CfP Doing Critical Ancient World Studies deadline 5th November

CAWS II: Doing Critical Ancient World Studies

A Workshop – 1st February 2024

Call for Papers

In September 2021, the Critical Ancient World Studies collective held its first (online) workshop. The proceedings of the workshop are the subject of a forthcoming volume Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics (2024). In the volume, the editors set out a manifesto for Critical Ancient World Studies, which takes the form of four critical steps away from the methodologies of Classics or Classical Studies. The full Critical Ancient World Studies manifesto can be found here.

For this second CAWS workshop, we hope to turn our attention to how to do this critical work – i.e. the generation of methodologies. The workshop will take place online on the 1st February 2024, and we invite proposal for 20 minute papers that address any aspect of the methodologies of Critical Ancient World Studies. You do not need to be working within ancient world studies to present – those working within critical disciplines and on projects that share aims of confronting eurocentrism, coloniality and white supremacy are very welcome to be part of the conversation. Papers do not need to be at a publishable stage – we welcome reflections on challenges, issues and problems that are at an earlier stage of research.

To submit an abstract, please fill in this Google form by the 5th November: https://forms.gle/ac8kmGBva84ubkqi6 If you would like to attend but prefer not to give a paper, please fill in the same Google form with the exception of the title and abstract boxes.

If you have any questions, please let us know by emailing m.umachandran@exeter.ac.uk and marchella.ward@open.ac.uk.