Conference
The Athenian Funeral Oration: 40 Years after Nicole Loraux
University of Strasbourg Strasbourg, FranceCONVENOR: David M. Pritchard (Queensland/Strasbourg) SUMMARY Registration is now open for The Athenian Funeral Oration: 40 Years after Nicole Loraux. This international conference is taking place at the University of Strasbourg from 9 to 11 July 2018. English-, French- and German-speakers often read Pericles’s famous funeral oration at school or university. Once a year, in democratic […]
Approaching Landscape in the Classical Tradition
University of St Andrews St Andrews, United KingdomWe invite expressions of interest and abstracts for ‘Approaching Landscape in the Classical Tradition’, which will form a 3-day panel at the 11th Celtic Conference in Classics, to be held at the University of St Andrews from 11th-14th July 2017. We are actively seeking abstracts from scholars at all stages in their career and from […]
Classics, the Left & the Sublime
King's College London London, United KingdomThis conference addresses the ‘missing’ Marxist/materialist theory of the artistically beautiful. It aims to bring together an interdisciplinary team of philosophers, literary theorists, cultural critics, art historians and classicists to address questions including these: Why has the Left (defined as Marxists/Cultural and Historical Materialists/New Historicists/Postcolonial theorists and some Feminists) evaded concepts of the Beautiful, the […]
Ancient Greek Drama in Latin 1506-1590. Readership, Translation, and Circulation
King's College London London, United KingdomIn scholarly discussions of the strange and elusive presence of Greek drama, and tragedy especially, in and around sixteenth-century European drama, the availability of Latin translations of the ancient Greek plays has become an oft-invoked phenomenon. This conference focuses on the ways in which Greek drama ‘lived’ in Latin, leading up to and coinciding with […]
Drawing on the Past: the pre-modern world in comics
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonWe invite abstracts for papers, posters and interactive workshops on any aspect of comics set in the pre-modern world to be presented at a two-day conference at Senate House in London on 10-11th September 2018. Our brief has a broad chronological and geographical scope, from the Bronze Age onwards, including but not limited to Greece, Rome, Egypt, Near East, Ancient Norse, Mesoamerica etc. The […]
“Something Old, Something New”: The Reception of Classics in Modern and Contemporary Songwriting
Athens , GreeceProlepsis Association is happy to fund and support the initiative of a group enterprising of graduate students of the Kapodistrian University of Athens, who are going to host a conference entitled “Something Old, Something New”: The Reception of Classics in Modern and Contemporary Songwriting, taking place in Athens on the 14th September 2018. English CfP: […]
Winckelmann’s Victims. The Classics: Norms, Exclusions and Prejudices
Ghent University Ghent, BelgiumFirst Call for Papers CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Michelle Warren (University of Dartmouth) - Mark Vessey (University of British Columbia) - Irene Zwiep (University of Amsterdam) “Der einzige Weg für uns, groß, ja, wenn es möglich ist, unnachahmlich zu werden, is die Nachahmung der Alten.” Johannes Winckelmann Classics played a major and fundamental role in the […]
Mythological Panoramas: Tracing Distortions and Fictions of Landscape Across Time and Space
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonCall for Papers A one-day conference at Senate House, University of London 4th October 2018 Keynote: Professor John Wylie (University of Exeter) In recent decades, the ‘spatial turn’ in critical theory has heralded an increased focus on geographical tensions across the humanities. Considering the nature of spaces and places allows us to elucidate the complex dialectics that […]
Classics and Global Humanities
University of Ghana Legon, GhanaStudies have explored the cross-cultural engagement between Western civilisation and other cultures (Stephens and Vasunia 2010) as well as the legacy and reception of the Classics in the Arab world (Pormann 2015), India (Vasunia 2013), West Africa (Goff 2013; Goff and Simpson 2007) and recently, South Africa (Parker 2017). Classical reception studies thus continue to […]
Myth and Audiovisual Creation: Classical Myths
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid, SpainMyth: image and sound The digitalization of the last decades has caused a revolution in traditional artistic mediums (painting, sculpture, theater) and introduced new ones (video games, multimedia installations, performances). In the four previous conferences, organized by Asteria, International Association of Mythcriticism, in collaboration with Amaltea, Journal of Mythcriticism, we have seen the difficulties in attempting […]