YouTube video by Bristol IGRCT Morse Lecture 2024: 'Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses' with Professor Stephanie McCarter

Teaching a new course this semester focused on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and our first assignment is pondering this marvelous talk by @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social on (the politics of) translating Ovid and how a feminist lens resists contemporary gender and sexual stereotypes.

youtu.be/FHT8twAy7zk?...

He was previously an editor of the Sculpture Journal and has recently contributed to the exhibition catalogue for 'Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350'. He has just been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project called ‘What Lies Within? The Hidden Interior of the Sculpted Body’.

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Welcome back to our 'meet the board' series! Today we're introducing Dr Peter Dent.

Peter is Head of Subject for History of Art at the University of Bristol. He is a specialist in late medieval and Renaissance sculpture and also works on Italian literature of the period, Dante in particular.

Text reads: IGRCT events programme 2025/25. October fourth: Symonds Lecture. Alexander Taylor and Nicky Sugar: "No man can see himself as others see": bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences." October sixteenth to April twelfth: Director's Annual Reception Series. Multiple Speakers: "Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories." The poster has an image down one side of a painting of the sea and cliffs, with an archaic Greek statue of a girl at the bottom.

Text reads: IGRCT events programme 2025/25. November eighteenth: Donors Celebration. Jonathan Stamp: Title to be announced. April twenty third: Morse Lecture. Josephine Quinn: Title to be announced. The poster has the same image as the previous page.

📣 EVENTS PROGRAMME 📣

The IGRCT is thrilled to release our programme of events for the 2025/26 academic year. Be sure to put these dates in your diaries, and keep an eye out for announcements about venues and bookings!

#classicssky #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky

@clahbristol.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

Text reads: IGRCT events programme 2025/25. October fourth: Symonds Lecture. Alexander Taylor and Nicky Sugar: "No man can see himself as others see": bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences." October sixteenth to April twelfth: Director's Annual Reception Series. Multiple Speakers: "Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories." The poster has an image down one side of a painting of the sea and cliffs, with an archaic Greek statue of a girl at the bottom.

Text reads: IGRCT events programme 2025/25. November eighteenth: Donors Celebration. Jonathan Stamp: Title to be announced. April twenty third: Morse Lecture. Josephine Quinn: Title to be announced. The poster has the same image as the previous page.

📣 EVENTS PROGRAMME 📣

The IGRCT is thrilled to release our programme of events for the 2025/26 academic year. Be sure to put these dates in your diaries, and keep an eye out for announcements about venues and bookings!

#classicssky #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky

The poster for the event series. It features a painting of a silhouette of a woman walking down a black and white staircase. The events are to be held at 5-6:30 PM GMT/BST online on Thursdays throughout the year.

🏛️ NEW EVENT SERIES 🏛️

The IGRCT is pleased to announce our new Director's Annual Reception Series, exploring emergent research at the intersections of antiquity and modernity.

The first series,"Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" begins on October 16th.

www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...

@uobartsmatter.bsky.social @clahbristol.bsky.social

Please see our website for more information as well: igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/events/direc...

The poster for the event series. It features a painting of a silhouette of a woman walking down a black and white staircase. The events are to be held at 5-6:30 PM GMT/BST online on Thursdays throughout the year.

🏛️ NEW EVENT SERIES 🏛️

The IGRCT is pleased to announce our new Director's Annual Reception Series, exploring emergent research at the intersections of antiquity and modernity.

The first series,"Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" begins on October 16th.

www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...

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Big news - the IGRCT has a new website! We've migrated to igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk. Watch this space for exciting new event listings in the upcoming academic year.

Her most recent essay examines African American folktales rooted in West African, Indigenous North American, and Greco-Roman traditions. She is also interested how antebellum abolition discourses invoked both ancient writings on slavery and the contemporary Greek War of Independence.

Erin is excited to work with the IGRCT because she studied Classics as an undergraduate at Reed College in the U.S., and her scholarship often explores how the nineteenth century looks back to the classical tradition.

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Welcome back to our meet the board series! Introducing Dr Erin Forbes:

Erin is a Senior Lecturer in English. Her recent book, Criminal Genius in African American and U.S. Literature, 1793-1845 shows at how creative genius developed in tandem with racialization in the early United States.

A photograph of Frances Pickworth, smiling in front of a river.

A huge congratulations to Dr Frances Pickworth, who has been appointed to a Lectureship in Digital Classics at @clahbristol.bsky.social. Frances was an intern for the IGRCT in 2022/23.

We are very proud of this accomplishment, coming so soon after Frances' successful viva defence earlier this year!