Conference
CFP: ‘Contesting Authenticity in Literature, 1200-1700’
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonA two-day interdisciplinary conference on 30-31 March 2023 at Senate House, University of London, WC1E 7HU, in-person and online. Call for Papers This two-day conference will explore the concept of “contesting authenticity” in later medieval and early modern literature. The boundaries of authenticity are not clear in these periods: does a continuation or supplement of […]
CFP: Tragedy Queered
University of Reading Reading, United KingdomCFP: International conference at the University of Reading, 6-7 July 2023. Tragedy Queered Ancient Greece and Rome have long had a strong impact on LGBTQI+ identities, politics and culture. From by-words for homosexuality such as ‘Greek love’, to Taylor Mac’s queer retelling of Socrates’ death in The Hang (2022), passing through trans Tiresias(es), lesbian feminist furies, the […]
Re-Imagining Tragedy Across Africa and the Global South
The APGRD (University of Oxford) and ReTAGS (University of Cape Town) are co-hosting a hybrid conference, co-organised by Professor Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) and Dr Justine McConnell (KCL), on Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 September, in the Classics Centre in Oxford (and online). REGISTER: A registration fee of £20 (or £15 for students/concessions) for in-person attendees covers the cost of pastries, […]
CFP: Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century (II)
University of ValenciaCall for papers for the conference 'Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century (II)', an international conference to be held at the University of Valencia between 18 and 20 October 2023. The relation between women and the entertainment industry throughout the nineteenth century in Great Britain has been widely studied by Bratton (2011), Davis (2000, 2002), […]
CFP Women and Sexuality in Classical Video Games abstract deadline 12th January
Please send abstracts (maximum 300 words) for twenty-minute papers to Kate Cook (kjc26@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Jane Draycott (Jane.Draycott@Glasgow.ac.uk) by Friday 12th January 2024. Event will be hybrid, with papers hosted at the University of Glasgow on Friday 8th March 2024. Although the depiction of women as oversexualised objects is a common trope of video games, including […]
CfP 2025 Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in PHILADELPHIA, deadline 02/02/24
Panel Title: “Dance and Myth: The Reception of the Greeks by Martha Graham” Organized by Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center; and Nina Papathanasopoulou, College Year in Athens and Society for Classical Studies We invite abstracts for a panel at the 156th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Philadelphia in January 2025 […]
Conference: Christopher Logue and the Classics 3/2/24
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomA one-day conference on Christopher Logue and the Classics, in the Classics Faculty at 66 St Giles, OX1 3LU; co-organised by Thomas Munro and Claire Barnes. Keynote speaker: Henry Power (Exeter). Speakers include: Claire Barnes (Oxford); Alexander Christensen (Oxford); Sarah Cullinan Herring (Oxford); Meg Dyson (Exeter); Francesca Kaminski-Jones (RHUL); Thomas Munro (Yale/UCL); Alex Silverman (Oxford).
CFP: Early Modern Translations and the Classics. Deadline November 30th 2023
Princeton UniversityThe conference, sponsored by the University of Oxford and Princeton University, will be held 8-9 March 2024 at Princeton University. Dr. Gail Trimble, Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at Trinity College, Oxford, is the keynote speaker. Dr. Trimble writes on Latin poetry and literary form and is completing a new commentary on Catullus 64 […]
Classical Association 2024 Conference at University of Warwick
University of Warwick CoventryThe Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick will host the Classical Association Conference on 22-24 March 2024. The conference will take place on Warwick’s central campus (Oculus and new award-winning Faculty of Arts Buildings), close to the centre of Coventry, with its excellent rail, bus, and road transport links. University accommodation is available for booking on campus and delegates […]
Call for Papers: Fanfiction and the Ancient World Conference. Abstract Deadline June 30th
Radboud University 6525 XZ Nijmegen, NetherlandsCall for Papers: Fanfiction and the Ancient World Conference October 4th to 5th, 2024 How can fan studies contribute to the study of Greco-Roman Antiquity and the field of Classical reception? How can Classics contribute to the study of fan culture? How does the community we call Greek mythology fandom differ from the community we […]