KYKNOS: THE SWANSEA, LAMPETER, AND EXETER CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE NARRATIVE LITERATURES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
Below is given the 2008-9 KYKNOS programme. For more information about the various activities of the research centre, please visit our website (www.kyknos.org.uk) or contact Professor John Morgan (John.Morgan ATswansea.ac.uk) or Dr Magdalena Öhrman (m.ohrman AT lamp.ac.uk).
Research seminar series
Friday 31 October, Professor Ian Storey (Trent University), ‘Sub-creation and imagination in Lewis and Tolkien’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Thursday 13 November: Dr Tim Whitmarsh, (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University), ‘Beyond the second sophistic: Hellenism, nationalism, and the Greek novel’, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
Friday 28 November, Dr Marko Marinčič (University of Ljubljana), ‘Sit modo libertas: Competing voices in Propertius’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Thursday 22 January: Professor Roy Gibson (University of Manchester), ‘Problems with Pliny the Younger’, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
Thursday 29 January: Dr Elton Barker (Christ Church, Oxford University), ‘Homer’s Thebes’, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
Friday 30 January: Professor Loveday Alexander (University of Sheffield), ‘Women and Religion in the Ancient Novel’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Friday 27 February: Michael Cummings (Edinburgh University), ‘Eros and Cognitive Metaphor in the Greek Novel’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Friday 13 March 2009: Daniel King (Merton College, Oxford University), ‘Narrative and Overcoming Pain’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Thursday 19 March: Melanie Marshall (Brasenose College, Oxford University), TBC, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
Friday 8 May: Dr Regine May (University of Leeds), TBC, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Thursday 14 May: Nora Goldschmidt (Magdalen College, Oxford University), TBC, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
Friday 15 May, Jane McLarty (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University), ‘Paul and Thekla’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Thursday 28 May: Dr Johanna Akurjärvi (Lund University), ‘The narrative of Pausanias’, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
KYKNOS Reading Group
A fortnightly KYKNOS reading group is held at Swansea University. For more information please contact Professor John Morgan.
Conferences:
Panel at the 2009 CA conference on ‘The Erotics of Narrative’, University of Glasgow, 3-6 April
Workshop on ‘The narrative of Hymns’, University of Wales, Lampeter, 9-10 May (*provisional dates)
Conference on ‘The Erotics of Narrative’, Gregynog, nr Newtown, Powys, 15–17 July
Below is given the 2008-9 KYKNOS programme. For more information about the various activities of the research centre, please visit our website (www.kyknos.org.uk) or contact Professor John Morgan (John.Morgan ATswansea.ac.uk) or Dr Magdalena Öhrman (m.ohrman AT lamp.ac.uk).
Research seminar series
Friday 31 October, Professor Ian Storey (Trent University), ‘Sub-creation and imagination in Lewis and Tolkien’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Thursday 13 November: Dr Tim Whitmarsh, (Corpus Christi College, Oxford University), ‘Beyond the second sophistic: Hellenism, nationalism, and the Greek novel’, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
Friday 28 November, Dr Marko Marinčič (University of Ljubljana), ‘Sit modo libertas: Competing voices in Propertius’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Thursday 22 January: Professor Roy Gibson (University of Manchester), ‘Problems with Pliny the Younger’, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
Thursday 29 January: Dr Elton Barker (Christ Church, Oxford University), ‘Homer’s Thebes’, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
Friday 30 January: Professor Loveday Alexander (University of Sheffield), ‘Women and Religion in the Ancient Novel’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Friday 27 February: Michael Cummings (Edinburgh University), ‘Eros and Cognitive Metaphor in the Greek Novel’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Friday 13 March 2009: Daniel King (Merton College, Oxford University), ‘Narrative and Overcoming Pain’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Thursday 19 March: Melanie Marshall (Brasenose College, Oxford University), TBC, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
Friday 8 May: Dr Regine May (University of Leeds), TBC, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Thursday 14 May: Nora Goldschmidt (Magdalen College, Oxford University), TBC, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
Friday 15 May, Jane McLarty (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University), ‘Paul and Thekla’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm
Thursday 28 May: Dr Johanna Akurjärvi (Lund University), ‘The narrative of Pausanias’, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm
KYKNOS Reading Group
A fortnightly KYKNOS reading group is held at Swansea University. For more information please contact Professor John Morgan.
Conferences:
Panel at the 2009 CA conference on ‘The Erotics of Narrative’, University of Glasgow, 3-6 April
Workshop on ‘The narrative of Hymns’, University of Wales, Lampeter, 9-10 May (*provisional dates)
Conference on ‘The Erotics of Narrative’, Gregynog, nr Newtown, Powys, 15–17 July