Greco-Roman and Chinese ‘Cosmopoetics’: Compared and Received
Sino-Hellenic Network seminar
Thursday 8 May, 11am - 12.30pm (refreshments at 10.30am). Sign up for Zoom here
Cynthia Liu (University of Oxford): Greco-Roman and Chinese ‘Cosmopoetics’: Compared and Received
Location: Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
To China and Back: The Roundtrip Voyage of a Platonic Notion
Sino-Hellenic Network seminar
Wednesday 21 May, 3.30pm - 5.00pm. Online only, sign up here
Eric Hutton (The University of Utah): To China and Back: The Roundtrip Voyage of a Platonic Notion
Style and the Development of Art Theory in Ancient Greece and Early Imperial China
Sino-Hellenic Network seminar
Thursday 5 June, 3.30pm - 5.00pm (refreshments at 3pm). Sign up for Zoom here
Jeremy Tanner (UCL): Style and the Development of Art Theory in Ancient Greece and Early Imperial China
Location: R.01, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Rocking the Lyric: Mountains, Crags and Divine Inspiration in Classical Chinese and Greco-Roman Poetics
Sino-Hellenic Network seminar
Tuesday 17 June, 11am - 12.30pm (refreshments at 10.30am). Sign up for Zoom here
Beth Harper (The University of Hong Kong): Rocking the Lyric: Mountains, Crags and Divine Inspiration in Classical Chinese and Greco-Roman Poetics
Location: Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
The tears in things: a comparative study of nature in Rutilius Namatianus’ (fl. 5th c.) “On his own return” (De Reditu Suo) and Yu Xin’s 庾信 (513-581) ‘‘Lament for the South’’ (哀江南賦)
The online lectures series on ‘Nature and natural imagery in ancient Greek, Latin, Chinese and Japanese literature’ of the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens resumes with the talk of Didier Natalizi Baldi (DPhil candidate, Oxford) on ‘The tears in things: a comparative study of nature in Rutilius Namatianus’ (fl. 5th c.) “On his own return” (De Reditu Suo) and Yu Xin’s 庾信 (513-581) ‘‘Lament for the South’’ (哀江南賦)’.
The lecture will take place on Wednesday April 30 2025, 09.00 New York / 14.00 London / 16.00 Athens / 21.00 Beijing.
“The Lord a Lord, the Minister a Minister”: Probing Virtues and Roles in Ancient China and Greece
Sino-Hellenic Network speaker event
Thursday 20th March, 11.00-12.30
Richard King (University of Bern): “The Lord a Lord, the Minister a Minister”: Probing Virtues and Roles in Ancient China and Greece
Chair: Roel Sterckx (University of Cambridge)
Location: Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Please fill in the form here if you would like to attend the talk remotely. The Zoom link will be sent to you within 48 hours of the event starting.
Thinking About Emotions Across Classical Traditions
Peterhouse Theory Group
“Thinking about Emotions Across Classical Traditions” will include talks by Dr Curie Virág (Warwick) & Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao (Cambridge), drawing especially on areas of Chinese and Greek philosophy.
Contact: Dr Lea Cantor (lyc24 “at” cam.ac.uk)
Past, Present, Text, Other: Jesuit Orientalism and Chinese Philosophy
Sino-Hellenic Network speaker event (in person and via Zoom)
Thursday 6th March, 12.30-14.00 (refreshments in the corridor at 12.00)
Nathan Gilbert (University of Durham): Past, Present, Text, Other: Jesuit Orientalism and Chinese Philosophy
Location: Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Please fill in the form here if you would like to attend the talk remotely. The Zoom link will be sent to you within 48 hours of the event starting.
Labour, leisure and inner freedom: figuring the gardener in classical Chinese and Latin poetry
The Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens is delighted to announce the online lecture by Beth Harper (Hong Kong) on ‘Labour, leisure and inner freedom: figuring the gardener in classical Chinese and Latin poetry’. The lecture will take place on Thursday 13 February 2025, 09.00 New York / 14.00 London / 16.00 Athens / 22.00 Beijing.
Online lecture: Representations of ancient Greek and Chinese attitudes to nature from Alexander von Humboldt (1769 – 1859) to Lin Yutang (1895 – 1976).
The Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens invites you to the online lecture by Michael Konaris on ‘Representations of ancient Greek and Chinese attitudes to nature from Alexander von Humboldt (1769 – 1859) to Lin Yutang (1895 – 1976). Assumptions and controversies in the history of scholarship’.
Sino-Hellenic Studies: State of the Art of the Field
The inaugural meeting of the Network will take place at 2-3.30pm (GMT) on Thursday 28th November 2024 in R.01 at the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge.
In this meeting, we will discuss the state of the art of the field of Sino-Hellenic studies and identify prominent themes and methods in the cross-cultural comparative study of Greece and China with reference to review articles on the subject…