Richard Warren Research Profile (December 2015) (002)

Dr. Richard Warren


Honorary Research Associate, Royal Holloway

BA (Oxford), MA (Lund), PhD (Durham)

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Research interests

  • Nineteenth-century European art, and its use of the Classics (including in national contexts).
  • Art Nouveau and Symbolism, and their relationship with the Classics.
  • My AHRC-funded PhD project, ‘Tacitus and nationalism in nineteenth-century art’, explored how European artists used Tacitus’ texts in their nationalising art.

Prizes

London School of Economics Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), 2015 Nations and Nationalism Prize in the Memory of Dominique Jacquin-Berdal, for Nations and Nationalism article, ‘Charles Gleyre's 'Les Romains': Classics and nationalism in Swiss art'.

Classical Association prize scholarship for research stay at Fondation Hardt, Geneva, August 2014.

Conferences

Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century, 22-23 June 2013, Durham University, co-hosted with Dr. Thorsten Foegen and co-funded by the Institute of Classical Studies and Durham University.

https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/classics/events/upcoming_events/ConferenceProgrammeAbstracts.pdf

Publications

·  Warren, R. (forthcoming 2017), Art Nouveau and the Classical Tradition (Bloomsbury).

·  Foegen, T. & Richard Warren (eds.) (2016), Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century: Case Studies (De Gruyter).

  • Warren, R. (2015), ‘Charles Gleyre's 'Les Romains': Classics and nationalism in Swiss art', Nations and Nationalism, p.248-265.

·  Warren, R. (2015), 'Strachan's Calgacus: Scotland's classical past in the art of the Edinburgh National War Memorial', Antike und Abendland, p.149-158.

·  Warren, R. (2013), Review of Krebs, C. (2010), Tacitus’ Germania: A very dangerous book, Journal of Roman Studies, Volume 103, pp 346-347.

  • Warren, R (2013), Review of Goldhill, S. (2011), Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity, Anzeiger fϋr die Altertumswissenschaft.

Papers

  • November 2015 Guest lecture, 'Arminius in Bohemia', Charles University Prague.
  • June 2013 'Identity and Representation in Antiquity' conference, lecture, King's College London.
  • April 2013 Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History, lecture, University of Cambridge.
  • June 2012 81st Anglo-American conference 'Ancients and Moderns', lecture, University of London.
  • May 2012 Guest lecture, Humboldt University, Berlin.
  • November 2011 Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Reception of the Ancient World, lecture, University of London.
  • October 2011 Guest lecture, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University.
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