ReTAGS Speaker Series: Prof. Simon Critchley
Online17 September 2021: Prof. Simon Critchley will be presenting aspects from his recent book Tragedy, The Greeks and Us (Pantheon, 2019). Sign up here for the Speaker Series and join the ReTAGS Mailing List to keep updated about future Speaker Series and other upcoming events.
CFP: ‘Reading, Writing, Translating. Greek in Early Modern Schools, Universities and Beyond’
Lund University, SwedenA three-day conference hosted by Lund University, Sweden October 7–9, 2021. Deadline for abstracts: May 28, 2021 Accounts of the spread of Greek studies throughout Europe after its ‘arrival’ to Italy have often focused on its establishment in the curricula of schools and universities, on text transmission and editorial work, and the feats of early […]
Conference: A Proletarian Classics?
OnlineThis Brave New Classics workshop explores the relationship between ancient Greek and Roman culture and world communism from 1917. It is hosted by the University of St Andrews with short panels and discussion sessions held online over the weekend of 23-24 October 2021. Associated institutions: • Classical Reception Studies Network • University of St Andrews […]
‘Global Majority Medea’ with Shivaike Shah
OnlineThe University of Reading hosts 'Global Majority Medea', a talk with Shivaike Shah. Join Shivaike Shah, producer of the critically acclaimed new adaptation of Euripides' tragedy Medea featuring a global majority cast and crew, at an online talk discussing the play, the production (first performed in Oxford in 2018) and its aims, challenges and successes. […]
Call for participants: ‘Memories of Antiquity’ Working Group
We are Dr. Madeleine Tulip, Jakob Schneider and Prof. Aaron Schmitt, and in association with the Memory Studies Association (MSA) we have recently founded an international research group on ‘Memories of Antiquity’, which we hereby invite you to join. In this research collective, we plan to encourage, enable, and co-ordinate international collaborations between scholars of various disciplines interested […]
CFP: ‘What Has Antiquity Ever Done for Us?’: The Vitality of Ancient Reception Studies, Now
OnlineAn international virtual conference presented by Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS). 15-18 December 2021. Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2021 The officers of Antiquity in Media Studies invite proposals for presentations that illuminate the ongoing vitality of antiquity in recent discourses. Despite decades of institutional disinvestment in the study of antiquity, a venerated deep past […]
CFP: ‘Constructions of Identity: On the Role of Antiquity in European and Non-European Self-discovery’
University of ZurichThe Call for Papers for the Second International ZAZH Conference, 'Constructions of Identity: On the Role of Antiquity in European and Non-European Self-discovery', is now available. The conference will take place on February 2-4, 2022, University of Zurich. The aim of the second international ZAZH conference is to examine the complexity and dynamics of the processes […]
Conference: Heavy Metal and Global Premodernity
OnlineHeavy Metal and Global Premodernity An interdisciplinary online conference hosted by the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University Organizers: Charlotte Naylor Davis and Jeremy J. Swist February 24th-26th, 2022, via Zoom In this conference we aim to gather investigators and artists to critically examine how heavy metal music and its culture (or scenes) have […]
‘Gentile’ Antiquity: the reception of antiquity in modern Italian Jewish culture
Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle'Gentile' Antiquity: the reception of antiquity in modern Italian Jewish culture / L’antichità «gentile». La ricezione dell’antico nella cultura dell’ebraismo italiano moderno / L’antiquité “gentille”. La reception de l’antiquité dans la culture juive italienne moderne Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle, March 19, 2022 Organizers: Giacomo Loi (Johns Hopkins/FMS fellow), Martina Piperno (Durham), Guido Furci […]
CFP: Pushing the Boundaries: African and Asian Interactions with the Ancient Mediterranean
OnlineThe submission of abstracts for the 26th Annual Classics Graduate Student Colloquium at the University of Virginia is now open. The deadline for submission is February 1, 2022. Please find the Call for Papers below with further details: Pushing the Boundaries: African and Asian Interactions with the Ancient Mediterranean 26th Annual Classics Graduate Student […]