Conference
CFP: The Reception of Plato in Later Antiquity and the Middle Ages
University of Athens Athens, GreeceOur Approach: Taking start from our common interest in the Platonic tradition and its reception in later periods, our collaboration has to date yielded one edited volume (The Neoplatonists and their Heirs, Brill, 2020, ed. Ken Parry and E. Anagnostou-Laoutides), while a second one is anticipated to host select papers from the conference. We now […]
CFP: Global Classics and Africa: Past, Present, and Future
University of Ghana Legon, GhanaThe Classical Association of Ghana 2nd International Classics Conference in Ghana (ICCG) University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana Theme: Global Classics and Africa: Past, Present, and Future The late 1950s and early 1960s ushered in a period when many African countries were gaining political independence. Immediately, there was an agenda to unite African nations, and […]
CFP: Classical Controversies in 2020
Leiden , NetherlandsWe are inviting paper proposals to present a paper of 30 minutes in a conference with the title Classical Controversies in 2020 at Leiden (The Netherlands) organised by the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities and Leiden University. The conference will be held on the 11th, 12th and 13th of November 2020 (https://www.rmo.nl/en/classical-controversies-in-2020). Conference This conference […]
The Fascist Archive in Performance
OnlineThe Fascist Archive in Performance: Classical Reception in Film and Live Events under Mussolini is an online symposium co-hosted with the University of Groningen and the University of Trento; co-organised by Giovanna Di Martino, Eleftheria Ioannidou, and Sara Troiani. Further information and registration The symposium is the second in a series of events on classical […]
Queer and The Classical: Critical Futures, Critical Feelings
OnlineA two-day conference running on Zoom on the 20th-21st February, hosted by the Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity (University of Oxford). You can find the full program, complete with abstracts and panel times (UTC), on the project site. In order to attend and receive the conference Zoom link on […]
Now and Then: (In)equity and Marginalization in Ancient Mediterranean Studies
OnlineThe first biennial Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College SPEAC (Students Promoting Equity in Archaeology and Classics) conference for undergraduate and graduate research. A free, two-day online conference with keynote by Emily Greenwood (John M. Musser Professor of Classics, Yale): 'A Classical Primer for Anti-Racism / An Anti-Racist Primer for Classics'. Register here for a […]
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ancient Mediterranean
OnlineA conference hosted by Penn State’s Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS), to be held on Zoom on March 19-21, 2021. The event is co-organized by Dr. Mathias Hanses (Penn State) and Dr. Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky) and co-sponsored by PSU’s Humanities Institute, the College of the Liberal Arts, the Department of […]
Poetics, Politics and the Ruin in Cinema and Theatre since 1945
OnlineAn APGRD online conference, co-hosted with Paris Nanterre; co-organised by Estelle Baudou and Anne Violaine Houcke.
William Golding: Beyond Good and Evil
OnlineA one-day online symposium on the life and work of William Golding, 8 April 2021. While Lord of the Flies remains a widely read and much studied work of twentieth-century fiction, the rest of Golding’s creative output has suffered from a dearth of serious critical attention in the past two decades. However, the novels themselves […]
Méduse, de Hésiode à Assassin’s Creed: Représentations et réception historique d’une figure emblématique de la mythologie grecque
OnlineA one-day, trans-disciplinary conference on the reception of the figure of Medusa from antiquity to today. From the archaic Gorgon to Assassin's Creed and #MeToo, via the uses of Medusa at the end of the Roman Republic, in the Middle Ages and in modern times, the speakers will question the popularity and the continual re-semantisation […]