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
Public Feminism in Times of Crisis
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
Athenian and Naga Hillsides – Ancient Greeks and Contemporary Nagas
This post is written by Jelle J. P. Wouters, an Associate Professor and Chair of the Himalayan Centre for Environmental Humanities at Royal Thimphu College, Royal University of Bhutan. During … Read More
Introducing the CRSN Asia Takeover
In a play first performed in Calcutta in 1911, at the height of anticolonial Indian agitation against the British Empire, a Greek princess, Helen, daughter of Seleucus I Nicator, announced … Read More