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 […]

Call for Website Contributions – Ecopoetics in Late Antiquity and Beyond

Are you working somewhere at the crossroads of (late) antiquity and ecocriticism/ environmental humanities? We would love to hear from you! We are glad to launch our website: https://comingafter-ugent.be/ 'Coming After: Late Antique Ecopoetics' is an FWO-funded project based at Ghent University, Belgium. We seek to bring contemporary ecocriticism into dialogue with (late) antiquity and more […]

Young People Graphic Novel Competition Open for Entries – deadline 4/8/2024

For the Faculty of Classics Outreach Competition 2024, create a comic strip based on Greek myth! Teams of 1-3 young people can now enter a new outreach competition but everyone in the team must be in the same age category: 11-13, 14-16, 17-19. Entries must be no more than one A4 page in size. With […]

CFP ANTIQUITY IN MEDIA STUDIES: 2024 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE deadline 1/8/24

ANTIQUITY IN MEDIA STUDIES: 2024 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE Special Theme: Technology and Technē in Receptions of the Ancient World Friday, Nov. 8 - Thursday, Nov. 14 (Americas/UK/EU) - Saturday, Nov. 9 - Friday, Nov. 15 (Australasia)   Proposals due August 1, 2024 Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) seeks proposals for its annual virtual conference on any topic related […]

CRSN/ICS Classical Reception Summer Seminar Series

"Ruins Still Standing at the Frontline of Violence: Tadmor-Palmyra and the Future of the Site" Rory McInnes-Gibson (University of Durham) Palmyra-Tadmor is an ancient site defined by violence. In this seminar, Rory McInnes-Gibbons excavates three different layers of violence at the ruins. We open with the defeat of the third century AD ruler, Zenobia at […]