Mary Beard helps us to celebrate The Classical Now at King’s!
We’re delighted this week to have kicked off the Cultural Programme accompanying The Classical Now with a special opening lecture by Mary Beard.
Mary is a former alumna of King’s (where she taught from 1979–1983), and it was a pleasure to welcome her back to our campus in central London.
Mary was delivering the fifth Jamie Rumble Fund Lecture in Classical art, and spoke on the theme of ‘Mistaken Identities? Roman Emperors in Modern Art’. 400 people joined us in the Bush House Auditorium to hear the lecture – and to enjoy a private, late-night extended view of The Classical Now exhibition in the Bush House Arcade and Somerset House East Wing.
The lecture not only helped us to celebrate the exhibition. It also marked the fifth anniversary of the Jamie Rumble Memorial Fund, founded in the Department of Classics by Sandra Rosignoli, a former alumna of King’s. To read more about the Rumble Fund and its work, click here to download the fifth-anniversary brochure.
Mary’s lecture is just the beginning of our cultural programme. Details of all the events – running through to the end of April – can be found here. We much look forward to welcoming you at King’s, and hope you’ll join us in our work celebrating The Classical Now and ‘Modern Classicisms’!
