CFP: APGRD/University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium
OnlineThe Call for Papers for this year's APGRD/University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium is now available. The Symposium will take place online from Monday 28 to Tuesday 29 June, with the theme 'Challenging Traditions and Traditions of Challenge in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama'. ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM This annual Symposium focuses […]
Towards a More Inclusive Classics II
OnlineOnline international workshop organised by Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (University of St Andrews, UK) and Professor Barbara Goff (University of Reading, UK) Hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies and supported by the Council of University Classics Departments The workshop will be held via Microsoft Teams and live captions will be available. All times are UK […]
London Classicists of Colour Summer Symposium
OnlineFor the first time ever, LCoC is hosting its own symposium! The aim of the event is to provide a platform for university students at all levels across the UK, and as such we have an exciting array of speakers for the day. Each one will be presenting their own research and interests concerning the […]
ReTAGS Speaker Series: a reading of Femi Osofisan’s Médáyé
Online16 August 2021: a play reading of Médáyé. Médáyé is a re-reading for the African stage of Euripides’ Medea by Femi Osofisan. The reading will be followed by a Q&A with the author. 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: The Tales of Archaeology. Towards a Literary ‘Memory Map’ of the Mediterranean Space
Academia Belgica, RomeThe call for papers is now open for the two-day conference, 'The Tales of Archaeology. Towards a Literary 'Memory Map' of the Mediterranean Space', hosted by Academia Belgica, Rome in collaboration with Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia. The conference will take place over 16 and 17 September 2021. When visiting the Etruscan necropolis of Cerveteri, […]
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 […]