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 […]

Classical Association 2024 Conference at University of Warwick

University of Warwick Coventry

The 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 […]

Patrice Rankine: The ‘Bacchae’ and the postcolonial turn

Online

Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago) The ‘Bacchae’ and the postcolonial turn (based on his new book Theater and Crisis: Myth, Memory, and Racial Reckoning in America, 1964-2020) Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/bacchae-and-postcolonial-turn Out of the Shadows of Empire  Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of empire and their […]

OUT OF THE SHADOWS OF EMPIRE: Institute of Classical Studies’ Classical Reception Seminar Series

The Classical Reception Studies Network and Institute of Classical Studies (University of London) are excited to announce the commencement of this year’s summer term seminar series on 22 April 2024. This year’s theme is ‘Out of the Shadows of Empire.’  Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of […]

Lesego Chauke: Shadows of Empire Seminar

Online

Lesego Chauke (University of Cape Town) Title TBC Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/classical-reception-seminar-title-tbc Out of the Shadows of Empire  Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of empire and their legacies. Not only was classical education central to colonial curricula, but classical motifs were weaponised in the justification of […]

Justine McConnell: Graeco-Roman Shades and Colonial Shadows in the Caribbean

Online

Justine McConnell (King's College London) Graeco-Roman Shades and Colonial Shadows in the Caribbean Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/graeco-roman-shades-and-colonial-shadows-caribbean Out of the Shadows of Empire  Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of empire and their legacies. Not only was classical education central to colonial curricula, but classical motifs were […]

Madhlozi Moyo: The obelisks of Matabeleland: Cecil John Rhodes, conquest, and the Classics

Online

Madhlozi Moyo (University of the Free State) The obelisks of Matabeleland: Cecil John Rhodes, conquest, and the Classics Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/obelisks-matabeleland-cecil-john-rhodes-conquest-and-classics Out of the Shadows of Empire Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of empire and their legacies. Not only was classical education central to colonial […]

Daniela Potenza, Yassaman Khajehi and Pauline Donizeau : Greek Tragedy and The Middle East: Chasing The Myth

Online

Daniela Potenza (Messina University), Yassaman Khajehi (Clermont Auvergne University), and Pauline Donizeau (Lumière University) Greek Tragedy and The Middle East: Chasing The Myth Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/greek-tragedy-and-middle-east-chasing-myth Out of the Shadows of Empire Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of empire and their legacies. Not only was […]

Michael Okyere Asante: Reception Seminar Title TBC

Online

Michael Okyere Asante (University of Environment and Sustainable Development/Stellenbosch University) Title tbc  Register here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/classical-reception-seminar-title-tbc-0 Out of the Shadows of Empire Recent scholarship has increasingly drawn attention to the discipline of classics' historic entanglement with projects of empire and their legacies. Not only was classical education central to colonial curricula, but classical motifs were weaponised […]

Call for Papers: Fanfiction and the Ancient World Conference. Abstract Deadline June 30th

Radboud University 6525 XZ Nijmegen, Netherlands

Call 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 […]