2027 will be the 30th anniversary of the publication of Tales from Ovid. Twenty-four Passages from the Metamorphoses by the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Tales from Ovid was immediately acclaimed and was Whitbread Book of the Year 1997 and winner of the WHSmith Literary Award in 1998. It is recognised as a landmark publication both… Continue reading CfP: Ted Hughes’ “Tales from Ovid”, Thirty Years On
Bryn Mawr College, April 16–17, 2027 Co-organizers: Asya Sigelman (Classics) and Margaret Strair (German Studies) Keynote speakers: Barbara Graziosi (Princeton University) and Azade Seyhan (Bryn Mawr College) The rapid integration of generative AI in everyday life brings renewed urgency to fundamental questions about human creativity: what constitutes the human act of writing, and how does… Continue reading CfP: Literary Reception and Human Creativity in the Age of AI
Friday, Nov. 6 – Tuesday, Nov. 10 (Americas/UK/EU) Saturday, Nov. 7 – Wednesday, Nov. 11 (Australasia) Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) seeks proposals for its annual virtual conference on any topic related to the reception of the ancient Mediterranean world in modern media. AIMS has run this free annual conference for the past six years,… Continue reading CfP: AIMS Virtual Conference 2026