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 […]

The Next Generation of Classical Reception Studies 

University of St Andrews St Andrews, United Kingdom

Workshop for Early Career and PG Researchers, UK The St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity (SACRA) and the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) would like to invite Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Academics based in the UK and working in the field of classical reception studies to a workshop in the University of […]

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 […]

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 […]

CFP: STAGING SILENCE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE, deadline 9/1/25

University of Cambridge

3–4 July 2025 / St John’s College, Cambridge This two-day, in-person conference will explore developing traditions of silence in dramatic texts from antiquity to the Renaissance. Papers are sought from scholars across a range of fields, including classical reception, comparative literature, and medieval and/or early modern English literature. Topics may include: - mute characters and/or […]