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Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) Upcoming Conference (November 6-11)

November 6 - November 11
AIMS November Conference 2026
Schedule-at-a-Glance

 

Friday 6th November / Saturday 7th November:  12 PM

12:00 ET Edinburgh UP Meet the Editor

  • Presenter: Helena Heald

13:15 ET American Journal of Classical Reception Meet the Editors

  • Presenters: Monica Cyrino and Christopher McDonough

14:30 ET Welcome and Social Hour

  • Presenter: AIMS Officers

Saturday 7th November/Sunday 8th November

14:00 ET Panel 1: Monsters

  • #Me(Dusa)Too: Tattoos of Medusa & Survivors of Sexual Violence – Natalie J. Swain
  • Sympathy for the Monster: Demythologising and Humanising the Minotaur in KAOS – Theshira Pather
  • “Do You Talk to Ants?”: Polyphemus and the Question of Divine Agency in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – Melanie Naples

16:00 ET Panel 2: Homer

  • De-Eroticising the Amazon: Revisioning Epic Desire in Troy: Fall of a City – Connie Skibinski
  • Reimagining Nostos: Arya Stark and Homeric Homecoming in Game of Thrones – Jo Messore
  • Fellini Satyricon (Fellini, 1969), Homer, and The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998) – Seán Easton

18:00 ET Panel 3: Digital Media

  • Patch Notes for a Hero: Hercules and Mechanical Adaptation in the DisneyVerse – Joel Gordon
  • Ruining Minecraft: Procedurally Generated Antiquity in a Game with ‘No’ Story – Teg Ward
  • Filling the Sea-Lung: Ultima Thule and the Far Right’s Counterfeit Greco-Roman Antiquity – Jake Ballinger

 

Sunday 8th November/Monday 9th November

09:00 ET Panel 4: Powerful Females

  • Rewriting the Fall of the Roman Republic in Xena – Gabriel Evangelou
  • The Three Gorgon Sisters: On the Classical Background of the One Piece Boa Sisters – Laura Massetti
  • Reimagining Hera: Female Anger in Netflix series Kaos – Vilma Losyte

11:00 ET Panel 5: Musical Adaptations

  • Dubstep Antiquities? Exploring Ancient World Reception in EDM – Alexander Vandewalle
  • Musical and textual elements of Epic: the Musical through the lens of adaptation – Martin Valach
  • “Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?”: Taylor Swift and the Tradition of Latin Love Elegy – Alicia Matz
  • Achilles Last Stand: A Musical Aristeia – Ana María Núñez

13:00 ET Panel: Re-imagining Greek Myth

  • ‘The Teiresias Wars’: Gender fluidity in Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol – Tony Keen
  • Tyresia, Aedipus or both? Blindness, destiny and free will in Dune’s Paul Atreides – Michele Ambrogio Lanza

14:45 ET #ACademic Odyssey Roundtable Discussion

  • Panelists: Hamish Cameron, Kira Jones, Richard Cole, Alexander Vandewalle

 

Monday 9th November

10:00 ET Panel 7: Ovid in Europe

  • ‘Why I Love Ovid’: Ovidian Myths in Polish Magazines for Children and Teenagers during the Communist Era (1945–1989) – Marta Pszczolińska
  • Animating Desire: Ovid, Myth, and Violence in Anatoly Petrov’s Late Films – Hanna Paulouskaya
  • The Hidden Poet: Ovidian Themes in Narrative Digital Games – Anna Baranek

13:00 ET Palgrave Macmillan Meet the Editor

  • Presenter: Carly Silver

16:00 ET AIMS Business Meeting

  • Presenter: AIMS Officers

 

Tuesday 10th November

07:30 ET Committee-Sponsored Panel (DEI): The Reception of Classics in the Contemporary Singaporean University

  • Presenters: Daniel Jew, Mira Seo, Thu Truong, Kevin Wong
  • Moderator: Leslie Wong

10:00 ET Meet the Editor: Bloomsbury Publishing

  • Presenter: Alice Wright

14:00 ET Committee-Sponsored Panel (Source Database): A Conversation with the Source Database Committee

  • Presenters: Alex Claman, Eduardo Garcia-Molina, Alexander Vandewalle
  • Moderator: Source Database Committee

17:00 ET Social Hour and Closing

  • Presenter: AIMS Officers

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