We are delighted to be offering our fourth annual Classics Summer School this August at the Iris Classics Centre at Cheney. It will take place on the mornings of 27, 28 and 29th August 2018. This year the summer school will be themed on the world of Harry Potter and Hogwarts! The format for each […]
In scholarly discussions of the strange and elusive presence of Greek drama, and tragedy especially, in and around sixteenth-century European drama, the availability of Latin translations of the ancient Greek plays has become an oft-invoked phenomenon. This conference focuses on the ways in which Greek drama ‘lived’ in Latin, leading up to and coinciding with […]
We invite abstracts for papers, posters and interactive workshops on any aspect of comics set in the pre-modern world to be presented at a two-day conference at Senate House in London on 10-11th September 2018. Our brief has a broad chronological and geographical scope, from the Bronze Age onwards, including but not limited to Greece, Rome, Egypt, Near East, Ancient Norse, Mesoamerica etc. The […]
Prolepsis Association is happy to fund and support the initiative of a group enterprising of graduate students of the Kapodistrian University of Athens, who are going to host a conference entitled “Something Old, Something New”: The Reception of Classics in Modern and Contemporary Songwriting, taking place in Athens on the 14th September 2018. English CfP: […]
First Call for Papers CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Michelle Warren (University of Dartmouth) - Mark Vessey (University of British Columbia) - Irene Zwiep (University of Amsterdam) “Der einzige Weg für uns, groß, ja, wenn es möglich ist, unnachahmlich zu werden, is die Nachahmung der Alten.” Johannes Winckelmann Classics played a major and fundamental role in the […]