7 March 2024 - 7 March 2024
1:00PM - 2:00PM
IAS Seminar Room or online via Zoom
Free
Join us for a series of lunchtime seminars hosted by CNCS where we welcome members of this year's cohort of Durham Residential Library fellows. This series of seminars will cover a diverse range of themes from Anglican Studies to Classical Reception to Health and Sanitation. Our first session welcomes Professor Susan Deacy, Roehampton University, UK
Cosins Hall, Palace Green, Durham
Abstract: This paper shares the outcomes of my time as a Barker Fellow at Durham investigating the place of Classics in nineteenth-century young people's lives. It will set out how far what I have found matches what I anticipated potentially discovering based on my initial consultations of the Archives and Special Collections Catalogue while developing my application for a project then titled 'Elite schooling and young men's enculturation in the Long Nineteenth Century: a case study of the Headlam family'. It will share my research journey into the childhood experiences of Headlam young people - girls, it turns out, as well as boys - as conveyed in letters, poems and art works. Moreover, it will divulge how far the worldviews of the Headlam children are shaped by their experiences learning about anything classical.
National Teaching Fellow, Professor of Classics, Centre for Inclusive Humanities School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of Roehampton
Susan Deacy is a classicist especially interested in ancient Greek mythology, gender and religion and in the reception of Classics, particularly in children's culture and above all in autistic young people's culture. For her work seeking to diversify Classics, she is a National Reaching Fellow and a Principal Fellow of the HEA and among her other roles she is Professor Emerita of Roehampton University, Honorary Professor at Bristol University, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquarians of London
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