Digging Politics: The Ancient Past and Political Present in East-Central Europe

Durham University Durham, United Kingdom

This workshop will explore political uses of ancient pasts and archaeology in east-central Europe in the states during the Cold War and post-communist period. While studies have often focused on individual episodes such as Dacomania in Romania or the Thracian past in Bulgaria, this workshop will bring together different approaches and disciplines in a collaborative, […]

Conference: A Proletarian Classics?

Online

This 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 […]