CFP: Tragedy Queered
University of Reading Reading, United KingdomCFP: International conference at the University of Reading, 6-7 July 2023. Tragedy Queered Ancient Greece and Rome have long had a strong impact on LGBTQI+ identities, politics and culture. From by-words for homosexuality such as ‘Greek love’, to Taylor Mac’s queer retelling of Socrates’ death in The Hang (2022), passing through trans Tiresias(es), lesbian feminist furies, the […]
Switch: The Complete Catullus by Isobel Williams: Carcanet Classics Online Book Launch
OnlineZoom book launch hosted by Dr Sarah Cullinan Herring of Wadham College, Oxford.
Re-Imagining Tragedy Across Africa and the Global South
The APGRD (University of Oxford) and ReTAGS (University of Cape Town) are co-hosting a hybrid conference, co-organised by Professor Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) and Dr Justine McConnell (KCL), on Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 September, in the Classics Centre in Oxford (and online). REGISTER: A registration fee of £20 (or £15 for students/concessions) for in-person attendees covers the cost of pastries, […]
‘The Bacchae’: a solo performance written, created and performed by Ewan Downie
University of St Andrews St Andrews, United KingdomCompany of Wolves presents 'The Bacchae', a new solo performance inspired by Euripides, which takes place on Friday the 6th of October 2023 at The Byre Theatre, St Andrews. Running for an hour with no interval, the performance will be followed by a Q&A. Booking follows a 'Pay What You Can' policy - £15, £12, […]
CFP: Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century (II)
University of ValenciaCall for papers for the conference 'Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century (II)', an international conference to be held at the University of Valencia between 18 and 20 October 2023. The relation between women and the entertainment industry throughout the nineteenth century in Great Britain has been widely studied by Bratton (2011), Davis (2000, 2002), […]
2023 Oxford Greek Play – Euripides’ Medea
oxford playhouse Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, OxfordThe Oxford Greek Play, whose first production took place in 1880, is a student-run triennial event supported by the Oxford University Classical Drama Society (OUCDS) and the Oxford Playhouse. What drives a mother to kill her own children? How can a victimised woman turn into a passionate and scheming avenger? These questions have gripped audiences of Euripides’ Medea for over 2000 […]
CFP Women and Sexuality in Classical Video Games abstract deadline 12th January
Please send abstracts (maximum 300 words) for twenty-minute papers to Kate Cook (kjc26@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Jane Draycott (Jane.Draycott@Glasgow.ac.uk) by Friday 12th January 2024. Event will be hybrid, with papers hosted at the University of Glasgow on Friday 8th March 2024. Although the depiction of women as oversexualised objects is a common trope of video games, including […]
APGRD 2024 Public Lecture: The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomAlexa Piqueux (Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at Université Paris Nanterre), is author of the acclaimed The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE (OUP, 2022) - the first full-length study on how the body is staged, represented, and perceived in ancient Greek Old and Middle Comedy. Free, all welcome; no booking required. […]
CfP Doing Critical Ancient World Studies deadline 5th November
OnlineCAWS II: Doing Critical Ancient World Studies A Workshop - 1st February 2024 Call for Papers In September 2021, the Critical Ancient World Studies collective held its first (online) workshop. The proceedings of the workshop are the subject of a forthcoming volume Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics (2024). In the volume, the editors set out […]
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 […]