Recordings from "Queer and the Classical: Critical Futures, Critical Feelings” (20 Feb 2021)
An archive of recorded papers and performances from our 2021 conference, held online with the support of the Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity (University of Oxford) and funding from the Classical Association.
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Dr Mathura Umachandran - Keynote
"Carrier Bag Theory of Queer Feeling, or, Coming to Critique"
In this keynote, Dr Mathura Umachandran argues that the proximity of the queer and the classical ‘is one that we choose to craft, if we choose it at all’. Drawing on the work of Ursula K. Le Guin, adrienne maree brown, Joseph Pierce, and Madhavi Menon, among others, Umachandran proposes a carrier bag theory of queer feeling as a means of rethinking narrative, and unsettling the universalism that takes ancient Greece and Roman as privileged points of queer origins. Umachandran offers deep thanks to Hannah Silverblank for her planting of the spore/co-envisioning of the mycelial analysis that is presented here.
Emer O'Hanlon - ‘“Truth is no Apollo Belvedere, no formal thing”: Querying a queer icon, re-appropriating Apollo’
Kit Pyne-Jaeger, ‘“Half My Life I Leave Behind”: Reconciling the Academic and Affective with Oscar Wilde and A.E. Housman’
Donna Marcus - 'Right Distance: Towards an Ethic of Care in Queer Translation of Pāli Texts'
Neha Rahman - ‘Not to me, not if it’s you: (Fan)Fictional Intimacies on the Internet and in the Imagination’
Lena Barsky - “I WOULD KNOW HIM IN DEATH // HELLO, STRANGER: Achilles, Patroclus, and Fanfiction Refracted”
Izzy Levy - “‘Wiping Away the Paint’: Drag, Euripides’ Helen, and Epistemologies of the Body in Performance”
