We are happy to announce the schedule for the upcoming 2025 Classical Reception Seminar Series in collaboration with the Institute of Classical Studies, London. These seminars will be held on … Read More
CRSN/ICS Summer Seminar Series 2025
Tracing Back Medea’s Long Shadow in Postcolonial Contexts
Medea’s Long Shadow in Postcolonial Contexts, edited by Ana Filipa Prata and Rodrigo Verano, Routledge, 2024 Few figures and myths from the Greek classical antiquity resonate as powerfully as Medea … Read More
Public Feminism in Times of Crisis
When we wrote this book in 2020-2021, we never imagined the possibility of a second Trump presidential term–yet we face that reality now. With this reality comes an administration and … Read More
New Challenges in a Changing World
We live in tough times. Contemporary challenges require us to find new and imaginative solutions. Using the past to think about the present is one such path forward. Classical Reception … Read More
Who’s Afraid of a Queer Achilles?
This post is written by Francesco Busti, postdoctoral researcher in Latin language and literature at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). A previous, shorter version of … Read More
The Idea of Rum in the Medieval Middle East
This post is written by Andrew Peacock, Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews The Islamic world is well known to have played a crucial … Read More
Translating the polis in early-20th-century China
This post is written by Federico Brusadelli, Assistant Professor of Chinese History, University of Naples “L’Orientale”. In 1902, Liang Qichao 梁启超 (1873-1929) – a writer, philosopher and historian on his … Read More
Seeking Greece in Gujarat
This post was co-written by Dr Tana Trivedi (Ahmedabad University, Gujarat) and Soham Patel (Navajivan Trust, Ahmedabad, Gujarat). Tana’s field of research is in the area of political and economic … Read More
Chinese Translations of “Greece”
This post was written by Egas Bender de Moniz Bandeira who is a research fellow at the Department of Classics and Asian Cultures of Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, and an affiliate … Read More
Neo-Latin Elephants
This post is written by Shruti Rajgopal, a final year PhD student at the school of History, University College Cork, Ireland Wildlife from Asia, especially from India, has stirred fascination … Read More