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Archive of Conferences and Past Calls for Papers 2024
24TH NEOLATINA CONFERENCE: THE AFTERLIFE OF NEO-LATIN LITERATURE
Freiburg, Germany: June 27-28, 2024
The importance of ancient Greek and Roman literature for post-antique history and culture is beyond doubt. From philosophy, which was said to be only a footnote to Plato, to Virgil, the so-called father of the West, ancient traditions and receptions are gratefully acknowledged and explored. Neo-Latin literature, on the other hand, tends to be seen as important, if at all, only for its own time. Accordingly, Latin literature from Petrarch to the 18th century would be a historically interesting but closed episode without any significant consequences. Decades of research into Neo-Latin, however, have brought to light many traces that can correct this picture. The conference "The Afterlife of Neo-Latin Literature" aims to record and extend these traces, thus providing a basis for further work on the subject. The term ‘afterlife’ here refers to echoes or receptions of Neo-Latin literature in the period following the widespread decline of Latin literature and culture in the 18th century. ‘Literature’ is understood to include also all specialized literature, the sciences, and literary culture more broadly. The thesis is that themes, concepts, forms and practices that first emerged in or in relation to Neo-Latin literature have continued to play a significant role in modernity from the 19th to the 21st century. Examples include genres such as the utopia or the roman à clef (Rösch 2004), motifs such as the ‘kiss of the Muses’ (Ludwig 1996), new characters on the dramatic stage such as Julius Caesar, cognitive patterns such as the aesthetic perception of landscapes (Barton 2017), poetological concepts such as free verse (Tilg 2019), or scientific methods and taxonomies such as Linné’s nomenclature. The study of references to individual Neo-Latin authors and works such as Ludvig Holberg’s Iter subterraneum in the genres of fantasy and science fiction is also welcome. Depending on the case, this may involve diffuse traditions or detailed, traceable chains of reception.
Proposals and registration: Paper proposals, containing a provisional title and an abstract of a few sentences, should be sent to stefan.tilg@altphil.uni-freiburg.de or stefano.poletti@altphil.uni-freiburg.de by 31 January 2024. Participants who will not give a paper do not need to register.
Format: 20 minutes paper + 10 minutes discussion. Papers can be in German, English, French, Italian and Latin.
Publication: The papers will be published in an edited volume of the NeoLatina series (Narr-Verlag, Tübingen).
Call: https://www.altphil.uni-freiburg.de/termine/neolatina2024
(CFP closed January 31, 2024)
24TH ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT PERFORMANCE
Theme: Bodies and Voices in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception(s)
Oxford (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama) & London (Royal Holloway): June 27-28, 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 24th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, will take place on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 June 2024. This year’s theme will be: Bodies and Voices in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception(s).
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
This Symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman tragedy, comedy, satyr play, epic, lyric, and other texts in performance, exploring their afterlives through re-workings by writers and practitioners across all genres and periods. This year’s theme seeks to explore the relationship between bodies and voices, broadly conceived, asking what the interaction between them might mean in the context of the reception of the ancient past. We invite participants to consider any of the following prompts:
* (Dis)connections between body and voice in performance
* Voices on and off stage
* The physical body and costume
* Silenced and marginalised voices and unseen bodies
* Gendered, racialised, disabled, and queer bodies
* Questions of embodiment and voicing
* The body politic, the communal voice, dissenting voices, polyphony
* Explorations of bodies and voices from perspectives of postcolonialism, critical race theory, disability studies, queer theory, feminism, posthumanism
The guest respondent on Day 1 in Oxford will be Dr Sarah Cullinan Herring (Oxford), and Dr Marcus Bell (Goldsmiths/Oxford) will be our guest respondent on Day 2 at Royal Holloway. Day 1 will include a guest lecture by Professor Konstantinos Thomaidis (Exeter).
PARTICIPANTS
Masters and PhD students from around the world are welcome to participate, as are those who have completed a doctorate but have not yet taken up a post. The symposium is open to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of classics, classical reception, modern languages and literature, and theatre and performance studies. Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on ancient drama. Papers may include demonstrations or recorded material. Undergraduates are very welcome to attend. This year’s symposium will be in person and online, although we encourage participants to attend in person where possible. We hope to be able to offer a small bursary for travel from afar.
Those who wish to offer a short paper (15 mins) or performance presentation are invited to send an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk by Friday 19 April 2024. If applicable, please include details of your current course of study, supervisor, and academic institution. There will be no registration fee. Please indicate in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel bursary.
CONTACT FOR ENQUIRIES: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk
Information: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2024/06/27-28-Postgraduate-Symposium
(CFP closed April 19, 2024)
SYMPOSIUM CUMANUM 2024: VIRGIL, THE VIRGILLIAN TRADITION, AND THE QUESTION OF HUMOUR
Villa Vergiliana, Italy: June 25-29, 2024
Organizers have announced a Call for Papers for Symposium Cumanum 2024: Virgil, the Virgillian Tradition, and the Question of Humour, with abstracts due January 12, 2024. The symposium will be held June 25-29, 2024 at Villa Vergiliana, Italy. Please send abstracts of roughly 300 words to Celia Campbell and Bobby Xinyue (celia.m.campbell@emory.edu and bobby.xinyue@kcl.ac.uk) by January 12, 2024.
Papers will be 20 minutes long, with time for discussion after each. They hope to gather an inclusive group of speakers from multiple backgrounds and academic ranks, and especially encourage submissions from scholars belonging to communities underrepresented in the field. See the full Call for Papers for more details.
This year’s symposium reopens critical perspectives on Virgil by seeking readings that accommodate and embrace the idea of Virgilian wit, and that trace the ways in which ancient readers, writers, and commentators similarly acknowledged the possibilities for humour afforded by the Virgilian corpus. In pursuing this theme, they hope to refresh perceptions of Virgil and Virgilian verse in ways learnedly compelling, unexpected, and amusing.
Topics to address may include, but are not limited to:
* Comedic and satiric influences upon Virgilian texts
* Humorous receptions/reworkings of Virgil (e.g. Horatian, Ovidian, Petronian, Ausonian, and the Appendix Vergiliana)
* Virgil and the traditions of mime/pantomime
* Virgilian parody/farce, including evidence from the material world (e.g. graffiti, wall-painting)
* Use of riddles, riddling language, puns, wordplay
* Appearances and role of laughter
* The interplay between pathos and bathos in Virgil’s poetry and its effect
* Humour and the role of rhetoric
* The humorous afterlife of Virgil
* Translations and the question of tonal interpretation
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-symposium-cumanum-2024-virgil-virgilian-tradition-and-question-humour
(CFP closed January 12, 2024)
ANCIENT AND MODERN STOICISM
Senate House, University of London: June 20-21, 2024
The aim of this conference is to bring together academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines to explore the practical application of Stoicism today. We shall cover topics such as wellbeing, attention, resilience, desire, as well as presenting data gathered from recent empirical studies.
We welcome submissions (for 30 minute presentations) dealing with topics in psychology and psychotherapy, business ethics and leadership, environmental issues, as well as work in philosophy and classics examining the practical dimensions of ancient Stoic material. We have a rolling call for papers and are happy to receive submissions at any time, until the programme is full. If you would like to present - or simply attend - do get in touch (john.sellars@rhul.ac.uk).
Call/program: https://sites.google.com/view/csas-rhul/conference
[PANEL] NEOPLATONIZING LITERATURE BEYOND THE COMMENTARY
2024 International Society for Neoplatonic Studies conference
Dublin, Republic of Ireland: June 19-23, 2024
Organizers: Emma Dyson & Jeremy Swist
While the study of Neoplatonism typically focuses on a handful of authors of theoretical texts, e.g. Plotinus, Iamblichus, and Proclus, our field is enriched by a diverse corpus of literature by countless individuals who had careers other than teaching and writing about philosophy. Likewise, even professional philosophers have produced literary texts in genres other than the conventional treatise, commentary, or protreptic—these include letters, poems, satires, orations, histories, and biographies. It is essential that we examine such works not merely as mines from which to extract philosophical theory; we must also appreciate how literary and rhetorical conventions shape the philosophical content. This panel is dedicated to the exploration of Neoplatonic elements in texts by non-philosophers, as well as in philosophers’ non-conventional literary texts. Papers may address Neoplatonism in genres such as biography, historiography, oratory, drama, and poetry. We encourage submissions on non-professional Neoplatonism in any period, ancient or modern.
Please let us know if you have any questions. You can email us at edyson@sas.penn.edu and swistjj@miamioh.edu.
One-page abstracts are due to us by 16 January 2024.
More information on the ISNS website: http://www.isns.us/
(CFP closed January 16, 2024)
ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel: June 19-20, 2024
The ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES is pleased to announce its 52nd annual conference to be held at Bar-Ilan University on Wednesday and Thursday, the 19th and 20th of June, 2024. The international conference will be preceded by a conference on Tuesday, the 18th of June, 2024, devoted to works by advanced Israeli students in Classics and Ancient History.
Our keynote speaker in 2024 will be Professor Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh).
The conference is the annual meeting of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies. We welcome papers on a wide range of classical subjects, including, but not limited to, history, philology, philosophy, literature, papyrology, classical reception and the archaeology of Greece, Rome and neighboring lands. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes. The official languages of the conference are English and Hebrew. The conference fee is $50.
In 2024, we will introduce a new format, one “marathon-session”, in which eight lecturers will have the occasion to present briefly an insight arising from their current research. Each presentation will last 10 minutes, with a general discussion on all presentations at the end. Please let us know whether you would like to take part in this new experimental model.
Accommodation will be available at local hotels.
Registration forms with a list of hotel prices will be sent to participants in due course.
Proposals, abstracts and other correspondence may be forwarded to:
Dr. Stéphanie Binder
Secretary of the ISPCS
email: stephanie.e.binder@gmail.com
All proposals should consist of a one-page abstract (about 250-300 words). Proposals in Hebrew should also be accompanied by a one-page abstract in English to appear in the conference brochure.
ALL PROPOSALS SHOULD REACH THE SECRETARY BY SATURDAY THE 30th OF DECEMBER, 2024. DECISIONS WILL BE MADE AFTER THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE HAS DULY CONSIDERED ALL THE PROPOSALS.
Edit (1/6/2024): Attendance is free. Pre-registration link: https://forms.gle/GAyvGKbCocfAZJFR6. For those without Gmail, please write scripta.classica.israelica@gmail.com. Abstracts available stephanie.e.binder@gmail.com.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;b4a9ed23.ex
(CFP closed December 30, 2023)
[HYBRID] SENSES AND DISABILITY: EXPLORING SENSORY EXPERIENCE AND DISABILITY IN AND BEYOND THE ANCIENT WORLD
Hybrid/St Andrews, Scotland: June 19, 2024
The School of Classics at the University of St Andrews is delighted to invite papers from scholars, in particular PGRs and ECRs, on the topic of the senses and disability, in and beyond the Ancient World, for participation in a one-day hybrid workshop. We are seeking approaches that use – but are not limited to – the lens of disability theory to focus on reconstructing the sensory experience of disabled people by resisting assumptions that all bodies sense in the same way, as well as exploring the experiences of disabled and neurodivergent scholars approaching the ancient world.
Though ancient disability scholarship has long engaged with the body and its multifaceted and multisensorial ways of being (e.g. Adams 2021; Draycott 2015; Holmes 2010; Laes 2013; Sneed 2020; Thumiger 2022; Vlahogiannis 1998), other fields that explore the ancient body's relationship to itself and its environment have at times assumed that all bodies see, taste, move, touch or smell in the same way. This one-day workshop aims to push back against these normative narratives in order to allow ancient disabled and otherwise divergent bodies their full personhood and agency within the field of Classics. At the same time, we aim to recognise the invaluable contribution of disabled and neurodivergent scholars to the field, and wish to hold space for these personal narratives to be articulated in meaningful ways.
We invite contributions concerning (but not limited to) the following topics:
* The intersection of embodied experiences and social status in the Ancient World
* The role, presence and importance of disabled characters in Classical theatre
* The reconstruction of ancient disabled realities through archaeology
* The experiences of disabled and neurodivergent archaeologists and classicists, vis-a-vis normative expectations in the field
Please send anonymised abstracts no longer than 250 words (bibliography excluded) to sensesanddisabilityworkshop@gmail.com. We will respond by the beginning of March. If your abstract contains any identifying information, we ask that you resubmit it with all information removed.
Abstract deadline: February 23rd 2024
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;14b22388.ex
(CFP closed February 23, 2024)
LANGUAGE AND TEXT BETWEEN GRECO-ROMAN AND EAST ASIAN CLASSICS
Ioannou Centre, Classics Faculty, University of Oxford: June 15-16, 2024
Over the past decade, a surge of interest in the global reception of Classics has generated a growing body of scholarship that engages with texts and cultures beyond Greece and Rome, especially in Mexico and South America, India, and Eastern Europe. The Janus Project was launched in January 2024 to direct this energy still further east towards another body of texts also known as Classics: the ancient East Asian philosophical and literary canon, and the commentary and pedagogical traditions that grew up around it. The inaugural Janus conference will bring together scholars working on any point of confluence between Greco-Roman and East Asian ‘Classics’. We invite proposals for papers engaging with any aspect of the textual and linguistic interaction between Greco-Roman and Classical Chinese traditions. The conference will showcase the breadth and depth of the field, explore the potential for cross-disciplinary collaboration, and build connections within and between specialties. Selected papers from the conference will be published as an edited volume or special journal issue.
Potential topics include:
* The effect of the introduction of Latin and Greek in Asia, not only on classical Chinese but on indigenous Asian languages. Conversely, the impact on Latin (and to a lesser extent Greek) of its encounter with and use by native speakers of Asian languages.
* The translations between Latin and Chinese texts, and the new texts which were produced in both languages as a result of the confluence of classical traditions, e.g. Adam von Schall’s Historica relatio de ortu et progressu fidei orthodoxae in regno Chinensi; Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae and 取譬訓蒙 (Catechismus) (Comparationibus exemplisque adornatus); Confucius Sinarum Philosophus; Da Costa’s Sapientia Sinica; Intorcetta’s Sinarum Scientia Politico-Moralis; François Noël’s translation of the Chinese classics; Chinese translations of Aesop’s fables (e.g. Kuang yi 況義, “Analogies” by Nicolas Trigault and Zhang Geng or 意拾喻言 or “Metaphors by Aesop” by Mun Mooy Seen-Shang).
* The influence of Greco-Roman classics on translations of Chinese texts for European audiences.
* How available readings of both canons changed as a result of this encounter – and the new ways of interpreting, teaching, and commenting on canonical texts generated by approaches of scholars trained in the other tradition (e.g. of scholars trained in the western liberal arts and humanities reading Confucius).
* How different traditions of commentaries merged in translations of classical texts.
* How conceptions of canon in both cultures (and of linguistic and literary canonicity) changed as a result of the confluence of these two text cultures.
* The ways in which both the western classical canon and the Asian canon were tools of cultural exchange in Europe and in Asia, and in turn were shaped by their encounters with readers in different culture.
We invite 20-minute paper proposals of no more than 500 words from scholars working in any area related to the intersection of Greco-Roman and East Asian classical language and texts. We would be particularly happy to see submissions of collaborative papers between two scholars working from different fields. Abstracts are to be submitted to admin@janus-project.org by 16 April.
The conference, supported by the University of Oxford Faculty of Classics and Oxford University Press John Fell Fund, will be held 15-16 June 2024 at the Ioannou Centre.
Please direct any questions to the conference organizers, Cynthia Liu and Charis Jo (admin@janus-project.org).
Edit (1/6/2024): Please register to attend in person via this form by 3 June https://forms.gle/njE7RE9QdRMZJQSc9. Please register to attend online by emailing cynthia.liu@classics.ox.ac.uk for the link by 14 June
Call: https://janus-project.org/events/conference/
(CFP closed April 16, 2024)
IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPES AND OTHERWORLDS 2024: THE LIMINALITY OF WATER AND AQUEOUS REALMS
Online/Canterbury Christ Church University & University of Exeter, UK: June 14, 2024
Humanity has always had a complex relationship with aqueous spaces. We find serene shores and the sound of waves to harbor a calming effect. Yet, the instability of the sea and its hazards simultaneously make it a space of profound terror. We are paradoxically captivated and terrified by such void-like spaces that are naturally alien to us, continuously projecting our hopes and anxieties into these watery spaces.
One clear illustration of this imaginative tendency is the underwater kingdom of the sea god Poseidon in Greco-Roman mythology. The Iliad briefly depicts this as a shimmering golden palace, a utopian version of an actual Archaic Greek palace, while later Greek and Roman poets populated Poseidon’s underwater kingdom with anthropomorphic figures like the Nereids. The palace, with its divine residents, represents the otherwise impossible feat of human-like figures living on the sea floor. This imagined possibility of such anthropic figures residing within the sea’s depths also simultaneously harbors eerie dangers, as with the example of the Blue Men of the Minch in Scottish folklore. Often taking on human appearances of their own, these creatures are said to dwell in the waters of the Outer Hebrides, at times reaching up from the watery void to capsize ships and drown sailors. The human anxiety about the lack of visibility beneath the surface generates the potential for these new threats, specifically from sentient creatures more at ease with the marine world. This conference focuses on the theme of the liminality of water and aqueous realms regarding imaginative landscapes and otherworlds. This includes those involving marine spaces, such as seas and oceans, but also other aqueous environments, such as ponds, lakes, and rivers, and their imaginative inhabitants.
Contributions might include, but are not limited to:
• Underwater otherworlds
• Otherworlds that are accessed via water
• Denizens of the deep in folklore and mythology
• Water as a dividing element between normal spaces and otherworlds
• Rivers that exist within otherworld spaces (e.g. the Styx of the Greco-Roman underworld)
• The encroachment of aqueous otherworlds onto terrestrial civilizations
This online conference is jointly hosted by Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Exeter. It will take place on June 14, 2024. Proposals should be not more than 250 words for a 15-20 minute paper. The deadline for submission is April 20, 2024. Please include your name and a brief bio (50-100 words) with submissions. For those wishing to submit proposals for panels, please limit participants to 3 and follow the above criteria; a bio will need to be submitted for each participant. Please send abstracts to iloconferenceofficial@gmail.com
Edit (14/05/2024) -- Program (All Times BST):
Opening Remarks from Conference Committee (10:00-10:15)
• Alison Norton, Ph.D. Candidate, Canterbury Christ Church University
• Dr. Ryan Denson, University of Exeter/Trent University
Session One: Water in Divination and Ritual Practice (10:15-11:30)
• Rebecca Willis, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Newcastle, Australia
○ Hydromancy in ancient Greece: Water as a dividing element facilitating communication between normal spaces and otherworlds
• Alessandra Rocchetti, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oxford
○ Aquatic Contexts as a Place to Conduct ‘Magical’ Rituals
• Scarlette-Electra LeBlanc, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Hull
○ Summoning Ghosts: The Uncanny Temporality of the Holy Well
Break (11:30-11:45)
Session Two: Aquatic Monsters and Liminal Creatures (11:45-1:00)
• Dr. Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Tufts University
○ The Hybridity of Aquatic Birds and the Liminality of Water in Greek Mythology
• Dr. Dominic Ingemark, Uppsala University
○ Nature as a source of inspiration for the supernatural: The Mediterranean moray and serpentine sea monsters
• Dr. Emelie Fälton and Dr. Polina Ignatova, Linköping University
○ Staying away from Cthulhu rather than Embracing the Cthulhucene: Representations of Relationships between the Human and the Non-Human in Netflix’s The Sea Beast
Lunch (1:00-1:45)
Session Three: Exploring Fluid and Vaporous Borders (1:45-3:00)
• Dr. Leanna Boychenko, Loyola University
○ Shipwrecks and Underworld Journeys in the Odyssey and the Egyptian “Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor”
• Dr. Eleni Manolaraki, University of South Florida
○ The River of Fire in the Byzantine Romance Velthandros and Chrysandza
• Florence Rogers, Ph.D. Candidate, University of St. Andrews
○ The malevolent alternate world of fog in Statius' Thebaid
Break (3:00-3:15)
Session Four: Perceptions of Aquatic Wonders (3:15-4:30)
• Dr. June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University
○ The Wondrous Waters of Wales in the Travelogues of Gerald of Wales
• Jon Norman Mason, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Brighton
○ Maidens, Monsters and More: Mapping Medieval Culture, through British Folklore of Water Beings
• Prof. Sarah Peverley, University of Liverpool
○ Mermaids of the British Isles and Ireland: Sirens of Sin and Salvation
Break (4:30-4:45)
Keynote Lecture (4:45-5-45)
• Prof. Emily Kneebone, University of Nottingham
○ Imperial Greek Epic and the Aquatic Imagination
Closing Remarks (5:45-6:00)
Register for Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/imaginative-landscapes-and-otherworlds-conference-2024-tickets-898019629887
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;e75f53fd.ex
(CFP closed April 20, 2024)
[HYBRID] THE CLASSICS AND THE BIBLE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN TRAGEDY
Hybrid/Munich, Germany: June 13-15, 2024
Convenor: Angelica Vedelago (Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow, LMU)
Venue: Fachbibliothek Philologicum, Veranstaltungsraum, Ludwigstraße 25, München
Time Zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Supported by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, the University of Hamburg (UHH), the University of Padua, and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU).
Keynote speakers: Marc Föcking (UHH), Blair Hoxby (Stanford), and Debora K. Shuger (UCLA).
The conference will be held in a hybrid format, both in person and online over Zoom.
To attend via Zoom, please email angelica.vedelago@lmu.de for the link to join.
ABSTRACT
The printing and ensuing dissemination of classical tragedians and of Aristotle’s "Poetics" at the outset of the sixteenth century reshaped the genre of tragedy in early modern Europe. Plays with a biblical subject were not immune to humanism’s reconfiguration of the genre in the light of Greek and Roman tragedians. The "Poetics" — as well as the commentaries that it prompted — offered new hermeneutical categories to reflect on the genre. However, biblical tragedies did not easily fit into this new theoretical framework.
Conversely, classical plays had to be adapted to an essentially Christian horizon of expectation, be it Catholic or Protestant. Authors of translations and adaptations felt the need to Christianize classical plays, even to the detriment of the philological accuracy so treasured by humanists.
The aim of this conference is to investigate the two-way influence between the classics and the Bible in early modern European tragedy, with a focus on Italy and the British Isles.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 13 June
14.30 Conference opening — Angelica Vedelago (LMU)
14.45 Keynote lecture — chair: Florian Mehltretter (LMU)
Marc Föcking (UHH): Aristotelian Demands and Christian Needs: Basic Problems of Italian Christian Tragedy in the Cinquecento
15.45 Break
16.15 Panel — Greek tragedy and Protestantism — chair: Camilla Caporicci (Perugia)
Cressida Ryan (Oxford): Sophocles and the Language of the New Testament
Micha Lazarus (HUJI): The B’rith of Tragedy
Friday 14 June
10.00 Keynote lecture — chair: Marc Föcking (UHH)
Blair Hoxby (Stanford): Tragedies Both Biblical and Classical: The Falls of Lucifer, Eve, and Adam
11.00 Break
11.30 Panel — Aristotle’s "Poetics" and other theories in the making of early modern European tragedy I — chair: Angelica Vedelago (LMU)
Enrica Zanin (Strasbourg): From Chance to Providence in Early Modern European Tragedy
Elisabetta Selmi (Padua): La possibilità del tragico nel dramma sacro: fra “hamartia” e “innocent malheureux”
12.45 Lunch
14.30 Panel — Aristotle’s "Poetics" and other theories in the making of early modern European tragedy II: an intergeneric approach — chair: Micha Lazarus (HUJI)
Angelica Vedelago (LMU): Intersection between Greek Tragedy and Christianity in Early Modern Italian and English Drama: Questions of Genre
Bryan Brazeau (Warwick): “More Than a Feeling:” Epic Catharsis in Torquato Tasso’s Narrative Theory
15.45 Break
16.15 Keynote lecture — chair: Glenn Most (SNS)
Debora K. Shuger (UCLA): "Timons of Athens"
Saturday 15 June
10.20 Panel — The interplay of the classics and the Bible in the British Isles and beyond — chair: Gabriela Schmidt (LMU)
Adrian Streete (Glasgow): Zachary Boyd’s "The Popish Powder Plot" (c. 1644): Classical and Biblical Contexts
Russ Leo (Princeton): Neoclassicism and Biblical Drama: Milton, Dryden, and Vondel
Hannah Crawforth (KCL): Milton’s "Samson Agonistes" and Slavery
12.00 Break
12.30 Final Roundtable: Debora K. Shuger (UCLA), Florian Mehltretter (LMU), Glenn Most (SNS)
Closing remarks
For further queries, please contact angelica.vedelago@lmu.de
[HYBRID] TWO IBERIAS: TWO GATES OF EUROPE
Hybrid/Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia: June 12-14, 2024
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Humanities: Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Institute of Georgian History, Institute of Archaeology, Bascology Center; Complutense University of Madrid, Faculty of Philology, Department of Classical Philology and University Institute of Sciences of Religion & School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Caucasus University start accepting applications for the First International Conference "Two Iberias: Two Gates of Europe".
It is known that Greek and Roman historians called the region corresponding to modern Georgia Eastern Iberia, in contrast to Western Iberia, i.e.
the Iberian Peninsula, currently Spain and Portugal. The Greek geographer Strabo attributed the name Iberians both to the Iberians of the Caucasus and to the "Western Iberians" (Geography, XI, II, 19). These far from each other regions were for centuries the extreme points of various empires (Roman, Byzantine, Arabian, Ottoman...) and served as gateways for the passage of many different civilizations and boundaries for the idea of Europe. In Antiquity, both Iberias were the limits of the civilized world. No wonder mythology considered they were otherworldly gates to the unknown, as the legends of the Hesperides, the Amazons and the travels of Heracles go to show.
This conference is dedicated to the study of the ancient cultures of Caucasian Iberia and Spanish Iberia and their reception, including parallels and
presumed contacts. The idea of a link between both extremes of the oikoumene, which was established in Antiquity, has a long reception up to the 15th century, which marks a historical caesura for Eurasian culture, especially in these peripheral countries. The study of the Ancient notion of Iberia up to this moment of transformation, marked by the events of 1453 and 1492, can throw new light upon the reuse of some classical ideas –e.g., Heracles’ Columns, the Amazons– in a changing political and ideological context.
This is a first joint endeavor of the Tbilisi State University and Complutense University of Madrid aiming at establishing a stable cooperation on these research areas. It is important that Georgia's leading private educational institution -Caucasus University- is participating in the organization of this event, along with the aforementioned public Universities of Tbilisi and Madrid.
Suggested sessions:
1- Eastern Iberia as the Gateway of Europe: myth and history in Antiquity and its Reception
2-Western Iberia as the Gateway of Europe: myth and history in Antiquity and its Reception
3- Two Iberias - a link through the ages? Problems of historical and linguistic relations of Mediterranean cultures
Special Presentations, Performances and Activities:
1. Translation of Classical Literature between Spain and Georgia
2. Bilateral Cultural Activities (literature, dance, music, gastronomy, Basque culture…) between Spain and Georgia
3. Visit to the National Museum of Georgia
4. Archaeological Excursion
Key-note speakers (in alphabetical order):
Prof. Dr. Eugenio Luján Martínez (Department of Classics, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Prof. Dr. Juan Signes Codoñer (Department of Classics, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Prof. Dr. Timo Stickler (Chair of the Department of Ancient History, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
We encourage both experienced researchers, young scholars and PhD students to participate in the conference.
Dates of the conference: June 12-14, 2024
Conference format: hybrid
Working languages of the conference: English and Georgian
Conference Fee: Regular registration 150 EUR (for students: 75 EUR, for online participants: 50 EUR)
The Conference fee includes: Conference material, certificate of participation, coffeebreaks, lunch-breaks, visit to the museum, one-day excursion to the surroundings of Tbilisi, reception at the Tbilisi City Hall, cultural activities.
Half an hour will be allocated to each speaker (paper - 20 min., discussion - 10 min.). Paper abstracts should be presented in one of the working languages of the conference. The abstracts in Georgian must be accompanied by a translation in English.
Please send your abstracts (300-600 words) and a brief CV (100-150 words) by January 15, 2024 to the following e-mail address: greekstudies@tsu.ge. Subject: Two Iberias. Along with the abstract and CV the following information about the author should be provided:
❖ Name and Surname;
❖ Affiliation and position;
❖ Contact information (phone and email);
❖ Language of the paper;
❖ Participation format (physical/online)
The authors will be notified of the Scientific Committee’s decision at the end of February, 2024.
The conference program will be prepared in March-April 2024.
The selected English-language papers will be published after blind peer review in the in a prestigious academic publisher to be announced at the end of the conference.
The Georgian-language papers of the conference will be published after blind peer-review in the following journals: Logos. Yearbook in Greek and Latin Studies and Proceedings of the Institute of Georgian History.
For questions you can feel free to contact the organizing committee by email:
greekstudies@tsu.ge
Call: https://www.cu.edu.ge/en/information-column/two-gates-europe
(CFP closed January 15, 2024)
PETRARCH'S AFRICA / L’AFRICA DE PÉTRARQUE: LECTURES ANCIENNES ET NOUVELLES
École française de Rome, Rome, Italy: June 6-8, 2024
From the very outset of his career Petrarch had conceived a poem based upon Scipio Africanus’s triumph over Carthage during the Second Punic War as his epic masterpiece to rival Virgil’s Aeneid. Yet Petrarch never finished his Africa, much to the chagrin of his patrons and friends. Published posthumously, with occasional exceptions, this disenchanted and uneven account of Rome’s global victory, with its philosophical, spiritual, lyrical and dramatic passages, was quickly eclipsed by Petrarch’s other works.
This international conference will bring together specialists from a range of disciplines to explore this neglected work in relation to antiquity and within its contemporary setting, to study the way it was immediately received and later interpreted, and to propose new readings, at the crossroads of poetics, philology, and literary, cultural and political history.
Almost forgotten from the sixteenth century onwards, the Africa was only translated piecemeal into the vernaculars during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. At the turn of the twentieth century scholars once again took possession of the Africa; most notably with Pierre de Nolhac’s Petrarch and Humanism (1892); and the first editions and translations of the entire work were produced in France and Italy. From that moment the reception of the poem expanded beyond academic circles and was unequivocally linked to the rise of Italian nationalism and imperialism. The poem was thus particularly diffused and quoted during the two decades of the fascist regime. The edition by Nicola Festa which dates from this period (1926), published as the first volume of the national edition of the complete works of Petrarch, accompanied by a Saggio sul’Africa, has remained the single modern edition and almost exclusive point of reference for the Latin text. Yet, this edition has since been rendered obsolete by the discovery of seven manuscripts.
Since the 1980s academics have again taken interest in the Africa; this is especially due to Vincenzo Fera’s work on the history of the text, and, among many other, to the publications of Guido Martellotti, Michele Feo and Enrico Fenzi. Recent editions (in France by Rebecca Lenoir and Pierre Laurens, and in Germany by Bernhard Huß and Gerhard Regn) have similarly facilitated access to Petrarch’s text. (Although an edition was proposed for the I Tatti series, anglophone scholarship is sadly still lacking.)
This conference is part of a project named "Affrica: Petrarch’s Africa - edition, translation, readings". This project has brought together a multidisciplinary team of researchers in regular meetings since September 2022 who are currently working on a digital edition.
By broadening this dynamic, this conference will renew approaches to Petrarch’s epic by crossing perspectives and providing new insights. We will not only evaluate the contributions of digital philology in relation to traditional philological approaches, but also explore less traditional avenues by using the approaches adopted by Reception, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, within the narrative and construction of cultural memory.
Participants are invited to reflect on the following themes and areas of research, in a non-exhaustive and, if possible, interdisciplinary manner:
- Intertextuality and positioning: reception of ancient authors within the Africa; reception of medieval literature.
- Philological and codicological aspects: history and circulation of the text and its marginalia; manuscripts and illuminations.
- Poetics and narratology: storytelling, description, affect; the Africa and the epic genre; lyricism.
- Receptions of the Africa: first receptions; the Africa in the Renaissance; in modern times; in contemporary times.
- Politics and history in the Africa.
- Representing the world in the Africa: geography; race and racialization; domination and submission.
- Body and gender in the Africa.
- The Africa as a spiritual and philosophical project.
Papers will take the form of 30-minute presentations, followed by discussion.
Three, one-hour plenary lectures are also planned.
Co-organizers : Mathilde Cazeaux (École normale supérieure de Lyon), Paul Gwynne (American University of Rome), Sarah Orsini (Université de Grenoble-Alpes), Adriano Russo (École française de Rome).
Informations
Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be sent to africa.petrarque@gmail.com, along with a short bio, by 21th July 2023.
English, French and Italian are the languages of the conference.
The conference is to be held from Thursday afternoon to Saturday morning. Accommodation is included for the speakers (up to two nights). The organization may be able to offer bursaries to cover travel expenses.
Edit (1/6/2024 noting change of date of this conference). See https://affrica.hypotheses.org/
6th June
14:00 Mathilde Cazeaux (École normale supérieure de Lyon), Paul Gwynne (American University of Rome), Sarah Orsini (Université Grenoble-Alpes), Adriano Russo (École française de Rome) : Introduction and presentation of the project Affrica - l’Africa de Pétrarque : édition, traduction, lectures
Anne Garcia-Fernandez (UGA) : Les outils numériques dans le projet Affrica : tests et perspectives
Frédéric Duplessis (École normale supérieure de Lyon) : L'Africa, un texte ouvert ? Les variantes textuelles dans quelques manuscrits postérieurs à Lr
Panel 1: Stratégies d’auteur
Chair : Sandra Provini (Université de Rouen Normandie)
16:00-16:30 Lorenzo Geri (Sapienza Università di Roma), Dalla recusatio al planh. Il finale provvisorio dell’Africa e il modello augusteo.
16:30-17:00 Andrew Laird (Brown University), The literary qualities of Petrarch’s Africa: Confronting the dilemma of evaluation for humanist Latin poetry
17:00-17:30 Matteo Petriccione (Università dell’Aquila): La curiosa elegantia del palazzo della Verità e l’ekphrasis tra l’Africa e il Triumphus Cupidinis
7th June
Keynote lecture
9:00-10:00 Claudia Villa (Università degli Studi di Bergamo – Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Preistoria dell’Africa
Panel 2 : Intertextualités
Chair : Paul Gwynne
10:00-10:30 Daniela Mairhofer (Princeton University), Petrarch’s use of Statius: a study on intertextuality
11:00-11:30 Martin Dinter (King’s College London), Further Voices in Petrarch’s Africa
11:30-12:00 Paolo Rigo (Università Roma Tre), Dante nell’Africa? Status quaestionis (e incertezze)
Panel 3 : Cartographier
Chair : Gaia Tomazzoli (La Sapienza)
14:00-14:30 Susanna de Beer (Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome), Mapping Petrarch’s Vision of Rome: Literature, History and Topography in the Africa
14:30-15:00 Samuel Agbamu (University of Reading), Poenus peregrinus: Carthaginians as Pilgrim and Foreigner in Petrarch’s Africa
Panel 4 : Épisodes de réception
Chair : Samuel Agbamu
15:30-16:00 Benedetta Monaco (Université de Genève), la prima ricezione dell’Africa nel panorama europeo
16:00-16:30 Claudio Schiano (Università di Bari), L’Africa di Nicola Festa e la “razzializzazione” di Sofonisba
8th June
Keynote lecture
9:00-10:00 Bernhard Huss (Freie Universität Berlin), Il mistero di un libro incompiuto. L’Africa come oggetto di un progetto culturale provvisorio
Panel 5 : Poétique et spiritualité
Chair : Luca Marcozzi (Roma Tre)
10:00-10:30 Nicolas Longinotti (Freie Universität Berlin), Responding to the ancients: Petrarch’s transient Renaissance between victors and defeated in Africa’s conclusion
11:00-11:30 Antonio Borelli (Università di Pisa), Vrbs accepta deis: religione romana e fede cristiana nell’Africa
11:30-12:00 Adrian Faure (Sorbonne Université) : L’histoire providentielle dans l’Africa de Pétrarque : aux origines d’une motivation politique et poétique
12:30-13:00 Concluding remarks : Laure Hermand-Schebat (Université Lyon III)
Call: https://affrica.hypotheses.org/235
(CFP closed July 21, 2023)
SIBYLS, PROPHETS, AND ORACLES: TEXTS AND IMAGES FROM ANCIENT TO CONTEMPORARY TIMES
University of Macerata, Italy: June 6-8, 2024
In 1994, Ileana Chirassi Colombo organized an international conference on “Sibyls and Oracular Languages” at the University of Macerata, gathering ancient historians, medievalists, and modernists. The conference opened fruitful avenues of research at the intersection of history, history of religions, and anthropology. One of the intriguing issues was the peculiar localization of a Sibyl in the Umbrian-Marche Apennines, which gave its name to Mount Sibyl and the Sibillini Mountains. In the following years, research on this theme multiplied, and the Apennine Sibyl became the focal point of vibrant studies, but also generated a great deal of pseudo-scientific literature.
To provide an updated overview and with the aim of exploring original research paths, thirty years later the University of Macerata intends to organize a conference on sibylline, prophetic, and oracular themes. The investigation will encompass literary and iconographic sources to explore, from a Euro-Mediterranean perspective, the multifaceted world of oracular language as well as the use of prophecy from ancient to contemporary times, according to an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. The conference will also examine medieval, modern, and contemporary rewritings of sibylline or oracular themes, both in texts and images.
Some examples of research topics:
- Sibyls in the Greek and Roman world
- Oracular centres in the ancient world
- Hebrew prophecy
- Medieval Latin sibylline literature
- The canon of Varro/Lactantius
- The canon of Filippo Barbieri
- Medieval sibylline legends
- The use of prophecy in ancient, medieval, and modern times
- The reception of Sibyls and oracles in contemporary literature and art
- The use of sibylline prophecies in public inscriptions
- Gender in the oracular and prophetic world
- Sibylline iconography
- Prophetic iconography
- Sibyls and sibyl literature in 19th and 20th-century historiography
Organizers: Giuseppe Capriotti, Jessica Piccinini (University of Macerata)
Scientific Committee: Maurizio Bettini, Patrizia Castelli, Monica Centanni, Claudia Cieri Via, Maurizio Giangiulio, Silvia Romani, Salvatore Settis.
An abstract of 200 words in a word file for a 20-minute presentation in Italian or English along with a short bio (50 words max) should be submitted by October 31, 2023, to the organizers: giuseppe.capriotti@unimc.it, jessica.piccinini@unimc.it.
Call: https://arthist.net/archive/39585
(CFP closed October 31, 2023)
THE PAST IS A FEMALE COUNTRY: ANCIENT WOMEN AND THEIR RECEPTION IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE
University of Warwick, UK: June 3, 2024
Registration now open for the International Symposium 'The Past is a Female Country: Ancient Women and their Reception in Medieval and Early Modern Europe'. University of Warwick, Monday 3 June 2024, 10:30am to 5:00pm (IN PERSON ONLY). Keynote: Prof. Carole Levin (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) on 'Boudicca and Queen Elizabeth I: Parallel British Amazonian Queens’. The Symposium will be followed (5:30 to 6:30pm) by a Public Lecture by Prof. Edith Hall (University of Durham), on 'Repurposing Tomyris from Deschamps to Queen Anne' with an introduction by Prof. Helen Wheatley (University of Warwick). Attendance to the symposium and the public lecture is free but registration is required to attend the symposium (for catering purposes).
For programme and registration form please see https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/daniotti/symposium/
[HYBRID] NEW DIRECTIONS IN CLASSICS, GAMING, AND EXTENDED REALITY
Hybrid/University of Bristol, UK: June 3-4, 2024
Organiser: Dr Richard Cole (Lecturer in Digital Classics, University of Bristol)
From video games to virtual reality experiences, the Classical world continues to inspire developers and players alike. What does it mean, though, to explore antiquity in virtual spaces? How are such virtual worlds built, how are they experienced, and what do current technological developments mean for the future of Classics? Scholarship has begun to explore the contours of these questions. There have been several edited volumes (e.g., Thorsen 2012, Rollinger 2020, Draycott and Cook 2022), a couple of monographs (André 2016, Clare 2021), along with chapters and articles published in a variety of books and journals, reflecting the nature of gaming scholarship; namely, that this is a multidisciplinary field drawing on a range of methodologies. Such works have broken important ground, although coverage remains partial. Extended reality (XR) simulations, for example, have received far less attention. This is despite the growing use of AR and VR across the heritage sector (e.g., Yorescape, Lithodomos), the crossovers with gaming (e.g., Assassin’s Creed Nexus), as well as the potential for academic research and education (e.g., the Virtual Reality Oracle).
This conference will move to define future directions for research, building on the current state of the art. The aim is to foster a debate that is less reactive to new releases of games and apps, and instead focused on challenging questions around methodology, impact, and industry practice, while also remaining sensitive to the opportunities that these technologies raise for drawing links between the ancient and modern. This two day hybrid conference, hosted by the Bristol Digital Game Lab, thus takes the idea of extended reality, which typically refers to virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, and considers how – from the inception of video games through to the latest AR and VR applications – the history and culture of the Classical past have been twinned with the digital.
Edit - 14/05/2024 - Program & Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bristoldigitalgamelab/1246254
Call: https://bristoldigitalgamelab.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/events/
Full call pdf: https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/3/919/files/2024/02/New-Directions-in-Classics-Gaming-and-Extended-Reality-b5d3b28b71263d97.pdf
(CFP closed March 31, 2024)
THE FEMALE VOICE IN PHILOSOPHICAL CONVERSATIONS
Rome (Australian Catholic University Rome Campus, Villa Maria): May 30-June 1, 2024
Confirmed Speakers: Virginia Cox (Cambridge), Jana Matuszak (University of Chicago), Katarzyna Jażdżewska (Warsaw), Julia Hairston (Rome)
Organizer: Dawn LaValle Norman (Australian Catholic University)
At various times and places in history, it was attractive to write philosophy as a conversation between characters. Only very rarely are any of the philosophical speakers female. When the female voice was used by male or female authors, it frequently leaned on gendered associations, such as women’s expertise in certain ‘female’ topics such as love and reproduction.
Yet, the story is not always so simple. This conference will explore when the female voice was used, how it was deployed, and what it can illuminate about changing gender norms and views about the definition and limits of philosophy.
The conference will bring together scholars on philosophical dialogues (as either genre or discourse mode within other genres) from various time periods and languages, from the 2nd millennium BCE to the modern day, who are working on theoretical issues around the use of the female voice in philosophical discussion and drama. The concept of a philosophical dialogue is meant to be an inclusive one, encompassing conversational literature dedicated to intellectual inquiry and wisdom across cultures and periods.
We welcome papers dealing with the use of the female voice in philosophical dialogues especially outside of the area of Classical and Renaissance literature, for which we already have some coverage (although abstracts about these areas will certainly be considered). Non-western topics are especially welcome, as are papers dealing with the 18th century and later.
We expect to be able to cover housing and meal costs during the conference for accepted participants but are unable to subsidize travel to Rome. We hope to gather approximately fifteen scholars together for the workshop, and plan to publish the papers as a special issue of a journal, subject to peer review.
This conference is sponsored by Dawn LaValle Norman’s Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) on ‘The Female Voice in Ancient Philosophical Dialogues’.
For consideration, please send your name, affiliation, and a 200-300 word abstract to dawn.lavallenorman@acu.edu.au by Dec. 15ths.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;d03d8b21.ex
(CFP closed December 15, 2023)
[HYBRID] 18TH TRENDS IN CLASSICS CONFERENCE - "COGNITIVE THEORY AND LATER LATIN: LATE ANTIQUITY, THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD"
Hybrid/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece: May 30-31, 2024
You are cordially invited to the 18th Trends in Classics conference on “Cognitive Theory and Later Latin: Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period” jointly organized by the Department of Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies of Innsbruck. The event is to be held on May 30-31 2024 in Auditorium I at KEDEA, September 3rd Avenue, University Campus.
The event will be both in person and online. It is possible to attend it virtually through our livestream (all times are local, British Summer Time + 2): https://audiovisual.auth.gr/video/88127
Organizers:
Anna Novokhatko (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Florian Schaffenrath (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien)
Stefan Tilg (University of Freiburg)
Antonios Rengakos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Academy of Athens)
Stavros Frangoulidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Program
Thursday, 30 May, 2024
9:00–9:15
Welcome and general introduction
PANEL 1. Chair: Chrysanthe Tsitsiou-Chelidoni (Thessaloniki)
9:15-10:45
Paul Dilley (Iowa), Monastic Renunciation, Hagiography, and Mental Health
Stefan Tilg (Freiburg), How Do They Know? Knowledge of Invented Characters and Events in Early Modern Latin Prose Fiction
11:15-13:30
Maik Patzelt (Berlin), On Martyrs, Demons and Devils: A Cognitive Approach to Christian Horror Stories
Sean Leatherbury (Dublin), Living and Thinking with Things in Late Antiquity: Ennodius on Firmina’s Jewelry
Isabella Sandwell (Bristol), Embodied Doctrine: The Cognitive Benefits of Using Material Images of Natural Reproduction to Represent Relations Between the Divine Father and Son
PANEL 2. Chair: Evina Sistakou (Thessaloniki)
14:30-16:45
Roy Gibson (Durham), Late Antique Letter Collections as Extended Cognition?
Anders K. Petersen (Aarhus), Changing the Mind of the Unlearned and the Ill Taught: Cognitive Perspectives on Augustine’s Teaching in De cathecizandis rudibus and De utilitate credenda
Katharine Earnshaw (Exeter), St Augustine and Bede: A Crossover Between Environmental and Cognitive Approaches
17:15-18:45
Istvan Czachesz (Tromsø), A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Apocalyptic Literature: The Visio Pauli as a Test Case
Niklaus Largier (Berkeley), The Symbolic Potential of Form: Shaping Cognition in Prayer
Keynote Lecture
18:45-19:45
Miranda Anderson (Edinburgh), A History of Distributed Cognition: Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Friday, 31 May, 2024
PANEL 3. Chair: Panagiota Sarischouli (Thessaloniki)
9:00-10:30
Anna Novokhatko (Thessaloniki), Embodied and Situated Cognition in Augustine’s Discussions on Metaphor
M. William Short (Exeter), Alanus de Insulis’ Omnis mundi creatura from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics
11:00-13:15
Frank Bezner (Freiburg), Cognition and Perception in 12th Century Latin Lyrics
Racha Kirakosian (Freiburg), Meister Eckhart’s Theory of Mind: Towards Neuromedievalism
Jesper Sørensen (Aarhus), Malleus Maleficarum: Magic and Witchcraft Between Community and State
PANEL 4. Chair: Florian Schaffenrath (Innsbruck)
14:30-16:00
Niall Slater (Atlanta), Supplementary Similes and Metamorphic (Dis-)Embodiment: Vegio’s Revisions of Vergil
George Kazantzidis (Patras), Mental Illness, Cognitive Errors and Cognitive Therapy in Caelius Aurelianus’ De morbis chronicis
16:30-18:30
Yasmin Haskell (Melbourne), Programming Piety: The Cognitive-Affective Codes of Jesuit Poetic Pedagogy
Martin Korenjak (Innsbruck), Virtual Space Travel in Early Modern Times
Concluding Remarks
Website: https://www.lit.auth.gr/18th_trends
ARISTOPHANES AFTER BABEL: PLUTUS IN TRANSLATION FROM THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY
University of Grenoble, France: May 30-31, 2024
We are delighted to announce the opening of the Call for Papers for the International Conference Aristophanes after Babel: Plutus in Translation from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day, which will be held at the University of Grenoble on 30-31 May 2024, organised by Malika Bastin-Hammou, Giovanna Di Martino, and Micol Muttini, with the support of the Université Grenoble-Alpes, University College London and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford).
Scientific and Organising Committee: Malika Bastin-Hammou, Giovanna Di Martino, and Micol Muttini
Aristophanes after Babel: Plutus in Translation from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day aims to examine the reception of ancient Greek drama in translation practices and theories from the early modern period forward. It is the fifth event in a series spanning the translation of ancient Greek drama in the early modern period. The series is the result of a collaboration between the Université Grenoble-Alpes, Oxford, Paris XIII, and UCL (for more information, see APGRD page Translating Ancient Drama).
In After Babel (1975), literary critic George Steiner laid the foundation for Translation Studies and identified translation as a sine qua non of human communication. Since its introduction to the world stage in the late 1970s, Translation Studies has experienced a global expansion: once considered a marginal activity, translation is now regarded as a fundamental act of human communication. Indeed, there has never been a stronger interest in translation than there is today, and its study is taking place alongside an increase in its practice worldwide.
At the dawn of the Quattrocento, in Italy in particular, Aristophanes’ plays, lost after the fall of Rome and unknown to the Latin Middle Ages, were finally ‘rediscovered’. The proliferation of translations of ancient Greek drama functioned as the principal means of introducing the comic playwright to the high culture of Latin and vernacular Europe. Rather uniquely, the translation of Old Comedy falls within a number of areas of scholarly study, including philology, pedagogy, literature, and theatre. Aristophanes’ Plutus was particularly popular and played a significant role in the early modern education system (notably, it was the first comedy to appear in translation) and on the stage.
The translation processes at play in the different versions of Aristophanes’ comedies are of particular interest. Translators have had to deal with issues specific to comedy, including obscene language, political attacks, religious disrespect, humour, and topicality; in addition, Aristophanes’ plays contain references to people, objects, and institutions that were familiar to him and his original audience, but that are unknown to a modern audience. And yet, in spite of Aristophanes’ continued cultural relevance, modern scholars often overlook and forget his reception in translation.
This two-day conference brings translations of Plutus into focus, from the early modern period to the present: it aims at gathering scholars interested in the global reception of Classics and their translations into other languages. By examining Aristophanes through the eyes of his translators, we hope to be able to gain a better understanding of the different ways in which cultures, literatures, and languages have studied, appropriated, and recreated ancient Greek comedy. Rather than being tangential to the study of Aristophanes, this topic plays an integral role in how we comprehend and read this rich and ancient dramatic corpus today.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
· Translation challenges and solutions (as evidenced in manuscripts, printed books, dedicatory epistles and other paratexts), including: translating ancient Greek poetic language and meter; transposing all culturally specific references in Plutus, and rendering comic humour and obscenity
· Translators as cultural mediators: investigating the translation practices adopted by interpreters, their evolution over time, and why translators adopted translational strategies in particular times and places to present Aristophanes’ Greek text to their audiences.
· A translation or ideology as an intentional alteration of the original for moral, religious, ideological, political, or other purposes
· From page to stage: translation theories and their application to translation practices in performance; translations of Plutus and their dramaturgical potential; translations of Aristophanes in theatres and other performance settings
· The role of translation in the creation of literature and in the establishment of a theatrical genre and its repertoire: Aristophanes’ translations and recreations of the comic genre
· Teachers’ and students’ approaches to teaching and learning Greek with Plutus in translation with Aristophanes in the classrooms
· Other topics: the relationship between translator, translation, Aristophanes, and the target public; the spatiotemporal circulation of translations; identifying Greek manuscripts and printed sources used by translators; gender issues; translators’ use and re-use of Plutus; cases of retranslation and relations with earlier translations; translations of Classical genres; translations that respond to Greek poetry with metrical innovations.
This conference will demonstrate the breadth and depth of the topic, as well as foster collaboration within and between fields.
We invite paper proposals from postgraduate students, early career researchers and experts in any field.
To participate, please send a 250-word abstract and a short biography to translatinggreektragedy@gmail.com by 1st December 2023.
Papers should be 20 minutes long; demonstration-performance contributions can take up to 30 minutes.
For any questions you may have, please contact: g.martino@ucl.ac.uk
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;d679349a.ex
(CFP closed December 1, 2023)
[HYBRID] CARMINA NUNC MUTANDA: CONFESSIONALIZING TENDENCIES IN NEO-LATIN POETRY OF THE REFORMATION PERIOD
Hybrid (or fully online - TBA)/Warburg Institute, London: May 24, 2024
The association of poetry with the religious realm is long-established. Cicero’s conviction that poets were infused with ‘a divine spirit’ and ‘bestowed on us by God’ endured and continued to hold sway in the Early Modern imagination. This conference aims to explore how these established associations interact with the new confessional impulses which emerge in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will look at how the Neo-Latin poetry of this era engages with and reflects the concerns and conflicts of the European reformations. Particular attention will be given to the attempts made by individuals or institutions to craft a distinctive poetics in service of particular religious positions, Protestant or Catholic. A key objective will be to examine what Neo-Latin poetry had to offer this confessional impulse: was it functioning as an act of devotion, a didactic tool to promulgate a particular message, a lever for conversion, an alternative to preaching, a mode of theology or scriptural exegesis, or a medium for communicating ideas about doctrinal or moral reform? We also welcome approaches that consider the perceived purpose of classical learning in any of these religiously partisan productions.
We anticipate that a range of poetic genres (including scriptural paraphrases, hymns, epic, and moralizing lyric) will be relevant; papers on Neo-Greek poetry are also very welcome. We will be especially interested to hear how the language itself and/or the metrical schemes might also have played a role in a poem’s confessional thrust: it is our belief that the role of the senses as well as the intellect was crucially significant in the poetic articulation of a confessional position. We invite papers that discuss a particular text or author, but also those that take a more synoptic view of the confessionalizing trends in the poetic output of this period. On this last approach, topics might include patterns of composition in a particular European region, the extent to which Catholic and Protestant poems were directly answering or countering each other’s claims, or the ways in which they were used to drive intra-confessional agendas.
This is currently envisioned as a one-day conference to be held either in hybrid format (i.e. in-person and online) or entirely online, depending on majority preference, and will take place on Friday, 24 May 2024. The event will be run by the Warburg Institute in London, and the organizers are Nathaniel Hess and Lucy Nicholas. We invite proposals in the form of a working title and abstract of no more than 200 words (and we ask you to keep in mind that conference papers should be 20 minutes max. in duration). Please also indicate your preference for in-person or online. The deadline for proposals is Friday, 23 February 2024.
Questions and proposals should be sent to: nathaniel.hess@sas.ac.uk and lucy.nicholas@sas.ac.uk
Call: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=TRANSLATINGCULTURES;463c7630.2312
(CFP closed February 23, 2024)
[WORKSHOPS] THE NEW LIVES OF GREEK DIVINITIES IN WESTERN EUROPE: TEXTUAL AND VISUAL FIGURATIONS FROM THE 14TH TO THE 16TH CENTURY / LES NOUVELLES VIES DES DIVINITÉS GRECQUES EN EUROPE OCCIDENTALE : FIGURATIONS TEXTUELLES ET VISUELLES DU XIVE AU XVIE SIÈCLE
(1) Lille, France: May 23-24, 2024
(2) Paris (Arsenal Library), France: May 29, 2024
Part of ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA Project: The Reception of Ancient Greece in pre-modern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320-1550) : How invented memories shaped the identity of European communities.
In his famous work, La survivance des dieux antiques, published in 1939, Jean Seznec demonstrated that knowledge of the Greek gods did not disappear during the Middle Ages, and thus challenged the opposition often drawn between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: “Pagan antiquity, far from being ‘reborn’ in 15th-century Italy, survived in medieval culture and art; the gods themselves were not resurrected, for they had never disappeared from the memory and imagination of men .” He studied how, in the Middle Ages, the Greek gods, who then often bore their Latin names, survived thanks to the ideas they embodied and thanks to three main lines of interpretation, largely inherited from Antiquity - the evhemeristic explanation, the physical and astrological explanation, and the allegorical, moral and religious explanation. He also analysed how, at the same time, their forms were transformed, with surprising metamorphoses, before returning to antiquity during the Renaissance. New mythographic works were written from the 5th to the 13th century, starting with the ones by Fulgentius and the three Vatican mythographers, and from the beginning of the 14th century, evocations of pagan divinities were multiplying, as much in Latin works - such as Petrarch's Africa, Boccaccio's Genealogie deorum gentilium or Pierre Bersuire's De formis figurisque deorum - as in works written in French, starting with Ovide moralisé, followed by numerous reworkings, some of which contain French adaptations of Bersuire's text. The pagan Greek or Greco-Latin divinities, which rarely appeared in the first ancient novels and in the first French Universal Histories, were then used in a variety of textual universes: numerous Universal Histories and Chronicles, historico-fictional works, novels, didactic works about a wide range of topics, poetic works, epics, new translations of ancient texts, books of emblems, mythographic treatises... Among these, a large amount of new works specifically dedicated to the ancient gods were written at the end of this period. Finally, throughout this period, exploiting new sources, from the fifteenth century, in the French language, contributed to this renewal.
The many texts in which these divinities appear, in the illustrations of manuscripts and printed books, give them a new life rather than survival, or to say it more accurately: new lives. They are represented in many different forms of writing and in many different environments, some of them are far removed from the ancient world. The metamorphoses of their forms in relation to ancient traditions, which are very varied but not always present, accompany their integration into these diverse contexts. New “adventures” were sometimes invented for them, and even, albeit exceptionally, new ancient gods were invented. The composition of treatises, exclusively devoted to them, reveals new analyses.
Based on case studies on one or more divinities, the workshops will be devoted to analyses of the multiplicity of representations, interpretations, and uses of these ancient divinities over the three centuries under consideration, by combining permanence and renewal, repetition and variation, continuity and innovation. They will provide the opportunity to extend research works on the ways and reasons for this multiplied presence of ancient divinities: why did these authors inspire news stories into the memory of ancient gods, why and how is it possible to give them back such a presence, why did they bring them back to life?
The submitted papers, based on works written in Latin, French, or Italian, may deal with the following themes, which do not exhaust the range of possibilities:
* Textual representations of Greek divinities, and how forms of writing are used - description, narrative, commentary.
* From translation and compilation to adaptation and invention: reconfigurations of inherited knowledge
* The literary contexts in which authors develop these textual images
* The cultural and political contexts and debates in which authors take on these divinities
* The interpretations of these divinities and the various purposes for which they are evoked - political, ethical, religious, scientific, poetic ones.
* The visual representations of these heroines in manuscripts and then printed books : how they are depicted and it does mean, how these representations are linked with other forms of artistic representation devoted to them
* The links between texts and images in manuscripts and printed matter
* The actualizing/anachronistic appropriation or, on the contrary, the view of Antiquity and its otherness reflected in the textual and visual images of these divinities
* The circulation, reception, and transformation of these representations from the 12th to the 16th century: the transmission and renewal of the memory of these divinities
* How these divinities are transposed into new worlds
For workshops held at the Arsenal Library (Wednesday, May 29th, 2024), submitted papers related to works preserved in the Arsenal Library come first.
Please submit a short abstract (200-300 words and a title) before January 15th, 2024 to Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas at the following two addresses:
catherine-bougassas@orange.fr
catherine.bougassas@univ-lille.fr
An agreement in principle before the deadline would help us to organize these workshops. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered according to the terms of the University of Lille. The papers will be published by Brepols publishers, in the “Research on Antiquity Receptions” series: http://www.brepols.net/Pages/BrowseBySeries.aspx?TreeSeries=RRA
Call/Project Information: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/4356
(CFP closed January 15, 2024)
QUEER ANTIQUITY: HISTORY, RECEPTION, CREATION / ANTIQUITÉ QUEER: HISTOIRE, RÉCEPTION, CRÉATION
University of Strasbourg (France): May 23-24, 2024
We are pleased to invite you to the international, bilingual colloquium "Queer Antiquity: History, Reception, Creation / Antiquité Queer: histoire, réception, création" (hosted by USIAS & Archimède UMR 7044), to be held at the University of Strasbourg (France) on Thursday and Friday, May 23-24. The event is free and open to all.
Download the programme here: https://www.usias.fr/en/news-events/events/event/article/queer-antiquity/
2ND IJSEWIJN LECTURE & LABORATORIUM
Leuven, Belgium: May 23-24, 2024
The 16th IJsewijn Lecture will take place on Thursday 23 May 2024, at 5pm, in the Justus Lipsius Room of the Erasmushuis (8th floor; Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven), and will be delivered by Professor Eric MacPhail (Indiana University). The lecture will be followed by a reception at 6pm in the big hall of the Erasmushuis on the ground floor. Attendance is completely free, but registration will be required.
The next day, on Friday 24 May 2024, the 2nd IJsewijn Laboratorium will be held at the Couvreurzaal (M01.E50; Edward Van Evenstraat 4, 3000 Leuven, on the Social Sciences Campus). The Laboratorium will have a full-day program devoted to ongoing Neo-Latin research, and has two main aims: (1) showcasing state-of-the-art research in Neo-Latin studies, in terms of both subject and methodology, and (2) bringing together young scholars with established researchers, including the IJsewijn Lecturer. There is, in other words, no specific thematic focus, and everyone is encouraged to present work-in-progress, paying due attention to both successes and pitfalls in Neo-Latin research, and how to build on, or deal with, them.
The Laboratorium aims to create an active exchange among the participants, in order to address and discuss promising research perspectives. All sessions will be plenary, including a research pitch by local Neo-Latin students. Each session will last one hour and include two presentations of 15’ each, followed by 30’ discussion time. Presenters will be asked to pre-circulate their materials and ideas in a way they see fit (e.g. a Neo-Latin text with translation and/or commentary, a short paper summarizing the main points of their work-in-progress, an advanced paper not yet submitted for publication, a poster file, …). The only prerequisite is that these materials contain two to three questions you want to see addressed during the discussions. The pre-circulated materials will be shared only with those registered for the workshop and will serve to encourage in-depth discussions. The scientific committee will make a competitive selection of ten papers, in order to guarantee a high-quality exchange.
The main workshop language will be English. Proposals of no more than 250 words should be sent to raf.vanrooy[æt]kuleuven.be and adriaan.demuynck[æt]kuleuven.be before 15 December in Word and PDF format. Notifications of acceptance will be given before 15 January. The registration fee for the IJsewijn Laboratorium will be €25 to cover catering. We unfortunately do not have any means to cover the travel and accommodation costs of all participants, but we will be able to provide an exception for up to four junior researchers without any means of their own (please indicate this in your proposal). A link for registration will be made available in late February.
Organizing committee:
Marijke Crab, Nicholas De Sutter, Adriaan Demuynck, Christian Laes, Maxim Rigaux, Raf Van Rooy
Scientific committee:
Susanna de Beer, Gianmario Cattaneo, Marijke Crab, Ingrid De Smet, Nicholas De Sutter, Martine Furno, Han Lamers, Marc Laureys, Vasileios Pappas, Maxim Rigaux, Florian Schaffenrath, Toon Van Houdt, Raf Van Rooy
Call: https://arts.kuleuven.be/sph/ijsewijnlab
(CFP closed December 15, 2023)
[HYBRID] THE MODERN ARGONAUTS: A MULTICULTURAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME PREPARING YOUNG PEOPLE FOR CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES THROUGH AN INNOVATIVE USE OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
Hybrid/Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw: May 22-25, 2024
Conference Booklet (pdf): https://modernargonauts.al.uw.edu.pl/assets/files/ModernArgonauts_ERC_Conference_Booklet_2024_online.pdf
Website with the materials: https://modernargonauts.al.uw.edu.pl/conference
JEALOUS LAWS. A CONFERENCE ON COLLECTING, STUDYING AND MANAGING ANTIQUITIES IN THE OTTOMAN MEDITERRANEAN DURING THE LONG 19TH CENTURY
Durham University Department of Archaeology, Dawson Building room D110: May 17, 2024
Many modern institutions, especially those from the Global West, trace the origins of their disciplines to this era of profound socio-political transformation especially following Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt and Syria which transformed West Asia into a popular target for tourists, antiquarians, historians, and archaeologists. A close examination of the activities and attitudes of these ‘intellectual antecedents,’ within the context legislative frameworks – sometimes explicitly stated otherwise implicitly inferred – allows for the conceptualisation of the motives behind 19th century antiquarian and archaeological scholarship.
This is a vital dimension to explore considering the hereditary nature of cultural heritage management, which has unfortunately been neglected in traditional historiographies. Alongside this, local interest and agency might invariably be misconstrued if scholars do not acknowledge the historical and legal context in which their predecessors operated, and instead focus on their socio-academic backgrounds. Indeed, a failure to highlight the impact of the antiquities laws, such as those which appeared in Greece and the Ottoman Empire during the latter part of the 19th century, unfairly characterises this period of dynamism and change as one of inertia and stagnation.
This conference brings together leading scholars from the disciplines of history, archaeology, art history, and cultural studies in order to reflect upon the genesis of their respective disciplines at an individual and legal level.
Key note speaker: Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University
Other speakers include:
Thomas Kiely, British Museum
Artemis Papatheodorou, Harvard University
Anna Reeve, University of London
Sebastian Marshall, Doctoral Candidate, Cambridge University
Alexandra Solovyev, Doctoral Candidate, Oxford University
Also supported by the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE), the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS),the Durham Centre for Cultural Heritage Protection and GRAD (Graduate Research Archaeology at Durham).
To register, please visit: https://forms.office.com/e/ke4vGQc0NS
Information: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/archaeology/events/jealous-laws-conference/
[HYBRID] CONTEMPORANEITY OF ANTIQUITY
International Student Conference
Hybrid/Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia): May 15-17, 2024
The Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers of the International Student Conference “Contemporaneity of Antiquity” to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia in hybrid mode (via ZOOM and face-to-face) on May 15-17, 2023.
The Conference invites proposals exploring different aspects of the reception of the Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, Philosophy, History, Culture etc. in the Modern World. The topics of the Conference may include other issues of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies as well.
Undergraduate and graduate students are kindly invited to take part in the Conference. The Conference participants will get the Certificate of Participation. No registration fee required.
The working languages during the Conference will be English and Georgian.
Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Presentations will be followed by 10-minute discussion. The abstracts of the papers (between 250-300 words) should be sent to the following e-mail: greekstudies@tsu.ge by from December 1 till March 1, 2024. The authors will be notified of the Scientific Committee’s decision in two weeks after submitting the proposal.
Along with the abstract the following information about the author should be provided:
* Personal information (first name, last name):
* Higher Education Institution, Country:
* Level of Studies (Bachelor, Master, Doctoral):
* Participation mode (Online / in person):
* Contact data (phone and email):
Questions may be directed to the following e-mail address: greekstudies@tsu.ge.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;7c9dfc67.ex
Website: https://www.tsu.ge/en/news/International-Student-Conference--%E2%80%9CContemporaneity-of-Antiquity%E2%80%9D
(CFP closed March 1, 2024)
BRITISH EPIGRAPHY SOCIETY – SPRING MEETING
Theme: Collecting Antiquities in the British Isles
University of Warwick (Coventry), UK: May 11, 2024
Held in conjunction with the Humanities Research Centre , University of Warwick
We are delighted that the upcoming BES Spring Meeting will be held jointly with the Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick. The theme of our joint colloquium will be 'Collecting Antiquities in the British Isles' + we very much hope to attract a broad range of speakers interested not just in inscriptions, but also in the place of inscriptions within wider narratives of collecting from the 16th century onwards.
Provisional speakers so far include Caroline Barron, Peter Liddel, and Alan Montgomery.
Please send offers of contributions to Alison Cooley (a.cooley@warwick.ac.uk) by 31 August 2023. Provisionally, papers will be of up to 30 minutes in length + 15 minutes for discussion. Poster contributions are also welcome. We hope to be able to cover speakers' travel expenses. Postgraduate and early-stage career researchers are most welcome to present papers. At the moment, this is envisaged as being an in-person event only.
Possible topics for exploration include the formation of collections; the social and educational profiles of collectors; the place of collections in schools, national and regional museums, and in country houses/ private collections; ways in which antiquities have been displayed and how visitors have responded to them; the dispersion and ‘afterlife' of antiquities' collections; the place of ‘forgeries' and reconstructions in modern collections. Other topics most welcome too. We also welcome speakers from other disciplines who might like to help contextualise the collection, display, and viewing of ancient inscriptions within wider social and cultural contexts.
Call: https://currentepigraphy.org/2023/06/14/cfp-collecting-antiquities-warwick-may-11-2024/
(CFP closed August 31, 2023)
FORGERIES, FAKES, AND COUNTERFEITS IN PRINT CULTURE: TEXTS, EDITIONS, COPIES
Lincoln College, Oxford: May 10-11, 2024
Convenors: Geri Della Rocca de Candal and Paolo Sachet
From the spread of fake news to the rise of AI, in our everyday life as readers, scholars, and citizens, we are increasingly confronted with the slippery threshold separating reality and fiction. Yet on closer inspection it becomes clear that creating, altering, copying, and questioning the authenticity of information has always been at the very core of any intellectual, religious, political and economic activity.
The printed book, for centuries the most powerful medium for the circulation of ideas, is particularly central to this discourse, and it is no surprise that readers of all times as well as specialists are constantly challenged by the wealth of literary forgeries, fake imprints, fake authors, and material counterfeits. We are far, however, from an established definition of these notions, especially in their differences and overlaps.
This two-day symposium aims to explore the topic at three different levels. Texts addresses textual forgeries and manipulations of authorship; editions concentrates on false imprints, ‘refreshed’ title-pages, and editorial piracy, including that of written and illustrated paratext; copies looks into the alteration of individual specimens of an edition (sophistication, remboîtage, fabricated provenances, retouched decoration).
We welcome case studies and comparative analysis related to printed material from any context or time, addressing the making or reception of all such forgeries, fakes, and counterfeits. Exceptions can be considered for significant cases pertaining to the manuscript or digital domain.
This call is open to established and early career scholars as well as PhD candidates. Papers must be delivered in English, not exceeding 20 minutes in length. If you wish to take part in this conference, please send your CV and proposal (max 300 words) to printing.misprinting@gmail.com no later than 12th January 2024.
Call: https://www.rsa.org/news/news.asp?id=658774
(CFP closed January 12, 2024)
[PANEL] [ICMS] COURTESANS AND CARNAGE: DEPICTING ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SOCIETIES IN MODERN VIDEO GAMES
International Congress on Medieval Studies - Kalamazoo, MI, USA: May 9-11, 2024
This is an in-person panel; presenters are required to physically attend the ICMS conference in Kalamazoo.
Recent trends in console and computer games have emphasized both historical accuracy and the inclusion of modern Western norms of gender and sexuality in these games, as well as a growing awareness of the diverse peoples of premodern Eurasia. “Dark Ages” themes also predominate as well as stories of lost Golden Ages. How do these games shape popular understanding of the premodern past? In particular, how are sex and violence represented and how does that help shape modern audiences’ understandings of the premodern past? Papers might consider the presence or absence of same-sex relationships in these games, the depiction of sexual violence, the deaths of both soldiers and civilians and how such deaths are treated, and representations of power dynamics among people of different social statuses, especially free and unfree.
Call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aHbi0sPuX3EuDSJshOOtCxGRVPntdMuBXspFkvWmXjI/edit
(CFP closed September 15, 2023)
THE CONSTANT PARTICIPANT: CONSTRUCTING AND AFFIRMING IDENTITY THROUGH MATERAL CULTURE IN ANCIENT GREEK SANCTUARIES AND MODERN MUSEUMS
The Danish Institute at Athens, Greece: May 8-10, 2024
Material culture is a constant participant in the construction and affirmation of individual and collective history and identities through time. It has been utilized both in ancient and modern public settings, where objects may take center stage through intention and/or accumulation. This conference focuses on object agency and their chaînes opératoires by following specific groups of objects from their ancient modes of production to practical and performative use in ancient Greek sanctuaries and ritual places, through to their modern presentative state in museum exhibitions. Both sanctuaries and museums represent revered, carefully guarded, civic and political spaces, that are central settings for creation and representation of identity.
The conference focuses on the analyses of the different life stages or life cycles of objects into account in order to study and discuss the perception and agency in the active usage stages of these objects: (1) their birth understood as the various stages of production; (2) their use lives in their ancient contexts; (3) their death as the point of discard and deposition and, (4) connecting these with the conceptual life stage of their afterlives in their modern settings. This approach provides a unique example-driven understanding of material culture agency in public space relating human identity and self-perception. The main research questions are:
* How and where were sacred objects produced, used, and presented to create, reflect, reshape, and affirm individual and collective identities in the public and political settings of ancient Greek sanctuaries and ritual places?
* How are those ancient sacred objects presented and used to create, reflect, reshape, and affirm individual and collective identity in the public and political settings of today’s national and local museums?
* How has the revering and manipulation of chosen objects in guarded public settings been used to construct and affirm cultural identities in ancient and modern times?
* The chosen timeframe allows for objects found in sacred contexts dating from prehistory until late antiquity.
Organizing committee:
Dr. Sanne Hoffmann, Assistant Director at the Danish Institute at Athens.
Prof. Dr. Ann Brysbaert, Director of Netherlands Institute Athens, Prof. of Ancient Technologies, Materials and Crafts, Leiden University (The Netherlands).
Dr. Petra Pakkanen, Director at the Finnish Institute at Athens.
Venue: The Danish Institute at Athens.
Titles and abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute talks should be submitted to:
sanne.hoffmann@diathens.gr
Deadline for abstracts: 1st of November 2023.
It is possible to apply for travel and/or accommodation grants.
The conference will be published and the deadline for the articles is 1st of December 2024.
Information: https://www.diathens.gr/en/events/konferencer
(CFP closed November 1, 2023)
CRAFTING A LIE. FORGERIES IN THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
Sapienza University, Rome: May 8-10, 2024
Organizers: Giuseppe La Bua (Rome), Sandro La Barbera (Trento)
Forgeries in Greco-Roman culture have been increasingly examined over the past few decades. Studies such as Forgers and Critics. Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship by Anthony Grafton (Princeton 1990), The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake. Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context by Irene Peirano Garrison (Cambridge 2012), and Tenue est mendacium. Rethinking Fakes and Authorship in Classical, Late Antique & Early Christian Works, edited by Klaus Lennartz and Javier Martínez (Groningen 2021), are notable examples of many more studies dealing with several forms of forged or otherwise non-genuine authorship. However, much remains to be investigated within the multifaceted universe of forgery in Greco-Roman history, literature, and material culture, as well as in the later eras of Classical reception.
The international conference Crafting A Lie. Forgeries in the Classical Tradition will be devoted to such further investigation into questions of spurious or doubtful authorship and authenticity in the Greco-Roman corpus and tradition.
This conference will represent the conclusive phase of a larger research project that, while based at Sapienza, University of Rome, has also involved scholars from the universities of Leiden, Siena, Turin, Trento, and Venice.
Confirmed speakers include Tristan Franklinos, Stephen Harrison, Rebecca Menmuir, Irene Peirano Garrison, Christoph Pieper, Emidio Spinelli, Rens Tacoma, and Spyridon Tzounakas.
With this call we are now inviting papers from scholars working on forgeries within the scope of Classical antiquity, as well as sources written in, or dealing with, Greek and Latin from the later eras of (not only) Europe’s cultural history.
In this context, “forgery” should be taken lato sensu and understood as any form of challenge, intended or not, to authorship and/or authenticity.
The areas that can be considered include, but are not limited to: literature, philosophy, history, archaeology, epigraphy, political sciences, the history of ideas, etc.
Examples of subjects that can be explored include:
- literary pseudepigrapha
- plagiarism
- the production of forged texts and material objects
- issues of authenticity and authorship
- the intended audience of forgeries
- counterfeiting techniques
- methods for authenticating/athetizing
- forgeries as parts of cultural history
While the main focus of our project has been on textual sources, we do encourage applications from scholars dealing with both texts and other kinds of sources.
Abstracts (300 words max.) should be submitted as a PDF attachment to both organizers, Giuseppe La Bua (giuseppe.labua@uniroma1.it) and Sandro La Barbera (sandro.labarbera@unitn.it) no later than 31 July 2023.
Given the interdisciplinary nature of this conference, we would expect contributors to clarify in their abstracts: the subject on which they will be focusing; the state of the art; the methodology, or methodologies, they will be adopting; and the contribution that their individual study will bring to the collective goal of understanding the broader phenomenon of forgery in the Classical tradition as a whole.
Please include a short résumé or CV with your affiliation(s), research interests, and relevant publications.
English is the official language of the conference.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/pfbid0vszGAhRG8KbKsX9vi354bKuq7RuK45qAofQw2HDUR9eWWvNT23Ru9d2yEGpZozGVl
(CFP closed July 31, 2023)
(DE)COLONISE ANTIQUITY/ARCHAEOPOLITICS/HOMOSEXUALITY
School of Advanced Study, University of London: May 7, 2024
Part of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing seminar series Un/Doing Queerness in the European South: Italy and Greece
Convenors: Alice Parrinello and Billie Mitsikakos (University of Oxford, co-convenors of Queer Intersections Oxford)
Speakers:
Dimitris Plantzos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), ‘We Have Never Been Queer: Ancient Sexualities and Present Archaeosocialities as a Way (Not) to Define the Modern Greek Self’
John Champagne (Pennsylvania State University), ‘The Italian Vice, Rethinking the Role of Italy in the Invention of Modern Male Homosexuality’
Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford), ‘Blue Love: John Addington Symonds in Venice’
Information: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/undoing-queerness-european-south-italy-and-greece-0
CLASSICAL RECEPTION AND PEDAGOGY: A SCOTTISH PERSPECTIVE ON TEACHING THE RECEPTION OF CLASSICAL MATERIAL CULTURE
University of St Andrews, Scotland: May 2, 2024
The workshop is the first event in a planned series on ‘Classical Reception and Pedagogy'. It focuses on the ways that the reception of classical material culture is currently taught at universities. The workshop brings together experts from all the Scottish institutions in which the topic is taught to share best practices including the use of items available in university collections and the use of walking tours. We will also discuss strategies for dealing with subject matter of a traumatic and distressing nature, centring student perspectives. More broadly we will address the issue of perceptions of Classical Reception Studies at university in relation to other related areas (Classics, Classical Studies, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology), and what pedagogical models the subdiscipline can offer these more established programmes.
The event is organised by Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (School of Classics) and Dr Lenia Kouneni (School of Art History) under the aegis of the St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity (SACRA) and with the support of the Schools of Classics and Art History and the Council of University Classical Departments (CUCD).
Programme
9.30-1.00: Workshop talks (hybrid session), Old Union Diner
9.30-10.00: Arrival and Coffee
10.00- 10.15: Welcome and introduction (Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis and Dr Lenia Kouneni)
10.15-10.45: Dr Darin Stine, University of Edinburgh and Prof Laura Moretti, University of St Andrews
10.45-11.15: Kirsten Carter McKee, Urban Memory/ University of Edinburgh and Prof Matthew Fox, University of Glasgow
11.15-11.30: Coffee break
11.30-12.15: Dr Seren Nolan, University of Edinburgh, Dr Hans Hones, University of Aberdeen and Mr Blair Cunningham, University of Glasgow
12.15- 1.00: Roundtable discussion
Register: https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/classical-reception-and-pedagogy/
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-4.00: Object-based teaching in Special Collections, Martyrs Kirk (open only to in-person participants, limited spaces)
This event will showcase a selection of early printed books, Grand Tour journals, nineteenth-century photographic albums and plaster cameos from the University Collections. Our aim is to highlight the potential of these resources and to discuss ways in which we can incorporate them in our teaching.
Register: https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/classical-reception-and-pedagogy-2/
The CUCD Teaching Fund has made it possible to award some bursaries to postgraduate students towards travel expenses. If you would like to apply for a travel bursary, please email Dr Petsalis-Diomidis (aipd@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Dr Kouneni (gk8@st-andrews.ac.uk) outlining your involvement in the topic of the workshop by 18 April.
[ONLINE] MALTA CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION - ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN CLASSICS
Online/Malta: April 28-20, 2024
Presentations will be organised in a series of individual slots, with each speaker being allotted 20 minutes to present their research and 10 minutes to answer questions. We hope that this format will allow us to showcase the most interesting and deserving research.
The organising team will consider all submissions related to the study of Classics, including reception and the pedagogy of classical languages and cultures, as well as presentations on the ancient world more broadly where this can inform the study of Greek and Roman culture.
The deadline for submissions is the end of January 2024, and more details as well as the submission form is available here: https://classicsmalta.org/current-calls-for-papers/
Please contact the Malta Classics Association on info@classicsmalta.org with any questions or for any clarifications.
(CFP closed January 31, 2024)
ANTIGONE: FREEDOM AND OPPRESSION (FOR THE 50 YEARS OF APRIL)
University of Aveiro, Portugal: April 22-24, 2024
A call for papers, with abstracts due November 15, 2023, has been announced for Antigone: freedom and oppression (for the 50 years of April), an in-person conference taking place April 22-24, 2024 at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Proposals will be accepted for an oral contribution format, with abstracts of up to 300 words, sent to the conference’s Antigona email dlc-antigona@ua.pt. For specific requirements, and other information, see the Antigona website.
Final texts will also be accepted by July 25, 2024, for peer review consideration to be published in the journal Forma Breve.
Proposals are welcomed in the following thematic areas:
* The myth of Antigone and its reception;
* The figure of the dictator;
* The role of women in liberation struggles;
* The issue of justice;
* Arrogance and Rebellion;
* Mechanisms of repression and ideological control (censorship, political police…);
* The role of the press, literature and the arts in the fight against the dictatorship;
* Fratricidal wars;
* Memories of the colonial war in literature;
* The liberation movements.
With her irreconcilable defiant action, which questioned Creon’s coercive powers, Antigone became a paradigm of contestation to any and all exercise of absolute power and an example of a woman aware of her role in society.. Endowed with an inextinguishable capacity for reconfiguration, this myth was chosen by the research group “Mythographies: themes and variations” to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the “carnation revolution” (April 25, 1974), which marked the end of a long period of oppression in Portugal and the consequent conquest of freedom. This event aims at keeping up with, reinforcing and enhancing research in multidisciplinary areas (literature, culture, linguistics and translation), and at interacting with other scientific, literary, artistic and cultural domains.
Call: https://antigona.web.ua.pt/index.php/en/submission-and-registration-publication/
(CFP closed November 15, 2023)
REWORKING EPIC: ACROSS TIME, MEDIA AND CULTURES
Faculty of Classics, Oxford: April 20, 2024, 10.15am–18.30pm
Organised by Thomas Nelson and Fiona Macintosh with the support of the APGRD
This workshop brings together scholars working on the reception of epic in both the ancient and modern worlds. Our goal is to track some of the diverse repurposings of the epic tradition across time, and to interrogate the overlaps and differences in the study of ancient ‘intertextuality’ and modern ‘reception’. We are particularly interested in thinking about the reworkings of Greek epic across different cultures and media: how is this privileged cultural form reconfigured for different value systems and modes of expression in both antiquity and the modern day?
Topics covered will include Hellenistic epic in Macedon and Jerusalem, Christian epic in Late Antiquity, Latin poets’ gendered transformations of Greek epic, women’s embodied responses to Homeric weaving, the sampling of epic in contemporary hip hop, and Jan Křesadlo’s reworking of the ugly Thersites in his twentieth century sci-fi epic Astronautilia.
The workshop will coincide with the UK premiere of US singer-songwriter Joe Goodkin's Odyssey, a modern reinterpretation of the Homeric poem.
Confirmed speakers: Thomas Biggs (St Andrews), Ben Broadbent (Oxford), Milly Cox (Oxford), Joe Goodkin (Chicago), Emma Greensmith (Oxford), Rebecca Laemmle (Cambridge), Thomas Nelson (Oxford), Justine McConnell (KCL)
PROGRAMME
9.45 Registration/Coffee
10.15 Welcome
10.30–11.45 Panel 1 (Chair: Matthew Leigh, Oxford)
10.30–10.55 Emma Greensmith (Oxford): ‘Sin, Muse: Christian Greek Epic in Late Antiquity’
10.55–11.20 Thomas Biggs (St Andrews): ‘Reworking Greek Epic at Rome: Intertextuality and Gender Transformation’
11.20–11.45 discussion
11.45–1300 Panel 2 (Chair: Adrian Kelly, Oxford)
11.45–12.10 Thomas Nelson (Oxford): ‘Homer Reformed: Hellenistic Epic in Macedon and Jerusalem’
12.10–12.35 Rebecca Laemmle (Cambridge): ‘Sacrificing Homer’
12.35–13.00 discussion
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00–15.15 Panel 3 (Chair: Fiona Macintosh, Oxford)
14.00–14.25 Milly Cox (Oxford): ‘Reworking Penelope’s Tapestry: Women’s Embodied Responses to Homeric Weaving’
14.25–14.50 Ben Broadbent (Oxford): ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Thersites in Homer’s Iliad and Mandys in Jan Křesadlo's sci-fi epic Astronautilia’
14.50–15.15 discussion
15.15–15.45 Tea/Coffee
15.45–17.00 Panel 4 (Chair: Constanze Güthenke, Oxford)
16.10–16.35 Joe Goodkin (Chicago): ‘How to Be a Modern Bard: Reimagining Homeric Epic in Song for Our Time’
16.35–17.00 discussion
17.00–17.30 Drinks Reception
17.30–18.30 Joe’s Odyssey (JOE GOODKIN’S ODYSSEY If you would just like to attend the evening performance by Joe Goodkin, at 5.30pm, you can do so for free: please email thomas.nelson@classics.ox.ac.uk to sign up.)
Registration ($) https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-and-events/classics-apgrd/events/reworking-epic-across-time-media-and-cultures
APGRD website: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2024/04/20-reworking-epic
THE MODERN RECEPTION OF ANCIENT GREEK TEXTS
The Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of South Florida
University of South Florida, Tampa: April 19-21, 2024
This Interdisciplinary conference aims at examining the reception of ancient Greek literary, historical, and philosophical writings (inter alia) in the modern period. We seek contributions dealing either with modern readings of specific ancient texts or the indirect influence of these texts on authors and traditions.
Contributions may be in (but are not limited to) the following areas:
1) The use of ancient sources in modern historiography.
2) Appeals to ancient authority in modern works.
3) The role of ancient Greek concepts, ideas, and theories in modern philosphical discussions.
4) Allusions to Greek mythological and historical events and figures in modern literature.
5) The influence of Greek texts on modern theology.
Keynote speaker: Eva Del Soldato (University of Pennsylvania)
Please send an anonymized abstract of 200-250 words, by January 5, 2024, to morsegev@usf.edu. Presentations are expected to be approximately 45 minutes long (30 minutes for the paper itself, followed by 15 minutes of q&a).
The conference will be held in person, on the University of South Florida campus in Tampa.
This event is sponsored by:
The Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies (ICHS) at the University of South Florida
The Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida
The American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture (AFGLC)
For further details, please visit the conference webpage:
https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/centers/ichs/events/annual-conference/index.aspx
(CFP closed January 5, 2024)
[HYBRID] AMPAH 2024: ANNUAL MEETING OF POSTGRADUATES IN ANCIENT HISTORY
Theme: Interdisciplinary Approaches to People, Power and Place
Hybrid/Cardiff University: April 18-19, 2024
The world of Antiquity is vast. It encompasses Greco-Roman, Near Eastern, Asiatic, African, and ‘Celtic’ cultures, across centuries of history, spanning geographical regions traditionally stretching from the western Mediterranean to the far reaches of China. It is therefore critical that historians do not limit themselves to understanding it through a single perspective.
For this reason, the organising committee is looking for papers that tackle the topics of people, power, or place ranging from the Archaic period until the end of Late Antiquity.
Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:
-Reception of People, Power, and Place
-Archaeological Approaches to People, Power, and Place (Art, Architecture, Epigraphy, Rock Reliefs)
-Political and Military History (Rulers, Elites, Generals, etc.)
-Literary Approaches to People, Power, and Place (Biography, Criticism, Traditions)
-Narrating People, Power, and Place through Gender and Sexuality
-Religious Outlooks within the Ancient World
-Identifying Ethnicity and Mobility in Antiquity
-International Relations and Geopolitics
-Social Constructs of People, Power, and Place
-Beyond Greece and Rome
Those wishing to have a paper considered, please send a title, 300-word abstract, short bio, and their institution to ampahconference@gmail.com by Friday 1st December 2023.
As with previous conferences in this series, selected papers will be published in an edited volume. Submissions should aim to be as close to the theme as possible in their abstract and paper. Nevertheless, all submissions are warmly invited.
The conference will have a hybrid format, with papers delivered at the Cardiff University John Percival Building and livestreamed for a remote audience. Online papers will be accepted.
Best wishes,
Clare Parry, Sean Strong, Ludovico Runco, Kieran Blewitt and Teifion Gambold
For further information and updates:
X: @AMPAHistory
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AMPAHistory
Website: https://ampahconference.wixsite.com/annual-meeting-of-po
(CFP closed December 1, 2023)
FAKES, FORGERIES, AND THE ROLE OF THE ART MARKET
Antiquities Action’s Fifth Annual Symposium
University of Texas at Austin: April 13, 2024
The 5th Annual University of Texas Antiquities Action Symposium aims to explore the dynamics that perpetuate the looting, trafficking, and forgery of material heritage. The intersection of art and commerce has always been a complex and fascinating terrain. This symposium will explore the multifaceted dynamics of fakes, forgeries, and their impact on museums and the art market.
We invite students, scholars, researchers, curators, artists, and industry professionals to submit proposals that delve into the intricate relationship between authenticity, deception, and the commodification of art. Papers may address topics including, but not limited to:
* Historical Perspectives on Art Forgery: Examining notable cases of forgery throughout art history and their lasting impact on artistic and cultural narratives
* Technological Innovations in Authentication: Exploring how advancements in technology, including blockchain and AI, are shaping the authentication process and combating forgery
* Market Trends and Deceptive Practices: Investigating the role of the art market in perpetuating or combating the circulation of fake artworks, including the impact on prices and market stability and how fakes and forgeries create incentives that fuel the market for and trafficking of objects looted from archaeological contexts
* Legal and Ethical Implications: Analyzing the legal frameworks surrounding art authentication, ownership disputes, and ethical considerations in dealing with forgeries, as well as how museums or collectors can respond ethically when they discover fakes in their collections
* Case Studies and Investigations: Presenting in-depth analyses of specific cases of forgery, the methods employed, and the consequences for artists, collectors, and institutions
Applicants should submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, a paper title, and a current CV to antiquitiesaction@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is February 16, 2024. Selected speakers will be notified by March 1, 2024, and are expected to accept or decline the offer within one week of notification. Presentations should be 20 minutes in length and will be followed by a Question-and-Answer session. The symposium will take place April 13 on the University of Texas at Austin campus.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/groups/391144767702560
(CFP closed February 16, 2024)
SPECTRAL CARTOGRAPHIES
Princeton University: April 12-13, 2024
In the past three decades, haunting has exploded as a critical trope across the humanities. From Jacques Derrida’s “hauntology” to Gayatri Spivak’s “ghostwriting” to Christina Sharpe’s “wake work,” the role of the dead in living communities remains a topic of widespread interest across disciplinary boundaries. Along different lines, classicists have become increasingly interested in the relationship between the living and the dead in the ancient Mediterranean. This workshop aims to bridge these conversations, linking a historical concern with the ancient dead with broader questions about the ethical and political stakes of haunting. This means asking not only what it meant to be haunted in antiquity, but also what it means to be haunted by antiquity. In line with Avery Gordon’s suggestion that haunting is a “constituent element of modern social life”, we hope to pursue antiquity’s ghosts across presence and absence, life and death, now and then.
We invite papers –– especially from graduate students, early career and non-affiliated scholars, and non-academics –– which map the issue of haunting across three dimensions: the “local,” the “global,” and the “planetary.” The “local” takes a synchronic approach, studying how haunting works in Mediterranean antiquity. The “global” works diachronically, asking how ghosts move with Mediterranean antiquity’s transmission and reception. Finally, the “planetary” asks how haunting works as a mode of relation to the ancient past –– in particular, as experienced within academic disciplines and institutions.
The workshop will take place on Princeton's campus over the course of two days. It will consist of three panels, each of which will engage one of the three dimensions described above: the “local,” the “global,” and the “planetary.” Each panel will include three to four speakers, some of whom will be invited faculty and some of whom will be selected by this open call. Each participant will have the opportunity to 1. give a paper and 2. respond to another participant’s paper, in the hope of facilitating generative exchanges.
We welcome a wide array of papers, projects, and practices, which plot themselves in the realm of spectral cartography. Possible topics include, for example, interactions between the living and the ancient dead, the “deadening” of languages and cultures, theoretical approaches to haunting, and the haunted disciplinarity of Classics.
Abstracts of 500 words, or an approximate equivalent for submissions in different formats (a poem, a clip from a video, etc.) should be sent to Paul Eberwine (paulae@princeton.edu) and Aditi Rao (ar1994@princeton.edu), along with a short bio, by November 3, 2023.
Call: https://classics.princeton.edu/department/news/call-papers-spectral-cartographies-haunting-and-ancient-mediterranean
(CFP closed November 3, 2023)
[CAMWS PANEL] ANCIENT WORLD, MODERN MUSIC II
120th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West & South (CAMWS)
St. Louis, Missouri, USA: April 3-6, 2024
An organized panel to be proposed for the 120th annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West & South, 3-6 April 2024 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA at the invitation of Washington University St. Louis.
After a successful 1st edition of the panel in 2022 at Winston Salem, we are seeking abstracts for another panel on the reception of antiquity in modern music. 15-minute papers on the topic may discuss any genre of modern & popular music, including folk & country, rock & metal, hip-hop & pop, and theater & soundtracks, and may focus on lyrics, album artwork, music videos, live performances, or the music itself. We are particularly interested in questions of how musicians integrate ancient culture, myth, and art into a modern medium, and how they read antiquity in response to the personal, the aesthetic, & the political.
Send 300-word abstracts & questions to Jeremy Swist (swistjj@miamioh.edu) by 15 August 2023. Potential panelists must commit to present in person if accepted.
CAMWS website: https://camws.org/CFPCAMWS2024
(CFP closed August 15, 2023)
[HYBRID] CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Hybrid/University of Warwick, UK: March 22-24, 2024
The Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick will host the Classical Association Conference on 22-24 March 2024. The conference will take place on Warwick’s central campus (Oculus and new award-winning Faculty of Arts Buildings), close to the centre of Coventry, with its excellent rail, bus, and road transport links. University accommodation will be available for booking on campus and delegates are also welcome to make their own arrangements for off campus accommodation in Coventry, Kenilworth, or Leamington Spa. More detailed information about practical issues will be distributed when the programme is finalised in September.
We hope that our programme will include two keynote lectures – one by Yannis Hamilakis (Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University) on Friday evening, and the other on Saturday evening by the new CA President, award-winning poet, translator and professor of classical languages, Anne Carson.
The organising committee would like to invite you to submit your ideas for individual papers, panels, lightning talks, and posters, as well as contributions to workshops from postgraduates, teachers, early-stage researchers, and academics alike. See further below for details on the various formats designed to encourage participation from a wide range of speakers.
Conference themes
We have identified the following themes as likely to inspire interdisciplinary and comparativist approaches but will consider other suggestions too. We welcome proposals on all topics across ancient literature and philosophy, ancient history, classical art, archaeology, epigraphy and numismatics, linguistics, and reception of the classical tradition. We aim to foster a friendly and inclusive environment, in the hope that panels will juxtapose speakers from different backgrounds, so that postgraduates, academics, and teachers can all share ideas, challenges, and enthusiasms.
* Beyond Greece and Rome
* Ecocriticism, Ecopoetics, and the Environment
* Medical Humanities
* Migration and Mobility
* Memory and Monumentality
* Performance Cultures
* Race, Gender, & Class
* Temporality
Workshops on the following themes will have more emphasis upon discussion and interaction:
* Accelerated learning of ancient languages in schools, summer schools, and HE
* Ancient coins and tokens
* Performing and producing drama
* Public engagement: methods and approaches
* Race & diversity
* Supporting students moving from school to university
* Teaching in translation
* Teaching with inscriptions
Speaker Information
We hope that all speakers will be able to attend in person, but we hope that panels, talks, and workshops will take place in a hybrid format. You can submit more than one proposal and be involved in more than one panel/workshop. Please send your multiple submissions in separate emails.
Please note that submission of a proposal is not a guarantee of acceptance. In order to keep conference costs as low as possible for everyone, all speakers and chairs must pay the conference fee (which will include standard and discounted rates). Online participants will also be required to pay a conference fee, to help cover costs of streaming. Exact rates will be confirmed in the autumn.
What to do next
Please submit your proposals to CAConference2024@warwick.ac.uk by 17.00 on 31 August 2023. No late submissions will be accepted. All other enquiries should also be directed to this e-mail address. See the full call for papers/panels/lightning talks/posters/workships for submission types and details.
Call: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/seminars/ca2024/
(CFP closed August 31, 2023)
[PANEL/WORKSHOP] LIGHTNING TALK PAPERS: TEACHING QUEER PASTS IN THE CLASSROOM
Proposed Workshop for Classical Association Conference, 22-24 March 2024, University of Warwick
(see previous entry for general conference CFP)
The ‘Queering the Past(s)’ project brings together teachers and academics from the UK and US to develop resources for delivering lessons on LGBTQ+ topics through antiquity. We recognise the rich queer heritage of the ancient world, and its continuing influence on LGBTQ+ people today, from Sappho to Elagabalus. Classics provides an under-utilised opportunity for teachers to discuss complex topics of identity in the modern classroom in a safe and inclusive way.
At the next Classical Association Conference, we propose running a workshop on ‘Teaching Queer Pasts in the Classics Classroom’, to promote a discussion sharing concerns about the overall rationale behind such initiatives, as well as useful pedagogical methods and resources. We want to share best practices on how to engage with resources on queer identity in the ancient world, integrate them into teaching syllabi, and use the ancient world as an opportunity to expand EDI in the classroom. We want to discuss how to bring up sensitive topics in an inclusive, age-appropriate way; how LGBTQ+ young people can be empowered by seeing themselves reflected in queer history; and how teachers can be better equipped to take on difficult topics with confidence. With course curricula often not focussing on these important topics, how can teachers cover them effectively and help all students feel included and represented? This is particularly important now, at a time when schools are coming under increasing pressure from all sides over the way in which they deliver EDI content, and discuss gender and sexuality.
The proposed workshop will include up to 9, 10-minute ‘lightning talks’, followed by a round-table discussion sharing best practices, useful pedagogical methods and resources.
If you would like to give a talk, please submit a proposal to peter.swallow@durham.ac.uk and nrabinow@hamilton.edu by 1 August 2023. Proposals should include an abstract (max. 200 words) and a brief bio (max. 150 words). Please indicate whether you expect to attend the conference remotely or in person.
We welcome contributions from school teachers, academics and PGRs at all career stages and from all backgrounds.
(CFP closed August 1, 2023)
[ONLINE] RES DIFFICILES 5: CHALLENGES AND PATHWAYS FOR ADDRESSING INEQUITY IN CLASSICS
Organizers: Hannah Čulík-Baird (UCLA) and Joseph Romero (University of Mary Washington)
Online [US Eastern time]: March 22, 2024
Since 2020 Res Difficiles has been a venue for addressing inequities within the field of Classics, examining issues arising out of intersectional vectors of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, class, socio-economic status, and beyond. In our papers and conversations, we explore how people on the margins in our texts and contexts are invited—or pushed further from—the center, and explore avenues through which such marginalization might be addressed. Following each conference (Res Diff, 2020; Res Diff 2.0, 2021; Res Diff 3, 2022; Res Diff 4, 2023), recordings of conference presentations were made available online at resdifficiles.com. A selection of those papers is currently being prepared for publication in a co-edited series for Ancient History Bulletin. In preparation for Res Diff 5, we invite papers from all those who study and teach the ancient world. Submissions from individuals, pairs, or organizations are welcome, as are submissions from students (undergraduate or graduate), faculty, and K-12 teachers.
Our keynote speaker will be Dominic Machado, Assistant Professor of Classics at College of the Holy Cross.
The conference will be hosted as a Zoom webinar with a capacity of 500. Please note that the time zone of the conference will be US Eastern.
Abstracts of 350 words should be sent electronically to Joseph Romero (jromero@umw.edu) by January 15, 2024. Papers will be 20-25 minutes with coordinated discussion at the end of each session. Any questions regarding abstract submission may be addressed to Professors Romero or Čulík-Baird (culikbaird@humnet.ucla.edu). For more information see https://resdifficiles.com/.
Call: https://resdifficiles.com/
(CFP closed January 15, 2024)
[RSA] [PANELS] RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Chicago, USA: March 21-23, 2024
All CFP available from the Index page: https://www.rsa.org/page/RSAChicago2024CFPIndex
* Race and Ethnicity in Neo-Latin Drama
* Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World
* Text, Image, and the Embodiment of Antiquity in Early Modern Print
* Interpretations of Longinus in the Visual Imagery in Italy and the Low Countries
* The Long Shadow of Byzantium in Venice and in its Empire
* The Stoic Renaissance (Panel Series)
* Landscaping and Cityscaping: Representation, Personification, and Construction of Places in Early Modern Literature (15th-18th century):
[RSA] [PANEL] LANDSCAPING AND CITYSCAPING: REPRESENTATION, PERSONIFICATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF PLACES IN EARLY MODERN LITERATURE (15TH-18TH CENTURY)
Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Chicago, USA: March 21-23, 2024.
Panel organised by the Prolepsis Research Network
We are looking for two additional papers to organize a panel on topographic representations in early modern literature, for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Chicago, IL, 21st-23rd March 2024).
The recently coined expression ‘cityscaping’ (Fuhrer–Mundt–Stenger 2015), indicates the creative process of representing cities, parallel to that of representing lands. As an essential component of human culture, these depictions are key literary moments, which have a long-lasting impact on subsequent literature and are effective in shaping and reshaping perceptions in general. We wish to explore in greater detail this rather new theme in scholarly debate, by delving into early modern examples of representations and constructions of places.
Exploration and colonization of new territories posed a challenge for writers who sought to reconcile the classical past with the unfamiliar realities they encountered. These writers grappled with the tension between their knowledge of ancient civilizations and the novel experiences and cultures they encountered in the Americas, the Far East, and other uncharted lands: to navigate this challenge, they employed various strategies to bridge the gap between the classical past and the present, drawing upon classical topoi and models as a framework for understanding and describing the new territories.
Classical strategies such as personifications of cities and lands, modeled into allegorical figures with specific attributes, identities, and symbolic meanings, contributed to the social, political, and cultural discourses surrounding urban and geographical spaces. These allegorical figures also contributed to the construction of a place. By giving cities and lands human-like characteristics, writers fostered a sense of familiarity and connection between the readers and these locations. This, in turn, influenced the readers' perception and understanding of these spaces, reinforcing certain cultural, religious, or political ideologies associated with them.
We invite proposals that delve into the following topics :
* Overlapping/Equation Between Ancient and New Lands:
* Appropriation of classical topoi and models for describing/understanding newly discovered lands;
* How did early modern writers reconcile the classical past with the realities of these new territories?
* New vs. old strategies for the representation of lands;
* How did the overlapping or equations between ancient and new lands influence the literary representations and cultural perceptions of these territories?
* Personifications of Cities and Lands:
* How were cities or lands personified as figures embodying specific attributes, identities, and symbolic meanings?
* The role of personifications in shaping social, political, and cultural discourses surrounding cities/lands.
* The ways in which these personifications conveyed moral, religious, or political messages and contributed to the construction of place.
We welcome proposals from scholars working on early modern literature and related disciplines.
Proposals should include an abstract (max. 300 words) and a brief bio (max. 150 words).
Please submit your proposals to prolepsis.network@gmail.com by July 10th.
Call: https://www.rsa.org/page/RSAChicago2024CFPIndex
(CFP closed July 10, 2023)
SYRIAC STUDIES IN THE UK: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
Durham University, UK: March 21-23, 2024
We are delighted to announce that the conference “Syriac Studies in the UK: Past, Present, Future” will take place at Durham University, on 21-23 March 2024. The conference focuses on the history of Syriac Studies in the UK and aims to celebrate and reflect on the work of scholars in this field across the past centuries.
A series of papers will focus on specific aspects of the history of Syriac Studies in the UK, including the biographies and intellectual contributions of scholars in/from the UK, the history and development of the field, the discovery, circulation and study of Syriac manuscripts, and the formation of Syriac library collections in the UK.
Confirmed speakers include Siam Bhayro (Exeter), Sebastian Brock (Oxford), Chip Coakley (Cambridge/Jericho Press), Lindsey Davidson (Bristol), Susan Harvey (Brown), Kristian Heal (BYU), John Healey (Manchester), Erica Hunter (Cambridge), Christa Müller-Kessler (Jena), George Kiraz (IAS Princeton/Gorgias Press), Salam Rassi (Edinburgh), Alison Salvesen (Oxford), David Taylor (Oxford), Francis Watson (Durham), and John Watt (Cardiff).
In addition, we invite abstract proposals for 15-minute papers, illustrating the ongoing or future research by contemporary scholars in the field of Syriac Studies. We invite proposals from doctoral students, early and mid career researchers, and established academics for papers on any topic related to Syriac Studies, such as ongoing or future research projects, forthcoming or recent publications, or ideas for public outreach - and we also especially welcome papers on the history of the field.
We aim to create a space to learn about and discuss past, present, and future research directions in our field. There will be abundant opportunities for discussion in a supportive environment, and we hope that this will be a useful venue for dialogue and exchange. We kindly encourage you to circulate this call among students and those who might not be on this mailing list.
Proposals for 15-minute papers (max. 350 words + short bibliography) should be sent to conferencesyriacintheUK@gmail.com by October 31st, 2023.
In order to support the participation of doctoral and early-career researchers, a limited number of college rooms in Durham will be available free of charge for doctoral and early-career speakers who may not be eligible for full support from their home institution. If this applies to you, please indicate it when you send your abstract, and add your academic CV in attachment. In addition, meals for all speakers will be covered.
The conference is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Durham Centre for Early Christianity, the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, and the British Academy.
Please address any query to Andy Hilkens (andy.hilkens@ames.ox.ac.uk) or Mara Nicosia (mara.nicosia@durham.ac.uk).
Organizing and Scientific Committee
Andy Hilkens (British Academy Newton International Fellow, University of Oxford)
Mara Nicosia (British Academy Newton International Fellow, Durham University)
Alberto Rigolio (Associate Professor, Durham University)
Francis Watson (Chair in Early Christian Literature, Durham University)
Ted Kaizer (Professor in Roman Culture and History, Durham University)
Karl Heiner Dahm (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Durham University)
Edit (26/01/2024):
The full programme is available on our webpage (https://sites.google.com/view/conferencesyriacstudiesintheuk/home). If you wish to attend, please register via this link (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSew4cDFQK_wtH335KxnqSO6r7ZHWHBAVkcE-EM_zukJg006pA/viewform?usp=sf_link) by March 10. We are happy to answer any query at conferencesyriacintheuk@gmail.com.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;3b06bd7f.ex
(CFP closed October 31, 2023)
[ONLINE] HEAVY METAL & GLOBAL PREMODERNITY II
Fully online (Zoom), interdisciplinary conference: March 15–17, 2024
Organizers: Charlotte Naylor Davis, Jeremy Swist, Shamma Boyarin
Last year, the first manifestation of Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity forged an international fellowship of scholars working in a rich array of disciplines, along with musicians, artists, and journalists, in order to critically explore how metal music and its scenes throughout the world have engaged with the history, mythology, literature, and art of premodern and precolonial cultures. Through panel presentations, roundtable discussions, and unstructured and multilingual social hours, we shed light from a variety of perspectives upon metal’s entanglements in such areas as precolonial Mexico, the ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome, and medieval Europe and Byzantium.
Here is last year’s conference program and website (https://www.brandeis.edu/classics-mediterranean-studies/heavy-metal-and-global-premodernity/index.html), and a playlist of the recorded sessions (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWwYQ2FXjdx2J_JhBmnFgTWpn6pF6nW7R).
Next year, we hope to expand and enrich our fellowship. We invite contributions/proposals for engagement from all interested individuals working inside or outside the academy, including musicians and journalists involved in metal scenes anywhere in the world. We especially welcome those from backgrounds historically underrepresented in either academia or metal. You don’t need an advanced degree or know how to play guitar. If you have a topic of interest you would like to explore, we want to hear from you!
We welcome abstracts for panels and individual presentations, creative and traditional in form and varying in length, related to metal’s reception of the history and culture of any period, people, and place from premodern and precolonial worlds. We define global premodernity as human culture of any period roughly prior to 1600 CE, and we have chosen this delineation to be inclusive of texts, traditions, and narratives outside of the traditional study of classics or biblical studies, which often ignores the rich cultural history of the majority world and narratives outside standard eurocentric education.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, to following:
* Premodern or neoclassical art, architecture, dress, symbols, and/or other material culture in album artwork, music videos, promotional photography, and live performances
* The incorporation of premodern music and/or instruments into metal songs
* The reception of historical, literary, and religious and philosophical texts and ideas in song lyrics
* Issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, and the reception and inclusion of premodern and contemporary women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and other historically marginalized groups
* Political activism of musicians who engage with premodernity
* Interviews and/or auto-ethnographies of fans, musicians, (photo)journalists, and/or scholars
* Methodologies in the study of metal’s reception of premodernity
* Pedagogical strategies for teaching premodern history and cultures with metal songs
* Performance and creative demonstrations of music.
Please send abstracts and any questions to metalpremodernity@gmail.com. The submission deadline is 2 October 2023.
Abstracts should be roughly 300 words maximum, and include author name and affiliation (if appropriate).
We are concerned to make the conference as accessible as possible to disabled people and those for whom English is not their first language. Captions will be supplied, but if you have other access needs for presentation please mention these upon submission of your abstract and we will work with you to fulfill these.
Edit - 04/02/2024:
Conference information: https://sites.miamioh.edu/heavy-metal-global-premodernity-ii/
Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHDJPfdhcObHGyoWKIBUMQorI0mOa2GOAjyepdNlptQYUTPQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O57zJwUtXQRgixGWMMoUBLMRiYAX7xpz3GSB8U2p3Pw/edit
(CFP closed October 2, 2023)
[HYBRID] THE RECEPTION OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY IN ERASMUS & THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Hybrid/Erasmus University Rotterdam: March 15, 2024
The Erasmus School of Philosophy of Erasmus University Rotterdam cordially invites you to an one-day hybrid conference on: The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Erasmus & the Northern Renaissance.
The conference aims to revitalize the dialogue on philological, historical, cultural, and conceptual aspects of the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity in the rich and diverse oeuvre of Erasmus of Rotterdam and other prominent humanists of the Northern Renaissance. In three sessions, multiple experts will lay out the broader picture of the reception of the Classics in Renaissance Humanism, with emphasis on its controversies; investigate how Erasmus and other humanists incorporated and reworked elements from classical antiquity in their oeuvre; and zoom in on writings of Erasmus and their dialogue with major classical authors (such as Homer, Euripides, Plutarch, and Lucian). This examination will shed fresh light on the interpretation of both the ancient works in question and Erasmus’ broader outlook and contribution.
More information (Programme & Zoom link): https://www.eur.nl/en/esphil/events/conference-reception-classical-antiquity-erasmus-and-northern-renaissance-2024-03-15
[SEMINAR] RADICAL MEDEAS
American Comparative Literature Association 2024 Annual Meeting
Montréal, Québec: March 14-17, 2024
We invite paper proposals for a seminar, “Radical Medeas,” to take place at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, March 14-17, 2024 in Montréal, Québec.
Medea has captured the attention and imagination of artists and audiences in multiple media at least since the earliest extant literature of ancient Greece. She is at once a woman, a daughter, a wife, a mother, a murderer, a foreigner, an exile, a sorceress, a priestess, a princess, and, in some traditions, a racial Other. In modernity, theater, dance, film, literature, and the visual arts have turned to Medea time and again, using or coopting her polysemous identity for their own purposes. To invoke just two of the many modern Medeas, in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a novel partly based on the historical Margaret Garner, the heroine becomes an escaped slave in the 19th century United States, while Arturo Ripstein’s film Así Es la Vida reimagines Medea running a women’s health clinic in a Mexico City slum. Recent scholarship has engaged Medea and her modern receptions (Clauss and Johnston), often foregrounding issues of race (Wetmore), race and motherhood (Haley), multiculturalism, ethnicity, and migration (Andújar; Andújar & Nikoloutsos).
Our seminar aims to enrich these studies by embedding Medea and her receptions in modern and postmodern contexts and using contemporary interpretative approaches. Radical Medeas are artistic, theoretical, and cultural renditions of the Colchian princess that call attention and seek to do justice to her thoroughgoing alterity, her resistance to or subversion of labels, easy categorizations, societal expectations, and conventional norms. What does Medea and her receptions have to say to citizens of the 21st century? Is there a point at which a "radical Medea" ceases to be a Medea because her polysemy already exhausts notions of the "radical”? Does her ontological hybridity (human and goddess of sorts in some traditions) lend itself to discussions of monstrosity and the nonhuman? If Medea symbolizes destructive nature, can she address our collective anxieties about ecological devastation? Can the multiply exile Medea capture the predicament of migrants and refugees today? How might she recalibrate our capacity for empathy? Can a contemporary Medea be morally justified or legally pardoned? We are especially interested in interdisciplinary methodologies, both within the humanities and across the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences, that use Medea and her receptions to explore areas of academic and broadly intellectual pursuits of contemporary relevance such as:
·Race theory
·Gender and sexuality
·Performance theory
·Ethnic studies
·Monstrosity, the nonhuman, posthuman, and/or the inhuman
·Psychoanalytic theory
·Intersectionality
·Environmental humanities, ecocriticism
·Migration and refugeehood
·Affect theory, new materialisms
·Popular culture
·Legal studies, criminology
Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted through the ACLA’s online portal by September 30, 2023. Please address all queries to the seminar organizers, Zina Giannopoulou (zgiannop@uci.edu) and Jesse Weiner (jweiner@hamilton.edu).
Call: https://www.acla.org/radical-medeas
(CFP closed September 30, 2023)
EARLY MODERN TRANSLATIONS AND THE CLASSICS
Princeton University: March 8-9, 2024
The recent surge of interest in “global Classics”, the study of the texts and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean beyond the bounds of Greece and Rome, has directed much scholarly attention to the reception of Classics in vernacular languages and the role of Classics as a medium of interaction between cultures. Excitingly, such inquiry has also opened the door to exploring more marginalized voices in Classical studies, such as translations by women [“Grossly Material Things”: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England, Smith 2012] and the reception of Classics in Latin America [Empire without End: Virgilian epics from Spanish and Portuguese America, Valdivieso forthcoming] and East Asia [Plato Goes to China, Bartsch 2023]. Furthermore, we are interested in exploring the potential avenues generated by examining the bi-directional relationship between translation in and out of Classical languages and vernaculars and the composition of new texts within the confluence of different cultures.
This conference will further such efforts by gathering together scholars who are interested in the global picture of Classics and translations during the early modern period (ca. 1500-1800). The scope is intentionally broad so as to encompass translations of the Classics into other languages, polyglot works, and global reception of classics, etc. The conference will showcase the breadth and depth of the field, foster cooperation within and between fields, and encourage cross-discipline publication.
Possible topics include:
* the influence of ancient translation theory on early modern vernacular-to-vernacular translation practices
* Jesuit missionaries’ use of Latin alongside/against indigenous languages and text cultures
* the dialogue between different vernacular translations of ancient works, e.g. Alexander Pope and Anne Dacier on Homer, as a form of critical inquiry
* the role of translation from the classics in constructing early modern women’s participation in the public sphere
* the translation of the Chinese Classical canon into Latin (and other European vernaculars) for European audiences
* the pedagogical practice of “double translation” and its influence on Neo-Latin writing
* the influence of Latin American contexts on the development of Neo-Latin writing
* metrical innovations in 16th-century English verse in response to Greek poetry
* experimentation with Classical genres in Renaissance humanist works
The conference, sponsored by the University of Oxford and Princeton University, will be held 8-9 March 2024 at Princeton University. We are pleased to have Dr. Gail Trimble, Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at Trinity College, Oxford, as our keynote speaker. Dr. Trimble writes on Latin poetry and literary form and is completing a new commentary on Catullus 64 with Cambridge University Press.
We invite 20-minute paper proposals of no more than 500 words from postgraduate students and early career researchers in any field. Abstracts are to be submitted to EMTCConference@gmail.com by November 30th December 7th.
Please direct any questions you may have to the conference organizers, Cynthia Liu (cynthia.liu@classics.ox.ac.uk) and Jamie Wheeler (jamiekw@princeton.edu). For more details, see our website, our Twitter @EMTCConference, or the Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/281222397883953/.
Edit - Program:
Friday, 8 March
Session 1 (3-4 pm EST)
Nathaniel Hess (Warburg Institute): "Translating into Greek in the 16th Century"
Yuecheng Russell Li (Princeton University): "Aurispa's Comparatio Alexandri Hannibalis et Scipionis and the Reception of Lucian"
Session 2 (4:15-5:15 pm EST)
Teddy Fassberg (Tel Aviv University), Sarah Zweig (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "Reading Greco-Arabic Translations in the 17th Century: Salmasius on the Tablet of Cebes"
Katie Mennis (Cambridge University): "Language that Wants the Living Voice: Latin Translation and Early Romanticism"
Keynote (5:30-7:00 pm EST)
Gail Trimble (University of Oxford): "Translation and novelization: the adventures of Catullus"
Saturday, 9 March
Session 3 (9:30-10:45 am EST)
Kirsten Traudt (Yale University): "Creating Brazil: Jose de Anchieta's Geopoetics"
José Antonio Cancino Alfaro (Columbia University): "Translating structures of knowledge in Bernhard Havestadt's Chilidugu (1777)"
Session 4 (11:00 am-12:15 pm EST)
Yuanzhang Yang (Johns Hopkins University): "On the Challenges and Techniques of Translating Classical Chinese Canons: Shijing, a Case Study"
Kai Chen (University of Oxford): "Inventing Li Bai: Re-discovery of the Confucian Utopia in John Scott's Chinese Eclogue"
Session 5 (2:00-3:15 pm EST)
Vanessa Fernandes, David Mesquita, Joana Veiga (University of Lisbon): "(Re)shaping and Transcending Classical Drama: translations and rewriting sin the eighteenth-century Portuguese Arcadia Ulyssiponensis"
Angelica Vedelago (University of Hamburg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität): "Jesuit drama in Sicily: The interplay of classical and biblical sources in Stefano Tuccio's and Ortensio Scammacca's tragedies"
Session 6 (3:30-4:45 pm EST)
Alexander Christensen (University of Oxford): "George Buchanan and the Humanist Sappho of Psalmody"
Lottie Page (Princeton University): "'Damned to the Quill': Thomas May's Translations of the Pharsalia"
Session 7 (5:00-6:00 pm EST)
Allonzo Murríel Perez (Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin/Sorbonne Université): "Translating the Ancient Concept of Duty in the German Enlightenment: Christian Garve on Cicero's De Officiis (1783)"
Nicholas Odom (University of Toronto): "Sarah Fielding's Memoirs of Socrates, Ethics, and Gender"
Call: https://classics.princeton.edu/department/news/call-papers-early-modern-translations-and-classics
(CFP closed December 7, 2023)
[HYBRID] WOMEN AND SEXUALITY IN CLASSICAL VIDEO GAMES
Hybrid/University of Glasgow, Scotland: March 8, 2024
In celebration of International Women’s Day, in association with the University of Glasgow’s Games and Gaming Lab and the University of St Andrews
Although the depiction of women as oversexualised objects is a common trope of video games, including those with classical settings (see e.g. Ciaccia 2022), modern games also allow for more varied explorations of female sexuality, particularly those games in the RPG genre (Lauteria and Wysocki 2015: 2). In games set in the ancient world, women’s sexuality finds itself represented in two major forms: as part of the depiction of NPCs, including historical figures such as Cleopatra, and as part of a player’s interactive experience within the game world, including as a way for them to create and shape their character. The representation of Greek sexuality including for the female protagonist, Kassandra, was singled out for discussion in video games media (e.g. Murnane 2019), and which characters are represented as “romanceable” and why, attracts significant attention from players and game media which also often works to see these romances within their classical contexts (see for example Corbett 2023, who saw the romance in Hades with Megaera as representing eros, whereas that with Dusa demonstrated philia).
This workshop will delve into the questions of how and why women’s sexuality is portrayed in classical video games, aiming to answer the following key questions. To what degree are representations of female sexuality shaped by the classical or historical context as it is represented in these games? To what extent can video games represent a different narrative about women’s sexuality to other forms of modern reception? How are the tensions between player agency and expectations and historical or mythological ‘accuracy’ negotiated in representations of women’s sexuality? In exploring these questions, we will continue to develop groundbreaking research in a key area of the still vastly understudied field of women in classical video games.
By ‘women’ we include all those who self-define as women, including (if they wish) those with complex gender identities which include ‘woman’, and those who experience oppression as women. By ‘women’s sexuality’ we include all ways in which women experience and express themselves sexually.
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.
Works Cited:
Ciaccia, O. (2022) ‘Opening Pandora’s Box: Aphrodite as the Representation of Women’s Sexuality in’, in J. Draycott and K. Cook (eds), Women in Classical Video Games (London) 128–44
Corbett, N. (2020) ‘Romances In Hades Represent 3 Ancient Greek Conceptions of Love’ [Online] Available at:
https://www.cbr.com/hades-zagreus-romance-ancient-greek-love/
Lauteria, E.W. and Wysocki, M. (2015) ‘Introduction’, in Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games 1–9
Murnane, K. ‘“Progress Can Sometimes Be Messy”: Romance And Sexuality in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’ [Online] Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2019/01/27/progress-can-sometimes-be-messy-romance-in-assassins-creed-odyssey/
Edit - 11/02/2024 - Program (all times GMT):
9:30-10:00 – Arrival/registration
10:00-10:15 – Welcome Remarks
10:15-10:45 – Andrew Reinhard “Game Developers and the Portrayal of Women and Sexuality in Classical Video Games”
10:45-11:15 – Kate Cook “Who’s romanceable? Trends in Love Interests in Classical Mobile Games”
11:15-11:45 – Cynthia Yu “Falling In Love with 2D(ivinities): Negotiating Sexual Agency and Taming the Maiden in Otome Adaptations of Greek Myths”
12:00-13:00 – Lunch
13:00-13:30 – Rose Campbell “I Will Sleep with Anyone!”: Depictions and Perceptions of Women and Sexuality in Assassin’s Creed”
13:30-14:00 – Grace Mitchell “Rewriting Herstory: Representations of Women’s Sexuality & Gender Roles via Kassandra in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey”
14:00-14:30 – Jordy Orellana Figueroa “The goddess, the freed slaves, and the adulteress: Women’s sexuality in Expeditions: Rome.”
14:30-15:00 – Jane Draycott “Dangerous Desires: Playing with the Pygmalion Myth in The Forgotten City”
15:00-15:30 - Break
15:30-16:00 – Anise Strong “Trauma, Sexual Violence, and Healing Goddesses in Stray Gods”
16:00-16:30 - Vic Kendall Weiss “Unprescribed vs Hyper-performative Sexuality in Classical Video Games: Stray Gods (2023) and Non-Binary representation.”
16:30-17:00 – Rick Castle “Queer Negativity in Supergiant’s Hades”
17:00-17:30 – Final remarks/Wrap-up
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-sexuality-in-classical-video-games-tickets-818098032237
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;db539094.ex
(CFP closed January 12, 2024)
"DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT": SLEEP AND DEATH IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
NYU Biennial Classics Graduate Student Conference
New York University: March 7-8, 2024
Keynote Speaker: Angelos Chaniotis
Sleep and death are universal and inevitable human experiences, and therefore omnipresent in life. The formulation of these states as twin brothers in Greek and Roman literature suggests, furthermore, a connection between sleep and death and a closeness within their conceptualization. In Hesiod’s Theogony, they are both born from Nyx (night) and joined by their siblings Ker (Violent Death) and the Oneiroi (Dreams), suggesting that a complex framework of these experiences was already established very early on in Greek literature and its socio-cultural environment. Figures of the dead are described as appearing in dreams (including Homer apparition to Ennius), an understanding of death is granted to the sleeping (such as in Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis), and sleep and its absence are alternately lauded or lamented in the routines of daily life (various accounts of lucubration, or Martial’s comparisons of sleep inside and outside of Rome). This connection between sleep and death is also apparent outside of the Greek and Roman worlds, such as in Gilgamesh’s sleep trial in his quest for immortality.
Despite the integral part sleep plays in human experience both ancient and modern, even today we do not fully understand its intricacies. It is liminal at its essence, and a figurative state between life and death. As shown by S. Montiglio in her 2016 book Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature, it is also a crucial element in structuring narrative developments and designating important junctures. Additionally, from a physiological and psychological standpoint, sleep comes hand in hand with altered states of consciousness: the process of falling asleep (hypnagogia), waking up (hypnopompia), and dreaming. Sleep is restorative, but sometimes harmful. Sleep disturbances are associated with a number of medical conditions and mental illnesses, and complete deprivation has profound effects that can include death.
As the fraternal concept to sleep, death operates similarly in an area of liminality, fraught and uncertain for humans. It is the greatest unknown and the one event that cannot be related by the person who has experienced it. In the ancient world we see attempts to grapple with the concept of death in a variety of ways; the inclusion of ghosts and underworld scenes in literature, dreams of the dead, rites and practices to ensure a good afterlife, death masks, and consolation literature, to name a few.
Interrogating sleep and death as liminal spaces in the ancient world and beyond, can offer a refreshing framework that enables us to trace interactions between individuals and their community, ancient experiences of physiological and psychological events, and their socio-cultural framings. The aim of this conference is, therefore, to investigate these two elements of human existence and how they were conceptualized in the ancient world—both in combination with each other or as stand-alone issues in literature, philosophy, and material culture. We invite abstracts for papers from a wide variety of critical perspectives, including those informed by anthropological and sociological theories, and invite submissions from graduate students specializing in the Greco-Roman world and related disciplines (history, religious studies, philosophy, art history, archaeology, Near Eastern studies, Hebrew and Judaic studies, reception studies et al.), but especially those employing interdisciplinary approaches.
Possible topics include but are by no means limited to:
Literary, visual, and historical engagement with sleep and/or death
Explorations of literary or iconographic ties between death and sleep
Depictions of and interactions with the sleeping, dreaming, or the dead
Conceptualizations of dreamlands and the afterlife
Death and sleep as both individualized and universal experiences
Sleep and death as embodied experiences
Altered states through sleep and death; ghosts and resurrection
The interconnection between sleep, death, and rituals
Prophetic dreams or last words
Sleep and health – sleep as a healing device, sleeplessness, sleep disorders, etc.
Types and modes of death – e.g. heroic vs unheroic death or untimely deaths
Gendered interactions with the concept of death
Experiences of grief or near-death experiences
Anonymous abstracts of 300 words, along with an optional bibliography, should be submitted to classicsgradconference@nyu.edu in pdf format no later than December 1st, 2023. Notifications of acceptance will be sent in mid-December. Please include your name, affiliation, and the title of your paper in the body of your email. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Questions about the conference should be addressed to the conference co-organizers Hannah Cochran, Ricarda Meisl, and Poppy Steel Swayne at the same email address.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-do-not-go-gentle-good-night-sleep-and-death-ancient-world
(CFP closed December 1, 2023)
[PANELS] 4TH ANNUAL SOUTHWEST POPULAR/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION (SWPACA)
Albuquerque, New Mexico: February 21-24, 2024
(1) Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture - see https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2023/08/23/cfp-abstracts-due-31-october-2023-graphic-novels-comics-and-popular-culture-at-swpaca/
(2) Classical Representations in Popular Culture - see https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2023/08/23/cfp-abstracts-due-31-october-2023-classical-representations-in-popular-culture-at-swpaca/
Conference website/full CFPs: http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/
Deadline/s: Submissions open: September 1, 2023. Proposals due: October 31, 2023.
AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES (ASCS) 45TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Dates: February 12-15, 2024.
Location: hybrid - Australian Catholic University (Melbourne).
CFP (and panels) deadline: August 31, 2023
Conference website: TBA.
Call: https://www.ascs.org.au/news/index.html
LIMINAL ALEXANDER INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia/Autonomous University of Barcelona: February 16-17, 2024
Borja Antela-Bernárdez and I are happy to invite you to the Liminal Alexander International Conference to be held in Barcelona on 16-17 February 2024.
Since Antiquity Alexander has been at the center of the historical gaze; the scholars participating in this conference aim to observe his figure from the 'limits', from the marginality, redefining the usual perceptions and inviting us to reassess the Western vision of Alexander and his legacy.
The conference is supported by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and it will take place at the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia. Attendance is free but registration is mandatory.
For more details, please follow this link (you will be able to download the English version of the conference poster and programme): http://www.macbarcelona.cat/ca/Agenda/Liminal-Alexander
ANZAMEMS 2024 - AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand: February 8–11, 2024
Theme: Legacies and Relevance: Exploring the Medieval & Early Modern World Beyond Europe
What is the role of the medieval or Early Modern scholar in Australasian society?
How does pre-modern European History “add value” in Australasia? Is its study the vestige of an outdated colonial legacy? Or is it something else? Where does it stand in a world of toppled statues and questioned legacies? In the face of an Australian government overtly committed to defunding the Arts and a New Zealand government with similar aims (but a less confrontational way of putting it), should we now re-focus the curricula of universities across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand on what matters? But what does matter? And who should decide?
In the wake of a global pandemic, which has re-written “business as usual,” is it time for a reformation or for holding fast? This conference will showcase the best of scholarship across a range of disciplines pursued by medieval and Early Modern scholars, but will also seek to ask complex and challenging questions about the future of our discipline. Can the study of medieval and Early Modern Europe help to meet the needs of our times? What is the role of the medieval or Early Modern scholar in Australasian society? Indeed, what was it? In considering these issues, we encourage the exploration of questionable as well as positive legacies, and offer a forum to consider the possible future(s) of our discipline.
Abstracts due: 15 September 2023 - extended deadline 15 October 2023
Call: https://www.anzamems2024.co.nz/call-for-papers
(CFP closed October 15, 2023)
[HYBRID] CHRISTOPHER LOGUE AND THE CLASSICS
Hybrid/Oxford, UK (Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama): February 3, 2024
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for an upcoming conference on “Christopher Logue and the Classics”, to be hosted in Oxford at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama on 3 February 2024. The conference will be hybrid, but we encourage speakers to deliver their papers in person if possible.
Christopher Logue (1926-2011) is best known to classicists for his War Music, a series of radical reimaginings of Homer’s Iliad published between 1962 and 2005, which he embarked upon after being approached to re-work Achilles’ fight with the river god Scamander for the BBC in 1959. Despite extensive scholarship on Logue’s work by classicists and translation scholars over the last 50 years, there has been no conference dedicated to Logue’s work and his relationship to classical antiquity in recent years. This conference seeks to bring together scholars from a variety of perspectives to reinvigorate the study of Logue’s relationship to the ancient world and to pose new questions in light of contemporary developments in classical reception scholarship.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
* New readings of War Music, especially the later volumes and posthumous fragments.
* Cross-cultural or hybrid reworkings of the Greco-Roman past in Logue’s poetry.
* Translation studies’ approaches to War Music.
* Classical presences in Logue’s oeuvre beyond War Music.
* Logue’s composition practices and engagement with classical scholarship.
* The performance of War Music and Logue’s other poetry.
* Logue’s archives in the British Library and elsewhere.
* Future directions for “Logue studies”.
Refreshments will be provided and there will be no charge for registration. We are hoping to secure, but cannot guarantee, funding to reimburse travel for invited speakers who are PhD students or independent scholars. The organisers hope to publish the conference proceedings as an edited volume.
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words (as a word doc or PDF) to Thomas Munro (thomas.munro@yale.edu) and Claire Barnes (claire.barnes@classics.ox.ac.uk) by 15 September 2023. Abstracts should not contain any identifying information. Please include your name, affiliation and contact details in the body of your email. We will notify all those who send in abstracts by 15 October 2023.
Call: https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2023/07/11/cfp-christopher-logue-and-the-classics-hybrid-conference-abstracts-due-september-15-2023/
(CFP closed September 15, 2023)
THE MATERIAL HERITAGE OF ANCIENT GREECE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Athens (Norwegian Institute), Greece: February 1-2, 2024
Early modern Hellenism has often been approached in terms of texts, language, and ideas. The material facets of the phenomenon, on the other hand, have received less sustained scholarly attention. Nevertheless, the materiality of Hellenism—from Greek antiquities and forgeries to ‘Greek’ styles in clothing and bookmaking—is an important aspect of how Greek and European identities were construed in early modern Europe. How can we understand the connection between the interest in material aspects of Hellenism and the pursuit of a common European identity? In what ways did the desire for Greek artefacts, styles, and artistic techniques contribute to a wider cultural identification with Greek culture? What did early modern notions of ‘Greek’ material heritage in- and exclude?
Participants are asked to relate the subjects of their presentations to questions of Greek and/or European identity and to reflect on their approach and positioning in the field of early modern Hellenism studies. We are particularly (not exclusively) interested in digital approaches to the subject.
Presentations may cover a range of thematic domains, which include, but are not limited to, the following subjects. Presentations that explore the intersection of several of these domains and/or take a diachronic approach are particularly welcome.
* Early modern interest in ancient Greek artefacts, architecture, and antiquarianism
* Perceptions and understandings of Byzantine material culture, as well as practices of looting and trafficking of Byzantine objects
* Notions of ‘Greek style’ (maniera greca, alla greca) in many domains of early modern material culture, including dress, architecture, and bookbinding
* The reception of Greek themes and motifs in early modern art and visual and material culture, as well as visual representations of Greece in early modern culture
* The uses of the Greek language in early modern material culture, including art objects and architecture
* The understanding and perception of Greek ruins, memory sites, and landscapes, both before and during the phenomenon of the Grand Tour
* Digital approaches to the material heritage of Greece in early modern Europe
Given the methodological emphasis of the workshop, we welcome proposals for both traditional papers (ca. 20 mins) and shorter concept notes and project presentations (ca. 10 mins).
CFP deadline: May 15, 2023
Detailed information (pdf): https://cardinalpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/workshop-material-hellenism-athens-1-2.02.24.pdf
Call: https://greci-twinning.org/events-and-dissemination/
(CFP closed May 15, 2023)
CLASSICAL RECEPTION 2.0: DIGITAL ANTIQUITIES AND THE FUTURE OF THE PAST
Online/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain): February 1-2, 2024
On the 1st and 2nd February 2024 the following workshop will take place. We leave you all the information below (English, the language in which it will be hosted, and Spanish). Registration: email marginaliaclassicahodierna@gmail.com.
Popular and mass culture have had a central role in Classical Reception Studies. Scholars working in this vibrant discipline have benefited greatly from the Internet and new technologies in a broad sense. This is the case, for instance, of certain literary expressions that have found their means of articulation through the Net and that rework the Classical World in numerous and imaginative new ways. A good example is the study of the uses of Antiquity in Fan fiction, a literary genre which cannot be properly understood if not in the context of the World Wide Web, since it has been the vehicle for its dissemination. But the Internet itself can be seen as an object of study insofar it is a vehicle for this dissemination. We are currently witnessing new and unexpected forms of receptions of Antiquity in the context of recent technological developments such as extended reality and artificial intelligence.
The project “Marginalia Classica: Recepción Clásica y cultura de masas contemporánea. La construcción de identidades y alteridades” would like to delve deeper into these interactions in the workshop “Classical Reception 2.0. Digital Antiquities and the Future of the Past”, where we aim to explore the different ways in which contemporary technologies shape our understandings of Antiquity and intersect with Classical Reception studies, including but not limited to the following topics:
* Classical Reception in/and social media,
* Classical Reception and Digital Humanities,
* Classical Reception and Convergence Culture,
* Virtual Reality and immersive experiences,
* Classical Reception and Artificial Intelligence,
* or the impact of technology on creative responses to the Classics and how these have in turn been put to pedagogical uses.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jenkins, Henry, Ito, Mitzuko and Boyd, Danah (2015): Participatory Culture in Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce and Politics. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Jenkins, Henry, Ford, Sam & Green, Joshua (2013): Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture. New York: New York University Press.
Keen, Tony (2016): “Are Fan Fiction and Mythology Really the Same?”, in Ika Willis (ed.), The Classical Canon and/as Transformative Work, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures 21. //doi.org/10.3983/twc.2016.0689.
Potter, Amanda (2021): “Towards a Definition of Twenty-First-Century Epic: Audience Responses to Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and His Dark Materials (2019–) as Epic Television”, in Amanda Potter and Hunter Gardner (eds.), Ancient Epic in Film and Television, pp. 217–232. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Stead, Henry (2021): Classical Reception Online, Nuntius Antiquus 17 (2), pp. 17–28.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 1st February 2024
15:00-16:30 CET / 14:00-15:30 GMT / 9:00-10:30 EST / 6:00-7:30 PST
Panel 1. Classical Reception in/and social media.
Chair: Carlos Sánchez
Amy Pistone (Gonzaga University) [online]: “Sappho is my Roman Empire”.
Sara Palermo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), “Online Sappho: Negotiating Forms, Meanings and Platforms”.
Oskar Aguado (Universidad del País Vasco), “The Rise of the #RomanEmpire on TikTok and the ‘Decline’ of Hegemonic Masculinity in 21st Century: Trends in Social Media as a Research Topic for Classical Reception Studies”.
16:30-17:00 CET / 15:30-16:00 GMT / 10:30-11:00 EST / 7:30-8:00 PST
Coffee Break
17:00-19:00 CET / 16:00-18:00 GMT / 11:00-13:00 EST / 8:00-10:00 PST
Panel 2. Classical Reception and Fandom
Chair: Luis Unceta
Anastasia Bakogianni (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), “Conversations with Practitioners: How Technology Facilitates Collaboration”.
Cristina Salcedo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), “Can the Internet Erase the Abduction of Persephone?”
Amanda Potter (Open University), “Beyond Slash and Het?: The Romantic Possibilities of Circe Fanfiction”.
Henry Jenkins (University of Southern California) [online], “Visualizing Homer: Remediating The Iliad in Eric Shanower’s Age of Bronze”
Friday 2nd February 2024
9:30-11:00 CET / 8:30-10:00 GMT / 3:30-5:00 EST / 0:30-2:00 PST
Panel 3. Virtual reality and immersive experiences
Chair: Anastasia Bakogianni
Antony Makrinos (University College London), “The Future of the Classical Past: Teaching of Classics through VR”.
Matthew Nicholls (University of Reading) [online], “Virtual Rome – A Digital Model of the Ancient City”.
Sonya Nevin (University of Warsaw) [online], “Digital Animations of Ancient Artefacts for Pleasure and Pedagogy. The Panoply Vase Animation Project”.
11:00-11:30 CET / 10:00-10:30 GMT / 5:00-5:30 EST / 2:00-2:30 PST
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 CET / 10:30-11:30 GMT / 5:30-6:30 EST / 2:30-3:30 PST
Panel 4. Classical Reception and Digital Humanities
Chair: Cristina Salcedo
Henry Stead (University of St Andrews) [online], TBC
Luis Unceta Gómez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), “Textual Corpora, Databases and Classical Reception Research”.
12:30-13:30 CET / 11:30-12:30 GMT / 6:30-7:30 EST / 3:30-4:30 PST
Panel 5. Classical Reception and Online Communities
Chair: Anastasia Bakogianni
Carlos Sánchez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), “Theurgy 2.0: Antiquity, Esotericism, and the Internet”.
Patricia Gwodz (Universität Potsdam) [online]: “Fictionalizing Ancient Narratives on Wattpad: A Comparative Look at Collaborative Writing”.
13:30-15:00 CET / 12:30-14:00 GMT / 7:30-9:00 EST / 4:40-6:00 PST
Lunch
15:00-16:00 CET / 14:00-15:00 GMT / 9:00-10:00 EST / 6:00-7:00 PST
Panel 6. Classical Reception and blogging
Chair: Sara Palermo
Tori Lee (Boston University) [online], “Mixed Media: Past and Potential of Social Media for Classics”.
Liz Gloyn (Royal Holloway, University of London) [online], “Classically Inclined: Reflections on a Dozen Years of Blogging”.
16:00-16:30 CET / 15:00-15:30 GMT / 10:00-10:30 EST / 7:00-7:30 PST
Concluding remarks.
Website: http://marginaliaclassica.es/classical-reception-2-0/
[ONLINE] CAWS II: DOING CRITICAL ANCIENT WORLD STUDIES
Online: February 1, 2024 [12-5pm GMT]
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 a manifesto for Critical Ancient World Studies, which takes the form of four critical steps away from the methodologies of Classics or Classical Studies. The full Critical Ancient World Studies manifesto can be found here.
For this second CAWS workshop, we hope to turn our attention to how to do this critical work – i.e. the generation of methodologies. The workshop will take place online on the 1st February 2024, and we invite proposal for 20 minute papers that address any aspect of the methodologies of Critical Ancient World Studies. You do not need to be working within ancient world studies to present – those working within critical disciplines and on projects that share aims of confronting eurocentrism, coloniality and white supremacy are very welcome to be part of the conversation. Papers do not need to be at a publishable stage – we welcome reflections on challenges, issues and problems that are at an earlier stage of research.
To submit an abstract, please fill in this Google form by the 5th November: https://forms.gle/ac8kmGBva84ubkqi6. If you would like to attend but prefer not to give a paper, please fill in the same Google form with the exception of the title and abstract boxes.
If you have any questions, please let us know by emailing m.umachandran@exeter.ac.uk and marchella.ward@open.ac.uk.
Edit (26/01/2024):
Talks include:
Valeria Spacciante – ‘From Classical to Global: the Death of Vivek Oji vis-à-vis the Ancient Novel’
Kevin Huang – ‘Texts and the Assumption of Insufficiency: Rethinking Early China’
India Watkins Natterman – ‘Dismantling the Canon: How to Expose Elite Male Bias in Classical Literature’
Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki – ‘Towards a Critical Philology’
Emma Ianni – ‘Antiquity Interrupted: Challenging the Greco-Roman Narratives of the Modern West through Critical Pedagogy and Public Humanities’
T.H.M. Gellar-Goad – ‘CAWS in the Classroom: Engaged Pedagogy as Critical Pedagogy’
Curtis Dozier – ‘Classical Reception as Anti-Positivist Diagnostic’
Jorge Ernesto Arjona Quintero – ‘The Gender Life of Concepts’
Emily Hanako Everest-Phillips – ‘In Pursuit of Transculturality: Hauntological Approaches to the Mediation of Historical Knowledge from Central Asia in Antiquity’
Camille Reiko Acosta – ‘Archaeology in the Margins: Pluralism and Positionality’
Ehsan Shahwahid – ‘A Critical Study on Islamisation and Knowledge-Power Relations in Malaysia’
To attend, please complete this Google form: https://forms.gle/NmYeBrbNZrSRiGe59
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;55e6055d.ex
(CFP closed November 5, 2023)
ROMANCE LANGUAGES IN MEDIEVAL LATIN DOCUMENTATION
Centre for Classical Studies, University of Lisbon, Portugal: January 18-19, 2024
The documents that were written, in Latin, during the Middle Ages constitute an exceptionally rich textual corpus, not only from a historical point of view but also from a linguistic one. As is well known, medieval diplomatic Latin, taking here the terminology proposed by Professor Maurilio Pérez, is a Latin written -and even spoken in certain situationswhen it is no longer the mother tongue of the speakers. For this reason, the language that is read in the texts is full of borrowings from the vernacular language, making it a primary source for understanding the early steps of the Romance languages.
Following recent discussions on the presence of Romance elements in medieval Latin documents, we propose this meeting, which aims at offering a new opportunity to reflect on all forms of manifestation of Romance languages in the mentioned texts, as well as to present the latest scientific advances made in their study in the wider European context. Thus, issues related to how, both morphologically and syntactically, the diplomas show the transition from Latin to Romance languages, the mechanisms for Latinizing Romance elements, or the presence of borrowings from other languages that were assumed by Romance languages, may be subject to analysis. Similarly, contributions will be welcome regarding the role that medieval Latin lexicography plays in relation to Romance language and how dictionaries and lexical databases contribute to their study.
All researchers interested in the multiple ways in which Romance languages appear in Latin documentation during the Middle Ages are invited to participate.
Contributions in Portuguese, Spanish, English, French and Italian will be accepted.
Accepted presentations will have a maximum duration of 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
Submission of proposals: until August 31 to linguasromances2024@letras.ulisboa.pt.
Acceptance decision: before September 30.
Proposals: author(s), affiliation, title, abstract (max.: 300 words).
Keynote speakers:
José António Souto Cabo (USC)
Maurilio Pérez González (ULE)
Pere J. Quetglas Nicolau (UB)
Steven Dworkin (U. Michigan)
Registration fees:
100€ with presentation
50€ MA/PhD students (with presentation)
25€ registration without presentation
Payment information will be provided later, after acceptance.
Call: https://centroclassicos.letras.ulisboa.pt/events/
(CFP closed August 31, 2023)
LEGACIES OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC: LAW, TEXT, AND SPACES
University of Helsinki: January 18-19, 2024
Administrative professionalization has conventionally been the hallmark of a modern state. The conceptual separation of the office and its holder has long defined the European way of governance. The origin of this European tradition of the separation of public and private has often been seen in the Roman Republican political organization with its strict responsibilities, term limits and defined powers of its magistracies who operated in public spaces. Nonetheless, this view has been challenged by the recent research on the Roman Republic and its legacy. The conference aims to build a new interpretation of the Roman Republican governance: a comprehensive re-evaluation of the ancient Roman administrative tradition and its links with the European heritage through the lens of Republican and administrative space. The conference seeks to investigate this neglected issue through the spatial analysis of power relations and meanings. The significance of these issues extends much beyond this: the development of administrative space in the European context amounts to nothing less than the emergence of the concept of public.
The conference advances the idea of republicanism through changes that are addressed via developments in the political, economic and social context from the Roman Republic to the Empire and beyond. While much of the earlier research on Republican administration has been constitutional, focused on authority or the individual magistrates, the conference encourages a new interpretation through spatial and topographical analysis, using unconventional methodological tools to explore the social and cultural dimensions of legal and administrative space. At the center is the confrontation of ideas and their contexts from the Roman Republic to modern republicanism, building on the questions: How did the conflict between Republican ideals, political power, and administrative practices transform the spaces of administration? How did this conflict change the social topography of Rome and other cities and the public and private spheres of governance? How did Rome become the model for the Western administrative state?
Themes (suggested, but not limited to):
• The idea of Republican space
• Administration and space in practice
• Republican, democratic, and authoritarian architecture?
• Distinction of public and private in administration and the everyday
• Development of institutional space from the Roman Republic to the modern era
• New methodologies to study Republican administrative space
• Gender, intersectionality and public space
• Archaeology and topography of the Roman Republic and magistrates
Keynote speakers: Valentina Arena, Dunia Filippi, Greg Woolf and Aldo Schiavone.
The conference is organized by the ERC-funded project Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition (SpaceLaw), based at the University of Helsinki. There is no conference fee. The organizers are unfortunately unable to aid in either travel or accommodation arrangements or the cost of travel or accommodation.
Abstracts should be 300 words maximum, for 20-minute papers to be delivered in English. Abstracts should be sent to lawgovernanceandspace@gmail.com. The extended deadline for abstracts is 1 October 2023.
Questions may be sent to samuli.simelius@helsinki.fi.
Call: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/law-governance-and-space/news-events/call-for-papers-legacies-of-the-roman-republic-law-text-and-spaces-18-19-january-2024
(CFP closed October 1, 2023)
[SCS] [PANELS] SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES
Society of Classical Studies 155th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA: January 4-7, 2024
THE AFTERLIFE OF THE BODY
Organizer-refereed panel
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/cfp-afterlife-body%C2%A0
Deadline: February 15, 2023
CAMP PANEL
Panel Sponsored by The Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/camp-panel-2024-annual-meeting%C2%A0
Deadline: January 8, 2023
THE CHALLENGE AND ALTERITY OF EARLY MODERNITY
Panel Sponsored by The Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/challenge-and-alterity-early-modernity
Deadline: March 1, 2023
COINS, COPIES, AND PROTOTYPES
Panel Sponsored by the Friends of Numismatics
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/cfp-coins-copies-and-prototypes
Deadline: February 12, 2023
GREEN VERGIL II: NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN VERGIL AND THE VERGILIAN TRADITION
Panel Sponsored by the Vergilian Society
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/%E2%80%9Cgreen-vergil-nature-and-environment-vergil-and-vergilian-tradition%E2%80%9D
Deadline: February 3, 2023
NEO-LATIN AND THE STATE
Panel Sponsored by the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies
Call: https://ianls.com/news/cfp-neo-latin-and-the-state/
Extended deadline: March 17, 2023
OVID IN RETROSPECT: REVISION, REFLECTION, RECEPTION
Panel Sponsored by the International Ovidian Society
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/cfp-ovid-retrospect-revision-reflection-reception
Deadline: March 17, 2023
QUEERING THE HERO
Panel Sponsored by the Lambda Classical Caucus
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/cfp-queering-hero
Deadline: March 1, 2023
REPRESENTATIONS OF ETHNICITY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD AND MUSEUM DISPLAYS
Panel Sponsored by EOS: Africana Receptions of Greece & Rome
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;81ba0fbd.ex
Deadline: February 15, 2023
RE-TRACING THE ARCHIVE: AFFECTS AND ETHICS
Organizer-refereed panel
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/re-tracing-archive-affects-and-ethics
Deadline: February 15, 2023
TAKING STOCK: STEREOTYPES IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Panel Sponsored by the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/taking-stock-stereotypes-ancient-mediterranean
Deadline: March 3, 2023
TOPICS IN CLASSICS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Panel Sponsored by the Classics and Social Justice affiliated group
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/classics-and-social-justice-call-papers-2024-scs-panel
Deadline: March 1, 2023
TRANSLATION
Panel Sponsored by Hesperides
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/cfp-hesperides-panel-%E2%80%9Ctranslation%E2%80%9D
Deadline: February 25, 2023
Archive of Conferences and Past Calls for Papers 2023
[HYBRID] THE AFTERLIVES OF THE AENEID'S WOMEN
Hybrid - Durham University, UK: December 15-16, 2023
In conjunction with Dr Magdalena Zira’s residency at the Durham Instituted of Advanced Studies at Durham University in Michaelmas Term 2023, where she will be working on hew new play about the Phoenician Dido, there will be a workshop on December 15-16, 2023.
Convened by Dr Zira and Professor Edith Hall within the Dept of Classics and Ancient History and the Durham Centre for Classical Reception, the aim is to investigate the afterlives of the women (not goddesses) in the Aeneid. Abstracts are invited of up to 300 words on the reception of Dido or any other woman/women (e.g. Creusa, Cassandra, Helen, Andromache, Anna, Barca, the priestess from Massylia, Lavinia, Amata, Helen, Caieta, Juturna (even though she is slightly divine), the mass Trojan exiles), in any medium or genre from medieval times until the present, including e.g. academic writing, opera, fine art, theatre, fiction, poetry, cinema, popular music, burlesque theatre, computer games and graphic novels.
The conference will by hybrid to allow overseas speakers to contribute if funds do not stretch to their travel. Proposals from students and academics at all stages of maturity, like the women in the Aeneid, are welcome. Please send abstracts to edith.hall@durham.ac.uk by June 1st 2023.
Edited (25/11/2023) - Program:
Thursday 14th December
1500 Panel One: Setting the Medieval & Early Modern Scene
1500 Lynn Gordon Medieval Dido, Lavinia and Camilla.
1530 Valentina Prosperi Rewriting Virgil and his women: Barbera Tigliamochi’s Ascanio errante (Florence 1640)
1630 Panel Two: Aeneid Books 2-3
1630 Sarah Cullinan Herring ‘I’m a bitch, I’m a lover, I’m a child, I’m a mother...”: the disembodied voice(s) of Creusa
1700 Helen Eastman Lesia Ukrainka’s Cassandra
1730 Edith Hall Albanian Andromache
Friday 15th December
0900 Panel 3: Dido 1
0900 Patricia Wareh Anna’s Agency in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage
0930 Clemence Schultze ‘Virgil travestied’ in German-speaking lands: from Enlightenment Austria to Wilhelmine Germany
1000 Timothy Joseph Dido the Suffragist? The Carthaginian Queen & Public Discourse about Women’s Rights in the U.S.
1100 Panel 4: Lavinia
1100 Justin Vyvyan-Jones Lavinia as 12th c. AD coming-of-age heroine [in Heinrich von Veldeke’s Romance of Aeneas]
1130 Julia Pelosi-Thorpe “Mutationi d’affetti” and Lavinia’s erotic reversal in the 1641 lost opera Le nozze d’Enea con Lavinia
1200 Anactoria Clarke Psychology, Morality, Desire: Lavinia and Amata in Ursula Le Guin’s Lavin
1330 Panel 5: Numinous Presences in Italy
1330 Anne Rogerson Angelica Kauffman and Sylvia’s Stag
1400 Niall Slater “Give me the branch!”: Lady Sibyl as Guide and Seer in von Veldeke’s Eneas
1430 Panel 6: Dido 2
1430 Zainab Imran Tyrian Purple – a poetry zine on Virgil’s Dido
1530 Daniel Ruprecht Digital Dido: Roleplay as Reception in the Civilization Video Game Series
1600 Patrice Rankine African American Dido
16:30 Maureen Attali Dido and the Jews: From Enemy to Legitimizing Figure
1700 Magdalena Zira Dido/Elissa: the genesis and creation of a new play
Saturday 16th December
1000 Panel 7: Camilla and Amata
1000 Jeremy Lam Warrior Maiden: A new interpretation of Sandro Botticelli’s Pallas and the Centaur
1030 Jennifer Ingleheart Queer Camillas
1100 Edmund Thomas Early modern images of Amata
Register: https://www.simpletix.com/e/the-afterlives-of-the-aeneids-women-online-tickets-151433
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;e1f83f0a.ex (CFP closed June 1, 2023)
[HYBRID] THE AFTERLIFE OF THE GRECO-PERSIAN WARS: FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES
Hybrid - Kyoto University, Japan: December 13, 2023
We are pleased to announce the opening of the Call for Papers for the workshop entitled “The Afterlife of the Greco-Persian Wars: From Antiquity to Modern Times,” which will take place at Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) on 13th December 2023.
This workshop will focus on the variety of narratives and representations of the Greco-Persian Wars and interrogate their social significance from the ancient world to the present day. The Wars had a dramatic effect on the culture and society of Ancient Greece that extended far beyond the Aegean heartland and the generation with direct experience of them, as can be seen in various allusions to the Wars in several societies and across many subsequent historical periods. These manifestations present the combatants in both positive and negative ways, dependant on the circumstances of their reuse. In this workshop, we seek to engage with this contested heritage, guided by (but not limited to) the following questions: How were the Wars conceptualised by the immediately succeeding generations of Greece and Persia? How was the knowledge and memory of the Wars transmitted and which elements were highlighted, fabricated, or forgotten in the successive retellings of the conflict in antiquity down to the modern day? Have the forms of media (literary, artistic and, more recently, digital) used for this retelling affected these narratives?
This workshop welcomes papers concerning the reception of the Persian Wars in the Ancient, Medieval and Modern world. Possible topics include: Byzantine reception studies; historiographies of the Wars in different academic traditions; case studies on sources for the wars; audience reactions to differing historical traditions; the Wars as an aetiological phenomenon in later societies; difference representations of the Wars in diverse media.
The workshop will be held in hybrid form: the speakers and participants can join in-person at Kyoto University or via Zoom.
Applications are open to all graduate students and above. Applicants are encouraged to submit 250 word abstracts for papers of 20 minutes by 15th June 2023. Abstracts and papers must be written in English. Abstracts and enquiries should be sent to K.Sakeshima@sms.ed.uk.
Organised by Kyohei Sakeshima (University of Edinburgh) and Richard Kendall (University of Edinburgh).
Program: https://forms.gle/ApSnocfETXmeUSoL9
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;2aa417f3.ex
(CFP closed June 15, 2023)
VII COLÓQUIO INTERNACIONAL A LITERATURA CLÁSSICA OU OS CLÁSSICOS NA LITERATURA: PRESENÇAS CLÁSSICAS NAS LITERATURAS DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA
School of Arts and Humanities University of Lisbon: December 4-6, 2023
Promoting the critical reflection on the reception of Greek and Latin antiquity in the literatures of Portugal, Brazil and Portuguese-speaking African countries, the Centre for Classical Studies is organizing the seventh edition of the conference A LITERATURA CLÁSSICA OU OS CLÁSSICOS NA LITERATURA: PRESENÇAS CLÁSSICAS NAS LITERATURAS DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA. The purpose of this conference is to discuss and confront ideas about the thematic reconfiguration of values, imagery, and classical works in different chronologies and different places where Portuguese is written, as well as Greek and Latin characters, literary, and poetic culture, history, and fiction in those contexts.
Submission of proposals: We invite interested speakers to submit proposals by July 30, 2023.
Proposals will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee, and must include the following elements:
— Title of the paper.
— Abstract (up to 300 words).
— Author(s) name(s).
— Affiliation.
— Postal and e-mail address.
— Short bio note (up to 150 words).
Contact: literaturaclassica@letras.ulisboa.pt.
Papers are 20 minutes long.
Notification of acceptance of proposals: September 11, 2023.
Registration
Lecturers: 100€.
Master’s and PhD students with paper: 70€.
Organizing Committee
Coordination: Cristina Pimentel and Paula Morão
Joana Veiga
Ricardo Nobre
Rui Carlos Fonseca
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;206e25dd.ex
(CFP closed July 30, 2023)
ANNUAL MEETING OF POSTGRADUATES IN RECEPTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD (AMPRAW)
Location: Superiore Meridionale, Naples, Italy - November 30-December 2, 2023
Theme: Cultures in fragments - Multifaceted approaches to the knowledge of Mediterranean antiquity through partial remains
The 3rd year PhD students of the doctoral program in Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean (ACMA) are organizing the 2023 Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW), titled “Cultures in Fragments: Multifaceted approaches to the knowledge of Mediterranean antiquity through partial remains.”
Topic
The conference is open to graduate students and early career researchers and is focused on the epistemological meaning of the fragment. Since Mediterranean antiquity has come to us in fragments, we aim to investigate the nature and cognitive value of the fragment, whether ceramic, stratigraphic, architectural, textual, or papyrus. Furthermore, the conference aims to address the problem of fragmentariness in the ancient world by starting from theoretical issues, moving to specific case studies and investigating the complex relationship between the fragment and modernity.
The fragmentary nature of the remnants of antiquity makes them particularly fascinating and attractive: their partiality hides the possibility of reconstructing the whole, incompleteness stimulates intuition, and absence generates the desire to regain an original whole. The conference aims to be an interdisciplinary reflection on the reception of Mediterranean antiquity through fragments that have been transformed, selected, reused, and reinterpreted over a long period of time.
We encourage proposals connected with one or more (but not exclusively) of the following lines of research:
Archaeology and epigraphy:
• The process of reception of the archaeological fragment: waste, reuse, quotation;
• The archaeological fragment as the minimum unit of knowledge;
• Reconstruction of ancient landscapes starting from fragments in its contemporary framework;
• Fragments of rituals: reconstruction of the votive context through material and textual remnants and their present interpretation;
• Meanings of the fragment in an archaeological collection, from those considered original or ancient to the reconstructed or contemporary;
• The meaning of collections of antiquities in contemporary society;
• Epistemology of reconstruction: to what extent are virtual and physical reconstructions allowed? How do they influence reception?
Classical philology and papyrology:
• from text to context: reconstruction of the contexts of production, use, and preservation of a text through the study of its fragments;
• the fragment as material evidence: material analysis and bibliological reconstruction of ancient books through the surviving fragments of a text;
• analysis of the relationship between text fragments and archaeological contexts of discovery;
• reuse of a papyrus fragment: use of recto and verso;
• rewriting of the scriptural medium in palimpsest manuscripts: scriptio inferior and scriptio superior;
• diachronic and diatopic reception of the textual fragment in the indirect tradition: citation and reuse;
• transformation of the textual fragment on the basis of new cultural, linguistic, and social needs: adaptation, rehashing, translation;
• analysis of the layout of a text in the copying and/or reuse of a textual fragment.
Architecture and conservation:
• From ancient fragment to modern restoration: methodological issues and historical evolution;
• The reintegration of the fragment from material restoration to virtual restoration;
• Fragments of ancient cities in contemporary cities: conservation and valorizzazione;
• The reception of antiquity through GIS: from knowledge of cultural heritage to urban planning;
• Excavations and conservation: experiences and projects of reconstruction and conservation;
• Promoting and preserving the archaeological fragment: cultural and cognitive accessibility;
• Architectural fragments and museums: exhibition and communication;
• Debate and design experiences about the relationship between archaeology and the contemporary city;
• Urban and suburban districts: the knowledge of the ancient city in bibliographic and material evidence.
Submission of proposals
Proposals should be sent via email to ampraw2023.ssm@gmail.com by July 20, 2023 extended deadline July 30, 2023.
Please include a brief bio-bibliographical note (with your name and, if possible, affiliation, max 200 words) and an anonymous abstract (max 300 words) listing five keywords related to the paper at the top of the abstract. The attachments should be *.pdf files. The scientific and organizing committees will evaluate the proposals and communicate the outcome to all applicants by September 15, 2023. Abstracts may be in English or Italian, likewise the conference papers, which should not exceed 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The meeting will be in-person, but remote access will be possible upon request. The meeting will take place in Naples, Italy, on November 30 and December 1, concluding on December 2 with a guided visit to an archaeological site in Campania.
Publication
After the meeting, each paper will be sent to two anonymous referees for eventual publication in an edited volume of the book series Quaderni di ACMA.
Program: https://www.academia.edu/109245510/Cultures_in_Fragments_Multifaceted_approaches_to_the_Knowledge_of_Mediterranean_Antiquity_through_Partial_Remains_AMPRAW_2023
Call: https://sira-restauroarchitettonico.it/en/annual-meeting-of-postgraduates-in-reception-of-the-ancient-world-ampraw-2023-call-for-papers/
(CFP closed July 30, 2023)
Previous AMPRAW conferences:
2022: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA: November 3-5, 2022 (hybrid). Theme: Islands - Program.
2021: Columbia University, New York: November 11-13, 2021 (hybrid). https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/ampraw. Twitter: @AMPRAW2021.
2020: cancelled/postponed due to COVID-19 (intended venue: Columbia University, New York).
2019: Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands): November 28-30, 2019. https://www.ru.nl/hlcs/conferences/ampraw-2019/ampraw-2019/
2018: University of Coimbra, Portugal: November 8-10 2018. https://ampraw2018.wixsite.com/home/.
2017: University of Edinburgh: 23-24 November 2017 - https://ampraw.wixsite.com/ampraw2017. Twitter: @ampraw2017
2016: University of Oxford: 12-13 December 2016 - https://amprawoxford.wordpress.com/
2015: University of Nottingham: 14-15 December 2015 - ampraw2015.wordpress.com/ - Twitter: @AMPRAW2015
2014: University of London: 24-25 November 2014 - ampraw2014.wordpress.com/.
2013: University of Exeter.
2012: University of Birmingham.
2011: University College London.
[HYBRID] ENVIRONMENT, MYTHOLOGY AND STORYTELLING: A SYMPOSIUM
Hybrid/University of Bristol, UK: November 29-30, 2023
This one-and-a-half-day interdisciplinary symposium will take place on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th November 2023 at the University of Bristol (UK) as an event in close collaboration amongst the departments of Classics and Creative Writing, the IGRCT, and the Centre for Environmental Studies. The event is free and will take place in a hybrid format.
vWe are releasing a call for 10-minute presentations on the interaction between ancient and modern narratologies and the physical environment. The impetus is to track how thinking around the environment transforms narratives and to interrogate how myths and storytelling form and are formed in dialogue with nature. Our interests are twofold:
To what extent an ecological awareness informs the way humans construct narrations and how literature can be reshaped through this perspective. We want to explore the ways the environment inspires new creative possibilities for engaging with mythology and storytelling - both ancient and contemporary. We have a keen interest in the synthesis of existing mythologies to explore new modes of eco-inspired storytelling.
How natural phenomena (e.g. eclipses, clouds, volcanoes, sea waves) can participate in this dialogue, for instance, in acting as vessels to provide renewed sets for pre-existing stories and encourage fresh perspectives on myth; or how stories change when moving from one culture to another in translation, transplantation, and adaptation.
We invite postgraduates, early career researchers and practitioners from across disciplines to contribute 10-minute presentations on topics related to this theme. Each panel will include 3 / 4 speakers, a 15-minute group discussion and a further 15-minute Q&A session.
Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to:
- Econarratology
- Eco-feminism and Queer ecology
- Eco-criticism
- Trans ecologies
- Trauma and the environment
- The Uncanny and the environment
- Mythopoetic
- Visible and invisible landscapes
- Cartography
- New Formalism
- New Materialism
- Translation Studies
- Narrative and metamorphosis
Please submit a proposal of maximum 300 words by 30th October 2023 using the following Google Form: https://forms.office.com/e/MMPv6cNRik.
Timeline:
Deadline for submitting abstracts: 30th October 2023
Confirmation of acceptance: 4th November 2023
Program release and Registration open: 7th November 2023
Symposium: 29th-30th November 2023
Our keynote speaker will be Prof Marco Caracciolo from Ghent University. There will be a reading by Dr Noreen Masud (University of Bristol) on the evening of Day One. The symposium is generously funded by the Centre for Environmental Studies and the IGRCT, which has also provided two travel bursaries for non-Bristol based PGR speakers (£50 each).
Organizers:
Constantine Blintzios, PhD candidate in Creative Writing, University of Bristol.
Ash Bond, PhD candidate in Creative Writing University of Bristol.
Eugenia Nicolaci, PhD candidate in Classics, University of Bristol.
Please direct any questions you may have to Eugenia Nicolaci (eugenia.nicolaci@bristol.ac.uk).
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;dddc067a.ex
(CFP closed October 30, 2023)
IN THE MARGINS OF THEATRE
University of Verona (Aula Zanella – Biblioteca Frinzi): November 23-24, 2023
Organizers: Francesca Coppola, Francesco Lupi, Cristiano Ragni (University of Verona)
The international conference ‘In the Margins of Theatre’, organised by the research group of the IMT Project of the Skenè Research Centre, brings together the members of the three Veronese sub-projects (TheME – Theatrical Marginalia in Early Modern England; TheMAS – Theatrical Marginalia of the Spanish Golden Age; ThEMAD – The Early Modern Marginalia of Ancient Drama) with other national and international experts who have worked and are working on manuscript and printed marginalia on ancient and Renaissance dramatic texts.
The aim is to reflect on the various manifestations of a practice that was widespread in the early modern era: sometimes it was connected to didactic activities, other times it was the expression of personal reflection on the part of the annotators, or, especially in the case of printed marginalia, it was evidence of an attempted commentary aiming to facilitate the comprehension of the text while, at the same time, being suspended between the textual and performative dimensions of the dramas to which it referred.
Placing itself at the intersection of different theatrical traditions – in terms of epoch, language, dramatic conventions and dramaturgical practices, but also in terms of the forms of textual transmission –, the conference is aimed as much at specialists in the individual disciplines to which the sub-projects TheME, TheMAS and ThEMAD belong, as at scholars interested in the broad scientific articulations of the initiative (theatre historians, book historians, historians of ideas, classicists, palaeographers, etc.).
Papers at the Conference will be delivered in English, Spanish and Italian.
Full programme available at the following page: https://skene.dlls.univr.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Programme_def.pdf
For further information, please visit the conference website: https://skene.dlls.univr.it/2023/11/02/in-the-margins-of-theatre/
If you wish to attend the conference remotely, a Zoom link can be obtained by writing to: skene@ateneo.univr.it
[HYBRID] ANCIENT HISTORY AND ANCIENT HISTORIANS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: DIS MANIBUS PAVEL OLIVA
Hybrid - Prague (Villa Lanna), Czech Republic: November 22-24, 2023
23rd November 2023 marks the centenary of Prof. Pavel Oliva (born Ohrenstein, 23. 11. 1923 – 5. 3. 2021). To honour the influential Czech historian of ancient Greece, a conference “Ancient History and Ancient Historians in the 20th century: Dis Manibus Pavel Oliva” will take place at the Villa Lanna (V Sadech 1/1, Praha 6 – Bubeneč) on 22nd–24th November 2023. Please accept our invitation to present a paper at the conference.
The preferred topics of contributions are the following:
- appraisal of Pavel Oliva’s contribution to the study of ancient Greece and Pannonia;
- the influence of both the dictatorships Pavel Oliva was confronted with on his life and work;
- Pavel Oliva’s role in the scholarly community, his contacts with other scholars in both East and West.
Contributions on the following topics will also be welcome:
- areas of Oliva’s professional interest, i.e. esp. Solon, the social history of Sparta, history of Greece in the Hellenistic era, Marcomannic Wars;
- lives of classicists persecuted by totalitarian regimes;
- use and misuse of ancient history in 20th-century politics.
Keynote speakers:
Stephen Hodkinson (the University of Nottingham, emeritus) - The Modern Mirage of Spartan Militarism;
Oswyn Murray (Balliol College, Oxford, emeritus) - The Republic of Letters between East and West;
Lukas Thommen (Universität Basel) - Gleichheit und Freiheit im spartanischen Kosmos.
The conference languages will be English and German.
If you are interested in active participation in the conference, please send the preliminary title of your contribution and its short annotation (max. 300 words) to nyvlt@ics.cas.cz by 15th March 2023.
Applicants will be notified by 17th April 2023 at the latest.
The active participants will be asked to pay a conference fee of 1000 CZK / 42 EUR to the account of the Czech Union of Classical Philologists (Jednota klasických filologů).
Please note that the number of non-speaking participants in the Villa Lanna is limited. If you would be interested in attending the conference via either ZOOM or Teams, please notify nyvlt@ics.cas.cz.
Edit (18/06/2023) - Program:
DAY 1 (22TH NOVEMBER): DIS MANIBUS PAVEL OLIVA
(13:00-13:15) welcome
(13:15-14:15) KEYNOTE: O. Murray, The Republic of Letters between East and West
(14:15-15:00) D. Tompkins, Pavel Oliva in Eastern European Context
(15:30-16:15) I. Koucká, The Importance of Pavel Oliva for the Activities of Czech and International
Organizations of Historians of Antiquity and Classical Philologists (JKF, EIPHNH, FIEC)
(16:15-17:00) J. Blažek – M. Šmíd, Pavel Oliva's Testimony in the Context of Holocaust Memories
DAY 2 (23RD NOVEMBER): ANCIENT HISTORY
(9:00-10:00) KEYNOTE: L. Thommen, Gleichheit und Freiheit im spartanischen Kosmos
(10:30-11:15) S. O. Shapiro, Chilon of Sparta: Legend and Reality
(11:15-12:00) P. A. Cartledge, Hellenistic & Roman Sparta - what's new since 2002
(13:30-14:15) J. Kuciak, Die samischen logoi in den Historien Herodots als Quelle zur Geschichte der Insel Samos im 6. Jhdt. vor Christus
(14:15-15:00) J. Daneš, Sparta and Argos in ancient Greek Tragedy
(15:30-16:15) I. Prchlík, Polybius' Numantine War
(16:15-17:00) P. Kovács, The Research on Roman Pannonia Following 1986
DAY 3 (24TH NOVEMBER): ANCIENT HISTORY IN THE 20TH CENTURY
(9:00-10:00) KEYNOTE: S. Hodkinson, Misuse of Sparta by the Far Right
coffee break
(10:30-11:15) P. Nývlt, J. E. Powell's Critique of German Scholarship on Thucydides in the 1930s
(11:15-12:00) K. Tsivos, Whose Is Sparta and Whose Is Macedonia? Greek Nationalism and the (Ab)Use of Classical Antiquity
Program: https://www.flu.cas.cz/cz/akce-filosofickeho-ustavu-av-cr/21-konference-a-workshopy/4339-ancient-history-and-ancient-historians-dis-manibus-pavel-oliva
Call [pdf]: https://www.ics.cas.cz/upload/__files/CFP_Oliva_EN.pdf
(CFP closed March 15, 2023)
ORDER AND CHAOS
Classical Association of South Africa (CASA) 34th Biennial Conference
University of Cape Town, South Africa: November 22-25, 2023
The Classical Association of South Africa (CASA) invites proposals for papers for its 34th Biennial Conference, to be hosted by the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town, 22-25 November 2023. Proposals need not be limited to the conference theme ‘Order and Chaos’, and papers on any topic on the ancient world or its reception are welcome. Postgraduate students are also encouraged to submit paper proposals.
EXTENDED Deadline for proposals is 1 March 2023 April 30, 2023.
Deadline for panel proposals is 1 February 2023 (email conference@casa-kvsa.org.za to propose a panel).
Direct any queries to: conference@casa-kvsa.org.za
For further information please visit the conference tab on the CASA website where you can complete the proposal form: https://casa-kvsa.org.za/conference
(CFP closed April 30, 2023)
CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN CLASSICS
Malta Classics Association: November 16-18, 2023
The Malta Classics Association invites submissions of proposals for presentations at its annual Conference of Contemporary Research in Classics which is being organised on Thursday 16, Friday 17 and Saturday 18th November 2023. Preference will be given to students and researchers in the course of their postgraduate research in Classics and related fields as well as early career scholars. Students in the final stages of their undergraduate degrees, independent scholars and more established academics may be considered.
The Organising Committee will consider all submissions on topics related to Classics and Classical Studies in the broadest sense. By way of example, we provide the following list of topic groups presented in previous conferences:
- textual analysis and literary criticism of classical texts
- archaeological and historical research of classical societies or contemporary societies in connection with the classical world, including late antiquity
- classical reception (from the post-classical world up till the present day)
- pedagogy of classical and ancient languages, classical studies and the ancient world.
Interested candidates are kindly asked to fill in the application form available on this dedicated registration page (https://classicsmalta.org/ccrc-2023-submission-of-proposals/) and submit it via email to info@classicsmalta.org by no later than 31 August 2023.
(CFP closed August 31, 2023)
[ONLINE] AIMS 2023 - ANTIQUITY IN MEDIA STUDIES
Theme: From “mirror of antiquity” to antiquities on screens: shaping self, persona, society through media/ted encounters with imagined pasts
Online:
Americas, UK, and EU: November 10-11 & 17-18, 2023; with special events November 13-16
Australasia: November 11-12 & 18-19, 2023; with special events November 14-17
Since antiquity, mirrors have been endowed with magical abilities to reveal different truths than what mere physics requires. Infused with the cultural expectations of its beholder, a mirror can conjure images of hidden desires, true selves, cautionary tales, and unwelcome revelations in the light passing over its surface. Modern subscribers to the Western “classical tradition” looked into the “mirror of antiquity” and conjured up images from the Greek and Roman past as models for aspects of contemporary life, justified by claims of moral or spiritual kinship that established an emotionally potent relationship between beholder and image.
Through the mirror of antiquity, a viewer’s sense of self could be mediated by the image of an ancient model, a persona fit for the scenario. Pre- and early industrial elites (and those who aspired to that powerful status) in many countries propagated this affinity for “classical antiquity” in society over time, including through educational institutions historically intended to prepare people for positions of importance in society. As 20th-century elites turned broadly away from antiquity as a source of guidance and toward imagining the world of the future, over time educational institutions have followed suit, thus narrowing one of the primary streams of cultural activity through which an epistemology of “antiquity”, including Western “classical” or “Greco-Roman” antiquity, had developed over centuries.
And yet, this technocratic turn and institutional disinvestment have hardly resulted in the disappearance of antiquity from public discourse. Ancient worlds, particularly Mediterranean antiquities–including Greek, Roman, Biblical, Egyptian, and Near Eastern deep pasts–continue to be conjured especially as art and entertainment. With the “mirror of antiquity” model largely (but not entirely) discarded as a vehicle for self-improvement, another reflective, and reflexive, surface arose: the screen, where projections of ancient worlds and contemporary retellings of ancient narratives have continued to proliferate across myriad media, implicating the global entertainment industry and billions of consumers worldwide, and further refracting through fan culture.
Whether through mirror, screen, or other medium, popular culture has long made its own uses of antiquity as a transnational metaverse, with or without pixels. What does this dynamic and sometimes interactive sandbox for the shaping of self, persona, and identity look like in societies that become less invested in the study of antiquity, as reflected in the priorities of institutions that serve and (re)produce those societies? What sorts of reflections do all kinds of people see, and seek, when they engage with antiquity on screen? What selves are constructed through the play of pixels purporting to represent the ancient past, from early childhood well into adulthood? What kinds of engagement may be sparked by reading against the grain when representations of antiquity exclude or distort the selves with which some contemporary viewers may identify? How does this environment change who can shape the meanings and value(s) of “antiquity”?
Invitation
With such questions in mind, for our 2023 annual meeting the conference committee of Antiquity in Media Studies invites contributions that engage with this year’s theme, whether through individual case studies, trend analysis, experimental processes, theoretical frameworks for broader inquiry, or creative interpretations. AIMS welcomes contributions from scholars, educators, and creatives that treat a wide variety of media, including but not limited to: the products and production of film, television, analog and video games, novels/genre fiction, fan fiction, comics, manga, anime, animation, fashion, music, theater, dance, cooking, and social media.
AIMS welcomes a variety of formats for the presentation of research, pedagogy, and creative responses to the reception of antiquity, including but not limited to: individual 20-minute papers, three-paper panels, roundtables, workshops, poster sessions, lightning sessions, play-throughs, live multi-player games, technical demonstrations, creative showcases, creator interviews, and other activities that can fit within a 60-90 minute time slot and be delivered remotely at this online conference. NOTE: Research papers will be pre-recorded and available with captioning in advance of the conference, while discussions of these papers will be live.
To submit proposals, please click through to the form below [see the link to Call, below]. AIMS is committed to creating an environment that supports participants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and we encourage submissions from scholars, educators, and creatives from underrepresented backgrounds.
Submissions are due by Friday, August 11 extended deadline August 14.
Questions about the conference? Contact AIMS President Meredith Safran presidentaims@antiquityinmediastudies.org.
Call: https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2023-call-for-papers/
(CFP closed August 14, 2023)
[AIMS] [PANEL] STAR TREK AND THE ANCIENT PAST
(See full AIMS conference CFP above this listing for detailed conference information.)
Nearly sixty years ago in 1966, Star Trek first premiered on TV, offering a rare example of science-fiction aimed at an adult audience that represented a positive future emerging from the depths of the Cold War. The Original Series, as it’s now called, and the many spin-offs, feature films, books, comics, and games that have emerged from it, have all emphasized the development of humanity in the future as an idealized and enlightened multicultural society, driven by science, innovation, curiosity, and respect for difference. Indeed, the recent years have seen a particular proliferation of this franchise, including Discovery (2017-present), Picard (2020-2023), Lower Decks (2020-present), and Strange New Worlds (2022-present). These new additions to the Star Trek canon have maintained the social-justice message that has long been touted as part of creator Gene Roddenberry’s original vision for the series.
Amidst this focus on humanity’s evolution, a prominent thread permeates Star Trek: humanity’s relationship with its own past, particularly the ancient Mediterranean past, informs, and even defines, this enlightened future. In addition to the general concept of a privileged deep past, the particular antiquity centered on the Mediterranean world has contributed a consistent and defining element of the franchise, from developing what may have started as superficial ornaments, like the names of Vulcans and Romulans in The Original Series (1966-69), into larger narratives like Romulans vs. Remans in Nemesis (2002); signaling engagements with antiquity with episode titles such as “Lethe” and “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” in Discovery (2017-present); to adapting narratives and themes from the Odyssey in “Calypso” from Short Treks (2018-2020) and the Star Trek: Year Five comic series (2019-2021). Previous scholarly treatments have focused discussion on the receptions of antiquity in The Original Series episodes “Plato’s Stepchildren,” “Bread and Circuses,” and “Who Mourns for Adonais?” (M. Winkler 2009, G. Kovacs 2015; for more recent treatments, see R. Clare 2022 and D. Baker 2023). A forthcoming chapter in Ruby Blondell’s Helen of Troy in Hollywood addresses the long-standing legacy of the reception of Helen of Troy in The Original Series episode, “Elaan of Troyius” (Princeton University Press, 2023).
For the 2023 Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) international online conference, we invite proposals for 20-minute research presentations for a panel or series of panels on this theme. We welcome papers on a variety of topics that discuss Star Trek’s relationship with antiquity, with a particular interest in proposals reflecting (pun intended) the theme of this year’s AIMS conference: From “mirror of antiquity” to antiquities on screens. Please refer to the AIMS 2023 CFP for full context, which can be found here: https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2023-call-for-papers/. Although the panel organisers are scholars of the literatures and languages of the ancient Mediterranean world and its reception, we invite submissions by scholars from a variety of disciplinary viewpoints interested in investigating a broad definition of “antiquity” in Star Trek. Some possible topics include (but are not limited to):
* What constitutes “antiquity” for Star Trek’s future society? How do character relationships with their past “reflect” modern relationships with our different histories?
* What value is placed on antiquity/the past in a high-tech future?
* How do concepts of antiquity/the past define humanity in the future? How are ancient narratives mirrored throughout the franchise?
* How are concepts of antiquity/the past used to address inclusion & contemporary politics? How do they reflect both antiquity and the modern world?
* What aspects of antiquity does Star Trek choose to highlight? (e.g., Starfleet & the Federation as allegories for imperialism & colonialism, journey narratives, etc.)
* How does the pseudoscientific concept of “alien antiquities” factor into Star Trek world-building, particularly as a reflection of humanity’s relationship with the past?
* How do artifacts of the deep past and techniques for “discovering” them suggest interest in archaeology and archaeological methods in Star Trek?
* What is the role of the Mirror Universe as an exploration of hypothetical pasts?
* The holodeck as reception medium: how do replications of antiquity on the holodeck “reflect” contemporary engagement with that past?
* How does fanfiction & fan culture engage with the franchise and contribute to the process of mythopoesis, as it compares with mythopoesis in antiquity?
Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words (including bibliography) to the AIMS conference submission portal, which can be found at this link: https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2023-call-for-papers/. Do not include your name in the body of the abstract. Indicate in your abstract that you are submitting to the “Star Trek and the Ancient Past” panel. In case your abstract is not selected for inclusion in this special panel, please indicate if you would like it to be considered for another panel at the conference. This special panel is sponsored by the AIMS Membership & Outreach Committee as an initiative to support collaborative member scholarship projects. Questions? Contact Amy Norgard (alnorgard@gmail.com) and Natalie Swain (nataliejswain@gmail.com).
The AIMS 2023 international conference will be held virtually from Friday-Saturday November 10-11 & 17-18 (regular conferencing days), and Monday-Thursday November 13-16 (special events) for the Americas, UK, and EU; and for Australasia the conference will be held Saturday-Sunday November 11-12 & 18-19 (regular conferencing days) and Tuesday-Friday November 14-17 (special events). The conference is free and accessible to all.
Call: https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2023/07/11/cfp-star-trek-and-the-ancient-past-panel-at-the-aims-conference-2023-abstracts-due-august-11-2023/
(CFP closed August 14, 2023)
VII YOUNG RESEARCHERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ANIWEH-IX SHRA: RECEPTIONS OF ANTIQUITY FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD / VII JORNADA INTERNACIONAL DE JÓVENES INVESTIGADORES ANIHO – IX SHRA: LA RECEPCIÓN DE LA ANTIGÜEDAD DESDE EL MEDIEVO HASTA EL MUNDO CONTEMPORÁNEO
University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain: November 8, 2023
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the VII Young Researchers International Conference ANIWEH –IX SHRA, which will take place on November 8th at the Faculty of Letters of the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. The event is conceived as a forum for research studies that analyses examples of reception of the classical world, as well as other ancient cultures (Egyptian, Near Eastern, proto-historical, etc.), throughout history.
Participation is open to current master’s or PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, and will consist of papers of 15-20 minute Contributions in English, Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish or any of the co-official languages in Spain (català, euskera or galego) will be accepted. Proposals should follow the instructions detailed here and must be sent before September 20th to the contact address (shla.aniho@gmail.com). The organizing committee will announce via e-mail the acceptance or the refusal of the proposals by September 30th.
The detailed program and additional information is available on our website.
Website: https://aniho.hypotheses.org/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anihoproject/
Twitter: @anihoproject
(CFP closed September 20, 2023)
CHARACTERS ON STAGE: THE SERVUS CALLIDUS
Sarsina (Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna), Italy: October 28, 2023
After twenty years of Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates, the Comune di Sarsina – Assessorato alla Cultura, the CISP (International Center for Plautine Studies of Urbino) and the PLAVTVS (Center of Plautine Research of Sarsina – Urbino), with the support of the Banca di Credito Cooperativo di Sarsina and of the Rotary Club “Valle del Savio”, have the pleasure of inviting you to the fifth in a new series of annual graduate conferences, the Ludi Plautini Sarsinates: Characters on Stage.
As the title clearly highlights, the main focus of the conference will be on stage and theatrical issues as well as on a deeper evaluation of the personae scaenicae to be conducted every year on a different character.
The conference aims at a fertile encounter between those who study Plautus and those who actually perform his plays on stage. Its scope will therefore encompass a wide set of themes, ranging from dramatical questions in the text to modern and contemporary adaptations of it. In order to enable a stimulating and interdisciplinary dialogue, we welcome any proposal dealing with these issues from different cultural contexts and perspectives.
The fifth Ludus Plautinus will look at the character of the servus callidus and its reception up to modern and contemporary drama. Applicants may wish to devote their attention to the following topics:
a) confronting philological and / or anthropological approaches with the techniques employed professional actors and stage directors;
b) translations aimed at reviving the servus callidus on contemporary stage;
c) literary, theatrical and cinematic reception of the servus callidus.
We also very much encourage proposals beyond these topics, as long as they fit within the overall theme illustrated above.
The conference will be held in Sarsina on 28th October 2023. Costs of accommodation and travel are NOT covered by the CISP. There will be 2 initial lectures given by the two Keynote Speakers appointed by the CISP and 6 presentations (20 minutes each) to be allotted through the present CfP. Applicants are kindly request to send (deadline 31th May 2023) a 600 words abstract and a brief academic CV to this address: ludiplautinisarsinates@gmail.com
Italian, English, German, French and Spanish are all permitted for presentation and publication.
Given the particular nature of the event, each paper should ideally be accompanied by images, movies, performances or any kind of multimedia. The CISP committee will select the best and most relevant papers through peer review and will announce the results by the end of June 2023.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/pfbid02JD6KJEUh8EnQnaBTSugJFsXAeXv8KuP3vLGTg3KyQ4MgS1cCZcsZQWwEMWC7udVLl
(CFP closed May 31, 2023)
[HYBRID] BESTSELLING MUSES: THE FEMALE PERSPECTIVE IN RECENT RETELLINGS OF CLASSICAL MYTHS
Royal Netherlands Institute at Rome (KNIR), Italy: October 26-27, 2023
On 25-27 October 2023 (Wednesday through Friday) a conference will be organized at the Royal Netherlands Institute at Rome (https://www.knir.it). This event will focus on the recent surge of popular novels (and related literary phenomena such as graphic novels, poetry collections, and drama) which rewrite Greco-Roman myths from an emphatically female perspective. Circe, Galatea, The Silence of the Girls, Women of Troy, Bright Air Black, A Thousand Ships, Children of Jocasta, Stone Blind, For the most Beautiful, For the Winner, For the Immortal, Ariadne, Electra, Daughters of Sparta, Ithaca, Clytemnestra…: the list of recent retellings of classical myth is long, and the popularity of these retellings shows no signs of abating.
This conference aims to gain more insight in the social backgrounds and cultural and literary dynamics of this phenomenon. Questions we are interested in exploring include, but are not limited to:
* Why the sudden surge in interest in mythical retellings from a female perspective?
* What is the influence of the #metoo movement?
* What is the relation with (earlier) feminist scholarship on antiquity?
* How do these current retellings compare with older ones (Atwood’s Penelopiad, Le Guin’s Lavinia, Zimmer-Bradley’s Firebrand, Wolf’s Kassandra and Medea)?
* What is the cultural function of retellings in relation to traditional canons?
* What can and do these retellings add to our appreciation of ‘canonical’ ancient versions?
* How do readers experience these retellings?
* Do we find any ideological back-lash against these retellings?
* What is the relation to other genres such as science fiction, fan-fiction, or fantasy?
* Why is the Greco-Roman mythical material so prominent?
* How do retellings of Greco-Roman myth compare with similar ones in other cultural and narrative traditions (e.g., West-African, Arabian, South-East Asian, or Nordic Myths, fairy tales?)
Confirmed speakers include: Fiona Cox (Exeter), Emily Hauser (Exeter), Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham), Maarten Depourcq (Nijmegen), Evelien Bracke (Ghent) and Tiziana de Rogatis (Siena).
We have room for approximately 7 - 8 speakers. Papers should be about 30-45 minutes + 15-20 minutes of discussion and questions. We aim for a hybrid setting, to allow for interested online participants. Selected papers will be published with an academic press. The event is hosted by the KNIR and sponsored by ICOG, OIKOS and Anchoring Innovation.
Those interested in presenting a paper are encouraged to send a one-page abstract to Jacqueline Klooster at J.J.H.Klooster@rug.nl before February 1, 2023 (please indicate your name in the file title). We aim to get back to you about acceptance of abstracts before March 1. Please note that we will not be able to fund accommodation and travels for all speakers, and hence ask that you approach your institution for funding first.
Edit - Program: https://www.knir.it/nl/evenementen/conference-bestselling-muses-current-popular-retellings-of-greek-and-roman-myth-from-a-female-perspective/
26 October 2023
09:00-09:30: Welcome and opening Susanna de Beer (KNIR), Jacqueline Klooster (Groningen)
Panel 1 Theory and Practice, Chair Jacqueline Klooster
09:30-10:15: ‘New Artists, Ancient Masters’: Practices and Principles of Retelling, Maarten Depourcq (Nijmegen)
10:15-11:00: Not A Muse(d): women writers and the Classics in the 20th Century, Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham)
11:00-11:15: Break
Panel 2 Retellings beyond the Popular Novel, Chair Emily Hauser
11:15-12:00: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in Contemporary Women’s Fiction: Victims and Culprits, Lena Linne (Bochum)
12:00-12:45: Contemporary Medeas in France, Fiona Cox (Exeter)
12:45-14:00: Lunch
Panel 3: YA Literature and Retellings, Chair Maarten Depourcq
14:00-14:45: Persephone: The Limits of Girl Power in Young Adult Literature,
Evelien Bracke (Ghent)
14:45-15:30: Establishing Agency while preserving Mythic Connections. Introducing Hera to the YA Audience, Amy Arezzolo (New England, Australia)
15:30-15:45: Break
Panel 4 Homeric Retellings 1, Chair Fiona Cox
15:45-16:30: ‘I stepped into those woods and my life began’: Ecofeminist approaches to Madeline Miller’s Circe, Alexandra Meghji (UC London)
16:30-17:00: Short break
17:00-19:00: Public lecture: Recovering the Women of the Trojan War: Why now? Emily Hauser (Exeter)
27 October 2023
Panel 5 Homeric Retellings II, Chair Elena Theodorakopoulos
09:00-09:45: Lost Lacunae: The Absence of Positive Female Relationships in Mythical Retellings, Mallory Fitzpatrick (Bryn Mawr College)
09:45-10:30: Daughters in Metamorphosis. Classical Myths, Traumas and Translingual Imaginations in Elena Ferrante, Jhumpa Lahiri and Igiaba Scego
Tiziana de Rogatis (Siena Unistrasi)
10:30-11:15: Women Writing Rapists: Toxic Masculinity and Narrative Power in the Contemporary Retellings of the Troy Myth, Elina Pyy (Finland Institute Rome)
11:15-11:30: Break
Panel 6: The Marketable and Mediatic Muse, Chair Evelien Bracke
11:30-12:15: A Community of Muses: Greco-Roman Mythology, Fan Readers and Fan Writers, Amanda Potter (OU and Liverpool)
12:15-13:00: #mythologyretellings: Social Media and Popular Retellings of Ancient Myths, Philomena Wolf (Freiburg)
13:00-14:00: Lunch
14:00-14:45: The Palimpsestic Popular Muse: Poetics of the Current Retellings of ancient Myths, Jacqueline Klooster (Groningen)
14:45-15:30: Wrapping up
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;7bbe7fe5.ex
(CFP closed February 1, 2023)
[HYBRID] ANCIENT WORLDS, NEW HORIZONS: BROADENING THE STUDY OF THE PAST
Hybrid/University College London: October 25, 2023
2:30 Welcome and introduction (Gesine Manuwald/Stephen Colvin)
3:00 Phiroze Vasunia ‘Rethinking the Classical’
3:30 Discussion
3:45 Mairéad McAuley ‘Collaborative Pedagogy: building staff-student EDI partnerships’
4:15 Discussion
4:30 Tea
5:00 Mark Weeden: keynote lecture
‘War in heaven, war on earth – mythology as a means of dealing with disaster’
Comparisons are frequently made between the mythology of the violent succession of kingship in heaven as known from Greek epic poetry of the 7th century BCE and similar stories that were circulating in the areas of northern Syria and central Turkey during the 2nd millennium BCE. But what did these stories mean to people in these areas, how did they use them? Documents in the Hittite and Hurrian languages that are preserved from the time may be able to help us to understand this, and new discoveries are continuing to throw more light on the matter every year.
6:00 Close; refreshments.
The expansion of cuneiform languages at UCL, and the conclusion of a research project Comparative Classics: Greece, Rome, and India, have been a catalyst to rethink the study of the ancient Mediterranean world and its neighbours, and how best to structure degree programmes for a new and wider constituency. We are launching a new umbrella BA programme Classics and the Ancient World in 2024, with three flexible pathways. The thinking behind this was:
- To reimagine the study of the ancient world and its reception for a new social and intellectual environment;
- To protect smaller degree programmes;
- To promote both intellectual diversity and interdisciplinarity in an academic environment which disfavours organisational fragmentation.
Our colloquium will reflect on the challenges and rhetoric of studying the ancient world, and on how we might reimagine the discipline for a new generation of students. We shall start with a brief overview of how the UCL BA and pathways will work, and finish with an inaugural lecture by Mark Weeden.
The event is open to all, and you are welcome to join us in person or via Zoom for all or some of this event.
Detail and links are at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/ancient-worlds-new-horizons.
[ONLINE] THE EGYPT OBSESSION: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
International Society for the Study of Egyptomania (ISSE)
Online conference - October 21-22, 2023
The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania (ISSE) will hold a virtual conference on October 21-22, 2023 on the topic of “The Egypt Obsession: Past, Present, and Future.” There will be a keynote lecture by Dr. Chris Elliott entitled “Egyptomania: A History in Obelisks.”
The Egypt obsession—or ‘Egyptomania’—has been a cultural phenomenon for centuries and has had a profound impact on various aspects of society. Present in various forms throughout history, this mania for Egypt’s ancient past, has materialised in art, fashion, literature, and popular culture.
This conference aims to explore the historical background and evolution of Egyptomania, whilst also embracing the need to engage critically with the subject, considering the ethical implications of our (ongoing) fascination with Egypt’s ancient heritage and future directions for research.
This is an interdisciplinary conference, which welcomes papers on all aspects of research which engages with how ancient Egyptian culture has been received and interpreted by different audiences over time.
Suggested topics include (but are not exclusive to):
* Early travel/travel narratives
* Collecting Egypt
* History of Egyptology
* Art history
* Photography
* Fashion & Jewellery
* World Egyptomania
* Art & architecture
* Literature, poetry & fiction
* Curses & gothic tales
* Music, performance & theatre
* Tv & film
* Museum Studies
* Mummymania & mummy studies
* The display of human remains
* Decolonisation & ethics
This conference is designed to be inclusive, and we welcome paper proposals from anyone with an interest in any topic relating to the subject.
Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Please provide a title for your paper, an abstract (of no more than 500 words) and a short biography to: conference.egyptomania@gmail.com.
Call: https://www.issegyptomania.com/virtual-conference
(CFP closed August 31, 2023)
[HYBRID] WAR AND FICTION (2), OR THE EFFECTS OF FICTION ON THE CONDUCT OF WAR (ANTIQUITY – 16TH CENTURY)/GUERRE ET FICTION (2), OU LES EFFETS DE LA FICTION SUR LA CONDUITE DE LA GUERRE (ANTIQUITÉ – XVIE SIÈCLE)
Hybrid/University of Poitiers, France: October 19, 2023
The objective of this conference is to reverse the perspectives usually put forward: to study not the way in which fiction is influenced by war, but the way in which war is influenced by fiction.
A first day of study, co-organized with FoReLLIS, a literature research laboratory at the University of Poitiers, took place at the Académie de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan on June 14, 2022. It made possible to lay the foundations of an initial study, focused on the period from the Second World War to the present day (see https://calenda.org/917884 and https://www.fabula.org/actualites/108504/journee-detude-guerre-et-fiction.html).
This second day of study aims at extending the process to older eras, from the Antiquity to the Renaissance.
The conference will take place on October 19th, in Poitiers (France - Université de Poitiers, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, Salle G. Le Troubadour). If you wish to attend the event online, please write to anne.debrosse@univ-poitiers.fr
The organisers are Anne Debrosse and Lionel Mary (Université de Poitiers), Sandra Cureau, Yann Lagadec and Ana Misdolea (Académie de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan).
Programme
9h00 : introduction
1ère session : l’Antiquité. Présidence : Jean-Philippe Guez
9h15 : Régis Guet (Université de Nantes, CRHIA) : « L’intégration des éléphants, des chars à faux et des guerriers méharistes dans les armées d’Alexandre et de ses successeurs : un choix guidé par les récits de Ctésias et Xénophon ? »
9h45 : discussion et pause.
10h30 : Marine Miquel (Université de Tours, ICD) : « Quae illi litteris, ea ego militando didici : “ Ce qu’ils ont appris dans les livres, moi je l’ai appris à la guerre” (Salluste, Guerre contre Jugurtha, 85, 13) : l’influence de la poésie épique et des ouvrages historiques sur les traités d’art militaire dans l’Antiquité romaine. »
11h00 : Lionel Mary (Université de Poitiers, FoReLLIS) : « Flexibilis uariis figmentis. Une fiction pour éviter la guerre : l’affaire Silvanus d’après Ammien Marcellin. »
11h30-12h : discussion.
2e session : le Moyen Âge. Présidence : Cinzia Pignatelli
14h00 : Martin Aurell (Université de Poitiers, CESCM) : « Le roi Arthur en guerre ou les réalités d’une fiction (Ve-XIIe siècles). »
14h30 : Christophe Furon (Université de Nantes, CRHIA) : « Quelle place de la littérature chevaleresque dans la culture militaire des capitaines de Charles VII ? »
15h : Henri Simonneau (CPGE d’Albi, FRAMESPA) : « Le duc de Bourgogne, un nouvel Alexandre ? Littérature chevaleresque et conduite de la guerre chez les ducs de Bourgogne à la fin du Moyen Âge. »
15h30 : discussion et conclusion.
Information: https://forellis.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/je-guerre-et-fiction-ou-les-effets-de-la-fiction-sur-la-conduite-de-la-guerre-2-antiquite-xvie-siecle/
WOMEN STAGING AND RESTAGING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY II
Universitat de València, Spain: October 18-20, 2023
The conference will be held in person at the Universitat de València with the hope that it will expand our discussion on the relation between women and the nineteenth-century stage with papers and panels that consider (but are not limited to) the following range of topics and areas of research:
* Classical receptions and women actresses, playwrights and managers in the nineteenth century and its afterlives.
* Nineteenth-century women staging the nineteenth century worldwide.
* Nineteenth-century women staging the nineteenth century from a transnational and transatlantic perspective.
* Nineteenth-century women staging the nineteenth century in the colonies.
* Neo-Victorian re-stagings of the nineteenth century by women.
* Contemporary women playwrights and artistic directors looking at the
nineteenth century.
* Nineteenth-century actresses, women playwrights and managers at present.
* Fictional recreations of (neo-) Victorian actresses, playwrights, managers, and producers in novels, in film and on the stage.
* Rewritings of nineteenth-century spectacle in (neo-) Victorian and
contemporary fiction by women writers.
* Rewritings of nineteenth-century spectacle in (neo-) Victorian and
contemporary theatre by women playwrights.
We invite interested speakers to submit proposals of 250 words with a short biography (100 words) through the online form at the conference website by 5 May 2023. Speakers are expected to present papers of 20 minutes with Q&A at the end.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Jim Davis (University of Warwick)
Viv Gardner (University of Manchester)
Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford)
Kate Newey (University of Exeter)
Benjamin Poore (University of York)
Advisory board:
Mireia Aragay (Universitat de Barcelona)
Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford)
Isobel Hurst (Goldsmith, University of London)
Begoña Lasa Álvarez (Universidade da Coruña)
Janice Norwood (University of Hertfordshire)
Beth Palmer (University of Surrey)
Lin Pettersson (Universidad de Málaga)
Eugenia Perojo Arronte (Universidad de Valladolid)
Antonija Primorac (University of Rijeka)
Main Organizers: Laura Monrós-Gaspar (UV), Rosario Arias (UMA), Victoria Puchal Terol (VIU)
See full CFP and Conference information at: https://esdeveniments.uv.es/95242/detail/women-staging-and-re-staging-the-nineteenth-century-ii.html?private=7b4431cf049f70df50e7
(CFP closed May 5, 2023)
PATRISTIC SERMONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES. COLLECTIONS, MEDIATORS AND THE PRACTICE OF COMPILING
Royal Netherlands Institute, Rome, Italy: October 17-20, 2023
On 17-20 October 2023, the ERC-funded project PASSIM (Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages), based at Radboud University Nijmegen, will organise an international conference on the medieval reception and transmission of patristic sermons and the collections in which they are compiled. The conference will take place at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).
The sermons preached by the Latin Church Fathers – Augustine, Leo, Gregory, and their contemporaries – had a dynamic afterlife. Throughout the medieval period, they were widely copied, manipulated, and (re)organised in a wide array of collections. These processes of transmission are important not only because they reveal medieval attitudes to the patristic heritage, but also because the medieval mediation of this corpus has greatly impacted which sermons survived and in what shape they reached modern times. When, why and how were patristic sermons combined, (re)organised, and adapted to their medieval contexts?
The conference aims to give due attention to the mediators in the transmission of patristic sermons in the middle ages: the often-inconspicuous compilers and scribes whose creative intellectual activities formed crucial conduits for the transmission of late-antique sermons to new audiences.We intend to go beyond the reconstruction of the original form and context of individual sermons, and to focus mainly on medieval collections and manuscripts in their own right, as well as the practices of compilation that shaped them.
Main perspectives:
To understand the compiler’s work, we need insights into both the philological aspects of sermons and sermon collections – their texts, sources and organisation – and the compilers’ and manuscripts’ historical context. As such, the conference aims to bring together philological, historical, theological, and literary perspectives.
We encourage speakers to combine multiple perspectives in their presentations. In addition, we aim to include papers that examine the processes of compilation in specific manuscripts or sermon collections, as well as studies that reflect on (digital) tools and methodologies to understand how sermon compilation worked in practice. While we mainly concentrate on Latin sermons, we are also interested in comparative studies of compilation practices in other traditions.
We welcome proposals on a wide range of topics, including (but not limited to) the following:
* Individual manuscripts and collections:
- individual manuscripts and sermon collections, their content, context, and materiality
- the origins, organisation and evolution of late-antique sermon collections
- points of contact and connections between sermon collections
* Understanding the compiler
- the compiler and his motives, resources, and context
- tangible evidence of mediators (e.g. prologues, annotations, user marks)
- the tools and support structures for compilation (e.g. libraries, catalogues, networks)
* Practices of sermon compilation
- authorial attribution and anonymity in sermon collections
- collections that illustrate how the medieval and the patristic meet
- comparative perspectives in other languages, genres or religious traditions
* Approaches to the study of compilations
- sermon collections and the tradition of textual criticism of patristic sermons
- methodologies to chart and analyse compilation practices
- digital tools and approaches to the study of sermon compilations
Confirmed speakers:
Emanuela Colombi; Moshe Lavee; Rosamond McKitterick; Clemens Weidmann
Practicalities:
The conference will take place at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). We aim to cover the expenses in terms of accommodation and meals for the speakers. More practical information will follow upon acceptance.
The conference will include a publicly accessible keynote lecture on Tuesday 17 October 2023 as well as an (optional) hands-on workshop to explore the PASSIM research tool and database. It is our intention to publish the proceedings of the conference afterwards.
Interested scholars are requested to send in an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short CV (max. 1 page) to iris.denis@ru.nl.
Deadline for submissions is 15 January 2023; acceptance will be communicated within six weeks of the deadline. Early career researchers are particularly encouraged to apply.
Organising committee
Dr. Shari Boodts (PI, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Dr. Riccardo Macchioro (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Dr. Gleb Schmidt (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Iris Denis MA (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Elisa Furlan MA (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Contact:
Please do not hesitate to contact us (via iris.denis@ru.nl) for any further information.
Edit (30/9/2023) - Program:
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
17.00 Registration and welcome
17.45 Opening of the conference
18.00 Keynote lecture by Emanuela Colombi, Artificial Intelligence, few-shot learning layout analysis, and medieval homiliaries
Response by Riccardo Macchioro
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
9.30-10.45: Session 1
Rosamond McKitterick, The homiliary of Agimundus, its sources and their implications
David Addison, The Homiliae Toletanae: a collection of collections?
11.15-12.30: Session 2
Matthieu Pignot, How to make sense of compilation disorder? New research on the oldest form of the Octoginta homiliae
Marie Pauliat, The “Vienna Collection”, a Donatist collection? State of the art and first results
14.00-15.15: Session 3
Maximilian Diesenberger, Sermons in mixed manuscripts in early medieval Bavaria
Matthieu van der Meer, The Florilegium Pastorale in codex London, BL Harley 5041: a manual for monastic preachers
15.45-17.00: Session 4
Shari Boodts, Augustine’s most copied sermones ad populum in the Middle Ages
Gleb Schmidt, New approaches to the study of patristic sermon collections
Thursday, 19 October 2023
9.30-10.45: Session 5
Moshe Lavee, Compilations of Rabbinic sermons for festivals and Pentateuch readings
Philip Forness, Tracing practices of compiling Syriac sermons from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages: the case of the exegete, saint, and homilist Jacob of Serugh
11.15-12.30: Session 6
Maria Veronese, Rufinus and the seventeenth “Origenian" homily on Genesis
Annette Von Stockhausen, The homilies of Severian of Gabala in Panegyrika and Chrysostom homiliaries – two case studies
14.00-15.15: Session 7
François Dolbeau, Un sermon de Raban Maur et ses sources
Clemens Weidmann, Cum Latinis studebimus litteris, non respicamus ad Graecas? Translations of Greek sermons in the medieval Latin tradition
15.45-17.00: Session 8
Katy Cubitt, Form and purpose: Ælfric’s transmission of patristic teaching in his Catholic Homilies
Patrick Cowley, Patristic sermons in Twelfth-century Lincoln
17.30-18.45: Session 9
Carolyn Muessig, Women, Fathers and sermons: a consideration of female preachers’ use of Patristics in the Middle Ages
20.00 Conference dinner
Friday, 20 October 2023
9.30-10.45: Session 10
Gert Partoens, On the transmission of a neglected text corpus: the homilies of Valerianus of Cimiez (fifth century)
Jérémy Delmulle, Les homélies de Grégoire d’Elvire: tradition manuscrite, corpus, fragments
11.15-12.30: Session 11
Léa Zeringer, Les séries des Sermones ad monachos dans le manuscrit du Vatican, BAV, Reg. lat. 245: étude de compilations parallèles
Mor Hajbi, Timothy and Salvian’s “Against Avarice”: authorship, authority, transmission and reception
12.30 Closing of the conference
Information: https://www.knir.it/en/events/conference-patristic-sermons-in-the-middle-ages-collections-mediators-and-the-practice-of-compiling/
Call: https://applejack.science.ru.nl/passimproject/
(CFP closed January 15, 2023)
"BAIGNER LE PRÉSENT DANS LE SACRÉ": THE RECEPTION OF MYTH IN LITERATURE, FROM ANTIQUITY TO CONTEMPORANEITY
University of Trento (Trento, Italy): October 16-19, 2023
We invite PhD Candidates and early career PhDs to submit an abstract of no more than 1500 characters (spaces included) for a 20-minutes paper to phd.conference.mito@gmail.com no later than April 15, 2023, together with a short biographical introduction (name, surname, subject area and institutional affiliation, if applicable). All applicants will be notified by May 31, 2023.
The Graduate Conference will take place at the University of Trento (Trento, Italy) from the 16 to the 19 of October 2023. Abstracts and papers can be respectively written and delivered in either in English or in Italian. Following the conference, a selection of papers will be published as an edited volume.
Papers should focus on works of literature retelling – and, if that is the case, re-functionalizing – a myth (or a plurality of myths) regarded as an ancient, religious and/or etiologic-metaphysical narrative. Works of literature may include different forms and genres, from antiquity to the present day. Contributions centred on classical mythology and its reception are really welcome; we also encourage potential speakers to focus on other mythologies, such as Germanic or Biblical.
The Organizing Committee:
Michele Casaccia
Paola Rosa Filisetti
Giuliano Marmora
Masseo Purgato
Irma Scaletti
Gaia Tettamanti
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;aca6b45c.ex
(CFP closed April 15, 2023)
[ONLINE] ANTIQUITY TODAY II: INSPIRING, INCLUSIVE, UNIVERSAL
Online/University of Warsaw, Poland: October 16, 2023
A group of passionate students and PhD students from various parts of the world will present the results of their research work.
The inaugural lecture will be held by Dr Sonja Schreiner from the University of Vienna (“Deep in the Water & High in the Sky: Inspiring, Inclusive, and Universal Aspects of Antiquity Today in Christoph Ransmayr and Jessie Sima”).
Moreover, Prof. Susan Deacy from the University of Bristol will talk about Hercules and Medusa through a neurodivergent prism in the context of her upcoming book “What Would Hercules Do? Classical Myth as a Learning Opportunity for Autistic Children”. And Prof. Elizabeth Hale from the University of New England will present her book (co-authored with Dr Miriam Riverlea) “Classical Mythology and Children's Literature… An Alphabetical Odyssey” (in Open Access: https://www.wuw.pl/product-pol-17978-Classical-Mythology-and-Childrens-Literature-An-Alphabetical-Odyssey-PDF.html).
PDF with the Programme: http://www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/assets/files/pages/d0807524a8822f9b1222112addc64fb9d1666031.pdf
Website with the programme & the abstracts: http://www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/antiquity-today-2
The lectures of the previous edition (Antiquity Today I, 2022, are available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW1Ck_Tsgag&list=PLWBZGhPiXfYgrDOmPkHEdX2JoIoLZQCNw)
The event will take place online. For a Zoom link please contact Ms Olga Strycharczyk: strycharczyk@al.uw.edu.pl
L’ANTIQUITÉ EN RÉSERVE. LIVRES, COLLECTIONS, BIBLIOTHÈQUES, INSTITUTIONS / ANTIQUITY IN STORAGE. BOOKS, COLLECTIONS, LIBRARIES, INSTITUTIONS
Lilliad, Campus Cité Scientifique, Université de Lille: October 13, 2023
The French Office of the Année philologique is organizing an international and transdisciplinary conference on October 13, 2023 at the University of Lille, which will interrogate the place of ancient artefacts and books devoted to antiquity in repositories, collections, libraries and institutions, and examines in particular the development of libraries specializing in Antiquity (Sciences de l’Antiquité, Classics, Klassische Altertumswissenschaft, etc.).
The conference brings to a close a series of events inaugurated in October 2022 by the symposium “Presence of the author. Indexes and catalogs from Antiquity to the present day”, which investigated the indexing and cataloging practices of authors, in archival repositories, libraries and bibliographies, from Antiquity to the present :
https://halma.univ-lille.fr/detail-event/colloque-presence-de-lauteur-indexations-et-catalogues-de-lantiquite-a-nos-jours
https://webtv.univ-lille.fr/grp/635/presence-de-auteur-indexations-et-catalogues-de-antiquite-nos-jours-colloque-international/
General program:
The program contributes to reflection on the relationship between Classics, indexing and bibliography. It combines different disciplines such as Ancient History, Classics, Archaeology, History of Ancient Art, Ancient Philosophy, as well as Bibliometrics and the History of Institutions. It is intended for researchers and teachers in these fields, as well as their students, but also for administrative and management staff who keep documentary institutions alive.
The following points are offered for discussion (the following list is not intended to be exhaustive):
• What roles do libraries and book collections play in the different Renaissances that researchers have identified since Late Antiquity, whether the Carolingian Renaissance (Western Europe), the Macedonian Renaissance (Byzantine world) or the humanist Renaissance (Montaigne, Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola, etc.)?
• Do the catalogs of printing houses specializing in the production of Latin or Greek texts announce the catalogs of libraries specializing in Classics? What ideological role do older (Ad usum Delphini) or modern (Loeb, Teubner, Guillaume Budé) editorial collections play in the elaboration of specialized bibliographic collections?
• What place does Antiquity hold in the catalogs of college libraries from the 16th to the 18th century? Can we identify trends according to the religious affiliation of those who administered these colleges (Jesuits, Oratorians, De La Salle Brothers, etc.)? Do these libraries contribute to the conflicts that opposed these religious orders against one another and which could lead to the temporary or permanent exclusion of some of them? What is the fate of these libraries in the closing or reopening processes that colleges have been subjected to?
• Can we establish parallels between private libraries and art collections (vases, statues) devoted to Antiquity which developed from the Renaissance and which culminated, in the second half of the 18th century, in the publication catalogs announcing museum collections from the 19th and 20th centuries?
• How did ancient science libraries support or accompany higher education institutions (Faculties, Universities, Collège de France, EPHE) in the various processes of refoundation or creation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
• how can Classics libraries act as unifying places for specialized departments which are fragmented between different components in contemporary academic institutions?
• how do academic bibliography projects (e.g., l’Année philolologique) develop the collections of the institutions to which they are attached? What are the institutional, pedagogical and managerial consequences of such projects?
• What prospects can we imagine for libraries specializing in Antiquity within the framework of national unifying programs (Collex-Persée, Plan de Conservation Partagée des périodiques, Mirabel)?
With the support of UMR 8163 STL, of UMR 8164 HALMA, of the French Office of l’Année philologique (U. Lille), of the Fondation de l’Université de Lille and of the Société Internationale de Bibliographie classique (SIBC).
Papers should last no longer than 30 minutes, and will be followed by a period for questions from the audience. Paper proposals must be sent jointly to charles.delattre@univ-lille.fr and christophe.hugot@univ-lille.fr, before February 28, 2023.
Conference Organising Committee
Christophe Hugot (U. Lille, RAPh & UMR 8164 HALMA)
Charles Delattre (U. Lille, UMR 8164 HALMA)
Valentine Lombarte (U. Lille, UMR 8164 HALMA)
Rémi Auvertin (U. Lille, RAPh & UMR 8164 HALMA)
Contacts
charles.delattre@univ-lille.fr
christophe.hugot@univ-lille.fr
Website: https://halma.univ-lille.fr/detail-event/colloque-de-lannee-philologique-lantiquite-en-reserve-livres-collections-bibliotheques-institutions
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;d8071347.ex
(CFP closed February 28, 2023)
[ONLINE] ACE & CREATIVITY CONFERENCE
Online/Liverpool, UK: October 7-8, 2023
OCTOBER 7
Zoom Registration Link: https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkce6gqTkuGNaCGU3IryqFHE2JKyPoOgyC
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 9:45 Amanda Potter
9:45 – 11:00 Panel 1 – Ancient Performance (chair: Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti)
9:45 – 10:15 Phyllis Brighouse (University of Liverpool),
War and Greek old Comedy: a Dialogue between
Past and Present in Aristophanes' Knights
10:15 – 10:45 Enrico Piergiacomi (University of Haifa),
Theatersophy. Interactions between philosophy
and musical performance
10:45 –11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Workshop 1 - Short Story Writing with Caroline Lawrence
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Panel 2 - Project Showcase (chair: Giulia Tonon)
13:30 – 14:00 Anthony Jude Smith, Anastasia Pantazopoulou
(University of Florida),
Empowering Girls: Reimagining Female Stories
of the Past and the Present
14:00 – 14:30 James Ford (University of Liverpool),
Modelling heritage outreach projects for
historical researchers
14:30 – 15:00 Victoria Doherty-Bone (University of Liverpool),
New Ways to Read the Room: Using ancient
literature in a reading support group
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:45 Workshop 2 – Comic Drawing with Hannah Sackett
16:45 Closing remarks
OCTOBER 8
Zoom Registration Link: https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArceyqrz8rHNb3qhDJBKdDE5Mm4Drm3Tk_
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 10:15 Workshop 4 – Virtual Reality Oracle with Richard Cole and Esther Eidinow
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Panel 3 - Ancient Visual Culture (chair: Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti)
10:30 – 11:00 Ana Rita Figueira (University of Lisbon),
Looking Creatively into Homer and the Greek Figured Pots
11:00 – 11:30 Emily Deakin (University of Liverpool),
What a Woman can do: The importance of visual art for the study
of female creativity in the early Roman Empire
11:30 – 12:00 Yukiko Saito (University of Liverpool),
Viewing Gleaming, Rapidly-Mobile Scenery with Αἰολός:
Brilliance and Motion Reflected within its Transformed
Religious Aspects in Homer
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – 15:00 Panel 4 - Audio-visual Creativity (chair: Giulia Tonon)
13:00 – 13:30 Jaclyn Neel, Alyssa Goswell, Pascale LaRiviere,
Kristen Raymond (Carleton University),
Big Bad Wolf? Romulus and Remus on YouTube
13:30 – 14:00 Marios Koutsoukos (University of Liverpool),
A Manual of Incorporeal Anatomy: Late Antique Gods
and Daemons Reimagined for the Modern World
Through Artistic Nude Photography
14:00 – 14:30 Jeremy Swist (Miami University),
Julian’s Symposium of the Caesars: Translating and
Directing a Podcast Drama
14:30 - 15:00 Aislinn Melchior (University of Puget Sound),
Women and Agency in Empire of Venus
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:45 Workshop 3 – Poetry Writing with Emily Lord-Kambitsch and Wendy Haines
16:45 Closing remarks
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;a69d9a3f.ex & https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;36778505.ex
DRAWING (ON) THE CLASSICS
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB): October 3-4, 2023
The ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome have long had a great influence certainly, but not solely, on Western culture.
While various aspects of Classical Reception are researched and examined in multiple areas, such as literature, theatre and art. We note that the reception of classics in the medium of comics and graphic novels is less studied.
Apart from the seminal works, Classics and Comics (Oxford, 2011) and Son of Classics and Comics (Oxford, 2015), there lacks in-depth discussion of this distinctive medium in reference to the Classical world.
Furthermore, the discussion of Eastern comics, manga and manhwa in particular, has also been marginalized.
In this conference we offer, for the first time, the opportunity to illuminate comics, as well as manga media, under the academic spotlight.
The purpose of this conference is to explore the difference between Western and Eastern representations of the Classics as well as hosting a more comprehensive engagement with the unique art form of comics in conveying classical ideas and themes from Greece and Rome. In addition, as this conference shall hopefully demonstrate, the influence of the Classical world has stretched beyond its geographical boundaries, contributing to the exchange of ideas and thoughts around the world.
Contributions might include, but are not limited to:
* The construction and representation of the classical hero or heroine in comics/manga
* Gender fluidity and gender roles in comics/manga in comparison with classical models and theories
* Historical narratives in visual form (for example, Julius Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum Latin comics)
* Engagement with Greek mythological themes in manga/anime
* Classical themes in Chinese/ Indian comics
* Sophisticated Greeks, Imperial Romans? Representations of Greeks vs. Romans
* Hail Caesar: the representation of the Roman Emperors
Papers should be no more than 30 minutes in length to allow room for discussion. The conference language will be English.
Direct any questions to the organizers, Ayelet Peer (ayelet.peer@biu.ac.il) and Borja Antela Bernárdez (borja.antela@uab.cat).
Please send your proposals with abstracts (not more than 300 words) and a CV (up to one page) by May 1, 2023, to Ayelet Peer (ayelet.peer@biu.ac.il).
Edit - Program
All times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST)
DAY 1: October 3rd
13:30 Meet & Greet
14:00: Keynote Lecture I: Luciana Cardi, Kansai University: On Yamazaki Mari Works and Classical Reception in Japan.
14:45 – 15:30: Discussion
15:30 – 16:30 Break
16:30: Keynote Lecture II: George Kovacs, Trent University and Toph Marshall, The University of British Columbia: Further Thoughts on Thermae Romae
17:15 – 17:45 Discussion
17:45 – 18:00 Break
18:00- 20:00 Session One: Manga Narratives
Roger Macfarlane, Brigham Young University: Empowering a Eurydice to Rescue Orpheus: Riyoko Ikeda’s Orufeusu no Mado (1975-1981).
Graham Oliver, Brown University: Mangaization, history, and biography: Historiē and Eumenes (of Cardia).
Juan Dopico, University of Maryland: Alchemical Transmutations of the Western Classics in Japanese Animanga: The Hubris of Philhellenic Reception.
Closing Remarks for Day I
DAY 2: October 4th
14:30 Meet & Greet
15:00: 16:00 Session Two: Animated Discoveries
Natalie Swain, University of Winnipeg: Seeing Through the Silence: Damar as History’s Invisible Women in Gillen, Kelly, & Bellaire’s Three.
Ronald Blankenborg, Radboud University: ‘The Wide Canvas of Human Drama’: Fantasizing Epic Through Graphic Novel
Silvia Barbantani, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore: Space Odyssey(s). Alfredo Brasioli’s Ulix: a little known classical epic gem from the “Years of Lead”
16:00 – 16:15 Break
16:15 – 18:30 Session Three: Animated Gods
Bar Leshem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: Fighting the Gods: A Study of Classical Reception in Injustice: Gods Among Us
Zofia Guertin, University of St Andrews: ’He knew himself a villain': Hades as the Byronic Hero in Classics Comics
Luca Valle Salazar, Università degli Studi di Trento: “Such Are the Gods. As Long as We Fight, We Win”. Agonism and Philanthropy in Record of Ragnarok
Pasquale Ferrara, Universität Potsdam: Greek Street and Mainades - The raving women. The perception of Ancient Maenads in Comics and Hentai
19:00 – 20:30 Comic Drawing Workshop with Hannah Sackett, Researcher, Writer and Cartoonist, Stockholm and Amanda Potter, The Open University and University of Liverpool, UK
The conference is open to the public.
In order to receive the Zoom links for the conference, please contact ayelet.peer@biu.ac.il
Program: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;58047d40.ex
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;8b1353c4.ex
(CFP closed May 1, 2023)
[HYBRID] EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION
Theme: The natural and the unnatural in the early medieval world
Hybrid - University of Sydney: September 28-29, 2023
Keynotes: Dr Elizabeth Boyle (Maynooth University) & Professor Roland Fletcher (University of Sydney)
In the largely rural and agrarian landscape of the medieval world, fauna and flora were highly regarded, as is evidenced by the importance of agriculture, the popularity of bestiaries, and the legacy of the elder Pliny’s Naturalis historia. The dynamics of the natural environment and social life has become an increasingly important topic in scholarship in recent years as we grapple with the impact of climate change.
For most people in the early Middle Ages, a supernatural world existed alongside the natural one and interacted with it. Indeed, the presence of the unnatural, whether in terms of bizarre creatures or disease and other environmental disasters, was taken as proof of the impact of the supernatural on the natural world and fed into philosophical and religious discourse.
Was nature cruel and heartless? Was it a manifestation of the divine? Was it there to be harnessed and exploited or was it wild and uncontrollable?
Potential themes include:
* Cosmology and astrology
* Climate and natural disasters
* Disease and medicines
* Technologies and superstitions
* Paganism and Christianity
* Biological cycles and human culture
* The natural and the supernatural
* Wilderness and domestication
* Life and the afterlife
* Daylight and darkness
* Monsters and totems
* Art and the imagination
Papers that focus on the dimensions of any or all of these worlds and their interplay in the early medieval period (c. 400 – 1100 CE), which either confirm or challenge this notion are invited to be presented at our annual conference to be held in September 2023 in hybrid mode.
Submissions may be in the form of individual papers of 20 minutes duration, themed panels of three 20‐minute papers, or Round Tables of up to six shorter papers (total of one hour). All sessions will include time for questions and general discussion.
Please send proposals (150–200 words per paper), along with author’s name, paper or panel title, and academic affiliation (if any) to conference@aema.net.au. Please also provide a note in your submission as to whether you intend on presenting in person or online.
Current AEMA graduate and ECR members (located outside of Sydney, Australia) are eligible to apply for a travel bursary up to the value of $300 AUD. For more details, or to apply for a bursary, please contact the AEMA committee at conference@aema.net.au.
The deadline for abstract submissions is 15 July 2023 extended deadline July 28, 2023.
2023 Conference Convenors:
Ms Erica Steiner (University of Sydney)
Professor Daniel Anlezark (University of Sydney)
The AEMA Committee
Website: https://aema.org.au/conference/
(CFP closed July 28, 2023)
[HYBRID] PAGAN PORNOTOPIAS? THE RECEPTION OF ANTIQUITY IN EROTICISM AND PORNOGRAPHY
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain: September 27-29, 2023 (livestream available)
The eighth conference of the Imagines group, which will take place at the
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) on September 27th-29th, 2023, will
be dedicated to the reception of ancient cultures, especially Greece and
Rome, in eroticism and pornography from the 19th century to the present.
Consistently with the main research aim of the Imagines group (https://www.imagines-project.org/), the focus will be on the reception of
the ancient world in visual and performative erotic and pornographic
productions (a discussion at theoretical level of characters of and
differences between eroticism and pornography is also welcome, within the
conference’s main topic, the reception of Antiquity).
It has been recently pointed out that ancient Rome indeed can be defined in
the modern Western popular culture as a “pornotopia”, in which the most
diverse and deviant form of sexual practice and desire can be located. An
important aspect of this eroticised characterisation of ancient Rome is its
implicit opposition to Christian morality (and sexual repression), which
derives from the narratives of Christian chastity and martyrdom that have
been so widespread and relevant in Western cultural memory since the Middle
Ages. Yet this is not the only reason that has fostered a markedly erotic
relationship between the modern times and the ancient world. At the same
time, indeed, ancient Greece has played a crucial role in constructing and
legitimating same-sex attraction – and Plato (and in particular
Aristophanes’ speech in the Symposium) has been deployed since the 19th
century to provide the – particularly male – gay community with a
legitimating narrative within the frame of European philhellenism. As
formulated in 1961 by ONE magazine for example, “almost the first thing
that any [male] homosexual does, when called upon to offer any serious
defense of homosexuality, is to draw upon the glorious example of the manly
Greek warriors and athletes who apparently practiced homosexual love openly
and without shame”. Similarly, ancient historical or mythological figures
such as Sappho or the Amazons have been deployed to shape and legitimise
female homosexual identity. Other ancient peoples – the Persians, the
Egyptians, the Etruscans, just to name some examples – have been portrayed
since Antiquity and through typical mechanisms of Othering as sexually
deviant from the assumed “norm”; this has also filtered into modern
receptions, which often replicate, translate and modify the Orientalist
stereotypes already widespread in the ancient world (one can think of the
representation of the Persians as “sexually deviant” in the blockbusters
300 and 300: Rise of an Empire).
The aim of this conference is to investigate the role played by the ancient
world in shaping erotic and pornographic representations, and thus in
representing and structuring attraction and desire. This analysis will help
in understanding how references to Antiquity play, at a more or less
conscious level, a crucial role in defining, stereotyping, constructing in
discourse and legitimating sexual identities, sexual orientations, gender
belonging and performance.
We invite all people interested in presenting a paper to send an abstract
(in Spanish or English) of no more than 300 words (bibliographical
references included) to imagines8madrid@gmail.com by July 1st, 2022.
Accepted papers will have to be held in English or Spanish and be around 20
minutes long. Selected papers from the conference will be published in a
collective volume that will appear in the Imagines series at Bloomsbury’s (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/imagines--classical-receptions-in-the-visual-and-performing-arts/).
Confirmed speakers include, together with the organisers and editors of the
volume, Luis Unceta Gómez (UAM) and Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Universität
Potsdam): Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University), Alastair Blanshard (The
University of Queensland), Thomas Jenkins (Trinity University), Athena
Leoussi (University of Reading), Martin Lindner (Universität Göttingen),
Anise K. Strong (Western Michigan University). The conference programme
will also include a meeting and public discussion with Carmelo Blázquez, an
internationally renowned photographer specializing in male nude photography
(https://www.carmeloblazquez.com/).
Edit (10/06/2023) - Program:
Wednesday, September 27
14.00 Registration - Coffee
15.00 Conference Opening – Greetings of the Authorities
Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Potsdam) & Luis Unceta Gómez (Madrid), Introduction
Panel 1: What Aroused Our Forefathers and Foremothers? Antiquity in 18th and 19th Century Eroticism
Chair: Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Potsdam)
15.30 Katherine Harloe (London), Practical Enlightenment: Pagan Pornotopia in Casanova’s Encounter With Winckelmann
15.55 Athena Leoussi (Reading), ‘La joie de vivre’: Modern Hellenism and the Revival of the Life of the Senses
16.20 Discussion
16.45 Coffee Break
17.15 Nikolai Endres (Bowling Green), A Pornotopia in Sicily? The Baron von Gloeden’s Reception of Antiquity
17.40 Stefania Arcara (Catania), “Dark, Virulent, Divine”: the Fin-de-Siècle invention of Sapphic Eroticism in Britain
18.05 Discussion
18.30 Imagines Group Meeting – only for members of Imagines
Thursday, September 28
Panel 2: Ancient Models for Modern Sex
Chair: Irene Berti (Heidelberg)
09.00 Anastasia Bakogianni (Auckland), Can Greek Tragic Heroines Ever be Sexy? Eroticism vs. Female Revenge
09.25 Thomas E. Jenkins (San Antonio), Getting to the Bottom of Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian: Identity and Bravery in Contemporary Opera
09.50 Anise Strong (Kalamazoo), Ancient Sexuality and Modern Video Games
10.15 Discussion
10.45 Coffee Break
Panel 3: So We Dare Speak Its Name: Antiquity in (and for) Homosexual and Queer Desire
Chair: Luis Unceta Gómez (Madrid)
11.15 Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Potsdam), Performing Doric and Ionic Love: Ancient Greece in Gay Male Pornography
11.40 Patricia A. Gwozdz & Markus Lenz (Potsdam), Subversive Hercules. How to Fashion Queer Desire in Popular Culture and Instagram
12.05 David Delbar (Chicago), Domination and the Minotaur
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
Panel 4: Spatialisations of Lust: Sexualised Antiquity in Architecture and Decoration
Chair: Marta García Morcillo (Durham)
14.30 Jean-Noël Castorio & Stephanie Ferrand (Le Havre), The Monuments of the «Captain Storm» and the Neoclassical Erotism
15.00 Sanja Vucetic (Sheffield), Classical Greek Images of Sex as Modern ‘Adults Only’ Souvenir Art
15.25 Jorge Elices Ocón (Madrid), Marble Breasts and Phalli of Stone: Classical Statues as Erotic Reference and Pornographic Transgression in the Islamic World
15.55 Discussion
16.15 Coffee Break
16.45 Ricardo del Molino (Bogotá), El clasicismo de burdel en América Latina. La antigüedad egipcia, griega y romana en prostíbulos, moteles y hoteles de tránsito hispanoamericanos
17.10 Tanja Kilzer (Siegen), “Sexy Goddesses and Handsome Gladiators” – Eroticized Stereotypes of the Antiquity in the US-American Hotel Business of Jay Sarno in the 1960s
17.35 Discussion
18.00 Coffee Break
18.30 Carmelo Blázquez Jiménez (Barcelona), De héroes y efebos. Referencias clásicas en mi fotografía
Friday, September 29
Panel 5: Antiquity Goes Hard: Greece, Rome and the Pornography Debate
Chair: Anja Wieber (Dortmund)
09.00 Martin Lindner (Göttingen), X-Rated Classics – Cinematic Antiquity and the Impossibility to Classify Pornography
09.25 Alastair Blanshard (Brisbane), But Is It Pornography? Locating Obscenity in the Classicising Photographs and Films of Mid-Century Physique Culture
09.50 Florian Freitag (Essen), Traditions Revisited and Continued: Antiquity in the new Physique Pictorial
10.15 Discussion
10.45 Coffee Break
11.15 Charlotte Gregory (London), The Dynamics of Interracial Pornography in Troy: Fall of a City (2018)
11.40 Anna Socha (Liverpool), The Iliad 2: A (Very) Dirty Story. Sexualised Retelling of the Iliad and Odyssey
12.05 Luis Unceta Gómez (Madrid), Pagan Pornotropes. Ancient Rome and the Erotics of Power in Pornographic Comic Books
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Final Discussion and Conclusions
13.30 Lunch
Links to Program (https://www.imagines-project.org/conferences/madrid-2023/madrid-2023-conference-programme) & Abstracts (https://www.imagines-project.org/conferences/madrid-2023/madrid-2023-conference-abstracts)
The conference will also be streamed online via Zoom. To attend online, please register by sending an email to imagines8madrid@gmail.com.
Call: https://www.imagines-project.org/conferences/madrid-2023
(CFP closed July 1, 2022)
[HYBRID] RE-IMAGINING TRAGEDY ACROSS AFRICA AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Hybrid/Oxford (Ioannou Centre), UK: September 26-27, 2023
The APGRD (University of Oxford) and ReTAGS (University of Cape Town) are co-hosting a two-day hybrid conference: 'Re-Imagining Tragedy Across Africa and the Global South', co-organised by Professor Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) and Dr Justine McConnell (KCL), on 26-27 September, in the Classics Centre in Oxford and online.
Speakers will include: Sam Agbamu (Reading); poet, novelist, playwright and librettist Ubah Cristina Ali-Farah; Rosa Andújar (KCL); Jayne Batzofin (UCT); Magdalena Bournot (Université Paris Nanterre); Lesego Chauke (UCT); Ana María Dopico (NYU); Mark Fleishman (UCT); Purav Goswami (UCT); Leo Kershaw (Oxford); Margherita Laera (Kent); Mandla Mbothwe (UCT); Madhlozi Moyo (University of the Free State); composer, sound artist and librettist Neo Muyanga.
Registration (in person): https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-and-events/classics-apgrd/events/reimagining-tragedy-across-africa-and-the-global-south-hybrid-conference. The conference will also be live-streamed via Zoom; remote attendance is free. Check the APGRD website closer to the date for instructions on how to join us online.
Information: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2023/09/26-27-Reimagining-Tragedy
REFERENCE, RECEPTION, AND EARLY MODERN LATIN DEVELOPMENTS
Workshop held by the Centre for Danish Neo-Latin (https://cdnl.dk/)
Corpus Christi College (Rainolds Room), Oxford, UK: September 25, 2023
11.00-11.15 Welcome by Stephen Harrison
11.15-11.45 Johanne RAMMINGER, Hapax Legomena as Intertextual Markers in Early Modern Latin
11.45-12.15 Ingrid DE SMET, Eco-Latin: Humans, Nature and Technology from a Neo-Latin Perspective
12.15-12.45 Tristan FRANKLINOS, Literary reflections in Pontano's Eridanus
Lunch
14.00-14.30 Anders Kirk BORGGAARD, Proving your citizenship in the Respublica litterarum: strategic referentiality and the classics in the schoolyard-poetry of Petrus Hegelius Ripensis
14.30-15.00 Paul BOTLEY, Bombast, misdirection and outrage in the letters of Dominicus Baudius (1561-1613)
15.00-15.30 Gesine MANUWALD, The role of reworkings of classical literature in Thomas Campion’s poetry
Coffee
16.00-16.30 Paul GWYNNE, Capta Victrix: the reception of Virgil in Famiano Strada's Prolusiones Academicae
16.30-17.30 Karen SKOVGAARD-PETERSEN & Peter ZEEBERG, Allusions to classical literature in Ludvig Holberg's novel Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum (1741) – message-carrying and genre defining
17.30 Conclusions by Trine Arlund Hass and Marianne Pade
If you would like to attend, please contact trine.hass@classics.ox.ac.uk.
[ONLINE] RESEARCHING ANTIQUITIES COLLECTIONS THROUGH AUCTION CATALOGUES: POTENTIAL AND PITFALLS
A one-day online workshop organized by the Institute of Classical Studies, London
Online: September 22, 2023, via Zoom
Many museum collections of antiquities include objects which passed through auction houses on their post-excavation journeys. Auction sale catalogues, recording what was sold, by whom and when, are an important source for these movements. The annotated catalogues held by the British Library, the National Art Library and others also provide information on purchasers and prices. Sometimes this is sufficiently detailed to allow an individual object to be traced through different settings, enabling the recovery of important information on provenience. Such data can also be aggregated to reveal broader trends in the flows of objects, and the key players – both buyers and sellers – in different periods.
Using this data is not without challenges. Unhelpfully generic descriptions, inaccuracies, and missing information all limit its uses for researchers. Surviving catalogues give only a snapshot of the auction market, weighted towards London. Despite progress in digitization, it often remains necessary to visit catalogues in person, raising issues of equity of access. But is there scope to open up research in this area by sharing our approaches to identifying, gathering and working with the data, overcoming or compensating for its limitations, and using it to generate and answer new questions?
This one-day online workshop, organized by Dr Anna Reeve, ICS Early Career Research Associate, will explore the potential and pitfalls of working with historic auction catalogues to explore UK museum collections of antiquities from the Classical world and Egypt, and the legacies and implications of the movement of cultural heritage. Proposals are welcome from researchers, curators, librarians, archivists, and anyone working on relevant topics for papers of 20 minutes which address themes including but not limited to:
• Provenience research through auction catalogues and debates around ownership
• Case studies of tracking collections or individual objects through auction sales – successes and challenges
• Access to auction catalogues – identifying, locating and accessing relevant material
• Interpreting auction records, including lot descriptions and handwritten annotations
• Aggregating data from auction catalogues to explore larger-scale trends
• Network analysis drawing on data from auction catalogues
• Using findings from auction catalogues to support museum interpretation.
Please send your proposed title and abstract of no more than 200 words to anna.reeve@sas.ac.uk by 14 July 2023. A confirmed programme will be circulated nearer the date. Pre-registration for the workshop is now open and you can book your place here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/researching-antiquities-collections-through-auction-catalogues-potential-and-pitfalls
Call: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/researching-antiquities-collections-through-auction-catalogues-potential-and-pitfalls
(CFP closed July 14, 2023)
[HYBRID] IN THE SHADOW OF HIPPOLYTOS: CLASSICAL STUDIES IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR BARBARA E. GOFF
Hybrid/University of Reading, UK: September 22, 2023
The Department of Classics at the University of Reading is pleased to announce a one-day conference in honour of Professor Barbara Goff, which celebrates the work of our esteemed friend, colleague and Co-head of Department on the cusp of her retirement, Friday 22nd September 2023.
We have assembled an international cadre of her colleagues, collaborators, former students and other associates to discuss the diverse range of inclusive and innovative Classical studies on which she herself has contributed so greatly to scholarship in our and related academic fields. You can find the full announcement at https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-reading/2023/06/30/in-the-shadow-of-hippolytos-classical-studies-in-honour-of-professor-barbara-e-goff/ and the full programme at https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-reading/files/2023/06/Goff-fest_schedule_final-1.pdf
Programme
10–10.15 am Welcome: Amy C. Smith (Reading)
Introduction: Dania Kamini (Reading)
10:15–11.45 am. Session 1: Drama, Theory, History
Chair: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Speakers:
Fiona McHardy (Roehampton): (Gendered) violence in Euripidean fragments
Dania Kamini (Reading): A narratological (re-)reading of the Cassandra-scene in
Aeschylus’ Oresteia
Sophia Papaioannou (Athens): Plautine comedy in Ovid's Elegy
Respondent: Rosa Andújar (Kings College London)
11.45 am–12 noon. Coffee Break
12–1 pm. Session 2: A Sporting Life
Chair: Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths)
Speakers:
Emma Aston (Reading): Bull-wrestling and Thessalian regional identity
Stephanie Larson (Bucknell): Theban Ties at Nemea and Isthmia
Respondent: Sonya Nevin (Cambridge)
1–2 pm. Lunch Break
2–3 pm. Session 3: Broad(er) Classics
Chair: Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St. Andrews)
Speakers:
Kunbi Olasope (Ibadan): Medaaye: Two Love Stories
Sola Adeyemi (University of East Anglia, Norwich): Antigone’s Boat and the Wave of History
in Africa: A Response
Respondent: Sam Agbamu (Reading)
3–3.15 pm. Coffee Break
3.15–4.45 pm. Session 4: Re-roo/uting Classics
Chair: Katherine Harloe (Institute of Classical Studies)
Speakers:
Laura McClure (Madison): Virginia Woolf’s Greek Chorus
Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey): Performing Greek Tragedy in New Zealand
Kate Cook (St. Andrews): Phaedra and her Silent Sisters: Women and suicide in Greek
Tragedy
Respondent: Patrice Rankine (Chicago)
4.45–5 pm. Coffee Break
5–5.15 pm. Conclusions. Oliver Baldwin (Reading)
5.30–6 pm. Performance:
Trojan Women, directed by Stella Keramida, starring student actors
Reception and Dinner
Everyone is invited to join us to celebrate Prof. Goff on this august occasion, but please sign up at https://forms.office.com/e/9gpCPTPriW to let us know whether you will join us in person or online.
AFTERLIVES OF EMPIRE IN THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION
Sapienza Università di Roma: September 21-22, 2023
The resurgence of nationalist ideologies in Europe and the US has reignited interest in the histories and legacies of modern Empires. As of late, this has been strongly visible in the UK. The role of imperial nostalgia in the debates that paved the way for Brexit has drawn the attention of historians and cultural critics to how the memories and myths of Empire informed Europe-free imaginaries. Recent historical works have fruitfully investigated the legacies and memory of Empire in the UK and the unaddressed legacies of colonial rule, such as, in Caroline Elkins’s phrase, its “legac[ies] of violence”.
Taking its cue from the renewed interest in imperial history, this conference will center on the memory of new imperialism (1870-1914) and its immediate aftermath, focusing on key moments from the postwar years to the present moment. It will start from the premise that “Empire” was a cultural, institutional, and political entity that wove together colonialism, propaganda, predatory capitalism, militarism, missionary nationalism, biological racism, martial masculinity, and a heavily ideologized production of knowledge. On this assumption, the conference will investigate uses and reinventions of imperialist figures, myths, and ideas, focusing on fiction, memoirs, poetry, graphic narratives, popular history, TV series, films, and video games, as well as on the cross-fertilization of post-imperial discourses.
Keynote speakers: Corinne Fowler (University of Leicester), Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford).
We invite scholars working in modern literatures, literary studies, media studies, cultural studies, and modern history to submit proposals on topics including, but not limited to:
* The public uses of history in debates on Empire;
* Memoirs on, and memories of, Empire;
* Anti-colonial perspectives and post-imperial myths;
* Imperialism and neo-imperialism;
* Xenophobia, migrations, and imperial nostalgia;
* The persistence of “race”;
* The afterlives of imperialist “classics”;
* Museums and the imperial past.
Presentations should be in English or French and under 20 minutes.
Please send abstracts of 250-300 words, together with your contact details and affiliation, to: imperialafterlives@gmail.com by 15 March 2023.
The conference will take place in person.
Call: https://www.afterlivesofempire.com/call-for-papers
Twitter: @AEPIConference
(CFP closed March 15, 2023)
PERCEPTION OF CAUCASUS IN MYTHS AND LITERATURE FROM ANTIQUITY TILL CONTEMPORANEITY
Tbilisi (Georgia): September 20-22, 2023
The Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia) in collaboration with Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers of the International Conference “Perception of Caucasus in Myths and Literature from Antiquity till Contemporaneity” to be held in Tbilisi (Georgia) on September 20-22, 2023. The Conference is funded by LEPL – Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia and continues the tradition of joint conferences of Tbilisi State University and the University of Jena.
The Conference invites proposals exploring historical, literary, cultural and, in general, anthropological aspects of the perception of Caucasus in mythology, epigraphic and historiographic sources, different literary genres from ancient times to our days. Senior scholars, early career researchers and graduate students are kindly invited to take part in the Conference.
The working languages of the Conference: English, German, French, Modern Greek and Georgian. Papers in Latin are also welcome.
The Conference Registration fee: 100 € (for students 50 €).
The papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Presentations will be followed by 10-minute discussion. The abstracts of the papers (between 300 and 600 words) should be sent to the following e-mail: greekstudies@tsu.ge till May 15, 2023. The authors will be notified of the Scientific Committee’s decision in two weeks after submitting the proposal.
The Conference Programme will be circulated till May 31, 2023. The selected papers will be published after blind peer-review in the annual journal Phasis. Greek and Roman Studies (indexed in ERIH-PLUS) by the Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
Along with the abstract the following information about the author should be provided:
Personal information (first name, last name):
Affiliation and position:
Contact data (phone and email):
Questions may be directed to the following e-mail address: greekstudies@tsu.ge.
Call: https://www.tsu.ge/en/news/Perception-of-Caucasus-in-Myths-and-Literature-from-Antiquity-till-Contemporaneity
(CFP closed May 15, 2023)
HERODOTEAN ENCOUNTERS THROUGH ANTIQUITY AND BEYOND
International PRIN 2017 Colloquium Classical Receptions in Early Modern English Drama
Online - September 20, 2023
Organised by Silvia Bigliazzi, Francesco Dall’Olio, Marco Duranti and Emanuel Stelzer
With Carlo Maria Bajetta, Jordan Bayley, Silvia Bigliazzi, Francesco Dall’Olio, Marco Duranti, Anthony Ellis, Valentina Gritti, Jane Grogan, Chloë Huston, Sotera Fornaro, Carla Suthren, Emanuel Stelzer, Elisabeth Schwab, Joseph Skinner, Gherardo Ugolini, Riccardo Vattuone
For information write to: skene@ateneo.univr.it
Programme and Abstracts: https://skene.dlls.univr.it/en/2023/07/23/herodotean-encounters-through-antiquity-and-beyond/
[HYBRID] VII IBERO-AMERICAN CONGRESS ON THE THOUGHT OF PAUL RICŒUR - "RICŒUR AND THE CLASSICS"
Hybrid - University of Coimbra, Portugal: September 14-16, 2022
Paul Ricœur developed a rich and multifaceted hermeneutic philosophy, based on the dialectics between tradition and innovation. At the core of this philosophy we find interpretation, first applied to symbols and signs, and later to texts, action, social phenomena and to the hermeneutics of personal and collective identities, in what he called the “hermeneutics of selfhood”. Here we find a philosophy that is original but which never does away with a long meditation of other theories, authors and works past and present, in a continuous dialogue that is simultaneously an enlarged thinking and a lesson in humility. This dialogue includes not only philosophy but also areas such as psychoanalysis, history, literary theory, classical studies, biblical studies, law or bioethics, among others.
The VIIth Ibero-American Congress on the Thought of Paul Ricœur, dedicated to the topic “Ricœur and the Classics” will take place on 14-16 September 2022 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, and it aims to foster reflections on the ricœurian recovery of classics, understood in a broad sense. Indeed, whether through his hermeneutical retrieval of traditions, or the analyses he dedicates to the great authors and works of the past, and which goes from the Greeks (Plato, Aristotle and the tragediographers) to the main strands of thought of the 20thcentury, not forgetting the Bible and the whole history of philosophy and mainly figures like Kant, Hegel or Husserl, we find in Ricœur’s works a fruitful analysis of the classics, and a trove of unexplored potential to reflect on the endless meaning of these great works to which we call “classics”.
This Congress calls for the submission of contributions exploring these possibilities of ricœurian philosophy, particularly welcoming proposals underlining the fruitfulness of this approach today, or that combine the ricœurian perspective with the one of other authors. The abstracts of the proposals might include, but need not be restricted to, the following non-exhaustive list of topics:
· The reflection on the classics. What is a classic and how might we think its interpretation in the framework of hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricœur, among others), literary theory or other areas?
· Ricœur and the Greek and Latin classics;
· Ricœur, Biblical Hermeneutics, and the hermeneutics and phenomenology of religion;
· The importance and originality of the ricœurian analysis of the history of philosophy and of the fundamental works and authors of other areas to which he contributed;
· The dialectic between tradition and innovation in hermeneutics, literary creation and in other areas.
The congress will take place in a hybrid format, in person but with the possibility of presenting remotely. We accept individual paper proposals (200-500 words) or panel proposals comprising three paper presentations on the same topic (max. 1000-1500 words). Paper proposals can be written in Portuguese, Spanish, English or French. All proposals must include a separate sheet with the title of the proposal, author’s name, institutional affiliation and e-mail address, as well as the author’s intention to present the paper in person or remotely. Paper proposals must clearly state the authorship of each communication and the order of the presentation.
For the submission of proposals or any additional information request please contact
More information available in the website of the Congress at https://www.uc.pt/en/cech/vii-ibero-american-congress-on-the-thought-of-paul-ric-ur/
(CFP closed July 31, 2022)
[HYBRID] CAELIUS AURELIANUS: MEDICINE AND MEDICAL TRADITION
Online & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany: September 14-15, 2023
Website: https://www.klassphil.hu-berlin.de/en/avh-professur/events/international-conference-caelius-aurelianus-medicine-and-medical-tradition
Participation on Zoom: email the organisers caeliusconference@gmail.com.
MODES OF CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
Maynooth University, Ireland (John Hume Lecture Theatre 7): September 8-9, 2023
The Department of Ancient Classics at Maynooth is delighted to host this two-day event to mark the retirement of our friend and colleague, Professor David Scourfield, and celebrate his distinguished career and invaluable contribution to scholarship in Ireland and beyond.
The department has gathered together a select panel of international scholars to present a collection of papers on the modern reception of the classical world. As this is a key research area of Professor Scourfield's, we have invited David to launch proceedings on the first evening of our meeting. A full programme of papers, on a broad array of topics, will follow then on the second day of the colloquium; joining us for the day, we have: Christine Morris, Shelley Hales, Will Desmond, Quentin Broughall, Donncha O'Rourke, Charlie Kerrigan, Shushma Malik, and Douglas Cairns.
All are very welcome to come and celebrate David's career. Details and list of speakers is available at [pdf] https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/system/temporary/filefield_paths/Colloquium%208-9%20Sept%20Poster.pdf. For further details please contact us at classics@mu.ie.
[HYBRID] AMPHORAE XVII
Hybrid - University of Auckland, New Zealand: September 4-8, 2023
The Classics & Ancient History postgraduate student cohort at Waipapa Taumata Rau - The University of Auckland warmly invites submissions for the 17th annual AMPHORAE postgraduate conference.
AMPHORAE XVII, which will be held in hybrid mode at the University of Auckland from Monday 4th to Friday 8th September 2023, gives students across Australasia from Honours to PhD level a platform to explore their research alongside their peers in a welcoming and supportive intellectual environment.
We welcome submissions on a wide range of research topics within Ancient World Studies (by no means restricted to Greco-Roman antiquity), including (but not limited to): Historiography; Reception Studies; Archaeology; Ancient Literature; Philology; Gender and Sexuality; Social and Economic history; Methodologies; Ancient warfare; Ancient Religion ...
Papers will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes allocated for questions. Abstracts should be between 200-250 words. Panel submissions will also be accepted.
Please make your submissions via the form linked below, indicating whether you intend to attend in person or online (in the latter case be sure to include your time zone for planning purposes).
Abstract Submissions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1w2xUkwxSEKFa_MSge9wuU4BrL683zEUfl8eu3FNiwIE/viewform
Submissions are due by Sunday 28th May at 11.59pm (NZST)
For more information, you may contact us at amphoraexvii.auckland@gmail.com
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089684553398
(CFP closed May 28, 2023)
BODIES ON DISPLAY: HUMAN, ANIMAL, AND CRYPTID BODIES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
Hybrid - University of Glasgow, Scotland: September 1, 2023
An increasing amount of attention has been paid to impairment and disability in classical antiquity in recent years. However, one aspect of the subject that has not received significant attention, despite recent developments in the study of ancient paradoxography (e.g., Kazantzidis 2019; Geus 2018) and ancient collections, collectors, and collecting (e.g., Carpino et al. 2018; Higbie 2017; Thompson 2016; Gahtan and Pegazzano 2015; Rutledge 2012), is the public display of impaired and disabled people. The same applies to extraordinary (in all senses of the word) bodies.
Whether those bodies were human, animal, or cryptid, when scholars have acknowledged this phenomenon, the focus has been placed squarely on those individuals responsible for the displaying. For example, the imperial biographer Suetonius uses this as an indicator of virtue or vice in his subjects: Augustus is a good emperor for avoiding bodily display while Tiberius and Domitian are bad emperors for indulging in the practice. The Historia Augusta follows suit, using it as a means of communicating Commodus and Elagabalus’ degeneracy (e.g., Trentin 2011).
What is less often considered, is how the extraordinary individuals and creatures themselves felt about being displayed. To what extent is this sort of information recoverable? Accessing information about the lived experience of impairment and disability in antiquity is challenging as there is relatively little evidence that provides explicit information on the subject from the first-person perspective. Can turning our attention to other times and places, such as Medieval and Early Modern royal courts and menageries, Victorian freak shows and circuses, as well as the ongoing contemporary controversies over the display of human remains such as those of Joseph Merrick (‘the Elephant Man’) and Charles Byrne (‘the Irish Giant’), assist us in our efforts? And what about the reception of this particular aspect of the classical world in popular cultural representations such as television programmes, films, and analogue and digital games?
We welcome 20-minute papers and posters from scholars on a range of themes broadly related to ‘bodily display’ from antiquity to the present day. We particularly welcome and encourage the perspectives of scholars from under-represented communities. The workshop will be held on Friday 1st September 2023 at the University of Glasgow but will be a hybrid event in which speakers and delegates can also participate online to maximise accessibility. Papers and posters can be presented live in person or online, or pre-recorded, and will be followed by 10 minutes for questions. The keynote speaker will be Adrienne Mayor, author of Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws, and Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities (2022) and The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (2010).
Please send abstracts (maximum 300 words) for twenty-minute papers to Jane Draycott (Jane.Draycott@Glasgow.ac.uk) and Jamie Young (J.Young.4@research.gla.ac.uk) by Friday 14th April 2023.
Program & Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bodies-on-display-academic-conference-tickets-629912634647
Call: https://bodiesondisplayworkshop.blogspot.com/
(CFP closed April 14, 2023)
SAPIENS UBIQUE CIVIS X - SZEGED 2023
PhD Student and Young Scholar Conference on Classics and the Reception of Antiquity
Szeged, Hungary: August 30–September 1, 2023
The Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary is pleased to announce its International Conference Sapiens Ubique Civis X – Szeged 2023, for PhD Students, Young Scholars, as well as M.A. students aspiring to apply to a PhD program.
The aim of the conference is to bring together an international group of young scholars working in various places, languages, and fields. Papers on a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to the literature, history, philology, philosophy, linguistics and archaeology of Greece and Rome, Byzantinology, Neo-Latin studies, and reception of the classics, as well as papers dealing with theatre studies, digital humanities, comparative literature, contemporary literature, and fine arts related to the Antiquity are welcome. We are also happy to accept submissions concerning didactic methods in teaching Latin and other classical subjects.
Lectures: The language of the conference is English. Thematic sessions and plenary lectures will be scheduled. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes, followed by discussion. It is not possible to present online.
Abstracts: Abstracts of maximum 300 words should be sent by email as a Word attachment to sapiensuc@gmail.com strictly before June 15, 2023. The abstracts should be proofread by a native speaker. The document should also contain personal information of the author, including name, affiliation and contact email address, as well as the title of the presentation.
Acceptance notification will be sent to you until June 18, 2023.
Registration: The registration fee for the conference is €80. The participation fee includes conference pack, reception meal, closing event, extra programs, and refreshments during coffee breaks. The participation fee does not include accommodation, but the conference coordinators will assist the conference participants in finding accommodation in the city centre.
Publication: All papers will be considered for publication in Volume 5 (2024) of the peer-reviewed journal on Classics entitled Sapiens ubique civis, published in cooperation with the ELTE Eötvös József Collegium.
Getting here: Szeged, the largest city of Southern Hungary, can be easily reached by rail from Budapest and the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. Those who prefer travelling by car can choose the European route E75, and then should take the Hungarian M5 motorway passing by the city.
For general inquiries about the conference, please contact Dr Gergő Gellérfi: gellerfigergo@gmail.com.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;19db4c6c.ex
(CFP closed June 15, 2023)
[BOOK CHAPTERS] JORGE LUIS BORGES AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY. IN PRAISE OF THE ANCIENTS.
Scholars dedicated to the writings of Jorge Luis Borges have long been interested in the way the author draws ideas, images, and arguments from the philosophical tradition. But two opposing views seem to surface from many of their works. In broad terms, one of these views considers that Borges uses philosophical materials for literary and aesthetic purposes, while the other one holds that Borges is himself an authentic philosopher who employs literature as a vehicle for introducing philosophical questions and discussing philosophical problems. Beyond this hermeneutical quandary, however, is the certainty that Borges is an avid reader of the philosophical tradition and that he introduces in his texts philosophical themes which play a constitutive role in his imaginative and insightful creations.
In the works of Borges, many ancient Greek philosophers are named and even their doctrines are often explained, evincing both the vast knowledge and understanding that he had attained about them and his mastery of the literary form into which he interweaved his references and accounts. Thales, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Parmenides and Zeno, Democritus, Socrates and Protagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus: these are many of the ancient philosophers that Borges explicitly recalls in his works. The present proposal, hence, aims to gather papers that examine the role ancient philosophers and their thought play in Borges’ writings. Taking as an antecedent the previous scholarship that deal with the philosophical aspect of Borges’ work, we propose to focus the present book on ancient Greek philosophy as a key component of his texts. We welcome papers that approach this broad topic from the perspectives of the History of Philosophy and from Literary Studies and encourage all contributions that shed light on the mode of the presence of ancient philosophy in the work of Jorge Luis Borges.
Submission Guidelines
We invite submissions of titles and abstracts between 400 and 600 words describing individual chapters of unpublished and original research material. The accepted language of the volume is English. Documents should be prepared for anonymous review in PDF format. Please, use the following title in the subject line of your email: “Borges and Ancient Greek Philosophy”. Personal information and the title of the proposed chapter should be included in the body of the email. Please, submit proposals to info@ipt.gr (attn: G. Stamatellos and G. Martino)
Important Dates
Titles and abstracts (400-600 words): 31 August 2023
Decision of the editors: 11 December 2023
First draft (6000-8000 words including notes and references): 31 March 2024
Report of the editors: 30 June 2024
Complete paper: 30 September 2024
Editors of the volume
Giannis Stamatellos, PhD (Institute of Philosophy and Technology, Athens)
https://ipt.gr/giannis-stamatellos/
Gabriel Martino, PhD (CONICET, UBA, USAL)
https://www.conicet.gov.ar/new_scp/detalle.php?id=29961&keywords=gabriel+martino&datos_academicos=yes
Call: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12871420/cfp-jorge-luis-borges-and-greek-philosophy-praise-ancients
(CFP closed August 31, 2023)
THE MARY RENAULT PRIZE
Applications close: July annually.
The deadline for the 2023 Mary Renault Prize competition is: July 28, 2023.
The Mary Renault Prize is a Classical Reception essay prize for school or college sixth form pupils, awarded by the Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College, and funded by the royalties from Mary Renault’s novels.
The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College offer two or more Prizes, worth up to £300 each, for essays on classical reception or influence submitted by pupils who, at the closing date, have been in the Sixth Form of any school or college for a period of not more than two years. The prizes are in memory of the author Mary Renault, who is best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece, recently reissued by Virago. Renault read English at St Hugh’s in the 1920s and subsequently taught herself ancient Greek. Her novels have inspired many thousands of readers to pursue the study of Classics at University level and beyond. At least one prize will be awarded a pupil who is not studying either Latin or Greek to A-level standard. The winning essay will be published on the College’s website. Teachers wishing to encourage their students to enter the competition can download, display and circulate the competition poster in the ‘related documents’ section.
Essays can be from any discipline and should be on a topic relating to the reception of classical antiquity – including Greek and Roman literature, history, political thought, philosophy, and material remains – in any period to the present; essays on reception within classical antiquity (for instance, receptions of literary or artistic works or of mythical or historical figures) are permitted. Your submission must be accompanied by a completed information cover sheet. Essays should be between two-thousand and four-thousand words and submitted by the candidate as a Microsoft Word document through the form below.
Website: https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/outreach-at-st-hughs/essay-competitions/the-mary-renault-prize/
SYMPOSIUM: PAN AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
University of Bristol, UK: July 20, 2023
Supported by the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT)
The symposium, which will be free to attend, aims to consider the role of Pan in the twenty-first century. Professor Ronald Hutton will give a keynote lecture on 'The Return of the Horned God: Pan and the Modern British'.
The goat-legged ancient Greek deity Pan might not seem an obvious mascot for the twenty-first century. Yet he is a god of wild spaces and of universal nature, whose composite bodily form - half-human, half-animal - makes him an appropriate figurehead for anxieties surrounding the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Even within classical literature, Pan’s penchant for terrorising shepherds suggests an uneasy association with human attempts to domesticate wild landscapes. It is no surprise that literary and artistic depictions of Pan exploded in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, nor that critical attention is returning to the goat-god in the twenty-first century, as we confront humanity’s impact on the planet. This free one-day symposium asks what it means to look backwards to antiquity in a time of ecological emergency. What can we learn from the classical past in this most contemporary crisis?
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute papers exploring the ecological Pan in culture from antiquity to the present day. Possible topics might include the relationship between Pan and:
- Human-animal studies
- Ecology and folklore
- Rurality and the countryside
- Classical ecologies
- Queer ecologies
- Gothic nature
- Human evolution
- Climate change
Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent to Dr. Billie Gavurin at bg13358@bristol.ac.uk by Tuesday 20th June 2023, along with a short bio. Queries can be directed to the same email address.
In addition, two travel grants of £50 each are on offer for PGR and ECR presenters. If you would like to be considered for a grant, please include a brief note along with your abstract detailing your estimated travel expenses and any other sources of funding you have applied for.
Call: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/collaborations/igrct/news/2023/call-for-papers-symposium-on-pan-and-the-anthropocene.html
Program: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2023/july/pan-and-the-anthropocene-symposium.html
Registration (in person): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pan-and-the-anthropocene-symposium-tickets-68706999637
Registration (Zoom): https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0uduCtqD8iHdxLcLFUxQomN057nDEF_6FZ
(CFP closed June 20, 2023)
[CCC] [PANELS] 14th CELTIC CONFERENCE IN CLASSICS
University of Coimbra, Portugal: July 11-14, 2023
The call for panels for the 14th Celtic Conference in Classics, University of Coimbra (Portugal), is now open.
Since 1998 the Celtic Conference in Classics (CCC) has rotated among universities in Britain, France and Ireland. In 2017 the CCC expanded into Québec, Canada, and in 2019 to Portugal. The CCC includes upwards of 20 panels on broad topics in Classics (Greco-Roman history, philosophy, literature, archaeology, reception) with roughly 15-20 presenters for each panel. The CCC allows each panel to explore fundamental questions in classical studies. Essentially, 20 large-scale conferences on major research topics in Classics occur simultaneously. Scholars are encouraged to move between panels in order to shape interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches. Academic cross-fertilization is imperative. Specialist panels are open to experts from other subject-areas and scholars from different national traditions are encouraged to build international academic networks among their home institutions in order to foster future collaboration. The CCC is a democratic, inclusive organization that invites scholars and students to discuss fundamental issues of Greco-Roman society and culture. The official languages of the CCC are English and French.
Proposals for panels (NB: not individual papers) should be submitted, by 31 October 2022, to cech@fl.uc.pt.
Website: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccclassics2023.
(Proposals for panels closed October 31, 2022)
[CCC] [PANELs] 14TH CELTIC CONFERENCE IN CLASSICS
University of Coimbra, Portugal: July 11–14, 2023 [hybrid possible]
All abstracts due by February 20, 2023 unless indicated.
* ANCIENT DRAMA, MODERN MEDIA (abstract deadline January 15, 2023)
* ENCOUNTERS WITH ANCIENT GREEK MEDICINE: INTERTEXTUALITY AND SURVIVAL
* FEAR, TERROR AND HORROR IN GRAECO-LATIN ANTIQUITY AND ITS RECEPTION IN POPULAR CULTURE/MIEDO, TERROR Y HORROR EN LA ANTIGÜEDAD GRECOLATINA Y SU PERVIVENCIA EN LA CULTURA POPULAR
* MANIPULATING TIME IN ROMAN CULTURE
* OVID AND MYTH
* RECEPTION OF HOMER IN CONTEMPORARY IBERO-AMERICAN CULTURE
Calls and conference information: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccclassics2023/call-for-papers
[HYBRID] 17th MOISA RESEARCH SEMINAR ON ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN MUSIC
Theme: Pliny’s Natural History: Sound, Voice, and Music in the Verbal and Visual Representations of Natural Environment in Antiquity and Its Reception
Hybrid - Bressanone/Brixen, Italy: July 10–14, 2023
From 10 to 14 July 2023, the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua (Italy) will host the MOISA Research Seminar (https://www.moisasociety.org/it/seminars/) in Bressanone/Brixen (Italy), with the possibility to follow the event also in streaming on Zoom. Following the customary format (originated in Corfu and then moved for some years to Riva del Garda), the programme will comprise morning sessions (10 am–1 pm), devoted to the study of a particular text and topic, as well as a series of evening lectures (6–7.30 pm) on other issues of interest.
The 17th MOISA Seminar, on the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE), shall focus on Pliny’s "Natural History", one of the largest encyclopedic works from the Roman world on the natural world or life, where music was relevant too: this text will be the starting point for a survey of the evidence on the music in the natural world and environment in antiquity and its reception.
The opening lecture will be delivered by Prof. Egert Pöhlmann (Erlangen), while the invited speakers will include (in alphabetic order): Anna Anguissola (Pisa), Simone Beta (Siena), Pedro Duarte (Aix-en-Provence), Pauline LeVen (Yale), Sylvain Perrot (Strasbourg), Massimo Raffa (Lecce). The evening lectures (partly selected through a call for papers) will provide an overview of the most recent developments in the field of Ancient Greek and Roman Music and its cultural heritage, as well as a chance to improve current projects thanks to the feedback and questions of the audience.
Both morning and evening sessions will take place at the so-called ‘Casa della Gioventù’ of the University of Padua, near the historic city-centre of Brixen (https://www.brixen.org/en/bressanone/city-centre.html), in a space particularly suitable for the exchange of ideas that is so typical of, and vital for, this seminar. This university campus includes classrooms and common areas. The ‘Casa della Gioventù’ can provide accommodation at 35 euros per night and per person. For information and to book a room please contact silvia.tessari@unipd.it or giovanna.casali2@unibo.it or alessia.zangrando2@unibo.it.
The fee for participation in presence is 70 euros. Payment details will be sent approximately one month before the Seminars.
It will be also possible to attend the seminar online: the evening lectures will be freely available online while, in order to follow via Zoom the morning sessions and have access to the study material prepared by the speakers, students who cannot travel to Italy should become a member of MOISA and pay a membership fee of 25 euros (https://www.moisasociety.org/it/join-or-renew-with-moisa/). The MOISA Society and the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna will kindly offer a scholarship to one student covering the costs of accommodation and fees: those who wish to apply can send their cv and a motivation letter to donatella.restani@unibo.it by the end of May 2023.
Those who plan to participate may express their interest and register on the following page: https://forms.gle/p2dkbR62xAmmPih26.
For any other information, please get in touch with the scientific organiser, dr. Silvia Tessari (silvia.tessari@unipd.it).
Thanks to “The Friends of the University of Padua in Brixen” Association for its collaboration.
PROGRAMME
10.07.2023
18.00–18.15 Opening and Welcome
Jacopo Bonetto, Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage (University of Padua)
Institutional greetings
Daniela Castaldo, MOISA President (Lecce)
Paola Dessì (Padua), Donatella Restani (Bologna)
18.15–19.15 Pliny the Elder: Introduction
Egert Pöhlmann (Erlangen)
19.15–19.30 Discussion
11.07.2022
10.00–13.00 Morning Session 1: Pliny Part 1
Simone Beta (Siena)
18.00–19.30 Domenico Passarelli (Siena-Pisa): Weapons, Clashes, Waters.
Writing Sounds of Nature through Similes in Homer’s Iliad.
Marco Martin (Genova): The Bard in the Celtic Society in Greek and Latin Sources
12.07.2022
10.00–13.00 Morning Session 2: Pliny Part 2
Anna Anguissola (Pisa)
18.00–19.30 Evening lecture:
Pauline LeVen (Yale University), The Worlds of the Seikilos Epitaph
Book presentation:
Massimo Raffa (Lecce): M. Raffa, Il tessuto delle Muse. Musica e mito nel mondo classico, InShibboleth, Roma 2021
13.07.2022
10.00–13.00 Morning Session 3: Pliny Part 3
Pedro Duarte (Aix-en-Provence)
18.00–19.30 Matteo Varoli (Genova): Nobis tacitus labitur mundus. The Rejection of Cosmic Harmony in Pliny the Elder and its Philosophical Background
Felipe Nascimento de Araujo (Rio de Janeiro - Strasbourg): The Concept of New Music in the Greek Classical Period: Historiography, Terminology, and New Approaches
14.07.2022
10.00–11.15 Morning Session 4: Pliny Part 4
Sylvain Perrot (Strasbourg)
11.15–12.15 Final discussion on the topic of the 18th MOISA Research Seminars (2024)
Information: https://www.moisasociety.org/it/events/
CLASSICAL PRESENCES IN NORTH-EASTERN ENGLAND
Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, UK: 2022-2023 academic year
(1) Seminar series - 2022-2023 academic year;
Proposals of 300 words and a relevant illustration or two are invited for papers to be delivered in a seminar series in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University in collaboration with the new Hadrian’s Wall branch of the Classical Association during the academic year 2022-2023, culminating in a two-day conference in late June or early July 2023 and a subsequent publication.
Discussions of any aspect of the relationship since the 16th century CE between this geographical area (broadly defined as including Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and North Yorkshire) and the ancient Greek and Roman worlds including those of their neighbours are welcomed, especially but not exclusively those which engage with how this relationship has transcended social boundaries dictated by working identity, class, religion, gender and ethnicity.
Possible subject areas might include, but are not limited to, workers’ educational activities, universities and their extra-mural activities, architecture and fine art (particularly involving the perspectives on the classical legacy of artists and those engaged in processes of construction or restoration), archaeology, antiquities and collections, printing houses, translators and illustrators, politics, trade union art and publications, theatre (e.g. workers’ theatre in Hartlepool and Newcastle-upon-Tyne), popular entertainment, historical pageants (Hadrian in Leazes Park), pottery works, poets (Harrison, O’Brien) and novelists (Unsworth, Barker).
The co-organisers are Edith Hall and Edmund Thomas. Confirmed speakers include Henry Stead, Cora-Beth Fraser, Richard Hingley, Jennifer Ingleheart, Brycchan Carey, Lilah Grace Canevaro and Mirko Canevaro.
Please send proposals by July 31st 2022 to edith.hall@durham.ac.uk
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;b26dccac.ex
(CFP closed July 31, 2022)
(2) Two day conference - late June/early July 2023 (with publication)
Edited (3/7/2023):
[HYBRID] CLASSICAL PRESENCES IN NORTH-EAST ENGLAND
Durham, UK (St Chad’s College, with hybrid option): July 7-8, 2023
The Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University and the Durham Centre for Classical Reception invite you to the two-day conference Classical Presences in North-East England
on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th July 2023 in St Chad’s College, Durham
FRIDAY 7th JULY
13.00-13.30 Registration and coffee.
13.30-13.45 Welcome and introduction
13.45-16.00 Session 1 North-Eastern Dialogues with Classics
13.45-14.30 David Butterfield (Cambridge University): ‘The Challenges of Teaching Latin in 18th-century Newcastle’
14.30-15.15 Lilah-Grace Canevaro and Mirko Canevaro (Edinburgh University): ‘Stories of Marsden: Roman Remains, Revolution and the Rights of Man’
15.15-16.00 Maureen Almond (Newcastle): ‘Horace on Teesside’
16.00-16.30 Tea and coffee break
16.30-18.45 Session 2 Approaches to classical architecture in the North East
16.30-17.15 Richard Pears (Durham University): ‘Temples of Knowledge: The Classical Architecture of Public Libraries and Mechanics Institutes’
17.15-18.00 Edmund Thomas (Durham University): ‘Keystones, classicism and social mobility in North-Eastern England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’
18.00-18.45 Rory McInnes-Gibbons (Durham University): ‘Building the new Hadrian's Wall... The Historical Pageant of Newcastle and the North in 1931’
18.45-19.30 Reception
19.30 Conference dinner
SATURDAY 8th JULY
8.30-9.00 Durham Miners’ Gala: banners gathering in Market Place (for those interested)
9.15-12.45 Session 3 Hadrian’s Wall
9.15-10.00 Frances McIntosh (English Heritage): ‘The Wall and its saviour; 19th century discovery and study of Hadrian’s Wall by John Clayton’
10.00-10.45 Tony Keen (Notre Dame London Global Gateway): ‘There’s your emperor.’ Hadrian’s Wall Country in Vera
10.45-11.15 Tea and coffee break
11.15-12.00 Martha Stewart (Durham University): Oxford Classics on the Roman frontier: Eric Birley and the legacy of Francis Haverfield
12.00-12.45 Richard Hingley (Durham University): Hadrian's Wall as an Artscape
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 Final round table
14.30 Those interested will have the opportunity to attend the service for the Durham Miners' Gala at Durham Cathedral (starting at 15.00) and/or to watch the procession of banners (starting at 14.30).
If you would like to attend, please contact Edmund Thomas (e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk) and if you would like to attend the conference dinner. There is also still some accommodation available at St Chad's College at a small cost, for which please contact St Chad's College directly at chads.commercial@durham.ac.uk by this Friday (23rd June).
We welcome you to join us in person for this event. Details about alternative online attendance will be circulated shortly.
Professor Edith Hall
Dr Edmund Thomas
Durham University
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;fa6064b3.ex
TRAGEDY QUEERED
University of Reading, UK: July 6-7, 2023
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 Lambda as queer symbol, non-binary Antigones, tunic-clad pornotopias or languid Sebastianic bodies, Greece and Rome have appeared to LGBTQI+ thought, culture and politics as a necessary and useful utopia, refuge, framework and origin.
As an extension and complement to the Queer Tragedy project, funded by the British Academy and hosted by the University of Reading, the conference Tragedy Queered wishes to explore the specific impact of Graeco-Roman tragedy on queer culture. The aim of the conference is to create a more focused understanding of the outcomes, benefits, stimulations and challenges of using Greek and Roman tragedy as a framework, channel and provocation in diverse queer cultural contexts and media. The importance of Graeco-Roman tragedy to queer culture is evident, for example, in the filmic retellings of Oedipus in Pasolini and Toshio Matsumoto’s filmographies, in Butler’s queer(ing/ed) Antigone, in Dionysian same-sex kisses on stage, in Cassils’ melting Tiresias, in Trajal Harrel’s choreographing Antigone Sr or in the appearances of Orestes and Pylades in social media. This Call for Papers invites contributions that will explore the appearance, uses and utilities of Greek and Roman tragic plays (including fragmentary), their plots and/or characters to queer culture broadly defined, including, but not constrained to: queer film and screen, thought, written/spoken word, theatre, performance, visual arts, dance, online media, fan-fiction and music. Diverse formats and methodologies of intervention and participation in the conference are welcome.
The deadline for proposals is the 29th of January 2023 extended deadline February 12th 2023. Proposals should consist of a title and a 300-word abstract sent to o.a.baldwin@reading.ac.uk. Please include email address in the proposal. The conference has been envisaged as consisting of 20-minute papers (or other contributions). If you wish to propose a different length of time or mode of participation, please state this clearly in the proposal. The language of the conference will be English, but accommodations can be made for other languages. Although the conference will have a hybrid format, speakers are strongly encouraged to attend in person. The intended date for notifying acceptance will be the 15th of February, when details of registration and logistics will also be communicated.
Program & Registration information: https://queertragedy.co.uk/tragedy-queered/
Call: https://twitter.com/DrOBaldwin/status/1600910460944908288
(CFP closed February 12, 2023)
HOW REPUBLICS DIE: CREEPING AUTHORITARIANISM FROM THE ANCIENT TO THE MODERN WORLD
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: July 4-6, 2023
Authoritarian regimes are resurgent in our world; democracies are on the back foot. This has led to a flourishing of scholarship on how authoritarians operate and how democracies break down, scholarship which has been concentrated especially in political science and constitutional law.
Now we need to put the history back in. We believe that historians and political scientists can each benefit from coming together to compare historical cases of democratic decay and authoritarian emergence. The concepts and methodologies of political science can focus and enrich historical explanation; historical comparisons can help political scientists refine hypotheses and see mechanisms at work. And better understanding of the other discipline's language and working methods can only make collaboration easier in the future.
This conference aims to do just that. It will centre on the late Roman Republic and the rule of Augustus, but will also look also at other historical instances of the decay of democratic and republican regimes and authoritarian takeover up to the present day. Examples might include Greek oligarchy, Medici Florence, the various Bonapartist coups, the post-war dictatorships in Latin America, and contemporary "competitive authoritarian" regimes in Hungary and Turkey.
DAY 1 PROGRAM - Tuesday 4 July
Opening address: Jane Hansen AO, Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
10:30 to 13:00 – Session One
"'Did He Really Say That?' Theodor Mommsen on How ‘Democracy' Died" Kathryn Welch, University of Sydney
"How Did Ancient Democracies Die? Not (Normally) by Demagoguery" Matt Simonton, Arizona State University
"Exercises in Legitimacy: How Does Russia Work?" Oleg Beyda, University of Melbourne
14:30 to 17:00 – Session Two
"Reformenunwilligkeit and the Death of the Roman Republic" Frederik Vervaet/Christopher Dart/David Rafferty,Universities of Melbourne and Adelaide
"Political Polarisation and the Fall of the Roman Republic" Francisco Pina Polo, Universidad Zaragoza
"Pompeius Princeps: the New Republic of 52 BCE" David Rafferty/Frederik Vervaet/Christopher Dart Universities of Adelaide and Melbourne
18:00 to 19:00 – First Keynote Paper: "The Acceptable and the Alternative in the Late Roman Republic" Amy Russell, Brown University
Venue: Forum Theatre (153), Arts West Building (North Wing)
DAY 2 PROGRAM - Wednesday 5 July
"The View from the Periphery: Local Elites, Roman Elites, and the provinces during Rome's crisis of the 80s B.C.E.", Nicholas George, University of Adelaide
"Just another word? The lure of libertas in the seventies" Jeff Tatum, Victoria University of Wellington
"Increasing Authoritarianism: The Plight of Matronae in the Late Republic" Christian Hjorth Bagger, University of Melbourne
Second Keynote Paper: "The Rise of the Roman Economy and the Fall of the Roman Republic", James Tan, University of Sydney
"From Saviour of Greece to Tyrannos Polis: Athens' Peculiar Path to Empire" James Kierstead, Victoria University of Wellington
"The Fall of Athens' Democratic ‘Empire'" Hyun Jin Kim, University of Melbourne
"Creeping Authoritarianism and the Roman Grain Distributions" Tonya Rushmer, University of Sydney
DAY 3 PROGRAM - Thursday 6 July
"Caesar and the tribunes of the plebs (52-44 BCE)" Thibaud Lanfranchi, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
"Dealing with uncertainty: Cicero, Victor Klemperer and how to cope with the present in moments of crisis" Cristina Rosillo López, Universidad Pablo de Olavide
"Augustus' Res Gestae as a Revolutionary's Manual", Ronald Ridley, University of Melbourne
"A Lack of Will? Alienation and crises of ideological confidence in the Late Roman Republic", Tom Hillard, Macquarie University
"Populism, Broken Promises, and Constitutional Danger in the Late Roman Republic", Tim Elliott, University of Birmingham
"Enabling laws, rule of law, and the transformation of the Roman Republic" Kit Morrell, University of Queensland
18:00 - 19:00 Third Keynote Paper: "How Republics Die: the Corrosive Effects of Election Conspiracism" Lisa Hill, University of Adelaide
Venue: Forum Theatre (153), Arts West Building (North Wing)
Website: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/event/30579-how-republics-die-creeping-authoritarianism-from
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-republics-die-creeping-authoritarianism-from-the-ancient-to-the-modern-tickets-657386028307
TWITTERING THE WAR: HERODOTUS, THUCYDIDES AND WAR IN UKRAINE ON TWITTER
Cardiff University (John Percival Building, Room 3.46), Wales: July 4, 2023
A collaborative research event (Ancient history / Language and Communication) supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Building Communities Seed corn fund, Cardiff University. The event will explore how twitter discourse on war in Ukraine is mobilised by Herodotus and Thucydides, two ancient historical texts engaging with war (5th c BCE Greece), with major influence on western political thought, constitution, literature, art, and culture. Experts from different disciplines will gather to exchange views and extend networks of collaboration.
PROGRAMME
11:30 – 12:00 Registration
12:00 – 12:05 Welcome address (video) by Professor Claire Gorrara, Dean of Research and Innovation, Cardiff University
12:00 – 12:45 Presentation by the project Team
12:45 – 13:00 Discussion
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch in John Percival Building, Room 0.03
14:00 – 15:20 Responses (in order of presentation):
Dr Roel Konijnendijk (Ancient History, Oxford)
Dr Argyro Kantara (Language and Communication, ENCAP)
Dr Sean Roberts (Language and Communication, ENCAP)
Viorica Budu (Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute, Cardiff)
Dr Maria Kyriakidou (School of Journalism, Media and Culture / JOMEC, Cardiff)
Dr Michael Munnik (Social Science, Media and Religion, SHARE)
Dr James Ryan (Modern European (Russian) history, SHARE)
Professor Neville Morley (Classics and Ancient History, Exeter)
15:20 – 15:45 Discussion
15:45 – 16:00 Concluding remarks: Professor Laurence Totelin (Ancient history, SHARE)
For information, please contact: FragoulakiM@cardiff.ac.uk
The Twittering the War team
Dr Maria Fragoulaki, PI (Ancient History, SHARE)
Dr Tereza Spilioti, Co-I (Language and Communication, ENCAP)
Dr Aurora Goodwin, RA (Language and Communication, ENCAP)
Mr Ludovico Runco, RA (Ancient History, SHARE)
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;4a65231e.ex
[IMC PANEL] TANGLING WITH THE CLASSICS
2023 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds: July 3–6, 2023
The term 'classical reception implies a unidirectional movement of texts from antiquity to the Middle Ages. However, medieval did not always view themselves as passive recipients or enthusiastic continuers of classical literature. In keeping with next year's IMC theme of "Networks and Entanglements," this panel seeks papers that consider how the relationship between classical and medieval texts might be considered a kind of entanglement. Hope did classical auctores 'rope' medieval authors into certain ways of thinking or writing? Or to ask the inverse, how did medieval writers 'rope' classical auctores into supporting their political or ideological views? Is the relationship between every medieval writer and their classical source(s) an "entanglement"?
We seek papers that complicate the idea of classical reception in the Middle Ages by reimagining it not as a linear movement but as a tangled mass of threads, in which classical authors are equally likely to ensnare or to be ensnared by medieval writers.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
Medieval stories about classical authors, such as biographies or legends
Imagined dialogues or other kinds of 'conversations' between classical and medieval writers
Medieval texts or authors who felt 'trapped', 'limited', or otherwise 'entangled' by classical texts or classical tradition more generally
Entangling classical and religious sources in the Middle Ages
The misrepresentation of classical auctores in the Middle Ages
Networks of entanglement, e.g. between multiple classical authorities and medieval authors
Filtered entanglement: reading the classics through intermediary texts, such as in commentaries or through other writers
Pseudepigrapha and literary forgeries
Different theories of textual entanglement, such as cento or medieval theories of authorship
Session organizers
Jacqueline Burek, George Mason University
Rebecca Menmuir, Queen Mary University of London
Abstracts due: September 9, 2022
See: https://maryjahariscenter.org/?/blog/tangling-with-the-classics & (poster) https://twitter.com/RebeccaMenmuir/status/1556968956270985218
(CFP closed September 9, 2022)
[ONLINE] CURATING FREUD'S ANTIQUITY: OBJECT, IDEA, DESIRE
Online - The Freud Museum, London: July 1, 2023
The Freud Museum in London is holding an online conference to explore the current exhibition and digital archive Freud's Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire that will take place on Saturday 1 July 2023.
To book a ticket, please click on the following link:
https://www.freud.org.uk/event/curating-freuds-antiquity-object-idea-desire/
CHALLENGING THE PATRIARCHY: REFRAMING GRAECO-ROMAN WOMEN AND THEIR RECEPTION
The University of Newcastle, Australia: June 30-July 1, 2023
Co-organisers: Connie Skibinski (The University of Newcastle, Australia) and Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand)
This two-day conference seeks to examine the role of women within the restrictive cultural expectations and societal norms of ancient Greece and Rome, but also addresses how their receptions renegotiated questions of gender across time, down to the present moment. We welcome papers that interrogate gender stereotypes in antiquity including analyses of how women found a place for themselves within the restrictive norms under which they had to operate. This includes the various degrees to which ancient women either circumvented and/or worked within existing patriarchal structures. This conference adopts a broad interpretation of the term ‘classical reception’, denoting both the ways in which ancient women were received within their own time, as well as the reframing of ancient women in later periods. Papers can examine portrayals of ancient women who challenged the patriarchy, portrayals of women in later eras who conformed to the gender stereotypes that have their roots in antiquity, and/or receptions that sought to radically subvert such male-orientated views of women and their position in society.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
· Historical women, female characters from ancient Greek and Roman literature (epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, etc.), or the lived experiences of classical women more generally.
· The reception of women within antiquity e.g., ancient authors and artists’ engagement with earlier source material.
· The reception of ancient women in later centuries, from the medieval era to the present.
· Interrogating gender roles within antiquity and/or their receptions’ reframing of these roles.
· In-depth analyses of women in our ancient source texts and/or visual culture.
· The reception of ancient women in scholarship, museums, exhibitions, etc.
· The reception of ancient women in popular culture (film, television, Internet, novels, games, etc.).
Abstracts should be 300 words in length and include your full name and institutional affiliation.
We hope that most of our speakers can attend in person, but for accessibility reasons we will accommodate online presentations, with the proviso that speakers make themselves available to participate in the Q&A that will follow their panel.
Contact: For more information and to submit an abstract, please email both co-organisers.
Anastasia Bakogianni: a.bakogianni@massey.ac.nz
Connie Skibinski: connie.skibinski@uon.edu.au
Edit (11/06/2023) - Program:
Day 1 - 30 June
9:40am Opening Remarks - Anastasia Bakogianni and Connie Skibinski (conference organisers)
9:45-10:45am Panel A: The Reception of Ancient Mothers and Daughters
Chair: Anneka Rene
9:45-10:05am Demeter and Persephone Today: The Reception of the Mother-Daughter Bond in Young Adult Fiction
Cristina Salcedo González (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
10:05-10:25am Broken Bonds: The Reception of Clytemnestra and Electra in Modern Novels
Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand)
10:25-10:45am Q&A
Break: 15min
11am-12pm Panel B: Greek Women
Chair: Anastasia Bakogianni
11:00-11:20am Performance as Agency in the Female Choruses of Greek Tragedy
Elke Nash (University of Auckland)
11:20-11:40am The Bride of Hector: Andromache in Sappho 44 V and Euripides
Noah Wellington (The University of Melbourne)
11:40am-12:00pm Q&A
12-1pm Lunch
1-2pm Keynote: Transgressive Women in the Theatre: Medea and Lysistrata
Michael Ewans (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Chair: Connie Skibinski
Break: 10min
2:10-3:30pm Panel C: Roman Women
Chair: Tobias Fulton
2:10-2:30pm Women, Age and Commemoration across the Roman Mediterranean
Ray Laurence (Macquarie University)
2:30-2:50pm What’s in a Name? Tracking the Development of the Roman Female Assembly
Josephine Carroll-Walden (The University of Queensland)
2:50-3:10pm From Female Speech to Female Authorship: Dido as Narrator in Ovid’s Heroides 7
Shona Edwards (University of Adelaide)
3:10-3:30pm Q&A
AWAWS Workshop 3:45-4:45pm Teaching Ancient Women and their Reception
Chair: Anastasia Bakogianni
Day 2 - 1 July
9:45-10:45am Panel D: The Reception of Greek and Roman Women
Chair: Connie Skibinski
9:45-10:05am “She held the same place”: Ancient Women in the Catalogues of the Italian Renaissance
Aimee Turner (Macquarie University)
10:05-10:35am GLAM (Gorgeous Ladies of Antiquary Museums): Museum Representations of Women in Classical Antiquity
Tobias Fulton (University of Newcastle)
10:35-10:45am Q&A
Break: 15 min
11am-12:30pm Panel E: Ancient Women on Screen
Chair: Anastasia Bakogianni
11:00-11:20am Gazing at Medusa’s Gaze
Alisa Spohr (University of Newcastle, Australia)
11:20-11:40am Go Tell the Spartans to Move Over: Ancient Female Warriors and Leadership in 21st Century Film and Television
Amanda Potter (The Open University, UK)
11:40-12:00pm The Challenge with Cleopatra
Tyla Cascaes (University of Queensland)
12-12:30pm Q&A
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3pm Panel F: The Amazons and their Reception
Chair: Marguerite Johnson
1:30-1:50pm Battle-minded Virgins: Amazonian Virginity Customs as a Rejection of Patriarchal Norms
Connie Skibinski (University of Newcastle, Australia)
1:50-2:10pm Ambiguous Amazon to Virtuous Virago: Re-Presentations of Early Modern Feminine Agency
Vesna McMaster (University of Newcastle)
2:10-2:30pm Amazons and the Divine Across Time
Anneka Rene (Auckland University)
2:30-3:00pm Q&A
3-3:15pm Concluding Remarks
6pm Dinner
Website: https://challengingthepatriarchyconference.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed [n/a])
100 YEARS OF ASKITIKI
Queens' College, Cambridge, UK: June 30, 2023
We are pleased to announce the upcoming conference on Kazantzakis in Cambridge to celebrate the centenary of the publication of his Askitiki, or The Saviours of God. Papers may address any aspect of Askitiki and its context or interpretation, including but not limited to its presence in Kazantzakis’ other works, its reception in later Greek philosophy / politics / literature, its context (historical and autobiographical), and its interpretation. We encourage the discussion of the text from diverse perspectives, such as history, philosophy, comparative literature, Modern Greek literature, Classics, political studies, and others. The Conference will follow the general outline of origins and context / text focus in the morning, and reception in the afternoon.
We invite abstract submissions for a 20-minute presentation and 10-minute Q&A from all scholars interested in Kazantzakis. To register your interest, please submit an abstract of max. 200 words to the following Microsoft Forms by October 1st, 2022: https://forms.office.com/r/Bijn9k48Xd. Your name and affiliation should be included. We aim to respond no later than November 15th, 2022.
This one-day conference will be held at Queens’ College, Cambridge, on 30th June, 2023. All presenters are encouraged to attend the entire conference, at which tea, coffee, and lunch will be provided. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer any remuneration or reimbursement for lodging or transportation.
The conference, and the book project that hopefully follows, will mark Askitiki’s centennial by giving voice to the latest ideas about Kazantzakis’ work, and raising the profile of a figure who certainly deserves our attention.
Call: https://www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/news/100-years-askitiki-call-papers-be-featured-2023-ccgs-conference-greek-literary-icon-nikos
(CFP closed October 1, 2022)
[HYBRID] GRAMSCI RESEARCH NETWORK 4TH ANNUAL MEETING
Theme: Women as subaltern? Gramsci’s thought, Women’s history, and Gender history.
Hybrid/London (Senate House, Malet St, Room 104): June 29-30, 2023
With the support of the Engaged Humanities Lab (RHUL) and the participation of the Gender Institute (RHUL) and the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender (RHUL), the Gramsci Research Network (GRN) and the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome (CRGR - RHUL) are happy to announce the GRN #4 Annual Meeting. The event will take place in London and Egham and online on 29-30 June 2023.
The first day will be dedicated to scholarship and collective discussion, and is opened to members and non-members of the Network. The research theme of this year is “Women as subaltern? Gramsci’s thought, Women’s history, and Gender history”. This event will be held at the Senate House, Malet St, Room 104.
The programme runs as follows:
14.00 General Introduction: Michele Bellomo (Università degli Studi di Milano “La Statale”), Vittorio Saldutti (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”), Emilio Zucchetti (Royal Holloway – University of London)
14.30 Lecture: Dr Coré Ferrer-Alcantud (UNED), “Subverting Subalternity: Challenging Gramsci’s Gaze on Women in the Roman Republic”
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Round Table: “Women as Subaltern? Gramsci’s Thought, Women’s History, and Gender History” with Richard Alston (Gender Institute, Royal Holloway – University of London); Lilah Grace Canevaro (University of Edinburgh); Kate Cooper (Beford Centre for Royal Holloway – University of London); Liz Gloyn (Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome, Royal Holloway – University of London); Mauro Puddu (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Irene Salvo (Università di Verona); Zoe Waters (Newcastle University). Moderates: Efi Spentzou (Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome, Royal Holloway – University of London) [more tbc]
18.30 Final remarks
There are still some spots for colleagues to join us in the roundtable. If you would like to contribute a 5/10 minutes talk in person or online, don’t hesitate to email us at gramsciresearchnetwork@gmail.com by 15.06.2023. Topics for round-table contribution include but are not limited to:
· The role of women and/or women’s history in relation to the concept of subalternity
· The relationship between gender theory and Gramscian theory, and particularly the impact of subalternity onto post-colonial and feminist readings
· History of women in the ancient world– approaches from women’s history or gender history
· Women in ancient Rome/Greece (or other specific historical or ethnographical contexts) as independent subaltern group
· Potential applications of social reproduction theory (SRT) to the ancient world
· The relationship between SRT and Gramscian theory
Should any of the GRN members, and non-member colleagues and friends of the Network want to attend in person or online, we kindly ask you to let us know, if possible, by 14.06.2023, and no later than 20.06.2023.
It will be possible to join us remotely during both days – we would ask those who want to join us in person or online on 29th June to register through Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-as-subaltern-gramscis-thought-womens-history-and-gender-history-tickets-635356878527).
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-as-subaltern-gramscis-thought-womens-history-and-gender-history-tickets-635356878527
TRANSMEDIALITY AND THE CLASSICS
King’s College London, UK: June 29-30, 2023
The event will evolve around key note speeches given by:
Jonathan Mannering (Chicago)
Morgan Palmer (Nebraska)
Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Groningen)
Lydia Spielberg (UCLA);
and responses presented by:
Anthony Corbeill (Virginia)
Rebecca Langlands (Exeter)
Katherina Lorenz (Giessen)
Niall Slater (Emory)
With growing interest in media-specific communication strategies, including phenomena like intertextuality and interpictoriality, recent decades have seen increasing numbers of intermediality studies. Kristeva‘s (1974) interpretation of texts as ‘complex signs’ that resonate not only with other texts (= intertextuality) but also with works in different media (= intermediality) has influenced subsequent scholars, foremost among whom Wolf (1999), who defines intermediality as ‘an intended or identifiable use or incorporation of two usually distinct media in one artefact’. This conceptualization was later refined by Irina Rajewsky, who understands literature to be intermedial when it ‘thematises, evokes and imitates other media […] while still retaining its textual character’ (2002). Intermedial passages then complement wider narratives by challenging generic conventions and carving out hidden nuances (Bruhn 2016). However, while intermediality might provide a neat vehicle for describing ancient media practices, its target-oriented process, including the requirement for a ‘pre-text’ for a medial phenomenon (in the sense of medium referenced), limits its reach over Classical media.
With much of the Greek and Roman output lost in transmission such a ‘pre-text’ might rarely be identified with any certainty. Moreover, presupposing at all the existence of a ‘pre-text’ and any stages in a motif’s, an aesthetics’, a concept’s or a discourse’s ‘journey’ from A via B to C and/or reverse might be limiting our chances of unpacking the intermingling strategies of ancient media.
By using transmediality we might be able to account for one of the key characteristics of ancient media as it confronts us today: as medial communications that manifest themselves (synchronously or diachronically) in a similar way in a variety of media as ‘travelling phenomena’ (Rajewsky 2002: 12 and 2013: 22 and 24), but with no clear indication of any share in a target-oriented process.
We will thus need to distinguish between intermediality as relations between media (i.e. medial interactions, interplays or interferences) and transmediality as pointing to phenomena that appear across media and do not automatically imply, or presuppose, relations between media in the sense of intermedial references or transpositions [however, there is undoubtedly overlap]. Transmediality thus extends to theoretical categories as well as social discourses and paradigms, the most frequently researched of which is narrative, and also includes the scaffolding of ruler concepts such as the Neronian Sun King (i.e. the appearance of material across media) and displays the following characteristics:
Annulment of temporal linearity (Aufhebung des Zeitpfeils) not only in terms of referentiality but also in terms of production – there is no chain of reference and no finished product
This results in a fluidity of production, ’original’ and ‘copy’ are replaced by ‘variations’.
This in turn questions the concept of oeuvre and authorship, the latter being replaced by a form of participation shaped by practitioners.
References:
Bruhn, Jørgen (2016). The Intermediality of Narrative Literature: Medialities Matter. London.
Dinter, Martin. T. and Reitz-Joosse, Bettina. (guest eds.) (2019) Intermediality and Roman Literature. Trends in Classics (special issue): 11.1.
Freyermuth, Gundolf S. (2007). Thesen zu einer Theorie der Transmedialität. FIG_HEFT_2007_2.indd 104.
Kristeva, Julia (1980) Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Language and Art. Trans. Thomas Gora, Alice Jardine and Leon S. Roudiez, ed. Leon S. Roudiez. New York Rajewsky, Irina O. (2002). Intermedialität. Bern.
Rajewsky, Irina O. (2013) “Potential Potentials of Transmediality. The Media Blindness of (Classical) Narratology and its Implications for Transmedial Approaches”. In: Translatio. Transmedialité et transculturalité en litérature, peinture, photographie et au cinema, ed. Alfonso de Toro, Paris: L’Harmattan, 17-36.
Thanks to the generous support of KCL we expect to be able to cover speakers’ accommodation in London. Further support for graduate bursaries will be sought. Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words to the conference organizer Martin Dinter (martin.dinter@kcl.ac.uk) by 21st November 2022. Responses will be sent out within ten days.
Those unacquainted with transmediality will find the first twelve pages of the online open access paper below useful which outlines this concept and its applications: Gabriel, Nicole; Kazur, Bogna; Matuszkiewicz, Kai: Reconsidering Transmedia(l) Worlds. In: Claudia Georgi, Brigitte Johanna Glaser (Hg.): Convergence Culture Reconsidered. Media – Participation – Environments. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2015, S. 163–194. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/12019.
Edited 20/2/2023 - Program:
The event will evolve around key note speeches given by:
Jonathan Mannering (Chicago)
Morgan Palmer (Nebraska)
Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Groningen)
Lydia Spielberg (UCLA)
and responses presented by
Anthony Corbeill (Virginia)
Rebecca Langlands (Exeter)
Katherina Lorenz (Giessen)
Niall Slater (Emory)
Further confirmed speakers include Darja Šterbenc Erker (Berlin), James Ryan (London), Anna A. Novokhatko (Thessaloniki), Luise Marion Frenkel (São Paulo), Naomi Scott (Nottingham) and Jan-Markus Kötter (Düsseldorf).
Thursday 29th June 2023
9.00-9.15 Opening by the conference organiser
9.15-10.00 Morgan E. Palmer (University of Nebraska), Transmediality and the Goddess Vesta in Ovid’s Fasti
10.00-10.15 Response by Rebecca Langlands (University of Exeter)
10.15-10.30 Discussion
10.30-11.00 Darja Šterbenc Erker (Humboldt University, Berlin), Suetonius’ Transmediality: Questioning the Divinity of the Roman Emperors
11.00-11.15 Discussion
11.15-11.45 Coffee Break
11.45-12.30 Lydia Spielberg (UCLA), Transmedial Sincerity in Inscribed Imperial Letters
12.30-12.45 Response by Tony Corbeill (University of Virginia)
12.44-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break (Sandwiches will be served)
14.00-14.30 James Ryan (Independent Scholar), The Alexander Tradition as a Transmedial World and Alexander as a ‘Transmedial Object’: Transmediality, Intermediality, and Transculturality
14.30-14.45 Discussion
14.45-15.15 Anna A. Novokhatko (University of Thessaloniki), Rites and Politics in Burlesque: Transmedial Games in Greek Comedy
15.15-15.30 Discussion
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-16.45 Jonathan Mannering (Loyola, Chicago), Reaching for Aisthesis: Transmedial Phenomena in Gossip and Mentoring in Greek and Roman Epic
16.45 – 17.00 Response by Niall Slater (Emory)
17.00-17.15 Discussion
Friday 30th June 2023
9.00-9.45 Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Groningen University), Transmedial Absences: Manufacturing Processes across Roman Media
9.45-10.00 Response by Katharina Lorenz (Universität Giessen)
10.15-10.30 Discussion
10.30-11.00 Luise Marion Frenkel (Universidade de São Paulo), Transmedial names : lists and dialogues in late-antique religious controversies
11.00-11.15 Discussion
11.15-11.45 Coffee Break
11.45-12.15 Naomi Scott (University of Nottingham), The Joke as a Transmedial Artistic Phenomenon
12.15-12.30 Discussion
12.30-13.00 Jan-Markus Kötter (Universität Düsseldorf), Poor Paullus – How Scipio Aemilianus Created his Father
13.15-13.30 Discussion
13.30 Brief Conclusion
Those interested in attending should please register by sending a message to the conference organiser (martin.dinter@kcl.ac.uk)
Call: https://classicalassociation.org/events/call-for-papers-transmediality-and-the-classics-kcl/
(CFP closed November 21, 2022)
23RD ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT DRAMA
Theme: ‘Precarity, Vulnerability, and Power in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’
Oxford (Ioannou Centre) & London (Royal Holloway): June 29-30, 2023
The 23rd Annual Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) / University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Ancient Drama will take place on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 June 2023. This year’s theme will be: ‘Precarity, Vulnerability, and Power in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
This annual Symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman tragedy, comedy, satyr play, epic, lyric, and other texts in performance, exploring their afterlives through re-workings by both writers and practitioners across all genres and periods. This year’s theme seeks to explore the relationship between precarity/vulnerability and power, asking what the interaction between them might mean in the context of the reception of the ancient past. We invite participants to consider any of the following questions: What constitutes ‘precarity’ in the context of ancient drama and its reception, and where in this precarity may power lie? Is the often fragmentary survival of ancient drama itself a precarious phenomenon? Is there ever any power in precarity, and power in vulnerability? How does ancient drama explore the precarity of power, and in what ways has this theme been explored in modern receptions of Greek and Roman theatre? How integral a role does vulnerability play in ancient drama and its adaptations? Does vulnerability add power to a performance? How might generic transgressions, counter readings, and other means of reception exploit the power, precarity, and vulnerability of classical drama?
The guest respondent on Day 1 in Oxford will be Dr Giovanna Di Martino (UCL), and Dr Rosa Andújar (KCL) will be our guest respondent on Day 2 at Royal Holloway. Day 1 will include a guest lecture by Dr Estelle Baudou (APGRD).
PARTICIPANTS
Postgraduate students from around the world are welcome to participate, as are those who have completed a doctorate but have not yet taken up a post. The symposium is open to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of classics, modern languages and literature, and theatre and performance studies. Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on ancient drama. Papers may also include demonstrations or recorded material. Undergraduates are very welcome to attend. This year’s symposium will be hybrid, although we encourage participants to attend in person where possible (we hope to be able to offer a small bursary for travel from afar). Those who wish to offer a short paper (20 mins) or performance presentation on ‘Precarity, Vulnerability, and Power in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’ are invited to send an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk by Friday 31 March 2023 (if applicable, please include details of your current course of study, supervisor, and academic institution). There will be no registration fee. Please indicate in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel bursary.
Edit (18/06/2023) - Program:
Programme: Thursday 29 June (Oxford)
10.00-10.30am: Arrival at Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU
N.B. After the arrival / welcome at the Ioannou Centre, the morning sessions will be held at 38 St Giles', St Hilda's College annexe. We will walk down together from the Ioannou Centre or meet you there for 11am.
11.00-11.45: Panel 1: Comic vulnerability and power (at 38 St Giles)
Maria Waszkiewicz (University of Warsaw). ‘From servant to stage director, from passive woman to protagonist, and finally from master to pushover - Plautus' play with conventions in Miles gloriosus and Lope de Vega's answer in La dama boba.'
Letizia Rivera (Universität Leipzig). ‘We are all just humans. Translating Vulnerability and Laughter in the Aristophanic Ekklesiazousae.'
11.45-12.15: Break
12.15-13.15: Panel 2: The empowered vulnerability of tragic heroines (at 38 St Giles)
Alexia Dedieu (Université Grenoble Alpes). ‘Macaria's sacrifice: vulnerability and power in the Early-Modern interpretation of a tragic heroine.'
Mariam Kaladze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University). ‘Vulnerable yet Powerful: Medea on the 19th Century Georgian Stage.'
Marta Cuevas Caballero (Universidad Pablo de Olavide). ‘Tragic Instances of Vulnerability: Antigone's Suicide in Two Contemporary Spanish Productions.'
13.15-14.45: Lunch
14.45-15.45: Panel 3: Power of vulnerability in African receptions (at 66 St Giles, Ioannou Centre)
Clare Chang (King's College London). ‘Power to the People: the Choruses of Post-Apartheid South African adaptations of Electra.'
Gifty Etornam Katahena (University of Ghana). ‘The Power of Vulnerability: Sophocles' Antigone and Its African Reception.'
Emmanuel Koomson (University of Cape Coast). ‘Ancient Greek and Roman Drama hid under the guise of modernity; a road to survival.'
15.45-16.15: Break
16.15-16.45: Guest response: Dr Giovanna Di Martino (University College London) (at 66 St Giles, Ioannou Centre)
16.45-17.00: Break
17.00-18.00: Guest lecture: Dr Estel Baudou (University of Lincoln): 'Creative precarities: Performing ruins in the 21st century' (at 66 St Giles, Ioannou Centre and online).
18:00: Dinner and Reception (at 66 St Giles, the Ioannou Centre)
Programme: Friday 30 June: Caryl Churchill Theatre, Department of Drama, Theatre, and Dance, RHUL, Egham, TW20 0EX
10.00-10.20: Arrival
10.20-10.30: Welcome - Dr Emma Cox (Royal Holloway University of London)
10.30-11.30: Panel 1: Rethinking power and precarity in modern adaptations
Andrea Monico (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa). ‘Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus: Oedipus between vulnerability and redemption power.'
Millie Wan Marriott (Universities of Bristol and Exeter). ‘Performing the Metamorphoses: Dethroning Epic and the Power of Affect.'
Amalia Costa, Eva Nacci, and Martina Valderrama-Boix (King's College London). ‘Towards the Question of Agency and Power Systems in the KCL Greek Play: Iphigeneia 2023.'
11.30-12.00: Break
12.00-12.45: Panel 2: Queer power and precarity
Selina Bick and Jip Kok (Radboud University). ‘Achilles in Drag: Vulnerability and Power in Trojan Wars (2021).'
Domenica Taverna (University of Reading). ‘"This is the way. Forward. AND WALK!" Re-staging Tragic Passion into a Beacon of Queer-futurity.'
12.45-14.15: Lunch
14.15-15.15: Panel 3: Political power in Greek and Cypriot performances
Philippos Karaferias (Université Grenoble Alpes). ‘The voices of Cassandra: the vulnerable life and the embodiment of grief in the Trojan Women of Theodoros Terzopoulos.'
Olympia Glykioti-Karampekou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). ‘On power, powerlessness and potentiality: Theodoros Terzopoulos' scenic approach of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (2010).'
Marina Paschalidou (University of Oxford). ‘Lament as Political Power: Examining adaptations of The Suppliants, Trojan Women, and Antigone.'
15.15-15.45: Break
15.45-16.15: Workshop: Cassandra's costuming and performing power: Milly Cox and Amelia Wycoff (University of Oxford)
16.15-16.30: Break
16.30-17.00: Guest response: Dr Rosa Andújar (King's College London)
17.00-17.30: Plenary
CONTACT FOR ENQUIRIES: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk
Call: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2023/06/29-30-Postgraduate-Symposium
(CFP closed March 31, 2023)
[HYBRID] TOWARDS A MORE INCLUSIVE CLASSICS III - MATERIAL CULTURE
Note: change of dates: now hybrid [UK time] - June 28-30, 2023
previously online half days [UK time]: June 28-29, 2023; in-person day: June 30, 2023 (London: ICS / British Museum)
Announcement of Workshop and Call for Papers: ‘Towards a more Inclusive Classics III – Material Culture’, 28-30 June 2023. An Inclusive Classics Initiative hybrid workshop organised by Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (University of St Andrews) and Dr Tulsi Parikh (British School at Athens), hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies and supported by CUCD EDI Committee.
The third ‘Towards a more Inclusive Classics’ workshop is focused on the theme of Material Culture. It addresses the issue of barriers to accessing classical material culture and explores approaches that foreground marginalised perspectives. It offers a forum for integrated discussions between those working at different stages and in different sectors related to classical material culture. Speakers will include students, academics, schoolteachers, archaeologists, and those working in museums and in outreach. The format of the workshop is hybrid, consisting of two online half days and one in-person day (29 June) in the ICS / British Museum. Online presentations will be in the form of pre-submitted materials (e.g. a short written paper, recorded talk, PowerPoint, handout) followed by live short talks (c.10 mins) and discussion. These will take place on 28 and 30 June; abstracts of c.150 words are invited for the following panels:
(1) The ‘INCLUSIVE EXCAVATION PRACTICES’ panel is devoted to the ways in which we can build more diverse and inclusive archaeological practices, beginning with the work done in the field. Suggested topics include antiracist archaeology, disability in archaeology, and collaboration with the public.
(2) The ‘DECOLONISING THE MUSEUM’ panel combines discussion of decolonising the museum with personal experiences in museums, foregrounding marginalised voices. A discussion on repatriation will be included here.
(3) The ‘QUEERING ARCHAEOLOGY’ panel challenges heteronormative and cisnormative ways of studying the past and experiencing material culture.
(4) The ‘PUBLIC ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY’ panel considers how we can use classical objects in innovative ways to bring together different, often marginalised, parts of the community, cutting across different sectors.
(5) We are also seeking expressions of interest from teachers for participation in a roundtable on ‘CLASSICAL MATERIAL CULTURE TEACHING IN SCHOOLS’.
Please send abstracts and expressions of interest for the roundtable to Tulsi and Alexia
(inclusiveclassics@gmail.com) by 20 January 2023. We aim to respond by 28 February. We particularly welcome abstracts from early career scholars, and those currently underrepresented in the field, including Black, Asian and those from other minority ethnic communities, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse and academics with disabilities. If you would like to be added to the Inclusive Classics email list do get in touch. We hope to advertise student bursaries towards attending the in-person event nearer the time.
Online registration (includes full programme description): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/632824544247
In-person registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/632837021567
Call: https://classicalassociation.org/events/call-for-papers-towards-a-more-inclusive-classics-iii-material-culture/
(CFP closed January 20, 2023)
TRANSLATING PLUTARCH
Coventry, UK: June 28-30, 2023
Plutarch is a prolific and varied author whose works, individually and collectively, have often been translated into many languages even before, and certainly since, the Renaissance. Yet his very fecundity presents challenges to the translator and some of his works raise methodological problems as well as linguistic difficulties: for example, what is the effect of splitting up pairs of Parallel Lives and translating them individually? To translate is to interpret: how have Plutarch’s successive translators affected his meaning, and what are the consequences of translation? The International Plutarch Society and Coventry University take pleasure in inviting proposals for papers on every aspect of the translation of Plutarch’s work, Lives as well as Moralia, into any language at any period, and indeed for papers which deal with Plutarch’s own translating. Papers should be no longer than 30 minutes’ duration. The conference will be held in Coventry, primarily in person, but facilities for remote participation will be available if necessary. One session will take place in the Old Grammar School, a medieval building used as a classroom by Philemon Holland, a prolific translator who produced the first English version of the whole of Plutarch’s Moralia in 1603.
Please send titles and abstracts (maximum 250 words) to Judith Mossman at Judith.mossman@coventry.ac.uk by February 15 2023.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;a1d3eb93.ex
(CFP closed February 15, 2023)
CLASSICS AND ITALIAN COLONIALISM
Museo delle Civiltà, Rome, Italy: June 22-24, 2023 [hybrid presentation possible]
Organisers: Samuel Agbamu (RHUL/Reading) and Elena Giusti (Warwick) in collaboration with Gaia Delpino (Museo delle Civiltà) and Rosa Anna Di Lella (Museo delle Civiltà)
We acknowledge generous support from the Past & Present Society.
Recent years have seen an increasing awareness of the relationship between constructions of the classical tradition and colonial projects. In conjunction with this, and in the context of movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter, calls have been made to reassess the silences, ambivalences, and elisions surrounding the implications of academic institutions and disciplines in histories of the slave trade, imperialism, and colonialism. Classics, often viewed as the academic keystone of European exceptionalism and white supremacy, has been the centre of much of such recent discussions.
This conference aims to advance this conversation in the context of Classics and Classicisms in Italy, broadly from the Napoleonic Wars until today. There is a pressing need for a collaborative exploration of this context. When compared with the classicising ideologies of other major imperial powers, for example those of Britain and France, the case of Italy has been neglected in scholarship. However, the classicism of Italian colonialism is remarkable in several ways: the legacy of the Roman empire played a crucial part in the history and ideology of Italian unification, and in the very justification for Rome becoming the capital of Italy in 1871; the Italian colonial project that began almost immediately afterwards, and which became key to a process of national unification in imitation of other major European powers, is redolent of ideological nostalgia for the lost times of the Roman empire. This is true of Italian colonialism under both liberal governments and the Fascist regime, with which Italian colonialism is sometimes (wrongly) almost uniquely associated. With the fall of the Fascist regime, the process of decolonisation was commonly considered to be completed, but many consequences of Italian colonialism continue to be felt in the political relationship between Italy and its former colonies, as well as in broader issues of social justice, immigration, and integration. The legacy of the classicising aspects of Italian colonialism also continues to live on, not just in discourses and responses to Italy’s post-colonial problems, but in the very fabric of many of its former colonies, as witnessed for instance in many architectural and infrastructural aspects.
The aim of this conference will be to address these different periods and issues of Italian colonialism together, through the lens of their engagement with the classical past. Rather than forcing artificial divisions between Italy’s pre-Fascist, Fascist, and post-Fascist colonialism, we wish to address the ways in which all these periods contribute to form a continuous, discernible discourse; such discourse shares significant similarities to the classicising colonial project of other European nations, but it also stands apart from these by virtue of its awkward balance between bearing a unique claim to the legacy of the Roman empire, and a marginal position as a power on the southern periphery of Europe in the decades following its national unification.
The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary exchange by bringing together researchers from multiple disciplines: mainly Classics and Italian Studies, but also Comparative and World Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Political Theory, Anthropology, Sociology. The conference’s interdisciplinary asset will provide a well-rounded exploration of the role of Classics in Italian colonialism and postcolonialism, one which does not privilege voices from within the discipline of Classics, nor necessarily from within academia. We are also aiming to foreground work on perspectives on Italian (post)colonial classicisms from Italy’s former colonies, contributing to redressing the Eurocentrism of the classical tradition.
Papers will explore the relationship between Classics, nation, and empire from roughly the Napoleonic Wars until the loss of Italy’s overseas colony with the defeat of Fascism. The conference will also address resistance and opposition to Italian colonial classicisms from within and without Italy, be it in the academy, field of diplomacy, culture, or the battlefield. Finally, we will explore the way forwards for Classics and colonial history, by examining the overt or unspoken traces of the legacy of Italian colonialism, in Italy itself and its former colonies.
Contributors will present their papers over the first two days of the conference, Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd June 2023. Friday will end with a tour of the architecture of the EUR district.
The third day of the conference (Saturday 24th June 2023) will include two workshops on the teaching of classics and Italian colonialism in secondary schools in Italy, and on the Museo delle Civiltà’s handling, studying, and cataloguing of the collections received from Italy’s former colonial museum. The day will end with a public event that will include a keynote lecture by Prof. García Peña.
We regret that we cannot guarantee coverage of travel and accommodation costs. Please specify in your application if you require financial help. Funding should be available for graduate students and for speakers whose research is related to Libya or Northern Africa or who come from, or work in, Libya or another Northern African country. Hybrid participation may also be accommodated.
If you would like to be considered as a speaker, please send an abstract (max. 400 words) and a brief CV to classicalcolonialism@gmail.com by the 15th of January.
Please do not hesitate to contact the organisers should you require further information:
Dr Sam Agbamu, Royal Holloway University of London (Samuel.Agbamu@rhul.ac.uk)
Dr Elena Giusti, University of Warwick (E.Giusti@Warwick.ac.uk)
Program: https://classicsanditaliancolonialism.wordpress.com/
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/classics-and-italian-colonialism-tickets-632769399307
Call: https://pastandpresent.org.uk/classics-and-italian-colonialism-call-for-papers-classici-e-colonialismo-italiano-call-for-papers/
(CFP closed January 15, 2023)
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL HISTORY: ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Singapore: June 19-22, 2023
Plenary speakers
Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, University of Western Australia
Carlos F. Noreña, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Empire has been a persistent form of human organization and one of the primary mechanisms for the dispersion of cultural forms. Some of the earliest known empires include the great imperial formations in Mesopotamia in the second millennium BCE and in Persia and around the Mediterranean in the first millennium BCE. Over the past two millennia, empires have appeared in all regions of the world, including in the Americas (Tawantinsuyu), Asia (the Mughal Empire, Khmer Empire), Europe (the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Oceania (the Tu’i Tonga Empire), and Africa (the Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire). They have also cut across large swaths of the planet (such as the British, Spanish, and Dutch empires). Although decolonization was a defining historical process of the twentieth century, the expansionist efforts of nation-states today suggest that empire remains a political, military, and economic strategy and a geographic and cultural ambition.
For its first conference in Asia, the International Society for Cultural History invites paper and panel proposals on the theme of “Cultural Histories of Empire.” Historians and contextually oriented scholars working on any period or location are encouraged to explore (but are by no means limited to) the following topics:
-imperial culture: literature, music, art, religion, sport (cricket, horse racing, rugby, etc.)
-iconographies of imperial power
-conceptual terminology in the study of empires
-forms of resistance to and subversion of imperial authority
-inter-imperial commodity chains, trade journeys
-nationalistic movements, transitions from empire to nation-state
-the embodied experiences of empire
-environmental colonialism
-everyday empire: street signs, posters, patterns of consumption
-the circulation of periodicals and imperial press systems
-leisure practices, such as reading, cooking, hiking, and feasts in imperial contexts
-performances of colonial authority: ceremonies, hearings, trials, gatherings
-popular attitudes toward empire
-imperial propaganda: Ara Pacis, literature, public monuments, film, radio, television, rhetoric (“political spin”), etc.
-travel writing (memoir, journalism, blogs, letters), adventure fiction
-informal empire
As always, we also welcome panel and paper proposals on methods and theories of cultural history; new approaches to cultural history; and the history of cultural history.
Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length and delivered in English. Individual paper proposals should consist of an abstract (not exceeding 300 words) and an 80-100 word bio in a single Word or PDF file. Panel proposals should include abstracts for 3-4 papers, a brief rationale that connects the papers (100-200 words), and biographies of each participant (80-100 words) in a single pdf or Word file. Please indicate if one of you will serve as panel chair. Successful panel proposals will include participants from more than one institution, and, ideally, a mix of disciplines/fields and career stages.
DEADLINE for abstracts: 20 December 2022. Participants will be informed by 25 January 2023.
Proposals and inquiries should be sent to isch2023@gmail.com. Those individuals whose abstracts are accepted for presentation will be expected to become members of the ISCH: http://www.culthist.net/membership/
Presenters are invited to consider submitting articles to the ISCH’s official peer-reviewed journal, Cultural History, published by the Edinburgh University Press (http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/cult) and monographs to the book series it publishes with Routledge (https://www.routledge.com/Studies-for-the-International-Society-for-Cultural-History/book-series/SISCH)
The conference will feature a prize competition for the best paper presentation by an early career researcher (details tba).
The 2023 ISCH conference will be held in parallel with the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies’ World Congress on the theme of “Comparative Empire: Conflict, Competition, Cooperation, 1750-1914.” Attendees of both events will gather for plenaries and cultural activities and have the option of participating in an array of workshops, including:
* Leah Lui-Chivizhe (University of Technology, Sydney), “Decolonising Museum Collections? What’s In It for Origin Communities?”
* Graham Law (Waseda University), “Global Distribution of Popular Fiction: Forms of Circulation and Circulation of Forms”
* Donna Brunero (National University of Singapore), “Empire and Imperial Identity: Royal Tours and Pageantry in the Long Nineteenth Century”
* Adeline Johns-Putra (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), “Empire, Climate, and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century: Comparative Histories of China and ‘the West’”
* Joshua L. Reid (University of Washington), “The Indigenous Pacific in the Age of Colonialism”
* Maria Taroutina (Yale-NUS College), “Encounter, Race, and Representation: Painting Empire in the ‘Long’ Nineteenth Century”
You can learn more about the workshops by visiting https://www.sgncscongress.com/workshops-1. For the latest ISCH conference news, visitwww.ischconference2023.com. For any questions about the ISCH conference, please contact the program chair, Kevin A. Morrison, at isch2023@gmail.com
Website: https://www.ischconference2023.com/
(CFP closed December 20, 2022)
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD: COMMENTING ON VIRGIL FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
Accademia Vivarium novum, Villa Falconieri, Via Borromini, 5 Frascati, Italy: June 19-21, 2023
Monday 19 June
3 pm LUIGI MIRAGLIA (President of the Accademia Vivarium novum) - Welcome
SERGIO CASALI and FABIO STOK (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”) - Introduction
Session 1
Chair: Andrea CUCCHIARELLI (Sapienza Università di Roma)
3.15 pm MASSIMO GIOSEFFI (Università Statale di Milano)
Indagine sul lessico politico e sociale dei commenti tardoantichi a Virgilio
3.45 pm JACKIE ELLIOTT (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Ancient Vergil-commentary and the Literary Record of Cato the Elder
4.15 pm Coffee break
4.30 pm VASSILIKI PANOUSSI (The College of William & Mary)
Egypt and the Servian Exegesis
5 pm STEFANO REBEGGIANI (University of Southern California)
The Dead Marshes: Marius, Sulla (and Sallust) in Servius’ Commentary on Aeneid 2
5.30 pm STEFANO POLETTI (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Ex animo Didonis. Epiteto, punto di vista narrativo e “stile soggettivo” fra esegesi omerica e virgiliana
Tuesday 20 June
Session 2
Chair: Emanuele DETTORI (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
9 am GIULIO CELOTTO (University of Virginia)
The presence of Persius in Servius’ Commentary on Vergil
9.30 am MURIEL LAFOND (Université Côte d’Azur)
Authorial Presence and Internal Coherence in Servius’ Commentary on Vergil
10 am Coffee break
10.15 am MARIA LUISA DELVIGO (Università di Udine)
Scelus fraternae necis. Virgilio, il potere di uno solo e lo spettro delle guerre civili
10.45 am LUIGI PIROVANO (Università di Bologna)
Tiberio Claudio Donato e gli obtrectatores di Virgilio
11.15 am GIAMPIERO SCAFOGLIO (Université Côte d’Azur)
Eloquentia omni uarietate distincta. Il pluristilismo come specchio del mondo (Macrobio, Sat. V, 1)
Session 3
Chair: Paolo ESPOSITO (Università di Salerno)
3 pm VIOLA STARNONE (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)
La violazione del verisimile nell’Eneide: commenti umanistici e tardoumanistici
3.30 pm GIUSEPPE RAMIRES (Messina)
Su alcune interpretazioni virgiliane di Guarino Veronese “nascoste” nella sua edizione del commento di Servio
4 pm Coffee break
4.15 pm NICOLA LANZARONE (Università di Salerno)
Servio nel commento di Pomponio Leto all’Eneide
4.45 pm FABIO STOK (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
Pro Cynthio: su un presunto caso di plagio
5.15 GIANCARLO ABBAMONTE (Università di Napoli Federico II)
The History of a Lost Work: Parrhasius’s Commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid 1-2 (Milan 1515)
Wednesday 21 June
Session 4
Chair: Christine WALDE (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)
9 am SERGIO CASALI (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
Didone nei commenti cinquecenteschi
9.30 am PETER KNOX (New College of Florida)
Making Virgil a Caesarian
10 am Coffee break
10.15 am FEDERICA BESSONE (Università di Torino)
Eurialo e Niso nella selva dei commenti
10.45 am RICHARD F. THOMAS (Harvard University)
Turning the Page on Page’s Turnus?
11.15 am BARBARA WEIDEN BOYD (Bowdoin College)
From Scholarly Commentary to School Text: Reading Virgil in the USA
Information: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;95b88add.ex
[HYBRID] POTANT SERUULI: TEXT, PERFORMANCE, AND RECEPTION OF PLAUTUS' STICHUS
Hybrid/Oxford (day 1 - Lady Margaret Hall; day 2 - Ioannou Centre): June 15-16, 2023
The APGRD and Corpus Christi College Classics Centre are pleased to present the programme of our upcoming one-and-half-day workshop 'Potant seruuli: Text, Performance, and Reception of Plautus' Stichus'.
Organisers: Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) & Domenico Giordani (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford / UCL).
The hybrid event will take place on the 15th (Lady Margaret Hall, Monson Room) and the 16th June (Ioannou Centre, Lecture Theatre) here in Oxford. If you are planning to attend the event (either in person or via Zoom), please register your details in our online form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qlo0YFrNgodWoDw4_R2eMXnqIHCTWSIjg2N7inOEBRE/viewform?pli=1&pli=1&edit_requested=true). A programme can be found here below. For any information or queries, please write to domenico.giordani@lmh.ox.ac.uk.
Program [all times are BST]
15 June (Lady Margaret Hall, Monson Room)
3-3.15: Introduction
3.15–4: Gesine Manuwald (UCL): ‘Plautus’ Stichus and dramatic conventions’
4-4.15: Tea and coffee
4.15–5: Matthew Leigh (Oxford): ‘Reading Plautus with Frederick Douglass’
16 June (Ioannou Centre, Lecture Theatre)
9-9.15: Tea and coffee
9.15-10: Dorota Dutsch (UCSB): ‘Pamphila De Officiis’
10-10.45: Orlando Gibbs (Cambridge): ‘Sub-elite friendship in the Stichus’
10.45-11: Tea and coffee
11-11.45: Wolfgang de Melo (Oxford): ‘Old men, women, slaves: a linguistically realistic portrayal?’
11.45-12.45: Domenico Giordani (Oxford/UCL) & Alex Silverman (Oxford): ‘Singing Sisters: Plautus in Music’
12.45-1.15: Roundtable
1.15-2.15: Lunch
Website: https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/plautus-stichus-seminar-series-and-workshop
[ONLINE] IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPES AND OTHERWORLDS
Online [all times BST]: June 14, 2023
We invite you to the Imaginative Landscapes and Otherworlds 2023 conference. This is an online one-day conference that will take place on June 14th. Topics include a broad range of literary, mythological, and folkloric material from a variety of time periods and cultures, centering on the theme of accessibility and mobility between spaces conceptualized as part of the 'normal' world and the fantastical spaces of imaginative landscapes and otherworlds. Many of these topics will be of direct interest to fellow Classicists. The full programme is included below (all times BST).
The keynote speaker will be Professor Daniel Ogden (University of Exeter). His publications include Drakōn: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds (2013), The Werewolf in the Ancient World (2021), and The Dragon in the West (2021).
Programme:
Opening remarks from conference committee (10:00-10:15)
• Alison Norton, Ph.D. Candidate, Canterbury Christ Church University
• Dr. Ryan Denson, University of Exeter
Session One: The Individual’s Journey Within Medieval Otherworlds (10:15-11:30)
• Imagining an Other World: A Creative-Critical Peregrination through Early Medieval England (Dr. Mike Bintley, Birkbeck, University of London)
• The Green Children of Woolpit: A Weird allegory of Isolation, Otherness and Belonging (Dr. Sonia Overall, Canterbury Christ Church University)
• Enchantment in Plain Sight: Journeys Within Numinous Landscapes in The Mabinogion (Dr. June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University)
Break (11:30-11:45)
Session Two: Transforming Imaginative Landscapes in Late Pre-Modern Literature (11:45-1:00)
• The Unstable Magic of Sentient Spaces: Transformation, Liminality, and Subjectivity in Australian Middle Fantasy Fiction (Jessica Cook, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Southern Queensland)
• William Stukeley and the Exploration of Paradise (Dr. Simon Wilson, Canterbury Christ Church University)
• From Landscape to Cityscape: Reconstructing the Metropolis in Edward Falkener’s Ephesus, and the Temple of Diana (Sebastian Marshall, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Cambridge)
Lunch (1:00-1:45)
Session Three: Exploring Spirituality in Otherworlds (1:45-3:00)
• The Otherworld Journey in Ancient Platonism (Dr. Nicholas Banner, Trinity College Dublin)
• The Christian Mountain: Using Imagined Landscapes to Challenge Persecution in Late Antiquity (George Oliver, Ph.D. Candidate, King's College, London)
• Grotto-heavens (dongtian) in Medieval Chinese Daoism and Literature (Dr. Zornica Kirkova, State Library of Berlin)
Break (3:00-3:15)
Session Four: Journeying into Otherworlds through Roman Literature (3:15-4:30)
• Accessing the Idyllic Reign of Janus in Augustan Rome: The Horti Caesaris, the Mythical Janiculan Hill and the Revered Nature (Dr. Thiago Pires, Centro Universitário Celso Lisboa)
• Fictional Frolicking: Navigating Textual Mobility through the Pillars in Lucian’s True Story (Dhruvan D. Nair, Teaching Fellow, Ashoka University)
• The Forest in the Roman Imagination (Josh Werrett, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oxford)
Break (4:30-4:45)
Keynote Lecture (4:45-5:45)
• The Jewelled Castle of the Dragon (Professor Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter)
Closing Remarks (5:45-6:00)
To register, see our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/imaginative-landscapes-and-otherworlds-conference-tickets-632689289697
[ONLINE] THE GODS OF ANTIQUITY IN CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE
Online - Lisbon, Portugal: June 13, 2023
During the year 2023 and until the beginning of 2024, the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon promotes a series of activities focused on Popular Culture and History within the research project Egypopcult, coordinated by Dr. Abraham I. Fernández Pichel. This project is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) of the Portuguese government.
For the second edition of the seminar Ancient History and Pop culture, the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) joins forces with the Royal Museum of Mariemont (Belgium), which has developed several activities combining Egyptology and pop culture, such as the exhibition From StargateTM to comics in 2016 or Egypt. Everlasting passion in 2022-2023. Together they invite paper proposals for the webinar Ancient History and Pop culture on 13th June 2023.
The topic of this edition is: “The Gods of Antiquity in Contemporary Popular Culture”.
The aim of this webinar is to present current research and perspectives covering Ancient Religion and Popular Culture. Within this vast thematic area, we seek to establish a dialogue between the different civilisations of Antiquity, such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, focusing our interest on the representation and re-imagining of their divinities in popular culture (movies, TV series, comics, internet, video games, horror and fantasy literature…).
Scientific papers should not exceed 30 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Deadline for submission: 30th April 2023
Language: English
For further details, please contact the organisers:
Abraham I. Fernández Pichel (Egypopcult, Centre for
History, University of Lisbon)
apichel@letras.ulisboa.pt
Arnaud Quertinmont (Curator Egyptian Department,
Royal Museum of Mariemont)
arnaud.quertinmont@musee-mariemont.be
Edit (10/06/2023) - Program:
First session (10.00 - 11.30am)
Laureline Cattelain (Musée du Malgré-Tout): Pazuzu: from protector to the personification of evil, how Pop culture can change it all!
Jennifer Cromwell (Manchester, Metropolitan University): Playing with Gods: Egyptian Deities in Board Games.
Julia Troche (Missouri State University): Nuancing Imhotep and the Mummy Motif in U.S. Popular Culture.
Questions and Debate (11.30 - 12.00am)
Second Session (12.00 - 1.30pm)
João Paulo Simões Valério (University of Lisbon): “He took a face from the ancient gallery”. Jim Morrison and Dionysus: from the beginning of the band to Oliver Stone’s biopic.
Maciej Paprocki, Alexander Vandewalle, Joel Gordon, Kate Minniti, Briana Jackson, David S. Anderson (multiple universities): Divinity and Imagined Antiquity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Xiangruo Dai, Akhila Thamaravelil Abhimanue Achary, Zhiling Zhang (Leeds University): Teyvat, Land of Divinity: How East Asian and Western European’s Ancient Mythology and Tradition Manifest in Genshin’s Places, Stories, and Characters.
Questions and Debate (1.30 - 2pm)
To register, you can send an email at webinar-gods-popculture@musee-mariemont.be
Call:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/22/the-gods-of-antiquity-in-contemporary-popular-culture/
(CFP closed April 30, 2023)
[HYBRID] CONTEMPORANEITY OF ANTIQUITY - INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCE
Hybrid - Tbilisi, Georgia: June 12-14, 2023
The Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers of the International Student Conference “Contemporaneity of Antiquity” to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia in hybrid mode (via ZOOM and face-to-face) on June 12-14, 2023.
The Conference invites proposals exploring different aspects of the reception of the Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, Philosophy, History, Culture etc. in the Modern World. The topics of the Conference may include other issues of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies as well.
Undergraduate and graduate students are kindly invited to take part in the Conference. The Conference participants will get the Certificate of Participation. No registration fee required.
The working languages during the Conference will be English and Georgian.
Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Presentations will be followed by 10-minute discussion. The abstracts of the papers (between 250-300 words) should be sent to the following e-mail: greekstudies@tsu.ge by from December 1, 2022 till April 10, 2023. The authors will be notified of the Scientific Committee’s decision in two weeks after submitting the proposal.
Along with the abstract the following information about the author should be provided:
* Personal information (first name, last name):
* Higher Education Institution, Country:
* Level of Studies (Bachelor, Master, Doctoral):
* Participation mode (Online / in person):
* Contact data (phone and email):
Questions may be directed to the following e-mail address: greekstudies@tsu.ge.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-international-student-conference%C2%A0%E2%80%9Ccontemporaneity-antiquity%E2%80%9D
(CFP closed April 10, 2023)
14TH MOISA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - TECHNOLOGY FOR THE MUSIC OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITY: FROM PAST TO PRESENT
Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage of the University of Pavia, Cremona (Italy): June 12–14, 2023
In recent years, modern technology has proved to be very helpful in the study of Greek and Roman music (see especially Hagel 2022). It is thanks to technology that the study and evaluation of material finds (i.e. musical instruments) and acoustical environments (especially theatres) – the privileged object of investigation of disciplines such as music archaeology and archaeoacoustics – have greatly advanced modern understanding of timbres, pitches and scales used in the music of ancient times, helping convert the data inferred from the findings into audible information and supporting the construction of good replicas (both actual and virtual) of the instruments on a scientific basis. The progress of digital humanities, which have allowed access to a limitless quantity of data and metadata and optimised their application and reuse in scholarship and education, has had a substantial impact on this field of studies. Two projects stand out in particular: RIMAnt, an online catalogue of musical findings from the Mediterranean area, now preserved in museums, currently under construction as an Italian-French project, and DiAGRAM, an online critical edition of the ancient Greek musical documents hosted by the Austrian Academy of Science.
But modern technology can also provide clues to materials and construction techniques that we thought were lost, helping scholars understand ancient technology and enabling restorers to reconstruct the history of musical artifacts as well as apply the best conservation approaches and treatments to them. The presence in Cremona of a scientific lab specifically devoted to this kind of research (the Arvedi Laboratory of non-invasive diagnostics) and of an academic course on Conservation and Restoration of Musical Instruments makes the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage a unique venue for hosting a conference on these topics.
The purpose of the 14th conference of MOISA (The International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and Its Cultural Heritage) is twofold:
- to investigate the possible applications of ‘new’ technologies to the study and reconstruction of Greek and Roman music, including musical instruments and documents, visual evidence, soundscapes, and so on (methodological papers as well as presentations of projects are welcome).
- to explore the ‘ancient’ technologies used by the Greeks and the Romans to analyse musical data (pitches, scales, timbres) and acoustic principles as well as to construct musical artifacts (instruments and automata) and provide better acoustic properties in performance venues. This topic of interest includes the reception of these ancient ideas in later centuries.
As part of this event, a specific section will be dedicated to presenting the first results of an important collaboration recently launched between the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage and the National Archaeological Museum of Naples on the musical instruments of Pompeii.
Proposals of 250-300 words for 20-minute papers are invited (with 10 minutes discussion following each paper).
Conference language: English
Proposals should be sent to eleonora.rocconi@unipv.it not later than January 31st, 2023, and will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee by February 15th, 2023. Applicants whose abstracts are accepted will be notified immediately by email and asked to confirm their participation by March 1st, 2023.
Anyone can send a proposal but only MOISA members are eligible to present a paper. It is possible to join the Society at http://www.moisasociety.org.
Scientific Committee:
Claudio Canevari, Luciana Festa, Marco Malagodi, Eleonora Rocconi (University of Pavia, Italy)
Stefan Hagel, Chrēstos Terzēs, Kamila Wysłucha (Austrian Academy of Science, Austria)
Daniela Castaldo (MOISA President, Università del Salento, Italy)
Sylvain Perrot (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Strasbourg, France)
Stelios Psaroudakēs (University of Athens, Greece)
Organising Committee:
Marco Malagodi, Eleonora Rocconi, Federica Scicolone (University of Pavia, Italy)
Call: https://www.moisasociety.org/meetings/
(CFP closed January 31, 2023)
[HYBRID] INTERNATIONAL SPARTAN STUDIES FORUM: ANCIENT SPARTA IN THE 21ST CENTURY - RECENT TRENDS AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS
An international academic, networking, policymaking and public engagement event (hybrid)
Hybrid - Sparti, Greece: June 8-11, 2023
In partnership with the British School at Athens, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, the Sainopouleion Foundation, the Dimos of Sparti Legal Entity for Culture & Environment, the European Public Law Organisation and Reed College, and with generous sponsorship received from the University of Nottingham, the Dimos of Sparti, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the Greek Ministry of Culture & Sports. Our media sponsors are Vachos-Radio, Lakonikos Typos and the Correspondents Union of the Greek Overseas Press.
The event will focus on:
(a) The Spartan tradition in the 21st century
(b) The Ancient Spartan Constitution II: Lessons for Modern Politics and International Relations
(c) Sparta and Laconia, Cultural Heritage and Green Tourism
Owing to the generosity of the University of Nottingham, we are also able to offer five (5) bursaries up to £250 each to postgraduate (taught or research) students attending the event. Applications from postgraduate students from diverse backgrounds are especially encouraged. If PG students wish to be considered for a bursary, they should submit an application letter explaining their reasons for attending the conference (no more than one A4 page) and stating how many days they intend to attend, alongside a brief financial statement of expected costs, to UoN CSPS Director Dr Chrysanthi Gallou Chrysanthi.Gallou@nottingham.ac.uk . Applications should be received no later than 12 noon on Wednesday 17 May 2023 (applications received after the set deadline will not be considered). Please note that the conference PG bursaries are available to assist primarily with the costs of accommodation and/or subsistence in the city of Sparti for the duration of the event (8-11 June 2023). UoN registered taught postgraduate students are strongly encouraged to also apply for the Learning and Development Opportunities Fund for Taught Students. Students will be able to receive £250 towards relevant costs, with details available here and wider financial support information (including application forms) here.
For any questions regarding the event, please contact the lead organiser Dr Chrysanthi Gallou (Chrysanthi.Gallou@nottingham.ac.uk).
The event is free and open to all.
Further information about the event, the programme and the abstracts booklet can be found here: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/humanities/classics-and-archaeology/interational-spartan-studies-forum/index.aspx
The online registration form can be accessed here: https://store.nottingham.ac.uk/product-catalogue/schools-and-departments/humanities/international-spartan-studies-forum (registration is required for all participants, either in person or online).
51ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE: ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
Open University: June 7-8, 2023
Our keynote speaker in 2023 will be Prof. Irene J. F. de Jong (Amsterdam).
The conference is the annual meeting of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies. We welcome papers on a wide range of classical subjects, including, but not limited to, history, philology, philosophy, literature, papyrology, classical reception and the archaeology of Greece, Rome and neighbouring lands. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes. The official languages of the conference are Hebrew and English. The conference fee is $50.
Accommodation will be available at local hotels.
Registration forms with a list of prices will be sent to participants in due course.
Proposals, abstracts and other correspondence may be forwarded to Prof. Sylvie Honigman, Secretary of the ISPCS:
email: honigman@tauex.tau.ac.il
All proposals should consist of a one-page abstract (about 250-300 words). Proposals in Hebrew should also be accompanied by a one-page abstract in English to appear in the conference brochure.
ALL PROPOSALS SHOULD REACH THE SECRETARY BY JANUARY 15, 2023
DECISIONS WILL BE MADE AFTER THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE HAS DULY CONSIDERED ALL THE PROPOSALS. If a decision is required prior to late January, please indicate this in your letter and we will try to accommodate your needs.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;c41d1197.ex
(CFP closed January 15, 2023)
[PANEL] PREMODERNITY AS ANTIMODERNITY IN METAL
International Society for Metal Music Studies Conference
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 6-8 June 2023
For over a decade now, scholars in classical and medieval studies and related disciplines have begun to examine the prolific engagement by hundreds of metal bands around the world with the history, religion, mythology, literature, and art of the premodern and precolonial past. These scholars have contributed articles to Metal Music Studies (e.g. Djurslev; Swist), edited volumes such as Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music (eds. Umurhan & Fletcher) and Medievalism and Metal Music Studies: Throwing Down the Gauntlet (eds. Barratt-Peacock & Hagen), and participated in recent conferences such as Heavy Metal and Global Premodernity (online) Metal and Religion (Brno, Czechia). “ One of the goals of this session is to bring attention to the work being done on metal engagement with premodernity to a broader segment of those working within metal studies, to encourage more collaborative efforts with those in the core disciplines of metal studies such as musicology and sociology.
Furthermore, our aim with this panel is to interrogate the political dimensions of metal’s fascination with premodernity, particularly artists’ constructions, adaptations, and distortions of the premodern past as vehicles of antipathy to the prevalent political, sociocultural, religious, and economic trends and institutions of the contemporary world. How do metal bands recreate ancient, medieval, or precolonial pasts as romanticized alternatives to the status quo? How does this nostalgia for premodernity communicate or critique ideologies to the right or left of the political spectrum? What continuities exist between metal’s engagement with premodernity and political movements and organizations? How is metal’s interpretations of premodernity influenced by the popular culture and hegemonies it purportedly rejects?
Please send abstracts and any questions to metalpremodernity@gmail.com. The submission deadline is 6 December 2022.
Abstracts should be roughly 300 words maximum, and include author name and affiliation (if appropriate).
For more information on the ISMMS conference, visit https://metalstudies.org/event/no-outsides/
(CFP closed December 6, 2022)
[HYBRID] GLOBAL CLASSICS WORKSHOP
Hybrid/Open University, Milton Keynes: June 5, 2023
Speakers: Professor Lorna Hardwick, Dr Mathura Umachandran and Dr Marchella Ward
This hybrid workshop explores the challenges and opportunities that Global Classics brings for engaging with the histories, societies and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. With talks from leading experts in the field offering provocations for active discussion, we will together interrogate what it means to ‘do’ Classics in the twenty-first century.
Global Classics as an idea and practice offers provocations to the wider discipline. At heart, it requires engagement with the diversity and complexity of so-called ‘classical antiquity’, whether situating the histories, societies and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome within a then-contemporary global nexus or exploring interactions with ‘classical’ ideas, stories and textual and material remains at individual moments across time and worldwide. It thus entails a direct stimulus towards active interrogation of the boundaries, prejudices and limitations of current approaches to antiquity. One consequence of the shifting and expanding focus brought by Global Classics – of articulating fresh lines of inquiry and including new potentially challenging voices and perspectives – is to de-centre, de-normalise and disrupt prior hegemonic approaches and interpretations. With a reifying Eurocentricism particularly problematised, what does it mean now to ‘do’ Classics (broadly drawn)? And how should other disciplines with an investment in classical antiquity respond to these provocations? The answers might also suggest the value of Classics in today’s globalised world.
GLOBAL CLASSICS: A NEW MANTRA? PROS AND CONS IN A DEVELOPING FIELD
Professor Lorna Hardwick (Open University)
In this talk I discuss the problems and potential of Global Classics as a theoretical and practical field. What kinds of cultural freight come with working with classical texts and their receptions? To what extent is this freight carried in and by the Greek and Roman texts and emblems themselves? And/or to what extent is this part of a palimpsest of subsequent appropriations? What kind of relationships are needed between ‘working seriously on the past’ (Adorno’s phrase), addressing the present, and creating futures - for classical studies, for its agencies and for all those who participate?
INVENTING THE MEDITERRANEAN: SOME PERILS OF GLOBAL CLASSICS
Drs Mathura Umachandran (University of Essex) and Marchella Ward (Open University)
Our talk comes from the perspective of Critical Ancient World Studies (CAWS), a research collective that we have been co-convening since 2020. CAWS, as its title suggests, is (among other things) a globalising move, shifting Classics (or Classical Studies) out of the realm of area study and towards a long critical history (and a-history) of the world. But this move is not without problems. It was no accident that the classical became global – the history of how the texts and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean moved around the world is also the history of empire. And the assumption that the methodologies of Classical Studies are globally applicable showcases a problematic universalism. In this paper we will set out some of the challenges that this tension between the provincial and the global presents, and attempt to offer some critical routes through its coloniality.
To register and (for online participants) to receive a link to the Workshop, please complete the following form by 28th May: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8FlLRWDU2srm7shl8nYXFFfvaOKBoXzBifVkEJOj4xBOAFA/viewform
To enable full discussion during the workshop, places are capped and will be allocated on a first-come basis.
Please contact Fiona Hobden (fiona.hobden@open.ac.uk) or Naoko Yamagata (naoko.yamagata@open.ac.uk) with any queries about the event.
GREEK BOOKS AND EUROPE'S COMMON CULTURE
University of Cyprus, Nicosia: June 1-2, 2023
Greek heritage became a main point of reference in almost every important realm of thought and branch of knowledge during the early modern period; understanding how early modern Europeans engaged with the ancient Greek language and ancient Greek texts is critical in assessing the process through which this took place. Τhis meeting will consider the dissemination and reception of the Greek textual heritage through book historical approaches.
The printing, circulation and use of Greek books crossed borders and had international resonance: editions printed in one place circulated in other geographical areas; others were pirated and reproduced in different milieus; scholars and editors were aware of editions through their communication networks and worked towards augmenting editions on the basis of previous ones. Despite these international features of Greek printing, however, we can also identify efforts by editors and publishers to assimilate editions for their own particular (‘national’, ‘regional’) public. We should be mindful, therefore, of the specific contexts for their production, dissemination and use alongside the more general background and purposes: whether this was a geographical or confessional context, or a linguistic context (vernacular, but above all, Latin). The research day organised in Nicosia in 1-2 June 2023 aims to address some of the above issues as a way of contextualising and sharpening our understanding of the role of Greek books in disseminating Greek heritage and culture in Europe in the early modern period.
Participants have been invited to reflect upon some of the following issues:
* The circulation of Greek books in different geographical (and cultural) areas as indicated e.g. by collections or inventories (including circulation of books printed elsewhere)
* Greek books in a Latin context (whether this is production, dissemination, or use)
* Greek books in vernacular contexts
* The specific uses of Greek books (as indicated by material or other evidence)
* The activities of specific printers or publishers and how these relate to printing context or book use
Information: https://greci-twinning.org/events-and-dissemination/ (pdf: https://cardinalpublishing.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/greek-books-workshop-description.pdf)
ANTIQUITY (RE)SONORISED. CONCEPTIONS AND SOUND REPRESENTATIONS OF ANTIQUITY IN 21ST CENTURY MEDIA CREATIONS / L’ANTIQUITÉ (RE)SONORISÉE. CONCEPTIONS ET REPRÉSENTATIONS SONORES DE L’ANTIQUITÉ DANS LES CRÉATIONS MÉDIAS DU XXIE SIÈCLE
Toulouse, France: June 1-2, 2023
When classical antiquity is depicted to the public by any type of media (movies, documentaries, commercials, video games, performances, etc.), different process and signs are used to identify it: such as toga for Romans, make-up and hair dress for Egyptians, monuments, ruins or hoplite helmets for Greeks etc. Those marks are mostly visuals ones but they can also be acoustics ones. Even if the sound in its large acceptation (voices, noise, music etc.) grabs not much attention in the media or in the academic analyses, it is still very meaningful as much as visual signs and it wholly contributes to create an easily identified universe for the public thanks to a multi-sensory reception of Antiquity.
This symposium aims to offer a reflection on the way Antiquity is sounded in contemporary creations, from the 1990s to today. If hearing patterns come from elderly tradition such as opera, movies, musical theater, etc.) We can ask ourselves if they have evolved with the emergence of new supports, new media and even new researches. Our ambition is to have an approach also epistemological than pluridisciplinary. For example, are the analyses of historians about modern uses of Antiquity understood the same way or not by information and communication researchers, movies studies specialists or even by musicologists.
Thus, proposals may come from one or more of the following disciplines, which list is not exhaustive: history, art history, archaeology, anthropology, musicology, ludology, museography, movies studies, information and communication sciences, computer science, and education sciences. All kind of modern media can be considered as long as they include a sound dimension, treated for itself or articulated with other sensitive dimensions, visual for instance.
The symposium may highlight the main sound representations of Antiquity through various possible questions: do these sounds are related with other periods and media? Which image of Antiquity this sound universe build? Are those sound codes and stereotypes specific to antiquity or can they be found elsewhere? How historical these sounds are? Is there any distortion between the visuals and phonic sounds representation? Is there specific music or sounds according to a situation or characters? In general way, is there other kind of sound that creates a soundscape? What are the links between the sound of Antiquity and other sensory stimuli for the spectator/receiver? The questions can be specific to a subject or a context: how an exhibition about Antiquity can be sounded in order to be enough striking for the public even if we don’t know much about real sounds form this period? What kind of sounds can be used for pedagogical purposes or for documentaries which mix archeological with fictional ones and synthetic picture scenes? Etc.
Applications can be in French or in English should contain a short presentation of the subject a title and an abstract of 1500 sings (space included). Pictures or link to audio/video tape can be added. Each communication should last around 20 or 30 minutes depending on the time the broadcast of sound and/or video extracts will take. Applications must be sent by email to the two organizers (a.sauraziegelmeyer@gmail.com & claire.mercier@univ-fcomte.fr). Each proposal will received personal answer in May 2022. A preliminary meeting between the selected participants will be organised on the 20th January 2023 to coordinate the communications and organise the event’s axes.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions before sending your proposals.
Calendar
Deadline for submission of proposals: March 21, 2022 midnight
Preparatory meeting (remote): January 20, 2023
Dates of the event: June 1-2, 2023 in Toulouse
The conference will result in the publication of proceedings.
Organizers
Claire Mercier, PhD student in Roman History, Université de Franche-Comté, ISTA.
Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, Maître de Conférences in Ancient History, Institut Catholique de Toulouse, CERES.
Partners
Call: https://antiquipop.hypotheses.org/antiquite-re-sonorisee
(CFP closed March 21, 2022)
17TH TRENDS IN CLASSICS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: PARENTHESES OF RECEPTION
Thessaloniki (Aristotle University, Research Dissemination Center), June 1-3, 2023
Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Department of Classics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Speakers and Titles:
Stella Alekou (University of Ioannina)-‘Rethinking Ovidian Womanhood in Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife’
Richard H. Armstrong (University of Houston)-‘Translating for the Dead: Love, Loss, and Learning in Moshe Ha-Elion’s Homeric Translations into Ladino’
Felix Christen (Universität Heidelberg)-‘Artemidorus and the Question of Method in Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams’
Michalis Chrysanthopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)-‘The Unpublished Flirt with Antiquity, a Parenthesis in C. P. Cavafy's Early Poetical Work’
Mark-Georg Dehrmann (Humboldt Universität Berlin)-‘Classic Philological Theory and the Figure of Parenthesis (Schlegel, Boeckh, Schleiermacher)’
Therese Fuhrer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)-‘Filling Narrative Gaps in (Ps-)Senecan Tragedy’
Eckart Goebel (Universität Tübingen)-‘Three Witches–Three Unities:
Aristotle in Macbeth’
Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford)-‘Scholarship as Parenthetic Form’
John T. Hamilton (Harvard University)-‘A Part Apart: Niobe in Günter Grass' The Tin Drum’
Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford)-‘Inside and Outside: David Hadbawnik’s Translation of Vergil’s Aeneid’
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University)-‘Parentheses, Rings, and Cosmological Experimentation: From Cy Twombly’s Fifty Days at Iliam to a History of Sympathy’
Christoph Horn (Universität Bonn)-‘The Parenthetical Presence of Ancient Ethics in Modern Moral Philosophy’
Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)-‘Roman Comedy and (Greek) Comedy’
Miriam Leonard (University College London)-‘Antiquity “in/to the side of” Revolution’
Alexandra Lianeri (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)-‘Parentheses of Time: Antiquity’s Disconnective Futures’
Michael Lüthy (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart)-‘Fragment-Bodies: Rodin's and Rilke's Torsos’
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/ University of Chicago)-Discussion
Daniel Orrells (King’s College London)-'Illustration in and to the side of Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism'
James Porter (University of California, Berkeley)-‘Rachel Bespaloff’s Reading of (Homer)’
Evina Sistakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)-‘The Classics in Viennese Modernity: A Hesiodic Parenthesis in Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze’
Richard Thomas (Harvard University)-‘Lyric Parentheses, Horace to Dylan’
Thomas Tsartsidis (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)-‘Negotiating Roman Identity in Prudentius: Inclusion and Exclusion of Traditional Roman Norms’
Martin Vöhler (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)-‘Embracing Antiquity: Brecht's Antigonemodell 1948’
Antje Wessels (University of Leiden)-‘Catullus & Calvus on How to Write a Poem-Catull. 51 as Parenthesis and Paratext’
Martin M. Winkler (George Mason University)-‘Narrative and Parenthesis: From Homeric Simile to Cinematic Flashback’
Christopher Wood (New York University)-‘Reversible Nestings of the Mythic and the Real (Velázquez, The Drinkers)’
Website: https://www.lit.auth.gr/17th_trends
[HYBRID] DROPPING THE CANONS | DROOPING THE CANNONS
Rome (Istituto Svizzero/some hybrid): May 31, 2023
Canons are bizarre. In order to share knowledge, culture, science, tase, even words, we rely on common denominators, often ones, that have resulted from processes unclear to or unaligned with us. Why must our scientific and artistic output need such reference points or value-systems to emerge, find legitimacy, and survive? Next to their paradigmatic function, and quite possibly also because of it, canons can be exclusionary and often unnecessarily limiting, with significant consequences on diversity, creativity, and intellectual honesty. Productive quality control or discriminating gate-keeping?
The event will consist of two parts, an academic symposium, and a poetry reading.
Dropping the Canons will offer the occasion to reflect on the historicity, impact, and role of canons, from ancient literature to modern artistic creations. We shall question their pertinence in and for our productions as we keep on imitating, emulating, and sifting on our way. Talks by Giovanna di Martino, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, and Waqas Mirza. This part can be attended remotely via zoom.
Drooping the Cannons brings together a group of visual artists that sabotage the conventions of language in order to undo scripts through polyvocal sounding of neurodivergent perception, through the queering of historicized plights and plots or through the concatenating of disarticulated word-territories.
Performative readings with Holly Graham, Carl Gent, Rebecca Lennon, and Sophie Jung.
For more information, to register, or to get the zoom link for the first part, please visit the Istituto’s website: https://www.istitutosvizzero.it/fr/performance/dropping-the-canons/
ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTIQUITY, AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST: GLOBAL HISTORIES 1800–1939
University of Warwick (Global History and Culture Centre), UK: May 25-26, 2023
This conference will explore the role played by discoveries and debates about the ancient past in the development of ideas about the Middle East in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. What competing imperial, national, and transnational narratives about the present and future of this geopolitically crucial region were fed by archaeology, philology, and history? How were these emergent disciplines themselves forged through Middle Eastern contexts they purported to study? How were temporalities of modernity and progress constructed in relation to the ruptures, continuities and heuristic challenges suggested by the excavation and exegesis of traces of ancient civilisations? Were there overlaps between how this region was simultaneously transformed by the construction of new transportation networks, the unearthing of oil in commercial qualities, transforming its present and future, and archaeological projects which dug up new dimensions to its past? How did the return of the remains of the past assist Western and Eastern empires, and new Middle Eastern countries in understanding their own national destinies?
Recent studies in intellectual history around imperial temporalities and teleologies provide a set of reference points informing this conference’s research aims. As Priya Satia has recently remarked in relation to the place in the British imperial imaginary of the Middle East in the decades around 1900, travel to the region ‘was conceived as a journey into a past that was not merely further back on the secular time scale of history but on a different scale altogether, outside secular time’. This was at once a ‘biblical region’ but also a ‘mythological landscape’, in some ways ‘outside the space of history’ and yet also one which would ‘matter deeply to the historical fulfilment of empire’, not least as a space offering ‘the chance to resurrect the cradle of civilization’ (Satia, Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire, 2020: 156–7, 174). Yet examination of the region’s ancient past could equally inspire a sense of the uncomfortable resemblances bridging empires ancient and ‘modern’, and attendant anxieties about the sustainability of contemporary empires.
If outsiders came to the Middle East to find their own origins (and perhaps their futures), various Middle Easterners themselves sought pasts that they could claim as their own: whether to consolidate new national identities, or to build over-arching and wide-ranging connections across the region. As Timothy Mitchell has written in regard to modern Egypt, a characteristic of the modern nation state was that ‘for a state to prove that it was modern, it helped if it could also prove that it was ancient’ (Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, TechnoPolitics, Modernity, 2002: 179).
We are interested in the concept of the ancient past as a means of constructing modern identities: of ‘the Middle East’ as a region, of diverse new nations within it, and of Western nations whose colonial projects and political interests in the region became part of their own modern identities. While much valuable work has been done on archaeology, imperialism, and nation-building in the Middle East, it is rare for scholars to have a chance to consider different imperial, national, and regional contexts together, as part of a broader reshaping of historical consciousness about this region, one forged through competing visions and agendas. This conference will bring together scholars with a range of interests to examine this question at a variety of scales. We are interested in studies that examine uses of the past in specific national/imperial/regional contexts, and also in contributions that take a broad view of how the ‘Middle East’ became a region with a certain kind of past (original, imperial, monumental, liminal?). Bringing this range of papers together will allow us to discover habits of thought that were common across times and places, and those that were unique or unusual as empires, nations, and people within them sought to create their own distinctive identities through references to the past and its remains.
We invite contributions on how either/both ‘outsiders’ and ‘natives’ in the region came to identify themselves and their political projects with the pasts they discovered there. Relevant are ‘official’ projects of nation-building and imperial enterprise, and also projects by special interest groups, non-state actors, and individuals. Through taking this broad approach, we hope to find new connections and illuminate broader tendencies in the reception, interpretation, and reuse of ancient pasts in the making of the modern Middle East.
Papers might approach the conference’s themes might from a variety of different angles. Contributions might focus, for example, on one or more of the following:
(i) Specific objects, artefacts and sites, both ancient and modern: this might involve, for example retracing how ancient materials became valorised and commodified in the modern period by excavators, collectors and museums.
(ii) Forms of institutional and official sponsorship (government or otherwise) for given scholarly ventures (re)collecting the ancient world, and for the fabrication of ancient histories.
(iii) Appropriations and reinventions of ancient cultures, for example through speculative reconstructions, in textual, pictorial or architectural form, of ancient sites or styles.
(iv) Imaginary geographies, environmental theories and political economies of nation and empire, around teleologies of translatio imperii and the modern state.
(v) The development of ‘the Middle East’ as a unique place of origin, and as a political, historical, or geographical region with a distinct identity.
(vi) The ongoing legacy of archaeological, collecting, and display practices of 1800–1939 in the contemporary world.
CONFERENCE PARTICULARS
The two-day conference will be held at the University of Warwick 25–26 May 2023.
Keynotes will be given by Professor Lynn Meskell (University of Pennsylvania) and Professor Zeynep Çelik (Columbia University, New Jersey Institute of Technology).
Participants will submit papers of 6000-8000 words one month in advance of the meeting for pre-circulation, and will present a 15-minute condensed version of the paper at the workshop. This format will ensure productive discussions among participants and speed the process of publishing all papers from the conference in an edited volume, a process we will begin soon after the conference takes place.
Proposals for papers should include author name and affiliation, 300–400 word abstract, and a short CV. We invite proposals from scholars at all levels from early career onwards. Papers will be selected on the quality of the proposal and with the aim of ensuring a broad spread of topics for the conference. These should be sent to GHCCconference2023@gmail.com by the deadline of Monday, 20 June, 2022.
Stipends for travel of up to £500 for scholars based in countries in the Middle East and North Africa will be available. To apply for these stipends, simply indicate in your email to the organisers that you wish to be considered and state the country you will be travelling from.
Looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Marie Curie Sklodowska Research Fellow, History, University of Warwick)
Dr Eva Miller (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, History, UCL)
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;8b793ee6.ex
(CFP closed June 20, 2022)
IJSEWIJN LECTURE & LABORATORIUM
Leuven, Belgium: May 25-26, 2023
Lecture: May 25, 2023
15th IJsewijn Lecture: Prof. Ingrid De Smet (Warwick/I Tatti Harvard), Eco-Latin? Water Management for Food and Recreation in Selected Neo-Latin Texts
Laboratorium: May 26, 2023
On Friday 26 May 2023, the very first IJsewijn Laboratorium will be held at the Couvreurzaal (M01.E50; Edward Van Evenstraat 4, 3000 Leuven, on the Social Sciences Campus, where IANLS 2022 also took place). The Laboratorium will have a full-day program devoted to ongoing Neo-Latin research, and has two main aims: (1) showcasing state-of-the-art research in Neo-Latin studies, in terms of both subject and methodology, and (2) bringing together young scholars with established researchers, including the IJsewijn Lecturer. There is, in other words, no specific thematic focus, and everyone is encouraged to present work-in-progress, paying due attention to both successes and pitfalls in Neo-Latin research, and how to build on, or deal with, them.
The Laboratorium aims to create an active exchange among the participants, in order to address and discuss promising research perspectives. All sessions will be plenary, including a research pitch by local Neo-Latin students. Each session will last one hour and include two presentations of 15’ each, followed by 30’ discussion time. Presenters will be asked to pre-circulate their materials and ideas in a way they see fit, no later than two weeks before the event (e.g. a Neo-Latin text with translation and/or commentary, a short paper summarizing the main points of their work-in-progress, an advanced paper not yet submitted for publication, a poster file, …). The pre-circulated materials will be shared only with those registered for the workshop and will serve to encourage in-depth discussions. The scientific committee will make a competitive selection of papers, in order to guarantee a high-quality exchange.
The main workshop language will be English, but we will consider proposals in other languages with a strong tradition in Neo-Latin studies. Proposals of no more than 250 words should be sent to raf.vanrooy@kuleuven.be before 1 February 2023 in Word and PDF format. Notifications of acceptance will be given on 15 February 2023. The registration fee for the IJsewijn Laboratorium will be €25 to cover catering. We unfortunately do not have any means to cover the travel and accommodation costs of all participants, but we will be able to provide an exception for up to four junior researchers without any means of their own (please indicate this in your proposal). A link for registration will be made available in late February.
Organizing committee:
Marijke Crab, Nicholas De Sutter, Ide François, Christian Laes, Maxim Rigaux, Raf Van Rooy
Scientific committee:
Susanna de Beer, Gianmario Cattaneo, Marijke Crab, Ingrid De Smet, Nicholas De Sutter, Ide François, Martine Furno, Han Lamers, Marc Laureys, Vasileios Pappas, Maxim Rigaux, Florian Schaffenrath, Toon Van Houdt, Raf Van Rooy
Registration link: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/formulieren/inschrijven/view
Call: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/ijsewijnlab
(CFP closed February 1, 2023)
[HYBRID] ANNE CARSON AND THE UNKNOWN: EXPLORATIONS IN 21ST-CENTURY EXPERIMENTAL POETRY
Hybrid - UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: May 24-25, 2023
Under the auspices of NEDLIT (Groupe de Recherche en littératures et cultures de langue néerlandaise et comparées), ECR (Centre de recherche écriture, création, représentation), and INCAL (Institut des civilisations, arts et lettres) at the UCLouvain, Belgium.
Keynote speakers
Laura Jansen, Associate Professor in Classics and Comparative Literature, University of Bristol
Ian Rae, Associate Professor of English, King’s University College at Western University
Christine Wiesenthal, Professor of English, University of Alberta
This international conference on Canadian author and translator Anne Carson aims to stimulate discussion about an aspect of her work that has been little explored thus far: the unknown. The unknown—which has conceptual roots in, inter alia, the fantastic and psychoanalysis—is, however, a key notion in Carson’s writings. Elizabeth Harvey has recently explored aspects of the unknown in Carson’s oeuvre in relation to the incognito, which she connects to “madness, death, silence, dementia, mourning, prophecy, frenzy, anachronism and sleep” (2021: 106). Moreover, Carson’s focus on the unknown can be linked to her characteristic juxtaposition of the poetic and scholarly in her writing. In Symbolon: The Poetry of Anne Carson (2015), Drew McDowell goes as far as to claim that Carson’s greatest achievement lies in “her recursive questioning about the relation between poetry and knowledge” (247). McDowell is not the only scholar who has noted the importance of questioning—a prerequisite when engaging with the unknown—in Carson’s work (e.g. Upton 2005). In From Cohen to Carson (2008), Ian Rae has remarked that Carson’s “preferred subject of inquiry is […] a centripetal force whose centre cannot be reached” (258). In light of this crucial aspect of thorough re-interrogation, how does Carson’s work (re)configure the relation between knowledge and poetry, including examples that test the boundaries of the genre? In particular, given Carson’s renown as an innovator of form that breaks the mold of generic expectations, we might ask what alternative modes of thinking her poetic experiments produce.
Such repeated—or even “obsessive” (Upton 2005: 28)—inquiring can also take the form of a creative practice of “erring,” described by Laura Jansen in her introduction to Anne Carson / Antiquity (2021) as “a sense of straying from the accepted or expected course or standard of things and, pointedly, what happens as one stands on the edge of certain matter and jumps into the unknown” (5). Errancy is here conceived as a route into understanding how the unknown operates in Carson’s work. But the unknown is not only related to such “route[s] to the strange” led by the potential of language (Sze 2021: 64). Johanna Skibsrud has addressed the idea of the other as an unknowable in The Poetic Imperative (2020) by analyzing the ability of the poetic subject to write past its own boundaries and enact “the possibility of constantly reconfiguring the relation between telling and not telling, self and other” in Carson’s work (14). Moreover, Christine Wiesenthal has identified a “deliberately elliptical”, “parsimonious poetics” in Carson’s oeuvre that considers the excised and unknown in a tension between affective grief and “ironic economic rationalism” (2020: 196, 205).
This conference thus explores the notion of the unknown in two specific ways: we invite scholars to delve into these unexplored areas of Carson studies, but we also seek to home in on the specific explorations of thought in Carson’s work. More specifically, we seek to enquire what Carson’s oeuvre can reveal about the epistemologies of 21st-century forms of experimental and probing poetry. How are women, including those from a (distant) past, portrayed in Carson’s work and how are the discourses surrounding minorities and people that have historically been rendered invisible critically treated in her writings? Which functions do language and the use of translations have in this context? In what ways can experiments with genre and media contribute to an alternative form of knowledge? What role do emotion and affect play in this story?
The conference therefore deliberately focuses on a broad understanding of the concept of the ‘unknown.’ It invites new understandings of the term to probe, explore, and celebrate the more analytic end of Carson’s breadth of work across a variety of genres and themes. We invite contributions on a range of topics, including, but not limited to:
• Questions of knowledge formation, including of the self, in Carson’s writing;
• Feminist issues in Carson’s work, such as the depiction of women as unknowable;
• Questions of otherness and monstrosity in her work;
• The concept of polychronicity, in particular the juxtaposition of classical and modern thought, antiquity and postmodernity in her work;
• The role of affect(s) and its (their) relation to knowledge in her work;
• Reflections on Carson’s reinventions of genre, such as the prose poem and other hybrid forms;
• Deconstructionist readings of Carson’s writings and her approach to language;
• Translation studies and the role of ancient Greek/Latin in conceptions of knowledge;
• Intermedial methodologies focusing especially on the role of the visual in her oeuvre;
• (New) material studies and the role of the medium in disseminating knowledge;
• Carson’s afterlife: authors who critically engage with the thinking of Carson in their own writings, or explicitly position themselves in relation to her oeuvre, and what their writings can teach us about Carson’s work.
Proposals (ca. 300 words) for 20-minute papers and a biographical note should be sent to annecarsonconference2023@uclouvain.be by 12 September 2022. We also welcome panel proposals of two to three papers (ca. 300-word overview plus 300-word individual abstracts / max. 90 min.), as well as experimental or creative-critical approaches to papers (incl. round-table discussions, performances, etc.). The committee will communicate their decisions by October 2022. Selected contributions will be considered for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume or special issue of a journal.
In order to foster as much discussion as possible, this conference is planned as an on-site event to be held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, but conference speakers may present a paper online if unable to attend in person.
Program: https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/ecr/evenements/anne-carson-and-the-unknown-explorations-in-21st-century-experimental-poetry.html
Registration: https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/incal/anne-carson-and-the-unknown-registration.html
Call: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/07/14/anne-carson-and-the-unknown-explorations-in-21st-century-experimental-poetry
(CFP closed September 12, 2022)
ANCIENT – MEDIEVAL – EARLY MODERN LATIN & GREEK LETTER COLLECTIONS. METHODOLOGICAL AND THEMATIC INTERSECTIONS
Durham University, UK: May 18-19, 2023
Organisers: Roy Gibson (Durham) and Simon Smets (LBI for Neo-Latin Studies / University College London)
Modern scholarship rightly distinguishes between collections of letters and ‘letter collections’ with literary aspirations. Students of ancient literature have fully embraced the methodological challenges and interpretative opportunities this distinction brings about. For the middle ages, a wider range of letter collections has been preserved, and the careful composition of some of them has been acknowledged in a couple of case studies. The picture in that period is complicated by the development of so-called ‘artes dictaminis’, letter writing manuals that sometimes hold a position between utilitarianism and literary production. If we look at Latin and Greek epistolary production from the period after 1400 (belonging to the so called Neo-Latin and Neo-Ancient Greek literature), one is overwhelmed by the sheer number of extant examples, most of which remain unedited and are rarely studied. Letter collections were a very popular genre throughout all of these periods. But what were the differences and similarities? How, for example, does the balance between political, philosophical and personal content vary? And under what circumstances does this change?
Our conference tries to connect the study of letters, and especially letter collections, in various fields. Possible topics of investigation are:
* Methodological exchange between ancient, medieval, Neo-Latin literary studies; e.g. how to tackle the letter collection as a distinct genre, how to analyse different editorial phases of a collection.
* Reception of earlier letter collections in medieval and early modern meta-discourse, as well as in new letter collections (with a focus on the less studied reception of authors such as Pliny, the Church Fathers, Peter of Blois, Bernard of Clairvaux…)
* In line with the previous point, the influence of earlier letter collections on later examples; e.g. how was the practice of code-switching in antiquity taken up again to fashion early modern letter collections; the structure of collections as a reference to earlier models
* Fundamental shifts from one period to another, and the impact they had on the creation and dissemination of letter collections; e.g. the advent of the printing press, the development of scientific letter collections
* The role of education in letter writing and the divergences or similarities between different periods; e.g. preferred models in classroom contexts and the medieval and renaissance artes dictaminis
* Findings from languages other than Latin and Greek will be considered, in as far as they throw light on matters relevant to one of these traditions.
Call for Papers: Deadline - Friday 24 February 2023
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to: roy.k.gibson@durham.ac.uk and
simon.smets@neolatin.lbg.ac.at
Papers will be 25-30 minutes
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/pfbid02ovpm9Ub5YwnWRXdWVeeocLu6tDdeKH2bpn59BTEUNsgL7DAPn2nMdYwa7CSb4ZFjl
(CFP closed February 24, 2023)
DOCTORAL CONFERENCE: INSPIRATION ANTIQUITY. TRANSFORMATION OF ANTIQUITY FROM ORIGINS TO MODERN TIMES
University of Bern, Switzerland: May 12-13, 2023
A conference organized by the doctoral students of IDA - Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program for Ancient Studies (University of Bern).
Ancient, ideas, symbols, everyday objects, artworks, and architectural forms can travel in space and time, passing from one culture to another as leading actors in an ongoing process of transformation.
Leaning on the theoretical concept of “Transformation of Antiquity”, developed in Berlin by the collaborative project (Sonderforschungsbereich) 6441, this conference discusses the reception of Antiquity as a form of allelopoiesis: a reciprocal transformation and mutual production between an ancient “reference sphere” and a later “reception sphere”.
This conference aims to go beyond the boundaries of epochs and objects of study, in order to grasp differences and similarities in such transformation across diverse temporal, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives. It will consist of three panels, each focused on a field linked to Classical Studies:
1. History and Philosophy
2. Philology and the Reception of Texts
3. Archaeology and Art
This conference is particularly addressed to doctoral students and early career researchers, since it is designed not only as an occasion to present the latest research on classical reception, but also an opportunity to connect the community of young scholars in Europe and beyond.
Abstracts of ca. 300 words with a brief CV should be sent to judith.mania@unibe.ch by December 15th 2022.
Talks are welcome in German, English, French and Italian. Travel expenses and accommodation costs will be covered.
1 See Johannes Helmrath, “Transformations of Antiquity”. A Berlin Concept, in: Aegyptiaca. Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt 4 (2019), pp. 139-151.
Call: https://www.academia.edu/90379265/Call_for_Papers_Inspiration_Antiquity_Transformation_of_Antiquity_from_Origins_to_Modern_Times or https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;4041f00.2211
(CFP closed December 15, 2022)
AUDIO/VISUAL ROMANS: WOMEN SPEAK UP!
International Conference and Translation Workshop
Sapienza University, Rome: May 11-12, 2023
We are pleased to announce the fourth international conference on Audio/visual Romans to be held live in Rome, at . The first conference in 2018 was dedicated to Nero and the second in 2021 to Julius Caesar. The third conference in 2022 explored the imaginative power of modern audio/visual media to shape our perception of the Women of Ancient Rome, be they historical or fictional.
This year’s conference continues our discussion of Roman Women: the panellists will talk about their portrayal in films, TV series, documentaries, videogames, fanfiction and trade cards, and the award-winning director David Evans will conduct a Q&A about Livia Drusilla in the SKY TV Series Domina.
The full programme and panel abstracts for 2023 can be found here. Registration is not required and attendance on both days is free. The conference will be in English.
Please contact Maria Wyke (m.wyke@ucl.ac.uk) if you have any further queries.
Website: https://avromans2023.wordpress.com/
THE POLITICS OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ITALY. A WORKSHOP
School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, UK: May 5, 2023
10:30-11:30 Samuel Agbamu (Reading), Studies on Petrarch's Latin under Fascism
Break
11:40-12:40 Sergio Brillante (Paris), Thinking of Rome, Speaking in London. Piero Treves at the BBC
Lunch
14:30-15:30 Eugenia Vitello (Oxford), Togliatti’s Attitude towards Ancient History in Politics: between Theory and Practice
15:30-16:30 General Discussion
The workshop will be held in person (room 3.16, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University) and online. Should you wish to receive a Zoom link, please email federico.santangelo@ncl.ac.uk.
Website: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/events/item/politics-of-classical-scholarship-in-20th-c-italy/
MNEMOSYNE: FORGETTING, REMEMBERING, AND REDISCOVERING CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
Postgraduate Symposium from The Warburg Institute & the Institute of Classical Studies
London, UK: May 4-5, 2023
The Warburg Institute, in collaboration with the Institute of Classical Studies, is hosting its fourth Postgraduate Symposium, Mnemosyne: Forgetting, Remembering, and Rediscovering Classical Antiquity. This is an in-person event for postgraduate students and early-career researchers held in central London.
The Symposium aims to explore the role of memory in the survival of classical culture across the centuries. Themes include:
* arts and heritage
* psychological and religious narratives
* sites of preservation and transmission
We invite papers from the fields of art history, history of ideas, cultural history, psychology and psychoanalysis, and related disciplines.
Call for Papers Deadline: Friday 25 November 2022
Please send paper proposals to mnemosyneconference@gmail.com.
You can find more information through the symposium website: https://mnemosyneconferenc.wixsite.com/mnemosyne-conference
(CFP closed November 25 2022)
#CFP [JOURNAL] THERSITES 2024 - THEME: FANTASTIC ANTIQUITIES AND WHERE TO FIND THEM. ANCIENT WORLDS IN (POST-)MODERN NOVELS
Thersites is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special volume on “Fantastic antiquities and where to find them. Ancient worlds in (post-)modern novels” (Summer 2024) edited by Christine Walde, Concetta Finiello, Matthias Heinemann and Adrian Weiß.
In recent years, in all languages there has been a significant increase in the number of novels set in antiquity, ranging from retellings of ancient myths and legends and historical fiction to speculative fantasy.
These novels have captured the imagination of readers and scholars alike, offering new and challenging insights into the social hierarchies, gender roles, and cultural practices of ancient societies (especially Greece, Rome and the Roman provinces, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Near East).
We welcome original research articles, essays, interviews, book reviews on any topic related to modern/contemporary novels (period: 1900-2023) engaging with antiquity. Personal reflections by authors of novels are also welcome.
Possible topics for submission include, but are not limited to:
• Survey articles on the multiple use of specific ancient texts or
figures in modern novels (e.g., Troy in general, Odyssey, Penelope, Nero, Caesar, Ovid, Julian Apostata etc.).
• The representation of gender and sexuality in contemporary literature set in antiquity.
• Race and social hierarchies in these novels.
• The use of intertextuality and narrative techniques in retelling ancient stories.
• The motivations of contemporary authors in setting their novels in antiquity.
• The educational backgrounds of authors and their influences on the depiction of ancient societies.
• The relationship between contemporary literature and academic research on antiquity. This includes novels starring professionals of our disciplines (teachers, graduates, professors).
• The ways in which the marketing of these novels reflects changing cultural attitudes toward the past.
• The role of these novels in shaping contemporary political discourse.
• The use of these novels in teaching the antiquities.
Papers (in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin) should be original and unpublished elsewhere. The ideal length of the final paper is 10,000 words (plus bibliography). Please follow the guidelines for authors on our website (https://thersites-journal.de/index.php/thr).
Papers that have been accepted will undergo a peer reviewing process according to the guidelines of thersites.
The absolute (!) deadline for submissions is March, 1, 2024.
Please send an abstract of max. 250 words (short bibliography included) and a brief author bio as soon as possible but not later than April 30, 2023 to Christine Walde, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, waldec@uni-mainz.de
Applicants will be notified of acceptance by mid-April 2023 at the latest.
Please feel free to reach out to the co-editors with any questions or concerns:
Christine Walde: waldec@uni-mainz.de
Concetta Finiello: concetta.finiello@sbl.ch
Matthias Heinemann: heinemam@uni-mainz.de
Adrian Weiß: adrian.weiss@uni-bonn.de
Call: https://www.facebook.com/thersiteszeitschrift/posts/pfbid0g2AUbaSc1guTZjq93mAuCeq9Bye9MCFk3dNNhr9zckAiNvfxViB7qDhXm5s4VSYBl
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2023
University of Cambridge, UK: April 21-23, 2023
The Faculty of Classics in Cambridge University will host the 2023 Classical Association
Conference. The conference will take place on the Sidgwick Site, close to the centre of
Cambridge, with accommodation in Colleges a short distance away. There will be optional
excursions and visits to libraries, gardens and rooms inside the Colleges and University
Buildings not normally open to the public.
Proposals for 20-minute papers, especially from coordinated panels, are invited. We aim to
establish an inclusive environment forspeakers from all backgrounds. We welcome proposals
on all topics across ancient literature and philosophy, ancient history, classical art, the
archaeology of the ancient world, the linguistics of ancient languages, the reception of the
classical tradition and modern pedagogy.
We further suggest the following themes:
* (Ab)uses of Classics in political discourse
* Classics after the pandemic – in and out of the classroom
* Inequalities
* Decolonising Classics – the school curriculum and beyond
* Genders beyond boundaries
* Global and local
* Innovative and inclusive pedagogies
It is our intention that panels and social events occur in person, although there will be
provision of video-conferencing where feasible.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to ca2023@classics.cam.ac.uk by 31
August 2022.
We ask that prospective participants explore avenues for funding travel to and attendance at
the conference as soon as possible, and we urge participants to adopt forms of travel which
are the least harmful to the environment, taking note of the Faculty’s environmental guidance
statement: https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/environmental-guidance-statement.
The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all of its
practices and activities.
Call: [pdf] https://classicalassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Call-for-Papers-2023-rev3.pdf
(CFP August 31, 2022)
FRAGMENTATION AND RESTORATION IN ANTIQUITY AND BEYOND: A GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM
The University of Southern California, Los Angeles (+/- hybrid): April 14-15, 2023
Keynote Speaker: Hannah Čulík-Baird
The Classics Department at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles invites current graduate students to submit abstract proposals for its Graduate Student Colloquium “Fragmentation and Restoration in Antiquity and Beyond.” The modern term “fragment” derives from the Latin frangere (to break, shatter). It calls to mind something “broken”; but is a fragment merely a broken piece of a larger whole? This conference seeks to address this and related questions about the nature of fragmentation in the ancient world and beyond. Recently the topic of fragmentation has seen valuable study. While much scholarly work focuses on literary fragments or the restoration of texts on papyrus, stone, and other materials, we would like to expand the field of study to broader concerns of brokenness, part-whole relationships, and restoration. How do we define a fragment? Can a fragment be a whole in itself? What are the implications of restoring fragments? How does the concept of fragmentation and restoration apply to abstract things?
We invite abstracts that deal with physical fragments (literary or material), conceptual fragmentation (e.g. of the mind, ideas, societies), and theories of fragmentation from graduate students in Classics and related fields such as Archaeology, History, Religion, Philosophy, Art History, Political Science, and Anthropology. We encourage papers not only on fragmentation and/or restoration in the ancient world but also its reception and influence after antiquity.
Please send anonymous abstracts of 300 words max. by emailing a word file to fragmentationsusc@gmail.com by January 15, 2023. We aim to respond to submissions by February 6, 2023. In the body of your email, please include your name and affiliation. The review process will be double-blind, so please do not include any identifying information in your abstract document.
The Colloquium will be held on April 14-15th, 2023 as a primarily in-person event. However, we also offer the opportunity for a limited number of speakers to deliver their papers via Zoom. If you plan to attend remotely, please specify it in your email.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Ancient literary and material fragments (texts and/or objects) and methodology
* Fragmentary speech in ancient drama and dialogues
* The fragmented vs. complete form
* Political and social fragmentation
* The phenomenological fragmentation of experience
* Fragmentation of the body
* Fragments and form
* The reception of ancient fragments by later societies
* How fragments have added to, taken from, or altered our understanding of antiquity
* Traditions and counternarratives in light of fragmentary evidence
Please address any questions regarding the colloquium to fragmentationsusc@gmail.com.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;b5e6741b.ex
(CFP closed January 15, 2023)
THE WRONG DIRECTION – EARLY MODERN TRANSLATIONS INTO LATIN
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen: April 13-14, 2023
Based on the research done in Prof. Anja Wolkenhauer’s project “Versio Latina”, we want to use this opportunity to decidedly change perspectives and look ‘into the wrong direction’, namely focusing on early modern translations into Latin. What are their functions? Who translated and for what kind of readership; which expectations were placed on these translations by translators, editors, and printer-publishers? Were they successful, reprinted, overruled by rival products, or was their efficiency augmented by being intermediary versions for translations into other languages?
The talks will be scheduled for 20-30 minutes with ample time for discussion. We plan to reimburse travel expenses.
The submission deadline is June 30 and abstracts can be submitted in German and English.
Call for papers & more information: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/231686
Edit - 26/03/2023. Program:
04/13/2023
1.15 p.m Julia Heideklang/Anja Wolkenhauer (Tübingen) Welcoming and Introduction
2 p.m. Andreas Gipper (Mainz-Germersheim) Lateinische Wissenschaftsübersetzungen in der frühen Neuzeit im Spannungsverhältnis von Vernakularisierung und Horizontalisierung
3 p.m. Sara Miglietti / Marco Spreafico (London) Writing Bilingually, 1465-1700: A New Project on Early Modern Self-Translation
4.30 p.m. Lucia Bertolini (Novedrate) Il bilinguismo “integrale” di Leon Battista Alberti: il caso delle latinizzazioni
5.30 p.m. Marianne Pade (Aarhus) The Heroic Age: Translation into Latin in Fifteenth-Century Italy
04/14/2023
9 a.m. Raphael Schwitter (Bonn/Zürich) Non quidem per omnia felicissime redditum — Reformatorischer Anspruch und translatorische Praxis in der Publizistik Heinrich Bullingers (1504-1575)”
10.30 a.m. Stefan Rhein (Lutherstadt Wittenberg) Lutherus Latinus
11.30 a.m.Julia Frick (Zürich) Proverbia latina: Literarische Räume und Reichweiten deutsch-lateinischer Interaktion in der Frühen Neuzeit
1.30 p.m. Bernhard Söllradl (Salzburg) Historie and historia: Latein und die Volkssprache im historiographischen Werk John Lesleys
2.30 p.m. Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo (St. Andrews) Translating/Adapting Characters, Models, Languages, Plays, and Cultures: Giambattista della Porta’s La Sorella and Samuel Brooke’s Adelphe
4 p.m. Andrew Laird (Providence, USA) Legitimation, Representation, Canonization, Elucidation: Four Modes of ‘Translating’ Nahuatl Texts from 16th-Century Mexico into Latin
5 p.m. Reinhold F. Glei (Bochum) In die richtige Richtung: Die epilinguistische Übersetzung ins Lateinische
04/15/2023
9 a.m. Nathaniel Hess (Cambridge) Malign mallets and Melting Snow: Transalpine Responses to Poliziano’s Callimachus
10.30 a.m. Vittoria Vairo (Neapel) Imperfect Translations, Failed Translations: The Case of Pausanias’ versio latina between the 15th and the 16th Century
11.30 a.m. TBA
1.15 p.m. Julia Heideklang/Anja Wolkenhauer (Tübingen) Concluding Discussions and Summary
Conference website: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/238848
(CFP closed June 30, 2022)
MAPPING THE WOUNDED SELF FROM ROMAN ANTIQUITY TO RENAISSANCE HUMANISM
Würzburger Residenz, Würzburg, Germany: April 12-13, 2023
The International and Interdisciplinary Conference «Mapping the Wounded Self from Roman Antiquity to Renaissance Humanism» will be held under the aegis of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Würzburger Residenz on April 12-13, 2023.
Keynote lecture: William Short (Exeter).
List of speakers: Thomas Baier (Würzburg), Fabrizio Bigotti (Würzburg), Fabio Botta (Cagliari), Pierangelo Buongiorno (Macerata), Jean-Christophe Courtil (Toulouse), Tobias Dänzer (Würzburg), Martin Dinter (London), Michèle Ducos (Paris), Daniel King (Exeter), Sophia Papaioannou (Athens), Nephele Papakonstantinou (Würzburg), Biagio Santorelli (Genoa), Antonio Stramaglia (Bari), Christian Tornau (Würzburg).
The event is organised, with the active support of Prof. Dr. Thomas Baier, by Dr. Nephele Papakonstantinou.
Please follow the link below for the full program: https://www.klassphil.uni-wuerzburg.de/veranstaltungen/tagung-single/news/international-and-interdisciplinary-conference/
FEMALE AGENTS: GENDER, DRAMA, RECEPTION, PERFORMANCE: A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF HELENE FOLEY
Barnard College, New York: March 31-April 1, 2023
Friday, March 31
1:00 – coffee onsite (Milstein 914, conference in 912)
Introductions (1:15 pm) – Kristina Milnor, Ellen Morris, Nancy Worman
Epic and tragic receptions (1:30-5:30 pm) – Claire Catenaccio chairing
Sarah Nooter – "Reverse Sexualities and Odyssean Roles in Fun Home"
Cristina Pérez Díaz – "Thinking Reception as Comparatism with Anne Carson"
Franscisco Barrenechea – "Savage Antiquities: Greek Tragedy in the Spanish Enlightenment"
Melissa Mueller – "Jocasta in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos and Martha Graham's Night
Journey"
Discussant: Giovanni Lovisetto
An actual reception (5:30, Milstein 914, Faculty Salon)
Dinner for participants (6:30, Judith Shapiro Lounge) and the Greek play (8:00, Minor Latham)
Saturday, April 1
9:30 – Breakfast onsite (Milstein 914, conference in 912)
Enactment and performance (9:45-12:00) – Erin Mee chairing
Izzy Levy and Charles Pletcher – "Drama and Drag" (Greek play talk back)
Gisela Cardenas and Helene Foley in conversation with Carina de Klerk – "Teaching Ancient
Theater and Performance"
Melinda Powers – "Theater and Diversity"
Discussant: Valeria Spacciante
Lunch onsite (12:00-1:00, Milstein 914)
Performance, drama, music (1-3:15 pm) – Froma Zeitlin chairing
Anna Conser – "Researching Choral Odes Through Performance"
Caleb Simone – "Engaging the Aulos in Greek Drama"
Oliver Taplin – "Some Female Roles – and Acts – in Early Tragedy"
Discussant: Emma Ianni
Bodies, genders, genres (3:30-5:30 pm) – Debbie Steiner chairing
Simone Oppen – "Sole Female Speech Through Lyric and Satyric Fragments"
Marcus Folch – "Plato and the Poetics of Colonialism"
Nancy Worman – "Tempo and Form in Swinburne, Sappho, and Thom Gunn"
Discussant: Brett Stine
Helene and friends – Final remarks (5:30-6:00)
Reception (6:00, Milstein 914)
Dinner for participants (7:00, Pisticci)
Information: http://classics.columbia.edu/news/2023/3/24/female-agents-gender-drama-reception-performance-a-conference-in-honor-of-helene-foley
[HYBRID] HELLENO(GER)MANIA - LAURENTIUS RHODOMAN AND 16TH-CENTURY PHILHELLENISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Hybrid - Wuppertal University, Germany: March 29-30, 2023
Organized by the research project "Rhodomanologia - Digital Edition of the Greek and Latin Poems by Laurentius Rhodoman until 1588".
Keynotes will be delivered by Stefan Rhein (Wittenberg) and Filippomaria Pontani (Venezia).
Programme
Wednesday 29 March:
9:30 (CET) Salutation and introduction
10:00-10:45 Stefan Rhein (Wittenberg): "Wie ein Stern werdet ihr glänzen in alle Ewigkeit" - Die Wittenberger Universitätsreden des Lorenz Rhodoman (keynote)
11:00-11.45 Filippomaria Pontani (Venezia): "Su nel ciel altro Elicona": Versifying the Life of Christ on Either Side of the Alps (1573-1589) (keynote)
11:45-12:15 Enrico Magnelli (Firenze): Hermann's Bridge before Hermann: On the Metrical Practice of Lorenz Rhodoman (and others)
13:30-14:00 Rosa Maria Piccione (Torino): Griechisch lernen an der Universität Wittenberg. Ein unbekanntes Handbuch des Lorenz Rhodoman (AAB Weimar, Oct 141)
14:00-14:30 Thomas Gärtner (Köln/Osnabrück): Die Schwierigkeit, einen Drucker für neue griechische Texte zu finden. Ein Lebenstrauma des Lorenz Rhodoman
15:00-15:30 Lucy Nicholas (London): Hellenomania and the Sixteenth-century Anglo-German Axis
15:30-16:00 Adriaan Demuynck/Raf Van Rooy (Leuven): In Search of a Genre: Georg Schrögel's Elegia ἐγκωμιαστικὴ in Handoverpiam (1565) between Bavaria and Brabant
16:30-17:00 Uhr Karen Lelittka (Wuppertal): Quantulum opus, quantum vitae complectitur orbem! - Die Schildbeschreibungen in Lorenz Rhodomans Ilias parva als Beispiel für die autonome Gestaltung des Werkes
17:00-17:30 Uhr Silvio Bär (Oslo): Lorenz Rhodoman als Herausgeber von Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica
Thursday 30 March:
9:30-10:00 Janika Päll (Tartu): The Easter Cycle in Greek Poetry: Paraphrasis, Miniepic, Oration or Hymn? A Preliminary Overview of the Tradition
10:00-10:30 Stefan Weise (Wuppertal): Rhodoman's Odyssey - Between Admiration, Alienation and Appropriation
11:00-11:30 Thomas Baier (Würzburg): Neualtgriechisch im Werk des Camerarius
11.30-12.00 William Barton (Innsbruck): Helleno(ger)mania in the Digital Age: The edition of K. B. Hase's Greek diaries
12:00-12:30 Jennifer Bunselmeier (Wuppertal): Rhodomanologia Online - From Word to Website
If you are interested in listening to the papers and participating in the discussions via Zoom, please contact: weise@uni-wuppertal.de
For further information, see: https://rhodomanologia.uni-wuppertal.de/de/hellenogermania-2023/
[ONLINE] OVIDIAN POETRY AND ITS AFTERLIFE: NEW APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES
Online - March 29-30, 2023 (starting at 01:45 pm CEST / 12:45 am BST / 07:45 am EDT)
Organisers: Dr Fabio Nolfo (Postdoctoral Researcher in ‘Latin Language and Literature’ – Université de Liège), Prof. Dominique Longrée (Professor of ‘Latin Language and Literature’ – Université de Liège), and Prof. Costas Panayotakis (Professor of ‘Latin Language and Literature’ – University of Glasgow).
This will be an online event only (via ZOOM), and it will take place in the afternoons (starting at 01:45 pm CEST / 12:45 am BST / 07:45 am EDT) of Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 March 2023. You are most welcome to attend; for any queries (including how to obtain the ZOOM web-links), please email Dr Fabio Nolfo (fabio.nolfo@uliege.be) by 28 March.
Wednesday 29 March 2023 - 01:45 pm CEST / 12:45 am BST / 07:45 am EDT
Introduction & Welcome: Fabio Nolfo, Dominique Longrée, Costas Panayotakis
02:00 pm CEST / 01:00 pm BST / 08:00 am EDT
Session 1, Chair: Costas Panayotakis
Sergio Casali (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”),
«Intersections between Ovid’s poetry and the late antique exegesis of Virgil»
Joe L. Watson (University of Warwick), «Erotic Atalanta between Ovid’s Ars amatoria and Metamorphoses: sex, epic, elegy»
Laura Aresi (Università degli Studi di Firenze), «Love is competition: Corinna, Atalanta and the certamen amoris in Ovid and beyond»
Giovanni Zago (Università degli Studi di Firenze), «Some remarks on the genesis and composition of Ovid’s Remedia amoris»
04:00 pm CEST / 03:00 pm BST / 10:00 am EDT
Break
04:30 pm CEST / 03:30 pm BST / 10:30 am EDT
Session 2, Chair: Dominique Longrée
Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens),
«Instances of Ovidian interaction in early imperial mythography»
Ioannis Ziogas (University of Durham), «Law in Ovid’s Fasti: the case of Claudia Quinta»
Andreas Michalopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), «Ovid’s afterlife: Ceyx and Alcyone in Christoph Ransmayr’s dystopian Tomi»
Thursday 30 March 2023
01:45 pm CEST / 12:45 am BST / 07:45 am EDT
Session 3, Chair: Fabio Nolfo
Damien Nelis (Université de Genève),
«The historian in Ovid: universal histories and poetic traditions»
Lisa Piazzi (Università degli Studi di Pisa),
«Placatus mitisque: alcune riflessioni sulla figura di Bacco nelle Metamorfosi»
Robert Kirstein – Simon Grund (“Eberhard Karls” Universität Tübingen),
«Narrating a State in Between: ‘Daseinsmetaphern’ in Ovid’s poetry»
Chiara Battistella (Università degli Studi di Udine),
«Traces of Ovidian invective in the speeches of Seneca’s Medea?»
04:00 pm CEST / 03:00 pm BST / 10:00 am EDT
Break
04:30 pm CEST / 03:30 pm BST / 10:30 am EDT
Session 4, Chair: Costas Panayotakis
Bruce Gibson (University of Liverpool), «Ovid on the ‘Parilia’: Fasti 4.721–862»
Gian Luca Gregori (Sapienza Università di Roma),
«Reminiscenze ovidiane negli epitaffi cristiani di Roma»
Carole Newlands (University of Colorado Boulder),
«Text, textile, and Ovid’s Fasti in the Delitiae Poetarum Illustrium Scotorum»
Information: https://www.schist.uliege.be/cms/c_10127895/fr/ovidian-poetry-and-its-afterlife
EURIPIDES' BACCHAE THROUGH THE AGES
Department of Ancient Classics, Maynooth University, Ireland: March 24, 2023.
11:00-11:15 Welcoming and introductory remarks
11:15-12:00 ‘Believing in Dionysus’, Professor William Allan (Oxford)
12:00-12:45 ‘Euripides’ Bacchae in Ireland’, Professor Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus)
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:45 ‘Dionysus in Deutschland’, Dr Will Desmond (Maynooth)
2:45-3:30 ‘Scattered limbs, severed heads and the Hellenistic reception of the Bacchae’, Eoghan Moloney (Maynooth)
3:30-4:15 Final discussion, closing remarks, and refreshments
The event is hybrid and participants unable to travel from distant parts are most welcome to join online, for one or more presentations: please email william.desmond@mu.ie to register your interest.
Information: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/colloquium-euripides-bacchae-through-ages
RES DIFFICILES 4 - CHALLENGES AND PATHWAYS FOR ADDRESSING INEQUITY IN CLASSICS (#ResDiff4)
Online [US Easter] - March 24, 2023
Organizers: Hannah Čulík-Baird (UCLA) and Joseph Romero (University of Mary Washington)
Since 2020 Res Difficiles has been a venue for addressing inequities within the field of Classics, examining issues arising out of intersectional vectors of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, class, socio-economic status, and beyond. In our papers and conversations, we explore how people on the margins in our texts and contexts are invited—or pushed further from—the center, and explore avenues through which such marginalization might be addressed. Following each conference (Res Diff, 2020; Res Diff 2.0, 2021; Res Diff 3, 2022), recordings of conference presentations were made available online at resdifficiles.com. A selection of those papers is currently being prepared for publication in a co-edited series for Ancient History Bulletin. In preparation for Res Diff 4, we invite papers from all those who study and teach the ancient world. Submissions from individuals, pairs, or organizations are welcome, as are submissions from students (undergraduate or graduate), faculty, and K-12 teachers.
Our keynote speaker will be Jackie Murray, Professor of Classics, African American and Africana Studies, Gender and Women Studies at the University of Kentucky.
The conference will be hosted as a Zoom webinar with a capacity of 500. Please note that the time zone of the conference will be US Eastern.
Abstracts of 350 words should be sent electronically to Joseph Romero (jromero@umw.edu) by January 6, 2023. Papers will be 20-25 minutes with coordinated discussion at the end of each session. Any questions regarding abstract submission may be addressed to Professors Romero or Čulík-Baird (culikbaird@humnet.ucla.edu). For more information see https://resdifficiles.com/
Call: https://resdifficiles.com/cfp-2023/
(CFP closed January 6, 2023
[ONLINE] PRESENTING THE PAST: RESPONSIBLE ENGAGEMENT AND ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN HISTORY
Online - from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC: March 23-25, 2023
The Peopling the Past team is thrilled to be hosting the upcoming colloquium,“Presenting the Past: Responsible Engagement and Ancient Mediterranean History”, which will take place from March 23-25, 2023 in Vancouver, BC, co-hosted by Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. The goal of this colloquium is to ask how we as educators inside and outside the academy can more effectively participate in public discourse about the ancient Mediterranean. The event will bring together academics, museum professionals, and public scholars to deliver presentations on the challenges and best practices for teaching and scholarship on the ancient Mediterranean. Specialists from the humanities and social sciences, including senior scholars, early career researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and non-academic professionals, will collaborate in discussions about cultural heritage, pedagogy, and public history for academic and non-academic audiences.
The meeting will include traditional research presentations, short graduate-student talks, interviews with public programmers, and a live-podcast taping, during which we will be discussing questions related to responsible knowledge creation, communication, and engagement across various learning environments, from the classroom to the museum to social media. Specifically, we aim to address how we can engage in responsible public scholarship that is more inclusive of past diversity and modern audiences. We’re excited to feature the work of several public scholars who are creating innovative and compassionate answers to this question!
This conference has been generously funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University, The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies and Green College at the University of British Columbia, Acadia University, the University of Winnipeg, and the Vancouver Chapter of the American Research Centre in Egypt.
Website: https://peoplingthepast.com/2023-colloquium/
PHILHELLENISM AND THE GREEK REVOLUTION OF 1821: TOWARDS A GLOBAL HISTORY
National Library of Greece, SNFCC, Athens: March 15–17, 2023
The British School at Athens (BSA) and the National Library of Greece (NLG) are delighted to share a Call for Papers for this international conference, organized as part of the research project, Unpublished Archives of British Philhellenism During the Greek Revolution of 1821, funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) at the British School at Athens and carried out in collaboration with the National Library of Greece.
Proposals may be submitted, and papers may be given, in either English or Greek. Simultaneous translation will be available at the conference. Contributions may be considered, for inclusion, in expanded and revised form, in a volume of essays with the same title, to be published by Routledge in the BSA’s series Modern Greek & Byzantine Studies.
Proposals for papers (max. 20 minutes) should be sent by 31 May 2022 to m.sotiropoulos@bsa.ac.uk. For further details on the conference’s rationale and themes, on how to submit your proposal, as well as on travel and accommodation, please see in English, and/or in Greek.
Call: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/2022/04/06/philhellenism-and-the-greek-revolution-of-1821-towards-a-global-history/
(CFP closed May 31, 2022)
THE MEDIEVAL AFTERLIFE OF HELLENISTIC JUDAISM IN WESTERN EUROPE
Departments of Classics, Theology, and Jewish Studies, University of Bern, Switzerland: March 15-17, 2023
From a modern perspective, Hellenistic Judaism sits at the crossroads of Classical Greek and biblical Hebrew thought. The tracks it laid down were especially formative for Christianity, shaping its historiography, apologetics, theology, and philosophy. After late antiquity, most Christian and Jewish scholars in western Europe no longer knew Greek, yet Hellenistic Judaism continued to loom large in the consciousness of both communities. This conference looks at the reception of Hellenistic Jewish texts – as well as ideas about Hellenistic Jews – in the Jewish and Christian Middle Ages in western Europe between ca. 500 and 1700 CE. It particularly aims to examine how some of the influential figures of Hellenistic Judaism were used to create identity and draw boundaries in later periods. Who copied, translated, and adapted Greco-Jewish texts, and which communities let them sink into oblivion? Who claimed Hellenistic Jews as 'our ancestors' and who used them to illustrate theological error? How were Hellenistic Jewish texts read alongside various biblical canons – and how were they put in relation to one another? In short, how did Hellenistic Jewish texts and authors serve the construction and development of the medieval West and its shifting religious identities?
This conference considers Greco-Jewish authors who survived in full Latin translation (like Josephus) alongside those who reached the Latin world in excerpts and citations (Artapanus, Aristobulus, Philo, the Letter of Aristeas), as well as the reception of the Greek-Jewish Scriptures or Septuagint. It looks at Hellenistic Jewish texts which wound up in the Christian Old and New Testaments (Wisdom of Solomon, the Books of Maccabees), and Greek-speaking Jews who were (mis-)identified as authors of parts of Christian Bibles, like Philo (often considered author of Wisdom of Solomon) and Josephus (to whom several books of Maccabees were ascribed), alongside other Latin texts with origins in Hellenistic Judaism (e.g. Ps-Philo Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum). It also welcomes proposals which put the afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism in comparative perspective by drawing parallels with the afterlife of pagan and Christian writers.
Talks of ca. 30 minutes may be given in German, French, English, Spanish, or Italian. Travel expenses and accommodation costs will be covered. Proposals in the form of an abstract (ca. 300 words) should be sent to me (Anthony.Ellis@kps.unibe.ch) by the 15th of September 2022. For further information please get in touch or visit https://www.legejosephum.unibe.ch/.
Call [pdf]: https://www.legejosephum.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/fak_historisch/dsl/micro_lj/content/e1244948/e1244950/CfP.MedievalAfterlifeofHellenisticJudaism_eng.pdf
(CFP closed September 15, 2022)
PERFORMING EPIC - GILGAMESH AND BEYOND
A workshop with scholars and creative artists.
All Souls College, Oxford: Saturday March 4, 2023
Convenors: Marina Warner, Alice Oswald, and Fiona Macintosh
10 - 11.30am: Panel 1 - Chair: Colin Burrow
Bernardo Ballesteros Petrella (Corpus Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) - on Iliad, Gilgamesh and wisdom.
Diwakar Acharya (All Souls) discussion and performance of Vedic chants.
11.30 - 11.45am: Coffee
11.45am - 1.15pm: Panel 2 - Chairs: Alice Oswald and Fiona Macintosh
John Pfumojena (Musician) on Mbira music and storytelling.
Tim Supple (Theatre Director) on Ted Hughes' Gilgamesh.
1.15 - 2.30pm: Lunch
2.30 - 3.30pm: Panel 3 - Chair: Oliver Taplin
Ben Haggarty (Storyteller) on his Gilgamesh.
3.30 - 4pm: Tea
To reserve a place, please email: apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk
[ONLINE] DISTANT WORLDS: THE RECEPTION OF ANCIENT CULTURES IN EASTERN EURASIA AND THE WEST PACIFIC
Online - Peking University School of Arts, Beijing, China: March 3–5, 2023
The reception of ancient cultures, especially that of ancient Egypt, is a mainstay in cultural studies and related fields. Often conducted from the vantage point of the reception of ancient cultures in the West, this interdisciplinary conference aims to shift the perspective to eastern Eurasia and the West Pacific to decentre the hitherto mainly Eurocentric scholarship and put a neglected part of the world at the centre. Switching to this new subject, the focus will be on the cultural production of eastern Eurasian and West Pacific players and how their cultural production (e.g., architecture, representative and performative arts, literature, popular culture) has incorporated and dealt with ancient cultures not indigenous to the region (e.g., Egypt, Greece, Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia, Rome). The conference thus revolves around intercultural communication and transformation of knowledges given form through time and space whilst highlighting the role of colonialisms in the transmission of knowledges about distant worlds and attached colonial imaginations as well as the agency of cultural actors in these processes.
We invite papers for the conference “Distant Worlds: The Reception of Ancient Cultures in Eastern Eurasia and the West Pacific” which will be held online from 3–5 March 2023. Suggested areas for papers to address include but are certainly not limited to:
Ø Influence in regional pop culture of e.g. Andean, ancient Egyptian, Greek, Mesoamerican, Mesopotamian, Roman aesthetics, thought, etc.
Ø Architecture (representational and mundane)
Ø Fine arts and photography
Ø Various genres of literature, cinema, board/video gaming
Ø Memorial cultures of Eastern Eurasia (including eastern Russia and the Indian subcontinent) and the West Pacific (including the islands)
Ø The role of colonialism(s) in related cultural transmission
Ø Cosmopolitanism(s) of art
Abstracts should be a maximum of 400 words, suitable for a 20-minute presentation. The deadline for abstracts is 15 September 2022. Please send your abstract as a Word or PDF e-mail attachment to with ‘Distant Worlds abstract’ as the subject heading. The language of the conference is English.
Poster: https://twitter.com/ACRSN_org/status/1550820159069507584
(CFP closed September 15, 2022)
MEMORY AND PERFORMANCE: CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN EARLY MODERN FESTIVALS (15TH-18TH CENTURY)
Two stage conference: (1) University of Parma: October 13-14, 2022; (2) University College London: February 23-24, 2023.
Organisers: Francesca Bortoletti (UNIPR), Giovanna Di Martino (UCL & APGRD)
Keynote Speakers: Erika Lin (CUNY); Eugenio Refini (NYU); Erika Valdivieso (Yale); Paola Ventrone (UNICATT).
Recent publications and research projects on early modern theatre have argued for a need to move away from strict definitions of theatrical endeavours as intrinsically linked to dramatic theatre to including as well as exploring the multiple forms of performance in early modern contexts. These were often explicitly tied with festive occasions and political celebrations, as well as cultural practices, and presented intangible, yet crucial, aspects of early modern life and memory. These transitory events – festivals – should be seen as the product of a highly performative context that extended beyond the vernacular dramatic traditions that were being formed between the 15th and 18th centuries in some parts of the European and American continents. By means of music, poetry and drama, as well as the visual arts, these festive events and performances appropriated, reacted to, and enmeshed Greek and Roman mythologies as well as theatrical and textual material into local, national and new experimental practices, through which they gave voice to political tensions as well as documented transcultural exchanges across Europe, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
Similarly, recent research into the reception of Greek and Roman material in the early modern period has urged a reformulation of modern concepts encapsulating, and often limiting, possible methods of engagement with the ancient material. Peter Burke and Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia’s application of ‘cultural translation’ to early modern translating endeavours in Europe, for example, underscores the practical and conceptual importance of the receiving context in the translating process whilst moving away from a binary and uncreative understanding of this transaction between texts and cultures.
We believe the term ‘memory’ frees this transaction between cultures from superimposed prescriptions even further; in colonial contexts especially, the term ‘memory’ also allows an exploration of (un)conscious acts of (mis)remembering that undercut the cultural prestige of the Greek and Roman material that was being adapted.
But ‘memory’ is also apt for describing the very nature of theatrical performance; the effectiveness of thinking about theatrical endeavours in terms of their memorable-ness has evolved over the course of history, from antiquity to contemporary times. Exploring the conceptual and practical translations of ‘memory’ works particularly well in the early modern context, where the thick web of citations and re-elaborations of other cultures’ texts and material functioned as a basis for the creation of new collective, national or transnational memories.
Finally, ‘memory’ refers to another thematic strand which we aim at investigating in this conference: namely, the construction of these performance events as memories – i.e., the documentation and archiving of such memories by contemporary and future ‘archivists’, by past and present memory-holders.
The time frame chosen for this conference is from the 15th to the end of the 18th century. The geographical scope of the conference includes the European and American continents; however, proposals that reach beyond this geographical scope are also very welcome.
Potential topics may include, but need not be limited to:
* Performance culture in the early modern period and its associations with Greek and Roman material
* Traces of performance in the translation of Greek and Roman material
* Traces of translation of Greek and Roman material in performance scripts
* Courtly, commercial, and academic theatre and how it reshapes and/or is connected with Greek and Roman material
* Greek, Roman and early modern mythologies in music festivals
* The relationship between and/or blending of Greek and Roman theatrical conventions and early modern forms of theatre and performance
* Performance of Greek and Roman material in order to form/validate/subvert new/old canons
* The presence of Aristotle in early modern performance and in theatre theories and practises
* The influence of Greek and Roman material on the creation of theatrical genres and/or the influence of early modern local/national/popular performance practises in the reshaping of Greek and Roman material
* Traces of Greek and Roman material in the early modern material and immaterial cultural heritage
* The archiving and documenting of performance events in the early modern period and now
* The construction/deconstruction of collective/national memories, past and present, through the archiving of performance events
Abstracts submission: 13th April 2022.
All submissions should include: a 350-word abstract, a brief bio, and an email address. Please also specify whether you have a preference for the first stage of the conference, in Parma (13-14 October 2022), or the second one, in London (23-24 February 2023). Accepted languages for Parma: Italian and English; accepted language for London: English. Submissions should be made by 13th April 2022 at earlymodernfestival@outlook.com. For more information, visit the website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/news/2022/feb/cfp-memory-and-performance-classical-reception-early-modern-festivals-15th-18th.
Both conferences will be preceded by three days of theatre workshops (10-12 October 2022; 20-22 February 2023), organised as part of the W.I.D.E. program, promoted and supported by the University of Parma and the EU. These will be directed by the playwright and director Marco Martinelli (Teatro delle Albe) and by Giovanna Di Martino (UCL, APGRD), and will investigate the performability and intricate web of citations embedded within early modern dramatic scripts. The results of these workshops will be presented at both conferences.
Any questions, please email francesca.bortoletti@unipr.it or g.martino@ucl.ac.uk.
Scientific Committee: Mariella Bonvicini (UNIPR), Francesca Bortoletti (UNIPR), Nicola Catelli (UNIPR), Giovanna Di Martino (UCL & APGRD), Giorgio Ieranò (UNITN), Fiona Macintosh (OXFORD), Massimo Magnani (UNIPR), Eckart Marchand (WARBURG), Lucy Jackson (DURHAM), Eugenio Refini (NYU); Paolo Russo (UNIPR), Carlo Varotti (UNIPR), Erika Valdivieso (YALE), Federica Veratelli (UNIPR).
Sponsors and Partners: Supported by the University of Parma, the Centro per le Attività e le Professioni delle Arti e dello Spettacolo (CAPAS, UNIPR), UCL, the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges (UCL), the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford), and the Leventis Foundation; in collaboration with the Centro Interateneo sulla Memoria delle Arti Performative (MAP – Roma, Parma, Genova), the Centro Interuniversitario di ricerca di ‘Studi sulla Tradizione’ (Bari, San Marino, Padova, Trento), the Laboratorio Dionysos (Trento), and The Warburg Institute (London).
Call: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/news/2022/feb/cfp-memory-and-performance-classical-reception-early-modern-festivals-15th-18th
(CFP closed April 13, 2022)
WHAT MAKES A 'CLASSIC'?
Interdisciplinary postgraduate workshop
University of Oxford, UK: Saturday February 18, 2023.
The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying: “I’m rereading…”, never “I’m reading….”
- Italo Calvino, Why Read the Classics (1991)
What makes a 'classic'? When considering the notion of 'classic literature' one might draw upon Calvino’s influential text (itself, ironically, now considered a 'classic'...) and his suggested definitions for ascribing such a weighty and seemingly multivalent label to a literary work. Many of these definitions gesture to the idea that a) a 'classic' text implies re-readings, redolent with the aura of previous interpretations before an individual even glances at the first page, and b) a 'classic' text somehow maintains a slippery tenacity enabling it to persist across space and time, inviting while remaining untouched by the “pulviscular cloud of critical discourse” which emerges around it. Taking the nineteenth-century phenomenon of cultural commodification (and the advent of the mass market) as our starting point, we are interested in hearing how common perceptions of what constitutes a 'classic' have changed in parallel with socio-cultural and educational reforms, as well as what value – if any at all – the 'classic' can still hold for the modern general consumer. At a time when the term is being increasingly instrumentalized by the far right as a tool of 'nation branding' and populist identity building, does it still make sense to speak of something as 'classic'? What form could, or should, the 'classic' question take today?
Multiple voices both within and outside academia have and continue to wrestle with the illusory yet strangely necessary appellation of 'C/classic'. In certain disciplines and understandings this may be applied to particular groupings of works, e.g. the Vedic tradition, or the “Four Books and Five Classics” required of Confucian scholars. A received understanding of 'classical' antiquity gave rise to an entire discipline bearing that name, a grouping of select properties from the ancient Mediterranean interwoven with Humanistic values – a “trompe-l'œil” which in many quarters is attempting to dis-embroil itself from many of the readings picked up along the way. Longevity often enters into the conversation as a fundamental attribute: Horace famously defined an author as warranting the status of 'classic' when their work lives on in the collective imagination a hundred years later. Yet there is clearly more at play here: from Aulus Gellius to Frank Kermode, literary critics across the centuries have exposed the glaring power differential that underlies the works we label 'classical'. Critically, what is understood about a 'classic' text that denotes worth, and how does this intersect with canon formation (or, indeed, cultural gatekeeping)?
We invite proposals that broadly touch upon the following strands, and ask workshop participants to consider how the 'classic' operates within their own work at both a local and interdisciplinary level:
* The 'classic' in popular culture: what do we mean by 'popular' vs. 'highbrow' literature and culture, and how has the concept of 'classic' contributed to orienting these debates over time? Is there a way to consume classics responsibly, without buying into exclusionary narratives or signifiers of cultural capital?
* Canonicity and authenticity: What happens when notions of the 'classic' are understood as representing “originary authenticity”, or authenticity-as-heritage? How does the authentic self as a commercial property operate in relation to the appellation of the 'classic', and in canon formation? We anticipate that the cultural cachet invoked in receptions (or indeed consumptions) of classical antiquity will be of relevance here, along with tensions between the original and the copy.
* The past and its legacy (including education): the increasing marginalisation of, e.g., Greek and Latin literature and languages in favour of a more diversified curriculum in Britain and beyond; the advent of Modernism with its motto “Make it new” vs. public defences of the value of classical antiquity and the necessity of its revival/survival; the rise of 'world literature': do 'classic' criteria speak to the planetary system of literature that has been created as a result of globalisation, or do they stand in contrast to it?
Please send a short abstract (c.250 words) and name/stage/affiliation to the organisers at caterina.domeneghini@wolfson.ox.ac.uk and claire.barnes@classics.ox.ac.uk by Wednesday 30 November 2022.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;d0b97b0d.ex
(CFP closed November 30, 2022)
AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES (ASCS) 44TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Dates: January 31-February 3, 2023.
Location: in person only - University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
CFP (and panels) deadline: August 15, 2022 extended deadline August 22, 2022
Conference website: TBA (see http://www.ascs.org.au/news/index.html).
ASCS: http://www.ascs.org.au/
[ASCS PANEL(S)] DIALOGUES AND INTERACTIVITY: GAMES AND THE ANCIENT WORLD
Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) 44th Annual Meeting
Christchurch, New Zealand: January 31-February 3, 2023
Video and tabletop games are an exciting space of classical reception and one that is growing as an object of scholarly attention. Video games conjure recreated worlds with dynamic actors and lavishly modelled material culture. Board games present structural simulations of slices of the ancient life and history. Tabletop roleplaying games and larps invite players to inhabit or embody individual ancient figures from or inspired by history or myth. Through the interactivity inherent in all these ludic forms, players engage with the ancient world in original, creative, pre-determined, and transgressive ways—sometimes all at once.
On behalf of the organisers of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) 44th Annual Meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand, proposals are invited on any topic that explores the relationship between modern video and tabletop games and the study of ancient Greece, Rome and adjacent cultures. The goal is to assemble an exciting collaboration that showcases and places in dialogue the range of interactions between games and the classical world taking place in research, pedagogy and scholarly practice. The exact form of the “panel(s)” will be determined by the proposals submitted.
Please direct questions and preliminary proposals of 200-300 words to Dr. Hamish Cameron (hamish.r.cameron@vuw.ac.nz). Please indicate whether you imagine your contribution as a full-length paper, a lightning talk, a demonstration, or some other kind of engagement with the theme. Proposals are due by July 1, 2022. ASCS 44 will be conducted in person in Christchurch, New Zealand in early February 2023, with Zoom as a backup.
Call: https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2022/05/04/dialogues-and-interactivity-games-and-the-ancient-world-cfp/
(CFP closed July 1, 2022)
ANCIENT VASES IN MODERN SHOWCASES: FUTURE POSSIBILITIES FOR EXHIBITING ANCIENT GREEK POTTERY IN MUSEUMS
Amsterdam (Allard Pierson Museum): January 26-28, 2023
Upcoming conference from 26 to 28 of January 2023 in the Allard Pierson (Amsterdam) on the display of Greek painted pottery in museums. We welcome speakers/contributions from junior and senior researchers and curators. Program and further information for those who want to attend the conference will follow at the beginning of December 2022 on allardpierson.nl.
Send your abstract before 25 November to: l.i.degelder@uva.nl / Laurien de Gelder – Curator of the archaeological collections of the Greek World and Ancient Near East.
Keynote Lecture by Dr. Kate Cooper (Royal Ontario Museum) - “Ode on a Grecian Urn”: how should we display ancient vases in a 21st-century museum?
Too often, Greek ceramics are exhibited as self-explanatory, aesthetically pleasurable objects of art, standing alone and apart, accompanied by text displays only offering straightforward analyses of the depiction, the dating, the hand of the painter and the place of origin. Yet, over the last decades museums have changed and scholars have broadened the field of (iconographic) pottery studies, bringing new perspectives to the discipline and these objects – perceptions of ancient makers and consumers, differentiation between the elite and the lower classes, and also contemporary concerns like racial and gender issues. Furthermore, current museum practice deals with the complex history of collecting Greek vases and issues concerning provenance.
Over the last decade, the voices that contest the Greco-Roman monopoly of antiquity and plea for a more diverse past have become louder and louder. Museums can play an important part to alter the narratives on ‘Classical’ collections in the public domain, but are they listening to and anticipating on new scholarship? During the symposium we roam the field of a specific object category, ancient Greek ceramics, and a specific museum context, that of the 'classical' archaeological exhibit. The aim is to re-negotiate the stories we tell with pots in the museum space and explore possibilities for innovative presentation rooted in contemporary research, bringing together museum professionals, academic researchers and graduate students, and aiming at richer and more layered and diverse future presentations of antiquity.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;31a2aa29.ex
(CFP closed November 25, 2022)
[ONLINE] FOREVER ALEXANDER
Online - Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain: January 23-24, 2023
323 BC is a well-known date for everyone interested in Antiquity. It marks, of course, the death of the great Alexander, and in some way, despite probable discussion, the beginning of the Hellenistic age.
During the last four decades, studies on Alexander have been published on almost any journal dedicated to Classics and Ancient History. A overwellming collection of topics, themes and approaches obligates every scholar on Alexander to review in deep any inch of piece of the short amount of information we have on Alexander.
Indeed, 2023 can be considered as a date to celebrate a commemoration of the fake centenary of Alexander's death. In order to celebrate, after all, life and research, let me offer a first event on this 'centenary', focusing our attention to the representations, types and forms, of Alexander's wider Reception, from antiquity to our own times of screens and digital media.
During the days of Jannuary 2023, 23rd to 25th, an Online Meeting will be conducted Worldwide, via Zoom, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), in order to share and discuss the many different faces (and the common features too) of the image and representation of Alexander the Great in Art, Literature and Paintings, from ancient mosaics and stone portrait to comic, manga, animé, novels, tv series, toons, etc., from classic art to pop art and beyond.
Some different efforts to embrace the complex tradition of the many features of Alexander the great beyond History have been recently published (i.e., the books of F. j. Gómez Espelosín, 'En busca de Alejandro. Historia de una Obsesión', in 2016, and Pierre Briant, 'Alexandre: Exégèse des lieux communs', in 2016, the chapters in K. Moore's 'Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great', in 2018, or the book 'Alejandro en las pantallas', by O. LaPeña and myself, published in late 2020, among others), but these previous research barely sketched some topics, and reading them one can only wish to go deep and in a wide way for more study cases, approaches, and cross perspectives.
Those with an idea or a proposal can send a 300 words abstracts with a title to me, as organizer (borja.antela@uab.cat). If anyone is tempted to take part but has doubts, please contact me.
As far as the topic is a wide one, the languages may also be observed in a wide way, so English, French, Spanish and Italian are accepted (although I must recommend the participants to use English if they want to have their research considered by the most possible audience).
Chair Talks will be announced soon. Friends, colleagues, and academics interested Chair Talks can also write me to discuss approaches.
Edited (22/10/2022) - abstracts due by November 30, 2022.
Edited (01/01/2023) - Preliminary Program:
January 23
10.00 Welcome and Introductory remarks by the Organizers Borja Antela-Bernárdez and Marc Mendoza.
10.10 Olga Palagia (National & Kapodrisian University of Athens): Painted images of Alexander in antiquity
Session 01 – Ancient Reception
11.00 Megan Finlayson (University of Durham): Neos Alexandros: Imitation and Innovation of Alexander’s Portrait in the Coinage of Demetrios Poliorcetes
11.20 Irene Pajón Leyra (Universidad de Sevilla): A Donkey’s Horn for Alexander. Contextualizing the Epigram App.Anth. 99.
11.40 François Santoni (Université de Corse): Alexander the Great on Roman coins.
12.00 Stefano Acerbo (Universidad de Sevilla): A New Mythical Geography: Echoes of Alexander’s expedition in Imperial Mythography
12.20 Giustina Monti (University of Lincoln): Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most Alexander-like among us all?” – “Not you, Caligula”.
12.40-13.10 Discussion.
13.10-16.00 Pause
Session 02- ALEXANDER AND THE MEDIEVAL RECEPTION
15.30 Claudia Daniotti (The University of Warwick): Unfabling Alexander (?): The Depiction of the Macedonian Conqueror in Late Medieval to Early Modern Italian Art
15.50 Doug Braun (Cornell University): For the Sake of Boukephalas: Boukephalas and Alexander in Classical Text and Art
16.10-16.30 Discussion.
16.30 Interview of Peter Toth (by G. Taietti): Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth. A British Library’s Exhibition. - Peter Toth (British Library) & Gwen Taietti (University of Liverpool)
January 24
10.00 Reception
10.10 Keynote Speaker
Christian T. Djurslev (Aarhus University):
Alexander in heavy metal music: a palinode
SESSION 03 PLAYING ALEXANDER
11.00 Gwendalina Taietti (University of Liverpool): Alexander the Great in Nana Nikolaou’s children’s play: What’s it like to be Greek
11.20 Mario Agudo Villanueva (Karanos BAMS): Alejandro de cartón: juegos de mesa de simulación histórica
11.40 Alex MacFarlane (University of Birmingham): Alexander the Great and Ancient Aliens: How the Assassin’s Creed Franchise Influences Popular Perceptions of Historical Figures
12.00-12.30 Discussion
12.30-13.00 Pause
Session 04 ALEXANDER IN JAPAN
13.00 Lilli Hölzlhammer (Uppsala Universitet): Who is the Alexander we stan? The Alexander of the Japanese Fate-Franchise and his global fandom on Archive of Our Own
13.20 Ayelet Peer (Bar Ilan University): Alexander the Shogun: representations of the Macedonian conqueror in Japanese anime
13.40-14.00 Discussion.
SESSION 05: Historia y Ficción. El reto de escribir una novela.
16.00-17.00 Mario Agudo entrevista a Antonio Ignacio Molina Marín.
SESSION 06. From History to Story. A Meeting of Authors and Historians [Roundtable]
19.30 Roundtable: From History to Story: six authors share their process writing Alexander“. Kate Elliott, Jo Graham, Scott Oden, Melissa Scott, Judith Tarr, and Jeanne Reames, moderator.
January 25
10.00 Reception
10.10 Keynote Speaker:
Antonia Risquez Madrid (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona):
Alejandro, héroe épico: el Alexandreis de Gautier de Châtillon
Session 05 – CONQUERING WORDS: ALEXANDER AND THE LITERATURE
11.00 Caterina Franchi (University of Bologna): Apocalypse Then: the imaginary apocalyptic in the Alexander Romance and its reception in Modern culture
11.20 Ekaterine Kobakhidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University) & Giorgi Ugulava (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University): Alexander the Great in Georgian Literature and Folklore
11.40 Aleksandra Kleczar (Uniwersytet Jagielloński): Poland and Alexander? (pending…)
12.00-12.20 Discussion
12.20-13.00 Pause
13.00 Agnieszka Fulinska (Jagiellonian University) : Chateaubriand’s Alexander-Napoleon.
13.20 Vasiliki (Vassilina) Avramidi (Università di Bologna): Alexander the Great and Europe: intriguingly captivating, rich in contradiction
13.40 J. Roisman (Colby College): Alexander in Kafka’s and Capek’s stories
14.00-14.20 Discussion
14.30 Closing Remarks
Website: https://webs.uab.cat/hellenisticuab/.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;a69236a5.ex
(CFP closed November 30, 2022)
WORKSHOPS: NEW TRANSLATIONS AND INDIRECT RECEPTION OF ANCIENT GREECE (TEXTS AND IMAGES, 1300-1560)
From: ERC Advanced Grant project AGRELITA, "The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and manuscript and printed book illustrations (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities." (2021-2026)
University of Lille, France: September 15-16, 2022 & January 19-20, 2023
The AGRELITA Project studies the reception of ancient Greece, exploring a corpus of French-language literary works produced from 1320 to the 1550s, as well as the images of their manuscripts and printed books. The development of direct translations from Greek to French begins only from the 1550s. From the beginning of the 14th Century until the middle of the 16th Century, French-language authors and artists who illustrate manuscripts and printed books of their works, with some exceptions, have no direct knowledge of Greek works. The knowledge about ancient Greece that they transmit and reinvent in their texts and in their illustrations is mediated by various filters. Their reception is indirect, based on previous textual and iconographic works, whose representations of ancient Greece are in fact the result of one or more receptions.
The workshops of September 2022 and January 2023 will be devoted to the analysis, through this corpus, of new translations and adaptations into French language from Latin works which convey the knowledge about ancient Greece, in several different forms. These Latin works adapted by 1300-1550s French authors are partly ancient and medieval works which are not translations, and partly translations or adaptations of Greek works, sometimes with several linguistic transfers from Greek. They take very diverse forms : from ancient texts (Ovid, Virgil, Boethius, Augustine, Darès, etc.) to Latin humanist translations of Greek works produced in Italy and in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th Centuries, including original medieval Latin works (id est no translations, Vincent de Beauvais, Third Vatican Mythograph, Petrarch, Boccaccio, the author of Rudimentum novitiorum…), Latin translations from French (Guido delle Colonne) and Arabic-Latin and Arabic-Spanish-Latin translations (Aristotle, Dits moraux des philosophes…).
French-language authors thus inherit various previous receptions, which they appropriate and transform, so that they carry on the inventing process of representations of ancient Greece. As the manuscripts and printed books of these new translations often comprise a lot of illustrations, the artists present simultaneously visual translations, which are also based on various sources and previous receptions and show new images of ancient Greece. The question of the reception of ancient Greece will therefore be explored from another perspective than the one adopted until now and which consisted in studying the direct transmission of Greek works.
In the corpus of 1300-1550s French new translations / adaptations which relate to ancient Greece, its history, its heroes, its authors and their works, although they are not direct translations of Greek works, the multiple origins and the syncretism of the knowledge available to authors and artists will be explored, as well as the methods of their appropriation and transformation. We will analyze how this transmission of knowledge that already conduct various interpretations is above all matter of circulation and of creation of representations, and how the elaboration of images of ancient Greece contributes to inventing a cultural memory submitted to a large secular audience both through text and images.
The corpus of studies (texts and images in manuscripts and printed books) will be constituted as follows:
* the translations / adaptations into French of ancient Latin works and the images of ancient Greece that they convey, in particular the translations of the works of Ovid, of the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, of the City of God by Augustine, of De excidio Troiae historia by Darès the Phrygian…
* the retranslations into French of medieval Latin works that are translations from French, such as the ones of the Historia destructionis Troiae by Guido delle Colonne.
* the translations / adaptations into French of medieval Latin works that are not translations, and among the most widely distributed the ones written by Vincent de Beauvais (in the wake of Hélinand de Froidmont), Boccacio, Petrarch, but also many others texts; the images of ancient Greece that the mid-Latin works present and those that their adaptations in French transmit, accurate or not.
* the first indirect translations of Greek works, through Latin, Arabic-Latin or Arabic-Spanish-Latin translations (the French translations of the ethical and political works of Aristotle, the Dits moraux des philosophes…)
* from the 15th century, French translations of Greek works through Latin translations of humanists from Italy and the Netherlands. Particularly, the indirect translations of Xenophon, Plutarch, Thucydides, Diodorus of Sicily, Lucian, Homer, Euripides from the translations of Poggio Bracciolini, Leonardo Bruni, Lorenzo Valla, Guarino Veronese, Pier Candido Decembrio and Erasmus.
* How do the humanist Latin translators of Greek works, and then the French translators of these Latin translations, present their translation initiatives? What images do they give (them and the illustrators of the manuscripts and printed books of their works) of Greek authors and works, and of ancient Greece in works that deal with its history and its characters? What changes are emerging in the reception of ancient Greece?
* the translations into other European vernaculars, during the 15th and 16th centuries, from Latin humanist translations of Greek works. Analyzing the new indirect translations, from Latin, in particular from Xenophon, Plutarch, Thucydides, Diodorus Sicile, Lucien, which are written in the other Romance languages and in the English and Germanic languages, would make it possible to understand the commonalities as well as the differences of translation and reinterpretation in several European cultural fields, the various inflections given to Greek works and images from ancient Greece, the different uses of these translations, the different types of manuscripts and printed books, in their materiality and in their illustrations.
The papers will be published by Brepols publishers, in the “Research on Antiquity Receptions” series.
Travel and accommodation costs will be covered according to the terms of the University of Lille. Contact: Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas
Please submit a short abstract (title and a few lines of presentation) to catherine.bougassas@univ-lille.fr by December 15, 2021.
Call:https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/
(CFP closed December 15, 2021)
[BOOK CHAPTERS] ANIMATION AND THE ANCIENT WORLD
Proposal deadline: January 16, 2023
We are inviting original chapters of 5000-8000 words for an edited collection that explores the representation of the ancient Mediterranean world (and beyond) within the medium of animation. While there have been collections on comics and film, animation has not yet received similar concentrated attention. We intend this collection to provide focused studies that that will provide a foundation from which further scholarship might develop. We believe that classical reception studies at its best illuminates both the modern work and the ancient point of reference. All Greek and Latin will be translated, of course.
Some chapters will consider familiar examples from (American) popular culture, while others will turn to widely known works, so that the collection may embrace a global perspective and the full history of the medium. All approaches to the topic (e.g. literary, cinematographic, archaeological, historical, art-historical, comparative) are welcome, and we seek to include a broad representation of methodologies. While we expect representative stills to be part of any discussion, the collection will focus on works that are available through easily accessible means, so that the it can be used in teaching as well. Initial expressions of interest have focused on Disney’s Hercules, Extra Olympia Kyklos, Watership Down, The Mighty Hercules, and Porky Pig, and potential subjects extend far beyond that: check out animatedantiquity.com for ideas.
Please send proposals of 200-300 words, along with a cv (no more than 3 pages) to chiara.sulprizio@vanderbilt.edu and toph.marshall@ubc.ca by 16 January 2023. Acceptances will be confirmed by January 31. Final papers will be due in January 2024. We would be happy to discuss ideas with any potential contributors.
Call: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/11/09/animation-and-the-ancient-world
(CFP closed January 16, 2023)
[SCS] [PANEL] TRANSLATION AND THE VISUAL
154th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies - New Orleans, LA: January 5-8, 2023
SCS Committee on Translations of Classical Authors Panel
Organizers: Diane Rayor and Deborah Roberts
Translation, often thought of as essentially verbal, regularly engages with the visual. This panel seeks papers that address any of the forms such engagement may take: that is, any of the ways in which translation incorporates, intersects with, or attends to the visual.
Some examples: Cover art offers a paratextual introduction to and framing of translations, and in illustrated editions and graphic novels image and translated text may complement, distract from, or subvert each other. Both illustrations and stand-alone works of visual art may themselves be conceived of as what Roman Jakobson calls intersemiotic translations, rendering the verbal through the visual; a written translation may itself incorporate the visual when translators make use of typographical elements like italicization or capitalization, or work in writing systems with strong calligraphic traditions. A translation for the stage may entail anticipatory visualization, either implicit or explicit (as when the translator adds stage directions or describes settings); and in film, or in recent online drama productions or readings that creatively exploit the visual possibilities of online platforms, verbal and visual translation work together.
Abstracts for papers should be submitted electronically as Word documents by February 15, 2022 by March 7, 2022 to Kathryn Gutzwiller, preferably with the subject heading “abstract_translation_SCS2023”. All abstracts will be judged anonymously and so should not reveal the author’s name, but the email should provide name, abstract title, and affiliation. Abstracts should be 650 words or fewer and should follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts), except that works cited should be put at the end of the document, not in a separate text box.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;3334078a.ex
(CFP closed March 7, 2022)
[SCS] [PANEL] TRANSFORMATIVE PEDAGOGIES: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
154th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies - New Orleans, LA: January 5-8, 2023
The Classics and Social Justice group invites abstracts for its panel at the SCS 2023 in New Orleans (January, 5-8). Many of us conceive of teaching as a form of activism since we encourage students to think critically and challenge received opinions. Stellar work has been produced recently on how to teach Classical Studies to foster equality, much of which has been shared at recent meetings of the SCS and other organizations, as well as in other online venues (see resources in the CSJ https://classicssocialjustice.wordpress.com/syllabi/ and WCC https://www.wccclassics.org/teaching> websites for a non-exhaustive sample of this innovative work).
In this panel, we would like to showcase examples of transformative pedagogies, approaches that are learner-centered and that combine ethics and critical theory. Transformative pedagogy acknowledges inequities and injustices in society, and it aims to enable learners to develop self-awareness and self-esteem and thus to grow despite past discomfort and suffering. It originated with work by Paulo Freire, John Dewey, and Jack Mezirow, to name a few, and further research is ongoing (e.g. in the work of Kashi Raj Pandey). This approach identifies how teachers and students can use educational practices for emancipation from oppression; educational strategies that both use personal experiences and engage with the social context; how to implement change towards equity, radical democracy, and solidarity in neo-liberal societies.
Firstly, we want to think critically about what it means to do this work in the current climate. Specific questions we would like to tackle include:
* What are the risks and challenges we face in creating a transformative pedagogy?
* How can we protect those without job security (e.g., high school teachers and contingent faculty) from the risk of trying less conventional pedagogies?
* What is the relationship between the university and the current political climate when using critical pedagogies and progressive teaching philosophies?
At the same time, we are interested in conceiving of social justice as supporting individual students in their development, especially if they have come from any kind of marginalized background. In particular, students may have experienced unequal opportunities that lead them to feel uncomfortable or unwelcome in our classrooms, or they are struggling with the class content or pace. How can we best address those difficulties?
Possible questions that speakers could address include:
* How can teachers recognize inequalities, past pain, or violence exposure, and facilitate a more just and safe classroom, one where everyone learns with an equal level of opportunity and feeling of safety? What have you done to this end?
* Is there a particular role for the study of the ancient Mediterranean (as languages, texts, myths, material culture) in helping students in developing reflective thinking and agency over their futures?
* In what ways can professional organizations support educators without the time and funding to implement critical pedagogical approaches in their practice?
* What are curricular changes you have used to? How could departments implement curricular changes?
We welcome case studies from different educational settings—high school, inside the university, outside the university (prisons, veterans’ groups, community centers). We would be delighted to have the perspective of students of any age represented on the panel. We are open to many kinds of interventions—please be creative! Each presenter should plan to speak for no more than 15 minutes.
Bursaries/stipends will be made available to cover membership and conference registration costs for those whose abstracts are accepted but who lack institutional funding.
Please send an anonymous abstract following SCS guidelines (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts) as an attachment (with your name and contact information in the email only) to Elizabeth Bobrick (elizabethbobrick@gmail.com) by March 31, 2022. Please direct any question to Nancy Rabinowitz (nrabinow@hamilton.edu) and Irene Salvo (i.salvo@exeter.ac.uk).
References:
Dewey, J. (1981). Can Education Share in Social Reconstruction? In J. A. Boydston (Ed.), The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953 (Vol. 9). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. (Original work published 1934)
Freire, P. (2005). Pedagogy of the Oppressed (M. Bergman Ramos, Trans.). New York, NY: Continuum. (Original work published 1970)
Mezirow, J. (2000). Learning as Transformation: Critical Perspectives on a Theory in Progress. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
Pandey, K.R. (2021). Theorising Transformative Learning. Leiden: Brill.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2023/154/classics-and-social-justice-cfp-transformative-pedagogies
(CFP closed March 31, 2022)
[SCS] [PANEL] SEMCR: TEXT AND AUTHORITY IN THE EARLY MODERN ERA
154th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies - New Orleans, LA: January 5-8, 2023
The Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) invites proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2023 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in New Orleans, LA. For its eighth annual panel, SEMCR invites abstracts on the theme of text and authority in the early modern era.
While we often associate the Renaissance with the “rebirth of classical learning,” there are larger issues involved with the complete reconfiguration of textuality and authority during the period, particularly involving print technology and its impact on readerships, textual editing and commentary, translation, the legal regime of authorship, and new modalities of patronage. For this year’s panel, we are seeking contributions that shed light on the transformations of text and authority from a variety of points of view. A menu of questions to consider would include:
● How are classical authors repurposed, reconfigured, and repackaged in the early modern era? What constellations of texts are seen to be “authoritative” in ways that would surprise us today? What claims to authority are made for ancient texts that appear to read them against the grain (cf. Kallendorf 2015, 2018, 2020; Wilson-Okamura 2010; Kraye 1995)?
● How do early modern editions of classical texts seek to establish and assert greater textual authority? What are the consequences of the modern critical text taking precedence over the medieval manuscripts it is based upon? How well do we understand today the “modernity of our antiquity,” in the sense of the ancient archive visualized as a collection of printed editions? How might the digital age undo the textual regime created by early modernity (cf. Cerquiglini 1999, Dué and Ebbott 2019)?
● By what means do the agents behind classical texts and editions—editors, commentators, critics, translators, members of accademie—buttress the classical author’s authority and/or their own? What is the relationship between claims to authority and the material interests of the marketplace?
● For translators, how does the native authority of the vernacular literary and cultural tradition intersect with classical cultural and literary authority? Is translation always seen as “downshifting” Greek or Latin into the vernacular, or does the translator reveal the value and authority of the vernacular by “capturing” and domesticating the classical text (cf. Javitch 1981 and 1991; Cotugno 2007; Sgarbi 2016)?
● How is textual authority shifted, expanded, or subverted in terms of gender in the early modern era? How does translation increase female readership, and thereby female agency, in the reception of classical works and the production of literature? How are text and authority transformed by the emergence of women as readers, writers, sponsors, and recipients of texts in dialogue with antiquity (cf. Vicente and Corteguera 2017; Behr 2022)?
● How are texts “authorized” in a material sense, in terms of their privileges (copyright), editions and re-editions, particular formats, and/or the patronage inscribed in their dedications? What is the role of the “unauthorized” text by contrast (cf. Clegg 2014, Armstrong 2022)?
● How do classical texts get caught up with the “powers that be,” in terms of royal, communal/civic, or papal power? How do classical texts reveal a conflict of authority with the Inquisition and censorship? How does deference to contemporary authority show up in translations of the classics, for example, in the presentation of Homer’s kings and queens (cf. Kahn 2014)?
● How do paratexts frame, celebrate, enhance or even undermine the authority of the texts in question (cf. Paoli 2009)?
We are committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into classics, and hence welcome abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research. Above all, we aim to show how the field of early modern classical reception can bear on a wide range of literary and cultural study, and to dispel the notion of an intimidating barrier to entry.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words (excluding bibliography) and suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation should be sent as an email attachment to ariane.schwartz@gmail.com. All persons who submit abstracts must be SCS members in good standing. The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page. Proposals must be received by Sunday, March 13, 2022.
Works Cited
Armstrong, Richard. (2022). “Assi de doctos como de indoctos: A Poet-Translator Discovers His Audience in the Spain of Philip II.” In Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period, edited by John R. Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives. Routledge. Pp. 223-251.
Behr, Francesca. (2022). “Female Audiences and Translations of the Classics in Early Modern Italy.” In Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period, edited by John R. Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives. Routledge. Pp. 252-275.
Cerquiglini, Bernard. (1999). In Praise of the Variant: A Critical History of Philology. Translated by B. Wing. John Hopkins UP.
Clegg, Cyndia Susan. (2014). “The Authority and Subversiveness of Print in Early-Modern Europe.” In The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book, edited by Leslie Howsam. Cambridge UP. Pp. 125-142.
Cotugno, Alessio. (2007). “Le Metamorfosi di Ovidio ‘ridotte’ in ottava rima da Giovanni Andrea dell’Anguillara: tradizione e fortuna editoriale di un best-seller cinquecentesco.” Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti. 165 (2006-2007): 461-542.
Dué, Casey and Mary Ebbott. (2019). “The Homer Multitext within the history of access to Homeric epic.” In Monica Berti (ed.), Digital Classical Philology: Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution. Berlin. Pp. 239–256.
Javitch, Daniel. (1991). Proclaiming a Classic: The Canonization of Orlando Furioso. Princeton, Princeton UP.
Javitch, Daniel. (1981). “The Influence of the Orlando Furioso on Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Italian.” The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11 (1981): 1-21.
Kahn, Victoria. (2014). The Future of an Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts. U Chicago P.
Kallendorf, Craig. (2020). Printing Virgil: The Transformation of the Classics in the Renaissance. Brill.
Kallendorf, Craig. (2018.) “Canon, Print, and the Virgilian Corpus.” Classical Receptions Journal 10.2: 149-169
Kallendorf, Craig. (2015.) The Protean Virgil: Material Form and the Reception of the Classics. Oxford UP.
Kraye, Jill. (1995). “The Printing History of Aristotle in the Fifteenth Century: A Bibliographical Approach to Renaissance Philosophy.” Renaissance Studies 9.2: 189-211.
Paoli, Marco. (2009.) La dedica: storia di una strategia editoriale (Italia secoli XVI-XIX). Fazzi.
Sgarbi, Marco. (2016.) “Aristotle and the People: Vernacular Philosophy in Renaissance Italy.” Renaissance and Reformation 39.3:59-109.
Vicente, Marta and Luis Corteguera. (2017). Women, Texts, and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World. Taylor & Francis.
Wilson-Okamura, David Scott. (2010.) Virgil in the Renaissance. Cambridge UP.
Extended abstract deadline: March 13, 2022
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2023/154/society-early-modern-reception-cfp-2023-annual-meeting
(CFP closed March 13, 2022)
[SCS] [PANEL] ROMAN DRAMA AND CRITICAL THEORY
154th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies - New Orleans, LA: January 5-8, 2023
Organized by Deepti Menon and T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
In recent decades, study of ancient Rome’s comedy and tragedy has witnessed a flourishing of fascinating and paradigm-reworking scholarship, in a correction of its longstanding and undeserved neglect by the field in comparison both to Greek drama and other genres of Roman poetry. Productive threads of inquiry include metatheater, translation theory, audience studies, music, and stagecraft, all now household names for teachers and scholars of Roman drama. Yet the subfield is still largely undertheorized, particularly with regard to critically-engaged theoretical approaches. Important work has been published on gender and feminist readings, materialist and social-historical accounts, cultural memory theory, intertextuality, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and phenomenological approaches. But the vast treasure-trove of literary and especially critical theory has not been applied to the theatrical craft of Plautus, Terence, Seneca, and their peers, in stark contrast to Roman elegy, epic, satire, and didactic.
This panel will present new work on critical theory and the Roman stage. Theory is manifold and omnipresent — whether or not we acknowledge our theoretical priors and methodological biases — and the crucible of theoretical analysis can forge surprising, compelling new insights. To specialists in Roman drama, the texts are as alive now as in their first performances. Theory-informed interpretations recast these plays as engaged with their times and our own. Roman drama in the 21st century stands to benefit in particular from scholarship on critical race theory and ethnic studies; media studies; Black feminism; queer theory and identity theory; spatial studies and object-centered theory; cognitive theory; and intersectional feminist responses to the challenges of post-Freudian psychoanalysis and deconstructionism.
We invite papers investigating Roman drama through any critical theoretical lens. Papers might address the following questions:
* Can we, following Sara Ahmed’s intersectional feminist theory, re-interpret the uxor dotata, or the women of Senecan tragedy, as feminist killjoys? What Ahmedian “sweaty concepts” should we be working towards in criticism and staging of ancient drama?
* How can queer theory and identity theory demolish or deconstruct gender binaries, sexual hierarchies, and identity regimes in Roman comedy and tragedy?
* What new lines of inquiry can develop by bringing Christina Sharpe’s archetypes for Black being — the Wake, the Ship, the Hold, and the Weather — into conversation with enslaved, freed, free citizen, and free-noncitizen characters and experiences in Roman drama? What are the limitations of bringing those metaphors into the ancient Mediterranean?
* What lies at the intersection of indigenous feminisms, Roman imperialisms, and non-Roman playwrights wri(gh)ting plays in Rome?
* What does Roman drama tell us about the racial and identity formation of Romans and others, in line with Margo Hendricks’ formulation of Premodern Critical Race Studies as “resist[ing] the study of race as a single, somatic event (skin color, in most cases) and insist[ing] that race be seen in terms of a socioeconomic process (colonialism)”?
* Where do we locate the shifting geographic and geopolitical borders and boundaries of identity, race, and foreignness within Roman theater?
* How does spatial studies reveal how Roman comedy is conceptualized within, without, and around the theatrical space?
* With Ahmed’s “orientations matter,” how do or don’t characters orient themselves towards their props, and how does audiences orient themselves towards characters (intrinsically objectifying them)?
* How can critical theory better inform our understanding of the reception of Roman theater? What are moments of intersectionality between ancient text and new media? How can we engage theoretically and critically with past classical scholarship on Roman theater?
* Where should we locate the Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic (Lacan); the intertextual and abject (Kristeva); simulacra and hyperreality (Beaudrillard) in, on, around the Roman stage? How do questions of object-centered theory (e.g., Bourdieu’s theory of the habitus) apply when discussing props, costumes, etc., in Roman comedy?
Anonymized abstracts must be submitted by March 15, 2022 extended deadline April 10, 2022, as an attachment to info@classicalstudies.org with “Roman Drama and Critical Theory” as the subject. The organizers will referee abstracts anonymously and inform submitters before the Individual Abstracts deadline. The text of the abstract should not mention the name of the author. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words (not counting bibliography).
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2023/154/roman-drama-and-critical-theory
(Extended CFP closed April 10, 2022)
[SCS] [PANEL] RECONSTRUCTIO AMERICANA: ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME AFTER THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
154th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies - New Orleans, LA: January 5-8, 2023
Everybody seems to be talking about Reconstruction these days, from Henry Louis Gates’ four-part PBS special to the frequent editorials comparing our present predicaments to the turbulent period that followed the American Civil War. After all, the Reconstruction era (c. 1865–1877) seems a lot like ours: a time of racial reckoning, heightened partisanship, increasing political violence, and debates about what it means to be American. Famously characterized as ‘America’s unfinished revolution’ (Foner 2014) and less famously as ‘America’s most progressive era’ (Egerton 2015) and ‘the first civil rights era’ (Jenkins and Peck 2021), Reconstruction witnessed legislators’ and activists’ attempt but failure to extend equal political rights to African Americans and women. Contemporary concerns are more and more frequently traced back to Reconstruction: America’s struggle with paramilitary white supremacist groups begins with the Ku-Klux Klan in 1866; the environmental movement won an important early victory with the establishment of the first National Park at Yosemite in 1872; and America’s current system of higher education was established during Reconstruction, both through the implementation of 1862’s Morrill Land-Grant Act to found new colleges and through the professionalization of many academic disciplines, including Classical Studies.
If as Americans we increasingly trace our predicaments back to Reconstruction, should we not also be looking to Reconstruction as Classicists? Our professional organization, né the American Philological Association, was founded during Reconstruction in 1869, sponsored by leading politicians such as Charles Sumner and James A. Garfield as well as prominent scholars. The first issue of TAPA also appeared in 1869. J. W. Allen and J. B. Greenough’s standard Latin grammar appeared in 1872. The first “German-styled” PhD program in Classics was established at Johns Hopkins in 1876. Moreover, throughout this period the “culture of classicism” (Winterer 2002) persisted in social and political discourse. Latin poems and letters were still composed, and Latinate macaronic satires enjoyed wide circulation (Dinan 2018). The first generation of African American congressmen used Classical allusions in their floor speeches, as did their white colleagues (examples in Simpson 2018). The Ku-Klux Klan employed Latin in their secret documents and their battle flags (Parsons 2015). And Classicists themselves, from the unreconstructed ex-Confederate Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve to the former Freedmen’s Aid Commission employee William Francis Allen, wrote on political and scholarly subjects for the general public (Briggs 1998 and Hester 2015).
Despite the centrality of this era to the origin of the profession, American Classical Studies rarely, if ever, contextualizes its birth within the Reconstruction era. This means that the cultural codes of Classicism employed during Reconstruction are often overlooked by scholars in other disciplines. More importantly, ignoring Reconstruction prevents Classicists from following the Delphic directive to “know ourselves.” Classical Studies has recently been struggling with its own history of exclusion and grappling with its potential culpability in the history of American racism. There is no clearer example of this struggle internal to the discipline of Classics than the events of the 2019 SCS convention and the forthcoming issue of TAPA addressing race and racism in the field. Given the legacy of Reconstruction in the history of American race relations and the origin of the discipline of Classics during this period, it is essential for us to examine how the social, racial, and political turmoil of Reconstruction shaped the origins of the discipline of Classical Studies in the United States.
This panel seeks to continue the conversation on the historical connection between Classical Studies and Reconstruction begun at the 2021 SCS panel “Greco-Roman Antiquity and White Supremacy" and continued at SCS 2022. We invite papers that address any topic pertaining to the Classical tradition and American social and political life from the end of the Civil War to about 1880. Some examples of possible topics include:
* The birth of American Classical Studies as a profession, including the founding of the American Philological Association and the work of early society members such as William Watson Goodwin, Alice Robinson Boise Wood, or Richard Theodore Greener.
* The use of classical languages, motifs, or exempla in political speeches and writings from the era, whether used to promote the Lost Cause and white supremacy (e.g., Ku-Klux Klan, White League) or to promote civil rights, women’s suffrage, and racial equality.
* The use of visual motifs and figures indebted to classical antiquity in Reconstruction-era paintings, sculpture, monuments, cartoons, and other visual culture.
* The use of the Classical tradition to justify westward expansion after the Civil War and conflict with Native American tribes.
* The changing Classical curriculum (Greek, Latin, classical history and culture) in schools across the country, from newly emerging public primary schools to the increasing numbers of American colleges and universities.
* Modern interpretations or reimaginings of Reconstruction that utilize Classical themes (e.g., freedmen’ education, the Lost Cause, white supremacy, etc.) or the explicit outcomes of using Classics during the Reconstruction era on future generations. This could include films, television, plays, music, etc.
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words as an email attachment (.doc, .docx, or .pdf) to Sean Tandy (smtandy@udel.edu) and Benjamin Howland (howlanbe@gvsu.edu) by April 11, 2022. In general, please follow the SCS’s Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts (except please include your bibliography on a separate page rather than in the textbox as indicated in those directions). Please include your CV with your submission. Feel free to email us with any questions you might have.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;da5097dd.ex
(CFP closed April 11, 2022)
[SCS] [PANEL] OVID IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE: INTERCONNECTIVITY AND ALIENATION IN OVIDIAN STUDIES
154th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies - New Orleans, LA: January 5-8, 2023
International Ovidian Society Panel
Ovid might well be the most “global” of Roman poets, if we equate Rome with the world. The famous line from Ars 1.174, ingens orbis in Urbe fuit (“the huge world was in the city”), signals a favorite theme: Ovid’s oeuvre celebrates Rome as a cosmopolis into which the world’s diverse people and commodities flowed. These lines of thinking, in one sense, accept the terms of Augustus’ ideology of empire, from Rome’s administrative control of the orbis terrarum to its ideological interweaving of cosmos and imperium. And books like Metamorphoses 15, notably Pythagoras’ pronouncements and Ovid’s self-apotheosis, offer visions of the interconnectedness of all things across space and time.
Yet from another perspective, particularly from exile, Ovid also challenges the possibility of meaningful long-distance connection, along with the notion that Romans could be truly global citizens of an ecumenical empire. At the end of Tristia 1.1, for instance, Ovid begs his poem to hasten from Rome to Tomis, an orbis / ultimus far removed from his familiar earth (1.1.127-8, quoted above). This couplet has peculiar resonance for classicists in 2021, as we reflect on the experience of a global pandemic that has sequestered us (and continues to sequester us) in our homes and forced us into an unprecedented reliance upon digital litterae to escape, if only in virtually, our own isolation. Ovid’s exilic complaints about isolation double as vestiges of hope in communication technologies, in the possibilities of global subjecthood and virtual presence -- hopes that are never quite fulfilled from the author’s perspective, even as they seem to be vindicated by our own continued readings.
By situating Ovid not in the orbis in urbe but rather in the so-called global village, with all the problems it raises, we allude to a concept first deployed by Marshall McLuhan to examine the collapsing of distance in the global exchange of information. On one hand, McLuhan challenges us to fathom how Ovid conceptualized and strategized about interconnectivity in the world in which he operated, before modern communication technologies. On the other hand, McLuhan’s concept helpfully decenters the flows of energy and information that join the world. Rome becomes not a capital city in binary antithesis with a peripheral empire, but rather, one among many nodalities of intersecting and fluctuating historical, cultural, and physical forces. With this model in mind, we aim to consider how various forms of global interconnectivity shape the Ovidian text, readings of that text over time and space, and the ways that it is taught and received.
We equally hope to take cues from Ovid in problematizing the global village. Not everyone agrees that globalizing forces operate fairly or positively in the modern world. Ovid’s exile poems, too, challenge the possibility that Roman culture, or even abstract concepts like time and space, could be universally shared. Ovid raises questions about whether the Romans, however defined, were prepared to negotiate the imperium sine fine for which they ostensibly longed -- questions that are still to apply to modern forms of imperialism, eastern and western, economic and cultural.
We suggest that Ovid articulates visions of globalism, interconnection, and their challenges that are profoundly relevant to twenty-first century Classics. This is all the truer for the isolated, decentralized, and deterritorialized among us. Hence this panel welcomes and will accommodate scholars of any nationality or identity, participating however travel conditions permit. Building on the groundswell of interest in diversifying and globalizing approaches to Ovidian poetry, this panel seeks to consider what Ovid and the Ovidian tradition can teach us about interconnectivity, transcendence of distance, unity amid multiplicity, and the problems they raise. Above all, this panel hopes to consider ways that Ovid can guide our efforts to build a more global community of students and scholars.
Possible topics include:
-Forms of interconnectedness in Ovid, Ovidian studies, and their teaching
-Intercultural or transnational dynamics in the Ovidian text and pedagogy
-Ovid and multilingualism or cultural transcendence
-The dangers of globalism and universalism in Ovid and his reception
-Ovid and the internet, virtuality, or the digital world
-The Mediterranean and Red Sea trade, maritime interconnectivity, or global economies in Ovid
-Global collaborations in Ovidian Studies
-Pluralistic community-building (or its challenges) in Ovid
-Ovidian narratology, metaphor, and intertext/allusion that advances a global perspective
-Failures of globalism in or around Ovid (e.g., instances where a narrowly Eurocentric view has limited interpretative possibilities)
-Ecocritical, transhuman, and non-anthropocentric approaches to the Ovidian globe
Direct any questions to the organizers, Del A. Maticic (del.maticic@nyu.edu), Nandini Pandey (npandey3@jh.edu), and Jinyu Liu (jliu@depauw.edu).
Please submit your abstract for a 20-minute paper using this Google Form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8rKvK1UvRLiQFHwY52dWX8S_aiETKAzQQtpX_Wzc1Li1VCA/viewform] by March 11, 2022. The text of the abstract should not mention the name of the author. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding bibliography); follow the SCS guidelines for individual abstracts. Submissions will be reviewed anonymously. In the spirit of making the panel as fruitful and supportive as it can be for younger scholars, we are enthusiastic about the possibility of arranging for pre-circulation of papers or for a constructive workshop after the panel to facilitate the integration of feedback and the discussion of next steps, like possible publication of the panel.
This IOS panel is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ashley Simone (1988-2021), beloved friend, mother, and Ovidian.
Call: http://ovidiansociety.org/ovidintheglobalvillage/
(CFP closed March 11, 2022)
[SCS] [PANEL] GREEN VERGIL: NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN VERGIL AND THE VERGILIAN TRADITION
154th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies - New Orleans, LA: January 5-8, 2023
Vergilian Society Panel
The role of nature in Vergil’s poetry has always attracted the attention of scholars. From the pastoral landscapes of the Eclogues, to the farmlands of the Georgics, and the various lands the Aeneid inhabits, the importance of nature in Vergil’s oeuvre is undeniable. In the last few decades, a new theoretical framework has emerged, known as ecocriticism, prompting us to examine afresh the relationship between literature and the physical environment. A branch of this critical approach embraces a political stance that opposes the effects of global capitalism on the environment and the ethics surrounding it (Glotfelty and Fromm 1996), while another is interested in studying the various links between nature and literature more generally (Buell 2005). A truly interdisciplinary perspective, this theory has already generated a variety of related fields, such as eco-feminism, eco-linguistics, eco-philosophy, among others.
Closer to home, Christopher Schliephake’s 2017 collection of essays has demonstrated the value of this framework for studying ancient literary texts, including Vergil, while Armstrong’s 2019 book, Vergil’s Green Thoughts, demonstrates one possible path such an approach may take.
This panel aims to probe the interpretative possibilities of ecocriticism for Vergil’s work and the Vergilian tradition more generally, in order to both understand these texts better and illuminate their relevance for today’s ecological debates. Possible topics may include (but need not be limited to) the relationship between landscape and poetry, environment and politics, the aesthetics of nature, the ethics involved in human-nature interactions, the role of botany and plant life, the aesthetic or emotional idealization of rustic life, or the relationship of paintings, art objects, and architecture to fictionalized representations of the natural world.
Abstracts for papers should be submitted electronically as either PDF or MSWORD documents by February 4, 2022 by February 11, 2022 to Vassiliki Panoussi (panoussi@wm.edu), preferably with the subject heading “abstract_ SCS2023.” The abstracts will be judged anonymously and so should not reveal the author’s name, but the email should provide name, abstract title, and affiliation. Abstracts should be 500 words or fewer and should follow the guidelines for individual abstracts, except that works cited should be put at the end of the document, not in a separate text box.
Works Cited
Armstrong, R. (2019). Vergil's Green Thoughts: Plants, Humans, and the Divine. Oxford University Press.
Buell, L. (2005). The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (Ser. Blackwell manifestos). Blackwell.
Glotfelty, C. and H. Fromm, eds. (1996). The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. University of Georgia.
Schliephake, C. ed (2017). Ecocriticism, Ecology, and The Cultures of Antiquity. (Ser. Ecocritical theory and practice). Lexington Books.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2023/154/vergilian-society-2023
(CFP closed February 11, 2022)
EOS 2023: CLASSICS AND BLACK FEMINIST TRADITIONS
154th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies - New Orleans, LA: January 5-8, 2023
In her 1993 essay “Black Feminist Thought and Classics: Re-Membering, Re-Claiming, Re-Empowering,” Shelley Haley asked “whether there is a role for classics in Black feminist thought and whether there is a role for Black feminist thought in classics.” In the years since the publication of Haley’s essay, scholars have explored the scholarship of Black women classicists and the engagement of Black women with antiquity, but much remains to be done. All too often, scholarship focuses on the work of Black men or on the “influence” of the Classics on Black thinkers, rather than on how these thinkers can transform our sense of the Classical. Even those dedicated to including silenced voices, such as Frank Snowden, fall into missteps when they overlook Black women and render “the black man of antiquity as a kind of Ralph Ellisonian ‘invisible man’” (Snowden, “Μέλας-Λευκός and Niger-Candidus Contrasts in Classical Literature,” 1988, 63–64). For this panel, we invite abstracts that seek to show how Black feminist traditions can open new critical approaches to Classics and the ancient world.
Black feminism is an intersectional critique of Eurocentrism and patriarchy. Drawing on theoretical underpinnings and frameworks developed by Imani Perry, bell hooks, Saidiya Hartman, Audre Lourde, Daphne Brooks, and Christina Sharpe, we turn to Black feminist thought for critical reading practices that resist gendered and raced domination both in the ancient world and in the discipline of Classics.
Abstracts will explore Black feminist approaches including, but not limited to, the following topics:
* revisions and re-interpretations of ancient sources, including (but not limited to) scholarly and artistic approaches
* critiques of Classics and related fields
* pedagogy for the Classics classroom (K-12 and college/university)
We welcome papers that think about the ways Black feminism interacts with indigenous critiques of patriarchy, colonialism and Eurocentrism.
Eos is a scholarly society dedicated to Africana receptions of ancient Greece and Rome. We are committed to the infusion of new ideas into Classics, and so we welcome abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research.
Please send abstracts that follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (see the SCS Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts) by email to cfp@eosafricana.org by March 4th, 2022. Ensure that the abstracts are anonymous. The organizers will review all submissions anonymously, and their decision will be communicated to the authors of abstracts by March 31st, 2022, with enough time that those whose abstracts are not chosen can participate in the individual abstract submission process for the upcoming SCS meeting.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2023/154/eos-2023
(CFP closed March 4, 2022)
[SCS] [PANEL] CONFORMING, REFORMING, TRANS*FORMING: INTERROGATING THE INTERSECTIONS OF TRANS STUDIES AND CLASSICS
154th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies - New Orleans, LA: January 5-8, 2023
Lambda Classical Caucus Panel
Within the field of Classics, *TransAntiquity* (2017) and *Exploring Gender
Diversity in the Ancient World* (2020) have presented us with different
visions of how trans history and Classical Studies can interact.
*TransAntiquity* emphasizes alterity, denying the possibility of being
trans in world devoid of medicalization, gender clinics, and surgery.
*Exploring
Gender Diversity in the Ancient World* (2020) takes the opposite approach,
using modern conceptions of trans to make the past more legible (e.g.,
Ash’s use of the *DSM V* or Adkins’ use of the *hijra*). With these two
examples in mind, we call for a continued discussion of the intersection
between trans studies and Classics. How can we make the past legible to
care for and protect modern trans identities without overwriting the
radical nuances of that past?
Studies in trans history are often formulated around a search for and a
discussion of lives that can be understood as crossing gender boundaries,
for the important rallying cry of ‘we have always been here’ (see
Malatino’s ‘hirstory’ as an ethics of care [2020]). In Classics and Ancient
History, this comes about by reinterpreting and reframing already
well-picked-over evidence. Yet, this reframing requires intentional sets of
choices. As Devun and Tortorici note, trans history presents us with a
“stark choice between ancestral essentialism, on the one hand, and radical
altericism, on the other” (2018).
This panel calls for moving transness away from modern conceptions of
identity, the clinic, medicalization, and the modern gender binary and
seeing transness as “transversal and transitive” (Snorton 2017), a moving
outside of the boxes that define us all. Thus, Trans is not only a 20th and
21st century identity but also a heuristic for interrogating the
unquestioned boundaries and binaries that make up our extremely gendered
society today. Trans is a tool that allows us to deconstruct and
reconstruct the various meanings gender has had at different times and in
different places.
Some potential paper topics include:
* Relying on textual, visual, or archaeological evidence, how can we
define (trans*)gender in the Greek or Roman imaginary?
* According to ancient textual, visual, or archaeological evidence,
how do categories and conceptions of gender identity negotiate, overlap
with, diverge from, and interrelate with race, ethnicity, education, class,
and opportunity?
* How do modern expectations of gender bending or gender normative
behavior diverge from the apparent expectations and norms of antiquity? How
do modern receptions change or transform gender to fit modern expectations?
* Who in antiquity defied the normative expectations of their day and
is gender nonconforming, and who was simply living a normative gendered
life in a different configuration than we recognize today?
* How does embodiment feature as a category that is accepted/resisted,
fluid/permanent in the Greek and Roman imaginary?
References:
Bychowski, M.W., Howard Chiang, Jack Halberstam, Jacob Lau, Kathleen P.
Long, Marcia Ochoa and C. Riley Snorton. 2017. “Trans*historicities: A
Roundtable discussion.” *TSQ *5.4: 658–685.
Devun, Leah. 2021. *The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the
Renaissance* *[**Introduction]*. Columbia University Press.
Devun, Leah and Zeb Tortorici. 2018. “Trans, Time, and History.” *TSQ *
5.4:518–537.
Malatino, Hil. 2020. *Trans Care* *[Something Other than Transcestors:
Hirstory Lessons].* UMN Press.
Snorton, Riley C. 2017. *Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans
Identity* *[**Introduction]. *UMN Press.
Please send an anonymous abstract following SCS guidelines
as an attachment (with your name and contact information in the email only)
to Sarah Levin-Richardson (sarahlr@uw.edu) by March 15, 2022 extended deadline April 1, 2022. Please direct
any questions to Ky Merkley (kgm3@illinois.edu) or Chris Mowat (c.mowat@sheffield.ac.uk)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2023/154/cfp-lcc-2023
(CFP closed April 1, 2022)
[SCS] [PANEL] AANLS: NEO-LATIN AT THE HIGH TABLE
154th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies - New Orleans, LA: January 5-8, 2023
Current Research Sponsored by the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies
Organized by Rodney Lokaj, University of Enna “Kore”.
The AANLS invites proposals for a panel of papers on current research dealing with the use of Neo-Latin to be held at the meeting of the Society of Classical Studies (SCS) in New Orleans, January, 2023. Our intent is to explore and discuss together the use of Neo-Latin and entertaining in Renaissance and early-Modern settings. We welcome papers on all those aspects regarding food, meal-time entertainment, music, pageantry, recipes et similia. Abstracts should be sent no later than February 1, 2022 March 15, 2022 to Rodney Lokaj, preferably electronically, to rodney.lokaj@unikore.it or by mail to Prof. Rodney Lokaj, Facoltà di Studi Classici, Linguistici e della Formazione, Viale delle Olimpiadi, Cittadella Universitaria, Enna 94100 ITALY. Abstracts should be only one page in length. In accordance with SCS regulations, all abstracts for papers will be read anonymously by three referees. Please follow the instructions for the format of individual abstracts that appear in the SCS newsletter. In your cover letter or e-mail, please confirm that you are a SCS member in good standing, with dues paid through 2023.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2023/154/aanls-neo-latin-high-table
(CFP closed March 15, 2022)
Archive of Conferences and Past Calls for Papers 2022
[HYBRID] EXEMPLARY REPRESENTATION(S) OF THE PAST: NEW READINGS OF VALERIUS MAXIMUS' FACTA ET DICTA MEMORABILIA
Hybrid - University of Fribourg, Switzerland: December 15-17, 2022
The last thirty years have seen an increase in interest in Valerius Maximus and his Facta et dicta memorabilia. Willing to consider Valerius’ collection of historical exempla as a piece of literature in its own right, scholars have started to scrutinise its moral, social, and intellectual significance at the time of the early Roman Empire and beyond.
In light of this development, the research group ‘Im Spiegel der Republik: Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia’ (https://valmax.hypotheses.org/), located at the University of Fribourg and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is pleased to announce the international conference ‘Exemplary Representation(s) of the Past: New Readings of Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia’, which will be held (in hybrid mode) in Fribourg, Switzerland, on 15-17 December 2022.
The conference seeks to explore new perspectives on Valerius and his work. We therefore welcome expressions of interest for research papers on any aspect of the Facta et dicta memorabilia as well as its reception. Contributions may focus either on specific passages (e.g. individual chapters or sequences of exempla) or on the work as a whole, and could, for instance, provide new insights into Valerius’ literary approach, his representation(s) of Rome’s past, or his wider socio-ethical and intellectual significance.
Among the already confirmed speakers at the conference are the three external partners of the Fribourg research project, namely Prof. Rebecca Langlands (University of Exeter), Prof. Matthew B. Roller (Johns Hopkins University), and Prof. David Wardle (University of Cape Town).
The conference language is English. The publication of a proceedings volume is intended.
Please submit titles of proposed papers together with abstracts of no more than 300 words to Tanja Itgenshorst (tanja.itgenshorst@unifr.ch) by Monday, 28 February 2022. We would also greatly appreciate it if you could indicate whether you would be willing to attend the conference in person (if travel restrictions permit). You will be notified of the outcome of your submission by mid-March 2022. Invited participants who decide to attend the conference in person will be reimbursed for their travel and accommodation expenses.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;b903f89e.ex
(CFP closed February 28, 2022)
THE EARLY MODERN RECEPTION OF GALEN'S PHARMACOLOGY. A NEW ASSESSMENT OF SIMPLE MEDICINES AND THE POWERS OF FOODS.
An international conference at the Domus Comeliana, Pisa, Italy: December 15-16, 2022
Organisers: J. M. Wilkins and F. Bigotti
Transmitted through the centuries in Greek, Persian, Arabic and then Latin translations, these texts have constituted the bedrock on which Western pharmacology was built. Along with Dioscorides, Galen represented the main source for the theorisation of the action of simples on the body. His works offered a systematic analysis of the properties of plants, minerals and animal products and their effects on the human body and contain what is possibly the first attempt at theorising the intensive spectrum of simples and foods in relation to the time taken to react within the body.
The conference aims at addressing aspects of Galen’s pharmacology in relation to the philosophical, cultural and social development it underwent in the early modern period.
PROGRAMME
15 December
10.30-11.00 ** Welcoming Coffee and Registration
11.00-11-30 John Wilkins: Galen’s original versions of ‘Simple Medicines’ and ‘On the Capacities of Foods’
11.30-11.40 Discussion
11.40-12.10 Iolanda Ventura: Pharmacological Quaestiones and Galen’s De simplicibus in Late Medieval University Culture
12.10-12.20: Discussion
12.20-12.50 Fabrizio Bigotti: How Do Medicines Work? The Intensity of Drugs in Late Galenic Therapy (1350-1550)
12.50-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00** Lunch
14.00-14.30 Alain Touwaide: Coping with Galen's Materia Medica in Late Byzantium
14.30-14-40 Discussion
14.40-15.10 Elisabeth Moreau: Food and Drug Digestion in Jean Fernel’s Universa Mmedicina (1567)
15.10-15-20 Discussion
15.20-15-50 Ayman Yasin Atat:The Galenic Pharmaceutical Knowledge in the Writings of Ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (d. 1670 AD)
15.50-16.00 Discussion
16.00-16-30** Coffee Break
16.30-17.20 Francesca Richards: Galen’s ‘Simples’: the Case of Corallium Rubrum in Early Modern England
17.20-17.30 Discussion
17.30-18.00 Paula Devos: The Reception of Galenic Pharmacology and Materia Medica in the Viceroyalty of New Spain
18.00-18.10 Discussion
18.10-18.40 Pablo José Alcover-Cateura: The Role of Lignum vitae (Guaiacum sanctum L.) in the Context of Majorcan Reception of Galen’s Pharmacology (1493-1550)
18.40-18.50 Discussion
18.50-19.00 Final Remarks
16 December
10.30-11.00
** Welcoming Coffee and Registration
11.00-11-30 Stefania Fortuna: Remarks on the Latin Tradition of Galen’s De Alimentis and De Simplicibus
11.30-11.40 Discussion
11.40-12.10 Simone Mucci: Copyists and Translators of Galen’s De Antidotis in the Renaissance: Georgios Alexandrou, Petros Hypselas, Josephus Stuthius, and Michelangelo Angelico
12.10-12.20 Discussion
12.20-12.50 Marina Díaz Marcos: From Gherardo da Cremona and Niccolò da Reggio to Theodoricus Gerardus Gaudanus: a New Approach to the Diseases of Galen's De Simplicium Medicamentorum Facultatibus in Latin
12.50-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00** Lunch
14.00-14.30 Caroline Petit: “What they did in the shadows”. Marginal and Lesser-Known Figures of the French Humanist Reception of Galen’s Treatise On Simple Drugs.
14.30-14-40 Discussion
14.40-15.10 Maximilian Haars: Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) and Janus Cornarius (1500–1558): Two German ‘Humanistenärzte’ and Their Reception of Galen’s On Simple Drugs
15.10-15-20 Discussion
15.20-15-50 Viktoria von Hoffmann: Galen, Touch, and the Renaissance Reception of Mixtures
15.50-16.00 Discussion
16.00-16-30 ** Coffee Break
16.30-17.20 Vivian Nutton: A Matter of Taste: Lorenz Gryll and his De sapore (1566)
17.20-17.30 Discussion
17.30-18.00 Brooke Holmes: Sympathy between Antipathy and Cosmology in Galen’s Natural Faculties and its Early Modern Reception
18.00-18.10 Discussion
18.10-18.40 Gideon Manning :Remarks on Galen in the Pharmacology of the Iatromechanists
18.40-18.50 Discussion
18.50-19.00 Conclusions
Information: https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/conferences-webinars/em-galens-pharmacology/
IMMAGINARE IL PASSATO, DELIMITARE LA NAZIONE: IDEOLOGIE DEL CONFINE TRA OTTO E NOVECENTO
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy: December 12-13, 2022
12 dicembre
Ore 14.30, F. Oppedisano, P. Salvatori, Saluti/Introduzione
15.00, SESSIONE I, presiede A. Giardina
Claudio Cerreti, Cartografia, confini e nazionalismi
Daniele Fiorentino, La costruzione di un’ideologia nazionale: la frontiera negli Stati Uniti di metà Ottocento
Discussione, pausa caffè
16.30
Gino Bandelli, Il confine orientale d'Italia nella storiografia dell’Irredentismo giuliano
Andrea Di Michele: Romanità vs. Germanesimo: il Brennero nello scontro nazionale otto-novecentesco
Deborah Paci: Confini insulari: storia còrsa e propaganda fascista
Discussione
13 dicembre, ore 9.30, SESSIONE II, presiede Ilaria Pavan
Umberto Roberto: Tra nazionalismo e ricerca scientifica: l’attività della Reichslimeskommission (1892-1937) e la frontiera tra impero romano e Germani
Federico Santangelo, Il Vallo di Adriano: confine e monumento
Discussione, pausa caffè
11.00
Igor Santos Salazar: Tra due fuochi: medioevo basco e manipolazioni nazionaliste
Alessandra Coppola: La questione macedone e il confine con la Grecia
Discussione, pranzo
13 dicembre, ore 14.30, SESSIONE III, presiede Silvio Pons
Giusto Traina: Le conquiste orientali di Traiano: realtà storica e cartografia moderna e contemporanea
Federico Leonardi: Dai nazionalismi alle civiltà. Toynbee e il confine tra Europa e Asia
Catherine Horel: Confine militare e progetto imperiale: il Banat austro-ungarico come crogiolo e frontiera di civilizzazione
Discussione, pausa caffè
Christoph Cornelissen: conclusioni
Information: https://www.sns.it/it/evento/immaginare-il-passato-delimitare-la-nazione
LECTIO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Theme: Networking through biography. Doctrinal and literary strategies in biographical literature for constructing intellectual networks from Antiquity to the Renaissance
KU Leuven, Belgium: December 7-9, 2022
Writing biographies or inserting biographical information into other literary genres is a proven way to construct pictures of intellectual (and other) networks. Various types of biography can be distinguished in this respect: encompassing biographies of a particular tradition, in which all the persons mentioned are identified as belonging to that same tradition or school; biographies of an individual, in which information about that person’s network and context is as a rule an integral ingredient; autobiographies, in which the author situates him/herself into a broader tradition. A typical example of the first group is the genre of the Successions of Philosophers (e.g. Sotion), but one can cite evidence also for other fields, from rhetoric (e.g. Philostratus), theology (e.g. Palladius), political history (e.g. Petrarca’s De viris illustribus), jurisprudence (e.g. Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī’s Ṭabaqat of the Shāfiʿite school), and religious history (e.g. the Liber pontificalis, and the numerous Gesta episcoporum or Gesta abbatum); examples of the second group are manifold (e.g. Marinus, Gregory of Nyssa, Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī’s biography of Ibn Taymiyya, Leonardo Bruni’s Life of Cicero or certain medieval hagiographies); the third genre is perhaps less developed in the period that is focused on here, but some fine cases can be cited (Nicolaus of Damascus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Guibert de Nogent and Abelard, or al-Ghazālī’s Munqidh). Writing a biography is not a one-time exercise. Many different authors may feel the need to write a biography, for a wide range of purposes and even decades after the subject had passed away. Among the reasons to do so, are the (assumed) urge to update or revise the existing material to meet new needs or expectations.
An international conference will bring together scholars of literature, history, philosophy and theology to explore, in an interdisciplinary and diachronic perspective, the strategies used in biographical writings in a large sense to create intellectual networks. The organizers welcome papers on the relation between biography and networking that cover a very broad period – from Antiquity to the Renaissance in both western and eastern cultural traditions, with the proviso that for the Renaissance the focus should be on how scholars looked back on figures and models from the classical past in writing biographies. We are interested in papers that address topics in any of the three types of biographies mentioned above (schools or traditions, biography of an individual, autobiography) as well as in other literary genres which, at the same time, connect biography with constructing networks. The latter aspect may involve looking at ways to include and exclude persons from a tradition or a school (in- and out-groups), at formats and strategies for “re-writing history” (recovering or reshaping a person for one’s own purposes), and on a more methodological level, at exploring the potential of modern network analysis for studying biographical literature produced in the historical framework the conference is focusing on.
We invite submissions for paper proposals in English, French, or German. Proposals should consist of a (provisional) title, an abstract of 300-400 words, and information concerning your name, current position, academic affiliation and contact details. Accepted papers will be awarded a 30 minutes slot (20 min. presentation + 10 min. for discussion).
Please submit your proposal via email (lectio@kuleuven.be) by January 31, 2022. Applicants will be notified by email within about four weeks from this date. For further questions, please contact Stefan Schorn (stefan.schorn@kuleuven.be).
Organizing committee: Ossama Abdelgawwad, Pierre Delsaerdt, Mark Depauw, Brigitte Meijns, Jan Opsomer, Jan Papy, Arjan Post, Geert Roskam, Stefan Schorn, Jo Van Steenbergen, Joseph Verheyden, Pietro Zaccaria
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;8986bdf3.ex
(CFP closed January 31, 2022)
(new dates) [HYBRID] GLOBAL CLASSICS AND AFRICA: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Classical Association of Ghana: Second International Classics Conference in Ghana (ICCG)
Hybrid - University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana: October 8-11, 2020 - new dates October 7-10, 2021 - December 6-9, 2022
Information: https://www.academia.edu/87958452/ICCG_2022_Global_Classics_and_Africa_Information_Sheet
[HYBRID] REUSE IN POST-ROMAN SOCIETIES: CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS RUINS AND SPOLIA
Hybrid from Hamburg, Germany [CET]: December 5-6, 2022
Organized by Prof. Dr. Sabine Panzram (RomanIslam Center, Universität Hamburg) and Dr. Jorge Elices Ocon (Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung).
Monday, December 5, 3 pm – 9 pm (CET)
· Benjamin Anderson (Cornell University), Alexander and the Boar: An Episode in the History of Statue Magic
· Simon Baker (Universiteit Gent), The Role of Reuse in the Statue Practices of the Late Roman Empire
· Anna Marie Sitz (Universität Heidelberg), Word and Image: Differing Ontologies of Reused Statues and Inscriptions in Late Antiquity
· Michelina Di Cesare (Sapienza Università di Roma), Solomon’s Flying madīna: Interpreting Monumental Ruins in the Early Islamic Period
· Jorge Elices Ocón (Universität Hamburg), “Those who Recall the Antiquities”. Agents and Practices of Spoliation in Islamic Societies
Tuesday, December 6, 9 am – 2 pm (CET)
· Stefan Altekamp (Independent Scholar), Appropriation of Roman Material Culture in Ifriqiya
· Amel Bouder (RomanIslam Center, Universität Hamburg), The Deities in Roman Africa During Late Antiquity, Between Veneration and Execration
· Anis Mkacher (CNRS UMR 8546 – AOROC), Les auteurs arabes médiévaux face aux «traces écrites» antiques: le cas de l’Afrique du Nord
· Begoña Torre Miguel (Universidad de Oviedo), Antiquity Sarcophagi Reused in the Middle Ages in the Iberian Christian Kingdoms
· Paloma Martín-Esperanza Montilla (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Reuse and Abuse of Roman Architecture During the Pontificate of Alexander VI
Please confirm your participation by December 5, 2022 (noon) to romanislam@uni-hamburg.de. You will then receive a link enabling you to access the event.
Website: https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/events-news/workshops/reuse-in-post-roman-societies.html
[ONLINE] [AIMS] THE KALEIDOSCOPE OF ANTIQUITY: SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES ON THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD AND ITS MODERN RECEPTIONS
Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS). International and Online Conference.
Regular Conferencing Days
Americas, UK & EU: Thursday–Friday, December 1–2, 2022; Friday–Saturday, December 9–10, 2022
Australasia: Friday–Saturday. December 2–3, 2022; Saturday–Sunday, December 10–11, 2022
Special Events
Americas, UK & EU: Saturday–Thursday, December 3–8, 2022
Australasia: Sunday–Friday. December 4–9, 2022
Each year’s new wave of receptions of Mediterranean antiquity in global media reinforces how influential this deep past remains in popular imaginations around the world. Despite the many “other worlds” in which narratives may be set, and the shrinking footprint of ancient Mediterranean studies in most educational institutions, this past continues to fire the imagination of creators, comfort the balance sheets of companies, and draw audiences in droves.
And yet, these receptions of Mediterranean antiquity may not carry the same meanings or associations for all participants, including where individuals’ responses may be informed by various aspects of identity. Like an image in a kaleidoscope, both the antiquity that one sees, and the agency of the viewer in creating that image, change depending on how one twists the scope. Creators may remix various ancient and modern narratives, aesthetics, and ideologies to create something novel. People on the business side of entertainment and culture industries generate their own rubrics for gauging what “antiquity” is worth to their bottom line, which can also be reflected in how promotional departments market such projects. Audience members may relate to the representation of antiquity in ways that were not intended by the creators, even identifying with characters other than the protagonists.
There is value in multi-faceted antiquities, as well as in the multifaceted perspectives for viewing them. And yet, if perspectives on antiquity as a historical entity, and the meanings of antiquity in modernity, are kaleidoscopic, inquiries into the meanings of these perspectives are complicated by varying degrees of interest in factuality. What attracts people to a given reception of antiquity is not necessarily rooted in informed knowledge about the past or the cultural politics of ancient reception in modernity—even when consultants were hired to bring such knowledge into a production. Such variables complicate how scholars might conceive of the future of informed knowledge about antiquity and its reception as a cultural force in contemporary societies around the world.
For this year’s annual meeting, AIMS welcomes submissions that explore the kaleidoscopic nature of antiquity and its receptions in a wide variety of media, including but not limited to the products and production of film, television, analog and video games, novels/genre fiction, fan fiction, comics, manga, anime, animation, fashion, music, theater, dance, cooking, and social media.
We will accept a variety of proposed formats for the presentation of research, pedagogy, and creative responses to the reception of antiquity, including but not limited to individual 20-minute papers, three-paper panels, roundtables, workshops, poster sessions, lightning sessions, play-throughs, live multi-player games, technical demonstrations, creative showcases, creator interviews, and other activities that can fit within a 60-90 minute time slot and be delivered remotely at this online conference. NOTE: Research papers will be prerecorded and available with captioning in advance of the conference, while discussions of these papers will be live.
For links to guiding questions for formulating proposals, instructions on how to submit proposals, and information on the structure of this year’s conference, please see our website. AIMS is committed to creating an environment that supports participants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and we encourage submissions from scholars from underrepresented backgrounds. Submissions are due by Thursday, September 15 extended deadline September 19, 2022.
Please direct questions to AIMS President Meredith Safran at presidentaims@antiquityinmediastudies.org
Edit - 20/11/2022.
Register (free, online): https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/registration/
Call: https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
(CFP closed September 19, 2022)
RECEPTION, SUSCEPTION, ACCEPTION: THE USE AND RE-USE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia: December 1-2, 2022
Recipiō (re + capiō): I receive, I accept, I admit…
Suscipiō (sub + capiō): I take up, I acknowledge, I undertake…
Accipiō (ad + capiō): I bear, I endure, I suffer…
Reception theory offers scholars fresh insights into the purposes and possibilities of Classical Studies and its intersection with the wider world, post-Antiquity. But the semantic passivity of a concept such as “Reception” can also obfuscate the dynamic ways in which Classics has been utilised, even weaponised, by its proponents — not merely experienced (Reception), but actively deployed (Susception) or painfully endured (Acception).
The Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University invites applications from scholars interested in discussing the broader implications of Classical Reception as a field of study, particularly in relation to its use in the discourses of Empire, Colony and Resistance; the enforcing, reinforcing and undermining of privilege; and its appropriation and expropriation by various states, factions and cultural actors. You will be joining our keynote speakers (in alphabetical order):
Alastair Blanshard, Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History (University of Queensland)
Marguerite Johnson, Professor of Classics (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Simon Perris, Associate Professor of Classics (Victoria University of Wellington)
Tracey Walters, Chair of the Department of Africana Studies (Stony Brook University)
This conference will be conducted 1–2 December 2022. We are asking for additional papers of 30-minutes duration (20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion) to be delivered live in-person, although we will consider 30-minute pre-recorded presentations from scholars unable to attend on-campus.
Please forward the title of your proposed paper, together with an abstract (200 words) and a brief professional bio to Dr Chris Bishop at christopher.bishop@anu.edu.au no later than 2 September 2022.
Edit 5/11/2022 - Program:
THURSDAY DECEMBER 1
09:30–10:30 Marguerite Johnson, Add Nymph and Mix: The Eroticisation of The Australian Landscape
Catherine Walsh, How do we judge feminist classical receptions?
Aimee Turner, Livia in London: The reception of the imperial consort in Tudor and Stuart England
Anne Rogerson, Who is Ascanius? Staking claims on privilege in the 18th century
13:30–15:00
Madeleine Dale, “A bright banner of disruption”: Alice Oswald’s Memorial, Homeric Reception, and
Contemporary War Narrative.
Donna Storey, Here at the Border of the Fatherland: Exploring pre-fascist use of romanità in Italian
political propaganda
Craig Barker, Stamping History: The use of Cypriot antiquities and archaeology by the Cyprus
Postal Service and their role in forging a national identity
15:30–17:00
Jonathan Wallis, John Glover’s Bath of Diana. Colonial Classicism in Van Diemen’s Land
Helen Nicholson, Pictures on plates
Jo Russell-Clarke, The Influence of Virgil’s Georgics on Visions of Human-Landscape Relations: The
cyclic rise and fall of Rus in Urbe experiments, up to a present Anthropocene retelling
17:30–18:30 Alastair Blanshard, How queer is the homoerotic? Thinking through the classicising rhetoric of midcentury physique culture.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 2
09:00–10:00 Simon Perris Rethinking Classical Reception in (and through) Maori Literature
10:00–11:30
Ross Davis The Science Behind “Classics”: Is it Time to Care?
Anushka Dhanapala Classics in Modern Sri Lanka
Tracey Walters Classics at Howard University
12:00–13:00
Joan Stivala From Plutarch’s Lives to 20th-Century Film
Erica Steiner “All the Britons paint their bodies with woad”: Uncovering an historiographical “blue”
herring
Call and Registration information: https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/reception-susception-acception-use-and-re-use-classical-studies-0
(CFP closed September 2, 2022)
DOCTORAL CONFERENCE: TEXT, AUTHOR, AUDIENCE: FORMS OF RECEPTION FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY
Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy: November 24-25, 2022
contacts: convegno.testoautorepubblico@gmail.com
disciplines: philology, literature, performing sciences
accepted languages: Italian, French, English, German
During the 20th century, reception studies underwent significant development, especially on a theoretical level, declining according to different interpretative perspectives and polarising mostly in the concepts of text, author and audience. One needs only to consider, on the one hand, the aesthetics of reception (Plessner, Jauss and Iser), according to which the focus is primarily on the act of reading and the role of the reader as a participant in the creation of the text; on the other hand, to postmodern and deconstructionist theories (de Man, Derrida), for which the allegorical nature of the text reduces the reader’s possibilities and potential. However, reception was also understood in relation to the context that shapes the text itself. The context – represented first and foremost by a historically and sociologically defined audience – outlines a clear ‘horizon of expectation’ for the author. In particular, it is not possible to speak of reception theory without referring to the role that its interpretive methodologies have played in classical studies. The description of the presence of ancient culture and its multiple forms throughout history constitutes the field of investigation of the classical tradition, a discipline that conceals in its etymology the idea of a heritage transmitted from the past to the present. Meeting the challenges proposed by the aesthetics of reception, the so-called Reception Studies, starting with Martindale, have criticized the idea of the text as the conveyor of a univocal, stable and always identical message and have emphasised the relevance of the active participation of the user, who is understood as reader, audience, context, but also as artist who comprehends and recreates and who attributes new meanings to the source text through the tools of his own perception and experiential baggage. In recent years, it has been proposed to replace the concept of reception with that of ‘transformation’, to further emphasize the relationship of mutual influence between referent and receptor.
To complete this overview, it seems useful to better distinguish not only the different theoretical models, but also some tangible forms of reception, at least in the main humanities disciplines, and over a broad chronological span that allows one to observe significant diachronic variations. Therefore, as anticipated in the title Text, author, audience: forms of reception from antiquity to modernity, the conference intends to gather papers by doctoral students, researchers and scholars, who present new or renewed results of research from the classical to the contemporary conducted around the theme in question, highlighting forms and modes of reception of literary, scenic and musical texts. It is therefore proposed to adopt the word text to indicate what, in the fields of philology, literature and performing sciences, conveys a finite message through the coherence of its parts, to which the compositional project of the work is subordinate. The line of development of the work also passes through the ways in which the text is understood within a given context. It then becomes the centre of a network of relations between itself, its author and recipients as an object of interpretation and resumption for other authors, to varying degrees and in different aspects. By virtue of its transversality, starting with the main critical definitions of reception, this topic can be approached from several interpretative perspectives, hence encouraging comparisons between different methodologies.
Through the correlation of genres, forms of expression and means of communication, submissions may explore, but are not limited to, the following lines of research:
• cases of production and reproduction: the fortune of a work in contexts different from that of composition;
• cases of imitation, allusion, memory;
• reception of texts within translations into vernacular, translations, rewritings;
• authors who re-read authors: adaptations, transpositions and transmediations, recompositions and cases of distancing from the literary sources between theatre, cinema and music;
• genesis as a fluid process: (re-)composition and re-signification in the compositional process;
• performance as a phenomenon of creative reception between text and context;
• the show as a source: literary fixations of performative artistic events.
The sessions of the conference, spread over two days, on 24 and 25 November, will take place at the University of Verona. The panels, divided by subject area, will be managed by one or more moderators who will introduce the speeches and encourage debate. Each speaker will be given a maximum time of 30 minutes to present their report in a language chosen from those admitted. The sessions will be enriched with some 45-minute speeches by experts for the main disciplines of the conference.
The attendance at the conference is free. To apply, an abstract of the speech between 300 and 500 words in length should be sent to the address convegno.testoautorepubblico@gmail.com, no later than September 30th. The acceptance of the proposals will be conveyed through the same address by October 15th. The selected speakers must confirm their presence no later than October 20th: the lack of response within this deadline will be interpreted as a waiver. After the end of the activities, the organizers will consider the publication of the conference proceedings.
Scientific committee: Doctoral College in “Filologia, Letteratura e Scienze dello Spettacolo”.
Organizing committee: Alessio Arena, Luigia Buffatti, Sabrina Caiola, Francesca Carnazzi, Isabella Menin, Giovanni Meriani, Margherita Nimis.
Bibliography
H. BÖHME, et al. (edd.), Transformation. Ein Konzept zur Erforschung kulturellen Wandels, Münich, Fink, 2011;
A. CADIOLI, La ricezione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1998;
H. G. GADAMER, Wahrheit und Methode, Tübingen, Mohr, 1960;
L. HARDWICK, Reception Studies, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003a;
W. ISER, Die Appelstruktur der Texte. Unbestimmtheit als Bedingung literarischer Prosa, Konstanz, Universitätsverlag, 1970;
W. ISER, Der Akt des Lesens, Fink, München, 1976;
H. R. JAUSS, Literaturgeschichte als Provokation, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1971;
P. DE MAN, Blindness & Insight. Essays in the Retoric of Contemporary Criticism, New York, Oxford University Press, 1971;
P. DE MAN, Allegories of reading. Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, New Haven, Yale University press, 1979;
P. DE MAN, The Resistance to Theory, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1989;
C. MARTINDALE, Redeeming the text. Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993;
C. MARTINDALE, R.F. THOMAS (edd.), Classics and the Uses of Reception, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2006;
F. STOK, I classici dal papiro a Internet, Roma, Carocci, 2012;
R. WARNING (ed.), Rezeptionsästhetik. Theorie und Praxis, München, Fink, 1970.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/pfbid02rQToP31A654Xo6aAXruBvWj7eydN5oFE6MfoG79mpi5swYxRASCxLHt1pCee5YK7l
(CFP closed September 30, 2022)
[HYBRID] THE "FUTURE OF THE PAST": WHY CLASSICAL STUDIES STILL MATTER
Hybrid format - Academy of Athens (Panepistimiou Str. 28, Athens, Greece) & Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: November 23-26, 2022
It is more or less a truism to argue that ancient Greek and Roman antiquity have shaped our worldview and influenced the ways in which contemporary life and values are understood and constantly (re)interpreted. The imprint of the Greco-Roman past is evident in many aspects and features of our culture: the sciences and arts, linguistic forms, literary expressions, religion, morality and ethics, philosophical thinking, political theory and practice, and the ways we think about and understand history and humanism. In a nutshell, the Greco-Roman past decisively affects the ways in which we, moderns, despite ethnic or cultural differences, understand ourselves. There are, however, those, both outside and within the confines of Classical Studies, who wonder whether it is worth investing time, effort, and resources in studying the past.
This conference, the result of collaboration between the Academy of Athens and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, aims to address the important question of the relevance of Classical Studies today: do they still matter, and to whom? Some of the most influential scholars of ancient Greece and Rome will come together at the Academy of Athens to discuss a wide range of issues that highlight the modernity of the past and help us better and more fully understand the position of Classical Studies in the 21st century, the challenges, and the prospects. Among the topics brought under examination by the contributors are:
1. the history of the field of Classical Studies from antiquity to modern times;
2. patterns of politics and socio-culture;
3. the cultural importance of monuments and artifacts;
4. language and linguistics;
5. education (addressing the debate over how academic units and programs could be restructured to include both traditional and innovative approaches to philology and ancient civilizations);
6. matters of interdisciplinarity and intertextuality; and
7. aspects of modernity (including digitalization and the use of new technologies in teaching and researching the past).
Conference organizers
Antonios Rengakos (Academy of Athens & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Theodoros Papanghelis (Academy of Athens & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Georgios K. Giannakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Centre for the Greek Language)
Inquiries about the conference should be addressed to Dr Andreas Serafim, Researcher at the Academy of Athens, aserafeim@academyofathens.gr.
Conference delegates
Roderick Beaton (King’s College London)
Therese Fuhrer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Edith Hall (Durham University)
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III)
Alessandro Schiesaro (Sapienza University of Rome)
Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)
Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh)
Richard Janko (University of Michigan)
Tonio Hölscher (Heidelberg University)
Florian Steger (Ulm University)
Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University)
Joshua Katz (American Enterprise Institute)
Jonas Grethlein (Heidelberg University)
Juergen Paul Schwindt (Heidelberg University)
Emilio Crespo (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Alberto Bernabé (Complutense University of Madrid)
Hans-Joachim Gehrke (German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina)
Bernhard Zimmermann (University of Freiburg)
Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)
Franco Montanari (University of Geneva)
Glenn Most (University of Chicago)
Filippomaria Pontani (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Nuccio Ordine (University of Calabria)
Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
Constanze Guethenke (University of Oxford)
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University)
James Porter (University of California, Berkeley)
Timothy J.G. Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge)
Edited (17/7/2022) - Program:
Wednesday, 23 November
16:30-17:30 Registration
17.30-18.00 Welcome remarks: Antonios Rengakos (Academy of Athens) and Bernd Schneidmüller (Heidelberger Akademie)
18:00-19:30 Us and Them: From the present to the past and into the future
Chair: Bernhard Zimmermann (University of Freiburg/Heidelberger Akademie)
Hans-Joachim Gehrke (German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina/Heidelberger Akademie), The ancient world – past, present, and future of Europe
Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge), “Another journey”: The future in the past
Filippomaria Pontani (Ca' Foscari University of Venice),
Nous choisirons Sophocle
19:30 DINNER
Thursday, 24 November
9:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-11:30 A history of history: Classics from antiquity to modern times I
Chair: Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
Jonas Grethlein (Heidelberg University/Heidelberger Akademie),
Post-classicism and “das nächste Fremde”
Juergen Paul Schwindt (Heidelberg University),
Nuclear philology, or why Classics does not need a future
Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University),
Uchronic antiquity
11:30-12:00 Coffee/Tee Break
12:00-13:30 A history of history: Classics from antiquity to modern times II
Chair: Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University)
Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge),
What forgetting costs
Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge),
Why the Augustan era still matters to cultural history
James Porter (University of California, Berkeley),
The future of the ancient self
13:30-15:30 LUNCH BREAK
15:30-17:00 Language in time: Greco-Roman linguistics and modern perspectives
Chair: Joshua Katz (American Enterprise Institute)
Alberto Bernabé (Universidad Complutense de Madrid),
Philosophical vocabulary: κτῆμα ἐς αἰεί
Franco Montanari (University of Genoa),
Language and culture of ancient Greece in today’s world
Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University),
A linguistic perspective on the continued value of Classical Studies
17:00-17:30 Coffee/Tea Break
17:30-19:00 Classics in the classroom: Practices, challenges, and perspectives
Chair: Jonas Grethlein (Heidelberg University/Heidelberger Akademie)
Emilio Crespo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid),
The “future of the past”: An optimistic viewpoint
Johanna Hanink (Brown University),
The future of Classics and the present of Modern Greek Studies
Nuccio Ordine (University of Calabria),
Ten words in defense of the Humanities and humanity
Friday, 25 November
9:30-11:00 Intertextuality and interdisciplinarity I
Chair: Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
Edith Hall (Durham University),
Achilles’ Iliadic shield: Past, received, and future
Bernhard Zimmermann (University of Freiburg/Heidelberger Akademie),
Nietzsche’s “Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik” and the consequences
Brooke Holmes (Princeton University),
On Roni Horn’s Library of Water: Reflections on the making of a field of relations
11:00-11:30 Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-13:00 Intertextuality and interdisciplinarity II
Chair: Edith Hall (University of Durham)
Florian Steger (Ulm University/Heidelberger Akademie),
Why history, philosophy, and ethics of medicine in a medical faculty?
Therese Fuhrer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich),
On the concept of “slow reading” in Latin language and literature
Constanze Güthenke (University of Oxford),
Disciplinarity, exemplarity, disorientation
13:00-15:00 LUNCH BREAK
15:00-16:30 Patterns of politics and “socio-culture” I
Chair: Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)
Josiah Ober (Stanford University),
Practical reasoning, ancient and modern
Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh),
Hubris, ancient and modern
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III),
Desire and sexual violence in the Metamorphoses (Salmacis, Hermaphrodite; Arethusa, Alphaeus). How to read and understand Ovid
in his/our social context
16:30-17:00 Coffee/Tea Break
17:00-18:30 Patterns of politics and “socio-culture” II
Chair: Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge)
Roderick Beaton (King’s College London/British School at Athens),
Civilisation or civilisations? New contexts for the ancient Greek achievement
Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge),
Why Sparta and the Spartans still matter
Joshua T. Katz (American Enterprise Institute),
Classics: Inside out and upside down
Saturday, 26 November
9:30-10:30 The materiality of Classics: Monument and artifacts
Chair: Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh)
Tonio Hölscher (Heidelberg University/Heidelberger Akademie),
Rise and fall of public monuments: History as mirror or window?
Richard Janko (University of Michigan),
Using the future to illuminate the past: New technologies for new insights
10:30-11:00 Concluding remarks and closing of the conference,
Theodore D. Papanghelis (Academy of Athens/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
11:00-11:30 Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-13:30 Guided tour at the Acropolis Museum
13:30 LUNCH at the restaurant “ΣΤΡΟΦΗ”
This will be a hybrid event with in-person and virtual attendees. If you are interested in attending the conference in person, please email me at aserafeim@academyofathens.gr.
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;2a4de61f.ex and https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;97966be9.ex
Website: http://www.academyofathens.gr/el/conferences/futureofthepast
[HYBRID] BRIDGING THE GAPS: INTERCONNECTIVE APPROACHES TO THE ANCIENT WORLD
Annual UWICAH conference (for students & ECR)
Hybrid - Swansea University, Wales, UK: November 19-20, 2022
What roles can the study of the ancient world play in a shifting social and academic landscape which no longer centres on the geopolitical priorities of the West, especially in light of the roles of many historical subdisciplines in the creation and maintenance of narratives of justification of Western domination? Given the breakdown of early ‘grand narratives’ and the welcome rise of postcolonial, postmodern, and local perspectives, it becomes clear that it is impossible for any single subdiscipline to provide meaningful synthesis that is more broadly applicable. To this end, comparative history has undergone something of a revival (e.g. Moreno García, 2020; Ando and Richardson, 2017), to give one example, and recent years have highlighted the need for cross-, multi-, and interdisciplinary and intertemporal research which connects with broader issues and needs outside of individual disciplines and the academy.
This hybrid conference therefore emerges with the purpose of welcoming papers from student and early career researchers engaging with the ancient world of the Mediterranean and WANA regions about any aspect of interconnectivity in the ancient or scholarly world. Emphasising multi-disciplinary and collaborative approaches and methodologies, the conference aims to be a specific contribution to wider narratives of understanding social and political relations on different geographic, spatial, and temporal levels both inside and outside of academic research.
In order to achieve these aims, the committee welcomes paper proposals which may engage with (among other topics):
- Local-regional-international contact and influence
- Interdisciplinary theory and methodology
- Intersectionality and Gender History
- Interconnections in power, authority, and society
- Subaltern groups and marginalised voices
- Archaeology and material culture
- Temple and private religion
- Outreach and public engagement
- Teaching and Pedagogy
- Reception studies
- Contemporary or historiographical memory and recollection
As part of the conference, we also intend to hold a ‘snapshots’ session composed of presentations of projects in their early stages or possible projects that researchers are contemplating. This is an opportunity especially for those who are determining a PhD or Post-Doctoral project, or those who have just started such projects. This session will take the form of brief five-minute presentations, followed by a time of questions and discussion. If you would like to present a snapshot, please make this clear in your submission.
Abstracts of papers must be sent to uwicah2022@gmail.com or 825841@swansea.ac.uk by 31 July. Abstract titles must not exceed 20 words and abstract text a maximum of 300 words. Please also state whether you intend to present in-person or online. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with any queries.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;e70c785d.ex
(CFP closed July 31, 2022)
[HYBRID] ANTIQUITÉ CLASSIQUE ET POSTCOLONIALISMES : TENSIONS, INSPIRATIONS, ÉVOLUTIONS
Hybrid - ENS de Lyon; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France: November 17-18, 2022
We are pleased to invite you to the international conference "ANTIQUITÉ CLASSIQUE ET POSTCOLONIALISMES : TENSIONS, INSPIRATIONS, ÉVOLUTIONS," to be held at the ENS de Lyon and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon on November 17th and 18th, 2022 (in hybrid mode), thanks to a collaboration between Cléo Carastro (EHESS, Anhima), Mathilde Cazeaux (ENS de Lyon, HiSoMA) and Anne-Sophie Noel (ENS de Lyon, HiSoMA).
In a context where polemics around classical studies have spread in the media and political sphere, this conference proposes to question the epistemological and institutional evolutions of our disciplines (Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, Philosophy, Historical Anthropology), in dialogue with postcolonial studies. The event will gather French and international researchers specializing in the ancient world, American studies, philosophy, modern and contemporary history, as well as museum curators (MUCEM, Marseille). Their papers will touch upon the following topics:
1) The place of Classics scholars and ancient Greek and Latin texts in the French theoretical writings at the origin of postcolonial thinkings.
2) The genealogy and epistemology of the "sciences de l'Antiquité" in France, and the evolutions of the discipline that may be attributed, to varying degrees, to the influence of postcolonial movements.
3) The two notions of "universality" and "classics" can be perceived as the remnant of a colonialist ideology. How can their critical examination be carried out without circumscribing access to this culture?
4) The articulation between the academic, public and mediatic spheres around these debates, and the challenge of a scientific response to the medias' questioning of the relationship between scientific, critical approaches and activism.
A free round table, open to the general public, will take place at the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Thursday 17/11, 6:30 pm, hybrid mode) and allow for discussion on the following topic: "What universality for ancient cultures?" (with Claude Gautier, ENS de Lyon; Pierre Judet de la Combe, EHESS; Claudia Moatti, USC Dornsife and Paris 8; and Giulia Sissa, UCLA).
List of speakers:
Nacéra Benseddik (independent researcher, Alger)
Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (Université de Lorraine)
Katherine Blouin (University of Toronto)
Cléo Carastro (EHESS)
Mathilde Cazeaux (ENS de Lyon)
Franck Collin (Université des Antilles)
François Cusset (Université Paris Nanterre)
Aude Fanlo et Enguerrand Lascols (MUCEM)
Claude Gautier (ENS de Lyon)
Charles Guérin (Sorbonne Université)
Paulin Ismard (Université d’Aix-Marseille)
Pierre Judet de la Combe (EHESS)
Bernard Mezzadri (Université d’Avignon)
Claudia Moatti (USC Dornsife et Paris 8)
Kelly Nguyen (Stanford University)
Boris Nikolsky (ENS de Lyon)
Anne-Sophie Noel (ENS de Lyon)
Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)
Beatriz Pañeda Murcia (Lund University)
Emmanuelle Picard (ENS de Lyon)
Giulia Sissa (UCLA)
The full programme, argument and conference poster can be found on the HiSoMA website: https://www.hisoma.mom.fr/recherche-et-activites/rencontres-scientifiques/antiquite-classique--postcolonialismes-2022
Registration (to receive the Zoom links): https://framaforms.org/inscriptionsregistration-conference-internationale-antiquite-classique-et-postcolonialismes
LES FIGURES FÉMININES MERVEILLEUSES DE L’ANTIQUITÉ ET LEUR RÉCEPTION DES ORIGINES À NOS JOURS: RECONDUCTIONS, RECONFIGURATIONS, SUBVERSIONS
Potiers (FoReLLIS), France: November 17-18, 2022
Colloque organisé par Anne Debrosse, Isabelle Jouteur et Marie Saint Martin
Le merveilleux et le féminin ont fait l’objet de nombreuses recherches propres à en définir les contours et à en montrer les failles et les limites. En revanche, les zones d’interaction entre ces deux notions, loin d’être univoques et simples, ont été moins explorées et demandent un travail de cadrage. Il s’agira dans ce colloque d’étudier ce que le merveilleux fait au genre à travers le prisme du féminin, et ce que le féminin apporte au concept de merveilleux, grâce à un examen résolument diachronique des figures féminines antiques merveilleuses, de leur création à leurs réceptions les plus contemporaines en passant par le Moyen Age et la première modernité, en France et ailleurs, à travers des corpus littéraires.
Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2022
Call: https://antiquipop.hypotheses.org/appel-femmes-merveille-poitiers-2022 (full call in pdf: https://antiquipop.hypotheses.org/files/2022/02/Appel-Femmes-merveille-Poitiers-2022.pdf)
(CFP closed March 31, 2022)
II CLASSICAL STUDIES WEEK including INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF CLASSICAL LANGUAGES
Bogotá-Chía, Colombia: November 8-11, 2022
X Conference on Classical Philology in honorem Giselle von der Walde
Dialogues in Antiquity: Archetypes for a Contemporary World
II International Conference on the Teaching and Learning of Classical Languages (November 8, 2022)
Teaching and learning classical languages in the 21st century require a space for reflection and dialogue in which professors and students share the successful pedagogical experiences gathered in the course of their formative practices and processes, as well as their linguistic research and the implications that these have on teaching-learning dynamics, since their spreading enriches and renews the educational process. This is explained by the fact that both teachers and students have their own strategies that allow them to spread, understand, and gain knowledge of classical languages more efficiently. These strategies, when shared with others, can be assessed and enhanced so that other people can use them. What is more, the development of Foreign Language teaching methodologies has gained momentum in recent decades, due to the advances in applied linguistics and research on language acquisition. For these reasons, these methodologies can be adapted with excellent results in teaching-learning processes of classical languages. Likewise, considering affective factors may contribute to a better learning environment in the classroom. At the same time, Learning and Knowledge Technologies (LKT) have significantly contributed to an improvement in learning through platforms and apps, making the learning of languages more enjoyable and interactive. The purpose of this Conference is to open up an appropriate space for sharing the experiences and knowledge of teachers and students so that principles and work lines can be established for the design of better curricula.
Professors and students of classical languages and cultures are invited to present workshops, thematic panels, or papers related to the Conference objectives. Priority will be given to submissions concerning research findings.
A non-exhaustive list of suggested topics is included below:
Grammar and lexicon
- New pragmatics-based approaches and the active use of the language for teaching grammar
- New lexicographical tools: term-specific dictionaries, illustrated dictionaries, online dictionaries, etc.
- Alternative methodologies for learning vocabulary
Cultural elements
- Including cultural aspects in classroom lessons: art, literature, history, music, etc.
- Multiculturalism and interculturality
Curricular design
- Planning and designing lesson plans
- New manuals for teaching classical languages
- Graded readings
Educational resources
- Innovative methodologies and activities
- Use of LKT for classical languages
Affective component
- Awareness, motivation, and affectivity in the classroom
- Multiple intelligences and learning styles
Teacher training
- Educational innovation
- Interdisciplinarity
Research methodology
- Linguistic research and its implications for the teaching of classical languages
- Designing and implementing measurement tools (questionnaires to determine the impact of activities, level tests to assess academic performance, questionnaires about students’ perceptions of their language skills, etc.)
History of the teaching of classical languages
Keynote speaker: Carina Meynet (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina).
Workshops should have a maximum length of 45 minutes; papers, 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes of discussion. Thematic panels should be composed of 3 to 5 people; they should have a maximum length of 2 hours, including discussion with the public. All proposals must include the following information and be sent through the corresponding links:
Workshop: Title, objective, summary (maximum 300 words), materials needed, level to which it is addressed (basic, medium, advanced, author), and length: https://forms.gle/3aQPMZTgnATCYa587
Papers: Title and abstract (maximum 300 words): https://forms.gle/PvAgaN6c81xmG23N7
Thematic panels: Title, names of the coordinator and the other participants, a brief presentation of the panel (maximum 100 words), and the abstracts of the papers (150-300 words): https://forms.gle/o8zo4UaexZpG7QGD8
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, or English.
Deadline: July 29, 2022 - extended deadline August 8, 2022.
Contact: congresolenguasclasicas@gmail.com
Scientific committee:
Viki Makrí, Universidad de Salamanca
Ligia Ochoa, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Rodrigo Verano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Óscar Orlando Vargas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Rodolfo Suárez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Maribel Jiménez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Co-organizers:
Gemma Bernadó Ferrer, Universidad de los Andes
Juan Felipe González Calderón, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Ronald Forero Álvarez, Universidad de La Sabana
Andrea Lozano-Vásquez, Universidad de los Andes
Paula Ruíz Charris, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Call: https://literatura.uniandes.edu.co/en/abierto-en/international-conference-on-the-teaching-and-learning-of-classical-languages-2/
(CFP closed August 8, 2022)
THE MAKING OF THE HUMANITIES X
Pittsburgh, PA, USA: November 3-5, 2022
We are delighted to announce that Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) together with the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) will organize the 10th Making of the Humanities conference, from 3 till 5 November 2022.
The conference site will be the Wyndham Hotel (Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center). More information on how to reserve a room with special conference rate will be posted in May 2022.
Goal of the Making of the Humanities (MoH) Conferences:
The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of fields, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.
We welcome panels and papers on any period or region. We are especially interested in work that transcends the history of specific humanities disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines and civilisations.
Please note that the Making of the Humanities conferences are not concerned with the history of art, the history of music or the history of literature, and so on, but instead with the history of art history, the history of musicology, the history of literary studies/philology, etc.
Keynote Speakers MoH-X
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Michigan State University
Eric Hayot, PennState College of the Liberal Arts
Paper Submissions
Abstracts of single papers (30 minutes including discussion) should contain the name of the speaker, full contact address (including email address), the title and a summary of the paper of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting abstracts, see the submission page.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022 - Notification of acceptance: July 2022
Panel Submissions
Panels last 1.5 to 2 hours and can consist of 3-4 papers and possibly a commentary on a coherent theme including discussion. Panel proposals should contain respectively the name of the chair, the names of the speakers and commentator, full contact addresses (including email addresses), the title of the panel, a short (150 words) description of the panel’s content and for each paper an abstract of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting panels, see the submission page.
Deadline for panel proposals: 15 May 2022 - Notification of acceptance: July 2022
Conference fee
More information about the conference fee will follow in May 2022, but we will try to keep it low as possible (around $90 for students and $120 for regular participants). Each participant also needs to be a member of the Society for the History of the Humanities ($30 for PhD students, $60 for others). Membership includes subscription to the journal History of Humanities. Click here to become a member of SHOH.
Organization
Local Organizing Committee: Christopher Drew Armstrong (Pitt), David Lachlan Marshall (Pitt), Carla Nappi (Pitt), David Shumway (CMU)
Call: https://www.historyofhumanities.org/2022/01/28/call-for-papers-and-panels-the-making-of-the-humanities-x-pittsburgh/
(CFP closed May 15, 2022)
[HYBRID] ANNUAL MEETING OF POSTGRADUATES IN RECEPTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD (AMPRAW)
Hybrid - from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA: November 3-5, 2022
Theme: Islands
AMPRAW is an annual conference that is designed to bring together early-career researchers in the field of classical reception studies, and will be held for the tenth year. It aims to contribute to the growth of an international network of PhDs working on classical reception(s), as well as to strengthen relationships between early career researchers and established academics.
AMPRAW 2022 will be held at Yale University from Thursday 3rd November to Saturday 5th November 2022, with the generous support of the Department of Classics at Yale University, the ARCHAIA program, and the Whitney Humanities Centre.
We anticipate holding this conference in a hybrid format. We hope that participants will be able to join us in person in New Haven, but will also allow remote access for both speakers and audience members.
This year’s theme is “Islands”. Possible topics may include, but need not be limited to, the following:
* Receptions of fictional islands
* Receptions of ‘real’ islands and their attendant socio-political and cultural associations
* Literary and non-literary receptions informed by an insular or nesiotic context of production
* Receptions of ancient artistic responses to the sea and islands and of ancient maritime material remains more generally.
* Disciplinary and sub-disciplinary insularity within Classics both today and historically.
* Insularity as a specific modality of reception.
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words (as a Word document or PDF) to the organisers, Thomas Munro (thomas.munro@yale.edu) and Francesca Beretta (francesca.beretta@yale.edu) by June 30th 2022. Abstracts should not contain any identifying information. Please include your name, affiliation and contact details in the body of your email. Applicants will be selected and notified by mid-July.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-annual-meeting-postgraduates-reception-ancient-world-ampraw-0
Program: https://classics.yale.edu/lectures-workshops-etc/conferences/ampraw-2022
Zoom registration: https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvc-urrD4qG92V2QRGPkVy9KLcvopSqfs_
(CFP closed June 30, 2022)
Previous AMPRAW conferences:
2021: Columbia University, New York: November 11-13, 2021 (hybrid). https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/ampraw. Twitter: @AMPRAW2021.
2020: cancelled/postponed due to COVID-19 (intended venue: Columbia University, New York).
2019: Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands): November 28-30, 2019. https://www.ru.nl/hlcs/conferences/ampraw-2019/ampraw-2019/
2018: University of Coimbra, Portugal: November 8-10 2018. https://ampraw2018.wixsite.com/home/.
2017: University of Edinburgh: 23-24 November 2017 - https://ampraw.wixsite.com/ampraw2017. Twitter: @ampraw2017
2016: University of Oxford: 12-13 December 2016 - https://amprawoxford.wordpress.com/
2015: University of Nottingham: 14-15 December 2015 - ampraw2015.wordpress.com/ - Twitter: @AMPRAW2015
2014: University of London: 24-25 November 2014 - ampraw2014.wordpress.com/.
2013: University of Exeter.
2012: University of Birmingham.
2011: University College London.
EDITING, TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING THE GREEK FATHERS IN THE FRENCH-SPEAKING REGIONS OF EUROPE (1450-1650)
Institut d’histoire de la Réformation (IHR) Fall 2022 Seminar, UNIGE, Geneva: November 3-4, 2022
Convenor: Paolo Sachet
Invited Speakers: Jean-Louis Quantin, Frédéric Amsler, Ueli Zahnd
In the last thirty years, patristic studies have increasingly tackled the renewed use of the Fathers between Humanism and the Reformation. Among others, Irena Backus, long time professor at the IHR, greatly innovated the investigation of the reception of Greek patristics in the West by focusing on the specific context of editions, translations, as well as reinterpretations. The 2022 IHR Fall Seminar plans to pursue further this line of enquiry and examine the early stages of the written circulation of the Greek Fathers, the vast panorama of printed editions and the influence of the editorial process on readers. Stemming from the SNFS Ambizione project The Greek Imprint on Europe, the conference also marks the launch of AGAPE, a new, open-access database mapping Greek patristic editions issued in any language from 1460 to 1600 and describing their contents at both textual and paratextual level.
By favouring an approach that is at once historical, theological and philological, the conference will shed a comparative light on the different editorial projects and production contexts that contributed to the spread of Greek patristic works and to their resignification. The regional and linguistic focus is intended as an encouragement to fill gaps in today’s literature and highlight the permeable boundaries between the diverse confessional milieux which took shape in the period under examination. Special attention will be given to the printers, publishers and translators active in the French-speaking intellectual centres, from Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchâtel to the French Flanders, encompassing Paris, Lyon and other French cities; room will also be made for hubs in the immediate surroundings (e.g., Antwerp, Strasbourg, and Basel).
To define the boundaries of the patristic corpus, we adopt the inclusive list provided by the Clavis Patrum Graecorum, ed. by M. Geerard and J. Noret, 7 vols, Turnhout, 1974-2018.
Particularly welcomed are case studies and comparative analysis of:
- the printed Nachleben of single works or Fathers across the religious spectrum and in different languages (Greek, Latin, French, etc.)
- vernacular translations, their features and targets
- issues of pseudepigrapha and contested authorship
- anthologies and collection of texts concerning one or more topics
- the activity of specific publishers, editors, or translators
- paratextual material, scholarly correspondence and treatises, as well as annotated copies shedding light on the reception of one or more editions
This call is open to established and early career scholars as well as PhD candidates. Papers must be delivered in English or French, not exceeding 20 minutes in length. If you wish to take part in this conference, please send your CV and proposal (max 300 words plus title) to paolo.sachet@unige.ch no later than 30th June 2022.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;250c0fe2.ex
(CFP closed June 30, 2022)
[HYBRID] IRISH MIGRATIONS AND CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
Hybrid - Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Denmark: November 1-3, 2022
The conference is funded by the European Research Council.
Programme:
Tuesday 1 November 2022
16:15 Welcome (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University)
16:30 Opening Keynote: Mary McAleese (Former President of Ireland, 1997-2011)
17:30 Opening Reception
Wednesday 2 November 2022
9:00-10:20 Session 1: Historiographical Migrations and Medieval Ireland
9:00-9:40 ‘Late Antique historiography and the Irish migrations in Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Invasions)’ (Paula Blanco Ríos, Cambridge University)
9:40-10:20 ‘Medieval Irish identity, experiences of migration, and models from Graeco-Roman antiquity’ (Maxim Fomin, Ulster University)
10:20-10:50 Tea/Coffee
10:50-12:10 Session 2: Transfers of Knowledge
10:50-11:30 ‘‘Druide the names of those people, and Druis the name of their city’: The Migration of Knowledge (Translatio Studii) in the Medieval Irish Version of Lucan’s Bellum Civile’ (Brigid Ehrmantraut, Cambridge University)
11:30-12:10 ‘Calypso reimagined: Graeco-Roman mythology and Hiberno-Latin scholarship in the pre-Carolingian and Carolingian periods’ (Jason O’Rorke, Independent Scholar)
12:10-13:30 Session 3: Politics of Exile
12:10-12:50 ‘Treading on the Dust of the Ancients: Irish Latin Writers in Exile c.1580-1700’ (Jason Harris, University College Cork)
12:50-13:30 “In Argo’s ship went the Greek heroes”: wanderings and homecomings in Early Modern Gaelic political verse’ (Gregory Darwin, Uppsala University)
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:50 Session 4: Voyages Real and Imagined
14:30-15:10 ‘A Trip to the Moon by Mr. Murtagh McDermot (1727): Lucian, Swift, and Satire against Imperial Expansion’ (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University)
15:10-15:50 ‘Donncha Rua as Odysseus: Voyages real and imagined to the Underworld and the New World’ (Pádraig Ó Liatháin, Dublin City University)
15:50-16:10 Tea/Coffee
16:10-17:30 Session 5: Travel and Imperialism
16:10-16:50 ‘The Ius Communicandi (Right to Travel) and the Irish Franciscans in the Seventeenth Century’ (Ian Campbell, Queen’s University Belfast)
16:50-17:30 ‘Swift against Empire’ (Ian McBride, Oxford University)
Thursday 3 November 2022
9:00-10:20 Session 6: Material Culture
9:00-9:40 ‘Visualising the Classics: Migration, Media, and Irish Manuscripts’ (Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, University of Aberystwyth)
9:40-10:20 ‘they live on the Tiber and the Thames’: Irish Classically-Influenced Sculpture and Migration, c.1820-70’ (Ciarán Rua O’Neill, Aarhus University)
10:20-10:50 Tea/Coffee
10:50-12:50 Session 7: Gender, Sexuality, Class
10:50-11:30 ‘Mixed Metaphors: Male Same-Sex Desire, Irish Migration, and Late-Victorian Hellenism’ Michael Lawrence (Queen’s University Belfast)
11:30-12:10 ‘As good one side as the other: Romantic and Classical crossings in nineteenth-century Irish literature’ (Claire Connolly, University College Cork)
12:10-12:50 ‘Eavan Boland’s ‘Loneliness of the Mythical’: Orpheus, Eurydice, and Recognition’ (Rosie Lavan, Trinity College Dublin)
12:50-13:50 Lunch
13:50-15:10 Session 8: Irish Odysseys
13:50-14:30 ‘An Irish Odyssey: Autofiction and Tradition in Padraig de Brún’s An Odaisé’ (Richard Martin, Stanford University)
14:30-15:10 ‘Missionary to Europe: Writing Migration in James Joyce’s Ulysses’ (Ronan Crowley, Aarhus University)
15:10-15:40 Tea/Coffee
15:40-17:00 Session 9: Irish Classicism and the World Stage
15:40-16:20 ‘Migrancy and Poetic Redress in Seamus Heaney’s Virgilian Pastoral’ (Rachel Falconer, University of Lausanne)
16:20-17:00 ‘The Global Afterlives of Joycean Classicism: Case Studies from Argentine, Indian, and Zimbabwean Writers’ (Kiron Ward, University of St. Andrew’s)
Register here: https://events.au.dk/irishmigrationsandclassicalantiquity
ACHILLES STATIUS LUSITANUS (1524-1581) E IL SUO TEMPO. NUOVE INDAGINI E PROSPETTIVE DI RICERCA.
Roma (Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Sala Borromini): October 27-28, 2022
La Biblioteca Vallicelliana di Roma, il Centro de Estudos Clássicos della Faculdade de Letras della Universidade de Lisboa e la Scuola Superiore Meridionale, sono lieti di presentare l’incontro internazionale di studi “Achilles Statius Lusitanus (1524-1581) e il suo tempo. Nuove indagini e prospettive di ricerca”, che si terrà in modalità mista (presenziale e a distanza) i giorni 27-28 ottobre 2022 nella Sala Borromini della Biblioteca Vallicelliana di Roma. L’iniziativa è tesa a promuovere opportunità di confronto tra i ricercatori e costituisce l’occasione per presentare nuovi progetti di indagine e di valorizzazione e fruizione della produzione manoscritta di Achille Stazio. Notoriamente il nucleo più rappresentativo degli autografi dell’umanista lusitano si conserva proprio nella biblioteca Vallicelliana, confluito, assieme a centinaia di altri manoscritti e ad oltre un migliaio di volumi a stampa, mediante il cospicuo lascito testamentario dello stesso Estaço, ritenuto, per tale ragione, il “fondatore” di questa biblioteca. Nel medesimo incontro il Direttore del Centro di Studi Classici dell’Università di Lisbona Prof. Rodrigo Furtado e la Direttrice della Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Dott.ssa Paola Paesano presenteranno la convenzione stipulata tra la biblioteca e il centro di ricerca portoghese, al fine di agevolare lo studio dei manoscritti di Achille Stazio, nonché di realizzare una programmazione condivisa di eventi culturali in relazione alla figura dell’umanista in occasione de Cinquecentenario della sua nascita (1524-2024).
The Vallicelliana Library, the Centro de Estudos Clássicos of the Faculdade de Letras of the Universidade de Lisboa and the Scuola Superiore Meridionale are pleased to present the international conference ‘Achilles Statius Lusitanus (1524-1581) e il suo tempo. Nuove indagini e prospettive di ricerca’, which will be held on-site and online on October the 27th-28th 2022 in Rome, in the Sala Borromini of the Vallicelliana Library. The initiative aims to promote opportunities for discussion between researchers and to present new investigation projects on Achille Stazio’s manuscript and literary production. As is well known, the most representative core of the humanist’s autographs is preserved in the Vallicelliana Library. The core arrived together with hundreds of other manuscripts and over a thousand printed volumes through the conspicuous legacy of the lusitanus. Even today, the humanist is still considered a sort of “founder” of the Vallicelliana Library. In the same meeting the Director of the Center for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon Prof. Rodrigo Furtado and the Director of the Vallicelliana Library Dr. Paola Paesano will present the agreement stipulated between the Library and the Portuguese research center, in order to encourage the study of the Stazian manuscripts, as well as to realize a shared agenda of wide spread cultural events related to the figure of Achille Stazio on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his birth (1524-2024).
Giovedì 27 ottobre, Biblioteca Vallicelliana
9:00-9:30 Accoglienza
9:30-10:00 Saluti
- Paola Paesano, Direttrice della Biblioteca Vallicelliana
- Paulo Farmhouse Alberto, Vice-Rettore Universidade de Lisboa
- Rodrigo Furtado, Director do Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Faculdadade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa (CEC-FLUL)
- Ana Maria S. Tarrío, Diretora del Dep. De Estudos Clássicos (CEC-FLUL)
- Gaetano Sabatini, Direttore Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, ISEM – CNR
10:00 - Sessione 1. Achille Stazio: il contesto
Chair: Gaetano Sabatini
Isabella Iannuzzi (Pontificia Univ. Lateranense), Achilles Statius: umanista portoghese nella Roma della metà del ’500
Paolo Garofalo (CEC-FLUL), La corrispondenza di Aquiles Estaço nei ms. Vallicelliani B 102 e B 106: un’indagine preliminare
Joan Carbonell Manils (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Presencia de Achilles Estaço en el epistolario de Antonio Agustín
11:15-11:30 Discussione
11:30-11:50 Coffee break
11:50 - Sessione 2. Achille Stazio e la letteratura
Chair: Paulo Farmhouse Alberto
Belmiro Fernandes Pereira (Universidade do Porto), Entre Poética e retórica: os comentários à Epistola aos Pisões publicados por Aquiles Estaço em 1553 e por Tomé Correia em 1587
José Carlos Miralles Maldonado (Universidad de Murcia), Una poesia inedita di Aquiles Estaço a Pio IV: edizione, traduzione e analisi
Maria Margarida Lopes Miranda (Universidade de Coimbra), Teatro no Collegium Germanicum (Roma): o Carnaval de 1566 e a codificação de um género dramático
12:50-13:20 Discussione
13:30-15.30 Pausa pranzo
15:00 - Sessione 3. Achille Stazio e l’epigrafia
Chair: Ana Maria S. Tarrío / Rodrigo Furtado
Ginette Vagenheim (Université de Rouen), Spigolature Ligoriane nell’orthographia alphabetica di À.S. (Vall. B.104)
Heikki Solin (Università di Helsinki), Frustula epigraphica urbana statiana
Alejandra Guzmán Almagro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Estaço y las fuentes para la epigrafía no itálica
Catarina Gaspar e Ana Maria S. Tarrío (CEC-FLUL), Achilles Statius e os lusitanos: o contributo da epigrafia Renascentista portuguesa
16:20-16:40 Coffee break
16:40 - Sessione 4. Achille Stazio e la sua biblioteca
Chair Paola Paesano
Elisabetta Caldelli (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”), Stazio annotatore ‘di libri’
Riccardo Montalto (Scuola Superiore Meridionale), Alle origini della biblioteca greca
Livia Marcelli (Biblioteca Vallicelliana), Un’aldina di Stazio a Parigi e una lettera scomparsa: i “dispersi” del lascito
17:40-18:00 Discussione
18:00-18:20 Conclusioni
Venerdì 28 ottobre, Biblioteca Vallicelliana
10:00 Tavola Rotonda: Achille Stazio e la Biblioteca Vallicelliana: prospettive di ricerca e possibili celebrazioni in vista del Cinquecentenario della nascita dell’umanista (1524-2024)
The meeting will be held both in presence and online upon registration: For registration and for any information please contact: achille.stazio.convegno.2022@gmail.com
Colloquium Organisers: Paolo Garofalo e Riccardo Montalto.
Scientific Committee: P. Garofalo, A. Guzmán Almagro, L. Marcelli, R. Montalto, P. Paesano, A.M. Tarrío.
Information: https://www.beniculturali.it/evento/achilles-statius-lusitanus-1524-1581-e-il-suo-tempo-nuove-indagini-e-prospettive-di-ricerca
“A THOUSAND WAYS WE’LL FIND”. AENEAS FROM TROY TO LONDON
Siena, Palazzo San Niccolò, via Roma 56, aule esterne A-B: Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Aeneas Route Association / Università di Siena (DFCLAM) / Virgil Society
10: Alessandro Fo (Università di Siena): welcome and opening remarks
10.15: Nicoletta Cassieri and Sandra Gatti (archaeologists, Aeneas Route Association): Aeneas Route: dalle origini del progetto alla certificazione come itinerario culturale del Consiglio d’Europa [Aeneas Route: from the Start of the Project to the Certification as a Cultural Itinerary of the European Council]
10.45: Luke Houghton (Virgil Society/University College London): Il viaggio di Enea nell’arte e nella letteratura medievale e rinascimentale [The Journey of Aeneas in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Literature]
11.15: break
11.30: Alice Bolland (Virgil Society/University College London): Evander’s Route: Another Journey in Virgil’s Aeneid
12: Filomena Giannotti (Università di Siena): “Noi siamo Enea”: l’Eneide ai tempi del Covid-19 [“We are Aeneas”: the Aeneid at the Time of Covid-19]
12.30: final discussion and closing remarks
Information: https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/it/eventi/26-ottobre-2022-ore-1000-international-conference-thousand-ways-well-find-aeneas-troy-london
[HYBRID] "PRO MULIERIBUS CLARIS – MAKE WAY FOR FAMOUS WOMEN!"
Lupercal’s First International Conference
Hybrid - University of Lille, France & online: October 24-26, 2022,
Format: Each day includes presentations (30 min. presentation-15 min.
discussion) and workshops (1h15 maximum) in different languages (French,
English, and Latin) and each event will touch on the main topics of the
conference: readings of Boccaccio and his reception, women’s literature, and
reflections on catalogs of “exemplary” women with the goal of assembling a
new De Mulieribus Claris.
The letter O indicates “officinae“ (workshops, ateliers).
The entire conference (except the excursion and the show) will be in a hybrid
format. Events accessible via Zoom are marked as such. The Zoom links of each
day will be sent to those registered.
PROGRAM
Monday, October 24, 2022: Conference room & Room F013, University of Lille, Pont de Bois,
Research Center (“Maison de la Recherche”)
TIME ZONE: PARIS (GMT + 2)
8:30 a.m. – Welcome – Conference Room
9:-9:20 Welcome by Sandrine Huber, director of the HALMA research unit (to be
confirmed) and by Christine Hoët van Cauwenberghe, director of the 473 SHS
“Lille Nord de France” Doctoral School
Opening Address Séverine Clément-Tarantino, Peggy Lecaudé, Océane Puche
and Skye Shirley
9:20-10:30
Skye Shirley (Lupercal, Boston & University College London), “Introduction” &
“Top tips for Reading Medieval and Renaissance Latin”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30
Laurence Boulègue (Université d’Amiens), “Présence de Boccace dans le De
mulieribus de Mario Equicola : des exemples de femmes dans le genre des Vies à
la réflexion philosophique sur la femme”
11:30-12:15
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Université de Lille), “Sulpicia, an elite Roman woman,
author of epigrams and elegies in the Augustan age”
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:15
Dominique Demartini (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3) (virtual), “Du
scandale à l’exemple : les Amazones dans La Cité des Dames de Christine de
Pizan”
2:15-3:30 Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College et CUNY Graduate Center) (virtual), “Legamus
et Loquamur Latine : de Medea regina Colcorum
(De Mulieribus Claris, XVIII)” O
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:30 Concurrent Sessions
> Conference room
Raffaella Zanni (Université de Lille), “‘Medea’ by Boccaccio and the reception of
Medea by Seneca: between texts and images“
> Room F013
Caroline Spurr (Boston University) (virtual), “Sibillae Boccaccii”
4:30-4:45 Break
4:45-5:45 Meghan Glenn and student members of the Lupercal branch at Noble and
Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. Maddie Wee, Josie Kelleher,
Valerie Lane, Julia Santry, Gemma Soukas, Avery Winder, and Mackenzie Ellis:
“ Starting A High School Lupercal Chapter” O
5:45-7:00 Concurrent Sessions
5:45-7:00
> Room F013
María Luisa Aguilar (Collegium Latinitatis; Valencia, Spain), “De arte latine
scribendi” [Latin writing workshop] O
6:00-6:45
> Conference room
Dorota Dutsch and Nuha N. N. Khury (University of Santa Barbara)
(virtual), “Giovanni Boccacio and the Mysterious Orient”
7:00 End of the first day
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
MESHS, rooms 1, 2 and 4 (the plenary sessions will take place in room 2)
8:45-9:30 Océane Puche (Université de Lille), “Illustrious women for ‘rebellious little
girls’: analysis and comparison of catalogs of famous women in Europe and the
United States” [English]
9:30-10:45 Peggy Lecaudé (Université de Lille) and Guillemette Mérot (Université Sorbonne
Nouvelle-Paris 3), “Non pudicas tantum apponere : lecture du chapitre L sur
Leaena du De mulieribus claris” O
10:45-11:30 Concurrent Sessions
> Room 1
Nadia Pla (Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre), “Hildegarde de Bingen, une femme
de science au XIIe siècle : le fonctionnement genré des corps”
> Room 4
Florence Klein (Université de Lille), “Célèbres et inaudibles ? Rapt et (ré-)
appropriation de la parole féminine dans quelques textes de littérature antique
et contemporaine “
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-1:00 Concurrent Sessions
> Room 1
Fanny Eouzan (Université d’Aix-Marseille) and Catherine Kirkby (Université
de Montpellier), “Arcangela Tarabotti, de la dénonciation à la promotion des
femmes à Venise au XVIIe siècle” O
> Room 4
Rebecca Graf (Appenzell Rhodes-Extérieures, Suisse), “De Sabina Poppea. Ipse
autem pro rostris illam, et potissime formositatis precipue, longa et accurata
oratione laudavit (Boccaccius, De mulieribus claris, XCV) ” O [Latin-French-
English]
1:00 Lunch
>>>>>>Travel to Roubaix, Musée de la Piscine
2.30 Visit (registration required, max. 30 people) of the Musée de la Piscine:
themed tours on textile design and Camille Claudel.
>>>>>>Trip to the University of Lille, Pont de Bois site
6:30-8:00 Show (Théâtre des Passerelles [to be confirmed], University of Lille,
Pont de Bois site)
Welcome by Ruth Webb (Université de Lille), director of the STL research unit.
Readings of texts by authors and performances proposed by conference
participants and students from the University of Lille.
8:00 End of the second day
Dinner in town
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
MESHS, rooms 1, 2, 4
8:45-9:15 María Luisa Aguilar (Collegium Latinitatis; Valencia, Spain), “Talis eram : quas
feminas -et quales- volumus revocare?”
9:15-9:45 Erika Zimmermann-Damer (University of Richmond), “Lucrezia Marinella,
Boccaccio, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Canons of Exemplary Women”
9:45-10:15 Claire Paulian (Université de la Cité, Paris) “La philologie guérillère - et sororale? -
de Monique Wittig”
10:15-10:45 Group Discussion
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:15 Concurrent Sessions
11:00-11:45
> Room 1
Séverine Clément-Tarantino (Université de Lille), “Les Lettres de Laura Cereta
comme ‘patron’ d’écriture” [Latin-French-English]
11:00-12:15
> Room 4
Irene Regini (Satura Lanx, Italy) (virtual), “De arte Latine scribendi”
[Writing Workshop in Latin] O
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:00
Skye Shirley (Lupercal, Boston & UCL Londres), “Marie Stuart’s De mulieribus
claris”
2:00-2:45 Florence Forte (Forte Academy, London/Florence), “The Genesis Question :
Defending Eve in Isotta Nogarola’s dialogue & beyond”
2:45-3:30 Abigail López Ortiz (Mexico), “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, mujer que supo latín”
[latin]
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:45 Concurrent Sessions
> Room 1
3:45-5:00 Elspeth Currie (Boston College) (virtual), “‘et vos gaudete sorores’ : Convent
Poetry on Twelfth-Century Mortuary Scrolls” O
5:00-5:45 Laura Petersen (University of Michigan) (virtual), “Modern Pilgrimage : Egeria for
the Twenty-First-Century Woman”
> Room 4
3:45-4:30
Dominique Demartini (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3), “Dhuoda, une
écriture de mère à l’époque carolingienne”
4:30-5:15 Fanny Maréchal (Université de Lille), “Rewriting epics or how to give fictional
heroines a voice. The example of The Golden Apple Trilogy by Emily Hauser”
5:45-6:30
> Room 2 : conclusions and perspectives about the book to be published
>>>>>>Trip to L’Affranchie librairie
7:00-8:30 Feminist Bookstore “L’Affranchie librairie” in Lille: Special Event with Laure de
Chantal, author and publisher, about her book Libre comme une déesse grecque (“Free Like a Greek Goddess”) (Paris, Stock, 2022) and with Séverine Clément-
Tarantino, about Carmenta, prima poetria (Paris, Les Belles Lettres / La Vie des
Classiques, 2022). Discussion moderated by Effrosyni Tsakou (Université de
Lille).
Thursday 27, morning (time and place to be decided)
Latin journaling/postcard writing : Lupercal session at a cafe is offered for
anyone who would like to use this time to reflect on the conference. Hosted by
Skye Shirley.
Register here: https://inscription-evenement.univ-lille.fr/PMC2022/index.php?cacheBuster=d76b38c8
Lupercal website: www.LupercalLegit.org
COLLOQUE JULES CÉSAR DANS LA CULTURE DE MASSE, CONSTRUCTION D’UNE IMAGE DE L’ANTIQUITÉ À NOS JOURS
L’Université de Besançon, France: October 20-21, 2022
Depuis son assassinat le jour des Ides de mars, en 44 av. J-C, Caïus Iulius Caesar s’est reconverti dans le commerce et nous vend à présent des détergents, des forfaits et services téléphoniques, du rumsteck, des placements financiers, des magazines, du savon, des yaourts, des voitures, des émissions de divertissement ou encore du Rocquefort. Sans nul doute, il est l’un des Romains ayant le plus marqué notre imaginaire collectif. De personnage historique il est devenu mythe. Dès son vivant il travailla à le mettre en place et ses successeurs l’entretinrent habilement tant et si bien que sa notoriété jamais ne se perdit au fil des siècles. Le mythe « César » se compose d’une multitude de facettes dans lesquelles chaque époque a pu chercher à se mirer. Quel reflet offre-t-il aujourd’hui de nos sociétés ?
L’image que la publicité télévisuelle véhicule de César, depuis 1968 et la diffusion de la première annonce publicitaire sur les écrans français, servira de point de départ à notre réflexion sur la place du dirigeant romain dans l’imaginaire récent. Pour atteindre ses objectifs commerciaux, la publicité télévisuelle exploite les stéréotypes de l’imaginaire collectif, sa cible de communication étant le grand public au sens le plus large qu’il soit. Elle s’emploie à exploiter des images et un langage les plus accessibles possible. Afin de limiter au maximum les incompréhensions, les publicitaires utilisent souvent ce qu’ils considèrent être le plus petit dénominateur culturel commun, une stratégie d’autant plus importante lorsqu’elle recourt à l’Histoire pour étayer son argumentaire, le risque que le public ne saisisse pas une référence historique pointue étant grand. Claire Mercier proposera en introduction de voir comment ce processus s’est appliqué au mythe de Jules César, et à quoi cette essentialisation publicitaire a réduit le grand dirigeant romain, puis, avant d’aborder l’image de César dans la culture de masse récente et afin de mieux la comprendre, les premières communications du colloque retraceront l’évolution de la figure de Jules César au fil du temps, de l’Antiquité aux années 1960.
Jeudi 20 octobre après-midi: Introduction - César au prisme de la publicité
Claire Mercier, doctorante, ISTA, Université de Franche-Comté Besançon - César, de l’Antiquité aux années 1960
La réception de César durant l’Antiquité - Thomas Guard, maître de conférences, ISTA, Université de Franche-Comté Besançon
La réception de César à l’époque médiévale - Bernard Ribémont, professeur des universités, CESFiMA, Université d’Orléans
La réception de César à l’époque moderne - Rudy Chaulet, maître de conférences émérite, ISTA, Université de Franche-Comté Besançon
La réception de César à l’époque contemporaine jusqu’aux années 1960 - Fabien Bièvre-Perrin, maître de conférences, HisCAnt-MA, Université de Lorraine – Antiquipop
Vendredi 21 octobre matin: César aujourd’hui
César et les Gaulois : une vision croisée France / Belgique - François de Callataÿ, professeur à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles ; chef de département à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique Bruxelles ; Muséoparc Alésia, Michel Rouger, directeur, et Mathilde Le Piolot-Ville, responsable de l’action culturelle
César séducteur, César viril - Julien Olivier, chargé de collection (monnaies grecques) à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
César chef de guerre - Gaëlle Perrot, doctorante, HiSoMA, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III ; ATER au Centre Camille Jullian, Université Aix-Marseille
César et l’humour - Eugène Warmenbol, professeur à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
César et ses opposants - Thomas Guard, maître de conférences, ISTA, Université de Franche-Comté Besançon
Bilan et conclusions
Informations pratiques: Le colloque « Jules César et ses réceptions » est organisé par Claire Mercier (claire.mercier @ univ-fcomte.fr) et Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (fabien.bievre-perrin @ univ-lorraine.fr). Il se tiendra à l’Université de Besançon les 20 et 21 octobre 2022 et sera ouvert au public. Les horaires et les lieux précis seront diffusés en septembre.
Website: https://antiquipop.hypotheses.org/11036
SENECA 2022 (formerly SENECA 2020). INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. WHAT MORE CAN WE SAY ABOUT SENECA?
University of Lisbon, Portugal: December 14-17, 2020 - now December 12-15, 2022 - now 17-20 October, 2022
The Centre for Classical Studies of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon is organizing an International Conference on Seneca to promote and encourage a critical reflection on the permanence of themes, values, perspectives and representations of Seneca's works in Western literature and culture.
The Conference will take place between 14-17 December 2020, and, through the interdisciplinary debate of the contribution given by the experiences of researchers from different fields of study, it aims:
- to think of how Seneca became one of the most prominent figures in Western culture;
- to consider, examine and reflect on our current knowledge about Seneca, his life and works;
- to explore new study angles and what remains to be said about Seneca in the Twenty-First Century, in light of the renewed interest shown in his works.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
António Pedro Mesquita (University of Lisbon)
Alessandro Schiesaro (University of Manchester)
Catharine Edwards (University of Cambridge)
Gareth David Williams (Columbia University)
Chiara Torre (University of Milan)
Jesús Luque Moreno (University of Granada)
José Pedro Serra (University of Lisbon)
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
Paulo Sérgio Ferreira (University of Coimbra)
For further information, please visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/seneca2020/p%C3%A1gina-inicial
Call for papers closes: January 31, 2020.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Seneca2022
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/conference-seneca-2020
(CFP closed January 31, 2020; reopened; final closing date March 30, 2022)
[HYBRID] LOS PARNASOS ANTÁRTICOS DE DIEGO MEXÍA – TRANSATLANTIC OVID AND BEYOND
Hybrid - Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge: October 15, 2022
Global Humanities Initiative of the School of Arts & Humanities
Organiser: Dr Maya Feile Tomes (Cambridge)- mcf37@cam.ac.uk
On Saturday 15th October 2022, a group of international scholars from across the Hispanophone world will come together at the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge for the first Latin America/Classics event of the Global Humanities Initiative of the School of Arts & Humanities. The conference will focus its questions around this disciplinary intersection through the prism of a case study from the early modern Ibero-American context: the life and oeuvre of Diego de Mexía, a translator, bookseller and poet from Seville who took up residence in Lima in the 1580s, where he became a key figure on the emergent colonial Peruvian literary-cultural scene. As part of his effort to establish Peru – and the Americas more broadly – as a literary space on the Iberian imperial transatlantic stage, Mexía embarked upon a major poetic project: his Parnaso Antártico or ‘Antarctic Parnassus’, split into two volumes (the Primera parte and Segunda parte). The first volume, which features complete translations into Spanish of Ovid’s Heroides and Ibis, was published in Seville in 1608 and has been the subject of some scholarly interest – not least because it also contains an intriguing work of poetics considered foundational in the Ibero-American context: El discurso en loor de la poesía [‘Disquisition in praise of poetry’]. The second part was never published in its own day and is emerging as a subject of systematic scholarly attention only now. The event will bring scholars working on both parts of Mexía’s Parnaso Antártico together for the first time to share and develop ideas around this work and its place amid the complex dynamics of Europeanising ‘classical’ material as it began to move in unprecedented ways across the Atlantic and throughout what we now know as the Iberian Americas.
Participants:
Tatiana Alvarado Teodorika (Academia Boliviana de la Lengua)
María José Brañes González (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Germán Campos Muñoz (Appalachian State University)
Sarissa Carneiro (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Maya Feile Tomes (University of Cambridge – Modern and Medieval Languages/Classics)
Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge – Classics)
Anne Holloway (Queen’s University Belfast)
Esperanza López Parada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
José Antonio Mazzotti (Tufts University)
Stephanie Rohner (University of Cambridge – Modern and Medieval Languages)
The day will be split into two halves: in the morning there will be talks in English (or in Spanish with English interpretation). In the afternoon, the talks will be in Spanish only. Participants are welcome to register for either or both parts.
Proceedings will also be transmitted by Zoom for those unable to attend in person.
All are welcome (within the limits of room capacity!), and we look forward to welcoming people from across the disciplinary spectrum. To register your interest in attending, please fill in this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_9L8DyoN5bPPqqGv2mOdrFDXx4f4gc-PsizR1wTDaUSJzPw/viewform
Information: https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/events/classics-latin-america-initiative-conference-los-parnasos-antarticos-de-diego-mexia
[ONLINE] AD ASPERA PER CAMERAS
Online - October 15, 2022, 3-6pm US Eastern
Ad Aspera Per Cameras: a conference on the online teaching of (classical) languages
Ad Aspera per Cameras is an online conference to create an opportunity for those involved in the teaching or learning of ancient and historical languages online, to present, discuss, encourage, and develop ideas and praxis for the fostering and development of better teaching, better resources, and better practice in this field.
Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bBw40czOBaWvw17e4MFj1_B5y47fkcdlukrX-6gW5zs/viewform?edit_requested=true
Information on the speakers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19_lsap78vxHQvDAkl6hXW8rk5R-jo9Is/view
MEMORY AND PERFORMANCE: CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN EARLY MODERN FESTIVALS (15TH-18TH CENTURY)
Two stage conference: (1) University of Parma: October 13-14, 2022; (2) University College London: February 23-24 February, 2023.
Organisers: Francesca Bortoletti (UNIPR), Giovanna Di Martino (UCL & APGRD)
Keynote Speakers: Erika Lin (CUNY); Eugenio Refini (NYU); Erika Valdivieso (Yale); Paola Ventrone (UNICATT).
Recent publications and research projects on early modern theatre have argued for a need to move away from strict definitions of theatrical endeavours as intrinsically linked to dramatic theatre to including as well as exploring the multiple forms of performance in early modern contexts. These were often explicitly tied with festive occasions and political celebrations, as well as cultural practices, and presented intangible, yet crucial, aspects of early modern life and memory. These transitory events – festivals – should be seen as the product of a highly performative context that extended beyond the vernacular dramatic traditions that were being formed between the 15th and 18th centuries in some parts of the European and American continents. By means of music, poetry and drama, as well as the visual arts, these festive events and performances appropriated, reacted to, and enmeshed Greek and Roman mythologies as well as theatrical and textual material into local, national and new experimental practices, through which they gave voice to political tensions as well as documented transcultural exchanges across Europe, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
Similarly, recent research into the reception of Greek and Roman material in the early modern period has urged a reformulation of modern concepts encapsulating, and often limiting, possible methods of engagement with the ancient material. Peter Burke and Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia’s application of ‘cultural translation’ to early modern translating endeavours in Europe, for example, underscores the practical and conceptual importance of the receiving context in the translating process whilst moving away from a binary and uncreative understanding of this transaction between texts and cultures.
We believe the term ‘memory’ frees this transaction between cultures from superimposed prescriptions even further; in colonial contexts especially, the term ‘memory’ also allows an exploration of (un)conscious acts of (mis)remembering that undercut the cultural prestige of the Greek and Roman material that was being adapted.
But ‘memory’ is also apt for describing the very nature of theatrical performance; the effectiveness of thinking about theatrical endeavours in terms of their memorable-ness has evolved over the course of history, from antiquity to contemporary times. Exploring the conceptual and practical translations of ‘memory’ works particularly well in the early modern context, where the thick web of citations and re-elaborations of other cultures’ texts and material functioned as a basis for the creation of new collective, national or transnational memories.
Finally, ‘memory’ refers to another thematic strand which we aim at investigating in this conference: namely, the construction of these performance events as memories – i.e., the documentation and archiving of such memories by contemporary and future ‘archivists’, by past and present memory-holders.
The time frame chosen for this conference is from the 15th to the end of the 18th century. The geographical scope of the conference includes the European and American continents; however, proposals that reach beyond this geographical scope are also very welcome.
Potential topics may include, but need not be limited to:
* Performance culture in the early modern period and its associations with Greek and Roman material
* Traces of performance in the translation of Greek and Roman material
* Traces of translation of Greek and Roman material in performance scripts
* Courtly, commercial, and academic theatre and how it reshapes and/or is connected with Greek and Roman material
* Greek, Roman and early modern mythologies in music festivals
* The relationship between and/or blending of Greek and Roman theatrical conventions and early modern forms of theatre and performance
* Performance of Greek and Roman material in order to form/validate/subvert new/old canons
* The presence of Aristotle in early modern performance and in theatre theories and practises
* The influence of Greek and Roman material on the creation of theatrical genres and/or the influence of early modern local/national/popular performance practises in the reshaping of Greek and Roman material
* Traces of Greek and Roman material in the early modern material and immaterial cultural heritage
* The archiving and documenting of performance events in the early modern period and now
* The construction/deconstruction of collective/national memories, past and present, through the archiving of performance events
Abstracts submission: 13th April 2022 - extended deadline 30th May 2022.
All submissions should include: a 350-word abstract, a brief bio, and an email address. Please also specify whether you have a preference for the first stage of the conference, in Parma (13-14 October 2022), or the second one, in London (23-24 February 2023). Accepted languages for Parma: Italian and English; accepted language for London: English. Submissions should be made by 13th April 2022 at earlymodernfestival@outlook.com. For more information, visit the website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/news/2022/feb/cfp-memory-and-performance-classical-reception-early-modern-festivals-15th-18th.
Both conferences will be preceded by three days of theatre workshops (10-12 October 2022; 20-22 February 2023), organised as part of the W.I.D.E. program, promoted and supported by the University of Parma and the EU. These will be directed by the playwright and director Marco Martinelli (Teatro delle Albe) and by Giovanna Di Martino (UCL, APGRD), and will investigate the performability and intricate web of citations embedded within early modern dramatic scripts. The results of these workshops will be presented at both conferences.
Any questions, please email francesca.bortoletti@unipr.it or g.martino@ucl.ac.uk.
Scientific Committee: Mariella Bonvicini (UNIPR), Francesca Bortoletti (UNIPR), Nicola Catelli (UNIPR), Giovanna Di Martino (UCL & APGRD), Giorgio Ieranò (UNITN), Fiona Macintosh (OXFORD), Massimo Magnani (UNIPR), Eckart Marchand (WARBURG), Lucy Jackson (DURHAM), Eugenio Refini (NYU); Paolo Russo (UNIPR), Carlo Varotti (UNIPR), Erika Valdivieso (YALE), Federica Veratelli (UNIPR).
Sponsors and Partners: Supported by the University of Parma, the Centro per le Attività e le Professioni delle Arti e dello Spettacolo (CAPAS, UNIPR), UCL, the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges (UCL), the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford), and the Leventis Foundation; in collaboration with the Centro Interateneo sulla Memoria delle Arti Performative (MAP – Roma, Parma, Genova), the Centro Interuniversitario di ricerca di ‘Studi sulla Tradizione’ (Bari, San Marino, Padova, Trento), the Laboratorio Dionysos (Trento), and The Warburg Institute (London).
Edit - Program:
Thursday 13th October
9.30am-5.30pm CET, Thursday 13th October 2022, Sala Conferenze dei Voltoni - Palazzo della Pilotta 3, Parma
09.30-10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.00-10.30 Welcome from Francesca Bortoletti (Parma) and Giovanna Di Martino (UCL)
10.30-11.00 Keynote - Chair: Francesca Bortoletti (Parma)
Eugenio Refini (NYU): Reviving Ariadne: Classical Reception and the Performance of Memory
11.00-12.30: Memory and Performance I - Chair: Eckart Marchand (Warburg/ Bilderfahrzeuge)
Claudio Passera (Florence): The Glory of Rome Comes Back to Life. Real and Ephemeral Triumphal Arches for a Renaissance Wedding. Rimini 1475
Alessia Morigi, Filippo Fontana (Parma): Spectacula. Gli edifici per spettacolo della colonia romana e il loro impatto sul patrimonio culturale materiale ed immateriale di Parma a partire dall’età moderna
Edmund Thomas (Durham): Carnival, Classical Memory, and the Architecture of Spectacles in the Seventeenth-century Parma and Rome
12.30-2.00pm Lunch
2.00-3.30pm: Memory and Performance II - Chair: Giovanna Di Martino (UCL)
Domenico Giuseppe Lipani (Ferrara): Tra reminiscenza e riuso. Frammenti mitologici dei tornei aleottiani
Daniela Sacco (IUAV): Performatività del classico: ‘Pathosformeln’ e memoria nella temperie drammatica rinascimentale
Giulia Fiore (Bologna): ἔλεος πολύδακρυς. Inganno, piacere mimetico ed emozioni tragiche tra XVI e XVII secolo
3.30-3.45pm Coffee/Tea Break
3.45-5.30pm: Performing in Elite Society - Chair: François Quiviger (Warburg)
Raimondo Guarino (Roma 3): Nympha loci. Poetry, Sculpture, and Theatre in the Academia Pomponiana
Nicola Bonazzi (Bologna): Aggiungere e diminuire: i volgarizzamenti plautini alla corte estense e il caso di Girolamo Berardo
Sergio Costola (Southwestern): Lucrezia Borgia and theatrical practice of women in elite society
6.00-7.30 (Teatro Farnese - Piazza della Pilotta 15, Parma) - Early Modern Scripts and Theatre Practice - Chair: Oliver Taplin (Oxford)
Francesca Bortoletti (Parma): Introduction to Marco Martinelli and the ‘No-Scuola’ Project
Giovanna Di Martino (UCL): Translation and Theatre Practice: A Methodology
Marco Martinelli (Theatre Director, Teatro delle Albe), Giovanna Di Martino, Parma, UCL and Oxford University Students along with Parma’s High School Students (Liceo Romagnosi, Liceo Toschi, Scuola per l’Europa): *Demonstration Performance*: Early Modern Aristophanes in Performance
Friday 14th October
9.30am-5.30pm CET, Aula Magna, University of Parma, Strada dell'Università 12, Parma
9.30-10.00 Keynote - Chair: Giovanna Di Martino (UCL)
Erika Valdivieso (Yale): Classical Reception and Spanish American Theatre
10.00-11.15 pm: Politics and Performance - Chair: Roberta Gandolfi (Parma)
Jessica Apolloni (Christopher Newport): Classical Reception and Comparative Law at Inns of Court Revels
Borja Franco Llopis (Uned): A Mythological Other in the Habsburg Empire
11.15-11.30 Coffee/Tea Break
11.30-1.00pm: Festivals and Models I - Chair: Paolo Russo (Parma)
Giovanna Casali (Bologna): L’‘Aristotelismo ortodosso’ di Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti: eccezioni e conferme dei meccanismi di ricezione del classico nel teatro musicale del Seicento
Benedetta Colasanti (Florence): Appunti sulla scenotecnica antica nel teatro barocco. Il caso del teatro Farnese di Parma (1628)
Stanislav Bohadlo (Hradec Králové): When Costumes and Set Design Trump the Libretto and Music Opera Seria
1.00-2.00pm Lunch
2.00-3.30pm: Festivals and Models II - Chair: Massimo Magnani (Parma)
Giandamiano Bovi (Parma-Tours): Contesto e rappresentazione della commedia Flora di Luigi Alemanni
Anne Morvan (Nantes-Sapienza): ‘Una tragedia capricciosa: la memoria selettiva di Anello Paulilli nella rappresentazione dell'Incendio di Troia (1566)’
Emanuel Stelzer (Verona): Mythographic Fantasy and Festive Pastiche in William Percy’s Aphrodysial
3.30-3.45pm Coffee/Tea Break
3.45-4.45pm Performance and Archives - Roundtable Discussion: Federica Veratelli (Parma)
APGRD: Oliver Taplin (Oxford, APGRD) and Giovanna Di Martino (UCL & APGRD); FRIDAtlas: Francesca Bortoletti (Parma); HERLA: Simona Brunetti (Verona/Fondazione Umberto Artioli); MNEMOSYNE: Eckart Marchand (Warburg/Bilderfahrzeuge); DSPace-MuTheA: Paolo Russo (Parma); University of Warwick-British Library Festival Books Digitisation: Margaret Shewring (Warwick); Archivio storico Teatro Regio: Cristina Gnudi (Casa della Musica, Parma)
4.45-5:00pm Coffee/Tea Break
5:00-5.45pm Response by Eugenio Refini (NYU) and Plenary
Register: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/news/2022/sep/register-parma-memory-and-performance-classical-reception-early-modern-festivals
Call: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/news/2022/feb/cfp-memory-and-performance-classical-reception-early-modern-festivals-15th-18th
(CFP closed April 13, 2022 May 30, 2022)
WORKSHOPS: CREATING A MEMORY OF ANCIENT PASTS: CHOICES, CONSTRUCTIONS AND TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE 9TH TO THE 18TH CENTURY
Paris, France: October 13-14, 2022
Project ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA: The Reception of Ancient Greece in pre-modern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320-1550): How invented memories shaped the identity of European communities
The ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA project will organize workshops entitled "Creating a memory of ancient pasts" on October 13th and 14th 2022, Paris.
Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses, embodies a continuing relationship between memory, arts and sciences. This myth invites us to question ourselves over a long period of time, as soon as we study the memory of ancient pasts – the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Biblical ones, among other – in texts as well in images. By taking a transdisciplinary look at memory, from anthropology to visual studies including history, sociology, literature and cognitive sciences, we aim to explore the strategies of how a memory of ancient pasts is created, and to highlight the processes which contribute to the constitution of distant pasts as a legacy. Yet, this appropriation is not obvious : a logic of alterity does indeed appear, in several forms and to varying degrees, between the present and these/its ancient pasts, due to a lack of continuity, not only temporal, but also spatial, documentary or religious and cultural.
In fact, for many decades, research on memory remarkably developed in a wide range of disciplines. Concepts and approaches, such as individual memory and collective memory, cultural memory, social memory, memorials, how tangible and intangible memory are linked to each other, how memory and imagination interact, cognitive mechanisms which act in memory processes, have provided new keys to understand the forms and the uses of memory (-ies) within communities.
Our objective is thus to continue the reflection on these notions by analyzing the methods of the creation of a memory of the ancient pasts, according to a chronology which starts from the 9th Century, which was a period when creative activity was intense, ancient texts were rediscovered by Western Europe, but also when written memory increased, until the 18th Century, when Antiquity was particularly mobilized, as much in the arts, with the emergence of archeology and neoclassicism, as in political speeches. Through the collected papers, the workshops aim to question the constants as well as the mutations of the strategies that authors and artists displayed in order to elaborate this (these) memory(-ies) of ancient pasts, since they selected and organised elements of the past to the detriment of others, which implies a range of recompositions.
Submitted papers may deal with theoretical reflections or case studies, and come within one or more the following themes, which do not exhaust the range of possibilities:
- Epistemology and taxonomy of memory : cross-cutting reflections on the memory about the distant past, its functioning, the notions and concepts that must be mobilized.
- “Memory entrepreneurs”: all those who participate in the creation of the memory of ancient pasts through their roles and activities such as writers, humanists, sponsors, readers, antique dealers, artists, translators, publishers-booksellers, collectors, archaeologists, and so on.
- How this memory is developed, as well as the interactions of the conditions of such a development : how the text is set up into narrative and plot forms, images, recomposition as well as invention, re-uses, rewritings / palimpsests, quotations, imitations, emulations, mental and visual images, imagines agentes, and so on.
- How this memory is transfered, as well as the interactions of the conditions of such a transmission : oral, written, visual, tangible and symbolic communications, the challenges of each of these modes of transmission as well as their effects on the representation of ancient pasts, their links with the “ars memoriae”, the functions and uses of emotions.
- The elements making up this memory of ancient pasts : civilizations, periods, events, traditions, narratives, myths, figures, works and concepts resulting from the process of a selection, a transmission and a re-elaboration, and so on.
- The stakes and aims of this creation of a memory of ancient pasts : the contexts and discourses in which it is shaped and represented, the objectives which are followed (didactic, ethical, aesthetic, linguistic, political, economic, religious, patrimonial ones).
The papers will be published by Brepols publishers, in the "Research on Antiquity Receptions" series :
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/BrowseBySeries.aspx?TreeSeries=RRA
Travel and accommodation costs will be covered according to the terms of the University of Lille. Contact: Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas. For more information about the ERC Agrelita Project, please see our academic Blog: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/
Please submit a short abstract (title and a few lines of presentation) to catherine.bougassas@univ-lille.fr by February 15, 2022.
Call: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/426
(CFP closed February 15, 2022)
[HYBRID] LATIN-GREEK CODE-SWITCHING IN EARLY MODERNITY
Hybrid - KU Leuven, Belgium: October 13-14, 2022
Latin–Greek code-switching, the practice of alternating between Latin and Greek within a single unit of communication, has received its fair share of attention among Classical scholars. This work has shown that Latin–Greek language alternation had a markedly ambiguous place in ancient society: code-switching could operate as a marker for elite discourse in Rome and serve as a symbol for calling on the authority of respected writers in certain literary genres. Simultaneously, the use of Greek could indicate affection among well-educated Romans, but it could also be viewed as untrue to the patria and even as the language of slaves in radicalized political settings.
In a similar vein, scholars of Europe’s early modern vernacular literatures have engaged extensively with examples of code-switching between national languages and Latin or other vernaculars. Studies have revealed the diverse interpretations and significance attached to the use of specific languages against the period’s varied and fast-moving literary, political and religious backdrops.
The phenomenon of Latin–Greek code-switching in Neo-Latin literature – immediately evident to readers of any humanist dialogue, baroque tractatus, eighteenth-century handbook or the period’s letter collections – has, however, yet to become the object of dedicated study. This workshop intends to make a first step towards filling this gap. Papers will deal with both linguistic and literary questions of code-switching between the ancient languages in the period c. 1400–1800. Given the importance of imitation and the authority of ancient writers in this period, the workshop will also reflect the diachronic aspects of Latin–Greek code-switching in comparing ancient, medieval and early modern practices.
More information through https://sites.google.com/view/code-switching2022
[CHAPTERS] ANCIENT EGYPT IN VIDEO GAMES
Submissions are invited for a volume on Ancient Egypt in Video Games edited by Jennifer Cromwell.
Recent years have seen the publication of several volumes on the ancient world in video games, with particular focus on Greek and Roman antiquity. With the exception of 2017’s Assassin’s Creed Origins, set in late Ptolemaic Egypt, video games that are set in or adopt aspects of ancient Egyptian history are an understudied area of research. The proposed volume will address this gap in the field and contribute to both Reception Studies and Video Game Studies.
The volume aims to address diverse subject matter and approaches, as well as games and game genres. Proposed submissions are invited on topics such as:
* Historical figures and events;
* World-building (e.g., landscape, towns and villages, population/NPCs);
* Presentation of gender, race, culture;
* Egyptian mythology and gods;
* The use of Egyptian monuments or artefacts in non-historical games;
* The type of stories video games tell about ancient Egypt.
People interested in contributing to the volume are asked to submit a 500-word abstract and selective bibliography. If your abstract is accepted, you will be invited to submit a full paper that will be subjected to peer review. Abstracts and any questions should be sent to Dr Jennifer Cromwell. The full projected timeline for submissions is as follows:
* Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday 30th September 2022.
* Applicants informed of outcome: Friday 21st October 2022.
* Deadline for submission of first draft chapters: Friday 27th January 2023.
* Peer-reviewed chapters returned with feedback/recommendations for revisions: late Spring 2023.
* Deadline for submission of revised chapters: Autumn 2023.
* The volume will then be submitted to the series ‘Video Games and the Humanities’ by De Gruyter.
Contact: For more information, or to submit an abstract, please email Dr Jennifer Cromwell at j.cromwell@mmu.ac.uk.
Website: https://mmgamecentre.org/blog/2022/6/29/ancient-egypt-in-video-games
OXFORD'S ANTIQUITY
Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford: September 29-30, 2022
Thursday 29 September
10.15 am Welcome from the organisers
10.30 - 1 pm Panel 1
Chair: Constanze Güthenke
Nikhil Krishnan (University of Cambridge) ‘How Socratic is the Oxford tutorial?’
Emily Rutherford (University of Oxford) ‘Pedagogic Eros: Greats, Pedagogy, and Homosexuality’
12-12.15 short coffee break
Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University) ‘What was Classics?’
LUNCH
2.30 - 5 pm Panel 2
Chair: Jo Quinn
Emily Greenwood (Harvard University) ‘Absence, Loss, and the Presence of Coloniality: Caribbean perspectives on Oxford Classics’ [*remote]
Grant Parker (Stanford University and Stellenbosch University) ‘Universalism (theme and variations)’ [*remote]
4 - 4.15 short coffee break
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University) ‘Exiting classics: a meditation on Qadri Ismail’
RECEPTION
Friday 30 September
10.30-12.30 Panel 3
Chair: Jas Elsner
Richard Hingley and Martha Stewart (University of Durham): ‘Oxford and Roman Britain: Haverfield to 2022’
John Ma (Columbia University) ‘Oxford contra mundum: Innovation and immobility in the practice of ancient history’
LUNCH
1.30-3pm Panel 4
Chair: Tim Rood
Heather Ellis (Leeds University) ‘Classical authors and ‘scientific research’ in early nineteenth century England’
Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge) ‘Herodotus versus the Higher Criticism: George Rawlinson, Anglican Historian and Translator’
3.30-5pm Final Roundtable
Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago) [*remote]
Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown University)
Katherine Harloe (Institute of Classical Studies, London)
Chris Stray (University of Swansea)
RECEPTION
Please note that this is an in person event. It is free and open to the public, but we would kindly ask you to register (for planning and seating purposes), through the following link: https://forms.office.com/r/wgJURjBnrE
For further questions, you can also contact henner.petin@classics.ox.ac.uk
Program: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;5683d05f.ex
[HYBRID] HOW TO BECOME A SKILLED RHETOR: THEORIES OF LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN PHRYNICHUS’ PRAEPARATIO SOPHISTICA AND THEIR AFTERLIFE
From the ERC project: Purism in Antiquity: Theories of Language in Greek Atticist Lexica and their Legacy
Hybrid - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy: September 26, 2022
Second workshop of the ERC project “Purism in Antiquity: Theories of Language in Greek Atticist Lexica and their Reception” (PURA)
26 September 2022, 9.30–18.30
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Aula Baratto (and online on Zoom)
9.30 Welcome and Introduction (Olga Tribulato – PURA)
9.40 Morning session
The Praeparatio as we read it today: Medieval and modern reception
9.40–10.20: Margherita Losacco (Università di Padova)
Phrynichus in Photius: Prefaces and games of mirrors
10.20–11.00: Federico Favi (Università del Piemonte Orientale – PURA)
How did the epitomiser work? The epitome of the Praeparatio and the indirect transmission in comparison
11.00-11.30: Break
11.30–12.10: Jacopo Cavarzeran (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – PURA)
Praeparatio onomastica(?)
12.10–13.00: Giuseppe Ucciardello (Università di Messina)
The Praeparatio sophistica between the 18th and the 19th centuries
14.30 Afternoon session
The Praeparatio as a handbook of rhetorical training: Cultural context and theories of style and language
14.30–15.10: Ewen Bowie (University of Oxford)
Σοφιστικὴ προπαρασκευή and Εκλογή: Logic and relative chronology
15.10–15.50: Olga Tribulato (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – PURA)
Stylistic terminology in the Praeparatio sophistica
15.50–16.30: Giulia Gerbi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – PURA)
Καινῶς εἴρηται: καινότης in the Praeparatio sophistica
16.30–17.00: Break
17.00–17.40: Chiara Monaco (Universiteit Gent)
Comic compounds or hapax legomena? Observations on some rare expressions in the Praeparatio sophistica
17.40–18.20: Andrea Pellettieri (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – PURA)
Learned Rudeness: Abusing expressions in the Praeparatio Sophistica
Conclusions
Register (free) with elena.scanu@unive.it
FRAZER AND THE GOLDEN BOUGH. 100 YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE EDITIO MINOR (1922-2022) / FRAZER E IL RAMO D’ORO: A 100 ANNI DALLA PUBBLICAZIONE DELL’EDITIO MINOR
Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”, Nemi, Roma, Italy: September 22-25, 2022
Deadline: June 30, 2022.
Language: Italian.
Call for papers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YMPmI6UsRRSa4C3to6NEcDjIGDGNoBJk/view?usp=sharing
Info: igorbaglioni79@gmail.com
(CFP closed June 30, 2022)
[HYBRID] CACATA CARTA - POETIC SHITSTORMS IN ANCIENT TEXTS
Hybrid - University of Graz, Austria: September 15-17, 2022
Organizers: Ursula Gärtner, Markus Hafner
In carmen 36, the poet Catullus viciously insults a certain Volusius and his poem Annales. Not without self-mockery, Catullus assigns Volusius the role of the pessimus poeta, whose work is denigrated as cacata carta in the first and last verses of c. 36. Catullus also makes vituperative and polemical judgments about other poets elsewhere. The meaning and function of such scatological invectives are certainly debatable. Overall, a more comprehensive study remains a desideratum.
Based on this, the Graz conference will address questions of aesthetics, mediality, poetology, and reception of the poetic vituperation of poets or their poetry in antiquity, whether in literary (e.g. iambics, comedy, and satire) or ‘subliterary’ texts (e.g. graffiti) by both well-known and anonymous authors.
The following topics and questions should be in the foreground:
General questions
• Which authors or texts were insulted, how and why?
• How can such pejorative judgments be located in a poetic genre or in sociocultural, political, cultic or ritual contexts?
• Can offensive insults be distinguished from recognized virtuosity?
• Do such judgments characterize only other poets’ works or, indirectly, also one’s own work?
• Do such invectives mark demarcation against rivals or membership to a poetic community?
• What censorious or tradition-securing effect could such judgments have on the reviled authors and works?
Cacata aspect
• What forms of aischrological or obscene speech does the poetic invective exhibit?
• On what kind of Bildersprache, comparisons, and metaphors are those judgments based?
• How is the denounced aesthetic itself conceived aesthetically – ex negativo, so to speak?
• Which poetic procedures of the reviled text does the reviling text caricature
(e.g. Annales Volusi in Cat. c. 36 as a poetic sphragis?)?
Carta aspect
• What forms of mediality – for instance between feigned ‘spontaneous’ orality and polished revision – characterize poetic
invective?
• To what extent is there a medial play between the intimacy of the insult and the wider circulation of the text?
• Which performative and/or material aspects are involved?
Poetology
• To what extent do poetic vituperations of poets in ancient texts oscillate between poetic avant-garde and literary tradition?
• To what extent do such shitstorms aim at poetic ‘inferiority’ or ‘epigonality’, to what extent at the specific programmatic or
design of a work?
• What role do the authorial roles or poetic personae play, which are assumed in the vituperative texts?
Reception
• What impact did the phenomenon of poetic shitstorms unfold in the course of both the ancient reception and the reception
of antiquity up to the 21st century?
We would welcome contributions in German or English that deal with the above-mentioned or similar aspects of poetic reviling in antiquity. All submissions, either in English or German, must include an abstract with short bibliography – maximum 250 words (excluding bibliography) – as well as a brief academic CV including the author’s surname, first name, academic email and affiliation and as well as a list of selected publications. For each paper, there will be a time slot of 30 minutes, followed by a discussion. Travel expenses will be covered if possible. Selected articles may be published as a special volume.
Deadline: Please send your proposals to one of the two email addresses below by 01/31/2022: ursula.gaertner@uni-graz.at or markus.hafner@uni-graz.at. Feedback will be provided by 02/15/2021. If you have any questions about the conference in the meantime, please feel free to contact us.
Edited - Program (from https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;923866b9.ex):
Thursday, 15 September 2022
14.00 Come together
14.30 Welcome
14.45 Ursula Gärtner (Graz), Markus Hafner (Graz), Christopher Londa (Yale/Graz)
Introduction
I. Cacata aspects – aesthestics, language and obscenity of poetic shitstorms
15.15 Niek Janssen (Amherst):
Poetics of the Polished Turd: Parody as Appropriate Transgression in Hegemon of Thasos
16.00 Antonio Mura (Bologna):
σφυράδων ἀποκνίσματα: Epigones and Scatological Judgments in Aristophanes’ Poetology
16.45 Coffee break
17.15 Anna-Sofia Alitalo (Oxford):
Your Epic is a Yellowback: A Previously Undetected Layer of Poetic Vituperation in Juvenal
18.00 Vittoria Dozza (Messina):
Erucius and Parthenius: Epos and Elegoi as ‘Filthy’ Poetry?
19.00 Dinner
Friday, 16 September 2022
II. Carta aspects – materiality, mediality, and performativity of poetic shitstorms
09.15 Agnese D’Angelo (Rome):
Not only cacata carta: paper as a victim of bad poetry
10.00 Alessandra Tafaro (Warwick):
Frons haec stigmate non meo notanda est: Negotiating Epigrammatic vs Graffiti Aesthetics
Daniel Wendt (Berlin/Bonn):
Scribit carmina quae legunt cacantes: Scatology, Genre Poetics and Epigrammatic Self in Catullus and Martial
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Enno Friedrich (Graz):
‘Take it down a notch, Sidonius!’: An intertextual riddle as simulated invective against a dead rival
III. The poetology of poetic vituperations of poets
12.15 Jonas Schollmeyer (Leipzig/Oxford):
Back to the Future – Timotheus of Miletus’ Self-staging in Battle with the Corrupters of the Muse
13.00 Lunch break
14.15 Vivian L. Navarro Martínez (Urbino/Freiburg):
Was Gnesippus a Bad Tragic Poet? The Story of a Poetic Shitstorm in Fragmentary Greek Comedy
15.00 Kevin Protze (Leipzig)
The Conventionality of the Seemingly Unconventional: How Terence Designed his Polemical Prologues in Order to Effectively ‘Answer’ his Critics
15.45 Coffee break
16.15 Bernhard Kaiser (Dresden):
Cum mea nemo scripta legat: Self-diminishment as a Procedure of Poetic Ennoblement in Horace, Serm. 1,4
17.00 Antje Junghanß (Dresden):
Impones plagiario pudorem: Reflections on the Accusation of Plagiarism in Mart. Ep. 1,52
17.45 Reception
18.30 Dennis Pausch (Dresden):
Striking Punchlines: Poetic Invectives between Violation and Virtuosity
20.00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 17 September 2022
IV. Poetic shitstorms in the reception of ancient poetry and in later philology
10.00 Elisabetta Barili (Odense):
“Might God’s sword fall in the middle of your heart!”: John Tzetzes’ autograph invectives against Hermogenes and the copyist in the commentary on Περὶ ἰδεῶν λόγου
10.45 Thomas Gärtner (Cologne):
Beschimpfung auf zweiter Ebene: Die Polemik Sannazaros gegen Polizians obszöne Catull-Interpretation
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Ute Tischer (Dresden/Basel) & Susanne Neumann (Dresden):
Cacata carta digitalis: Poetic shitstorms from a machine learning perspective
12.15 Final Discussion
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;450633f7.ex
(CFP closed January 31, 2022)
WORKSHOPS: NEW TRANSLATIONS AND INDIRECT RECEPTION OF ANCIENT GREECE (TEXTS AND IMAGES, 1300-1560)
From: ERC Advanced Grant project AGRELITA, "The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and manuscript and printed book illustrations (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities." (2021-2026)
University of Lille, France: September 15-16, 2022 & January 19-20, 2023
The AGRELITA Project studies the reception of ancient Greece, exploring a corpus of French-language literary works produced from 1320 to the 1550s, as well as the images of their manuscripts and printed books. The development of direct translations from Greek to French begins only from the 1550s. From the beginning of the 14th Century until the middle of the 16th Century, French-language authors and artists who illustrate manuscripts and printed books of their works, with some exceptions, have no direct knowledge of Greek works. The knowledge about ancient Greece that they transmit and reinvent in their texts and in their illustrations is mediated by various filters. Their reception is indirect, based on previous textual and iconographic works, whose representations of ancient Greece are in fact the result of one or more receptions.
The workshops of September 2022 and January 2023 will be devoted to the analysis, through this corpus, of new translations and adaptations into French language from Latin works which convey the knowledge about ancient Greece, in several different forms. These Latin works adapted by 1300-1550s French authors are partly ancient and medieval works which are not translations, and partly translations or adaptations of Greek works, sometimes with several linguistic transfers from Greek. They take very diverse forms : from ancient texts (Ovid, Virgil, Boethius, Augustine, Darès, etc.) to Latin humanist translations of Greek works produced in Italy and in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th Centuries, including original medieval Latin works (id est no translations, Vincent de Beauvais, Third Vatican Mythograph, Petrarch, Boccaccio, the author of Rudimentum novitiorum…), Latin translations from French (Guido delle Colonne) and Arabic-Latin and Arabic-Spanish-Latin translations (Aristotle, Dits moraux des philosophes…).
French-language authors thus inherit various previous receptions, which they appropriate and transform, so that they carry on the inventing process of representations of ancient Greece. As the manuscripts and printed books of these new translations often comprise a lot of illustrations, the artists present simultaneously visual translations, which are also based on various sources and previous receptions and show new images of ancient Greece. The question of the reception of ancient Greece will therefore be explored from another perspective than the one adopted until now and which consisted in studying the direct transmission of Greek works.
In the corpus of 1300-1550s French new translations / adaptations which relate to ancient Greece, its history, its heroes, its authors and their works, although they are not direct translations of Greek works, the multiple origins and the syncretism of the knowledge available to authors and artists will be explored, as well as the methods of their appropriation and transformation. We will analyze how this transmission of knowledge that already conduct various interpretations is above all matter of circulation and of creation of representations, and how the elaboration of images of ancient Greece contributes to inventing a cultural memory submitted to a large secular audience both through text and images.
The corpus of studies (texts and images in manuscripts and printed books) will be constituted as follows:
* the translations / adaptations into French of ancient Latin works and the images of ancient Greece that they convey, in particular the translations of the works of Ovid, of the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, of the City of God by Augustine, of De excidio Troiae historia by Darès the Phrygian…
* the retranslations into French of medieval Latin works that are translations from French, such as the ones of the Historia destructionis Troiae by Guido delle Colonne.
* the translations / adaptations into French of medieval Latin works that are not translations, and among the most widely distributed the ones written by Vincent de Beauvais (in the wake of Hélinand de Froidmont), Boccacio, Petrarch, but also many others texts; the images of ancient Greece that the mid-Latin works present and those that their adaptations in French transmit, accurate or not.
* the first indirect translations of Greek works, through Latin, Arabic-Latin or Arabic-Spanish-Latin translations (the French translations of the ethical and political works of Aristotle, the Dits moraux des philosophes…)
* from the 15th century, French translations of Greek works through Latin translations of humanists from Italy and the Netherlands. Particularly, the indirect translations of Xenophon, Plutarch, Thucydides, Diodorus of Sicily, Lucian, Homer, Euripides from the translations of Poggio Bracciolini, Leonardo Bruni, Lorenzo Valla, Guarino Veronese, Pier Candido Decembrio and Erasmus.
* How do the humanist Latin translators of Greek works, and then the French translators of these Latin translations, present their translation initiatives? What images do they give (them and the illustrators of the manuscripts and printed books of their works) of Greek authors and works, and of ancient Greece in works that deal with its history and its characters? What changes are emerging in the reception of ancient Greece?
* the translations into other European vernaculars, during the 15th and 16th centuries, from Latin humanist translations of Greek works. Analyzing the new indirect translations, from Latin, in particular from Xenophon, Plutarch, Thucydides, Diodorus Sicile, Lucien, which are written in the other Romance languages and in the English and Germanic languages, would make it possible to understand the commonalities as well as the differences of translation and reinterpretation in several European cultural fields, the various inflections given to Greek works and images from ancient Greece, the different uses of these translations, the different types of manuscripts and printed books, in their materiality and in their illustrations.
The papers will be published by Brepols publishers, in the “Research on Antiquity Receptions” series.
Travel and accommodation costs will be covered according to the terms of the University of Lille. Contact: Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas
Please submit a short abstract (title and a few lines of presentation) to catherine.bougassas@univ-lille.fr by December 15, 2021.
Call:https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/
(CFP closed December 15, 2021)
[HYBRID] MONSTERS
The University of Western Australia, the University of Reading, and online: September 8-9, 2022
A conference with Limina: a Journal of Cultural and Historical Studies - in collaboration with the HRC Centre for the History of Emotions and the Department of Classics at the University of Reading is now inviting abstract proposals from post-graduate and early career researchers for the 2022 Monsters Conference.
Paper topics may include but are not limited to:
• Monsters in various media and genres (e.g. folklore, mythology, literature, TV, movies, fantasy, horror, etc.)
• Illustrations or representations of monsters
• Creation/construction or deconstruction of monsters
• Adaptation of monsters
• Monsters and identity
• The abject
• Monsters and emotions (e.g. fear, love, etc.)
• Posthuman, nonhuman, and animal studies
• Considerations of ‘Othering’
• Use of ‘monster’ as a descriptive term (e.g. conceptions of appearance and character, such as ‘monstrosities’, ‘ugliness’, ‘deformity’, etc.)
The conference of in-person and virtual presentations will be split between the University of Western Australia and the University of Reading (meaning papers will be given at both of these locations).
Please submit abstracts (max 200 words) and a short biography (max 50 words) to monstersconference2022@gmail.com by 3 June 2022. Please also include your preference for in-person or virtual presentation and which location (either UWA or Reading) you would like to present at.
More information and conference updates can be found on the conference website: https://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/monsters/
(CFP closed June 3, 2022)
[HYBRID] I'M YOUR VENUS: THE RECEPTION OF ANTIQUITY IN MODERN COSMETIC ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
Hybrid - Cardiff University, UK - September 7-9, 2022
Cleopatra soaps, Venus Gillette razors, Ishtar moisturisers, Medusa hair products, and Kouros perfume: names and themes harking back to antiquity are omnipresent in the modern cosmetic industry. But why?
The proposed conference examines the reception of antiquity in cosmetic advertising and marketing from the nineteenth century to the present day. It aims at better understanding the centrality of antiquity in the construction of modern standards of hygiene and beauty, as well as examining and critiquing the image of antiquity that emerges from the modern material.
Questions examined will include: How can we explain the prominence of certain ancient figures, be they divine or human, in the modern cosmetic industry? How are these ancient figures used to promote certain, often toxic, standards, such as whiteness or exoticism (which are not mutually exclusive in cosmetic advertising), thinness, femininity and masculinity, and youth. What role does the notion of ancient secret knowledge play in modern cosmetic advertising? How does cosmetic advertising intersect with and/or build on other media, such as Hollywood, Bollywood, or Nollywood films? How are tropes such as those of the odyssey or the metamorphosis exploited in the modern cosmetic industry? How do these receptions vary across territories, and to what extent are they encouraged or influenced by certain political and economic systems?
We welcome 20-minute papers from scholars working either on antiquity (broadly construed) and its reception or on advertising from the nineteenth century to today. We particularly welcome and encourage the perspectives of scholars from under-represented communities in these disciplines. The conference will be held on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th September 2022 at Cardiff University but will be a hybrid event in which speakers and delegates can also participate online in order to maximise accessibility. Papers can be presented live in person or online, or pre-recorded, and will be followed by 10 minutes for questions. Confirmed speakers include Britta Ager, Sarah Bond, Sean Coughlin, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Tao Makeef, and Anja Wieber.
Please send abstracts (maximum 300 words) for twenty-minute papers to Jane Draycott (Jane.Draycott@Glasgow.ac.uk) or Laurence Totelin (TotelinLM@Cardiff.ac.uk) by January 19, 2022.
Edit (21/8/2022) - Program:
Wednesday 7th September
All times are given in BST (British Summer Time)
1.00-1.30pm Welcome and Introduction
Panel 1: Cinema, entertainment, and cosmetics
1.30–2.00pm
Grace McGowan, Boston University
The Black Venus: Josephine Baker and early twentieth century cosmetics
2.00–2.30pm
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Cardiff University
Sphinx pink lipstick and Salome red nail polish: Marketing cosmetics and ancient world epics in studio-era Hollywood
2.30–3.00pm
Lauren Ginsberg, Duke University
Steam heat parches your skin: Jergens lotion, Neronian violence, and gendered decadence
3.00-3.30pm
Discussion
Break: 3.30–4.00pm
Panel 1 Continued
4.00–4.30pm
Stacie Raucci, Union College
Looking back in beauty: Orpheus and Eurydice in the cosmetics Industry
4.30–5.00pm
Hallie M. Franks, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Actually, I’m Your Venus: Reading KKW Body as Sculpture
Panel 2: Cosmetics in ancient texts and their reception
5.00–5.30pm
Camilla Tosi, Università degli Studi di Bologna
Cape igitur speculum: Cosmetics and stereotypes in Plautus’ Mostellaria
5.30–6.00pm
Charnice Hoegnifioh, Yale University
A beautiful thing is never perfect: The familiar toxic beauty standards hidden in the persuasive language of Ovid’s didactic poetry
6.00–6.30pm
Discussion
Launch of Exhibition in partnership with the Makeup Museum: 6.30–7.00pm
Thursday 8th September
All times are given in BST (British Summer Time)
1.00-1.30pm
Welcome
Panel 3: Queens and goddesses
1.30–2.00pm
Anja Wieber, Dortmund
‘Take a lesson from Cleopatra’: Oriental queens and facial soap ads
2.00–2.30pm
Jane Draycott, University of Glasgow
The use of Cleopatra VII in late nineteenth and early twentieth century soap advertising
2.30–3.00pm
Fiona Henderson
The development of Lime Crime’s ‘Venus’ palette
3.00–3.30pm
Rhiannon Easterbrook, Institute of Classical Studies
The goddess remixed: situating Lime Crime’s Venus range from the blog to the temple
3.30–4.00pm
Discussion
Break: 4.00–4.30pm
Panel 4: Masculinity
4.30–5.00pm
Ricarda Meisl, New York University
Eros Invictus? Scenting the (Greek) male body
5.00–5.30pm
Tao Thykier Makeeff, Universitetet i Stavanger
From Homeric hipsters to Odinic oils: Ancient Greece and the Viking Age in beard product marketing
5.30–6.00pm
Discussion
Friday 9th September
All times are given in BST (British Summer Time)
1.00-1.30pm
Welcome
Panel 5: Perfumes
1.30–2.00pm
Sean Coughlin, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic
The fragrance of places we have not known
2.00–2.30pm
Thomas J. Derrick, University of Leicester
Responses to Greek and Roman archaeological containers in modern perfume and cosmetic packaging
2.30–3.00pm
Britta Ager, Arizona State University
Wearable texts: Classical allusions and customers’ fantasies in perfume advertising
3.00–3.30pm
Claire Mercier, Université Franche-Comté, and Fabien Bièvre-Perrin, Université de Lorraine
Perfume advertising strategies and classical Antiquity: roles and meaning of Greek and Roman reference in long-term marketing campaigns
3.30–4.00pm
Discussion
Break: 4.00–4.30pm
Panel 6: Hygiene, skincare, and class
4.30–5.00pm
Elizabeth Macaulay, The City University of New York
‘Don’t envy beauty – Use Pompeian!’
5.00–5.30pm
Anna Chiara Corradino, Università degli Studi di Bologna
Bloody moon river: Selene, taboo and new mythologies in contemporary menstruation brands and advertisements
5.30–6.00pm
Laurence Totelin, Cardiff University
‘Complexion is the principal seat of beauty’: antiquity and hygiene in early twentieth century French cream advertising
6.00–6.45pm
Final Discussion
Program: https://cf-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/totelinlm_cardiff_ac_uk/EarKvvllPR1Hlqcfowd69M0Bg1Kmge7hI4iMd3kaNZCh2w
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/im-your-venus-the-reception-of-antiquity-in-modern-cosmetic-advertising-tickets-401670365877
Call https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;183cc489.ex
(CFP closed January 19, 2022)
[HYBRID] THE HEALING CLASSICS: MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND THE GRAECO-ROMAN TRADITION
Hybrid - King’s College London, Strand Campus, Council Room: September 7-8, 2022
Programme:
Wednesday 7 September (London time)
9.00-9.30: Welcome and Introduction
9.30-11.00: Session 1: ‘Health in/and Community’
- 9.30-10.00: Mary Margaret McCabe (KCL), “Health’s Trousers”
- 10.00-10.30: Edith Hall (Durham), “Sorrow but Survival: The Therapeutic Moral Example of the Chorus of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon”
- 10.30-11.00: Chiara Blanco (Edinburgh), “Disease, Community and Communication from Antiquity to Today”
11.00-11.15: Break
11.15-12.45: Session 2: ‘Imperial Constructions of Health 1’
- 11.15-11.45: Michiel Meeusen, “An Anatomy of Medical Deceit: Galen on Catching Malingerers”
- 11.45-12.15: Kassandra Miller (Colby College), “Who Has Time to Exercise? Health, Leisure, and Identity in Galen’s On Hygiene”
- 12.15-12.45: Colin Webster (UC Davis), “On Living Longer and Dying More: Empirical and Imperial Epistemologies in Antiquity and the Present”
12.45-14.00: Break
14.00-15.30: Session 3: ‘Imperial Constructions of Health 2’
- 14.00-14.30: Georgia Petridou (Liverpool), “‘Apollo’s Arrow’, Aelius Aristides, and the Antonine Plague: Ancient Epidemics and the ‘Wisdom of the Past’”
- 14.30-15.00: Nephele Papakonstantinou (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), “Embodied emotions and the self in Roman Rhetorical Education under the High Empire”
- 15.00-15.30: Daniel King (Exeter), “Reading the Ill Body: Diagnosis as an explanatory process in Imperial medicine and culture”
15.30-16.00: Break
16.00-18.00: Session 4: ‘Creative Classics’ & ‘Classics and Disability’
- 16.00-16.30: Peter Meineck (NYU), “(Re) Performing Trauma – A Field Report”
- 16.30-17.00: Susan Deacy (Roehampton), “‘Sounds like being autistic’: how the ‘classical tradition’, especially myths of Hercules, resonates with autism”
- 17.00-17.30: Ellen Adams (KCL), “Blindness: classical antiquity and modernity”
- 17.30-18.00: Christian Laes (Manchester), “Insomnia in Antiquity”
Thursday 8 September
8.45-9.00: Welcome
9.00-10.30: Session 5: ‘Grief and Dignity’
- 9.00.-9.30: John Boulton (University of Sydney/Newcastle, NSW), “Dignitas infanti mortuo: the legacy of baby loss in the Graeco-Roman Tradition”
- 9.30-10.00: Jane Bellemore (University of Newcastle, NSW), “Corellius’s choice: autonomy, ethics, and dying with dignity”
- 10.00-10.30: Vasiliki Kondylaki (Lausanne), “Achilles’ ἄχος in the Iliad: Homer as a grief therapist?”
- 10.30-10.45: Break
10.45-12.45: Session 6: ‘Disease and Healthcare Interactions’
- 10.45-11.15: Brian Hurwitz (KCL), “A New Rationale for the Performance of Trickery as Treatment in Epidemics VI 5.7”
- 11.15-11.45: Loren Demol (Macquarie University), “Patient Care and ‘Human Qualities’ in Ancient Graeco-Roman Medicine”
- 11.45-12.15: Saloni de Souza (UCL), “When the Age is in, So is the Wit: Old Age in Health and Social Care”
- 12.15-12.45: Chiara Thumiger (Cluster of Excellence Roots, Kiel), “‘Cura eum possideat’. Disease as Animal, Disease as Plant”
12.45-13.00: General discussion, publication plans, conclusion
Program: https://thehealingclassics.blogspot.com/2022/01/conference-7-8-september-2022.html
ROMA SINICA III
Languages of Science between Western and Eastern Civilizations
Pisa, Aula Savi, Orto Botanico, via Luca Ghini 13: September 7-9, 2022
Sponsors: Università di Pisa - Università di Torino Università di Siena - DFCLAM - Centro Studi Comparati “I Deug-Su”
Programme
7 September 15.00-18.30
15.00 Chiara Ombretta Tommasi (Univ. of Pisa)
Introduction to the conference
Language and Philosophy of Science
Chair Luisa Andriollo (Univ. of Pisa)
15.15 Ugo Baldini (Univ. of Padova)
La scienza occidentale trasmessa in Oriente:
antichità e modernità
16.00 Sven Günther (Northeast Normal University)
Western Antiquity in G.P. Maffei’s Historiae Indicae,
Book VI: China”
16.30 Kim Kihoon (Seoul National University)
On the Reception of Matteo Ricci’s On Friendship
in East Asia
17.00 Coffee Break
17.15 Biagio Santorelli (Univ. of Genova)
Tradurre la scienza cinese:
la China Illustrata di Athanasius Kircher
17.45 Luisa Maria Paternicò (Univ. of Napoli “L’Orientale”)
Descrivere la grammatica cinese in latino
nell’Europa del Settecento
18.15 Discussion: speaker Luigia Businarolo (Este),
Domitilla Campanile (Univ. of Pisa)
20.00 Dinner
8 September 9.00-18.00
Humanistic Science
Chair Andrea Raggi (Univ. of Pisa)
9.00 Noël Golvers (KU Leuven)
Le biblioteche dei gesuiti sulla scienza occidentale in Cina
9.45 Hui Li (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
Uno studio sul De vita Confusii
di Caro Orazio da Castorano (online)
10.15 Almut Barbara Renger (Basel – FU Berlin)
“Buddha, the Enlightened”: Cross-cultural dynamics between
Asia, Europe, and North America and the discovery
of Buddhism as a religion of reason (online)
10.45 Coffee Break
11.00 Raissa De Gruttola (Univ. of Perugia)
Translating the Bible into Chinese: historical and linguistic features
11.30 Antonio De Caro (Univ. of Torino – SERICA)
Fr. Angelo A. Zottoli S. J. (Chao Deli 晁德蒞)
A concise biography of a Sino-Latin educated Jesuit
missionary in 19th century Zi-ka-wei
12.00 Aldo Petrucci (Univ. of Pisa)
Diritto Romano e tradizione giuridica cinese nell’ultimo secolo
12.30 Discussion: speaker Pei-ying Lin (Taiwan)
13.00 Lunch
Humanistic and Hard Science
Chair Ester Bianchi (Univ. of Perugia)
14.30 Tiziana Lippiello (Univ. of Venezia “Ca’ Foscari”)
The Language of the Scientia Politico-moralis
between Chinese and Latin
15.00 Monica Miazek-Męczyńska (Univ. Adam Mickiewicz Poznan)
Censorship, jealousy, incompetence or bad luck? Why some of
Michał Boym’s scientific works have not been published (yet)
15.30 Arianna Magnani (Univ. Kore of Enna)
Ars medica Sinarum: testimonianze di dialogo interculturale
tra la Cina e l’Europa nel Seicento
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 Claudia von Collani (Univ. Würzburg)
Astronomia cinese e occidentale: Adam Schall
17.00 Zhang Qiong (Wake Forest University)
Aristotelian Meteorology and the Art of War
in Seventeenth-Century China
17.30 Sara Procaccini (Univ. Napoli “L’Orientale” – SERICA)
Antroponimi, toponimi e realia nei testi latini sulla Cina
Antonella Napolitano
Lettere latine di Gaetano Xu, allievo de Il Collegio de’ Cinesi
9 September 9.00-13.00
Hard Science
Chair Chiara Barbati (Univ. of Pisa)
9.00 Mario Cimino (Univ. of Pisa), Emmanuela Carbé (Univ. of Siena)
Aspetti e problemi della banca dati SERICA
9.30 Michele Castelnovi (Univ. of Genova)
Latine Clausa Recludo: Martini e la diffusione in Europa
della conoscenza cartografica sulla Cina
10.00 Coffee Break
10.30 Alberto Anrò (Univ. of Torino – SERICA):
È questione di metodo: analisi lessicali, funzionali,
procedurali e contestuali. Testi sanscriti (V-VII) e latini (XII)
su algorismi e notazione numerica.
Fabio Guidetti (Univ. of Pisa – SERICA):
Testi astronomici in latino nella tradizione cinese
11.00 Filippo Mignini (Univ. of Macerata)
Presupposti scientifici e dottrinali del confronto tra buddhismo
e cristianesimo in Cina nelle Dispute postume di Yu Chunxi,
Matteo Ricci e altri (Pechino 1629)
11.45 Andrea Balbo (Univ. of Torino)
Francesco Stella (Univ. of Siena)
Final discussion and closing remarks
Streaming https://www.cfs.unipi.it/c/220907-09-serica-YT
Meet https://cfs.unipi.it/c/220606-serica
GLOBAL LATIN II
Latin as a Vector of Cultural Exchange beyond Europe
Siena, Santa Chiara Lab, via Val di Montone 1: September 5-6, 2022
Sponsors: Università di Siena - DFCLAM - Centro Studi Comparati “I Deug-Su” Università di Pisa - Università di Torino
Programme
5 September 15.00-18.30
The Cultural exchange and the role of Latin
15.00 Saluti - Francesco Frati (Rector - Univ. of Siena); Francesco Stella (Director of Center “I Deug-Su” - Univ. of Siena)
Chair Noël Golvers (Univ. Louvain)
15.15 Françoise Waquet (CNRS, Paris)
Observatoires locaux, valeurs globales.
Discours sur l’universalité du latin
16.00 Adriano Prosperi (SNS, Pisa)
Un caso speciale, il latino come lingua sacra
16.45 Coffee Break
Chair Sven Günther (Northeast Normal University)
17.00 Yasmin Haskell (Univ. of Western Australia)
Deities, demons… or decoration? Eastern gods
in Francesco Benci’s “Quinque martyres” (1591)
and Bartolomeu Pereira’s “Paceidos libri xii” (1640)
17.30 Anna Di Toro (Unistrasi - Siena)
La grammatica cinese in latino di Prémare
18.00 Philipp Roelli (Univ. Zürich)
The types of scientific Latin used by authors in China
18.30 Discussion
6 September 9.30-13.00
The discovery of an unexplored textual
heritage Japan - China
Chair Maurizio Bettini (Univ. di Siena)
9.30 Akihiko Watanabe (Otsuma Women University, Tokyo)
Mercury and the Argonauts in Japan
Myths and Martyrs in Jesuit Neo-Latin
10.00 Aldo Tollini (Univ. Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)
Il ruolo del latino nelle missioni cristiane
in Giappone del XVI e XVII secolo
10.30 Coffee Break
Cina - China
11.00 Mingguang Xie (Beijing Foreign Studies University); Massimiliano Carloni (SNS, Pisa)
The Italian Jesuit Michele Ruggieri
and his Latin Poems on Chinese Missions
11.30 Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (TU Dresden)
Latin as a world language? China as test case
12.00 Discussion
6 September 15.00-18.00
New horizons, new projects
Chair Jung Imsuk (Unistrasi - Siena)
Corea
15.00 Ahn Jaewon
(Seoul National University)
On the significance of Latin language
in Korean Historiography:
focusing on Congr. Riti. Processus 5279
15.30 Kim Kukjin (Unistrasi - Siena)
Le conoscenze mediche in lingua latina
nella Corea del XVIII secolo
Africa
16.00 Leonardo Cohen (Univ. of Be’er Sheva); Paul Rodrigue (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
Expeditio Aethiopica by the Catholic Patriarch
of Ethiopia: A Dispute with an European Jew
Concerning the Divine Nature of the Messiah
16.30 Coffee Break
Projects in progress
Chair Gastón Xavier Basile (Univ. of Buenos Aires)
17.00 Maria Cristina De Castro Maia Pimentel
Res Sinicae project (Univ. of Lisbona)
Persuadere, discutere e informare: l’uso del latino
nelle “Cartae Annuae” inviate dalla Cina
17.30 Stefan Zathammer - Dominik Berrens
(Univ. Innsbruck)
NOSCEMUS - Nova Scientia:
Early Modern Scientific Literature and Latin
18.00 Tavola rotonda - Round table
with Chiara Tommasi (Univ. Pisa - SERICA), Andrea Balbo (Univ. Torino - SERICA),
Kim Kihoon (Seoul National University)
Conclusions: towards the meeting in Pisa
Streaming https://www.youtube.com/dfclam_unisiena
Webex https://unisi.webex.com/meet/global_latin
CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY. ON THE ROLE OF ANTIQUITY IN EUROPEAN AND NON-EUROPEAN SELF-DISCOVERY
(IDENTITÄTSKONSTRUKTIONEN. ZUR ROLLE DER ANTIKE FÜR DIE EUROPÄISCHE UND AUSSEREUROPÄISCHE
SELBSTFINDUNG)
Second international ZAZH-Conference
Center for the Study of the Ancient World (ZAZH), University of Zurich: September 1–3, 2022
The conference, organized by the ZAZH – Center for the Study of the Ancient World, UZH (www.zazh.uzh.ch) and scheduled for September 1–3, 2022, aims to examine the complexity and dynamics of the processes that apply to very different conceptions of antiquity and that govern, pervade, and animate the narratives of European and Non-European identity in modern times.
The conference includes public lectures by François Bayrou (Paris / Pau), Edith Hall (Durham) and Stéphanie-Anne Ruatta (Québec).
Programme
Thursday, 1st September 2022, KO2-F-180
14–14:15 Uhr Grussworte des Prodekans Forschung der Philosophischen Fakultät der UZH Raji Steineck und der Organisator:innen
14:15–15 Uhr Stefan Rebenich (Bern)
Renaissancen. Die Wiederkehr der Antike und die europäische Identität
15–15:45 Uhr Jürgen Leonhardt (Tübingen)
Europa und die lateinische Sprache
Pause
16:15–17 Uhr José Luis Alonso (Zürich)
Europa und das römische Recht
17–17:45 Uhr Sotera Fornaro (Sassari)
Rethinking Greek Tragedy. Die Gegenwart der griechischen Tragödie und die europäische Identität
Abendvortrag François Bayrou (Haut-Commissaire au Plan, Maire de Pau)
18:15 Uhr L’héritage de l’Antiquité dans la réflexion sur l’Europe contemporaine
(öffentlich)
Mit Grusswort der Prorektorin Forschung der UZH Elisabeth Stark
Friday, 2nd September 2022, KO2-F-180
9:15–10 Uhr Alessandro Saggioro (Rom)
Materiality of the History of Peace from Past to Nowadays: Ideas, Examples, Analysis from the Point of View of History of Religions
10–10:45 Uhr Thomas Davies (Melbourne)
Philosophical Barbarians: European Historiography of Ancient Philosophy after 1600
Pause
11:15–12 Uhr Tejas Aralere (Santa Barbara)
Classics, Sanskrit, and the Formation of Transnational European Identity
12–12:45 Uhr Yasmin Frommont (Heidelberg)
Alle Wege führen nach Rom: Das Erbe der antiken Kaiser und urbane Machtinszenierungsstrategien Papst Pius’ IV.
Mittag
14:15–15 Uhr Joschka Meier (Zürich)
Archaeologists, Anthropologists, and the Quest for a ‹Swiss Identity›: Academic Perceptions of the Past, Identity, and Eugenics
15–15:45 Uhr Blaz Zabel (Ljubljana)
How Homer shaped the Births and Ends of Balkan States
Pause
16:15–17 Uhr David van Schoor (Grahamstown / Atlanta)
Strangers at the Gates: Greece, Rome, and Identity in Colonial Africa
17–17:45 Uhr Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (Chicago)
Harmony for the World: Plato, Confucius, and Chinese Foreign Policy
Abendvortrag Edith Hall (Durham)
18:15 Uhr Brexit, the Roman Empire, and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
(öffentlich)
Saturday, 3rd September 2022, KO2-F-180
9:15–10 Uhr Wolfram Kinzig (Bonn)
Das Christentum und die Einheit und Spaltung Europas
10–10:45 Uhr Hans Daiber (Frankfurt a. M.)
Menschliche Werte im islamischen Denken. Antike Wurzeln und europäischer Humanismus
Pause
11:15–12 Uhr Sarah Budasz (Amsterdam)
Spartacus, Romulus, and the Roman Origins of Early Haitian National Narratives
12–12:45 Uhr Jackie Murray (Lexington)
The Black Classicism and the Jamaica Poet: Ishion Hutchinson’s Far District and House of Lords and Commons
Mittag
14:15–15 Uhr Katherine Kelaidis (Chicago)
Greeks, Ancient and Modern: Antiquity and the Construction of Modern Greek Racial Identity in Americas
15:00–15:45 Uhr Anna Schriefl (Berlin)
References to Greco-Roman Antiquity in Germany’s ‹Neue Rechte›
Pause
Schlussvortrag Stéphanie-Anne Ruatta (Québec)
16:15–17.15 Uhr History as a Game Foundation in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
(öffentlich)
Further information: https://www.zazh.uzh.ch/de/taetigkeiten/veranstaltungen/Tagungen.html
SAPIENS UBIQUE CIVIS IX
PhD Student and Young Scholar Conference on Classics and the Reception of Antiquity
University of Szeged, Hungary: August 31–September 2, 2022
The Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary is pleased to announce its International Conference Sapiens Ubique Civis IX – Szeged 2022, for PhD Students, Young Scholars, as well as M.A. students aspiring to apply to a PhD program.
The aim of the conference is to bring together an international group of young scholars working in various places, languages, and fields. Papers on a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to the literature, history, philology, philosophy, linguistics and archaeology of Greece and Rome, Byzantinology, Neo-Latin studies, and reception of the classics, as well as papers dealing with theatre studies, digital humanities, comparative literature, contemporary literature, and fine arts related to the Antiquity are welcome. We are also happy to accept submissions concerning didactic methods in teaching Latin and other classical subjects.
The conference is planned to be held as a traditional “offline” one. If the pandemic situation makes it necessary to switch to online, we will inform you in due course.
Lectures: The language of the conference is English. Thematic sessions and plenary lectures will be scheduled. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes, followed by discussion.
Abstracts: Abstracts of maximum 300 words should be sent by email as a Word attachment to sapiensuc@gmail.com strictly before June 15, 2022. The abstracts should be proofread by a native speaker. The document should also contain personal information of the author, including name, affiliation and contact email address, as well as the title of the presentation.
Acceptance notification will be sent to you until July 5, 2022.
Registration: The registration fee for the conference is €60. The participation fee includes conference pack, reception meal, closing event, extra programs, and refreshments during coffee breaks. The participation fee does not include accommodation, but the conference coordinators will assist the conference participants in finding accommodation in the city centre.
If the conference will take place as an online one, the registration fee will be reduced.
Publication: All papers will be considered for publication in the peer-reviewed journal on Classics entitled Sapiens ubique civis, published in cooperation with the ELTE Eötvös József Collegium.
Getting here: Szeged, the largest city of Southern Hungary, can be easily reached by rail from Budapest and the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. Those who prefer travelling by car can choose the European route E75, and then should take the Hungarian M5 motorway, a section of E75, passing by the city.
For general inquiries about the conference, please contact Dr Gergő Gellérfi: gellerfigergo@gmail.com.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;27e82c80.ex
(CFP closed June 15, 2022)
[ONLINE] INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL MIRROR STUDIES CONFERENCE (IVMSC 2022)
Online - August 29-31, 2022
Theme: Mirrors: an interdisciplinary approach
After the first and second International Virtual Mirrors Studies Conference (March, 2020 and 2021), the Mirror Studies Project, is organizing an International Virtual Mirror Studies Conference #3 (IVMSC) for 2022. The conference theme is Mirrors: an interdisciplinary approach. This is a conference open for scholars and artists.
The main topic of this conference is mirrors and interdisciplinary approaches. Scholars and researchers from different academic backgrounds who have done research about mirrors from various perspectives are all welcome. Mirrors as objects have been important in numerous academic fields: aemrts (sculpture, pictures, photography), literature (Perseus and Medusa, fairy tales such as Snow White and Beauty and the Beast, the children’s book Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll), humanities (written sources about mirrors, folk tales about mirrors), science (Archimedes and his mirror during the siege of Syracuse, physical tests of lightness and waves, chemical reports of texture and materials, metallurgical or glass analysis), social sciences (mirrors as social expression or tool used in rituals, religion festivals and funerals), political sciences (mirrors as gifts, political plans of sharing and spreading mirrors), psychology (mirroring, mirrors and soul, self-reflection), psychoanalysis (Lacan and the mirror phase, Jung and symbolic mirrors, Freud and mirrors), philosophy (Foucault and heterotopia, Derrida and deconstruction, Wang Minan and mirrors), popular culture (movies, comics, journalism) and archaeology (mirrors within archaeological context).
Some of the suggested topics are:
* Mirrors as archaeological objects (types, uses, context, decorations, functions etc.)
* Mirrors and geography (space, environment, mapping, GIS etc.)
* Mirrors and humanities (history, ethnology, literature, anthropology etc.)
* Mirrors and social sciences (sociology, international relations, psychology etc.)
* Mirrors and sciences (physics, chemistry, metallurgy etc.)
* Mirrors and art (sculptures, pictures, photography, movies, comics, contemporary art etc.)
* Mirrors and philosophy (ancient and contemporary thoughts and concepts about mirrors)
The working language is English. We urge authors to apply for this virtual conference. It is possible to sign up as an individual presenter or as a member of one session. Each session is requested with a set of at least three presentations. Every session will have a chair and discussant who will be selected by organizers.
The date of the conference is August 29-31 2022 (Monday-Wednesday) and abstracts according to the instructions and application for participation should be submitted by January 10 2022, to the following e-mail address: goran.djurdjevich@gmail.com; mirrorstudies@gmail.com. Acknowledgement of receipt shall be sent before January 30 2022.
Authors can sign up independently or as co-author of a paper. The number of works by a single author is unlimited. Registration for the conference is online using the application form for registration. The conference will take place through suitable software for conferences on which any participants would be notified at the time.
Organizers will provide a Book of abstracts with the main information about the conference schedule, contact and instructions for online attending. Proceedings have the potential to be published, according to the papers delivered and interests of participants.
You can learn more about the Mirror Studies Project here: http://mirrorstudies.com/
Please feel free to share our CfP with your colleagues. We do not have any age limit, so every scholar is welcome!
Deadline: submission - January 10th 2022.
Contact: mirrorstudies@gmail.com and goran.djurdjevich@gmail.com
Call: https://ea-aaa.eu/cfp-international-virtual-mirror-studies-conference-ivmsc-2022/
(CFP closed January 10, 2022)
[HYBRID] CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND MEDIEVAL IRELAND CONFERENCE
[Hybrid] Aarhus University, Denmark: August 29-31, 2022
Registration is now open for both in-person and online attendance at the conference Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland, to be hosted at Aarhus University, Denmark, 29-31 August 2022. The conference is funded by the European Research Council and the Carlsberg Foundation. A provisional programme is posted below:
Monday 29 August
8:30-9:00 Registration, Tea/Coffee
9:00-10:30 Session 1: Conference Welcome and Opening Keynote
9:00-9:15 Welcome (Isabelle Torrance and Michael Clarke)
9:15-9:30 ‘Classical Reception and Medieval Irish Texts’ (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University)
9:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture. Chair: Pernille Hermann (Aarhus University). ‘Medieval Irish Classicism in Context’ (Ralph O’Connor, University of Aberdeen; on ZOOM)
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00-12:30 Session 2: Gaelic Book Culture, Chronology, Correlation I
11:00-11:30 ‘Gaelic Book Culture and the Dynamics of Manuscript Survival’ (Michael Clarke, National University of Ireland, Galway, and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, University of Cambridge)
11:30-12:00 'Irish and world history in the first fragment of the Annals of Tigernach (Rawlinson B 502)' (Patrick Wadden, Belmont Abbey College)
12:00-12:30 ‘Gilla Cóemáin’s Annálad anall uile (‘All the keeping of annalistic records heretofore’)’ (Peadar Mac Gabhann, Ulster University)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Session 3: Gaelic Book Culture, Chronology, Correlation II
12:30-13:00 Réidig dam, a Dé de nim | co héimid a n-indisin (‘Elucidate for me, O God of Heaven | swiftly the account of them [the kings of the world]’ (Peadar Mac Gabhann, Ulster University)
13:00-13:30 ‘Sé bliadna .l. ’mallé 'Fifty-six years together'– A Poem on Biblical Chronology’ (Elizabeth Boyle, National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
14:30-15:30 Session 4: The Matter of Troy I
14:30-15:00 ‘Luid Iasón in a luing lóir (Jason went in his spacious ship): The history of Troy in Syllabic Verse’ (Michael Clarke, National University of Ireland, Galway)
15:00-15:30 ‘Togail Troí (The Destruction of Troy) Recension 1: Extended Battle Scene’ (Brent Miles, University of Toronto)
15:30-16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00-17:30 Session 5: The Matter of Troy II
16:00-16:30 ‘Togail Troí (The Destruction of Troy), the later recensions: Mythography and Creativity (Michael Clarke, National University of Ireland, Galway)
16:30-17:00 ‘Don Tres Troí (On the Third Troy)’ (Brent Miles, University of Toronto)
17:00-17:30 ‘The Wandering of Ulysses son of Laertes (Merugud Uilixis meic Leirtis)' (Barbara Hillers, Indiana University, Bloomington)
18:00-19:30 Welcome Reception Antikmuseet
Tuesday 30 August
9:00-10:00 Session 6: Adaptation of Latin Epic I: Mythography of Thebes
9:00-9:30 ‘From proem to prologue: Cadmus and the foundation of Thebes in the Middle Irish Thebaid [adapted from Statius]’ (Mariamne Briggs, Independent Scholar)
9:30-10:00 ‘Riss in Mundtuirc (The Tale of the Necklace [of Harmonia])’ (Brent Miles, University of Toronto)
10:00-10:30 Tea/Coffee
10:30-12:30 Session 7: Adaptation of Latin Epic II
10:30-11:30 ‘Excerpts from Imtheachta Aeniasa (The Adventures of Aeneas [adapted from Virgil]): Aeneas the traitor; a battle-scene; a show-piece’ (Erich Poppe, University of Marburg; on ZOOM)
11:30-12:00 ‘The Pseudohistorical Prologue to In Cath Catharda [adapted from Lucan's Pharsalia] ’ (Brigid K. Ehrmantraut, University of Cambridge)
12:00-12:30 ‘Gaelicising Similes, Classicising Similes in In Cath Catharda [adapted from Lucan's Pharsalia]’ (Maio Nagashima, University of Tokyo)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Session 8: Adaptation of Latin Epic III
13:30-14:00 ‘The Scholiastic Context of In Cath Catharda [adapted from Lucan's Pharsalia]’ (Cillian O’Hogan, University of Toronto; on ZOOM)
14:00-14:30 ‘A Battle-tale within the Battle-tale: Creative adaptation of Lucan’s Book 7’ (Maio Nagashima, University of Toyko)
14:30-15:00 Tea/Coffee
15:00-16:30 Session 9: Mythography and Pseudohistory I
15:00-15:30 ‘How Samson Slew the Gesteda (at Troy)’ (Brigid K. Ehrmantraut, University of Cambridge)
15:30-16:00 'Classical Tragedy reimagined: Fingal Chlainne Tanntail (The Kin-Slaying of the Family of Tantalus)’ (Robert Crampton, Independent Scholar)
16:00-16:30 'Daedalus, Icarus and the Minotaur (Sgél in Mínaduir)’ (Barbara Hillers, Indiana University, Bloomington)
Wednesday 31 August
9:00-10:00 Session 10: Mythography and Pseudohistory II
9:00-9:30 ‘Scéla Alaxandair (The Saga of Alexander [the Great]): Sources and Analogues’ (Cameron Wachowich, University of Toronto)
9:30-10:00 ‘Stair Ercuil ocus a Bás (The History of Hercules and his Death)’ (Gregory R. Darwin, Uppsala University)
10:00-10:30 Tea/Coffee
10:30-12:30 Session 11: World Knowledge and Indigenous Tradition I
10:30-11:00 ‘Clann Ollaman Uaisle Emna (The Nobles of Emain are the Children of Ollam): Troy and the Politics of Medieval Ulster (Michael Clarke, National University of Ireland, Galway)
11:00-11:30 ‘Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh (The War of the Irish against the Vikings)’ (Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, University of Cambridge)
11:30-12:00 ‘The Tower of Babel and the Early Irish Grammarian: New Considerations from the Book of Uí Mhaine copy of Auraicept na nÉces (The Scholars' Primer)’ (Nicolai Engesland, National University of Ireland, Galway)
12:00-12:30 ‘A Tract on Nemed’s Ancestry and Descendants in Lebor Gabála Érenn’ (John Carey, University College Cork)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Session 12: World Knowledge and Indigenous Tradition II
13:30-14:00 ‘Dindshenchas (Lore of Places)’ (Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, University of Cambridge)
14:00-14:30 ‘Dindshenchas (Lore of Places)’ (Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, University of Cambridge)
14:30-15:00 ‘Suidiugud Tellaig Temra (The Settling of the Manor of Tara)’ (Daniel Watson, Aarhus University)
15:00-15:30 ‘Scéla na Esérgi – An Eschatological Treatise’ (Elizabeth Boyle, National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
15:30-16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00-17:00 Closing Keynote
Chair: Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge)
‘European Perspectives’ (Lars Boje Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark)
19:00 Conference Dinner
The programme will form the basis of a book to be published by Bloomsbury. Inquiries to itorrance@cc.au.dk.
Website/Registration: https://events.au.dk/classicalantiquityandmedievalireland2022/about
[ONLINE] [FIEC PANEL] HESPERIAN TRANSFORMATIONS: NEW APPROACHES TO THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
16th International Congress on Classical Studies of the Féderation Internationale des associations d’ètudes classiques (FIEC)
Online - Mexico City: August 1-5, 2022
Hesperides, a new scholarly organization for the study of the legacies of the ancient Mediterranean in Luso-Hispanic contexts, invites papers for a panel at the upcoming conference of FIEC, to be held virtually in Mexico in 2022. This session, part of “Module 1: Discourses of appropriation and identity,” will showcase the breadth of contemporary scholarship on diverse manifestations of Greco-Roman traditions across and between Iberian contact zones, from the Mediterranean, to the Americas, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and beyond.
To present the most inclusive snapshot of current scholarship in these contexts, this panel seeks papers that transcend traditional disciplinary distinctions, periodizations, geographic boundaries, and linguistic divides. We therefore welcome submissions from scholars whose work engages with classical legacies as they intersect with any of these cultural, geographic, or linguistic contexts, from premodernity to the 21st century.
The panel invites participants to consider these perspectives through the metaphor of transformation, which gives equal emphasis to receiving contexts and received cultures (Baker, Helmrath and Kallendorf 2019), or through alternative methodologies that highlight the importance of such contexts for the modification of received cultures. Successful submissions will reflect on these Hesperian transformations for current conceptions of the discipline of classics more generally. Possible areas of inquiry include:
- new methods and theoretical models for interpreting the uses of classical antiquity beyond the Global North
- studies of classical reception that trace original political, ideological or philosophical re-elaborations of antiquity in Luso-Hispanic contexts
- the contributions of those who have been overlooked in previous scholarship, such as indigenous, Afrodescendent, and female voices
- diverse forms of cultural production, learned and popular, across media and modality, representing non-elite in addition to elite perspectives
- analyses of classical reception through the lenses of non-European modalities of time, space, ontology and epistemologies
- aesthetic or literary studies of classical texts and art that acquire new forms or different meanings in Luso-Hispanic contexts
- engagement with critical theories and frameworks outside the field of classics that enrich the study of antiquity and its reception
Please send a proposal for a 20-minute paper as an email attachment (Microsoft Word .doc) to contact@hesperideslusohispano.org, with the title “FIEC: Hesperian Transformations” in the subject line. The deadline for submissions is July 5, 2021. Proposals should include the information indicated below and will be reviewed anonymously by the organizers, who will make final selections by July 19, 2021. The languages of FIEC are English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Please include the following information in your proposal submission:
- Name
- Country
- Institutional affiliation
- Academic degree
- Discipline/career
- Reference information for your three most recent publications
- Title for proposed paper
- Reference information about your theme (maximum 5 titles)
- Paper abstract (300 words max)
Hesperides: https://www.hesperideslusohispano.org/
Call: https://www.hesperideslusohispano.org/fiec2022
(CFP closed July 5, 2021)
[ONLINE] FIEC 2022. THEME - CLASSICS AND THE AMERICANS: SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES... NEW GLANCES AT THE SAME CANON?
16th International Congress on Classical Studies of the Féderation Internationale des associations d’ètudes classiques (FIEC)
Online - Mexico City (UNAM/AMEC): August 1-5, 2022
The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and the Asociación Mexicana de
Estudios Clásicos, A.C. (AMEC) are pleased to announce the 16th International Congress
on Classical Studies of the Fédération internationale des associations d’études classiques
(FIEC) which will be held on 1st - 5th August 2022. Due to sanitary precautions worldwide,
the congress will take place in a completely virtual modality under the following title:
Classics and the Americas - Shifting Perspectives... new glances at the same canon?
GENERAL PROGRAMME
1. Appropriation and Self
2. Negotiation and Subversion
3. Empire and Emancipation
4. Materialities and Textualities
5. Discourses on Genre
6. Discourses on Nature and Body
7. Discourses of Globalization and Regionalism
We invite scholars and specialists on Classical Studies from all over the world to send proposals on papers (only one per person, no longer than a 20-minute reading), to be distributed among plenary and thematic sessions and to fill out the correspondent registration
form. Please consider the following important dates:
Reception of proposals: from 12th April to 31st July 2021
Evaluation of proposals: from 1st August to 30th September 2021
Notification of results: from 1st October to 30th November 2021
All proposals will be peer-reviewed by an Evaluation Committee. Once they are accepted and
authors notified, the inscription fee must be paid for the participation to become effective.
All along the process we will be posting announcements on our webpage:
https://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/congresofiecmexico2022/#
This is the first time the FIEC Congress is held in Mexico; this is the first it takes place entirely on a virtual environment — we are very excited about these firsts, and we welcome
your proposals! Surely the Classics will be as exciting from a virtual experience!
Call: https://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/congresofiecmexico2022/#
(CFP closed July 31, 2021)
THE MARY RENAULT PRIZE
Applications close: July annually.
The deadline for the 2022 Mary Renault Prize competition is: Friday 29th July, 2022.
The Mary Renault Prize is a Classical Reception essay prize for school or college sixth form pupils, awarded by the Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College, and funded by the royalties from Mary Renault’s novels.
The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College offer two or more Prizes, worth up to £300 each, for essays on classical reception or influence submitted by pupils who, at the closing date, have been in the Sixth Form of any school or college for a period of not more than two years. The prizes are in memory of the author Mary Renault, who is best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece, recently reissued by Virago. Renault read English at St Hugh’s in the 1920s and subsequently taught herself ancient Greek. Her novels have inspired many thousands of readers to pursue the study of Classics at University level and beyond. At least one prize will be awarded a pupil who is not studying either Latin or Greek to A-level standard. The winning essay will be published on the College’s website. Teachers wishing to encourage their students to enter the competition can download, display and circulate the competition poster in the ‘related documents’ section.
Essays can be from any discipline and should be on a topic relating to the reception of classical antiquity – including Greek and Roman literature, history, political thought, philosophy, and material remains – in any period to the present; essays on reception within classical antiquity (for instance, receptions of literary or artistic works or of mythical or historical figures) are permitted. Your submission must be accompanied by a completed information cover sheet. Essays should be between two-thousand and four-thousand words and submitted by the candidate as a Microsoft Word document through the form below.
Website: https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/the-mary-renault-2022-essay-competition-is-now-open/
[HYBRID] ANCIENT AND MODERN NARRATIVES OF THE GRECO-PERSIAN WARS
Hybrid - from University College London: July 28-29, 2022
The UCL department of Greek and Latin is pleased to announce the conference entitled ‘Ancient and Modern Narratives of the Greco-Persian Wars’. Papers concerning perception and reception of primary sources relating to the Greco-Persian Wars are welcomed (28th-29th July)
For the Greeks who formed the alliance against Xerxes, the climax of the Persian Wars was a real-life epic. Its heroes were glorified in songs that showed gods fighting on their side and invoked the Trojan War. The story immediately turned into a battleground as states and individuals staked their claim to greater glory and importance than the rest.
To get from this cluster of self-serving legends to a reliable narrative of events was always an uphill struggle – and rarely a welcome one. We hope to explore the development of the history of the Persian Wars as people through the centuries read and redefined it. What place did it have in their understanding of history, politics, culture? What variations in emphasis and message do we find, especially when we look beyond the perspectives of classically educated Europeans? How do we explain the modern western divergence between a relatively uncritical image of Greek heroism in popular culture, and a fiercely critical and revisionist approach in academic scholarship?
Due to the pandemic, the speakers and audience can join virtually (via Zoom) or in-person at UCL. We accept presentations of 30 minutes or under.
The conference will be held over two days:
Day 1: Talks pertaining to ancient sources
Day 2: Talks pertaining to modern sources
Example areas of interest include (relating to the Greco-Persian Wars):
- Reception of the Greco-Persian Wars
- Greek reception
- Persian/Iranian reception
- Modern day significance
- Glorification in recent works
- Misunderstandings in/of historiographical works.
- Modern sources on the Wars
- Ancient sources on the Wars
- The effect of modern politics on perception of historiography
Applications are open to all graduate students and above. Please email your abstract of 300 words to mohammad.arghandehpour.16@ucl.ac.uk by 25th March, 2022 extended deadline April 15, 2022.
Organised by Mateen Arghandehpour (UCL) and Dr Roel Konijnendijk (Edinburgh University).
Edited 17/7/2022 - Program (BST):
Day 1 (Thursday 28 July)
9:00 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and introduction
10:15 – 11:00 TBC – Mateen Arghandehpour (UCL)
11:00 – 11:45 The Ionian Revolt: old and new perspectives – John B. Knight & Alan M. Greaves (University of Liverpool)
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 13:45 Keynote: Rosie Harman on Xenophon
13:45 – 14:15 Tea and coffee
14:15 – 15:00 The Antigonids and Athens: the Greco-Persian Wars tradition in the early Hellenistic period – Kyohei Sakeshima (University of Edinburgh)
15:00 – 15:45 Chariton’s representations of Greek and Persian women in Callirhoe – Katie McHugh (UCL)
15:45 – 16:15 Tea and coffee
16:15 – 17:00 Before Herodotos: the ‘multimedial commemoration of the Persian Wars – Giorgia Proietti (University of Trento)
Dinner
Day 2 (Friday 29 July)
10:00 – 10:15 Introduction and recap
10:15 – 11:00 The Persian Wars in the study of Greek warfare – Roel Konijnendijk (University of Edinburgh)
11:00 – 11:45 True/False Persians? Persian names on ancient and modern scenes – Martina Treu (Università IULM)
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 13:45 Keynote: Hans van Wees on Ktesias
13:45 – 14:15 Tea and coffee
14:15 – 15:00 The Greco-Persian War in the Ideological Construction of Roman Imperium between c. 200-188 BCE. – Connor Beattie (Oxford)
15:00 – 15:45 What They Should Have Done (Pl. Lg. 3.693b 1): the Persian Wars as a Greek failure in Plato – Elena S. Capra (University of Rome – Tor Vergata)
15:45 – 16:15 A Mirror to the King of Kings: imagining Persian Kingship from Antiquity to Modernity – Natasha Parnian (Macquarie University)
16:15 – 17:00 Xerxes and His Legacy: the case of the Daiva Inscription (XPh) – Claudio Huayna (University of Heidelberg)
17:00 – 18:00 Final remarks
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ancient-and-modern-narratives-of-the-greco-persian-wars-tickets-377849777857?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1
Call: https://classicalassociation.org/events/call-for-papers-ancient-and-modern-narratives-of-the-greco-persian-wars-ucl/
(CFP closed April 15, 2022)
ILLUMINATING MEDITERRANEAN ANTIQUITY THROUGH COMPARATIVE HISTORY: THEORISING 'SOFT' APPROACHES
Online [BST, GMT+1] - July 20-21, 2022
Our goal is a constructive and respectful dialogue between historians of the ancient Mediterranean, delving into the theoretical limits of ‘soft’ comparative approaches (i.e. the use of later/alternative periods to ask new questions of ancient evidence). Although two of the keynote papers will be delivered live, panels will typically kick off with summaries of pre-circulated papers from a respondent, followed by brief responses from the authors, before wider discussion commences. Keynote speakers include Prof. Rachel Mairs (Reading), Prof. Kostas Vlassopoulos (Crete), and Dr. Jingyi Jenny Zhao (Cambridge).
In Greek and Roman studies, comparative history has often been seen as inherently anachronistic, doomed to project modern notions onto the ancient past. Such a perspective is increasingly untenable, as the wealth of comparative ancient history in recent decades has borne significant fruit. This methodology tends to fall into two broad categories: a ‘rigorous’ comparative approach, drawing meticulous contrasts and comparisons, typically juxtaposing broadly contemporary or analogous societies (e.g. Rome and China; cf. Mutschler & Mittag 2008; Scheidel 2009; Bang & Kolodziejczyk 2012; Kim et al. 2017; Beck & Vankeerberghen 2021); and a ‘soft’ comparative approach, using alternative material to generate new questions and angles of inquiry, and explore the limits of the possible (on this distinction, see Webster 2008, 107; Joshel & Petersen 2014, 22; Padilla Peralta 2017, 320). Since the bulk of recent volumes have focused on the former approach, this workshop will focus on the latter: how can the fuller documentation available for, and alternative approaches used in, the study of other periods of history illuminate the ancient past?
Ancient slavery studies have led the pack with this approach, asking new questions of ancient evidence informed by rich understanding of the antebellum US South and/or the trans-Atlantic slave trade (see, most recently, Parmenter 2020; Padilla Peralta 2017; Joshel & Petersen 2014; for overviews, Webster 2008; Vlassopoulos 2011). Economic studies have also profited from such generative comparison (Bang 2008) as has demographic work (Vlassopoulos 2014). Other forays into the ‘imaginative enrichment’ of antiquity provided by later history/historiography highlight the potential for greater exploitation of similar approaches (e.g. Bosworth 1996; Bagnall 1997).
In our call for papers, we invited studies that utilise the history and/or historiography of alternative periods and places to ask new questions of evidence from ancient Mediterranean cultures (broadly defined), emphasising that conclusions should be grounded in the ancient evidence. Contributors have been encouraged to use their case studies to reflect upon the implications of the comparative approach. What are the advantages and limitations of this methodology? How far can comparative history get beyond the generalities of human experience and genuinely shed light on specific aspects of the ancient world? To what extent does this method leave ancient Mediterranean history reliant on the whims and trends of other disciplines? Can comparative ancient historiography contribute to wider historical discussions or is it doomed to be derivative?
Schedule. All times listed are BST (i.e. GMT+1).
Day 1: Wednesday 20th July
SESSION 1: 11.00-12.15. Welcome, Introduction, and Keynote
Welcome and Introduction.
Dr Dylan James, University of Haifa & Dr Stephen Harrison, Swansea University
Opening Keynote. Comparative History and Ancient Multilingualism.
Professor Rachel Mairs, University of Reading
[NB: This paper will be delivered live and not pre-circulated].
Respondent: Dr Katherine McDonald, Durham University.
BREAK: 12.15-12.30
SESSION 2: 12.30-14.00. Big Picture Comparisons.
Coercion, Capital, and the Hellenistic Mediterranean.
Dr David Rafferty, University of Adelaide
Social Organisation and Agricultural Production in Mountainous Areas.
Dr Michael Economou, University of Oxford
Respondent: Dr Ersin Hussein, Swansea University.
BREAK: 14.00-14.45.
SESSION 3: 14.45-16.15. Comparative Perspectives on Late Antique Egypt
Using Peer-to-Peer Credit Practices from Early Modern France and England to Open Lines of Inquiry about Peer-to-Peer Credit in Late Antique Egypt.
Dr Elizabeth Buchanan, University of Findlay
Cross-Cultural Comparison(s) to Understand Late Antique Domestic Religiosity: Perspectives from the Study of Religion\s.
Dr Mattias Brand, University of Zürich.
Respondent: TBC (A late dropout means we have a need for a Late Antique respondent – please get in touch if you’re interested).
BREAK: 16.15-16.30.
SESSION 4: 16.30-17.30. Keynote.
‘Soft’ and ‘hard’ approaches in the history of emotions: the case of Greece and China.
Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao, University of Cambridge
Respondent: Dr David Machek, University of Bern.
Day 2: Thursday 21st July
SESSION 5: 12.00-13.45. New World Perspectives on Mediterranean Antiquity.
Gubernatorial authority and local jurisdiction in Roman Republican East and Spanish America
Dr Bradley Jordan, British Institute at Ankara
Alexander in Bactria and India, and the Spanish in America: Agency and Interaction on the Fringes of Empire.
Dr Stephen Harrison, Swansea University
Indigenous Guides and Comparative History: Reflections on Alexander and Columbus.
Dr Dylan James, University of Haifa
Respondents: Dr Bradley Dixon, University of Memphis; Dr Adrian Masters, University of Tübingen.
BREAK: 13.45-14.30
SESSION 6: 14.30-16.15. Comparative Approaches to Slavery in Antiquity and Keynote
Comparative Medical Experimentation: 18th Century Slavery and the Ancient Mediterranean.
Jordan Cohen, University of California Riverside
Enslaved Workers and Affective Labour in Ancient Rome and the Antebellum South: Agency and Strategies.
Dr Alex Cushing, University of Toronto
Respondent: Dr Christopher Parmenter, University of Pennsylvania Wolf Humanities Center.
Closing Keynote. Ancient Mediterranean Slavery and the Comparative History of Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic.
Dr Kostas Vlassopoulos
[NB: This paper will be delivered live and not pre-circulated].
BREAK: 16.15-16.45.
SESSION 7: 16.45-18.00. Plenary Discussion and Closing Remarks.
All participants and attendees are invited to contribute to a discussion reflecting the themes and issues emerging from the conference as a whole.
Please register here: https://forms.office.com/r/kkw8hCj7SZ
The conference website (still under construction) will be finalised soon: https://hcmh.haifa.ac.il/2022/07/10/illuminating-mediterranean-antiquity-through-comparative-history-theori-s-ing-soft-approaches/
Questions to the organisers:
Dr Stephen Harrison (Swansea University, stephen.harrison@swansea.ac.uk)
Dr Dylan James (Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, University of Haifa, dylan.s.james@gmail.com).
13TH CELTIC CONFERENCE IN CLASSICS
Lyon, France: July 18-21, 2022
Program: https://13eccclyon.sciencesconf.org
CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF PHILIP HARDIE
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK: July 18–20, 2022
Organizers: Stephen Oakley and Alessandro Schiesaro
MONDAY JULY 18
SESSION 1: 14.00–18.10 | Chairs: Stephen Oakley and Emily Gowers
14.00 Opening remarks
14.20 Alessandro Barchiesi (NYU), Looking for Alexandra in the Aeneid
15.00 Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge), Epic justice
15.40 Joseph Farrell (Penn), Vergil’s Iopas
16.20 Coffee break
16.50 Elena Giusti (Warwick), The serpent and the dove: gender and parenthood in Aeneid 5
17.30 Sergio Casali (Roma Tor Vergata), Chronology and simultaneity in Aeneid 8–10
18.10 Reception in the Museum of Classical Archaeology
TUESDAY 19 JULY
SESSION 2: 9.20–12.30 | Chair: Richard Hunter and Monica Gale
9.20 Stephen Oakley (Cambridge), Ascanius and the exemplum domesticum
10.00 George Kazantzidis (Patras), Virgil and tragedy: Sophocles' Trachiniae and the end of Georgics 3
10.40 Coffee break
11.10 Fiachra Mac Góráin (UCL), Virgilius superat Calabrum: La Cerda on the 'imitation' of Quintus of Smyrna in the Aeneid
11.50 Gail Trimble (Oxford), Aeneas, Dido, Catullus, and Petrarch
SESSION 3: 15.00–18.10 | Chair: Stephen Heyworth and Gregory Hutchinson
15.00 Aaron Kachuck (Louvain), Horace’s myrtle crown and the poet’s bloodless triumphs
15.40 Stephen Hinds (Washington), Ausonian macaronics
16.20 Coffee break
16.50 Alessandro Schiesaro (SNS), Ovid and the absent presence of stone
17.30 Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow), Parallel Text Translations
WEDNESDAY 20 JULY
SESSION 3: 9.20 - 12.30 | Chairs: Helen Lovatt and Alessandro Schiesaro
9.20 Stephen Harrison (Oxford), Vergilian divine machinery in Thomas Campion’s De Pulverea Coniuratione
10.00 Yasmin Haskell (Western Australia), Last of the Jesuit Anti-Lucretians: Abad, Wilczek, Desbillons and Pons on God, grace and gravity
10.40 Coffee break
11.10 Maya Feile Tomes (Cambridge), Transatlantic Ovid and the curious case of Clarinda
11.50 Helen Lovatt (Nottingham), Writing back to past selves through Virgilian reception in Ursula Le Guin and Lois McMaster Bujold
Website: https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/images/seminars/conference-honour-philip-hardie
[ONLINE] ANTIQUITATUM THESAURUS: ANTIQUITIES IN EUROPEAN VISUAL SOURCES FROM THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Egypt in Early-Modern Antiquarian Imagery
Online [Germany] - Digital Workshops: May 5, June 2, July 7, 2022
On the occasion of this year's anniversaries of important milestones in the recent reception of Egypt, the academy project "Antiquitatum Thesaurus" devotes three digital workshops in the summer semester of 2022 to the perception of the land on the Nile in the early-modern period. The focus will be on various personal motivations of some of the protagonists, the antiquarian or scientific methods they used, and a broad spectrum of media in which the engagement with Egyptian or Egyptianizing artifacts and images was reflected from the 15th to the 18th century. In addition, current research projects present their perspectives on the reception of Egypt.
Programme
5 May 2022 – 4 p.m.
Michail Chatzidakis (Berlin):
Ad summam sui verticem pyramidalem in figuram vidimus ascendentes […] anti quissimum Phoenicibus caracteribus epigramma conspeximus“. Bemerkungen zu den ägyptischen Reisen Ciriacos d’Ancona
Catharine Wallace (West Chester):
Pirro Ligorio and the Late Renaissance Memory of Egypt in Rome
Stefan Baumann (Trier):
Project Presentation: Early Egyptian Travel Accounts from Late Antiquity to Napoleon
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3LQWgMB
2 June 2022 – 4 p.m.
Maren Elisabeth Schwab (Kiel):
Herodots Ägypten im Interessenshorizont italienischer Antiquare
Alfred Grimm (München):
Osiris cum capite Accipitris. Zu einem Objekt aus der Bellori-Sammlung und dem Barberinischen „Osiris“
Florian Ebeling (München):
Project Presentation: Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der Ägyptenrezeption
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3O4dS9O
7 July 2022 – 4 p.m.
Guillaume Sellier (Montréal): Oldest Egyptian Artefacts in Canada: The Quebec Palace Intendant’s Amulets
Valentin Boyer (Paris): „Sphinxomanie“ durch die Ikonographie ägyptisierender Exlibris
Nils Hempel, Timo Strauch (BBAW): Project Presentation: Antiquitatum Thesaurus. Antiken in den europäischen Bildquellen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3rd7T8z
Website: https://thesaurus.bbaw.de/en
[HYBRID] 16TH MOISA RESEARCH SEMINAR ON ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN MUSIC
Theme: Lucian On Dancing: The Art of Dance in Antiquity and Its Reception in Literary and Visual Media
Bressanone/Brixen, Italy (online options): July 6–10, 2022
The Moisa Research Seminar is a week-long seminar on Ancient Greek and Roman Music that, since 2004, has been attended from students and scholars from several European, American and Asiatic countries (https://www.moisasociety.org/seminars/). From 6 to 10 July 2022 the Seminar will be organised by the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua and it will take place in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy (with the possibility to follow the event also in streaming on Zoom). Following the customary format originated in Corfu and then moved for some years to Riva del Garda, the programme will comprise morning sessions, devoted to the study of a particular text and topic, as well as a series of evening lectures on other issues of interest.
The 16th Moisa Seminar shall focus on Lucian’s On Dancing, one of the few surviving examples of ancient reflections on dance in the Graeco-Roman world (especially pantomime). This text will be the starting point for a survey of the evidence on the art of dance in antiquity and its reception in literary and visual media. The opening lecture will be delivered by Prof. Egert Pöhlmann (Erlangen), while the speakers will include (in alphabetic order): Zoa Alonso Fernández (Madrid), Simone Beta (Siena), Daniela Castaldo (Lecce), Sylvain Perrot (Strasbourg), Eleonora Rocconi (Pavia), Silvia Tessari (Padua), Donatella Tronca (Bologna), Fábio Vergara Cerqueira (Pelotas) and Alessandra Zanobi (Firenze).
The afternoons are free for swimming in a wonderful indoor swimming pool & sauna, sight-seeing, sleeping or further discussion. The evening lectures will provide an overview of the most recent developments in the field of ancient Greek and Roman dance, as well as a chance to improve current projects thanks to the feedback and questions of the audience. Both morning and evening sessions will take place at the so-called ‘Casa della Gioventù’ of the University of Padua, near the historic city-centre of Brixen (https://www.brixen.org/en/bressanone/city-centre.html), in a space particularly suitable for the exchange of ideas that is so typical of, and vital for, this seminar. This university campus includes classrooms, common areas and a little bar in which it is possible to have breakfast and coffee. The ‘Casa della Gioventù’ can provide accommodation at 35 euro per night and person. For information to book a room please contact Dr Silvia Tessari (silvia.tessari@unipd.it) or Dr Giovanna Casali (giovanna.casali@unipd.it). The fee for participation in presence is 70 euros. It will be also possible to attend the seminar online: the evening lectures will be freely available online while, in order to follow via Zoom the morning sessions and have access to the material prepared by the speakers, students who cannot travel to Italy should become member of MOISA and pay a membership fee of 25 euros (https://www.moisasociety.org/it/join-or-renew-with-moisa/).
The Moisa Society and the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna will kindly offer a scholarship to one student covering the costs of accommodation and fees: those who wish to apply can send their cv and a motivation letter to donatella.restani@unibo.it by the end of May 2022.
Those who plan to participate may express their interest and register through the following page: https://www.moisasociety.org/wp-content/plugins/Moisa-news-manager/uploads/16thMOISA_SEMINAR_PROGRAM_Final_announcement.pdf. For any other information, please get in touch with the scientific organiser, Prof. Paola Dessì (paola.dessi@unipd.it).
PROGRAM
06.07.2022
18.00–18.15 Opening and Welcome
Jacopo Bonetto, Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage (University of Padua) Renzo Pacher (President of the Association “Friends of the University of Padua in Brixen”) Daniela Castaldo, Moisa President (Lecce) Paola Dessì (Padua), Donatella Restani (Bologna), Eleonora Rocconi (Pavia)
18.15–19.15 Lucian of Samosata: Introduction
Egert Pöhlmann (Erlangen)
19.15–19.30 Discussion
07.07.2022
10.00–13.00 Morning Session 1: Lucian On Dancing part 1
Simone Beta (Siena)
18.00–19.30 Dancing Emperors: Classical Reminiscences in Byzantine Historiography
Silvia Tessari (Padua)
08.07.2022
10.00–13.00 Morning Session 2: Lucian On Dancing part 2
Zoa Alonso Fernández (Madrid)
17.30–20.00 The Veiled Dancer on Apulian Vase-Painting (4th c. BC)
Fábio Vergara Cerqueira (Pelotas)
Where Orchesis is, There is the Devil: Christian Perspectives on Dancing
Donatella Tronca (Bologna)
09.07.2022
10.00–13.00 Morning Session 3: The Reception of Pantomime
The Reception of Pantomime in Rhetorical Thought
Eleonora Rocconi (Pavia)
Mime and Pantomime in Seneca's Tragedies
Alessandra Zanobi (Firenze)
18.00–19.30 The Dance Institutions in the Ancient Greek World: The Evidence of Inscriptions and Papyri
Sylvain Perrot (Strasbourg)
10.07.2022
10.00–11.15 Morning Session 4: The Iconography of Ancient Dance
Visualising Ancient Dance: Around Lucian On Dancing
Daniela Castaldo (Lecce)
11.15–12.15 Final discussion on the topic of the 17th Moisa Research Seminars (2023)
Website: https://www.moisasociety.org/seminars/
[HYBRID] PERFORMING TUTANKHAMUN: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF RETELLINGS
[Hybrid] Birmingham Research Insititute for History & Cultures, University of Birmingham, UK: July 1, 2022
The year 2022 marks the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, unearthed by a team of Egyptian excavators led by Howard Carter and financed by the fifth Earl of Carnarvon. In the hundred years that followed, in what ways have media and performance contributed to the retelling and reshaping of this historic moment and the discovery’s cultural aftermath? Whose voices have been amplified, and whose marginalised? Where has historical accuracy given way to creative license? What audiences have been catered to, and what does this tell us about the ways in which Egyptology is ‘consumed’?
This event will showcase the work of researchers working on these issues in short papers, after which will follow a roundtable of invited speakers: Dr Elizabeth Frood, Dr Fatma Keshk, Dr Daniela Rosenow, and Prof. Richard Bruce Parkinson. The day will conclude with an original performance based on the tomb discovery informed by archival sources held at the Griffith Institute.
The organisers invite proposals for 15-minute papers that are interested in examining ‘retellings’ of the tomb’s discovery, and are especially keen to hear from researchers who would like to present on the story of the tomb discovery as (re)told for Egyptian and non-Anglophone audiences.
Please send abstracts to L.Olabarria@bham.ac.uk and E.C.Dobson@bham.ac.uk by 25 April 2022. We have planned for the event to be accessible to in-person and online attendees, and it would be useful if you could indicate if possible whether you have a preference in terms of presenting in Birmingham or remotely when submitting your abstract. We look forward to hearing from you!
Call: https://performingtutankhamun.wordpress.com/performing-tutankhamun/
(CFP closed April 25, 2022)
22nd ANNUAL APGRD/UNIVERSITY OF LONDON JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ANCIENT DRAMA
Theme: Survival and Disobedience in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama
APGRD (Oxford)/University of London: June 30-July 1, 2022
The 22nd Annual APGRD / University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Ancient Drama will take place on Thursday 30 June and Friday 1 July 2022. This year’s theme will be: ‘Survival and Disobedience in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
This annual Symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman tragedy, comedy, epic and other texts in performance, exploring their afterlives through re-workings by both writers and practitioners across all genres and periods. This year’s focus on ‘Survival and Disobedience’ takes as its starting point the question of what ‘survival’ or ‘surviving’ might mean in the context of the reception of the ancient past. We invite participants to consider any of the following questions: What constitutes survival, and what power structures enable it or hinder it? How is ‘what survives’ different from ‘what remains’ materially? In performance, must survival be held in binary opposition with the ephemeral? What is the relationship between survival and haunting? In particular, what happens when survival is errant, accidental, or figured as an act of ‘disobedience’? How might generic transgressions, counter readings, or other moments of ‘disobedience’ themselves enact survival?
The guest respondent on Day 1 will be Dr Emma Cole (Bristol), and Prof. Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh/NYU) will be guest respondent on Day 2. Day 1 will include a Guest Lecture by Dr Margherita Laera (Kent) and a bilingual performance of Laurent Gaudé’s Le Tigre Bleu de l’Euphrate (in French and English) directed by Dr Estelle Baudou (APGRD).
PARTICIPANTS
Postgraduates from around the world are welcome to participate, as are those who have completed a doctorate but not yet taken up a post. The symposium is open to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of Classics, modern languages and literature, and theatre and performance studies. Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on ancient drama. Papers may also include demonstrations or recorded material. Undergraduates are very welcome to attend.
Those who wish to offer a short paper (20 mins) or performance presentation on ‘Survival and Disobedience in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’ are invited to send an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk by Friday 22 April 2022 (if applicable, please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution). There will be no registration fee. Please indicate in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel bursary.
CONTACT FOR ENQUIRIES: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk
Call: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2022/03/22nd-annual-joint-postgraduate-symposium-on-ancient-drama
Edited 12/6/2022: program available - http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2022/06/30/postgraduate-symposium-on-ancient-drama
CFP closed April 22, 2022
CONSTRUCTING FANTASTICAL WORLDS: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands: June 30-July 1, 2022
Keynote Speakers: Dr Benjamin Stevens (Trinity University) and Dr Rutger Allan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
This interdisciplinary two-day workshop is devoted to the construction of fantastical worlds across various narrative media from antiquity to the present.
In recent years, media and literary studies have drawn attention to the process of constructing ‘imaginary’ or ‘secondary’ worlds. We define these fantastical universes as fictional worlds that involve creatures and/or events whose existence and/or occurrence is impossible in our actual world. Being often heterotopic and heterochronic and endowed with their own geographies, populations, histories, governments, etc., fantastical worlds may in complex ways reflect, contrast, and/or transcend ordinary reality.
Yet while this phenomenon is generally considered to originate in Tolkien, fantastical worldbuilding can be recognised in antiquity as well. Recent studies in classical literature and receptions have emphasised the fantasy-like quality of classics like Homer’s Odyssey, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Plato’s eschatological myths, while linguists and narratologists have brought to light literary devices that might be used by ancient authors to construct fantastical worlds and mediate the audience’s experience of them. Rarely, however, has the connection been made between the classical and contemporary construction of fantastical worlds, let alone between classics and modern media studies. The overarching aim of the workshop is to launch such an interdisciplinary discussion in search of a comparative, diachronic perspective on fantastical worldbuilding.
Principally, the workshop will focus on the how of fantastical worldbuilding, i.e., on the devices and techniques used in different times and media to create a fantastical world, as well as the ways in which this world is presented as different from yet somehow anchored in reality.
We invite papers that address one (or more) of the following research questions:
* What devices do authors or artists use to construct fantastical worlds? (E.g., common ground management, deixis, the general rendering of time and space)
* How are these fantastical worlds anchored to the audience’s actual world, and what devices are used to express this relationship? (E.g., metalepsis, immersive/enactive devices, shifts in the deictic centre)
* How do fantastical worlds encourage the audience to reflect on the actual world? (E.g., metaphor, metonymy, contrast)
* What differences and similarities exist between the construction of fantastical worlds in different periods and different media?
* How are the devices used by ancient authors to construct fantastical worlds reused (consciously or unconsciously) in later times?
We are interested in contributions from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds that discuss the construction of fantastical worlds in or across different media (e.g., written narratives, drama, film, television, video games). Papers may focus on single narratives, authors, and periods, or discuss fantastical worldbuilding techniques more broadly, e.g., from a theoretical, comparative or reception point of view.
The workshop will take place in Amsterdam on the 30th of June and the 1st of July 2022. Should the state of the pandemic require it, the workshop will be held on the same days as either a hybrid or a virtual event.
We invite submissions for 25-minute presentations. To register your interest, please submit an anonymous abstract of max. 400 words (excluding references and bibliography) to constructingfantasticalworlds@gmail.com by the 15th of March 2022. Your name and affiliation should be included in the body of your email. We aim to respond no later than the 15th of April.
This workshop is generously funded by OIKOS, the National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands, and the gravitation project Anchoring Innovation.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions: the organizing team: Caterina Fossi (c.fossi@uva.nl), Merlijn Breunesse (m.r.e.breunesse@uva.nl) and Koen Vacano (k.vacano@uva.nl)
Edit (06/06/2022). Program:
Day 1 (30 June 2022, 9:00-17:00)
Keynote: Benjamin Stevens - Virgil's Otherworldly Sense of Wonder: Towards a Fractal Geometry of Immersive Fantasy?
CLASSICAL STORYWORLDS (Chair: Mark Heerink)
Koen Vacano - Worldbuilding from Homer to Star Wars
Greta Hawes (online) - Fictitious Interventions into the Greek Mythic Storyworld in Ps-Plutarch's On Rivers
THE FANTASTICAL WORLDS OF EPIC (Chair: Koen Vacano)
Stephen Joyce - Worldbuilding and Fantasy in Ireland's Táin Bó Cúailnge
Frances Foster - Cosmic Junctures and Other Winds: Constructing the Spaces Beyond
RECEPTION OF FANTASTICAL WORLDS IN MODERN MEDIA (Chair: Luuk Huitink)
Kevin Wong - The Tangled Receptions of Online Fantasy Videogames: Navigating Classics and Comparatism within a Globalised Worldbuilding
Alice Bolland - Et in Arcadia ego: Appropriations and Appearances of the Arcadian Idyll in Classical and Contemporary Literature
Alexandra Gushurt-Moore - 'Revolving Centuries and Cycles should Glide': Fantasy Worldbuilding in Late Victorian Art
Day 2 (1 July 2022, 9:00-17:00)
Keynote: Rutger Allan - Framing Fantasy: Uncanny Encounters in the Odyssey
IMMERSION IN FANTASTICAL WORLDS (Chair: Caterina Fossi)
Dianna Bartlett - The Impact of a 'Magic System' on Immersion in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica
Lola Bos - 'A World of Monsters': Narrating the Fantastical World in Sophocles' Trachiniae
FANTASTICAL WORLDS AS A MATTER OF BELIEF (Chair: Klazina Staat)
Caterina Fossi - Narrating Beliefs: Fantastical and Actual Worlds in Plato's Eschatological Myths
Lieke Smits - The Daughter and the King: Fantastical Worlds in Medieval Religious Allegory
REALITY AND FANTASTICAL WORLDS (Chair: Merlijn Breunesse)
Giovanni Piccolo - On the Wild Frontier: a World of Wonders at the Edge of the Empire in Solinus' Collectanae Rerum Memorabilium
Bé Breij - The Fantastical World of Sophistopolis
Register by email (limited availability to join the conference online): constructingfantasticalworlds@gmail.com.
Program: https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/events/events/2022/06/workshop-constructing-fantastical-worlds-from-antiquity-to-the-present.html?cb
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;40e066b1.ex
CFP closed March 15, 2022
ABSTINENDUM A LIBRIS INHONESTIS: DANGEROUS LATIN LITERATURE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MODERN AGE
SERICA (Sino-European Religious Intersections in Central Asia) Project
Turin, Italy: June 30-July 1, 2022
The Jesuit Ratio Studiorum (Regulae Praepositi Provincialis, n. 34), written late in the XVI century, warns against reading books which might harm the morality of both students and teachers. Specularly, around those same years, another Jesuit work, Antonius Possevinus’ Bibliotheca Selecta offered a solution to this issue by providing a reading list within a more general discourse on Catholic education, the main goal of which was to counter Konrad Gessner’s Bibliotheca Universalis, an encyclopaedic bibliography with no religious bias. Yet the problem of distinguishing good from bad works finds its roots back in antiquity, as is evident from Quintilian’s famous negative judgement on Seneca (Inst. 10.1.125-131), accused of becoming a dangerous example of Latin style. But literature can also be dangerous in another way, as the case of Ovid’s Ars amatoria and the poet’s ensuing exile make it clear (cf. Trist. 2.1.207: perdiderint cum me duo crimina, carmen et error). The aim of this conference, organised in the scope of the SERICA Project (Sino-European Religious Intersections in Central Asia, PIs Andrea Balbo and Chiara Ombretta Tommasi), is to investigate both the ways in which Latin texts from antiquity to the XVIII century can be regarded as dangerous and the possible solutions to this problem.
Topics might include, but are by no means limited to:
* Works which might be dangerous within a given historical-political context;
* Works which are not included within a canon because potentially dangerous in some way;
* Forms of reaction and/or opposition to unwelcome texts;
* Rewriting of dangerous content manuscripts (e.g. palimpsests);
* Retractions by the authors themselves (e.g. palinodes);
* How to make texts honesti out of inhonesti.
We welcome proposals for 30 minute papers from established scholars, early career researchers and PhD students. Languages of the conference are English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Please send abstracts as an email attachment (Word or PDF, max. 300 words) to the organisers, Elisa Della Calce (elisa.dellacalce@unito.it) and Simone Mollea (simone.mollea@unito.it) by 31st March 2022. Speakers will be notified by 15th April 2022. Publication of the Proceedings is envisaged.
Confirmed speakers:
Alberto Anrò, Linda Bisello, Alice Borgna, Stefano Briguglio, Margaret Graver, Mario Lentano, Massimo Manca, Guido Milanese, Bernard Mineo, Stephen Oakley, Dirk Rohmann and Chiara Tommasi.
Scientific committee:
Andrea Balbo, Federica Bessone, Edoardo Bona, Maria Goretti Castello, Elisa Della Calce, Monica De Togni, Ermanno Malaspina, Simone Mollea, Alberto Pelissero, Rosa Maria Piccione, Stefania Stafutti and Francesco Stella.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;9109fdc5.ex
(CFP closed March 31, 2022)
THE NEO-LATIN POETRY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARS IN RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE
University College, London: June 28, 2022
Note: Unable to verify status of this meeting
A fascinating feature of early modern Latinity is the composition of fine neo-Latin poetry by major classical scholars, and the interface between this creative work and their scholarly research. In some cases (e.g. Angelo Poliziano) the two are actually combined in the same work, while in others the two move along parallel tracks (e.g. the two Heinsii who edit the poetry of Lucretius, Ovid and Seneca while writing their own Lucretian, Ovidian and Senecan verse).
The organizers invite proposals for presentations at a day workshop in London on Latin poems by major Classical scholars active in the period c.1490 to c.1800; we hope for a real meeting in the flesh, subject to changing covid considerations. We are especially interested in examples of Latin composition that relate interestingly to a scholar’s academic output. Material on Poliziano, Antonio de Nebrija, Joseph Justus Scaliger, the Heinsii, Pierre-Daniel Huet, Johann Matthias Gesner and Richard Porson is already envisaged, but we hereby call for presentations on other scholar/poets; we are especially interested in figures from Scandinavia and eastern Europe. There is funding for lunch and drinks on the day, but sadly not for travel; participation in the anthology (see below) need not be restricted to those who can come, and other expressions of interest are welcome.
Presentations should last 20-25 minutes and be based on the relevant Latin poems. We hope to prepare the materials presented (all being well after peer review) for publication in the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series in its established Anthology format. This format offers an introduction to the poet and their verse, the Latin text, an English translation and explanatory notes aimed at non-expert audiences and advanced students, normally at the length of 6,000–7,000 words.
Abstracts of presentations for the workshop of 100 words, and other expressions of interest in the anthology, should be submitted for consideration to Stephen Harrison (Stephen.harrison@ccc.ox.ac.uk) by 28 February 2022.
Call: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/news/?newsItem=8a17841b7db86906017dd885b01267b9
(CFP closed February 28, 2022)
[HYBRID] AMPHORAE XVI
Online/in person - University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia: June 28-July 1, 2022
The postgraduate student cohort of the University of Queensland warmly invites the submission of abstracts for the 16th annual Amphorae Postgraduate Conference. Amphorae XVI will be held in hybrid mode, to allow postgraduate students from Honours to PhD to explore their research with their peers in a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment - both in-person and online.
We welcome submissions on all aspects of Ancient World Studies, including research which engages in historiography, reception studies, philology, archaeology or any part of the Ancient World. As this year's Amphorae does not have a specific theme, we invite students of the Ancient World to use this opportunity to explore any aspect of their research amongst their peers. It is important to note that abstracts can be submitted for individual papers or panels, and are not limited to just the Greco-Roman World.
Papers will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts should be between 200-250 words. For planning reasons, if you intend to attend the conference online please indicate your timezone in your submission form.
If three or more students have a particular thematic interest, you can also submit as a panel. Panels should be approximately 90 minutes in duration, allowing each panelist 20 minutes to deliver their paper and 10 minutes for questions. However, in consultation with conference organisers there is potential for flexibility regarding panelist numbers, panel length, and paper topics.
Below are links to two forms, one for individual papers and the other to submit a panel application. Please use these forms to submit your abstracts, we will not accept abstracts that come in via email, Twitter, TikTok, or any other medium.
Submissions are due by 30th May 5pm AEST.
Call: https://sites.google.com/view/amphoraexvi
Program: https://sites.google.com/view/amphoraexvi/conference-schedule
June 28 - Opening Event: In Conversation with Dr Katherine Lyall-Watson
Dr Katherine Lyall-Watson talks to Professor Alastair Blanshard about her re-imagining of Phaedra.
Time: 6pm, with a catered reception from 7pm. Location: Room 09-211, Level 2, Michie Building (9)
Dr Katherine Lyall-Watson is an award-winning Australian playwright and the Co-Artistic Director of Belloo Creative. She has a doctorate in creative writing from the University of Queensland, was the chair of Playlab for five years, and regularly mentors and supports emerging writers.
Katherine was commissioned to write Phaedra while Belloo Creative was company in residence at Queensland Theatre and it was programmed as the finale of Queensland Theatre’s 50th anniversary 2020 season. However, due to Australia’s COVID-19 lockdowns it was never performed.
Katherine’s new version of Phaedra is a biting political satire and a wake-up call to Queensland, written in the aftermath of the 2019 election when Scott Morrison gloated, “How good is Queensland?!” and the rest of the country created memes excising us from the map of Australia.
Register in person https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0glDpp8Rh6FjOGsuXndROtDLKO192_53gGABFcfJgrJnmhA/viewform or online (Zoom) https://uqz.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucuytrzorHNEqMQX8W7RZowlO52RTWHcd
(CFP closed May 30, 2022)
[HYBRID] CONCEPTUALISING POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: TOWARDS AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF CAESARISM
[Hybrid] University of Göttingen: June 28-29, 2022
The category of Caesarism describes, roughly speaking, an autocratic system of government in which the figure of the leader towers. It first appeared in nineteenth-century France, and had a great success among intellectuals from diverse backgrounds and was employed to analyse a variety of historico-political situations. Even if its formal coinage is recent, we could argue that Caesarism is part of an uninterrupted reflection on political leadership and popular sovereignty that unfolds from antiquity to the present. Conceptually speaking, it belongs to the semantic constellation of ‘tyranny’, ‘despotism’, and ‘dictatorship’, but also its connection with ‘populism’ must not be underestimated.
This international conference aims to reconstruct this ‘long’ history of the concept of Caesarism by including contributions of scholars stemming from different fields of research and working on different epochs – from Classical Studies to History of Political Thought, from Modern European History to Political Theory. The conference will also offer the occasion to discuss some of the most recent scholarly research on the topic, by contributing to the revival of the studies on Caesarism.
The conference is generously funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and will be held in the Historische Sternwarte (Green Room) of the University of Göttingen.
Program:
28th June 2022
10:00-10:30 Institutional greetings and opening remarks - M. van Gelderen and F. Antonini (Moritz-Stern-Institut, Germany)
Morning session – chair: G. Souvlis
10:30-11:15
F. Santangelo (Newcastle University, UK): Caesarism in Ancient Rome?
11:15-12:00
C. Nederman (Texas A&M University US): Papal Caesarism in Late Medieval Political Thought
12:00-12:45
C. Cuttica (Université Paris 8, France): The ‘Caesarism’ of Early Modern Democracy
12:45-14:30 Lunch
Afternoon session – chair: F. Antonini
14:30-15:15
A. Storring (King's College London, UK): Prussian Pharsalus: The Place of Julius Caesar in the Military Ideas of Frederick the Great of Prussia
15:15-16:00
M. Broers (University of Oxford, UK): Napoleon, the last Emperor of the West or the First Modern Dictator? The Evolution of Napoleonic Authoritarianism
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:15 I. McDaniel (University of Sussex, UK): Caesarism and International Order in the Nineteenth Century
29th June 2022
Morning session – chair: A. Storring
9:30-10:15
J. W. Müller (Princeton University, US): The Caesarist City
10:15-11:00
M. Prutsch (EU Parliament): Discourses on a ‘New Caesar’ in the Late Nineteenth Century
11:00-11:30
Break
11:30-12:15
A. Jordan (Moritz-Stern-Institut, Germany): Caesarism in Nineteenth-Century British Thought
12:15-13:00
F. Antonini (Moritz-Stern-Institut, Germany): The Parabola of Leadership: Robert Michels on Caesarism
13:00-14:30
Lunch
Afternoon session – chair: C. Cuttica
14:30-15:15
L. Cerasi (University Ca’ Foscari, Italy): Caesarism and its Reverse: Corporatism and ‘Organic’ Representation in Fascist Political Thought
15:15-16:00
G. Souvlis (University of Ioannina, Greece): Caesarism and Populism: An Antinomic Relationship
16:00-16:30 Final discussion
16:30-16:45 Conclusions - F. Antonini (Moritz-Stern-Institut, Germany)
It is also be possible to attend the conference online. To obtain the link please contact Francesca Antonini (fantoni@uni-goettingen.de).
Website: https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-118470
ANZAMEMS/AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES CONFERENCE
University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia: June 27-30, 2022
Theme: ‘Reception and Emotion’
The Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies conference committee seeks proposals for its 2022 conference on the theme ‘Reception and Emotion’, to be held in Perth, Australia at The University of Western Australia from 27 June to 1 July 2022!
The committee welcomes all approaches to topics related to ‘reception and emotion’ broadly conceived (and conceived either together or separately: i.e., on reception and emotion, or on either reception or emotion), including but not limited to: trans-cultural, trans-temporal, trans-disciplinary, translation, global studies, creative misreadings, theatrical and literary revivals, forgeries, homages, cultural counter-strikes, regimes of periodisation, etc. We welcome proposals considering the usefulness or otherwise of reception history as a methodology: is ‘transformation’ more helpful than ‘reception’, for example, for appreciating the active role of the audience of a text, play, or idea?
Work on emotions can be similarly broad, covering, e.g., what’s evidenced from the ‘receivers’ and from the ‘received’ (thinking of work, for example, on how Indigenous people have received missionaries and their doctrines; how medievalists have reacted and acted in relation to the worrying associations of their discipline; even how humanities scholars feel about their reception in contemporary political circles; Jan Plamper’s suggestion that historians should keep ‘field diaries’ about their personal response to work in the archives; are there ‘objective’ studies?). What’s been the value and downside of the ‘emotional turn’ in humanities studies? How do we as scholars of the past deal with presentist notions of ‘relevance’, and need we consider past scholarship as ‘outdated? How can we marry approaches from humanities and life sciences in ‘emotions history’?
The conference committee invites proposals for 20-minute papers, 90-minute themed panels (of no more than 4 speakers) or workshops. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
* The reception of ideas about emotion in medieval/early modern texts;
* Reception and transformation of ideologies across time and space;
* The emotions of an audience in the reception of a play or sermon;
* The emotional impact of a text on a reader;
* Rituals and practices of receiving guests and dignitaries (and their emotional effects?);
* The reception of the past: medievalism and early-modernism;
* The reception of bodies / emotions and bodies / embodiment;
* Reception / emotion and sexuality;
* Reception / emotion and race;
* Reception / emotion and gender;
* Reception / emotion and music / art.
Proposals for 20-minute conference papers should consist of:
A title;
An abstract (max. 200 words);
A short biography (max. 50 words).
The conference committee welcomes themed panel or workshop session proposals for the conference. Proposals should consist of:
Panel/Workshop Title;
Proposed Chair (if available);
Details of each presenter and paper as described above.
NB: Workshops will be allotted 90 minutes, 30 of which should be reserved for general discussion. We suggest a maximum of 6 speakers.
Submissions should be emailed (as a Word document attachment) to: anzamems2021@gmail.com.
Deadline for submissions: Monday 10 January 2022.
NB: Should you require early acceptance of your proposal please highlight this in your email and the committee will do our best to accommodate your request. Applications for early acceptance will be answered after 31 May 2021.
Call: https://www.anzamems2021.com/call-for-papers
(CFP closed January 10, 2022)
[ONLINE] ANTIQUITY TODAY: FASCINATING, RELEVANT, BENEFICIAL
[Online] University of Warsaw [CEST Timezone]: June 27, 2022
It is my pleasure to share with you an invitation to a students and
doctoral students conference “Antiquity Today: Fascinating, Relevant,
Beneficial” organized within the Cluster: The Past for the Present and the
project “Our Mythical Childhood”.
A group of passionate students and PhD students will present the first
results of their research work; there will be also a lecture on a Latin
translation of “The Hunger Games”; a report on the Sappho animation by
the Panoply
Vase Animation Project and its educational use; a report on staging Seneca’s*
Troades* at the University of Vienna; and, last but not least, a whole
panel dedicated to the innovative research and educational achievements by
the Classicist milieu at the University of Roehampton – with the
participation by Prof. Susan Deacy and her students.
The event will take place online.
PDF with the Programme: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/assets/files/pages/1e403af567797cac58c3deef8773517cda87fcd2.pdf
Website with the programme & the abstracts: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/antiquity-today
For a Zoom link please contact Ms Olga Strycharczyk: strycharczyk@al.uw.edu.pl
TRANSLATING ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA IV (1600-1800)
University College London, UK: June 24, 2022
We are glad to announce the opening of the Call for Papers for the conference Translating Ancient Greek Drama IV (1600-1800), which will be held at University College London on 24 June 2022, organized by Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford) and Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13), with the support of University College London, the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges (UCL), Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford).
Scientific Committee: Malika Bastin-Hammou (Grenoble), Giovanna Di Martino (UCL), Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13), Fiona Macintosh (Oxford).
The present Call for Papers aims at exploring the reception of ancient Greek drama in translation practices and theories between 1600 and 1800, in Europe and the colonial Americas. This is the fourth event in a series spanning translation in the early modern period (previous programmes: https://translatinggreektr0.wixsite.com/mysite).
Early modern translation theories and practices need to be discussed in relation both to ancient theory and performance, and to early modern theatre theories and practices. This complex nexus requires a cross-cultural, multilingual and collective effort. In the three previous Oxford-Paris conferences, it has become amply evident that it is imperative to distinguish between ‘translation’ and ‘translating’. Whereas translation should be understood as the production of a full-length target text, often (but not necessarily) the work of a scholar, acts of ‘translating’ can be found in texts that are not necessarily conceived of as ‘translations’ nor as explicitly drawing on ancient Greek material. ‘Translating’, in this sense, represents the intertextual reworking of one, or the fragmentary combination of different, ancient Greek and early modern sources in a dynamic and creative way, typically, though not exclusively, by a playwright or poet.
Both ‘translation’ and ‘translating’ of ancient Greek drama in this period should be understood as acts of interlinguistic and intersemiotic transactions which, in addition to involving two linguistic systems, also encompass a reassessment of both the source’s and target’s contextual and cultural meanings as well as a recodification of the source’s cultural and theatrical conventions. The implications of recodification are brought to the fore when these texts are explored through the lens of their dramaturgical potential: i.e., as translations of dramatic texts and thus (if only ideally) conceived for the stage, but also as themselves dramaturgical acts of understanding and assembling meanings, ancient and modern alike, in a mutual relationship of influence.
This fourth conference in the series invites submissions which may include, but should not be limited to, the following topics:
* The presence of ‘translating’ ancient Greek drama in theatres and other forms of performance, whether courtly, commercial, academic, or private
* The translators’ own definition of their work and the circulation of their texts
* Translation and translating of ancient Greek drama and their contribution to, place within, the scholarly world
* Translation theories and their application to translation practices in performance
* Translation and translating in the construction or subversion of national dramatic repertoires and/or social practices
* Translation and translating in the superimposition/challenge/resignification of the cultural meanings of the source and target dramatic practices and local forms of theatre
* The dramaturgical potential of early modern translation and translating of ancient Greek drama, which can be presented in the form of demonstration-performance papers
To participate, please send a 250-word abstract and a short biography to translatinggreektragedy@gmail.com by 8th April.
Papers should be 20 minutes’ long; demonstration-performance papers can take up to 40 minutes.
For any questions, please contact g.martino@ucl.ac.uk.
Edited 15/5/2022. Program:
Friday 24th June, IAS Common Ground, G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
09.30-10.15 Registration and Coffee
10.15-10.30 Welcome from Giovanna Di Martino (UCL & APGRD) and Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13)
10.30-12.00: The 17th Century and Greek Tragedy - Chair: Giovanna Di Martino (UCL)
Sarah Knight (Leicester): Ghost Kings and Furies
Giulia Fiore (Bologna) & Giovanna Casali (Padova): The Seventeenth-Century French Querelle(s) on Imitating Greek drama. Two Case Studies: Oedipus and Alcestis
Angelica Vedelago (Independent Researcher, on zoom): ‘Translating’ Sophocles in the Restoration: The ‘Athenian Harp’ resounding in Dryden and Lee’s Oedipus (1679)
12.05-1.35pm: The 17th Century and Aristophanes - Chair: Lucy Nicholas (Warburg)
Malika Bastin-Hammou (Grenoble, on zoom): Who's afraid of Praxagora? Translating Aristophanes' Assemblywomen in Early Modern Europe: Tanneguy Le Fèvre's letter to Élie Bouhereau (1665)
Francesco Morosi (Pisa): Poor as a Scholar: Thomas Randolph and Penia in Aristophanes’ Wealth
Tom Harrison (Queen’s University, Belfast): ‘Speak, sir, some Greek, if you can’: Jonson, Aristophanes, and The Devil Is an Ass
1.35-2.30pm Lunch
2.30-4.00pm: The 18th Century and Greek Tragedy I - Chair: Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13)
Marco Duranti (Verona): ‘The Great Art of Euripides’: The First English Translation of Iphigenia Taurica (1749)
Josef Förster (The Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, CAS): Translating Ancient Greek Drama in the Czech Lands
Francisco Barrenechea (University of Maryland, College Park): Savage Antiquities: Vicente García de la Huerta and the Discussions of Greek Tragedy in the 18th-century Spanish Empire
4.00-4.15pm Coffee/Tea Break
4.15-6.00pm The 18th Century and Greek Tragedy II and Plenary - Chair: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Sylvie Mougin (Université de Tours): Traduire les Grecs ou les Latins ? Philhellénisme triomphant et résistance du modèle tragique latin sur la scène européenne du XVIIIe siècle
Giovanna Di Martino (UCL & APGRD), Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13), Estelle Baudou (APGRD, Dramaturg): New Translational Paradigms and the ‘Rediscovery’ of Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound in Performance
6-7pm Drinks Reception
Register: https://translating-ancient-greek-drama.eventbrite.co.uk
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;f1c4db7c.ex
(CFP closed April 8, 2022)
ANCIENT GREEK DANCE IN TEACHING
Ure Museum, University of Reading, UK: June 24-25, 2022
The Ure Museum is delighted to present a conference on ‘Ancient Greek Dance in teaching’, 24-25 June 2022, at the University of Reading, kindly supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, London. Through ‘blended’ delivery, delegates will have the opportunity to share their work on different aspects in the study of Ancient Greek Dance (AGD) either digitally on in person in Reading.
Each day will include practical workshops. In a concluding plenary session, we will map the ways in which AGD is and might be deployed in educational contexts and begin to plan for a network and a set of educational resources.
This call is open to researchers, teachers, dance practitioners, performers or anyone interested in AGD. Each speaker will have 20 mins to deliver the paper followed by 10 mins of discussion. Papers will be presented in English.
Registration (free) will open in May 2022.
For more information on the conference see https://research.reading.ac.uk/ancient-dance/agdt-conference. Abstract deadline: April 10, 2022.
Call: (pdf) https://research.reading.ac.uk/ancient-dance/wp-content/uploads/sites/208/2018/05/CFP_AGDCT_June2022_rev.pdf
(CFP closed April 10, 2022)
'SUB TEGMINE FAGI': LATIN LITERATURE AND ITS VERDANT AFTERLIFE
Classics Conference in Honour of Professor Stephen Harrison
Corpus Christi College, Oxford: June 24-25, 2022
Friday 24 June
11:00-11:15 Welcome
11:15-12:45
Dan Jolowicz - Catullus’ afterlife in imperial Greek literature
Henry Stead - Catullus Now
Lunch
14:30-16:00
Donncha O’Rourke- Philosophical enrichment: instances of akrasia in Virgil
Thea Thorsen - Classical enrichment
16:30-18:00
Llewelyn Morgan- Pallas, son of Hercules
Gail Trimble - Virgilian roleplay in The Rape of the Lock
Saturday 25 June
9:30-11:00
Abi Buglass - The Gnat's Descent: Intertextuality and Poetic Memory in the Pseudo-Virgilian Culex
Darcy Krasne - How the Winds Blow: Inherited Anemologies in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica
11:30-13:00
Regine May - Swearing like a Philosopher on Trial: Catullus, Beards and Epicurus in Apuleius’ Apologia
Ian Repath - Apuleius and the Greek Novel: Generic Infringement
Lunch
14:30-16:00
Catherine Steel - L. Manlius Torquatus' in Sullam
Bettina Reitz-Joosse - Vergil in Ethiopia? Nello Martinelli’s Amba Alagia (1941)
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
Registration for the conference is free, but please consider making a donation to a Graduate Scholarship in Classics. Book your place below.
If you cannot join us in person, but wish to view the livestream of the event, please email sara.watson@ccc.ox.ac.uk.
Information: https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/events-and-reunions/sub-tegmine-fagi-latin-literature-and-its-verdant-afterlife
PERFORMING ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC
Online - June 23-24, 2022
Organizers: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand) and Barbara Goff (University of Reading, UK)
Day 1: 23 June 2022 (Northern Hemisphere) / 24 June (Southern Hemisphere)
Panel 1: Brazil
1 A Brazilian Illustrated Chronicle of Classical Theatre during the Covid-19 Pandemic - Renata Cazarini de Freitas, Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niteroi, Brazil.
2 Performing Antigone in the Land of the Unmourned: Tragedy and Spectacle - Beatriz de Paoli, Professora de Língua e Literatura Grega, Faculdade de Letras – Departamento de Letras Clássicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
3 Tragic and Epic Aspects of the Mini-Opera Penélope 19: A Mixed-Genre Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic -
Prof. Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho, Philosophy Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
Panel 2: Conversations with theatre practitioners
Gabriela Geluda (actress and soprano)
Armando Lôbo (composer, musician and independent producer)
Luis Sorolla (actor and playwright), Teatro de la Abadía, Madrid
Day 2: 24 June
Panel 3: Africa
Conversations with academics and theatre practitioners
Rites of Mediation: Medea/Medaaye in a Season of Plague - Tunde Awosanmi, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Medaaye: Making a Play in a Global Pandemic - Kunbi Olasope, Department of Classics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Mandla Mbothwe, playwright and director, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Co-Artistic Director at Magnet Theatre - Mark Fleishman on directing Medaye as an online performance.
Panel 4: Italy and Greece
1 The ‘Emotion of Multitude’: Staging the Greek Chorus during Italy’s Covid-19 Response - Prof. Martina Treu, Greek Language, Literature and Drama, Department of Humanities, Università IULM, Milano, Italy
2 Greek Drama Goes Online: Theatre as Consolation in Modern Greece
Program: https://classicalreception.org/event/performing-ancient-greek-literature-in-a-time-of-pandemic/
Registration: https://masseyuni.wufoo.com/forms/m1a9sd7t0474vxv/
[ONLINE] II INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ANCIENT MEDICINE: "IN THE SHADOW OF HIPPOCRATES. MEDICINE IN THE ARTS AND ITS SURVIVAL IN THE WEST"
Online, from the University of Granada - June 22-24, 2022
Organized under the auspices of the research group (PAI HUM-986) DIATRIBA: Philosophy, Rhetoric and Pedagogy in Greco-Roman Antiquity Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Granada
The aim of this second online congress is to highlight the existing connection path between medicine and the arts (painting, sculpture, literature, music, dance, cinema, etc.), with the intention of providing a global and multidisciplinary vision of the presence of traditional classical medicine in the most diverse fields of knowledge.
Organizers: Mónica Durán Mañas (Universidad de Granada), Inmaculada Rodríguez Moreno (Universidad de Cádiz)
22nd JUNE/22 DE JUNIO
Opening remarks
PROGRAM/PROGRAMA
10:15: Pedro Pablo Fuentes González, Director del grupo de investigación PAI HUM- 986 DIATRIBA: Filosofía, Retórica y Pedagogía en la Antigüedad Grecolatina, Universidad de Granada.
Mónica Durán Mañas (Universidad de Granada), Inmaculada Rodríguez Moreno (Universidad de Cádiz).
First session/Primera sesión
10:30-11:00: Juan Antonio López Férez (Catedrático Emérito de Filología Griega de la UNED): Recepción de Galeno en dos obras del escritor renacentista Antonio de Torquemada: Coloquios satíricos y Jardín de flores.
11:00-11:30: Alicia Esteban Santos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Los médicos y las historias clínicas en el cine: una herencia de Hipócrates.
11:30-12:00: Pilar Gómez Cardó (Universitat de Barcelona): El médico y su arte en la poesía epigramática griega: entre la admiración y la sátira.
12:00-12:30: Carlos de Miguel Mora (Universidad de Granada): La poesía didáctica de tema médico en el Humanismo: el caso del médico hispano-flamenco Gabriel Ayala.
12:30-13:00: Mónica Durán Mañas (Universidad de Granada): Galeno y la percepción del color.
Second session/Segunda sesión
17:00-17:30: Ana María Bejarano Osorio y Macarena Bustamante Álvarez (Universidad de Granada): La materialidad de las prácticas médicas y cosméticas en Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Badajoz).
17:30-18:00: Álvaro Ibáñez Chacón (Universidad de Granada): Medicina y γυμναστικὴ τέχνη en la Grecia antigua.
18:00-18:30: María Cristina Pascerini (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): El curso completo de anatomía del cuerpo humano de Jaime Bonells e Ignacio Lacaba: de la mención de Hipócrates a la influencia en el Tratado de anatomía pictórica de Antonio María Esquivel.
23th JUNE/23 DE JUNIO
Third session/Tercera sesión
10:30-11:00: José María Zamora Calvo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Las aptitudes del embrión. Propuestas neoplatónicas del tratado Ad Gaurum.
11:00-11:30: Jordi Crespo Saumell (Miembro asociado externo del grupo de investigación “Influencia de las éticas griegas en la filosofía contemporánea”-UAM): No nos podemos quejar. Galeno y la philosophia medicans.
11:30-12:00: Constantin-Ionut Mihai (University of Iași, Romania): The hierarchy of technai in Aristotle’s Protrepticus.
12:00-12:30: Francisco G. Conde Mora (CUE Salus Infirmorum de Cádiz): Simbología de las profesiones sanitarias: el báculo de Esculapio.
12:30-13:00: Inmaculada Rodríguez Moreno (Universidad de Cádiz): La risa en Hipócrates y Galeno.
Fourth session/Cuarta sesión
17:00-17:30: André Simões (Universidad de Lisboa): Médicos, enfermos y enfermedades en la literatura epigramática: Marcial y los Árcades portugueses.
17:30-18:00: Gabriel Silva (Universidad de Lisboa): Autores clásicos, medicina y recopilación antológica: el caso de las Sententiae et Exempla de André Rodrigues.
18:00-18:30: Joana Falcato (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): The artistic nature in the 14th and 15th books of Galen’s De usu partium.
24th JUNE/24 DE JUNIO
Fifth session/Quinta sesión
10:30-11:00: Marguerite Nash Munro Heery (University of Sydney): Medicine in the arts of ancient Greece.
11:00-11:30: Milagros Moro Ipola (UNED): Médicos y matronas en los relieves funerarios romanos.
11:30-12:00: Lorenzo Ronchini (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara y Universität Zürich): Le arti e la medicina: Galeno e la σύστασις τῶν τεχνῶν
12:00-12:30: Claudia Zatta (University of Liverpool): Environment, human diseases and life in Airs, waters and places.
12:30-13:00: María Fernández Ríos (Universidad de Cádiz): La enfermedad del amor en las Lyrae heroycae (1581) de Francisco Núñez de Oria.
Sixth session/Sexta sesión
17:00-17:30: Jesús Ángel Espinós (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): La locura en la obra Homilías sobre el Evangelio de san Juan de Juan Crisóstomo.
17:30-18:00: Carlo delle Donne (La Sapienza-Università di Roma): The iatriké téchne and the onomastiké téchne. Plato’s Cratylus (394a5-b7).
18:00-18:30: Manuel Ortuño Arregui (Centro Universitario. Instituto Superior de Ciencias y Educación. Universidad Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial): El simbolismo histórico-iconográfico de Asclepio como sanador de cuerpos y almas.
Final conclusions/Conclusiones finales
19:00: Mónica Durán Mañas (Universidad de Granada), Inmaculada Rodríguez Moreno (Universidad de Cádiz).
Contact information: monicaduran@ugr.es
Downloadable program: https://graecaslavica.ugr.es/informacion/noticias/ii-congreso-internacional-online-medicina-antigua-0
[ONLINE] IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPES AND OTHERWORLDS
Online - from Canterbury Christ Church University/University of Exeter: June 22, 2022
Imaginative landscapes have conventionally been confined to the realms of mythology and literature, safely sequestered within characteristically modern perceptions of fictionality. However, such a label does not necessarily correspond to contemporary distinctions between reality and fiction. Differentiating between material and imaginary interactions within an environment, will assist with discerning how these landscapes interacted with each other. These interactions allow for the awareness of collective and individual imagined realities.
This distinction allows us to acknowledge a broader range of possibilities in the understanding of the existence of such imaginative landscapes, particularly in pre-modern societies, for example, stories and locations of Avalon, sites of the Wild Hunt, and the presence of creatures such as hellhounds and mermaids.
The purpose of this online conference is to discuss and further explore the relationship between tangible landscapes ̶ those inhabited by people of a particular culture, and imaginary landscapes ̶ projections of possible landscapes.
Contributions might include, but are not limited to:
• Folklore within local or regional communities
• Pre-modern literary landscapes
• Landscapes of belief
• Historical landscapes from either textual sources or architectural remnants
• Recycled landscapes
This online conference is hosted by Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Exeter. It will take place on June 22, 2022. Proposals should be no more than 250 words, for a 15-20 minute paper. Deadline for submission is April 13, 2022. Please include your name and a brief biography (50-100 words) with submissions. Please send abstracts to iloconference2022@gmail.com
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/2014147608765807
(CFP closed April 23, 2022)
DIDO UNBOUND: QUEEN OF CARTHAGE BEFORE, IN, AND AFTER VERGIL
Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy (or virtual symposium if advisable): June 21-25, 2022
Co-Directors: Zara Torlone (Miami University), Giampiero Scafoglio (University of Nice)
The figure of Vergil’s Dido has long engaged writers and scholars alike in debates about her historicity, notions of female power, and issues surrounding the concept of eros-nosos. The complexities of Dido’s character in Vergil afforded rich insights into the nature of Roman view of the East evoking in the readers’ minds parallels to Cleopatra and contemplation of causes for Punic wars. Beyond the Roman context, however, across the centuries and cultures the figure of Dido inspired awe and mistrust, pity and condemnation, as numerous writers adopted her for their own cultural framing and cultural craving.
This year’s theme invites diverse approaches to Dido, Queen of Carthage, both inside and outside of Vergil’s epic. It also aims to stimulate new connections between study of Dido in antiquity and broader context of that study that resonated through the centuries after Vergil. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
* Historical origin of Dido’s character and its African sources, as well as Greek and Latin sources on African history and culture that address the figure of Dido.
* The figure of Dido in pre-Vergilian literature (notably in Naevius’ Bellum Poenicum and Ennius’ Annales).
* The character of Dido in the Aeneid in the context of Vergil’s sources, intertextuality, psychological introspection, treatment of female in power (dux femina facti) and gender perspective, moral and ideological issues (related to Roman history and to the opposition between Roman/Augustan and anti-Roman/anti-Augustan interpretations of the poem), tragic influence and generic interplay in the Aeneid.
* Reception of Dido in post-Vergilian culture, beginning with Ovid’s Dido, through Late Antiquity and Middle Ages (e.g. Tertullian, Saint Jerome, Saint Augustine, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio), up to modern and contemporary literature and art (Christopher Marlowe, Alexandre Hardy, Henry Purcell, Pietro Metastasio, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Joseph Brodsky, Anna Akhmatova), including music, opera and ballet (e.g. Salvatore Viganò,Gioachino Rossini), as well as cinema (Barbara Willis-Sweete, Franco Rossi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, François Roussillon).
Confirmed Speakers:
Alessandro Barchiesi
Sergio Casali
Jim O’Hara
Sophia Papaioannou
Giampiero Scafoglio
Richard Thomas
Zara Torlone
Barbara Weiden Boyd
Please send abstracts of roughly 300 words to torlonzm@miamioh.edu by December 1, 2021. Papers will be 20 minutes long, with time for discussion after each. We hope to gather an inclusive group of speakers from multiple backgrounds and academic ranks, and especially encourage submissions from scholars belonging to communities underrepresented in the field. Participants will arrive on June 21 and leave on the 25th; we are planning to hold the conference at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, and enjoy visits to Vergilian sites alongside presentations and discussion. We hope for an in-person Symposium. That said, in light of the uncertainties COVID-19 continues to present, we are leaving open the option for a virtual symposium, to be determined as events proceed. Whatever form it will eventually take, we look forward to seeing many of our colleagues in June 2022.
Edit - Program:
Tuesday, June 21st: Arrivals after 3pm. Meet and Greet and Social time: drinks before dinner in the main room.
Wednesday, June 22nd:
8.00: Breakfast
PANEL 1, 9AM–11AM: Opening the Conference Themes
INTRODUCTIONS: Giampiero Scafoglio and Zara Torlone
Welcome of local authorities.
Chair: Giampiero Scafoglio
1. Richard Thomas (Harvard University), “Dido in the 21st Century Translation”
2. Sergio Casali (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”), “Virgil’s Dido and the Preceding Tradition”
Discussion
Coffee break
PANEL 2, 11.15AM–1.15PM: Vergil’s Dido
Chair: Zara Torlone
3. Suzanne Adema (Leiden University), “Bound by Mercurius: Mercurius as Manipulator, Interpreter and Narrator of
Dido’s Inner Life”
4. Carey Seal (University of California, Davis), “Dido’s Curiosity”
5. Campbell Celia (Emory University), “Spoiled Dido”
6. Mario Lentano (University of Siena), “Periturae ignoscit Elissae. Tracce di lettura al femminile della Didone virgiliana”
Discussion
1.15PM–2.30PM: Lunch
PANEL 3, 2.30–4PM: Dido in Latin Literature of Augustan and Imperial Age
Chair: Richard Thomas
7. Sunju Li (Jungam Academy for Greco-Roman Studies), “Dido, oratrix sagax: An interpretation of the Heroides”
8. Anne Sinha (Sorbonne Paris Nord University), “Anna soror : le rôle d’Anna dans la construction du personnage de
Didon dans la poésie latine”
9. Debra Freas (Wellesley College), “East in Ephesus: Dido and Petronius”
Discussion
Outing to Cuma
Thursday, June 23rd: 8.30: Breakfast
PANEL 1, 9AM–11AM: Dido in Late Antiquity
Chair: Jim O’Hara
10. Graziana Brescia (University of Bari), “L’allattamento ferino e i geni della perfidia. I convicia di Didone in età tardo-antica”
11. Giancarlo Abbamonte (University of Naples “Federico II”) and Fabio Stok (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”), “Dido in
the Late Ancient Commentaries”
12. Étienne Wolff (University of Paris Nanterre) “Didon dans quelques recueils poétiques latins tardifs (Épigrammes d’Ausone,
Epigrammata Bobiensia, Anthologie latine)”
13. Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), “Editing the Dying Dido for a Christian lector
doctus (Tertullian and Prudentius on Dido’s suicide)”
Discussion
Coffee break
PANEL 2, 11.15AM–1.00PM: Receptions of Dido: Europe
Chair: Barbara Weiden Boyd
14. Cristalle Watson (University of British Columbia), “Cutting and Pasting Dido: The Vergilian Centos of Geta and Proba”
15. Giandamiano Bovi (University of Parma), “Luca Pulci’s Pistole, addressed to Lorenzo di Medici. Rewriting Dido”
16. Patrick Lake (The Hill School), “Shakespeare’s Dido in the Tempest”
Discussion
1.00PM–2.15PM: Lunch
Outing in Naples (Archaeological Museum)
Friday, June 24th: 8.30: Breakfast
PANEL 1, 9AM–10.45AM: Receptions of Dido: Beyond Europe
Chair: Sergio Casali
17. Zara Torlone (Miami University, Ohio), “Two Didos in Russian Poetry: Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky”
18. Carlos Mariscal de Gante (National Autonomous University of Mexico), “Dido, a Feminist Symbol for 20th Century
Mexican Society: Rosario Castellano’s Lamentación de Dido”
19. Erika Valdivieso (Yale University), Searching for Dido in Colonial Latin America
Discussion
Coffee break
PANEL 2, 11.00AM–1.00PM: Dido Today
Chair: Sophia Papaioannou
20. Alicia Matz (Boston University), “Ipsa sua Dido concidit usa manu: Vergil, Ovid, and Dido’s Agency in Three Modern
Retellings”
21. Francesca Tataranni (Northwestern University), “Waking up over the Aeneid in 1985: Dido and a fresco fracas during the
Reagan presidency”
22. Barbara Weiden Boyd (Bowdoin College), “Dido in the Desert: Stella Duffy Reads Virgil with Ovid”
23. Muriel Lafond (University of Nice-Côte d’Azur), “What Ever Happened to Queen Dido (on screen)?”
Discussion
1.00PM–2.15PM: Lunch
PANEL 3, 2.15PM–4PM: The “Alternative” Didos
Chair: Alessandro Barchiesi
24. Ekbom Moa (University of Gothenburg), “Urbem praeclaram statui: Perceiving Dido the Builder in Antiquity”
25. Alessandro Barchiesi (New York University), “Dido, Venus and Cyprus”
26. Giampiero Scafoglio (University of Nice-Côte d’Azur), “Dido in Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio”
Discussion
Concluding Remarks
Outing and Dinner in Sorrento
Saturday, June 25th: Morning departure
Website: https://www.cepam.cnrs.fr/evenement/symposium-cumanum-2022-dido-unbound-the-queen-of-carthage-before-in-and-after-vergil/
Call: https://www.vergiliansociety.org/call-for-papers-2022-symposium-cumanum/
(CFP closed December 1, 2021)
[ONLINE] AN IMAGINED PAST: ARCHITECTURAL RECONSTRUCTIONS AND GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATIONS IN THE MAKING OF MEDITERRANEAN HISTORY
Online - London (The Warburg Institute/Institute of Classical Studies) [UK time] - June 20 & 21, 2022
Organised by The Warburg Institute and the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
This two half-day online conference ‘An imagined past: Architectural reconstructions and geographical imaginations in the making of Mediterranean history’ will be about visual representations and Mediterranean history with a focus on how architectural reconstructions and geographical imaginations have affected our views of the Mediterranean past and present.
We are all aware of how reconstructions affect the creation of the past, and that reconstruction is also always partly imagination. It is only fairly recently that maps and architectural reconstructions became used as scientific evidence, with the expectation that they reflect the ‘actual’ past. The conference wants to take the imaginative part of representations and its impact on the history of the Mediterranean seriously as a starting point: how have architectural reconstructions and cartographic representations affected our image of the past and influenced our conceptions of the Mediterranean? The conference will examine iconic historical reconstructions and maps, ranging from the very first representations in prehistory, antiquity, and post-antiquity up to today, that had an impact - but also wishes to consider those images that may have been forgotten but which have also shaped our images of the past. Some representations, such as for instance the Black or Islamic Mediterranean, have been ignored or purposefully neglected, but are able to significantly contribute to a more diverse image of the Mediterranean past.
We invite scholars and PhD-students working on one of these four interrelated research topics to present a 15/20 min paper, to be followed by a short discussion, on any of the following topics:
* How architectural and cartographic representations were conceived in pre-modern times when they did not yet serve, or served in a very different way, as scientific data
* How architectural reconstructions and maps became part of our modern scientific discourse
* How reconstructions of the past have been affected by contemporary realities
* How the presence of some, and the absence of other representations have added to our current image and concepts of the Mediterranean
We welcome contributions from people working on topics such as (pre)historical imagination, East-West relationships and reconstructions, migration and imagination, the Black Mediterranean, or any other geographical or architectural imagination that can challenge current views on the image of Mediterranean history.
If you have any questions regarding the conference or are interested in presenting a paper, please send your proposed title and abstract before Thursday 28 April 2022 to Dr Eva Mol (Warburg Institute Visiting Fellow) e.mol@ucl.ac.uk.
Call: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/an-imagined-past
(CFP closed April 28, 2022)
MARIANGELO ACCURSIO TRA L’ITALIA E L’EUROPA. POETA, FILOLOGO, EPIGRAFISTA E DIPLOMATICO
University of Pavia, Italy (Palazzo Vistarino Fondazione Alma Mater Ticinensis): June 17-18, 2022
Venerdì, 17 giugno 2022
14:00-14:30 Saluti e inizio dei lavori - Stefano Rocchi, Fabrizio Marinelli, Introduzione
Poeta e filologo
14:30-16:00
Paola De Capua, Gli esordi di Accursio a Roma
Daniela Gionta, Le Diatribae: prime osservazioni
Giusto Traina,Toponimi orientali di Solino nelle Diatribae di Accursio
16:00-16:30 pausa
16:30-18:00
Stefano Rocchi, I “Sylvarum libri duo priores” ritrovati: prime osservazioni
Gavin Kelly, Accursius’ Ammianus Marcellinus (1533): The editio princeps of books 27-31
Immacolata Eramo,“Un Ammiano Marcellino quasi nuovo e rinato”. Note testuali alle Res gestae di Mariangelo Accursio
Sabato, 18 giugno 2022
Epigrafista e diplomatico
9:30-10:30
Marco Buonocore, Sunt autem Accursiana haec apographa plane egregia. Accursio e l’epigrafia classica: una prima messa a punto.
Silvia Orlandi, Accursiana 2.0: i codici ambrosiani di Mariangelo Accursio tra filologia ed epigrafia digitale
10:30-11:00 pausa
11:00-12:00
Stefano Andronio, I disegni delle iscrizioni e dei monumenti antichi: prime considerazioni
Silvia Maria Mantini, Ambasciatore e mediatore tra monarchia spagnola e terre di confine
Webex - email stefano.rocchi@unipv.it
Information: http://news.unipv.it/?p=68505
[HYBRID] WORKSHOP: THE RECEPTION OF TERENCE'S EUNUCHUS FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES
Online/in person - Corpus Christi College, Oxford: June 17, 2022
Corpus Christi College is delighted to invite you to Oxford for a workshop on the reception of Terence's comedy Eunuchus on 17 June 2022.
As Terence's most successful play, Eunuchus was consistently part of the Latin school canon from the late Roman Republic to the modern era. Over a period of more than two thousand years, the comedy has been edited, performed, commented on, criticised, illustrated, and imitated numerous times. By bringing together experts on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the play, the workshop aims to discuss a wide range of approaches and provide insight into the colourful afterlife of one of Rome's most successful poets.
You are most welcome to attend the workshop in person at Corpus Christi College as well as via the internet. Should you wish to have lunch at the College, this can be arranged for a payment of £15.
We will be in touch soon with a detailed programme and further information. Please let us know if you are interested in attending.
Stefano Cianciosi (stefano.cianciosi@lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Vincent Graf (vincent.graf@classics.ox.ac.uk)
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;f51eea25.ex
Edited 24/4/2022:
The APGRD and Corpus Christi College Classics Centre are pleased to invite you to a Double Act dedicated to Terence’s most successful and most controversial comedy, Eunuchus.
This will feature a hybrid weekly seminar (Tuesdays 11.30am, 26 April to 14 June) and one-day research conference (Friday 17 June); in collaboration with the University of Leipzig.
Organizers: Stefano Cianciosi (LMH, Oxford), Domenico Giordani (UCL), Vincent Graf (Leipzig/Oxford), and Giuseppe Pezzini (CCC, Oxford).
Introductory Seminar: Tuesdays 11.30-1pm, 26 April - 14 June
Corpus Christi College Oxford - and on Zoom
Our programme encompasses a wide array of topics and perspectives on the play — from textual criticism to gender studies, from ancient and modern reception to stage-related issues and performance. In addition to presentations on selected passages given by graduate students and early career researchers, the first five sessions will include short introductions on several aspects of the text such as transmission, language, metre, Greek model, and the historical context of its performance.
The seminar is open to everyone and it is by no means expected that participants will have any prior knowledge of the Eunuchus or of Roman comedy in general. In fact, our aim is to bring different approaches to bear on the text and thus open up new avenues for interpretation.
Research conference: The Reception of Terence Eunuchus: Friday 17 June
Auditorium, Corpus Christi College Oxford - and on Zoom
As Terence's most successful play, Eunuchus was consistently part of the Latin school canon from the late Roman Republic to the modern era. Over a period of more than two thousand years, the comedy has been edited, performed, commented on, criticised, illustrated, and imitated numerous times. By bringing together experts on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the play, the workshop aims to discuss a wide range of approaches and provide insight into the colourful afterlife of one of Rome's most successful poets.
Confirmed speakers:
Edith Hall (University of Durham)
Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois, Urbana Campaign)
Andrew Cain (University of Colorado Boulder)
Vincent Graf (University of Oxford/Leipzig)
Giovanna Di Martino (University College London)
Andrea Peverelli (Leiden University)
Giulia Torello-Hill (University of New England)
Andrew Turner (University of Melbourne)
Beatrice Radden Keefe (Universitӓt Zürich)
Stefan Feddern (Universität Leipzig)
Contact: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2022/06/17/eunuchus
If you have any queries, please feel free to email Stefano Cianciosi at: stefano.cianciosi@lmh.ox.ac.uk
DI MELUSINE E GORGONI. LE ENTITÀ MOSTRUOSE FEMMINILI DALL’ANTICHITÀ AI NOSTRI GIORNI
Velletri, Rome: June 16-18, 2022
Program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GoMQoVKkS86MCvZ2CPNWQnv8SlxJigNw/view?usp=sharing
ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES: 50TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel: June 15-16, 2022
Our keynote speaker will be Emily J. Gowers (Cambridge University).
The conference is the annual meeting of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies. We welcome papers in English or Hebrew on a wide range of classical subjects, including, but not limited to, history, philology, philosophy, literature, papyrology, classical reception and the archaeology of Greece, Rome and neighboring lands.
To mark the 50th year of the Society, two sessions are planned on the general topic of “the Future of Classics,” and we particularly (albeit by no means exclusively) encourage submissions related to this topic understood in a broad way, including: The Interdisciplinarity of Classics with physical and human sciences (e.g., climate change, medicine, anthropology, and cognitive studies); Reception studies; Identity Politics and Ethnicity; and the intersections between the Classical world and other civilizations (e.g., Mesopotamian, Syrian, Egyptian, Black African, Indian, and Chinese).
The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes. The official languages of the conference are Hebrew and English.
The conference fee is $50.
Accommodation at reduced prices will be available at local hotels.
Registration forms with a list of prices will be sent to participants in due course.
Proposals, abstracts and other correspondence may be forwarded to Prof. Sylvie Honigman, Secretary of the ISPCS:
email: honigman@tauex.tau.ac.il
All proposals should consist of a one-page abstract (about 250-300 words). Proposals in Hebrew should also be accompanied by a one-page abstract in English to appear in the conference brochure.
ALL PROPOSALS SHOULD REACH THE SECRETARY BY JANUARY 3, 2022.
If a decision is required prior to late January, please indicate this in your letter and we will try to accommodate your needs.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;196c7976.ex
(CFP closed January 3, 2022)
(new dates) TEACHING CONFLICT RESOLUTION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
Manaus (Universidade do Estado do Amazonas), Brazil: June 9-12, 2020 - change of date due to COVID-19: April 20-23, 2021 - new dates June 14-17, 2022.
Organisers: Dr. Martin Dinter (King’s College London), Dr. Carlos Renato Rosário de Jesus, Dra. Vanúbia Moncayo, and Dra. Maristela Silva (Universidade do Estado do Amazonas)
We welcome expressions of interest for 30-minute papers to be presented at this workshop, which will take place as part of the 3rd Semana Internacional de Estudos Clássicos do Amazonas (SECLAM); for information on previous iterations of this conference, see https://sites.google.com/prod/uea.edu.br/temas-classicos.
The theme of this workshop, which follows on from two previous events in Bogotá (April 2019) and London (July 2019), is ‘The Pedagogy of Conflict Resolution’. Hence, participants might choose to present accounts of existing projects integrating the Classics and conflict resolution outreach or develop plans for future programmes combining these subjects. Participants may also wish to explore how educators can mitigate the emotional impact of potentially sensitive classroom discussions on violence and war or even approach the workshop’s theme from an ancient history perspective by exploring how the ancients addressed subjects such as warfare and peacekeeping when educating youths. We also encourage speakers to examine how conflict resolution structures found in both ancient and modern literature might be practically implemented within Brazil and Colombia. Possible case studies include a region-specific reworking of Shay’s (1994) report, which compares post-traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam War veterans to Achilles’ emotional state in the Iliad.
The key questions to be answered during this exploration are: How can we, as educators, best implement Classics-related modules on conflict resolution for students at the secondary and tertiary level? What are the lessons to be learnt from initiatives – both successful and unsuccessful, and ancient as well as modern – which center upon introducing conflict-affected populations to the Classics? How can the knowledge accumulated throughout this project be used to improve the pedagogical materials which we have designed for use in schools?
Deadline for abstracts: 15th December 2019 to martin.dinter@kcl.ac.uk.
Contact Information:
Please send all expressions of interest or queries to the Principal Investigator, Dr. Martin Dinter (martin.dinter@kcl.ac.uk). Please note that all participants will require proof of yellow fever vaccination in order to travel to Manaus.
Further information relating to this workshop series can be found online at our project site: https://sites.google.com/view/conflictandclassics/home.
Confirmed Speakers
Anni Marcelli Santos de Jesus, PUC-MG/UniNorte (Brazil)
Paula da Cunha Correa, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Marcos Martinho, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Gilson Charles dos Santos, Universidade de Brasília (Brazil)
Charlene Miotti, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil)
Leni Ribeiro Leite, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Brazil)
Andrea Lozano Vásquez, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)
Ana Filipa Patinha Prata, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)
Gemma Bernadó Ferrer, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)
Ronald Forero Álvarez, Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia)
Rodrigo Verano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Kathryn Tempest, University of Roehampton (UK)
Rebecca Langlands, University of Exeter (UK)
Emma Buckley, St. Andrews (UK)
David Whetham, King’ College London (UK)
Astrid Khoo, Harvard University (USA)
Sara Monoson, Northwestern University (USA)
Project Summary: The AHRC Research Networking project ‘Conflict Resolution through Classical Literature’ forms connections between academic research in Classics and War Studies and peace-building education in two Latin American target countries: Brazil and Colombia. The project is characterized by its double aim of research and outreach.
In three workshops – Bogota (April 2019), London (July 2019), and Manaus (June 2020) –participating scholars will produce new research on how Classical literature communicates and showcases conflict resolution skills, and develop ways of employing Classical literature in communicating these skills to conflict-affected youth. In so doing, they will examine ancient models of conflict resolution and map these onto the current political situation in Colombia and Brazil. In addition, they will evaluate how the Classics have historically informed pedagogical initiatives in these countries and devise ways in which ancient literature can continue to enhance peace-related education.
Call: https://sites.google.com/view/conflictandclassics/call-for-papers-workshop-3
Program: https://sites.google.com/view/conflictandclassics/programme-workshop-3-manaus
(CFP closed December 15, 2019)
[ONLINE] WONDER WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT 2022: 50 YEARS OF KICK ASS FEMINISM
Online - June 10-12, 2022
In July 1972 Ms. magazine released its first independently-published issue, featuring the now famous “Wonder Woman for President” cover. Although first appearing in comics in 1941, Wonder Woman’s focus on compassion and empathy spoke to the publishers and readers of this feminist magazine fighting for women’s rights in the 1970s, and she continues speaking to modern readers today. Whether appearing without the male gaze in Patty Jenkins’ 2017 film, fighting to defend an abused and exploited young woman in Greg Rucka’s Hiketeia (2002), or helping take down a corrupt real estate mogul in Amanda Conner & Alex Sinclair’s Agent of Peace (2020), Wonder Woman continues to represent an empowered female hero fighting with empathy and challenging patriarchal systems that take advantage of others. Moreover, 2021 finally saw the return of Diana’s black sister, Nubia, who first appeared in 1973. While L. L. McKinney’s Nubia: Real One addresses the very real contemporary struggles of black women growing up in the United States, Vita Ayala & Stephanie Williams’ Nubia & the Amazons puts Nubia on the throne of Themyscira while welcoming the first trans-Amazon to the island. Clearly, Wonder Woman and her storyworld still resonate even eighty years after her introduction.
In June 2022, this virtual conference will bring together scholars from across disciplines to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the “Wonder Woman for President” cover, to explore various aspects of Wonder Woman and her storyworld, as well as the continuing appeal of this empowered character.
Possible topics include:
* Wonder Woman as ancient reception
* Wonder Woman’s engagements with Greek & Roman mythology & history
* Wonder Woman’s Amazons and the historical & mythological Amazons
* Wonder Woman & feminism
* Wonder Woman, Nubia, & anti-racism
* Wonder Woman, queer theory, & the LGBTQ+ community
* Wonder Woman & comics studies
* Wonder Woman merchandise
* Wonder Woman in novels, video games, TV, & film
* The Wonder Woman fandom community
Please submit an abstract of 300 words plus bibliography to amandapotter@caramanda.co.uk and nataliejswain@gmail.com by 1 March 2022.
Call: https://classicalassociation.org/events/cfp-wonder-woman-for-president-2022-50-years-of-kick-ass-feminism/
(CFP closed March 1, 2022)
[ONLINE] PLATO 2022
Online - June 9-10, 2022
We are pleased to announce Plato 2022, an interdisciplinary workshop that will investigate the contemporary relevance of Plato’s ethical and political thought. The workshop will be held virtually on June 9-10, 2022. We welcome papers on Plato’s ethical and political thinking and encourage submissions that relate to contemporary events.
In a time of great social and political change, how might scholars of Plato respond in kind? This topic is broad, and avenues for investigation are wide-ranging. The following are some questions that fall within the scope of the conference:
* What aspects of the dialogues are most pertinent to our current social and political debates?
* How might Plato’s ideas about virtue, happiness, knowledge and their interconnection influence our own thinking?
* Is the assumption that there is a single human good compatible with the ideals of tolerance and pluralism?
* How do the dialogues balance individual and societal interests?
* What are Plato’s views about the best sort of society (egalitarian, totalitarian, dystopian)?
* How do pleasure, desire, love, and relationships figure into his ethical and political thought?
* How ought we to understand Plato’s treatment of class, ability, and natural talents?
* What can we determine about his views on sex, gender, race, ethnicity, and regional identity, and how have these views influenced scholars and society in the ensuing millennia?
* Given the differences between our general assumptions about social and political issues today and what Plato seemed to assume, why should we continue to read and study these texts today?
To submit a paper for consideration, please send an abstract of 300-500 words to plato2022conference@gmail.com. Abstracts should be attached as either a PDF or Word doc and include no identifying information. The body of the email should include your name, paper title, affiliation, position, and contact information.
Abstracts should be submitted by December 1, 2021. Accepted applicants will be notified of their acceptance by December 20, 2021.
Full papers are due on May 20, 2022 and should be prepared for circulation to all registered participants. We welcome submissions from any discipline and hope to include a diverse group of participants and approaches. Early career scholars are encouraged to apply.
If you have any questions for the organizers, feel free to contact plato2022conference@gmail.com.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/1825728574274379
(CFP closed December 1, 2021)
[HYBRID] CONTEMPORANEITY OF ANTIQUITY
International Student Conference
Hybrid - Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia): June 6-8, 2022
The Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers of the International Student Conference “Contemporaneity of Antiquity” to be held in hybrid mode (via ZOOM and face-to-face) on June 6-8, 2022.
The Conference invites proposals exploring different aspects of the reception of the Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, Philosophy, History, Culture etc. in the Modern World. The topics of the Conference may include other issues of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies as well.
Undergraduate and graduate students are kindly invited to take part in the Conference. The Conference participants will get the Certificate of Participation. No registration fee required.
The working languages during the Conference will be English and Georgian.
Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Presentations will be followed by 10-minute discussion. The abstracts of the papers (between 300 and 600 words) should be sent to the following e-mail: greekstudies@tsu.ge by May 16, 2022. The authors will be notified of the Scientific Committee’s decision in five days after submitting the proposal.
Along with the abstract the following information about the author should be provided:
* Personal information (first name, last name):
* Higher Education Institution, Country:
* Level of Studies (Bachelor, Master, Doctoral):
* Participation mode (Online / in person):
* Contact data (phone and email):
Questions may be directed to the following e-mail address: greekstudies@tsu.ge.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/%C2%A0international-student-conference-%E2%80%9Ccontemporaneity-antiquity%E2%80%9D
(CFP closed May 16, 2022)
TOLKIEN AND ANTIQUITY - THE ANTIQUITIES OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Paris, France: June 4, 2022
Antiquitas, "the time of the past", “the old days”: the universe of the Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien fascinates with its apparent historicity and does have an antiquity, in the sense of a distant past. In the history of that world, made of a multitude of tales commonly referred to as the Legendary, the place of ancient literature has long been emphasized.
Initially trained in classical literature, the author’s original interests are particularly felt in the Silmarillion : the city of Gondolin has strong resemblances to Troy (Bruce 2012, Pantin 2014), Númenor with Atlantis (Delattre 2007, Kleu 2020) ; but even the Galadriel of his major work has been compared to Circe (Delattre 2014). We therefore detect an in-depth knowledge of ancient authors, Virgil of course (Reckford 1974 ; Morse 1986 ; Bruce 2012), Plutarch (Libran-Moreno 2005) or Tacitus (Obertino 2006). Homeric inspiration, in particular, is found in the accounts of The Lost Tales and The Silmarillion. Societies are sometimes close to the cultures of Antiquity, Greek (Williams 2017, 2020) or Roman (Allan 1974, Obertino 2006, Ford 2005, Gallant 2020). However, the dispersion of these comparisons makes it difficult to synthesize these contributions.
The workshop of June 4, 2022 aims to take a new look at this fictional past : can we identify “antic periods” reminiscent of Greco-Roman antiquity? The question is inseparable from a dialectic associating Antiquity and the Middle Ages : in his Letters, Tolkien reveals Gondor had a Middle Age (Letters, n ° 131), which implies an Antiquity ... as well, maybe, as a Renaissance (on this point of view, see Ford 2005, Hunter 2005). An ancient era is referred to by the author as the "Elder Days", which ends with the First Age, long before the events of The Lord of the Rings. Can these eras be compared to Greco-Roman antiquity, so that there would be several Tolkienian antiquities?
The history of Middle-earth itself is a form of fictional antiquity : if the XXth century is for Tolkien the 7th Age, the early ages could ? Beyond the primary inconsistencies – such as the paradox of the historical invention of writing – can we envision a continuum between Middle-earth and Antiquity ? For these questions, the analysis of the Tolkiennian corpus as a whole (from the History of Middle-earth to Letters, even outside of the Legendary) will be welcome.
A perfect image of Greco-Roman antiquity is not expected : it is not even so with the Middle Ages, the main source of inspiration, which imperfectly merges with Middle-earth. It leads to talk about an “antiquism”, alongside the “medievalism” (on this notion, see Ferré 2000, Carruthers 2007, Ferré 2009, 2010, 2013). Antiquity (and not only the classical literature) could thus complement the Middle Ages in the reading of the work. The day will thus join issues raised elsewhere concerning the reception of Antiquity in literature and popular culture (Bos-Fiévet and Provini 2014). In this context, talks may lead a separate analysis of the derivative creations (illustrations, movies and videogames).
Communication proposals (10-20 lines) must be sent before March 7th, 2022 to tolkienantique2022@gmail.com.
Organization : Dimitri Maillard, PhD in roman history, ATER, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Scientific Board: Charles Delattre, Professor, Université de Lille; Vincent Ferré, Professor, Université Paris Est Créteil; Isabelle Pantin, Emeritus Professor, École Normale Supérieure, Paris; Sandra Provini, Lecturer, Université de Rouen-Normandie
Call: https://www.fabula.org/actualites/tolkien-et-lantiquite-les-antiquites-de-la-terre-du-milieu_105917.php
CFP closed March 11, 2022
[ONLINE] ANTIQUITATUM THESAURUS: ANTIQUITIES IN EUROPEAN VISUAL SOURCES FROM THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Egypt in Early-Modern Antiquarian Imagery
Online [Germany] - Digital Workshops: May 5, June 2, July 7, 2022
On the occasion of this year's anniversaries of important milestones in the recent reception of Egypt, the academy project "Antiquitatum Thesaurus" devotes three digital workshops in the summer semester of 2022 to the perception of the land on the Nile in the early-modern period. The focus will be on various personal motivations of some of the protagonists, the antiquarian or scientific methods they used, and a broad spectrum of media in which the engagement with Egyptian or Egyptianizing artifacts and images was reflected from the 15th to the 18th century. In addition, current research projects present their perspectives on the reception of Egypt.
Programme
5 May 2022 – 4 p.m.
Michail Chatzidakis (Berlin):
Ad summam sui verticem pyramidalem in figuram vidimus ascendentes […] anti quissimum Phoenicibus caracteribus epigramma conspeximus“. Bemerkungen zu den ägyptischen Reisen Ciriacos d’Ancona
Catharine Wallace (West Chester):
Pirro Ligorio and the Late Renaissance Memory of Egypt in Rome
Stefan Baumann (Trier):
Project Presentation: Early Egyptian Travel Accounts from Late Antiquity to Napoleon
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3LQWgMB
2 June 2022 – 4 p.m.
Maren Elisabeth Schwab (Kiel):
Herodots Ägypten im Interessenshorizont italienischer Antiquare
Alfred Grimm (München):
Osiris cum capite Accipitris. Zu einem Objekt aus der Bellori-Sammlung und dem Barberinischen „Osiris“
Florian Ebeling (München):
Project Presentation: Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der Ägyptenrezeption
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3O4dS9O
7 July 2022 – 4 p.m.
Guillaume Sellier (Montréal): Oldest Egyptian Artefacts in Canada: The Quebec Palace Intendant’s Amulets
Valentin Boyer (Paris): „Sphinxomanie“ durch die Ikonographie ägyptisierender Exlibris
Nils Hempel, Timo Strauch (BBAW): Project Presentation: Antiquitatum Thesaurus. Antiken in den europäischen Bildquellen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3rd7T8z
Website: https://thesaurus.bbaw.de/en
[ONLINE] ANTIQUITATUM THESAURUS: ANTIQUITIES IN EUROPEAN VISUAL SOURCES FROM THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Egypt in Early-Modern Antiquarian Imagery
Online [Germany] - Digital Workshops: May 5, June 2, July 7, 2022
On the occasion of this year's anniversaries of important milestones in the recent reception of Egypt, the academy project "Antiquitatum Thesaurus" devotes three digital workshops in the summer semester of 2022 to the perception of the land on the Nile in the early-modern period. The focus will be on various personal motivations of some of the protagonists, the antiquarian or scientific methods they used, and a broad spectrum of media in which the engagement with Egyptian or Egyptianizing artifacts and images was reflected from the 15th to the 18th century. In addition, current research projects present their perspectives on the reception of Egypt.
Programme
5 May 2022 – 4 p.m.
Michail Chatzidakis (Berlin):
Ad summam sui verticem pyramidalem in figuram vidimus ascendentes […] anti quissimum Phoenicibus caracteribus epigramma conspeximus“. Bemerkungen zu den ägyptischen Reisen Ciriacos d’Ancona
Catharine Wallace (West Chester):
Pirro Ligorio and the Late Renaissance Memory of Egypt in Rome
Stefan Baumann (Trier):
Project Presentation: Early Egyptian Travel Accounts from Late Antiquity to Napoleon
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3LQWgMB
2 June 2022 – 4 p.m.
Maren Elisabeth Schwab (Kiel):
Herodots Ägypten im Interessenshorizont italienischer Antiquare
Alfred Grimm (München):
Osiris cum capite Accipitris. Zu einem Objekt aus der Bellori-Sammlung und dem Barberinischen „Osiris“
Florian Ebeling (München):
Project Presentation: Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der Ägyptenrezeption
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3O4dS9O
7 July 2022 – 4 p.m.
Guillaume Sellier (Montréal): Oldest Egyptian Artefacts in Canada: The Quebec Palace Intendant’s Amulets
Valentin Boyer (Paris): „Sphinxomanie“ durch die Ikonographie ägyptisierender Exlibris
Nils Hempel, Timo Strauch (BBAW): Project Presentation: Antiquitatum Thesaurus. Antiken in den europäischen Bildquellen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3rd7T8z
Website: https://thesaurus.bbaw.de/en
ET IN COTHURNIS PRODIT AESOPUS NOUIS. ON THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ANCIENT FABLE AND LITERARY GENRES
University of Graz, Austria: June 2-4, 2022
Programme
Thursday, 2 June 2022
13.00 Come together
13.30 Welcome and introduction
1) FABLE AND NARRATIVE OR DIDACTIC EPIC
13.45 Sandro La Barbera (Trient):
Howling at the Sky: Animals in Fable and Astronomical Poetry
14.30 Bruno Currie (Oxford):
Hesiod’s Fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale (Works and Days 202-12)
15.15 Keating McKeon (Harvard):
A Feast Fit for a Lion: Iliad 24.39-45 and Fable in Epic
16.00 Coffee break
2) FABLE AND ELEGY
16.30 Christopher Poms (Graz):
pervigil ante fores, irrita vota gerens: Avianus' Fables and Love Elegy
17.15 Giovanni Zago (Florence):
The Fables of Avianus. Intertextuality and textual criticism
18.00 Reception and joint dinner
Friday, 3 June 2022
3) FABLE AND COMEDY
10.00 Babette Pütz (Wellington):
Not for Beetle Brains: Fables in Aristophanes
10.45 Ursula Gärtner (Graz):
Seruus currens: Fable and comedy
11.30 Caterina Mordeglia (Trient):
Phaedrus’ Theater
12.15 Lunch break
4) FABLE AND SCIENTIFIC PROSE
13.45 Hedwig Schmalzgruber (Potsdam):
How do Ancient Fables Interact with Ancient Texts on “Real” Animals?
14.30 Marine Glénisson (Paris):
Personality of Animals, Personality of Men in the Imperial Period: From Fable to Science, or the Other Way Around
15.15 David Wallace-Hare (Exeter):
The Didactic Forest: Generic Features of Tree Fable within the Aesopic Corpus and Classical Literature
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Claudia Luchetti (Tübingen):
The Ideal Philosopher as ʽFabulatorʼ: Socratic-Platonic Variations on Aesop in the Phaedo (60a-61b)
17.15 Damian Pierzak (Katowice):
Fable in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and in Roman Republican Oratory
18.00 Trip to the basilica of “Maria Trost”
19.30 Conference dinner
Saturday, 4 June 2022
5) FABLE, EPIGRAM AND IAMBUS
10.00 Margot Neger (Cyprus):
Epigrammatic elements in Avianus’ fables
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 Vittorio Bottini (Toronto):
Babrius’ Mythiambi and the iambic tradition
12.00 Lukas Spielhofer (Graz):
The Lion, the Fox and the Camel: The Fables of Babrius between Epic and Epigram
12.45 Lunch break
6) FABLE AND CHRISTIAN TEXTS
13.45 Justin Strong (Mainz):
Embedding Fables into the Gospels: Composition Techniques and Rhetorical Functions
14.30 Maria Christodoulou (Cyprus):
Ancient Fables and Christian Epigrams
15.15 Montserrat Camps-Gaset (Barcelona):
The Representation of Animals in the Acta Thomae
16.00 Coffee break
7) LATIN AND GREEK FABLES AND OTHER GENRES IN THE MIDDLE AGES
16.30 Simona Martorana (Kiel/Hamburg):
Nemo aliquid valet sine suis: The Medieval Latin Reception of “The Belly and the Members” across Literary Genres
17.15 Federica Scognamiglio (Pisa):
Between Babrius and Ignatios, between Fable and metaphrasis
8) GENERAL APPROACHES
18.00 Gert-Jan van Dijk (Leiden):
Exemplum Fables (and Allusions) in Latin Literature II: Analysis
18.45 Final discussion
19.45 Joint dinner
Contact information: Prof. Dr. Ursula Gärtner (Graz), ursula.gaertner@uni-graz.at
Information: https://humanistische-gesellschaft-stmk.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeiten/detail/article/internationale-tagung-et-in-cothurnis-prodit-aesopus-nouis.-on-the-interaction-between-ancient-fable-and-literary-genres/
[HYBRID] OROSIUS THROUGH THE AGES
Hybrid format/Institute of Classical Studies, University of London: May 25-27, 2022
This conference explores how the Orosian reshaping of the classical past calibrated medieval and early modern conceptions of antiquity, and how far the formulation of fundamental Christian belief-systems such as sin, divine providence, and human salvation took place in the pages of the text.
The conference asks how the field of Orosian studies has developed since the publication of the seminal critical Latin edition by Sigebert Havercamp in 1738. It questions how scholars can bring together the many intersections of the Historiae’s influence in different fields, such as paleography, book history, Anglo Saxon studies, ancient history, Celtic studies, medieval history, and early modern studies, into a coherent field. In particular, the conference aims to examine how the Historiae shaped ancient and medieval constructions of race and colonialism, and how the text represented women, gender, and sexuality.
The conference is generously hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. The event blends in-person and online participation, as far as the restrictions of the pandemic allow. The physical element of the conference will take place at the Institute of Classical Studies in London, including both keynotes. Contributions from around the world are encouraged, especially those of postgraduate and early career academics.
The conference features keynote addresses from Elizabeth M. Tyler, Professor of Medieval History at the University of York, and Peter Van Nuffelen, Professor for the Cultural History of the Ancient World at Ghent University. Prof. Van Nuffelen will speak on ‘Orosius the Historian: Historiographical Traditions and Treading the Line’. Prof. Tyler will speak on ‘Orosius, Universal History and the Making of Imperial England: From Alfred the Great to the Conquest’.
The conference includes a junior-senior networking event that seeks to bring together researchers from all career stages in order to support postgraduate and early career academics.
The conference is framed by a Wikipedia editathon with training to improve the visibility of those who identify as women and non-binary in Orosian studies on Wikipedia. Although often overlooked, those who identify as women and non-binary have made essential contributions to the study of Orosius and the Historiae, such as Elizabeth Elstob who worked on an edition of the Old English Orosius in the early eighteenth century. The session involves training to instruct delegates on how to edit Wikipedia, followed by an editing session.
We welcome proposals for papers and spotlight talks from people of all career stages that engage with the themes of the conference. Postgraduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to participate. Papers will be twenty minutes, with 10 minutes for discussion. Spotlight talks will be five minutes, with five minutes for discussion.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words for papers and 200 words for spotlight talks should be sent to victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk by 8 December 2021. We will aim to publish the conference proceedings.
For further information, please contact victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk.
Registration: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/orosius-through-ages
Wikipedia editathon registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/orosius-conference-wikipedia-workshop-with-medievalwiki-tickets-257503007427
Website: https://orosiusconference.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed December 8, 2021)
ANONYMITY, UN-ORIGINALITY, COLLECTIVITY - CONTESTED MODES OF AUTHORSHIP
Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), University of Warwick, UK: May 20–21, 2022
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Dr Tom Geue, University of St Andrews
Dr Nicholas Thoburn, University of Manchester
Organised by Dr Leonello Bazzurro, Dr Melissa Pawelski, Dr Alessandra Tafaro, Dr Leanne Weston
The figure of the author is almost a ‘universal’ category, which, ‘enduring profound social and economic transformations’, can be easily exportable through ages (Netz, 2020: 100). Since classical times, the author’s name has had a canonical force that still exerts its own fascination in contemporary literatures and scholarly debates. Romanticism constructed the author as an ‘original genius’, an exceptional individual who is ‘solely responsible’ for the creation of an ‘unique work’ (Woodmansee, 1984). Conceived as the ‘origin’ of the work, the modern author was subsequently recognized as the private owner of the work. Following American New Criticism, French Structuralism and Post-Structuralism have famously made an array of critiques against the ‘name’ and the ‘function’ of the romantic/modern author. Barthes’ ‘The Death of the Author’ (1968) and Foucault’s ‘What is an Author?’ (1970) question the ‘cult of the author’ and the meaningfulness of the interpretive category of the ‘author’ as such. Since the 1960s, increasing attention has been paid to the written artifact, copying techniques and mechanisms of re-appropriation, and complex webs of intertextualities. Yet nearly all contemporary literatures and arts are constructed around authors’ names, the myth of their originality, and the liberal conception of these authors as private owners of their work. The individual author’s name, biography, personality, and geniality are strongly promoted in the academy, the editorial market, the art and film industry, and the media. Furthermore, producers of literature and knowledge must adopt strategies of self-promotion or self-branding in order to receive institutional recognition of their own name and work (Lee Wong, 2017).
Recent scholarship has demonstrated how alternative models of authorship may influence critical approaches, modes of production and reception of texts. New critical interests across different disciplines, ranging from Literature, Philosophy, Translation Studies, Poetry and Performance Studies, Visual Culture and Fan Cultures, have addressed the study of anonymous and pseudonymous texts, practices of collaborative and participatory authorship (such as fan fiction), co-authorship, as well as communal and collective modes of ownership of the work in question. These approaches challenge the centrality of authorship in the production, reception, and consumption of texts/works in several ways as well as the contemporary conceptualisations of literary, philosophical, and artistic canons.
The conference will attempt to deconstruct the politics and power dynamics of the author’s name by discussing issues of anonymity, pseudonymity, and ownership across disciplines. It aims to ask what new ways of interpretation may emerge in the absence of a named author and of a secure historical context of textual production and circulation. Furthermore, it aims to investigate how anonymity and pseudonymity influence the readers’ reception. Anonymous and pseudonymous texts have long been at the margins of classical scholarship, but they have recently witnessed a rehabilitation in scholarship (Peirano, 2012; Geue, 2019; Kayachev, 2021). Authorial names prove crucial for establishing the literary canon and for the circulation of literature in classical times (Netz, 2020). As recent studies have emphasised, however, anonymous and pseudonymous texts raise new important methodological and theoretical questions about issues of originality, authenticity, aesthetic value, and the validity of literary canon (Kayachev, 2021).
We also wish to critically reflect on the status of the modern author as the individual owner of their work. As Saint Amour (2011) notes, modern writers became increasingly aware of their role as holders of copyrights and have expressed this issue within their own literary production. However, it is only with the influence of appropriation practices during the 20th century (in the form of re-mixing, assembling, re-writing, sampling, non-creative writing, creative plagiarism) that the individual author challenges their status as the exclusive creator, and, therefore, the private ownership of their work. The author as ‘remixer’ and an ‘un-original’ genius (Perloff, 2010; Goldsmith, 2011) becomes, instead, an ‘appropriator’ of words/images/sounds made by others. Drawing on post-structuralist philosophy and conceptualist poetry, contemporary critics and writers attempt to reconceive the property regime of the author by proposing an aesthetics and ethics of ‘disappropriation’ (Rivera Garza, 2015). By disappropriating their own property, the author affirms the ‘communal being’ (Thoburn, 2016) and the collective and ‘transindividual’ roots of all literary, artistic, and intellectual creation. Understood as collective and communal property (Ostrom, 2015), the work challenges the liberal conception of intellectual property as well as conventional copyrights inscription, commonly known with the phrase ‘all right reserved’ (Vaidhyanathan, 2001).
Against this theoretically and methodologically diverse background, this conference aims to bring together critical presentations addressing the various forms in which the critique of authorship becomes pertinent in scholarly, political, social, cultural, and linguistic debates. We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers from scholars at any career stage, but are particularly interested to hear from postgraduate and early career researchers.
Suggested areas of focus may include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Theoretical, philosophical and methodological perspectives on and approaches to authorship and diachronic shifts in scholarly debates;
* The extent to which different forms of authorship may spur new perspectives on the consumption of literature, philosophy, and art;
* ‘Un-original’ practices and examples in literature, visual arts, philosophy, film studies and translation studies (creative plagiarism, appropriation techniques, re-mixing, assembling, etc.);
* Examples of transgressive collective pseudonyms and anonyms in the (post)modern age;
* The property regime of the author, copyrights versus copyleft debate;
* Models of collective, multiple, collaborative, distributed and co-authorship;
* The politics of anonymous and pseudonymous authorship; ‘intentional’ or ‘accidental’, ‘primary’ or secondary’ anonymity and pseudonymity;
* Methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives on anonymous texts and pseudepigrapha;
problems of contextualisation, transmission and reception; questions of authenticity, originality and intentionality;
* Invisibility, betrayal, fidelity, the translator as author;
* Audience’s responses to different modes of authorship;
* Authorship in the digital era, contested modes of digital authorship.
Please submit a 300-word abstract, and a 150-word biographical statement, accompanied by your name and institutional affiliation via email to authorship2022@gmail.com by 12th March 2022. Paper proposals should be submitted in the English language. We will inform you by 19th March 2022 whether your presentation has been selected. To increase accessibility and participation, we aim to hold this two-day event in a hybrid format. We would like to ask you to express your preferred mode of attendance (online or in person) of the conference in the abstract.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=4474985599274435&id=116954331744272
CFP closed March 12, 2022
[ONLINE] RES DIFFICILES 2022
Online (US Eastern time) - May 20, 2022
In the first two conferences broaching Res Difficiles (“difficult matters”), scholars from the US, Europe, and points across the globe met to explore how people on the margins of our texts and contexts are invited to—or pushed further from—the center and barriers to inclusion might be marked and addressed. Recordings of the presentations have been made available at resdifficiles.com, and a selection of those papers is being prepared for publication in a co-edited series of Ancient History Bulletin.
In the 2022 convening of #ResDiff, we continue to examine the challenges presented by this curriculum with students who are increasingly more diverse in gender identity, race, ethnicity, income, family structure, and more. And while the society of our conference will examine pedagogical issues, we hope again to dilate outward to broader issues in education and society from (a) the current and future roles of Classics and the humanities in K-12 and higher education to (b) the ultimate goals of education. We invite papers from all those who study and teach the ancient world. We welcome papers by individual speakers, by collaborative pairs, or by larger groups and scholarly organizations.
Our keynote speaker will be Kelly Nguyen (Stanford University), whose address is entitled, "(Be)Longing and (Re)Orienting In and Beyond the Classics Classroom."
The conference will be hosted as a Zoom webinar with a capacity of 500. Please note that the time zone of the conference will be US Eastern.
Abstracts of 350 words should be sent electronically to Joseph Romero (jromero@umw.edu) by Friday, December 3, 2021. Papers will be 20-25 minutes with coordinated discussion at the end of each session. Any questions regarding abstract submission may be addressed to Professors Romero or Čulík-Baird (culik@bu.edu). For more information see resdifficiles.com.
Abstract Deadline: Friday, December 3, 2021 extended deadline January 3, 2022
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-res-difficiles-2022
Website: https://resdifficiles.com/
(CFP closed December 3, 2021)
[HYBRID/ONLINE] FEMINISM & CLASSICS 2022: body/language
Hybrid/online - Wake Forest University Department of Classics & Department of Philosophy, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA: May 19-22, 2022
FemClas 2022, the eighth quadrennial conference of its kind, has been
rescheduled from its original dates (delayed by the pandemic) and will now
take place on May 19–22, 2022, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at the
invitation of the Wake Forest University Department of Classics and
Department of Philosophy. Virtual presentation and attendance is
supported, as well. The conference theme is “body/language,” broadly
construed, and papers on all topics connected to feminism, Classics,
Philosophy, and related fields are welcome.
This conference focuses on the use of the body and/or language to gain,
lose, contest, or express power and agency in the ancient Mediterranean
world. Bodies and words, at both the physical and the conceptual levels,
can exert disproportionate, oppositional, or complementary forces. Both
have the power to transform their surrounding environments significantly.
Yet there is a problematic dichotomy between body/physicality and
language/reason, a problem long noted by philosophers, literary theorists,
and social historians. FemClas 2022 seeks to contest, blur, and even
eradicate these boundaries through papers, panels, and other programming
that promotes interdisciplinary exploration of the ancient world.
Bodies, language, and their intersections have become even more prominent
since the first announcement of this iteration of Feminism & Classics. An
epochal pandemic has swept the globe, with drastic and often unequal
effects on different identity groups. Calls for racial justice in the
United States and elsewhere have become increasingly more urgent.
We invite contributions that use the lens of bodies, languages, or their
intersections to address any aspect of the ancient world, modern encounters
with ancient cultures, or the academic practices of Classics, Philosophy,
and related fields. Especially welcome are interventions that respond to
the current moments in which our societies and disciplines find
themselves. Participants might explore how voices engender movement(s) and
transform bodies, or how movement(s) in turn can stimulate recognition of
unheard or otherwise suppressed voices and lead to change. These can be
voices and movements within the ancient world, within the university, or
within our modern disciplines. The study of agency, expressed through the
problematic body/language dichotomy, addresses critical questions not only
in scholarly work but also in the governance, makeup, and power dynamics of
our fields, currently and historically. Now, perhaps more than ever, is a
critical time for us to consider ourselves as students of bodies past and
present, as embodied scholars, and to interrogate the repercussions of body
normativity — from race and gender to neurodiversity, dis/ability, and body
types — on our work and our profession.
SUBMISSION DETAILS: All submissions are due September 15, 2021. FemClas 2022 welcomes
individual papers, organized panels, workshops, roundtables, posters,
author-meets-critic sessions, and other, innovative forms of programming.
We encourage submissions from the widest possible range of perspectives,
addressing all areas of the ancient world and its legacies. We also welcome
proposals especially from related interest groups (such as Mountaintop, Eos
Africana, the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus, MRECC, Trans in
Classics, CripAntiquity, Lupercal Legit, Classics & Social Justice, the
Lambda Classical Caucus, the Women’s Classical Caucus, Hesperides, and
EuGeSta) and from allied disciplines (e.g., English, comparative
literature, media studies, environmental humanities, animal studies and
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies).
Proposals should aim for an abstract of approximately 300 words (not
counting works cited), and should be anonymous where possible. To submit a
proposal for an individual paper or poster, visit:
https://forms.gle/ru3p2NcUEsdTcnVx8
To submit a proposal for any other type of session, visit:
https://forms.gle/FB6StiTDU6vuNCsj9
CODE OF CONDUCT:
As part of submission, registration, and attendance at the conference, we
will ask you to agree to our conference Code of Conduct & Anti-Harassment
Policy, which prohibits harassment and discrimination of any kind. A
trained, experienced Anti-Harassment Administrator who is not a member of
the discipline will receive and address or refer complaints about
harassment and violations of the code of conduct. The Code of Conduct &
Anti-Harassment Policy is available here: https://femclas2020.wordpress.com/code-of-conduct/
ACCESSIBILITY:
The in-person elements of FemClas 2022 will take place partially on the
downtown campus of Wake Forest University and partially at a nearby hotel.
Each site is fully accessible for all forms of mobility. At each site
there will be all-gender bathrooms, a lactation room, a quiet room, and
on-site childcare (which we intend to offer at no extra cost).
Some states prohibit using state funds to travel to North Carolina, despite
the partial repeal of NC HB-2. Wake Forest University, as a private
institution, is not subject to NC state legislative regulations of public
universities, and Wake Forest has a non-discrimination policy inclusive of
sexual orientation and gender identity and expression:
https://titleix.wfu.edu/nondiscrimination-statement/
We are enthusiastic about developing a program that will work toward making
our intellectual community more welcoming and accessible to all. For this
reason, we invite with special emphasis proposals for workshops,
roundtables, and the like (creative formats welcome!) that will offer
practical training about e.g. implicit bias, sexual harassment, racism,
accessibility, developing diversity statements, and so forth.
The organizers (T. H. M. Gellar-Goad and Emily Austin) and the Program
Committee of FemClas 2022 are committed to an inclusive, welcoming, and
accommodating conference. Submissions from graduate students, contingent
and underemployed faculty, and independent scholars are especially welcome.
Submissions from undergraduate students are also welcome and will be
considered separately for a dedicated panel. We will be able to provide
reduced conference fees and some travel assistance for attendance by
participants who cannot obtain institutional support.
CONTACT:
Please contact T. H. M. Gellar-Goad at thmgg@wfu.edu with questions.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/feminism-classics-2022-bodylanguage
(CFP closed September 15, 2021)
PLAUTUS FROM PAGE TO STAGE II
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland): May 11-14, 2022
We are pleased to invite the submission of abstracts for the international conference "Plautus from Page to Stage II", which will take place on 11-14 May 2022 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). The event is a continuation of the conference held at Masaryk University in Brno in 2019. The main focus of the conference are the performative aspects of Plautine comedies and the process of their reception and adaptation to different languages and for the stage.
Abstracts by 28 February 2022
Notification of acceptance by 13 March 2022
The participants are invited to fit their talk into one of the following panels:
1) Plautus on Page
Possible issues: Comedy text as a script. Built-in stage directions in Roman comedy – how to read and understand them? How does Linguistics, Art History, Social/ Cultural Studies, etc. contribute to our understanding of Plautine comedies as theatrical performances? How do social reality and interpersonal interaction are scripted for the stage?
2) Plautus in Translation
Possible issues: Translation strategies adopted in ‘bridging the gap’ between the world of Plautus and the one of the target audience (different social realities, cultural tastes, taboos, etc.). Translating foreign languages in Plautus (e. g. Greek, Phoenician) for the stage. Adapting Plautine humor: imagery, slapstick, linguistic jokes, puns, speaking names, metadiscourse, etc. Verse or prose? Translating cantica. Philological (‘learned’) vs. theater translation.
3) Plautus on Stage
Possible issues: What are the sources and limits of reconstructing the actual stage practices of the Roman Republican theater? How to stage Plautus in the 21st century? How to deal with the issue of costumes, masks, music, the scope of the adaptation (‘is it still Plautus?’), intertextual and intergeneric aspects of the original in the contemporary as well as historical stage adaptations (musical, sit-com, stand-up, etc.).
Presentations
Individual 20-minute papers will be followed by 5–10 minutes of discussion. Speakers are required to supplement their talk either with an (audio)visual presentation or a printed handout. The conference language is English.
Performances
In addition to the paper presentations, the conference evenings are reserved for performances by students’ theaters (further details will be given in the full programme).
Publication
All papers will be considered for publication in the Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium. Articles are published in open access and are indexed in CEJSH, INDEX COPERNICUS (79,80), WorldCat, Google Scholar, CEEOL, and ERIH PLUS.
Abstracts
Please submit the title and the abstract of your talk (up to 200 words) together with your personal information by 28 February 2022 via the following online registration form: https://forms.gle/LRVzQGRYnKQDEi6w6
Registration fee: 50 EUR / 200 PLN
The participation fee includes conference proceedings, reception, and refreshments during coffee breaks. It does not include hotel booking and payment.
Payment should be made by 31 March 2022 (detailed instructions will be sent together with the acceptance notification).
Edited May 2022. Program:
We are pleased to announce the program of this week's international conference on Plautus, organized by the Department of Classical Philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). The conference takes place in a hybrid form - in order to participate via MS Teams please contact Łukasz Berger (lukasz.berger@amu.edu.pl).
Wednesday (11th May), Collegium Maius, Mickiewicz Salon (4th floor)
15.00 Registration
15.30 Official opening: Dean of the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology Tomasz Mizerkiewicz, Head of the Institute of Classical Philology Mateusz Stróżyński.
16.00 – 17.30 Keynote lecture: Wolfgang de Melo (University of Oxford), Linguistic characterization in Plautus.
Thursday (12th May), Collegium Maius, Mickiewicz Salon (4th floor)
9.00 – 11.00 Plautus on Page (Chair: Wolfgang de Melo)
Clara Daniel (Aix-Marseille University), The Poeta Barbarus: Plautus and the poetics of ‘barbaric’ translation. Online
Ľudmila Eliášová Buzássyová (Comenius University Bratislava), Comical features in Plautus' identity constructions.
Merlijn Breunesse (University of Amsterdam), Immersion in Sosia's battle narrative (Am. 203-261).
Alex Silverman (Oxford University/ Cambridge University), Poor poor me!' Composing Sosia's voice in the united players of Vancouver's Amphitruo.
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Plautus on Stage (chair: Ewa Skwara)
11.30 Peter Kruschwitz (University of Vienna), Plautus’ lettered world.
12.00 Andrea Salayová, Mirón Jurík (Masaryk University), Plautus and medicine: portrayal of illnesses in comedies of Plautus.
12.30 Blaž Ploj (University of Graz / University of Erfurt), Theatric implementation of rituals in Plautus’ Truculentus and their connection to the festive context of the play.
Lunch break
15.00 – 16.30 Plautus in Translation (chair: Peter Kruschwitz)
15.00 Tamás Jászay (University of Szeged), Buffoonery at its best: János Taub and the Miles gloriosus.
15.30 Tomáš Weissar (Masaryk University in Brno), Plautus' humour for everyone even today?
16.00 Daniela Urbanová (Masaryk University in Brno), Plautus' Curculio in German attire and scenery of the Austrian Monarchy, or an adaptation of Plautus' comedy by J. M. R. Lenz: die Türkensklavin
Friday (13th May), Collegium Maius, Mickiewicz Salon (4th floor).
9.30 – 11.00 Plautus on Stage (chair: Goran Vidović)
Robin Dixon (University of Sydney), “Nam hoc paene iniquomst, comico choragio / conari desubito agere nos tragoediam”: Comic and tragic staging conventions, as revealed by Plautus’ single-door plays. Online
Joanna Pieczonka (University of Wrocław), Special features of the costumes according to the Plautine comedies.
Łukasz Berger (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Dynamics of telling jokes in Plautus.
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Plautus in Translation/ on Stage (chair: Daniela Urbanová)
Beethoven Alvarez (Universidade Federal Fluminense), Finding Plautine humour in translation. Online
Goran Vidović (University of Belgrade), Plautine metaverse: Reflections on translating comic meters
Ewa Skwara (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Curculio in performance.
Lunch break
15.00 – 16.30 Vortere barbare. Roundtable on translation (chair: Ewa Skwara)
Wolfgang de Melo / Daniela Urbanová / Tomáš Weissar / Goran Vidović
16.30 Closing remarks
Program source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;b24cd6cf.ex
Call: https://classica-mediaevalia.pl/2021/12/07/cfp-plautus-from-page-to-stage-ii/
(CFP closed February 28, 2022)
[ONLINE] THE MULTI-SENSORY EXPERIENCE OF MYSTERY CULTS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN MEDITERRANEAN: MAKING SENSE OF THE EMOTIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORSHIPPERS
Online [CET] - Universität Erfurt, Germany: May 7-8, 2022
Program [pdf]: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/fakultaet/philosophische/Seminar_Religionswissenschaft/Allgemeine_Religionswissenschaft/Veranstaltungen/flyer_Multi-Sensory_Experience_of_Mysteries__7-8_May_2022___1_.pdf
Source: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/seminare-professuren/religionswissenschaft/professuren/allgemeine-religionswissenschaft/veranstaltungen
Register: email aikaterini-iliana.rassia@uni-erfurt.de
[ONLINE] ANTIQUITATUM THESAURUS: ANTIQUITIES IN EUROPEAN VISUAL SOURCES FROM THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Egypt in Early-Modern Antiquarian Imagery
Online [Germany] - Digital Workshops: May 5, June 2, July 7, 2022
On the occasion of this year's anniversaries of important milestones in the recent reception of Egypt, the academy project "Antiquitatum Thesaurus" devotes three digital workshops in the summer semester of 2022 to the perception of the land on the Nile in the early-modern period. The focus will be on various personal motivations of some of the protagonists, the antiquarian or scientific methods they used, and a broad spectrum of media in which the engagement with Egyptian or Egyptianizing artifacts and images was reflected from the 15th to the 18th century. In addition, current research projects present their perspectives on the reception of Egypt.
Programme
5 May 2022 – 4 p.m.
Michail Chatzidakis (Berlin):
Ad summam sui verticem pyramidalem in figuram vidimus ascendentes […] anti quissimum Phoenicibus caracteribus epigramma conspeximus“. Bemerkungen zu den ägyptischen Reisen Ciriacos d’Ancona
Catharine Wallace (West Chester):
Pirro Ligorio and the Late Renaissance Memory of Egypt in Rome
Stefan Baumann (Trier):
Project Presentation: Early Egyptian Travel Accounts from Late Antiquity to Napoleon
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3LQWgMB
2 June 2022 – 4 p.m.
Maren Elisabeth Schwab (Kiel):
Herodots Ägypten im Interessenshorizont italienischer Antiquare
Alfred Grimm (München):
Osiris cum capite Accipitris. Zu einem Objekt aus der Bellori-Sammlung und dem Barberinischen „Osiris“
Florian Ebeling (München):
Project Presentation: Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der Ägyptenrezeption
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3O4dS9O
7 July 2022 – 4 p.m.
Guillaume Sellier (Montréal): Oldest Egyptian Artefacts in Canada: The Quebec Palace Intendant’s Amulets
Valentin Boyer (Paris): „Sphinxomanie“ durch die Ikonographie ägyptisierender Exlibris
Nils Hempel, Timo Strauch (BBAW): Project Presentation: Antiquitatum Thesaurus. Antiken in den europäischen Bildquellen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
Please register at: https://bit.ly/3rd7T8z
Website: https://thesaurus.bbaw.de/en
AUDIO/VISUAL ROMANS: WOMEN SPEAK UP!
British School at Rome/Sapienza University/Polish Institute of Rome, Italy: May 3-6, 2022
We are pleased to announce an International Conference to be held live in Rome, at the British School at Rome, the Polish Institute and Sapienza University. This conference is the third in a series concerning Audio/Visual Romans. The series explores the imaginative power of modern audio/visual media to shape our perception of the past. For consumers across the globe, it is often in A/V media that they find their most personal and seemingly authentic experience of ancient Rome. The first conference in 2018 was dedicated to Nero, and the second in 2021 to Julius Caesar. The conference in May 2022 concerns the women of the Roman world.
It is often through A/V media that the women of the Roman world gain the centrality, the agency and the voice often denied them in the distant past. Yet, when Roman women gain this opportunity, what do they do and say? This conference explores how the women of Roman antiquity are empowered or demeaned by the audio/visual media of modernity (including, film, television, computer games, theatre and literature) and to what ideological, aesthetic and/or commercial ends. A session of the conference is devoted to the investigation of how female characters from classical texts have been reclaimed and portrayed in popular literature. What do the rewritings of both mythical and historical figures mean for 20th and 21st century popular literature and for the political and social context in which they were created? How can the classics still influence popular culture and be relevant today? How do these works help reconfigure the relationship between contemporary culture and traditional paradigms? Can such works revive interest in the classics and in the humanities as key components of society?
The first day at the BSR on 3 May is followed by further panels on May 4, 5 and 6 at Sapienza or the Polish Academy. The full programme for all 4 days of the conference and panel abstracts can be found here: https://avromans2022.wordpress.com/
Registration in advance is only required for the first day at the BSR https://bsr.ac.uk/audio-visual-romans-women-speak-up/, and attendance on all the days is free. The conference will be mostly in English. Please contact Maria Wyke (m.wyke@ucl.ac.uk) if you have any further queries.
Website: https://avromans2022.wordpress.com/
[HYBRID] IRISH PLATONISMS CONFERENCE
In person & online - Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies: April 28-30, 2022
Organized in collaboration the ERC project Classical Influences and Irish Culture (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Conference Programme:
Thursday 28th
Opening Remarks
13.45-14.00 – Ruairí Ó hUiginn (DIAS) / Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus) / Daniel Watson (Aarhus)
Panel 1
14.00-14.45 – Daniel Watson (Aarhus), From the Sensible to the Divine: Platonic Ascent without the Parmenides in Early Medieval Ireland
14.45-15.30 – Victoria Krivoshchekova (Maynooth), Linguistic Meaning from Immanence to Transcendence in Hiberno-Latin Tradition
15.30-16.00 – Tea Break
Panel 2
16.00-16.45 – Agnieszka M. Kijewska (KUL), Eriugena’s Platonism
16.45-17.30 – John Carey (UCC), An Early Follower of Eriugena? Five Metaphysical Propositions in the Reichenauer Schulheft
Friday 29th
Panel 3
9.00-9.45 – Elizabeth Boyle (Maynooth), ‘Is mebul dom imrádud’ and Middle Irish Theories of Cognition
9.45-10.30 – Michael Harrington (Duquesne), Eriugena’s Gothic Afterlife
10.30-11.00 – Tea Break
Panel 4
11.00-11.45 – Dermot Moran (Boston and UCD), Eriugena’s Influence on Meister Eckhart and Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa
11.45-12.30 – Mícheál Mac Craith (NUI Galway), Platonism in Early Modern Ireland: the case of Giolla Brighde Ó hEódhasa
12.30-14.00 – Lunch Break
Panel 5
14.00–14.45 – Christian Hengstermann (Wuppertal), Pastoral Origenism – The Irish Funeral Sermons of Bishop George Rust
14.45-15.30 – Rocío G. Sumillera (Granada), Jonathan Swift’s Platonism and the Utopian Tradition in Early Novel Writing
15.30-16.00 – Tea Break
Panel 5 (continued)
16.00-16.45 – Carl O’Brien (Heidelberg), Neoplatonic Influences in Berkeley’s ‘Siris’
17.30ff. – Reception
Saturday 30th
Panel 6
9.00-9.45 – Chris Morash (TCD), The Platonic Theatre of W.B. Yeats
9.45-10.30 – Caleb de Jong (Aarhus), Interpreting ‘The Interpreters’: On the Plotinian Core of Æ’s ‘Symposium on Politics’.
10.30-11.00 – Tea Break
Panel 7
11.00-11.45 – Julieta Abella (Buenos Aires), “the improbable, insignificant and undramatic monologue, as shallow as Plato’s”: Philosophical Debates around Platonism in Ulysses’ “Scylla and Charybdis”
11.45-12.30 – Síle Ní Mhurchú / Isabelle Torrance (UCC / Aarhus), Plato in Irish in the Early Twentieth Century
12.30-14.00 – Lunch
Panel 8
14.00-14.45 – Douglas Hedley (Cambridge), TBA
14.45-15.30 – William Desmond (Maynooth), TBA
Conference Summary
15.30-16.00 – John Dillon (TCD)
16.00-16.30 – Tea Break
18.30ff. – Conference Dinner
Academic contact: Dr. Daniel Watson daniel.watson@cc.au.dk
In person and online options: https://www.dias.ie/2022/02/16/irish-platonisms-conference/
NARRACIONES INDÍGENAS/INDIGENOUS STORYTELLING: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TALES AND AESOP'S FABLES IN THE INDIGENOUS AMERICAS
Online - April 28-29, 2022. 10am-3pm Central Time (GMT-6)
Where: Zoom Webinar (https://bit.ly/3L3Eki0)
Since the sixteenth century, Aesop's Fables have been translated and reinterpreted in multiple Indigenous languages across the Americas, including the Zapotec, Mixe, Huave, Nahuatl, Dakota, Mvskoke, Quechua, and Potawatomi languages. Featuring Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, educators, and writers, this event will be of interest to anyone studying the reception and adaptation of classical literature, translation studies, Indigenous and Native American studies, or simply lovers of short stories and Indigenous literatures.
Event in English and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation.
For more information, visit our website: https://www.narracionesindigenas.com/
CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION: GREEK AND LATIN IN ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES AND CULTURE
Online - from University of Parma, Italy: April 27-28, 2022
Speakers:
ANASTASIA BAKOGIANNI (Massey University), Translation on the Big Screen: Michael Cacoyannis’ The Trojan Women (1971)
GIOVANNA DI MARTINO (University College London), Translation Pedagogy and the Study of Ancient Greek Drama
BARBARA GOFF (University of Reading), Do We Have a New Song Yet? The New Wave of Women’s Novels and the Homeric Tradition
CHIARA ROLLI (University of Parma), Nisus, Euryalus and Lord Byron
MARCO SONZOGNI (Victoria University of Wellington), Heaney and Virgil: A Case Study in Evolutionary Translation
PHIROZE VASUNIA (University College London), The Colony
Website: https://dusic.unipr.it/en/notizie/2728-april-2022-online-conference-classics-translation-greek-and-latin-anglophone
Program (pdf): https://dusic.unipr.it/sites/st21/files/allegatiparagrafo/11-04-2022/programma_conferenza_27-28_aprile.pdf
THE GARDEN OF THE GODS. THE PARADIGM OF ANTIQUITY IN THE ARTS AT THE VILLA
Villa d’Este, Tivoli (Rome, Italy): Apr 21–22, 2022
Organised by Andrea Bruciati and Chiara Santini
The establishment of humanistic culture in Italy led to one of the richest seasons in Villa architecture and a profound process of transformation of the idea and the function of the garden, in which antiquity was the absolute protagonist. The roots of this development date back to the second half of the fifteenth century, as is clearly demonstrated by Leon Battista Alberti, in the preface to his De re aedificatoria: "Our Ancestors have left us many and various Arts tending to the Pleasure and Conveniency of Life". Thus, a long and fruitful relationship began between the jardin d’agrément, or flower garden, and the ancient garden that developed naturally in Rome, thanks to the closeness of places of power and to the rich archaeological patrimony used as a source of works to be used or imitated. A fundamental step in creating the relationship between the architectural organism and antiquity was the building of the Belvedere complex. Noble residences were soon added alongside it, with green spaces that were increasingly large and open towards the surrounding landscape.
The garden satisfied the need for a close relationship with classical culture, becoming the place dedicated to reflection, prayer, leisure, study, political activities and to entertaining guests, both for learned humanists and for men of the curia, better still if in properties located in direct contact with the ancient ruins.
The ancient theme began to permeate the most important designs in 16th century villas, well beyond the area of Rome: Bramante, Raffaello, Antonio da Sangallo, Giulio Romano, Vasari, Niccolò Tribolo, Andrea Palladio and Pirro Ligorio were inspired by the most famous residences of the imperial era, in the creation of complexes that took on a precise architectural form and a structured design, also by virtue of the inclusion of classical works. A particular type of garden, which emerged between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, is that of the small gardens in which the setting was a blend of classical art and nature, places intended for intellectual encounters, where the taste for idealised scenarios lingered and where the architecture, sculptural context, nymphaea and vegetation were intertwined in less rigid forms.
In the sixteenth century, compared to the previous century, there was an increasingly important presence of settings with water features combined with the ancient element and inserted into iconographic paths entwined with literary references from classical tradition; water helped to develop contents and meanings that kept the building's iconographic programme going. Admirable examples are the Villa Lante in Bagnaia and Villa d'Este in Tivoli, the latter of which is closely linked to the nearby Villa Adriana, both due to the abundance of materials from the ancient residence and also to the celebratory intent of the cardinalitial pomp of the family, the ideal descendant of the empire.
It is no coincidence that Villa d'Este will be the setting for the conference, which aims to intensify the relationship between the Villa’s garden and the classical legacy. A multidisciplinary approach will be used, allowing an all-round investigation and integrating and placing the history of its art, the history of the gardens, architecture and archaeology and the history of its restoration and botany alongside each other.
Although focused on the garden of the Renaissance villa, the conference may also include contributions concerning other time periods, useful for visualising the theme in a broader perspective. Many residential complexes dating back to the Roman period featured decorative and architectural elements from more remote eras, as can be seen from literary sources and from archaeological evidence: copies or original Greek works of art were beautifully displayed in the patrician houses, in the horti, in the villas and in the imperial palaces.
On the other hand, if we consider the period following the Renaissance, the link between ancient elements and the gardens that were developed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries still appears very strong, albeit with distinct functions. In the Baroque garden, the sculptural element represents the fulcrum of a well-defined and ordered visual axis, as is well demonstrated in French aristocratic residences and castles, while in the English landscape garden, the statues become surprising elements of a layout based on a picturesque choice and on a taste for the exotic, very different from the layout of the Italian garden and prodromal to the development of the nineteenth-century romantic garden.
The long relationship between the garden of the gods and the classical legacy reaches the present day, with expressions that go far beyond the influence of the ancient world welcomed by sixteenth-century architects. An example of this is Paul Getty's residence in Malibù, a celebration of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum and now home to a very rich collection of ancient art. Another example is the garden of Little Sparta in Scotland, where, starting in the mid-1960s, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Sue Finlay have skilfully combined references to antiquity and the compositional principles of the English picturesque garden with an avant-garde landscape design.
Thematic itineraries proposed:
Session 1
Antiquity in the Roman and medieval garden
• Greek originals and copies in the Roman pleasure garden
• Archaizing taste in architecture and garden painting
• References to the classic legacy of the medieval garden
Session 2
Antiquity in the humanistic-Renaissance garden
• Continuity with antiquity: examples of use of the same sites for villa residences
• The garden with a setting of classical art and nature
• Antiquity and sixteenth-century architectural models
• The garden of the Villa and references to classic literary tradition
• Old-fashioned architectural vegetation: pergolas and topiary
Session 3
Antiquity in the garden from the Baroque period to the contemporary age
• From the baroque garden to the landscape garden: antiquity and its various interpretations
• Antiquity and the eclectic taste of the Villa garden between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• The revival garden: reinterpretations of antiquity in the Villa garden in the contemporary age
When selecting the articles, cross-cutting approaches aimed at uses and functions of the garden as a place for banquets and for the exhibition of power and the representation of antiquity in the garden of the Villa in modern and contemporary arts will be taken into account.
For the articles selected, each speaker will have a maximum of 20 minutes.
Participation as a speaker at the conference is free of charge. We plan to publish the documents. Articles in Italian and in English will be accepted.
An abstract of max 500 words and a short CV of max 300 words, both in Italian or English, must be sent to va-ve@beniculturali.it, viviana.carbonara@beniculturali.it and davide.bertolini@beniculturali.it
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2021
Notification of acceptance: 31 October 2021
Final programme and delivery of a short content for preliminary publication: 30 November 2021
Deadline for presentation of texts for the conference proceedings: 30 November 2022
Publication: by April 2023
Scientific committee: Dr Andrea Bruciati, Prof. Chiara Santini, Dr Giovanna Alberta Campitelli, Prof. Marcello Fagiolo, Prof. Maria Adriana Giusti, Prof. Valter Curzi, Prof. Fabrizio Pesando
Organising committee: Davide Bertolini, Viviana Carbonara, Angela Chiaraluce, Lucilla D’Alessandro, Aurelio Valentini
Call: https://arthist.net/archive/34280
(CFP closed September 30, 2021)
[HYBRID] CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2022
Hybrid/online - Department of Classics, Ancient History & Egyptology, Swansea University, Wales: April 8-11, 2022
We have decided to rearrange the date of the Classical Association Annual Conference that is to be held in Swansea in April 2022, in order to make the conference more inclusive and open to a wider number of participants. It will now be held between Friday 8th and Monday 11th April, during the Easter holidays for more schools and universities than before.
While registration and an opening event will take place on the Friday, the conference panels are likely to begin on the Saturday.
The conference which we are planning will, we envisage, be a hybrid affair, so as to widen participation to include those who might not be able or willing to travel. This accords with the Classical Association’s environmental policy and the conference’s environmental objectives, since it will allow speakers and delegates not based in the UK to attend the conference remotely.
We are mindful of all potential COVID-19-related restrictions and measures, and we will be directed by the protocols of Swansea University and by the Welsh and UK governments.
It is our ambition that panels, including those submitted, should have at least two members present physically in Swansea at the conference. That said, we are hoping to be running paper presentations as Zoom webinars.
We ask for your patience as we work towards this exciting new approach to running an international conference. More information to follow as we have it.
Suggested themes include:
* Ancient Narrative Literature
* Ancient Political Thought
* Classics and the Future
* Commentaries
* Digital Classics
* Diverse Classics
* Egypt and the Classical World
* Fragments
* Insurrection Literature
* Late Antiquity
* Metals and Metallurgy
* Patronage
* Pedagogy, Outreach and Technology
* Plague and Pestilence
* Plato
* Political Failure
* Regionalism
* Roman Philosophy and Satire
* Rulers and Rulership
* The Literature of Poverty and Disgust
* Wales and the Classical Tradition
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to CA2022@swansea.ac.uk by the closing date. All other enquiries should also be directed to this e-mail address. For panel proposals, we would like a short introduction to the panel, describing the overall theme/direction, by the panel convenor(s) (max. 200 words) and the individual abstracts (max. 300 words each) to be submitted at the same time, if at all possible.
Abstracts & panel proposals due: August 31, 2021.
Call: https://classicalassociation.org/events/call-for-papers-ca-annual-conference-2022/
(CFP closed August 31, 2021)
[ONLINE] 'YOU BETTER WORK': QUEER LABOUR, QUEER LIBERATION
Online - April 8-9, 2022
Queer and the Classical (QATC) 2022
In the early 90s, RuPaul released a song that would become the unofficial soundtrack for decades of drag competition reality television. The song’s refrain — You better work, cover girl, work it girl, give us a twirl — frames labour under capitalism as a method of queer empowerment. Indeed, drudgery is not the song’s defining feeling: rather, pleasure and opulence shape its affective contours. Work, supermodel, you better work it, girl of the world. Yet labour connotes pain, as the etymology of the word itself shows, from the Latin labor, meaning hardship, pain, fatigue, illness. These disturbing connotations are inextricable from RuPaul’s own career — namely, his extraction, commodification, and exploitation of queer people on Drag Race, as well as of environmental resources as part of his private fracking enterprise. His persona exemplifies a persistent problem: how once-radical philosophies of LGBTQ+ acceptance, care, and mutual aid can all too easily risk incorporation into capitalist, queerphobic epistemologies. The concept of queer labour, therefore, can only exist today in a state of tension.
Taking this tension as a point of departure, this year’s QATC conference will explore the relationship between queer labour and queer liberation. We want to probe the future of work (or werk) in projects of queer care, scholarship, and col(labor)ative strivings against capitalism and precarity in antiquity and modernity. As queer classicists broadly construed, we write primarily in relation to higher education, where precarious forms of work fester, and in relation to the classical discipline(s), where queerphobia runs rampant. In both institutional contexts, queer and marginalized students are often expected to do the work of educating their educators for free. In humanistic disciplines especially, labour and joy are conflated by the myth of a vocational ‘labour of love’: but we know ‘work won’t love us back’ (Jaffe 2021). We accordingly ask: How have labour and hardship been constructed as something natural, necessary, and even inspirational? Whose bodies does labour exploit, and whose bodies does it forget? How do these false narratives co-exist within and emerge from global histories, both ancient and modern, of exploitation, enslavement, forced migration, and settler colonialism? How do we work toward queer practices of decolonialism, liberation, and care? What does it mean to ‘not dream of labour’? Can we be joyful not because of, but in spite of, labour?
To address these and related questions, we welcome proposals of up to 250 words for twenty-minute virtual papers, provocations, performance-lectures, and responses of any medium. They may be put forward by individuals, pairs, collectives, and/or organisations. Themes for proposals might consider, but are not limited to, the following:
* Testimonies of embodied labour and its entanglement with race, gender, and sexuality, in both antiquity and modernity
* Ancient sex work and the role (or neglect) of modern sex workers and sex work activism in its study
* Symbiotic, post-capitalist metaphors for classical reception and/or queer care, such as mycelial and fungal metaphors (after Umachandran 2021 and Stovall 2021)
* The resurgence and reception of classicizing aesthetics within queer pop culture
* Queer archaeologies, epigraphies, and other material records of resistance
* Alternatives to classicising narratives of ‘progress’: how do false narratives of Western progress stemming from classicism relate to those stemming from capitalism?
* Performance as research and/or collective mode of resistance (e.g., choruses, raves)
* The imbrication of ancient slavery and its receptions with race and sexuality
* Expressions of time against capitalist, colonialist, and ‘straight’ time
* Classical theories of reproductive labour, including ideas and metaphors of genealogy and heredity, with a view to family abolition (see Lewis 2019)
* Academic precarity, ‘poor queer studies’ (Brim 2020), and queer classicists outside/adjacent to the academy
Proposals are due anytime Monday, 14 February 2022 to queerandtheclassical@gmail.com. Please indicate in your submission whether you are interested in a bursary (more details about which will be made available upon acceptance to the conference).
Finally, to get in touch with organisers with any queries or concerns, please write to queerandtheclassical@gmail.com, or DM @queerclassical on Twitter. For more information about QATC and to access recordings from our previous conference, see our website: https://queerandtheclassical.org/.
Program: https://queerandtheclassical.org/conference-2022-program
Registration: https://queerandtheclassical.org/qatc22-registration (Zoom)
Call: https://queerandtheclassical.org/2022-cfp
(CFP closed February 14, 2022)
[PANEL] OLD IS NEW: CLASSICAL RECEPTION AND TEMPORALITIES IN ART 1800-TODAY
Association for Art History’s 2022 Annual Conference.
Goldsmiths, University of London: April 6-8, 2022
If antique art, and modern work modelled after the antique, is often understood (problematically) as ‘timeless,’ ‘universal,’ or ‘classic,’ how does this shape or shift an understanding or experience of modern art (1800-today) made in relation to antiquity? Recognising this in primarily Western art and scholarship invites us to challenge perceptions, depictions, and interpretations of time and temporalities in classically informed or classicing art. Drawing especially on the critical frameworks of continuity, change, and temporality from Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas to Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood’s Anachronic Renaissance, this panel seeks to address critical questions around how ‘classicism’ shapes the temporality of art making, art writing, art viewing, and art collecting across periods. How can artists and scholars speak to contemporaneity and historicity, either in the Western canon or in the increasingly global and instantaneous digital worlds, where temporal and geographical distances can be collapsed through databases even as physical access is delayed or restricted? Are classically informed art objects old-fashioned, anachronic or anachronistic, backward looking and reactionary, or does the modern age flatten the perception of time and timeliness that makes the old new again and again?
This session invites papers on art (and its makers, display, and commodification) after 1800 that engages with classical material and temporalities, broadly conceived. We are especially keen to include work on non-canonical objects and artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and from global perspectives, contemporary work which plays with historicity, temporality, and intermediality, display (especially artists speaking about their own practice), displacement (physical and chronological), and popular media beyond the museum or fine arts collection.
Nicole Cochrane, University of Hull, N.Cochrane@hull.ac.uk, @tinyhistorian
Melissa Gustin, University of York, melissa.gustin@york.ac.uk, @Hosmeriana
Call for Papers deadline 1 November 2021. Please submit your paper proposal to the convenor.
Call: https://eu.eventscloud.com/website/5317/2022-sessions/-old-is-new-classical-reception-and-temporalities-in-art-1800-today/
(CFP closed November 1, 2021)
XXVIth ANNUAL SIEPM COLLOQUIUM: DIALECTIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES - BETWEEN DEBATE AND THE FOUNDATION OF SCIENCE
Bar Ilan University, Israel: April 4-6, 2022
The XXVIth annual SIEPM colloquium will take place on 4-6 April 2022 at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. The subject of the colloquium is: Dialectic in the Middle Ages: Between Debate and the Foundation of Science.
Dialectic played a central role in medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian intellectual cultures as both a tool for knowledge making and an object of study in its own right. Medieval intellectual cultures saw dialectic, often associated with Aristotle's Topica, as crucial for describing and defining philosophy and science, as well as characterizing and inculcating religious beliefs. Debates and discussions, which played a large role in medieval education systems in all three traditions, were also frequently associated with Aristotle's Topica. Indeed, Aristotle's chief text on dialectic was associated with teaching the masses religious ideas, constructing arguments for various forms of debate, imparting religious, scientific, and philosophical concepts to the intellectual elite, and discovering the grounds of scientific arguments and their basic premises. At the same time, the text enabled a study of the methods themselves, viz. a study of arguments based on opinions, generally accepted premises (as opposed to demonstrations), induction, and the groundwork of debate itself. The forms of disputations and debate that we encounter in medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian intellectual cultures varied among intellectual and religious climates and so did the historical understanding of dialectic.
In the frame of this conference, we would like to explore the various intellectual endeavors associated with dialectic, particularly with Aristotle's Topica, among different cultures, with a view to how this concept changed and developed through time, place, intellectual context, and religion. The colloquium will be held in-person with roughly 20-25 lectures, each forty minutes in length with a subsequent discussion period of twenty minutes. To submit a lecture proposal for the colloquium, kindly send a title with an abstract of no more than 300 words and your c.v. by December 20, 2021 to the Colloquium Organizer Yehuda Halper at: Yehuda.Halper@biu.ac.il.
Academic Board: Nadja Germann (Islamic thought), Steven Harvey (Jewish thought), Katja Krause (Christian thought), Charles Manekin (Jewish thought), Tim Noone (Christian thought).
Stipends: A limited number of travel stipends will be awarded through the Israel Science Foundation. Scholars under the age of 35 or from select countries may also apply for Brepols-SIEPM stipends (https://hiw.kuleuven.be/siepm/brepols-siepm-stipends).
Call: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/siepm/SIEPM2021
(CFP closed December 20, 2021)
[ONLINE] FACES BEHIND THE FACADES: LIVES OF PEOPLE AND MONUMENTS - CONSTRUCTION, USE AND INSPIRATION
Online - March 25-26, 2022
We are pleased to announce the upcoming conference Faces Behind the Façades: Lives of People and Monuments - Construction, Use and Inspiration which will be held online on March 25-26th, 2022. This interdisciplinary conference hopes to bring together historians, epigraphers, archaeologists, and those interested in the reception of ancient architecture to explore the lives of monuments, and the people involved in them from their conception and construction through their initial use to legacy and reception.
Possible topics for papers include (but are not limited to):
* The life and work of architectural benefactors.
* The life and work of architects and builders.
* Construction methodologies.
* Spatial theory and the role of monuments within it.
* The interaction between written architectural sources and archaeological remains.
* The use and reuse of monuments.
* The legacy of monuments and architects.
We envisage a format of 30-minute papers, followed by a question-and-answer session and time for discussion. Abstracts of 200-250 words should be sent to facesbehindthefacades2022@gmail.com by the deadline of 12th November.
For further information or any enquiries, please contact the organisers Kathrine Bertram and Julia Tomas at the same address.
Program: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;546527e6.ex
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;4bf83750.ex
(CFP closed November 12, 2021)
L’ANTICHITÀ «GENTILE». LA RICEZIONE DELL’ANTICO NELLA CULTURA DELL’EBRAISMO ITALIANO MODERNO
Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (hybrid format if required): March 19, 2022
Organizers: Giacomo Loi (Johns Hopkins University – Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris), Martina Piperno (Durham University)
The full text of the cfp in Italian, English, and French, with a short bibliography, is available at this link: https://www.academia.edu/54653662/Lantichit%C3%A0_gentile_La_ricezione_dellantico_nella_cultura_dellebraismo_italiano_moderno
Da qualche decennio il rapporto tra l’antichità classica e la cultura ebraica moderna è stato oggetto di numerose indagini, tanto puntuali che di ampio respiro. Riandando al quesito tertullianeo Quid ergo Athenis et Hierosolymis? il magnum opus dell’israeliano Yaakov Shavit, Athens in Jerusalem (1997), ha posto il rapporto dialettico tra il giudaismo e l’ellenismo come chiave interpretativa e motore della formazione dell’ebreo moderno, come risultato dell’apertura dell’Haskalah, l’Illuminismo ebraico, alla cultura laica europea. Più di recente, nel suo Socrates and the Jews (2012) Miriam Leonard ha indagato il rapporto tra l’ellenismo, ancora una volta, e il pensiero di alcuni intellettuali ebrei di rilevanza europea (Moses Mendelssohn, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud), un tema già toccato nel suo precedente Athens In Paris. Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought con speciale attenzione a Jacques Derrida. In Between Athens and Jerusalem (2018) Nurit Yaari, pur indagando il ristretto ambito del teatro israeliano, ha visto nella tradizione drammatica greca un necessario punto di riferimento e ispirazione per la creazione, sostanzialmente ex novo, di un teatro ebraico. La presenza di tracce antiche nella cultura degli ebrei europei dell’Otto-Novecento, segnatamente in quella tedesca, russa e francese, è stata spesso sottoposta ad indagine, specie per quanto riguarda figure come Heinrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Osip Mandel’štam, Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff, Erich Auerbach, Iosif Brodskij.
Nell’ambito della cultura ebraica italiana, mentre il Rinascimento è stato indagato con particolare cura a partire da ricognizioni come quella di Moses Shulvass (The Knowledge of Antiquity among Italian Jews, 1948) in quanto momento di convergenze culturali, uno sguardo d’insieme sul rapporto tra la cultura classica e la cultura ebraica dei secoli più recenti sembra mancare: anche nell’ambito di sguardi di respiro europeo, come quelli di Shavit e Leonard, l’Italia dei secoli XIX e XX appare del tutto assente; nel suo recente Novecento scritturale (2016), Sonia Gentili trova nella Bibbia un punto di incontro tra la cultura italiana, ebraica e non, con l’antichità veterotestamentaria e classica. D’altra parte, l’interesse degli studiosi già citati per il rapporto tra l’antichità classica e l’ebraismo si è concentrato sul solo ellenismo, mentre la cultura romana è stata esclusa. Il problematico rapporto tra Atene e Gerusalemme sembra aver messo a tacere l’altrettanto problematico dilemma tra Roma e Gerusalemme.
Eppure, alcune tra le pagine più note e pregnanti della letteratura degli ebrei italiani del Novecento sono popolate di riferimenti all’antichità classica, greca e romana, e anche non classica: in Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli Carlo Levi riflette sul mito di Enea come mito imperialista e distruttivo sullo sfondo della questione meridionale e della guerra fascista in Etiopia; Primo Levi dialoga a distanza con Dante e Ovidio (cfr. Cinelli-Gordon 2019); Umberto Saba consacra ad alcune figure del mito classico la sua collezione Mediterranee; Giorgio Bassani comincia dalla necropoli etrusca di Cerveteri il suo cammino nella memoria dell’ebraismo prima della Shoah, e la sua Micòl può essere ricondotta alla figura archetipica della Kore. Numerosi furono gli studiosi ebrei che si dedicarono allo studio dell’antichità (tra i quali, per citare alcuni esempi illustri, Medea Norsa, Doro Levi, Arnaldo Momigliano, Piero Treves, Edoardo Volterra e Mario Attilio Levi) mentre altri intellettuali ebrei guardavano alle pagine classiche come chiave interpretativa del passato e del presente, come, in maniera diversa, Carlo Michelstaedter, Emilio Sereni e Furio Jesi, o prestavano la propria vena poetica alla traduzione della letteratura classica, come Giovanna Bemporad con Omero e Virgilio. È specialmente nell’ultimo decennio che numerosi studi italiani si sono concentrati su singoli intellettuali e scrittori e il loro rapporto con l’antichità classica e non classica (Audano, Cazzola, Cravero, Gentili, Losacco, Piperno, Tatasciore, Vallortigara).
Sulla scorta di tali studi, la conferenza L’antichità «gentile». La ricezione dell’antico nella cultura dell’ebraismo italiano moderno vuole tracciare le prime linee di una mappatura globale del rapporto degli scrittori ed intellettuali ebrei italiani con l’antichità. Mentre l’espressione ‘antichità pagana’ raggrupperebbe bene diversi mondi antichi, quello greco-romano e altri non classici come quello etrusco, dal punto di vista della cultura cristiana, la formula ‘antichità gentile’ vuole suggerire uno sguardo propriamente ebraico su un passato ‘altro’, non ebraico, diverso da quello biblico e della storia ebraica. Questa prima mappatura intende mettere in luce 1) la presenza dell’antichità ‘gentile’, nelle sue varie declinazioni, nella cultura ebraica italiana; 2) i caratteri specifici di tale presenza, come temi, autori antichi e moderni, canali, significato ideologico, identitario o polemico; 3) come tali caratteri siano influenzati dalle particolarità della cultura italiana in generale e della cultura ebraica italiana in particolare rispetto alle altre culture ebraiche nazionali dei secoli XIX e XX.
La conferenza si terrà alla Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle il 19 marzo 2022. A seconda delle condizioni sanitarie e delle necessità dei partecipanti, la conferenza potrà essere virtuale o in formato ibrido. Le lingue ammesse sono l’italiano, il francese e l’inglese. Le proposte di paper di 20 minuti, di massimo 300 parole, e una nota bio-bibiliografica di circa 100 parole, dovranno pervenire entro il 15 novembre 2021 agli indirizzi email giacomo.loi@jhu.edu e antichita.gentile@gmail.com. Si prega di includere nome, affiliazione e titolo dell’intervento nell’email. La decisione finale verrà comunicata entro il mese di novembre.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;5bd5da8e.ex
(CFP closed November 15, 2021)
[HYBRID] GREEK AND BEYOND: COLLOQUIUM IN HONOUR OF M. S. SILK
[Hybrid] Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford: March 18, 2022
A one-day colloquium convened by Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) and David Ricks (KCL) in honour of Professor Michael Silk.
Welcome: Fiona Macintosh (St Hilda's, Oxford)
11:00 [GMT]: Panel one
Chair: Oliver Taplin (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Michael Clarke (NUI Galway): ‘I am a word of science: a case study of the classical tradition at work’
Richard Rutherford (Christ Church, Oxford): ‘Poetics of prose: a case study in Herodotus’
Andrew Laird (Brown University): ‘Humanist Latin as a language of literature’
14:00: Panel two
Chair: Margaret Williamson (Dartmouth College)
Boris Maslov (University of Oslo): ‘“To see the world like an ancient Greek”: the category of Anschauung in nineteenth-century classical scholarship’
Vasiliki Dimoula (University of Vienna): ‘“The spirit of the positive”: the demotic language and Christianity in the thought of Spyridon Zambelios’
Sebastian Matzner (King’s College London): ‘What’s the meta- with you? Poetic language and metapoetics’
16:30: Panel three
Chair: Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway University of London)
David Hopkins (University of Bristol): ‘Clarissa’s speech in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock’
William Fitzgerald (King’s College London): ‘Decorum, euphemism, and sex’
Edith Hall (University of Durham): ‘Goats and Beyond: Thoughts on early Greek tragedy’
Afterword: David Ricks (King's College London)
Booking details: Those wishing to attend in person should register in advance via the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/greek-and-beyond-colloquium-in-honour-of-m-s-silk-tickets-269564222847
Please note that attendance is free although a small financial contribution will be required for lunch on the day (details will be circulated nearer the time).
Those wishing to join the live stream do not need to register. A link will be made available at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/.
Information: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2022/03/18/greek-and-beyond-colloquium
[BOOK CHAPTERS] PERSEPHONE IN LOVE: PERSEPHONE AND HADES IN POPULAR CULTURE
Edited by Ellie Mackin Roberts and Aimee Hinds Scott
One could be forgiven, nowadays, for thinking that Persephone and Hades’s marriage was a love match if they were familiar only with modern interpretations and had not come across the ancient versions of the myth. The romance of Persephone and Hades appears in a large variety of professional and amateur media including books, webcomics, videogames, stage shows, and on social media. This myriad of interpretations plays a significant role in both interrogating and perpetuating a range of misunderstandings and misperceptions about ancient myth and ancient society, including common tropes from equating abduction to marriage in the ancient world to denying or minimising assault as a tool of arranged marriages in the ancient world. The purpose of this volume is to consider the ways that modern interpretations of ancient myths, specifically through the lens of the story of Hades and Persephone, intersect with contemporary cultural ideologies about marriage, relationships, assault, gender and sexuality, rape culture, forced and arranged marriages. We seek to interrogate contemporary interpretations of the myth, including ways that Persephone specifically is ‘written into’, as a way for writers, artists, and content creators to tell stories about the modern world and look at the ways that these impact understanding about the ancient Mediterranean world. This volume seeks to address the following issues: In what ways are Persephone and Hades portrayed in contemporary popular culture? Why are they portrayed in these ways? In what ways are these portrayals authentic to the ancient source material? Does this authenticity matter?
The aim of this volume is not to advocate for a particularly understanding or reading of this story, but rather to recognise that the ways that myth is used in the contemporary world is complex and multifarious but also that it impacts common understanding and knowledge about the past. We hope this volume will foster an ongoing conversation about the place of myth and mythic interpretation and reception in the modern world.
Those interested in contributing to the volume are asked to submit a 500-word abstract and indicative bibliography. If selected, you will be invited to submit a first draft of your essay, which will be subject to peer review by other contributors, with chapters disseminated between contributors.
Please direct queries to either editor, but abstracts to both editors:
Ellie Mackin Roberts: ellie.roberts@kcl.ac.uk
Aimee Hinds Scott: hindsa@roehampton.ac.uk
Indicative time frame
Deadline for abstracts: Friday 11th March 2022
Applicants informed of outcome: by end of April 2022
Deadline for submission of drafts: Friday 28th April 2023
Peer reviewed chapters returned with feedback and revision recommendations: Friday 28th July 2023
Deadline for revised chapters: Friday 27th October 2023
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;baeb8f3d.ex
CFP closed March 11, 2022
IANLS VACATION SCHOOL: DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND NEO-LATIN STUDIES
Bonn, Germany (in person): March 1–5, 2022
The corpus of Neo-Latin texts is a vast and still widely uncharted ‘terra incognita’ whose actual dimensions have been emerging only in recent years with the advent of digitization. The digital turn could be a veritable game changer for Neo-Latin studies. Scholars no longer depend on physical access to large research libraries with collections of manuscripts and old printed books. Today, a daunting quantity of texts is often just a click away. Even though Neo-Latin studies have crucially benefitted from digitization, there has nonetheless been little interaction between Neo-Latin studies and the Digital Humanities.
The Vacation School on Digital Humanities and Neo-Latin Studies, organized under the auspices of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) and generously sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation, is intended to provide a platform for a more intense dialogue between these two disciplines. It offers an opportunity for people from both fields to discuss research questions at the intersection between Neo-Latin Studies and Digital Humanities and explore the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration.
The Vacation School consists of two events, the first of which was an online conference held from 14 to 17 April 2021 (cf. our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPVi0Tel_zBGRGJILTSJ96g), whereas the second will take place in person in Bonn from 1 through 5 March 2022. This second hands-on event will enable the participants to meet up in person, share their experiences, ideas and questions. It will address in particular the following areas: (1) Exploring Neo-Latin text corpora, (2) Digital Neo-Latin editions, (3) Lemmatization, (4) Stylometry, (5) Linguistic Linked Open Data, and (6) Geographical and biographical metadata. The program will start in the afternoon of Tuesday 1 March (arrival date) with general introductions and will end in the morning of Saturday 5 March 2022 (departure date) with concluding remarks. The core of the program will be conducted from Wednesday 2 March through Friday 4 March. People arriving late on 1 March and/or leaving early on 5 March will not miss anything essential.
We can offer travel bursaries (maximum amount based on the travel allowances granted by the DAAD https://static.daad.de/media/daad_de/pdfs_nicht_barrierefrei/im-ausland-studieren-forschen-lehren/ks-fkz-saetze_20_21_22.pdf) to all successful applicants. The participants will be offered free accommodation in Bonn from 1 through 5 March 2022.
Early-career researchers are particularly encouraged to apply.
Papers and discussions will be in English. Basic computer skills as well as a good command of Latin are required. Participants are asked to bring their own computer.
Applicants are kindly asked to send a short CV alongside a motivation statement (approx. 300 words) via email to Prof. Dr. Neven Jovanović (njovanovic@m.ffzg.hr), Prof. Dr. Marc Laureys (m.laureys@uni-bonn.de), and Alexander Winkler (alexander_winkler@posteo.de).
Deadline for applications: 26 November 2021. Notification: 15 December 2021.
For up-to-date information please visit the website dedicated to the Vacation School (https://dnls.hypotheses.org/) and follow us on Twitter (@DigNeoLatin). If you have specific questions, please contact the organisers directly via email.
(CFP closed November 26, 2021)
[ONLINE] HEAVY METAL AND GLOBAL PREMODERNITY
Online - Brandeis University, Massachusetts USA: February 24-26, 2022
An interdisciplinary online conference hosted by the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University
Organizers: Charlotte Naylor Davis and Jeremy J. Swist
In this conference we aim to gather investigators and artists to critically examine how heavy metal music and its culture (or scenes) have interacted with, been inspired by, and commented on global premodernity. We wish to seize the moment when the study of heavy metal music and the study of the reception of classical, religious, and historical texts and artifacts in popular culture have risen to prominence.
While heavy metal in Europe and North America has obviously been seen to interact with western religious symbolism and draw on classical icons, the metal scenes elsewhere—especially those in the majority world—draw on a diverse range of imagery, folk tales, and indigenous history to tell their stories and inspire their work. This conference aims to create a wider view of the place of premodern histories and musical traditions within heavy metal.
One of the joys of heavy metal music for many fans is the breadth of this now half-century-old, global counterculture. Our aim is to create interdisciplinary dialogue between those working on the interaction between popular culture and traditional/historical narratives and culture by using heavy metal music as a central focus.
We welcome abstracts for 15- to 20-minute presentations (creative and traditional) related to metal’s reception of the history and culture of any period, people, and place from premodern and precolonial worlds. We define global premodernity as human culture of any period roughly prior to 1600 CE, and we have chosen this delineation to be inclusive of texts, traditions, and narratives outside of the traditional study of classics or biblical studies which often ignores the rich cultural history of the majority world and narratives outside standard eurocentric education.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, to following:
* Premodern or neoclassical art, architecture, dress, symbols, and/or other material culture in album artwork, music videos, promotional photography, and live performances
* The incorporation of premodern music and/or instruments into metal songs
* The reception of historical, literary, and religious and philosophical texts and ideas in song lyrics
* Issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, and the reception and inclusion of premodern and contemporary women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other historically marginalized groups
* Political activism of musicians who engage with premodernity
* Interviews and/or auto-ethnographies of fans, musicians, (photo)journalists, and/or scholars
* Methodologies in the study of metal’s reception of premodernity
* Pedagogical strategies for teaching premodern history and cultures with metal songs
* Performance and creative demonstrations of music.
Please send abstracts and any questions to metalpremodernity@gmail.com. The submission deadline is September 15th, 2021.
Abstracts should be roughly 300 words maximum, and include author name and affiliation (if appropriate). Submissions are especially welcomed from graduate students and early career researchers in any discipline, as well as from those involved in the world metal scene as musicians, journalists, and fans.
We are concerned to make the conference as accessible as possible to disabled people and those for whom English is not their first language. Captions will be supplied, but if you have other access needs for presentation please mention these upon submission of your abstract and we will work with you to fulfill these.
Website: https://www.brandeis.edu/classics/heavy-metal-and-global-premodernity/index.html
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0173xFeABCpQvcGmurKFu6?si=3a2df0c6e63d4864
Call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tZy-UuyFCWYmsZx9svCGD1Qs6NNnMJ4LDekZUjTRmYY/edit
(CFP closed September 15, 2021)
CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY. ON THE ROLE OF ANTIQUITY IN EUROPEAN AND NON-EUROPEAN SELF-DISCOVERY
ZAZH – Zurich Center for the Study of the Ancient World, University of Zurich, Switzerland: Feb 2-4, 2022
The aim of the conference is to examine the complexity and dynamics of the processes that apply to very different conceptions of antiquity and that govern, pervade, and animate the narratives of European identity in modern times.
With this Call for papers we especially encourage young scholars to send us their proposals and join our already confirmed speakers, which include Rosa Andújar, Ulrike Babusiaux, Wolfgang Behr, Mirko Canevaro, Neville Morley, Jackie Murray, Wolfram Kinzig, Martin Korenjak, Stefan Rebenich, Ulrich Rudolph, Anna Schriefl and David van Schoor.
Keynotes: François Bayrou (to be confirmed), Edith Hall, Donna Zuckerberg
Proposals from the following thematic areas are welcome:
- Architecture and Art
- Philosophy and Intellectual History
- Religion and Theology
- State and Constitutional Debates
- Narratives of the nation state and the European unification
- Group Identities
The presentations should be original scientific contributions on one of the above-mentioned topics and should last a maximum of 30 minutes, followed by a 15 minute discussion. We intend to publish the revised papers in the congress proceedings.
Travel and accommodation costs will be covered.
Please send your proposal with a concept paper of max. 1-2 pages in German or English together with a CV until 30 June 2021 to the ZAZH management: geschaeftsfuehrung@.zazh.uzh.ch.
Website: https://www.zazh.uzh.ch/de/taetigkeiten/veranstaltungen/Tagungen/Identitaetskonstruktionen.html
(CFP closed June 30, 2021)
AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES (ASCS) 43RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Dates: February 8-11, 2022.
Location: now online only - University of Tasmania (Hobart, Tasmania).
CFP: https://www.ascs.org.au/news/index.html - Deadline September 3, 2021 - Extended deadline September 17, 2021.
Conference website: https://whova.com/web/ascs_202202/
ASCS: http://www.ascs.org.au/
(CFP closed September 17, 2021)
SAINT AUGUSTINE'S DE CIVITATE DEI: POLITICAL DOCTRINE, TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION AND EARLY MEDIEVAL RECEPTION
KU Leuven, Leuven/Brussels: January 27-29, 2022
On 27-29 January 2022, the research units Literary Studies: Latin Literature and History of Church and Theology of KU Leuven will organize, in the framework of the C1-project «Magnum opus et arduum»: Towards a History of the Reception of Augustine’s «De civitate Dei», the international conference: Saint Augustine’s De civitate Dei - Political Doctrine, Textual Transmission and Early Medieval Reception.
This conference aims to bring together scholars who have recently made important contributions to the study of Augustine’s De civitate Dei and its reception from the philosophical, historical, philological and theological points of view. The following survey offers some possible topics, but does not intend to exclude alternative issues. Preference will be given, however, to source-based contributions that focus on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
(1) Political doctrine in Augustine’s De civitate Dei and its legacy
(2) Late antique and early medieval transmission and reception of De civitate Dei
Committed speakers include: Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic (Université de Lille), Emanuela Colombi (Università degli Studi di Udine), Jérémy Delmulle (IRHT - Paris), Volker Henning Drecoll (Universität Tübingen), Jacques Elfassi (Université de Lorraine), Jesse Keskiaho (University of Helsinki), Jerôme Lagouanère (Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier), Karla Pollmann (University of Bristol).
If you would like to deliver a lecture during this conference, please send the provisional title, abstract (max. 500 words) and a concise CV (max. 500 words) to Marina Giani (marina.giani@kuleuven.be) before 31 March 2021. Young researchers and early career scholars are especially encouraged to apply.
Acceptance of your paper will be communicated by 30 April 2021. All participants are kindly invited to announce the definitive title of their lecture and a short abstract before 30 June 2021. Lectures should be approx. 30 minutes long, followed by a general discussion of 10 minutes. The organizing committee has the intention of publishing the conference papers as quickly as possible in the international series Augustinus. Werk und Wirkung, directed by Volker Henning Drecoll and Johannes Brachtendorf.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us: Gert Partoens, Anthony Dupont, Marina Giani.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;874b2519.2101
(CFP closed March 31, 2021)
[ONLINE] MONSTERS IN THE CLASSROOM: ANCIENT LANGUAGES AT PRIMARY SCHOOL
Online - January 26, 2022 [2-6pm CET]
We are delighted to invite you to join this international conference dedicated to the teaching of Latin and Ancient Greek at Primary school, with talks and discussions by practitioners from Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The conference is open to all: we invite teachers and students from all levels of education and other interested parties from any country to join the discussions on organization and cooperation, pedagogy, and inclusivity.
Conference language: English. Simultaneous translation into French available.
When: 26 January 2022 from 2 to 6pm Central European Time
Where: Zoom. The link will be shared after registration.
Contact: Evelien Bracke (evelien.bracke@ugent.be), Steve Hunt (sch43@cam.ac.uk), or Lidewij van Gils (l.w..vangils@uva.nl)
Full programme: https://www.oudegriekenjongehelden.ugent.be/conference/
Registration: https://webappsx.ugent.be/eventManager/events/monstersintheclassroom (deadline 24th January 2022).
(postponed) 34TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA. THEME: ORDER AND CHAOS.
University of Cape Town, South Africa: January 19-22, 2022 - new dates TBA
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
The Classical Association of South Africa (CASA) invites proposals for papers for its 34th Biennial Conference, to be hosted by the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town, 19-22 January 2022. Proposals need not be limited to the conference theme ‘Order and Chaos’, and papers on any topic on the ancient world and its reception are welcome. Postgraduate students are also encouraged to submit paper proposals.
For further information please visit the conference tab on the CASA website where you can complete the proposal form: https://casa-kvsa.org.za/conference
Deadline for proposals is 31 July 2021.
Direct any queries to: conference@casa-kvsa.org.za
Call: [dead link] https://casa-kvsa.org.za/2021/01/cfp-casa-conference-cape-town-19-22-january-2022/
(CFP closed July 31, 2021)
(change of date) NEW WORK ON FASCISM AND ANCIENT ROME
Institute of Classical Studies, London: January 21-22, 2021 - new dates January 19-21, 2022
Note: unable to verify status of this meeting
Ancient Rome – in the full range of its historical experience, from the Regal period to the demise of the Empire in the West – has long been an inexhaustible repository of models, with which posterity has engaged over the centuries. This dialogue between Ancient and Modern took up a highly significant political and cultural dimension under Fascism. During the Ventennio, the myth of Rome shaped – often pervasively –forms of communication, artistic and literary experiences, education and cultural life, individual behaviour, political choices, and ideology. The investigation of these themes has been an increasingly prominent theme in the historiographical debates of the last few decades, which have explored the relationship between Romanità and Fascism from a number of original and fruitful viewpoints. This conference on ‘New Work on Fascism and Ancient Rome’ aims to provide a balance sheet of the main outcomes attained thus far and the most recent and productive approaches to this topic. We would especially welcome (but by no means restrict our interest in) proposals for papers on architecture and iconography; literature; and colonial ideology and practice.
Keynote Speakers: Joshua Arthurs (West Virginia), Andrea Giardina (Pisa, SNS) and Penelope Goodman (Leeds).
Organisers: Fabrizio Oppedisano (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Paola S. Salvatori (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University)
Submissions: Proposals for papers should be emailed to nwfar2021@gmail.com.
Deadline: 30 June 2020
Please submit (in PDF format) an anonymised abstract of your paper, max. 300 words and a brief cv (300 words max.), including your institutional affiliation, education background, and main publications.
Papers may be presented in English, Italian, French, German or Spanish and will be accompanied by a detailed English abstract; we would also ask speakers to produce substantial handouts. We envisage the publication of a proceedings volume based on the papers delivered at the conference, which will undergo a blind peer-review process.
The decision of the organising committee on the inclusion of each abstract will be announced within 15-20 days from the CfP deadline.
A full conference programme will be advertised in November 2020.
Speakers will be offered all meals (conference dinner, two lunches, and coffee breaks) and a partial refund of their travel expenses.
Attendance of the conference is free of charge.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2002&L=CLASSICISTS&P=68667
(CFP closed June 30, 2020)
[SCS PANEL] THE WORLD OF NEO-LATIN EPIC
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, San Francisco CA, USA: January 5-8, 2022
Update December 29, 2021: this meeting has moved to online only: see https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting
Sponsored by the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies (AANLS)
Organized by Annette M. Baertschi, Bryn Mawr College
The American Association for Neo-Latin Studies invites proposals for papers pertaining to Neo-Latin epic to be delivered at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco (January 5-8, 2022).
Epic remained a highly popular and prestigious genre throughout the Early Modern period, serving as an important vehicle for celebrating and legitimizing political figures and families, cities and institutions, and at the same time providing poets with the opportunity to position themselves within the literary tradition. Neo-Latin epic is diverse in both content and form, including historical, mythological, and religious poems and ranging from large-scale epics in several books to texts of only a few hundred lines. Likewise, authors appropriated many of the structural elements and narrative patterns of their classical models, while simultaneously expanding and innovating the generic conventions, often influenced by the changing cultural, political, and social circumstances in their regions and communities.
For this panel, proposals are welcome devoted to all forms of Neo-Latin epic, from extensive poems to short epyllia and from supplements to centos, and originating from all parts of the world. Papers might address, but are not limited to, the following issues and topics:
• the reception of Greco-Roman epic in the Early Modern period
• the relationship between Neo-Latin and vernacular epics
• contemporary criticism and theory of epic
• the hybridization of paganism and Christianity in Neo-Latin epic
• politics and propaganda in epic poetry
• the role of epic in mediating national identities and ideologies
• colonial epics set in the ‘New World’
• canonicity and normativity in literature and culture in the Early Modern period and beyond
All in all, the goal of the panel is to showcase the diversity and richness of Neo-Latin Studies in terms of approaches, methodologies, and perspectives; to highlight the importance of contemporary research in the global phenomenon of Neo-Latin literature; and to reflect on its significance for the broader field of Reception Studies as well as Classics as a discipline.
The Association is committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum and thus welcomes proposals that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research.
Abstracts of a maximum of 600 words, suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation, should be sent electronically, in MS Word format or PDF, to Annette M. Baertschi (abaertschi@brynmawr.edu), preferably with the subject heading “AANLS panel at SCS 2022.” Abstracts should follow the guidelines for individual abstracts posted on the SCS website (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts) and should not reveal the author’s name, but the e-mail should provide name, title of the paper, and institutional affiliation (or status as independent scholar). All abstracts will be judged anonymously.
Membership in the Association is not required for participation in this panel, but all presenters must be SCS members in good standing, with dues paid through 2021. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Sunday, February 28, 2021.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/153/aanls-panel-world-neo-latin-epic
(CFP closed February 28, 2021)
[SCS PANEL] "WHAT IS A WOMAN?," OR, INTERSEXTIONAL FEMINISMS: EXPLORING ANCIENT DEFINITIONS OF WOMANHOOD BEYOND THE BINARY
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, San Francisco CA, USA: January 5-8, 2022
Update December 29, 2021: this meeting has moved to online only: see https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting
A panel sponsored by the Women’s Classical Caucus.
Organisers: Caitlin Hines (University of Cincinnati), Serena S. Witzke (Wesleyan University), and T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University)
The Greek and Latin languages have three genders, not two, divided into discrete — but not impermeable — categories of masculine, feminine, and neuter. Grammarians often reflected on gender expression versus gender identity. Greek and Roman art and material culture both employ binaries (e.g., white skin for women, red for men) and confound them, as with depictions of a pale Achilles in feminine disguise on Scyra. Medical and philosophical approaches to gender seem sometimes to operate on a monopole rather than a binary, as with some readings of the Hippocratic corpus’ woman as inverse of man, or Aristotle’s woman as mutilated man.
This proposed panel will gather papers that — building on a growing body of scholarship pushing past binary taxonomies of sex and gender (e.g., Gillies, “The Body in Question”; Draycott on the Polyxena Sarcophagus; Hendrickson, “Gender Diversity in Greek and Latin Grammar”; Corbeill, Sexing the World) — challenge the limits of traditional constructions of gender and explore the heuristic potential of womanhood beyond the binary. Panelists might approach the issue through literature both historical and fictive, through art or architecture, through epigraphic evidence or papyri, and through archaeology or material culture.
Papers may address such questions as:
* How have modern gender binaries influenced and shaped interpretations of Classical narratives? What limitations have these binaries placed on our understanding of and communications about the ancient world?
* What do our sources reveal to us about the lived experience of being non-binary in the ancient world?
* What approaches do historians, medical writers, religious authorities, alchemists, and thaumatographers take to intersex bodies and gender-nonconforming persons?
* When do mythological texts relate intersex tales and to what effect?
* In what ways does ancient language shape the poetics of gender?
* How do ideological commitments to a supposed biological binary (e.g., the belief that women provide no genetic material to offspring) clash with actual medical knowledge and practice?
* How do expressions and implications of homoerotic desire give the lie to patriarchal constructions and binaries of sexuality?
* What do ancient art and literature tell us about the intersections of gender identity and gender expression?
* Do representations of “Hermaphroditus” in myth, literature, and iconography reflect or resist cultural understandings of intersex bodies and gender identity? (Or does the binary “reflect or resist” not obtain?)
* Where and why do we see associations between violence and the non-binary?
* How can we reshape modern textbooks to reflect or explore non-binary experiences in the ancient world?
Please send abstracts that follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (see the SCS website) by email to Ms. Julie Pechanek at pechanjn@wfu.edu by March 1, 2021. Ensure that the abstracts are anonymous. The organizers will review all submissions anonymously and inform submitters of their decision by the end of March 2021, with enough time that those not chosen can participate in the SCS’ individual abstract submission process.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/153/cfp-what-woman-or-intersextional-feminisms
(CFP closed March 1, 2021)
[SCS PANEL] TRANSFORMATIONS OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC IN THE RENAISSANCE
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, San Francisco CA, USA: January 5-8, 2022
Update December 29, 2021: this meeting has moved to online only: see https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting
Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) panel
The Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) invites proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2022 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco, CA. For its seventh annual panel, SEMCR invites abstracts on transformations of classical rhetoric in the Renaissance.
Since the pioneering work of Brian Vickers, Lisa Jardine, and Peter Mack, among others, studies of classical rhetoric in the Renaissance have often focused on the reception of ancient “manuals” (e.g., Cicero, Quintilian, the Rhetorica ad Herennium) and the creation of new rhetorical handbooks and commonplacing techniques. Other scholars, including Quentin Skinner and Lorna Hutson, have explored the adoption of classical rhetoric on the Elizabethan stage and the affinities with more conventional sites of classical oratory such as law courts and political and philosophical treatises. During the early modern period, however, modalities of communication and the arts evolved and diversified in ways unknown to the ancients: while the deliberate circulation of speeches in manuscript beyond the immediate occasion of delivery, as in the case of Bruni’s Panegyric to Florence, may have been familiar enough to Cicero, he could not conceive of the transformation of a letter collection from manuscript to print and the consequent scaling up not only of the potential readership but also of the epistolographical market within which such collections now competed. Then there are the media in which Renaissance creators and audiences had no direct classical models to guide them as they experimented with rhetorical forms: new artistic genres, such as opera, invited a re-evaluation of the rhetorical principles that would best serve a hybrid medium and its emergent audiences. Against this background, Katrin Ettenhuber has called for a “consideration of the material dimensions of rhetorical theory and practice.”
We, therefore, invite proposals on any topic addressing this theme, including but not limited to the following: How did new Renaissance media and modalities of communication affect the reception of classical theories of rhetoric? Did the new contexts favour certain ancient models while moving away from others? To what extent did early moderns consider the role of ancient media in understanding classical rhetoric? Were there particular individuals, communities, or genres that were especially attuned to the relationship between new media and technologies and classical rhetoric? How might a reassessment of the Renaissance reception affect our understanding of the place of classical rhetoric today?
We are committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into classics, and hence welcome abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research. Above all, we aim to show how the field of early modern classical reception can bear on a wide range of literary and cultural study, and to dispel the notion of an intimidating barrier to entry.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words, suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation, should be sent as an email attachment to ariane.schwartz@gmail.com. All persons who submit abstracts must be SCS members in good standing. The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page. Proposals must be received by Friday, February 26, 2021.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2022/153/semcr-2022-cfp
(CFP closed February 26, 2021)
[SCS PANEL] QUEER REPRESENTATIONS AND RECEPTIONS OF AMAZONS
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, San Francisco CA, USA: January 5-8, 2022
Update December 29, 2021: this meeting has moved to online only: see https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting
Organizer: Walter D. Penrose, Jr., San Diego State University
The legends of the Amazons have captivated the imagination for thousands of
years. Part of the intrigue lies in the perception that Amazons either
rejected men or ruled over them. According to the fifth-century tragic
playwright Aeschylus, the Amazons were both *stuganores* “man-spurning,”
and *anandroi* “man-less” (*Prometheus Bound* 723-4; *Suppliant Women* 287).
According to the fourth-century orator Lysias, the Amazons were “esteemed
more as men on account of their courage [*eupsuchia*] than as women on
account of their nature [*phusis*],” due to the fact that they defeated
many men in battle (2.4). The idea of man-spurning warrior women handed
down to us by the Greeks has been received and celebrated by queer folx and
used to inspire and create non-traditional senses of community over the
ages. This panel will investigate the reception of the Amazon myths in
various queer contexts, broadly defined. Some possible topics may include
(but are by no means limited to):
· Amazon legends and queerness
· Amazons and homoeroticism in literature and art
· The use of the Amazon legends as a site/symbol of resistance in
Lesbian Feminism
· The identification of queer women with the Amazon *labrys*
· Amazons and transgender and/or non-binary identification
· The use of the term Amazon to refer to lesbian, gender diverse,
and/or queer women
· Representations of Amazons with queer implications in comics,
television, film, games, and/or other media
Please send an anonymous abstract following SCS guidelines as an attachment
(with your name and contact information in the email only) to Andrea
Fishman (ishandrea@gmail.com) by March 15, 2021 extended deadline March 31, 2021. Please direct any
questions to Walter Penrose, Jr. (wpenrose@sdsu.edu).
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/153/lambda-classical-caucus-2022-panel-call-papers
(CFP closed March 31, 2021)
[SCS PANEL] OVID AND THE NATURAL WORLD
Panel sponsored by the International Ovidian Society
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, San Francisco CA, USA: January 5-8, 2022
Update December 29, 2021: this meeting has moved to online only: see https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting
Ovid has arguably become the Roman poet of the moment. From fairly recent college demands that he should be kicked off a Humanities curriculum we now have Helen Morales’ book, Antigone Rising, which, in a chapter on myth and #Me too, argues that Ovid is a poet of deep empathy who offers insight into the psychology of sexual assault and explores the effects of trauma upon the victims. But how does Ovid measure up against another great crisis of our age, climate change? Discussion of his representation of nature has tended to focus on his vivid pictorial descriptions of landscapes in the Metamorphoses, which inspired the dream-like landscapes of the seventeenth century French painter Claude Lorrain, for instance; in Ovid’s myth of Actaeon, the statement in the description of Diana’s grotto that nature had imitated art (Met. 3.158–9) was taken as an aesthetic credo by artists and landscape gardeners from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Yet that statement can be read as a subterfuge, a decoy that prevents suspicion of nature’s savagery, as embodied by the angry Diana; the crystalline water of the grotto’s pool is the instrument of Actaeon’s cruel transformation. The poet plays here with illusion, but also shows that nature fights back against transgression.
This panel invites papers that go beyond the ‘pictorial Ovid’ to explore in greater depth Ovid’s relationship to the natural world. Ovidian poetry offers a view of the world familiar us today, where the divide between human and nonhuman is blurred; all created beings, in Ovid’s world, are related, but the breakdown between the categories of human, animal, plant, stone, mountain, etc. happens particularly at moments of crisis. But does Ovid recognize through his poetry the threats that human beings pose to the natural world through the ideology of domination? How are these ecocritical issues explored in the literary and artistic reception of Ovid?
Suggested themes are the following (other topics are welcome):
• The boundaries between human and plant, animal, or inanimate object.
• Breakdowns of boundaries between nature/culture or natural/artificial.
• The poet’s relationship to the theme of the domination of nature or nature’s suffering through human actions.
• The anthropomorphizing of Nature and the attribution of agency to nonhuman things and organisms.
• Philosophical influence upon Ovidian views of the natural world, e.g. his Pythagoras’ view of nature’s innocence before the intervention of animal sacrifice for the gods.
• The intersection of religion and history in the Ovidian landscape.
• The representation of the early landscape of Rome and the moralizing tradition.
• Perceptions of extreme environments, such as Tomis in the exilic poetry.
• Receptions of Ovid’s works that illuminate his presentation of the natural world, for instance, Richard Power’s Overstory with a view to the ecological and gendered importance of trees in Ovid’s poetry.
Direct any questions to the organizer, Carole Newlands, at Carole.Newlands@Colorado.EDU.
Send your abstract for a 20-minute paper as an email attachment to lfulkerson@fsu.edu by March 15, 2021, listing Ovid and the Natural World as the subject line of the email. The text of the abstract should not mention the name of the author, but the email message should provide name, abstract title, and affiliation. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding bibliography); follow the SCS guidelines for individual abstracts (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts). Submissions will be reviewed anonymously.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2010&L=CLASSICISTS&P=5061
(CFP closed March 15, 2021)
[SCS PANEL] ORIENTALISMS
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, San Francisco CA, USA: January 5-8, 2022
Update December 29, 2021: this meeting has moved to online only: see https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting
Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus Panel
Organized by Arum Park (University of Arizona) and Stephanie Wong (Brown University)
“Orientalism is a form of paranoia.” (Edward Said, Orientalism, 71)
For our third panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) in San Francisco, CA (January 5-8, 2022), the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus invites abstracts for presentations that broadly explore the concept of “orientalism” as applicable to the study of the ancient Mediterranean. As Edward Said articulated, “Orientalism was ultimately a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar (Europe, the West, ‘us’) and the strange (the Orient, the East, ‘them’)” (Said, 42). Possible topics include but are not limited to:
* ancient Mediterranean constructions of difference, Asian and AAPI receptions of Western antiquity, the intellectual history of Classics, Orientalism in pedagogy, or non-Western conceptions of Classical antiquity.
We welcome proposals for diverse forms of interpretation; scholarly papers are always welcome but other proposed formats might include visual or literary art, performance, or discussions of political activism. In an effort to pluralize the definition of orientalism and explore its myriad uses in all geographic antiquities (Eastern, Western, or otherwise) as well as in the present day, we encourage abstract submissions that subvert imperial hegemonies, trouble heteronormative conventions, and question eurocentric ideologies. Who constitutes “us” and “them,” and why must these categories constantly be redefined?
Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be submitted as a pdf email attachment to AAACCabstracts@gmail.com by Friday, March 5, 2021. The subject line of your email should be “SCS 2022: Orientalisms abstract.” The text of your abstract should follow the guidelines available on the SCS website and should not mention the name of the author. Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by the panel organizers. The AAACC is committed to fostering a collaborative and supportive environment for the sharing of innovative ideas; as such, we welcome submissions from students, educators, artists, and activists of all stages and disciplines.
Should you have any questions, please contact Arum Park (arumpark@arizona.edu) and Stephanie Wong (stephaniewong@brown.edu).
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/153/cfp-orientalisms
(CFP closed March 5, 2021)
[SCS PANEL] LITERARY TEXTS AS OBJECTS
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, San Francisco CA, USA: January 5-8, 2022
Update December 29, 2021: this meeting has moved to online only: see https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting
Panel Sponsored by the American Society of Papyrologists and the SCS Committee on Publications and Research
Organized by Colin Whiting (Dumbarton Oaks) and Christelle Fischer-Bovet (USC)
The last decade or so has seen an extraordinary wave of sensational papyrological discoveries that have then gone on to prompt serious scholarly and ethical questions. Legal cases involving companies and organizations, investigations by government agencies and journalists, and more have only heightened the scholarly—and public—interest in the contents of these ancient written records, their provenance, and their publication. We are seeking papers that examine these papyri and other literary objects not for their contents but as objects in and of themselves. Panelists might choose to situate these objects within the history of the illicit forgery, theft, and looting of antiquities, seeing them as either modern examples of longstanding concerns in classical scholarship or as reflections of new problems particular to the 21st century. Papers might also explore the dynamics between the desire to publish new texts and the ethical dilemmas inherent in rushing to do so. Rather than simply just recounting recent events, we are hoping that panelists will place objects like these, and their associated scandals, in a scholarly context, or will recommend concrete guidelines for future practices in scholarship.
Please send abstracts that follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (see the SCS Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts) by email to Colin Whiting (Dumbarton Oaks) at whitingc01@doaks.org or Christelle Fischer-Bovet (USC) at fischerb@usc.edu by February 15, 2021. Ensure that the abstracts are anonymous. The organizers will review all submissions anonymously, and their decision will be communicated to the authors of abstracts by March 31, 2021, with enough time that those whose abstracts are not chosen can participate in the individual abstract submission process for the upcoming SCS meeting.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/153/cfp-literary-texts-objects
(CFP closed February 15, 2021)
[SCS PANEL] 'CAMP' PANEL
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, San Francisco CA, USA: January 5-8, 2022
Update December 29, 2021: this meeting has moved to online only: see https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting
The Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP) of the Society for Classical Studies invites proposals for a panel to be held under the Committee’s sponsorship at the 153rd Annual Meeting of the SCS (January 5 - 8, 2022; San Francisco, CA). Submissions, which should not exceed 500 words in length, should include:
the title of the proposed panel;
a general outline of the proposed topic;
a brief explanation of the topic's relevance to the performance of ancient or modern drama;
and, where appropriate, a brief bibliography.
SCS panels usually comprise either four 20-minute papers in a two-hour session, or four 20-minute papers plus short introduction and response in a two-and-a-half-hour session. Panel proposals should be sent via e-mail to Krishni Burns on behalf of the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (ksburns@uic.edu), by or before January 1, 2022 [sic].
It should be noted that selection and sponsorship of a panel topic by the Committee does not in itself guarantee final acceptance of the panel by the SCS Program Committee. Note that the organizer of any panel selected by the Committee must be a fully paid-up member of the SCS for 2022.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/153/cfp-camp-panel-2022-annual-meeting
(CFP closed? - information incomplete)
[SCS PANEL] ANCIENT AND MODERN CIVIC ACTIVISM
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, San Francisco CA, USA: January 5-8, 2022
Update December 29, 2021: this meeting has moved to online only: see https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2022-annual-meeting
Classics and Social Justice Affiliated Group Panel
Organizers: Amit Shilo (UC, Santa Barbara), Lindsey Mazurek (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Recent discussions in Classical Studies, including the Our Voices and Res Difficiles conferences, AIA’s diversity webinars, the Everyday Orientalism discussion series, and our own Classics and Civic Activism Workshop at the 2019 SCS Annual Meeting, have argued for a more activist approach to issues of equity in the discipline. But activism is not solely a modern concern. We can find examples of community-based interventions in antiquity as well, such as, arguably, Spartacus’ revolt, Greek and Roman land reform movements, or Lysistrata’s strike.
In this affiliated group panel the Classics and Social Justice group endeavors to build on activist work through talks that link contemporary activism with movements and ideas in the Greek and Roman worlds. We are interested in continuing to bring scholarship into dialogue with activist practice and critiques, and seek a wide range of papers that deal with questions of activism in antiquity and in the present day, broadly defined.
Paper topics might include, but are not limited to:
* proposing new ways of looking at ancient movements for land and wealth redistribution or revolts of enslaved people in the light of recent movements calling for reparations, criminal justice reform, education reform, and leveling income inequality
* examining how modern debates concerning democracy affect thinking about organizing and agitating in the classical world
* conversely, analyzing what classical models, theories, and historical events add as paradigms or warnings for activism today
* Decentering Classics through activism
* Offering self-reflexive critiques of activism in the Classics
* critiquing the applicability of modern paradigms of activism to the ancient world
* presenting specific public-facing outreach projects that use Classics
* presenting specific educational policy advocacy efforts that use Classics
* presenting activism connected to museums and archaeology
* examining the role of teacher and student activism in the Classics classroom
Abstracts are welcome from all SCS/AIA members and will be anonymously selected.
Please send abstracts for 20-minute talks (up to 350 words) to Nancy Rabinowitz (nrabinow@hamilton.edu) by February 1, 2021 extended deadline February 15, 2021.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2022/153/cfp-ancient-and-modern-civic-activism
(CFP closed February 15, 2021)
Archive of Conferences and Past Calls for Papers 2021
[ONLINE] WHAT HAS ANTIQUITY EVER DONE FOR US?
The Vitality of Ancient Reception Studies. An international virtual conference presented by Antiquity in Media Studies
Online - December 15-18, 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 figured as a powerful shared imaginary remains a perennial, emotionally evocative, even highly lucrative concept in myriad contemporary media, around the world and across all manner of identity lines. Among antiquities, of particularly widespread interest has been the millennia of history centered on the Mediterranean and dubbed “classical” among successor societies, both self-appointed and colonized. From Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey to Luis Alfaro’s Mojada, from Hideki Takeuchi’s Thermae Romae to Pat Barker’s Silence of the Girls, to politicians' and pundits' invocations of the Persian Wars and the fall of Rome, each year produces more receptions of this antiquity. Beyond the Greco-Roman-centered past, all antiquities mobilized for such cultural work today are welcome at this ancient reception studies conference.
As an area of inquiry, ancient reception studies recognizes the currency of “antiquity” in media as diverse as e.g., television, comics, video games, fashion, film, fiction, and body art. Scholarly engagements with textual and visual phenomena recombine a variety of humanistic and social sciences theories and methods in analyzing cultural objects that can simultaneously enchant and trouble diverse audiences beyond academic specialists, from fanfic authors to game designers to deans and school board members. Part of AIMS’ mission is to connect engaged and invested participants in the reception of antiquity across the scholarly divide. To that end, at the plenary session of the conference we will workshop how to become more effective advocates in our own communities for informed engagement with the study of antiquity and its receptions.
We invite proposals on any topic in ancient reception studies. Proposals for this year’s annual meeting may include individual 20-minute papers, three-paper panels, roundtables, workshops, poster sessions, play-throughs, games, technical demonstrations, creative showcases, creator interviews, and other activities that can fit within a 60-90 minute time slot and be delivered remotely at this online conference. Proposals that take advantage of the online format are especially welcome; we’re open to experimenting with a mixture of live and pre-recorded elements in the program.
Please submit proposals of up to 500 words (plus bibliography) as an anonymized Word doc or PDF, including the title that would appear on the program and the type of presentation, as email attachments to AIMS Secretary-Treasurer Roger Macfarlane at staims@antiquityinmediastudies.org by 15 October 2021. (For three-paper panels, each presenter and the panel proposal as a whole may use up to 500 words, for a total of up to 2000 words.) In the body text of the email, please include the name(s) and current institutional affiliation(s) of applicants, or “independent scholar”. Please direct questions to AIMS President Meredith Safran at presidentaims@antiquityinmediastudies.org.
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2021
Program: https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/program/
Registration: https://forms.gle/ejePYXxRrFKtR7hPA
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/1881401028707133
(CFP closed October 15, 2021)
[ONLINE] POLYTROPOS AJAX: ROOTS, EVOLUTION, AND RECEPTION OF A MULTIFACETED HERO
Online - Trinity College Dublin - December 8, 2021
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
9.00-9.15 Registration
9.15 Welcome by Professor Monica Gale (Trinity College Dublin)
9.20 Introductory remarks by Dr Silvia Speriani (Trinity College Dublin)
AJAX THE GREEK – chair: Dr Silvia Speriani
9.30-10.20 Professor Giampiero Scafoglio (Université Côte d'Azur)
A Primitive and yet Civilized Hero. Further Observations on Ajax in the Iliad
Respondent: Dr Sophie Bocksberger (University of Oxford)
10.20-11.10 Professor Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Sophocles’ Ajax between Achilles, Hector, and Odysseus
Respondent: Dr Francesco Morosi (Università di Pisa)
Coffee/tea break
11.30-12.20 Professor Anna Anguissola (Università di Pisa)
A Hero through his Objects. The Construction of Ajax’s Image
Respondent: Dr Robinson Peter Krämer (Universität Rostock)
Lunch
ROMAN AJAX(ES) – chair: Professor Monica Gale
13.40-14.30 Professor Sophia Papaioannou (The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Ajax and the Reception of the 'Alius Achilles’ theme in the Latin Epic Tradition
Respondent: Dr Silvia Speriani (Trinity College Dublin)
14.30-15.20 Professor Maria Jennifer Falcone (Università di Pavia)
Hero, Antagonist and Cousin: Some Remarks on Ajax Telamonius in the Ilias Latina
Respondent: Mr. George Prekas (Trinity College Dublin)
coffee/tea break
AJAX'S AFTERLIFE – chair: Professor Martine Cuypers
15.40-16.30 Professor Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford)
On Staging or not Staging Sophocles' Ajax
Respondent: Dr Estelle Baudou (University of Oxford)
16.30-17.10 Professor Ellen McLaughlin (Barnard College)
Three Thousand Years of the Thousand-Yard Stare. Readings from Ajax in Iraq
17.10 Concluding remarks by Professor Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford)
Website: https://www.tcd.ie/classics/research/conferences/polytropos-ajax.php
[HYBRID] POETICS, POLITICS AND THE RUIN IN CINEMA AND THEATRE SINCE 1945
An APGRD and HAR (Histoire des Arts et des Représentations) conference
Hybrid (INHA, Paris & online): November 22,2021 [CET]
In person: 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 PARIS – Salle Vasari (1er étage / 1st floor)
Zoom: ID: 843 7042 7722 - Code: RUIN
Organisers
Estelle Baudou, APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama), University of Oxford; Anne-Violaine Houcke, HAR (Histoire des Arts et des Représentations), University of Paris Nanterre.
Scientific committee
Estelle Baudou (University of Oxford), Anne-Violaine Houcke (University of Paris Nanterre), Barbara Le Maître (University of Paris Nanterre), Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford).
Summary
References to Greco-Roman antiquity in Europe between the two World Wars were abundant: first the 'Classical' served the idea of 'a return to order' considered by some as necessary after the heresies of the pre-War avant-garde; it then went on to be manipulated by both Fascist and Nazi ideologies. This conference explores how, by reinventing antiquity through working with ruins both politically and poetically, artistic processes as well as works of theatre and cinema record the historical and artistic consequences of this trauma in Europe. While this research is initially rooted in classical reception and theatre and cinema studies, the conference intends to enter into dialogue with other fields including archaeology, aesthetics, political sciences, anthropology, and media theory. The aim is to study these processes from 1945 to the present where these traces continue to be detectable in the works of artists in Europe.
Program
All times are local Paris Time (CET; GMT +1 hour)
9.15-9.30: Accueil des participants - Welcome
9.30-9.45: Introduction
9.45-11.15: body and lisibility / corps et lisibilité
Respondent/Modération: Barbara Le Maître, Université Paris Nanterre, Études cinématographiques
Quelle scénographie pour le cinéma moderne? (S. Daney)
L’envers du décor (Italie, France, Allemagne) (Anne-Violaine Houcke, Université Paris Nanterre, Études cinématographiques)
Quelqu’un a-t-il déjà entendu soupirer des pierres? (W. Herzog). Du corps à la ruine (et retour) (Jeremy Hamers et Lison Jousten, Université de Liège, Études cinématographiques)
Among the Ruins of Words. Active/Passive reception of ancient myths in theatre (Malgorzata Budzowska, University of Lodz, theatre studies, classical reception)
11.15-11.45: pause / break
11.45-13.00: remaking and repetition / reprise et répétition
Respondent/Modération: Estelle Baudou (University of Oxford, APGRD, Theatre Studies)
Singing Ruins: cinema and musical iterability in Philip Glass’ Orphée (1993) (Zoë Jennings, University of Oxford, Classics)
Le Mépris: un Solde de l’Olympe? (Marc Cerisuelo, Université Gustave Eiffel, Études cinématographiques, Esthétique)
13.00-14.30: déjeuner / lunch break
14.30-16.00: nature and anthropocene / nature et anthropocène
Respondent/Modération: Clare Finburgh-Delijani, Goldsmiths University of London, Theatre Studies
De la ruine comme métamorphose cinématographique de la vanité: Robinson in Ruins, à la recherche d’une image « naturelle » (Marianne de Cambiaire, Université d’Aix-Marseille, Études cinématographiques)
La ruine antique comme véhicule d’un renouvellement descriptif de la figuration du paysage au cinéma (Pollet, Huillet et Straub, Robbe-Grillet) (Lucas Lei, Université Paris Nanterre, Études cinématographiques)
Au temps de la mise en ruine des écosystèmes, de nouvelles dramaturgies pour le théâtre antique? (Quentin Rioual, Université Paris Nanterre, Études théâtrales)
1600-16.30: pause / break
16.30-17.30: plenary / plénière
Respondent/Modération: Fiona Macintosh, University of Oxford, APGRD, Classical Reception
Queries: please email Estelle Baudou (estelle.baudou@classics.ox.ac.uk)
[HYBRID] MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE AND ITS 'SITZ IM LEBEN': BODY AND HORROR IN ANTIQUITY
Hybrid format/Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany: November 18-20, 2021
This conference explores ancient and modern concepts of horror with reference to the human body. The aim is to examine how the body processes, affectively as well as cognitively, horrifying experiences and how it can turn itself into a source of horror, e.g. in contexts of sickness and death. While we are firmly aware of the fact that ‘horror’ as a largely post-Romantic concept is not unproblematic when applied to Greek and Latin texts, we will try to show that its classical antecedents and roots must be considered as they might shed light on the ways in which the horrific, as a category that shapes our encounter with various forms of art but also with life itself, is understood today.
The event, sponsored by the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, will be hosted by the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, and will be both in person and on Zoom.
List of speakers:
* Claire Bubb (New York University) At the Borders of Horror and Science: The Social Contexts of Roman Dissection
* Sean Coughlin (Institute of Philosophy | Czech Academy of Sciences) Recipes for Horror
* Maria Gerolemou (University of Exeter, UK) Heracles’ Automatic Body: Madness, Horror and Laughter in Euripides’ Hercules Furens
* Lutz Alexander Graumann (University Hospital, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany) Overcoming Horror: Faintness and Medical Agents. Some Tentative Thoughts on Antiquity and Today
* Sophia Luise Häberle (Humboldt Universität, Berlin) Naming the Monster: A Practice of Forensic Horror in Cicero’s Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino
* Lutz Käppel (Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University, Germany) Roots of Horror: Environment, Bodies, Societies
* George Kazantzidis (University of Patras, Greece) Horror and the Body in Early Greek Paradoxography
* Dunstan Lowe (Kent University, UK) Hot and Cold Blood in Lucan’s Civil War
* Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) A Terrible History of Classical Horror
* Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy / Chicago, USA) The Horrific Body in Sophocles
* Michael Puett (Harvard University) Demon Hordes and the Coming Apocalypse: The Limits of the Human in Chinese Late Antiquity
* Alessandro Schiesaro (University of Manchester, UK) Apocalypse: Horror and Divine Pleasure
* Rodrigo Sigala (independent, Germany) The Thrilling Forces Behind Horrific Experiences: A Neuroscientific Approach
* Evina Sistakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) The Visceral Thrills of Tragedy: Flesh, Blood and Guts Off and On the Tragic Stage
* Dimos Spatharas (University of Crete, Greece) Enargeia, Disgust and Visceral Abhorrence
* Chiara Thumiger (Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Kiel University, Germany)
* Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College) Fearful Laughter: Bodily Horror in Roman Sexual Humour
For practical details and updates, please contact the organisers: Chiara Thumiger (ROOTS, Kiel University, cthumiger@roots.uni-kiel.de) / George Kazantzidis (University of Patras, kazanbile@gmail.com)
As well as keep an eye here: https://www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de/en/old_calendar-events/roots-events/medical-knowledge-and-its-sitz-im-leben-body-and-horror-in-antiquity
Edit - 15/11/2021. Program:
18 NOVEMBER 2021 [*German time throughout]
11:00 - 11:20 Welcome/Introductory Remarks, Chiara Thumiger and George Kazantzidis (Kiel University, Germany / University of Patras, Greece)
Thinking about beginnings
11:20-12:00 A Terrible History of Classical Horror, Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
Epic
12:00-12:40 Hot and Cold Blood in Lucan’s Civil War, Dunstan Lowe (University of Kent, UK)
13:00-15:00 Lunch
Tragedy
15:00-15:40 The Horrific Body in Sophocles, Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy / Committee on Social Thought, Chicago,USA)
15:40-16:20 Heracles’ Automatic Body: Madness, Horror and Laughter in Euripides’ Hercules Furens, Maria Gerolemou (University of Exeter, UK)
16:20-17:00 The Visceral Thrills of Tragedy: Flesh, Blood and Guts Off and On the Tragic Stage, Evina Sistakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
19 NOVEMBER
Horror between disgust and the sublime
10:40-11:20 Enargeia, Disgust and Visceral Abhorrence, Dimos Spatharas (University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece)
11:20-12:00 Fearful Laughter: Bodily Horror in Roman Sexual Humor, Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College, Clinton, USA)
12:00-12:40 Apocalypse: Horror and Divine Pleasure, Alessandro Schiesaro (University of Manchester, UK)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Horror and the natural world
14:30-15:10 Roots of Horror: Environment, Bodies, Societies, Lutz Käppel (Kiel University, Germany)
15:10-15:50 Horror and the Body in Early Greek Paradoxography, George Kazantzidis (University of Patras, Greece)
Horror, demons, and (real) monsters
15:50-16:30 Naming the Monster: A Practice of Forensic Horror in Cicero’s Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino, Sophia Luise Häberle (Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany)
16:30-17:10 Demon Hordes and the Coming Apocalypse: The Limits of the Human in Chinese Late Antiquity, Michael Puett (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
20 NOVEMBER
Horror and modern medical science
11:00-11:40 The Thrilling Forces Behind Horrific Experiences: A Neuroscientific Approach, Rodrigo Sigala (independent researcher, Germany)
11:40-12:20 Overcoming Horror: Faintness and Medical Agents. Some Tentative Thoughts on Antiquity and Today, Lutz Alexander Graumann (University Hospital, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany)
Horror, ancient medicine, magic
12:20-13:00 Recipes for Horrors, Sean Coughlin (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)
13:00-13:40 At the Borders of Horror and Science: The Social Contexts of Roman Dissection, Claire Bubb (New York University, USA)
13:40-14:00 Concluding Remarks, Chiara Thumiger (Kiel University, Germany)
Website: https://www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de/en/fieldwork-and-activities/fieldwork-and-activities-archive/medical-knowledge-and-its-sitz-im-leben-body-and-horror-in-antiquity
[ONLINE/HYBRID] ANNUAL MEETING OF POSTGRADUATES IN RECEPTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD (AMPRAW)
Theme: Center & Periphery in the Classics: Theory, Practice, and Turning Points
Online/hybrid - Department of Classics, Columbia University, New York, USA: 18-20 November, 2021 - CHANGE OF DATES - November 11-13, 2021
AMPRAW is an annual conference that is designed to bring together early-career researchers in the field of classical reception studies, and will be held for the tenth year. It aims to contribute to the growth of an international network of PhDs working on classical reception(s), as well as to strengthen relationships between early career researchers and established academics.
AMPRAW 2021 will be held at Columbia University in the City of New York (USA) from Thursday, November 18 to Saturday, November 20 2021, in collaboration with the Department of Classics at Columbia University, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Columbia University Libraries Journals.
Due to the unpredictability caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are not yet able to confirm that the conference will take place in person. We hope that this will be possible; however, we are also making plans to accommodate a hybrid or online-only event. We will keep you updated as the situation evolves. Please be aware that, if the conference will be in person, we are unable to guarantee travel reimbursements to speakers, but we might be able to offer support on a need basis.
Confirmed keynote speaker: Dr. Patrice Rankine (University of Richmond, Virginia)
This year's theme will be Center & Periphery. The liminal features of the US (and of New York City in particular) inspired us to focus on this topic. Reception Studies in Classics are still treated as “peripheral” in many places, including this country, in spite of their increasing importance. In particular, they have been sidelined both by those who advocate the study of Classics as an unquestionable discipline, and those who wish to do away with the classical heritage completely. Framing the discussion in terms of center and periphery has the effect of illuminating the ways in which this dichotomy has historically inhabited – and haunted – academia. Conversations about how the Classics contributed to create the myth of a pure and privileged Western culture against which all attempts at intervention have been delegitimized are becoming more and more frequent within North American universities. Hosting AMPRAW at Columbia will facilitate a most important and timely dialogue around how we define what gets treated as a center and why, and who is left out. Moreover, the concepts of center and periphery need not be understood strictly as geographical or sociopolitical ideas; central to the discussion about the discipline of Classics and its future is the question of its methodologies. Peripheral receptions would also encompass works realized through innovative methodological approaches, both at the research and at the pedagogical level. The theme we propose will open up some areas within the discipline as it is traditionally conceived of: in particular, it could call into question the primacy attributed to the Classical canon, allowing for voices generally disregarded to regain a central place within the scholarly world. Not least, Columbia is stimulated and inspired by its own location – New York City being a historical crossroad of cultures, it makes such a renegotiation even more compelling than elsewhere. The city would provide a perfect setting for this meeting, insofar as it showcases the attractiveness of the center, while also revealing how the periphery exists within and is in tension with it.
We invite papers of 20-25 minutes dealing with any aspect of Classical Reception(s). Possible topics might be related, but are not limited to, the following areas:
· Classics Inside and Outside the Canon; Classics Inside and Outside Academia
· Decolonizing the Classics
· Classics & Activism
· New Pedagogical Strategies in Classics
· Translation Studies
· Classics and Gender, Sexuality and Queer Studies
· Classics as Public Humanities
We encourage proposals in the fields of, but not limited to, archaeology, literary studies, linguistics, (art) history, media studies, religious studies, cultural studies, history of law and political science, dealing with all time periods. The conference will be held in English, for the sake of convenience and accessibility. We acknowledge that this choice is in itself political and problematic, as it betrays a certain history of cultural hegemony and power. We will also encourage our speakers to think explicitly about their own relationship with this issue.
Moreover, we are working with the Columbia University Libraries to create a digital publication containing the proceedings of the conference. We hope that this will make participating in AMPRAW an even more productive and exciting opportunity for graduate students and early researchers in the field.
If you would like to present a paper at AMPRAW 2021, please send an abstract of around 200 words to ampraw2021@gmail.com by June 15th 2021 June 30th 2021, together with a short biography stating your name, affiliation, and contact address. Please indicate in your submission whether you would like to apply for a travel reimbursement. Applicants will be selected and notified by the first week of July.
Organizers: Emma Ianni & Valeria Spacciante, Doctoral Students, Department of Classics, Columbia University in the City of New York
Edit - 07/11/2021. Program [ET time]:
THURSDAY, NOV. 11
1:00 pm: Introductory Remarks: Emma Ianni (Columbia University) and Valeria Spacciante (Columbia University)
1:30 pm: Panel #1: New Media - Chair: Izzy Levy (Columbia University)
Leah Bórquez (University of California, Berkeley) - Trajans' Giant death robot: 4X games, historians, and decolonizing discipline
Lily Bickers (Leiden University) - Homer and Homestuck: Epic in the digital age Stephen Fodroczi (Cornell University) - Water, virtue, and homecoming: Odyssean recurrences in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away
3:00 pm: Keynote address: Ellen McLaughlin (Barnard College)
4:30 pm: Panel #2: Pushing the Limits of a Text - Chair: Joe Howley (Columbia University)
Charles Pletcher (Columbia University) - Hippolytus three ways: the limits of sight and sound in a fatal crash
Juan Carlos Garzon Mantilla (Columbia University) - Mayan traces of Ulysses: ancient Greek history as created from early modern Yucatán
Alicia Matz (Boston University) - Bringing the canon to the periphery: using fan fiction to teach Latin
FRIDAY, NOV. 12
9:30 am: Panel #3: Reclaiming Space - Chair: Helene Foley (Columbia University)
Raffaella Sero (University of Cambridge) - The Women's Rome: disruption as appropriation in 20th century female approaches to the classics
Alex Silverman (APGRD/University of Oxford) - In search of the universal: the classical tradition and peripheral voices synthesised in Elizabeth Swados' music for Trojan women (1974)
Jessica Lawrence (University of Cambridge) - Madeline Miller: making space in Homer
11:00 am: Panel #4: Knowledge at Borders - Chair: Emily Greenwood (Princeton University)
Giulio Leghissa (University of Toronto) - The gulf of Syrtes and the dis-connected North Africa: ancient Mediterranean as a space of colonial difference
Giacomo Loi (Johns Hopkins University) - In the mirror of the classical other: reading center and margins in Israeli culture
Nebo Todorovic (Yale University) - Between Bacchae and Bacchanalia. Border thinking as a mode of classical reception
1:30 pm: Panel #5: Against Classicism - Chair: Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University)
Sophia Elzie (independent scholar) - "No more for him the streams of sorrow pour": teaching mourning, critiquing classics, and alternative epistemology in Phillis Wheatley's Elegies
Alwin Franke (Reed College) - The color of classicism: race and narrative in Martin Bernal's Black Athena
Malina Buturovic (Princeton University) - Bodies, kin and classicism: rereading Marshall Sahlin's What kinship is - and is not
3:00 pm: Panel #6: Women, Academia, the Classics - Chair: Darcy Krasne (Columbia University)
Teddy Delwiche (Yale University) - Reconsidering women's classical education in early America
Aron Ouwerkerk (Utrecht University) - Women's neo-Latin texts: potentials & challenges outside the canon
Frances Myatt (LMU Munich) - Placetne magistra? Making space for women in academia in Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night
5:00 pm: Panel #7: Pedagogy and the Classics - Chair: Brett Stine (Columbia University)
Amanda Kubic (University of Michigan) - Classical reception pedagogy and the first-year writing course: a case study of Comparative literature 122, writing world literatures: body politics/body poetics
Robin Diver (University of Birmingham) - Rapists of privilege vs. underdog rapists: how post-1980s children's literature uses liminality to depict rape as justifiable
SATURDAY, NOV. 13
9:30 am: Panel #8: Queer Receptions - Chair: Nikolas Kakkoufa (Columbia University)
Giovanni Lovisetto (Columbia University) - Nullification or centrality of the penis? Representing the tied phallus from Greek kynodesme to contemporary photography
Cat Lambert (Columbia University) - Plutarch's Alexander and his bedtime reading: archiving a queer moment in the books
Marios Anastasiadis (University of Edinburgh) - An unnamed slave boy and his power in 4th century BC Athens
11:00 am: Keynote address: Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago)
1:30 pm: Panel #9: Representing the Feminine - Chair: Marissa Swan (Columbia University)
Lien Van Geel (Columbia University) - Soror Augusti, non uxor ero: shifting centre and periphery in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia
Patricia Eunji Kim (NYU) - Centering Black feminity: Augusta Savage and sculpting amazons in the early twentieth century
Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University) and Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham) - Morbid tales: heavy metal music and the global reception of Egyptian queens
3:00 pm: Panel #10: Subversive Monuments - Chair: Katy Knortz (Princeton University)
Emmanuela Schoinoplokaki (University of California, Santa Barbara) - βέβηλη πτήση, βασίλη, γκουρογιάννης. The Parthenon: a site of reflection?
Paula Gaither (Stanford University) - Reconstruction as remediation: the Ara Pacis Augustae
Giorgio Motisi (Scuola Normale Superiore) - Outside the Fascist canon of ancient art: the case of Edoardo Persico and Arte romana (1935)
5:00 pm: Panel #11: Classics Without Class - Chair: Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)
Sophie Wardle (University of Cambridge) - "Connoisseurs" in construction trenches: Victorian working-class responses to London's Roman past
Abigail Breuker (Columbia University) - Centering mercy: what Seneca's De clementia means for institutional justice
Ana Santori Rodríguez (university of Michigan) - "Canta, diosa, la colera del pueblo". Classics in Puerto Rico during the summer of 2019
6:30 pm: Closing Remarks: Nancy Worman (Columbia University)
Zoom link: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/91200801846#success
Website: https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/ampraw
Twitter: @AMPRAW2021
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-annual-meeting-postgraduates-reception-ancient-world-ampraw
(CFP closed June 30, 2021)
[ONLINE] V JORNADA INTERNACIONAL DE JÓVENES INVESTIGADORES ANIHO - VII SHRA: LA RECEPCIÓN DE LA ANTIGÜEDAD DESDE EL MEDIEVO HASTA EL MUNDO CONTEMPORÁNEO
Online [GMT+1] - November 4, 2021
El próximo día 4 de noviembre a partir de las 15:00 (GTM+1) tendrá lugar la V JORNADA INTERNACIONAL DE JÓVENES INVESTIGADORES ANIHO - VII SHRA: La recepción de la Antigüedad desde el Medievo hasta el Mundo Contemporáneo.
El evento se retrasmitirá en directo a través de la cuenta de YouTube de nuestro proyecto: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw6SQBKCTiZstFLitZcWQLQ
El programa completo está disponible en el siguiente enlace: https://aniho.hypotheses.org/files/2021/10/Posterprograma-V-ANIHO-VII-SHRA.pdf
[ONLINE] CLASSICS IN COLONIAL CITIES: A VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Online - University of Sydney, NSW, Australia: November 1-3, 2021
In the light of the extensive interest in the classical heritage evident in so much of the British Commonwealth, we have decided to organize a virtual conference on Classics in Colonial Cities in November 2021.
The conference will focus on Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and how classicism contributed to the development of cities and the creation of civic life and identities. Key themes we wish to explore include:
* the role of Classics in Education,
* the Dramatic and Visual Arts,
* the Built Environment,
* the representation of Indigenous peoples – and Indigenous responses.
However, we are open to suggestions on other significant topics relevant to the life and fabric of the city. We see the conference as leading to a publication of essays that will encompass these themes.
The conference will include individual papers that will be recorded and made available in advance and discussed in zoom meetings and panels dealing with particular questions.
The conference will be hosted by the University of Sydney in the first week of November, 2021.
Expressions of Interest:
We are calling for expressions of interest from anyone who would like to offer a paper or to organize a panel discussion. Please send an abstract of up to 250 words for a paper or 300 words for a panel discussion to barbara.caine@sydney.edu.au by June 1 2021.
Organising committee:
Alastair Blanshard (https://hpi.uq.edu.au/profile/346/alastair-blanshard)
Barbara Caine (https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/barbara-caine.html)
Julia Horne (https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/julia-horne.html)
Download flyer (PDF)
Edit (19/10/2021) - Program:
All times are AEDT (= UTC +11, NZDT = UTC +13, SAST = UTC +2)
1 November
17:00-17:20 OPENING REMARKS: Alastair Blanshard
17:20-18:20 RECEPTION
Chair: Alastair Blanshard
Laura Ginters, Sarah Midford, Marguerite Johnson, The Trojans, Carthage and “corrobory”: Creating a Colonial City through Classical Reception
Craig Barker, Pompeii Down Under: Henry J. Pain’s pyrotechnic show in Australia, 1886-1904
18:25-18:55 EDUCATION
Chair: Alastair Blanshard
Jeffrey Murray, Classical education in colonial cities
Peter Brownlee, Badham of Sydney: The making of a Public Intellectual in Colonial New South Wales 1867-1884
2 November
17:00-17:45 SCULPTURE AND ARTIFACTS
Chair: TBC
Tom Zanker, Classicizing Sculpture around Adelaide Oval
Andrew Stiles, Classicism in Centennial Park: The Changing Identities and Uses of [Neo]Classical Statuary in the Colony
18:00-18:45 HERITAGE
Chair: Julia Horne
Dr Andonis Piperoglou, Diaspora and Civilisational Heritage: The Classical Tradition and Greek Settler Colonialism
Caitlin McMenamin, The influence of Classics in the commemoration of World War I across the commonwealth
3 November
17:00-18:00 ARCHITECTURE AND PLACE
Chair: TBC
Jack Lee and Cam Logan, Picturesque Visions and Colonial Possessions: Classicism in Hardy Wilson’s Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania
Federico Freschi, A comparative study linking the classicising architecture of late-19th and early-20th century Johannesburg with that of Dunedin
Kathryn H. Stutz, Neo-Latin Inscriptions and Neoclassical Architecture: Colonial Constructions of Lady Franklin and Sir John in Hobart, Tasmania
Ray Laurence, “The Field of Mars” in place-making
18:05-18:25 CLOSING REMARKS: Grant Parker
TO ATTEND VIA ZOOM: A Zoom registration invitation will be sent out to all who are currently registered for the Classical Heritage event notifications. If you wish to be added to the list, please sign up here. https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/1930251/1916146/
Program: https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/classics-in-colonial-cities-a-virtual-conference-2/
Register (free): https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/classics-in-the-colonies-classical-heritage-conference-tickets-190018007977
Call: https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/classics-in-colonial-cities-2021/
Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23colonialclassics&src=typed_query&f=live
(CFP closed June 1, 2021)
(postponed) [ONLINE] THE IMAGE OF IRAN, ARMENIA, AND GREECE IN VIDEO GAMES
Online - The Armenian School of Languages and Cultures - ASPIRANTUM: October 30-31, 2021
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19. New dates TBA.
Once history began to be taught in academies and universities, it started entering the public
consciousness. Initially, public knowledge of history spread through mass-produced books and
academic journals, followed by advances in radio and television. Modern technologies and the
rapid development of the internet have brought history to the world wide web, where, in addition
to the means mentioned above of teaching/learning history, social media became a focal point
where history is not only discussed but also produced. Even more, all these mediums are
combined in online Universities and other online programs.
But what about games - video games?
This conference will focus on how video games have been utilized, either intentionally or
unintentionally, as a medium for teaching history to the masses. Now, popular games that have
been inspired by history, such as the Total War games, sell millions of copies and influence the
ideas and historical knowledge of millions upon millions of gamers. In many ways, since these
games are often played for hundreds or even thousands of hours, they can leave a larger
impression on people than other popular media, such as movies or comics.
The world of video games is not static, and this medium develops and advances at a rapid pace
and is discussed by millions in various international online discussion forums. History is being
taught, learned, and discussed through the medium of video games for more than a decade,
and this Conference aims to elucidate the images of Iran, Armenia, and Greece or, more
precisely, the portrayal of Iranians, Armenians, and Greeks in various video games.
Games allow the player to not only learn history but also to build it and reshape it in their own
image. This is especially true of games with a focus on history and historical development, such
as the Total War, Civilization, and Age of Empires strategy games series where you take control
of a specific civilization or people, including Greeks, Armenians, and Iranians.
This conference will focus mainly but not exclusively on the following subtopics:
- Depictions
- Reality vs myth
- Racial stereotypes
- Orientalism
- Historical accuracy
- Cooperation between game developers and historians
- Virtual wars and discussions in game forums
- Teaching history through games in schools and universities
- National and international game tournaments
We seek PhD students, researchers, game developers, game modders, and anyone else who is
professionally engaged in history, anthropology, sociology, data sciences, and archaeology to
send us their abstracts and participate in this virtual conference.
We intend to publish a volume of the proceedings of this conference in 2023.
The conference will be conducted in English, and the medium will be Zoom.
The scheduled time for each paper will be 10-15 minutes plus 5 minutes
for discussion.
Abstracts not exceeding 200 words are to be submitted online by September 1, 2021.
Applicants will receive a notification about the acceptance of the paper by September 15, 2021.
The preliminary program will be shared by accepted participants by September 30, 2021. The
final program of the conference will be published online by October 15, 2021. All accepted
presenters will receive a Zoom link of the conference. The conference will be open to the public
for a fee.
To submit the abstract, you will need to create an account on the https://armacad.info website. If
you already have an account, just sign in and fill in the application form below.
If you have no account on ARMACAD, you will see an "APPLY'' button below this
announcement. Press on that button, fill in the sign-up form in the pop-up window and press the
"Sign up" button (this is not your application, with this step, you create your account on
ARMACAD). An automated letter will be sent to the email you have mentioned during the
sign-up. Open your email, press the link inside the email to confirm your registration. After
creating your account, sign in and come back to this page. As a signed-in user, you will be able
to see the application form below this announcement. Please fill in the required fields and press
"Submit". After you press the "Submit" button, your application will be submitted for the "The
Image of Iran, Armenia, and Greece in Video Games" online conference.
Organizing Committee:
Nshan Kesecker - Yerevan
Khachik Gevorgyan - Yerevan
Jordy Orellana F. - University of Tübingen
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;6617c88.ex
(CFP closed September 1, 2021)
[ONLINE] A PROLETARIAN CLASSICS?
Online - University of St Andrews, Scotland: October 23-24, 2021
The Brave New Classics (http://www.bravenewclassics.info/) steering committee would like to invite expressions of interest and contributions (abstracts proposing 15 minute papers) on the relationship between ancient Greek and Roman culture and world communism from 1917. The workshop will be hosted by the University of St Andrews with short panels and discussion sessions held online over the weekend of 23-24 October 2021.
“The bourgeoisie have raised monuments to the classics. If they’d read them, they’d have burned them.” — Perhaps spuriously attributed to Friedrich Engels.
Associated institutions:
• Classical Reception Studies Network
• University of St Andrews
• University of Ljubljana
• Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw
Over the past decade thanks to the collaborative industry of colleagues based in Central and Eastern Europe much light has been shed on the relationship between the study of Greek and Roman classics and European communism. This activity has taken the form of several international conferences and resulted in the edited volumes ‘Classics and Communism‘ (2013) and ‘Classics and Class‘ (2016). More recently ancient theatre and European communism has been the subject of an international conference and a third collected edition ‘Classics and Communism in Theatre‘ (2019). Furthermore, ‘A People’s History of Classics‘ (2020) has shown glimpses of the creative influence of Soviet communism on several scholars, writers and artists, who worked with classical antiquity in Britain.
Whilst the discipline of Classics (esp. the study of ancient Greek and Latin) suffered under the Soviet and Soviet-inspired regimes, in other and sometimes surprising ways classics (as cultural activity surrounding the ideas, images, texts and other remains of ancient Greece and Rome) can be seen to have flourished both within and beyond the academy, e.g. classical translation and Marxist/Leninist ancient history and archaeology thrived in certain areas.
The confluence of technological advances and increased leisure time in the 20th century (not to mention the concentration of effort within the USSR on creating proletarian culture) also meant that cultural participation burgeoned, and this included engagements with ancient Greek and Roman antiquity. The classics (broadly defined) were therefore accessible for the first time to mass audiences and mass readerships, where before they were largely limited, by education and means of access, to wealthy elites, who had nurtured them in the imperial European tradition of the ancien regime. The classics did not however necessarily lose their former class-connotations, even if the franchise was dramatically expanded.
This workshop hopes to explore further the conflicted and complex relationship between classics and communism. How were the classical texts, images, objects and ideas received by the people under the influence of communism? How did Soviet ideology change the experience of ‘the classics’ both inside and beyond the Soviet Union and its satellites? We are interested therefore in “popular classics” (however doubtful we may be about this term’s aptness), including but not limited to historical fiction, translated and adapted (etc.) poetry and prose, drama, mass spectacle, film, animation, TV, radio, printed ephemera, children’s literature and popular reference works. We would be particularly interested to hear from colleagues with a view on classics and communism outside of Europe, e.g. in Africa, Asia, Australasia, South and Central America and the US, as well as those working on the reception of the classics in the Baltic and South-Western regions of the former USSR. More interrogative approaches to the subject would also be welcome, e.g. papers that examine the relationship between the classics and communist hegemonies and counterhegemonies.
Our objective is to bring together scholars from all career stages for discussion and ultimately to produce a special edition of the international journal Clotho. Papers will be precirculated and presented in summary at the online event.
Abstract deadline: 11th June, 2021.
Please direct all correspondence to Henry Stead (St Andrews): has22@st-andrews.ac.uk [https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/people/has22]
Program: http://www.bravenewclassics.info/index.php/2021/07/26/a-proletarian-classics-programme/ (or PDF: http://www.bravenewclassics.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/APC2021_Programme2.pdf
Call: http://www.bravenewclassics.info/index.php/2021/04/27/call-for-papers-a-proletarian-classics/
(CFP closed June 11, 2021)
[ONLINE] 2021 #ASKHISTORIANS DIGITAL CONFERENCE: "[DELETED] & MISSING HISTORY: RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST, CONFRONTING DISTORTIONS"
Online: October 19–21, 2021
Whether it’s swords and sandals, corsets and wigs, or statues still standing, the past and its possible meanings resonate with twenty-first century audiences. Historical television series, public history projects, and books of popular history might claim to depict the past “as it really was,” but nevertheless illuminate the ways in which we as a society continue to bring the past into dialogue with contemporary popular culture. In so doing, these narratives often reveal more about what we think about the past—and ourselves—than about the past itself. Today, shifting interpretations of the past reveal a growing interest in the inclusion of marginalized voices as well as in questions about the human condition, the relationship between race and national identity, and issues relating to theconstruction of sexuality, gender, and equality. Indeed, representations of the historical past have been used as lenses through which contemporary society has grappled with very modern examples of brutality, oppression, and the general uncertainty of life.
We therefore welcome proposals from individuals whose research explores representations of the past in any form. As the scope and influence of our topic is broad and far-reaching, we encourage proposals from a wide range of scholarly disciplines on the themes of gender, identity (both personal and national), propaganda, culture, society, accuracy, and authenticity (among others) as these pertain to the ways in which historical narratives have been constructed, represented, or misrepresented.
Applicants are asked to please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short biography of no more than 100 words to conference@askhistorians.com by 11:59 PM EDT on 1 June 2021.
For more information, including suggested topics and a guide for submissions, see the attached document: https://www.anzamems.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AHDC-2021-CfP-English-Accessibility.pdf
For those for whom this may be their first conference, please consider consulting the Submitter’s Guide attached to this call for papers.
Call https://www.askhistorians.com/2021-digital-conference
(CFP closed June 1, 2021)
(new dates) HOMER AS CULTURAL HORIZON
University of Nice, France: October 21-24, 2020 - new dates October 18-23, 2021
University Côte d’Azur and the Center for Hellenic Studies are pleased to announce the following Conference to be held at the University of Nice on 21-24 October 2020
Organized jointly by Nicolas Bertrand (Université Côte d’Azur), Gregory Nagy (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies), Giampiero Scafoglio (Université Côte d’Azur), Arnaud Zucker (Université Côte d’Azur).
The general purpose of the conference is to provide an up-to-date panorama of today’s Homeric research, through six thematic panels. We welcome diverse and even polemic proposals in order to achieve a dynamic and constrasted discussion on Homer’s legacy and actuality.
Confirmed speakers are : Rutger ALLAN (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL), Eugenio AMATO (Université de Nantes, FR), Nicolas BOUVIER (Université de Lausanne, CH), Jonathan BURGESS (University of Toronto, CA), Casey DUÉ HACKNEY (University of Houston, TX, USA), Richard HUNTER (Cambridge University, GB) Gregory NAGY (Harvard University / CHS, Washington DC,USA), Filippomaria PONTANI (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia, IT).
You are warmly invited to send a proposal. All proposals should consist of a one page abstract (about 250-300 words), for 30-minute papers to be delivered preferably in English or French, but papers in German and Italian are also accepted. Paper submissions should fit into one of the panels that must be clearly indicated by the author. The abstract should omit any reference identifying the author to ensure anonymity in the review process. The deadline for abstracts is February 1st. Participants will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals by March 1st 2020. Accommodation and meals will be provided for all speakers but the organization committee will not cover travel expenses.
Proposals, abstracts and other correspondence should be sent to: homer2020@univ-cotedazur.fr
Website: https://www.cepam.cnrs.fr/evenement/colloque-h2020-homer-as-cultural-horizon/
(CFP closed February 1, 2020)
(postponed) GLOBAL CLASSICS AND AFRICA: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Classical Association of Ghana: Second International Classics Conference in Ghana (ICCG)
University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana: October 8-11, 2020 - new dates October 7-10, 2021 - new dates TBA 2022
Note: Postponed from 2020 & 2021 due to COVID-19
Note: Due to circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have postponed ICCG 2020 to 7th-10th October 2021. The venue for the conference remains the same. Deadline for abstracts has passed and decisions have already been communicated. Speakers have been maintained for 2021, but we may issue a further call for abstracts later in the year.
The late 1950s and early 1960s ushered in a period when many African countries were gaining political independence. Immediately, there was an agenda to unite African nations, and a policy of Africanization began to gain ground. In the area of education, this Africanization process was vigorously pursued. In Ghana the Institute of African Studies was established, and an Encyclopaedia Africana project, originally conceived by W. E. B. DuBois, was revived. In Nigeria, new universities were established to counter the colonial-based education that was present at the University of Ibadan, and in some East African countries there were fears that foreign university teachers would not be able to further the Africanization of university education.
One of the fields of study singled out in this process of Africanization was Classics. Classics was believed to serve the interests of colonialism and neo-colonialism. Part of the agenda of this Africanization was to highlight African contributions to world civilization and to show that the ‘Western’ world could not lay claim to any superior heritage. As part of restitutive measures in the field, scholars have begun exploring the idea of ‘Global Classics’, showing how the Classics connects with the broad spectrum of humanity and society. While there is evidence to show that this kind of link has been explored since (or even before) the independence of African nations, it has begun to garner attention across the world. Yet, there are still places in Africa and other continents where Classics continues to be inward-looking and does not open itself to interdisciplinarity, collaborations, nor to other civilizations besides the Graeco-Roman world.
In the present context of globalization, and the decolonization and Africanization of education in Africa, how might we account for the role of Classics in Africa, and to what extent can the idea of ‘Global Classics’ be the way forward? We seek papers that explore these questions, from the earliest presence of Classical scholarship (broadly defined, and including archaeology, literature, material culture, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, etc.) in Africa, and project what the future holds for Classics in Africa. We also welcome papers that draw lessons from non-African contexts. Papers may explore any of the following, as well as related, themes:
* academic freedom and politics
* African studies and global history
* Africanists/African-Americanists and the Classics
* art, museums, and architecture
* citizenship, migration, and cosmopolitanism
* classical connections with cognate and non-Classics disciplines
* comparative cultural reflections
* decolonization, pedagogy, and curriculum development
* economy, trade, and diplomacy
* gender and sexuality
* geography, environment, and development
* globalization, capitalism, and education
* race, ethnicity, and identity
* science, technology, and society
* war, peace, and democracy
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words for 20-minute papers to iccg@ug.edu.gh by December 15, 2019 EXTENDED DEADLINE Jan 30, 2020.
Details of registration, travel, and accommodation will be communicated later. For enquiries, please email Gifty Katahena (kemgift@gmail.com) or Michael Okyere Asante (kwadwoasante1@gmail.com).
Organizing Committee:
Gifty Etornam Katahena, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Peter K. T. Grant, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Michael K. Okyere Asante, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Daniel Orrells, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
A report on our collaboration with Eos at our first conference can be read at this link: https://www.eosafricana.org/collaborations/ghana-international-classics-conference-2019.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-global-classics-and-africa
(CFP closed January 30, 2020)
SERBIAN SOCIETY FOR ANTIQUITY STUDIES 12TH ANNUAL MEETING
Belgrade, Serbia: October 8-10, 2021
We want to inform any interested scholar that the 12th annual meeting of the Serbian Society for Antiquity Studies takes place on October 8-10, 2021, in Belgrade. Furthermore, part of the meeting will be held in the Historical Archive of Srem in Sremska Mitrovica if the pandemic allows. The conference's central theme is ANTIQUITY AND THE MODERN WORLD: EPISTEMOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF OLD KNOWLEDGE BOTH IN ANCIENT AUTHORS AND IN LATER TRADITION, and the subtopic is "Questions of truth and freedom, law, justice and democracy in antiquity and later tradition".
To apply, please submit the topic's title with the summary to the Editorial Board by June 1, 2021.
For any further information, please write to the members of the Editorial Board:
Ksenija Maricki Gadjanski: gadjans@eunet.rs
Rastko Vasić: rvasic@beotel.net
Sima Avramović: sima@ius.bg.ac.rs
Snežana Ferjančić: sferjanc@f.bg.ac.rs
Mirko Obradović: mdobrado@f.bg.ac.rs
Nemanja Vujčić: nemanjavuj@gmail.com
Milan S. Dimitrijević: mdimitrijevic@aob.bg.ac.rs
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/1792265167620720
(CFP closed June 1, 20201)
READING, WRITING, TRANSLATING: GREEK IN EARLY MODERN SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES AND BEYOND
Lund University, Sweden: October 7–9, 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 scholars of distinction. Notable exceptions are work on Greek studies in the northernmost parts of Europe where important manuscripts were rare, Renaissance humanism arrived late, professors were immersed in teaching obligations. Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in questions of teaching and learning Greek, on teachers, students and schools (cf. the volume edited by F. Ciccolella & L. Silvano 2017), as well as teaching tools, methods, outputs and uses of Greek not only in Italy but also in central and northern Europe (cf. the recent volumes edited by S. Weise 2017; J. Päll & I. Volt 2018; N. Constantinidou & H. Lamers 2019; and the forthcoming volumes edited by F. Ciccolella & L. Silvano; T. Korhonen & M. Kajava). This is a vast field of study that scholars have only begun to explore.
This conference invites scholars to continue the investigation of the practicalities of teaching and learning Greek in the Early Modern period (c. 1500–1750). Specifically we invite papers dealing with the themes reading, writing, and translating (from/into) Greek in an Early Modern teaching and learning setting north of the Alps. Our aim is to further our understanding not only of the contexts and impact of Greek studies, but also of the reasons for and uses of engaging the many varieties of Greek in a local and broader milieu.
Those interested in contributing to this conference are asked to send a 300-word abstract for a 20-minute paper in English to: Johanna.Akujarvi@klass.lu.se and Kristiina.Savin@kultur.lu.se by May 28, 2021. Notification of acceptance will be sent out June 11, 2021.
The conference is organized by Johanna Akujärvi and Kristiina Savin, and hosted by the projects Helleno-Nordica and Classics Refashioned. The conference venue is Lund University, Sweden. Selected papers from the conference will be published (after peer-review) during 2022, edited by the conference organizers.
There is no conference fee, and for presenters at the conference we offer accommodation and meals. Depending on the success of our applications for funding, there may also be room for a limited number of travel stipendia for participants without travel allowances from their universities (these can be applied for after notification of acceptance).
Organised by: Johanna Akujärvi and Kristiina Savin within the framework of the projects Helleno-Nordica and Classics Refashioned (Swedish Research Council, 2016-01881 and 2016-01884) at Lund University.
Call: https://classicalreception.org/event/cfp-reading-writing-translating-greek-in-early-modern-schools-universities-and-beyond/
(CFP closed May 28, 2021)
(new dates) ADAPTATION IN THE HUMANITIES: REIMAGINING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
University of Western Australia, Perth WA: October 3-4, 2020 - new dates September 30-October 2, 2021
Note: Postponed/cancelled from 2020 due to COVID-19
In 2020 'Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies', the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group (PMRG), and Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Western Australia are joining forces to provide a forum for the presentation of the myriad of ‘adaptations’ worlds, individuals, languages, ideas, and peoples, real or otherwise, experience.
The conference will be held at The University of Western Australia on the 3–4 October 2020. It will be preceded by a masterclass and opening reception on 2 October.
Post-graduate students and Early Career Researchers are encouraged to apply, and a limited number of bursaries will be available for these presenters if they are travelling from interstate or overseas. Information will be made available on our website as planning evolves: https://conference.pmrg.org.au/.
The conference committee invites proposals for 20-minute papers or panels (of no more than three speakers) from the breadth of humanities research to explore the products of adaptations, and the processes that bring them into being.
Conference abstract submissions should consist of:
A title, An abstract (max. 200 words), A short biography (max. 50 words).
Panel proposals should consist of:
Panel Title, Proposed Chair (if available), Details of each presenter and paper as described above.
Submit proposed papers and panels to: adaptationconference2020@gmail.com by the 31 May 2020 (conference postponed). Any questions can also be directed to the conference email address. The committee aims to have abstract responses returned by 14 June 2020.
You may also be interested in the 15th International Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association 'Journeys: Discovery and Belonging', 30 September - 2 October 2020, also at The University of Western Australia. More info: https://www.aema.net.au/conference.html.
Call: https://conference.pmrg.org.au/
[ONLINE] THE CANCELLED CONFERENCE 2.0
Online - Brisbane, Queensland: September 29-30, 2021
Last year AWAWS (Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies) Brisbane hosted The Cancelled Conference, and asked postgraduate students to put their cancelled conference papers to good use. The conference was a great success and one of the most rewarding aspects of the conference was the feedback presenting postgraduate students received from senior academics who attended.
This year, in partnership with the AWAWS Academic Mentoring Program, AWAWS Brisbane is hosting The Cancelled Conference 2.0: a postgraduate conference designed to give students the opportunity to receive feedback on their work from established academics who are invested in supporting and fostering postgraduate scholarship.
There will be a number of AWAWS mentors in attendance and chairing the panels. This will ensure every presenter has the opportunity to receive critical and constructive feedback from leading academics in their field.
There will also be a plenary discussion panel about the AWAWS Academic Mentoring Program. This session will highlight the benefits of academic mentoring and showcase positive academic outcomes achieved through the program by past mentors and mentees.
Who is this conference for?
* Postgraduate students involved in the AWAWS mentoring program who would like to showcase their work to their mentors, their peers, and the broader community of ancient world studies
* Postgraduate students who are interested in joining the AWAWS mentoring program and would like to see what the mentoring program can do for them
* Postgraduates students seeking critical and constructive feedback from academics in their field
This conference is open to all AWAWS postgraduate members. It will be held online to give students an opportunity to meet and mingle with academics in their field of study from across Australia and New Zealand who might be otherwise inaccessible due to distance.
Date and Location
The Cancelled Conference 2.0 will be held between Wednesday 29 September – Thursday 30 September 2021.
The conference will be held virtually through Zoom. Once the program has been finalised information on how to register and attend each session will be circulated. Please save the date in the meantime.
Conditions
* 20 minute paper + 10 minute question time
* Paper submissions are open to all AWAWS postgraduate members. To become a member visit the AWAWS website (https://www.awaws.org/)
* There is no set theme for this conference, all topics are welcome
* Audience attendance is free and open to the public
We stress that the aim of the conference is to support and encourage postgraduate research, and we invite all postgraduates, academics, and industry professionals to attend and share this aim.
How to apply
To apply for the conference please send an abstract and the completed submission form [available at https://www.awaws.org/news] to AWAWS Brisbane (awawsbrisbane@gmail.com).
Submissions are due by Monday 26 July.
Contact Information
If you have any further questions about the conference, you can contact us via our email address or Facebook page.
Email: awawsbrisbane@gmail.com
Facebook: @awawsbrisbane
Conference Convenors:
Brianna Sands, MPhil candidate (UQ), Co-chair AWAWS Brisbane Chapter
Tyla Cascaes, PhD candidate (UQ), Co-chair AWAWS Brisbane Chapter
(CFP closed July 26, 2021)
[ONLINE] HISPANO-AMERICAN COLLOQUIUM ONANCIENT SCIENCES: POLITICAL USES OF THE PAST
Online - Bogotá (Colombia): September 20-24, 2021
It is with great pleasure that we announce hereby that the Faculties of Social Sciences and Humanities and Cultural Heritage studies, the Roman Law Department, Society and Culture research group and Transversal Program of Linguistics and Ecology of Languages from Universidad Externado de Colombia, has organized the Hispano-American Colloquium on Ancient Sciences: Political Uses of the Past, which will be held in Bogotá (Colombia) in a completely virtual modality, 20-24 September 2021.
The General Programme has been divided into 5 modules:
1. Political uses of the past in ancient times: Egypt
2. The political uses of Greco-Roman antiquity
3. The political uses of the past in Roman law
4. The political uses of ancestral languages
5. The political uses of the pre-Hispanic past
The detailed programme, register, as well as additional information, are all available at the website: https://www.uexternado.edu.co/micrositio/la-universidad/encuentro-hispanoamericano-de-ciencias-de-la-antiguedad/
[ONLINE] MAKING OF THE HUMANITIES IX
Online - Barcelona, Spain: September 21–23, 2020 - new dates September 20–22, 2021
Note: Postponed from 2020 due to COVID-19.
The Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) together with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) will host the 9th Making of the Humanities conference, from 21 till 23 September 2020.
The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.
We welcome panels and papers on any period or region. We are especially interested in work that transcends the history of specific humanities disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines and civilisations.
This year there is a special conference theme: Unfolding Disciplines in the History of the Humanities. We encourage submissions that explore this theme, but remain fully open to submissions addressing other subjects.
A growing body of scholarship suggests that the historiography of the humanities is increasingly organized around new interdisciplinary collaborations that affect the very understanding of what it means to belong to a Humanities discipline. This year we invite contributions that interlace different disciplinary approaches in order to frame humanistic scholarship in terms of a continued engagement with the limits and possibilities offered by the softening and even erasure of disciplinary boundaries. Participants are also encouraged to think expansively about the impact of the ongoing process of reinvention of established as well as new disciplinary fields as a result of increased cross-pollination and collaboration.
Please note that the Making of the Humanities conferences are not concerned with the history of art, the history of music or the history of literature, and so on, but instead with the history of art history, the history of musicology, the history of literary studies, etc.
Keynote Speakers MoH-IX:
* Cristina Dondi (Oxford University): “The history of the book and libraries: from bibliophilia to social and economic history”
* Maribel Fierro (CCHS-CSIC Madrid): “Iberian humanities and the historical experience of religious pluralism”
* Matthew Rampley (Masaryk University): “Naturalistic Theories in the Humanities: Past and Present”
Paper Submissions: Abstracts of single papers (30 minutes including discussion) should contain the name of the speaker, full contact address (including email address), the title and a summary of the paper of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting abstracts, see the submission page.
Deadline for abstracts: May 1, 2021 - extended deadline May 15, 2021
Notification of acceptance: July 2021
Panel Submissions: Panels last 1.5 to 2 hours and can consist of 3-4 papers and possibly a commentary on a coherent theme including discussion. Panel proposals should contain respectively the name of the chair, the names of the speakers and commentator, full contact addresses (including email addresses), the title of the panel, a short (150 words) description of the panel’s content and for each paper an abstract of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting panels, see the submission page.
Deadline for panel proposals: May 15, 2021
Notification of acceptance: June 2021
Conference fee:
The exact conference fee will be determined in spring 2020 and will be ca. €100 for regular participants and ca. €80 for PhD students. The fee includes access to all sessions, access to the welcoming reception, simple lunches, and tea and/or coffee during the breaks.
Local Organizing Committee: Daniele Cozzoli (UPF), Linda Gale Jones (UPF), Tomas Macsotay (UPF) and Neus Rotger (UOC)
Program Committee: International Board of the Society
Call: http://www.historyofhumanities.org/2019/12/13/call-for-papers-and-panels-the-making-of-the-humanities-ix/
Update - MOH to be online - http://www.historyofhumanities.org/2020/12/08/call-for-papers-and-panels-the-making-of-the-humanities-ix-barcelona/
(CFP closed May 15, 2021)
[HYBRID/ONLINE] THE TALES OF ARCHAEOLOGY. TOWARDS A LITERARY 'MEMORY MAP' OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SPACE
[Online option TBA] Academia Belgica, Rome / Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: September 16-17, 2021
The 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, near Rome, in the spring of 1957, the protagonist of “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” by Jewish writer Giorgio Bassani (Shoah survivor, 1916-2000) is suddenly and violently inspired to tell the story of his friends, the Finzi-Contini family, who were deported and assassinated at Auschwitz. The painful memory of the Shoah, and the impulse to tell about it, are inspired by the space of the necropolis as a place dedicated to loss, mourning, and silenced communities. Arguably, the fact that this is an Etruscan necropolis adds further shades of meaning to the archaeological site: it is in fact a place which remembers the extinction of a minority, apparently “wiped away” by the stronger (colonial) power of Rome. The fact that modern archaeology has rejected this violent version of the end of the Etruscans does not seem to impact on the symbolic and mythological value of the necropolis.
This powerful page by Bassani raises questions about the connection between the faculty of memory, archaeology, material culture, and the sphere of (literary) representation. How do archaeological sites function on the literary page and how do their meanings change over time? How is the “evocative” and “suggestive” nature of an archaeological site used in literary contexts (i. e. Gabriele d’Annunzio portrayal of Mykenes in La città morta, inspired by Nietzsche and Schliemann)? Is literature capable of highlighting the problematic and ever-changing meanings of archaeological spaces, and/or to change them (i. e. D. H. Lawrence uncovering the hidden meanings of Tarquinia in Etruscan places)? How does the historical, material information available on significant spaces interact with the symbolic nature attributed to them by fiction? How does this change over time, in connection with meaningful discoveries about ancient times, and with political and social change? Whose perspectives are evoked by fiction on places of ruins, destruction, colonization (i. e. in the problematic case of the “archaeological dream” of pro-imperialist writings by Louis Bertrand)? How can literary representations contribute to building a “memory map” at national, regional, and local level?
These questions have been addressed in the past by scholars dealing with the representation of ruins in modern literature, such as Francesco Orlando (Obsolete objects in Literary Imagination, 1993). This project, however, aims to reverse the traditional approach on archaeology as represented in literature, by focusing on how literature changes (or tries to change) the meaning or adds to the meaning of archeological spaces. Sometimes, authors take up the responsibility of reclaiming, changing or challenging the space of an archeological site through the medium of literature, and which arise from contested spaces, post-colonial contexts, and sites and times of political turmoil.
The “The Tales of Archaeology. Towards a Literary ‘Memory Map’ of the Mediterranean Space” conference will bring together scholars interested in the representations of archaeological spaces (sites, museums) in literature, from the fields of Modern Languages, World Literature, Comparative Literature, Memory Studies, Heritage Studies, Archaeology, Spatial Humanities, Geography, Cultural Studies, History. In line with other experiments about literature, memory, and archaeology (such as Basch’s La metamorphose des ruines. L’influence Des Découvertes Archéologiques Sur Les Arts Et Lettres 1870-1914, 2001, and Bachvarova, Dutsch, and Suter’s The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean Commemoration in Literature, Folk-Song, and Liturgy, 2016), the conference will keep a pan-Mediterranean perspective (Southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East), welcoming contributions across the disciplines and from any geographical context within the proposed area. It will focus on case studies from the late-XIX to the XXI centuries. This project focuses on the stories of ancient and modern, migrations, material and cultural exchanges in the sites of memory on the shores across the Mediterranean and on the ways these are preserved by modern literature. Our goal is to dig into the interconnectedness which characterised the Mediterranean space since the dawn of civilization, and which is currently menaced by national and continental policies aiming to constrain migratory movements.
Addressed questions might relate, but are not limited to:
* Remains: Archaeological spaces in literature: ruins, discoveries, and the “ubi sunt” motive; detective stories, archaeological science fiction, horror stories; travel writing: explorers, tourists, raiders. Archaeological metaphors in literature: the language of strata, ruins, excavation, uncovering, debris, rot, and the contemplation of alternative senses of history. The destruction (and the preservation) of archaeological sites in times of war in their fictional, documentary, and memorial accounts. The conflict between ancient and modern nations/power centres, the local and the national as told by literature.
* Mobility: The memory of ancient fluxes of people and their modern re-appropriations: Etruscans, Romans, Phoenicians… The memory of modern explorers: re-narrating and appropriating the archaeological campaigns and discoveries in the Mediterranean from the Napoleonic era to date. Re-enactments of and challenges to the myth of Aeneas as the “foreigner” and the “colonizer”, or similar examples of mythical figures of primitive colonizers, warriors, heroes, enemies.
* Persistence: Places and figures of the past as signifiers for new issues, vulnerability, damage, exclusion, refusal, identity negotiation, nostalgia, loss. Archaeology, conflict, and literary/visual representation: colonialism, identity, struggle and their fictional, documentary, or memorial accounts; archaeological spaces as sites of contested memory: cultural and memorial appropriations. Nostalgia for the past: nationalistic, colonial and anticolonial narratives. Interconnected memories: imagining the remote past and unveiling personal memories or unresolved trauma.
Contributions focused around spaces, sites, places, routes, roads, shores, maps, ancient and modern cities are particularly welcome as the organizers hope to strongly focus on the geographical aspect of the research questions arisen and to collectively build a “map” of memorial sites around the Mediterranean as far-reaching as possible. A selection of contributions will be published in an edited volume.
The Academia Belgica is committed to holding the conference in person if possible; if not, the conference be turned into an online event. We ask potential speakers to let us know in their abstract proposal if they are interested in the project but feel that it will be impossible to travel to Rome. We will do our best to accommodate all needs.
Please send 300-word abstract and a 100-word bio to Martina Piperno [https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00131723] and/or Chiara Zampieri [https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00127361] by Friday 7 May 2021. Working languages: English, French, Italian.
Invited Speakers:
Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol)
Christina Riggs (Durham)
Marie-Laurence Haack (Picardie)
Organisers:
Martina Piperno (KU Leuven)
Bart Van Den Bossche (KU Leuven)
Chiara Zampieri (KU Leuven)
Teodoro Katinis (Gent)
Scientific Committee"
Marcello Barbanera (Sapienza)
Sascha Bru (Ku Leuven)
Leanne Darnbrough (KU Leuven)
Franco D’Intino (Sapienza)
Gianmarco Mancosu (Cagliari)
David Martens (KU Leuven)
Call: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/the-tales-of-archaeology/call-for-papers
(CFP closed May 7, 2021)
(new dates) ANTIQUITIES, THE ART MARKET AND COLLECTING IN BRITAIN AND ITALY IN THE 18TH CENTURY
Birkbeck, University of London: September 17-18, 2020 September 16-17, 2021
Note: unable to verify status of this meeting
Note: Postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the formation and display of country house collections of art and antiquities in Britain, and particularly those created as a result of a Grand Tour to Italy in the eighteenth century. From The English Prize at the Ashmolean Museum in 2012 and the collaboration between Houghton Hall and The Hermitage State Museum, Houghton Revisited, in 2013, to The Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill: Masterpieces from Horace Walpole's Collection in 2018, curators and academics have sought to investigate the antiquities, paintings and collectibles that were brought to Britain in such large quantities.
However, the organisation of the art market at that time has received less attention, and far less than it deserves given its fundamental role in the processes by which objects arrived in collections at that time. New contexts for collecting have also emerged, such as the history of consumption and the economic background to the acquisition of so-called 'luxury' goods and prestige objects. The art market of the eighteenth century continues to play a vital role in collecting today; with so many of the objects acquired during a Grand Tour since dispersed in house sales and auctions, or bequeathed or sold to museums. The antiquities and paintings that once adorned the galleries of the cultured in Britain are also still to be found for sale, indicating the longevity of their appeal and value for collectors.
This conference seeks to explore the processes by which these collections were formed, interrogating the relationship between the Italian and British art markets of the eighteenth century, the role of the dealers in Italy and the auction houses in Britain, through which many of the objects were later to pass, encompassing in depth discussion of the objects themselves.
We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words for 30 minute papers to be submitted to the organising committee by 15th April 2020 - TBA (antiquitiesartmarketconference@gmail.com) as well as a short CV. We welcome proposals from scholars working in museums, collections and archives, as well as from academics from across disciplines such as History, Art History, Museum Studies and Classics. PhD students and ECRs are particularly encouraged to submit abstracts.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Dealers in antiquities between Rome and Britain
- Auctions and auction houses in Britain
- Object biographies of antiquities, old master paintings, modern paintings, rare books, prints and neo-classical sculpture circulating in the 18th-century art market
- Customers and collectors in the 18th century
- Networks and communities of dealers and collectors
- The economic history of the art market
- The afterlife of collections from the 18th century to today
Organising committee: Dr Caroline Barron, Professor Catharine Edwards, Professor Kate Retford
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/1445453422301898
[ONLINE] TRAVEL AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN OTTOMAN GREECE IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION C.1800-1833
Online - British School at Athens: September 16–17, 2021 [note: previously postponed from May 2021]
International Conference hosted online by the British School at Athens. Funded by The British Academy.
Organised by Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, University of St Andrews
Programme:
NB All times are UTC +1
DAY 1 Thursday 16 September 2021
13:00-13:15 Welcome
Professor John Bennet, British School at Athens, and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, University of St Andrews
13:15-14:15 PANEL 1: TRAVEL AS A KALEIDOSCOPE OF PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Dr Estelle Strazdins, University of Queensland
Presentation 1
Traveling in Europe, exploring Greek identity: Orientalism and “Westernism” in Constantine Karatzas’ diaries
Dr Charalampos Minaoglou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Presentation 2
Simone Pomardi and the rediscovery of the modern Greek landscape
Dr Federica Broilo, Universitá Degli Studi Urbino “Carlo Bo”
Presentation 3
Mineralogy, ethnography, antiquarianism: Images of collecting in the travel writing of Edward Daniel Clarke
Professor Jason König, University of St Andrews
Presentation 4
Local Greek travel-writing, antiquities, and the diverse social landscape in the post-revolutionary Ottoman Empire
Dr Ayşe Ozil, Sabanci University
14:15-14:30 Break 15 mins
14:30-15:30 PANEL 2: OTTOMAN SPACES AND IDENTITIES
Chair: Professor Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University and Collège de France
Presentation 5
Inside the villager’s house: Views of European and Greek authors on the vernacular architecture of late-Ottoman Greece (ca. 1800-1830)
Nikos Magouliotis, ETH Zurich, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (PhD Candidate)
Presentation 6
From text to space: Mapping Sir William Gell and Edward Dodwell as data layers on an Ottoman landscape
Zafeirios Avgeris, Uppsala University (MA candidate)
Presentation 7
Orientalism in Ottoman Greece
Dr Emily Neumeier, Temple University, Philadelphia
Presentation 8
Louis Dupré in Ottoman Greece: Multiple identities, contradictory encounters
Professor Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida
15:30-17:30 Break 2 hours
17:30-18:30 BSA Public Lecture
From Ottoman Smyrna to Georgian London: Travel, excavation and collecting of Levant Company merchant Thomas Burgon (1787-1858)
Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, University of St Andrews
DAY 2 Friday 17 September 2021
13:00-14:00 PANEL 3: INDIVIDUALS COLLECTING ANTIQUITIES
Chair: Dr Ayşe Ozil, Sabanci University
Presentation 9
Imagining Ethiopians in the age of revolution: Arrowheads from the Marathon sôros and the statue of Rhamnoussian Nemesis
Dr Estelle Strazdins, University of Queensland
Presentation 10
‘Je vois qu’à Paris on a une bien fausse idée des Grecs…’: Fauvel’s perception of the Greeks and of the Greek revolution
Dr Alessia Zambon, Université Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Paris
Presentation 11
In search of antiquities: The travels of Alexandre and Léon de Laborde during the Greek war of independence of 1821
Dr Irini Apostolou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Presentation 12
Ancient inscriptions and British travellers to Ottoman Greece 1800-1821
Dr Michael Metcalfe, The Syracuse Academy
14:00-14:15 Break 15 mins
14:15-14:45 PANEL 4: ANTIQUITIES AND OFFICIAL DISCOURSES
Chair: Professor Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida
Presentation 13
‘Viewing and contemplating’ (Seyr ü Temaşa): Foreign travelers and antiquarians and the Sublime Porte, ca 1800-1830
Professor Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University and Collège de France
Presentation 14
Andreas Moustoxydes (1785-1860) and Kyriakos Pittakis (1798-1863) and the rescue of Greek antiquities
Dr Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia, King’s College London
14:45-15:15 Break 30 mins
15:15-15:45 PANEL 5: FORMS OF PHILHELLENISM
Chair: Professor Jason König, University of St Andrews
Presentation 15
Samuel Gridley Howe’s travels: Classical, romantic and philanthropic philhellenism (1800-1830)
Mélissa Bernier, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (PhD candidate)
Presentation 16
Greece in the age of revolution: An intimate poetics of landscape, travel and liberty
Dr Fernando Valverde, University of Virginia
15:45-16:00 Break 15 mins
16:00-17:00 ‘Conclusions and future directions’
• 16:00-16:20 Break out rooms
• 16:20-17:00 Round Table Discussion
Registration details: The conference is free and open to all who are interested, but registration is essential. Speakers’ full papers will be pre-circulated to registered participants at the end of August. To register for the conference please email Dr Jenny Messenger at jenny@atomictypo.co.uk by 20 August.
For Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis’ lecture registration is separate: a link to register will be available in the Events section of the BSA website (www.bsa.ac.uk) approximately one month in advance: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/dr-alexia-petsalis-diomidis-from-ottoman-smyrna-to-georgian-london-travel-excavation-and-collecting-of-levant-company-merchant-thomas-burgon-1787-1858/
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;ec252157.ex
[ONLINE/HYBRID] FROM AGON TO AGONISTICS
Online - London, UK: September 10-11, 2021
Our conference "From Agon to Agonistics" will take place between 10-11 September 2021, London UK (virtual or face-to-face). It is a conference where we would like to explore these human encounters through a creative dialogue between classical Greek culture and modern depth psychologies.
Please find the detailed description of our conference here: https://fromagontoagonistics.wordpress.com.
You can submit proposals by the end of May 2021 – 100-300 word abstract plus bio to lgardn@essex.ac.uk or gardner.leslie@gmail.com.
Organizers:
- Leslie Gardner (University of Essex)
- Richard Seaford (University of Exeter)
- Paul Bishop (University of Glasgow)
- Maria Chriti (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- Kurt Lampe (Bristol University)
Call: https://fromagontoagonistics.wordpress.com
(CFP closed May 31, 2021)
[ONLINE/HYBRID] THE HEALING CLASSICS: MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND THE GRAECO-ROMAN TRADITION
Online/hybrid - London, UK: 9-10 September, 2021
“A properly critical medical humanities is also a historically grounded medical humanities.” [C. Saunders, “Voices and Visions: Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval Writing”, in J. Richards, S. Atkinson, J. Macnaughton, A. Woods & A. Whitehead (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, Edinburgh, 2016: 411-427, at 411.]
What potential relevance does the experience of Graeco-Roman antiquity have to the emerging field of the critical medical humanities and their mission to ‘humanise’ today’s medical and healthcare practice, education and research? This two-day conference aims to bring together specialists from around the world (including medical professionals, art therapists, classicists, philosophers, historians and other HSS scholars) to engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue about healthcare and the conceptualization of well-being and illness, with a specific emphasis on what role Graeco-Roman antiquity can play for healthcare providers and users today (professionals, nurses, patients, carers).
By turning to, and drawing inspiration from, ancient Greek and Roman sources (medical or otherwise), the conference is intended to yield fresh insights into issues such as the ideology of health, narratives of illness, the confrontation with mortality, the importance of professional ethics, and so on. What does it mean to be a (healthy) human being? What is the value of ‘making sense’ of trauma and loss? What are the role, value and requirements of human qualities in the context of healthcare? What useful strategies do ancient sources propose for living ‘well’ with chronic pain, disability, illness? Central to our endeavour will be to explore (but also debate) the continuing creativity and vitality inherent in the classical tradition, hence our specific interest in the use of classical themes and motifs in/for creative and expressive arts therapy (dance/movement therapy, music therapy, drama therapy, poetry therapy, etc.).
Besides looking for fresh, hitherto unexplored perspectives on these and related issues, we aim to take stock of past (and present) achievements situated at the junction of both fields. Apart from accepting individual papers bearing on these topics we will stimulate the use of other creative formats (e.g., performance, initiation, demonstration, recitation). We hope to create an open-minded, yet critical, platform and the space to allow experimental and risk-taking dialogue between classics-oriented scholars and stakeholders in the domain of medicine/health. Given this aim to put past and present into conversation, to discover continuities and contrasts with contemporary perspectives, we warmly welcome proposals for paired presentations and interdisciplinary panels. Selected papers will be edited in a thematic volume, which will be submitted for publication in Peter Lang’s new series Medical Humanities: Criticism and Creativity.
Confirmed speakers:
- Ellen Adams
- Véronique Boudon-Millot
- Susan Deacy
- Tania Gergel
- Edith Hall
- Brook Holmes
- Daniel King
- Christian Laes
- Robert Marshall
- Mary Margaret McCabe
- Peter Meineck
- Georgia Petridou
- Corinne Saunders
- Chiara Thumiger
If you are interested to participate, please submit your abstract (300 words) and short CV (5-10 lines) as one file to healingclassics2021@gmail.com by 1 April 2021. We are making arrangements for a hybrid event, taking place partly online and partly offline (venue TBD). In your file please mention whether you would consider travelling to London or would prefer to participate online. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;ef711c5f.ex
(CFP closed April 1, 2021)
[ONLINE] CLASSICAL REFORMATIONS: BEYOND CHRISTIAN HUMANISM
Online (The Warburg Institute, UK): September 2-3, 2021
Christian humanism has dominated the story of classical reception in
Reformation Europe, as the first Erasmian generation of reformers retooled
classical texts to Christian ends. Yet the utility of the classical tradition to later
generations of reformers has been largely overlooked by modern scholarship.
We propose that as the Reformation evolved, the influence of classical learning
was as likely to flow in the other direction: that the literature and ideas of the
ancient world had a formative influence on Christian politics and theology.
Major Reformation figures—from Melanchthon, Sturm, Ascham, and Beza, to
many of their Catholic opponents, such as Pole and Bellarmine—were scholars
by day, as comfortable with Catullus as Corinthians. Their classical learning
actively empowered and shaped the formulation of Christian faith during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This conference explores how the literature and ideas of the classical world
calibrated early modern Christianity—its interpretation, ordinances, moral
instruction, politics, theology, cultural expression, and polarizing impulses of
confessionalisation. How did classical learning fill the gaps in the Lutheran
rejection of Catholic doctrine? How did classical poetry and drama shape the
Roman Church’s popular outreach after the Council of Trent? How did classical
history and rhetoric inflect the turbulent politics of the Reformation? Looking
beyond the Christian absorption of pagan material and Erasmian humanism
redux, this conference focuses instead on a classical Christianity, even a GrecoRoman monotheism, in the generations after Erasmus. Where recent
scholarship has replaced confessionalism at the heart of early modern
philology, we aim to replace classicism at the heart of theology and religious
politics. The classical tradition was too ubiquitous and authoritative a presence
in early modern intellectual life to have left theology untouched.
We welcome any proposals that engage with these themes. Proposals may
relate to any aspects of this phenomenon across Europe, and case-studies may
feature the vernacular or the languages of Latin, Greek, or Hebrew. We warmly
welcome papers on scholarly as well as popular literature, Protestant as well as
Catholic communities, and those that engage with the religious politics of the
Reformation more generally. Abstracts of no more than 250 words, and any
queries, should be sent to classicalreformations21@gmail.com by 16 April
2021. We hope to publish a volume of essays following the conference.
Convenors: Dr Micha Lazarus (The Warburg Institute) and Dr Lucy Nicholas
(The Warburg Institute)
Edit 26/6/2021 - Program:
DAY 1 — THURSDAY 2 SEPTEMBER
13:45 GMT INTRODUCTION — Micha Lazarus and Lucy Nicholas (Warburg Institute)
14:00-15:00 KEYNOTE Chair: Micha Lazarus
Ralph Keen (U. Illinois at Chicago), ‘Melanchthon and the Shaping of a Classical Canon’
15:10-16:30 PROTESTANTS AND PAGANS Chair: Marco Barducci (Durham)
Alexander Batson (Yale), ‘Philip Melanchthon’s Civic Humanism: Teaching Greek in a Time of
Confessional Conflict’
Clara Marías (U. Complutense de Madrid), ‘Images of Classical History by the exiled
translator Francisco de Enzinas/Dryander’
Odile Liliana Panetta (Cambridge), ‘Classical sources in the heresy debate in mid-sixteenthcentury Switzerland’
17:00-18:20 REFORMATION SELF-FASHIONING Chair: Thomas Vozar (Exeter)
Sharon van Dijk (Birmingham), ‘A community of letter writers: The role of classical and early
Christian letters in the correspondence of Zwingli and Oecolampadius’
John Nassichuk (Western Ontario), ‘Poetic Parentalia in Wittenburg: Johannes Major’s
annual verse homage to Melancthon’
Petra Matović (Zagreb) and Ana Mihaljević (Old Church Slavonic Institute), ‘The Uses of
Classical Learning in the Opus of Matthias Flacius Illyricus’
18:30-19:50 THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF GREEK Chair: Niels Nykrog (Copenhagen)
Cressida Ryan (Oxford), ‘Greek tragedy and the language of the Reformation’
Angelica Vedelago (Verona), ‘Jephthah in Euripidean Buskins: How Two Humanists from the
British Isles Used Greek Tragedy to Dramatize the Bible’
Fraser McIlwraith (UCL), ‘Reading Charikleia’s Confession: Martin Crusius and Heliodorus’s
Aethiopika in Reformation Literary Theory’
DAY 2 — FRIDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
14:00-15:20 IMPORT, EXPORT, AND RATIONALISATION Chair: Steff Nellis (Ghent)
Russ Leo (Princeton), ‘Reformation, Epicureanism, and the Lure of the “Rational Religion”’
Richard Calis (Cambridge), ‘The Many Greek Worlds of Sixteenth-Century Lutheran
Tübingen’
Stuart McManus (Chinese U. Hong Kong), ‘Classical Christianity in Jesuit sermons from India
and China’
15:30-16:50 IDOL IMAGININGS Chair: Nicolás Lázaro (Rosario)
Margherita Mantovani (CNRS), ‘On Memory, Imagination, and Petichat ha-Lev: Aristotle and
the Interpretation of the Sacraments according to Paolo Ricci’
Kirk Summers (Alabama), ‘Aristotle’s Imagination, Beza’s Images’
Barret Reiter (Cambridge), ‘Imagination and classical rhetoric in English Reformed sermons’
17:20-18:40 SANCTIFYING GREEK Chair: Javiera Lorenzini (KCL)
Flynn Cratty (Harvard), ‘The Christian Humanists and their Prayers to Jupiter’
William Weaver (Baylor), ‘Swearing Oaths in the Classics and the Reformations’
Tomos Evans (Birmingham), ‘Justifying the Ways of God to Men through Homer: James
Duport’s Threnothriambos (1637), Cento Poetics, and Homeric Reformations’
18:45-19:30 CLOSING DISCUSSION Chair: Lucy Nicholas
Summary remarks: Christopher Lu (Warburg Institute)
For any queries, please contact the convenors: Dr Micha Lazarus and Dr Lucy Nicholas
Website with registration details: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24442
Call: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/12/09/classical-reformations-beyond-christian-humanism
(CFP closed April 16, 2021)
[ONLINE/HYBRID] POPULAR RECEPTIONS OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity Conference 2021
Online/hybrid - Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark: September 2-3, 2021
With keynotes from Edith Hall, Lorna Hardwick, Trine Hass, and Toph Marshall.
Program/registration: https://aias.au.dk/events/aiasconference-popularreceptions/
SAPIENS UBIQUE CIVIS VIII - SZEGED 2021
PhD Student and Young Scholar Conference on Classics and the Reception of Antiquity
Szeged, Hungary: September 1–3, 2021
Edit 11/7/2021: this conference is now 'off-line', in person only.
The Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary is pleased to announce its International Conference Sapiens Ubique Civis VIII – Szeged 2021, for PhD Students, Young Scholars, as well as M.A. students aspiring to apply to a PhD program.
The aim of the conference is to bring together an international group of young scholars working in various places, languages, and fields. Papers on a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to the literature, history, philology, philosophy, linguistics and archaeology of Greece and Rome, Byzantinology, Neo-Latin studies, and reception of the classics, as well as papers dealing with theatre studies, comparative literature, contemporary literature, and fine arts related to the Antiquity are welcome. We are also happy to accept submissions concerning didactic methods in teaching Latin and other classical subjects.
Lectures: The language of the conference is English. Thematic sessions and plenary lectures will be scheduled. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes, followed by discussion.
Due to obvious reasons, we cannot tell now if the conference will be held as a traditional “offline” conference, or it will have to be held as an online one. We are prepared for both options, constantly monitoring the pandemic situation, and aim to hold an “offline” conference, but only if the health concerns and travelling restrictions let us to do so.
We will inform all of the applicants regarding the decision on the conference’s method in the middle of June at the latest – before the application deadline –, and you can modify or cancel your application according to the decision.
Abstracts: Abstracts of maximum 300 words should be sent by email as a Word attachment to sapiensuc@gmail.com strictly before June 30, 2021. The abstracts should be proofread by a native speaker. The document should also contain personal information of the author, including name, affiliation and contact email address, and the title of the presentation. Please also inform us in your application whether you intend to participate in either case (traditional “offline” conference / online conference), or only in one or the other case.
Acceptance notification will be sent to you until July 7, 2021.
Registration: The registration fee for the conference is €60. The participation fee includes conference pack, reception meal, closing event, extra programs, and refreshments during coffee breaks. The participation fee does not include accommodation, but the conference coordinators will assist the conference participants in finding accommodation in the city centre.
If the conference will take place as an online one, the registration fee will be reduced to €20.
Publication: All papers will be considered for publication in the peer-reviewed journal on Classics entitled Sapiens ubique civis, published in cooperation with the ELTE Eötvös József Collegium.
Getting here: Szeged, the largest city of Southern Hungary, can be easily reached by rail from Budapest and the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. Those who prefer travelling by car can choose the European route E75, and then should take the Hungarian M5 motorway, a section of E75, passing by the city.
For general inquiries about the conference, please contact Dr Gergő Gellérfi: gellerfigergo@gmail.com.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;5c98be76.ex
(CFP closed June 30, 2021)
[HYBRID] INTERNATIONAL OVIDIAN SOCIETY IN EUROPE
Theme: New Trends in Ovid's Reading and Reception
Hybrid/online - Fondation Hardt, Switzerland: August 30-September 1, 2021
The 2nd meeting of the International Ovidian Society in Europe, organized by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith, will take place, using an hybrid format, at the Fondation Hardt.
Program:
Monday 30 August
17 h - Introduction by Pierre Ducrey, Directeur de la Fondation Hardt, Andrew Feldherr and Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
17 h 30 - 18 h 30 - Philip Hardie - The Ovidian Sublime. Antiquity and After
Tuesday 31 August
14 h - 15 h - Chair: Damien Nelis
Andrew Feldherr - The Gate of Horns: Politics and Reception in Ovid's Cipus Episode (Met. 15.565-621)
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris - L'extension du domaine de l'amour (Mét. 1.452-73 et 5.346-84): deux moments clefs dans l’epos ‘empédocléen’ d’Ovide ?
15 h 25 - 16 h 55 - Chair: Barbara Weiden Boyd
Andreas Michalopoulos – Male Voices in the Heroides
Thea Sellias Thorsen – The ontology of Ovid’s femina
Alison Keith - Women’s Voices in Ovid’s Pyramus & Thisbe and Salmacis & Hermaphroditus
17 h 25 – 18 h 25 - Chair: Hunter Gardner
Alessandro Schiesaro - Freeze! Of stones, humans, and metamorphoses
Alison Sharrock - Human, inhuman and post-human
Wednesday 1 September
14 h - 15 h - Chair: Carole Newlands
Ulrich Schmitzer - Ficta refers - Ovids subversive Erzählung von Philemon und Baucis
Frank Coulson - Phaethon's Wild Ride: Medieval Commentary on Met. II.1-400
15 h 25 - 16 h 55 - Chair: Alison Keith
John Miller - Connecting the Disconnected: the Kalends of May in Ovid’s Fasti
Barbara Weiden Boyd - Ovidian Linearities
Florence Klein - Retour sur le problème du carmen perpetuum
17 h 25 - 18 h 25 - Chair: Philip Hardie
Hunter Gardner - Anatomies of Failed Revolution in Ovid's Aeginetan Plague and Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Carole Newlands - Ali Smith and Robin Robertson: Scottish Ovidianism in the Twenty-first century
Conference attendance is open for everyone interested. Here is the link zoom for the three days: https://zoom.us/j/93320054508?pwd=REw0U3docXlxekIxUERtRi8vSXJoZz09. ID de réunion: 933 2005 4508; Code secret: 718479
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;af6d130f.ex
[ONLINE] FROM JOSEPHUS TO JOSIPPON AND BEYOND
Online [CEST] - August 23-26, 2021
Information: https://www.fromjosephustojosippon.com/
18TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR NEO-LATIN STUDIES (IANLS)
Leuven, Belgium: August 1-6, 2021
The International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) invites proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2021 IANLS Conference in Leuven (1-6 August 2021).
Half a century after the first IANLS conference was organised at KU Leuven (Belgium), the Eighteenth Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies will be hosted by the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae in Leuven again, celebrating fifty years of Neo-Latin Studies.
Proposals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Latin on any aspect of Neo-Latin are welcome. We especially welcome proposals on the history of Neo-Latin Studies in all their richness and diversity, and on new trends and promising methodologies opening new perspectives in the field.
The deadline for all proposals is 15 May 2020. Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted to the Second Vice-President and Chair of the Organizing Committee, Prof. Dr. Dirk Sacré, and sent as WORD e-mail attachments (ianls2021@kuleuven.be). Abstracts received after the deadline will not be accepted.
Abstract Deadline: 15 May 2020. Extended deadline 15 June 2020.
The call for papers and all other information can be found on www.ianls2021.com
(CFP closed June 15, 2020)
MYTHOS III. I MITI E L'EPICA DELL'ANTICHITÀ CLASSICAL E DEL MONDO MEDIEVALE NELLA FANTASCIENZA E NEL FANTASY / THE MYTHS AND THE EPICS OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND MEDIEVAL WORLD IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
Sforza Cesarini Palace, Genzano di Roma, Italy: July 30-31, 2021
The initiative will be held outdoors and in compliance with safety regulations. Admission is free and free, but it is still necessary to register as an "auditor" by July 27, by writing to the following e-mail address and at the same time reporting your essential data: igorbaglioni79@gmail.com. Essential data means name, surname, telephone, e-mail address, day of possible presence. Registration, required to comply with safety regulations, will give you the opportunity to receive via email in pdf the handouts relating to the scheduled interventions.
Those of you who need to stay in Genzano di Roma during the days of the conference, can take advantage of the affiliated facilities at a reduced price by writing to the president of the Calliope Association, Dr. Maria Paola De Marchis: mariapaolademarchis@gmail.com.
Poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QuvsHslnt8rrsDhb9Xu9ECkyC2yx0DGn/view?usp=sharing
Program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ObJb5UiYJ4OpoaSq5gQTLGjsNsQrAIZz/view?usp=sharing
THE MARY RENAULT PRIZE
Applications close: July annually.
The deadline for the 2021 Mary Renault Prize competition is: July 30, 2021.
The Mary Renault Prize is a Classical Reception essay prize for school or college sixth form pupils, awarded by the Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College, and funded by the royalties from Mary Renault’s novels.
The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College offer two or more Prizes, worth up to £300 each, for essays on classical reception or influence submitted by pupils who, at the closing date, have been in the Sixth Form of any school or college for a period of not more than two years. The prizes are in memory of the author Mary Renault, who is best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece, recently reissued by Virago. Renault read English at St Hugh’s in the 1920s and subsequently taught herself ancient Greek. Her novels have inspired many thousands of readers to pursue the study of Classics at University level and beyond. At least one prize will be awarded a pupil who is not studying either Latin or Greek to A-level standard. The winning essay will be published on the College’s website. Teachers wishing to encourage their students to enter the competition can download, display and circulate the competition poster in the ‘related documents’ section.
Essays can be from any discipline and should be on a topic relating to the reception of classical antiquity – including Greek and Roman literature, history, political thought, philosophy, and material remains – in any period to the present; essays on reception within classical antiquity (for instance, receptions of literary or artistic works or of mythical or historical figures) are permitted. Your submission must be accompanied by a completed information cover sheet. Essays should be between two-thousand and four-thousand words and submitted by the candidate as a Microsoft Word document through the form below.
Website: https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/prospectivestudents/outreach/mary-renault-prize/
[ONLINE] MODERN ECONOMICS AND THE ANCIENT WORLD: WERE THE ANCIENTS RATIONAL ACTORS?
Online (Zoom): July 29-31, 2021
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Sven Günther, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China (email: svenguenther@nenu.edu.cn / sveneca@aol.com) & Dr. Roland Oetjen, University of Rostock, Germany (email: roland.oetjen@googlemail.com).
Were the ancients rational actors? Is the rational-actor model a suitable tool to analyze their behavior?
We want to answer the question in different ways. One way would be to ask the ancient texts directly. Another could be to use the rational-actor model to analyze the behavior of the ancients (in the economy, politics, or any other area of social life) and see whether the results are plausible.
In our conference, we explore the chances and limits of these approaches. The underlying question in each section is the extent of rational activity and actions that can be discovered by various methods of analyzing ancient societies. As we aim to have a broad perspective, we include not only Greek and Roman societies but warmly welcome contributions from other ancient societies and cultures across the globe.
Papers are expected to last ca.25-30 minutes followed by an intensive discussion of equal time. Proposals should address one of the following panel topics:
1.) Ancient texts - From theory to practice – How did the ancients think economy, and how do we reconstruct the ancient thoughts?
2.) Economic analysis of the economy - Landed property and real estate / financial investments / demand and supply etc.
3.) Economic analysis of politics - Institutions and institutional change / taxation / public spending etc.
4.) Economic analysis of any other area of social life - e.g. religion, law, social networks, moral behavior
Confirmed speakers so far are Alain Bresson (Chicago), Nicolas Krocker (Munich), Peter Sarris (Cambridge), Bertram Schefold (Frankfurt).
Please send your abstract of ca. 300 words until 15 March 2021 to Prof. Dr. Sven Günther (svenguenther@nenu.edu.cn / sveneca@aol.com) and Dr. Roland Oetjen (roland.oetjen@googlemail.com). Confirmation of participation is on 31 March 2021 latest.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;c1250ca9.ex
(CFP closed March 15, 2021)
TWENTY-THIRD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC (ISHR)
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands: July 26-30, 2022
The Biennial Conference of ISHR brings together several hundred specialists in the history of rhetoric from around thirty countries. This second Call for Papers is issued following the postponement of the conference to 2022. The first call for papers resulted in the acceptance of a good number of individual papers and a few panels, but there is plenty room for more of both categories!
Scholarly Focus of the Conference
The Society calls for twenty-minute conference papers focusing on historical aspects of the theory and practice of rhetoric. This year’s specific conference theme or focus is “Topics and Commonplaces in Antiquity and Beyond.”
Topical invention originated in ancient Greece and was developed and used throughout the western intellectual tradition as a systematized method of finding arguments to discuss abstract, philosophical questions, as well as specific questions determined by circumstances of time and space. Commonplaces are part of topical invention. They reflect commonly accepted views and ideas such as the benefits of peace vs. the harm caused by war, and can be geared to provide arguments which confirm, suggest, or create consensus. Studying topics and their application from a historical perspective thus highlights how persuasive texts reflect and contribute to the shaping of the intellectual and sociocultural contexts in which they are situated. We invite papers on the theory and practice of topics in all regions, periods and cultures. But of course we also welcome papers on both the theory and the practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages, and on its relationships with poetics, philosophy, politics, religion, law, and other aspects of the cultural context.
Procedure for Submission
Proposals are invited for 20-minute presentations delivered in one of the six languages of the Society, viz. English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Spanish. The Society also welcomes panel proposals consisting of three or four speakers dealing with a common theme, so as to form a coherent set of papers. The chair of the proposed panel may also be one of the speakers. Each speaker in a panel should submit a proposal form for his or her own paper, clearly specifying the panel to which it pertains. In addition, the panel organizer is expected to complete and submit a separate form explaining the purpose of the proposed panel and naming the participants. Please note that proposals for panel papers will be considered on their individual merits by the Programme Committee, and there is no guarantee that all papers proposed for a panel will be accepted.
Each person may only appear once as a speaker on the programme. Only one proposal for presentation per person can be accepted, including also presentations as parts of panels. Persons serving as (non-presenting) chairs are not affected by this rule.
Proposals for papers and for panels must be submitted on-line. Please complete the on-line form carefully and fully. For any questions please contact the chair of the programme committee, prof. Lucía Díaz Marroquín (ldiazmar@ucm.es), or myself (m.v.d.poel@let.ru.nl). Please note that submitting a paper implies making the commitment to attend the conference if your paper is accepted. Guidelines for the preparation of proposals are provided at the bottom of this message. The length of the abstracts must not exceed 300 words.
Deadline for Proposals
The deadline for the submission of proposals is 15 May 2021.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by September 2021. For participants who require an earlier acceptance date in order to secure funding, we will try to accommodate their requests if they are made with appropriate documentation.
Information about the Conference, including hotel accommodation, will be provided at the beginning of the academic year 2021-2022. The conference registration fee is still to be determined, but the Nijmegen organizers will endeavor to ensure that this is kept as low as possible. Graduate students and scholars from underrepresented countries pay reduced registration fees and may be eligible for travel grants.
Guidelines for the preparation of proposals:
The members of ISHR come from many countries and academic disciplines. The following guidelines are intended to make it easier for us to come together and understand one another’s proposals. The Program Committee recommends that all proposals contain:
1. a definition – accessible to a non-specialist – of the field of the proposal, including its chronological period, language, texts and other sources;
2. a statement of the specific problem that will be treated in your paper; its place in relation to the present state of research in the general field under consideration; and its significance for the history of rhetoric;
3. a summary of the stages of argumentation involved in addressing the problem; and
4. conclusions and advances in research.
Call: https://events.resultsathand.com/ishr2020/1161
TEXT AND TEXTUALITY
Durham University, UK: July 15-17, 2021
Conference convenors: Peter Donnelly, Peter Hebden, and Emma Wall
The conference Text and Textuality to be held at Durham University has now been rescheduled, and will be held on the 15-17th July 2021. We are reopening the call for papers, which will now close on the 27th November 2020. We hope that you will be able to join us in person next summer.
Since Peisistratus’ editions of Homer, we have consistently developed new ways of remodelling and reinterpreting texts. From stemmatics to textual criticism, codicology to digital methods, the history of the book to the reception and afterlife of text, the word has consistently captured our imagination. Text is not a static entity or a solely physical object, but a dynamic representation of the human experience which exists both in and beyond our perceptions.
This conference seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars to consider the relationship between new approaches and existing methodologies for engaging with texts. Under the broad umbrella of ‘text’, we aim to foster cross-discipline dialogue to explore the lives of texts from their conception, to their transmission, their reception and beyond.
We invite title and abstract submissions of 250-300 words on subjects such as, but not restricted to:
· Textual stemmatics and textual criticism
· Textual transmission
· Palaeography and codicology
· The afterlife of texts/their reception
· The roles of the author and reader
· Intermediality and the relationships between text forms
· Representations of text
· Oral v. written composition of text
· History of the Book
· The role of digitisation and the future of ‘text’
We are able to offer a small number of bursaries to those who do not have access to research funds.
For further information please visit our website: https://texttextualitydurham.wordpress.com/, and follow us on Twitter at: @texttextuality
Submissions must be sent to texttextualitydurham@gmail.com before 17:00 on 27th November 2020 - extended deadline 29th January, 2021. Thank you and we look forward to hosting you in Durham.
Program: https://texttextualitydurham.wordpress.com/speakers-and-schedule/
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMagFB4eHfATnz3ii5hagxx4lLN0RvySR1AjoS3IJavyiZ0A/viewform
Call: https://texttextualitydurham.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
(CFP closed January 29, 2021)
(cancelled?) [CCC PANEL] (RE)INVENTING SAPPHO: NEW APPROACHES TO SAPPHO FROM THE GREEK FRAGMENTS TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
13th Celtic Conference in Classics, Lyon, France: TBA
Note: Postponed until 2021 (similar dates TBC) due to COVID-19 - unable to confirm dates
Confirmed Speakers:
Sandra Boehringer (Université de Strasbourg)
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3)
Ellen Greene (The University of Oklahoma)
Andre Lardinois (Radboud University)
Thea Selliaas Thorsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
ο]ἰ μὲν ἰππήων στρότον οἰ δὲ πέσδων
οἰ δὲ νάων φαῖσ᾿ ἐπ[ὶ] γᾶν μέλαι[ν]αν
ἔ]μμεναι κάλλιστον, ἔγω δὲ κῆν᾿ ὄτ-
τω τις ἔραται·
“Some say a force of horsemen, some say footsoldiers
and others say a fleet of ships is the loveliest
thing on the dark earth, but I say it is
the one you love” (Sappho, fr. 16 Voigt)
Sappho is one of the most debated figures in Greek and Latin literature, and has often elicited not only contrasting but also controversial readings. Named “the tenth muse” for the excellence of her poetry (AP 7.14, 9.66, 9.506, 9.571), Sappho was condemned for centuries by more traditionalist voices. As a result, her poetry has been censured, and her figure (hetero)normalised or discredited because of her allegedly lascivious and perverse sexual behaviour (Hallett 1996; Snyder 1997). However, the fragmentary nature of Sappho’s poetry, which articulates an ambiguous, complex and (gender-)fluid sexuality, has also enabled her to be widely imitated, (re-)adapted, and even manipulated (Lefkowitz 1996). In reception, she has become an icon for feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and has informed queer approaches to the Classics.
At the end of the eighties, Joan DeJean demonstrated in her groundbreaking work Fictions of Sappho (1989) how Sappho’s poetry widely influenced literary and cultural expressions from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, eventually entering into conversation with Francophone feminist writers such as Cixous and Irigaray. Yet Sappho’s position “beyond gender” (owing, in part, to linguistic gender-ambiguity in her texts), as well as her queerness in the widest sense, has also marked the reception of her poetry since Antiquity.
As both a poet and a historical figure, Sappho played a central role in Hellenistic Greek poetry and comedy, as well as archaic Latin theatre, from which the account of her licentiousness, unhappy relationship with Phaon, and consequent suicide most likely originated. Catullus sees Sappho as a poetic model and connects her poetic excellence to his own literary and personal experiences through the name of Lesbia. (Ovid’s) Heroides 15 fluctuates between a portrait of a masculine Sappho and a more multifaceted, ambiguous version of Sappho as a poet and an elegiac lover (Fabre- Serris 2009). With the advent of Christianity, Sappho began to be maligned and accused of immorality (Tatian, Oratio ad Graecos 33, about 180 CE; cf. Thorsen 2012) and the first censure of her work is said to have occurred in the fourth century (Cardan De sapientia 2.62).
Despite these attempts to destroy her name and poetry, Sappho survived the Middle Ages and was recognised as a great poet by the early Humanists. In most cases, however, her homoeroticism was completely erased (cf. Boccaccio De mulieribus claris 47; Christine de Pizan Book of City of Ladies 1.30). Undergoing contradictory and opposite judgements through the ages, Sappho was diversely received by classical scholars in the 19th and 20th century. While Sappho’s queer sexuality seems to have influenced Housman’s scholarship and poetry (Ingleheart 2019), Wilamowitz (1913) tried to restore Sappho’s (hetero)normativity by interpreting her homoerotic relationships as part of her role as a schoolmistress, thus overlooking the narrator’s homoerotic desire as expressed in the absence of any pedagogical dynamics in the text (frs. 1 and 31; cf. Parker 1996). Very recently, the “Newest Sappho” has opened new avenues for the interpretation of her poetry (Bierl & Lardinois 2016).
These various interpretations, (re)adaptations and (re)constructions have produced a “Sappho” who is now as fluid and queer as she has ever been. Concurrently, recent Sappho scholarship has given rise to a plurality of productive methodologies and perspectives (e.g. comparative, philological, reception-based approaches). Our panel will embrace and integrate this plurality by providing a playing-field upon which these contrasting methodologies and perspectives can inform and bolster one another. By re-examining the notion of who (and what) Sappho is, moreover, this panel will problematise the “invention” of Sappho and resituate her, along with her poetry and later reception, in contemporary scholarly discourse.
We welcome papers in the fields of Classics, Ancient History, and Reception Studies, with a preference for talks which fully and boldly engage with new approaches to Sappho’s life, work, and reception. In keeping with the bilingual tradition of the Celtic Conference in Classics, and this year’s venue (Lyon), we are especially keen on contributions about the reception of Sappho by French poets, scholars and translators, as well as Francophone feminist writers such as Wittig, Kristeva and Irigaray. The panel will be fully bilingual and we therefore accept papers both in French and English. Papers might fall within but are not limited to the following categories:
* Sappho’s fragments
* Sappho as a historical personage
* Sappho and literary theory, queer theory, feminist theory, and other ideological approaches
* Ancient, medieval, or modern receptions of Sappho, including theatrical re-adaptations, Sappho in pedagogy and education, and multimedial representations of Sapphic poetry
* The role played by Sappho within LGBTQ+ communities
Select Bibliography
Bierl, A. and A. Lardinois. 2016. The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbinik and P. GC inv. 105, Frs. 1-4. Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, vol. 2. Leiden.
De Jean, J. 1989. Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937. Chicago.
Fabre-Serris J. 2009. “Sulpicia: an/other female voice in Ovid’s Heroides: a new reading of Heroides 4 and 15”, Helios 36: 149-73.
Hallett, J. P. 1996. “Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality”, in E. Greene (ed.), Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: 125-42.
Ingleheart, J. 2018. Masculine Plural, Oxford.
Lefkowitz, M. R. 1996. “Critical Stereotypes and the Poetry of Sappho”, in E. Greene (ed.), Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: 26-34.
Parker, H. N. “Sappho Schoolmistress”, in E. Greene (ed.), Re-Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: 146-83.
Snyder, J. M. 1997. Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho. New York.
Thorsen, T. S. 2012. “Sappho, Corinna and Colleagues in Ancient Rome. Tatian’s Catalogue of Statues (Oratio ad Graecos 33-4) Reconsidered”, Mnemosyne 65.4-5: 695-715.
To encourage a variety of approaches, we will welcome two different paper lengths: 20 minutes and 40 minutes. Please, submit a proposal of 300 words for a 20-minute paper and 500 words for the 40-minute option. Abstracts must be written either in French or English. The submission deadline for abstracts is 6th March 2020.
Submissions and queries should be directed to the following address: reinventingsappho@gmail.com.
Please, include a short biography and specify your affiliation in the body of your email: attach the abstract as a separate file with no personal identification.
Notification of acceptance will be given in early April.
For further information on the Celtic Conference in Classics, please refer to the conference permanent website: http://www.celticconferenceinclassics.org/
Call: https://classicssocialjustice.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/cfp-reinventing-sappho-new-approaches-to-sappho-from-the-greek-fragments-to-the-twenty-first-century/
(CFP closed March 6, 2020)
(cancelled?) [CCC PANEL] ENGAGING GREEK ANTIQUITY IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH DRAMA
13th Celtic Conference in Classics, Lyon, France: TBA
Note: Postponed until 2021 (similar dates TBC) due to COVID-19 - unable to confirm dates
Further information: http://www.celticconferenceinclassics.org/index.php/next-conference
(cancelled?) [CCC PANEL] AROUND THE CLASSICS: PARATEXTUAL FRAME OF LATIN CLASSICS IN THE MIDDLE AGES / AUTOUR DES CLASSIQUES : LES PARATEXTES DES CLASSIQUES LATINS AU MOYEN ÂGE
13th Celtic Conference in Classics, Lyon, France: TBA
Note: Postponed from 2020 until 2021 (similar dates TBC) due to COVID-19 - unable to confirm dates
Convenors:
Angela Cossu – École française de Rome
Frédéric Duplessis – École normale supérieure de Lyon
In medieval manuscripts, a classical text is rarely copied alone. It is most often accompanied by paratextual elements that have been intentionally added to the text. Such elements come in a wide variety of formats: explanatory or complementary texts (accessus, prologues, vitae, commentaries, glosses, glossaries, etc.), images (illumination, diagrams, drawings, etc.), or elements structuring the manuscript, the text or the page (index, table of chapters, titles, division into books, chapters or paragraphs, sections, etc.). They can be transcribed at the beginning, the end, or next to the classical text, within its writing frame or in its margins.
These various paratexts, inherited from Antiquity or created during the Middle Ages, are often ignored by modern editions and remain largely unpublished. Yet, during the Middle Ages, the Latin classics were copied, read and imitated through these “interpretative filters”, which are still relatively understudied. Indeed, these paratextual elements shape the medieval reception of ancient texts.
The aims of this panel are to:
1. study the paratexts per se (more precisely, study their interactions with the classical texts as well as unfold the mechanisms of their production, use and evolution),
2. emphasize their role in the history of transmission and reception of Latin classics,
3. explore their influence on medieval Latin language and literature.
Topics for papers may include:
* Text and paratext of the Latin classics (synchronic or diachronic perspective)
* Shaping of the paratext in the transmission of classics
* Practices of reading and writing: annotations, glosses, and, more broadly, medieval scholarship on the margins of Latin classics
* Public and reception of the Latin classics through the paratext
* Non-textual paratext: rubrication, illumination, diagrams…
Prospective speakers: young (PhD students, Post-doc researchers) and established scholars (researchers, professors, librarians).
Submitting papers: We foresee a panel of around 15 speakers, so that each speaker will present a paper of around 35-40 minutes. Papers in either English or French are accepted. If you wish to submit a paper, please send an abstract of no more than 500 words in either English or French to aroundtheclassics@gmail.com. The deadline for submitting papers is 27/03/2020. Papers’ acceptance will be communicated shortly thereafter.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2001&L=CLASSICISTS&P=185556
(CFP closed March 27, 2020)
[ONLINE] ARTES ETRURIAE RENASCUNTUR 2.0: THE RECEPTION OF GREEK VASES BY EUROPEAN CERAMIC FACTORIES, CA. 1840-1900
Online - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany: July 16–17, 2021
In the second half of the eighteen century, collecting Greek vases gradually became a more widespread phenomenon. Many of them were found in the newly excavated graves in Campania and (later) Etruria and attracted much attention. The appreciation of Greek vases resulted in a new taste and fashion – first known under the terms Etruscan taste, à l’etrusque, all’etrusca or hetrurisch, before most of these vessels began to be widely recognised as Greek products and the fashion was then termed Greek revival or neogrec/neoclassical. This fashion concerned nearly every part of everyday life, especially the contemporary ceramic production. In 1769, Josiah Wedgwood started imitating ancient vases in his factory called ‘Etruria’ and coined the motto ‘Artes Etruriae renascuntur’ for his famous stoneware ceramics. In 1787, the Servizio Etrusco of Naples’ Real Fabbrica Porzellana di Ferdinandea was presented as a gift to George III of Great Britain and Ireland and at the same time, Sèvres manufactured an Etruscan service for Marie Antoinette’s country house Rambouillet. Other production sites quickly followed, and at the end of the 18th century, various, even small factories produced ceramics in ‘Etruscan’ taste. These 18th-century neoclassical reproductions of ancient pottery are well-known, and a lot of publications and exhibitions have addressed them.
However, the aesthetic paradigm of the design and paintings of Greek vases did not find an end with the beginning of the 19th century. On the contrary, Greek vases remained prestigious artefacts in 19th- century Europe (no matter if they were originals, nearly identical copies or new creations in the same style). Until now, this period of reception has found only little attention. Publications are available only for some factories (such as Hjorth and Ipsen [Enke] in Denmark)1 but there has been a rise in interest as indicated by recent research which focuses on English ceramic production using ancient models in relation to its social context.2
From an European perspective, a considerable number of questions have remained open so far: what kind of pictures come out of individual European countries, is it possible to discern specific developments, and how and to what extent were the agents of this craft interrelated with one another? What were the reception mechanisms of Greek vases and their imagery during the 19th century – and in what sense do they relate to – or differ from – those in the initial period in the late 18th and early 19th century? What was the relationship between the development of artistic production and the desire to imitate the appearance of ancient pottery?
Albeit almost unknown today, a wide range of different factories and productions existed in the middle and second half of the 19th century which imitated Greek vases in different techniques and colours. A good example is the factory of August Sältzer at Eisenach/Thuringia (founded in 1858). Sältzer began as stove producer before he focused on imitating Greek vases as well as other historical styles in the mid-sixties (his company was to last until the beginning of the 20th century). The production range of this factory, the technical development, the ancient models and reproduction media used for these ceramics stand at the core of a current research project conducted by Corinna Reinhardt, the initiator of this conference which seeks to discuss the reception of Greek vases in Europe, ca. 1840–1900, within an interdisciplinary environment.
The aim of the conference is, on the one hand, to provide an overview over the heterogeneous factories especially in Austria, Denmark, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy which produced ceramics after the design and paintings of Greek vases in the period between ca. 1840 and 1900. Here, the main objective is to bring together research which is often separated by disciplinary boundaries, different subjects as well as different European countries, in order to provide for the first time a pan-European view on the reception of Greek vases in this period. On the other hand, the contrast and comparison between different productions is supposed to bring to light different aspects of this reception, and will help to understand the various phenomena within specific contexts and constellations.
We kindly invite you to submit an abstract of about 300 words for a 30-minute paper to Professor Corinna Reinhardt (corinna.reinhardt@fau.de) by March 31, 2021. Please refer to one of the areas of focus:
1. Spectrum and diversity of the production à la grecque in the period between ca. 1840–1900 (factories such as Samuel Alcock, Thomas Battam, Copeland [and Garrett], Dillwyn, Bates Brown – Westhead & Moore, Fratelli Francesco e Gaetano, Mollica, Peter Ipsen, P. Ipsen Enke, Lauritz Hjorth, Frederick Sonne/V. Wendrich, Villeroy & Boch, August Sältzer, Victor Brausewetter)
2. Comparative contributions with a diachronic, pan-European or thematic focus. Examples include phenomena like the repertoire of copied ancient vases, the question, how the media for reproduction were used, the technique of the ceramics in relation to the question of how ancient vases were imitated, the technical progress of artistic production, the relevance of colour and colour effects, the imagery, painting styles or the shapes of the vessels.
The conference is planned for July 16–18, 2021. The host institution is Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg/Germany. Due to the uncertain situation regarding travelling and meeting in person in the summer of 2021, no final decision can be currently made regarding the question if the conference will be held in person (which we would prefer) or virtually via Zoom (though a combination of both might be considered – please let us know your preferences). We plan to publish the proceedings of the conference.
Notes:
1. P. Birk Hansen (ed.), Kähler, Ipsen, Hjorth. Fra pottemageri til fabrik. De tidlige år ved tre danske keramikværksteder. Herman Kählers værk i Næstved fra 1839, Peter Ipsens terracottafabrik i København fra 1843, Lauritz Hjorths terracottafabrik i Rønne fra 1859 (Næstved 2005).
2. E. Hall/H. Stead, A People’s History of Classics. Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 (London 2020); A. Petsalis-Diomidis / E. Hall (edd.), The Classical Vase Transformed. Consumption, Reproduction, and Class in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 63 (Oxford 2020).
Edit 11/07/2021 - Program:
Friday, July 16
14:00–14:30 Corinna Reinhardt: Introduction – The Grecian Vase: 1840–1900
14:30–15:15 Hildegard Wiegel, ‚Greek‘ Vases in the Royal Collection. A diplomatic gift and its afterlife
Panel 1: Spectrum and diversity of productions à la grecque
Chair: Andreas Grüner
15:15–16:00 Caterina Maderna, Napoleon und die Folgen: Triumphierende Antike im Porzellan
Coffee break
16:30–17:15 Nancy Ramage, After the Antique: The Giustiniani Pottery and its Roots in ancient South Italy
17:15–18:00 Anja Klöckner, Neapolitaner Keramikwerkstätten und die vielschichtige Rezeption griechischer Vasen im 19. Jahrhundert
18:00–18:45 Janett Morgan, Designs on the Past: Dillwyn’s Etruscan Ware and the art of social transformation
Saturday, July 17
Chair: Georg Gerleigner
14:00–14:30 Norbert Franken, Kopien antiker Vasen aus der Tonwarenfabrik Bernhard Bertram in Lüftelberg bei Bonn
14:30–15:15 Katharina Hefele, Jannis Rütten, Corinna Reinhardt: A new image of the Greek Vase? Eclecticism in using models for vase production by the factory of August Sältzer at Eisenach/Thuringia
Panel 2: The reception of Greek vases in other artistic media
15:15–16:00 Andreas Grüner, Schwarz / Orange
Coffee break
Chair: Arne Reinhardt
16:30–17:15 Paolo Persano, Images of Greek Vases in 19th Century Tuscany
17:15–18:00 Kilian Kohn, A deviation à la grecque – John William Waterhouses Ulysses and the Sirens (1891) in the context of 19th century reception of Greek vases in Britain.
18:00–18:45 Bénédicte Garnier, The reception of Greek vases by Rodin in his sculpture factory, an example of «Greek-style production»
Short break
19:00–19:30 Corinna Reinhardt, Concluding remarks
Program: https://www.klassischearchaeologie.phil.fau.de/artes-etruriae-renascuntur-2-0-the-reception-of-greek-vases-by-european-ceramic-factories-ca-1840-1900/
Registration: email corinna.reinhardt@fau.de
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;82b23c22.ex
(CFP closed March 31, 2021)
DO ANCIENT EGYPTIANS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? THE RECEPTION OF ANCIENT EGYPT IN SCIENCE FICTION.
University of Birmingham, UK (+/- online): July 9-10, 2021
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) – a milestone in the history of the science fiction genre – the eponymous scientist is horrified when the creature he has assembled from assorted body parts is successfully animated. ‘A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch’, Frankenstein relates. This comparison – between a figure who represents the potential disastrous consequences of cutting-edge scientific enquiry and the bodies of the ancient Egyptian dead – is one that recurs later in the novel. Having dispatched his creator, the creature’s ‘vast hand’ is described as ‘in colour and apparent texture like that of a mummy’. Nearly two centuries later, Roland Emmerich’s Stargate (1994) also depicts ancient Egyptian bodies in settings infused with a futuristic aesthetic; alien entities acquire human forms in order to extend their lifespans, while sarcophagi are reimagined as regeneration chambers.
Science fiction has undeniably contributed to creating an image of ancient Egypt, and yet it is only starting to be addressed by Egyptological scholarship. Literature, theatre, film, television, comics, and video games all present images of Egypt that have had an enduring impact on perceptions of Egypt by the public. Nevertheless, and despite the involvement of experts in contributing to or shaping these cultural products – in Stargate’s case, in professional Egyptological consultation with regards to written and spoken Ancient Egyptian – the ways in which Egyptological scholarship informs science fiction in particular still remain to be explored. How might Egyptologists engage with this material beyond judging its historical authenticity? And to what extent can science fiction contribute to scholarly discussions of ancient Egypt?
The aim of this workshop is to explore the reception and reconstruction of Egypt in science fiction, fostering a dialogue among Egyptologists, cultural historians, literary scholars, and creative practitioners. The organisers are keen to receive abstracts from scholars coming from a variety of academic perspectives and diverse backgrounds, and who are interpreting science fiction in its broadest sense, including those informed by ancient Egyptian understandings of science.
The organisers seek proposals for 15-minute papers, which should be sent in the body of an email to Dr Leire Olabarria [L.Olabarria@bham.ac.uk] and Dr Eleanor Dobson [E.C.Dobson@bham.ac.uk] by 28 February 2021. Abstracts should be a maximum of 250 words and should be accompanied by a short biographical note.
Topics might include but are not limited to:
* The origins and historical development of SF’s fascination with Egypt
* Archaeology and out-of-place artefacts
* Time and space travel
* Parallel universes or alternate histories
* Steampunk
* Afrofuturism
* Dystopia, apocalypse or post-apocalypse
* The ethics of ‘ahistorical’ representation
While we hope to be able to welcome delegates to Birmingham in person in July, the workshop may need to take place online (with no registration fee) if circumstances do not allow face to face meetings. We will keep participants informed with the most up-to-date information as we have it.
Registration: estimated £10, £5 students/unwaged
Website: https://ancientegyptiansdream.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed February 28, 2021)
[ONLINE] TOWARDS A MORE INCLUSIVE CLASSICS II
Online [BST] - Institute of Classical Studies, London: July 1-2, 2021
Hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies and supported by the Council of University Classics Departments.
Hosts: Professor Barbara Goff (University of Reading, UK) and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (University of St Andrews, UK)
Following last year’s inaugural Inclusive Classics workshop, we are pleased to announce that registration is now open for Towards a More Inclusive Classics II (1-2 July 2021). The programme (in full below) includes panels on embedding inclusive practices in institutions, decentring the canon, and collaboration between lecturers and students, with presentations from teachers, UG and PG students, and academics. There will also be opportunities to network with speakers and attendees in smaller breakout sessions.
The workshop will be held via Microsoft Teams and live captions will be available. Presentation materials will be pre-circulated via Microsoft OneDrive from 11 June. The workshop is free to attend, but registration is essential. Registration closes on 25 June 2021.
To register, please email inclusiveclassics@gmail.com with your name, email address, affiliation or interest in the workshop, and choice of breakout group for the networking session. Please choose from the following, and note that there is no obligation to join a group based on current career path - the groups are open to anyone who is interested. It will also be possible to request to join a different group during the session.
Career paths:
PhD students and early career researchers
Mid-career and professoriate
Teachers in schools and colleges
Thematic:
Ideas for an Inclusive Classics Initiative Classical Association 2022 panel
Ideas for future Inclusive Classics Initiative events
Outreach
PROGRAM:
Thursday 1 July, 14.00-16.40
1400 Welcome
PANEL 1: EMBEDDING INCLUSIVE PRACTICES (organised and chaired by Ashley Chhibber, PhD candidate, University of Nottingham, UK)
1410 Professor Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham University, UK) ‘A “head of department” perspective on building an inclusive departmental ethos’ (10 minutes presentation, 10 minutes Q and A)
1430 Dr Naoko Yamagata (Open University, UK) ‘Successes and challenges of inclusion at the Open University’ (10 minutes presentation, 10 minutes Q and A)
1450 Dr Marchella Ward (University of Oxford, UK) ‘Outreach in Classics and embedding inclusion’ (10 minutes presentation, 10 minutes Q and A)
1510 Small group discussion
1530 Break
PANEL 2: PROJECT UPDATES
1545 Serafina Nicolosi (PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool, UK) and Dr Fiona Hobden (University of Liverpool, UK) ‘Decolonising the Curriculum at Liverpool’
1555 Professor Peter Kruschwitz (University of Vienna, Austria) ‘MAPPOLA project update’
1605 Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson (King's College London/University of Oxford, UK) ‘Knowledge Exchange’
1620 Q and A session
1640 End of workshop day one
FRIDAY 2 JULY 13.00-16.00
1300 Welcome
PANEL 3: DECENTRING THE CANON (organised and chaired by Anna McOmish, Aldridge School, UK)
1310 Anna McComish (Aldridge School, UK) ‘Teaching Ancient Middle Eastern History KS3’
1315 Peter Wright (Blackpool Sixth Form College, UK) ‘Opening up Latin and Classics teaching in the Blackpool area’
1320 Ray Cheung (Undergraduate and President of the Christian Cole Society, University of Oxford, UK) ‘The Christian Cole Society’
1325 Vijaya-Sharita Baba (Petroc College, UK) ‘Ethnic inclusivity in the current Classical Civilisation A Level specification’
1330 Sanjay Sharma (Heinz-Brandt-Schule, Berlin, Germany) ‘Framing discussions and subverting narratives in Classics’
1335 Q and A session
1400 Break
NETWORKING SESSION
1415 Small group discussion (groups chosen at registration)
1500 Break
PANEL 4: LECTURERS AND STUDENTS IN PARTNERSHIP (organised and chaired by Professor Kunbi Olasope, University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
1515 Professor Kunbi Olasope (University of Ibadan, Nigeria), Dr Monica Aneni (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) and Dr Idowu Alade (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) in conversation
1535 Q and A session
1600 Close of workshop
All times are UK BST. Presentations will be pre-circulated.
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;9a7d0f54.ex
[ONLINE/HYBRID] UNTRANSLATABLES OF ANTIQUITY: FROM PHILOSOPHY TO HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY / LES INTRADUISIBLES DE L’ANTIQUITÉ: DE LA PHILOSOPHIE À L’ANTHROPOLOGIE HISTORIQUE
Online/hybrid - Paris: Campus Condorcet Paris–Aubervilliers/UMR 8210 ANHIMA: July 1-2, 2021
Translating is an act of opening oneself, mutual exploration and intercommunication between two cultures, allowing for the transfer of a semantic concept from a language to another. Moreover, this process has to meet several needs and practices, both different and contradictory. Thus, whatever it is the principle applied in the process, resulting in a translation either very close to its original source [Berman 1984] or adjusted to the rules of the target language [Eco 2007], translating demands to adapt and transform the semantic core. Once a word, or a category of words, is transferred from a linguistic system to another, this process brings about a semantic shift which makes the word itself an “untranslatable”. Using this concept of “untranslatable” and following the path of the collaborative research directed by B. Cassin in her Vocabulaire européen des philosophies [Cassin 2004], we are now willing to apply it to Ancient Greek and Latin, from the point of view of Historical Anthropology, Linguistics and Philology. These “untranslatable” words can be provided by different sources, such as manuscript transmission, epigraphy, numismatic and modern literatures. So, these words can be of different origins, such as:
* the product of a transfer between Ancient Greek or Latin and a modern language (e.g. Lat. dictator); between Ancient Greek and Latin;
* the result of different integration processes of a word, or a category of words, attested in either Ancient Greek or Latin, among distinct modern languages (e.g. the category of the “divinité poliade” existing in the French and Italian scholarship and arising from the Gr. polias, but attested as “city deity” in English [Bonnet & Pirenne-Delforge 2013]).
* a word whose successive translations have atrophied the original polysemy, (e.g. kallos translated as “beauty” in the philosophical and esthetical lexicon but bearing in Ancient Greek a more complex and shaded meaning);
* a lexical homology for concepts which do not overlap completely (e.g. religio and superstitio in the Roman world), producing a semantic shift, thus the creation of modern epistemological categories (e.g. religion and superstition), not covering the same semantic function as in the Ancient World;
* a reality of the ancient World which does not exist in the target language, resulting in a borrowing (e.g. agora, forum…) rather than to a translation.
Moreover, we also accept proposals concerning methodological issues connected to the study of “untranslatables”, e.g. the different approaches used by scholars, both ancient and modern, in order to solve the problems of translation due to the transfer from a language to another, as well as within the same language.
We invite young scholars working on the different research fields mentioned above and interested by these issues to participate to the workshop which will take place either at the Campus Condorcet Paris – Aubervilliers or online, as the situation evolves, the 1st and 2nd July 2021.
During the workshop, everyone will be invited to tackle an “untranslatable” word, or a category of “untranslatable” words, of Ancient Greek or Latin origin, and analysing them in one of the official languages of the conference (namely French, English, German, Spanish and Italian). Young scholars willing to take part in the workshop can now submit an abstract of max 3500 characters, including spaces, accompanied by a selected bibliography, as well as a short presentation including name, family name and affiliation to the following email address intraduisibles2020@gmail.com by the 17th May 2021 at 6 p.m. CEST.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions concerning the event or the call for papers (intraduisibles2020@gmail.com), and to check the blog Hypothèses for further information (such as the scientific committee, the publication): https://lida.hypotheses.org.
Call: https://lida.hypotheses.org
[ONLINE] AMPHORAE XV: ANNUAL MEETING OF POSTGRADUATES IN HELLENIC OR ROMAN ANTIQUITIES AND EGYPTOLOGY
Theme: Hindsight is 2020
Online - University of Otago: June 30-July 2, 2021
Things have progressed dramatically since classical antiquity, but there are often surprising parallels with the past to be found in modern societies. Indeed, many of the fundamental problems tackled by societies and individuals have not changed in the intervening centuries (diseases, social unrest, and the human condition to name but a few). This year's theme invites papers to consider the ways in which individuals and cultures addressed problems in antiquity and where they shed light on our own methods and motivations.
We invite postgraduate students in ancient world studies from Honours to PhD level to submit abstracts for presentations, panels, or archaeological reports. Papers will be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes of question time. Abstracts that do not align with the theme will also be considered.
Abstract deadline: Friday 30 April, 2021 - extended deadline May 14, 2021 to amphoraeconference@gmail.com.
More information: https://amphoraeconference.wixsite.com/amphoraexv
[ONLINE] KYKLOS 2021: THE GREEK EPIC CYCLE AND ITS RECEPTION
Online (CHS, Washington): June 30, 2021
Kyklos 2021: The Greek epic cycle and its reception (in
the performative arts (theatre, cinema), literature, art, music etc.)
An International student- / early-career-scholar-oriented program of the
Centre for Hellenic Studies, directed by Efimia D. Karakantza,
University of Patras. Special collaboration this year with Jonathan
Burgess, University of Toronto.
Are you a graduate student or an early career scholar (7 year from the
reception of your PhD) working on any aspect on the reception of the
Greek epic cycle? Are you interested in participating in an online
international dialog / conference hosted by the Centre for Hellenic
Studies with a 15-minute paper resulting in the online publication of
your revised contribution at the Kyklos@Classics@?
Please, send an abstract of no more than 300 words to
karakantza@upatras.gr and jonathan.burgess@utoronto.ca by 21st of
February 2021. Announcement of accepted contributions by 28th of March.
Online conference scheduled for the 30th of June 2021.
For more details about the Kyklos program see:
https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/5188.kyklos-classics-landing
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;5643f79d.ex
(CFP closed February 21, 2021)
[ONLINE] COLLECTIVE TRAUMA AND CONTEMPORARY CRISIS IN PERFORMANCES OF ANCIENT TRAGEDIES
Online - APGRD, Oxford - June 30, 2021 - 10am-5pm BST
Organisation: Estelle Baudou (Oxford) and Silke Felber (Vienna)
Summary: Numerous artists are currently invoking Greco-Roman antiquity in their reflections on war, terror, the anthropocene, and the financial and health crises. Ancient dramatic scripts appear to provide useful foils for representations of the pain and fragmentation of post-traumatic memories. This event will challenge the notion that trauma is unrepresentable by examining the performance of trauma on contemporary stages: how do performing artists acknowledge contemporary crises and perform the impact of these crises on groups and individuals while using ancient materials?
The event will consist of two roundtable discussions with scholars and practitioners, each preceded by a pre- recorded conversation with distinguished artists (Peter Sellars / Ian Rickson and Kae Tempest). The first roundtable discussion is titled ‘Mediatisation and Performability of Collective Trauma’, and the second ‘Bodily Response to Crises: Performing the Spread of Collective Trauma’.
This event will be broadcast live on the APGRD Youtube Channel. The roundtable discussions will include questions from the audience.
Timetable
10.00am-10.15 (London time)
Introduction by Estelle Baudou (Oxford) and Silke Felber (Vienna)
10.15-11.30
Pre-recorded interview with Peter Sellars (theatre director)
BREAK
11.45-1pm
Roundtable discussion: ‘Mediatization and Performability of Collective Trauma’
Participants:
Clare Finburgh-Delijani (Professor in Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Justine McConnell (Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, KCL)
Angeliki Poulou (Curator and Lecturer in Performing Arts & New Media, Department of Digital Arts & Cinema, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
LUNCH BREAK
2.15pm-3.00
Pre-recorded interview with Ian Rickson (theatre director) and Kae Tempest (playwright)
BREAK
3.15-4.30
Roundtable discussion: ‘Bodily Response to Crises: Performing the Spread of Collective Trauma’
Participants:
Marie-Louise Crawley (Assistant Professor in Dance and Cultural Engagement, C-DaRE (Centre for Dance Research), Coventry University)
Helene Foley (Professor of Classics, Columbia)
Struan Leslie (Director, Dramaturg and Movement Director, UK)
4.30-5.00pm
Final remarks by Fiona Macintosh (APGRD, Oxford)
No need to sign up; the whole event will be streamed live on YouTube using the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kOjXuwqKEw
Website: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2021/06/30-collective-trauma
[ONLINE] 21ST ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT DRAMA
Theme: Challenging Traditions and Traditions of Challenge in the Theory and Practice of
Greek and Roman Drama’
Online - Oxford/London/GMT: June 28-29, 2021
The 21st Annual APGRD / University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the
Performance of Ancient Drama will take place on Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 June. This
year’s theme will be: ‘Challenging Traditions and Traditions of Challenge in the Theory and
Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
This annual Symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy,
exploring the afterlife of these ancient dramatic texts through re-workings by both writers and
practitioners across all genres and periods. This year’s focus on ‘Challenging Traditions and
Traditions of Challenge’ takes as its starting point the contemporary challenges to traditional
forms and structures of theatre which the pandemic has precipitated, but expands to
encompass a broader historical perspective on what it means to challenge a tradition, to
negotiate our involvement within traditions which are themselves challenging, and to build
on traditions of challenge.
This year’s guest speaker will be Professor Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths, University
of London). We will also have a guest respondent for both days: Dr Marchella Ward (Oxford)
on the Monday and Dr Lucy Jackson (Durham) on the Tuesday. The first day of the
symposium will include the digital premiere of the 68th annual King’s College London Greek
Play. In keeping with the symposium’s focus, this project is a first in the long tradition of the
King’s Greek Play: the creation and staging of an entirely new piece of writing drawn from
extant and fragmentary Greek tragedy. Symposium attendees will be among the first to
experience this world premiere.
PARTICIPANTS
Postgraduates from around the world are welcome to participate, as are those who have
completed a doctorate but not yet taken up a post. The symposium is open to speakers from
different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of Classics, modern languages and
literature, and theatre and performance studies.
Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on ancient
drama. Papers may also include demonstrations or recorded material. Undergraduates are
very welcome to attend.
Those who wish to offer a short paper (20 mins) or performance presentation on ‘Challenging
Traditions and Traditions of Challenge in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman
Drama’ are invited to send an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject of
their discussion to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk by Monday 12 April 2021 (if applicable,
please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution).
There will be no registration fee.
Edited 20/06/2021 - Program:
Day One: Monday 28 June (all times BST / UTC+1)
11:30: Welcome
12:00 – 13:00: Madness and irreverence (Chair: Claire Barnes, Oxford)
Ruth McKimmie (University of Newcastle, Australia): ‘Same-same yet different: madness ancient and modern’
Marit Meinhold (Konstanz): ‘Oedipus meets Medusa - Pan Pan’s Oedipus Loves You’
13:00 – 14:15: Lunch
14:15 – 15:30: Challenge and the body (Chair: Marcus Bell, Oxford)
Malina Buturovic (Princeton): ‘The Survival of the Body: Hedva Performs Euripides’
Eri Georgakaki (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens): ‘The challenging reception of Euripides in nineteenth-century Greece, or, how to restore an ancient poet’s fame out of the blame’
Zoe Harris-Wallis (UCL): ‘Within and against the fold: the challenge of the body in the costume and dance of Eva Palmer-Sikelianos’
15:30 – 16:00: Break
16:00: Guest lecture: Professor Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths): ‘Ghosts: From Aeschylus’ The Persians to Wajdi Mouawad’s The Blood of Promises’ [livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJgZKUom1kI]
17:00 – 18:00: Break
KCL Greek Play premiere - From The Machine (livestreamed on YouTube)
18:00 Pre-show talk: Professor Gonda Van Steen and Dr Oliver Baldwin in discussion about Sophocles’ Philoctetes (pre-recorded)
19:00 Performance
The pre-show talk and performance are free of charge, but booking is essential. Please book for both via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-the-machine-kcl-greek-play-2021-tickets-156113007207
Day Two: Tuesday 29 June (all times BST / UTC+1)
10:30: Welcome
10:45: Day 1 Guest Respondent: Dr Marchella Ward (Oxford)
11:15 – 11:30: Break
11:30 – 12:45: Tradition and (re)mediation (Chair: Giovanna Di Martino, UCL)
Zoë Jennings (Oxford): ‘Intermedial challenge in Daria Martin’s Minotaur with Anna Halprin (2008)’
Sophia Elzie (Oxford): ‘Against Fossilization: Reading Brian Friel’s Translations and the Odyssey’
Menelaos Karantzas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): ‘Fragments on stage: how ancient dramatic fragments have been used in contemporary performances’
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00: Transformation and subversion (Chair: Alison Middleton, Oxford)
Naser Albreeky (KCL): ‘Strategies of Undoing Colonialism in the New World: Parody and Classical Reception in Anglophone Caribbean Literature’
Julia Jennifer Beine (Ruhr-University Bochum): ‘Challenging an Ancient Comic Tradition (Un-)Intentionally: Molière’s L’Étourdi ou les contretemps’
15:00 – 15:15: Break
15:15: In conversation: Dr Benjamin Poore (York) with Dr Henry Stead (St Andrews) and Dr Helen Eastman (theatre director; APGRD): ‘Challenging Traditions and Traditions of Challenge: The History Play in Modern Times’
16:00 – 16:15: Break
16:15: Day 2 Guest Respondent: Dr Lucy Jackson (Durham)
16:45 Plenary
Register (Zoom): postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk. Attendance is free.
Call: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2021/06/28-29-21st-Postgraduate-Symposium
(CFP closed April 12, 2021)
[ONLINE] RECEPTION STUDIES: STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE AND NEW DIRECTIONS
Online - Massey University, New Zealand: June 24-27, 2021
In collaboration with The Imagines Project (http://imagines-project.org)
PANELS
Day 1: 24 June 2021
Greetings and brief opening remarks by Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand) and Luis Unceta Gómez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Panel 1: Rethinking Classical Reception Theory and Methodology
Chair: Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph’s University)
Suspended Temporalities, Female Otherness, and Classical Reception
Zina Giannopoulou (University of California Irvine: UC Irvine)
Rethinking Dialogue Models: The Case of the Phaedrus
Lauren Wilson (The University of Nottingham)
Fortuna dell’antico (and Beyond): The State of Reception Studies in Italy
Tiziana Ragno (Università di Foggia)
Break
Panel 2: Screen Receptions
Chair: Luis Unceta Gómez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Palimsestic Idols: Classical Receptions in Silent Film Stardom
Michael Williams (University of Southampton)
Mocking the Hollywood Canon: Parodies of Celluloid Classics from Latin American Cinema’s Studio Era
Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph’s University)
Masked Celluloid Classics? In Search of the Tragic Heroine Electra in Film Noir
Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand)
Day 2: 25 June 2021
Panel 3: Popular Culture
Chair: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand)
Classics on the Surface: Classical Reception as an Emergent Process
Luis Unceta Gómez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
The Merging of Eastern and Western Traditions: Manga and the Power of the Classical Object
Amanda Potter (Open University) and Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti (University of Liverpool)
Escaping ‘Hades’: Playing with Classical Reception
Hamish Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington)
Break
Panel 4: Performance Reception
Chair: Martina Treu (Università IULM, Milan)
Theatre, Politics, and Money: Karolos Koun’s Art Theatre, the Greek Dictatorship, and the Ford Foundation
Gonda Van Steen (King’s College, London)
The “Advent of the New Order”: An Oresteia in Prague (1947) and the Epistemological Limits of Archivalia
Alena Sarkissian (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Persistence of Tragedy: Antigone Today
Meryem Denyz (Stanford University)
Day 3: 26 June
Panel 5: Modern Societal Challenges and the Classics
Chair: Zina Giannopoulou (University of California Irvine: UC Irvine)
The Master’s Tools?: Towards a Politics of Reception
Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College)
Ecoclassicisms: Ecocriticism and Classical Reception
Samuel Cooper (American University in Cairo)
Classical Reception in Disability Studies: Mary Duffy Imagining Alternative Futures
Amanda Kubic (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Day 4: 27 June
Panel 6: Education in Academia and Beyond
Chair: Gonda Van Steen (King’s College, London)
Social Justice-Engaged Reception Pedagogy: "Classics Beyond Whiteness" at Wake Forest
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University) and Caitlin Hines (University of Cincinnati)
Talking about Silence: How and Why to teach Classical Rape Stories
Caroline Bristow (University of Cambridge), Susan Deacy and Aimee Hinds (University of Roehampton)
Break
Panel 7: Digital Pedagogy and Public Engagement
Chair: Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College)
Classical Reception Meets Pedagogy: The Creation and Uses of the Panoply Vase Animation Project's Our Mythical Childhood Animations
Sonya Nevin (University of Roehampton/Panoply Vase Animation Project)
Classical Reception Beyond the Classroom: Engaging Public Audiences with Remaking Ancient Myths
Emma Bridges (The Open University)
Brief concluding remarks: Anastasia Bakogianni
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;de140f8.ex
Program: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-
news/conference-state-discipline-and-new-directions
Registration: https://masseyuni.wufoo.com/forms/m1agvqub0ndacqr/TBA.
[ONLINE] SYMPOSIUM CUMANUM 2021 - IDENTITY IN VERGIL: ANCIENT REPRESENTATIONS, GLOBAL RECEPTIONS
Now online [USA - EST] - [Villa Vergiliana, Cuma, Italy]: June 23-26, 2021
Co-Directors: Tedd A. Wimperis (Elon University) and David J. Wright (Fordham University)
Vergil’s poetry has long offered fertile ground for scholars engaging questions of race, ethnicity, and national identity, owing especially to the momentous social changes to which his works respond (Syed 2005; Reed 2007; Fletcher 2014; Giusti 2018; Barchiesi forthcoming). The complexities of identity reflected in his corpus have afforded rich insights into the poems themselves and the era’s political milieu; beyond their Roman context, across the centuries his poetry has been co-opted in both racist and nationalist rhetoric, and, at the same time, inspired dynamic multicultural receptions among its many audiences, from Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech to Gwendolyn Brooks’ The Anniad (e.g. Thomas 2001; Laird 2010; Ronnick 2010; Torlone 2014; Pogorzelski 2016).
This year’s theme invites diverse approaches to the ways in which Vergil’s poetry represents, constructs, critiques, or sustains collective identities, in the ancient Mediterranean and well beyond. It also aims to stimulate new connections between Vergilian study and wider interest in identity and multicultural exchange among classicists, as well as contemporary discourse on racism, colonialism, immigration, and nationalism. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
• representations and expressions of identity among the poems’ characters or audiences
• global receptions of Vergil from the perspective of ethnic, regional, or national identity
• multiculturalism, cultural negotiation, and inclusivity inside and outside the poems
• identity in Roman ideology and imperialism
• paradigms of gender, sexuality, and geography in constructing identity
• forms of prejudice, stereotyping, or hate speech within the poems or inspired by them
• the loss or reinvention of identity through migration or exile
• areas of reception, contextualization, and contrast between Vergil and other authors or media, including material culture
• political appropriations of Vergil, including by identitarian and fascist ideologies
• inclusive approaches to Vergilian scholarship and pedagogy
• comparative studies of Vergil’s poetry to explore modern identities and racial justice movements
Confirmed Speakers:
Samuel Agbamu (Royal Holloway), Maurizio Bettini (University of Siena), Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Potsdam University), Anna Maria Cimino (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Hardeep Dhindsa (King’s College London), K.F.B. Fletcher (Louisiana State University), Valentina Follo (American Academy in Rome), Elena Giusti (University of Warwick), Andrew Laird (Brown University), Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky), Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin), Michele Ronnick (Wayne State University), Caroline Stark (Howard University), Richard Thomas (Harvard University), Zara Torlone (Miami University), Adriana Vazquez (UCLA)
Please send abstracts of roughly 300 words to identityinvergil@gmail.com by December 1, 2020 extended deadline December 15, 2020. Papers will be 20 minutes long, with time for discussion after each. We hope to gather an inclusive group of speakers from multiple backgrounds and academic ranks, and especially encourage submissions from scholars belonging to communities underrepresented in the field.
Participants arrive on June 22; we are planning to hold the conference at the Villa Vergiliana, and enjoy visits to Vergilian sites alongside presentations and discussion. That said, in light of the uncertainties COVID-19 continues to present, including financial pressures in the academy that might make travel abroad (for a typically self-funded conference with a registration fee) less accessible for some participants, we are leaving open the option for a hybrid or virtual symposium, to be determined as events proceed; we are also pursuing sources of financial assistance for qualifying speakers. Whatever form it will ultimately take, we look forward to a vibrant and engaging symposium in June 2021.
You are welcome to contact the organizers with any questions about the symposium, including the status of remote participation options or possible funding aid:
Tedd Wimperis (twimperis@elon.edu); David Wright (dwright31@fordham.edu)
Works Cited
Barchiesi, A. Forthcoming. The War for Italia: Conflict and Collective Memory in Vergil’s Aeneid. Berkeley.
Fletcher 2014. Finding Italy: Travel, Nation and Colonization in Vergil’s Aeneid. Ann Arbor.
Giusti, E. 2018. Carthage in Virgil’s Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus. Cambridge.
Laird, A. 2010. “The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Vergil, Native Tradition, and Latin Poetry in Colonial Mexico from Sahagún's Memoriales (1563) to Villerías' Guadalupe (1724).” In A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and Its Tradition, ed. Farrell and Putnam. Malden: 217-33.
Pogorzelski, R. J. 2016. Virgil and Joyce: Nationalism and Imperialism in the Aeneid and Ulysses. Madison.
Reed, J. D. 2007. Virgil’s Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid. Princeton.
Ronnick, M. V. 2010. “Vergil in the Black American Experience.” In A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and Its Tradition, ed. Farrell and Putnam. Malden: 376-90.
Syed, Y. 2005. Vergil’s Aeneid and the Roman Self. Ann Arbor.
Thomas, R. F. 2001. Virgil and the Augustan Reception. Cambridge.
Torlone, Z. M. 2014. Vergil in Russia: National Identity and Classical Reception. Oxford.
Edit - 20/06/2021. Program (EST):
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23
Identity and Geography (10am-12:30pm EST; Open to the Public)
Chair: Kris Fletcher (Louisiana State University)
1. Alessandro Barchiesi (New York University), “Trojan Hunters in Latium”
2. Barbara Weiden Boyd (Bowdoin College), “Monstrat amor verus patriae: Virgil’s Camilla between Italy and Scythia”
3. Anna Maria Cimino (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), “The Old is Dying, and the New Cannot Be Born”
4. Zoé Elise Thomas (University of Texas, Austin), “How I Met Your ‘Arician’ Mother: Augustan Identity and the Cumaean Sibyl in Aeneid 6”
Encounters with the Other (1:30pm-4pm EST)
Chair: Adriana Vazquez (University of California, Los Angeles)
1. Erika Valdivieso (Princeton University), “Virgil’s Cannibals”
2. Matthew Gorey (Wabash College), “Turnus in India: Allusion and Identity in Corte-Real’s Second Siege of Diu (1574)”
3. David van Schoor (Rhodes University), “In hoc tam barbaro mundo: Vergil and Creole Identities in 20th Century South Africa”
THURSDAY, JUNE 24
Vergil in the Old and New Worlds (10am-12:30pm EST; Open to the Public)
Chair: Barbara Weiden Boyd (Bowdoin College)
1. Hardeep Singh Dhindsa (King’s College London), “A White Lie: Renaissance Italian Identity in the Reception of Vergil’s Aeneid”
2. Edith Hall (King’s College London), “Vergil’s Aeneid and British Working-Class Identity, 1697-1939”
3. Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Universität Potsdam), “Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes (Aen. 2.49): Representations of the Greeks in Vergil’s Poems”
4. Néstor Manríquez Lozano (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), “Nova tellus, nova pars mundi: Vergil’s Bucolics and Jesuit Identity in New Spain”
5. Gemma Bernadó Ferrer (Universidad de los Andes), “The Influence of Vergil on Miguel Antonio Caro’s Configuration of the Columbian Identity in the 19th Century”
Political Receptions of Vergil (1:30pm-4pm EST)
Chair: David van Schoor (Rhodes University)
1. Zara Torlone (Miami University), “Dux femina facti: Vasilii Petrov’s Translation of the Aeneid and Catherine’s ‘Greek Project’”
2. Adriana Vazquez (University of California, Los Angeles, “Imperium sine fine: Disruptive Vergilian Timescapes in the Brazilian Neoclassical Period”
3. Andrew Laird (Brown University), “Latin for the Left? Revisiting Alfonso Reyes’ Discurso por Virgilio (1931)”
4. Valentina Follo (American Academy in Rome), “Augustan Themes in Fascist Imagery”
FRIDAY, JUNE 25
Re-Reading Vergil through Modern Literature (10am-12:30pm EST; Open to the Public)
Chair: Sonia Sabnis (Reed College)
1. Ashley Chhibber (University of Nottingham), “The Wretched of the Orbis: Understanding Virgil and Lucan through Fanon”
2. Caroline Stark (Howard University), “Aeneas in Black: Identity, Dispossession, and Sacrifice in Vergil’s Aeneid and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man”
3. Helen Lovatt (University of Nottingham), “Rhetoric, Resistance, and Reconciliation: Re-reading Virgilian Migration through Octavia Butler”
4. Charlie Kerrigan (Trinity College Dublin), “Virgil through Time: Reception as Radical Pedagogy”
Dido: Race and Reception (1:30pm-4pm EST; Open to the Public)
Chair: Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky)
1. Elena Giusti (University of Warwick), “(The Problem with) Decoding Dido”
2. Neha Rahman (Cambridge University), “Afraid of Changing: How Translators of Vergil’s Aeneid Tackle Dido’s Metamorphosis”
3. Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University), “What’s in a Name? Dido Elizabeth Belle (c.1761-1804) and William Murray, Lord Mansfield (1705-1793)”
4. Richard F. Thomas (Harvard University), “Dido in The Desert: Virgil, Ovid and Stella Duffy”
SATURDAY, JUNE 26
Vergilian Perspectives on Colonialism and Immigration (10am-12:30pm EST; Open to the Public)
Chair: Elena Giusti (University of Warwick)
1. David Andrew Porter (Hunan Normal University), “Echoes of Virgil’s Bucolica in 21st-century North Ireland”
2. Samuel Agbamu (King’s College London), “Virgil, Carthage, and Italian Imperialism in Africa (1900-1950)”
3. Giampiero Scafoglio (Université Côte d'Azur), “Was Aeneas a ‘Refugee’? Remnants of the Aeneid in Some Political Debates on the Web”
4. Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin), “The River Tiber, Foaming with Much Ink: Countering Anti-Immigrant Excerptions of the Aeneid”
Constructing Identity In and Through Vergil (1:30pm-4pm EST; Open to the Public)
Chair: Hardeep Singh Dhindsa (King’s College London)
1. Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky), “Racecraft in the Aeneid: Aeneas as a Shepherd”
2. Sonia Sabnis (Reed College), “Vergil’s Pugilists and the Defense of Boxing”
3. Christopher Londa (Yale University), “Fidus Achates as ‘Faithful Freedman’”
4. Kris Fletcher (Louisiana State University), “Arma and Identity in the Aeneid”
Register: https://forms.gle/aVFfnCexoF94wPx66 (IdentityInVergil@gmail.com)
Flyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mFys0OUdg4_rpCrNbsboJficwByg_iU3/view
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-identity-vergil
(CFP closed December 15, 2020)
[ONLINE] [CCAH PANEL] RETHINKING THE CLASSICS: NOVELTIES ON GREEK TEXTUAL CRITICISM
Conference in Classics and Ancient History. Coimbra, Portugal: June 22-25, 2020 - new dates June 22-25, 2021
Note: Postponed due to COVID-19 from 2020
Panel Convenors
Carlos A. Martins de Jesus (University of Coimbra, Centre of Classical and Humanistic Studies) [carlos.jesus@uc.pt]
Felipe G. Hernández Muñoz (Complutense University of Madrid) [fhmunoz@filol.ucm.es]
Elisabete Cação (Centre of Classical and Humanistic Studies, University of Coimbra) [elisabetecacao@gmail.com]
Textual criticism has been practiced for over two thousand years. Back in the Hellenistic Alexandria, actual textual critics were already concerned with preserving the works of antiquity, a task that was not interrupted through the medieval period into early modern times. A decisive moment would of course be the invention of the press, in the mid-fifteenth century. For all Europe, during the sixteenth century, several editorial houses where printing their critical editions of the Greek classics – take Homer, Plato, the Greek tragedies or the Greek Bible as example –, many times sponsoring Hellenists to collate the readings of several manuscripts, resulting their intensive work of recension and emendation in the making of yet more codices.
Especially after the acceptation of Browning’s rule (“recentiores non deteriores”, BICS 1960), the number of new editions of classical Greek texts has largely increased, aiming to include the readings of several codices, more and more known via the several authorized databases and even full reproductions online. Moreover, hundreds of texts lack for any inclusive critical edition, especially from the ones produced in Byzantine times.
The panel Rethinking the classics: novelties on Greek textual criticism aims to be an opportunity for presenting and discussing already completed or ongoing projects relating to (but not exclusively) any of the following topics:
* New manuscripts and their textual and historical importance;
* The need for new critical editions of previously edited Greek texts, in the light of recent paleographical findings;
* Never-before edited Greek texts from Byzantium: the desperate need for an editio princeps;
* Commentary on recent critical editions of Greek texts;
* History of Greek manuscripts.
We invite junior and established scholars for sending their proposals, in English, by 30.09.2020, at the email carlos.jesus@uc.pt.
Final papers of 20 min in length can be delivered in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Acceptance or refusal of the paper will be communicated by 31.03.2020.
Abstracts should have:
- Title of communication
- E-mail
- University
- Abstracts (max 250 words)
- Keywords (5 to 10 words)
Call: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccah/textualcriticism
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] [CCAH PANEL] RESPUBLICA LITTERARIA: HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SCIENCES (BEFORE THE SPECIALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE)
Conference in Classics and Ancient History. Coimbra, Portugal: June 22-25, 2020 - new dates June 22-25, 2021
Note: Postponed due to COVID-19 from 2020
Panel Convenors:
Sophie Conte (University of Reims) [sophie.conte01@gmail.com]
Margarida Miranda (University of Coimbra - Centre of Classical and Humanistic Studies) [mmirandafluc@gmail.com]
The study of Greco-Latin culture reaches its full meaning in a historical perspective that goes from Antiquity to the modern world through the Middle Ages and Renaissance Humanism.
The concept of Respublica litteraria, used for the first time by Francesco Barbaro in a letter written to another humanist, Poggio Bracciolini (1417), reflects the links between the humanities, the arts and the sciences under the sign of the unity of knowledge, before the irreversible "divorce" between the humanities and the sciences took place.
It designated an ideal community (not socially or legally institutionalized, but real), that gathered all those who were united by the bonds of letters, study and knowledge, and carried out work useful for the common good, especially in the field of education.
Within Christian humanism, this cosmopolitan community brought together men and women from different nations and creeds, and developed mainly thanks to the activity of the press and the multiplication of schools and colleges.
The Jesuit study program reflects an Aristotelian epistemological model, but rejects the traditional opposition between scholastic education and humanistic teaching, making them complementary knowledge, not rival. Thus, theologians were also grammarians, poets, playwrights, speakers, philosophers, scientists, advisers to monarchs and confessors. Missionaries were preachers but also anthropologists, linguists, doctors, astronomers and lawyers.
Respublica Litteraria (or Litterarum) transcended all doctrinal differences and became a new spiritual power.
Respublica Litteraria: humanities, arts and sciences (before the specialization of knowledge) welcomes proposals from scholars of any research area, such as literature, philosophy, art, history (mainly history of science, history of education), religious studies, linguistics, theology, dealing with the following guidelines:
Organization of knowledge, scientific writing and science itself until the Early Modern period (which includes humanism and post-humanism), in relation to epistemological models inherited from Antiquity.
1. The Arbor scientiarum, or organization of knowledge
* The unity of knowledge: Studia humanitatis, arts and sciences
* Organizing knowledge: Encyclopedism and hierarchy of knowledge.
* Looking for the division of sciences (and fields of knowledge) in humanistic and Jesuit literary production
2. Scientific writing
* Rhetoric and Natural Philosophy. Natural philosophy as text.
* Researching nature: classical tradition and scientific discourse
* Literary discourse and scientific discourse in the knowledge of Nature
* science and rhetoric: scientific writing in modern times
3. Science itself
* Nature, man and kosmos, from Aristotle to the Conimbricenses
* Aristotelianism and experimentalism
Abstracts shoud be sent to mmiranda@fl.uc.pt; sophie.conte@univ-reims.fr
Languages accepted: English, Portuguese ; Spanish; French; Italian
Duration of the paper: 20min
Abstracts should have:
- Title of communication
- E-mail
- University
- Abstracts (max 250 words)
- Keywords (5 to 10 words)
Call: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccah/respublicalitteraria
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] [CCAH PANEL] THE RECEPTION OF THE CLASSICS: INTERTEXTUALITY AND TRANSLATION
Conference in Classics and Ancient History. Coimbra, Portugal: June 22-25, 2020 - new dates June 22-25, 2021
Note: Postponed due to COVID-19 from 2020
Panel Convenors
Matheus Trevizam (Federal University of Minas Gerais) [matheustrevizam2000@yahoo.com.br]
Patricia Prata (State University of Campinas, São Paulo) [patricia_prata@uol.com.br]
The purpose of this thematic panel is to welcome communications related to the common theme of the reception of Greco-Roman Classics in the literature of all times. We start, thus, by recalling the fact that the literary making of the ancients developed its assumptions within a long tradition. Such a process favored authors of subsequent times to “appropriate” intertextually from the works of these predecessors.
Within the scope of poetry, the most notorious example perhaps concerns the Virgilian triad of the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, whose generic-imaginative models are elsewhere, in creators such as Theocritus, Hesiod, and Homer himself often alluded to and/or transformed by the hands of Rome’s greatest poet. Under different conditions, we also know that Virgil, honored with the possibility of becoming a “Classic” (i.e. a literary model) in life, soon served as an inexhaustible reference for poets such as Ovid, Statius, and even the epigrammist Martial.
On the other hand, the reception of the Classics, in a broader sense, has also occurred with special intensity through the work of successive translators, from a wide range of eras and cultures. Recurring to the metric arts, to sounds and rhythms, as well as to images and figures, some translators searched with precision, each in their way, “to serve as a bridge” between coeval readers and the ideas and sensibility of ancient times. Regarding the translational labor of the Virgilian work, this is the case of the Italian Annibale Caro (16th century); the Englishman John Dryden (17th century); the Frenchman Jacques Delille (18th century); the Portuguese João Franco Barreto (17th century), Barreto Feio, Castilho, Lima Leitão (19th century), as well as Agostinho da Silva (20th century); and the Brazilian Manuel Odorico Mendes (19th century).
The two poles of interest of this panel, therefore, deal with the general idea of the reception of the Classics in a double perspective. First, it considers the intertextual use of previous Greco-Roman texts in the works of authors who incorporated them into their literary texts. Second, and more specifically, it considers the modality of the intellectual doing of translators since endowed with the characteristic attributes and procedures of the writers they translate, translators are also allowed to elevate their creations to an artistic level of expression.
Abstracts should be sent to: coimbraclassics2020@gmail.com
Accepted languages are English and Portuguese.
Duration of communication: 20 min.
Abstracts should have:
- Title of communication
- E-mail
- University
- Abstracts (max 250 words)
- Keywords (5 to 10 words)
Call: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccah/receptionclassics
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] [CCAH PANEL] THE RECEPTION OF ANCIENT MYTHS IN IBERIAN AND LATIN-AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Conference in Classics and Ancient History. Coimbra, Portugal: June 22-25, 2020 - new dates June 22-25, 2021
Note: Postponed due to COVID-19 from 2020
Panel Convenors
Isabel Araújo Branco (Nova University of Lisbon) [ibranco@fcsh.unl.pt]
Isabel Gomes de Almeida (Nova University of Lisbon) [isalmeida@fcsh.unl.pt]
Leonor Santa Bárbara (Nova University of Lisbon) [cmlsb@fcsh.unl.pt]
Numerous literary productions by Iberian and Latin-American contemporary authors manifest a profound dialogue with the cultural expressions of the ancient Mediterranean world, whether we talk about Greek and Roman traditions, whether we talk about the Pre-Classical ones. This is particularly evident in the use of ancient mythical topoi, by authors such as Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Bernardo Santareno, or Hélia Correia, which manifests a sense of cultural identity between modern writers and ancient mythographers. But, simultaneously, the renewed and personal vision imprinted by the former displays a sense of alterity with those far and ancient contexts.
The proposal of this panel arose from the interdisciplinary work we have been developing at CHAM – Centre for the Humanities, particularly regarding the research groups “Culture, History and Ideas across the Iberian and Ibero-American World” and “Antiquity and Its Reception”.
So, it is our goal to gather researchers from different fields, such as Ancient History, Literary Studies, Receptions Studies, and Philosophy, amongst others in order to promote a discussion on the uses of ancient myths in contemporary Iberian and Latin-American literature.
Submission guidelines:
- Languages accepted : English, Portuguese and Spanish
- Duration: max. 20 minutes
- Abstracts should be sent to: antiguidade.cham@gmail.com
Abstracts should have:
- Title of communication
- E-mail
- University
- Abstracts (max 250 words)
- Keywords (5 to 10 words)
Call: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccah/receptionmyths
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] [CCAH PANEL] NICOLAI HARTMANN AND PAUL RICOEUR IN DIALECTICS: ON TWO CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENOLOGICAL-HERMENEUTICAL RE-READINGS OF ARISTOTLE’S DOCTRINE OF POWER AND ACTION
Conference in Classics and Ancient History. Coimbra, Portugal: June 22-25, 2020 - new dates June 22-25, 2021
Note: Postponed due to COVID-19 from 2020
Panel Convenors
Vinicio Busacchi (University of Cagliari) [busacchi@unica.it]
Simonluca Pinna (University of Cagliari)
Aristotle’s doctrine of power and action constitutes one of the majors problematic and speculative axes of Nicolai Hartmann’s book Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit (1938). This is a research largely developed around the ontological problem of the real and its distinctions. In it, the modal classical categories are studied to differentiate and analyze the modes of the being.
Aristotle’s doctrine of power and action plays a central argumentative-speculative role in Paul Ricoeur’s book Soi-même comme un autre (1990). In this research, which develops a phenomological-hermeneutics of the self, Ricoeur investigates Aristotle’s doctrine in order to provide a stronger ontological base for his philosophy of the capable human being.
The panel aims (1) to put in parallel different phenomenological approaches applied on two different domains (reality and subjectivity) and (2) to explore some correlations in Hartmann and Ricoeur’s interpretation of Aristotle’s doctrine of power and action.
Additional information:
- abstracts should be sent to: busacchi@unica.it
- languages accepted: English and French
- duration of the paper: 40 min
Abstracts should have:
- Title of communication
- E-mail
- University
- Abstracts (max 250 words)
- Keywords (5 to 10 words)
Call: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccah/hartmannricoeur
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] [CCAH PANEL] MUSIC AND DANCE IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME AND THEIR PRESERVATION
Conference in Classics and Ancient History. Coimbra, Portugal: June 22-25, 2020 - new dates June 22-25, 2021
Note: Postponed due to COVID-19 from 2020
Panel Convenors
Luis Calero (University Rey Juan Carlos) [luis.calero@urjc.es]
Gaël Lévéder (University Rey Juan Carlos) [gael.leveder.bernard@urjc.es]
Fuensanta Garrido Domené (University of Córdoba) [fgdomene@uco.es]
Felipe Aguirre (Conservatory of the Balearic Islands) [editorialcerix@gmail.com]
We propose to create a panel on our main research specialities, Music and Dance in Antiquity. For the last years we have been teaching, researching and publishing, among other things, in Music, Dance and Scenic Arts in Antiquity and their preservation in later centuries. Classics have put their interest in this field quite recently in the Peninsula and we consider it a priority for the enrichment of the Classical Studies, as well as for the research on how the Ancient World has influenced the artistic expressions of the past six centuries.
Our proposal is based on the next topics:
Ancient Greek and Roman textual sources on music and/or dance.
Music and/or dance in Greek and Roman Literatures.
Harmonic treatises of Antiquity.
Iconography of music and/or dance in Greek and Roman Antiquity.
Greek and Roman music and/or dance in mythology.
Archaeology of musical instruments.
Reconstruction of ancient instruments.
Ancient organology.
Applied digital techniques to music and/or dance in Antiquity.
Music and dance based on ancient Greek and Roman mythology.
Transmission and preservation of ancient music and/or dance in different arts during later centuries.
Transmission of Greek and Roman Harmonic Theory in post-medieval treatises.
Hoping that you find our proposal interesting so as to approve this panel, we expect to hear from you in the near future.
Contact emails for the CfP: luis.calero@urjc.es and fgdomene@uco.es
Languages accepted: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and Italian. However, Portuguese and English are recommended for scientific international accessibility.
Duration of papers: papers will be of 20 minutes.
Abstracts should have:
- Title of communication
- E-mail
- University
- Abstracts (max 250 words)
- Keywords (5 to 10 words)
Call: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccah/musicanddance
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] [CCAH PANEL] IN THE 2500 YEARS OF SALAMIS: REALITY, REPRESENTATION AND RECEPTION
Tribute to Dr. Luísa de Nazaré Ferreira (1970-2019)
Conference in Classics and Ancient History. Coimbra, Portugal: June 22-25, 2020 - new dates June 22-25, 2021
Note: Postponed due to COVID-19 from 2020
Panel Convenors:
Marta González González (University of Málaga) [martagzlez@uma.es]
Nuno Simões Rodrigues (University of Lisbon) [nonnius@letras.ulisboa.pt]
In 2020, the 2500 years of the Battle of Salamis are celebrated. Considered by the Hellenists to be one of the founding battles of Hellas, in 480 BC, the Greeks, led by Themistocles, faced the Persians, headed by Xerxes I. The Greeks won at Salamis and the Persians eventually retreated. The confrontation between the two peoples would still happen again, in Plataea and Mycale (479 BC). But these battles would serve to confirm the superiority of the Hellenic forces, which henceforth would be the Persian persecutors in Asia.
The echoes of Salamis came to all of Greece through the most varied forms, from historiography to poetry and fine arts. Likewise, posterity has not forgotten the exploits of Greeks and Persians such a defining moment in the history of both peoples. This panel therefore aims to discuss historical issues related to Salamis, but also its representations and ways of reception.
But this panel is also an occasion to honour Dr. Luísa de Nazaré Ferreira, eminent Hellenist from Coimbra, whose academic and scientific life was largely devoted to the study of Simonides of Ceos, a poet who composed epitaphs for Greek warriors fallen in some of the battles that opposed them to the Persians, including Salamis.
Abstracts should be sent to e-mail addresses: martagzlez@uma.es and nonnius@fl.ul.pt.
Accepted languages are English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Papers should be limited to 20 minute presentation.
Abstracts should have:
- Title of communication
- E-mail
- University
- Abstracts (max 250 words)
- Keywords (5 to 10 words)
Call: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccah/2500yearsofsalamis
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] [CCAH PANEL] IMAGINING THE WORLD: MYTHOLOGY IN HUMAN CULTURES IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Conference in Classics and Ancient History. Coimbra, Portugal: June 22-25, 2020 - new dates June 22-25, 2021
Note: Postponed due to COVID-19 from 2020
Panel Convenors
Giovanni Casadio (University of Salerno) [giovannicasadio@libero.it]
Paola Corrente (Universidad del Pacífico, Lima-Perú) [p.corrente@up.edu.pe]
Mythology has a long and rich history: vital for ancient societies, myth has been produced by virtually all cultures and has been studied since antiquity. Nevertheless, in modern times it seems to have declined or to emerge in other forms (“The modern man who feels and claims that he is nonreligious still retains a large stock of camouflaged myths and degenerated rituals”: M. Eliade, and see, mutatis mutandis, Roland Barthes' theory of myth.)
Aiming at revitalizing the interest in this fascinating manifestation of the human mind and promoting cross cultural comparison through an interdisciplinary debate, this panel encourages proposals of researchers from various fields of study. Myth has, indeed, a symbolic and all-encompassing nature. Hence, it can be analyzed at various levels and, ultimately, better understood if approached by different points of view.
The panel will develop three lines of discussion:
* Historiography and Theory. A kind of status quaestionis that can be the starting point to review fundamental issues (definitions, main schools of thought, relations with other literary or religious phenomena etc), but, especially, to open new avenues for investigation.
* Interpretation. Through the presentation of concrete cases, the idea is to offer original readings of myths from the perspective of a variety of disciplines (e.g., law, economics, philosophy, sociology, politics, biology, and cognitive science) and approaches (e.g., cultural translatability of myth, esp. deities, in recent theorizing by J. Assmann, M. S. Smith and D. Miano).
* Reception. The analysis of the re-use and re-elaboration of mythological topics (in music, cinema, literature, art) can be useful to comprehend the modality of its endurance.
Although the main focus of the panel will be on ancient Mediterranean cultures, considered the widespread (in time and space) production of myths, and the broad objective of the panel, proposals of contributions dealing with other cultures will be carefully considered.
The accepted languages for the panel are English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The presentation will last 20 min.
We invite abstracts of up to 250 words. The deadline for submission of proposals is September 30, 2020.
For any queries, please contact Ms. Alexandra Chung at the e-mail mitoscoimbra.boli@gmail.com. Ms Chung will receive the abstracts as well.
Abstracts should have:
- Title of communication
- E-mail
- University
- Abstracts (max 250 words)
- Keywords (5 to 10 words)
Call: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccah/mythology
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] [CCAH PANEL] DISPLACING GREEK DRAMA IN THE MODERN WORLD
Conference in Classics and Ancient History. Coimbra, Portugal: June 22-25, 2020 - new dates June 22-25, 2021
Note: Postponed due to COVID-19 from 2020
Panel Convenors
Giogio Ieranò (Università degli Studi di Trento) [giorgio.ierano@lett.unitn.it]
Maria do Céu Fialho (University of Coimbra - Centre of Classical and Humanistic Studies) [mcfialhofluc@gmail.com]
Fernando García Romero (University Complutense of Madrid) [fgarciar@filol.ucm.es]
Sara Troiani (Laboratorio Dionysos della Univ. degli Studi di Trento)
Understanding the experience of human time and the action of 'being in time' is a necessity and desire that has always enlivened Man - a need and desire that are impossible to satisfy, with no direct answer to an incessant question, that of anthropological identity itself. The answer, however, appears, plurifaceted, polysemic, returning questions and generating astonishment, fascination, consternation - a response mediated by myth, as a space for imagery and projection of fundamental experiences, poured into the narratives of the action of others. The myth-narrative creates the necessary distance from the listener's specular perception, which is seen in it.
Aristotle already recognized, in his lessons on Poetics, the privileged status that drama enjoys, in its mythical-narrative nature, as a mimesis of human action. Ricoeur, in turn, in Temps et Récit, establishes with Aristotle a fruitful hermeneutic dialogue that transports to contemporary times the importance and anthropological value of dramatic mimesis, as it opens up to the man of the western world in an identity crisis, marked by wars, totalitarianisms, systems alienating economic, denial of matrices, a space-fictional time that condenses his own experiences, anguish and blindness, finitude, and allows him to recognize himself in the performed action, by a process of appropriation of the action (mimesis 3).
The universality of the Classics, in the present case of the Greek myth embodied in drama, has a very peculiar nature: it is a drama in which each author concatenates a fixed nucleus of myth-elements that are part of the Greek cultural heritage and identify a myth, associated with variable elements, so that the whole of the work represents, in turn, the projection of the playwright's worldview and experience of time and world. This is, for Ricoeur, the level 1 of mimesis. Level 2 will be that of representation itself.
Now this dramatic narrative thus constitutes a language that, belonging to the root of our culture and our identity, contains, on the other hand, the ability to, through its universality, offer itself to later centuries as a language that says and stages man in action of all time. Hermeneutic appropriation, in a specific dimension of creation, attests to this. Antigone, for example, Antigone-martyr as seen by romantics, will become resistant to all totalitarianisms; Medeia, the betrayed barbarian, will see her features of a foreigner misunderstood over those of an infanticide in a contemporaneity that is said to be multicultural but struggling with extreme weaknesses in the relationship with the Other that settles in its land.
Moreover, the studies on the performative aspects of ancient Greek drama and its theorising within the Western culture have had a great influence on theatre practitioners too. From the appropriation of the ritual roots of the ancient theatre to the re-invention of the Greek chorus for the modern stage, actors and directors have explored the artistic potential transmitted by the tradition, even adding a deeper interpretation to the ancient texts thanks to the practice of mise en scéne.
It is this inexhaustible capacity that the Greek drama has to transfer with actuality and power to express and mirror the conflicts, the anguish, the questions of the modern man that we intend to bring to the discussion, through the presentation of conferences dedicated to the contemporary drama of Greek inspiration, particularly in the Mediterranean area, and to the staging of ancient Greek dramas and its re-writings as a mean to elaborate new dramatic and performative experiences within the modern theatre itself.
A - These are the topics for the participation in this panel:
1- Re-writing Greek drama;
2- Modern drama of Greek inspiration;
3- Greek drama on modern stages;
4- Greek drama in modern society;
5- Theory of reception and re-writing;
6- Hermeneutic dialogue with Greek dramatic mimesis.
B - Proposals must be sent to:
Maria do Céu Fialho - mcfialhofluc@gmail.com
C - Congress languages: English, Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish.
D - Duration of papers: 20 or 40 min.
Abstracts should have:
- Title of communication
- E-mail
- University
- Abstracts (max 250 words)
- Keywords (5 to 10 words)
Call: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccah/desplacinggreekdrama
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] [CCAH PANEL] ANCIENT GREEK MEDICINE IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT
Conference in Classics and Ancient History. Coimbra, Portugal: June 22-25, 2020 - new dates June 22-25, 2021
Note: Postponed due to COVID-19 from 2020
Panel Convenors
Mónica Durán Mañas (University of Granada) [monicaduran@ugr.es]
Inmaculada Rodríguez Moreno (University of Cadiz) [inma.rodriguez@uca.es]
Ancient Greek medicine has had a large influence in the European context with reflection on a diversity of manifestations: history, art, literature, anthropology, etc. From the medical practices prior to Hippocrates, Greeks did not cease to investigate and contribute, with greater or lesser success, to the improvement of health care. Hippocrates and Galen are well-known figures and, although they were not the only ones that significantly contributed to the evolution of the history of medicine, they are certainly the figures that most influenced the subsequent medical practices. The impact of Galen is especially remarkable since medieval times. His works were translated into different languages –Syriac, Arabic, Latin, etc.– and had an extremely broad diffusion and influence on the history of medicine: they were well known, studied in the universities, debated, corrected, etc. The result was a display of galenic medicine in all kind of manifestations in which man participates. Consequently, this conference seeks to discuss the influence of ancient Greek medicine in the European context in a wide range of fields, including literature, linguistics, art, history, history of science, anthropology, philosophy and medicine, among other disciplines. After Hippocrates and Galen, we must also mention other important physicians such as Oribasius, Soranus, Aetius, Alexander of Tralles, Paulus Aegineta, Stephanus Philosophus, etc., who contributed to the continuity of ancient Greek medicine and its influence in the Occidental context.
We welcome contributions of interdisciplinary nature, showing the wide reception of ancient Greek medicine in the European Context, as well as the rich connections between medicine and all kind of disciplines, since health (and sickness) is an omnipresent clue in human development. Different approaches will contribute to reach a global picture of the relevance of ancient Greek medicine in the European context investigating similarities and parallels or variations and modifications in beliefs, practices, attitudes, terminology, formats, etc. Some questions, among others, can be answered under those topics: How the ancient Greek medicine has been transmitted and how the European medical culture has been shaped? What have been, during the European history, the medical preoccupations or priorities? What has been neglected or ignored? Why the presence of ancient Greek medicine has been so wide in the European literary oeuvre? To what extent the influence of ancient Greek medicine in the European context has contribute to maximize cultural divergences from other societies?
Topics of interest include the following –they are not limited to–: presence of ancient Greek medicine in European Literature; survival of Greek medical terms; ancient Greek medicine in rhetorical contexts; use of medical vocabulary as a literary motif, topos, and exempla; linguistic and stylistic features of texts; evolution of medical literature from ancient Greek treatises, attitudes towards ancient Greek medicine among humanists; reception of ancient Greek medicine; mythology and medicine; connections between medicine, religion and magic in the European context; medicine and Arts; philosophical and medical concepts and ideas; attitudes towards Ancient Greek medicine and its cultural heritage in modern medicine; medical tendencies from ancient Greek medicine; influences of the galenic legacy in the European medicine, literature and philosophy; study of the greco-roman terms in the actual medicine, etc.
We invite abstracts for papers of approximately 40 minutes in length, to be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Papers in both English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian are welcome. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words and a short CV to both monicaduran@ugr.es and inma.rodriguez@uca.es by September 30, 2020. Abstracts must be attached as a separate file with no personal identification.
We aim to send notification of acceptance no later than the end of March. For further information, please contact either of the panel organizers.
Abstracts should have:
- Title of communication
- E-mail
- University
- Abstracts (max 250 words) (separate file)
- Keywords (5 to 10 words)
Call: https://cechfluc.wixsite.com/ccah/ancientmedicine
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE/HYBRID] 14TH CONFERENCE ON ORALITY AND LITERACY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. THEME: TEXTUALIZATION
Online/hybrid - Jerusalem, Israel (Israel Academy for Sciences and Humanities/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): June 20-23, 2021
The Fourteenth Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World will take place in Jerusalem (Israel) from Sunday 20 June 2021 to Wednesday 23 June 2021. Classicists, historians, students of comparative religion, the Hebrew Bible, early Christian and Rabbinic traditions, as well as scholars in other fields with an interest in oral cultures are cordially invited.
The conference will follow the same format as the previous conferences, held in Hobart (1994), Durban (1996), Wellington (1998), Columbia, Missouri (2000), Melbourne (2002), Winnipeg (2004), Auckland (2006), Nijmegen (2008), Canberra (2010), Ann Arbor (2012), Atlanta (2014), Lausanne (2016), and Austin TX (2019). It is planned that the refereed proceedings once again be published by E.J. Brill in the “Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World” series.
Organizers: Margalit Finkelberg, Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Donna Shalev
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
(Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Hebrew University)
Dates: Sunday 20 June (registration that evening) to Wednesday 23 June 2021
Theme: Textualization
Keynote: Professor Niall Slater (Classics, Emory University)
The theme for the conference is “Textualization”. Recent decades have witnessed a strong and growing international interest in the broader interface and interpenetration of oral and literate cultures and practices in the ancient world, with later parallels. Our conference proposes a comparative study of the ways in which ancient Greek, Roman, and other societies continually negotiated the interaction between a largely oral culture and new needs and opportunities for textualization of otherwise oral genres and practices and of the process of textualization as such.
Papers in response to this theme are invited on topics related to the ancient Mediterranean world or, for comparative purposes, other times, places, and cultures. Also welcome are papers that engage with the transition from an oral to a literate society, or which consider the topic of textualization.
Further details about fees, accommodation and other conference-related activities will be circulated later.
Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Anonymous abstracts of up to 350 words (not including bibliography) should be submitted as Word files by 31 December 2020. Please send abstracts to: oralityandliteracy14@gmail.com
Call: https://www.academia.edu/43426695/Orality_and_Literacy_in_the_Ancient_World_Call_for_Papers
Program/Registration: https://oralityliteracyxiv.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed December 31, 2020)
[ONLINE] REVISITING THE WARRIOR PRINCESS AND HER LEGACY: XENA 20 YEARS ON
Online: June 18-19, 2021
On 18th June 2021 it will be twenty years since the controversial final episode of ground-breaking television series Xena: Warrior Princess, ‘A Friend in Need Part II’ aired. Although the series was first conceived as a spin-off from a series featuring a male hero, Hercules The Legendary Journeys, Xena's popularity surpassed that of Hercules, and ran for six seasons from 1995-2001. Xena paved the way for subsequent action heroines, from Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who reached our television screens in 1997, to the re-envisioned Wonder Woman in the recent blockbuster films. The (initially subtextual) relationship between Xena and Gabrielle also influenced the depiction of LGBT relationships in popular culture. Xena garnered a large fan base and spawned an interest in the ancient world for a generation of young viewers.
This virtual conference aims to bring together scholars from across a range of disciplines to mark the 20th anniversary of the end of Xena: Warrior Princess and explore different aspects of the series and its impact. The organisers aim to publish selected papers following the conference.
Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
* Xena and the representation of ancient civilisations
* Xena and historical events/characters
* Xena and historical women warriors
* Xena and mythology/religion
* Xena and queer theory
* Xena and feminism
* Xena as action heroine
* Xena and television studies
* Xena and fan studies
* Xena tie-ins (comics, novels, etc)
* The legacy of Xena
Please submit abstracts of circa 300 words, together with details of academic background, to Amanda Potter (Open University: amandapotter@caramanda.co.uk) and Anise Strong (Western Michigan University: anise.strong@wmich.edu) by 15th March 2021.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;18a62b9b.2101
Information: https://www.facebook.com/events/417260972924131/
Program/Registration: http://21stcenturyclassics.co.uk/index.php/en/conferences/xena
(CFP closed March 15, 2021)
[ONLINE] WOMEN CREATING CLASSICS
Inaugural Conference of the Women Writers and Classics Network
Online - University of Exeter, UK: June 17-18, 2021
Supported by the Leverhulme Trust and the Classical Association
Draft Program:
DAY 1: Thursday 17th June
9.00-9.15 Welcome: Emily Hauser & Helena Taylor
9.20-10.50 Panel 1 (1.5 hours)
9.20-10.50 Panel 1a: Creative Intellectuals I: 17th–19th Centuries (1.5 hours) (Chair: TBC)
Rosie Wyles, “Gender, the authorial persona and framing meaning”
Helena Taylor, “On Not Knowing Greek and the Classical Reception Canon: The case of Madeleine de Scudéry”
Isobel Hurst, “‘All the allurements of beauty and eloquence’: Aspasia of Miletus and the Intellectual Woman in the Nineteenth Century”
9.20-10.50 Panel 1b: Archaic Poetry in Reception I: Sappho in the Twentieth Century (1.5 hours) (Chair: Emily Hauser)
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, “La Bona dea de Renée Vivien: un culte féminin secret revisité”
Mara Gold, “‘Thy Voice, oh Sappho, down the ages rings’: Queering Classics, women’s rights and writing for performance in early twentieth century Britain.”
Georgina Barker, Title TBC
Comfort break
11.00-12.00 Writing Workshop:Caroline Lawrence (1 hour)
12.00-12.45 Lunch
12.45-14.15 Reading/Discussion 1: Contemporary Women’s Poetry (1.5 hours)
Readings & discussion: Clare Pollard, Fiona Benson, Vahni Capildeo (Chair & discussant: Helena Taylor)
Comfort Break
14.25-15.25 Roundtable 1: Figuring and Refiguring Penelope (1 hour) (Chair: Georgina Paul)
Roundtable & discussion: Georgina Paul, Isobel Hurst, Sheila Murnaghan, Emily Hauser
Tea Break
15.45-17.45 Panel 2: Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry (2 hours) (Chair: TBC)
Yopie Prins, Title TBC
Laura McClure, “H.D’s Choros Sequence”
Judy Hallett, “Saved with ablatives and declensions in the toilet stall’: Classical learning and the poetry of Maxine Kumin (1925-2014)”
Laura Jansen, “On Anne Carson/Antiquity”
Comfort Break
18.00-19.00 Keynote: Madeline Miller (1 hour)
DAY 2: Friday 18th June
9.00-10.00 Reading/Discussion 2: “Scenes from (Mary) Sidney” (1 hour)
Practical performance & discussion: Freyja Cox Jensen, Oskar Cox Jensen, Dylan McCorquodale and Emma Whipday
Comfort break
10.10-11.10 Workshop: “Early modern women’s reception of classical exemplary figures” (1 hour)
Workshop & discussion: Rebecca Langlands, Helena Taylor, TBC
Comfort break
11.20-12.20 Roundtable 2: “Breaking the Form: Women Writers and Academic Writing” (1 hour) (Chair: Tom Geue)
Roundtable & discussion: Tom Geue, Daisy Dunn, Emily Hauser
12.20-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 Keynote: Natalie Haynes (1 hour)
Comfort break
14.10-15.40 Panel 3: “Making Our Mark: Poetic Imaginations of Forgotten Women’s Voices from Roman Britain” (1.5 hours)
Reading, panel and responses: Josephine Balmer, Fiona Cox, Elena Theodorakopoulos, Sheila Murnaghan
Comfort Break
15.50-17.20 Panel 4 (1.5 hours)
15.00-17.20 Panel 4a: Creative Intellectuals II: The Renaissance (1.5 hours) (Chair: Helena Taylor)
Behr, Francesca D’A. “Lucrezia Marinella and Ancient Rhetoric: A Woman’s Approach to Eloquence in the Late Italian Renaissance”
Emma Herdman “Classical Credentials: Women’s Intellectual/Sexual Licence in Renaissance France”
Sharon Marshall, Title TBC
15.50-17.20 Panel 4b: Archaic Poetry in Reception II: Contemporary Homer (1.5 hours) (Chair: TBC)
Ruby Blondell, “Like Working for a Frat House: A Feminist Takes On TV Epic”
Polly Stoker, “’Laughing as she cried’: Tragedy, comedy, and gender in receptions of Homer in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries”
Emily Hauser, “Recovering the women of the Trojan War: Why now?”
Comfort break
17.30-17.50 Breakout Session: Looking Back, Looking Ahead (20 minutes)
18.00 Keynote: Donna Zuckerberg (1 hour)
Call for papers: The reception of the classics by women writers has historically been a story of a relatively few remarkable individuals overcoming patriarchal educational, social and cultural norms to read – in original or in translation – classical texts and write about them. Today, some of these barriers may have transformed, and may, indeed, be applicable beyond gender categories, as is evident from the educational inequalities that determine access to classical learning, while others are still ever present. Important recent work in this burgeoning area of scholarship has focused on female classical philologists and scholars; we would like to broaden these categories, looking beyond the sole criteria of literacy in ancient languages to include a range of different forms of reception from across time periods and cultures. Our understanding of women writers includes all those who self-define as women, including (if they wish) those with complex gender identities which include ‘woman’.* The purpose of this conference is to bring together both practitioners (translators, novelists, poets) and scholars working on classical reception by women writers, to address common methodological concerns and explore future possible collaborations. Some questions we will address include: does the category of ‘women writers’ have a transhistorical validity in relation to classical reception? Are some classical authors or genres more appealing to women writers? How have ancients writers who belong to a tradition normally reserved for the elite and, in the past, for men been used to engage in sexual and textual politics? (*Definition adapted from The Women’s Classical Committee https://wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/)
Please get in touch with the conference organisers, Emily Hauser and Helena Taylor, at womencreatingclassics@gmail.com for more details.
Website: https://womenwritersandclassics.wordpress.com/conference-2021/
POWER, COERCION, AND CONSENT: GRAMSCI'S HEGEMONY AND THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
A Gramsci Research Network Workshop
British School at Rome (with online option): June 17, 2021
Another point to determine and develop is that of “double perspectives” in the political action and in the life of the State. Various degrees in which the double perspective can arise, from the most basic to the most complex, but which can reduce theoretically into two fundamental degrees, corresponding to double nature of the Machiavellian Centaur, wild beast and human, of force and consensus, of authority and hegemony, of violence and civilization, of the individual and universal moment (of “Church” and “State”), of agitation and propaganda, of tactics and strategy etc. -- Antonio Gramsci, Q 13 §14 [Eng. Tr. Hoare/Nowell Smith 1971]
The debate about the definition of hegemony is still heated among scholars working on Antonio Gramsci’s thought. In the Notebooks, Gramsci discusses one of the most iconic images of power ever produced: Machiavelli's Centaur. This represents graphically the double nature of power: the co-existence of consensus and force. Arguing against the classical idea of Perry Anderson’s (1976) “antinomies of Antonio Gramsci”, Peter Thomas recently contended (in his The Gramscian Moment, 2009) that Gramsci’s hegemony is actually a dialectical process, resolved in the “integral State”, thus re-inscribing hegemony in a solid Hegelian and Marxist perspective. However, the employ of hegemony as a category in historiographical interpretation is still often limited to a cultural domination through consensus, especially in English-speaking scholarship. This reading has tended to exclude any form of coercion from the study of consensus-building.
Reflecting upon violence and consensus cannot ignore the philosophical debates about power. The definition of this concept as well as the discussion of power relations is still fundamental to historiographical thought; perceptions and practices of power and resistance are also part of each individual’s everyday life. Recent attempts to bring Gramsci’s thought in dialogue with the work of Michel Foucault suggest a broader interest on the subject: theorical works such as Laclau and Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985) can be placed side a side with interdisciplinary methodological efforts such as the volume Gramsci and Foucault: a Reassessment (2015) edited by David Kreps.
This workshop aims to bring together scholars of Roman history and of political philosophy, by reflecting upon the Roman Republic from its origins to the Principate (509 BC-27 BC). The last thirty years saw an intense academic debate on the form of government of the Roman res publica, thanks to fundamental contributions such as Fergus Millar’s The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic (1998) and Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp’s Rekonstruktion einer Republik. Die politische Kultur des antiken Rom und die Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte (2004). During the last decade, many other contributions on the masses in the Roman experience were published, discussing popular or plebeian culture, and the plebs’ political practices, such as, for instance, Cyril Courrier’s La plèbe de Rome et sa culture (2014). This workshop aims to address this ongoing debate moving between models and practices of politics, in order to investigate elements of coercion in power structures mainly based on consensus.
Hence, we invite papers on the history of the Roman Republic and political philosophy regarding the relationship between power, consensus, and force. Submissions of papers are invited in, but in no way limited to, the following topics: relationship between force and consensus in the Roman Republic; Gramsci’s hegemony and interpretation of related writings (either from the Prison Notebooks or not); power, consensus, repression and resistance in other writers including Machiavelli, Spinoza, Foucault, post-Marxists, and Italian theory; republican forms of rule of power and grassroots perspectives on power and resistance; the political role of popular masses in the Roman Republic; republican elites and the organization of power; gender/race and Gramsci’s hegemony.
We invite papers in English from doctoral students, early career/ postdoctoral researchers and academics in historical, literary, philosophic, archaeological or artistic disciplines, working either on the Roman Republic or on relevant themes in the field of political philosophy. Abstracts no longer than 300 words should be sent to romanhegemony@gmail.com before 26 February 2021. Please, send your abstract in PDF format, along with your personal data (name, position, and affiliation) in the email body.
The workshop will take place at the British School at Rome on 17 June 2021, with the possibility of joining it online. Should any issue linked to the present global situation prevent us from holding the event in presence, the workshop would be turned into an online event. Two speakers already agreed to contribute: Prof. Christopher J. Smith (Roman History, University of St. Andrews) and Dr. Francesca Antonini (Intellectual History, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).
For further information and queries, please do not hesitate to contact Michele Bellomo (michele.bellomo@unimi.it) or Emilio Zucchetti (e.zucchetti2@ncl.ac.uk)
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-coercion-and-consent-gramscis-hegemony-and-the-roman-republic-tickets-152398747757
Call: https://www.facebook.com/GramsciResearchNetwork/posts/775380426653913
(CFP closed February 26, 2021)
[ONLINE] TRADITIONS OF MATERIA MEDICA (300 BCE - 1300 CE)
Online - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: June 16-18, 2021
We are delighted to announce a three-day conference on the history of medicine and pharmacology, Traditions of Materia Medica (300 BCE – 1300 CE), that we will convene (digitally) from 16-18 June 2021 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The theme of the conference is the transmission of pharmacology (in its many forms) before and after the writings of Galen of Pergamum. What approaches to drugs and medicines existed before Galen? How should we characterize them? And how was earlier pharmaceutical knowledge transferred, filtered, refined and challenged following the dissemination of Galen’s pharmacology?
The conference brings together scholars working on ancient Greek, Demotic, Coptic, Latin and Arabic pharmacology and medicine to discuss these questions. We will have talks on central but understudied authors and traditions, and we will discuss some ground-breaking methods of studying these traditions currently being developed in the history and philosophy of science, philology, botany, chemistry, archaeology, lexicography and digital humanities.
The programme is as follows:
16 June 2021
13:00 Introduction
13:10 David Leith, Exeter: Pharmacology in the Asclepiadean Sect
13:35 Irene Calà, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: The Libri medicinales of Aetius Amidenus as Source for the Followers of Herophilus: Additional Fragments of Andreas of Carystus
14:00 Break
14:10 Caterina Manco, Paul Valéry – Montpellier: Galien lecteur du De materia medica de Dioscoride
14:35 Costanza de Martino, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Philumenus’ Sources in De venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis
15:00 Break
15:10 Amber Jacob, New York University: A Demotic Pharmacological Compendium from the Tebtunis Temple Library
15:35 Anne Grons, Philipps-Universität Marburg: Materia Medica in Coptic Medical Prescriptions
16:00 Break
16:10 Manuela Marai, Warwick: Wound and Skin Infection Treatment in Galen: Potential Antimicrobial Substances for Drug Development
16:35 Effie Photos-Jones, Glasgow: What Do You Do With a Problem Like … Lithargyros
17 June 2021
13:00 Greeting
13:10 Laurence Totelin, Cardiff: Traditions of Ancient Euporista
13:35 Caroline Petit, Warwick: Towards a new edition of Galen's treatise On Simple Drugs
14:00 Break
14:10 John Wilkins, Exeter: Materia Medica: A Study of Galen’s Inheritance of Materia Medica and His Theorising of It
14:35 P. N. Singer, Einstein Centre Chronoi Berlin: A Change in the Substance: Theory and its Limits in Galen's Simples
15:00 Break
15:10 Krzysztof Jagusiak and Konrad Tadajczyk, Łódź: Sitz Baths (ἐγκαθίσματα) in the Galenic Corpus
15:35 Simone Mucci, Warwick: ἀρχιατροί, Antidotes and Hellenistic and Roman Rulers
16:00 Break
16:10 Maximillian Haars, Philipps-Universität Marburg: Annotated Catalogue and Index of Medicinal Plants and Herbal Drugs in the Galenic Corpus
16:35 Barbara Zipser, Royal Holloway University London, and Andreas Lardos, Zurich: New Approaches to Ancient Botanical Lexicography
18 June 2021
13:00 Greeting
13:10 Alessia Guardasole, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris: The Diacodyon (διὰ κωδυῶν) Remedy Throughout the Centuries
13:35 Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Edinburgh: Pharmacological Substances from Asia in Late Antique and Byzantine Medical Works
14:00 Break
14:10 Matteo Martelli, Bologna: Minerals for Medicine and Alchemy: Dyes and Dry Pharmaka
14:35 Maciej Kokoszko, Łódź: A Few Words on a Certain Sweet Sauce, or On Dietetics and Materia Medica Included in De observatione ciborum by Anthimus
15:00 Break
15:10 Zofia Rzeźnicka, Łódź: Peeling / Scrubs in the Libri Medicinales of Aetius of Amida
15:35 Sean Coughlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Alchemies of Scent: Experimental Approaches to Medicinal Perfumes
16:00 Break
16:10 Lucia Raggetti, Bologna: Aristotle and a Gem Shop on Peacock Alley
16:35 Closing Remarks
Abstracts for all talks can be found at https://www.sfb-episteme.de/en/veranstaltungen/Tagungen/traditions-of-materia-medica/Abstracts-and-Programme.html
The event is free and open to all interested parties, but advance registration is required as space is limited. To register, please visit the conference website (below) or email info@sfb-episteme.de with your name, affiliation and your research interests. Please register by 11 June 2021.
The conference is hosted by the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 980 Episteme in Bewegung and the Institut für Klassische Philologie at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It is organized by Sean Coughlin, Christine Salazar, Lisa Sherbakova, with Philip van der Eijk.
Website: https://www.sfb-episteme.de/en/veranstaltungen/Vorschau/2021/A03_traditions-of-materia-medica.html
[ONLINE] EARLY MODERN AND MODERN COMMENTARIES ON VIRGIL
Online - Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” (Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filosofici e di storia dell’arte): June 14-16, 2021
Monday, June 14, 2pm-2:20pm
Welcoming words by EMORE PAOLI (Director of the Department of Studi letterari, filosofici e di storia dell’arte, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”) and introduction by SERGIO CASALI
SESSION 1
Monday, June 14, 2:20pm-5pm
Chair: VIRGILIO COSTA (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
DAVID WILSON-OKAMUIRA (East Carolina University), Afterimages of Lucretius
FABIO STOK (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”), Commenting on Virgil in the 15th Century: from Barzizza (?) to Parrasio (?)-I
GIANCARLO ABBAMONTE (Università di Napoli Federico II), Commenting on Virgil in the 15th Century: from Barzizza (?) to Parrasio (?)-II
NICOLA LANZARONE (Università di Salerno), Il commento di Pomponio Leto all’Eneide: sondaggi relativi ad Aen. 1 e 2
5pm-5:20pm Break
SESSION 2
Monday, June 14, 5:20pm-8pm
Chair: EMANUELE DETTORI (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
PETER KNOX (Case Western Reserve University), What if Poliziano Had Written a Commentary on Virgil?
PAUL WHITE (University of Leeds), Badius’s Virgil Commentary in the Context of Humanist Education
ANDREA CUCCHIARELLI (Sapienza Università di Roma), Petrus Nannius as an Interpreter of Virgil: the Commentary on the Eclogues
SERGIO CASALI (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”) Petrus Nannius as an Interpreter of Virgil: the Commentary on Aeneid 4
SESSION 3
Tuesday, June 15, 2pm-4:40pm
Chair: JOHN F. MILLER (University of Virginia)
CRAIG KALLENDORF (Texas A&M University), Virgil’s Unluckiest Commentator? Iodocus Willichius and His Times
FEDERICA BESSONE (Università di Torino), Spiegare Virgilio con i suoi successori. I commenti virgiliani sulle tracce di Stazio
VIOLA STARNONE (Scuola Superiore Meridionale), The Metamorphoses of Virgil: Early Modern Responses
VASSILIKI PANOUSSI (College of William & Mary), Egypt and Africa in the Early Modern Commentaries
4:40pm-5pm Break
SESSION 4
Tuesday, June 15, 5pm-7:40pm
Chair: IRENE PEIRANO GARRISON (Harvard University)
UTE TISCHER (Universität Leipzig), Author Strategies in Collected Editions of Printed Commentaries on Virgil in Early Modern and Modern Times
JOSEPH FARRELL (University of Pennsylvania), Rediscovering the Rediscovery of Homer in Vergil Commentaries, Half a Century On
MONIQUE BOUQUET (Université de Rennes 2 - CELLAM), La Poétique d’Aristote comme clé de lecture de l’Énéide de Virgile dans les In librum Aristotelis de arte poetica explicationes de Francesco Robortello
PHILIP HARDIE (University of Cambridge), MetaVirgilian Commentaries, with Particular Reference to Abraham Cowley
SESSION 5
Wednesday, June 16, 2pm-4:40pm
Chair: BARBARA WEIDEN BOYD (Bowdoin College)
YASMIN HASKELL (University of Western Australia), Virgil Vindicated: Jesuit Praelections, Prolusions, Corrections and Exclusions
GIAN BIAGIO CONTE (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Considerazioni sul Commentario a Virgilio di C. G. Heyne
RICHARD F. THOMAS (Harvard University), Between Heyne and Conington from the Land of the Fairies: Thomas Keightley’s Eclogues and Georgics
STEPHEN HARRISON (University of Oxford), Victorian Virgil: John Conington and Henry Nettleship’s Commentary (1858-82)
4:40pm-5pm Break
SESSION 6
Wednesday, June 16, 5pm-7:40pm
Chair: SHADI BARTSCH (University of Chicago)
ALISON KEITH (University of Toronto), Epicureana in Virgil Commentaries
LUIGI GALASSO (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Su cosa si fonda l’Oltretomba. La dialettica commento-saggio da Norden a oggi
ALEXANDER ROGUINSKY (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) & MIKHAIL SHUMILIN (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, / A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences / National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow) - Textual Criticism in Russian Language Commentaries on Classical Latin Poetry: The Case of Valery Bryusov’s Projected Commentary on Aeneid 2
JAMES O’HARA (University of North Carolina), Adventures in Writing and Editing a Group Classroom Commentary: the Focus-Hackett Aeneid Project
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81909339883
For more information: casali@uniroma2.it
[ONLINE] THE LEGEND OF ANACHARSIS IN ANTIQUITY AND MODERNITY
Online - University of Liverpool, UK: June 10-11, 2021
The conference centres upon the figure of Anacharsis, a Scythian philosopher travelling around the Greek world during the age of Solon’s reforms, killed for adopting alien (Greek) religious practices upon his return to Scythia and pursuing too strong an interest in alterity. His peripatetic presence combined with his penchant for intellectual exploration and questioning of ‘otherness’ will soon make Anacharsis a paradigm of enlightened independence. His legend was revived in the age of the Enlightenment, when his philosophy returned to intellectual discourse as an agent of dissonance and rupture fostering an emergent cultural relativism and cosmopolitanism. Today, Anacharsis helps us understand how ancient and modern reacted to religious conflicts, cultural diversity and political transformation.
10 June 2020 (Ancient Anacharsis)
14:15 - 14:50 Bruce Gibson and Marco Perale (Liverpool): Welcome Address and Introduction
14:50 - 15:30 Ben Cartlidge (Christ Church, Oxford) - Anacharsis and Foreign Wisdom in New Comedy
15:30 - 16:10 Marco Perale (Liverpool) - Diogenes Laertius’ Epitaph for Anacharsis
16:40 - 17:20 Alia Rodrigues (Coimbra) - Wiser Than Solon: On Anacharsis’s Laugh In Plutarch (Sol. 5.1)
17:20 - 18:00 Bryant Kirkland (UCLA) - Anacharsis in the Imperial Greek Imagination
11 June 2020 (Modern Anacharsis)
9:30 - 10:10 Ian Macgregor Morris (Salzburg) - The Outsider Within
10:10 - 10:50 Victoria Rwabeh (Kew House School/UCL) - Philosophers on Tour. Cosmopolitanism and Legacy in Barthelemy’s Voyages de Jeune Anacharsis
11:20 - 12:00 Peter Langford (Edge Hill) - Revolution within the Revolution: The Cosmopolitical Project of Anacharsis Cloots
12:00 - 12:40 Erica Joy Mannucci (Milano Bicocca) - Anacharsis in the French Revolution: a Case-Study on Sylvain Maréchal
14:00 - 14:40 Aurelio Principato (Roma Tre) - Anacharsis in Chateaubriand’s Essai sur les révolutions (1797)
14:40 - 15:20 Alexei Zadorozhny (Liverpool) - The Russian Anacharsis: Nikolai Karamzin
This is a free event. However, we kindly ask you to register via the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-legend-of-anacharsis-in-antiquity-and-modernity-tickets-156912277847
Abstracts available here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/events/php/index.php?event=98920
[ONLINE] THE RECEPTION OF PLATO IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES
Online - Athens, Greece: June 6-8, 2021
Keynote Speakers:
KEVIN CORRIGAN, Emory University
ILARIA RAMELLI, Durham University/ Cambridge University/ Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
LLOYD GERSON, Toronto University
DIRK BALTZY, University of Tasmania
Organizing Committee: E. Anagnostou (Macquarie), G. Arabatzis (NKUA), G. Steiris (NKUA)
Program: http://www.philosophy.uoa.gr/fileadmin/philosophy.uoa.gr/uploads/EARINO_2020_21/RECEPTION_OF_PLATO_PROGRAM_JUNE.pdf
Website: http://www.philosophy.uoa.gr/proboli-ekdilwshs/6-8-june-2021-international-conference-the-reception-of-plato-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages.html
ENCHANTED RECEPTION: RELIGION AND THE SUPERNATURAL IN MEDIEVAL TROY NARRATIVES
Ghent University, Belgium: June 3-4, 2021
If necessary due to the current circumstances, we will arrange a hybrid version (partly online), or a strictly digital version.
Enchanted Reception is a two-day workshop with the aim of exploring the place of enchantment, myth, and religion in both Eastern and Western medieval narratives about Troy, or narratives that are influenced by motifs related or parallel to the narrative of the Trojan war. Together with scholars specialising in the different language traditions of medieval literature, we aim to explore the following questions from a transnational approach:
• How did contemporary (e.g. literary and socio-cultural) developments influence medieval adaptations of the supernatural and pagan religion in medieval Troy narratives?
• What role does the Troy motif play in other literary works?
• How are rationalization and “Christianization” used to deal with the medieval unease evoked by certain aspects of ancient mythology?
• From a comparative perspective, how can we map such processes transnationally, e.g. in the different language and literature traditions of the medieval world?
• How do these questions engage with themes such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity and cross-cultural connections?
Please send your abstract to Dr Tine Scheijnen (tine.scheijnen@ugent.be) or Dr Ellen Söderblom Saarela (ellen.soderblomsaarela@ugent.be) no later than 15 January 2021. Colleagues who have submitted an abstract will be notified by 1 February 2021.
This workshop is organized as part of and supported by the ERC project Novel Echoes and the FWO project The romance between Greece and the west (see https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/).
If you have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Tine or Ellen. We look very much forward hearing from you and receiving your abstracts!
Information: https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/event/conference-enchanted-reception-religion-and-supernatural-medieval-troy-narratives%E2%80%AF
(CFP closed January 15, 2021)
ROMULUS: GOD, KING, FOUNDER OF ROME
Velletri (Rome) - Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”: June 2-5, 2021
Thanks to films, TV series and recent (re)discoveries in the Roman Forum, the character of the first king and founder of the Eternal City returned to the centre of cultural debate in Italy. We thus witnessed in the last few months a whole string of interpretations of the documentation about Romulus and of what is attributed to him or suggested about his character and deeds by the historical sources, some of these interpretations acceptable and plausible, others bold and not very credible
In this context we thought it appropriate to propose a moment of shared interdisciplinary reflection meant to favour an in-depth analysis, with due attention to the whole of the sources and data available to us, involving anthropologists, archaeologists, philologists, historians and historians of religions.
The following are the points of the various received traditions and of the scientific debate about Romulus that can be analysed at the conference in relation to the documentation:
1) The birth of Romulus and Remus.
2) The twins’ childhood and youth.
3) The conquest of Alba Longa and the return to the throne of Numitor.
4) The foundation of Rome and the death of Remus.
5) The Rape of the Sabine women.
6) The conjoined reign of Romulus with Titus Tatius.
7) The wars of conquest in Latium Vetus.
8) The death or disappearance of Romulus.
9) The god Quirinus.
10) The civil and religious institutions whose origin is attributed to Romulus or to both twins.
11) Laws, norms and customs followed in Rome and attributed to the works or the character of Romulus.
12) “Romulean” memories in Rome.
13) History of the studies.
Scientific committee: Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”), Aroldo Barbieri (Sapienza Università di Roma), Maria Teresa D’Alessio (Sapienza Università di Roma), David Nonnis (Sapienza Università di Roma).
Administration: Igor Baglioni, director of the Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”
The scholars who would like to contribute may send a one-page abstract (max 2.000 characters) to Igor Baglioni, the director of the museum, at the address igorbaglioni79@gmail.com by April 1, 2021.
Attached to the abstract should be: the title of the paper; a short biography of the authors; email address and phone number. Papers may be written and presented in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
The acceptance of papers will be communicated by email only to the selected contributors by 2021, April 10.
Important deadlines:
Closing of call for papers: April 1st, 2021.
Conference: June 2-5th, 2021.
There is no attendance fee. The participants who don’t live in Rome or surroundings will be accommodated in hotels and bed-and-breakfasts which have an agreement with the Museum to offer discounted prices.
Papers may be published on Religio. Collana di Studi del Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni” (Edizioni Quasar), and in specialized journals. All the papers will be peer-reviewed.
The conference will be held in person and outdoors, respecting the security norms valid at the time. Date and place of the meeting may vary based on the evolution of the pandemic and the subsequent government and local regulations.
In the evenings there will be free-of-charge visits to the museums and monuments of various towns in the Castelli Romani area. The excursion programme will be presented at the same time as the conference programme.
For information: igorbaglioni79@gmail.com
Call (Italian): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u980mCP6iXrWeMtwN7UcOayVFep8b-5t/view?usp=sharing
Call (English): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vmi7WG2Ahyk3RvB8004GwwSspMgS0tAA/view?usp=sharing
(CFP closed April 1, 2021)
[HYBRID] THE METAMORPHOSES OF APULEIUS: FROM ANCIENT TEXTS TO MODERN RECEPTION
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (online participation also possible): June 2, 2021
PROGRAM:
9h00 Opening remarks
9h15 Keynote lecture: Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge), The tale of Cupid and Psyche in C.S. Lewis’ Till we have faces
10h15 Coffee break
10h45 Session 1: Religion
Jakub Handszu (Adam Mickiewicz University), The divine child in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: a Jungian perspective
11h15 Mateusz Stróżyński (Adam Mickiewicz University), Tragedy and Eucatastrophe: C.S. Lewis’ interpretation of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
11h45 Coffee break
12h15 Session 2: Communication
Tomasz Sapota (University of Silesia), Apuleius: self-creations
12h45 Łukasz Berger (Adam Mickiewicz University), Verbal interaction in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
13h15 Lunch break
14h45 Session 3: Apuleius staged
Piotr Urbański (Adam Mickiewicz University), Cupid and Psyche in the 17th and 18th century opera
15h15 Andrea Musio (Independent), The reception of Apuleius in Italian theatre and cinematography
15h45 Radosław Piętka (Adam Mickiewicz University), From films and comic books to avant-garde theater and experimental novel: some adventures of Apuleius in the XX and XXI centuries
16h15 Concluding remark
For all details please contact: Mateusz Stróżyński monosautos@gmail.com
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;55bdeca4.ex
[HYBRID] ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES - 49TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Tel Aviv University, Israel: June 10-11, 2020. New dates: 2-3 June, 2021
Program: http://www.israel-classics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/THE-49th-CONFERENCE-OF-THE-ISRAEL-SOCIETY-FOR-THE-PROMOTION-OF-CLASSICAL-STUDIES-_JUNE-2-3-2021_TEL-AVIV-UNIVERSITY-1.pdf
For registration details (online option), please email lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il
Physical participation in the conference is restricted to those who have a Green Pass or the equivalent
Note: Deferred from 2020 due to COVID-19. Previous CFP:
The Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies is pleased to announce its 49th annual conference to be held at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on Wed-Thurs, 10-11 JUNE 2020. Our keynote speaker in 2020 will be Professor Sheila Murnaghan, Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek, University of Pennsylvania.
The conference is the annual meeting of the society. Papers are welcome on a wide range of classical subjects, including but not limited to history, philology, philosophy, literature, reception, papyrology, and archaeology of Greece and Rome,and neighboring lands. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes. The official languages of the conference are English and Hebrew.
Conference fee is $50. Accommodation at reduced prices will be available at local hotels. Registration forms with a list of prices will be sent to participants in due course.
All proposals should consist of a one page abstract (about 250-300 words). Proposals in Hebrew should also be accompanied by a one-page abstract in English to appear in the conference brochure.
Proposals, abstracts and other correspondence should be sent to Dr. Lisa Maurice, Secretary of the ISPCS, at lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il
All proposals should reach the secretary by 19th DECEMBER, 2019.
Decisions will be made after the organizing committee has duly considered all the proposals. If a decision is required prior to early February, please indicate this in your letter and we will try to accommodate your needs.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1907&L=CLASSICISTS&P=2484
(CFP closed December 19, 2020)
[ONLINE] CLASS AND CLASSICS. HISTORIOGRAPHY, RECEPTION, CHALLENGES: TOWARDS A DEMOCRATISATION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
Online [BST] - May 31-June 1, 2021
The event is organised by the Gramsci Research Network, with the support of the Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute.
Note that there is still space to give a short talk (5-7 minutes) at the general meeting of Day 2: we aim to discuss the social limits posed to the fruition and production of Classics in the contemporary world, hoping to generate a debate on how to overcome these limitations. To make the discussion as inclusive as possible, we are gathering scholars, networks, and social associations active inside and outside academia and interested in the relationship between social inequality and classical studies. With this initiative, the GRN would like to promote a desired democratization of the studies on the ancient world, with a keen eye on the social and political challenges of our time. If you would like to take part in the discussion, don’t hesitate to email us at gramsciresearchnetwork@gmail.com. Possible topics are:
- The relationship between class and access to classical studies
- Classics as an assent of the elites
- The uses of Classics as a “Western” identitarian tool
- Inequality and Classical studies
- Eurocentrism and the Classics
- Obstacles to change within Classics and academia
- Politically and socially involved perspectives and approaches to Classics
- The future of Classics
- “Burn the Classics down” debate
- Global Classics
- Democratization of classical studies: why? For whom?
- Purposes and ideas for a democratization of Classics
- Policies to foster inclusions and democratization
Registration to attend the event is now open. We invite those who are interested in the workshop to register via Eventbrite following this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/class-and-classics-historiography-reception-challenges-tickets-152404916207?ref=estw
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at gramsciresearchnetwork@gmail.com
TRAVEL AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN OTTOMAN GREECE IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION C. 1800-1832
British School at Athens, Greece: May 17–18, 2021; with online participation
Note: unable to verify status of this meeting
Funded by the British Academy.
Organised by Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, University of St Andrews
The bicentenary of the Greek War of Independence of 1821 offers a timely opportunity for a re-evaluation of travel and archaeology in the age of revolution. The conference foregrounds diversity and small-scale engagements with the landscape and material past of Ottoman Greece at a time of political tension and explosive violence. The conference will explore the perspectives of both foreign travellers and local inhabitants in order to tease out diverse voices, keeping a sharp focus on the effects of ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, social status and disability. We are particularly keen to include perspectives from and about people of colour.
Within this inclusive intellectual framework we will pose a series of questions to analyse the mediating role of the Greek landscape and its antiquities between travellers and local inhabitants in all their diversity. How did major intellectual and cultural developments of the late eighteenth century, ranging from revolutionary politics in France and America to scientific and museological developments, intersect with actual encounters ‘on the ground’ in Ottoman Greece, specifically with the landscape, local inhabitants and small-scale objects and antiquities? How did the ethnic, cultural and religious identities of Ottoman communities (Greek, Turkish, Albanian, Jewish) affect local perceptions of contemporary travel and the classical material past? How did status (including slave status), gender, sexuality and disability shape encounters with the Greek landscape and its antiquities, not least with idealising white sculptured male bodies? How did archaeological-focused travel, with its emerging sophisticated discourses, intertwine with travel undertaken for scientific, military and Romantic aims?
In this way the conference will give prominence to hitherto marginalised perspectives drawing on recent work to decolonise Ancient Mediterranean Studies, including sensory approaches to access silenced voices, and will develop a micro-cultural history of Ottoman Greece in this tumultuous period. The intention is to submit the papers for publication in the British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies Series.
Confirmed speakers: Mélissa Bernier (École normale supérieure, Paris), Elisabeth Fraser (University of South Florida), Constanze Guthenke (University of Oxford), Jason König (University of St Andrews), Stephen Minta (University of York), Emily Neumeier (Temple University, The Tyler School of Art and Architecture), Estelle Strazdins (University of Queensland), Alessia Zambon (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris).
Suggested themes for conference papers:
• The multifaceted landscape as a stage for violent military activity, and as a repository of the classical past; analysed through figures who were both fighters in the war of independence and active in archaeology, especially Kyriakos Pittakys, George Finlay
• Digging and removing antiquities from the ground, especially small-scale objects; in particular the collaboration between foreigners and local inhabitants ranging from Ottoman elites to labourers to e.g. activities of Lord Aberdeen, Edward Dodwell, Otto von Stackelberg, Charles Cockerell, Lord Elgin; Ali Pasha, Veli Pasha
• The consumption of small-scale antiquities, including gift exchange, the emerging antiquities market, local collections and their display e.g. Athanasios Psalidas
• Variety of engagements with the classical material past through different types of objects e.g. sculpture, ceramics, buildings, manuscripts, coins
• The material culture of Ottoman Greece and the accommodation / display of antiquities within this
• Encounters between travellers and rulers, particularly in relation to antiquities, bringing out perspectives from both sides e.g. Ali Pasha, Veli Pasha, local governors in the Morea
• Traversing the land through the lens of classical texts and contemporary visual culture e.g. landscapes with ruins, scenes of myth, Orientalist painting
• Recording the landscape in a variety of media including literature (effects of genre e.g. travel literature, private diaries), landscape painting and maps
• Excavating the land to discover indigenous vegetal and mineral features, including Natural History publications e.g. the French Scientific Expedition in the Morea
• Philanthropic, religious or agricultural initiatives across the landscape e.g. Edward Noel
• Embodied travel, including family travel and disabled travellers e.g. Lord Byron
Please send abstracts (c.200 words) to Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (aipd@st-andrews.ac.uk) by 14 September 2020.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;dbaebe4a.2008
(CFP closed September 14, 2020)
[ONLINE] NAPOLEONE E L'ANTICO
Online (Zoom, UK/CET): May 7, 2021
We are pleased to announce an online workshop entitled "Napoleone e l'Antico", which will take place on Friday 7 May 2021, two days after the 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte's death.
Its focus will be on Napoleon’s interest in and engagement with the ancient world – his own readings, insights, and misconceptions. The theme has not been extensively examined so far; this workshop intends to provide a preliminary discussion, whilst seeking to be as wide-ranging as possible.
PROGRAMME:
9:30-9:40 Introduction
Session 1
9:40-10:20 Patrizia PIACENTINI (Milano), L’antico Egitto di Napoleone
10:20-11:00 Davide AMENDOLA (Dublin), Napoleone e Alessandro Magno
11:00-11:10 Break
11:10-11:50 Federico SANTANGELO (Newcastle), Napoleone e i modelli della Repubblica e
dell'Impero
11:50-12:30 Manfredi ZANIN (Venezia) L’'Empereur face aux Anciens': i giorni di Sant'Elena
Discussion
Session 2
14:30-15:10 Bruno COLSON (Namur), Napoléon et les stratèges de l’Antiquité
15:10-15:50 Immacolata ERAMO (Bari), Leggere Cesare a Sant'Elena. Il "Précis des guerres
de César"
15:50-16:00 Break
16:00-16:40 Salvatore MARINO (Münster), Napoleone e il diritto romano
Discussion
17:00 Arnaldo MARCONE (Roma), Conclusions
Everyone is welcome to attend. If you wish to take part in the workshop, please express your interest by writing to napoleoneantico@gmail.com: you will receive a Zoom link in due course. For any other queries, please email the convenors, Manfredi Zanin (manfredi.zanin@unive.it) and Federico Santangelo (federico.santangelo@ncl.ac.uk).
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;8f63bb36.2010
[ONLINE] AUDIO / VISUAL CAESAR: MODERNIZING THE ROMAN DICTATOR
Online - Sapienza University of Rome: May 5-7, 2001
In collaboration with Roma Tre University, University College London, and the Polish Institute of Rome.
For consumers across the globe, it is often in Audio/Visual media that they find their most personal and seemingly authentic experience of classical Rome. This conference explores the modernized audio/visual Caesar of theatre, film, animation, children’s popular culture, social media and more.
More information about the schedule and papers can be found here (please note that the times listed are for Warsaw): https://polonisticasapienza.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/audio-visual-caesar-modernizing-the-roman-dictator/
The conference will be live streamed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/polonisticasapienza/
To attend the conference via Zoom, please register here: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvf-urqTkvG9S375-k_cmAsRZLeV9pEwKY
(postponed/new dates) TEACHING CONFLICT RESOLUTION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
Manaus (Universidade do Estado do Amazonas), Brazil: June 9-12, 2020 - change of date due to COVID-19: April 20-23, 2021 - new dates TBC (likely Sept/Oct 2021 or June 2022.
Organisers: Dr. Martin Dinter (King’s College London), Dr. Carlos Renato Rosário de Jesus, Dra. Vanúbia Moncayo, and Dra. Maristela Silva (Universidade do Estado do Amazonas)
We welcome expressions of interest for 30-minute papers to be presented at this workshop, which will take place as part of the 3rd Semana Internacional de Estudos Clássicos do Amazonas (SECLAM); for information on previous iterations of this conference, see https://sites.google.com/prod/uea.edu.br/temas-classicos.
The theme of this workshop, which follows on from two previous events in Bogotá (April 2019) and London (July 2019), is ‘The Pedagogy of Conflict Resolution’. Hence, participants might choose to present accounts of existing projects integrating the Classics and conflict resolution outreach or develop plans for future programmes combining these subjects. Participants may also wish to explore how educators can mitigate the emotional impact of potentially sensitive classroom discussions on violence and war or even approach the workshop’s theme from an ancient history perspective by exploring how the ancients addressed subjects such as warfare and peacekeeping when educating youths. We also encourage speakers to examine how conflict resolution structures found in both ancient and modern literature might be practically implemented within Brazil and Colombia. Possible case studies include a region-specific reworking of Shay’s (1994) report, which compares post-traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam War veterans to Achilles’ emotional state in the Iliad.
The key questions to be answered during this exploration are: How can we, as educators, best implement Classics-related modules on conflict resolution for students at the secondary and tertiary level? What are the lessons to be learnt from initiatives – both successful and unsuccessful, and ancient as well as modern – which center upon introducing conflict-affected populations to the Classics? How can the knowledge accumulated throughout this project be used to improve the pedagogical materials which we have designed for use in schools?
Deadline for abstracts: 15th December 2019 to martin.dinter@kcl.ac.uk.
Contact Information:
Please send all expressions of interest or queries to the Principal Investigator, Dr. Martin Dinter (martin.dinter@kcl.ac.uk). Please note that all participants will require proof of yellow fever vaccination in order to travel to Manaus.
Further information relating to this workshop series can be found online at our project site: https://sites.google.com/view/conflictandclassics/home.
Confirmed Speakers
Anni Marcelli Santos de Jesus, PUC-MG/UniNorte (Brazil)
Paula da Cunha Correa, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Marcos Martinho, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Gilson Charles dos Santos, Universidade de Brasília (Brazil)
Charlene Miotti, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil)
Leni Ribeiro Leite, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Brazil)
Andrea Lozano Vásquez, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)
Ana Filipa Patinha Prata, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)
Gemma Bernadó Ferrer, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)
Ronald Forero Álvarez, Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia)
Rodrigo Verano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Kathryn Tempest, University of Roehampton (UK)
Rebecca Langlands, University of Exeter (UK)
Emma Buckley, St. Andrews (UK)
David Whetham, King’ College London (UK)
Astrid Khoo, Harvard University (USA)
Sara Monoson, Northwestern University (USA)
Project Summary: The AHRC Research Networking project ‘Conflict Resolution through Classical Literature’ forms connections between academic research in Classics and War Studies and peace-building education in two Latin American target countries: Brazil and Colombia. The project is characterized by its double aim of research and outreach.
In three workshops – Bogota (April 2019), London (July 2019), and Manaus (June 2020) –participating scholars will produce new research on how Classical literature communicates and showcases conflict resolution skills, and develop ways of employing Classical literature in communicating these skills to conflict-affected youth. In so doing, they will examine ancient models of conflict resolution and map these onto the current political situation in Colombia and Brazil. In addition, they will evaluate how the Classics have historically informed pedagogical initiatives in these countries and devise ways in which ancient literature can continue to enhance peace-related education.
Call: https://sites.google.com/view/conflictandclassics/call-for-papers-workshop-3
(CFP closed December 15, 2019)
[ONLINE] (UN)-FORGOTTEN REALMS: SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY IN AND ABOUT THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
25th Annual Classics Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Virginia
Online (from University of Virginia, USA: April 17, 2021
Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Rea (University of Florida)
Conceptions of the fantastic appear throughout Classical antiquity as the Greeks and Romans looked to the supernatural as a way of understanding themselves and the world around them. Ancient literature abounds with elements of fantasy, notably in tales of transformation and interference from the divine, as in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. Imagined worlds feature prominently in philosophical texts, such as the works of Plato, and comic texts including the works of Aristophanes and Lucian, providing the authors a means by which to examine their own societies. The fantastic also borders on science fiction, exemplified by the scientific inventions and innovations of the Hellenistic period. Surviving material evidence, like curse tablets, has greatly informed our views of practical magic and the everyday experience of the supernatural. Our own society revels in the fantasy of the classical world in multiple forms of media, spanning from novels to film and even the world of games. Traces of the ancient world can be seen in the works of authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and Dan Simmons, as well as in the Marvel Universe and DC Comics. Several recent publications examine issues of fantasy and science fiction through the lens of Classical reception, notably Rogers and Stephens 2015 and 2019, whose volumes collect articles exploring the classical connections in a variety of sources from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Frank Herbert’s Dune and Battlestar Galactica.
For this conference, we seek papers exploring elements of science fiction and fantasy in the ancient world and about the ancient world. We welcome submissions from all students of the ancient Mediterranean world and its reception. Possible topics could include but are not limited to:
* Literary depictions of space travel and outer space
* Fantasy worlds or the reality of other worlds in ancient literature
* Magic, ritual, the supernatural, and interactions with the divine in ancient literature or art
* Depictions of transformation or monsters in ancient literature or art
* Material evidence such as curse tablets and magical papyri
* Automata and inventions in ancient literature and myth
* Dystopian and utopian visions of the future
* Reception of ancient literature in modern, early modern, and medieval literature and media (including games, television and film, and other visual art)
Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words (not counting bibliography) to Iam McClain (hmj4uj@virginia.edu) by February 5, 2021. This colloquium will be held online and will be accessible to all, including those with physical disabilities, mental illness, and/or chronic illness. Any questions may be addressed to colloquium organizers Holly Maggiore (hm3pq@virginia.edu) and Jovan Cvjetičanin (jc3ev@virginia.edu).
Edited 10/04/2021. Program (US Eastern Time):
10.00-11.00 Session 1: Tolkien
(10-10.30) Beren-Dain Delbrooke-Jones (University of Reading): "A Wine-dark Belegaer? Ancient Greek notions of the Sea in Tolkien's mythopoeic writings"
(10.30-11) Phoebe J. Thompson (University of Cambridge): "'Dryad Loveliness': Superblooms in Tolkien's Ithilien and Roman Visual Representations of Landscape"
11.00-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-12.20 Session 2: Liminality
(11.20-11.50) Lidia Chiné Zapater (University of Madrid): "Roman Gardens: illusion and fantasy"
(11.50-12.20) Katrina Knight (Emory University): "Curses, Human Sacrifice, and King Arthur: Roman Britain on the Edge of the Imagination"
12.20-14.40 Lunch break
14.40-15.40 Session 3: Corpora Mutata
(14.40-15.10) Treasa Bell (Yale University): "Pandora, Cynthia, and Eburna: The Aesthetics of Cyborg Identity"
(15.10-15.40) Pedro Madeira Cunha Albuquerque Vaz (University of Lisbon): "Hunters and Werewolves: Classical Influences in Curt Siodmak's The Wolf Man (1941)"
15.40-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.00 Keynote: Jennifer Rea (University of Florida): "Rumor Has It: The Politics of Survival in Snowpiercer and the Aeneid"
Zoom registration: https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcude2uqjwrGdYZfofDjV3EU0VXvVlZVIIG
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/1674770999370138
(CFP closed February 5, 2021)
"WHAT HAVE THE ANCIENTS EVER DONE FOR US?": THE VALUE OF STUDYING THE ANCIENT WORLD BOTH IN AND OUT OF THE ACADEMY
Online (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): April 17, 2021
Why do we study the very distant past? Why dig up ancient bones and stones? Why learn long-dead languages and pore over texts that are thousands of years old? And, most importantly, how do these investigations inform us about the world and our global society?
This event is organised by Trinity Long Room Hub Graduate Fellows and aims to examine the value of Classics and the study of the Ancient World as both academic and public concerns. This conference will demonstrate the relevance and accessibility of our fields of interest, not only to researchers in other areas, but to society more broadly. Presentations should aim to explore how research and pedagogy linked to the Ancient World relates to contemporary cultural concerns and/or the advancement of other academic disciplines. We are hoping to challenge preconceptions and assumptions about the material and its relationship to the world we live in. We welcome perspectives from across the range of sub-disciplines under the Classical umbrella (e.g. ancient history, archaeology, Latin and Greek literature and philology, Late Antique and Byzantine studies, Classical reception studies, etc.) as well as cordially welcoming those from others pertaining to distant past (e.g. Egyptology, Pre-Columbian American studies, etc.). In addition to researchers, this conference encourages submissions from those who engage the public with antiquity; museum staff, guides and custodians of archaeological/historical sites, and teachers of history and ancient languages.
Conference Presentations will take one of two formats:
Papers - 10-20 minute pre-recorded talks, followed by live Q&A sessions.
Spotlight Talks - 5 minute talks as part of a live panel session, followed by Q&A.
Please send submissions to Ancients.DigitalCon@gmail.com by 5 February 2021.
We require:
Your name and a short bio describing who you are and your connection to the Ancient World.
Title and format of your intended presentation.
Abstract of your intended presentation (max. 500 words).
We are particularly interested in presentations relating to areas such as:
* Public/Community Archaeology and Bringing Lay Voices into Scholarship
* Classics and Antiquities as part of Creative Pedagogy and ‘Transferable Skills’
* Comparative Historiography between Antiquity and Medieval or Modern Eras
* Connections between Scientific Research and the Ancient World
* Ancient Literature and its Long-Term Cultural Impact
This list is by no means exclusive.
Confirmed Speakers:
Keynote: Prof. Brian McGing - Emeritus Professor of Greek at Trinity College Dublin
Dr Alex Imrie - Classics Tutor at the University of Edinburgh and Classics Outreach Co-Ordinator for the Classical Association of Scotland and Classics for All
Website: https://ancientsdigitalcon2021.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed February 5, 2021)
[ONLINE] CONTACT, COLONIALISM, AND COMPARISON
Online (USA): April 16-17, 2021
Different methods of ‘comparing antiquities’ do or do not presuppose the existence of contact between the civilizations they compare, or else weigh differently the importance of contact to the work of comparison. Underlying these differences are methodological questions like: to what extent, and in what ways, the history of contact between different civilizations plays a role in the work of comparison? To what extent the fact of contact between two civilizations legitimates their comparison? How the aims and methods of comparison differ in cases where contact has or has not taken place? More subtly, how should the intellectual history of contact in later periods of a region’s history affect how we do comparative work on earlier periods of that history?
These questions are particularly urgent in the case of comparison between the early Americas and Greco-Roman antiquity, where the practice of “comparing antiquities” has a long history as an intellectual tool of colonialism. Early missionaries, both Spanish and Mexican, used the texts of Classical Antiquity to dismiss as primitive the beliefs and practices of Indigenous peoples. Under the influence of racial theories inherited from the authors of classical antiquity, colonial intellectuals used comparison between the Mediterranean and tropical climates as grounds for racist generalization aimed at dehumanizing Indigenous peoples. Both assertions of similarity between the Americas and the Greco-Roman world and assertions of difference have been put in the service of colonizers’ arguments.
This conference, then, aims to think through the methodological implications of the intellectual history of contact for the modern-day academic study of Comparative Antiquity between the early Americas and the Greco-Roman world. What can the intellectual history of contact between Spanish invaders and Indigenous populations teach us about the possible methodological pitfalls of comparativism? In what ways should the history of contact affect the comparative methodologies we bring to bear on the study of American and Greco-Roman antiquities? What forms of comparison that avoid complicity with colonialist analogy are possible? How can scholars strive to make comparisons on equal terms, while acknowledging the treatment different cultures have received at the hands of intellectuals over the centuries?
To this end we invite papers from any discipline that tackle the intellectual history of contact between Spanish invaders and Indigenous populations (especially claims of analogy between pre-Christian Greco-Roman antiquity, and the pre-Christian Americas), papers that tackle methodological questions in the study of Comparative American and Greco-Roman antiquity, and papers engaged in this work of comparison with an eye to its broader political and historical context. We hope that this marriage of intellectual history, theoretical speculation, and comparative work can help scholars of many disciplines think critically and specifically about the ethical and methodological questions implicated in the work of comparison.
The conference will be held virtually from April 16-17, 2021. Papers will be pre-circulated, and each paper session will be led by a respondent before moving into a group discussion. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, December 15, 2020. Please submit an anonymized, 200-300 word abstract to antiquityintheamericas@gmail.com. For more information about Antiquity in the Americas, including past events and current projects, visit https://www.antiquityintheamericas.com/.
Edited 10/04/2021. Program:
Day 1 - April 16, 2021 (Please note: all times below are in EST.)
Opening Remarks: 11:00am-11:15am
Session 1: 11:15am-12:05pm
Paper Discussion: David Saunders, “Picture-Worlds: Developing an Exhibition on Maya, Moche, and Greek Vase-Painting”
Respondent: Stephanie Wong
Session 2: 12:05pm-12:55pm
Paper Discussion: Hendrik Lorenz, “A puzzle about Sahagún’s colonialist agenda in the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España”
Respondent: John Paul Paniagua
Break: 12:55pm-1:25pm
Session 3: 1:25pm-2:15pm
Paper Discussion: Bernardo Berruecos Frank, “Attic Guadalupe: Classical Traditions and Internal Colonialism in Villerías' 18th-century Greco-Roman Mexican Poetry”
Respondent: Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Session 4: 2:15pm-3:05pm
Paper Discussion: Claire Ptaschinski, “Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, his Teatro de Virtudes Politicas, and the Project of Mediterraneanization”
Respondent: Angela Brown
Break: 3:05pm-3:35pm
Session 5: 3:35pm-4:35pm
Artist’s Talk: Katarina Guzman
Followed by a session in conversation with Elise Chagas
Day 2 - April 17, 2021 (Please note: all times below are in EST.)
Session 6: 11:15am-12:05pm
Paper Discussion: Dylan James, “Indigenous Guides: Comparing Alexander and Columbus”
Respondent: Jacques Bromberg
Session 7: 12:05pm-12:55pm
Paper Discussion: Adriana Vazquez, “The Ovidian Exile of Cláudio Manuel da Costa, Brazilian Arcadian”
Respondent: Ian Silva
Break: 12:55pm-1:25pm
Session 8: 1:25pm-2:15pm
Paper Discussion: Joshua Hartman, “Repurposing, Reproducing, and Resisting Racist Ideas in Villerías’ Guadalupe”
Respondent: Jael Hernandez-Vasquez
Session 9: 2:15pm-3:05pm
Paper Discussion: Claudio García Ehrenfeld
Respondent: Erika Valdivieso
Break: 3:05pm-4:05pm
Session 10: 4:05pm-5:05pm
Closing Discussion
Call: https://www.antiquityintheamericas.com/copy-of-cuerpo-y-medio-ambiente
(CFP closed December 15, 2020)
[ONLINE] DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND NEO-LATIN STUDIES
Online - CEST (Berlin/Paris time): April 14-16, 2021
Wednesday, 14 Αpril 2021
10.00-10.15: Introduction
OCR, digital editions, and corpora
10.15-11.00 – Enikő Békés: Bibliotheca corvina digitalis – The Renaissance library of King Matthias online
11.00-11.45 – Uwe Springmann: OCR for Neo-Latin
11.45-12.30 – Martin Korenjak/Stefan Zathammer: Nova Scientia. A Semantic Media Wiki and a New Transkribus Model for Studying Latin Science
14.30-15.15 – Marco Petolicchio: Basinio, Hesperis: An overview of its digital architecture
15.15-16.00 – Neven Jovanović: Preparing a digital critical edition of a Neo-Latin text – Nicholas of Modruš, Oratio de funere Petri cardinalis S. Sixti (1474)
16.00-16.45 – William Short: The Latin WordNet and meaning representation in electronic corpora
Thursday, 15 Αpril 2021: Text mining and stylometry
10.15-11.00 – Maciej Eder: Textual similarities and Latin literature: a few case studies
11.00-11.45 – Johann Ramminger: Stylometry and Neo-Latin texts: Some case studies
11.45-12.30 – Christof Schöch: Comparison of Text Groups using Measures of Distinctiveness
14.30-15.15 – Patrick J. Burns: Conversational Agents from the Neo-Latin Colloquia to ChatterBot
15.15-16.00 – Maria Chiara Parisi/Yvette Oortwijn: Distributional Semantics for Neo-Latin
16.00-16.45 – Marco Passarotti: The LiLa Knowledge Base of Interlinked Linguistic Resources for Latin
Friday, 16 Αpril 2021: Linked Texts and Data
10.15-11.00 – Steven Coesemans/Jan Papy: Magister Dixit
11.00-11.45 – Matteo Romanello: Citation detection with the CitedLoci pipeline
11.45-12.30 – Andreas Walker: CERL resources in the context of Neo-Latin
14.30-15.15 – Marc Laureys/Alexander Winkler: Antonius Sanderus‘ Views on the Political and Cultural Contours of Flandria
DH and the teaching of and the teaching of Neo-Latin
15.15-16.00 – Isabella Walser-Bürgler: Joined Forces. Digital Humanities and Digital Teaching
Conclusions
16.00-16.45 – Ingrid De Smet: Potentials and Challenges of Digital Neo-Latin Studies
The conference is organized by Neven Jovanović (Zagreb), Marc Laureys (Bonn) and Alexander Winkler (Berlin/Halle) under the auspices of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies.
The conference will be held via zoom. You can register by email to alexander_winkler@posteo.de.
Program: https://dnls.hypotheses.org/
ABRAHAM B. YEHOSHUA E IL MITO CLASSICO: SEFARDITA, MEDITERRANEO, UNIVERSALE
Online - Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice: April 12, 2001 [5pm-6.30pm Italian time]
Program:
Introduzione - Dario Miccoli, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Da Cinque stagioni a La scena perduta: dal mito ashkenazita al mito universale? -
Giacomo Loi, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Verso sud: di labirinti, minotauri, civiltà perdute, capre e cicale - Giuseppina Marigo, Università Ebraica di Gerusalemme
Discussant - Emanuela trevisan Semi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Intervento finale di Abraham B. Yehoshua
The event will be in Italian, with A.B. Yehoshua’ final remarks in English.
In order to access the Zoom event, you must register at the following link: https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/4/48003
[ONLINE] A TRAVELLER IN AN ANTIQUE LAND: TRAVEL AND TRAVELING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Department of Classical Studies at Boston University 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference.
Online: Boston University, U.S.A.: April 10, 2021
Despite the danger and difficulty of travel in the ancient world, movement from place to place was a fact of life for many. Merchants and soldiers spent much time far from home, while captives and exiles often had no hope of a return. Military adventuring is evident from the earliest times, and tourism was not uncommon under the Roman Empire. As they encountered more lands and cultures, the ancients compiled a large body of scientific and literary writings on the world around them, informed by or in service of travel.
To better understand this important facet of life in the ancient world, the Department of Classical Studies at Boston University invites submissions of abstracts for the 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference, to be held over Zoom.
We invite proposals from graduate students working on the art, archaeology, or literature of any period of antiquity. Possible areas of inquiry include but are not limited to the following:
• Trade (Attic vases in Etruscan tombs, Marine-Archaeological shipwreck data, the Phoenicians in Herodotus 1)
• Pirates (The Homeric Hymn to Dionysus, Telemachus’ welcome in the Odyssey, Sextus Pompey)
• Military expeditions (Caesar, Xenophon, Alexander, Vindolanda tablets)
• Flights into exile (Livia with infant Tiberius, Alcibiades, Ovid Tristia 1)
• Personal travels (Herodotus, Pausanias, Peripluses, Itineraria)
• Impersonal travels (Geographers: Strabo, Ptolemy, and Mela; Ethnography: Tacitus’ Germania)
• Fantastic voyages: travel in fiction (Odyssey, Argonautica, Euhemerus’ Sacred History, Lucian’s True History, travel in the ancient novel)
• Voyages of the mind: philosophical travels and worlds (Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis, Plato’s Timaeus)
• Reception of travel in antiquity/past as a foreign country (Shelley’s Ozymandias, Yeats’ Sailing to Byzantium, Cavafy’s Ithaka)
Please send an anonymous abstract of no longer than 500 words to Philip Levine, Griffin Budde, and James Aglio at ancienttravelbu@gmail.com. Presenters will have 20 minutes for their papers, which will be followed by time for questions. Deadline for abstract submissions is February 1, 2021. Selected speakers will be notified by February 15, 2021.
Call: http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/graduate-student-conference-2/
(CFP closed February 1, 2021)
[ONLINE] WILLIAM GOLDING: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
Online (from Exeter, UK): April 8, 2021
We are excited to announce a virtual symposium on the work of William Golding to be held in the spring of 2021 (8th April). We would like to invite all those who are interested in Golding to participate through critical and/or creative responses to his writing, and are particularly keen to hear from emerging scholars and those whose voices have seldom been heard in Golding criticism.
While Lord of the Flies remains a widely read and much studied work of twentieth-century fiction, the rest of Golding’s creative output has suffered from a dearth of serious critical attention in the past two decades. More generally, as the reaction to Rutger Bregman’s recent critique of Golding made clear, the standard picture of Golding remains that of a man haunted by the depraved nature of humanity, whose work is more significant for its moral content than any literary merit (The Guardian, 9 May 2020).
However, the novels themselves and the crucial insights provided by John Carey’s recent biography and Judy Carver’s memoir reveal a more complex portrait of an individual acutely aware of contemporary issues of class, gender and sexuality, who, while tortured by severe bouts of guilt and dejection, nevertheless took joy and optimism from the natural world; from the whole range of classical antiquity; from ground-breaking developments in science; and from the power of language and storytelling to make readers see themselves, each other and the world anew.
Therefore, we strongly encourage critical reactions to the work which either reassess or move beyond the overweening moralism of past scholarship and the worn categories of good and evil, allegory, pessimism, science vs religion, male vs female, modernity vs post-modernity, and original sin. We also welcome creative or personal responses, from appreciations of Golding’s art to pieces which speak to current topics and concerns.
We are looking for presentations between 10-30 minutes which can be delivered in an online format, but are keen for the event to reflect the interests and perspectives of the participants. Please get in touch if you would like to be involved, whether with a formal abstract or with a more general expression of interest. We look forward very much to hearing from you.
Organisers - Bradley Osborne and Arabella Currie, University of Exeter
Deadline - 7 February 2021
Contact - williamgolding2021@gmail.com
Call: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/11/16/william-golding-beyond-good-and-evil
(CFP closed February 7, 2021)
[CAMWS PANEL] CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN 18TH CENTURY EUROPEAN POLITICS AND IDEAS
CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.: April 7-10, 2021
Rachel Sternberg and Paul Hay of the Department of Classics at Case Western Reserve University are seeking paper proposals for a conference panel to be delivered at the CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) Annual Meeting, on April 7-10, 2021. We intend to submit a panel proposal on the reception of classical antiquity in the political and intellectual discourse of 18th century Europe. The deadline for submissions is Monday, August 31. While the conference is tentatively scheduled to be held in person in Cleveland, OH, there is a possibility that the event will need to be held remotely on Zoom.
This panel examines the reception of classical thought in European political and intellectual discourse during the 18th century. While it has long been understood that the major figures of the Enlightenment era had a respect for, and drew influence from, Greco-Roman antiquity, classicists themselves have not contributed significantly to scholarly analyses of this relationship. Much recent work, while promising, has come from outside the world of classical scholarship (e.g., Nelson 2004, Stuart-Buttle 2019, Edelstein 2019). It is important for classical scholars to interrogate the traces of ancient thought at the root of 18th century ideas, especially given the continuing legacy of Enlightenment intellectualism in the modern world, from rational science to revolutionary politics. This work is all the more urgent in light of the contemporary misuse of classical imagery and iconography by hate groups and supporters of violence against oppressed minorities, whose distortion of ancient culture can in some ways be traced back to Enlightenment ideas and practices.
The goals of this panel are threefold. First, it seeks to call attention to the dearth of classical scholarship on the reception of ancient ideas in 18th century Europe. Second, it intends to address broad cultural parallels common to both antiquity and 18th century Europe in order to better understand Enlightenment interest in Greek and Roman thought. Finally, it hopes to wrest control of the meaning of antiquity from promoters of bigotry and oppression while still holding to account 18th century (and ancient) thinkers for their own misappropriation of ancient culture and hypocritical attitudes.
Bibliography
Edelstein, D. 2019. On the spirit of rights. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Nelson, E. 2004. The Greek tradition in Republican thought. Cambridge: CUP.
Stuart-Buttle, T. 2019. From moral theology to moral philosophy. Oxford: OUP.
Abstract deadline: August 31, 2020. Contact: pxh72@case.edu (Paul Hay)
or rxh103@case.edu (Rachel Sternberg).
Call: https://18thcenturyclassics.weebly.com/
(CFP closed August 31, 2020)
POETICS, POLITICS AND THE RUIN IN CINEMA AND THEATRE SINCE 1945 / POÉTIQUE ET POLITIQUE DE LA RUINE AU CINÉMA ET AU THÉÂTRE DEPUIS 1945
University of Oxford, UK: April 2, 2021
University of Paris Nanterre, France: November 22, 2021
This conference explores the ways in which artistic processes as well as works of theatre and cinema record the historical and artistic consequences of the Second World War in Europe by reinventing antiquity and by working with the ruin both politically and poetically.
Organisers: Estelle Baudou (Oxford) and Anne-Violaine Houcke (Paris Nanterre)
Deadline: October 30, 2020.
Call for papers: https://ruines.hypotheses.org/1307
Edit 20/03/2021 - Program:
Day 1: Friday 2 April 2021 - University of Oxford - held via Zoom
9.00-9.30 (GMT): Introduction
9.30-10.45: history and myth / histoire et mythe
Respondent/Modération: Laura Marcus, University of Oxford, New College, Goldsmith’s Professor of English literature
Werner Schroeter et l’interprétation des ruines (Pierre Eugène, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Études cinématographiques)
Theatre amongst the ruins: The poetics and politics of South African adaptations (Mark Fleishman, University of Cape Town, Theatre and Performance Studies)
10.45-11.00 Break / Pause
11.00-12.15: setting and landscape / décor et paysage
Respondent/Modération: Justine McConnell, King’s College London, Comparative Literature, Classical Reception
The Ruin as an emblem for Contemporary European Theatre: Milo Rau’s Orestes in Mosul (Nicole Haitzinger and Johanna Hörmann, University of Salzburg, Dance Studies)
Antigone à ciel ouvert (Cléo Carastro, EHESS, Anthropologie religieuse et histoire culturelle de la Grèce ancienne)
12.15-1.15 Lunch / Déjeuner
1.15-2.45: war and violence / guerre et violence
Respondent/Modération: Tiphaine Karsenti, Université Paris Nanterre, Études théâtrales
Material and immaterial ruin: ta'zieh and Greek tragedy (Yassaman Khajehi, Université Clermont Auvergne, Études théâtrales)
Tony Harrison and the Unflinching Gaze (Agata Handley, University of Lodz, Literature Studies)
War in Fragments (Estelle Baudou, University of Oxford, Theatre Studies, Classical Receptin; Giovanna Di Martino, University College London, Classics)
2.45-3.00 Break / Pause
3.00-4.00: plenary / plénière
Respondent/Modération: Pantelis Michelakis, University of Bristol, Classical Reception
Day 2: Monday 22 November 2021 - Université Paris Nanterre
*Timetable to be confirmed
nature and anthropocene / nature et anthropocène
Respondent/Modération: Clare Finburgh-Delijani, Goldsmiths University of London, Theatre Studies
De la ruine comme métamorphose cinématographique de la vanité : Robinson in Ruins, à la recherche d’une image « naturelle » (Marianne de Cambiaire, Université d’Aix-Marseille, Études cinématographiques)
La ruine antique comme véhicule d’un renouvellement descriptif de la figuration du paysage au cinéma (Pollet, Huillet et Straub, Robbe-Grillet) (Lucas Lei, Université Paris Nanterre, Études cinématographiques)
remaking and repetition / reprise et répétition
Respondent/Modération: Joanna Paul, Open University, Classical Studies
Singing Ruins: cinema and musical iterability in Philip Glass’Orphée (1993) (Zoë Jennings, University of Oxford, Classics)
Le Mépris : un Solde de l’Olympe ? (Marc Cerisuelo, Université Gustave Eiffel, Études cinématographiques, Esthétique)
Par-delà la ruine, retrouver la question de l’être : une remontée de l’Ister avec Hölderlin et Heidegger (David Barison et Daniel Ross, The Ister, 2004) (Marie-Eve Loyez, Université Paris Nanterre, Université de Montréal, Études cinématographiques)
body and lisibility / corps et lisibilité
Respondent/Modération: Barbara Le Maître, Université Paris Nanterre, Études cinématographiques
Saxa loquuntur : (il)lisibilité des ruines chez Pasolini (Anne-Violaine Houcke, Université Paris Nanterre, Études cinématographiques)
From Fragmentation to Deconstruction: Ancient Myth on Contemporary Stage (Malgorzata Budzowska, University of Lodz, theatre studies, classical reception)
Quelqu’un a-t-il déjà entendu soupirer des pierres? (W. Herzog). Du corps à la ruine (et retour) (Jeremy Hamers et Lison Jousten, Université de Liège, Études cinématographiques)
plenary / plénière
Respondent/Modération: Fiona Macintosh, University of Oxford, APGRD, Classical Reception
Information: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2021/04/02-Poetics-Politics-and-the-Ruin
(CFP closed October 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] ANTIQUITY AND IMMERSIVITY
Online - Bristol, UK: full days March 29-30, 2021; and three themed evening sessions March 8, 15 & 22, 2021 [6-7pm GMT]
Immersive experiences represent one of the highest growth areas within the UK’s cultural industries. Their centrality to the creative economy was recognised in the UK Creative Industries Sector Deal (2018), which estimated that the immersive content market would be worth over £30 billion by 2025 and pledged to invest £33 million in immersive technologies to ensure Britain maintains a competitive role within this lucrative market. Yet despite the frequent use of cutting-edge technologies to facilitate such experiences, the idea of immersion is not new but goes back to antiquity. We can find instances of literature facilitating moments of immersion in texts from the Homeric epics through to Thucydides’ History and the speeches of the Attic orators, and can find regular examples of ancient critics and philosophers theorising about the sensation as well.
Given this shared interest in the idea of immersion, it is perhaps no surprise to find that modern-day immersive experiences frequently look back to antiquity, including but not limited to the immersive museum experiences surrounding the ancient city of Pergamon, the immersive video game Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and the immersive theatrical experiences of dreamthinkspeak, Shunt, and ZU-UK.
This conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary and intraprofessional group of scholars and artists interested in exploring and theorising the relationship between antiquity and immersivity. It is hoped that the event will foster discussion about theoretical approaches to immersion, for example through cognitive and narratological strategies, and experiential understandings of immersion as it pertains to live experience. The event will highlight the potential for multidisciplinary knowledge exchange to shed new light on research questions about immersion across time.
Contributions are welcome that intersect with the full spectrum of the concept of immersivity including but not limited to:
* Forms of immersion in the ancient world
* Methods for analysing instances of immersion in antiquity, including cognitive and narratological approaches
* The history of the poetics of immersion
* Antiquity and immersive museum experiences
* Classical reception and immersive theatre
* Antiquity and cross-reality, augmented reality, and virtual reality
It is intended that this two-day conference will take place in Bristol, with options for virtual participation available. However, to facilitate a pivot to an entirely virtual conference, should it be necessary, all papers will be pre-circulated. The conference itself will consist of responses and discussion.
Contributions of c. 3000 word papers, shorter provocations, as well as exhibitions and/or demonstrations of prototype experiences are welcome. Contributors should be willing to give a short prepared response to another paper, and should be prepared to pre-circulate their own paper by 1 March 2021. Confirmed speakers include Felix Barrett (Punchdrunk), Prof. Jonas Grethlein (Heidelberg), Dr Colin Sterling (UCL), and the team behind the ARHC project ‘The Virtual Reality Oracle’ (University of Bristol).
To register your interest please submit an abstract of 300 words by 30 September 2020. Travel bursaries for graduate students, the unwaged, and the precariously employed will be available; if you wish to be considered for a bursary please indicate so on your abstract and include an indicative travel budget.
For further information please contact Emma Cole: emma.cole@bristol.ac.uk.
This conference is generously funded through the AHRC via the leadership fellowship ‘Punchdrunk on the Classics’.
Program & Registration: https://punchdrunkontheclassics.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/home/antiquity-and-immersivity-conference/
Program:
8 March 2021, 6-7pm. Chair: Emma Cole
Speaker: Benjamin Stevens, ‘Immersivity’ and other ‘fantasies of antiquity’ in games
Respondent: Lottie Parkyn
Speaker: Elizabeth Hunter, Embodying the Agamemnon with Spatial Computing: A New Theatrical Paradigm
Respondent: Eleftheria Ioannidou
15 March 2021, 6-7pm. Chair: Genevieve Liveley
Speaker: Rae Muhlstock, The Thesean Dilemma: Into the Centre of the Labyrinth
Respondent: Benjamin Stevens
Speaker: Timothy Kenny, Entering the Labyrinth: Mapping Contextual Frames in Catullus 64
Respondent: James McNamara
22 March 2021, 6-7pm. Chair: Vanda Zajko
Speaker: Andrew Roberts, My Roman Pantheon: Immersive Interpretation of Religious Stonework at Chesters Roman Fort
Respondent: Elizabeth Hunter
Speaker: Lottie Parkyn and Jo Balmer, Bringing the Voices of Roman London to Life: Poetry and Space
Respondent: NA
29 March 2021, 9:45am – 4:30pm.
9:45-10am. Opening Remarks
10am-11am. Chair: Eugenia Nicolaci
Speaker: David Bullen, Dancing on the Mountain (or Not): Performing Bacchic Immersivities
Respondent: Misha Myers
Speaker: Eleftheria Ioannidou, Performing Classical Visions: Embodiment and Immersion in Fascist and Neofasicst Events
Respondent: Tiziana Ragno
11:30am – 12:30pm. Chair: Pantelis Michelakis
Speaker: Elizabeth Webb, Thucydides: Immersion, Emotion and Sensory Hierarchy
Respondent: Daniel Anderson
Speaker: Jonas Grethlein, The Sirens and the Dark Side of Immersion in Antiquity
Respondent: Rae Muhlstock
1pm – 1:45pm: Optional virtual lunch via Wonder ‘Antiquity and Immersivity’ room here (password sent at registration)
2pm – 3:00pm. Chair: Martina Delucchi
Speaker: Daniel Anderson, Comic Immersivity and the Theatre Festival
Respondent: Elizabeth Webb
Speaker: Diana Spencer, Total Immersion Tropes: Environmental Materiality and Roman World-Formation
Respondent: Timothy Kenny
3:30pm – 4:30pm. Chair: Emma Cole
Speaker: Colin Sterling, Immersion Lost and Gained: The Ancient Roots of a Contemporary Concern
Respondent: Andrew Roberts
Speaker: Kali Tzortzi, Immersive Experiences in Archaeological Museums: Does Museum Space Matter?
Respondent: Marte Stinis
30 March 2021, 10am – 4:45pm.
10-11am. Chair: Esther Eidinow
Speaker: Misha Myers, The Voice of Gods in Your Ear: Experiencing Ancient Immersion through Posthuman Performance
Respondent: Jonas Grethlein
Speaker: Richard Cole, Immersivity in ‘Virtual Antiquity’
Respondent: Rupert Till
11:30am-12:30pm: Felix Barrett, in conversation with Emma Cole, on Punchdrunk Theatre Company, Ancient Literature, and Immersive Experience
1:00pm – 1:45pm: Optional virtual lunch via Wonder ‘Antiquity and Immersivity’ room here (password sent at registration)
2:00pm – 3:00pm. Chair: Kali Tzortzi
Speaker: Tiziana Ragno, Imitating Passions Visually, Imitating Ancient Authors (Vergil vs Petronius): Lessing’s Laocoon as an ‘Immersive’ Lens for Classical Reception
Respondent: Richard Cole
Speaker: Marte Stinis, Immersion through Authenticity: Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s Classicism and Theatre
Respondent: David Bullen
3:30pm – 4:30pm. Chair: Colin Sterling
Speaker: James McNamara, Immersivity and Exoticism: Ecphrastic Rhetoric in Statius’ Silvae and Tacitus’ Germania
Respondent: Diana Spencer
Speaker: Rupert Till, Soundgate: 3D Audio and Visual Immersive VR Heritage Phenomenology
Respondent: NA
4:30pm – 4:45pm. Closing Remarks
Call: https://medium.com/@dremmakatherinecole/antiquity-and-immersivity-cfp-9cdd3a1110f9
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] RES DIFFICILES 2.0. DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS IN CLASSICS
A Digital Conference on Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity in Classics
Online (Zoom, US Eastern time): March 20, 2021
Organizers: Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University) and Joseph Romero (University of Mary Washington)
ResDiff 1.0 was timely respite in the midst of a pandemic that forced us to change whether and how we convene and exacted costs disproportionately in underserved communities by reinforcing the durable inequities that have come to define our times. What was conceived as an intimate gathering on the campus of Mary Washington for those teaching Classics was transformed into a digital event attracting 250 registrants from twelve countries. In our papers and conversations, we explored how people on the margins in our texts and contexts are invited—or pushed further from—the center, and explored avenues through with such marginalization might be addressed. Following the conference, recordings of the presentations were made available online at https://resdifficiles.com/. Furthermore, a selection of those papers is being prepared for publication in a co-edited series of consecutive issues in Ancient History Bulletin which will start to appear in 2021.
Though tempted to narrow our focus to any one of the critical issues in and surrounding the discipline, we elected to maintain the furry and broad welcome to a Classics community that clearly needs to talk. In this second wholly digital conference, we shall once again examine the challenges presented by this curriculum with students who are increasingly more diverse in gender identity, race, ethnicity, income, family structure, and more. And while the society of our conference will examine pedagogical issues, we hope again to dilate outward to broader issues in education and society from (a) the current and future roles of Classics and the humanities in K-12 and higher education to (b) the ultimate goals of education. We invite papers from all those who study and teach the ancient world.
Our keynote speaker will be Patrice Rankine, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Classics at the University of Richmond.
The conference will be hosted as a Zoom webinar with a capacity of 500. Please note that the time zone of the conference will be US Eastern.
Abstracts of 350 words should be sent electronically to Joseph Romero (jromero@umw.edu) by January 8, 2021. Papers will be 20-25 minutes with coordinated discussion at the end of each session. Any questions regarding abstract submission may be addressed to Professors Romero or Čulík-Baird (culik@bu.edu).
Speakers:
Samuel Agbamu, Ashley Chhibber, Hardeep Dhindsa, Bethany Hucks and Mathura Umachandran, Sportula Europe, “Sportula Europe: Mutual Aid and Solidarity in Higher Education”
Nicolette D’Angelo and Gabrielle Stewart, “Cultivating a ‘sociological imagination’ in Classics: reconceptualizing difficulty using critical pedagogical approaches"
Curtis Dozier, “Teaching White Supremacy and Classics Using the Pharos Archive”
Nadhira Hill, “The Call is Coming from Inside the House: Addressing the Impacts of Inadequate Teacher Training in Classics”
Bethany Hucks, “The ‘Mainstream’ and Global Minoritization: Dismantling Assumptions of Common Cultural Backgrounds in Western Classics”
Daniel Libatique, “The Commonplace Book: Student-Centered Explorations of Ancient-Modern Connections”
Elizabeth Manwell, “Designing for Equity: Why I am (maybe) Never Teaching Cicero Again”
Vanessa Stovall, “Teaching Persephone (Un)colored: Racial Cosmetics, Desirability Politics, and Classicizing Colorism(s) in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun”
Keynote: Patrice Rankine, “Power/Memory: Reception, Classicism, and Some Considerations on the Current State of Play”
Website: https://resdifficiles.com/.
Hashtag: #resdiff2.
(CFP closed January 8, 2021)
[ONLINE] W. E. B. DU BOIS AND THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Online (Penn State University): March 19-21, 2021 [Eastern Time]
Penn State’s Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS) is excited to invite you to a conference titled “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ancient Mediterranean” to be held on Zoom on March 19-21, 2021. The event is co-organized by Dr. Mathias Hanses (Penn State) and Dr. Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky) and co-sponsored by PSU’s Humanities Institute, the College of the Liberal Arts, the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, the Department of Philosophy, the Jewish Studies Program, and the Chaiken Family Chair. The workshop reflects an on-going shift in the discipline of Classics, which has been focusing increasingly on the reception of ancient materials among Black, Indigenous, or Other People of Color. We are hoping to bring some of the new energies invested in the topic to Penn State, doing justice at the same time to the CAMS Department’s already interdisciplinary focus, uniting as it does Hellenists, Latinists, archaeologists, and ancient historians under the same roof with scholars of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Jewish and Biblical Studies.
The goal, then, is to bring together a group of classicists and scholars of other Mediterranean cultures with researchers specializing in Du Bois’s other areas of expertise (including sociology, African American literature, philosophy, rhetoric, and others) for approximately three-days’ worth of discussions of Du Bois’s engagement with the ancient Mediterranean. Papers will be pre-circulated in early March to facilitate discussions among the participants, ranging from full professors to graduate students, as well as anybody who would like to attend. For more information, please feel free to reach out to Mathias Hanses at mhanses@psu.edu.
Participants:
Mathias Hanses (Penn State, co-organizer)
Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky, co-organizer)
Irenae Aigbedion (Penn State)
Brandon Bourgeois (USC)
Virginia Closs (UMass Amherst)
Vanessa Davies (Bryn Mawr)
Harriet Fertik (University of New Hampshire)
Emily Grosholz (Penn State)
Eric Ashley Hairston (Wake Forest University)
Sean Hannan (McEwan)
Morgan Johnson (Colorado State)
R. A. Judy (Pittsburgh)
Michele Kennerly (Penn State)
Arti Mehta (Howard University)
Wilson Moses (Penn State)
Courtney Murray (Penn State)
Monica Ndounou (Dartmouth)
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton)
Patrice Rankine (University of Richmond)
David Sick (Rhodes)
Brian P. Sowers (Brooklyn College)
Caroline Stark (Howard University)
Stephen Wheeler (Penn State)
Erika R. Williams (Emerson)
Zoom registration: https://psu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtdeyhqjsjGNx4fLjiXVLqZ0zE2nV9-H7w. You will then receive a link that will allow you to join any of the conference’s activities. You will also be emailed a more detailed schedule once it becomes available.
Information: https://cams.la.psu.edu/news-and-events/w-e-b-du-bois-and-the-ancient-mediterranean/
[ONLINE] PHILIP FORD NEO-LATIN EVENT
Online - The Warburg Institute, London: March 19, 2021
Theme: Different perspectives on and approaches to Neo-Latin
Introductory comments: Dr Lucy Nicholas 2.30pm
Dr/Professor Victoria Moul: ‘Neo-Latin and English Literature’ 2.40-3 and Q&A 3-3.15
Dr Edward Taylor: ‘Neo-Latin and History’ 3.15-3.35 and Q&A 3.35-3.45
Break 3.45-4
Dr Jacqueline Glomski: ‘Neo-Latin and Book History’ 4-4.20 and Q&A 4.20-4.30
Break 4.30-4.40
Keynote Talk - Professor Stephen Harrison: ‘Neo-Latin as Classical Reception’ 4.40-5.10
Respondent: Dr Paul White 5.10-5.25
General discussion and closing comments 5.25-5.50
The workshop is free, but please book your place at: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23575 or if you have any questions, please email Lucy Nicholas at lucy.nicholas@sas.ac.uk
[ONLINE] NOW AND THEN - (IN)EQUITY AND MARGINALIZATION IN ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES
The First Biennial Bryn Mawr College SPEAC Conference for Undergraduate and Graduate Research
Online (U.S.A.): March 12-13, 2021
Bryn Mawr College’s new group SPEAC (Students Promoting Equity in Archaeology and Classics) is happy to announce our first biennial research conference, to be held virtually. As a group, we are dedicated to amplifying the voices of academically marginalized and underrepresented communities (including, but not limited to, BIPOC, FGLI, disabled, and LGBTQ+ scholars) in the fields of Greek, Latin, Classical Studies, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies. For this conference, we are seeking research from undergraduate and graduate students, as well as unaffiliated and unfunded early-career scholars, that centers around topics of racism, white supremacy, race, identity, gender, justice, and inequity in both the ancient world and the modern disciplines that study it. As this is our inaugural conference, we are keeping the theme deliberately expansive; our idea is that future years will have more nuanced themes.
The fields of Classics, Archaeology, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies can not ignore the racist and white supremacist underpinnings of our disciplines, and we as young and/or early-career scholars have an ethical obligation to interrogate and address the ways in which our fields have benefited from and perpetuated inequity and elitism. Problems of racism, sexism, ableism, and homophobia are nowhere near new to our disciplines, and this summer’s protests and calls for accountability and reform spurred largely by the murder of George Floyd (as just one victim in a long history of systemic racism) have highlighted the importance of meaningfully addressing Classics’ complicity in these structures. Academia does not have the privilege of operating within a vacuum, so it is incumbent upon us to understand how to make our work socially and politically relevant. We must examine our field’s relationship with frameworks rooted in injustice as well as such issues in the ancient world to fully understand how to utilize our studies for real good. This conference is aimed at working toward these ideals and amplifying the many voices already engaging in these discussions.
Potential paper topics include:
* Conceptions of identity (race, ethnicity, class, and/or gender) in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East
* Conceptions of status (inequality, marginalization, immigration, and outcasts) in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East
* Problems inherent to the term “Classics” and periodization as a whole
* Marginalization and white supremacy in the historiography of our disciplines
* Disability studies in the ancient world and/or in the modern fields of Classics, Archaeology, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
* Reception—whether that’s a white supremacist group interpreting a historiographical text to support their racist ideology, or a Black filmmaker interpreting a Greek tragedy as an act of political resistance—we want to talk about both the destructive and constructive potentials of reception and reception theory
* Methods for using work in these fields for social justice purposes
* Anti-racist work in the classroom, publishing, etc.
* Current racism and inequity in our fields
This list is by no means exhaustive, and we are very open to highlighting a wide variety of topics. We are hoping to have 2 panels on the first day focusing on the ancient world, followed by a keynote speaker; then the second day will feature 2 panels focusing on the modern field, followed by a summative roundtable discussion. This obviously depends on the submissions we receive, but our goal is a relatively even distribution of work focusing on the ancient world and the modern. Papers should be around 15 minutes in length.
Deadline for submission: December 1st, 2020 - extended deadline January 1, 2021.
Please fill out this form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfX5ymLFMlPF8I4WtZvYjuGqoflsl-No7DfpUkzxTKUYhH6zA/viewform] to submit your 300-word abstract. Feel free to email brynmawrspeac@gmail.com with any questions or concerns. Abstracts are due by December 1st and we aim to get back to applicants by the middle of January.
Call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SSGTZGtJsAlaqJvLqCduBYNN63xB-dhnC7ztMvOQy5E/edit
(CFP closed January 1, 2021)
[ONLINE] IMAGINES VII: PLAYFUL CLASSICS
Online (University of Göttingen): March 5-7, 2021
Antiquity is not to be trifled with, or so one might believe from the majority of serious scholarship. Classical reception, however, is rich in playful recreations, inventions and parodies of antiquity. The results are anything but mere entertainment. Their variety and their impact would be ignored at the peril of understanding fashions of classical reception – and the historical traditions they in turn shaped, influenced or undermined.
The 7th Imagines conference will therefore turn to all kinds of playful reception in the visual and performing arts from the 19th to the 21st century. This can include – but is by no means restricted to – improv theatre, video games and installations, caricature, classical and popular music, sculpture, living history and role-playing, board games, graffiti art and other kinds of playful interaction with classical antiquity. We are particularly interested in the creative aspects of “traditions in the making”, issues of alternate realities and non-European tradition, but we welcome contributions relating to the theme of “playful classics”.
For more information contact Dr Martin Lindner (martin.lindner@uni-goettingen.de)
Information: http://imagines-project.org/?page_id=4759
Program (pdf): http://imagines-project.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Conference-Programme-Imagines-VII-Playful-Classics.pdf
Register: register@imagines7.org
[ONLINE] 'MODERN' WOMEN OF THE PAST? UNEARTHING GENDER AND ANTIQUITY
Online (Australia): March 5-6, 2021
The AAIA, CCANESA, AWAWS, CCWM and the University of Sydney Departments of Archaeology and Classics & Ancient History warmly invite abstracts for our forthcoming conference on the reception of ancient women, to be held over 5-6 March 2021, ahead of International Women's Day, 8 March 2021.
Despite restrictions on their autonomy from the (mostly) patriarchal societies in which they lived, women of the past were astronomers, chemists, warriors, politicians, philosophers, and medical practitioners (to mention just a few examples). Women strove to understand the world around them, and through their observations and innovations, they demonstrated that gender provides no barrier to participating and excelling in a full range of human endeavours.
This conference sets out to tell the frequently neglected history of such women. It illuminates the remarkable historical contributions of the invisible pioneers of the past, and considers how a distorted perception of past women has shaped the realities and inequalities of our modern world. In the 21st century, a balanced representation of gender across a diverse range of societies and cultures remains a work in progress, and a more complete understanding of our past may remedy distorted perceptions of women’s capacities and contributions, both historically and as we move into the future.
The conference organisers invite abstracts (200 words max.) for papers of 15 minutes length. The conference timeframe is broadly imagined to include global women’s history and its reception, from prehistory to late antiquity. Diverse geographic, disciplinary, cultural, and conceptual responses to this theme are encouraged: calling on all disciplines ranging from archaeology to popular culture studies and everything in between. Pre-history and antiquity are defined globally, with an understanding of culturally and geographically diverse timescales, and we encourage responses from First Nations perspectives. Our theme of ‘women’ is intended to include trans and non-binary women, who are encouraged to participate in our exploration on the shaping of history through conceptions of gender.
Postgraduate students and early career researchers from any discipline are encouraged to submit an abstract.
Abstracts should be submitted by Monday 30th November, 2020 via email to unearthingwomen@gmail.com
Hosting organisations:
Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (AAIA)
Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA)
Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies (AWAWS)
Chau Chak Wing Museum (CCWM)
University of Sydney Departments of Archaeology and Ancient History and Classics
Conference format: The Modern Women of the Past? Unearthing Gender and Antiquity conference will be held online, but based in Sydney Australia and key announcements will be made in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). The organisers will attempt to accommodate international participants and a wide variety of time zones and encourage international participation. Once papers have been accepted feedback on scheduling will be sought from participants.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Call: https://www.awaws.org/news/call-for-papers-modern-women-of-the-past-unearthing-gender-and-antiquity
Website: https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/modern-women-conference-march-2021/ (program pdf: https://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Provisional-Program-Full-2.pdf).
Registration (free): https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/modern-women-of-the-past-unearthing-gender-and-antiquity-tickets-133049772451
(CFP closed November 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL MIRROR STUDIES CONFERENCE (IVMSC) 2021
Online (from School of History, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China): March 5, 2021
After the first International Virtual Mirrors Studies Conference (March, 2020), the Mirror Studies Project, with the support of the School of History from Capital Normal University in Beijing, is organizing an International Virtual Mirror Studies Conference (IVMSC) for 2021. The conference theme is Mirrors: an interdisciplinary approach. This is a conference especially for students (BA, MA, PhD) and early-stage researchers.
The main topic of this conference is mirrors and interdisciplinary approaches. Scholars and researchers from different academic backgrounds who have done research about mirrors from various perspectives are all welcome. Mirrors as objects have been important in numerous academic fields: arts (sculpture, pictures, photography), literature (Perseus and Medusa, fairy tales such as Snow White and Beauty and the Beast, the children's book Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll), humanities (written sources about mirrors, folk tales about mirrors), science (Archimedes and his mirror during the siege of Syracuse, physical tests of lightness and waves, chemical reports of texture and materials, metallurgical or glass analysis), social sciences (mirrors as social expression or tool used in rituals, religion festivals and funerals), political sciences (mirrors as gifts, political plans of sharing and spreading mirrors), psychology (mirroring, mirrors and soul, self-reflection), psychoanalysis (Lacan and the mirror phase, Jung and symbolic mirrors, Freud and mirrors), philosophy (Foucault and heterotopia, Derrida and deconstruction, Wang Minan and mirrors), popular culture (movies, comics, journalism) and archaeology (mirrors within archaeological context).
Some of the suggested topics are:
a) Mirrors as archaeological objects (types, uses, context, decorations, functions etc.)
b) Mirrors and geography (space, environment, mapping, GIS etc.)
c) Mirrors and humanities (history, ethnology, literature, anthropology etc.)
d) Mirrors and social sciences (sociology, international relations, psychology etc.)
e) Mirrors and sciences (physics, chemistry, metallurgy etc.)
f) Mirrors and art (sculptures, pictures, photography, movies, comics, contemporary art etc.)
g) Mirrors and philosophy (ancient and contemporary thoughts and concepts about mirrors)
The working language is English. We urge authors to apply for this virtual conference. It is possible to sign up as an individual presenter or as a member of one session. Each session is requested with a set of at least three presentations. Every session will have a chair and discussant who will be selected by organizers.
The date of the conference is March 5, 2021 (Friday) and abstracts according to the instructions and application for participation should be submitted by December 30, 2020, to the following e-mail address: goran.djurdjevich@gmail.com; info@mirrorstudies.com; info.mirrorstudies@gmail.com. Acknowledgement of receipt shall be sent before January 10, 2021.
Authors can sign up independently or as co-author of a paper. The number of works by a single author is unlimited. Registration for the conference is online using the application form for registration. The conference will take place through suitable software for conferences on which any participants would be notified at the time.
Organizers will provide a Book of abstracts with the main information about the conference schedule, contact and instructions for online attending. Proceedings have the potential to be published, according to the papers delivered and interests of participants.
You can learn more about the Mirror Studies Project at http://mirrorstudies.com/.
(CFP closed December 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] TRANSLATIONS OF ARISTOTLE'S POETICS EVER SINCE THE XVI CENTURY AND THE FORGING OF EUROPEAN POETICS
[Online] Trento University, Italy: March 4-5, 2021
LETRA Seminario di traduzione letteraria (LaborLETT, CeASUm)
"History will record few things lovelier and more moving than this Arab physician's devotion to the thoughts of a man separated from him by a gulf of fourteen centuries. To the intrinsic difficulties of the enterprise we might add that Averroës, who knew neither Syriac nor Greek, was working from a translation of a translation. The night before, two doubtful words had halted him at the very portals of the Poetics. Those words were "tragedy" and "comedy." He had come across them years earlier, in the third book of the Rhetoric; no one in all of Islam could hazard a guess as to their meaning. He had pored through the pages of Alexander of Aphrodisias, compared the translations of the Nestorian Hunayn ibn-Ishaq and Abu-Bashãr Mata—and he had found nothing. Yet the two arcane words were everywhere in the text of the Poetics—it was impossible to avoid them." (J.L. Borges, Averroës’ Search)
Aristotle’s Poetics stands among the most important texts for the development of Western poetics. However, though already drawing great attention during the Middle Ages, Aristotle’s treatise was appreciated through its Arab translations and comments for a long time. When the Greek original was found at the turn of the XV Century, an extensive translation work was undertaken and carried out into Latin by William Moerbeke in 1278, Giorgio Valla in 1498 and Alessandro de’ Pazzi between 1527 and 1536 as well as into vernacular languages, whose first example was Bernardo Segni's translation into Tuscan in 1549. Translations gradually spread throughout Europe and accounted for remarks, commentaries and further treatises which in turn severely affected the aesthetic concerns and taste as well as the artistic production; suffice it to mention the significance gained by the concept of the unity of action between the Renaissance and the Baroque period by virtue of not so much the Aristotelean text as Agnolo Segni’s and Ludovico Castelvetro's readings of it. If critical literature on the reception of the Poetics is vast, the same can hardly be argued about the studies of the influence exerted by its translations into modern languages on such reception and, as a consequence, on the aesthetical thought and taste within different ages and traditions, and therein on the relative conceptualizations of literary genres. In fact, the problem does not regard the modern age only. Arab translators had already modified and sometimes even slanted Aristotle’s texture with relevant outcomes on aesthetical theories. One should just think of Averroes’ gloss linking tragedy and moral teaching, which actually resulted from a wrong translation and still held a tremendous importance for the shaping of Western poetics (not only) during the Middle Ages. Scholars, including Antoine Compagnon and William Marx, have consistently explored this terrain with reference to such specific terms as mimesis and catharsis, thus raising awareness as to the necessity of further studies on translations stemming from different epochs and linguistic areas, and on how such translations subsequently related to and resonated in the development of European poetics. The conference aims to further connect the analyses of translations from a range of temporal and linguistic contexts and the forging of aesthetic theories, with a focus on specific genres and forms, so as to assess the extent to which the ‘translational horizon’ – to use Berman’s terms – of vernacularizers and translators alike has influenced such connection. In particular, it aims to analyze works from both a synchronic and a diachronic contrastive standpoint so as to improve our understanding of how translators’ choices of lemmas as well as semantic fields in Aristotle’s text have affected the shaping of literary poetics ever since the Sixteenth Century. The organizers wish to involve scholars from a range of disciplines, including national literatures, translation studies, comparative literature, theory of literature, philology and philosophy, with an interest in issues relating to the translations of the Poetics into modern languages (English, Italian, French, Spanish and German) starting from the Sixteenth Century. The following research questions may be addressed:
* particular translations;
* comparison of two or more translations either distant in time or belonging to different linguistic areas;
* comparative analyses of translations of key words and semantic fields;
* survey on translations in a given linguistic area or epoch;
* the relationships between translations (also into vernacular languages) of the Poetics and treatises on either poetics or aesthetics.
Those who wish to take part in the conference with a 25-minute paper (in English, Italian, French, Spanish or German) should submit their proposal by sending an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short biographical note to letra.lett@unitn.it by October, 31, 2020. Selected authors will be emailed by November, 15th, 2020.
LETRA - Seminario di Traduzione Letteraria: https://r1.unitn.it/laborlet/letra/
Update: this conference is now online (Zoom) - Program: https://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/lettere/89717/la-poetica-di-aristotele
Speakers:
Guido Paduano, Il realismo di Aristotele. Verosimiglianza, meraviglioso e metafora.
Daniele Guastini, Come intendere il termine σπουδαῖος -α -ον nella Poetica?
Paolo Tortonese, L'intrusion du bonheur
Giulia Fiore, Ermeneutica della hamartia. Intersezioni tra etica e poetica nelle traduzioni cinque-seicentesche
Carlo Tirinanzi De Medici, La poetica e lo sviluppo del romanzo moderno. Da Cervantes a Fielding
Eugenio Refini, «Di natura investigativi e accomodati all’inventione»: scelte traduttive per una lettura “non poetica” della Poetica
Giancarlo Alfano, Che cosa vuol dire «come noi»? L’interpretazione cinquecentesca di Poetica, 1448a 1
Andrea Lazzarini, Nuove indagini sul Castelvetro traduttore della Poetica
Nicolò Magnani, Giorgio Valla fra traduzione ed esegesi: dalla Poetica (1498) al De expetendis et fugiendis rebus (1501)
Eva-Verena Siebenborn, Melopoiía come problema della tragedia nel Cinquecento
Manfred Kraus, Daniel Heinsius' Latin Translation of the Poetics between Renaissance Commentaries and Neo-classical Poetics
Florence d’Artois, Poétiques espagnoles de la danse
Javier Patiño Loira, Teorizar desde la traducción: la noción de agudeza en un pasaje de La poética de Aristóteles (1626) de Alonso Ordóñez
Anne Duprat, Aristote, l’inventeur et sa machine: naissance d’une métalepse (1600-1650)
Gabriella Bosco, À l'origine du merveilleux
Guillaume Navaud, Traduire l’opsis
Maurizio Pirro, Michael Conrad Curtius e gli inizi della ricezione tedesca della Poetica tra filologia ed estetica
Pierre Franz, L’abbé Batteux et la lecture esthétique de la catharsis
Deborah A. Blocker, « Rien n’est beau que le Vrai » : l’abbé Batteux dans la Babel des Quatre Poétiques (1771)
Gauthier Ambrus, Fin de la tragédie ? La traduction de la Poétique par Marie-Joseph Chénier à l'aube du XIXe siècle
Friederike Ach and Sherry Lee, Reworking Aristotle in Sidney’s Defense
Diana Perego, La Poetica di Aristotele volgarizzata da Ludovico Castelvetro e la speculazione teorica di Manzoni sulle unità di tempo e di luogo
Philippe Beck, La fin du genre anonyme, ou qu'est-ce qu'une poésie aristotélicienne ?
Caroline Masini, La Poétique d’Aristote, un renfort. (Dans la traduction de Roselyne Dupont-Roc et Jean Lallot). Retour sur une étude du muthos aristotélicien dans une perspective de « poétique de la scène contemporaine »
Antonino Sorci, La Poétique chez Seuil : un tournant pour la théorie narrative
Yves Hersant, Sur quelques traductions / interprétations du mot katharsis (Poétique, 1449 b)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-translations-aristotle%E2%80%99s-poetics-ever-xvi-century-and-forging-european-poetics
(CFP closed October 31, 2020)
SELF-REPRESENTATION IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND BYZANTIUM
23rd International Graduate Conference of the Oxford University Byzantine Society
Oxford University, U.K.: dates TBC - late February, 2021
Self-representation is a process by which historical actors – individuals, communities and institutions – fashioned and presented a complex image of themselves through various media. Referring to Byzantine portraits, Spatharakis claimed that this “form of representation cannot be divorced from its purpose and the requirements of the society in which the given visual language gains currency”. Equally, self-representation provides an original way to interpret the past, because this artificial and reflected image cannot be divorced from the cultural, social, economic, religious and political context of its time. As a methodological tool, it has received increasing attention in the field of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, following the interest it has created in neighbouring fields such as Western Medieval or Early Modern studies.
The present call for papers aims to explore the cultural outputs of the Late Antique and Byzantine world – e.g. architecture, material culture, literary works – which conventionally or unconventionally can be understood as acts of self-representation. The Late Antique and Byzantine world was filled with voices and images trying to present and represent an idea of self. Some of the most famous examples of this are the lavish mosaics sponsored by imperial and aristocratic patrons, whose splendour still dazzles their observers and gives an idea of the kind of self-fashioning that they embody. Urban elites, such as churchmen, bureaucrats and intellectuals, constructed idealised personae through their literary works and the careful compilation of letter collections, while those of the provinces displayed their power through images on seals and inscriptions. In monastic typika, the founders presented themselves as pious benefactors, while donor epigraphy in rural churches secured the local influence of wealthier peasants. However, self-representation is not only a matter of introspection but also of dialogue with the “other”: such is the case of spolia, used to reincorporate a supposed classical past in one’s self-portrayal, or to create an image of continuity by conquerors. We see this clearly in the conscious use of Byzantine motifs in Islamicate architecture, the fiction of Digenes Akritas, and the religious polemics of Late Byzantium which pitted Muslim, Jews and Christians against one other. Through depicting what they were not, historical actors were (consciously or unconsciously) shaping their own identity.
This conference seeks to join the ongoing dialogue on self-representation in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies by providing a forum for postgraduate and early-career scholars to reflect on this theme in a variety of cultural media. In doing so, we hope to facilitate the interaction and engagement of historians, philologists, archaeologists, art historians, theologians and specialists in material culture. To that end, we encourage submissions from all graduate students and young researchers, encompassing, but not limited to, the following themes:
● Literary works: self-portrayal in epistolographical collections; autobiographies; fictional personae in poetical and prose compositions; typika portraying an image of a founder or donor;
● Manuscripts: from the commission of the material object itself, to the self- portraits jotted down in the margins by its owners or readers;
● Portrayal of oneself in terms of gender and sexuality;
● Epigraphy: material sponsored by both authorities and private citizens; self-
representation on funerary artefacts, graffiti, inscriptions;
● Numismatics: representation of power and authority in the world of Late
Antiquity and Byzantium at large;
● Sigillography: elite self-representation and its importance among the
Byzantine upper classes;
● Artistic Production: portrayals in mosaics and icons. Private and public forms
of representation;
● Gift-Giving: Elite items (e.g. cloths, manuscripts, jewellery) intended for use
in diplomatic exchange which were designed to promote a specific image of
an emperor and the empire;
● Political Ideology: imperial or ecclesiastical messaging through literary works
and monumental architecture;
● Religion: different theological or philosophical stances, dogmatic truths or
polemics as means of self-promotion or self-portrayal;
● Dialogue with “the other”: Byzantium’s influence in neighbouring cultures as
a consequence of its self-representation;
● Reception: how the field of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies is influenced by the modern-day reception of the self-representation of historical actors;
● Reception: how the field of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies is influenced
by historical Western conceptions of the Late Antique and Byzantine world;
● Comparative perspectives of the above elsewhere, in opposition or
concordance with practices in Byzantium.
Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short academic biography in the third person, to the Oxford University Byzantine Society at byzantine.society@gmail.com by Monday, 30th November 2020. Papers should be 20 minutes in length and may be delivered in English or French. As with previous conferences, there will be a publication of selected papers, chosen and reviewed by specialists from the University of Oxford in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies. Speakers wishing to have their papers considered for publication should try to be as close to the theme as possible in their abstract and paper. Nevertheless, all submissions are warmly invited.
Website: https://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/oubs-conference-2021/
(CFP closed November 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] CATHARTIC HISTORY
Online: University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, USA: February 26-27, 2021
The aim of this conference and the edited collection that will result is to propose Aristotelian catharsis as a new lens for historical inquiry. The project aims to do so, specifically, through the study of cathartic history as a phenomenon in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean and in the field of Classical history today. In the process, the project will serve as an example of the productive application of catharsis to the study of the past, and thus a model for other fields of historical research.
While the study of the past as a healing experience is not entirely new, no uniform vocabulary exists at this time for talking about cathartic history. Rather, scholars who have written to elicit an emotional response from their audiences about the past, or who have chosen to consider their own emotional response to the past, have largely done so in passing or in popularly oriented publications, rather than using that emotional response as a bona fide category of historical analysis in and of itself. And yet, the historian’s selection of topics of research, both in the ancient world and in the historical profession today, is often motivated by personal experiences, broadly defined. This project aims to show that thinking about the past as a cathartic experience whether for us as historians, and/or for the ancient historians we study, and/or for our modern audiences, provides a new bridge for a productive academic dialogue of the past with the present.
Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers that consider (but are not limited to) the following questions:
* How might we apply the Aristotelian theory of catharsis to Greek and Roman historians?
* In what ways might the lens of catharsis enrich our reading of narratives of trauma (whether personal or literary or national) in the ancient sources?
* Are we pursuing catharsis in our own research whenever we focus on topics of personal relevance?
* Is historical research a cathartic experience? Should it be?
* In what ways could thinking about history through the lens of catharsis intersect with the increased interest in social justice within the field of Classics?
Please submit abstracts of 300-500 words by November 12, 2019 to Nadya Williams, nwilliam@westga.edu
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-cathartic-history
Register: https://cathartichistoryconference.com/
(CFP closed November 12, 2019)
[ONLINE] CICERO DIGITALIS: CICERO AND ROMAN THOUGHT IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Turin-Vercelli, Italy: February 25-26, 2021 (new dates: previously October 19-21, 2020)
The range of proposals includes, but is not limited to:
* ideas for research projects (ongoing or completed) conducted via digital methods or tools
digital-oriented didactic strategies
* digital editions
* thoughts on how the use of digital methods or tools may impact the study of Cicero and Roman thought
Those interested in contributing are invited to send an abstract via email to cicerodigitalis@gmail.com by 30 April 2020.
Abstracts must be limited to 500 words (bibliography excluded) and may be written in Italian, French, English, German, or Spanish. Contributors are invited to specify whether their proposal is designed as a paper or poster and, if a paper, whether they would be willing to make it a poster if necessary. By way of generic instruction, posters are better suited for a work in progress, whereas papers are the preferred format of a more accomplished project.
The organization is able to cover the expenses for accommodation and meals, but not the travel costs, for the accepted speakers.
Proceedings of the conference will be published on a dedicated issue of COL - Ciceroniana on line http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL ISSN 2532-5353). All the contributions presented for publication (by 31 May 2021) will be subject to double-blind peer review. The volume of proceedings will be issued by the end of 2021.
Website: https://cicerodigitalis.uniupo.it/
Zoom: https://uniupo-it.zoom.us/j/83462656025?pwd=MzBTT05mL2xRbTVyaXcvOE0vWDIxdz09 (834 6265 6025; 964988) or live-stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoVCLjfLM9kbud22azGM9DA
(CFP closed April 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] TEACHING CLASSICAL LANGUAGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY - VITAE DISCIMUS
Online - from Tbilisi State University (Georgia): February 24-26, 2021
The Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers of the International Conference “Teaching Classical Languages in the 21st Century – Vitae Discimus” to be held online via ZOOM on February 24-26, 2021.
The Conference invites proposals exploring different aspects of teaching classical languages – Greek and Latin – in modern and challenging times. The topics of the conference include but are not limited to the following: Classical Languages in General and Higher Education Curricula, Handbooks, Assessment, Teaching and Learning Methods, National Standards of Classical Languages, use of Informational Technologies, Social Media and other modern approaches, impact of Pandemic, etc.
Senior scholars, early career researchers and graduate students are kindly invited to take part in the Conference. No registration fee required.
The working languages during the Conference will be English and Georgian.
Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Presentations will be followed by 10-minute discussion. The abstracts of the papers (between 300 and 600 words) should be sent to the following e-mail: greekstudies@tsu.ge by January 31, 2021. The authors will be notified of the Scientific Committee’s decision in five days after submitting the proposal.
Along with the abstract the following information about the author should be provided:
* Personal information (first name, last name).
* Affiliation and position.
* Contact data (phone and email).
Questions may be directed to the following e-mail address: greekstudies@tsu.ge.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;494d155c.2101
(CFP closed January 31, 2021)
[ONLINE] QUEER AND THE CLASSICAL: CRITICAL FUTURES, CRITICAL FEELINGS
Online (University of Oxford, UK): February 20-21, 2021
‘A genealogical approach demonstrates that queer theory has always been a promiscuous borrowing, reworking, and interested claiming of disparate theoretical traditions. As such, scholars might rework queer theory by rerooting it in its own forgotten genealogies as well as in alternate theoretical traditions’ — Kadji Amin, Disturbing Attachments (2019)
What does Classical Studies, a field often conflated to the universal and weaponised culturally, ideologically, and materially, have to do with queer studies, an anti-institutional theoretical positioning that emerged in the 90s and still retains a subversive force for particular lives, thoughts, and feelings? How should we account for the genealogies of ‘promiscuous borrowing, reworking, and interested claiming’ between the theoretical histories of both fields?
With this conference, we aim to address and interrogate the dangerous proximity of queer studies to the disciplinary power vacuum of Classical Studies. To combat this, we are interested in exploring affect and attachment as a practice of care toward people rather than institutions, and in exploring ways to actively create collaborative queer communities in conversation with the ancient world. We aim for these communities to fully grapple with the racist and colonial underpinnings of Classical Studies, allowing for potential sites of radical queer identification, thinking, and feeling. This work can only be done in collaboration within the wider set of critical theoretical positionings, e.g. critical reception studies (Hanink 2017).
Key to any critical engagement with Classical Studies is challenging and making visible what counts as knowledge in the field, as well as asking who and what such epistemologies have historically excluded. Following Critical Ancient World Studies (Umachandran & Ward 2020), it is crucial that any ‘commitment to decolonising the gaze of and at antiquity’ avoids ‘simply [...] applying decolonial theory or uncovering subaltern narratives in a field that has special relevance to the privileged and the powerful’. Instead, we must begin ‘by dismantling the structures of knowledge that have led to this privileging’.
Instead of asking what can queer theory bring to the study of Classical Studies we therefore want to ask: what can a critical study of the ancient world contribute to queer activism, queer ways of knowing, and most of all, queer people? What can our engagement with the queer and the classical do to re-conceptualise our position within universities, and and dismantle those insitutions which harm us, while also caring for the people in our networks of affinity, kinship, and solidarity? Which ‘transhistorical elective affinities’ have proven so far good to think with, and which have not? (Matzner 2016)
Our objective is then to bring together young researchers and artists in the field, in order to bring about new and radical ways to imagine, think, and feel future engagements with the queer and the classical. We welcome proposals, up to 250 words, for twenty-minute papers, provocations, performance-lectures, and responses of any medium, on all periods and notions of queer and the classical alongside their receptions. Themes might include but are not limited to:
• The affective genealogy of and reason behind the need for a study of queerness and the classical.
• The future of ethical relationships between queer and trans studies, disability studies, feminist studies, and especially decolonial and anti-racist approaches.
• The role of the queer researcher/practicioner within institutions more broadly (e.g. the disruptive potential and positionality of queer studies within Classical Studies departments today), and the embodied reality of inhabiting such institutional fields (the gallery, museum, university, theatre, archive) as well as interrogating which embodiments have been neglected and ignored.
• The role of affect and care in identity formation within the academic world of classics, including ‘bad feelings’ (Love 2007)— e.g., queer shame, queer nostalgia— which have contributed to the unsavory disciplinary formulations of classical and queer studies (Amin 2019)
• Disruptions and assemblages of the ‘classical’ across literature, music, art, dance, etc., especially outside the academy, such as in popular culture, DIY, underground, and nightclub spaces.
• The potentialities of the queer and the classical toward the creation of new scholarship communities and citation networks.
Please send all submissions (as attachments) to oxfordqueerclassical@gmail.com. To get in touch with the organisers, please email marcus.bell@classics.ox.ac.uk, eleonora.colli@classics.ox.ac.uk, and nicolette.dangelo@classics.ox.ac.uk.
Proposals due 17th of January - extended deadline 24th of January, 2021.
Website: https://queerandtheclassical.org/
Call: https://queerandtheclassical.org/cfp-2021
(CFP closed January 24, 2021)
[ONLINE] HISTORICAL FICTIONS RESEARCH NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Online [UK]: February 18-22, 2021
Theme: Remembering Catastrophe
We welcome paper proposals from Archaeology, Architecture, Literature, Media, Art History, Cartography, Geography, History, Musicology, Reception Studies, Linguistics, Museum Studies, Media Studies, Politics, Re-enactment, Larping, Gaming, Transformative Works, Gender, Race, Queer studies and others.
We welcome paper proposals across historical periods, with ambitious, high-quality, inter-disciplinary approaches and new methodologies that will support research into larger trends and which will lead to more theoretically informed understandings of the mode across historical periods, cultures and languages.
This year we are using a form. Please submit papers to the Paper Proposal Form:
https://forms.gle/aSV1fKYJ7fes6oy97
Deadline, 30th September, 2020.
Tickets from Helm: £40/£15 https://bit.ly/3276m6J
Please direct enquiries to historicalfictionsresearch@gmail.com
Call: https://historicalfictionsresearch.org/hfrn-conference-2021-online/
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] ANTIQUITÉ CLASSIQUE ET POSTCOLONIALISMS: INSPIRATION, TENSIONS, RÉSISTANCES
Online (Lyon, France): February 12, 2021
Organisatrices /Organizers : Mathilde Cazeaux (mathilde.cazeaux@ens-lyon.fr), Claire Fauchon-Claudon (claire.fauchon@ens-lyon.fr) et Anne-Sophie Noel (anne-sophie.noel@ens-lyon.fr), ENS de Lyon (Laboratoire HiSoMA, UMR 5189).
Since the 1990s, the emergence of postcolonial studies has given rise to lively debates about the Classics, mostly in Anglophone countries: considered as an instrument of domination of the Western world, associated with imperialism, slavery, the oppression of minorities and even, more recently, white supremacists, the disciplines associated with the ancient worlds (Greek and Latin, literature, history, philosophy, history of art, archaeology) have been the subject of strong criticism and have carried out an important reflexive work in light of postcolonial theories.
However, in France, it seems that classical studies have remained on the sideline of these debates, or at least have not consciously and/or explicitly integrated them. Nevertheless, an episode such as the controversy around the use of masks in a 2019 representation of Aeschylus’ Suppliants in Paris, as well as a number of evolutions in the ways in which Antiquity is taught, researched, or adapted for a broad audience, show that these questions also permeate French artistic and academic spheres.
Full schedule: http://www.ens-lyon.fr/evenement/recherche/antiquite-classique-et-postcolonialismes-inspirations-tensions-resistances?ctx=contexte
The event is free but registration is mandatory: https://evento.renater.fr/survey/journee-d-etudes-en-ligne-ens-de-lyon-antiquite-classique-et-postcolonialismes-inspirations-tensions-resistances-4ec7nlc0
[BOOK CHAPTERS] PERCORSI DELLA RICERCA ANTICHISTICA E GIUSANTICHISTICA NEGLI ANNI TRENTA (TRENDS IN CLASSICAL AND JURIDICAL STUDIES DURING THE 1930S)
Abstract deadline: February 10, 2021
In Italy and, more generally, in Europe, the Thirties represented a period of political and social changes. In this context, the totalitarian regimes gave rise to forms of racial discrimination, which in turn contributed to the outbreak of the Second World War. It follows that this decade raises important historical issues that scholars have variously explored and discussed. An important perspective of research on this period of transition and remarkable upheaval in liberal models also involves the analysis of the trends in scientific research. Following these premises, this call invites submissions of research articles with historiographical approaches for a collective volume which is intended to outline the main and most influential trends of Altertumswissenschaften and the history of ancient law. Invited papers will (mainly, but not exclusively) deal with Italian and European contexts.
The collected volume aims to offer the scientific community an overview of how the study of antiquity was conceived and processed in a time that was characterised by a manifest ideological solidity but also by an inherent social dissolution. It is, after all, widely accepted that in the Thirties antiquity was used as a source of political and institutional legitimacy. Antiquity became a factor of cultural and social identity, working as founding myth in genealogical research or providing examples to be emulated in developing new European and universal myths. However, it must be noted that, besides the instrumental reading of antiquity, part of the scholarly community used research in the same field to express their political dissent and desire for freedom.
The expected volume is part of the PRIN 2017 Project “Italian Scholars in the Face of Race Laws (1938-1945): Historians of Antiquity and Jurists”, coordinated by Laura Mecella (University of Milan). The editors of the volume will be, together with Laura Mecella, Pierangelo Buongiorno (University of Salento / WWU Münster), and Annarosa Gallo (University of Bari). Please submit titles and abstracts (as .pdf attachments) of no more than 3500 characters to leggirazziali.prin2017@gmail.com by February 10th, 2021. The proposals will be evaluated by the editors together with anonymous reviewers. Applicants will be notified of the evaluation results by the end of February. Proposals (as also the selected papers) can be written in Italian, English, German, French, and Spanish. Papers must be submitted in the final version by June 15th, 2021. The expected volume will be published in 2021 by an internationally renowned editor.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;a09f5677.2011
(CFP closed February 10, 2021)
[ONLINE] AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES (ASCS) 42ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
To be held online: February 8-11, 2021.
CFP: deadline August 31, 2020. Abstract/panel/roundtable submission instructions: https://www.ascs.org.au/news/index.html
Conference website: https://www.ascs.org.au/news/ascs42/index.html
ASCS: http://www.ascs.org.au/
(CFP closed August 31, 2020)
[ONLINE] VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM ON PLAUTUS AND THE WOMEN OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Online [Washington University in St. Louis (Central Time)]: February 6, 2021
In May 1884, nine female students at Washington University in St. Louis staged a performance of Plautus’ Rudens (“The Rope”) in Latin, also publishing their own English translation to coincide with the event. The Washington University Ladies’ Literary Society was one of the first groups in America to perform an ancient comedy in Latin, and their work made a splash at the university and in St. Louis.
What were the aims of the Ladies’ Literary Society in putting on the Rudens, how did the show look and sound, and in what social and academic context did these young women train for and execute their ambitious plan? At a virtual symposium hosted by the Washington University Classics and Performing Arts departments, and open to the public, four scholars will explore this historic event in lectures situating it in literary, academic, cultural, and St. Louis history. Following the lectures and discussion, a group of St. Louis classicists will give a virtual performance of the Rudens using the Society’s translation.
The February 6th symposium will begin at 9:00am Central Time with four lectures by Timothy Moore of Washington University in St. Louis, Julia Beine of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Judith Hallett of the University of Maryland, and Amanda Clark of the Missouri History Museum. The performance, directed by PhD student Henry Schott, will begin at 2:00pm Central Time.
For a full schedule and information on registration for the Zoom event, visit the info page on the Washington University Classics department website.
Information: https://classics.wustl.edu/events/virtual-symposium-plautus-and-women-washington-university?d=2021-02-06
[BOOK SERIES] CLASSICS IN AND OUT OF THE ACADEMY: CLASSICAL PEDAGOGY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Editors: Fiona McHardy and Nancy S. Rabinowitz.
This series of short volumes (for the Routledge Focus Collection) explores the ways in which the study of antiquity can enrich the lives of diverse populations in the twenty-first century. The series covers two distinct, but interrelated topics: 1) ways in which classicists can engage new audiences within the academy by embedding inclusivity and diversity in university teaching practices, curricula, and assessments, and 2) the relevance of Classics to learners from the most marginalized social strata (i.e. the incarcerated, refugees, those suffering from mental illness). By reaching out to new populations, we also enrich the study of antiquity with their contributions.
These volumes are published first as e-books; as such they are very accessible.
We invite proposals for volumes within the series (20,000-50,000 words). Please feel free to write to the editors (nrabinow@hamilton.edu, f.mchardy@roehampton.ac.uk) with your ideas!
Coming out soon in this series:
· Classics Teaching in Jails and Prisons (Nancy Rabinowitz and Emilio Capetinni, eds)
Call for contributions:
We also invite proposals for brief case studies for the following edited volume:
· Inclusivity and diversity in Classics: Case Studies from Academia (Fiona McHardy, ed.)
Send abstracts of up to 500 words to Fiona McHardy: f.mchardy@roehampton.ac.uk by 31st January 2021.
[ONLINE] EMPIRE AND EXCAVATION: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITISH-PERIOD CYPRUS, 1878-1960
Online [Cyprus (EET/GMT-2)]: January 29-30, 2021
Jointly organised by the British Museum and the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute
Following a successful webinar on 6-7 November 2020, the second phase of this online conference will take place on 29-30 January 2021. We warmly invite you to join us for two days of papers and discussion.
This event will take place via Zoom. If you would like to attend, please register via the following link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NWOWg88rRKCadROoUbUD8A
If you have any queries, please contact histarchcyprus@gmail.com.
Program: http://caari.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/CAARI-BM-conference-29-30-Jan-2021.pdf
Website: http://caari.org/programs/
PIRANESI @300 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Rome, Italy: 27–30 January, 2021
Centro Studi Cultura e Immagine di Roma/Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Istituto Centrale per la Grafica
The British School at Rome
Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis
Organised by Clare Hornsby and Mario Bevilacqua
Concluding the year celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, this conference aims to reveal new aspects of his life and works, their contexts and critical fortune and we are seeking proposals for a comparison of interdisciplinary themes and innovative methodologies.
Some ideas of themes that could be addressed:
* Piranesi artist, theorist, entrepreneur and merchant: Many aspects of Piranesi’s life and work still remain in the shadows: we hope to discover new documentary data, new drawings, new interpretations, new networks.
* Piranesi and History: the Mediterranean civilizations, the fall of the Empire, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Egypt, Etruria, Greece, Rome. From the fall of the Empire to the Renaissance. Piranesi and the texts of his books, the birth of archaeology, the philosophy of history in 18th century Europe.
* Piranesi: Europe, America, the world: Piranesi as ‘global’ artist. His lasting reputation – from Rome across 18th century Europe – takes on different aspects in different European contexts: England, France, Germany, Russia – and in the more distant United States and Latin America, Australia and Japan, maintaining close yet changing relationships with art, literature, photography and cinema.
* Piranesi as architect: monument, city, utopia: Though constantly designing, he was the architect of only one building, S. Maria del Priorato on the Aventine hill yet Piranesi always signed himself ‘architect’. His vision of Roman architecture and of the ancient metropolis states certainties and raises concerns about the dystopian future of the global city.
* Piranesi in the global 21st century: new methods for new paths of research: We can ask questions about Piranesi in the context of contemporary scenarios. His work continues to provoke reflection, inspire new projects and interpretations.
The languages of the conference are English, Italian and French, and the event will be open to the public.
We invite doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, established scholars to submit proposals for papers which contain new research or use new approaches. These will fall into two groups:
15 minute presentations on one event, object or discrete theme;
30 minute presentations on wider issues
Please send a 250 word CV and an abstract in English, French or Italian of either 500 words (for a 15 minute talk) or 1000 words (for 30 minute talk); the abstract should make clear the new content of the contribution.
The address to send these to is: Piranesi300@gmail.com by April 30th 2020 extended deadline July 31, 2020. We plan to offer accommodation in Rome to speakers at the conference though we are not able to assist with travel costs.
We propose to publish a volume of the papers of the conference.
Scientific committee: Francesca Alberti (Académie de France à Rome), Fabio Barry (Stanford University), Mario Bevilacqua (Università degli Studi di Firenze, CSCIR), Clare Hornsby (British School at Rome), Giorgio Marini (Ministero Beni Culturali), Heather Hyde Minor (Notre Dame Rome), Susanna Pasquali (La Sapienza Roma), Frank Salmon (Cambridge University), Giovanna Scaloni (Istituto Centrale per la Grafica).
Call: http://www.bsr.ac.uk/call-for-papers-piranesi-300-international-conference
(CFP closed July 31, 2020)
(postponed) NEW WORK ON FASCISM AND ANCIENT ROME
Institute of Classical Studies, London: January 21-22, 2021 - new dates January 19-21, 2022
Ancient Rome – in the full range of its historical experience, from the Regal period to the demise of the Empire in the West – has long been an inexhaustible repository of models, with which posterity has engaged over the centuries. This dialogue between Ancient and Modern took up a highly significant political and cultural dimension under Fascism. During the Ventennio, the myth of Rome shaped – often pervasively –forms of communication, artistic and literary experiences, education and cultural life, individual behaviour, political choices, and ideology. The investigation of these themes has been an increasingly prominent theme in the historiographical debates of the last few decades, which have explored the relationship between Romanità and Fascism from a number of original and fruitful viewpoints. This conference on ‘New Work on Fascism and Ancient Rome’ aims to provide a balance sheet of the main outcomes attained thus far and the most recent and productive approaches to this topic. We would especially welcome (but by no means restrict our interest in) proposals for papers on architecture and iconography; literature; and colonial ideology and practice.
Keynote Speakers: Joshua Arthurs (West Virginia), Andrea Giardina (Pisa, SNS) and Penelope Goodman (Leeds).
Organisers: Fabrizio Oppedisano (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Paola S. Salvatori (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University)
Submissions: Proposals for papers should be emailed to nwfar2021@gmail.com.
Deadline: 30 June 2020
Please submit (in PDF format) an anonymised abstract of your paper, max. 300 words and a brief cv (300 words max.), including your institutional affiliation, education background, and main publications.
Papers may be presented in English, Italian, French, German or Spanish and will be accompanied by a detailed English abstract; we would also ask speakers to produce substantial handouts. We envisage the publication of a proceedings volume based on the papers delivered at the conference, which will undergo a blind peer-review process.
The decision of the organising committee on the inclusion of each abstract will be announced within 15-20 days from the CfP deadline.
A full conference programme will be advertised in November 2020.
Speakers will be offered all meals (conference dinner, two lunches, and coffee breaks) and a partial refund of their travel expenses.
Attendance of the conference is free of charge.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2002&L=CLASSICISTS&P=68667
(CFP closed June 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] THE FASCIST ARCHIVE IN PERFORMANCE: CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN FILM AND LIVE EVENTS UNDER MUSSOLINI
Online: January 15, 2021 (from Groningen)
The APGRD is co-hosting this one-day conference with the
University of Groningen as host institution, and in
partnership with Laboratorio Dionysos (Trento) and UCL.
The conference is the second in a series of events on
classical reception under Italian Fascism, bringing together
international scholars whose work has approached Fascism
from different fields and interdisciplinary perspectives (for
the first event, see https://classicsandspectac.wixsite.com/classicsandthespect/programme).
Co-organisers are Giovanna Di
Martino (UCL), Eleftheria Ioannidou (University of
Groningen), and Sara Troiani (University of Trento).
Participants include: Roberto Danese (University of
Urbino), Patricia Gaborik (American University of Rome),
Bettina Reitz-Joosse (University of Groningen), Giorgio
Ieranò (University of Trento), Han Lamers (Humboldt University of Berlin), Emanuela Scarpellini (University of
Milan), Mara Wyke (UCL), Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford), and Pantelis Michelakis (University of Bristol).
Edited 27/12/2020. Program:
10:00-10:40 (CET) / 9:00-9:40 (GMT)
Keynote Address (pre-recorded)
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi (Santa Barbara) – Memory and the Past: Fascism, Spectacle, History
Participants can watch this keynote talk in advance on the conference website.
11:00-11:15 (CET) / 10:00-10:15 (GMT) Welcome by the Director of ICOG Sabrina Corbellini
11:15-12:15 (CET) / 10:15-11:15 (GMT)
Archives and Performance I
Respondent: Oliver Taplin (Oxford)
Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) – Reconstructing Greek Dance with Fascist Ideology
Patricia Gaborik (American Academy of Rome) – Mussolini’s Cesare: Roman History as Italy’s Present and Future
12:15-13:15 (CET) / 11:15-12:15 (GMT)
Archives and Performance II
Respondent: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Giovanna Di Martino (UCL) – Archiving and Documenting Classical Performance during Fascism
Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen) – Fascism’s Eternal Antiquity and the Ephemerality of Performance
13:15-14:15 (CET) / 12:15-13:15 (GMT) Lunch
14:15-15:15 (CET) / 13:15-14:15 (GMT)
Archaeology and Material Culture
Respondent: Dimitris Plantzos (Athens)
Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Groningen) and Han Lamers (Oslo) – Spectacles of Archiving: Foundation Deposits in Fascist Italy
Sara Troiani (Laboratorio Dionysos) – Classical Performances at the Temples of Agrigento and Paestum
15:15-16:30 (CET) / 14:15-15:30 (GMT)
Technology and Cinema
Respondent: Maria Wyke (UCL)
Giorgio Ieranò (Trento) – Towards the Fourth Punic War: The Image of Carthago in Italy between Nationalism and Fascism
Roberto Danese (Urbino) – Scipione l'Africano di Carmine Gallone. Traduzione intersemiotica di un'ideologia
Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol) – Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia as Information Machine
16:30-16:45 (CET) / 15:30-15:45 (GMT) Coffee/Tea Break
16:45-17:20 (CET) / 15:45-16:20 (GMT) Keynote Address (pre-recorded)
Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes) – The Ideological and Temporal Implications of Fascism's Use of “Stripped Classicism” in Civic Architecture.
Participants can watch this keynote talk in advance on the conference website and join us for the plenary
17:20-18:00 (CET) / 16:20-17:00 (GMT) Plenary Led by Griffin
For any questions, please email g.martino@ucl.ac.uk.
There is no charge to attend, but please register here by 14th January 2021.
The conference will be held online, and the link to attend will be shared via email with those who have registered by 14th January
Information: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/
SENSING GREEK DRAMA - THEN AND NOW
Online (UK): January 14-16, 2021
We are delighted to announce ‘Sensing Greek Drama – Then and Now’, an
interdisciplinary conference on Greek drama and the senses. It will be
held on zoom at 4pm-7pm GMT on 14th -16th January 2021. We look forward
to welcoming Mario Telò (Classics, Berkeley) as our keynote speaker, in
addition to Rosa Andújar (Liberal Arts, KCL), Katharine Craik (Early
modern Literature, Oxford Brooks), Katherine Fleming (Twentieth Century
and Contemporary Literature, Queen Mary), Peter Meineck (Classics in the
Modern World, NYU), Timothy Power (Classics, Rutgers), and Naomi Weiss
(Classics, Harvard).
Please register on the google form below and you will then receive the
poster and full programme: https://forms.gle/8RvE2gG1ofH1dB9J6
(change of date) [ONLINE] WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE SERIES
Institute of Classical Studies, London: September 18-19, 2020 - new dates: May 6-8, 2021 - now "online rolling conference", starting on January 12, 2021
See conference website for full program: https://www.wacconference.net/
Note: Postponed from 2020 due to COVID-19.
The study of women in the ancient world has garnered academic interest and public fascination since the feminist movement of the 60s and 70s. Seminal works by Sarah B. Pomeroy, Suzanne Dixon, Judith P. Hallett and Susan Treggiari, to name just a few, have highlighted the abundance of resources in the ancient world that can be used to shed light on the various roles that women played in these societies. This inaugural Women in Antiquity Conference Series, hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies in London, would like to continue this current trend by focussing on ‘Female agency: Women disrupting the patriarchy’.
The conference’s aim is to bring forward all the emerging research on female agency in antiquity. The term antiquity has been used, instead of more ‘traditional’ terms such as ancient history and classics, so as to include all time periods, as well as geographical regions, of the ancient world. As such, topics that span from prehistory to late medieval times will be considered. Moreover, topics on any aspect of ‘Female agency: Women disrupting the patriarchy’ will also be considered. These may include, but are not limited to, one of the following:
• Female leaders in a predominately patriarchal society
• Women in the judicial arena
• Women as head of the house or head of their family units
• Female doctors, midwives and scientists
• Women in commerce
• Female authors
• Women in religious roles
• Female athletes, musicians and actors
• Women as benefactors and patrons
Any aspect of female agency, whether it be archaeological, epigraphical, literary, visual, prosopographical, or interdisciplinary, will be considered.
Abstracts of no more than 350 words are sought by all levels of academic researchers, as well as PhD students. Papers presented will be 30 minutes, followed by 5-10 minutes of questions. Three paper panels, with a common focus adhering to the conference theme, are also encouraged.
Please submit abstracts by no later than February 28, 2020 to womeninantiquity@gmail.com
Please get current information on Twitter (@AntiquityWomen) and Facebook (@WomeninAntiquityconference).
Website: https://womeninantiquity.wixsite.com/conference or https://www.wacconference.net/
(CFP closed February 28, 2020)
[ONLINE] [SCS PANEL] THINK OF THE CHILDREN! THE RECEPTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD IN CHILDREN'S MEDIA
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago IL, USA: January 5-10, 2021
Women's Classical Caucus Panel
Organizers: Melissa Funke (m.funke@uwinnipeg.ca) and Victoria Austen-Perry (v.austen-perry@uwinnipeg.ca)
Whitney Houston famously sang that "The children are our future." What, then, is the future of Classics? That depends on what the children are seeing, hearing, and enacting as they absorb aspects of Greek and Roman antiquity through education and play. The avenues for such influence are limitless, ranging from written sources (storybooks, novels, ancient texts assigned in the classroom), to visual materials (tv, comics, film) to board games, computer games, toys, dolls, and craft projects.
Submissions should consider what image of the ancient world is marketed through such products and why this is the case. They may also question how problematic aspects of antiquity, especially the status of women, are handled in rendering the classics "child-friendly" (e.g. the grotesqueries of myth or the facts of slavery). Can negative aspects of the ancient world such as misogyny and slavery be reconceptualized for children without betraying or disguising antiquity beyond recognition? How is the cultural capital or fame of the classics used to market such items and with what results? We are particularly interested in how such materials are marketed to girls as opposed to boys and how girls and women in antiquity are presented to contemporary children. How is the cultural capital or fame of the classics used to market such items and with what results?
For this panel, we welcome abstracts concerning any form of classical reception aimed at children (pre-school to high school age): stories, videos, toys, games, puzzles, theater and performance, classroom materials, educational and home "activities". We invite papers that discuss not only in works explicitly focused on antiquity, but on works in which antiquity/classics plays a peripheral or episodic role (such as The Simpsons); costume (Halloween, themed parties, plays, cosplay); reenactments; websites.
Submissions that consider how children themselves have received Greek and Roman antiquity (e.g. through fanfiction) are especially encouraged.
Abstracts, of 650 words or less, are due by March 10, 2020. Do not identify yourself in any way in the abstract itself, and please do not send it to the organizers. It should be sent as an email attachment to Peter Miller (pj.miller@uwinnipeg.ca), who will forward it to the organizers in anonymous form. Please follow the APA's formatting guidelines for individual abstracts.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021/152/wcc-think-children
(CFP closed March 10, 2020)
[ONLINE] [SCS PANEL] SUBVERTING THE CLASSICS IN THE EARLY MODERN AMERICAS
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago IL, USA: January 5-10, 2021
Organizers: Matthew Gorey, Wabash College (mgorey6@gmail.com); Adriana Vazquez, University of California, Los Angeles (avazquez@humnet.ucla.edu)
As the field of Classics grapples with its historical exclusion of marginalized groups and perspectives, scholars have increasingly sought to complicate Euro-centric and colonial narratives of classical reception in the early modern period by highlighting moments of subversive engagement with classical antiquity. In the wake of various influential studies that explored anti-imperialist patterns of classical reception in early modern vernacular epics, there has been burgeoning interest in recent years in extending these modes of interpretation to the literatures of Latin America. This ongoing effort has shed light on diverse authors and texts that actively undermined, reclaimed, and reshaped the classical tradition in innovative ways. Such work often brings into focus historically marginalized readers and interpreters of antiquity and offers original and overlooked frames for approaching ancient literature and its role in the narratives of the colonial era.
This panel aims to showcase receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity that subvert the dominant narratives of those who used the classical past to champion elite culture and imperial conquest, with a focus on texts written in—or about—Latin America in the early modern period (ca. 1500 - 1800). Possible areas of inquiry include:
* moments of classical reception that suggest alternative or subversive readings of ancient texts.
* receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity by historically marginalized voices, by those who champion the cause of the oppressed, and by those who seek to decolonize, democratize, or deconstruct the legacy of the ancient past through disruptive and original engagement with ancient material.
* how Latin American authors adopted or adapted classical literature to negotiate their own ethnic, religious, or national identities, often in contradistinction to European models.
* the limits of subversive allusion, and texts that problematize particular aspects of classical imperialism while still subscribing to some broader imperial framework.
Our panel thus aims to solidify a new, competing reception narrative for the antique past in which authors in the early modern Americas—whether indigenous peoples, mestizos, or European colonists and travelers—engaged with classical texts to critique or subvert political and cultural authorities, using the ancient past as a negative model against which to develop new national literary traditions.
Please send an anonymous abstract for a 20-minute paper as an email attachment to info@classicalstudies.org, with the title “Subverting the Classics in the Early Modern Americas” in the subject line. The deadline for submissions is February 7, 2020. Submissions should follow the SCS guidelines for individual abstracts and will be reviewed by the organizers, who will make final selections by the end of March.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021/152/subverting-classics-early-modern-americas
(CFP closed February 7, 2020)
[ONLINE] [SCS PANEL] SENECA IN THE RENAISSANCE
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago IL, USA: January 5-10, 2021
The Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) invites proposals for
papers to be delivered at the 2021 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Chicago (January 7-10). For its sixth annual panel, SEMCR invites abstracts on the reception of Seneca in all its manifestations in the early modern world.
The last twenty years have seen an explosion in studies of the academic and creative
reception of Seneca in the Renaissance. Work by scholars including James Ker, Jill Kraye, Peter Stacey, and Emily Wilson--to name but a few--has illuminated the multiple and interconnected legacies of Seneca in literature, philosophy, political theory, and
art. Today it is possible to investigate questions in Senecan reception that would have been difficult to ask, let alone answer, a generation ago.
Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the transmission, translation,
or book history of the Senecan texts; the commentary tradition; artistic, literary, or musical responses to Seneca; political, philosophical, or scientific uses of Seneca. We welcome the consideration of topics including the perspectives Senecan reception
provides on Renaissance philology; the reconfiguration of literary or cultural histories; the figure of Seneca as a source of innovation or inspiration in a wide range of genres and media; the geographical, political, or religious factors that influenced Senecan
reception in different areas or communities; the ways in which digital technologies might influence our understanding of Seneca’s Renaissance reception.
We are committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion
of new ideas into classics, and hence welcome abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research. Above all, we aim to show how the field of early modern classical reception can bear on a wide range of literary and cultural
study, and to dispel the notion of an intimidating barrier to entry.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words, suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation, should be sent as an email attachment to
ariane.schwartz@gmail.com.
All persons who submit abstracts must be SCS members in good standing.
The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page.
Proposals must be received by Friday, March 6, 2020 - extended deadline March 17, 2020 - extended deadline April 14, 2020 May 15, 2020.
Call: https://semcr.weebly.com/semcr-calls-for-papers.html
(CFP closed May 15, 2020)
[ONLINE] [SCS PANEL] RACE, CLASSICS, AND THE LATIN CLASSROOM
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago IL, USA: January 5-10, 2021
Sponsored by the American Classical League and organized by Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, NY, NY, Editor of The Classical Outlook; and John Bracey, Belmont High School, Belmont, MA.
The American Classical League invites scholars and teachers to submit abstracts for its affiliated group panel session, "Race, Classics, and the Latin Classroom," at the Chicago Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in January 2021. We welcome abstracts that address one or more of the following topics:
1) How does one's approach to teaching Latin impact enrollment and retention of students of color?
2) How can post-secondary schools better meet the needs of increasingly diverse groups of students entering their classes?
3) How can K-12 and post-secondary school teachers collaborate to create a more inclusive and equitable progression through the levels of Latin?
4) How does whitewashing the ancient world alienate potential students of color?
All papers should be accessible to a broad audience of classics scholars and teachers. Papers accepted for the panel will be published in The Classical Outlook, journal of The American Classical League, after additional peer review. By submitting an abstract, you agree to submit your paper for publication in CO, if the abstract is chosen for the panel. Abstracts should be submitted to Ronnie Ancona (rancona@hunter.cuny.edu) only, since she will be anonymizing them before they are forwarded to those who will choose the successful abstracts. Please submit as a Word document. Any questions about the panel may be addressed to her. Abstracts should conform to the instructions for the format of individual abstracts that appear in the SCS Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts
Please put "ACL panel at SCS 2021" in the subject line of your email submission. Include the title of your paper, your name, and your institutional affiliation (or status as Independent Scholar) in the email message, but make sure that your name (and any other identifying information) does not appear in the abstract itself. If you refer to your own scholarship in your abstract, cite it in the third person, as you would any other source.
You MUST be a member of SCS to submit an abstract. Please include in your email submission message your SCS member number and the date you joined or last renewed. (This will appear on your membership confirmation email from SCS and in your account.) You DO NOT have to be a member of ACL.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 25, 2020.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021/152/race-classics-and-latin-classroom
(CFP closed January 25, 2020)
[SCS PANEL] THE POSSIBILITIES OF PROSE TRANSLATIONS
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago IL, USA: January 5-10, 2021
Proposed by: SCS Committee on Translations of Classical Authors
Organizers: Diane Rayor and Deborah Roberts
Both translation theory and writing on the craft of translation have tended to focus on poetry, regularly represented as difficult or impossible, but prose (as Antoine Berman and others have argued) presents challenges of its own and invites characteristic “deformations” (to use Berman’s term). This panel seeks papers that focus on the translation of ancient prose authors; possible areas of focus include but are not limited to: impacts of historical context on translation, translation in times of crisis, political or cultural use of translation, translation history of a particular prose text, linguistic registers in both source text and translation (archaism, colloquialism, obscenity, dialect), translation of key terms in philosophical and other writing, translating for specific audiences (the classroom, the general reader), theoretical approaches to the translation of prose.
Abstracts for papers should be submitted electronically as Word documents by March 1, 2020 extended deadline March 15, 2020 to Donald Mastronarde (djmastronarde@berkeley.edu), preferably with the subject heading “abstract_translation_SCS2021”. All abstracts will be judged anonymously and so should not reveal the author’s name, but the email should provide name, abstract title, and affiliation. Abstracts should be 400 words or fewer and should follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts), except that works cited should be put at the end of the document, not in a separate text box.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021/152/committee-translations-classical-authors
(CFP closed March 15, 2020)
[ONLINE] [SCS PANEL] OVID AND THE CONSTRUCTED VISUAL ENVIRONMENT
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago IL, USA: January 5-10, 2021
The International Ovidian Society invites abstract submissions for a panel on Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment, which it will sponsor at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the SCS in Chicago.
Throughout his works, Ovid persistently incorporates the activity of viewing as a poetic subject, and evokes his audience’s experience as viewers of art works, spectacles, and landscapes. For this panel we invite contributions that investigate the dialogue between Ovidian poetry and the visual arts from both sides: How might readers’ cultural training as spectators and viewers contribute to their understanding of Ovid’s texts, and how might readings of Ovid affect how various audiences respond to and populate their visual environment? While this is a familiar topic in Ovidian studies, it is also a fundamental one, and subject to repeated transformation through new approaches to the study of ancient art and performance.
The International Ovidian Society was formed in 2019 and holds the status of Affiliated Group of the SCS. Among the Society’s greatest purposes are to encourage future scholarship on Ovid, to support younger scholars and new work in Ovid, and to reach out beyond Classics to scholars in other fields, as well as to performers and artists, who do significant work related to Ovid and Ovidian reception.
Send questions to the co-organizers, Andrew Feldherr (feldherr@princeton.edu) and Teresa Ramsby (tramsby@umass.edu).
Please send an abstract for a 20-minute paper as an email attachment to lfulkerson@fsu.edu by March 1, 2020, listing the title of this panel as the subject line of the email. The text of the abstract should not mention the name of the author, but the email message should provide name, abstract title, and affiliation. Abstracts must be 650 words or fewer and follow the SCS guidelines for individual abstracts (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts), but should include works cited at the end of the document, not in a separate text box. Submissions will be reviewed by third-party referees, who will make final selections by April 1.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021/152/ovid-and-constructed-visual-environment
(CFP closed March 1, 2020)
[SCS PANEL] NEW DIRECTIONS IN MEDIEVAL LATIN
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago IL, USA: January 5-10, 2021
Organized by the Medieval Latin Studies Group
The Medieval Latin Studies Group invites proposals for a panel on “New Directions in Medieval Latin” to be held at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Chicago (January 7–10, 2021). The organizers especially welcome proposals for papers that, for example, demonstrate new methodologies and approaches, consider the concept of “the new” in medieval Latin language and literature, examine uncanonical medieval Latin texts and materials, introduce new resources for the study of medieval Latin, or seek to understand the medieval period in new ways, as well as papers that consider the current and future relationship of medieval Latin to the field of Classics.
Abstracts for papers requiring no more than 20 minutes to deliver must be received by February 16, 2020 via email attachment to Bret Mulligan (Haverford College) at bmulliga@haverford.edu. Questions may also be directed to Bret Mulligan. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously and speakers will be notified no later than the end of March 2020. Abstracts must be anonymous and follow the instructions for the format of individual abstracts that appear on the SCS web site. Membership in the Medieval Latin Studies Group is not required to submit an abstract but all persons who submit abstracts must be SCS members in good standing.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021/152/new-directions-medieval-latin
(CFP closed February 16, 2020)
[ONLINE] [SCS PANEL] THE WORLD OF NEO-LATIN: EPISTOLOGRAPHY
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago IL, USA: January 5-10, 2021
Sponsored by the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies (AANLS)
Organized by Patrick M. Owens, Hillsdale College.
The AANLS invites proposals for a panel of papers pertaining to the epistolary genre in Neo-Latin texts from around the world to be held at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) in Chicago, Illinois, January 7-10, 2021.
The rediscovery of Cicero’s private correspondence resulted in revival of the classical art of letter writing and renewed interest in the epistolary genre during the Renaissance. Humanists began to collect and publish their own letters, thus expanding the genre from the epistula familiaris to include almost every kind of literary work. Papers for this panel could explore personal correspondence, prefatory or dedicatory letters, letters of invective or defense, legal, scientific and technical communication, thematic considerations within letters, the literary structure of humanist epistolography itself, or the phenomenon of Latin letter-writing manuals. The panel organizers also welcome abstracts dealing with letters written in Greek in the Renaissance and early Modern Period (to about 1800).
Under the expansive theme of Neo-Latin epistolography, our intent is to illustrate the diversity and richness of Neo-Latin Studies; to underscore the importance of contemporary research in the complex, international phenomenon of Neo-Latin literature; and to give scholars an opportunity to share the results of their research and their methodologies with colleagues in the many disciplines that comprise Neo-Latin studies.
Abstracts should be sent (and arrive no later than midnight EST on Monday, February 24, 2020) to Patrick M. Owens, preferably electronically to patrickm.owens@gmail.com or by mail to Dr. Patrick M. Owens, Classics Department K-213, 33 E. College St., Hillsdale, MI 49242. Abstracts should be a maximum of 650 words (not including a brief bibliography).
In accordance with SCS regulations, three anonymous referees will read all abstracts. Please follow the instructions for the format of individual abstracts that appear on the SCS web site. In your cover letter or e-mail, please confirm that you are an SCS member in good standing, with dues paid through 2020.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021/152/aanls-2021
(CFP closed February 24, 2020)
[ONLINE] [SCS PANEL] GRECO-ROMAN ANTIQUITY AND WHITE SUPREMACY
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago IL, USA: January 5-10, 2021
Curtis Dozier, director of Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics (https://pages.vassar.edu/pharos/), invites the submission of abstracts on any aspect of the relationship of Greco-Roman Antiquity and White Supremacy. Selected abstracts will form a proposal for a panel on the topic to be held at the 2021 Society for Classical Studies annual meeting in Chicago, IL (Jan 7–10, 2021). If the SCS Program committee accepts our proposed panel, the Vassar College Department of Greek and Roman Studies will offer panelists who do not have tenured or tenure-track positions a $500 stipend toward the cost of attending the conference. Pharos is also offering a research service for those interested in preparing abstracts but who prefer not to visit White Supremacist websites (on which see below).
At the 2020 SCS meeting, twenty classical scholars gathered for a round table discussion about the ways the discipline of Classics has been and continues to be complicit in White Supremacy. A summary of this discussion is available here: https://bit.ly/2U6TD1L. This disciplinary conversation forms a counterpart to the many examples of Greco-Roman Antiquity being appropriated by White Supremacists outside of Classics that have been documented on the website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics (https://pages.vassar.edu/pharos/white-nationalism-white-supremacy/). These appropriations are, in a sense, easier to confront than the implication of our discipline in racist power, because they locate racism “outside” the discipline of Classics. At the same time their blatant racism throws into relief the racial politics of many idealizing narratives about the ancient world that underpin traditional justifications for the study of Classics and continue to be prominent in the popular imagination.
This panel seeks to bring together analyses of both dimensions of the relationship between Greco-Roman Antiquity and White Supremacy: both the historical complicity of the discipline in promoting, as Critical Race Theorist Francis Lee Ansley puts it, “conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement,” and the ongoing use of Greco-Roman antiquity by overt White Supremacists as a source of legitimacy for their politics. Of particular interest are abstracts that discuss both aspects, but submissions treating one or the other are welcome as well. It is desirable, but not required, that abstracts also make recommendations for a way forward.
Possible approaches include:
* Situating contemporary appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by White Supremacists in the history of the discipline of Classical Studies
* Examining the role of outdated classical scholarship and outdated conceptions of the study of Classics in the propagation of hateful articulations of ancient history
* Evaluating differences between current, specialized understandings of the ancient world and public perceptions of the ancient world in relation to the utility of Greco-Roman Antiquity for hate groups
* Interrogating how the prestige of the “Classical” can often be put to hateful ends without historical inaccuracy, as when, for example, a xenophobic site cites Periclean citizenship requirements as a model to be emulated
* Connecting the appropriation of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups to current disciplinary conversations around inclusion and diversity in Classics
* Discussing the moral and ethical responsibilities of specialists when faced with such appropriations, and what limits, if any, there are to those responsibilities
Recognizing that many scholars may not wish to visit White Supremacist websites or obtain White Supremacist literature, Pharos is offering a research service to those preparing abstracts: prospective panelists may submit topics/authors/works they are interested in discussing in relation to White Supremacy and Pharos will return references to that topic (if any exist) from the major hate sites and print publications in our database. These will be provided as archived links that do not generate traffic for the sites in question. It is hoped that this service will allow a greater range of specialists to prepare abstracts for this panel. Requests for preliminary research should be sent by email to pharosclassics@vassar.edu by the deadline listed below.
Timeline and Deadlines:
1) Requests for preliminary research should be made by email to pharosclassics@vassar.edu by 9AM EST on Monday, February 17th, 2020.
2) We will attempt to return research service results by March 1st.
3) 500 word abstracts are due at 5PM EDT Friday, March 13th, 2020. These should be submitted by email to pharosclassics@vassar.edu and should adhere to the SCS’s “Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts” (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts)
4) Notifications of acceptance will be made by Monday, March 30th, 2020. At this point accepted panelists will need to provide a current SCS Member number (as required for the Program Committee submission).
5) Proposal incorporating accepted abstracts due to the Program Committee in early April, 2020.
6) Notification of acceptance by the Program Committee in June, 2020.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-greco-roman-antiquity-and-white-supremacy
(CFP closed March 13, 2020)
[ONLINE] [SCS PANEL] CLASSICS IN/OUT OF ASIA
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago IL, USA: January 5-10, 2021
Sponsored by the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus
Organized by Kelly Nguyen (Brown University) and Christopher Waldo (Tulane University)
For our second workshop at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) in Chicago, IL (January 7-10, 2021), we invite abstracts for papers that explore, broadly, how Classics has moved through Asia. Following Claudia Moatti, we understand movement to be a “structural component of human experience and the human mind…[that] influences ways of thinking, relations of [people] to space, time, tradition, and the organization of societies…like an anamorphosis, movement modifies the perception of things and of human relations” (2006: 110). Building on this theoretical framework, we encourage papers that trace material, communication, and epistemological networks through transgeographical and/or transhistorical lenses. How have people, things, and ideas from Greco-Roman antiquity moved in and out of Asia? What are the effects on the lived experiences of those in the past as well as those in the present? How have texts, performances, and art (classical and contemporary) engaged with and imagined these movements and encounters?
We welcome all kinds of interpretations for our call for papers, not necessarily limited to scholarly papers. Examples include but are not limited to the following subdisciplines: visual art and performance studies, music, political activism, education, intellectual history, and literature. The AAACC is committed to fostering a collaborative and supportive environment for the sharing of innovative ideas; as such, we welcome scholars, educators, artists, and activists of all stages working on Asian and AAPI reception of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be sent as an email attachment to AAACCabstracts@gmail.com by Friday, March 6, 2020. Include the title of this panel as the subject line of your email. The text of your abstract should follow the guidelines on the SCS website and should not mention the name of the author (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts). Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by the panel organizers.
Works Cited: Moatti, Claudia. “Translation, Migration, and Communication in the Roman Empire: Three Aspects of Movement in History.” Classical Antiquity 25, no. 1 (2006): 109-140.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021/152/classics-inout-asia
(CFP closed March 6, 2020)
Note: Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS/AIA): this year's SCS/AIA is now online [CST]: information/registration (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021-annual-meeting) & preliminary program (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021/152/preliminary-program-2021-annual-meeting).
[ONLINE] [SCS PANEL] [CAMP PANEL] ANCIENT DRAMA IN CHICAGOLAND
Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Chicago IL, USA: January 5-10, 2021
Organizer: Krishni Burns, University of Illinois, Chicago
This panel seeks to explore the adaptation and production of modern drama
within a limited scope of the city of Chicago in order to delve deeply into
the challenges and rewards of delivering ancient productions in a specific
modern culture context. One of the challenges of producing ancient drama on
the modern stage is making the theatrical experience accessible and
relevant to audiences far removed from the audiences of the ancient world.
Sometimes the process leads adapters to make substantial changes to the
original works, and sometimes the productions themselves are pushed to
deliver innovative choices that bring out unrealized nuances. Recently,
Depaul University’s theater department produced a version of Robert Icke’s
*Oresteia* that kept the original’s ending yet completely changed the
cycle’s main theme. Likewise, Court theater’s ongoing production of the
Theban Cycle speaks to the black experience of the Deep South and the Great
Migration to Chicago. The results of these modern productions are always
richly rewarding and help to illuminate both the ancient text and the
modern experience.
The Society for Classical Studies’ annual meeting in 2021 will be held in
Chicago, so the panel will take advantage of the myriad of cultural
resources available within Chicago’s active theater community. The panel
will invite classical scholars of theatrical performance to present, along
with directors, adaptors, and dramaturgs of recent classical themed
productions. As a result, it will present a multifaced view of ancient
theatrical performance that is seldom available to the SCS community.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- Historic productions of classical plays in Chicago (Ex: Hull-House’s
productions of *The Return of Odysseus* in 1899 and *Ajax* in 1903)
- Recent adaptations of classical plays that have appeared in Chicago
- New classically themed plays that débuted in Chicago
- Production choices that have particular meaning within the context of
Chicago
- Challenges in producing classical plays in Chicago
- Productions and production choices that reflect the theatrical
tradition of Chicago (Ex: Mary Zimmerman’s *Metamorphoses*)
- Films that make use of ancient drama to explore Chicago’s history and
identity
Abstracts should follow the SCS guidelines for individual abstracts
https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts
and can be sent by email to Wilfred Major at wmajor@lsu.edu. Abstracts
received by April 15th will receive full consideration. Please ensure that
the abstracts are anonymous. In accordance with SCS regulations, all
abstracts for papers will be read anonymously by the panel organizer, who
will serve as referee. Those selected for the panel will be informed by April
18th. Please address any questions to Krishni Burns (ksburns@uic.edu).
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021/152/cfp-camp-panel-2021-annual-meeting
(CFP closed April 15, 2020)
Archive of Conferences and Past Calls for Papers 2020
[ONLINE] SPARTACUS @ 60: A VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Online: December 21, 2020
Organised by Nathan Abrams (Bangor University), James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University) and Elisa Pezzotta (Bergamo University).
To mark sixty years since the release of Spartacus, this virtual workshop will consider the making and impact of this crucial film.
Spartacus has left an indelible mark on our popular culture and is considered to be one of the best of its genre. But its exact position with Stanley Kubrick’s oeuvre has been misunderstood with some critics and academics excluding it from his canon. Consequently, it has not been subjected to the same scrutiny from a wide variety of disciplines and methodological perspectives as his other films.
This workshop proposes to bring together scholars and fans from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore Spartacus sixty years since its release, discuss its impact and consider its position within Kubrick’s oeuvre and the wider visual and socio-political culture.
Possible angles might include:
Spartacus -- origins, influences, production, aesthetics, publicity, reception, afterlife, legacy
Where does Spartacus sit in Kubrick’s oeuvre?
Where does Spartacus sit in Kirk Douglas’ oeuvre? Kirk Douglas as producer
What is the cultural/film-making legacy of Spartacus?
What is the position of Spartacus within the wider visual culture?
Spartacus and parenthood
Spartacus and women
Spartacus and race, ethnicity and otherness
Spartacus and the Cold War
Spartacus and the Hollywood blacklist
Spartacus as epic
Spartacus, audiences, fandom and ‘cult’
How to research Spartacus during the lockdown?
The legacy of a piece of dialogue: ‘I’m Spartacus’
Spartacus and history
Paratexts e.g. Dell comic books
Queer Spartacus
Is Spartacus a Kubrick film?
To submit an abstract, please complete the following form
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=VUxHxiOpKk2b1OzjcUjbstEPib22iEFNqYWVn2LmcVpUNFZPQTFBVU8xRThPTzlCNDFBUVZYNU43TC4u
by October 1st, 2020. Early submissions are encouraged.
Please address any queries to Nathan Abrams (n.abrams@bangor.ac.uk), James Fenwick (j.fenwick@shu.ac.uk), and Elisa Pezzotta (elisa.pezzotta@virgilio.it).
Call: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6224939/spartacus-60-virtual-conference
(CFP closed October 1, 2020)
PROLEPSIS: PREDICTION, ANTICIPATING, FORETELLING FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE
Prolepsis Association 5th International Conference
Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”: December 17-18, 2020
Note: unable to verify status of this meeting
After long and careful consultation, Prolepsis association have chosen to circulate the call for papers for the annual conference in December 2020. It wasn't an easy decision and we are aware of the uncertainty of the present situation, that's why we thought appropriate to reserve ourselves the chance of moving our conference, if necessary, to Spring 2021. We remain hopeful we'll be able to see you on our annual meeting!
Τὴν πρόληψιν λέγουσιν οἱονεὶ κατάληψιν
ἢ δόξαν ὀρθὴν ἢ ἔννοια ἢ καθολικὴν νόησιν ἐναποκειμένην. (D.L. X 33)
“By preconception they mean a sort of apprehension
or a right opinion or notion, or universal idea stored in the mind”.
(Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ed. R.D. Hicks, Cambridge 1925).
Prolepsis Association is delighted to announce its fifth international conference whose theme will be the concept of prolepsis itself: we chose this theme as an ideal conclusion to the five-year work of the present boarding committee. We would like to use Diogenes Laertius’ quotation as a starting point for a discussion on the vast number of issues related to predicting, anticipating, and foretelling throughout a period that goes from Classical antiquity to the Renaissance. This year the conference will be particularly keen on – but not limited to – the following topics:
● Apocalyptic and visionary literature, oracles;
● Divination arts;
● Prophecies and prophetic characters in various literary genres;
● Spoiler and its perception;
● Modern attributions of foreshadows to ancient authors;
● The literary technique of prolepsis;
● Proleptic pronouns and their special uses, rhetorical figures (hysteron proteron, anastrophe, figures dealing with word order);
● Premonitory dreams;
● Prequel;
● Political foreshadowing, politicians claiming to be ahead of times, historical figures who were actually ahead of their times;
● Anacyclosis (especially regimes preparing following governments);
● Misplaced fascicles, reclamantes;
● Transpositions, accidental shifts forward (e. g. books in a work, or works in a corpus);
● Unveiling alleged literary foreshadowing;
● Preparatory works (notes, drafts, hypomnemata, proekdoseis);
● Prolepsis as philosophical concept.
The participation in the conference as speaker is open to postgraduate students and early career researchers. To participate is necessary to send an e-mail to prolepsis.associazione@gmail.com by 12/07/2020
The e-mail must contain the following .pdf attachments:
● An anonymous abstract of approximately 300 words (excluding references) and in English. You should specify if the abstract is for an oral presentation or a poster as well as your language of choice;
● A short academic biography with name and affiliation.
Papers should be 20 minutes in length plus 10 minutes for discussion, the languages admitted for the presentation are English and Italian. Italian speakers will be required to provide an English handout, PowerPoint, and possibly a translation/translated summary of their paper.
Proposals for coordinated panels (three papers reaching 90 min. in total, discussion included) and posters are most welcome. Posters should be written in Italian or English. Selected papers/posters will be considered for publication.
Proposals will be evaluated through double-blind peer review by scholars in the Humanities. The proposal evaluation will be carried out based on the following criteria: consistency, clarity, originality, methods. All abstracts, including those in joint panels, will be reviewed and accepted on their own merits. Please note that this review is anonymous: your anonymous abstract is the sole basis for judging your proposed paper for acceptance. Expenses for travel and accommodation will not be covered.
For any enquiries write to prolepsis.associazione@gmail.com, we would be glad to help you find solutions.
The organising committee:
Roberta Berardi (University of Oxford)
Nicoletta Bruno (LMU München)
Giulia Dovico (Universität zu Köln)
Martina Filosa (Universität zu Köln)
Luisa Fizzarotti (SISMEL - Firenze)
Olivia Montepaone (Università degli Studi di Milano)
A pdf can be downloaded here: https://ea32d961-25c9-4c36-b67d-c730bfcaf752.filesusr.com/ugd/393ef4_1bda2e79d39542cea96775330c9885a3.pdf
(CFP closed July 12, 2020)
[ONLINE] ANTIQUITY IN MEDIA STUDIES
Online [USA]: December 11-12, 2020 [EST]
AIMS is a newly organized group of scholars who collaborate on research, pedagogy, and outreach activities that examine and enrich how people around the world engage with the concept and contents of "antiquity" in a variety of media. Since our inception via the Classical Antiquity section of the Film & History conference, we have been expanding our focus to include the wider Mediterranean world, with the goal of welcoming engagements with antiquities from around the globe.
In recognition of the ever-greater ubiquity of screens in our professional lives under COVID, this year's conference focuses on receptions through screen-media platforms, including film, television, streaming video, video games, and social media. Our closing session features remarks on the state of Classical Reception Studies by Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque) and Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
The detailed program, abstracts, code of conduct, and other information is available at the conference website: https://classics.domains.skidmore.edu/aims/
Registration for the conference is free, and required for all participants. Zoom join-codes and passwords will be sent to registrants.
Friday, 11 December 2020
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (EST) - Panel 1 / Representing “The East”
11:40 AM – 1:10 PM (EST) - Panel 2 / Dehumanizations
1:20 PM – 2:05 PM (EST) - Social hour
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM (EST) - Panel 3 / Assessing Masculinities
3:55 PM – 4:55 PM (EST) - Roundtable 1 / “They Didn’t Do That!” Accuracy, Fact, and Fictions in Classical Representations on Screen
5:05 PM – 6:05 PM (EST) - Panel 4 / Aesthetics and Credibility
6:15 PM – 7:15 PM (EST) - Roundtable 2 / Netflix’s Blood of Zeus: Greek Mythology Meets American Anime
Saturday, 12 December 2020
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (EST) - Panel 5 / Pedagogy and Outreach
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM (EST) - Roundtable 3 / A Greek Mythology-Based Writing Workshop
12:50 PM – 1:35 PM (EST) - Social hour
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM (EST) - Panel 6 / Genre and Sexuality
2:55 PM – 3:55 PM (EST) - Roundtable 4 / Introducing AntiquiTropes
4:05 PM – 5:05 PM (EST) - AIMS Business meeting
5:15 PM – 6:45 PM (EST) - Panel 7 / Processing Female Anger
6:55 PM – 7:45 PM (EST) - Recognitions & Remarks, featuring Monica S. Cyrino and Antony Augoustakis
Website: https://classics.domains.skidmore.edu/aims/
(change of date) [ONLINE] TRANSLATING GREEK DRAMA (1600-1750)
Online - Université Sorbonne Paris Nord: June 11-12, 2020 December 10-11, 2020
Note: change of date - now online - December 10-11, 2020 - due to COVID-19
We are glad to announce the opening of the Call for Papers for the conference Translating Greek Drama (1600-1750), which will be on June 11-12, 2020 December 10-11, 2020 at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, organized by Malika Bastin-Hammou (Grenoble), Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford), Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13), with the support of Université Grenoble Alpe, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford).
Understanding the early modern reception of ancient drama is a cross-cultural, multilingual and collective effort. Recent diachronic explorations of ancient theatre in translation have recorded and analysed translation theories and practices in separate European languages, especially English and French. Drawing momentum from the European scope of previous collections, the aim of this conference is to bring together researchers focusing on translations of ancient Greek drama throughout Europe between 1600 and 1750 and, in collaboration with the translation database at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford), provide a platform to gather and exchange information on three different levels:
* Translations: source-text(s) editions, translation strategies, as well as the publication, circulation and performances of target texts.
* Translators: training and proficiency in ancient Greek, economic situation (patronage, market for translations), religious, intellectual, political backdrop to the production of translations and their reception.
* Translation theories: early modern translation practices and theories of translation; twenty-first-century terminology.
After Translating Greek Tragedy in Sixteenth-Century Europe (on tragedies, 1450-1600), and On Translating Greek Drama in the Early Modern Period (on translation theories, 1450-1600), this third conference on the topic (focusing on 1600-1750) seeks to address the following questions:
1. The European big picture: What were the common European trends, in theory and/or practice in the early translations of Greek drama? How effective was the circulation of both source- and target-texts?
2. Perceptions and representations: How were these translations perceived? How did they influence performance, and how did performance in turn impact translation practices? How was translating as a practice theorised, and how do early-modern terminologies, in different languages, map on twenty-first-century notions (translation, adaptation, version, rewriting, rendering, etc.)?
3. Intertextuality: What sort of influence did these translation theories and target-texts exert on European theatre in general, especially when compared to the reception of Roman Drama?
To participate, please send a 200-word abstract and a short biography to translatinggreektragedy@gmail.com by 5 April 2020.
For any questions, please contact giovanna.dimartino@classics.ox.ac.uk
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/1420360528144521
Program:
Panel 1 - First Vernacular Translations of Aristophanes
10.00-11.15 Paris time / 9.00-10.15 London time
Discussant: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
• Malika Bastin-Hammou (Université Grenoble Alpes) L’Aristophane français du bénédictin Dom Lobineau. À propos d’un manuscrit méconnu (c. 1700)
• Simone Beta (Siena) Traduire Aristophane à Sienne. Le Ploutos et Les Nuées de Giovan Battista Terucci (ou de Giuseppe Fabiani ?)
• Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow) James White’s Aristophanes
(15 mn Break)
Panel 2 – Neo-Latin Sophocles
11.30-12.30 Paris time / 10.30-11.30 London time
Discussant: Victoria Moul (UCL)
• Thomas Baier (Würzburg) Eighteenth-Century Translations of Euripides by Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer
• Cressida Ryan (Oxford) Seventeenth-Century Latin Sophocles: Not a Lingua Franca
(15 mn Break)
Panel 3 – Euripides in the Vernacular
12h45-13h45 Paris time / 11.45-12.45 pm London time
Discussant: Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow)
• Emanuel Stelzer (Verona) The Earliest English Translations of Euripides’ Medea and Alcestis
• Claudia Cuzzotti (Independent) Italian Translations and Adaptations of Euripides’ plays between 1600-1750
(One-hour Lunch Break)
Panel 4 - Contemporary Criticism and (Re-)Translations
14h45-16h30 Paris time / 1.45-3.30 pm London time
Discussant: Lucy Jackson (Durham)
• Giulia Fiore (Bologna) How to Make a Tragic Hero. Understanding Agency in Early Modern French and English Drama
• Angelica Vedelago (Verona) The Strange Case of Sophocles and Mr May: Functionalized Reception in Thomas May’s The Tragedy of Antigone (1632)
• Antonio Ziosi (Bologna) What a Translation Cannot Confess. The Case of Dryden and Lee’s Oedipus
• Giovanna Casali (Bologna) “…questo si ha dalla favolosa invenzione degli antichi Poeti”. The Reception of Ancient Sources in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Opera
(15 mn Break)
Panel 5 – Translation and Reception Theory
16h45-17h45 Paris time / 3.45-4.45 pm London time
Discussant: Claire Lechevalier (UNICAEN)
• Giovanna Di Martino (UCL) and Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13) Intertextuality, Performance and the Politics of Translation
• Estelle Baudou (APGRD), Giovanna Di Martino (UCL), and Cécile Dudouyt (Paris13) Translation in Practice Workshop
Plenary
17h45 - 18h30 Paris time / 4.45 - 5.30 pm London time
Discussant: Tiphaine Karsenti (Paris Nanterre)
Registration & Program: https://translatinggreektr0.wixsite.com/mysite/registration (register by December 9, 2020)
(CFP closed April 5, 2020)
[ONLINE] CROSSOVERS, COVID-19 AND CORPOREALITY: LIFE, DEATH AND REBIRTH IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD AND ITS RECEPTION IN AN AGE OF ACADEMIC INNOVATION
International Virtual (Zoom) Conference: December 6 & 9, 2020
Just as the Greeks on the plains of Troy faced the plague-arrows of Apollo, the modern world currently stands before unprecedented challenges. The present pandemic has forced us to face issues of mortality more closely than has been the case in recent decades. At the same time, the situation in which the academic world now finds itself is breaking down barriers in many areas: between home and work environments; between academics, students and the wider community; between teachers and pupils; between traditional disciplines; and between different methods of teaching. In fact, there has been a feeling amongst many for quite some time that winds of change are blowing through the corridors of academia. The impact of Covid-19 has just made this clearer as the halls of study have emptied and people have started to teach and carry out research in new environments, under different conditions and with previously untried methods. On the one hand, this provides exciting opportunities, but on the other, it may seem overwhelming. It is easy to get lost in the labyrinth while following new paths.
We would, therefore, like to reach out and invite you to an International Zoom Conference in which we will collaboratively explore new approaches to lecturing, teaching and academic writing, in particular those that cross boundaries. In this conference, we take as our focus the concepts of life, death and rebirth, both in classical sources and their receptions, but aim to examine these age-old ideas in light of the need for, and move towards, new and fresh approaches.
As a theoretical framework we take our inspiration from the concept of Crossover Literature, originating in Children’s Literature Studies, which argues that works of different media (literature, cinema, TV, comics etc.) are concurrently aimed at more than one age group. In fact, we contend that Crossover Literature encompasses a broad spectrum of phenomena that traverse borders and simultaneously address multiple audiences, such as academics and non-academics, readers/viewers of different cultures and/or genders. This approach parallels the ideas underlying Classical Reception, which examines how the Greco-Roman world is received as it crosses over to other cultures and periods, and recognises that these receptions may be understood in multiple ways.
On a philosophical level, the final crossover for any human is from life to death; this was recognised in the ancient world in Hermes’s role as psychopompos, the deity that led souls on their journey to the realm of the dead. This region fell under the jurisdiction of Hades, himself known by a range of euphemistic names that were designed to keep fear at bay. The struggle to accept death was an element that the ancients approached in various ways: Achilles would rather have a short glorious life than to be king of all the dead; heroes such as Odysseus, Herakles, Aeneas and Theseus descend to the underworld; the Orphic and other mystic traditions give hope for life after death; philosophical writings by Plato, Seneca and others address the ideas of death and afterlife. Archaeological findings and tombstone inscriptions give us further insight into rituals, the purpose of which was to ease the struggle to understand and accept mortality.
In this conference we would like to explore these ideas in the face of Covid-19. Recognizing the importance of innovation in our approaches to academia in the present climate, we invite contributions, /which we anticipate will not only include formal papers in a traditional sense, but also utilize innovative ways of presentation. These may include show and tell, games, interviews, interactive activities, musical performances and more. To that end, we ask that abstract proposals include both the theme and the method of presentation.
Possible ideas for presentations include, but are not limited to:
* Facing mortality and coping with fears of death: in ancient literature and its reception; in philosophy; literature; the contemporary classrooms
* Representations and reactions to plague and death in the classical world and its reception
* Optimism vs. pessimism, continuity vs. finality in the face of stress, death and uncertainty
* Crossovers and breaking boundaries: between life and death; between disciplines; between genres; between audiences
* Agents of crossing over: psychopompoi, mentors, guides, teachers
* Developing new ethics of teaching/learning in light of the breaking of the old boundaries
* Places of uncertainty: the labyrinth; the underworld; the virtual classroom
* Rebirths and innovation: in the academic world, teaching practice and approaches, collaborations; reincarnations: afterlives, mystery cults, the rebirth of “dead” languages in online teaching
The conference will take place over two dates, on the 6th and the 9th of December 2020, over Zoom.
Proposal abstracts of 250-300 words in length should be sent by 30th September 2020 to: ayelet.peer@biu.ac.il
Organizing committee:
Lisa Maurice, lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il
Lily Glasner, lily.glasner@biu.ac.il
Ariadne Konstantinou, ariadni.konstantinou@biu.ac.il
Ayelet Peer, ayelet.peer@biu.ac.il
Program (edited 29/11/2020):
Israeli local time, which is GMT+2.
Sunday, December 6, 2020
10:30 – 11:00 Virtual gathering & greetings
Eliezer Schlossberg, Dean of Humanities, Bar-Ilan University
Lily Glasner, Bar-Ilan University
11:00 – 12:00 The Classics is Crossing over, Chair: Ayelet Peer, Bar-Ilan University
Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand), Greek tragedy goes online: Classics as consolation in Modern Greece?
Giacomo Loi (Johns Hopkins University), The unwilling hero after the catastrophe: Aeneas in the time of the Holocaust and the Covid-19 pandemic
12:00 – 13:30 Heroes and Heroines , Chair: Ariadne Konstantinou, Bar-Ilan Univeristy
Eleni Ntanou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Ovid’s Adonis as a hero of the modern world
Anca Meiroşu (Independent Researcher), Rebirth and eternity
Ioannis Mitsios (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Dying for ‘doing’: Mythical Athenian heroines in service of the city
13:30 – 14:30 Virtual lunch break
14:30 – 15:00 Musical segment Introduced by Ariadne Konstantinou
Ensemble Mezzo (directed by Doret Florentin), Baroque music on mythical life and death
15:00 – 16:00 Life and Death in the Ancient World, Chair: Lisa Maurice, Bar-Ilan Univeristy
Federica Boero (University of Genoa), Seneca and his ghosts: The dead condemn the living
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University), How to watch a plague: Philosophical and satiric perspectives in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
16:15 – 17:30 Creative Writing Workshop
Amanda Potter (Open University, UK), Crossing creative boundaries: Rewriting the Odyssey as female-centric YA fiction in lockdown
Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
11:00 – 12:30 Innovation and Pedagogy, Chair: Michal Ben Horin, Bar-Ilan University
Arlene Holmes-Henderson (Oxford University), Crossing the boundary from research to curriculum policy: Classics education and Covid-19
Gabriela Debita (University of Galaţi, Romania), Through a labyrinth, brightly: Playing Le Guin’s Tenar in virtual learning environments
Ronald Blankenborg (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Surfing the waves first: Virtual reality and algorithms in ancient Greek epic
12:30 – 13:30 Virtual lunch break
13:30 – 15:30 Escape Room Workshop: Escaping from Covid-19
Lily Glasner (Bar Ilan University/Kibbutzim College of Education), Creating a classical escape room
To attend the conference and receive the zoom link please send an email to ayelet.peer@biu.ac.il
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2008&L=CLASSICISTS&P=16165
(CFP closed September 30, 2020)
[ONLINE] THERMOPYLAE 2500
Online (United Kingdom): November 21, 2020
The Hellenic Society welcomes submissions for the online conference Thermopylae 2500, to be held on the 21st November 2020.
2020 marks the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae and the death of King Leonidas, an event that was memorialised in Sparta during the yearly Leonidea festival in Roman times. Now, it is celebrated with an issue of 735,000 commemorative €2 coins. Viewed as a heroic battle, the story of Thermopylae has inspired creative responses as varied as David's Leonidas at Thermopylae (1814), Cavafy's Thermopylae (1901), and Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018). There has always been a great deal of myth-making when it comes to Thermopylae.
Yet many of these myths are actively malicious, or have been appropriated for malicious ends. From the use of 'MOLON LABE' and Lambda-emblazoned shields by contemporary extremist groups, to the use of Sparta as a form of legitimisation for Nazi ideologies, we might ask, can or should the teaching of Thermopylae (covered by many core undergraduate modules) be separated from these issues? Representations of Thermopylae in art, literature, and modern media, and the appropriations of Thermopylae by extremist groups have all historically been underrepresented in studies of the reception of the Thermopylae and Leonidas. This conference seeks to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae by critiquing the cultural constructs of Thermopylae across a range of modern, historical, and ancient societies.
We invite contributions on the following suggested topics:
* The Reception of Thermopylae in the Ancient World
* Thermopylae & Leonidas in Art, Drama, Poetry, Fiction, and Comics
* Thermopylae & Leonidas in Old Media (television, radio, film, advertising, music)
* Thermopylae & Leonidas in New Media (computer games, blogs, websites, social media)
* Thermopylae and Revolution
* The Image of Leonidas in the 21st Century
* Sparta and (Neo-)Nazism
* Teaching Thermopylae
The aim of this call is to solicit a range of posters, written papers, and recorded presentations (or other formats, including creative responses) covering the above themes, to be selected by the scientific committee. These will then be archived on a website, where they will be available to view prior of the conference. After the event, this will act as an open-access collection of contemporary responses to the reception of Thermopylae.
The conference itself will take place online and involve a series of roundtables concerning the themes and ideas explored in the submitted content, with each session being chaired by an expert in the field. This layout is meant is to minimize the impact of Covid-19 on proceedings and increase the opportunity for meaningful discussion.
Deadline for Submissions: 02.10.20
Notification of Acceptance: 09.10.20
Pre-circulation of accepted contributions: 09.11.20
Online Conference: 21.11.20
If you are interested in contributing, please submit a 250-word abstract (including a title and a note on the format your work would take) to thermopylae2500@gmail.com by end of day 02.10.20 BST. We particularly encourage submissions from those who have been historically underrepresented in the field of Classics.
Further information about the event can be found at https://thermopylae2500.wordpress.com/about/. Information about how to attend the conference roundtables will be circulated nearer the time and will include information on how to access the conference contributions.
Scientific Committee:
Emma Aston
Paul Cartledge
Lynn Fotheringham
Chrysanthi Gallou
Katherine Harloe
Stephen Hodkinson
James Lloyd
Helen Roche
Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Edited 9/11/2020. Program:
The event will be held on Zoom. To sign-up for the link, please email before 16th November: secretary@hellenicsociety.org.uk
PANEL 1: ANCIENT RECEPTIONS (PART ONE) - 9.00-10.00
Matt Thompson: “The Spartan Contribution to the Myth of Thermopylae”
Amelia Brown: “Memorials of Glorious Defeat: Ancient Monuments for the Battle of Thermopylae”
Ellen Millender: “Thermopylae as Teacher?: Didactic Spectacle and the Bolstering of Spartan Socio-Political Structures in the Aftermath of War”
Roy van Wijk: “A Lost Local Memory. Thermopylai, the Battle of Delion and the Thespian Polyandrion”
John Hyland: “Persia’s Thermopylae and the Iconography of Triumph over Greeks”
PANEL 2: ANCIENT RECEPTIONS (PART TWO) - 10.00-11.00
Murray Dahm: “Thermopylae and the 300s”
François Santoni: “The memorial game of Thermopylae in the Roman war against Antiochos III”
Elisabeth Slingsby: “This is (Not Quite) Sparta: Pseudo Parallels in ps-Plutarch’s Parallela Minora”
Olivier Gengler: “Intertextual battles of Thermopylai: Memory and identity in Roman and Late Antique Greece”
PANEL 3: THERMOPYLAE AND MODERN HISTORY - 11.00-12.00
Martina Gatto: “Lycurgus and Leonidas in Nazi German Ideology and Historiography”
Matthew Sears: “The Devil Can Quote Scripture: the use of Thermopylae by Anticommunists from Göring To Marshall”
Maria Kalinowska & Ewa Janion: “Thermopylae in Modern Polish Culture: The Ideal of Voluntary Sacrifice and its Contestations”
Catherine Muñoz: “Be a good Panamanian, be like Leonidas”
PANEL 4: THERMOPYLAE AND POPULAR CULTURE - 12.00-13.00
Vale Sebastián: “Mort Cinder: Space For Dialogue. The Battle of Thermopylae In Argentinean Comics”
Tony Keen: “‘The whole of Greece is waiting’: The depiction of international relations in movies about Thermopylae”
Amanda Potter: “The Heroism of Women: The female experience of the battle of Thermopylae in Xena Warrior Princess episode ‘One Against an Army’ and Steven Pressfield’s novel Gates of Fire”
LUNCHBREAK - 13.00-14.00
PANEL 5: TEACHING THERMOPYLAE - 14.00-15.00
Pandeleimon Hionidis:” Between Palamas’s “Live, our glorious homeland” and Cavafy’s “Never betraying what is right”. Teaching Thermopylae in a Modern Greek Literature class”
Anneka Rene: “Teaching Leonidas at Thermopylae at Secondary Level”
FINAL GROUP DISCUSSION - 15.00-15.30
Website: https://thermopylae2500.wordpress.com
(CFP closed October 2, 2020)
[JOURNAL ARTICLES] CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN TOLKEIN
Special edition of Thersites journal [https://thersites-journal.de/]
Abstract Deadline: November 1, 2020 extended deadine November 14, 2020
The forthcoming publication of Tolkien and the Classical World (Walking Tree Press) opens the door to many opportunities for the study of the reception of the classical world (broadly defined) in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. We hope to expand this body of research with a special edition of Thersites dedicated to ‘Classical Reception in Tolkien’ to be published in Fall 2022.
While there is no doubt that Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, as well as the mythology and worldbuilding behind it, is entrenched in Nordic mythology, linguistics, and Christianity, Tolkien himself stated that he “...was brought up in the Classics, and first discovered the sensation of literary pleasure in Homer” (Tolkien Letters #142). From the similarities between the Dioscuri and Elladan and Elrohir (Branchaw 2010), to amatory motifs in the portrayal of Eowyn (Moreno 2007, to the influences of the myth of Ajax on the sons of Denethor (Moreno 2005), it is not hard to find kernels of the ancient world scattered throughout Tolkien’s body of work, furthering the illusion that his worldbuilding simply extends the history, culture and literature of the Mediterranean. Intriguingly, Tolkien’s religious background may have prevented him from fully embracing the classical heritage, with tensions detectable in his handling of religious and mythical motifs traceable to pre-Christian antiquity.
We, on behalf of Thersites, are seeking 300 word abstracts (plus a bibliography) on the reception of the Classical World (broadly defined) in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Papers should be original and unpublished elsewhere. Ideal length of the final paper is 10,000 words (plus bibliography), with some leeway either way. Abstracts are due by November 1, 2020 extended deadine November 14, 2020 to Maciej Paprocki and Alicia Matz at tolkien.classical.reception@gmail.com. Applicants will be notified by mid-December 2020 of acceptance. Feel free to reach out to the co-editors at the email above with any questions or concerns.
Call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ApyxX7R017GsRrHuZ-9fLw7SY7KpF10t0fxjAx4vQz4/edit
(CFP closed November 14, 2020)
[ONLINE] CLASSICAL CONTROVERSIES IN 2020
Now online - Leiden University, The Netherlands: November 11-13, 2020
We are inviting paper proposals to present a paper of 30 minutes in a conference with the title Classical Controversies in 2020 at Leiden (The Netherlands) organised by the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities and Leiden University. The conference will be held on the 11th, 12th and 13th of November 2020.
This conference aims to contribute to our notions of the different ways elements of Graeco-Roman antiquity (construed in a broad sense of the word) are perceived and employed towards a particular end in most recent 21st century discourse. Its focus will be on reception by museums, in politics, and in more popular culture. This reveals the needs of our own society: what kinds of narratives about antiquity do we create for ourselves at this moment in time, and for which reasons? What do we do with antiquity? And how do these narratives use, and reflect on, earlier historical chains of reception?
Our keynote speaker is Dr. Donna Zuckerberg.
We invite papers concerned with (but not restricted to) recent reception of:
Employing ancient and modern notions about Sparta
Ancient religions
Notions of slaves and slavery
Others/’othering’
Homosexuality
Patriarchal structures
Issues related to heritage ethics
We invite paper proposals from those working in history, archaeology, classics, reception studies, and modern history; from graduate students, early career researchers and established scholars. We have limited funding available for those whose institutions are not able to cover travel costs. Each speaker will be asked to contribute a short (5000 words) article to an open access conference volume which we aim to publish in 2021 at Sidestone Press (PALMA series).
Please send questions and proposals to k.beerden@hum.leidenuniv.nl and t.epping@rmo.nl.
Deadline: 24 February 2020.
Call: https://www.rmo.nl/en/classical-controversies-in-2020/
This conference is now online: see https://www.rmo.nl/en/research/conferences-and-congresses/conference-on-classical-controversies/
(CFP closed February 24, 2020)
(rescheduled) [ONLINE] RE-ROLLING THE PAST: REPRESENTATIONS AND REINTERPRETATIONS OF ANTIQUITY IN ANALOG AND DIGITAL GAMES
Conference organized by Gabriel Mckee (ISAW) and Daniela Wolin (ISAW)
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, USA: March 27, 2020 - new dates November 11-13, 2020.
Program:
https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/re-rolling-the-past-day-1
https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/re-rolling-the-past-day-2
https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/re-rolling-the-past-day-3
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/re-rolling-the-past-representations-and-reinterpretations-of-antiquity-registration-123193235283
[ONLINE] EMPIRE AND EXCAVATION: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITISH-PERIOD CYPRUS, 1878-1960
Now online - from Nicosia, Cyprus: November 6-7, 2020
Note (24/10/2020): This conference was originally planned to take place in Nicosia. This is no longer possible due to ongoing restrictions relating to COVID-19, though we hope to stage the full conference in person next year. In the meantime we are proceeding through a series of online events, starting on 6-7 November 2020. For this inaugural event we are delighted to present a varied programme of papers, including keynote addresses from Dr Michael Given (Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow) and Dr Juliette Desplat (Head of Modern Collections at the UK National Archives). The programme can be found here (http://caari.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CAARI-BM-conference-6-7-November.pdf)
Jointly organised by the British Museum and the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, in association with the Council for British Research in the Levant
Conference organisers: Dr Thomas Kiely, British Museum; Dr Lindy Crewe, CAARI; Anna Reeve, University of Leeds.
In 2001, the British Museum published the proceedings of a conference held in 1999 entitled Cyprus in the Nineteenth Century AD. Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Edited by Veronica Tatton-Brown, the volume represented a watershed in the historiography of collecting and excavating antiquities on the island. Since that time, there have been significant advances in the history of Cypriot archaeology, but more especially in critical approaches to the historiography of archaeology as a whole. These approaches extend beyond traditional narratives of discoveries and intellectual trends and now encompass a diverse range of social, economic and cultural analyses within a comparative global framework (and especially in the framework of post-colonial thinking). The bibliography is now considerable, but among the key titles pioneering a range of new approaches can be listed: Tracing Archaeology's Past: The Historiography of Archaeology (A. Christenson, 1989); Rediscovering Our Past: Essays on the History of American Archaeology (ed. J. Reyman, 1992); Archives, Ancestors, Practices: Archaeology in the Light of its History (eds. N. Schlanger and J. Nordladh, 2008); Histories of Archaeology: A Reader in the History of Archaeology (ed. T. Murray, 2008); Hidden Hands: Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880-1924 (S. Quirke, 2010); Scramble for the past. A story of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 (eds. Z. Bahrani, Z. Çelik and E. Eldem, 2011); World Antiquarianism: Comparative Perspectives (ed. A. Schnapp, 2013); From Antiquarian to Archaeologist. The History and Philosophy of Archaeology (T. Murray, 2014); About Antiquities. Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire (Z. Çelik, 2016); Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities. A Critical History of Archaeology in 19th and 20th Century Greece (eds. P. Cartledge and S. Voutsaki, 2017); Antiquarianisms: Contact, Conflict, Comparison (eds. B. Anderson and F. Rojas, 2017).
In Cyprus too, there has been growing interest in previously neglected or unpublished fieldwork beyond purely archaeological discoveries, as well as in archival sources recording the collection and excavation of antiquities, both in the context of broader political and socio-economic aspects of the subject (especially imperialism and nationalism) and the methods and motivations of individual excavators and scholars. These go beyond the well-known public-facing histories of key figures, again reflecting the broader discipline.
At the same time, numerous aspects of archaeology in this period are under-explored and significant archival resources remain under-exploited, while the subject would also benefit from comparative approaches with other regions, such as the Mandated territories of the Middle East in the 20th century AD. Methodologies or genres such as microhistory and object biography offer new perspectives on historical approaches and subjects, especially for uncovering hidden histories of underrepresented groups (such as women, non-elite individuals such as workers, and local agents more generally).
The sixtieth anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus provides an excellent opportunity to revisit the theme of the original conference with a workshop that will build on the past generation of scholarship while expanding the coverage to the entire British colonial period (1878-1960) and introducing the latest trends in the historiography of archaeology. It is hoped that the proceedings with be published in a peer-reviewed volume in 2021.
Suggested themes include, but are not restricted to:
* How consciously or purposively political was archaeology in Cyprus in the British colonial period? How do we assess the fieldwork of European and American excavators working on the island at the same time and in the context of other imperial/colonial activity in the region?
* What knowledge of archaeology can be gained from little-known or overlooked archival sources such as photography and film, and from travel accounts and memoirs?
* The role of underrepresented groups in Cypriot archaeology (social, ethnic, gender).
* The key role of local Cypriots – from archaeological field workers and villagers to collectors and scholars – in the excavation and presentation of their past; conversely, the (mis)representation of local agency by archaeologists and scholars, then and now.
* The social and economic contexts and histories of excavation and collection, including unlicensed digging/ ‘looting’ and unlicensed export within a longer-term perspective.
* The diaspora of Cypriot antiquities, the mechanisms underpinning the formation of foreign collections (e.g. the antiquities trade), and museum strategies of interpretation and display in historical context.
* Critical interpretations of the long-term excavation histories of individual archaeological sites and regions.
* The ‘meta-historiography’ of archaeology: how archaeologists and historians have represented the work of earlier fieldworkers and scholars in their publications.
* The cultural and political use of archaeological finds, including their recruitment to colonial and nationalistic ideologies in the British colonial period.
* The mis/representation of the history of archaeology to general audiences: its impact on public understanding of excavation, and its uses for public engagement and community building.
Comparative regional studies focused on the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East are particularly welcomed. Likewise, we encourage papers which cross disciplinary boundaries and help to frame the history of Cypriot archaeology in a more holistic manner with contributions from history, anthropology, heritage studies and other related areas.
Please send abstracts of 500 words by 20 March 2020 extended deadline. Please contact Anna Reeve at ced0ar@leeds.ac.uk
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2002&L=CLASSICISTS&P=78830
Information: http://caari.org/programs/
Program: http://caari.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CAARI-BM-conference-6-7-November.pdf
Online Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-ebvBdFEKBgJkIHWoy0gvTBC8LArtgI81F3pRHjVmSMYvNA/viewform
(CFP closed March 20, 2020)
VI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MYTH CRITICISM: MYTH AND SCIENCE FICTION
University Complutense of Madrid, Spain: October 27-30, 2020
This meeting has moved to a hybrid on-site/on-line model. See website for details.
Myth and science fiction seek to explain the world, to answer everlasting questions: the origin of life and cause of death. But explanations are not sufficient for mankind: one wants to make approving or condemning judgements. Myth as well as science fiction project contradictions in unprecedented circumstances with an aim to adhere or condemn. Given the projective capacity of our imagination, we put forward improbable scenarios that allow us to see in a new light the consequences of a future situation.
Where does myth start and where does it end? How far does science fiction go? What significance does the crossing between both narratives have? As always, what is crucial and indisputable is to analyse the kind of transcendence in each case, the utmost criterion to identify and distinguish myth and science fiction.
In the last preceding conferences, organized by Asteria, International Association of Myth Criticism, in collaboration with Amaltea, Journal of Myth Criticism and ACIS, Research Group of Myth Criticism, we delved in the difficulties of adapting myths to our contemporary society, as well as their adaptations and subversions in the world of audiovisual creation.
The VI International Conference on Myth Criticism “Myth and Science Fiction” will analyze the relationship between myth and science fiction: their differences, convergences and subversions in various artistic fields. The temporal frame of the studies presented will span from 1900 to our contemporary time.
Send your proposals before May 1st extended deadline May 15th.
Website: https://mythcriticism.com/en/
(CFP closed May 15, 2020)
RÉCEPTION CLASSIQUE ET PÉDAGOGIE : LA MATIÈRE ANTIQUE DANS LA CLASSE
CPAF-TDMAM – CIELAM, Aix Marseille Université: October 22, 2020
Quel professeur de Lettres (classiques ou modernes) n’a jamais évoqué en classe le film Gladiator (2008), la bande dessinée Astérix (1959-en cours) ou le dessin animé Hercule de Disney (1997) ? Grâce aux productions de la culture contemporaine, les ressources pédagogiques sur l’Antiquité gréco-latine ne cessent de se multiplier et permettent aux enseignants de varier les sources et de proposer aux élèves un matériau séduisant, parfois tiré de leurs propres références culturelles. Parallèlement, l’éclatement des usages et des matériaux pédagogiques ébranle l’image traditionnelle d’une culture classique homogène.
Enseigner la culture antique, son histoire et ses littératures, étudier comment ses références irriguent le monde contemporain ou suivre le devenir de cette matière antique à travers les siècles, c’est à chaque fois mettre en tension le présent et le passé, la connaissance de la source et sa réinterprétation, l’histoire et la fiction. Or, ces différents objectifs ne sont pas aisément superposables dans la pratique pédagogique.
Ainsi, relever les erreurs factuelles (problèmes historiques dans Gladiator ou Astérix, incongruités mythographiques dans Hercule) peut s’avérer insuffisant pour aborder la diversité contemporaine des créations culturelles ayant trait à l’Antiquité. Une démarche strictement historiciste, qui déconstruit les œuvres de notre époque pour s’en tenir, en corrigeant les effets de l’anachronisme culturel, aux faits des civilisations antiques, instrumentalise mais ne problématise pas l’usage de ces ressources. Dans cette perspective, elles servent uniquement de support d’illustration ou d’entrée en matière à une mise au point historique ou culturelle. Si cette déconstruction est parfois nécessaire, elle ne permet pas de comprendre les enjeux idéologiques et artistiques qui déterminent les usages du passé.
Une autre démarche est pourtant possible. Certains chercheurs en sciences de l’Antiquité se proposent en effet d’étudier non pas l’histoire mais le devenir de l’Antiquité des Grecs et des Romains : « l’Antiquité après l’Antiquité », comme la revue Anabases depuis 2005, ou le carnet de recherche Antiquipop depuis 2015, consacré à l’étude de l’Antiquité dans la culture pop et ses supports. Ces travaux visent moins à établir ou à critiquer la fidélité d’une production à l’égard de ses sources antiques qu’à montrer leur intégration et leur actualisation dans un présent vivant, ouvert et multiple qui noue intimement les enjeux esthétiques, culturels, sociaux et idéologiques.
Si cette approche prend désormais de l’ampleur en France, elle a d’abord été théorisée au Royaume-Uni dans les années 1990, sous l’impulsion du classiciste et comparatiste Charles Martindale, sous le nom de « réception classique » (Classical Reception Studies). La théorie de la réception postule que le sens des textes et des cultures de l’Antiquité évolue en fonction de chaque contexte et support de réception, d’où un phénomène de traduction et de transformation permanent. Dans cette perspective, il ne s’agit plus de confronter les objets de la culture contemporaine à la vérité immuable d’une Antiquité historique, mais de chercher à comprendre comment notre culture elle-même façonne la « matière antique », selon l’expression de Véronique Gély (2009).
La réception, qui permet d’accueillir au sein d’un enseignement classique les œuvres contemporaines, légitime du même coup une démarche inverse et complémentaire : réformer notre utilisation des sources antiques dans l’enseignement contemporain. Ainsi, après les récentes propositions pour enseigner les Langues et Cultures de l’Antiquité à travers les ressources fournies par le théâtre antique, d’autres chercheurs ont proposé de puiser dans les pratiques pédagogiques anciennes, comme les progymnasmata (exercices préparatoires à la rhétorique), pour rénover la formation littéraire moderne.
Même si les apports théoriques de la réception classique restent moins répandus en France que dans le monde anglo-saxon, les enseignants français sont constamment invités à entrer dans une lecture dialogique de l’Antiquité, entre mondes anciens et monde contemporain, comme le suggérait encore le récent Rapport Charvet-Bauduin (2018). Du reste, bien d’autres disciplines que les sciences de l’Antiquité sont concernées : en histoire de l’art, lettres modernes, philosophie, droit, sciences politiques, études filmiques, etc., nombreux sont les enseignants qui recourent à la matière antique.
Ces nouvelles pratiques pédagogiques justifient la nécessité d’une journée d’étude consacrée au renouvellement de la didactique des LCA grâce à l’approche de la réception. Cette journée s’adresse donc à tous les enseignants qui intègrent à leur enseignement un médium de réception contemporain (films, série, jeu-vidéo, discours politique) pour étudier la culture antique ou bien une source antique réactualisée dans l’enseignement contemporain (art oratoire, discours philosophique, théâtre, etc.). Entre les travaux théoriques du monde académique et l’empirisme des initiatives individuelles dans l’enseignement, il reste à montrer l’apport pédagogique de la réception classique, comme discipline à part entière au même titre que l’histoire, les lettres ou l’archéologie, avec ses propres paradigmes, ressources et méthodes pour étudier l’Antiquité.
Le but de cette journée sera ainsi de réduire la distance entre théorie de la réception et pratiques de terrain. Il ne s’agira pas de partir abstraitement de principes pour en chercher des applications, mais, au contraire, d’interroger les pratiques nombreuses et concrètes des enseignants, issus de disciplines variées, pour construire ensemble les modalités d’une réception classique rigoureuse et adaptée aux pédagogies actuelles. En s’éloignant d’un usage purement instrumental des supports qu’offre la réception (livres, films, théâtre, séries télévisées, jeu-vidéo, etc.), il s’agira ainsi d’explorer les normes théoriques et les outils pratiques les plus adaptés à la réception classique, en partant de ce seul principe fondamental : considérer les ressources de la réception non pas en tant que support utilitaire mais comme enjeu d’enseignement.
Chercheurs et enseignants de toutes disciplines, dans l’enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, nous vous invitons, pour cette journée d’étude qui aura lieu le 22 octobre 2020, à présenter un projet pédagogique, sous quelque forme que ce soit – atelier, séquence, séance, séminaire – qui soit le support d’une réflexion sur vos usages de la « matière antique ». De la conception du projet et de la définition de ses objectifs pédagogiques à sa mise en œuvre concrète, il s’agit d’expliciter votre démarche d’enseignement en insistant sur ses enjeux, questionnements, difficultés et résultats.
Nous terminerons la journée par une table ronde qui portera sur la réception classique comme approche de l’Antiquité, à côté des lectures strictement historiques ou philologiques. Voici les axes qui dirigeront la discussion :
* Avons-nous un « droit d’inventaire » sur les ressources culturelles de l’Antiquité ?
* Quelle place la philologie classique et ses méthodes peuvent-elles trouver dans le champ de la réception classique ?
* En quoi la réception classique peut-elle participer, en théorie et en pratique, au dynamisme de l’enseignement des Langues et cultures de l’Antiquité ?
Le but final de cette journée sera de créer un carnet scientifique disponible en accès libre, qui agrégerait toutes les ressources théoriques et pratiques (nombreuses mais parfois éparpillées) susceptibles de fonder, de légitimer et de nourrir une didactique de la réception classique.
Les propositions d’intervention (titre + résumé de 300 à 500 mots), accompagnées d’une courte notice de présentation, sont à envoyer au comité d’organisation avant le 1er juin 2020: Clara Daniel (clara.daniel@univ-amu.fr) et Benjamin Sevestre-Giraud (benjamin.sevestre.giraud@gmail.com).
Notes:
(1) En 1993, Charles Martindale, classiciste et comparatiste britannique, publie un ouvrage consacré à l’herméneutique de la réception du texte antique, grec et latin. En s’appuyant sur la Rezeptionsästhetik (« poétique de la réception ») théorisée par Hans Robert Jauss en Allemagne dans les années 1970, il démontre le rôle du lecteur dans l’interprétation du texte ancien.
(2) « Les études classiques peuvent constituer aujourd’hui un portail méthodologique pour cette meilleure intelligence du monde que visent aussi les sciences humaines. Dans l’enseignement scolaire, elles peuvent assumer plus largement ce rôle d’initiation aux enjeux de société, par le traitement dans une certaine durée des discours, des conflits, des théories, des interprétations, et des expériences portées par les sociétés anciennes. Elles donnent accès à des modèles, non pas au sens moral mais au sens en quelque sorte « expérimental » de modèles de laboratoire, pour comprendre les phénomènes et les mécanismes sociaux ou individuels. » (p. 100).
(3) Par exemple : Chiron et Sans (2020) ; Bastin-Hammou, Fonio, Paré-Rey (2019) ; Bost-Fievet et Provini (2014).
(4) Voir la qualité et la diversité des ressources pédagogiques mises en ligne et partagées sur le site de l’association Arrête ton char : https://www.arretetonchar.fr/.
Bibliographie sélective:
Anabases (revue) : P. Payen (éd.), Anabases, Traditions et réceptions de l’Antiquité, vol. 1 (2005) – en cours, http://journals.openedition.org/anabases/
Antiquipop (carnet scientifique) : F. Bièvre-Perrin (responsable), Antiquipop : l’Antiquité dans la culture populaire contemporaine, http://antiquipop.hypotheses.org/
Arrête ton char (association de professeurs de LCA) : https://www.arretetonchar.fr/
M. Bastin-Hammou, F. Fonio, P. Paré-Rey (dir.), Fabula agitur. Pratiques théâtrales, oralisation et didactique des langues et cultures de l’Antiquité, Grenoble, UGA éditions, 2019.
M. Bost-Fievet et S. Provini (dir.), L’Antiquité dans l’imaginaire contemporain. Fantasy, science-fiction, fantastique, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014.
W. Brockliss, P. Chaudhuri, A. H. Lushkov, K. Wasdin (éd.), Reception and the Classics: an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition, Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
P. Chiron et B. Sans (dir.), Les progymnasmata en pratique de l’Antiquité à nos jours, Paris, Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2020 (à paraître).
V. Gély, « Les Anciens et nous : la littérature contemporaine et la matière antique », Bulletin de l’Association Guillaume Budé, 2009/2, p. 19-40.
L. Hardwick, Reception Studies, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2003.
C. Martindale, Redeeming the text: Latin poetry and the hermeneutics of reception, Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Responsable : Clara Daniel et Benjamin Sevestre-Giraud
Call: https://www.fabula.org/actualites/reception-classique-et-pedagogie-la-matiere-antique-dans-la-classe_95858.php
Information (https://antiquipop.hypotheses.org/1163) & programme [pdf] (https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2528/files/2016/11/Programme-R%C3%A9ception-classique-et-p%C3%A9dagogie.pdf).
(CFP closed June 1, 2020)
(postponed) HOMER AS CULTURAL HORIZON
University of Nice, France: October 21-24, 2020 - new dates October 18-23, 2021
University Côte d’Azur and the Center for Hellenic Studies are pleased to announce the following Conference to be held at the University of Nice on 21-24 October 2020
Organized jointly by Nicolas Bertrand (Université Côte d’Azur), Gregory Nagy (Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies), Giampiero Scafoglio (Université Côte d’Azur), Arnaud Zucker (Université Côte d’Azur).
The general purpose of the conference is to provide an up-to-date panorama of today’s Homeric research, through six thematic panels. We welcome diverse and even polemic proposals in order to achieve a dynamic and constrasted discussion on Homer’s legacy and actuality.
Confirmed speakers are : Rutger ALLAN (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL), Eugenio AMATO (Université de Nantes, FR), Nicolas BOUVIER (Université de Lausanne, CH), Jonathan BURGESS (University of Toronto, CA), Casey DUÉ HACKNEY (University of Houston, TX, USA), Richard HUNTER (Cambridge University, GB) Gregory NAGY (Harvard University / CHS, Washington DC,USA), Filippomaria PONTANI (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia, IT).
You are warmly invited to send a proposal. All proposals should consist of a one page abstract (about 250-300 words), for 30-minute papers to be delivered preferably in English or French, but papers in German and Italian are also accepted. Paper submissions should fit into one of the panels that must be clearly indicated by the author. The abstract should omit any reference identifying the author to ensure anonymity in the review process. The deadline for abstracts is February 1st. Participants will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals by March 1st 2020. Accommodation and meals will be provided for all speakers but the organization committee will not cover travel expenses.
Proposals, abstracts and other correspondence should be sent to: homer2020@univ-cotedazur.fr
Website: https://www.cepam.cnrs.fr/evenement/colloque-h2020-homer-as-cultural-horizon/
(CFP closed February 1, 2020)
(change of date) LOSING CHAINS: SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT IN CLASSICS, ANCIENT AND MODERN
A Conference by the Sportula
Online: June 27, 2020 - August 8, 2020 - date change - now October 17, 2020
The Sportula is a group of Classics Graduate students providing microgrants to Classics and Classics-adjacent students. For more information about who we are and our other initiatives, see https://thesportula.wordpress.com/ and follow us on Twitter @libertinopatren. Below is the Call for Papers for our second annual online conference.
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
- Assata Shakur
For classicists of all stages of their careers (from high school students to tenured professors) who self-identify as members of a group that has faced structural barriers to educational success (e.g. BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, and/or a Person of Color - includes mixed people], disabled, LGBTQ+, working class, student parent, etc.)
We invite you to participate in the Sportula’s second conference, which has the goal of showcasing the presence, excellence, and work of underrepresented scholars in the field. This year’s theme is Losing Chains: Systems of Support in Classics, Ancient and Modern. We invite you to submit papers/presentations/creative performances that address the idea of support, both in the ancient world as well as in the world we live in today. Each presentation should be between 15-20 minutes in length.
Abstracts due April 18, 2020 extended deadline June 15, 2020 - now August 22, 2020.
For students: this is an opportunity for you workshop/develop your work with current graduate students!
For teachers: we would love for you to show off what the future could look like!
Possible topics include, and are not limited to:
- Ancient support systems (proxenia, benefaction, etc.)
- Ancient relationships (e.g. between peoples, through trade, within slave communities, between freed people and former masters, sexual and/or gendered relationships, guilds/economic relationships, etc.)
- How to support undergraduates through pedagogy, support systems, etc.
- How to support middle/high school students
- Community and self-care among undergraduates and/or graduate students
- Graduate student unionization
- Food pantry development
Please send submissions and questions to: libertinopatrenatus@gmail.com
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/1438066146373959
(CFP closed April 18, 2020; extended deadline June 15, 2020 - August 22, 2020)
(postponed) GLOBAL CLASSICS AND AFRICA: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Classical Association of Ghana: Second International Classics Conference in Ghana (ICCG)
University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana: October 8-11, 2020 - new dates October 7-10, 2021
Note: Postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19
Note: Due to circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have postponed ICCG 2020 to 7th-10th October 2021. The venue for the conference remains the same. Deadline for abstracts has passed and decisions have already been communicated. Speakers have been maintained for 2021, but we may issue a further call for abstracts later in the year.
The late 1950s and early 1960s ushered in a period when many African countries were gaining political independence. Immediately, there was an agenda to unite African nations, and a policy of Africanization began to gain ground. In the area of education, this Africanization process was vigorously pursued. In Ghana the Institute of African Studies was established, and an Encyclopaedia Africana project, originally conceived by W. E. B. DuBois, was revived. In Nigeria, new universities were established to counter the colonial-based education that was present at the University of Ibadan, and in some East African countries there were fears that foreign university teachers would not be able to further the Africanization of university education.
One of the fields of study singled out in this process of Africanization was Classics. Classics was believed to serve the interests of colonialism and neo-colonialism. Part of the agenda of this Africanization was to highlight African contributions to world civilization and to show that the ‘Western’ world could not lay claim to any superior heritage. As part of restitutive measures in the field, scholars have begun exploring the idea of ‘Global Classics’, showing how the Classics connects with the broad spectrum of humanity and society. While there is evidence to show that this kind of link has been explored since (or even before) the independence of African nations, it has begun to garner attention across the world. Yet, there are still places in Africa and other continents where Classics continues to be inward-looking and does not open itself to interdisciplinarity, collaborations, nor to other civilizations besides the Graeco-Roman world.
In the present context of globalization, and the decolonization and Africanization of education in Africa, how might we account for the role of Classics in Africa, and to what extent can the idea of ‘Global Classics’ be the way forward? We seek papers that explore these questions, from the earliest presence of Classical scholarship (broadly defined, and including archaeology, literature, material culture, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, etc.) in Africa, and project what the future holds for Classics in Africa. We also welcome papers that draw lessons from non-African contexts. Papers may explore any of the following, as well as related, themes:
* academic freedom and politics
* African studies and global history
* Africanists/African-Americanists and the Classics
* art, museums, and architecture
* citizenship, migration, and cosmopolitanism
* classical connections with cognate and non-Classics disciplines
* comparative cultural reflections
* decolonization, pedagogy, and curriculum development
* economy, trade, and diplomacy
* gender and sexuality
* geography, environment, and development
* globalization, capitalism, and education
* race, ethnicity, and identity
* science, technology, and society
* war, peace, and democracy
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words for 20-minute papers to iccg@ug.edu.gh by December 15, 2019 EXTENDED DEADLINE Jan 30, 2020.
Details of registration, travel, and accommodation will be communicated later. For enquiries, please email Gifty Katahena (kemgift@gmail.com) or Michael Okyere Asante (kwadwoasante1@gmail.com).
Organizing Committee:
Gifty Etornam Katahena, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Peter K. T. Grant, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Michael K. Okyere Asante, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Daniel Orrells, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
A report on our collaboration with Eos at our first conference can be read at this link: https://www.eosafricana.org/collaborations/ghana-international-classics-conference-2019.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-global-classics-and-africa
(CFP closed January 30, 2020)
(postponed) ADAPTATION IN THE HUMANITIES: REIMAGINING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
University of Western Australia, Perth WA: October 3-4, 2020 - new dates September 30-October 2, 2021
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
In 2020 'Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies', the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group (PMRG), and Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Western Australia are joining forces to provide a forum for the presentation of the myriad of ‘adaptations’ worlds, individuals, languages, ideas, and peoples, real or otherwise, experience.
The conference will be held at The University of Western Australia on the 3–4 October 2020. It will be preceded by a masterclass and opening reception on 2 October.
Post-graduate students and Early Career Researchers are encouraged to apply, and a limited number of bursaries will be available for these presenters if they are travelling from interstate or overseas. Information will be made available on our website as planning evolves: https://conference.pmrg.org.au/.
The conference committee invites proposals for 20-minute papers or panels (of no more than three speakers) from the breadth of humanities research to explore the products of adaptations, and the processes that bring them into being.
Conference abstract submissions should consist of:
A title, An abstract (max. 200 words), A short biography (max. 50 words).
Panel proposals should consist of:
Panel Title, Proposed Chair (if available), Details of each presenter and paper as described above.
Submit proposed papers and panels to: adaptationconference2020@gmail.com by the 31 May 2020 (conference postponed). Any questions can also be directed to the conference email address. The committee aims to have abstract responses returned by 14 June 2020.
You may also be interested in the 15th International Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association 'Journeys: Discovery and Belonging', 30 September - 2 October 2020, also at The University of Western Australia. More info: https://www.aema.net.au/conference.html.
Call: https://conference.pmrg.org.au/
(cancelled) AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE ["JOURNEYS: DISCOVERY AND BELONGING"]
University of Western Australia, Perth: September 30-October 2, 2020
Note: cancelled due to COVID-19
The 2020 AEMA annual conference will be held at The University of Western Australia, Perth. Proceedings will begin on the evening of September 30 with a public lecture and reception for registrants. The conference is on October 1 and the morning of October 2. There will be a Masterclass for postgraduates and early career researchers on the afternoon of October 2.
Plenary speakers:
Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (History, NUI Galway, retired).
Dr Victoria Flood (English, University of Birmingham).
The conference committee invites papers on the theme Journeys: Discovery and Belonging. The period we study was marked by the disintegration of established political and social orders, widespread migrations and incursions, and rising competition between religious ideologies. Developing forms of inter-cultural contact and exchange gave rise to new ways of conceptualising and articulating identity and alterity, but while new boundaries – physical and ideational – were established, all boundaries remained porous. People, objects and ideas continued to circulate, to take journeys. How did existing communities and new migrants adapt to, or resist, each other? How were institutions modified to include, accommodate or exclude new worldviews? What was the role of material culture in holding fast to the old, and in legitimising and promoting new polities, new ethnicities, and new ideologies? How did cross-cultural contacts in the early medieval period shape history?
We invite submissions on any related topics, including the following:
Exchange across borders - trade, culture, and human trafficking;
Maintaining and modifying identity;
Maritime exploration;
Invasion, settlement, assimilation;
Cultural geography: significant space and place;
The book as traveller / the reader as voyager;
Imagined otherworlds / imagined others;
The idea and material expression of homelands;
Emotions and journeys / emotional journeys
Pilgrimage and adventure;
Travel narratives;
First contacts;
Reading race and ethnicity: conflict and co-existence;
Conversion and religious conflict;
Accommodation and defiance—tensions in the quest to belong;
Translation, adaptation, linguistic change;
Viewing ‘Europe’ from outside;
Afterlives of the early medieval in modern identity formation.
AEMA also welcomes papers concerned with all aspects of the Early Medieval period (c. 400 - 1150) in all cultural, geographic, religious and linguistic settings, even if they do not strictly adhere to the theme. We especially encourage submissions from graduate students and early career researchers.
Submissions may be in the form of:
individual papers of 20 minutes duration;
themed panels of three 20-minute papers;
Round Tables of up to six shorter papers (total of one hour).
All sessions will include time for questions and general discussion. Please send proposals (150–200 words per paper), along with author’s name, paper/panel/RT title, and academic affiliation (if any) to conference@aema.net.au by May 31, 2020 [conference cancelled]. Enquiries about the conference may also be sent to this address.
A limited number of bursaries are available for low income PG/ECRs who are also AEMA members and are selected to present. Please attach an expression of interest with your paper proposal.
A Best Paper Prize will also be awarded for the best PG/ECR paper presented by an AEMA member. More details to come!
Call: https://www.aema.net.au/conference.html
[ONLINE] ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
International Online Conference – September 28-29, 2020
Organisers: Sabina Castellaneta (Bari), Nadia Rosso (Piemonte Orientale)
Scientific commettee: Francesco Carpanelli (Torino), Giorgio Ieranò (Trento), Massimo Magnani (Parma), Anna Novokhatko (Thessaloniki), Luigi Todisco (Bari), Bernhard Zimmermann (Freiburg)
Keynote discussants: Luigi Battezzato (Piemonte Orientale), Olimpia Imperio (Bari)
The scientific meeting Ancient Greek Theatre in the Digital Age aims to investigate the potentials and limits of the digital tool for the study of Greek Theatre. We especially invite papers that present experiences undertaken, project proposals and research perspectives relating to:
a) digital scholarly editions of ancient Greek theatrical texts, including fragmentary ones, and of the ancient scholia to theatrical plays, especially with reference to the debate about textual criticism and digital philology;
b) dynamic, collaborative and open access analyses of ancient Greek theatrical texts and new paradigms of textuality, authoriality and accessibility in the digital age;
c) digital archives of manuscripts, printed editions and modern performances of ancient Greek theatre; online lexica of ancient Greek theatre; databases of archeological and epigraphic material related to ancient Greek theatre; online repertories of props and costume designs in ancient Greek theatre; virtual reconstructions of ancient Greek stage settings and theatrical buildings;
d) online didactic strategies for studying ancient Greek theatre, starting from the experiences concretely gained by the scientific and academic community during the ongoing health emergency.
The aim of the Conference is to use digital tools – the only means, as of today, to ensure an exchange of ideas between scholars – to reflect on the digital challenge for the analysis of Greek theatrical texts, surviving and fragmentary, and of the theatrical phenomenon in its totality.
Organization: The meeting is organized by the University of Bari and will be held online. This session is part of the Widespread Conference on Ancient Drama promoted by the Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico of University of Turin.
Proposals:
Speakers intending to participate in the Conference Ancient Greek Theatre in the Digital Age are invited to send an e-mail to sabina.castellaneta@uniba.it by July 5th 2020 following these instructions:
• object: “Candidacy to Widespread Conference Bari”;
• attachments (in pdf format):
• an anonymous abstract written in Italian or English (maximum word count: 300 words), specifying title and research field of the paper proposal (a. digital scholarly editions; b. dynamic analyses; c. archives and repertoires; d. didactic strategies);
• a brief curriculum vitae (in Italian or English), which will list University affiliation, relevant degrees and publications (maximum word count: 300 words).
The Scientific Committee is responsible for accepting or rejecting papers. The organisers will inform the proposers by July 20th.
Papers can be given in Italian, English or French and they should not be longer than 30 minutes.
The organisers plan to submit the conference proceedings for publication. Publication will be overseen by the Scientific Committee and will be subject to a process of blind peer-review.
Timeline
May 7th open call for papers
July 5th deadline for the call for papers
July 20th acceptance of the successful proposals
Sept. 28th-29th International Online Conference
Edited 6/9/2020 - Program:
September 28th
9.30 Institutional greetings: Stefano Bronzini (Rettore Uniba); Davide Canfora (Direttore LeLiA - Uniba)
10.00 Conference opening: Olimpia Imperio (Bari); Bernhard Zimmermann (Freiburg)
Digital editions
Chair: Francesco Carpanelli (Torino)
10.30 Sabina Castellaneta, Nadia Rosso, Lorenza Savignago (Bari, Piemonte Orientale, Trieste), DEFrAG-Tragedy: edizione critica digitale, dinamica e collaborativa dei frammenti tragici
11.00 Timothy J. Moore, Jennifer McLish (St. Louis, Ann Arbor), An online database of Greek dramatic meters
11.30 Menico Caroli (Foggia), Per un’edizione digitale dell’Ippolito Kalyptómenos di Euripide
12.00 Lorenzo Sardone (San Marino), Un nuovo testimone dell’Aiace sofocleo e le potenzialità della ricostruzione digitale
Keynote lecture - 15.30 - Andreas Bagordo (Freiburg), Sperimentando l'iperframmento comico (riflessioni dal laboratorio KomFrag)
Digital lexicons
Chair: Anna Novokhatko (Thessaloniki/Freiburg)
16.00 Elena Fabbro, Elena Bonollo (Udine), Finanze pubbliche e ricchezza privata nella commedia greca: per un archivio digitale
16.30 Virginia Mastellari, Beatrice Gavazza, Leon Glaser (Freiburg), Lessico degli oggetti dalla commedia greca. Presentazione di un nuovo database
17.00 Mario Regali (Napoli), Lessico Digitale della Commedia Greca (LDCG): testo, scena, ricezione
17.30 Carmela Roscino (Bari), Skeué online: per un lessico digitale del costume teatrale nell’iconografia greca e magnogreca
September 29th
Distance teaching
Chair: Massimo Magnani (Parma)
10.00 Chris Blackwell, Francesco Mambrini (Furman, Milano), Teaching Oedipus Tyrannos with an integrated digital edition during a pandemic
10.30 Anastasia Bakogianni, Declan Patrick (New Zealand), ‘Where is the body?’: performing Iphigenia at Aulis online in a New Zealand context
11.00 Ronald Blankenborg (Nijmegen), Changing the mask: formative teaching of ancient Greek theatre in the digital age
11.30 Hallie Marshall (British Columbia), Barefaced Greek: ancient theatre on film and classroom
Keynote lecture - 15.30 - Fiona Macintosh, Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford), Archiving and interpreting performance
Digital archives
Chair: Giorgio Ieranò (Trento)
16.00 Andriana Domouzi (London), Creating DAPLAP: a database for the reception of fragmentary ancient Greek Drama
16.30 Sara Troiani, Giada Arcidiacono (Trento, Venezia), Parole e spazi del dramma antico sulla scena contemporanea: due progetti digitali del Laboratorio “Dionysos”
17.00 Martina Di Stefano, Elena Sofia Capra (Pavia), Ricezione digitale: verso una digitalizzazione dell’archivio audiovisivo del CRIMTA
17.30 Federico Boschetti, Gloria Mugelli (Pisa), Il metodo Euporia per creare nuovi archivi digitali sulla tragedia greca
18.00 Conference closing: Luigi Battezzato (Piemonte Orientale)
Webpage: http://www.teatroclassico.unito.it/it/content/convegno-telematico-%C2%ABancient-greek-theatre-digital-age%C2%BB-bari-2020
Online: https://meet.google.com/bjn-uoum-ymi
(CFP closed July 5, 2020)
RECEPTIONS OF ANTIQUITY FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: THE IV YOUNG RESEARCHERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (ANIWEH – VI SHRA)
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain: September 28, 2020
Note: unable to verify status of this meeting
Under the title Receptions of Antiquity from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary World, the IV Young Researchers International Conference ANIWEH – VI SHRA proposes to analyse the reappropriation/re-elaboration of different case studies and episodes from the Graeco-Roman World, Ancient Egyptian, and Near Eastern cultures and the Protohistoric era, which allow to conform a varied representation of the possibilities offered by the reception of Antiquity throughout history.
The conference will be held at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The meeting is scheduled for September 28 in the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the same university, located in Bellaterra (Catalonia, Spain). The deadline for proposals is July 20. The participation in the IV Young Researchers International Conference ANIWEH – VI SHRA is open to current Master Degree or Ph.D. students, and will consist of papers of 15-20 minutes of duration. Contributions in English, Spanish or any of the co-official languages of Spain will be accepted.
Information & call: https://aniho.hypotheses.org/1981. Email: shla.aniho@gmail.com
(CFP closed July 20, 2020)
[ONLINE] GREEK EPIC AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
International Online Conference - University of Oslo: September 25-26, 2020
The Research Group Novel and Epic, Ancient and Modern in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo is pleased to issue a Call for Papers for our International Online Conference Greek Epic and Artificial Intelligence. Submissions are invited from academics in Classics and related disciplines. The conference will be held on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 September 2020 on Zoom and will be open to the general public.
We aim to explore early artificial intelligence concepts in Greek epic and to look at how Hesiod, Homer and Apollonius Rhodius – and potentially authors of the fragmentary epics – have elaborated on what seem to be some of the first literary texts dealing with automata and the quest for artificial life as well as technological intervention improving the human life. We are equally interested in the reception of these in later/contemporary literature and culture.
Confirmed Speakers include:
· Maria Gerolemou, University of Exeter (Hephaestus' Automata in Homer and Beyond)
· Genevieve Liveley, University of Bristol (Talos)
· Adrienne Mayor, Stanford University (Pandora, Made Not Born)
· Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound (Robo-Dogs, Artificial Intelligence, and Self-Rule in Homer and Archaic Greece)
Papers should last no longer than 25mins and each will be followed by a 10min discussion. Please submit titled abstracts of no more than 200 words by emailing a pdf attachment to both organisers by Wednesday 22 July: Dr Andriana Domouzi (andrianadomouzi@gmail.com) and Prof. Silvio Bär (silvio.baer@ifikk.uio.no); please include name, affiliation and a short bio in a different attachment. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously and submitters will be notified shortly after the deadline. We may publish the outcomes of the conference at a later stage depending on the preferences of the participants (details to be discussed at the end of the conference).
Call: https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/07/10/greek-epic-and-artificial-intelligence/
Register: https://greekepic_ai_oslo.eventbrite.co.uk
(CFP closed July 22, 2020)
THE MULTIPLE ANTIQUITIES OF GREEK MODERNITY (19TH-21ST CENTURIES)
National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece: September 24–26, 2020
Note: unable to verify status of this meeting
“Wishing to restore to life a nation that has disappeared from history as a political entity on account of its former glory is as reasonable as wishing to resuscitate animal species that have ceased to exist long ago and whose traces are buried in the Paleozoic layers of the earth (…) and yet it is this kind of absurd thinking that has taken hold of those of us who seek to found our national existence not on the development of existing elements but on memories of classical antiquity – which, by the way, modern Greeks have a very poor knowledge of, acquired via a second-rate translation by A.R. Rangavis of the Compendium of Goldsmith’s History of Greece.” - Ἀσμοδαῖος, 22/2/1881
National origins were at the centre of discussions across Europe in the nineteenth century. Could it have been possible, then, for the Greeks not to take advantage of a source of legitimacy as flattering and as promising as antiquity? In fact, ancient Greece turned right away into a decisive factor in the arduous process of shaping Modern Greek identity and state ideology. The mode of connection established in this manner between the Modern Greek state and the ancient Greek past has nevertheless proved to be an incessant source of genuine difficulties as illustrated by this (self-) critical description of the Modern Greek obsession with antiquity which was published anonymously in 1881 in the satirical journal of Themos Anninos, Asmodaios.
The attempted large-scale resuscitation of an irrevocably bygone age ended up being a crushing weight upon the present of a society in which the recollection of antiquity had to be actively cultivated. The gap that emerged between the spoken (δημοτική) and the purist (καθαρεύουσα) language highlights the grip that a monumental past had on a present that was destined to become archaizing. At the same time, a return to antiquity of such scope depended upon the successful introduction and adaptation of the classical tradition of Western Europe and its academic know-how.
We aim to examine the Modern Greek turn to the Ancient Greek past, giving particular attention to:
* The diversity and multiplicity of the “Antiquities” created and disseminated in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries
* The contexts – national, cultural, political – in which diverse and often conflicting conceptions of antiquity were formulated and interacted with each other
* The ways in which the dominant version of national history was sustained or undermined by co-existing versions with alternative claims to antiquity.
To investigate these questions, we encourage the adoption of interdisciplinary perspectives fostering dialogue between intellectual history, cultural and classical reception studies and literary theory.
The following list of suggested topics is indicative (and not exhaustive):
* Articulating the couple Ancients / Moderns: historiography and temporalities, representations, imaginary
* A mediated relationship: from modern to ancient Greece via Western Europe. Introducing western European classical learning: translations and the policies of reception; The journey to Greece (itineraries, pilgrimages, travel guides);The mediation and cultural policies of foreign archaeological schools.
* Modern Greek institutions and the development of an ‘autochthonous’ classical scholarship: The Archaeological Society, the University of Athens, museums etc; National historiography and folklore studies.
* Antiquity in the light of the dominant political ideologies of the 19th and 20th century
* Antiquity and the Greek-Orthodox Church
* Antiquity beyond ancient Greece: Modern Greek perceptions of non-Greek ancient cultures (Roman, Jewish, Egyptian, Persian, et al)
* Antiquity in excess: Criticism and satires of the modern Greek obsession with antiquity; the discussion about kitsch
* Revivalisms: The modern Greek “parlêtre” or the insoluble language question; Material culture and Antiquity: Naming practices (first names, street names, names of plans of political repression or natural disaster prevention etc); Buildings (public and private); Symbols (coins, medals, stamps etc); Tattoos; Souvenirs; Associations: Sports clubs, cultural societies, neo-pagan groups etc.; Videogames, comics, board games.
* Antiquity and sexual identities: The LGBT communities; homo-nationalism etc.
* The Antiquity of the Modern Greek Diaspora: journals, associations, schools, restaurants etc.
The conference will take place at the National Hellenic Research Foundation on 24-26 September 2020. Proposals should be submitted in either French or English.
Abstract deadline: January 10, 2020
Call: [Academia] https://www.academia.edu/40627159/The_Multiple_Antiquities_of_Greek_Modernity_19_th_-21_st_centuries via http://maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-multiple-antiquities-of-greek-modernity
(CFP closed January 10, 2020)
ANCIENT FABLES: SOUR GRAPES? - NEW APPROACHES
University of Graz, Austria: September 24-26, 2020
Note: unable to verify status of this meeting
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Ursula Gärtner (Graz), Lukas Spielhofer (Graz)
Confirmed speakers: Gert-Jan van Dijk (Leiden), Andreas Fritsch (Berlin), Ursula Gärtner (Graz), Jeremy Lefkowitz (Swarthmore), Silvia Mattiacci (Siena), Caterina Mordeglia (Trento), Johannes Park (Göttingen), Chiara Renda (Naples), Hedwig Schmalzgruber (Potsdam), Lukas Spielhofer (Graz), Giovanni Zago (Florence)
The genre of ancient fable has long been neglected by scholars, with 20th-century research still focusing primarily on questions of textual transmission, the evolution of literary motifs, or reception history. The idea that fables were intended as a means of voicing their discontent by lower social classes has inclined many researchers to place emphasis on their sociocultural value. Over the last decades, however, there has also been a growing scholarly interest in the respective authors and their works. Some of these contributions adhere to the traditional biographical-interpretive approach, while others stress poetological aspects and demonstrate how the fables, in a unique and witty way, fit themselves into the literary discourse of their time.
It is the aim of this conference to bring together scholars who have, over the last years, opened up new approaches in this field, and to create an international network of ancient-fable scholarship.
Key questions:
1. Text and transmission
Research on ancient fable is often hampered by poor textual transmission. What is the latest state of research concerning new findings and new readings, both in individual cases and generally? In the case of many ancient fables, the circumstances of their historical transmission are still unclear. How have the extant ancient fable collections come down to us, what developments have they undergone in the process, and in what way does this depend upon the form of the collection (intentional/arbitrary/accidental)?
2. Contextualisation
The function of fables per se is the exemplification of statements in a given context. When they are collected and achieve the status of a literary genre in its own right, they lose their original explanatory function. What divergent but plausible contextualisations (pragmatic, sociological, literary, concerning intellectual and motif history, in the context of animal studies, etc.) and corresponding interpretations can be found?
3. Audience
What can we deduce from content and structure about the intended audience of the fables? How is the implied reader characterised and what does this tell us about possible contextualisations?
4. Poet, poeta, persona
Hardly anything is known today about the empirical, flesh-and-blood authors of ancient fables. How and when did their authorial representations emerge? Does the ‘Dichterinstanz’, the authorial character, express himself in the fables, and if so, how does this self-representation work? What is the relevance of poetological considerations?
5. Fables in the literary discourse of their time
Do subtexts and parallels allow us to attribute fables to a certain literary tradition? How do other ancient texts reflect on fables? Can we draw parallels between ancient fable and other literary genres and/or currents?
6. Reception
By whom and how were fables taken up in late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern period? What continuities and transformations can be observed?
There will be a time slot of 30 minutes for each paper (English or German), followed by a discussion. Selected articles may be published as a special volume.
All submissions must be written either in English or German and must include:
An abstract with a short bibliography (each abstract should be no more than 250 words, bibliography excluded).
A brief academic biography, which should mention the author’s name, surname, academic email, current affiliation and selected bibliography.
The deadline for submitting proposals is January 30, 2020. Acceptance of contributions will be notified by February 15, 2020.
In the meantime, if you have any questions regarding any aspect of the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Ursula Gärtner, Institute of Classics, University of Graz. Email: ursula.gaertner@uni-graz.at
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/1393010570879517
(change of date) [ONLINE] AMPHORAE XIV: 14TH ANNUAL MEETING OF POSTGRADUATES IN HELLENIC OR ROMAN ANTIQUITIES AND EGYPTOLOGY
University of Adelaide, South Australia: July 1-4, 2020. NEW DATES: September 23-25, 2020
We invite submissions of abstracts for the 14th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquities and Egyptology (AMPHORAE) to be held at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, from the 1st to the 4th of July 2020.
Postgraduate students in Ancient World Studies from Honours to PhD level are invited to present their research (either as a paper or in poster form) in a friendly and welcoming environment. Panel submissions are also welcome.
The theme for AMPHORAE XIV is 'Change and Continuity'.
As postgraduate students in Ancient World Studies, we work in a discipline that may be anchored in the past, but that is undergoing constant change. Study of the ancient world provides us with insight into the transformations of thought, politics, religion, and society that define us, whilst also revealing the continuity of ideas and experiences from then to now. Scholarship itself is a continuous link with the past, both in the material that we study and the work of other scholars that we engage with.
We invite you to reflect on the changes and continuities in your own field, and to share your research and ideas with fellow peers and a welcoming, engaging audience.
Abstracts that do not align with the theme will also be considered.
Papers will be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes of question time.
You may also propose a panel of papers on a particular theme. The panel structure will need to conform to the 90 minutes allocated to each session. Applications to have a panel considered must conform to the guidelines for special panels.
We invite archaeological reports as a specific category of presentation. We recognise that the submitted abstracts may be projections due to the fact that the field season will possibly take place after the call for papers has closed. Please read the guidelines for archaeological reports before submitting your proposal.
We also invite you to consider proposing a poster presentation instead of a paper.
To present at AMPHORAE XIV, submit an abstract using the coversheet provided (https://amphoraexiv.weebly.com/submit.html) to amphoraeconference@gmail.com by 16th of March, 2020 extended deadline June 30, 2020.
Website: https://amphoraexiv.weebly.com
(CFP closed June 30, 2020)
(change of date) #CFP MAKING OF THE HUMANITIES IX
Barcelona, Spain: September 21–23, 2020 - new dates September 20–22, 2021
Note: Postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19. New #CFP deadline May 1, 2021.
The Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) together with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) will host the 9th Making of the Humanities conference, from 21 till 23 September 2020.
The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.
We welcome panels and papers on any period or region. We are especially interested in work that transcends the history of specific humanities disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines and civilisations.
This year there is a special conference theme: Unfolding Disciplines in the History of the Humanities. We encourage submissions that explore this theme, but remain fully open to submissions addressing other subjects.
A growing body of scholarship suggests that the historiography of the humanities is increasingly organized around new interdisciplinary collaborations that affect the very understanding of what it means to belong to a Humanities discipline. This year we invite contributions that interlace different disciplinary approaches in order to frame humanistic scholarship in terms of a continued engagement with the limits and possibilities offered by the softening and even erasure of disciplinary boundaries. Participants are also encouraged to think expansively about the impact of the ongoing process of reinvention of established as well as new disciplinary fields as a result of increased cross-pollination and collaboration.
Please note that the Making of the Humanities conferences are not concerned with the history of art, the history of music or the history of literature, and so on, but instead with the history of art history, the history of musicology, the history of literary studies, etc.
Keynote Speakers MoH-IX:
* Cristina Dondi (Oxford University): “The history of the book and libraries: from bibliophilia to social and economic history”
* Maribel Fierro (CCHS-CSIC Madrid): “Iberian humanities and the historical experience of religious pluralism”
* Matthew Rampley (Masaryk University): “Naturalistic Theories in the Humanities: Past and Present”
Paper Submissions: Abstracts of single papers (30 minutes including discussion) should contain the name of the speaker, full contact address (including email address), the title and a summary of the paper of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting abstracts, see the submission page.
Deadline for abstracts: May 1, 2021
Notification of acceptance: June 2021
Panel Submissions: Panels last 1.5 to 2 hours and can consist of 3-4 papers and possibly a commentary on a coherent theme including discussion. Panel proposals should contain respectively the name of the chair, the names of the speakers and commentator, full contact addresses (including email addresses), the title of the panel, a short (150 words) description of the panel’s content and for each paper an abstract of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting panels, see the submission page.
Deadline for panel proposals: May 1, 2021
Notification of acceptance: June 2021
Conference fee:
The exact conference fee will be determined in spring 2020 and will be ca. €100 for regular participants and ca. €80 for PhD students. The fee includes access to all sessions, access to the welcoming reception, simple lunches, and tea and/or coffee during the breaks.
Local Organizing Committee: Daniele Cozzoli (UPF), Linda Gale Jones (UPF), Tomas Macsotay (UPF) and Neus Rotger (UOC)
Program Committee: International Board of the Society
Call: http://www.historyofhumanities.org/2019/12/13/call-for-papers-and-panels-the-making-of-the-humanities-ix/
(change of date) FEMALE AGENCY: WOMEN DISRUPTING THE PATRIARCHY (ICS WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE SERIES)
Institute of Classical Studies, London: September 18-19, 2020 - new dates: May 6-8, 2021
Note: Postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19
The study of women in the ancient world has garnered academic interest and public fascination since the feminist movement of the 60s and 70s. Seminal works by Sarah B. Pomeroy, Suzanne Dixon, Judith P. Hallett and Susan Treggiari, to name just a few, have highlighted the abundance of resources in the ancient world that can be used to shed light on the various roles that women played in these societies. This inaugural Women in Antiquity Conference Series, hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies in London, would like to continue this current trend by focussing on ‘Female agency: Women disrupting the patriarchy’.
The conference’s aim is to bring forward all the emerging research on female agency in antiquity. The term antiquity has been used, instead of more ‘traditional’ terms such as ancient history and classics, so as to include all time periods, as well as geographical regions, of the ancient world. As such, topics that span from prehistory to late medieval times will be considered. Moreover, topics on any aspect of ‘Female agency: Women disrupting the patriarchy’ will also be considered. These may include, but are not limited to, one of the following:
• Female leaders in a predominately patriarchal society
• Women in the judicial arena
• Women as head of the house or head of their family units
• Female doctors, midwives and scientists
• Women in commerce
• Female authors
• Women in religious roles
• Female athletes, musicians and actors
• Women as benefactors and patrons
Any aspect of female agency, whether it be archaeological, epigraphical, literary, visual, prosopographical, or interdisciplinary, will be considered.
Abstracts of no more than 350 words are sought by all levels of academic researchers, as well as PhD students. Papers presented will be 30 minutes, followed by 5-10 minutes of questions. Three paper panels, with a common focus adhering to the conference theme, are also encouraged.
Please submit abstracts by no later than February 28, 2020 to womeninantiquity@gmail.com
Please get current information on Twitter (@AntiquityWomen) and Facebook (@WomeninAntiquityconference).
Website: https://womeninantiquity.wixsite.com/conference
(CFP closed February 28, 2020)
(postponed) ANTIQUITIES, THE ART MARKET AND COLLECTING IN BRITAIN AND ITALY IN THE 18TH CENTURY
Birkbeck, University of London: September 17-18, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19. New dates: September 16-17, 2021. New #CFP deadline TBA.
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the formation and display of country house collections of art and antiquities in Britain, and particularly those created as a result of a Grand Tour to Italy in the eighteenth century. From The English Prize at the Ashmolean Museum in 2012 and the collaboration between Houghton Hall and The Hermitage State Museum, Houghton Revisited, in 2013, to The Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill: Masterpieces from Horace Walpole's Collection in 2018, curators and academics have sought to investigate the antiquities, paintings and collectibles that were brought to Britain in such large quantities.
However, the organisation of the art market at that time has received less attention, and far less than it deserves given its fundamental role in the processes by which objects arrived in collections at that time. New contexts for collecting have also emerged, such as the history of consumption and the economic background to the acquisition of so-called 'luxury' goods and prestige objects. The art market of the eighteenth century continues to play a vital role in collecting today; with so many of the objects acquired during a Grand Tour since dispersed in house sales and auctions, or bequeathed or sold to museums. The antiquities and paintings that once adorned the galleries of the cultured in Britain are also still to be found for sale, indicating the longevity of their appeal and value for collectors.
This conference seeks to explore the processes by which these collections were formed, interrogating the relationship between the Italian and British art markets of the eighteenth century, the role of the dealers in Italy and the auction houses in Britain, through which many of the objects were later to pass, encompassing in depth discussion of the objects themselves.
We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words for 30 minute papers to be submitted to the organising committee by 15th April 2020 (antiquitiesartmarketconference@gmail.com) as well as a short CV. We welcome proposals from scholars working in museums, collections and archives, as well as from academics from across disciplines such as History, Art History, Museum Studies and Classics. PhD students and ECRs are particularly encouraged to submit abstracts.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Dealers in antiquities between Rome and Britain
- Auctions and auction houses in Britain
- Object biographies of antiquities, old master paintings, modern paintings, rare books, prints and neo-classical sculpture circulating in the 18th-century art market
- Customers and collectors in the 18th century
- Networks and communities of dealers and collectors
- The economic history of the art market
- The afterlife of collections from the 18th century to today
Organising committee: Dr Caroline Barron, Professor Catharine Edwards, Professor Kate Retford
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/1445453422301898
MEDIATING OTHERNESS: ENCOUNTERS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME (16TH TO 19TH CENTURIES)
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris: September 11, 2020
Note: unable to verify status of this meeting
Keynote: Professor Ladan Niayesh (Université de Paris, LARCA)
The period between the 16th and the 19th centuries has deeply shaped Western representations of Otherness through the work of artists, antiquarians and travel writers. The repetitions, rewritings, quotations and corrections of earlier works all contributed to the construction of a palimpsestic depiction of Otherness, whether spatial or temporal, real or imagined.
This workshop aims to investigate the strategies implemented by travel writers in this creative process, where intertextual references and rhetorical solutions were often reinforced by visual props such as maps and illustrations. These mediating devices, among others, could be used to make sense of radical Otherness or, on the contrary, to reinforce the alien character of the encounter. Furthermore, these methods of description allowed the authors to blur the lines between time and space, highlighting contrast or continuity between past and present. Their representations and interpretations underlie what Edward Said has described as Orientalism but this Western framework does not preclude the analysis of works by non-Western authors confronted to various forms of Otherness on their travels abroad.
The synthesis and selection of narratives and traditions made by writers will also be addressed, raising broader questions concerning both the role of travel books in constructing and disseminating knowledge and the audience these works were targeting. The didactic dimension of the travelogues may be considered, along with the various frameworks (scientific, religious, antiquarian...) that shape both the depiction and the interpretation of Otherness proposed by the authors. The mediation of modern Otherness through the prism of apparently unrelated realms of knowledge – classical, literary, archaeological or historical, for instance – is also worth examining as one of the most common devices authors resort to.
Call for papers: We invite the submission of papers on travel writing in any language and topics on any aspect of ‘Otherness’ will be considered. These may include, but are not limited to, one of the following:
• Antiquity as a figure of otherness
• The understanding of spatial Otherness as temporal / historical Otherness
• Construction of stereotypes
• Contribution to the ‘single story’ of a place or people or deconstruction of such a single story
• Non-textual devices used to convey otherness
• Rhetorical or literary devices used to mediate otherness
• Selection and repetition of themes and motifs
• Use of foreign languages within the text
• Use of science to represent otherness
Submission Guidelines: Papers may be presented in either English or French. Applicants are kindly invited to submit a word document containing the following: (a) your name, (b) the title of your paper, (c) institutional affiliation, (d) contact details, and (e) an abstract in French or English of no more than 300 words (papers should be suitable for 20 min presentations).
Deadlines: Proposals in a Word or PDF document should be sent to the organisers (nolwenn.corriou@univ-paris1.fr and giacomo.savani@ucd.ie) by 17 April 2020. Selected applicants will be contacted by 18 May 2020.
The organisers:
Dr Nolwenn Corriou (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
Dr Giacomo Savani (University College Dublin)
Call: https://saesfrance.org/11092020-mediating-otherness-encounters-across-space-and-time-16th-to-19th-centuries-universite-paris-1-pantheon-sorbonne/
(CFP closed April 17, 2020)
[ONLINE] AMERICA AND THE CLASSICAL PAST: TRENDS IN GRECO-ROMAN RECEPTION
Online [CUNY, USA]: September 11, 2020 [11 am to 5:30 pm EST]
This virtual conference aims to bring together those interested in the reception of classical antiquity in a variety of different disciplines and contexts throughout American history. We are especially keen to integrate studies of education, history, and literature with the analysis of art and architecture. Thus, the first two papers focus on schooling and the place of the Greco-Roman Classics in early American education. Next, we move to the late nineteenth century to examine classically inspired architecture in two important test cases in Washington DC and Tennessee. Then, we jump to the 1960s and the adaptation of Greek literature in revolutionary Cuba before the final paper offering a retrospective survey on the place of Greek and Latin inscriptions in the story of classical reception in the United States. There will be time for questions after each set of papers, and we will close the conference with a formal response to all the papers before opening up the floor to general discussion. All are welcome; pre-registration is required; please register via this form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s_wXYNN14EOgBdi_LJ8x0Bw-sl_qlFmbI0kbvc2M_GM/viewform?edit_requested=true].
Although the event itself and (most of) the individual papers were planned before the coronavirus pandemic hit and the BLM protests began, we nevertheless see this conference as an opportunity to engage with the complicated role of Classics in the history of the United States. We therefore take an expansive view of classical reception that will allow historians of art and architecture to talk to scholars of literature, education, theater, and history. We hope to foster an inclusive environment that will encourage participation from our audience in trying to deepen our understanding of the classical past and its place in the history of America from its origins to the present day.
Speakers include Elise A. Friedland (George Washington), Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (The Graduate Center, CUNY); Matthew McGowan (Fordham); Robert J. Penella (Fordham); and Carl Richard (University of Louisiana at Lafayette); and conference respondent, Caroline Winterer (Stanford University).
This conference is the first hosted by the City Seminar in Classical Reception, founded by Prof. Matthew McGowan (Fordham University) and Prof. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (the Graduate Center, the City University of New York) in 2018. The seminar provides a venue where those working on the intersections between the ancient and modern world can present their work to scholars, students, and the public. The speakers examine the dialogues between antiquity and modernity in a wide array of disciplines such as literature, history, education, art, architecture, film, theater, and dance.
If you have questions, please email cityseminarnyc@gmail.com for more details.
For more details, please visit the conference website: https://classicalpast.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
SAPIENS UBIQUE CIVIS VIII - SZEGED 2020
PhD Student and Young Scholar Conference on Classics and the Reception of Antiquity
Szeged, Hungary: September 2–4, 2020
Note: unable to verify status of this meeting
The Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary is pleased to announce its International Conference Sapiens Ubique Civis VIII – Szeged 2020, for PhD Students, Young Scholars, as well as M.A. students aspiring to apply to a PhD program.
The aim of the conference is to bring together an international group of young scholars working in a variety of periods, places, languages, and fields. Papers on a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to the literature, history, philology, philosophy, linguistics and archaeology of Greece and Rome, Byzantinology, Neo-Latin studies, and reception of the classics, as well as papers dealing with theatre studies, comparative literature, contemporary literature, and fine arts related to the Antiquity are welcome.
Lectures: The language of the conference is English. Thematic sessions and plenary lectures will be scheduled. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes, followed by discussion. It is not possible to present via Skype.
Abstracts: Abstracts of maximum 300 words should be sent by email as a Word attachment to sapiensuc@gmail.com strictly before June 12, 2020. The abstracts should be proofread by a native speaker. The document should also contain personal information of the author, including name, affiliation and contact email address, and the title of the presentation. Acceptance notification will be sent to you until June 21, 2020.
Registration: The registration fee for the conference is €70, however for those who apply before May 10, 2020, we provide a €20 discount. The participation fee includes conference pack, reception meal, closing event, extra programs, and refreshments during coffee breaks. The participation fee does not include accommodation, but the conference coordinators will assist the conference participants in finding accommodation in the city centre. Those who intend to bring a guest are obligated to pay €30 in addition to the registration fee.
Publication: All papers will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed journal on Classics.
Getting here: Szeged, the largest city of Southern Hungary, can be easily reached by rail from Budapest and the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. Those who prefer travelling by car can choose the European route E75, and then should take the Hungarian M5 motorway, a section of E75, passing by the city.
Chairman of the Conference Committee
Dr János Nagyillés PhD (Head of Department)
Members of the Conference Committee
Dr habil. Ibolya Tar CSc; Prof László Szörényi DSc; Dr György Fogarasi PhD
Dr Gergő Gellérfi PhD; Dr Endre Ádám Hamvas PhD; Dr Imre Áron Illés PhD;
Dr Tamás Jászay PhD; Dr habil. Péter Kasza PhD; Dr Ferenc Krisztián Szabó PhD
Conference coordinators
Fanni Csapó
Bianka Csapó
Attila Hajdú
Dr Tamás Jászay PhD
Dr Gergő Gellérfi PhD (for general inquiries about the conference: gellerfigergo@gmail.com)
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2001&L=CLASSICISTS&P=43478
(change of date) [ONLINE] (A)SYNCHRONY: RECURRENCE, REVERSAL, AND RESISTANCE
Art & Archaeology Department, Princeton University, NJ: March 26-28, 2020 - now online: August 30-September 1, 2020
The Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University is thrilled to announce a three-day graduate symposium, “(A)Synchrony: Recurrence, Reversal, and Resistance,” which will be held Thursday, March 26 to Saturday, March 28, 2020.
Certain figures, forms, images, methods, and techniques recur in both cultural production and scholarly discourses, often leading to socio-political, historical, or cultural reversals and/or illuminating resistance and dissent. How might exploring these phenomena allow us to broaden our investigations in the histories of art and culture? How do they manifest themselves as synchronies or asynchronies, understood as harmonizations or dissonances of social and artistic production across time, space, and bodies? Answering these questions may help us create analytic frameworks not bound by regions or nation-states, but that stretch across the world, expose the social construction of temporalities, and challenge periodization and other forms of fixed categorization.
This conceptual framework may help address vital issues in current debates across particular subfields and disciplines, such as: how we can reimagine the concept of Nachleben productively for our increasingly global discipline; how literary or visual histories have been reused or repurposed to mitigate or rebel against external power structures and cultural paradigms; or how some modern and contemporary artists throughout various diasporas create collective memories by referring to the experiences of their ancestors in their work.
Princeton’s Art and Archaeology Graduate Symposium will explore the ways in which recurrence, reversals, and resistance serve as powerful tools in cultural production across disciplines through the conceptual frameworks of synchrony and asynchrony. Submissions from all disciplines are welcomed to engage with these issues by way of, but not limited to, the following broader themes:
* Cultural heritage used to underscore and legitimize a power shift;
* Support for or resistance to the empire demonstrated through the appropriation and modification of imperial imagery by those outside of the metropole;
* The fabrication of visual or material culture to envisage a desired or inaccessible past;
* The inheritance, construction, and questioning of workshop lineages;
* Repurposing “classical” or “traditional” imagery or inverting subject matter to destabilize geopolitical, social, and symbolic conventions;
* Usage of visual tropes as tools to explore and articulate individual identity and positionality;
* Revolutionary potentialities of retrospection for social and political critique;
* Re-enactments or critiques of prior exhibitions, objects, or performances
Please submit a working title, an abstract of no more than 300 words, and a two page CV in a single PDF to gradsymp@princeton.edu by Friday, November 1, 2019. Symposium presentations should be no more than twenty minutes in length. Accepted participants will be notified by January 1, 2020, and limited travel funds are available.
Deadline for abstracts: November 1st 2019 to gradsymp@princeton.edu
Call: [pdf] https://plas.princeton.edu/sites/plas/files/resource-links/princeton_aa_call_for_papers.pdf
Website: https://artgradsymposium.princeton.edu/
(CFP closed November 1, 2019)
THE MARY RENAULT PRIZE
Applications close: July annually.
The deadline for the 2020 Mary Renault Prize competition is: July 24, 2020.
The Mary Renault Prize is a Classical Reception essay prize for school or college sixth form pupils, awarded by the Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College, and funded by the royalties from Mary Renault’s novels.
The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College offer two or more Prizes, worth up to £300 each, for essays on classical reception or influence submitted by pupils who, at the closing date, have been in the Sixth Form of any school or college for a period of not more than two years. The prizes are in memory of the author Mary Renault, who is best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece, recently reissued by Virago. Renault read English at St Hugh’s in the 1920s and subsequently taught herself ancient Greek. Her novels have inspired many thousands of readers to pursue the study of Classics at University level and beyond. At least one prize will be awarded a pupil who is not studying either Latin or Greek to A-level standard. The winning essay will be published on the College’s website. Teachers wishing to encourage their students to enter the competition can download, display and circulate the competition poster in the ‘related documents’ section.
Essays can be from any discipline and should be on a topic relating to the reception of classical antiquity – including Greek and Roman literature, history, political thought, philosophy, and material remains – in any period to the present; essays on reception within classical antiquity (for instance, receptions of literary or artistic works or of mythical or historical figures) are permitted. Your submission must be accompanied by a completed information cover sheet. Essays should be between two-thousand and four-thousand words and submitted by the candidate as a Microsoft Word document through the form below.
Website: https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/prospectivestudents/outreach/mary-renault-prize/
(rescheduled) TRA LA LUCE E LE TENEBRE. ANGELI E DEMONI NELL'HORROR, NELLA FANTASCIENZE E NEL FANTASY
I Seminario sulle “Religioni Fantastiche”
Velletri, Italy (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”): April 16-18, 2020 NEW DATE - July 23-25, 2020
Cari colleghi, in seguito al grande successo del convegno internazionale “Religioni Fantastiche e Dove Trovarle. Divinità, Miti e Riti nella Fantascienza e nel Fantasy” (Velletri, 3-6 luglio 2019), ho deciso di istituire un seminario permanente a cadenza annuale come punto di incontro di quanti in Italia studino, da un punto di vista delle discipline storiche e delle scienze sociali e antropologiche, quanto è prodotto in ogni manifestazione artistica riconducibile all’horror, alla fantascienza e al fantasy.
La prima edizione del seminario si terrà ad aprile: “Tra la Luce e le Tenebre. Angeli e Demoni nell’Horror, nella Fantascienza e nel Fantasy” (Velletri, 16-18 aprile 2020). In basso potete trovare la call for papers relativa.
Vi prego di diffondere la call a quanti ritenete possano essere interessati.
Il seminario vuole essere un’occasione di confronto interdisciplinare sulla rappresentazione di angeli e demoni nella produzione horror, fantasy e di fantascienza, in ogni possibile manifestazione artistica connessa ai tre generi.
I temi che si intendono approfondire sono i seguenti:
• Definizione delle categorie “angeli” e “demoni”. Come da un punto di vista storico vengono a formarsi e definirsi queste categorie di esseri extra-umani? Quali le caratteristiche nelle singole testimonianze? Come e perché entità appartenenti ai più svariati contesti culturali sono state recepite secondo queste categorie?
• L’utilizzo delle categorie “angeli” e “demoni” nella produzione horror, fantasy e di fantascienza. Come vengono impiegate ed eventualmente rielaborate queste categorie?
• La rappresentazione nella produzione horror, fantasy e di fantascienza di angeli e demoni presenti nelle religioni “storiche”. Per quale motivo il singolo autore li rappresenta secondo una determinata chiave? Quale il rapporto con il contesto storico di appartenenza?
• La costruzione di angeli e demoni “inventati”. Quali elementi caratterizzano gli esseri inventati dai singoli autori? Secondo quali motivazioni un autore ne delinea le specifiche caratteristiche? Gli elementi che li caratterizzano vengono tratti dalle religioni “storiche” e secondo quali fini e modalità?
• La rappresentazione di miti, racconti, leggende e fiabe, “tradizionali” e “storici”, dove agiscono angeli e demoni. Secondo quali peculiarità e motivazioni questi vengono riportati nella produzione fantastica contemporanea?
• La rappresentazione di miti, racconti, leggende e fiabe, “inventati”, dove agiscono angeli e demoni. Come un singolo autore costruisce questa tipologia di narrazioni nel mondo che ha creato? Quali sono le caratteristiche che li delineano come tali? Quale il rapporto con il contesto storico-culturale di appartenenza?
• La rappresentazione dei riti riguardanti angeli e demoni presenti nelle religioni “storiche”. Secondo quali modalità e motivazioni questi vengono riportati?
• La rappresentazione di riti “inventati” riguardanti angeli e demoni. Come un singolo autore delinea questo tipo di rito nel mondo che ha creato?
• Alcune delle rappresentazioni di angeli e demoni in questi generi hanno influito concretamente sulla vita religiosa contemporanea, condizionandola?
Comitato Scientifico: Roberto Arduini (Associazione Italiana Studi Tolkieniani), Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”), Ada Barbaro (Sapienza Università di Roma), Tommaso Braccini (Università degli Studi di Siena), Elisabetta Marino (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”), Francesca Roversi Monaco (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna), Daniele Tripaldi (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna).
Segreteria organizzativa: Igor Baglioni, direttore del Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”.
Gli studiosi interessati a presentare un contributo possono inviare un abstract di non più di una pagina (max 2.000 battute) al dott. Igor Baglioni (igorbaglioni79@gmail.com) entro e non oltre il giorno 29 febbraio 2020.
All’abstract dovranno essere allegati: il titolo del paper; una breve nota biografica degli autori; un recapito di posta elettronica; un recapito telefonico.
L’accettazione dei papers sarà comunicata (via posta elettronica) alle persone interessate entro il 10 marzo 2020.
Entro il 10 aprile 2020 dovrà essere consegnato (sempre in via posta elettronica) il paper corredato da note e bibliografia. La consegna del paper è vincolante per la partecipazione al seminario.
Date da ricordare:
Chiusura call for papers: 29 febbraio 2020.
Notifica accettazione paper: 10 marzo 2020.
Consegna paper: 10 aprile 2020.
Seminario: 16-18 aprile 2020.
La partecipazione al seminario è gratuita. I relatori residenti fuori la provincia di Roma saranno ospitati nelle strutture convenzionate al Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”, usufruendo di una riduzione sul normale prezzo di listino.
È prevista la pubblicazione degli Atti su Religio. Collana di Studi del Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni” (Edizioni Quasar) e su riviste scientifiche specializzate. Le relazioni da pubblicare saranno oggetto di un peer review finale.
Sono previste visite serali gratuite ai musei e ai monumenti dei comuni dei Castelli Romani. Il programma delle visite sarà reso noto contestualmente al programma del convegno.
Per informazioni: email: igorbaglioni79@gmail.com
Call for papers (pdf): https://drive.google.com/file/d/18modJeJSK0hA6B-ecd0TnAvLtdjvPRy1/view?usp=sharing
(CFP closed February 29, 2020)
(postponed) TEXT AND TEXTUALITY
University College Durham, UK: July 16-17, 2020. New dates: July 15-17, 2021
Since Peisistratus’ editions of Homer, we have consistently developed new ways of remodelling and reinterpreting texts. From stemmatics to textual criticism, codicology to digital methods, the history of the book to the reception and afterlife of text, the word has consistently captured our imagination. Text is not a static entity or a solely physical object, but a dynamic representation of the human experience which exists both in and beyond our perceptions.
This conference seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars to consider the relationship between new approaches and existing methodologies for engaging with texts. Under the broad umbrella of ‘text’, we aim to foster cross-discipline dialogue to explore the lives of texts from their conception, to their transmission, their reception and beyond.
We can confirm that Professor Michelangelo Zaccarello from the University of Pisa will hold the keynote lecture, and Dr. Danielle Westerhof, rare book librarian from Durham University, will hold a public lecture.
We invite title and abstract submissions of 250-300 words on subjects such as, but not restricted to:
· Textual stemmatics and textual criticism
· Textual transmission
· Palaeography and codicology
· The afterlife of texts/their reception
· The roles of the author and reader
· Intermediality and the relationships between text forms
· Representations of text
· Oral v. written composition of text
· History of the Book
· The role of digitisation and the future of ‘text’
We are able to offer a small number of bursaries to those who do not have access to research funds.
Submissions must be sent to texttextualitydurham@gmail.com before 17:00 on Friday 20 March 2020.
Call: For further information please visit our website: https://texttextualitydurham.wordpress.com/, and follow us on Twitter at: @Texttextuality
(CFP closed March 20, 2020)
(postponed) [CCC PANEL] AROUND THE CLASSICS: PARATEXTUAL FRAME OF LATIN CLASSICS IN THE MIDDLE AGES / AUTOUR DES CLASSIQUES : LES PARATEXTES DES CLASSIQUES LATINS AU MOYEN ÂGE
13th Celtic Conference in Classics, Lyon, France: July 15-18, 2020
Note: Postponed until 2021 (similar dates TBC) due to COVID-19
Convenors:
Angela Cossu – École française de Rome
Frédéric Duplessis – École normale supérieure de Lyon
In medieval manuscripts, a classical text is rarely copied alone. It is most often accompanied by paratextual elements that have been intentionally added to the text. Such elements come in a wide variety of formats: explanatory or complementary texts (accessus, prologues, vitae, commentaries, glosses, glossaries, etc.), images (illumination, diagrams, drawings, etc.), or elements structuring the manuscript, the text or the page (index, table of chapters, titles, division into books, chapters or paragraphs, sections, etc.). They can be transcribed at the beginning, the end, or next to the classical text, within its writing frame or in its margins.
These various paratexts, inherited from Antiquity or created during the Middle Ages, are often ignored by modern editions and remain largely unpublished. Yet, during the Middle Ages, the Latin classics were copied, read and imitated through these “interpretative filters”, which are still relatively understudied. Indeed, these paratextual elements shape the medieval reception of ancient texts.
The aims of this panel are to:
1. study the paratexts per se (more precisely, study their interactions with the classical texts as well as unfold the mechanisms of their production, use and evolution),
2. emphasize their role in the history of transmission and reception of Latin classics,
3. explore their influence on medieval Latin language and literature.
Topics for papers may include:
* Text and paratext of the Latin classics (synchronic or diachronic perspective)
* Shaping of the paratext in the transmission of classics
* Practices of reading and writing: annotations, glosses, and, more broadly, medieval scholarship on the margins of Latin classics
* Public and reception of the Latin classics through the paratext
* Non-textual paratext: rubrication, illumination, diagrams…
Prospective speakers: young (PhD students, Post-doc researchers) and established scholars (researchers, professors, librarians).
Submitting papers: We foresee a panel of around 15 speakers, so that each speaker will present a paper of around 35-40 minutes. Papers in either English or French are accepted. If you wish to submit a paper, please send an abstract of no more than 500 words in either English or French to aroundtheclassics@gmail.com. The deadline for submitting papers is 27/03/2020. Papers’ acceptance will be communicated shortly thereafter.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2001&L=CLASSICISTS&P=185556
(CFP closed March 27, 2020)
(postponed) [CCC PANEL] ENGAGING GREEK ANTIQUITY IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH DRAMA
13th Celtic Conference in Classics, Lyon, France: July 15-18, 2020
Note: Postponed until 2021 (similar dates TBC) due to COVID-19
Further information: http://www.celticconferenceinclassics.org/index.php/next-conference
(postponed) [CCC PANEL] (RE)INVENTING SAPPHO: NEW APPROACHES TO SAPPHO FROM THE GREEK FRAGMENTS TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
13th Celtic Conference in Classics, Lyon, France: July 15-18, 2020
Note: Postponed until 2021 (similar dates TBC) due to COVID-19
Confirmed Speakers:
Sandra Boehringer (Université de Strasbourg)
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3)
Ellen Greene (The University of Oklahoma)
Andre Lardinois (Radboud University)
Thea Selliaas Thorsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
ο]ἰ μὲν ἰππήων στρότον οἰ δὲ πέσδων
οἰ δὲ νάων φαῖσ᾿ ἐπ[ὶ] γᾶν μέλαι[ν]αν
ἔ]μμεναι κάλλιστον, ἔγω δὲ κῆν᾿ ὄτ-
τω τις ἔραται·
“Some say a force of horsemen, some say footsoldiers
and others say a fleet of ships is the loveliest
thing on the dark earth, but I say it is
the one you love” (Sappho, fr. 16 Voigt)
Sappho is one of the most debated figures in Greek and Latin literature, and has often elicited not only contrasting but also controversial readings. Named “the tenth muse” for the excellence of her poetry (AP 7.14, 9.66, 9.506, 9.571), Sappho was condemned for centuries by more traditionalist voices. As a result, her poetry has been censured, and her figure (hetero)normalised or discredited because of her allegedly lascivious and perverse sexual behaviour (Hallett 1996; Snyder 1997). However, the fragmentary nature of Sappho’s poetry, which articulates an ambiguous, complex and (gender-)fluid sexuality, has also enabled her to be widely imitated, (re-)adapted, and even manipulated (Lefkowitz 1996). In reception, she has become an icon for feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and has informed queer approaches to the Classics.
At the end of the eighties, Joan DeJean demonstrated in her groundbreaking work Fictions of Sappho (1989) how Sappho’s poetry widely influenced literary and cultural expressions from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, eventually entering into conversation with Francophone feminist writers such as Cixous and Irigaray. Yet Sappho’s position “beyond gender” (owing, in part, to linguistic gender-ambiguity in her texts), as well as her queerness in the widest sense, has also marked the reception of her poetry since Antiquity.
As both a poet and a historical figure, Sappho played a central role in Hellenistic Greek poetry and comedy, as well as archaic Latin theatre, from which the account of her licentiousness, unhappy relationship with Phaon, and consequent suicide most likely originated. Catullus sees Sappho as a poetic model and connects her poetic excellence to his own literary and personal experiences through the name of Lesbia. (Ovid’s) Heroides 15 fluctuates between a portrait of a masculine Sappho and a more multifaceted, ambiguous version of Sappho as a poet and an elegiac lover (Fabre- Serris 2009). With the advent of Christianity, Sappho began to be maligned and accused of immorality (Tatian, Oratio ad Graecos 33, about 180 CE; cf. Thorsen 2012) and the first censure of her work is said to have occurred in the fourth century (Cardan De sapientia 2.62).
Despite these attempts to destroy her name and poetry, Sappho survived the Middle Ages and was recognised as a great poet by the early Humanists. In most cases, however, her homoeroticism was completely erased (cf. Boccaccio De mulieribus claris 47; Christine de Pizan Book of City of Ladies 1.30). Undergoing contradictory and opposite judgements through the ages, Sappho was diversely received by classical scholars in the 19th and 20th century. While Sappho’s queer sexuality seems to have influenced Housman’s scholarship and poetry (Ingleheart 2019), Wilamowitz (1913) tried to restore Sappho’s (hetero)normativity by interpreting her homoerotic relationships as part of her role as a schoolmistress, thus overlooking the narrator’s homoerotic desire as expressed in the absence of any pedagogical dynamics in the text (frs. 1 and 31; cf. Parker 1996). Very recently, the “Newest Sappho” has opened new avenues for the interpretation of her poetry (Bierl & Lardinois 2016).
These various interpretations, (re)adaptations and (re)constructions have produced a “Sappho” who is now as fluid and queer as she has ever been. Concurrently, recent Sappho scholarship has given rise to a plurality of productive methodologies and perspectives (e.g. comparative, philological, reception-based approaches). Our panel will embrace and integrate this plurality by providing a playing-field upon which these contrasting methodologies and perspectives can inform and bolster one another. By re-examining the notion of who (and what) Sappho is, moreover, this panel will problematise the “invention” of Sappho and resituate her, along with her poetry and later reception, in contemporary scholarly discourse.
We welcome papers in the fields of Classics, Ancient History, and Reception Studies, with a preference for talks which fully and boldly engage with new approaches to Sappho’s life, work, and reception. In keeping with the bilingual tradition of the Celtic Conference in Classics, and this year’s venue (Lyon), we are especially keen on contributions about the reception of Sappho by French poets, scholars and translators, as well as Francophone feminist writers such as Wittig, Kristeva and Irigaray. The panel will be fully bilingual and we therefore accept papers both in French and English. Papers might fall within but are not limited to the following categories:
* Sappho’s fragments
* Sappho as a historical personage
* Sappho and literary theory, queer theory, feminist theory, and other ideological approaches
* Ancient, medieval, or modern receptions of Sappho, including theatrical re-adaptations, Sappho in pedagogy and education, and multimedial representations of Sapphic poetry
* The role played by Sappho within LGBTQ+ communities
Select Bibliography
Bierl, A. and A. Lardinois. 2016. The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbinik and P. GC inv. 105, Frs. 1-4. Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, vol. 2. Leiden.
De Jean, J. 1989. Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937. Chicago.
Fabre-Serris J. 2009. “Sulpicia: an/other female voice in Ovid’s Heroides: a new reading of Heroides 4 and 15”, Helios 36: 149-73.
Hallett, J. P. 1996. “Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality”, in E. Greene (ed.), Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: 125-42.
Ingleheart, J. 2018. Masculine Plural, Oxford.
Lefkowitz, M. R. 1996. “Critical Stereotypes and the Poetry of Sappho”, in E. Greene (ed.), Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: 26-34.
Parker, H. N. “Sappho Schoolmistress”, in E. Greene (ed.), Re-Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: 146-83.
Snyder, J. M. 1997. Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho. New York.
Thorsen, T. S. 2012. “Sappho, Corinna and Colleagues in Ancient Rome. Tatian’s Catalogue of Statues (Oratio ad Graecos 33-4) Reconsidered”, Mnemosyne 65.4-5: 695-715.
To encourage a variety of approaches, we will welcome two different paper lengths: 20 minutes and 40 minutes. Please, submit a proposal of 300 words for a 20-minute paper and 500 words for the 40-minute option. Abstracts must be written either in French or English. The submission deadline for abstracts is 6th March 2020.
Submissions and queries should be directed to the following address: reinventingsappho@gmail.com.
Please, include a short biography and specify your affiliation in the body of your email: attach the abstract as a separate file with no personal identification.
Notification of acceptance will be given in early April.
For further information on the Celtic Conference in Classics, please refer to the conference permanent website: http://www.celticconferenceinclassics.org/
Call: https://classicssocialjustice.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/cfp-reinventing-sappho-new-approaches-to-sappho-from-the-greek-fragments-to-the-twenty-first-century/
(CFP closed March 6, 2020)
(postponed) CELTIC CONFERENCE IN CLASSICS 2020
Lyon, France (Universities of Lyon/École normale supérieure de Lyon): July 15-18, 2020
Note: Postponed until 2021 (similar dates TBC) due to COVID-19
The Celtic Conference in Classics (CCC) is pleased to announce that its 13th conference, hosted by the universities of Lyon and by the École normale supérieure de Lyon, will take place in Lyon, France, 15-18 July (Wed.-Sat.), 2020.
As always, participation is invited from all countries of the world. Suggestions are now invited from colleagues wishing to convene a panel for the event at Lyon. The languages of the conference are English and French.
Panels typically consist of between 12 and 18 speakers. Themes and speakers proposed are then discussed, and a selection made, by the Conference's organisers. For this iteration of the CCC, we shall be looking especially for panels which expect to include speakers from French-speaking campuses. Proposals should be sent to all five organisers (at the email addresses below) by 1 December.
(Lyon)
Nicolas Richer (nicolas.richer@ens-lyon.fr)
Claire Fauchon Claudon (claire.fauchon@ens-lyon.fr)
(CCC)
Anton Powell (powellanton@btopenworld.com)
Douglas Cairns (douglas.cairns@ed.ac.uk)
Nancy Bouidghaghen (nancy.bouidghaghen@googlemail.com)
General details about the CCC, its history, purposes, and ethos, can be found on our permanent website: http://www.celticconferenceinclassics.org/.
Edited 8/2/2020: see now the list of panels at http://www.celticconferenceinclassics.org/index.php/next-conference.
PACIFIC RIM ROMAN LITERATURE SEMINAR 34: IMAGES OF EARLY ROME
Boston University, Massachusetts, USA: July 10-12, 2020
Unable to verify status of this meeting - assume postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
The thirty-fourth meeting of the PacRim Roman Literature Seminar will be held at Boston University from 10 to 12 July 2020. The theme for the 2020 conference will be “Images of Early Rome in Latin Literature.”
Papers are invited to explore different depictions of the figures of early Rome in Latin literature; Aeneas, Ilia, Romulus and Remus, the Sabine Women, Lucretia, etc. How do the iterations of these figures reflect (or problematize) political and literary attitudes in Rome? And what does the continued presence of these early figures in the works of successive literary generations tell us about the enduring nature of these Roman “myths”? We also invite papers on the reception of early Rome in any medium, from Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece (1594), to Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lavinia (2008), to Matteo Rovere’s Il Primo Re (2019).
Papers should be 30 minutes in length (with fifteen minutes of discussion time). The Pacific Rim Seminar does not run parallel sessions; participants can attend any or all papers. Abstract proposals of 200-300 words, and queries about the conference, should be sent to the organizer, Hannah Čulík-Baird, at culik@bu.edu. Submissions from graduate students and early-career researchers are welcome. Please have abstracts submitted by 15th January 2020 (earlier submissions welcome).
Call: https://pacrim34.wordpress.com
(CFP closed January 15, 2020)
[ONLINE] THE CONFERENCE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
An online event from Alt-Ac UK: July 14, 2020
This conference, organised by Alt-Ac UK, is intended to bring together scholars across the humanities and social sciences through an online medium. The global COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in many personal losses and universal upheaval. This has included significant challenges for the academic community, such as the cancellation of almost all events, workshops, and conferences in the forthcoming months.
The Conference at the End of the World is intended as an opportunity to present the papers originally intended for cancelled events. Conducted entirely online, this event will allow for a worldwide gathering of scholars which overcomes the challenges of social distancing and environmental impacts of international conferences. To accommodate the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, abstracts are welcome on any and all subjects within the domain of the humanities and social sciences.
Attendance is free for non-established scholars, with optional donations available to cover the arrangement costs of early career scholars. Salaried academics will be asked to donate £20.
Abstract deadline: May 25, 2020
Acknowledgement of acceptance: No later than June 1
Call: https://www.alt-ac.uk/conference-2020/
(CFP closed May 25, 2020)
[ONLINE] THE CANCELLED CONFERENCE
Online: July 13-14, 2020 (from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia [AEST])
Presented by the Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies (AWAWS) Brisbane Chapter
Conference Convenors:
Brianna Sands, MPhil candidate (UQ), Co-chair AWAWS Brisbane Chapter
Tyla Cascaes, MPhil candidate (UQ), Co-chair AWAWS Brisbane Chapter
For many postgraduate students the mid-year break is usually a time to attend conferences and workshops to gain academic and professional experience. These events provide great opportunities for postgraduates to share their research ideas, practice public speaking, further their professional development, and meet fellow peers. Due to the unfolding circumstances most conferences and workshops for 2020 have been cancelled or postponed for the foreseeable future. As a postgrad-led chapter we are particularly aware of the impact these cancellations can have on academic development for postgraduate students, especially for new students planning to attend their first conference.
To combat these cancellations and to make the most of our time in isolation, AWAWS Brisbane will be holding The Cancelled Conference to provide AWAWS postgraduate members with an opportunity to put their cancelled conference papers to good use. The conference will be held virtually over Zoom in mid-July. Although we cannot fully recreate or replace attending an academic conference, we hope The Cancelled Conference will be a useful alternative.
Date and Location: The Cancelled Conference will be held Monday 13 – Tuesday 14 July depending on numbers. The conference will be held virtually through Zoom, UQ’s preferred video-call software. Zoom links for each panel session will be provided in the conference program.
Conditions:
* 20 minute paper + 10 minute question time
* Audience attendance is open to the public
* Paper submissions are open to all AWAWS postgraduate members
* There is no set theme for this conference, all topics are welcome
How to apply:
To apply for the conference please email AWAWS Brisbane (awawsbrisbane@gmail.com) with the submission form at https://www.awaws.org/news/the-cancelled-conference
Submissions are due by Friday 19 June.
Contact Information: If you have any further questions about the conference, you can contact us via our email address or Facebook page.
Email: awawsbrisbane@gmail.com
Facebook: @awawsbrisbane
Call: https://www.awaws.org/news/the-cancelled-conference
(CFP closed June 19, 2020)
(postponed) 20TH ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT DRAMA
Ioannou Centre, Oxford & Royal Holloway, Egham, UK: July 2-3, 2020
Note: Postponed until Summer 2021 due to COVID-19 - see note below.
Theme: Performing the Archive in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama
The 20th Annual APGRD / Royal Holloway, University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Ancient Drama will take place on Thursday 2 July (at the Ioannou Centre, Oxford) and Friday 3 July (at Royal Holloway, Egham). This year’s theme will be: ‘Performing the Archive in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: This annual Symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy, exploring the afterlife of these ancient dramatic texts through re-workings by both writers and practitioners across all genres and periods. This year’s focus will range widely around the concept and significance of ‘archive’, as both a material and ephemeral record (e.g., a performance’s physical traces, or its preservation in anecdote/memory), as well as its uses as a metaphor (for preservation, re-collection, text, etc) in the performance of ancient drama. This year’s guest respondents will be Dr Avery Willis Hoffman (Programme Director at the New York Park Avenue Armory) and Dr Lucy Jackson (Durham University). Among those present at this year’s symposium will be Prof. Fiona Macintosh, Prof. Oliver Taplin, Prof. David Wiles, and Dr Justine McConnell.
PARTICIPANTS: Postgraduates from around the world working on the reception of Greek and Roman drama are welcome to participate, as are those who have completed a doctorate but not yet taken up a post. The symposium is open to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of Classics, modern languages and literature, and theatre and performance studies.
Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on ancient drama. Papers may also include demonstrations. Undergraduates are very welcome to attend.
Those who wish to offer a short paper (20 mins) or performance presentation on ‘Performing the Archive in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’ are invited to send an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk by FRIDAY 3 APRIL 2020 AT THE LATEST (please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution).
There will be no registration fee. Some travel bursaries will be available again this year - please indicate if you would like to be considered for one of these.
Call: -
Edited 19/4/2020:
NOTE: We have taken the decision to postpone the APGRD/RHUL postgraduate symposium and our 20th anniversary celebrations until summer 2021. However, we would still like to mark the occasion online and, rather than abstracts, now invite a different kind of contribution.
Over the course of July the symposium organisers from Oxford and Royal Holloway will be mounting a ’Symposium Takeover’ of the APGRD blog (Staging the Archive), where we will be hosting reflections on classics and performance in the current situation via audio podcast recording. We plan to discuss the following themes and how they are being affected by the current situation:
• the intersection of classics and performance in practice
• classics and performance at times of crisis
We would like to invite postgraduate and early career researchers to send in up to 200 words briefly outlining an area for discussion that you would like to contribute. This might take the form of a 5-10 minute reflection or provocation based on your research and/or a response to the above themes, or rather discussion points/questions to stimulate conversation. Please note, however, that this is not the place for formal 20-minute academic papers. We intend to offer an informal and relaxed space for everyone to speak freely on their chosen topic, and recording will of course remain optional throughout the Takeover.
Please send your brief outline by the deadline of Wednesday 6th May 2020 to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk. We look forward to reading them!
(CFP closed April 3, 2020)
THE MAGIC ART AND THE EVOLUTION OF KINGS. 1ST INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR IN THE GOLDEN BOUGH
Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”, Nemi, Italy: July 1-4, 2020
Unable to verify status of this meeting - assume postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
The seminar intends to be an occasion for interdisciplinary confrontation about the first volume of the editio maior of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings.
Three are the aims of the present meeting:
1) To collectively reflect on the theoretical and methodological aspects of Frazer’s work, in relation both to his other works and the state of studies in his times.
2) To detect the direct or indirect influence of the theories and interpretations Frazer exposes here on the subsequent studies and cultural production.
3) To pay attention to the beliefs, myths and rituals subjected to analysis by Frazer in this volume of the editio maior, verifying his interpretation in the light of the current state of studies and the documentation available today.
In particular, it will be possible to present proposals for papers on the following themes:
1) Frazer’s concept of “magic” as exposed in the first volume of the editio maior, in relation to his other works and the state of studies in his times.
2) The impact of Frazer’s concept of “magic” on the subsequent studies and cultural production, also in relation to the current academic debate on this theme.
3) Frazer’s concept of “religion” as exposed in the first volume of the editio maior, in relation to his other works and the state of studies in his times.
4) The impact of Frazer’s concept of “religion” on the subsequent studies and cultural production, also in relation to the current academic debate on this theme.
5) The beliefs, tales and myths analysed by Frazer in the first volume of the editio maior, paying attention to the relation between Frazer’s interpretation and the studies of his time, and reconsidering it critically in the light of the current state of studies and the documentation available today.
6) The impact on studies and on cultural production that subsequent to Frazer of the interpretations of beliefs, tales and myths analysed in the fists volume of the editio maior.
Note: The main historical and cultural areas of which Frazer analyses the traditions in this volume are: ancient Egypt, ancient Near East, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, the medieval German world, Christian Europe and its folk traditions, Africa, India and South-East Asia, China, Japan, Australia and the Pacific islands, the Americas.
Scientific Committee: Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”), Stefano Beggiora (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Paride Bollettin (Universidade Federal da Bahia), Alessandra Broccolini (Sapienza Università di Roma), Laura Carnevale (Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro), Alessandra Ciattini (Sapienza Università di Roma), Enrico Comba (Università degli Studi di Torino), Fabio Dei (Università degli Studi di Pisa), Carla Del Zotto (Sapienza Università di Roma), Adriano Favole (Università degli Studi di Torino), Chiara Ghidini (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”), Rita Lucarelli (University of California - Berkeley), Elena Mazzetto (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Mariano Pavanello (Sapienza Università di Roma), Francesca Prescendi (École Pratique des Hautes Études - Paris), Sergio Ribichini (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Lorenzo Verderame (Sapienza Università di Roma).
Administration: Igor Baglioni, director of the Museum of Religions “Raffaele Pettazzoni”.
The scholars who would like to contribute may send a one-page abstract (max 2.000 characters) to Igor Baglioni, (igorbaglioni79@gmail.com) by April 20, 2020.
Attached to the abstract should be: the title of the paper; the chosen area; a short biography of the authors; email address and phone number.
Papers may be written and presented in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
The acceptance of papers will be communicated (by email) only to the selected contributors by 2020, April 30.
Please send the paper, complete with notes and bibliography, by email not later than June 20. The delivery of the paper is required to participate in the conference.
Important deadlines:
Closing of call for papers: April 20th, 2020.
Notification about acceptance: April 30th, 2020.
Delivery of paper: June 20th, 2020.
Conference: July 1-4th, 2020
There is no attendance fee. The participants who don’t live in Rome or surroundings will be accommodated in hotels and bed-and-breakfasts which have an agreement with the Museum of Religions to offer discounted prices.
Papers may be published on Religio. Collana di Studi del Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni” (Edizioni Quasar), and in specialized journals. All the papers will be peer-reviewed.
In the evenings there will be free-of-charge visits to the museums and monuments of the Castelli Romani area. The excursion programme will be presented at the same time as the conference programme.
For information: igorbaglioni79@gmail.com
Call: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jR8SCielX7obbL8UGGy9yhn1XQK0zOzF/view?usp=sharing
(CFP closed April 20, 2020)
(postponed) WRITING ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SAME-SEX DESIRE: GOALS, METHODS, CHALLENGES
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: June 30-July 2, 2020
Note: Postponed until June 2021 ?2022 (TBC) due to COVID-19
For several decades now, scholars have devoted attention to same-sex desire in both ancient times and the centuries that followed. Not surprisingly, there have been vigorous debates over how to go about it. These debates have been framed in various ways. Here are some examples:
* essentialism VERSUS constructivism;
* Foucauldian discourse analysis VERSUS approaches inspired by psychoanalysis;
* (the impossibility of) objective history VERSUS (overly) subjective history;
* perception of commonalities across time VERSUS rigorously historicizing insistence on the past's alterity;
* positivism VERSUS imaginative reconstruction of contemporaneous receptions.
These dichotomies, which are both reductive and don't exhaust the possibilities, continue to crackle with contention. They also continue to undergird and even disturb current scholarly endeavours.
We are looking for papers (30 minutes in length) in which scholars not only speak about primary source material but also reflect explicitly on the theoretical orientation of their work (see the dichotomies above for examples) and the purpose(s) of (their) scholarship on same-sex desire. An additional objective of this conference will be an edited volume of papers that will aim to showcase a variety of approaches to this important topic.
Please send proposals (c. 500 words) to Mark Masterson writingsamesexdesire@gmail.com by 1 December 2019. If you have any questions, please send them to him at this address also.
In your proposal include:
1) the primary source material/historical milieu to be discussed, and
2) the general theoretical basis of the work
Call: https://cms.victoria.ac.nz/slc/about/events/writing-ancient-and-medieval-same-sex-desire-goals,-methods,-challenges/call-for-papers
(CFP closed December 1, 2019)
[ONLINE] TOWARDS A MORE INCLUSIVE CLASSICS: PERSPECTIVES FROM TEACHING AND RESEARCH
[Online] Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London, UK: June 25-26, 2020
Classicists have recently been engaged in discussions about decolonising the discipline. There are a few ways to understand this process; it includes (1) broadening the range of materials we study to include those produced by marginalised groups in antiquity (2) approaching material with methodologies which tease out marginalised groups depicted in the materials and give voice to a range of users in antiquity and beyond (3) acknowledging the part that Classics has played in entrenching many forms of inequality, such as those focussed on ethnicity, in British and other societies (4) undertaking efforts to ensure that the discipline is open to a plurality of voices both from the past and in the present, especially those which have historically been marginalised.
This timely workshop aims to explore ways of making Classics more inclusive and to reframe the discipline for a multicultural 21st century. To this end, we seek short contributions from:
* lecturers who have specifically endeavoured to develop research that works with a broader conception of Classics, and/or to make their teaching more inclusive
* students who invest in different versions of the classical heritage, and/or are willing to share their diverse experiences of being in the 'Classics classroom'.
We plan to host several 15-minute contributions on these topics. Please send abstracts (c.150 words) to Professor Barbara Goff (b.e.goff@reading.ac.uk) and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (aipd@st-andrews.ac.uk) by 1 March 2020.
To further the goal of broadening participation, we welcome offers of talks via Skype; and in this vein we will live-stream the workshop. One of the aims of the workshop is to produce a short list of useful suggestions for those who want to make their teaching more inclusive.
Edit 15/5/2020 - Program:
Thursday 25 June, 14.00-16.30
PANEL 1: RETHINKING THE MATERIALS - 14.00-15.05
Dr Sam Agbamu (Royal Holloway, London) ‘Can the instrumenta domini dismantle the domus domini’?
Professor Peter Kruschwitz (Vienna) ‘Democratising Roman poetry’
Dr Fiona Hobden (Liverpool), Kate Caraway (PhD candidate, Liverpool) and Serafina Nicolosi (PhD candidate, Liverpool) ‘Diversifying the Classics curriculum’
Break
PANEL 2: ACCESS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA AND IN MUSEUMS - 15.15-16.30
Dr Ellen Adams (King’s College London) ‘Blindness, deafness and new appreciations of ancient art: Sensing the Parthenon Galleries in the British Museum’
Sarah Marshall (Vassar, BA student) ‘Pharos: Doing justice to the Classics’
Dr Charlie Kerrigan (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Decolonizing Classics: A view from Dublin’
Friday 26 June 13.00-17.00
PANEL 3: PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES - 13.00-14.05
Dr Evelien Bracke (Ghent) ‘Child poverty and ancient Greek: A case study from Belgium’
Dr Marco Ricucci (Latin teacher at the Liceo Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, and adjunct professor Università degli Studi di Milano) ‘‘Dys-Latin’: Should studying a dead language be an overwhelmingly time-consuming and demanding task for dyslexic students?’
Dr Sharon Marshall (Exeter) ‘Embedding inclusivity through non-traditional assessment’
Break
PANEL 4: DIVERSITY IN THE CURRICULUM - 14.15-15.20
Dr Danielle Lambert (King’s College London) ‘On the benefits of having no prior Classical education’
Dr Stephen Harrison (Swansea) ‘Teaching ancient Persia: Decolonising ancient history through source-based teaching’
Dr Dan Orrells (King’s College London) ‘Classical antiquity at the fin de siècle: An experiment in teaching’
Break
PLENARY SESSION to develop suggestions towards more inclusive teaching - 15.30-16.30
VIRTUAL DRINKS RECEPTION - 16.30-17.00
All times are UK BST. Panels will take the form of 5-minute presentation followed by 10-minute Q and A for each speaker; then 20 minutes smaller group discussion on the topic of the full panel. Presentations will be pre-circulated on 15 June.
The workshop will be held on Zoom and all are welcome, but you must register by 1 June. Please email b.e.goff@reading.ac.uk and aipd@st-andrews.ac.uk and you will be sent a secure link nearer the time.
Information: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22273
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1912&L=CLASSICISTS&P=86353
(CFP closed March 1, 2020)
SYMPOSIUM CUMANUM 2020: GENERIC INTERPLAY IN AND AFTER VERGIL
Villa Vergiliana, Cuma, Italy: June 24–26, 2020
Unable to verify status of this meeting - assume postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
Co-directors: Brittney Szempruch (United States Air Force Academy) and John F. Miller (University of Virginia)
Although Vergil famously opens the Aeneid with a definitive statement of poetic intent—arma virumque cano—scholarship has long highlighted the poet’s propensity for the complication of firm generic boundaries. Amid a range of theoretical responses that have shaped the past nearly one hundred years (Kroll 1924; Cairns 1972; Fowler 1982; Conte 1986; Harrison 2007), the Vergilian corpus has emerged as some of the most productive ground for the in-depth study of generic flexibility (e.g. Nelis 2004; Seider 2016).
On its broadest level, this symposium aims to bring together scholars to discuss how the works of Vergil illuminate questions about genre and literary identity in the ancient world. In addition to looking at generic interplay in Vergil’s poetry, we seek to examine the role that genre has played in Vergil’s afterlife, both among his contemporaries and in later ages: how, particularly in relation to Vergil’s poems, did genre create or elide perceived boundaries and/or affiliations between authors in antiquity? What cultural implications did explicit or implicit generic interplay have? How has genre shaped not only our understanding of Vergil and what it meant to be an Augustan poet, but our reception (‘after’ in another sense) of the earlier genres with which he engaged? What do we gain and lose by putting Vergil at the forefront of this narrative?
Both textual studies and theoretical interventions are welcome. Papers might consider (but are not limited to) the following topics:
• ‘Greek’ vs. ‘Roman’ genres across Vergil’s poetry
• Vergil’s reception of Hellenistic generic theory and experimentation
• the presence of nonpoetic genres (scientific, philosophical, etc.) in the Vergilian corpus
• hymn, epigram, and tragedy in Vergil
• elegy and Vergilian pastoral
• ‘didactic’ and heroic epic
• the reception of Vergilian generic conventions
• the centrality of (and/or bias toward) Vergil in discussions of genre in antiquity
Speakers will include Giancarlo Abbamonte (Naples–Federico II), Alessandro Barchiesi (NYU), Sergio Casali (Rome–Tor Vergata), Stephen Harrison (Oxford), Julia Hejduk (Baylor), Alison Keith (Toronto), Giuseppe La Bua (Rome–Sapienza), James O’Hara (UNC Chapel Hill), Vassiliki Panoussi (William & Mary), Stefano Rebeggiani (USC), Fabio Stok (Rome–Tor Vergata), and Adriana Vazquez (UCLA).
Papers will be 20 minutes long with ample time for discussion. Participants will arrive on June 23 followed by three full days of papers, discussion, and visits to Vergilian sites.
Interested scholars should send an abstract of no more than 300 words to vergilandgenre2020@gmail.com by December 1, 2019.
For inquiries and further information, contact the directors:
Brittney Szempruch (brittney.szempruch@usafa.edu); John Miller (jfm4j@virginia.edu)
Cited Works
Cairns, F. 1972. Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry. Edinburgh.
Conte, G. B. 1986. The Rhetoric of Imitation: Genre and Poetic Memory in Virgil and Other Latin Poets. Cornell.
Fowler, A. 1982. Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes. Harvard.
Nelis, D. 2004. “From Didactic to Epic: Georgics 2.458–3.48.” In Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality, ed. M. Gale. Swansea: 73-107.
Harrison, S. J. 2007. Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace. Oxford.
Kroll, W. 1924. “Die Kreuzung der Gattungen.” Studien zum Verständnis der römischen Literatur: 202–24.
Seider, A. M. 2016. “Genre, Gallus, and Goats: Expanding the Limits of Pastoral in Eclogues 6 and 10.” Vergilius 62: 3–23.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-generic-interplay-and-after-vergil
(CFP closed December 1, 2019)
CONFERENCE IN CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY
Coimbra, Portugal: June 22-25, 2020
All panels postponed due to COVID-19 - new dates June 22-25, 2021
[CCAH PANEL] ANCIENT GREEK MEDICINE IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT
[CCAH PANEL] DISPLACING GREEK DRAMA IN THE MODERN WORLD
[CCAH PANEL] IMAGINING THE WORLD: MYTHOLOGY IN HUMAN CULTURES IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
[CCAH PANEL] IN THE 2500 YEARS OF SALAMIS: REALITY, REPRESENTATION AND RECEPTION
[CCAH PANEL] MUSIC AND DANCE IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME AND THEIR PRESERVATION
[CCAH PANEL] NICOLAI HARTMANN AND PAUL RICOEUR IN DIALECTICS: ON TWO CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENOLOGICAL-HERMENEUTICAL RE-READINGS OF ARISTOTLE’S DOCTRINE OF POWER AND ACTION
[CCAH PANEL] THE RECEPTION OF ANCIENT MYTHS IN IBERIAN AND LATIN-AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
[CCAH PANEL] THE RECEPTION OF THE CLASSICS: INTERTEXTUALITY AND TRANSLATION
[CCAH PANEL] RESPUBLICA LITTERARIA: HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SCIENCES (BEFORE THE SPECIALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE)
[CCAH PANEL] RETHINKING THE CLASSICS: NOVELTIES ON GREEK TEXTUAL CRITICISM
[ONLINE] TEACHING CLASSICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany): June 15-16, 2020
Currently, the various fields of Classics are facing the question of how
digital media can contribute to teaching and communicating content and
methods concerning the research of ancient societies at universities as
well as to a broader public. The congress Teaching Classics in the
Digital Age aims at presenting a status-quo of digital approaches in
teaching and at sharing best-practice examples by bringing together
different projects and practitioners from Classical Archaeology, Greek
and Latin Studies and Ancient History. Furthermore, it aims at starting
a discussion about principles, problems and the future of teaching
Classics in the 21st
century within and beyond its single fields.
We consider the following as key questions:
- How can digital methods and research approaches be implemented in
teaching at university level?
- Which technical possibilities are suitable for digital teaching and
how can they be used successfully?
- What are the limitations of and obstacles for applying digital
teaching methods in Classics?
- How can digital methods help us to reach out to teachers and students
at primary and secondary schools as well as to the broader public?
- How can digital methods contribute to the dissemination of Classics as
part of a lifelong education?
The congress will comprise paper presentations and a session with
posters and hands-on project presentations. At present, we are still
welcoming proposals in the fields of Ancient History and Classical
Archaeology and are particularly interested in collaborations between
classicists and specialists in Digital Learning.
The congress Teaching Classics in the Digital Age will be organised as
part of the Strategic Partnership “Ancient Cities” (ERASMUS+). The
partnership is considering options to refund travel and accommodation
costs for the participants. There will be no conference fee. The
contributions will be published as part of an open-access conference
proceedings.
Proposals for papers in English
of 20 minutes and for posters/project presentations together with a
short abstract of no more than 2000 characters and a short CV are
welcomed by January 5th 2020.
Please submit by email to
feuser@klassarch.uni-kiel.de.
Website: https://www.klassarch.uni-kiel.de/de/ancient-cities-creating-a-digital-learning-environment-on-cultural-heritage-2017-1-de01-ka203-003537/teaching-classics-in-the-digital-age
Update May 2020: To be held online via Zoom. Free, please register: https://www.klassalt.uni-kiel.de/de/veranstaltungen-vortraege/teaching-classics-in-the-digital-age
(CFP closed January 5, 2020)
[ONLINE] RENAISSANCE ACADEMIC DRAMA AND THE POPULAR STAGE
Virtual conference (Hosted by University of St Andrews)
To register, please email acadramaconf@st-andrews.ac.uk.
The organisers hope that this will be of interest to many classicists, particularly those interested in neo-Latin and the reception of Greek and Roman drama.
Organising Committee:
Elena Spinelli (es252@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Jon Gardner (jg250@st-andrews.ac.uk)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday 11 June
10:30 Opening remarks
Panel 1 – Rome on Academic and Popular Stages
Jillian Luke (University of Edinburgh), “Friends, Romans, Crocodiles: Roman masculinity on the English stage”
Cristiano Ragni, (Università degli Studi di Torino), “‘Forsan quietos’: Religious Scepticism in William Gager’s and Christopher Marlowe’s Dido”
11:30 Break
12:00 Panel 2 – Greek Tragedy in the English Renaissance
Cressida Ryan (University of Oxford), “Christus Patiens as translation and performance”
Angelica Vedelago (Università degli Studi di Padova), “‘Pop’ Academia: The Cross- contamination Between Popular and Academic Drama in Thomas Watson’s Sophoclis Antigone”
13:00 Lunch
14:00 PERFORMANCE IN PRACTICE:
Perry Mills (The Edward’s Boys, Director), “Education, Youth and Nostalgia: Edward’s Boys Playing ‘Academically’”, with video excerpts from Dido Queen of Carthage (Marlowe), Wit and Science (Redford), Grobiana’s Nuptials (May), Summer’s Last Will and Testament (Nashe), and When Paul’s Boys Met Edward’s Boys (Carwood/Mills)
15:00 Break
15:30 Panel 3 – Performing the Academic, Performing the Popular
Daniel Blank (Harvard University), “Acting Like Professionals: Academic Drama in Parts”
Isabel Dollar (University of St Andrews), “Ovid for Sale – Changeable and Exchangeable Bodies in Bellamy’s Iphis & Lyly’s Gallathea”
Elizabeth Sandis (Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, UoL), “Violas before and after Shakespeare: Cross-dressing drama in Italy and England”
17:00 Break
17:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE:
Professor Laurie Maguire (University of Oxford), “Classical and Commercial Drama in Print in Sixteenth-Century England”
18:45 End of the first day
Friday 12 June
10:30 Panel 4 – The School of Drama: Didactic Values of Academic and Popular Plays
Orlagh Davies (University of St Andrews), “‘This comes of putting Girls to a Boarding- School’: female boarding schools on the seventeenth-century stage”
Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews), “Two Versions of Prodigality in Sixteenth- Century Academic Drama: Acolastus, The Pilgrimage to Parnassus, and Love’s Labour’s Lost”
Lorna Wallace (University of Stirling), “The Educative Value of Dramatic Spectacle in Joseph Simons’ Theoctistus (1624)”
12:00 Break
12:30 PERFORMANCE IN PRACTICE:
Professor Elisabeth Dutton (University of Fribourg), “Reflecting Narcissus: on filming an early modern student panto”. Screening of Narcissus (EDOX), followed by discussion with director Prof. Elisabeth Dutton.
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Panel 5 – Intersections of Popular and Academic Drama
Moira Donald (University of Exeter), “The chronology of cross-fertilisation. Coincidence or causality?”
Maddalena Repetto (Università degli Studi di Genova), “Inspiration and Imitation in Academic and Popular Drama: A Comparison between Nero and The Tragedy of Nero”
Harriet Archer (University of St Andrews), “Gorboduc on Fire: Pyropoetics and the Popular”
16:00 Break
16:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE:
Professor Sarah Knight (University of Leicester), “Turning your library to a wardrobe”
17:45 Closing Remarks
18:00 End
Website: https://acadramaconf.wordpress.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/acadramaconf
[ONLINE] I INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ANCIENT MEDICINE: IN THE SHADOW OF HIPPOCRATES. HEALTH, MEDICINE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD AND ITS SURVIVAL IN THE WEST
Online Multidisciplinary Congress - June 10-11, 2020
Organized under the auspices of the research group (PAI HUM-986)
DIATRIBA: Philosophy, Rhetoric and Pedagogy in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Granada
Organizers: Mónica Durán Mañas (University of Granada); Inmaculada Rodríguez Moreno (University of Cádiz); Borja Antela (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
We present the 1st International Congress of Ancient Medicine online with the title In the Shadow of Hippocrates. Health, Medicine in the Ancient World and its Survival in the West, which aims to offer a space of sharing research papers.
Within the Western context, Ancient Greek medicine has notably influenced a number of disciplines: History, Art, Literature, Politics, Philosophy, Rhetoric, Didactics, Religion, Anthropology, etc. Although Hippocrates and Galen stand as the highest representatives of the medical art, other figures should also be mentioned due to their great contribution to its development. It is well known that Galen’s legacy lay the foundations of modern medicine. The importance and diffusion of his work can be glimpsed since medieval times, as evidencing the various translations of his treatises into different languages –Syriac, Arabic, Latin, etc. In addition, studies, discussions, comments or corrections coming from different intellectual fields have spread the medical legacy. Therefore, the objective of this first online congress is aimed at opening a path of research on the survival of Ancient Greek medicine in the Western context from different fields –literary, historical, political, linguistic, philosophical, rhetorical, pedagogical, artistic, anthropological, among other disciplines– not only encompassing the figure of Hippocrates and Galen, but also those of Soranus, Aetius, Alexander of Tralles, etc., which take a relevant place in the history of Western medicine.
However, talking about medicine nowadays also means facing issues related to the everyday life, the intimate and the political. Public health, the management of the medical field, the relationship between medicine and power and many other facets also have a place in our proposal, that aims to fuel multidisciplinary discussions on Ancient Medicine and its survival in the West.
In this sense, this first online congress, of a multidisciplinary nature, includes studies on any subject referring to Ancient Greek medicine in light of the Western context.
Each intervention will last about 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
Languages: Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Italian.
Proposals can be sent to any of the following e-mails: monicaduran@ugr.es, inma.rodriguez@uca.es, borja.antela@uab.cat until May 15th extended deadline May 24th. Abstracts should be accompanied with a brief CV.
The organizers will try to answer the proposals as soon as they come, to allow participants to have time enough to prepare their talks. The final program will be available on the third week of May.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2004&L=CLASSICISTS&P=40706
(CFP closed May 24, 2020)
(postponed until 2021) ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES - 49TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel: June 10-11, 2020. New dates: 1-3 June, 2021
Note: 2020 conference postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19. New dates: 1-3 June, 2021
The Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies is pleased to announce its 49th annual conference to be held at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on Wed-Thurs, 10-11 JUNE 2020. Our keynote speaker in 2020 will be Professor Sheila Murnaghan, Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek, University of Pennsylvania.
The conference is the annual meeting of the society. Papers are welcome on a wide range of classical subjects, including but not limited to history, philology, philosophy, literature, reception, papyrology, and archaeology of Greece and Rome,and neighboring lands. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes. The official languages of the conference are English and Hebrew.
Conference fee is $50. Accommodation at reduced prices will be available at local hotels. Registration forms with a list of prices will be sent to participants in due course.
All proposals should consist of a one page abstract (about 250-300 words). Proposals in Hebrew should also be accompanied by a one-page abstract in English to appear in the conference brochure.
Proposals, abstracts and other correspondence should be sent to Dr. Lisa Maurice, Secretary of the ISPCS, at lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il
All proposals should reach the secretary by 19th DECEMBER, 2019.
Decisions will be made after the organizing committee has duly considered all the proposals. If a decision is required prior to early February, please indicate this in your letter and we will try to accommodate your needs.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1907&L=CLASSICISTS&P=2484
THE RECEPTION OF PLATO IN LATER ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES
University of Athens, Greece: June 8-9, 2020
Unable to verify status of this meeting - assume postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
We are delighted to announce a 2-day conference, organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Australian Research Council and Macquarie University.
The conference will take place at the UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, 8-9 JUNE 2020.
We have collaborated with the ISNS conference organisers so to facilitate the participation of local and international delegates to both events, but please note that the two events are run independently. News about our conference can be found on https://evanagno.wixsite.com/platoreception.
Our Approach:
Taking start from our common interest in the Platonic tradition and its reception in later periods, our collaboration has to date yielded one edited volume (The Neoplatonists and their Heirs, Brill, 2020, ed. Ken Parry and E. Anagnostou-Laoutides), while a second one is anticipated to host select papers from the conference. We now wish to expand our network of co-thinkers and thus, we welcome papers on any aspect of Platonic reception, both in the Byzantine East and the Latin West, in philosophical, literary and/or theological texts.
Confirmed Speakers include (in alphabetical order):
-Prof Dirk Baltzly (University of Tasmania)
-Prof Kevin Corrigan (Emory University)
-Prof Lloyd Gerson (Toronto University)
-Prof Ilaria Ramelli (Durham University/ “Angelicum” University/ Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan)
Please, send abstracts of circa 300 words to the conference organisers by 15th DECEMBER 2019. Accepted speakers will be notified by 15th January 2020.
Our emails are: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (MQ) - Eva.Anagnostou-Laoutides@mq.edu.au; George Steiris (UoA) - G.Steiris@ppp.uoa.gr; George Arabatzis (UoA) - garabatz@ppp.uoa.gr.
Call: https://evanagno.wixsite.com/platoreception
(CFP closed December 15, 2019)
(postponed until 2021) II. SYMPOSIUM ON MYTHOLOGY (MYTHS IN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN WORLD)
Ardahan University, Turkey: June 3-5, 2020
Note: Postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19
We are pleased to make a call for papers to II. Symposium on Mythology (Myths in the Ancient and Modern World), which will be held between 3-5 June 2020 in Ardahan University/Turkey.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Maria Vladimirovna Stanyukovich (Russian Academy of Science, Russia)
Niels Gaul (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Jenny Butler (University College Cork, Ireland)
Kaliya Kulalieva (Kyrgyz-Turkish University Manas)
Tansu Açık (Ankara University, Turkey)
Nimet Yıldırım (Atatürk University, Turkey)
Halil Turan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Mustafa Demirci (Selçuk University, Turkey)
The topic of our Symposium is broadly the study of myths in various academic branches, such as archaeology, classics, history and philosophy. Although myths seem to be equated with superstitions, fantasies or false beliefs beginning probably from the early modern period, the studies in clinical psychology and philosophy during the so-called postmodern era disclosed that myths are ingrained in the very fabric of human psyche and social life. With a view to examining the reception of mythology in the contemporary world, our second symposium will focus on the literary and philosophical analysis of myths, the role of myths in nation-building and the interaction between cultures through myths.
Although we are a small university located in Ardahan–the most north-eastern city of Turkey bordering Georgia, as ambitious and driven young academicians we desire to advance our university’s competence in the fields of arts and humanities. Thus, we attach utmost importance to organize a successful and eye-opening symposium and believe that every paper on Classical Studies would immensely contribute to achieving our academic and professional goals.
Submission Details: Abstracts may be in English or Turkish (max. 300 words excluding references) and must include a short biographical note with name and affiliation. Submissions should be submitted online to https://isom2020.congress.gen.tr/0 by March 1st, 2020.
There is a registration fee of 100 USD which includes 3-day accommodation (2-5 June), transfer from/to airport, two lunches (3 and 4 June) and coffee-breaks.
Website: https://mythologysymposium.com/
(CFP closed March 1, 2020)
[CHAPTERS] WOMEN IN HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL VIDEO GAMES
Submissions are invited for an edited volume on Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games
Women make up half of all gamers and female participation in gaming increases with age. Yet the role of women in historical or archaeological video games has been significantly understudied. The proposed volume will address this gap in the field and provide a more comprehensive and more nuanced treatment of women in historical and archaeological video games than has so far been available.
Abstracts for proposed submissions are invited on topics such as:
• How are women portrayed in historical and/or archaeological video games?
• Why are they portrayed in these ways?
• Are these portrayals authentic and/or accurate? Does this authenticity/accuracy matter?
• What do female characters allow a video game to do that male ones don’t?
• What types of stories do historical or archaeological video games tell using their female characters?
Abstracts and any questions should be sent to Dr Jane Draycott by Friday 29th May 2020. For more detail on the volume’s aims and principles, and for a full timeline for submissions see below.
Call for Papers:
Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games Edited Volume
Edited by Jane Draycott and Kate Cook
In 2018, Creative Assembly’s Total War: Rome II was updated to include playable female characters, and this update triggered a huge backlash and wave of review-bombing. Some players objected to the update on the grounds of historical inaccuracy, an objection that Creative Assembly. When challenged about what a certain section of the gaming community perceived to be ‘historical inaccuracy’, the company argued that the game was intended to be historically authentic, not historically accurate, and that, in any case, female generals would only spawn under certain very specific circumstances. Yet, as a number of ancient historians pointed out on social media, and a number of games journalists picked up and included in their coverage of the fracas, this in itself was historically inaccurate because there are numerous examples from ancient Graeco-Roman history of female involvement in martial activity, ranging all the way from the individual combatant to the general and/or admiral, examples which are not confined to mythology (e.g. the Amazons, the goddess Athena/Minerva etc.).
Women make up half of all gamers and female participation in gaming increases with age. With the notable exception of Christian Rollinger’s recently published Classical Antiquity in Video Games: Playing with the Ancient World (2020), to date video games have been understudied in Classics, Ancient History, and Archaeology, and the role of women in these video games even more so. Consequently, the subject of women in historical and archaeological video games is an untapped resource, and the aim of this edited volume is to contribute both to Reception Studies, and to Video Game Studies, and provide a more comprehensive and more nuanced treatment of women in historical and archaeological video games than has so far been available. The volume will examine the following issues: How are women portrayed in historical and/or archaeological video games? Why are they portrayed in these ways? Are these portrayals authentic and/or accurate? Does this authenticity/accuracy matter? What do female characters allow a video game to do that male ones don’t? What types of stories do these video games tell using their female characters? The volume’s scope includes video games set in historical periods (e.g. the Assassin’s Creed franchise), video games that are not set in the past but incorporate aspects of historical or archaeological activity (e.g. the Tomb Raider franchise), and video games with fantasy or science fiction settings that include some aspect of classical reception. Additionally, the volume will contain case studies focused on individual female characters of all kinds, both playable and non-playable. Bloomsbury has already expressed an interest in publishing the volume as part of the Imagines: Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts series.
People interested in contributing to the volume are asked to submit a 500-word abstract and selective bibliography. If your abstract is accepted, you will be invited to submit a first draft which will be subjected to collective peer review by other contributors, with chapters disseminated between contributors for both individual and group discussion, and you will then revise it based on their recommendations. We are exploring the possibility of organising a workshop to discuss submissions that takes place entirely online. All initial communication will take place online over email and/or via Skype, Zoom or an equivalent platform.
While the scope of the edited volume will be focused primarily upon Graeco-Roman antiquity, there are no firm chronological or geographical parameters in place, and diverse approaches to the material (e.g. interdisciplinary approaches; multidisciplinary approaches; the incorporation of gender studies, queer studies, disability studies etc.) are welcome and encouraged. Early career researchers (including PhD students) are particularly encouraged to apply.
Timetable: Given the current circumstances, requests for alternative deadlines or schedules during the writing period will be considered very sympathetically.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday 29th May 2020.
Applicants informed of outcome: Friday 19th June 2020.
Deadline for submission of first draft chapters: Friday 28th August 2020.
Peer reviewed chapters returned to contributors with feedback and recommendations for revisions: Autumn/Winter 2020.
Deadline for submission of revised chapters: Spring/Summer 2021.
The volume will then be submitted to Bloomsbury.
Contact: For more information, or to submit an abstract, please email Dr Jane Draycott at the University of Glasgow at Jane.Draycott@Glasgow.ac.uk
Call: https://gamesandgaming.gla.ac.uk/index.php/2020/04/20/call-for-papers-edited-volume-on-women-in-historical-and-archaeological-video-games/
(CFP closed May 29, 2020)
(postponed) MINISTERIUM SERMONIS: AN INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ST. AUGUSTINE’S SERMONS
KU Leuven, Belgium: 27-29 May 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
On 27-29 May 2020, the research units History of Church and Theology and Literary Studies: Latin Literature of KU Leuven will organize, in collaboration with the C1-project Magnum opus et arduum: Towards a History of the Reception of Augustine’s De civitate Dei and the ERC-project Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: The Dissemination, Manipulation, and Interpretation of Late-Antique Sermons in the medieval Latin West, based at Radboud University Nijmegen, the fourth edition of Ministerium Sermonis.
This conference will bring together scholars who have recently made important contributions to the study of Augustine’s sermons. It is a sequel to the series of Ministerium Sermonis- conferences organised in Leuven-Turnhout (May 30-31, 2008), Rome (September 15-17, 2011) and Malta (April 08-10, 2015), the proceedings of which have been published in the series Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 53, 65 & 75 (Turnhout: Brepols 2009, 2012, 2017). The following survey offers some possible topics, but does not intend to exclude alternative issues or approaches:
(1) The transmission and reception of Augustine’s sermons
(2) Augustine’s argumentation (doctrine, exegesis and rhetoric)
(3) Political doctrine(s) and praxis in Latin Patristic sermons
Committed keynote speakers and respondents include: Isabelle Bochet, Johannes Brachtendorf, James Patout Burns, Gillian Clarke, Jérémy Delmulle, Max Diesenberger, François Dolbeau, Marie Pauliat, Els Rose, Clemens Weidmann.
If you would like to deliver a lecture during this conference, please send the provisional title, abstract (max. 500 words) and a concise CV (max. 500 words) before 31 May 2019, to Shari Boodts at s.boodts@let.ru.nl.
We will let you know whether your paper is included by 1 July 2019. All participants are kindly invited to announce the definitive title of their lecture and a short abstract before 31 December 2019. Lectures should be approx. 20 minutes long, followed by a general discussion of 10 minutes. The organizing committee has the intention of publishing the contributions to the conference as quickly as possible in the international series Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, published by Brepols Publishers.
The colloquium will take place in Leuven at the historical location of the Dutch College (Hollands College), where Cornelius Jansenius served as first president, and the historical Park Abbey, where Erasmus discovered Lorenzo Valla’s New Testament Notes. More practical information will follow when your abstract is accepted.
The full Call for Papers may be found here: https://shariboodts.weebly.com/news.html
(CFP closed May 31, 2019)
(cancelled) FEMINISM & CLASSICS 2020: BODY/LANGUAGE
Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Wake Forest University Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy): May 21-24, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
FemClas 2020, the eighth quadrennial conference of its kind, takes place on May 21–24, 2020, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at the invitation of the Wake Forest University Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy. The conference theme is "body/language," broadly construed, and papers on all topics related to feminism, Classics, Philosophy, and related themes are welcome.
This conference focuses on the use of the body and/or language to gain, lose, contest, or express power and agency in the ancient Mediterranean world. Bodies and words, at both the physical and the conceptual levels, can exert disproportionate, oppositional, or complementary forces. Both have the power to transform their surrounding environments significantly. Yet there is a problematic dichotomy between body/physicality and language/reason, a problem long noted by philosophers, literary theorists, and social historians. FemClas 2020 seeks to contest, blur, and even eradicate these boundaries through papers, panels, and other programming that promotes interdisciplinary exploration of the ancient world.
We invite contributions that use the lens of bodies, languages, or their intersections to address any aspect of the ancient world, modern encounters with ancient cultures, or the academic practices of Classics, Philosophy, and related fields. Participants might explore how voices engender movement(s) and transform bodies, or how movement(s) in turn can stimulate recognition of unheard or otherwise suppressed voices and lead to change. These can be voices and movements within the ancient world, within the university, or within our modern disciplines. The study of agency, expressed through the problematic body/language dichotomy, addresses critical questions not only in scholarly work but also in the governance, makeup, and power dynamics of our fields, currently and historically. Now, perhaps more than ever, is a critical time for us to consider ourselves as students of bodies past and present, as embodied scholars, and to interrogate the repercussions of body normativity -- from race and gender to neurodiversity, dis/ability, and body types -- on our work and our profession.
All submissions are due September 1, 2019. FemClas 2020 welcomes individual papers, organized panels, workshops, roundtables, posters, author-meets-critic sessions, and other, innovative forms of programming. We encourage submissions from the widest possible range of perspectives, addressing all areas of the ancient world and its legacies. We also welcome proposals especially from related interest groups (such as Mountaintop, Eos Africana, the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus, MRECC, Classics & Social Justice, the Lambda Classical Caucus, the Women's Classical Caucus, and EuGeSta) and from allied disciplines (e.g., English, comparative literature, media studies, environmental humanities, animal studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies).
Proposals should aim for an abstract of approximately 300 words (not counting works cited), and should be anonymous where possible.
To submit a proposal for an individual paper or poster, visit: https://forms.gle/5hnCYHaCaMKREfrm8
To submit a proposal for any other type of session, visit:
https://forms.gle/MDdu4DdqpPq82a8w5
We are enthusiastic about developing a program that will work toward making our intellectual community more welcoming and accessible to all. For this reason, we invite with special emphasis proposals for workshops, roundtables, and the like (creative formats welcome!) that will offer practical training about e.g. implicit bias, sexual harassment, racism, accessibility, developing diversity statements, and so forth.
The organizers (T. H. M. Gellar-Goad and Emily Austin) and the Program Committee of FemClas 2020 are committed to an inclusive, welcoming, and accommodating conference. Submissions from graduate students, contingent and underemployed faculty, and independent scholars are especially welcome. Submissions from undergraduate students are also welcome and will be considered separately for a dedicated panel. We will be able to provide reduced conference fees and some travel assistance for attendance by participants who cannot obtain institutional support.
As part of submission, registration, and attendance at the conference, we will ask you to agree to our conference Code of Conduct & Anti-Harassment Policy, which prohibits harassment and discrimination of any kind. A trained, experienced Anti-Harassment Administrator who is not a member of the discipline will receive and address or refer complaints about harassment and violations of the code of conduct. The Code of Conduct & Anti-Harassment Policy is available here: https://femclas2020.wordpress.com/code-of-conduct/
FemClas 2020 will take place partially on the downtown campus of Wake Forest University and partially at a nearby hotel. Each site is fully accessible for all forms of mobility. At each site there will be all-gender bathrooms, a lactation room, a quiet room, and on-site childcare (which we hope to offer at no extra cost).
Some states prohibit using state funds to travel to North Carolina, despite the partial repeal of NC HB-2. Wake Forest University, as a private institution, is not subject to NC state legislative regulations of public universities, and Wake Forest has a non-discrimination policy inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression:
https://titleix.wfu.edu/nondiscrimination-statement/
Please contact T. H. M. Gellar-Goad at thmgg@wfu.edu with questions.
Website: http://femclas2020.wordpress.com
(CFP closed September 1, 2019)
THE POPCULTURAL LIFE OF SCIENCE: STORIES OF WONDER, STORIES OF FACTS
University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland: May 20, 2020
Unable to verify status of this meeting - assume postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
For decades, we have been fed scientific and popcultural stories of the “we use only 10% of our
brain capacity” sort. Recently, a set of new truths has been granted to us. For instance, in his 2014
popscience book Hirnrissig [Harebrained], the neurobiologist Henning Beck debunks 20 of the most
widespread neuromyths, including the ubiquitous misconception that our brains work like
superfast computers with limitless capacity and the idea that you can train your brain as if it were
a muscle. Although these revelations of his are not new to people whose data consumption revolves
around topics of trivia, anecdotes and scientific myths, others may appear indeed surprising.
Bearing in mind the popularity of the theory that mirror neurons govern our behaviour, it is rather
surprising to read that the scientists involved have merely put forward some preliminary
observations on the basis of experiments conducted on monkey brains; and that it is far too early
to create parallels and explain complex human behaviours through mirror neurons theories.
Since Beck’s revelations are in no way exclusive, they support – along with many other recent
discoveries – the view that there is a larger trend or predilection we, collectively, are guilty of: we
take an interesting kernel of truth, a piece of trivia encountered by accident, and we run with it,
creating and spreading wild theories, without so much as checking the source. Science and
popculture are particularly susceptible to these kinds of interpretation: when presented to a nonspecialist audience, a fact is filtered through relatable analogies and helpful metaphors which
nonetheless simplify and dilute it. As a result, noble efforts at popularising science also open facts
to abuse. As history teaches us, it takes only one unsubstantiated study to create a movement of
people who distrust the scientific consensus so much that they will not vaccinate their children.
Thus, the paradox that haunts popculturally disseminated knowledge in the age of Instagram is
that, to reach many, popcultural scientists often promote simplistic versions of complex
phenomena and thus discourage time-consuming in-depth analyses, to the detriment of both the
addressees and sciences themselves. However, as an important intellectual commodity whose
influence on our everyday life is difficult to exaggerate, science disseminated in the popcultural
form should not be disregarded. Not only is it an immensely popular phenomenon but, what is
perhaps more important, it shapes the trajectory of how we see and how we will see the value of
scientific knowledge in the future.
Having this in mind, we invite scholars of various fields to present their take on the popcultural
life of science: examples, consequences and side effects of popularisation of scientific knowledge
through weird tales, strange fictions and stories of wonder. Among the specific themes that might
be covered in ten-minute long presentations are the following (the list is by no means exhaustive):
• popcultural representations of science and scientists
• scientification of popculture versus “popculturing” of science – mechanisms, processes,
consequences and side effects
• relationships between scientific and popcultural discourses
• how to “science” in the age of Instagram – popularity, money and responsibility
• tale of science or tale of wonder?
• “get fact” – science in the service of clicks
• popcultural narratives of scientific problems – scientific facts or myths
• mythbusting – demystifying and remystifying science in popculture
• popculture as new mythology of science
• mythos, pathos and logos in the stories of science
• funification of science
• popcultural functions of science
• popculture as science/science as popculture
• popcultural contributions to science
We welcome scholars from various academic fields to submit their proposals by 20 January 2020.
Abstracts (no more than 150 words) in English should be registered online at
http://www.hstory.us.edu.pl/seminar/ . Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 25 January 2020.
Further deadline and editorial details on submitting texts prior to the seminar will follow.
The seminar is intended as a workshop and speakers are to submit their papers beforehand. During
the seminar, each speaker briefly summarises the main points of their work, afterwards, all the
participants are invited to take part in a discussion. The seminar fee is 250 PLN for participants from Poland and 60 EUR for international participants, and it includes a meal, coffee breaks and seminar materials. A selection of papers will appear in a Web of Science indexed journal and/or in a post-seminar
monograph issued by a prestigious publisher.
Organizers: Justyna Jajszczok & Alicja Bemben
Find us on: http://www.hstory.us.edu.pl/seminar/ and https://www.facebook.com/Hstory-437485846310918/
Contact us at: hstory.seminar@gmail.com
(CFP closed January 20, 2020)
[CHAPTERS] "THE SEA, THE SEA": MARITIME UTOPIAS AND CATASTROPHES IN ANCIENT NARRATIVES AND MODERN POPULAR CULTURE
Abstract deadline: May 15, 2020
Climate change looms over everyone – evidence of this apparent catastrophe surrounds us. It is in our news media, part of our daily conversations, and, most of all, on our minds. One of the primary spatial theatres of disaster over which the modern environmental discourse orients itself is, of course, the sea: rising sea levels, turbulent weather, a marked increase in storms (both in volume and severity), and fundamental changes in marine nature which threaten both our commerce at sea and life along the coasts. Now more than ever the sea seems to have become humanity’s principal antagonist. And yet for much of the late nineteenth and twentieth century the sea has also existed as a site of utopic potential – whether of hope, of longing, or even of escape from continental strife. From the imagined underwater city in Jules Verne’s early science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) to J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantastical ‘Atlantan’ Eden of Númenor (circa 1930-1950) to the post-apocalyptic landscape of Waterworld (1995), the sea has invoked utopic potential upon the modern imagination.
In most ancient-world cultures the sea represents a similar paradox. It constitutes a way of life, an open road of potential exploration and adventure, and even the discovery of utopia (in different respects), but it also represents an untameable, unknowable, and ultimately intimidating site of natural disaster and death. The aim of this volume is to explore and interpret narratives of sea utopias and/or sea catastrophe (or balanced imaginations between these two imagined extremes) both in ancient narratives, from Rome to Greece to the Near East and perhaps beyond, and in modern narratives from popular fiction and culture, with the broader goal of discussing, comparing, and contrasting the modern responses with the ancient.
Studies both of ancient narratives and of the interplay between modern and ancient narratives are welcome. Merely as a loose guideline, we suggest proposals on such topics as:
- Sea narratives and their relationship with human emotion
- Rewriting ancient sea narratives from a modern perspective (historical literary fiction, film, television, videogames)
- Maritime adventure and prosperity vs. the sea as host for monsters, shipwrecks, unpredictability, unknowability, and mystery
- Archetypes of the sea and ocean as spheres of chaos and catastrophe
- The interplay between catastrophic and utopic thought in sea disasters and sea stories
- Revising the novelty of modern climate change rhetoric/narrative tropes
If you are interested in contributing towards this edited volume, please submit an abstract of 400 words (minimum) as well as a short publication history (ca. 100-200 words) by May 15 to either of the follow two email addresses:
Ross Clare (University of Liverpool): R.A.Clare@liverpool.ac.uk;
Hamish Williams (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena): hamishwilliams25@gmail.com
It is important to note that these abstracts will be externally peer reviewed.
Further digital outputs of the project. We are keen to explore digital outputs for this publication, in collaboration with Liverpool University Press. Such outputs will include short informational/lecture videos on the essay topics, aimed at both an academic and a popular viewership as well as the possibility of a digital workshop, during which ‘collaborative peer-reviewing’ will be undertaken. We will provide you with further information on these events and other details as we proceed along the publication schedule.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2004&L=CLASSICISTS&P=46486
(CFP closed May 15, 2020)
(postponed) JOURNÉE 'ÉGYPTOMANIE: L'ANTIQUITÉ ÉGYPTIENNE DANS LA CULTURE POPULAIRE AU XXIe SIÈCLE' AU MUCEM
Mucem (Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée), Marseille, France: May 15, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
Programme de la journée
9h30 | Accueil des participants
10h | Conférence introductive: Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (IRAA), Tiphaine-Annabelle Besnard (LESA), Vincent Chollier (HiSoMA), Frédéric Mougenot (MUCEM)
11h | L’Égypte antique fantasmée : orientalisme et anachronismes
Jean-Claude Golvin (CNRS), Manon Renault (Journaliste indépendante), Arnaud Quertinmont (Musée royal de Mariemont). Modérateur : Vincent Chollier (HiSoMA)
Les intervenants sont invités à analyser la façon dont l’imaginaire contemporain de l’Égypte antique s’est construit et à se pencher sur les idéologies auxquelles il participe. Il sera notamment question de voir comment la culture populaire alimente et recrée un fantasme orientaliste et anachronique de l’Antiquité pharaonique.
12h00 | Pause
13h30 | Projection d’extraits commentée
La présence de l’Antiquité égyptienne dans la culture contemporaine est diverse et tous les domaines sont concernés : cinéma, séries, publicité, architecture, mode, jeu vidéo, littérature, bande dessinée… Cette projection d’extraits commentée en révélera les nombreuses formes et fonctions.
14h | Le retour de la momie : le corps égyptien antique comme incarnation des inquiétudes modernes
Filippo Carlà (Universität Potsdam), Hélène Virenque (BNF), Nolwenn Corriou (PRISMES). Modération : Tiphaine Annabelle Besnard (LESA)
Au début du XXe siècle, l’imaginaire de l’Égypte antique se transforme avec la découverte de la tombe de Toutânkhamon et les fouilles d’Amarna. La peur de la malédiction des pharaons nourrit le fantasme des momies revenant à la vie… les images du mobilier archéologique de la tombe ainsi que celui découvert à Amarna influencent l’iconographie populaire. Entre exotisme, xénophobie et puissance, le corps égyptien se fait la métaphore du monde moderne. Un siècle plus tard, sommes-nous sortis de cet imaginaire occidental ?
15h30 | Politisation du passé égyptien : nationalisme, panafricanisme, féminisme
Elvan Zabunyan (Histoire et Critique des Arts), Richard Jacquemond (Iremam), Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (IRAA) Modération : Frédéric Mougenot (MUCEM)
Le passé pharaonique constitue un important socle du discours politique, en Égypte comme ailleurs. Mis au service d’intérêts divergents et parfois incompatibles, on le retrouve notamment dans des discours nationalistes, panafricanistes ou féministes faisant notamment émerger ces dernières années une icône polysémique : Néfertiti.
16h45 | Pause
17h15 | Conclusions
17h30 | Présentation et visite de l’exposition Pharaons superstars
Visite de l’exposition Pharaons Superstars par Frédéric Mougenot, conservateur au Mucem et commissaire de l’exposition (voir condition d’accès ci-après).
Informations pratiques: Rendez-vous le 15 mai 2020 à partir de 9h30 au Mucem – Fort Saint Jean (entrée par le 201 quai du Port, 13002 Marseille).
Entrée gratuite dans la limite des places disponibles et sur inscription obligatoire à I2mp@mucem.org
Visite de l’exposition réservée aux participants à la journée. La demande nominative doit être formulée au moment de l’inscription. En raison d’un nombre limité de place, une confirmation sera envoyée aux inscrits.
Pour plus d’informations, rendez-vous sur le site du Mucem (https://www.mucem.org/programme/egyptomanie-lantiquite-egyptienne-dans-la-culture-populaire-au-xxie-siecle).
Information: https://antiquipop.hypotheses.org/8052 & https://www.mucem.org/programme/egyptomanie-lantiquite-egyptienne-dans-la-culture-populaire-au-xxie-siecle
[ONLINE] RES DIFFICILES: A CONFERENCE ON CHALLENGES AND PATHWAYS FOR ADDRESSING INEQUITY IN THE ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD
Campus of the University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, Virginia), HCC 136: NEW DATE - May 15, 2020 (rescheduled from March 27)
Organizers: Hannah Çulik-Baird (Boston University) and Joseph Romero (University of Mary Washington)
One of the great benefits of the shift from a pedagogue-centered to a student-aware or student-centered classroom is that we listen more attentively to how our students experience the content of what we read. A decided strength of Classical Studies is the simultaneous proximity and distance—temporally, geographically, ideologically—of the ancient Greek and Roman world. That distance is felt more keenly when potentially difficult subjects (res difficiles) in our readings—domination, inequity, violence both sexual and otherwise—present themselves for inspection. Often the underlying source of the dissonance or disconnect is the distance in our perceptions of social justice.
In a conference held on the campus of the University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, Virginia), we examine the challenges presented by this curriculum with students who are increasingly more diverse in gender identity, race, ethnicity, income, family structure, and more. And while the society of our conference will examine pedagogical issues, we hope also to dilate outward to broader issues in education and society from (a) the current and future roles of Classics and the humanities in K-12 and higher education to (b) the ultimate goals of education.
Our keynote speaker will be Dani Bostick who teaches Latin in Winchester, VA, and who has garnered a national reputation as a writer, teacher, and advocate for victims of sexual violence. Learn more at danibostick.net.
See Registration information below (Zoom). We hope the conference will be attended by as many as possible in person, but a number (limited only by our subscription capacity), will be able to attend electronically.
Abstracts of 350 words should be sent electronically to Joseph Romero (jromero@umw.edu) by November 1, 2019 February 28, 2020. Papers will be 30 minutes long with coordinated discussion at the end of each session. Any questions regarding abstract submission may be addressed to Professor Romero or Professor Çulik-Baird (culik@bu.edu). For more information see the conference website.
Zoom registration: https://forms.gle/LjaegkPxL34bM4499
Website: https://cas.umw.edu/clpr/resdifficilesconference/
(CFP closed November 1, 2019 February 28, 2020.)
(postponed) L’AMORE, LE ARMI, LE STELLE: BASINIO DA PARMA AND THE HUMANISTS AT SIGISMONDO MALATESTA’S COURT
Rimini, Italy (Museo della Città, Sala del Giudizio and Palazzo Buonadrata): May 14-16, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
By the middle of the fifteenth century Rimini had become a major center of Italian humanism. The cultural patronage of the famous condottiere Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417–1468), attracted numerous artists, writers, and scholars, who came to the city and created works for which Rimini is still widely known today. In spite of recently intensified research on this topic, various questions about the philosophical, literary and artistic output of this circle remain open. In particular, the historiography of Rimini itself leaves considerable room for new exploration, and this despite recent work on the architecture and pictural arts of the quattrocento city. In the philosophical and literary sphere, for example, the Aristotelian-Platonic milieu around Sigismondo has not yet received in depth study, and Valturio’s imaginative tract De Re Militari still awaits a modern edition or commentary.
One of the authors who has received attention, and whose profile underlines the importance of the Renaissance in Rimini is the poet Basinio da Parma. Basinio was a prolific author in many literary genres: His mythological poem Meleagris provides a modernised version of the Calydonian pigsticking; his didactic poem Astronomica studies the stars and the zodiac; while the Liber Isottaeus is an epistolary novel in elegiac couplets about the love between Sigismondo and Isotta degli Atti.
An ongoing project at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck (Austria), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), is currently working towards a digital edition of his epic poem Hesperis, along with with a commentary and English translation. This poem was Basinio’s masterpiece and can only be understood against the wider backdrop of humanism in fifteenth century Northern Italy, and Rimini in particular. Not only do considerable historical and biographical details appear in the poem, the piece also reflects and discusses the most important cultural and literary debates of its time: philosophy, philology and education, art history and architecture etc.
The conference L’amore, le armi, le stelle intends to contextualize Basinio’s works and those of other humanists and artists within a broader framework. We invite interested speakers to propose conference papers of approx. 30 minutes with a focus on one of the following suggested (by no means exclusive) topics:
* The historiography of the Malatestian court and its interaction with contemporary cultural dynamics, more specifically with Basinio;
* The literary culture of Rimini: inter- and intratextuality in Basinio’s oeuvre, its narrative strategies and links with the vernacular tradition;
* The sculptural and pictorial arts, architecture of the Renaissance city, and manuscript illuminations within the wider context of northern Italian scriptoria;
* Philosophical trends in Rimini and northern Italy;
* Greek influences and the reflection of knowledge of this language, especially in Basinio’s Hesperis;
* Intermediality in Basinio’s Hesperis as a reflection of Rimini’s artistic and architectural culture;
* The reception of Basinio in his time and later periods;
* ...
Key note speaker: John Monfasani (University at Albany, State University of New York)
Proposals (max. 250 words) are welcome before 4th November 2019.
Languages: English, Italian
Travel and hotel costs will be covered for all speakers.
We plan to publish the papers after the conference in a peer-reviewed volume.
For any questions contact:
Anna Chisena: anna.chisena@neolatin.lbg.ac.at
Simon Smets: simon.smets@neolatin.lbg.ac.at
Florian Schaffenrath: florian.schaffenrath@neolatin.lbg.ac.at
Call: https://neolatin.lbg.ac.at/upcoming-conferences/call-papers-lamore-le-armi-le-stelle-basinio-da-parma-and-humanists-sigismondo-malatestas-court
(CFP closed November 4, 2019)
(cancelled) SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS BEYOND THE COMPANION: FROM ARCHAEOLOGY TO POPULAR CULTURE
Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands): May 14, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
Organisers: Gavin Kelly, Marc van der Poel, Daniëlle Slootjes, Joop van Waarden (Radboud University and University of Edinburgh jointly)
Due out in March 2020, the Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, edited by Gavin Kelly and Joop van Waarden, assembles the latest international scholarship on Sidonius Apollinaris. This conference is set to explore the future of the study of Sidonius and his times "beyond the Companion".
Speakers will include Lucy Grig (Edinburgh) on popular culture, Caroline Michel d'Annoville (Paris) on Vaison-la-Romaine, Daniëlle Slootjes (Nijmegen) on dioceses in Gaul, and more to be invited. A distinct part of the day is a series of pitches presenting current or future work on the subject. PhD students and early career scholars are particularly (but certainly not exclusively) invited to come forward with their research (contact Joop van Waarden).
Contact: Joop van Waarden, j.vanwaarden@let.ru.nl
Check the Sidonius website https://sidonapol.org for updates on the programme and on registering for the day.
Website: https://sidonapol.org/event/companion-to-sidonius-book-launch/
(cancelled?) SYNOIKISMOS THEMATIC WORKSHOP 2020: FROM TABLETS TO SCREENS: TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL AND ORIENTAL STUDIES
University of Liège, Belgium: May 5, 2020
Unable to verify status of this meeting - assume postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
As part of the 2019-2020 edition of the interuniversity doctoral Seminar Synoikismos, the committee is organising a thematic conference on May 5, 2020 at the University of Liège. This year, the theme will be the technological progress in the study of ancient worlds. For this occasion, we have the pleasure to invite PhD students and young researchers of Belgian or foreign universities whose research topic is related to this subject to present their project.
The topic will be addressed from two perspectives:
1. History of technological innovations and the methodological impact on our disciplines
“Exegi monumentum aere perennius”, wrote Horace. This line seems to foreshadow the long-lasting interest of humanity for the ancient world. Studies on the ancient world, which have developed over the centuries, owe their vitality to the evolution of their methods, which adapt to the spirit of each era. But to what extent has our perception of the classical period evolved with the methods and techniques used to reconstruct its image? First of all, we would like to reflect on the impact of technological progress on the study of our fields: from the invention of the printing press to digital editions, from plaster casting to 3D reconstructions, each step of this technological evolution has helped to clarify, improve or even change the representation of the past.
More generally, cultural protagonists of each era have tried to interpret the traces left by ancient civilisations and to modernise them for various purposes into a message understandable by their contemporaries. The study of these cultural operations, that took place from antiquity until the present day, is the core element of Reception Studies.
Therefore we also wish to consider the way each era has looked at antiquity: how did it influence the study of ancient worlds? Can research achieve ‘objectivity’? What has been done in the past and what is the trend today?
2. Digital era: the tools of tomorrow in Classical and Oriental Studies
Since the ‘50s, computing has constantly evolved and reached always more areas of human activity. Research on ancient civilisations is no exception, having always relied on new technologies for improvement. Nowadays, in 2020, there probably isn’t any research project left which isn’t based, directly or indirectly, on the use of digital tools. These are as numerous as the many fields of Classical and Oriental Studies: XML and the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative for encoding texts in a digital format (e.g. A collection of Greek Ritual Norms – CGRN project at ULiège), 3D modeling and visualisation softwares for digital photogrammetry of archaeological items (e.g. Warriors on the Periphery project at ULB), online databases collecting texts, people or places of the ancient world (e. g. Trismegistos project at KU Leuven) or statistical and quantitative methods for analysing languages (e.g. Laboratoire d’Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes – LASLA at ULiège). Yet, digital tools are still poorly known by researchers of our disciplines and might scare them to some degree, since they haven’t been trained for these skills. Which are the digital tools of tomorrow? In which areas of Classical and Oriental Studies are they used? How can we use and include them in a research project?
We would like to address these two aspects of the topic in two different ways: on the one side by discussing the impact of these tools on our research methods, on the other by exploring some of them through practical application. For this reason, there will be both oral presentations and workshops during the conference, according to the proposals we will receive.
Every PhD student who is interested (at any stage of his research) is kindly invited to submit an abstract of the subject he wishes to present (250 words max.), specifying whether he prefers to do an oral presentation and/or a practical demonstration of a tool, as well as a short biography (150 words max.) to the Synoikismos Seminar (seminar.synoikismos@gmail.com) for December 31, 2019 at the latest. Each talk (in French or in English) will last up to 30 minutes and will be followed by 15 minutes of discussion. Further information on the organisation of the workshops will be provided later on.
Call: https://www.academia.edu/40554714/Synoikismos_Seminar_-_CFP_Thematic_Conference_2020
(CFP closed December 31, 2019)
[CHAPTERS] OUR MODERN AENEID
(Call for chapter abstracts: due May 1, 2020)
Vergil’s Aeneid is, of course, a longtime standard of the liberal arts curriculum. However, it has seen revived interest outside the academy. Since 2017, Vergil’s epic has featured in articles in the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker. All three articles argue that the Aeneid speaks as much to modernity as it does to antiquity. Mendelsohn’s New Yorker piece put it best, writing, "Aeneas [is] . . . a survivor, a person so fractured by the horrors of the past that he can hold himself together only by an unnatural effort of will, someone who has so little of his history left that the only thing that gets him through the present is a numbed sense of duty to a barely discernible future that can justify every kind of deprivation. It would be hard to think of a more modern figure. Or, indeed, a more modern story."
Nearly every review of various recent translations provides an impassioned reaffirmation of the epic’s contemporary relevance. However, scholarly practice has trailed behind scholarly rhetoric in this regard. For example, in demonstrating the modern importance of Vergil’s classic, a number of reviews from the late 2000s briefly stress the similarities between Vergil and Kipling’s views of empire. As the government sanctioned poets of global empires, one might expect to find thorough comparisons between Kipling and Vergil in the literature. Remarkably, one would find several articles devoted to historical inquiry into the quality of Kipling’s classical education, but none directly considering the relationship between those classics and his own writing.
The gap between the general claims of the Aeneid’s relevance and a rigorous working out of the details is initially startling. After all, the Aeneid hardly lacks for excellent scholarship and commentary. However, upon reflection the lacuna is unsurprising. Scholarship on the Aeneid typically comes from classicists focused on the text’s language and poetics, and its historical and cultural contexts. It is treated as an explicitly Roman cultural artifact. Since classicists are in part historians, a natural direction to expand their work on the Aeneid is to consider its reception in other historical epochs. This is precisely what we see in, e.g., Hardie’s impressive work in cataloging centuries worth of use and misuse of the epic, and Farrell and Putnam’s discussion of modern criticism of and response to the Aeneid . However, these historical methods, as important and useful as they are, won’t suffice to examine the modern significance of the text. That requires a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach.
We propose a volume of essays from a diverse group of scholars and artists that represents a multidisciplinary, multicultural redeployment of the Aeneid. We do not propose examining the Aeneid as a decidedly Roman text. Nor do we propose an examination of a cultural artifact. Rather, we seek to present a volume that deploys the Aeneid anew, one that not only reflects the Aeneid’s status as a ‘modern story’ (Mendelsohn, loc. cit.), but one that inserts the Aeneid into contemporary discourse. We understand ‘contemporary’ and ‘modern’ rather broadly—essays need not be limited strictly to the new millennium. Papers that address, for example, the Vietnam War, the Khmer Rouge, or the Rwandan genocide, would certainly be welcome.
We invite submissions that engage with the aforementioned issues or related ones regarding the Aeneid, including the following:
Artistic and cultural appropriation and reclamation, especially from a post-colonial perspective;
Using the Aeneid to explore constructions of gender;
Representations of trauma and its effects;
The Aeneid as therapy;
The Aeneid and modern commemorations;
The representation/literature/philosophy/theorizing of immigrants, immigration, refugees, cosmopolitanism, and global justice;
Race and ethnicity in the Aeneid;
Using the Aeneid to negotiate difference;
How the Aeneid complicates, or enriches modern (broadly construed) texts, art works, etc. (such as an analysis of the Aeneid and other later artworks of empire);
The Aeneid as symbol and its function as a mine for cultural signposts, etc.;
The Aeneid and pedagogy;
The Aeneid in the public and/or digital humanities.
Final papers should run between 4,000–6,000 words (inclusive of endnotes and works cited) and be formatted according to Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition). Cite and abbreviate ancient texts according to the Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd Edition). Revisions may be requested as a condition of acceptance. Please send all queries to the editors (Joseph R. O’Neill and Adam Rigoni) at 21stcenturyaeneid@gmail.com.
Authors are invited to submit an abstract of approximately 500 words, along with a select bibliography of at least ten sources, and an author bio of approximately 250 words to the editors at 21stcenturyaeneid@gmail.com by May 1, 2020.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/1359338384246736
(CFP closed May 1, 2020)
(cancelled/postponed) SUSTAINING OBJECTS AND PLACES: ENGAGING WITH CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Durham University, UK: April 20-22, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19 (no information found)
The title of this conference acknowledges the dual nature of our relationship with objects and sites. We sustain them in a number of ways that include, but are not limited to, how we conceive of and think about them, how we preserve and maintain them and how we fund them, but at the same time they sustain “us” by enabling identities to be asserted and maintained and by contributing to wellbeing. The conference title also asks the question whether the models and practices (economic, intellectual and technological) that have served us in the past continue to work in the 21st century. Over the past 50 years there has been a tremendous expansion in what we identify as cultural heritage as well as the number of museums and sites dedicated to preserving and exhibiting it. Additionally, stresses, such as climate change, rising number of tourists, population growth, as well as governmental and educational priorities in many countries raise questions about whether we can truly preserve everything of significance. For many conservators and heritage professionals, public engagement and “impact” have become key metrics in assessing both the feasibility and the success of projects. But this raises questions about how sustainable these efforts are. Are we really winning the hearts and minds of the public and impacting approaches to public funding or are we providing momentary diversions? Who benefits from engagement and how much? How do we assess whether the outcomes were truly successful or merely popular?
Emerging technologies such as digital preservation, predictive modelling and crowd funding offer new tools and new challenges for both planning and preservation. In a year that has seen vast sums of money pledged for the restoration of Notre Dame in Paris, before even an assessment of the damage or needs had been completed, and has also been marked by dissension about how and when the funds should be made available to that project and how funds are allocated to other preservation projects, it is important to consider how patronage may be shaped in the years ahead and whether traditional approaches to working must be changed to accommodate them.
We invite papers that critically analyze the economics of conserving and/or preserving cultural heritage, that examine whether outreach and “impact” do produce sustainable results and how we monitor and nurture those results. We also invite papers that deal with the role that any of the following topics play in sustaining objects:
· Marketing and funding
· Sustainability
· Advocacy and Outreach
· Interpretation
· Belief and Culture
· Wellness
· Climate change
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to Dr. Emily Williams emily.a.williams@durham.ac.uk by 5pm December 15th 2019. Paper selection will be completed by Jan 15th and authors notified then.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1911&L=CLASSICISTS&P=38628
(CFP closed December 15, 2019)
[ONLINE] STRANGER THINGS. FANTASY IN ANTIQUITY IN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND RECEPTION.
Online congress: April 20-21, 2020 (from Barcelona, Spain)
Ancient World usually appears in our sources as a world of fantasy. Myth, magic and prodigies are common in historical and scientifical accounts in ancient historians' works. Despite the distance in the perception of reality and the cultural borders between us and ancient people, and even between beliefs and reason, this ancient fantasy surpasses the mind and words from the sources to the scholarly tradition, and we can also find explanations that include both fantasy and illusion in Modern Historiography about Antiquity.
In these stranger days of us, let us invite you to work and discuss this wide topic of fantasy and historiography, including Contemporary Reception of the Ancient World, with the aim of linking us with things that make us feel alive, as it is research.
Among many other possibilities, some topics can be:
- Fantasy and historical explanations in Ancient Sources.
- Fictional History in Ancient Historiography.
- Fantastic events and Modern Scholarship.
- Ancient Fantastic events in Modern Historians' Works and explanations.
- Reception, Fantasy and the Ancient World.
As far as we are now confined, and our aim is to keep working, linked, safely enjoying life and research, we offer a very short time, to develop the Congress during the actual situation.
The Conference will be held through Zoom. More details will be offered when a final schedule and a definitive list of participants have been finished.
So, anyone interested can send us proposals for papers about the above-mentioned topics (or proposals about any other kind of research related to the main theme of the Congress).
Proposals can be sent to cfp.strangerthings@gmail.com until April 6th. The organizers will try to answer the proposals as soon as they come, to allow participants to have time enough to prepare their talks.
The time for each participant in the Congress will be around 20/25 minutes, with online discussion for every paper.
The Congress accepts proposals in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
After the Congress, a selection of the papers will be published (probably in a Pressing House in Spain, but it will depend on the papers we finally have, and their languages).
Organizers:
- Marc Mendoza (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
- Borja Antela-Bernárdez (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Edit 19/4/2020. Program:
MONDAY 20th, APRIL
9:45-10:00: Opening remarks
Session 1
10:00-10:30: Guendalina D. M. Taietti (University of Guangzhou): The Oath of Alexander: ancient fiction and modern political discourse
10:30-11:00: Mónica Durán Mañas (Universidad de Granada): La fantasía de la alteridad. Del mito griego a la historia actual
11:00-11:30: Marika Strano (Independent Researcher): Tracce del perturbante nel Satyricon di Petronio e nelle Metamorfosi di Apuleio
11:30-12:00: Daniela Dantas (Centre for History of the University of Lisbon): The Sons of the Harpy, descendants of Ancient Myth? The symbolism of Harpies, from Ancient Mythology to Game of Thrones
ZOOM LINK FOR SESSION 1:
https://zoom.us/j/93929203893?pwd=YWhZNEROOS9nN1ZRQVJUY3VZdVhiUT09
Session 2
17:00-17:30: Ronald Blankenborg (Radboud University Nijmegen): On stranger tides: fictional geography in ancient historiography
17:30-18:00: Thomas Alexander Husøy (Swansea University): Xenophon, Callisthenes and Diodorus- the importance of the omens at Leuctra
18:00-18:30: José Luis Aledo (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya): Los presagios de los Diádocos. Bestias, Coronas y abandonos.
18:30-19:00: Borja Antela-Bernárdez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Odysseus Sertorius
ZOOM LINK FOR SESSION 2:
https://zoom.us/j/94138276813?pwd=d2VZRVEwbkNrZGoraEpyZGZTcnZ3dz09
TUESDAY 21st APRIL
Session 3
10:00-10:30: Jurgen R. Gatt (Università ta’ Malta): Confronting Miracles: The Mysterious Case of the Talking Birds
10:30-11:00: Mariachiara Angelucci (University of Eichstätt): Il meraviglioso e l’insolito nei frammenti di Polemone di Ilio
11:00-11:30: Marine Glénisson (Sorbonne Université): Great men are strange men: fantastic details in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives.
11:30-12:00: Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio Rivas (Universidad de Sevilla): Distopía dentro de la fantasía: Los bárbaros salvadores del imperio decadente o un final diferente para el mundo antiguo
ZOOM LINK FOR SESSION 3:
https://zoom.us/j/95957993277?pwd=ME9pZXhJS3NoaG85VFNySFFvMTVXZz09
Session 4
17:00-17:30: Julia Guantes García (Universidad de Oviedo): Armas de mujer: Guerreras de la Antigüedad en el cine
17:30-18:00: Sabrina Colabella (Independent Researcher): Hunger Games: Katniss, Artemide e l’apparente incoerenza del modello archetipico
18:00-18:30: Anthony Keen (University of Notre Dame): ‘The kidnapping was pretty mutual’: Reworking the Persephone Myth in Epicurus the Sage
18:30-19:00: Amanda Potter (Open University): Save the Monster, Save the World: Living in Harmony with Monsters in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke and Monstress.
Concluding Remarks
ZOOM LINK FOR SESSION 4
https://zoom.us/j/92704548265?pwd=bnlySGVaZlI4UHp6ekxuYm9EWjFNdz09
Call: https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/03/30/stranger-things-fantasy-in-antiquity-in-historiography-and-reception/
(CFP closed April 6, 2020)
(cancelled) CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2020
Swansea University, Wales: 17–20 April, 2020
The Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology at Swansea University will host the 2020 Classical Association Conference, to coincide with the University’s centenary celebrations. The conference will take place on the newly founded Bay Campus (opened in 2015), which is situated in an outstanding location, has direct access on to the beach, and its own seafront promenade. Accommodation will be arranged in hotels between Swansea’s city centre and the Bay Campus.
Swansea University’s Singleton Campus is home to the Egypt Centre, Wales’ largest museum of Egyptian antiquities. Swansea is situated close to the Gower peninsula, the UK’s first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There are castles, stately homes and Roman barracks in close proximity. There will be optional excursions to allow participants to explore the area.
Proposals for 20-minute papers, especially from coordinated panels, are invited. The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all of its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and particularly welcome proposals from diverse backgrounds. The closing date for abstracts is 31 August 2019.
Suggested themes include:
Ancient Narrative Literature
Ancient Political Thought
Archaeology of Graeco-Roman Egypt
Civil War Literature
Classics and the Future
Commentaries
Fragments
Global Classics
Metals and metallurgy
Patronage
Pedagogy and Outreach
Plato
Political Failure
Regionalism
Roman Philosophy and Satire
Rulers and rulership
The ancient reception of Augustan Poetry
The literature of poverty and disgust
The Welsh Classical Tradition
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to CA2020@swansea.ac.uk by the closing date. All other enquiries should also be directed to this e-mail address.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1905&L=CLASSICISTS&P=16032
Classical Association website: https://classicalassociation.org/
Update 14/2/2020: Registration - https://intranet.swan.ac.uk/OnlineStore/Products/Details/1754 - & Program https://www.swansea.ac.uk/arts-and-humanities/news-and-events/classical-association-annual-conference/
(CFP closed August 31, 2019)
(cancelled) COLLECTORS AND SCHOLARS. THE NUMISMATIC WORLD IN THE LONG 19TH CENTURY
University of Tübingen, Germany: April 16-17, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
In the 19th century, developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics: major steps included the foundation of learned societies (e.g. Royal Numismatic Society in 1836, Numismatische Gesellschaft zu Berlin in 1843, American Numismatic Society in 1858, etc.) and the publication numismatic journals from the 1830s onwards (Revue numismatique in 1836, Numismatic chronicle in 1838, Revue belge de numismatique in 1842, etc.) leading to a thriving numismatic community.
The 19th century is also the time when previously private (Royal) collections became public institutions (e.g. in Paris following the French revolution, or the Münzkabinett Winterthur in 1861), and when new museums were created (e.g. the Capitoline medagliere in 1873, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in 1891, etc.). Subsequently, museum curators began publishing scholarly catalogues of their collections, such as the British Museum's seminal catalogue series (e.g. Greek Coins from 1873 onwards, or Oriental Coins from 1875 onwards). Some of the works published in the 19th century were aimed at collectors, such as Théodore Mionnet's or Henry Cohen's reference works, but it is notably thanks to their publications that scholars were able to process coin finds as source for dating archaeological sites and discussing social history (e.g. Theodor Mommsen identifying Kalkriese as site for the battle of the Teutoburg Forest, as early as 1850, on the basis of numismatics).
At the same time, large and famous collections evolved, were traded, or finally bequeathed to museums leading to new research on the subject. Whilst earlier collectors were almost always generalists (coins being one collecting field among others such as antiquities, paintings, gems, etc.), collectors such as Hyman Montagu or Virgil Brand devoted themselves only to numismatics. These famous collectors were sometimes scholars themselves, writing noteworthy articles. The names of John Evans, Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer, William Henry Waddington, Archer Huntington and King Victor Emmanuel III are the most prominent examples of illustrious collectors with expertise and the desire to promote numismatic scholarship through their collections.
The 19th century is also the time when collectors started paying greater attention to the condition of a coin, and to their provenance, while the new medium of photography and improved book-illustrations allowed for the documentation and recognition of individual specimens in auction catalogues and scholarly works likewise. In the same spirit, numismatists themselves became focus of interest: medals and tokens were struck in their names, and books were written about them (e.g. Médailles et jetons des numismates in 1865).
We may also think of the institutional development of archaeology out of philology around the 1840ies to become a discipline of its own that triggered a shift in perceiving coins predominantly as material manifestations of the past. In addition, we need to take into consideration the large scale professional excavations of the century (e.g. the foundation of the Reichslimeskommission in Germany in 1892) that enabled new methods in studying coins from an academic perspective. Ultimately, this pathed the way for numismatics to become a university subject with the evolution of university coin collections. The 19th century was also a time that saw the growth of nationalism, which was accompanied by a focus on one's history as mirrored in the practice of collecting and trading coins. Questions may also include to what extend numismatics was received in the realm of contemporary art such as Eugène Delacroix's engravings, and literature - for example with the many coin references found in the work of Victor Hugo. These are some of the various new avenues and perspectives the symposium wishes to explore.
Our aim is to explore the numismatic world in the long 19th century - including both, the sphere of academia, and that of collecting and dealing - with a focus on ancient numismatics but also on medieval and modern numismatics, with an interest for the political, cultural, economic, and social changes of the era. Thus, a wide range of international experts, including numismatists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians are invited to present their research. Papers that explore specific case studies are particularly welcome, and talks on non-Western numismatics and on medals are hoped for.
Organizers: Stefan Krmnicek (Tübingen) & Hadrien Rambach (Brussels)
Abstracts of no longer than 500 words should be sent by email to:
stefan.krmnicek@uni-tuebingen.de and coinadvisor@yahoo.co.uk.
Deadline for the submission of the abstracts is October 31, 2019.
For further information visit: https://uni-tuebingen.de/collectors-and-scholars
(CFP closed October 31, 2019)
(cancelled/postponed) THE CASE FOR CRITICAL ANCIENT WORLD STUDIES
Oxford University, UK: April 15, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
We invite contributions (abstracts proposing 30 minute papers) to a conversation on 'Critical Ancient World Studies' taking place in Oxford on the 15th April 2020.
‘Critical Ancient World Studies’ is a mode of studying antiquity (broadly defined) that makes four critical steps away from the field known as ‘classical studies’ / ‘Classics’. (1) it critiques the field’s Eurocentrism and refuses to inherit silently a field crafted so as to constitute a mythical pre-history for an imagined ‘West’, in particular, by rejecting the ‘universal’ as synonym for the ‘Western’ or the ‘European’. While Classics has too often been content to construct an ancient world whose value lies in its mirror image of modern Europe, 'Critical Ancient World Studies' investigates the ancient history of a world without accepting the telos of the West; (2) it rejects the assumption of an axiomatic relationship between so-called ‘Classics’ and cultural value, divesting from cultural capital as a mode of knowledge-making in the field; (3) it denies positivist accounts of history, and all modes of investigation that aim at establishing a perspective that is neutral or transparent, and commits instead to showcasing the contingency of historiography in a way that is alert to injustices and epistemologies of power that shape the way knowledge is constructed as ‘objective’; and (4) it requires of those who participate in it a commitment to decolonising the gaze of and at antiquity, not simply by applying decolonial theory or uncovering subaltern narratives in a field that has special relevance to the privileged and the powerful, but rather by dismantling the structures of knowledge that have led to this privileging. In this approach, we take our theoretical and epistemic example from Re-orient, a journal of Critical Muslim Studies that has taken a similarly critical attitude to its own parent-discipline (Islamic Studies), and whose manifesto can be found here: https://www.criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/manifesto/. In practice, these four epistemological orientations will require three further practical commitments: to representation at all levels; to all attempts to promote access to the field to those under-represented within it; and to the rejection of the centrality of ancient Greece and ancient Rome within the study of the ancient world.
The conference is concerned both with the necessity for and the possible applications of 'Critical Ancient World Studies' and we hope that this will enable critical reflection on the future of so-called 'Classics'. We invite papers from those within and outside of formal study of the ancient world in all its various forms, and in particular from those who feel that their area of study or critical approach to the ancient world (and its afterlife) does not fit easily within conventional definitions of the field of 'Classics'.
The day will be divided into three panels, 'Critical Time', 'Myths of Origin' and 'Critical Epistemologies - but you needn't know at the time of submitting your abstract which panel you would like it to be considered for.
Please submit abstracts (of no longer than 500 words) to Mathura Umachandran (m.umachandran@googlemail.com) and Marchella Ward (marchella.ward@worc.ox.ac.uk), copying both organisers into your email, before Friday 28th February. We will aim to respond in the first week of March.
Call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16K47WM1OBXpvuDxtCmr1T_rRmJEYqDi_Z0kLhyc8ng4/edit?usp=sharing
(CFP closed February 28, 2020)
(cancelled) ANCIENT PLASTER: CASTING LIGHT ON A FORGOTTEN SCULPTURAL MATERIAL
London (The British Academy): April 6-7, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
Marble, bronze, and terracotta are all celebrated materials for sculpture in the round. However, plaster, another noteworthy material in antiquity, is understudied and often absent from the archaeological record. Two major questions regarding the role of plaster in ancient sculpture remain unresolved. This conference, bringing together international experts including archaeologists, conservators, and contemporary sculptors, aims to tackle these debates. Firstly, we will explore plaster as a sculptural material in its own right and address the use of plaster models for the production of works in other media. Secondly, we will tackle the contested issue of life-casting in antiquity, assessing whether such casting was indeed used in the production of bronzes. Demonstrations of plaster working and casting processes will give participants a practical understanding of material and technique. This interdisciplinary practice based focus will facilitate collaboration between archaeologists and contemporary practitioners, enabling cooperative analysis of these important and unresolved research problems.
Convenors:
Emma Payne, King's College London
Abbey Ellis, University of Leicester/Ashmolean Museum
Will Wootton, King's College London
Speakers include:
Tonny Beentjes, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Farhad Fabian Burg, Gipsformerei der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Amanda Claridge, Royal Holloway, University of London
Chris Dorsett, Northumbria University
Jane Fejfer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Martin Hanson, Wimbledon College of Art
Nigel Konstam, Verrocchio Arts Centre, Italy
Dimitri Laboury, University of Liège, Belgium
Kenneth Lapatin, J. Paul Getty Museum, USA
Alexander Lumsden, Bronze Age Foundry
Rachel Mairs, University of Reading
Eckart Marchand, The Warburg Institute/International Research Group ‘Bilderfahrzeuge’
Thomas Merrett, City & Guilds of London Art School
Kathryn Tubb, University College London
Clare Venables, Minerva Stone Conservation
Registration: A registration fee is payable at the time of booking.
Standard Admission: £75 both days, £40 one day. Includes lunch and refreshments
Concessions: £35 both days, £20 one day. Includes lunch and refreshments
The concession rate applies to: unwaged / retired / early career academics (within three years of completing PhD) / students / disabled.
Free entrance is offered to companions or carers of disabled visitors.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ancient-plaster-casting-light-on-a-forgotten-sculptural-material-tickets-83323243063
ONLINE: 2020 WARWICK NUMISMATIC DAY: THE WORLD IN YOUR HANDS. NEW DIRECTIONS IN NUMISMATIC RESEARCH.
University of Warwick, UK: April 3, 2020
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, this conference will now be held via Zoom. See website for details.
Department of Classics and Ancient History Warwick, in conjunction with The Royal Numismatic Society.
Conference Organisers: Charlotte Mann and Clare Rowan
Plenary Speaker: Prof. Fleur Kemmers (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main)
Coins, banknotes, tokens and other forms of money are often portable objects that can be held in the hand; indeed modern day medallic artists tell us that these objects are designed to be held in the hand. But although small and at times unassuming, these media carry and convey an extraordinary array of information; by holding a coin in your hand one might argue you are holding your world.
This conference explores what the unique contribution of numismatics is to our understanding of human society. Money, coinage, bank notes, tokens and medals across the ages have played political, cultural, religious, memorial, economic and social roles; often they provide a unique insight into particular communities, cultures and societies. A key focus of the conference will be exploring the intersection of numismatics, the study of money, with disciplines such as history, classics, art history, sociology, and economics. Papers on any topic related to the theme are welcome, but some key questions for the day include:
• What does numismatic imagery reveal about the exchange of cultural ideas and artistry between people?
• What does numismatic imagery reveal about the way societies negotiated their relationship with their ruling power?
• How does money contribute to identity and a sense of belonging?
• What do the location of coin finds reveal about the movement of people and their economic interactions?
• How do particular forms of payment media reflect social hierarchies, and how do social relationships reshape money?
• How is money used beyond the economic sphere within belief systems and rituals?
• How does money act as a type of media, storing and conveying information, as well as mediating human relations?
We invite abstracts of no more than 250 words from early career scholars (PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, assistant professors, early career heritage sector employees, etc) to be submitted to Charlotte Mann (C.Mann@warwick.ac.uk) by 29th November 2019. Due to the generosity of Warwick University's 'Connecting Cultures' GRP, we are able to offer modest bursaries to assist speakers with travel and accommodation costs.
The conference will be preceded by a workshop on 'Applying for German Funding' lead by Prof. Dr. Fleur Kemmers on Thursday 2/4/2020, which is also open to all attendees.
We are grateful to the Humanities Research Centre at the University of Warwick for their generous financial support.
Call: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/interests/numismatics/numismaticday/numismaticworld
(CFP closed November 29, 2019)
(cancelled) [RSA PANEL] RENAISSANCE ECHOES: THE AFTERLIFE OF A MYTH
Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia, PA: April 2-4, 2020
Among literatures, arts, philosophy, and psychology, the mythological figure of Narcissus has become a common topic of interest; quite the opposite can be said of Echo, the nymph sentenced by divine law to repeat fragments of another’s voice. Yet, in the original Ovidian myth, Echo plays a remarkable role that frames the whole Narcissus’ episode. This panel aims at exploring Echo’s mythological echoes in Renaissance literature, art, theater, and music from different perspectives:
Translations, receptions, reinterpretations of the Ovidian myth;
Echo voices in the pastoral genre;
Echo as rhetorical and musical device;
Echo as form of intertextual reference/literary allusions;
Echo as the embodiment of the lyrical subject or of the author’s voice.
We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers on (but not limited to) the above-mentioned topics. Please send abstracts with paper title (maximum 150-words-long), a short bio, your affiliation, keywords, and general discipline area to the organizers, Giulia Cardillo (cardilgx@jmu.edu) and Simona Lorenzini (simona.lorenzini@yale.edu) by July 31st, 2019.
Call: https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1780396/323725/CfP-Renaissance-Echoes-the-Afterlife-of-a-Myth
(CFP closed July 31, 2019)
(cancelled) [RSA PANEL] [SEMCR PANEL] HOMER IN THE RENAISSANCE
Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia, PA: April 2-4, 2020
As an Associate Organization of the Renaissance Society of America, the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) invites proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2020 meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Philadelphia, PA. For one of its panels, SEMCR invites abstracts on the reception of Homer in all its manifestations in the early modern world.
The last fifteen years have seen an explosion in studies of the scholarly and creative reception of Homer in the Renaissance. Work by scholars including Marc Bizer, Tania Demetriou, Philip Ford, Filippomaria Pontani, and Jessica Wolfe--to name but a few--has illuminated the manuscript and print transmission of the Homeric texts and revealed the enormous range of contexts in which Homer was put to use and the immense variety of artistic, cultural, political, philosophical, and theological issues the Homeric poems were used to explore. Today it is possible to investigate questions in Homeric reception that would have been difficult to ask, let alone answer, fifteen years ago.
Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the transmission, translation, or book history of the Homeric texts; the commentary tradition; artistic, literary, or musical responses to Homer; political, philosophical, or scientific uses of Homer. We welcome the consideration of topics including the perspectives Homeric reception provides on Renaissance philology, knowledge of Greek or of oral composition, or the reconfiguration of literary or cultural histories; the discovery of Homer as a source of innovation or inspiration in a wide range of genres and media, or as an alternative to the authority of Latin poets or Roman culture; the geographical, political, or religious factors that influenced Homeric reception in different areas or communities, and the myriad uses to which the Homeric poems were put to explore those factors; the ways in which digital technologies might influence our understanding of Homer's Renaissance reception.
The Society is committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into classics and early modern studies, and hence welcome abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research. Above all, we aim to show how the field of early modern classical reception can bear on a wide range of literary and cultural study, and to dispel the notion of an intimidating barrier to entry.
Abstracts of no more than 150 words and a short CV of no more than 300 words should be sent as an email attachment to caroline.stark@howard.edu (see the RSA's abstract guidelines). The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page. Proposals must be received by August 1, 2019 extended deadline August 10, 2019.
Please include in the body of the email:
• your name, affiliation, email address
• your paper title (15-word maximum)
• relevant keywords
Call: https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1780396/327927/Homer-in-the-Renaissance
(CFP closed August 10, 2019)
(cancelled) [RSA PANEL] EXHAUSTED WITH ANTIQUITY: A SYMPTOM OF EARLY MODERN INVENTION
Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia, PA: April 2-4, 2020
Where and when did early modern artists, architects, and writers begin to show signs of fatigue with the models of the classical past, and what kinds of creative experiments developed in response? Renaissance scholarship has long since moved beyond an understanding of its period as one defined first and foremost by a revival of antiquity. Although the significance of antiquarianism and classicism to manifold developments in early modern art and culture remains incontrovertible, both of those projects also met with productive resistance.
We invite papers addressing works of art or literature that reveal an exhaustion with antiquity and a conscious attempt to develop alternative modes, forms, and principles of invention. Especially welcome are proposals for papers that consider competing notions of the past, the distinction between ‘antique’ and ‘modern’, the political and cultural implications of the choice to forgo classical models, and the reasons why antiquity may have come to be perceived as an exhausted source in the context of certain moments and localities.
To submit a paper proposal please provide the following by email to Marisa Bass (marisa.bass@yale.edu) and Carolyn Yerkes (yerkes@princeton.edu) by 22 July 2019:
– your name and institutional affiliation
– paper title (15-word maximum)
– abstract (150-word maximum)
– keywords
– curriculum vitae (up to 5 pages)
– PhD completion date (past or future).
Call: https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1780396/326084/Exhausted-with-Antiquity-A-Symptom-of-Early-Modern-Invention
(CFP closed July 22, 2019)
(cancelled) [RSA PANEL] [SEMCR PANEL] CLASSICAL ORIGINS OF RENAISSANCE AESTHETICS
Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia, PA: April 2-4, 2020
As an Associate Organization of the Renaissance Society of America, the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) welcomes proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2020 meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Philadelphia, PA. For one of its panels, SEMCR invites abstracts on the reception of classical theories of poetics and aesthetic experience in Renaissance art and music.
Plato's and Aristotle's theories of mimesis, Horace's Ars Poetica, and "Longinus"'s sublime have long dominated discussions of early modern aesthetics. Scholars have also sought to trace the influence of other, less explicitly didactic texts in defining the origin and value of art and the aesthetic experience in the Renaissance. Paul Barolsky, for example, has argued that Ovid's Metamorphoses lies at the heart of Renaissance aesthetics, whether in the story of Pygmalion bringing art to life or, conversely, Medusa's petrifaction of the living as competing metaphors for sculpture. Barolsky likewise sees Ovidian transformation behind Michelangelo's "non finito" and in the depiction of Botticelli's Chloris becoming Flora in the Primavera. Wendy Heller has explored the ways in which Monteverdi and Busenello's groundbreaking opera L'incoronazione di Poppea draws upon and challenges Tacitus' methods of historiography. More recently, Sarah Blake McHam has argued for the pervasive influence of Pliny's Natural History and its emphasis on life-like "naturalism" from Petrarch to Caravaggio and Poussin.
Building on these and other studies that move beyond questions of classical influence on the subject matter of Renaissance texts, this panel seeks papers that explore the strategies through which visual artists and musicians draw on classical aesthetics and the extent to which these hidden roots underlie Renaissance theory and practice.
The Society is committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into classics and early modern studies, and hence welcomes abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research.
Abstracts of no more than 150 words and a short CV of no more than 300 words should be sent as separate email attachments to caroline.stark@howard.edu (see the RSA's abstract guidelines and CV guidelines and models). The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page. Proposals must be received by August 1, 2019 extended deadline August 10, 2019.
Please include in the body of the email:
• your name, affiliation, email address
• your paper title (15-word maximum)
• relevant keywords
Call: https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1780396/327928/Classical-Origins-of-Renaissance-Aesthetics
(CFP closed August 10, 2019)
(cancelled) [RSA PANEL] ANTIQUARIAN NETWORKS IN 16TH CENTURY ROME AND THE BEGINNINGS OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia, PA: April 2-4, 2020
Scholarly research in the humanities has long used a diversity of sources for the better understanding of its subjects. Information gathered from and about objects, persons, documents and ideas from professional networks were used to compare drawings and buildings, sculptures and inscriptions, texts and coins closely related to each other. In recent decades, this well-established methodology became regarded as an expression of Latour's "Actor Network Theory". Today, research exclusively based on "ANT" is however no longer limited to social or professional networks. This former narrow scope should and could be extended (again) and redefined to include Renaissance antiquarianism as a "network of networks", gathering information from all kinds of material and textual sources and combining them to reconstruct an initial or improved picture of ancient Roman past and culture. This three-panel session aims to bring together scholars from a wide range of fields, for example numismatics, epigraphy, art, archaeology, architecture, political, historical, religious and cultural studies (and their histories) as well as socially orientated historical network analysis. It is one of our aims to demonstrate how antiquarians combined information and created new interpretations of texts and artifacts to generate new knowledge. By exploring how they communicated their findings and developed new analytical methodologies, the session could help to investigate if and how to predate the beginnings of scholarly archaeology and scientific methodology from the 18th (cf. e.g. Alain Schnapp) to the 16th century. After all, antiquarian methodological approaches were very modern indeed and possibly even predated such a development in the natural sciences (cf. Rens Bod). In addition, antiquarian research networks were not only interested in the creation of scholarly knowledge out of mere curiosity. The purpose was to learn from antiquity as a source for practical solutions for contemporaneous and future problems — as was successfully achieved by Tolomei's «Accademia de lo Studio de l'Architettura» headed by Marcello Cervini.
The 3-part session will be organized by Drs. Andrea Gáldy (Munich/London; Seminar «Collecting and Display»), Damiano Acciarino (Toronto/Venice), and Bernd Kulawik (Zurich/Berlin; www.accademia-vitruviana.net).
Please send proposals of less than 300 words for a 20 min papers and a short cv until July 16, 2019, to Bernd Kulawik (be_kul@me.com).
Call: https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1780396/326042/Antiquarian-Networks-in-16th-century-Rome-and-the-Beginnings-of-Archaeology
(CFP closed July 16, 2019)
(cancelled) EURIPIDES’ BACCHAE IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
McNamara Center at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: April 2-3, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
Euripides’ Bacchae can be read as the story of a society under stress religiously, politically, and socially. Externally, the state is threatened by — or sees itself as threatened by — an invasion of outsiders, whose strange religious traditions stir profound unease in the local authorities, and especially in the young king Pentheus. Pentheus himself is a troubled character, sexually untethered and prone to an incoherent authoritarianism; the extent to which he really controls, or ought to control, the state is unclear. In the end, in fact, the threat to the established order seems to come from within the city as much as from outside of it.
On the occasion of the upcoming SITI production of the Bacchae at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in the translation of University of Minnesota alumnus Aaron Poochigian, the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies will be hosting a conference that concentrates on reading Euripides’ tragedy in deliberately modern terms. Participants consider the text less as a literary or historical artefact, than as a locus and means for asking difficult contemporary questions about the intersection of political power, religious experience, sexuality, and fear. Put another way, we wish to consider what the Bacchae, and in particular an onstage Bacchae, means or can be made to mean in America in the age of Donald Trump, an age of religious extremism of various sorts, and one of a profound sense of instability in traditional styles of government.
The conference will be presented with the support of the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, and the Department of History.
Confirmed speakers include Aaron Poochigian (poet, New York City), Mary-Kay Gamel (University of California, Santa Cruz), Elizabeth Scharffenberger (Columbia University), Justina Gregory (Smith College), Courtney Friesen (University of Arizona), and Guthrie actors Leon Ingelsrud and Stephen Duff Weber. There will also be a discussion of teaching the Bacchae and related texts in today’s social and political climate.
We welcome all interested individuals to attend. A full program will be released soon.
Information: cnappa@umn.edu or https://www.facebook.com/events/mcnamara-alumni-center/euripides-bacchae-in-the-age-of-trump/166703621446583/
(cancelled) [PANEL] CYCLICAL CLASSICAL: REBIRTHS, RENAISSANCES, AND REINVENTIONS OF ANTIQUITY
Association for Art History’s 46th Annual Conference
Newcastle University & Northumbria University, UK: 1-3 April, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
Session Convenors: Nicole Cochrane (University of Hull) N.C.Cochrane@2014.hull.ac.uk; Melissa Gustin (University of York) mlg519@york.ac.uk
If, as Aby Warburg said, ‘Every age has the renaissance of antiquity that it deserves’, what is the renaissance of antiquity that we deserve today? And how does that differ – if it does – from earlier renaissances and antiquities? Whether it be a 3D print of Aphrodite, Antinous as symbol of gay pride or the Photoshop of Donald Trump as Perseus triumphantly holding aloft a Gorgon-portrait of Hilary Clinton, in contemporary art, t-shirts, and the internet, the material remains of the classical world continue to permeate modern visual culture.
Following on from international exhibitions, internet discourse around the use of the antique, and recent texts by scholars such as Elizabeth Prettejohn and Caroline Vout among many others, we propose a session that engages seriously with the material remains of antiquity in art to explore the ways in which the art of the ancient world has been adapted, interpreted, and repurposed throughout history. By proposing an open time frame we hope to encourage a discussion on the dialogues formed between classical art and its receptions, questioning how issues such as gender, race, status and class, as well as political, environmental and historical factors, have impacted the use and reuse of the past. This panel will explore the constant rediscovery, reinvention, and reworking of antique material, methods, and models in different media, and invites papers from any period or medium that address questions of the ‘classical’, historic or present.
Submit a paper
Please email your paper proposals direct to the session convenors above, using the Paper Proposal Form.
You need to provide a title and abstract (250 words maximum) for a 25-minute paper (unless otherwise specified), your name and institutional affiliation (if any).
Please make sure the title is concise and reflects the contents of the paper because the title is what appears online, in social media and in the printed programme.
You should receive an acknowledgement receipt of your submission within two weeks from the session convenors.
Deadline for submissions: Monday 21 October 2019
Call: https://forarthistory.org.uk/our-work/conference/2020-annual-conference/cyclical-classical/
(CFP closed 21 October, 2019)
(cancelled) RE-ROLLING THE PAST: REPRESENTATIONS AND REINTERPRETATIONS OF ANTIQUITY IN ANALOG AND DIGITAL GAMES
Conference organized by Gabriel Mckee (ISAW) and Daniela Wolin (ISAW)
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, USA: March 27, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19. New dates: November 11-13, 2020.
Analog and digital games (e.g., video, role play, board, card, pedagogical, and alternative games) are platforms for modeling and experiencing events in fantastic, modern, or historical settings. When devising games based on ancient, historical, and archaeological contexts, an informed and critical approach is essential, lest games perpetuate problematic narratives or provide inaccurate representations of the past. "Rerolling the Past" builds off of the recent increase in academic studies of games to show how games can serve as a fruitful avenue for communicating information about the ancient world. This conference will bring together historians, archaeologists, scholars of gaming, and game designers to discuss three intersecting themes: archaeology in/of games; pedagogy and games; and critical approaches to game design. We hope to acknowledge and address common issues and challenges that cut across disciplinary divides and envisage how increased collaborative initiatives can be developed in the future.
SESSION I: ARCHAEOLOGY IN/OF GAMES
9:00am: Gabriel Mckee (ISAW), Re-Rolling the Past: Representations and Reinterpretations of Antiquity in Analog and Digital Games
9:20am: Andrew Reinhard (American Numismatic Society), Video Game Antiquity and the Immediacy of Digital Heritage
9:45am: Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Hounds and Jackals and its Variants in Modern Times
10:10am: Clara Fernandez-Vara (NYU Game Center), Game Spaces and Indexical Storytelling
10:35am: Coffee Break
SESSION II: GAMES AND PEDAGOGY
10:55am: David Ratzan (ISAW), New Strategies for Teaching Old Games: Playful Approaches to Teaching Ancient Economic and Institutional History
11:20am: Gina Konstantopoulos (University of Tsukuba), Knowledge Checks: Representing (and Teaching) the Ancient Near East through Gaming
11:45am: Sebastian Heath (ISAW), Gamifying Gamification at Pompeii
12:10pm: Mi Wang (ISAW), Dwelling in Archaeology: Virtual Museum of Bamiyan in the Game Engine of PlayCanva
12:30pm: Lunch Break
SESSION III: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO GAME DESIGN
1:30pm: Hamish Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington), The Painful Art of Abstraction: Representing the Ancient World in Modern Games
1:55pm: Alexander King (NYU Game Center), Systems, Theming and Accuracy in Representations of the Past in Games
2:20pm: Daniela Wolin (ISAW), Gender Across the Board: Representations in Ancient World-Themed Games
2:45pm: Christian Casey (ISAW), Assassin's Creed Origins as Time Machine
3:10pm: Shawn Graham (Carleton University), From Agent Based Model to Analogue Archaeogame: How We Made FORVM: Trade Empires of Rome
3:35pm: Coffee Break
4:00pm: Panel Discussion
Registration is required at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/institute-for-the-study-of-the-ancient-world-at-nyu-17745000543
Note: Registration for this event opens on Thursday, February 13th.
ISAW is committed to providing a positive and educational experience for all guests and participants who attend our public programming. We ask that all attendees follow the guidelines listed in our community standards policy.
Website: https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/re-rolling-the-past
(cancelled) (A)SYNCHRONY: RECURRENCE, REVERSAL, AND RESISTANCE
Art & Archaeology Department, Princeton University, NJ: March 26-28, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19. Now: Online - August 30- September 1, 2020
The Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University is thrilled to announce a three-day graduate symposium, “(A)Synchrony: Recurrence, Reversal, and Resistance,” which will be held Thursday, March 26 to Saturday, March 28, 2020.
Certain figures, forms, images, methods, and techniques recur in both cultural production and scholarly discourses, often leading to socio-political, historical, or cultural reversals and/or illuminating resistance and dissent. How might exploring these phenomena allow us to broaden our investigations in the histories of art and culture? How do they manifest themselves as synchronies or asynchronies, understood as harmonizations or dissonances of social and artistic production across time, space, and bodies? Answering these questions may help us create analytic frameworks not bound by regions or nation-states, but that stretch across the world, expose the social construction of temporalities, and challenge periodization and other forms of fixed categorization.
This conceptual framework may help address vital issues in current debates across particular subfields and disciplines, such as: how we can reimagine the concept of Nachleben productively for our increasingly global discipline; how literary or visual histories have been reused or repurposed to mitigate or rebel against external power structures and cultural paradigms; or how some modern and contemporary artists throughout various diasporas create collective memories by referring to the experiences of their ancestors in their work.
Princeton’s Art and Archaeology Graduate Symposium will explore the ways in which recurrence, reversals, and resistance serve as powerful tools in cultural production across disciplines through the conceptual frameworks of synchrony and asynchrony. Submissions from all disciplines are welcomed to engage with these issues by way of, but not limited to, the following broader themes:
* Cultural heritage used to underscore and legitimize a power shift;
* Support for or resistance to the empire demonstrated through the appropriation and modification of imperial imagery by those outside of the metropole;
* The fabrication of visual or material culture to envisage a desired or inaccessible past;
* The inheritance, construction, and questioning of workshop lineages;
* Repurposing “classical” or “traditional” imagery or inverting subject matter to destabilize geopolitical, social, and symbolic conventions;
* Usage of visual tropes as tools to explore and articulate individual identity and positionality;
* Revolutionary potentialities of retrospection for social and political critique;
* Re-enactments or critiques of prior exhibitions, objects, or performances
Please submit a working title, an abstract of no more than 300 words, and a two page CV in a single PDF to gradsymp@princeton.edu by Friday, November 1, 2019. Symposium presentations should be no more than twenty minutes in length. Accepted participants will be notified by January 1, 2020, and limited travel funds are available.
Deadline for abstracts: November 1st 2019 to gradsymp@princeton.edu
Call: [pdf] https://plas.princeton.edu/sites/plas/files/resource-links/princeton_aa_call_for_papers.pdf
(CFP closed November 1, 2019)
(cancelled) LANDSCAPE AND IDENTITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPLORATIONS OF BEING IN THE WORLD (PG & ECR WORKSHOP)
Durham University (UK): March 26-27, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
The interrelation between human identities and the landscapes and environments they inhabit is recognised in many disciplines throughout the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. With different disciplinary histories, backgrounds, research traditions, and paradigms, all these disciplines employ their own theories, approaches, and methods to study the link between landscapes, environments, and human identities across time and space. However, they all share common interests as well.
On the occasion of the establishment of Durham University’s interdisciplinary Landscape, Environment, and Identity Research Network, this workshop will provide a platform for cross-disciplinary conversations and collaborations aimed at the integration of different theories on, approaches to, and research methods for exploring the interrelations between landscape, environment, and identity. This workshop will offer an opportunity for PhD students and Early Career Researchers from a range of disciplines to come together and share their research on landscape and identity beyond their own discipline. We mean to investigate challenges to such interdisciplinary studies (e.g. due to different research traditions) and to discuss solutions to these issues. Our discussions are intended to form the basis of a collective output and to encourage future collaborations.
By bringing together researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History, Modern Languages, and Geography, we want to consider the following questions from a range of perspectives and disciplines:
* How are the terms landscape and identity used and problematised across disciplines, and what issues arise from these ideas?
* How are different identities established through human interaction with
landscape or environment?
* What (combination of) methods and approaches may we employ to analyse and interpret this interrelation between identity, landscapes and environments, whether real or imagined, urban, industrial, or natural?
* How is human identity or sense of self affected when a landscape or environment changes, for instance due to war or conflict, political developments, natural disasters, tourism, climate change, etc.?
* How does this in turn affect their interactions and/or relations with other peoples?
* How can our academic research into different landscapes, environments and identities help address current issues in wider society, such as the dynamics between local and global identities, and our relation to a changing world that is subject to climate change?
We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers that address these questions from any perspective. Potential topics could include (but are not limited to): identity in relation to (changing) political, built and natural environments or landscapes; the shaping of the self and the environment; and the intersection between landscape, identity and topics such as memory, emotion, gender, and sensory experiences (e.g. sound, smell, or taste).
Following the workshop, we will seek to produce one or more collective outputs, both academic and non-academic, based on the contents of the papers. The exact form will depend on the ambitions and contributions of participants, but could include the following:
* An edited book
* A special issue of an interdisciplinary journal
* An online blog
* A piece for The Conversation
If you would like to join the discussion and present a paper at this workshop, please send an abstract of up to 250 words to landscape.identity.durham@gmail.com before 5pm (GMT) on Friday 15 November 2019. Thanks to a generous contribution from our sponsor, Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study, there will be no conference fee. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Applicants will be selected and notified by mid-December 2019.
For more information, please visit our website: https://landscapeidentitydurham.wordpress.com/ or email us at the above email address. You can also follow us on Twitter: @LandscapeDurham
NB. We are committed to making the event as inclusive as possible, so please do get in touch directly with the organisers via landscape.identity.durham@gmail.com if you have any enquiries regarding access, and for any further information.
The organisation team:
Esther Meijer, Classics and Ancient History,
Floor Huisman, Cambridge Archaeological Unit,
James Coxon, Anthropology,
Vicky J. Penn, English Studies,
Diego Astorga, Geography,
Christoph Doppelhofer, Geography
Call: https://landscapeidentitydurham.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed November 15, 2019)
(cancelled) [PANEL] RECEPTION STUDIES: STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE AND NEW DIRECTIONS
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Chicago USA: March 19-22, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
Deadline for submissions: Current ACLA guidelines specify that each ACLA member may submit only ONE PAPER for consideration. Abstracts must be received by Monday, September 23, 2019 at 9 a.m. EST. Please submit your abstract via the ACLA portal. We have space for 8-12 papers (2 or 3-day seminar format of 4 papers per day).
Organizer: Michelle Zerba (mzerba@michellezerba.com)
Co-Organizer: Anastasia Bakogianni (a.bakogianni@massey.ac.nz)
Reception studies have made a significant impact on the field of literature and helped build new bridges for dialogue across historical periods and disciplines, including theater, film, and art history. This panel invites papers that reflect upon the theories and methodologies of reception studies and our interdisciplinary connections to fields such as comparative literature, adaptation studies, cultural studies, and media studies. We seek to investigate the current state of the discipline, to debate where its boundaries might lie, and to explore what kinds of cross-disciplinary dialogue lie ahead in this exciting and fruitful nexus of scholarly endeavor.
In particular, the panel seeks to address a series of key questions. What are the central concepts that guide inquiry in reception studies and related fields? What kinds of research have they enabled, and how has this research enriched the exploration of comparative literature, national literature, theater, and film in an age that sees itself as global? Are these concepts in need of critique, and if so, how? Why have certain disciplines like classics assumed a prominent place in reception studies? What concerns should reception, adaptation, and media studies be addressing?
The panel aims to interrogate the very processes of reception, and actively seeks to complicate the notion of a pure source text or point of origin, thus helping to dissolve hard boundaries between text, reception, tradition, and interpretive communities. Papers may engage with these questions theoretically and / or through an examination of texts. Possible topics include but are not limited to the role of the scholar or artist in the process of reception, the concept of juxtaposition, the uses of myth, the implications of orality, and the possibility of “masked” receptions where the nature of the connection between points of reference is unclear. We welcome papers that problematize the notion of a western canon and actively seek to push the geographical boundaries of reception as both a local and a global phenomenon.
Call: https://www.acla.org/reception-studies-state-discipline-and-new-directions
(CFP closed September 23, 2019)
THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN FOR MODERN AUDIENCES: RECEPTION, PEDAGOGY, ENTERTAINMENT
Ohio State University (OSU) Classics Graduate Student Colloquium
Ohio Union, Columbus, Ohio, USA: March 6-7, 2020
The aim of the OSU Classics Graduate Student Colloquium is to explore various directions in which the Ancient Mediterranean has been adapted and utilized by different cultures in Modern world from the Renaissance to the present day. In recent years, the online journal “Eidolon” and other public scholarship media have already successfully demonstrated how the cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean can be accessed, interpreted, and applied through various experiences by scholars, students, writers, and by the wider communities. We believe that the reception of Ancient Mediterranean cultures has become an important element of Classical scholarship and pedagogy. It is a critical point of contact between the academic community and the general audience.
The OSU Classics Graduate Student Colloquium invites papers on a range of topics that discuss and analyze the reception of the Ancient Mediterranean from a point of view of philology, linguistics, theater and performance studies, history, pedagogy, archaeology, art history, philosophy, anthropology, political studies, media studies, and/or gender studies. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Reception of the Ancient Mediterranean in literary traditions of different countries, nations, and cultures
* Ancient Theatre on the modern stage
* Texts of the Ancient Mediterranean in translations
* The Ancient Mediterranean in visual culture
* Reception of the Ancient Mediterranean in new media: social networks and online communities
* Representation of the Ancient Mediterranean in video games
* Use of Ancient Mediterranean images in marketing
* Modern and post-modern philosophy and its use of Classics
* Classics in politics and propaganda
* Reception of Ancient Mediterranean cultures and its use in the classroom
* Classical pedagogy as the reception of Ancient Mediterranean cultures
We are excited to announce that Dr. Zara Torlone, Professor (Classics and Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University) will be presenting a keynote lecture entitled “Joy of Exile: Ovid and Russian Poets".
All submissions should include 1) an abstract not exceeding 300 words and 2) a brief CV or academic bio not exceeding one page. We ask that all submissions and inquiries be sent to: osuclassicscolloquium@gmail.com.
DATES:
Deadline for submissions: Monday, November 18th, 2019
Will notify all applicants: Monday, December 2nd, 2019
Colloquium: Friday, March 6th - Saturday, March 7th, 2020
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-ancient-mediterranean-modern-audiences
(CFP closed November 18, 2019)
(cancelled) AGAMENNONE CLASSICO E CONTEMPORANEO
Università di Bologna – Dipartimento di Beni Culturali (Via degli Ariani 1, 48121 Ravenna): 4-5 March, 2020
Note: Postponed/cancelled due to COVID-19
Programme
Mercoledì 4 marzo - Dipartimento di Beni Culturali
Introduzione di Francesco Citti e Antonio Ziosi (Bologna)
14.30 Il modello: Agamennone in Eschilo. Presiede Renzo Tosi (Bologna)
Liana Lomiento e Giampaolo Galvani (Urbino), Il dialogo tra Clitemestra e il Coro nel finale dell'Agamennone. Assetto lirico, struttura strofica e drammaturgia.
Andrea Rodighiero (Verona), ‘Formularità tragica’ nell’Agamennone di Eschilo
Anton Bierl (Basel), Visual and Theatrical Moments in Aeschylus’ Oresteia
16.30 Oltre il modello: Agamennone in Seneca. Presiede Bruna Pieri (Bologna)
Alfredo Casamento (Palermo), Quo plura possis, plura patienter feras. Agamennone modello di sapienza nelle Troiane di Seneca
Francesca Romana Berno (Roma), La strana coppia. Tieste e Cassandra profeti di sventura nell'Agamennone di Seneca
Lucia Degiovanni (Bergamo), La costruzione drammaturgica dell'Agamennone di Seneca: i modelli post-eschilei
Arianna Capirossi (Firenze), L’Agamemnon di Seneca nel volgarizzamento tardo-quattrocentesco di Evangelista Fossa
21:00 Teatro Rasi, via di Roma 39, Ravenna
Archiviozeta, Agamennone di Eschilo, traduzione di Federico Condello, drammaturgia e regia di Gianluca Guidotti ed Enrica Sangiovanni.
Giovedì 5 marzo - Dipartimento di Beni Culturali
9.00 Riscritture contemporanee. Presiede Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh)
Massimo Fusillo (L’Aquila), Orestee del nuovo millennio: re-enactment e riscritture.
Enrico Medda (Pisa), Quando il mito perde i suoi dèi: Clitemestra e Ifigenia da Eschilo a House of Names di Colm Tóibín
11:00 Tavola rotonda: rappresentare, tradurre
Agamennone. Coordina: Federico Condello (Bologna). Intervengono: Archiviozeta (Gianluca Guidotti ed Enrica Sangiovanni), Anton Bierl (Basel), Maddalena Giovannelli (Milano), Giorgio Ieranò (Trento)
14:30 Oltre il modello: politica, iconografia e performance. Presiede Donatella Restani (Bologna)
Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol), Leadership in times of crisis: Agamemnon, Oedipus, Pericles
Nicola Cusumano (Palermo), Agamennone βουληφόρος: la sovranità alla prova del processo deliberativo
Gian Luca Tusini (Bologna), Agamennone e altri personaggi dell’Orestea nell’arte contemporanea
Giovanna Casali (Bologna), Echi e silenzi: fortuna e sfortuna dell'Agamennone nel teatro musicale
18:00 Conclusioni di Alessandro Iannucci (Bologna)
Access is free. For more information: https://eventi.unibo.it/agamennone-classico-contemporaneo
HISTORICAL FICTIONS RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2020
University of Salzburg, Austria: February 21-22, 2020
Theme: The Forms of History
Historical fictions can be understood as an expanded mode of historiography. Scholars in literary, visual, historical and museum/re-creation studies have long been interested in the construction of the fictive past, understanding it as a locus for ideological expression. However, this is a key moment for the study of historical fictions as critical recognition of these texts and their convergence with lines of theory is expanding into new areas such as the philosophy of history, narratology, popular literature, historical narratives of national and cultural identity, and cross-disciplinary approaches to narrative constructions of the past.
Historical fictions measure the gap between the pasts we are permitted to know and those we wish to know: the interaction of the meaning-making narrative drive with the narrative-resistant nature of the past. They constitute a powerful discursive system for the production of cognitive and ideological representations of identity, agency, and social function, and for the negotiation of conceptual relationships and charged tensions between the complexity of societies in time and the teleology of lived experience. The licences of fiction, especially in mass culture, define a space of thought in which the pursuit of narrative forms of meaning is permitted to slip the chains of sanctioned historical truths to explore the deep desires and dreams that lie beneath all constructions of the past.
We welcome paper proposals from Archaeology, Architecture, Literature, Media, Art History, Musicology, Reception Studies, Museum Studies, Recreation, Gaming, Transformative Works and others. We welcome paper proposals across historical periods, with ambitious, high-quality, inter-disciplinary approaches and new methodologies that will support research into larger trends and which will lead to more theoretically informed understandings of the mode across historical periods, cultures and languages.
We aim to create a disciplinary core, where researchers can engage in issues of philosophy and methodology and generate a collective discourse around historical fictions in a range of media and across period specialities.
Keynote speakers:
Dr Michael Brauer, University of Salzburg, “Cooking up Salzburg”
Prof Dr Gerhard Kubik and Dr Moya Aliya Malamusi, University of Vienna, “Works and Biographies of East and Central African Musicians”.
Send abstracts of no more than 250 words to: historicalfictionsresearch@gmail.com (5th September 2019; no pdfs, please).
Website: https://historicalfictionsresearch.org/hfrn-conference-2020/
Twitter: @HistoricalFic
(CFP closed Septmeber 5, 2019)
WESTERN CIVILISATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
University of Adelaide, South Australia: February 20-21, 2020
On 15 March 2019, a self-confessed white supremacist, now standing trial for terrorism and murder, is alleged to have walked into two Christchurch mosques and killed 51 people. The weapons and body armour employed in the attack contained the dates of several events in Crusading history; the manifesto of the alleged perpetrator placed his actions in an imaginary war of east-west, ongoing for a millennium. Ideas of ‘western civilisation’ implicitly situated against ‘other’ civilisations, or perhaps an absence of civilisation altogether, can be argued to have underpinned this attack. The concept of Western Civilisation, with various definitions, thus continues to be prominent in the public sphere. For some, such as the Ramsay Centre which promotes a degree in Western Civilisation, the idea continues to have social and political utility, reflecting a coherent body of knowledge, and their associated values, not least the ‘liberal’ tradition of western democracy. For others, this interpretation of European history can elide the almost continual global encounters and exchange of information that occurred, whilst denying the political uses of ‘western civilisation’ as a discourse of colonialism and imperialism.
This symposium provides a moment to reflect on the concept of Western Civilisation today, not just as a topic of historical interest but an idea that continues to hold a significant political function. What role do the histories that we write and teach play in the production of discourses of ‘western civilisation’ or resistance to it? What role do historians have in shaping ideas about the past in the present? And what responsibility do we have towards ‘western civilisation’ as a discourse? What is the future of ‘Western Civilisation’, both as taught in universities and in the public sphere?
Expressions of interest are now invited that speak to this theme from any discipline, time period or place, and any political perspective. We have a limited number of slots but are interested in proposals for 90-minute panels, roundtables or other creative contributions. We also welcome individual expressions of interest. We encourage submissions from Indigenous people, people of colour, queer people and members of other traditionally marginalised communities. Proposals are welcome from those at all career stages.
Please send expressions of interest to westernciv2020@gmail.com by 18 October 2019.
Edited 22/12/2019. Program:
Day One
10.00 – 10.30 am: Registration
10.30 – 10.55: Welcome
10.55 – 12.00 pm: Keynote. Speaker: Professor Louise D’Arcens, Macquarie University
12.00 – 1.00: Lunch
1.00 – 2.30: The Politics of Western Civilisation Studies
Speakers: Amelia Brown, Tiana Blazevic, Sarah Ferber
This panel is dedicated to some of the political issues surrounding the academic study of Western Civilisation, particularly in the field of Classics and Ancient History. Amelia Brown from the University of Queensland will reflect on some political aspects of the study of Ancient Greece, and its language, literature, art, archaeology and history, as part of the formative narrative of the idea of Western Civilisation. Her focus will be the divergent traditions of the study of Ancient Greece, and especially its monuments, in Greece, the US, and Australia. From the Persian Wars to the Parthenon, she will offer some contrasts on how Ancient Greek culture is selectively politicised in Greece, the US and Australia. Sarah Ferber will be provide a detailed account of the key events and issues which led to the installation at the University of Wollongong of the Bachelor of Arts (Western Civilisation) with funding by the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. In December 2018 the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong announced that the Sydney-based centre was to provide a $50-million dollar package to install a new degree entitled ‘Bachelor of Arts (Western Civilisation)’. In a significant departure from standard practice, Academic Senate had not been consulted about the new program. Over the following several months, staff and students expressed concern about the executive processes of approval. The UOW experience provides a basis for reflection on the wider politics of the ‘Western Civilisation’ debate in relation to humanities undergraduate teaching in 21st-century Australia, and exposes the limited capacities of high-level regulatory mechanisms in the face of culturally loaded commercial incentives. Tiana Blazevic from the University of Adelaide will discuss how the so-called ‘decline of Western Civilisation studies’ has become a focus of online hate groups and rising anti-intellectualism. In particular, she will discuss how the far right appropriate Ancient Greek and Roman history on social media and blog sites to further their ideas of white supremacy, anti-immigration and misogyny. She will argue that students are more exposed to far-right ‘memes’ and blogs on the ancient world and have greater access to it in today’s rapidly developing digital world rather than academia or traditional historical sources or scholarship.
2.30 – 3.00: Tea break
3.00 – 5.00: Western Civilisation and its Discontents: A Roundtable on Teaching and Pedagogy
Speakers: Tiana Blazevic, Christopher van der Krogt, David McInnia, Helen Young
This roundtable will invite participants and the audience to reflect on the opportunities and problems the concept of ‘western civilisation’ raises in the classroom. Each panellist will first speak briefly (c. 10 minutes each) about their own experience and perspectives; the Chair will then facilitate a conversation between the panellists (c.15-30 minutes); and the discussion will then be opened up to the audience for the rest of the session.
The roundtable will address questions including:
What does ‘western civilisation’ mean for humanities teaching in an Australia/New Zealand university context?
How do we integrate diverse views, indigenous and non-western perspectives?
What could bicultural/multicultural teaching and learning look like and how can it strengthen the place of medieval and early modern disciplines and the humanities more broadly?
What strategies can we use to address and respond to controversial / distressing issues in the classroom? Both the ways our disciplines are being co-opted by extremists but also longer term problems of racism and Eurocentrism in our fields.
How do we ensure the emotional, cultural and physical safety of students while fostering robust discussion and critical debate on controversial and potentially sensitive topics?
What practical steps can/should senior faculty, permanent staff and institutional leaders take to protect and support early career and contingent colleagues who engage in politically controversial teaching/research?
5.00 – 6.00: Break
6.00: Western Civilisation in the Twenty-First Century Discussion Panel
Speakers: TBC. Chair: Wilf Prest
Day Two
8.30 – 9.00 am: Registration
9.00 – 10.30: Not a Bi-Polar (Early Modern) World
Speakers: Charles Zika, Nat Cutter
Chair: Sarah Feber
Understandings of Western Civilization and Western Culture rest heavily on notions of their opposite, on what Western Culture is not, and on a unified and coherent notion of “the West”. The “West” in turn originated with the idea of a unified “Europe” and earlier still with that of Christendom, and underestimates the way in which actual political, social and cultural divisions were at odds with such assumptions of unity, and the contemporary calls for or claims of such unity in the face of external pressure or attack.
This panel focuses on two societies at opposite ends of what was to become Europe, England and Austria, and their interaction with the (also deeply divided) Islamic world in the seventeenth century. This was a period when notions of Europe had not yet clearly emerged, when Christendom was wracked with deep divisions, and when the struggle between Christianity and Islam is commonly thought to have reached fever pitch, climaxing with the victory of Christian Europe over Islam at the Siege of Vienna in 1683. An analysis of the engagement of Protestant England with Morocco in this period, and Catholic Austria’s conflict with the Ottomans, demonstrate the oversimplicity of such constructs of a bi-polar world, that features in Orientalist thought, underpins ideas of Western Culture and Western Civilization, and continues to inspire ideologies of white supremacy.
10.30 – 11.00: Tea break
11.00 – 12.30 pm: Western Civilisation and Contemporary Political Discourse
Speakers: Ryan Buesnel, Blaise Dufal, Christopher van der Krogt
The concept of Western Civilisation is now routinely deployed within political discourse, particularly in Australia and New Zealand. This panel explores the uses of concepts of western civilisation by a range of political groups. Blaise Dufal highlights the uses of the concept of ‘civilisation’ within political debates around national identity in France across the twentieth century. Ryan Buesnel explores how these ideas are deployed to support the growth of white supremacism through contemporary heavy metal, particularly in Eastern Europe. Christopher van der Krogt explores how ideas of crusading and Jihad are used to justify contemporary violence, and Rajiv Thind looks at rhetorics of hate in the manifesto of the Christchurch shooter. This panel provides an opportunity to think through issues of how histories of Western Civilisation are activated for political ends.
12.30 – 1.30: Lunch
1.30 – 3.30: Western Civilisation and Media Engagement
Speakers: Simon Royal, Journalist (ABC Adelaide); Tory Shepherd, Political Editor (The Advertiser)
Chair: Claire Walker
This sessions explores how historians engage with the professional media to articulate the histories we produce, and to challenge misconceptions deployed in the public sphere. It particularly reflects on how humanities scholars might provide a counterpoint to narratives that are deployed to support terrorism or racial hatred.
3.30 – 4.00: Closing Discussion
Call/Website: https://westernciv2020.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed 18 October, 2019)
[PANELS] CLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN POPULAR CULTURE
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 41st Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA: February 19-22, 2020
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 41st annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation's largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/.
Classical Representations in Popular Culture
Papers on any aspect of Greek, Roman, or Mediterranean antiquity in contemporary or popular culture are eligible for consideration.
Classical Representations welcomes submissions on a broader range of topics including:
* Cinema directly or indirectly reflecting aspects of the ancient world in cinema: recent films involving Classical themes which you might consider include Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, The Legend of Hercules, Pompeii, Inside Llewyn Davis, the new Ben Hur, as well as television series which engage with classical themes like Doctor Who, Spartacus, Battlestar Galactica.
* Classical Motifs/Allusions/Parallels in Popular Music
* Dance, Ballet, Theater, the Visual Arts
* Children's Literature
* Graphic Novels and Cartoons
* Literary Theory/Postcolonial Theory/Reception Studies: Literary or theoretical analysis of literature employing classical references or motifs, like Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, or Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad.
* Science Fiction/Fantasy: Analysis of representations of classical history, literature, or philosophy in science fiction movies or books, as Edward Gibbons to Asimov's Foundation Trilogy or the impact of Thucydides in Cold War cinema. Or, conversely, the influence of Science Fiction on representations of the ancient world in later cinema (e.g., how did George Lucas' empire of the Star Wars franchise influence later representations of the Roman Empire?)
* Pedagogy: applications of classics in popular culture: how can we use contemporary films or literature in the classroom?
This year, one panel of Classical Representations will be co-hosted by AIMS (Antiquity in Media Studies, "a new organization dedicated to promoting and supporting scholarship on the ancient world in modern media.") To submit to this panel, please type "Submission to AIMS Panel" at the top of your abstract. If not included in the AIMS panel, your paper will still be considered for inclusion in the regular panels.
All proposals must be submitted through the conference's database at http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca
For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/
Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words. Including a brief bio in the body of the proposal form is encouraged, but not required.
For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2019. As in past years, this may be extended at a later date.
SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due January 1, 2020. For more information, visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/
Registration and travel information for the conference is available at http://southwestpca.org/conference/conference-registration-information/
In addition, please check out the organization's peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org/
If you have any questions about the Classical Representations in Popular Culture area, please contact its Area Chair, Benjamin S. Haller, Virginia Wesleyan University, bhaller@vwu.edu. Presenters from past years, please note that Virginia Wesleyan has recently changed from a College to our University: Ben Haller's Virginia Wesleyan old email posted on past CFPs will no longer work.
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA): http://www.southwestpca.org
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-classical-representations-popular-culture-0
(CFP closed October 31, 2019)
LIVING LATIN AND GREEK IN NYC 2020: "NEGLECTED VOICES"
New York City, NY, USA: February 15-16, 2020
The Paideia Institute is pleased to welcome abstract submissions to the eighth iteration of Living Latin and Greek in New York City. This conference, which features papers delivered in Latin and Ancient Greek as well as small breakout sessions where participants practice speaking Ancient Greek and Latin under the guidance of expert instructors, will be held at Fordham University on February 15th and 16th, 2020.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Neglected Voices.” Which people or groups of people have been neglected, disregarded, or socially excluded throughout the history of Greco-Latinity? What do we know about them, and how do we know what we know? How does exploring their contributions help paint a fuller picture of the Ancient Greek- and Latin-speaking past?
We invite proposals for short talks in Ancient Greek or Latin on this theme with examples from Ancient Greek and Latin literature or material culture. In particular, we welcome proposals that amplify the voices of women, religious or ethnic minorities, slaves, non-elites, those who do not conform with regard to gender or sexuality, and other historically excluded groups. Outstanding submissions on other topics will also be considered, particularly (but not only) if they focus on classical language pedagogy.
Please use the link to send in an abstract of no more than 500 words: https://www.paideiainstitute.org/llinyc_abstract_submission. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2019. Travel bursaries are available and can be requested through the same link. We encourage accepted speakers to apply for external funding as well since the number of travel bursaries is limited. All talks will be recorded, subtitled, and (with each speaker’s permission) published on Paideia's YouTube channel.
Call: https://www.paideiainstitute.org/llinyc_2020_call_for_papers
(CFP closed September 15, 2019)
[PANEL] IS THIS SPARTA? RECEPTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD IN CONTEMPORARY MEDIA
108th College Art Association of America (CAA) Annual Conference, Chicago, USA: February 12-15, 2020
In early 2017, Berkeley, CA was witness to a series of demonstrations by right-wing protestors over the cancellation of a talk by Milo Yiannopoulous, some of whom incorporated Spartan-style armor into their outfits. Likewise, the Plutarch quotation "μολὼν λαβέ" has been adopted by the American Gun Rights community as a rallying call for Second Amendment defense. Scholars have increasingly recognized the power of contemporary reception to colour modern views of the ancient world. In this case, Zack Snyder's 2006 film 300 has become a cultural monolith that promotes a hyper-militaristic version of Sparta that is inconsistent with current scholarship. Gillen Kelly's and Bellaire Cowles' graphic novel Three is a notable step towards accuracy, along with Ubisoft's 2018 video game Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, yet both are indebted to the long train of reception that brought Snyder's film into being. With such dissonance between public and academic "fact," what, then, is Sparta?
This panel seeks to address how the reception of antiquity in modern media (broadly defined as visual arts and media post-1800) either counteracts or informs public opinion and knowledge. To that end we solicit proposals on how reception can spawn self-reinforcing narrative traditions, be leveraged in teaching, inspire public interest or, at worst, advance harmful and exclusionary modern agendas. We hope to spur discussion on how to incorporate this phenomenon in teaching, publication, and scholarship, and what our responsibility is as scholars to the larger public conversation. Proposals that feature inter- and multidisciplinary approaches are especially encouraged.
Chairs: Kira Jones - kkjone3@emory.edu and sburges@bu.eduSteven Matthew Burges, Boston University -
Call: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Session5927.html
(CFP closed July 23, 2019)
AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES (ASCS) 41ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: January 28-31, 2020
CFP: http://www.ascs.org.au/news/ascs41_call_for_papers.html - Deadline: July 31, 2019.
Conference website: https://www.otago.ac.nz/classics/ascs-2020.html
Enquiries: Daniel Osland: ASCS2020@otago.ac.nz
ASCS: http://www.ascs.org.au/
(CFP closed July 31, 2019)
CALGACUS IN 2020
UCL/KCL Symposium at Kings College London: January 25, 2020
To mark the septcentenary of the Declaration of Arbroath, recognising Scotland’s independence from England, Tom Mackenzie (UCL) and Edith Hall (KCL) will be convening a one-day symposium on Calgacus and his reception at UCL on Burns Night 2020 (25th January).
Offers of papers are requested (deadline July 19th 2019) to be sent to edith.hall@kcl.ac.uk.
Possible topics include the way Calgacus is presented in commentaries across the centuries on Tacitus’ Agricola, translations of his speech, the way it has informed anti-imperial or nationalist rhetoric subsequently, antiquarian and archaeological studies of the Battle of Mons Graupius, the presentation of Calgacus in the visual arts, fiction, drama, film and documentaries, his role in the Ossianic movement and Celtic revival and the journal Calgacus published by radical Gaelic-speaking poets in the 1970s.
Haggis (including vegetarian), neeps, single malt whisky and a reading of SCOTS WHA HAE promised. Bidh ùine mhath aig a h-uile duine!
Confirmed Speakers include:
William Fitzgerald (KCL); Filomena Giannotti (University of Siena); Edith Hall (KCL); Tom Mackenzie (UCL); Alan Montgomery (independent scholar); Giuseppe Pezzini (St Andrews); Melanie Marshal (Oxford).
Registration: https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-humanities-c01/department-of-greek-and-latin-f13/f13-calgacus-in-2020
Call: https://www.facebook.com/groups/430896740266607/permalink/2421657764523818/
(CFP closed July 19, 2019)
WRITING ANCIENT HISTORY IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD (1918-1939)
Newcastle University, UK: January 23-24, 2020
We are delighted to announce the international workshop "Writing Ancient History in the Interwar Period (1918-1939)” that will take place on 23 and 24 January 2020 at Newcastle University.
We aim to investigate the role played by the study of Ancient History (especially of Greece and Rome) in the construction of nationalist narratives in the interwar period (1918-1939). Between the two World Wars, Europe witnessed the propagation of nationalist narratives that heavily relied on idealised images of a distant past. Research in this area has largely focused on the myth of romanità in Fascist Italy and on the reception of Ancient Greece in Nazi Germany. However, scholars have devoted less attention to interpretations of ancient history in other national communities and to possible interactions between different and often competing narratives. By looking at the interactions between Ancient History and nationalism in different geographical areas, this workshop aims to explore the inter-relations of historiographical traditions on a global scale and their impact on political narratives.
The event has been generously funded by the School of History, Classics and Ancient History of Newcastle University, CRASIS (Interdisciplinary Research Institute on the Ancient World, University of Groningen) and Anchoring Innovation (research agenda of the National Research School in Classical Studies, the Netherlands).
Thursday 23rd January 2020
9.00 – 9.45: Registration and Introduction
9.45 – 11: Panel 1
Anna Kouremenos (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen): Cementing a National Identity: Greece and its Past in the Interwar Period (1918-1939)
Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University): Augustus in Interwar Britain: the pre-Syme consensus
11 – 11.30: Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.45: Panel 2
Stefan Altekamp (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Villain and Victim. Punic Carthage in Interwar German History Discourse
Andrea Avalli (Università degli Studi di Genova/ Université de Picardie “Jules Verne”): Interwar Etruscology and Racism in Fascist Italy
12.45 – 14.30: Lunch Break
14.30 – 15.45: Panel 3
Sergey Karpyuk (Russian Academy of Sciences): The Foundation of the Soviet Journal of Ancient History ('Vestnik drevnei istorii') in 1937
Helen Roche (Durham University): Back to the Ancient Greek Future? Greek Antiquity as Paradigm in National Socialist Classical Education
15.45 – 16.15: Coffee Break
16.15 – 17.30: Panel 4
Nathalie de Haan (Radboud Universiteit): I nostri antenati. Ancient History, National History: the Italian case
Manuel Loff (Universidade do Porto): Grandeur, Empire, Race: Uses of the Past in Salazar’s Portugal (1930-1945)
17.30 – 18.30: Discussion
19.30: Conference Dinner
Friday 24th January 2020
9.30 – 11: Panel 5
Sarah Rey (Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (UVHC) : Jérôme Carcopino, directeur de l’École française de Rome (1937-1940) : ses choix politiques et ses choix historiographiques
Ivan Olujić (University of Zagreb): Study of Ancient History in Croatia between the two World Wars
Antonio Duplá Ansuategui (Universidad del País Vasco): From Essentialism towards Professionalisation, and Landing in Ideology: Spanish Historiography on Ancient History in the Interwar Period
11 – 11.30: Coffee Break
11.30 – 13: Conclusions and discussion
The workshop will take place in rooms 2.49/2.50, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University (NE1 8Q8).
The online registration will be opening soon.
For any doubt or queries, please, email interwarworkshop@gmail.com
Nicolò Bettegazzi, PhD Student in Latin Language and Literature, Groningen University
Emilio Zucchetti, PhD Student in Classics and Ancient History, Newcastle University
Prof. Federico Santangelo, Professor of Ancient History, Newcastle University
Website: https://www.ru.nl/oikos/anchoring-innovation/events/agenda/workshop-writing-ancient-history-interwar-period/
Registration: https://webstore.ncl.ac.uk/short-courses/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences-hass/history-classics-archaeology/writing-ancient-history-in-the-interwar-period-19191938
DE/CONSTRUCTING THE BODY: ANCIENT AND MODERN DYNAMICS
University of Liverpool, UK: January 17, 2020
Workshop 1: Fragmentation and Fusion
Join us for the first of three workshops, which explore the ancient and modern body as a biocultural construct. 'De/Constructing the Body: Ancient and Modern Dynamics' is an interdisciplinary project led by Georgia Petridou (Liverpool) and Esther Eidinow (Bristol).
About the Project:
Recent post-humanist theories have resulted in a surge of interest on the body as a cultural conception. Moreover, through recent explorations of embodiment, the body, as Csordas (1993, 135) writes, has emerged as “the existential ground of culture”. However, very little attention has been paid to the issue of body as a composite feature, and to debates surrounding corporeal knowledge and relational dynamics. Can the body be construed as one entity or is it really an assemblage of its constituent parts? If the latter, how does the body relate to them? Who determines and controls knowledge about bodies, body parts, and their relational dynamics?
The project engages with these questions and argues for a greater fluidity in both the signification processes and the signifying agents (patients, bodies, body parts, dead bodies, medical scientists, nurses, religious professionals and entrepreneurs, medical insurance policies, medical technology, biopolitics, etc.) that create focus and subsequently define physical and imagined frontiers in the human body. It comprises three exploratory workshops, each on a distinct but interrelated theme, aimed primarily at fostering blue-sky thinking and encouraging close collaborations between experts from the fields of Humanities, Disability Studies, Health and Social sciences.
About this Workshop:
This interdisciplinary workshop engages with processes of biocultural mapping of bodies, acknowledges the recursive nature and the diachronicity of body-related debates, and lays emphasis on bodily fragmentation and fusion, two processes crucial to our exercise.
Confirmed participants include:
Prof. Patty Baker (Kent), Dr. Sean Columb (University of Liverpool), Dr. Jane Draycott (University of Glasgow),
Prof. Esther Eidinow (University of Bristol), Prof. Nicola Denzey Lewis (Claremont Graduate University),
Prof. Anna Marmodoro (Durham University/University of Oxford),
Dr. Ruth Nugent (University of Liverpool), Dr. Emily Heavey (University of Huddersfield),
Prof. Brian Hurwitz (Kings College London), Dr. Georgia Petridou (University of Liverpool),
Ms. Anna Socha (University of Liverpool), and Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou (University of Exeter).
The event is generously sponsored by the Wellcome Trust.
There is no fee for this event, which is open to all. However, places are limited. If you are planning to attend, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deconstructing-the-body-ancient-and-modern-dynamics-tickets-86104864969
[SCS PANEL #62] [SEMINAR] TRANSLATING 'EVIL' IN ANCIENT GREEK AND HEBREW AND MODERN AMERICAN CULTURE
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Thomas G. Palaima, University of Texas at Austin, Organizer
1. Aren Max Wilson-Wright, University of Zurich - In Search of the Root of All Evil: Is There a Concept of “Evil” in the Hebrew Bible?
2. Diane Arnson Svarlien, Independent Scholar - Just Some Evil Scheme: Translating “Badness” in the Plays of Euripides
3. Thomas G. Palaima, University of Texas at Austin - Evil (Not) Then and Evil Now: A Test Case in “Translating” Cultural Notions
[SCS PANEL #63] WHAT'S NEW IN OVIDIAN STUDIES?
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
The International Ovidian Society, a newly formed organization and a new Affiliated Group of the SCS, seeks papers for its panel at the 2020 conference in Washington, D.C. Among the Society’s greatest purposes are to encourage future scholarship on Ovid, to support younger scholars and new work in Ovid, and to reach out beyond Classics to scholars in other fields, as well as to performers and artists, who do significant work related to Ovid and Ovidian reception.
The theme for our 2020 panel is “What’s New in Ovidian Studies?” With this panel, we hope to showcase new approaches to, and new topics in, the study of Ovidian poetry. We encourage all kinds of abstracts and we aim to provide a wide-ranging panel that looks to the future, providing both innovative topics and a broad spread overall of new directions for Ovidian studies.
Send questions to the co-organizers, Sharon James (sljames@unc.edu) and Alison Keith (akeith@chass.utoronto.ca).
Please send an abstract for a 20-minute paper as an email attachment to lfulkerson@fsu.edu by February 8, 2019, listing the title of this panel as the subject line of the email. The text of the abstract should not mention the name of the author, but the email message should provide name, abstract title, and affiliation. Abstracts must be 650 words or fewer and follow the SCS guidelines for individual abstracts (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts), but should include works cited at the end of the document, not in a separate text box. Submissions will be reviewed by third-party referees, who will make final selections by the end of March.
Edited 22/12/20219. Presentations:
1. Sharon L. James, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Introduction
2. Sophie Emilia Seidler, University of Washington - Proserpina’s Pomegranate and Ceres’s Anorexic Anger: Food, Sexuality, and Denial in Ovid’s Account of Ceres and Proserpina
3. Caitlin Hines, Wake Forest University - Ovid’s Visceral Reactions: Lexical Change as Intervention in Public Discourses of Power
4. Chenye (Peter) Shi, Stanford University - Naso Ex Machina: A Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis of Ovid’s Epistolary Poetry
5. Debra Freas, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies - Fabula Muta: Ovid’s Jove in Petronius Satyrica 126.18
6. Ben Philippi, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - The Haunting of Naso’s Ghost in Spencer’s Ovidian Intertexts
7. Aislinn Melchior, University of Puget Sound - Reweaving Philomela’s Tongue
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2020/151/cfp-whats-new-ovidian-studies
(CFP closed February 8, 2019)
[SCS PANEL #85] THEATER OF DISPLACEMENT: ANCIENT TRAGEDY AND MODERN REFUGEES, IMMIGRANTS AND MIGRANTS
CAMP Panel, Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Organizers: Seth A. Jeppesen, BYU; Chiara Aliberti, BYU; Cecilia Peek, BYU
In Euripides’ Trojan Women, Hecuba and her fellow captives use a wide array of verbs for speaking and singing as they struggle to make their voices and stories heard in the face of repeated attempts by the men in the play to silence them and relegate them to the status of possessions rather than persons. Similar attempts to silence or disregard the plight of modern refugees and migrants are apparent all around us, from the newly energized nationalist movements in Europe to the tear gas canisters lobbed at women and children along the U.S.-Mexico border. As Nadia Murad has shown (The Last Girl, 2017), one of the most powerful ways of combatting this oppression is to open a dialogue and listen to the voices of those displaced by war as they tell us their stories. Bryan Doerries (The Theater of War, 2016) has shown how Greek tragedy can be used to initiate conversations regarding combat trauma, mass incarceration and end-of-life care and encourage recognition and healing for those involved. Luis Alfaro, in turn, has demonstrated in his recent play Mojada how well adaptations of Greek tragedy can address issues facing modern migrants and immigrants. Many Greek tragedies deal with displacement caused by war and characters who seek asylum from other cities and governments (e.g. Aeschylus’ Suppliants, Euripides’ Trojan Women, Hecuba, Andromache, Helen, Suppliant Women, etc.) There is much potential for scholarship and performance that uses Greek tragedy not only to elucidate the current refugee crisis but also to raise awareness and provide healing and understanding to communities. This panel invites papers that explore themes of cultural and physical displacement in Greek Tragedy and potentially draw connections between ancient literature and the current worldwide refugee/migrant crisis. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
* The language of displacement and/or silencing in Greek tragedy
* Greek tragedy and historical displacement in 5th century Greece
* The effects of war and violence in Greek tragedy
* Modern reception of Greek tragedy in the context of refugees, migrants, and immigrants
* Greek tragedy and public humanities projects that deal with issues facing refugees, migrants, and immigrants
Abstracts should follow the SCS guidelines for individual abstracts and can be sent by email to ksburns@uic.edu. Review of abstracts begins March 1, 2019. Abstracts received by March 15 will receive full consideration. Please ensure that the abstracts are anonymous. In accordance with SCS regulations, all abstracts for papers will be read anonymously by the panel organizers, who will serve as referees. Those selected for the panel will be informed by March 30.
Edited 22/12/2019. Presentations:
1. Seth Jeppesen, Brigham Young University - Introduction
2. Hallie Marshall, University of British Columbia - Now We See You, Now We Don’t: Displacement, Citizenship, and Gender in Greek Tragedy
3. Allannah Karas, Valparaiso University - Aeschylus’s Erinyes as Suppliant Immigrants: Enchantment and Subjugation
4. Lana Radloff, Bishop’s University - The Sword, the Box, and the Bow: Trauma, (Dis)placement, and “New Canadians”
5. Sarah J. Thompson, University of California, Davis - How Sweet are Tears: The Uses of Lamentation in the Trojan Women and Queens of Syria
6. Chiara Aliberti, Brigham Young University - Response
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2020/151/cfp-ancient-tragedy-and-modern-refugees-immigrants-and-migrants
(CFP closed March 15, 2019)
[SCS PANEL #60] SISTERS DOIN’ FOR THEMSELVES: WOMEN IN POWER IN THE ANCIENT WORLD AND THE ANCIENT IMAGINARY
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
A panel sponsored by the Women’s Classical Caucus for the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Washington, D.C.
Organized by Serena S. Witzke (Wesleyan University) and T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University)
Among the most prominent anxieties expressed in sources from the ancient world are the fears of the wrath of the gods, of the destruction brought on by war, and of women in charge. Oppressed and controlled by the patriarchies of antiquity, women were not often allowed constitutional or legal roles in official affairs, but nevertheless found ways to exercise autonomy and accrue authority in the home, the community, and the state — and in some places and times, women wielded legitimate and public power.
This proposed panel will gather papers exploring both historical expressions of women’s authority and influence (both formal and informal) and the imagined incarnations of women’s power, as well as the intersections of gender, status, ethnos, ability, and power. Panelists might approach the issue through literature both historical and fictive, through art or architecture, through epigraphic evidence or papyri, and through archaeology or material culture. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, empresses and foreign queens; priestesses or philosophers; business proprietors and political campaigners; Hellenistic patronesses and local benefactors; the historiographical and literary figure of the dux femina; elegiac beloveds, hetairai, and meretrices; matronae and other powerful women heads of household; and the ways in which women in subsequent generations have used references to ancient women in power to support their own access to power.
Papers may address questions such as the following: what constitutes legitimate power? In what ways did women exercise influence and authority? What backlash did women face from these expressions of power? How did such women shape their societies and their worlds? What methods can we use to detect and understand women’s wielding of power in situations and contexts dominated by patriarchal oppression and silencing of women’s voices, actions, and experiences? How do status, ethnos, and ability interplay with gender in expressing power and in condemnations of those expressions?
Please send abstracts that follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (see the SCS website) by email to Ms. Julie Pechanek at pechanjn@wfu.edu by March 1, 2019. Ensure that the abstracts are anonymous. The organizers will review all submissions anonymously and inform submitters of their decision by the end of March 2019, with enough time that those not chosen can participate in the SCS’ individual abstract submission process.
Edited 22/12/2019. Presentations:
1. T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University, and Serena S. Witzke, Wesleyan University - Introduction
2. Catherine M. Draycott, Durham University - If I Say That the Polyxena Sarcophagus was Deisgned for a Woman, Does that Make Me a TERF? Identity Politics and Power Now and Then
3. Alana Newman, Monmouth College - Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Ptolemaic Faience and the Limits of Female Power
4. Krishni Schaefgen Burns, University of Illinois at Chicago - Cornelia’s Connections: Political Influence in Cross-Class Female Networks
5. Morgan E. Palmer, University of Nebraska Lincoln - Always Advanced by Her Recommendations: The Vestal Virgins and Women’s Mentoring
6. Jessica Clark, Florida State University - Chiomara and the Roman Centurion
7. Gunnar Dumke, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg - Basilissa, Not Mahārāni: The Indo-Greek Queen Agathokleia
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2020/151/sisters-doin-themselves
(CFP closed March 1, 2019)
[SCS PANEL #18] SCREENING TOPOGRAPHIES OF CLASSICAL RECEPTION
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Organizers: Stacie Raucci, Union College, and Hunter Gardner, University of South Carolina
The theme of the panel is space and place in the reception of the ancient world on screen. The “spatial turn” has had a prominent role
in recent years in scholarly writings in classics. A number of these works have utilized spatial theory as an interpretative framework,
including the writings of theorists Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, and Henri Lefebvre. Likewise, there has been significant work
on space and place in film studies. Yet this theme has been understudied in the reception of the ancient world in film and television.
While there are some notable exceptions, there remains much room for work in this area, in particular work that engages with the
valuable theoretical frameworks already being used in other areas of classics. Such work is particularly important for the study of the
ancient world on screen, given the highly visual nature of the cinematic texts under examination. In light of cinema’s long celebrated
capacity to immerse viewers in temporally and geographically ancient spaces, we argue that space and place have become even more
important in classical reception than in other areas of film studies. Since the ancient world is being recreated or often (re)imagined,
the way cinematic artists envision and frame spaces becomes a noteworthy vehicle for audience engagement with the past.
1. Stacie Raucci, Union College - Introduction & Reverse Archaeology: Constructing Ancient Roman Spaces on Screen
2. Hunter Gardner, University of South Carolina - Visual Archaeology and Spatial Disorientation in Fellini
3. Dan Curley, Skidmore College - A View with (a) Room: Spatial Projections in Ancient and Screen Epic
4. Meredith Safran, Trinity College - Lost in Space: Matrices of Exilic Wandering in the Aeneid and Battlestar Galactica
5. Jon Solomon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Response
[SCS PANEL #51] PROBLEMS IN PERFORMANCE: FAILURE AND CLASSICAL RECEPTION STUDIES
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Organizer-Refereed Panel. Organized by Rosa Andújar and Daniel Orrells, King’s College London
Scholars who work on the modern performance and reception history of classical drama have often focused on the manner in which Greek and Roman plays successfully provide modern writers with a ready-made vocabulary for expressing painful and complex realities. This emphasis on the “success” of classical drama in the modern world could arguably be seen as a continuation of a long history of Euro- American philhellenism and idealization of the ancient world.
This panel aims to move away from what may be seen as a partial and skewed history of the performance and reception of Greek and Roman theatre in modernity, which focuses on positive case studies that celebrate the successful adaptation and application of ancient drama in diverse contexts. This panel instead proposes to explore a fuller and more nuanced history, focusing in particular on “failed” moments of classical theatre.
Possible areas of scrutiny include, but are not limited to:
* Invocations of Greek and Roman plays that were received with indifference or with lukewarm interest
* Modern performances of classical plays that “sort of” worked, or received negative receptions
* Moments of bewilderment and puzzlement in modern audiences, stemming from classical references, themes and motifs
In emphasizing scenes of “failed” reception and problems in performance in modernity, we seek to explore a larger question: how does an understanding of such an alternative performance history provide us with a fuller and different history of classical reception in modern theatre and more broadly, in the modern world? Through such an inquiry, this panel aims to unsettle the polarized state of Classical Reception Studies, in which classical texts are viewed on a binary system, as either agents of liberation or oppression. Rather than looking for more examples of how ancient theater has “successfully” administered the power to say the unsayable, we are especially eager for contributions that can help us think about performances which generated problems around conflicted subjectivity – about the awkward and difficult closeness between perpetrators and victims of political and sexual violence; about the complicities between the colonizer and the colonized.
Please send an anonymous abstract for a 20-minute paper as an email attachment to info@classicalstudies.org by February 8, 2019, listing the title of this panel as the subject line of the email. The text of the abstract should not mention the name of the author. Submissions should follow the SCS guidelines for individual abstracts and will be reviewed by the organizers, who will make final selections by the end of March.
Please address questions about the panel to the organizers: rosa.andujar@kcl.ac.uk and daniel.orrells@kcl.ac.uk
Edited 22/12/2019. Presentations:
1. Daniel Orrells, King’s College London - Introduction
2. Ronald J. J. Blankenborg, Radboud University - Discomfort in Performance? Aigeus Seduced in Euripides’s Medea
3. Kay Gabriel, Princeton University - Euripides, Ultra-Moderniste: H. D. and Avant-Garde Failure
4. Edmund V. Thomas, Durham University - Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception in Seventeenth-Century Rome
5. Peter Swallow, King’s College London - The Birds Doesn’t Take Off: Aristophanes’s Victorian Burlesque and Why It Failed
6. Marios Kallos, University of British Columbia - Challenging Expectations: The Notorious Productions of Peter Sellar’s Ajax and Anatoly Vasiliev’s Medea
7. Melissa Funke, The University of Winnipeg - Dionysus on Tour: Cross-Cultural Performance in a Beijing Opera Bacchae
8. Rosa Andújar, King’s College London - Response
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2020/151/problems-performance-failure-and-classical-reception-studies
(CFP closed February 8, 2019)
[SCS PANEL #53] NEO-LATIN IN THE OLD AND NEW WORLDS: CURRENT SCHOLARSHIP
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Organized by Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University
The AANLS invites proposals for a panel of papers on current research on Neo-Latin texts from around the world to be held at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) in Washington, DC in early January 2020. We seek to highlight the variety and depth of Neo-Latin Studies; to underscore the importance of contemporary scholarship in the complex, global field of Neo-Latin literature; and to give scholars an opportunity to share the results of their research with colleagues in the many disciplines that comprise Neo-Latin studies. We welcome papers on all aspects of the study of literary, historical, scholarly, legal, scientific, and technical works written in Latin in the Renaissance and early Modern Period (to about 1800), as well as papers dealing with more recent Neo-Latin works.
Abstracts should be sent (and arrive no later than midnight EST on Saturday, February 23, 2019) to Dr. Frederick J. Booth at boothfre@shu.edu. Abstracts should be a maximum of 650 words (not including a brief bibliography). In accordance with SCS regulations, all abstracts for papers will be read anonymously by three referees. Please follow the instructions for the format of individual abstracts that appear on the SCS web site. In your cover letter or e-mail, please confirm that you are an SCS or AIA member in good standing (and please note your membership number), with dues paid through 2020.
Edited 22/12/2019. Presentations:
1. Bryan Whitchurch, Fordham University - Turks as Trojans: Intertext and Allusion in Ubertino Posculo’s Constantinopolis
2. Annette M. Baertschi, Bryn Mawr College - Exemplarity in Petrarch’s Africa
3. Carl P. E. Springer, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga - Rhyming Rome: Luther’s In Clementem Papam VII
4. John Izzo, Columbia University
Aztec Physicians in Greco-Roman Garb - 5. Benjamin C. Driver, Brown University
Galileo the Immortalizer: Classical Allusions in the Dedication of Sidereus Nuncius
6. Nicolò Bettegazzi, University of Groningen - The Pax Augustea in Facist Italy: A Catholic Response to the Augustan Bimillenary
https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2020/151/aanls-2020
(CFP closed February 23, 2019)
[SCS PANEL #4] IMPERIAL VIRGIL
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Whether one emphasizes his ambivalence or his applause, Virgil was unquestionably the poet of the nascent Roman empire. Like Homer, the Zeus of poets, Virgil was also the magisterial predecessor for all subsequent authors of pastoral, didactic, or epic. He was thus “imperial” in a double sense, as a commentator on the Roman world being transformed by Augustus and as a kind of poetic doppelgänger for the princeps himself.
This panel seeks to explore both aspects of Virgil and his legacy. Topics might include, without being limited to, Virgil’s response to the rise of Augustus and his role in shaping Roman response more broadly; how Virgil’s contemporaries or later authors used his imperial themes to mirror or to create a contrast with their own works and/or times; and the figure of Virgil himself in later literature, including late antique and early modern works.
Abstracts for papers should be submitted electronically as Word documents by March 1, 2019 to Julia Hejduk (Julia_Hejduk@baylor.edu), preferably with the subject heading “abstract_imperial_SCS2020”. The abstracts will be judged anonymously and so should not reveal the author’s name, but the email should provide name, abstract title, and affiliation. Abstracts should be 650 words or fewer and should follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts), except that works cited should be put at the end of the document, not in a separate text box.
Edited 22/12/2019. Presentations:
1. Patricia Craig, The Catholic University of America - Aeneas, Hercules, and Augustus: The Ambiguous Heroes of Virgil’s Aeneid
2. David West, Ashland University - Imperial Venus Venatrix in the Aeneid
3. Adalberto Magnavacca, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa - Virgil’s Teachings: Competitive Ecphrasis in Stat. Silv. 4.2
4. Vergil Parson, University of Virginia - Imperial Tityrus: Virgil in Calpurnius Siculus
5. Stephanie Quinn, Rockford University - Broch Reads Virgil
6. Vassiliki Panoussi, College of William & Mary - Response
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2020/151/imperial-virgil
(CFP closed March 1, 2019)
[SCS PANEL #32] HOMER IN THE RENAISSANCE
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
The Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) welcomes proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2020 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Washington, DC. For its fifth annual panel, SEMCR invites abstracts on the reception of Homer in all its manifestations in the early modern world.
The last fifteen years have seen an explosion in studies of the scholarly and creative reception of Homer in the Renaissance. Work by scholars including Marc Bizer, Tania Demetriou, Philip Ford, Filippomaria Pontani, and Jessica Wolfe--to name but a few--has illuminated the manuscript and print transmission of the Homeric texts and revealed the enormous range of contexts in which Homer was put to use and the immense variety of artistic, cultural, political, philosophical, and theological issues the Homeric poems were used to explore. Today it is possible to investigate questions in Homeric reception that would have been difficult to ask, let alone answer, fifteen years ago.
Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the transmission, translation, or book history of the Homeric texts; the commentary tradition; artistic, literary, or musical responses to Homer; political, philosophical, or scientific uses of Homer. We welcome the consideration of topics including the perspectives Homeric reception provides on Renaissance philology, knowledge of Greek or of oral composition, or the reconfiguration of literary or cultural histories; the discovery of Homer as a source of innovation or inspiration in a wide range of genres and media, or as an alternative to the authority of Latin poets or Roman culture; the geographical, political, or religious factors that influenced Homeric reception in different areas or communities, and the myriad uses to which the Homeric poems were put to explore those factors; the ways in which digital technologies might influence our understanding of Homer’s Renaissance reception.
We are committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into classics, and hence welcome abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research. Above all, we aim to show how the field of early modern classical reception can bear on a wide range of literary and cultural study, and to dispel the notion of an intimidating barrier to entry.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words, suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation, should be sent as an email attachment to ariane.schwartz@gmail.com. All persons who submit abstracts must be SCS members in good standing. The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page.
Proposals must be received by Friday, March 8, 2019.
Edited 22/12/2019. Presentations:
1. Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania - Introduction
2. Richard Armstrong, University of Houston - Lodovico Dolce’s L’Ulisse: Rethinking Homeric Translation and Reception from the Material to the Imaginary
3. Julia Claire Hernandez, Washington and Lee University - Juan de Mena’s Omero Romançado: On (Not) Translating Homer in the Court of Juan II of Castile
4. William Theiss, Princeton University - The Abbé d’Aubignac and the Death of Homer
5. Nathaniel Hess, University of Cambridge - From Peisistratus to the Papacy – Homeric Translation and Authority in the Reign of Nicholas V
6. Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania - Response
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2020/151/semcr-homer-renaissance
(CFP closed March 8, 2019)
[SCS PANEL #58] GLOBAL RECEPTIONS
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania, Presider
1. David Wray, University of Chicago - “Learned Poetry,” Modernist Juxtaposition, and the Classics: Three Case Studies
2. Christopher Stedman Parmenter, New York University - Frank Snowden at Naukratis: Revisiting the Image of the Black in Western Art
3. Kathleen Noelle Cruz, Princeton University - Norse Gods in Tyrkland: The Manipulation of the Classical Tradition in Snorra Edda
4. Adriana Maria Vazquez, University of California, Los Angeles - Dreaming of Hector in the Brazilian Neoclassical Period: Conceptualizing “Window Reception”
5. James R. Townshend, University of Miami - “Keep Quiet! You Can’t Even Read Latin!” The Satirical Purpose of Western Classics in Natsume Sōseki’s I Am a Cat
[SCS PANEL #37] FOUCAULT AND ANTIQUITY BEYOND SEXUALITY
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Organizer: Charles Stocking, Western University
The political climate of Europe and North America has rendered the work of Michel Foucault relevant now more than ever, especially
with regard to concepts such as biopolitics, power, and will to truth, among others. Furthermore, with the recent publication of several
lecture series and other works, it has become increasingly clear that Foucault’s formulation of these seemingly modern political concepts was born out of a sustained engagement with antiquity throughout his career. This panel therefore offers the first collaborative
effort to analyze Foucault’s engagement with ancient Greece and Rome beyond the topic of sexuality. The papers in this panel do not
offer “Foucauldian” readings of antiquity per se. Rather, each paper engages with the genealogy and influence of Foucault’s thought
as an occasion to reconsider specific themes, topics, and texts in the ancient world within a broader intellectual context.
1. Charles Stocking, Western University - Introduction
2. Marcus Folch, Columbia University - Foucault in the Roman Carcer
3. Charles Stocking, Western University - Foucault and the Funeral Games: Ancient Roots for a Modern Problematic of Power
4. Miriam Leonard, University College London - The Power of Oedipus: Michel Foucault with Hanna Arendt
5. Brooke Holmes, Princeton University - Biopolitics and the Afterlife of Michel Foucault’s Concept of Life
6. Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina - The Body Politic: Foucault and Cynics
[SCS PANEL #77] CONSTRUCTING A CLASSICAL TRADITION: EAST AND WEST
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
John F. Miller, University of Virginia, Presider
1. Nathan M. Kish, Cornell College - Decorum, Obscenity, and Literary Authority in the Letters of Poggio Bracciolini and Panormita
2. Eric Wesley Driscoll, American School of Classical Studies at Athens - “A Single, Easily Managed Household”: Antiquity and the Peloponnese in Late Byzantium
3. Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Progymnasmatic Ekphrasis at the Latin School of Arezzo and Vasari’s “Memory Images”
[SCS PANEL #29] EOS: BLACK CLASSICISM IN THE VISUAL ARTS
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Eos is a scholarly society dedicated to Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome. For our next workshop at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) in Washington, DC (January 2-5, 2020), we invite abstracts for papers that trace and interpret visual responses to classical materials among people of African descent and relate them to the typically more text-based study of Black Classicisms.
In conceiving of this event, we have sought to combine several convergent strands of scholarly inquiry in the study of the Greek and Roman Classics. The discipline has long noted--and in the recent past increasingly sought to disrupt--the strict separation between the study of literary texts and of material objects, including works of visual art. At the same time, greater attention has been paid to previously marginalized voices, both ancient and modern. Finally and concurrently, Classical Reception Studies has moved closer to the center of the discipline’s attention, as growing numbers of classicists have recognized that one cannot help but look at the past from a perspective that is shaped by the needs of one’s present.
In the words of Romare Bearden, African American artist and creator (among many other works) of a series of collages and water colors entitled “Odysseus Suite”: “An artist is an art lover who finds that in all the art that he sees, something is missing: to put there what he feels is missing becomes the centre of his work.” To foreground these “missing” centers through discussions of visual engagements with classical materials is our workshop’s objective. We hope to deepen our understanding of the intellectual, emotional, and creative responses elicited by the ancient world in people of diverse backgrounds, and contributors therefore need not—and indeed: should not—restrict themselves to the classical “half” of these inter-medial dialogues. Rather, there should be an equal emphasis on the messages the relevant artists seek to send to their contemporaries, and/or on how Greco-Roman materials are combined with other artistic traditions of (e.g.) Africa, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, etc. in the pursuit of artistic and creative expression. One exemplary study of such processes is Robert G. O’Meally’s 2007 examination of Bearden’s “Black Odyssey,” which reveals among other influences the impact that Jazz improvisation has had on Bearden’s art and how the very method of presentation (i.e., collages availing themselves of rich color palettes) informs the creation of meaning in his work.
Nor need the piece(s) of visual art that stand at the center of each paper necessarily provide the sole focus of discussion. An alternate direction is hinted at in Kwame Dawes’s and Matthew Shenoda’s 2017 collection of poetic responses to Bearden’s Odyssey. On this model, a paper could put classical materials in multi-directional conversation both with visual and with literary reactions. In fact, the presenters should not try too stringently to exclude themselves from the creation of meaning in the multimedial interchanges they uncover. Rather, they should feel free to pursue what Lorna Hardwick and Emily Greenwood have called “frail” or “fuzzy connections.” Any interpretation of a point of contact between different works of art ultimately emerges from the viewer’s or reader’s own mind, not always necessarily from the artist’s. Yet it can still provide insights into the mechanics underlying the ancient and modern materials in question. Another way to make sense of this dynamic is to understand the artist’s role in the process as an act of Signifyin(g). According to Henry Louis Gates’s 1986 exploration of this trope, allusivity in Africa and the African Diaspora tends to combine repetition with revision, even as it remains deliberately open to varied interpretations.
Topics to consider include the work of Romare Bearden himself, but there are many additional artists whose sculptures, paintings, drawings, architecture, etc. invite the attention of Classical Reception scholars. Examples include, but are in no way limited to, Lorraine O’Grady, Simone Leigh, or Jack Whitten.
Eos is committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into Classics, and hence welcomes abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research. Above all, we aim to create a supportive environment for scholars of all stages working on Africana Receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be sent as an email attachment to cfp@eosafricana.org by Friday, March 1, 2019. The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page. All presenters must be members of the SCS.
Edited 22/12/2019. Presentations:
1. Margaret Day Elsner, The University of the South - Sugar Baby’s Riddle: Sphinx or Sibyl?
2. Samuel Agbamu, King’s College London - Metamorphoses in Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You (2018)
3. Stefani Echeverria-Fenn, University of California, Berkeley - When and Where I (Don’t) Enter: Afro-Pessimism, the Fungible Object, and Black Queer Representations of Medusa
4. Tom Hawkins, The Ohio State University - Centaurs and Equisapiens
5. Stuart McManus, Chinese University of Hong Kong - Frank M. Snowden, Jr. and the Origins of the Image of the Black in Western Art
6. Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State University - “Every Time I Think about Color It’s a Political Statement”: Classical Elements in the Art of Emma Amos
7. Shelley Haley, Hamilton College - Response
Organizers: Mathias Hanses, The Pennsylvania State University, Caroline Stark, Howard University, Harriet Fertik, University of New Hampshire, and Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Brown University.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2020/151/eos-black-classicism-visual-arts
(CFP closed March 1, 2019)
[SCS PANEL #28] CLASSICS AND CIVIL ACTIVISM
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Organizers: Yurie Hong (Gustavus Adolphus College), Marina Haworth (North Hennepin Community College), Amit Shilo (UC, Santa Barbara), T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University)
Classicists at all levels have knowledge, experience, skills, and contacts that can usefully contribute to civic activism outside of academia proper. The Classics & Social Justice Affiliated Group has organized a workshop on the subject of Classics and Civic Activism for the upcoming AIA/SCS meeting. We invite proposals for a lightning round on outward-facing activism in which presenters will spend 3 minutes sharing their own experiences and making recommendations. These presentations will become integral to discussions among participants during the following breakout sessions.
The lightning round is the second of three parts of the workshop:
1) Three featured presenters from Indivisible, the National Humanities Alliance, and the American Federation of Teachers will offer guidance in community organizing, engaging with representatives, and other advocacy work, specifically focusing on how academics and educators can combine their skills and expertise with activism.
2) Lightning-round presentations will allow members to share their own experiences with civic engagement, presenting a broad spectrum of Classics-based activism.
3) Small-group discussion will allow time for participants to actively engage with the topics raised in the lightning round and share their own techniques and resources.
Potential lightning-round topics include, but are not limited to:
* using insights from the ancient world to advocate for social justice today
* engaging in political or community issue advocacy
* public-facing outreach projects
* advocating for educational policy
* organizing and unionizing at colleges and schools
* fostering inclusivity and accessibility in museums and historical sites
* letter-writing campaigns and citizen lobbying
* educating the public about ancient and modern democracy
Submit a 1-2 sentence proposal to be a lightning-round speaker by filling out this brief submission form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1gaRC3BfaAmwri3UfKHYnKFI6OldlR8395x5xRTqaNUNo0Q/viewform no later than midnight September 15. The organizers are committed to ensuring diversity in topics and presenters, including presenters from all parts of the AIA/SCS membership: undergraduate and graduate students, retired members, teachers and professors, independent scholars, curators, editors, and more. We welcome submitters to comment on their own positionality in relation to their topic if they would like.
Due to limited time, not all potential speakers may be able to be accommodated during the lightning round, however there will be time during the following small-group discussion. Giving a lightning-round talk *does not* interfere with giving a paper or chairing a panel elsewhere on the program (per the SCS’ “single-appearance” policy).
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-classics-and-civic-activism
(CFP closed September 15, 2019)
[SCS PANEL #35] CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AND ASIAN AMERICAN CULTURE
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Organizers: Christopher Waldo, University of California, Berkeley, and Elizabeth Wueste, American University of Rome
The field of classical reception has experienced a significant boom in the last decade, expanding to encompass receptions by ever
more diverse communities of writers and artists. Several prominent scholars, including Emily Greenwood and Dan-el Padilla
Peralta, have studied the emergence in the twentieth century of dialogues between the literatures of the Black Atlantic and classical
antiquity, and there has been a noticeable surge in publications exploring the staging of Greek tragedies in non-western contexts.
The last decade has also seen a relative rise in the visibility of classics in the Far East, as scholars like Jinyu Liu and Mira Seo
have forged substantial institutional connections in China and Singapore respectively. This panel situates itself at the convergence
of these two broader phenomena, investigating the reception of the classical tradition in contemporary Asian and Asian American
culture.
1. Christopher Waldo, University of California, Berkeley - Introduction
2. Stephanie Wong, Brown University - Princess Turnadot, an Occidental Oriental
3. Kelly Nguyen, Brown University - No One Knows His Own Stock: Ocean Vuong’s Reception of Telemachus and Odysseus
4. Kristina Chew, University of California, Santa Cruz - Translating the Voices of Tragedy’s “Other” Women: Theresa Has Kyung Cha’s Dictee and Seneca’s Phaedra
5. Priya Kothari, University of California, Berkeley - A Palimpsest of Performance: The Construction of Classicism in the Vallabha Tradition
6. Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Response
[SCS PANEL #61] BEYOND RECEPTION: ADDRESSING ISSUES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE CLASSROOM WITH MODERN COMPARISONS
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2020 Annual Meeting. Washington DC: January 2-5, 2020
Organizers: David J. Wright, Fordham University, and Lindsey A. Mazurek, University of Oregon
This workshop explores the benefits and challenges of “then and now” approaches to issues of social justice in the classroom. The
rise of reception studies in classical scholarship has made modern comparisons more common in contemporary classrooms (Hanink
2017). Dramatic incidents like the rape of Lucretia, the Ionian revolts, and the colonization of Gaul can fall flat on the page for
modern students, and many better understand the classical world through analogies with the present. While some instructors and even
students maintain that the ancient world must be studied and analyzed primarily in contexts divorced from the modern US experience,
these comparisons can provide richer and more meaningful points of entry for undergraduates that raise new issues about justice,
equality, and minority perspectives.
1. Nicole Nowbahar, Rutgers University - Using Cross-Dressing to Understand Ancient Conceptions of Gender and Identity
2. Curtis Dozier, Vassar College - Classical Antiquity and Contemporary Hate Groups
3. Matthew Gorey, Wabash College - The Reception of Classics in Hispanophone and Lusophone Cultures and Modern Imperialism
4. Lindsey A. Mazurek, University of Oregon - Comparing Present and Past in the Migration Classroom
5. Daniel Libatique, College of the Holy Cross - Cultural and Historical Contingencies in Ancient and Modern Sexuality
6. Sam Flores, College of Charleston - Races in Antiquity and Modernity
Archive of Conferences and Past Calls for Papers 2019
TOKENS: THE ATHENIAN LEGACY TO THE MODERN WORLD
The British School at Athens: December 16-17, 2019
Keynote speakers: Quinn DuPont and John H. Kroll
Never before has an object of everyday life played such a powerful role in a multitude of circumstances: economics (Agorism, cryptocurrencies, tokenized credit and debit cards), governance (‘Agora’ networks applied in elections), and computing (data security via tokenization). This workshop aims to achieve a better understanding of tokens in ancient Athens as well as their modern-day applications in voting and market mechanics. Current theories and practices employ Athens and the city’s tokens as a historical paradigm. But what do we actually know about Athenian tokens? The workshop will focus on the following questions:
* What were the roles played by tokens in Athens? Did these roles evolve from the Classical to the Roman Imperial Period?
* Were tokens an ‘Athenian’ innovation? How did other Greek cities and states respond? What was the Roman ‘addition’ to Athenian tokens?
* What are the similarities between tokens then and now?
* How have tokens enabled and continue to enable anonymity and the operation of networks?
* How do tokens contribute to the formation of civic and political identity?
* How do tokens support legal and political equality?
* Can tokens stand for a master network of expertise? How do they become indispensable for the purposes of management and decision making?
* What rituals, behaviors and sentiments are related to tokens? Can tokens be regarded as a means of saving transaction costs?
The workshop invites contributions from across the humanities, informatics, finance and social sciences and welcomes discussion on any of the themes detailed above. Speakers may also bring their own themes or ideas. The workshop is designed as a forum of exchange in order to continue developing an interdisciplinary approach on the subject, already begun in two previous workshops (University of Warwick June 2017, British School at Rome October 2018), as part of the Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Project.
Papers of 20 minutes duration are invited. Proposals including a title, name, e-mail address and an abstract of no more than 300 words should be emailed to Mairi Gkikaki, m.gkikaki@warwick.ac.uk by 1st May 2019. Notification of acceptance will be given by 1st June 2019. Travel subsidy will be possible. An edited volume of select papers arising from the conference is envisaged.
This workshop forms part of ‘Tokens and their Cultural biography in Athens from the Classical Age to the End of Antiquity’ project, a MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE action under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No AMD-794080-2.
Edited 16/11/2019. Program:
Monday 16th December 2019
1.30-2pm Registration
2-2.10pm Welcome John Bennet (British School at Athens)
2.10-2.30pm Welcome Mairi Gkikaki (University of Warwick)
Session 1: Communication, community and social cohesion
Chair: Panagiotis Tselekas (University of Thessaloniki)
2.30-3pm Tragic tokens: Sophoclean symbola in context - Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)
3-3.30pm The Council of Five Hundred and Symbola in Classical Athens - Mairi Gkikaki (University of Warwick)
3.30-4.30pm Coffee
Session 2: ‘Breaking the code’: the cryptic character of tokens
Chair: Katerina Panagopoulou (University of Crete)
4.30-5pm Nike on Hellenistic lead tokens: Iconography and meaning - Martin Schäfer (Archaeological Society at Athens)
5-5.30pm Athenian clay tokens: New types, new series - Stamatoula Makrypodi (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and University of Athens)
5.30-6pm A New Type of Roman Period Clay Tokens from Jerusalem - Yoav Farhi (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
6-6.15pm Break
6.15-7pm Keynote Address by John H. Kroll (University of Texas at Austin): The Corpus of Athenian Tokens: 150 Years of Expansion and Study from Postolakas to the Present
From 7pm onwards: Reception
Tuesday 17th December 2019
Session 3: Political devices of the participatory democracy
Chair: Harikleia Papageorgiadou (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
10-10.30am Tokens and Tribes: an Iconographic Overview - Daria Russo (Sapienza University of Rome – Anhima UMR 8210)
10.30-11am Tokens and Corruption in Fourth Century BC Athens - Alessandro Orlandini (University of Milan)
11-11.30am Symbola and Political Equality in Classical Athens - James Kierstead (Victoria University of Wellington)
11.30-12am Coffee
12-12.45pm Keynote Address by Quinn Dupont (University College Dublin) The Social Order of “Crypto” Communities
1-2.30pm Lunch
Session 4: New Finds
Chair: Aliki Moustaka (University of Thessaloniki)
2.30-3pm Tokens from the Koile Area - Olga Dakoura-Vogiatzoglou (Ephory of Antiquities of the City of Athens)
3-3.30pm New Hellenistic and Roman clay tokens from Sicily through local identities, museum and archival Research - Antonino Crisà (Ghent University)
3.30-4.30pm Coffee
Session 5: Athenian tokens in the world of the Eastern Mediterranean
Chair: Sophia Kremydi (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
4.30-5pm Contextualising Athenian Tokens - Clare Rowan (University of Warwick)
5-5.30pm Lead tokens in Graeco-Roman Egypt: A Reassessment of Dating and Purpose - Denise Wilding (University of Warwick)
5.30-6pm Alexander the Great’ in Lead and Bronze: The evidence of Greek and Roman tokens (3rd–5th centuries AD) -Cristian Mondello (University of Warwick)
6-6.15 Break
6.15-6.30pm Thanks and Farewell
Website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/dept_projects/tcam/events/athens
(CFP closed May 1, 2019)
CLASSICS AND THE SPECTACULAR UNDER FASCISM: CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE IN THE 'VENTENNIO FASCISTA'
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford: December 16, 2019
The conference seeks to explore the reimaginings of classical antiquity in the artistic, media, and cultural expressions of Italian Fascism and para-fascist regimes in Europe from the inter-war period to the end of WW2. Whether in theatre, cinema, or mass events such as sports or political rallies, fascism used the symbolic power of classical traditions to produce large-scale spectacles. The deployment of technological means and of the performance medium in fascist events often resulted in a spectacularisation of antiquity which, to borrow Jeffrey Schnapp’s phrase, represents the ‘aesthetic overproduction’ that characterised Fascism’s Italian strain. Rather than the sublimation of the political into the aesthetic in the Benjaminian sense, the spectacularisation of the classical past played a key role in materialising the fascist political project of shaping a popular community.
Whilst analyses of fascism’s exploitation of Roman antiquity as well as of its more general politics of spectacle have flourished since the last decades of the twentieth century, a direct focus on the wide-ranging appropriation of Greek and Roman theatre is still missing. Thus, the conference will bring together international scholars, whose work has addressed fascism from the different perspectives of classics, theatre and performance studies, sociology and cultural history. It will predominantly focus on the reception of classics within artistic and cultural production, whilst also drawing links to classical philology, archaeology, and educational contexts. The aim is to view fascist culture within its historical dimension, following recent scholarly trends that underscore the importance of detailing the national traits of fascism, on the one hand, and defining its conceptual and constitutive elements on the other. This theoretical framework will also allow participants to reassess the mechanisms, which underlie performances of the classical past outside fascist contexts, both synchronically and diachronically.
The symposium will bring together international scholars whose work has addressed fascism from the different perspectives of classics and theatre and performance studies, sociology and cultural history. It is organised by Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford), Eleftheria Ioannidou (RUG), and Sara Troiani (Trento). It will be the first in a series of events on the theme on fascism, performance, and media (the second symposium will take place at the University of Groningen (Arts, Culture and Media, https://www.rug.nl/bachelors/arts-culture-and-media/). The main focus will be INDA (National Institute of Ancient Drama) and other classical performances in Fascist Italy.
Program:
10.15-10.45 Registration and Coffee
10.45-11.00 Welcome from Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Giovanna Di Martino and Sara Troiani present the APGRD and Laboratorio Dionysos Databases
11.00-12.00 Classicising the Spectacle – Chair: Oliver Taplin (Oxford)
Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen) - A Classical Modernity
Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford) – Aeschylus, Modernity and the New ‘Classical’ Ideal
12.00-13.00 Classics and the Spectacular I: Ettore Romagnoli, INDA and Fascism – Chair: Giorgio Ieranò (Trento)
Sara Troiani (Trento) – Ettore Romagnoli’s Productions and the Fascist Regime
Natalie Minioti (Thessaloniki) - The Secret Meaning of the Chorus in the Theatrical Performances of the Dramatic Festival of Syracuse During the Fascist Period
13:00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Classics and the Spectacular II - INDA, Music and Dances – Chair: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Giovanna Casali (Bologna) - Did the Music Change under the Fascist Regime? A Survey of the Musical Compositions in the INDA Performances
Giulia Bordignon (Venice) - ‘Living Sculpture’: The Dancing Chorus at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse, 1927-1939
15.00-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-16.15 Theorising Fascist Classicism – Chair: Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen)
Dimitris Plantzos (Athens) and Vasileios Balaskas (Malaga-Athens) - Reinventing Romanitas; Exchanges of Classical Antiquities as Symbolic Gifts Between Italy and Spain (1933-1943)
Helen Roche (Cambridge) - Theorising the Use and Abuse of the Classical Past in Mussolini’s Third Rome and Hitler’s Third Reich
16.15-17.15 Plenary led by Pantelis Michelakis
17.15-18.00 Drinks reception
Supported by APGRD; Faculty of Classics, Oxford; Laboratorio Dionysos, Università di Trento; University of Groningen
For more information: giovanna.dimartino@classics.ox.ac.uk
Register: https://classicsandspectac.wixsite.com/classicsandthespect/registration
SECOND CICERONIAN CONGRESS: CICERO, SOCIETY, AND THE IDEA OF ARTES LIBERALES
Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA), Faculty of “Artes
Liberales”, University of Warsaw: December 12–14, 2019
The Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA), the Collegium Artes Liberales (CLAS), and the Cluster The Past for the Present at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” University of Warsaw jointly with the Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron (SIAC) have the pleasure to organize the 2019 Ciceronian Congress focused on Cicero’s role in Artes Liberales education across the ages until the present days.
The 2019 Congress is taking place on the 30th anniversary of the VII Colloquium Tullianum “Cicerone e lo Stato” organized in Warsaw in 1989 by Prof. Jerzy Axer and the Centro di Studi Ciceroniani.
The Congress’ proceedings will be accompanied by a panel discussion on the Arpinate’s importance for the formation of civil society and by a session by high-school students who will present their own vision of Cicero. These elements of a societal impact are framed within the Cluster The Past for the Present: International Research and Educational Programme built by the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw, Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà and Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica of the Università di Bologna, and the Faculty of Education of the University of Cambridge.
Moreover, a special panel will be devoted to presenting the most recent results in the studies on the Aratea – Cicero’s poetic endeavour of significant cultural and educational importance.
We plan a publication of the Congress’ proceedings in the journal Ciceroniana On Line.
The Organizing Committee:
Prof. Jerzy Axer (Director of the Collegium Artes Liberales at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw)
Prof. Ermanno Malaspina (Chairman of the SIAC Advisory Board, Executive Director of the journal Ciceroniana On Line)
Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak (Director of OBTA at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw)
The conference booklet is available here: [pdf] http://www.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/ciceron/assets/CICERO_BOOKLET.pdf
For more information see: http://www.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/en/cicero-congress
PAIXUE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM - CLASSICISING LEARNING, PERFORMANCE AND POWER: EURASIAN PERSPECTIVES FROM ANTIQUITY TO EARLY MODERN PERIOD
University of Edinburgh: December 12-14, 2019
The symposium brings together scholars from across North America, Europe and Asia in order to explore how public performances of classicising learning (however defined in each culture) influenced and served imperial or state power in premodern political systems across Eurasia and North Africa. Aiming at encouraging scholarly exchanges among experts in different fields and cultures, the papers relate to the following three interconnected thematic strands: (a) Classicising learning and the social order, (b) Classicising learning and the political order, and (c) Classicising learning and the self.
Speakers: Robert Ashmore (Berkeley), Floris Bernard (Ghent), Mirko Canevaro (Edinburgh), Javier Cha (Seoul), Ming-kin Chu (Hong Kong), Christophe Erismann (Vienna), Michael Fuller (University of California, Irvine), Elena Gittleman (Bryn Mawr), Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (Edinburgh), James Hankins (Harvard), Florian Hartmann (Aachen), Michael Hope (Yonsei), Pascal Hugon (Vienna), Takeshi Inomata (Arizona), Ashton Lazarus (Kyushu), Marina Loukaki (Athens), Christopher Nugent (Williams), Daphne Penna (Groningen), Alberto Rigolio (Durham), Asuka Sango (Carleton), Jonathan Skaff (Shippensburg), Luka Spoljarić (Zagreb), Ariel Stilerman (Stanford), Justin Stover (Edinburgh), Elizabeth Tyler (York), Lieve van Hoof (Ghent), Griet Vankeerberghen (McGill), Milan Vukašinović (ANAMED, Koç University), Elvira Wakelnig (Vienna), Stephen H. West (Berkeley), Julian Yolles (Odense)
The full programme and the list of abstracts are available in our website. Places are limited, so early registration is strongly recommended. Students can benefit from a reduced registration rate.
Website: http://paixue.shca.ed.ac.uk/
CARDINAL ALESSANDRO ALBANI: COLLECTING, DEALING, AND DIPLOMACY IN GRAND TOUR EUROPE / COLLEZIONISMO, DIPLOMAZIA ED IL MERCATO NELL’EUROPA DEL GRAND TOUR
British School at Rome / Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma: December 11–13, 2019
Organised by Clare Hornsby and Mario Bevilacqua
This conference aims to bring together an international range of art historians alongside scholars of related humanistic disciplines to open a new chapter on the multifaceted life and career of Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692–1779), ‘The Father of the Grand Tour’. Albani operated in many different spheres of Roman society in a variety of roles: antiquarian, collector, art dealer, political agent, spy. It is time to make a reassessment of his life and of his activities.
There is a close connection between Britain and the study of Cardinal Albani, reflecting the central role that the British played in the art market in Rome, as entrepreneurs and purchasers. This subject—which casts valuable light on the political and diplomatic networks in mid-eighteenth-century Europe—needs to be revisited, particularly in the light of the many books, conferences, and exhibitions on collecting and the art market that have appeared in the last 25 years. It is appropriate that this conference should have as one of its venues the British School at Rome [BSR], which has, over this period, hosted many scholarly events connected with the Grand Tour.
For many years European scholars have examined aspects of the life of Cardinal Alessandro Albani, particularly in respect of his magnificent collections of ancient sculpture—of central importance in artistic and museological culture in Rome—as well as in the family archives and European correspondence. His relationship with major figures in eighteenth-century European art such as Winckelmann and Piranesi remains a fruitful area of study.
The second venue of the conference—the Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma [CSCIR—is an institution renowned for its commitment to a deeper understanding and reflection on Roman historical and artistic life. By this British and Italian collaboration we hope not only to build new networks of scholarship but to focus international attention on the Albani collections at a key moment.
The role of Alessandro Albani is key in eighteenth-century Rome, both as a patron of the arts and in the wider political life of the European courts. This conference is designed to be multi-disciplinary and international, reflecting the life and career of Albani himself. Proposals for talks might address the following themes:
Albani in the Grand Tour
The Roman art market
Albani and Vatican diplomacy
His correspondents and social networks
The Stuart court in Rome
Philipp von Stosch, Horace Mann, and spying
Albani the archaeologist
The drawings collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo and their sale to King George III
Winckelmann and Albani
Albani as taste-maker
The collections — sculpture, drawings, and the libraries
Albani and Piranesi
The Albani archives
Villa Albani
The languages of the conference are English and Italian, and the event will be open to the public. We invite doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, established scholars, and members of the foreign academies in Rome to submit proposals for papers which will fall into two groups:
(1) 15-minute presentations on one event, object, or discrete theme
(2) 30-minute presentations on collections or connected themes
Please send an abstract of either 500 words (for a 15-minute talk) or 1000 words (for a 30-minute talk) with a 200-word CV to albaniconvegno@gmail.com by 1 April 2019.
We plan to publish a volume of essays based on this conference.
Scientific Committee:
Mario Bevilacqua (Università degli Studi di Firenze, CSCIR), Amanda Claridge (Royal Holloway University of London, Cassiano del Pozzo project), Clare Hornsby (Research Fellow, BSR), Ian Jenkins (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum), Harriet O’Neill (Assistant Director, BSR), Susanna Pasquali (La Sapienza Roma), Jonny Yarker (Libson and Yarker Ltd., London)
Call: http://www.bsr.ac.uk/call-for-papers-cardinal-alessandro-albani-collecting-dealing-and-diplomacy-in-grand-tour-europe
(CFP closed April 1, 2019)
TRUE WARRIORS? NEGOTIATING DISSENT IN THE INTELLECTUAL DEBATE (c. 1100 – 1700)
9th Lectio International Conference - Leuven, Belgium: December, 11-13, 2019
Dissent, polemics and rivalry have always been at the center of intellectual development. The scholarly Streitkultur was given a fresh impetus by the newly founded universities in the High Middle Ages and later turned into a quintessential part of early modern intellectual life. It was not only mirrored in various well-known intellectual debates and controversies – e.g. between Aristotelians and Augustinians, scholastics and humanists, Catholics and Protestants – but also embodied in numerous literary genres and non-literary modes of expression – e.g. disputationes, invectives, consilia, images, carnivalesque parades, music, etc. – and discursive or political strategies – patronage, networks and alliances. Moreover, the harsh debates notwithstanding, consensus was also actively searched for, both within particular disciplines and within society as a whole.
The aforementioned genres and strategies are all modes of negotiating dissent, which raises several important questions regarding these intellectual ‘warriors’. What were the most important issues at stake and how were they debated? Did the debates in the public sphere reflect the private opinions of the scholars involved? What access do we have to those private opinions? Can we approach such controversies in terms of authenticity and truthfulness, or consistency and coherence? Is there a contrast between ego-documents and the published part of an author’s oeuvre?
Starting from these questions, the aim of this conference is to study the polemical strategies and the modes of rivalry and alliance in scholarly debate from the twelfth through the seventeenth centuries.
Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:
* the role of alliances and polemics in establishing intellectual networks;
* the presentation of rivaling views and the depiction of adversaries;
* the discrepancy or congruency between private and public persona;
* hitherto neglected disputes or new perspectives on well-known controversies;
* non-literary modes of negotiating dissent;
* the relation and connections between various literary and non-literary genres, also across different semiotic modes (literature, visual arts, performative arts, ...);
* the role of socio-cultural and economic background in polemics;
* the role of language (e.g.: vernacular vs. Latin);
* similarities and differences across disciplines (philosophy, civil and canon law, theology, medicine...) with regard to polemization and the negotiation of dissent.
We actively invite papers from a variety of perspectives and disciplines (civil and canon law, philosophy, theology and religious studies, literary studies, historiography, art history, etc.) and aim to study texts in Latin, Greek and the vernacular, as well as pictorial and performative traditions. We do not only welcome specific case studies, but also (strongly) encourage broader (meta)perspectives, e.g. of a diachronic or transdisciplinary nature. The conference will span the period from the twelfth until the seventeenth centuries.
The conference will be organized by the Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (LECTIO). It follows upon last year’s conference on polemics, rivalry and networking in Greco-Roman Antiquity.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Laura Beck Varela (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Leen Spruit (Radboud Universiteit – Nijmegen)
Anita Traninger (Freie Universität – Berlin)
We invite submissions for paper proposals in English, French, German and Italian. Proposals should consist of a (provisional) title, an abstract of 300-400 words, and information concerning the applicant’s name, current position, academic affiliation, contact details and (if applicable) related publications on the topic. Applicants who intend to speak in French, German or Italian, are expected to include an English abstract as well. Accepted papers will be awarded a 30 minutes slot (20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes for discussion).
Please submit your proposal via email (lectio@kuleuven.be) by April 15, 2019. Applicants will be notified by email within 5 weeks from this date.
Successful applicants are expected to submit their paper for inclusion in a thematic volume to be published in the LECTIO series (Brepols Publishers). All submitted papers will be subject to a process of blind peer-review.
For any further queries, please mail to lectio@kuleuven.be.
Organizing committee: Guy Claessens, Wim Decock, Jeroen De Keyser, Fabio Della Schiava, Wouter Druwé, Wim François, Erika Gielen.
Contact: lectio@kuleuven.be
Call: https://www.kuleuven.be/lectio/conferences
(CFP ended April 15, 2019)
RECEPTION, PRODUCTION, EXCHANGE
Australasian Universities Languages & Literature Association (AULLA) and Australian Reception Network (ARN)
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia: December 9-11, 2019
Texts live only by being read, yet in being read, they are also transformed. Texts may be read closely or distantly, critically or uncritically, deeply or hyperly, fast or slowly; for pleasure, profit, or piety; on the beach, in the library, or in the university classroom. Texts can have long afterlives, travelling far in time and space on circuits of communication and exchange. They can be given new life in new contexts of reception, interpretation, translation, or adaptation.
This conference examines the ways in which texts (both literary and otherwise) are produced, exchanged, and received. We encourage papers with a focus on engaged studies and discussions of teaching practice and of critical/exegetical responses to creative practice. Papers that respond to reception, production, and exchange in the fields of languages and translation studies; the literary study of languages other than English; and philosophical approaches to cultural expression, are expressly welcome. We also expressly welcome interdisciplinary angles on the theme, such as Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Postcolonial Studies, ethnography, sociology of reading, History of the Book, studies in orality or performance, and comparative approaches.
Call for papers: the organisers welcome submissions for individual presentations of 20 minutes and panel sessions of 90 minutes.
Submissions received by Monday 29 April 2019 will be considered by the committee and outcomes will be announced by 13 May 2019, to enable funding applications to be made in good time. All submissions are due by Monday 30 September 2019, and the program will be published in early November.
Submissions should include: name/s of author/s (including affiliations), title of presentation, an abstract of up to 200 words, and a biographical note of up to 50 words per author. Panel submissions should also include a short description of the panel theme (up to 150 words), in addition to titles, abstracts, and biographical notes for all papers.
Submissions should be emailed to aulla-conference@uow.edu.au.
Hosts: This conference is hosted by the University of Wollongong, the Australasian Universities Languages & Literature Association Conference, incorporating the inaugural Australian Reception Network Lecture, and will be held in Wollongong, Australia from 9th-11th December 2019.
About AULLA:
The Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) is an international academic organisation that advances research in all fields of language and literature, including linguistics, film studies, philosophy of literature, creative exegeses, poetics, and cultural studies, in the tertiary institutions of Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific. AULLA is affiliated with the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM) and the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies (FIEC). It was founded in 1950 as the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association and assumed its present title in 1957.
AULLA’s mission is to promote cross-disciplinary connections and synergies and to encourage innovative research directions in language, literature and cultural studies. To facilitate this, AULLA holds a biennial congress, focussed on a specific theme, that brings together scholars from all disciplines associated with the study and teaching of language and literature.
The Journal of Literature, Language and Culture (JLLC; formerly AUMLA) is the association’s journal. It has an international focus and is fully peer-reviewed. AUMLA was published twice yearly from 1953-2012. JLLC will be published in three issues per year from 2013.
The Sussex-Samuel Prize for Postgraduate Students is offered by AULLA to encourage postgraduate student participation in the broader scholarly community. The prize is awarded every two years for a paper presented at the AULLA congress by a postgraduate student and judged by a panel within the Executive to be significant, innovative and accomplished. The applicant must be a currently enrolled postgraduate research student. The author of the winning paper will receive a prize of AUD$800, and the paper will be developed for publication in JLLC. For more information visit the conference website.
About ARN: The Australian Reception Network was founded in July 2018 and has more than 70 members working on all aspects of literary reception studies, history, and theory. Its website is www.australianreceptionnetwork.com.
Call: http://aulla.com.au/reception-production-exchange/
(CFP closed April 29, 2019)
NEW CLASSICISTS CONFERENCE. THEME: COLLABORATION AND/OR NEW TECHNIQUES IN THE CLASSICS
King’s College London: December 7, 2019
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for our inaugural postgraduate conference series. The theme for this conference will be: Collaboration and/or New Techniques in the Classics.
Topics can be on any aspect of the Ancient World and must include, but are not limited to, at least one of the following:
* Departmental, interdisciplinary &/or interuniversity collaboration, where at least 1 PG student is the lead between members of staff or other student(s)
* New (interdisciplinary) cognitive &/or theoretical perspectives
* The use of new STEM techniques in Classics PG research, such as:
- Agent-based modelling
- Network theory & analysis
- Database compilation, creation and dissemination
- Critical theories, methods & practices in Digital Humanities
- Environmental & lifespan analysis
Papers presented will be up to 25 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of questions. Papers can be presented by more than 1 person, but the lead must be a postgraduate student. Papers presented will also be considered for inclusion into a special ‘Conference Edition’ of our journal, once the peer reviewing process has taken place.
Please submit your proposals/abstracts, up to 300 words, by Friday June 28, 2019 to: submissions@newclassicists.com.
(Edit 20/7/2019) Program:
0930 Welcome
0940 Guest Speaker: Dr Abigail Graham (ICS) - Title tbc
1020 Paul Kelly (KCL) - Risk and return in Roman Egypt
1055 Break
1110 Konstantin Schulz (HU Berlin) - CALLIDUS: A database of exercises for learning Latin
1145 Benjamin Wilck (HU Berlin) - Hidden messages in Greek mathematics: Results of a statistical analysis of linguistic regularities in Euclid's Elements
1230 Lunch & Poster Presentations
1340 Giulia Frigerio (Kent) - The impact of the laurel on Apolline divination: Affecting the mind without the use of drugs
1415 Noga Erez-Yodfat (Ben-Gurion) - Senses and the embodied mind of the mystes in ancient mystery cults
1450 Mark McCahill (Glasgow) - The ancient senses and Roman ritual: Considering imagines as memory objects in an interdisciplinary context
1525 Break
1540 Samuel Agbamu (KCL) - Classics and the Poverty of Philosophy
1615 Vivienne McGlashan (Bristol) - The Bacchants are silent: Applying cognitive approaches to explore ritual maenadism
1650 Nathalie Choubineh (Reading) - Kinetography: A methodological framework for reading kinetic motifs in the Greek vase-painting
1730 Drinks Reception
Free event. Book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-classicists-conference-tickets-65027222172
For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us by visiting:
www.newclassicists.com
www.facebook.com/newclassicists
@NewClassicists
Call: https://www.newclassicists.com/conferences
(CFP closed June 28, 2019)
WORKSHOP: RAPE, REVENGE AND TRANSFORMATION: TEREUS THROUGH THE AGES
Faculty of Humanities, University of Roehampton, UK: December 7, 2019
Confirmed Speakers:
* Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)
* Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton)
* Lyndsay Coo (University of Bristol)
* Gesine Manuwald (UCL)
* Donatella Puliga (Università di Siena)
The story of Tereus preoccupied major authors in classical antiquity. References to it date back to the Homeric poems and the myth was addressed by renowned dramatists, such as Aeschylus, Sophocles and Accius, before being adapted by Ovid. These different versions raise questions about the reconstruction of the myth and representation of women, family violence, and taboos, such as rape and paidophagia. Aspects of the story reverberate in ancient material culture, especially Greek vase paintings, which also stem from different variants and traditions.
The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines (Greek Literature; Latin Literature; Archaeology; Reception Studies) and to create a lively and challenging setting for discussion of new methodologies to reimagine the myth of Tereus. Although fragments are an emerging trend in Classical studies, this mythological focus will foster collaboration between Classicists taking innovative approaches to reconstructing and adapting the Tereus myth for audiences ancient and modern.
This conference will focus on the reconstruction, transmission and reception of Tereus in Greece and Rome by examining its different treatments in classical literature and art. As such, it will be of significant interest for researchers working on Greek and Roman tragedies, Ovid, classical reception and ancient material culture.
Submission Guidelines:
Papers may include but are not limited to:
1. Challenges to the received attribution, ordering, and textual arrangement of fragments
2. Innovative methodologies, or integration of different approaches, for reconstructing dramas
3. Quotation contexts
4. Productions of Tereus
5. Reception of fragmentary texts
Applicants are kindly invited to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words for a poster or a 10-minute presentation. We especially encourage postgraduate students to participate. Thanks to the generosity of the Classical Association, we are able to provide bursaries to cover the fees of the conference for the speakers.
Deadlines:
Proposals should be sent to the organisers (TereusWorkshop2019@gmail.com) by 14 October 2019, 11:59pm. Selected applicants will be contacted by 1 November 2019.
The conference is made possible thanks to the generous support of ISC and the Classical Association.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any queries at TereusWorkshop2019@gmail.com
The organisers:
Alessandra Abbattista (independent scholar)
Chiara Blanco (University of Cambridge)
Maria Haley (University of Manchester)
Giacomo Savani (University College Dublin)
Call: https://classicalreception.org/event/rape-revenge-and-transformation-tereus-through-the-ages/
(CFP closed 14 October, 2019)
RE-/UN-WORKING TRAGEDY: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH
SG1/2, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT: December 6-7, 2019
Join Jennifer Wallace, Simon Goldhill, Katie Fleming, Rosa Andujar, Renaud Gagne, Barabra Goff, Tina Chanter, Astrid van Weyenberg and many others from a variety of disciplines to discuss tragedy, its ability to comment on present crises, and the global politics of adaptation.
Summary: Building on ideas explored in the Re- Interdisciplinary Network's CRASSH events, the conference aims to examine ideas of repetition within canonical traditions of tragedy from the perspective of the Global South, in the process raising questions about the problems of those categories as they are changing. We want to scrutinize the literary, political, and philosophical relevance of re-/un-working tragedy in cross-cultural contexts. Taking up the concept of ‘tragedy’ in a world shaken by global conflicts, deterritorialization, and migration crises, the conference asks:
How do people in various zones of crisis embrace, interpret and adapt canonical traditions of tragedy to make sense of their suffering and express their resistance?
How do authors, playwrights, performers, philosophers, and critics respond to the questions raised by the reworking of tragedies?
How does the reworking of tragedies in the Global South transform the idea of the canon and/or decolonise the literary curricula?
We often employ the prefix ‘re-’, as in ‘re-working’, ‘re-writing’, ‘re-thinking’, ‘re-imagining’, ‘re-appropriating’, ‘re-presenting’ as if to situate the modern work in a historical line, or dialectical movement, of repetitions. The creation of the new cannot but come with reference to the prior. But how does recognisable repetition operate as a unique kind of site for invention, and for speech? Besides, how might we rethink the tragic canon as a destabilizing gesture – an un-working, rather than re-working - through perspectives from the Global South? In reference to ‘unworking’, or désoevrement as a concept that interrupts, suspends, and counteracts the work in the moment of its unfolding, the conference will look for ways to put the authoritative position of the ‘original work’ at stake. Unworking this notion of ‘the original’ reveals the work of tragedy as that which opens itself to reinvention and becomes self-consciously meaningful in the moment of its re-presentation.
The conference will bring together artists and authors who adapt classical tragedies together with academics from various disciplines. The programme will comprise roundtable discussions, panels and creative workshops.
Day 1 - 6 December
09.00-9.20 Registration
09.20-09.30 Introduction: Ekin Bodur (University of Cambridge) and Clare L.E. Foster (CRASSH)
09.30-10.30 Conversation with Artists: Omar Abusaada (Playwright and Theatre Director) & Mohammad al Attar (Dramaturge, Playwright): How does tragedy respond to the urgencies of its day? How does adapting tragedy bear witness to political conflict?
10.30-11.30 Keynote: Freddie Rokem (Theatre Studies, University of Tel Aviv and Chicago University) “Take up the Bodies!”
11.30-12.00 Tea and Coffee
12.00-13.30 Panel: A Case Study: “Antigones”
Chair: Freddie Rokem (Theatre Studies, University of Tel Aviv and Chicago University)
Andrés Henao Castro (University of Massachusetts, Boston) “Antigone and the necrodialectic of enforced disappearances.”
Katherine Fleming (English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London)“Antigone, WWII and the battleground of philosophy”
Kristina Hagström-Ståhl (Performative Arts, University of Gothenburg) “Un-doing Antigone”
Ekin Bodur (English, University of Cambridge) “When Antigone embodies collective resistance”
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Panel: Re-/Un-working tragedy in times/zones of crisis
How do people in various zones of crisis embrace, interpret and adapt canonical traditions of tragedy to make sense of their suffering and express their resistance? How might we rethink the adaptations of canonical tragedies as a destabilizing gesture – an un-working, rather than re-working - through perspectives from the Global South?
Chair: Barbara Goff (Classics, University of Reading)
Sola Adeyemi (Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths University of London)
Ramona Mosse (Freie Universitat, Berlin)
Miriam Leonard (Classics, University College London)
Tina Chanter (Philosophy, Newcastle University)
16.00-16.30 Tea and Coffee
16.30-18.00 Practical Workshop: “Can a dramatic text or performance ever be universal?”
Mark Maughan & Tim Cowbury (Theatre Makers, a Writer-Director Partnership)
19.00-21.00 Dinner (reserve your place via the event registration link)
Day 2 - 7th December
10.00-11.30 Panel: Deterritorialization / Reterritorialization: Global South Perspectives
Is there such a thing as a global south perspective? Or perspectives?
Do they use canonical counter-discourse to decolonize tragedy?
Do they offer an immediate critique of the western idea of the canon, or do they add pile upon pile on the very same canon?
Chair: Sami Everett (CRASSH, Univeristy of Cambridge)
Astrid Van Weyenberg (Film and Literary Studies, Leiden University)
Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Theatre and Performance, Monash University)
Anna Frieda Kuhn (Comparative Literature, University of Würzburg)
Eylem Ejder (Theatre Studies, Ankara University)
11.30-12.00 Tea and Coffee
12.00-13.30 Roundtable Discussion: The Politics of Adaptation
Is there a unified or trans-historical idea of tragedy? Is adapting a Greek tragedy to comment on the political present unfair to the text?
Chair: Zoe Svendsen (English, Cambridge University, Theatre Director)
Participants:
Rosa Andujar (Liberal Arts and Classics, King’s College London)
Simon Goldhill (Classics, University of Cambridge)
Jennifer Wallace (English, University of Cambridge)
Chana Morgenstern (English, University of Cambridge)
Omar Abusaada (Theatre Director)
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Conversation with Artists: Özlem Daltaban & Murat Daltaban (DOT Theatre Istanbul & Edinburgh)
15.30-16.30 Final Discussion: What are the stakes about generalizing about the Global South? Where is (or isn’t) “the Global South”? - Ankhi Mukherjee (English, Oxford University)
Website/Registration: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28574
5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: A LITERATURA CLÁSSICA OU OS CLÁSSICOS NA LITERATURA: PRESENÇAS CLÁSSICAS NAS LITERATURAS DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA
School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Portugal: December 2-4, 2019
The Centre for Classical Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon invites scholars interested in discussing and approaching ideas on thematic reconfiguration, values, cultural horizon and texts of Classical Antiquity (alongside characters, literary culture and poetics, Greek and Latin stories and fiction), regarding different settings in time and space in which literature is written in the Portuguese language to submit their conference abstracts until the 28th of July, 2019.
Conference abstracts must include:
- title of the presentation (clear and informative);
- abstract (up to 300 words);
- author’s name;
- affiliation;
- contact email address;
- brief academic curriculum (up to 300 words).
Contact email address for abstract submission and further information: literaturaclassica@letras.ulisboa.pt.
Registration: The registration fee for the conference is €100 (€70 for postgraduate students).
Scientific Committee:
Arnaldo do Espírito Santo
Cristina Pimentel
José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes
José Ribeiro Ferreira
Paolo Fedeli
Paula Morão
Sérgio Nazar David
Thomas Earle
Organizing Committee
Coordinators: Cristina Pimentel and Paula Morão
Alice Costa
Maria Luísa Resende
Ricardo Nobre
Rui Carlos Fonseca
Call: https://www.letras.ulisboa.pt/pt/agenda/cfp-v-coloquio-a-literatura-classica-ou-os-classicos-na-literatura-presencas-classicas-nas-literaturas-de-lingua-portuguesa
(CFP closed 28 July, 2019)
HOMER SEMINAR X: HOMER AND THE EPIC TRADITION
Australian National University, Canberra: December 2-3, 2019
Sonia Pertsinidis and Elizabeth Minchin wish to draw attention to the tenth iteration of ANU’s Homer Seminar: Homer and the Epic Tradition. The dates for the Seminar are Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 December 2019.
The special guest is Dr Maureen Alden (Queen’s University, Belfast) and author of two important books on the Homeric epics: Homer Beside Himself: Para-narratives in the Iliad (OUP, 2000) and Para-Narratives in the Odyssey: Stories in the Frame (OUP, 2017).
They invite papers on all aspects of ancient epic, Greek and Roman, and its reception.
If you are interested in giving a paper, please contact Sonia (sonia.pertsinidis@anu.edu.au) or Elizabeth (elizabeth.minchin@anu.edu.au) before 30 September 2019. If you are interested in attending, please contact them before 31 October.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/anu.classics.ancient.history/posts/2326854917366097
(CFP closed September 30, 2019)
ON TRANSLATING GREEK DRAMA IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (ca. 1400-1600)
Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10, Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE: November 29, 2019
APGRD [Oxford], Université Grenoble Alpes and Université Paris 13
10.30-11.00 Registration and Coffee
11.00-11.15 Welcome from Fiona Macintosh and the organisers: Malika Bastin-Hammou (Grenoble), Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford) and Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13)
11.15-12.15 – Theorising ‘Volgarizzamento’
Chair: Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13)
Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford): ‘Vernacularisation’ as Translation Theory in Early Modern Italy
Giulia Fiore (Bologna): Ἑρμηνέων ἑρμηνῆς. On Vulgarizing Greek Tragedy in the Italian Cinquecento
12.15-12.30 Coffee Break
12.30-1.30 Theorising Imitation I
Chair: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13): The Theory and Practice of Imitation: translated fragments in Lapéruse’s Médée (1556), Le Loyer’s Néphélococugie (1579) and Garnier’s Troade (1579) and Antigone ou la piété (1580)
Angelica Vedelago (Padua): Translating Greek Tragedy in Sixteenth-century Europe: Between Imitation and Competition
1.30-2.30 Lunch
2.30-3.30 – Theorising Imitation II
Chair: Micha Lazarus (Cambridge)
Alexia Dedieu (Grenoble): Ut carminum rationem in hoc scriptore densissimis tenebris inuolutam clarissima luce donaretur. Faire la lumière sur la métrique: Willem Canter éditeur d’Euripide
Lucy Jackson (Durham): Greek Tragedy Translated ad spiritum - George Buchanan's Baptistes sive calumnia (1577) and Sophocles’ Antigone
3.30-3.45 Coffee Break
3.45-4.45 – Theorising Translation Practices
Chair: Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow)
Malika Bastin-Hammou (Grenoble): On translating Greek Comedy, c. 1440-1550
Thomas Baier (Würzburg): Why translations? Melanchthon and Camerarius on translating Greek Tragedy
4.45-5.30 Plenary led by Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow)
5.30-6.30 Drinks Reception and Theatre Workshop with Estelle Baudou (APGRD, Marie Curie Research Fellow) – Performing Early Modern Translation
Follow this link to register: https://translatinggreektr0.wixsite.com/mysite/registration
For more information, please email: giovanna.dimartino@classics.ox.ac.uk
THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES: DAY OF 'PERSIAN THINGS' - PERSIKA
Cardiff University, UK: November 27, 2019
Session 1 9.30-12.00: The Tower Building (70 Park Place) room 0.03
Session 2 1.00-6.00: The Tower Building (70 Park Place) room 0.01
9.30am Assemble for COFFEE
10.00am Jan Stronk (Amsterdam) - ‘The Greeks and Persia’.
10.40am Eran Almagor (Jerusalem) - ‘Notes on the Chronology of the Reign of Artaxerxes II’.
11.20am Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff) - ‘Dating the Book of Esther: Between the Achaemenids and the Hasmoneans’.
12.00 LUNCH
1.00pm Stephen Harrison (Swansea) - ‘Borders and the Limits of Universality in the Achaemenid and Seleucid Empires'.
1.40pm Melissa Benson (UCL) - ‘Violence in the Behistun Monument’.
2.20pm Mai Musee (Oxford) - ‘Myth and Reality: Persia in the Ancient Novel’.
3pm COFFEE
3.20pm Kirstin Droß-Krüpe (Kassel) - ‘Semiramis, Queen of Babylon, in Baroque Opera’.
4.00pm Julia Hartley (Warwick) - ‘Resuscitating the Achaemenids: Jane Dieulafoy’s Parysatis on the Page and on the Stage'.
4.45pm Keynote Speaker: Irene Madreiter (Innsbruck) – ‘Abduction into the seraglio: gendered notions of the ‘harem’ from Ctesias of Cnidus to Cristina de Belgiojoso and Lady Montagu’.
6.00pm Drinks & Dinner
For details contact: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Llewellyn-JonesL@cardiff.ac.uk) and Dr Eve MacDonald (MacDonaldG@Cardiff.ac.uk)
Website: https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/persika-a-day-of-persian-things/
ANNUAL MEETING OF POSTGRADUATES IN RECEPTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD (AMPRAW)
AMPRAW 2019 - AUTHORITY AND LEGITIMACY
Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands): November 28-30, 2019
With great pleasure we announce our Call for Papers for this year's Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW).
AMPRAW is an annual conference that is designed to bring together early-career researchers in the field of classical reception studies, and will be held for the ninth consecutive year. It aims to contribute to the growth of an international network of PhDs working on classical reception(s), as well as to strengthen relationships between early career researchers and established academics.
AMPRAW 2019 will be held at Radboud University, Nijmegen (the Netherlands) from Thursday 28 to Saturday 30 November 2019, in collaboration with OIKOS (National Research School in Classical Studies), NKV (National Association for all interested in Classical Studies) and Brill Publishers. The programme includes two conference days, and an optional cultural excursion on the third day. It is organized by and for postgraduates and early career researchers working in all areas of classical reception. Thanks to generous contributions of our sponsors, there will be no conference fee. Besides that, we offer a limited number of travel bursaries to speakers without research budgets or with limited funding. Lunch and coffee breaks will be provided to all speakers.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
* Dr Justine McConnell (University College London, United Kingdom)
* Dr David Rijser (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
* Dr Nathalie de Haan (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
The conference will further involve contributions by specialists from Radboud University and OIKOS.
This year's theme: Authority and Legitimacy.
Classical reception has always and invariably been linked to the concept of authority. The very idea of the 'classical' involves the establishment of an authoritative canon (or canons), which is renegotiated and recreated throughout time. Furthermore, aspects from the classical world, or what is perceived as such, have always functioned as authoritative examples in various cultural processes and narratives.
Closely related to authority is the concept of legitimacy. Throughout history, classical antiquity has been quoted, excerpted, and framed to claim legitimacy. From the Franks under the Carolingians to the modern 'alt-right' movements, all claim legitimacy with reference to a certain idea of classical authority.
We invite papers of 20-25 minutes dealing in all possible ways with the following questions:
* What exactly constitutes the authority of Classical Antiquity?
* Where, when and why has it gained, or lost, its legitimacy?
* What are the structures behind the formation of an authoritative canon?
* How have people tried to maintain or subvert 'classical' authority: which social negotiations are at play?
* How do classical precedents function in historical and modern-day issues and mechanisms of power and legitimacy?
* How do classical examples function as anchors in new developments and innovation? In other words, how can new ideas obtain legitimacy by being anchored upon authoritative examples?
* How do the concepts of authority and legitimacy function in European and non-European reception of classical antiquity?
We encourage proposals in the fields of, but not limited to, archaeology, literary studies, linguistics, (art) history, media studies, religious studies, cultural sciences, history of law and political science, dealing with all time periods. The conference will be held in English.
If you would like to present a paper at AMPRAW 2019, please send an abstract of around 200 words to ampraw2019@ru.nl before May 20th 2019, together with a short biography stating your name, affiliation, and contact address. Please indicate in your submission whether you would like to apply for a travel bursary. Applicants will be selected and notified before the end of June.
For more information, visit: https://www.ru.nl/hlcs/conferences/ampraw-2019/ampraw-2019/.
(CFP closed May 20, 2019)
Previous AMPRAW conferences:
2018: University of Coimbra, Portugal: November 8-10 2018. https://ampraw2018.wixsite.com/home/.
2017: University of Edinburgh: 23-24 November 2017 - https://ampraw.wixsite.com/ampraw2017. Twitter: @ampraw2017
2016: University of Oxford: 12-13 December 2016 - https://amprawoxford.wordpress.com/
2015: University of Nottingham: 14-15 December 2015 - ampraw2015.wordpress.com/ - Twitter: @AMPRAW2015
2014: University of London: 24-25 November 2014 - ampraw2014.wordpress.com/.
2013: University of Exeter.
2012: University of Birmingham.
2011: University College London.
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ANCIENT FRAGMENTARY DRAMA "THE FORGOTTEN THEATRE
University of Turin, Italy: November 26-29, 2019
The Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico – University of Turin (www.teatroclassico.unito.it) is delighted to circulate the CALL FOR PAPERS for the Third International Conference in Ancient Fragmentary Drama "The Forgotten Theatre" - University of Turin, 26th-29th of November 2019.
THE CONFERENCE: School education has consecrated, since ancient times, a canon of dramatic theatrical works capable of representing wonderfully the genius and essence of Greco-Roman theatre. This canon has helped direct scholars’ attention to some works of dramatic literature at the expense of the ancient tragedians and playwrights, causing a critical oversight of some works within the tradition of classical theatre - long considered to be of lesser value - especially those preserved in a fragmentary fashion or known by an indirect tradition.
The International Conference The Forgotten Theatre aims, for the third consecutive year, to be a stimulus to revitalize academic interest in fragmentary Greco-Roman dramatic texts, long relegated to the sidelines of scientific research and contemporary theatre productions. The conference will host academics at any stage of their career, who wish to collaborate in order to cast new light on the forgotten theatre through their studies.
TOPICS OF DISCUSSION - The conference will accept some papers concerning primarily, but not exclusively, the following research areas:
* Criticism, commentary and constitutio textus of fragmentary dramatic Greek and Latin works, both tragic and comic;
* Well-reasoned attempts to reconstruct the plot of tragedies (or entire trilogies/ tetralogies) that are either fragmentary, incomplete or known by indirect tradition.
* New considerations of matters concerning the contents and representations of fragmentary dramas, with special emphasis given to evidence of-fered by internal captions, marginalia and scholia;
* The development of Greek and Latin dramatic genres with particular attention to the influence exerted on them by other forms of mimetic art (such as kitharodia, dance, mime);
* Research on minor Greek, Latin, Magna Graecia and Etruscan theatrical traditions;
* The use of iconographic, epigraphic, archaeological, papyrological and codicological sources in the study of ancient drama;
* The contribution of historical-anthropological disciplines (anthropology, historiography, philosophy, psychology) to the study of ancient drama;
* The reception of the Greco-Roman drama in the arts and literature of later periods (in imperial, late imperial, medieval and Byzantine times).
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION - The conference days will develop according to the following days and programme:
* Tuesday 26th - Wednesday 27th November The Forgotten Theatre - PGR and PhD students conference Two days of study with 12 speakers selected through the present call. In these first two days of conference, papers from PGR, PhD or recently graduated students will be delivered. The sessions will be chaired by Professors affiliated to the Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico who will give an introduction and guide the discussion following the papers.
* 28th Thursday- Friday 29th November The Forgotten Theatre - main conference Two days of study with 14 speakers both selected through the present call and invited by the Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico; in this second part of the conference, papers from researchers and scholars will be delivered. The sessions will be organised according to the aforementioned methods.
Each paper presentation will last about 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Candidates are kindly requested to follow these instructions meticulously, with due regard for the other speakers and organisers. The conference will be broadcast live on the Youtube channel of the Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico. In accordance with the best judgment of the Scientific Committee, the Proceedings of the Conference will be published by the Centre for Studies in Greek and Roman Theatre.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE - Those who wish to participate in the activities must submit the following to teatro.classico@unito.it no later than August 31, 2019:
* An abstract of the proposed papers, complete with a title. The document must not contain the author's name in any part and must have a maximum length of 300 words. The abstract can be written in Italian or in English;
* A brief curriculum vitae et studiorum (no more than one page) which highlights the affiliation of the speaker and their main publications. The official languages of the conference will be Italian and English.
The Scientific committee of the conference, chaired by Professor Francesco Carpanelli, will evaluate each paper received and will inform all candidates about the final program of the conference by September 2019.
ECONOMIC ASPECTS: In order to guarantee free and democratic access to knowledge and research, participation in the activities as speakers or as listeners will not entail the payment of any fee. All speakers and listeners will be guaranteed refreshments in between every activity session, as well as the provision of the necessary educational material (handout, stationery). Speakers will be guaranteed lunches for the duration of the whole conference. Unfortunately, due to the known economic hardships faced by the Italian University system, the organisation will not able to guarantee other forms of refund; exceptions can be made for particular cases (e.g. for speakers who cannot ask for reimbursement to their own institution or whose research is not funded). The organisation will provide details on the structures affiliated with the University of Turin that offer accommodations at reasonable prices.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Francesco CARPANELLI (Torino) coordinator Federica BESSONE, (Torino), Simone BETA (Siena), Francesco Paolo BIANCHI (Frei-burg), Adele Teresa COZZOLI (Roma Tre), Giorgio IERANÒ (Trento), Enrico V. MALTESE (Torino) Michele NAPOLITANO (Cassino e L.M.), Bernhard ZIMMERMANN (Freiburg).
CONTACTS: For any further information please do not hesitate to contact Luca Austa, conference organiser, sending an email to: teatro.classico@unito.it.
Deadline: 31st of August 2019
Call: http://www.teatroclassico.unito.it/it/content/convegno-%C2%AB-forgotten-theatre-2019%C2%BB
Program: http://www.teatroclassico.unito.it/it/content/convegno-%C2%AB-forgotten-theatre-2019%C2%BB
(CFP closed August 31, 2019)
MEANING, MEMORY, AND MOVEMENT: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SPACES
University of Birmingham, UK: November 23-24, 2019
The process of stopping and looking back at the past through new methodological lenses over the last half-century has comprised a series of fruitful cross-disciplinary ‘turns’. These retrospective global movements have provided academia with innovative ways of shedding light on past civilisations through a shared analytical model that prioritises a specific focus. During the second half of the twentieth century the ‘turn to space’ found its roots in erudite thinkers such as Foucault and Lefebvre who positioned space as a critical analytical tool for understanding social existence in the areas of geography, urban planning, and architecture. In recent years, this framework has found cadence throughout the social sciences and humanities and has transitioned from being an experimental, innovative, sometimes controversial tool, to a necessary critical model for studies of the past. The intention of our conference is to (re)turn again to space and to stimulate fresh conversations across temporal and cultural disciplinary boundaries through collective spatial analysis.
Our tripartite conference name encapsulates the broad and valuable facets of recent approaches to the study of space: spaces contain, facilitate, and organise meaning for societies, they perpetuate, (re)construct, and direct memory, and movement through and around space underpins these processes. Furthermore, the obvious opportunity for overlapping angles and approaches is indicative of the fluidity of these multifaceted constructs and the incongruity of a ‘correct’ interpretation of space.
We believe in juxtaposing approaches and perspectives from different temporal, cultural, and geographical contexts in order to elicit cross-disciplinary dissemination, networking, and productivity. Therefore, we envisage grouping together temporally divergent papers into a number of focussed thematic panels. We hope to support a productive interdisciplinary environment that will enable researchers to, on the one hand, look retrospectively at their research in a new light, and on the other, to consider innovative approaches to their future research avenues. We invite abstracts for papers, from Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers, on an intentionally broad range of themes:
– Spaces of cultural memory: how do spaces contain and perpetuate memories, develop self and collective conceptions of culture, and shape identities?
– Organising space: how are spatial borders articulated? How are they internally ordered? How are spaces framed, deframed and reframed? What are the intended and unintended consequences of spatial organisation?
– Liminal spaces: from geographical and cultural borders to micro level entrances and exits of certain sites and sights.
– Spatial taxonomy and typology: how do we define space – political, religious, private, public, etc.?
– Gendered spaces: how does gender operate and develop within space(s)?
– Representation of spaces: comparing and contrasting between literary, visual, material and archaeological media.
– Movement and space: space and time, processional movement, traversing, lustrating, navigating, entering and leaving. How does movement generate space?
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Diana Spencer (University of Birmingham)
(more to be announced)
Proposals should be submitted as an abstract of no more than 300 words and should be accompanied by a short bio (no more than 100 words) indicating the speaker’s current position, location, and research interests. These should be sent to a.m.spacesconference@gmail.com by the 16th August 2019. Our team will evaluate proposals and respond to candidates by the end of August and provide a preliminary idea of the themed panel they will be allocated to. We look forward to reading your proposals and hearing about your research.
The Organising Committee: Ben Salisbury (University of Birmingham); Ben White (University of Nottingham - Lead Organiser); Curtis Lisle (University of Birmingham); Liam McLeod (University of Birmingham); Thomas Quigley (University of Manchester); Chris Rouse (University of Birmingham).
Twitter: @SpaceConference
Call: https://amspaces.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
(CFP closed August 16, 2019)
WARFARE IN ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE: PERCEPTIONS, REALITIES, AND RECEPTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Kings College London, UK: November 23, 2019
Warfare in antiquity has captivated academics and enthusiasts alike for millennia. Several works, including specialist manuals (e.g. Asclepiodotus’ Tactics; Vegetius’ Epitome of Military Science) and historiographical discussions (e.g. Caesar’s Commentaries; Procopius’ History of the Wars), indicate clearly that ancient societies were fascinated by the workings of both contemporary and earlier methods of warfare. This interest has endured all the way to the modern era and has yielded a much deeper understanding of ancient warfare from various perspectives. Academic movements like the ‘face of battle’ studies started by John Keegan in the 1970s and the ‘war and society’ publications in the 1990s are prime examples of how our understanding of ancient warfare continues to evolve. With the emergence and flourishing of ‘specialised’ academic research in the past two decades, the study of warfare in antiquity has grown into as diverse a discipline as the cultures it aims to study. The ‘specialisation’ trend of academia has afforded both academics and enthusiasts the opportunity to delve deeper and challenge long held perceptions and assumptions. Such challenges have the potential to shift (or in some cases reaffirm) the way modern scholars understand warfare in antiquity.
Recognizing the tremendous work being done on warfare in antiquity and considering the lack of platforms afforded to academics and enthusiasts to discuss their respective research and interests this academic year, we are proud to announce the Warfare in Antiquity Conference. We invite those interested to submit proposals that discuss various aspects of warfare in the ancient world, in particular those in a dialogue with established schools of thought in and perceptions of the discipline. The event is focused upon realities, in terms of both the ancient armed forces and ancient conceptions of their experiences, and also modern scholarship, with new hypotheses and arguments building upon and challenging accepted theories. We cordially invite proposals on all aspects of ancient warfare, particularly those which deal with the conference themes of Perceptions, Realities, and Reception.
Proposals should include a 300 word abstract along with a few words about the applicant – their research interests, university affiliation and / or status etc. Separately in the body of the email, please provide your full name, contact email address and university affiliation.
The conference will be held on SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23RD 2019, AT KING'S COLLEGE LONDON.
The DEADLINE for submissions will be 5 P.M. on AUGUST 31ST, 2019.
Please send all submissions for papers as a Word Document to WACon2019@gmail.com
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1907&L=CLASSICISTS&P=12904
Program: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/warfare-in-antiquity-conference-2019-perceptions-realties-and-reception-in-the-21st-century
(CFP closed August 31, 2019)
III YOUNG RESEARCHERS CONFERENCE ANIWEH – V SHRA: RECEPTIONS OF ANTIQUITY FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain: November 20, 2019
ANIWEH research project (https://aniho.hypotheses.org/) along with SHRA project invites submissions of abstracts for the III Young Researchers Conference ANIWEH – V SHRA: Receptions of Antiquity from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary World. The meeting is scheduled for November 20 in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Basque Country, located in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain).
The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 20, 2019.
Find all the information about the CFP on our webpage: https://aniho.hypotheses.org/1539
(CFP ended September 20, 2019)
ORDER‽ ART, CLASSICISM, AND DISCOURSE, FROM 1755 TO TODAY
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom: November 15-16, 2019
In 1851 the Jury for Sculpture at the Great Exhibition shared their criteria for works of art in their class:
"They have looked for originality of invention, more or less happily expressed in that style which has for twenty-three centuries been the wonder of every civilised people, and the standard of excellence to which artists of the highest order have endeavoured to attain."
In so many words, the esteemed gentlemen of the Jury (and they were all gentlemen) demanded of their sculptors one thing - classicism, or the antique. Fewer than a hundred years earlier, Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s writings on the art of the ancient world had promoted a systematic, ordered idea of the progress of art; less than a hundred years later, the aftermath of World War I caused artists to invoke a return to order across Europe - a return to classicism, stability, and the simplicity of antiquity. Today, the classics, classicism, and antiquity are still hotly contested visual, literary and cultural forms and norms.
But what is ordered about ‘classicism’? Who benefits from an ordered, stable canon of classicism in art and literature? Is classicism, in art, architecture, archaeology and academia truly the realm of the dead white men (to borrow from the title of Donna Zuckerberg’s 2018 book, Not All Dead White Men)? This conference seeks to challenge, reassess, and provoke discussion on the position of ‘classicism’ in art following Winckelmann’s seminal text on the topic in 1755 through to the present day. Winckelmann’s ordered, teleological histories of art have been thrown into disarray by 265 years of new archaeological discoveries; every generation develops its own ‘classic’ and its own canon. Technologies of communication, dissemination, modification, and reproduction offer artists and academics new media for their engagement with classicism, art, and the world; previously unrepresented populations and individuals have more access to academia, art, and classics than ever before, but not without opposition.
Responding to recent publications, exhibitions, and discussions in art history, classics, and contemporary society and politics, this conference seeks to interrogate classicisms in art (broadly conceived on both fronts). This event follows recent projects like the Classical Now exhibition at King’s College London (2017/18), Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece at the British Museum (2018), and scholarship on the use of antiquity in contemporary discourse. We will not look to construct a new order or return to an old, but to challenge, explore, and activate new discussions on the use, abuse, and reuse of ‘classicism’ through history and today. Furthermore, in a historic moment of increased fascism and nationalism, this conference offers an opportunity to publicly interrogate the role classics, classicism, and the reception of antiquity in art has had in upholding oppressive power structures. This event will be held alongside a Henry Moore Institute retrospective exhibition of the work of Edward Allington (1951-2017), an exhibition that will consider the creative engagement of Allington with the cultures of classicism.
Within this framework we invite submissions of 250-300 words from scholars and artists at every career level for papers on topics involving classicism and art from 1755 to today. Preference will be given to papers that highlight or focus on sculptural material, with a broad definition of ‘sculpture’. Suggested themes include, but are by no means limited to:
* Gendered uses of classicism in art
* Queer classicisms
* Non-Western classicisms
* Contemporary art practice and uses of ‘classicism’
* Problematic or challenging ‘classical’ objects
* Canon and canonising
* The classical/anti-classical and politics
* Nationalism, internationalism and empire
* Narrative, title and text as ordering principles
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Kirstie Gregory (kirstie.gregory@henry-moore.org) and Dr Melissa Gustin (mlg519@york.ac.uk) by 8 April 2019 extended deadline 15 April 2019.
A postgraduate/early career scholar workshop will precede the conference on the morning of Friday 15 November offering PGR/ECRs working in any discipline on issues of classicism, canon, and antiquity the opportunity to meet their peers and foster new networks. The workshop will invite delegates to give short, informal presentations about their work, offer feedback to their peers, and make connections before attending the conference. Postgraduate students are welcome to submit abstracts for the conference as well as participating in the workshop.
Call: https://www.henry-moore.org/research/opportunities/call-for-papers/order-art-classicism-and-discourse-from-1755-to-today
(CFP ended April 15, 2019)
[PANEL] GRECO-ROMAN ANTIQUITY IN GAMES
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Meeting
San Diego, CA, USA: November 14-17, 2019
This panel seeks to stimulate and further conversation about how Greco-Roman traditions have been put to use in games—video games, board games, and role-playing games (RPGs). While some scholarship on this topic has emerged in the past decade, major questions remain open: how do games use Mediterranean antiquity? how do they enable players to imagine themselves into ancient spaces, playing at being ‘Greek’ or ‘Roman’? and how might such imaginative spaces challenge the way we theorize classical receptions? We invite papers examining the reception of ancient Greek and Roman materials (literature, history, philosophy, art history, etc.) in games of any format, including video games, board games, and RPGs.
Organisers: Benjamin Stevens (Trinity University), Brett Rogers (University of Puget Sound)
PAMLA Conference: http://pamla.org/2019
Call/Abstract portal: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/17947.
COLLECTING AND COLLECTIONS: DIGITAL LIVES AND AFTERLIVES
The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG: November 14-15, 2019
The shift from the disordered Kunstkammer or curiosity cabinet of the Renaissance to the ordered Enlightenment museum is well known. What has to be explored fully is the process through which this transformation occurred. Collective Wisdom, funded by an AHRC International Networking Grant, explores how and why members of the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Leopoldina (in Halle, Germany) collected specimens of the natural world, art, and archaeology in the 17th and 18th centuries. In three international workshops, we are analysing the connections between these scholarly organisations, natural philosophy, and antiquarianism, and to what extent these networks shaped the formation of early museums and their categorisation of knowledge. Workshop III, concerning the afterlives, use and reconstruction of early modern collections is designed to benefit scholars interested in digital humanities.
Registration, programme, and abstracts: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2019/11/collecting-and-collections/
[PANEL/S] ANTIQUI-TECH: INVENTION IN (AND OF) THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD ON SCREEN
The 2019 Film & History Conference. Theme: Designing Culture and Character - Technology in Film, Television, and New Media
Madison, WI (USA): November 13-17, 2019
Invention has fascinated audiences at least since the god Hephaestus created self-locomoting robot-women as workshop assistants—and Prometheus’ theft of fire allowed humans to develop their own technology. From Méliès’ re-creation of Lucian’s trip to the moon, to myriad takes on Pygmalion fabricating the “perfect woman,” to Hypatia’s fatal scientific inquiry in Amenábar’s Agora, on-screen depictions of invention and technology in the ancient Mediterranean world and the classical tradition have dramatized their potential to delight, empower, and enlighten—as well as the ethical and moral concerns they stimulate.
How do invention and technology stabilize or disrupt social order or tradition—for good or ill? What happens when new tech supplants the once-new? We enjoy the wit of Percy Jackson substituting an iPhone’s reflective surface for Perseus’ shield; can the wonder Ray Harryhausen wrought in Jason & the Argonauts survive the domination of green-screen motion capture animation? What aesthetic or ethical questions arise from eliding realism and the hyperreal in generating Spartan musculature, the Roman Colosseum, or the Olympians? Conversely, is democratization of knowledge spurring viewers’ expectations of “authenticity” in on-screen representations of technology in antiquity, e.g. in architecture or warfare—and if so, to what effects? How does film as a technology rival e.g. archaeology in representing the “reality” of the past?
The Classical Antiquity area solicits abstracts for papers that discuss how film, television, and various other screen-media engage with technology and invention, on topics including, but not limited to:
* representation of invention/technology in narratives set in the ancient Mediterranean world, or informed by the classical tradition (e.g. through plot, character, theme, mise en scène)
* how technology figures in characterization, in combination with morality, racial or cultural identity, and/or the social status of its inventors and/or users
* the ethics of invention/technology within on-screen narratives and in the creation of convincingly realistic or hyperreal worlds on screen
* innovation/technological invention as metaphor for generational or cultural succession
* audience (in)tolerance of anachronisms/interest in “authentic” on-screen worlds
Proposals for complete panels of three related presentations are also welcome, but should include an abstract and contact information (including email) for each presenter.
Please e-mail your proposal (200-400 words per paper) to the area chair:
Meredith Safran - classicsonscreen@gmail.com
DEADLINE for abstracts: 1 June 2019
Call: https://camws.org/node/1378
Conference website: http://www.filmandhistory.org/
(CFP closed June 1, 2019)
ON THE MARGINS OF MYTH: HYBRIDISATION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY MASS CULTURE ~~ EN LOS MÁRGENES DEL MITO: HIBRIDACIONES DE LA MITOLOGÍA CLÁSICA EN LA CULTURA DE MASAS CONTEMPORÁNEA
Department of Classical Philology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: November 11-13, 2019
Amazons, centaurs, lamias, fauns, sirens, satyrs, Medusa, androgynous beings…
Since the dawn of Western civilisation, classical myths have provided us with
examples of liminal identities and hybrid beings on the margins between the
human and the animal, the human and the divine, the masculine and the feminine.
Very often, mythical stories offer accounts of alternative sexualities (Narcissus),
gender fluidity (Tiresias), impossible carnal relations (such as those involving Zeus
under the disguise of different animals), and gender utopias (the Amazons).
All these narrations had precise, exemplary, and normative functions in the
societies that created them, functions that continue to be the subject of an ongoing
debate. In the context of such discussions on the subject, the research project
Marginalia Classica Hodierna invites your consideration of the implications and
uses of the concept of “hybridisation” as it surfaces in a wide range of retellings of
classical myths in different formats of contemporary mass culture: films, music,
comics, popular fiction, videogames, advertising, etc.
In their variety, all these formats tend to mutually interact and to favour the reappropriation
of content from both high and low cultures. But that is not all: they
also question the norm and promote the de-hierarchisation of certain models, thus
functioning as a vehicle for the expression of countercultural ideas, and,
subsequently, giving voice to mainstream culture’s notions and perspectives.
Drawing on these premises, the conference invites proposals that develop,
preferably, though not exclusively, issues such as:
* What are the defining features of the deviation from the norm or of the
monstrosity that these myths portray? What are these myths used for in the
new artefacts of contemporary mass culture?
* How are these stories re-signified? In what ways do they reinforce or
subvert the norm?
* What possibilities do these “hybridisation myths” offer for the construction
of alternative identities (group, ethnic, sexual, gender...)?
* Through what means and methods are myths re-appropriated in these
formats? How is that accomplished, considering that this material is
traditionally associated with high culture?
* ...
By discussing these and other related topics, the conference seeks to encourage
reflection on the following: what are the dynamics and the agents that allow us to
explain the uses, reworkings and reformulations to which these classical myths “on
the margins” are put today? To what extent does classical myth respond to the
demands of the contemporary world? What are the advantages of using myth in
such ways? Ultimately, we wonder about the reasons that might explain the ability
of classical myth to appeal to the most intimate concerns of today’s society. In so
doing, we also seek to explore the role they play in the reflection of contemporary
concerns.
Those interested in attending are invited to send an abstract (in Spanish, English,
Italian, French or German) of no more than 300 words (bibliographical references
included) to marginaliaclassicahodierna@gmail.com. This document should be sent no later than 30 April 2019. Papers must not exceed the 20-minutes limit.
Poster proposals are also accepted, and prospective participants should send a
summary of no more than 100 words to the above-mentioned address. All
applicants will be notified of either acceptance or rejection by 20 May 2019.
Call: http://marginaliaclassica.es/events/en-los-margenes-del-mito-hibridaciones-de-la-mitologia-clasica-en-la-cultura-de-masas-contemporanea/
(CFP closed April 30, 2019)
THE 12TH ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CLASSICAL STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
Theme: Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empowerment
Department of Classical Studies, Boston University: November 9, 2019
Keynote: Dr. Emily Allen-Hornblower, Rutgers University, and Mr. Marquis "I AM" McCray
The Department of Classical Studies at Boston University invites submissions of abstracts for the 12th Annual Graduate Student Conference. This year, the conference will examine how classical literature (broadly defined) is able to impart a profound sense of agency to the disenfranchised, especially in times of turmoil or persecution. Although we acknowledge that many nationalists, over the centuries and into the present day, have invoked the classics in order to advance their exclusionary agenda, we hope to demonstrate that the classics have the potential to heal, unite, and empower the marginalized. Therefore, this conference will explore the myriad ways in which those who have traditionally remained voiceless have discovered a safe harbor and a sense of solidarity through the literature of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon, etc. Special attention will be given to engagement with the ancient world by groups which have been historically underrepresented or outright excluded.
Possible submission topics include (but are by no means limited to) the reception of classical literature by the following groups or individuals:
* Victims of war (e.g.. Milo Rau’s recent production of the Oresteia in Mosul)
* Veterans (e.g. Theater of War)
* Widowed wives (e.g. Alcyone from Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses)
* Prisoners (e.g. The Medea Project, prison teaching programs like NJ-STEP)
* Women/feminist groups (e.g. Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey)
* Racial minorities (e.g. ‘Antigone in Ferguson’)
* LGBTQ+ communities (e.g. Iphis and Tiresias as trans symbols)
* Those living with physical or mental disabilities (e.g. CripAntiquity)
Papers must be original, unpublished, and written by current graduate students. Please send an abstract (500 words or fewer), a paper title, and a C.V. or short bio to Maya Chakravorty, Peter Kotiuga, Alicia Matz, Joshua Paul, and Amanda Rivera at ancientagency@gmail.com. Papers should be 20 minutes in length and will be followed by a short question and answer session. The deadline for submissions is Friday, August 23, 2019. Selected speakers will be notified by the end of September and are expected to accept or decline the offer within a week of notification.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1906&L=CLASSICISTS&P=112955
Program/Registration: http://www.bu.edu/classics/events/graduate-student-conference-2019/
(CFP closed August 23, 2019)
[PANEL] THE RECEPTION OF GREEK SCULPTURE FROM ANTIQUITY UNTIL THE PRESENT
33rd Biennial Conference of The Classical Association of South Africa (see above for general CFP)
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa: November 7-10, 2019
We invite the submission of abstracts for sessions on the theme "The Reception of Greek Sculpture from Antiquity until the Present" as part of the 33rd biennial conference of The Classical Association of South Africa, to be held at Stellenbosch University, 7-10 November 2019. We welcome proposals concerning any aspects of the reception of Greek sculpture from antiquity up until the present.
Keynote Speakers include Prof. Andrew Stewart (Berkeley), Prof. Stanley Burstein, and Prof. Judith Mossman.
Papers in the session will be allotted approximately 20-25 minutes. Please submit an abstract of 200-300 words to Jessica Nitschke at jessnitschke@gmail.com. The deadline for abstracts is 20 May 2019. There is no website for the conference yet, but further details on the conference will be available soon.
Classical Association of South Africa website: http://www.casa-kvsa.org.za/Conference.htm
(CFP closed May 20, 2019)
HOME & HOMECOMINGS: 33RD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa: November 7-10, 2019
The Classical Association of South Africa (CASA) invites proposals for papers for its 33rd Biennial Conference, to be hosted by the Department of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch.
We invite submissions that focus on the conference theme "Homes & Homecomings" as well as individual proposals on other aspects of the classical world and its reception. Panels are strongly encouraged and should consist of 3 to 8 related papers put together by the panel chair. We also welcome postgraduate students currently busy with Master’s or Doctoral programmes to submit papers for a "work-in-progress" parallel session.
Please submit a paper title, an abstract (approximately 300 words), and author affiliation to Annemarie de Villiers at amdev@sun.ac.za. The deadline for proposals is 31 May 2019 extended deadline July 15, 2019.
Further information on conference fees and accommodation to follow in due course.
Call: http://www.casa-kvsa.org.za/Conference.htm
(CFP closed July 15, 2019)
«AERE PERENNIUS»: IL DIALOGO CON L’ANTICO FRA MEDIO EVO E PRIMA MODERNITÀ (‘MORE LASTING THAN BRONZE’. THE DIALOGUE WITH ANTIQUITY BETWEEN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE EARLY MODERNITY)
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy: November 7-8, 2019
PhD course in Literature, Art and History in Medieval and Modern Europe - International Graduate Conference
A group of doctoral students of the first and second year of the PhD course in Literature, Art and History in Medieval and Modern Europe proposes the organisation of the third International Graduate Conference, which is reserved for PhD students and young researchers and will be held at the Scuola Normale Superiore on 7-8 November 2019.
This year, the conference aims to investigate the tradition and recovery of classical and late antique authors in the Middle Ages and early Modernity in their multiple artistic and literary forms (imitatio, reformulation, exegesis, critical reflection on literary genres, etc.). To this end, we welcome proposals for papers relating to the following areas:
1) The classics in Romance philology and literature of the 12th century
1.1) Circulation and transmission of the Latin classics in the Middle Ages.
1.2) The use of the classics in the scholastic education of the first vernacular authors and in the medieval poets of the French area, trait d’union between old and new literary forms.
1.3) Evolution of genres and literary forms from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
1.4) Critical reflection about Ars poetica.
2) The classical myths between the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance
2.1) Ovid’s images.
2.2) Recovery and reworking of the classics in the late antique and early medieval mythographic production, in particular in Fulgentius’ Mythologiae and in the three Mythographi Vaticani.
2.3) Allegorical and moral exegesis in commentaries on Ovid’s Metamorphoses (12th-14th centuries).
3) The classics in the Italian literature of the Middle Ages and in commentaries to Dante
3.1) The dialogue with Antiquity in Italian literature and art of the 13th-14th centuries: imitation and rewriting of classical sources; reuse of images and metaphors taken from the Antiquity.
3.2) The relationship between the mythographic and allegorical tradition and the Dante’s revival of classical myths.
3.3) Commenting with the classics: the use of classical sources in ancient commentaries and illustrations to Dante’s Comedy.
4) Ancient and Islamic philosophy, vernacular literatures
4.1) Ancient philosophy and its Arabic mediation in Romance literature, between continuity and variations.
4.2) The translation of philosophical texts and their relationships with vernacular literatures.
4.3) The concepts of "philosopher" and "philosophy" in Romance literature.
4.4) The re-elaboration of ancient material in the formation of new concepts such as interiority, artistic "creation" and geographic-mythical representations.
The conference will include the participation, as keynote speakers, of four internationally renowned scholars who have dealt with the themes proposed here, and whose research interests reflect the fourfold articulation of our program:
- Claudia Villa (University of Bergamo – Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), a medieval and humanist philologist specialised in the study of classical authors’ circulation in the Middle Ages and vernacular culture;
- Claudia Cieri Via (Sapienza University of Rome), an art historian and scholar of iconography and iconology, whose research has focussed on the fortune of Ovid’s Metamorphoses between the 15th and 16th centuries;
- Marco Petoletti (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan), who is author of numerous essays about medieval epigraphy, ancient commentaries on Dante’s Comedy, Latin literature of the 14th century, with particular reference to Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio;
- Paolo Falzone (Sapienza University of Rome), who dedicated a large part of his scientific production to the intertwinement of philosophy, theology and politics in Dante’s works.
Proposals (in Italian or English) accompanied by a title, an abstract (of a maximum length of 4000 characters) and a curriculum vitae et studiorum (maximum 3000 characters) must be sent in two separate files to the address aereperennius@sns.it. Each paper should be no longer than twenty minutes.
Requests to participate must be sent by 30 June 2019 and will be submitted to the selection of the organising committee which will communicate the acceptance of the proposals by e-mail by 20 July 2019.
The contributions will then be subjected to a rigorous peer-review process in view of the publication of the proceedings. Participation in the Conference is free. The organisation will not provide for the reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses, but it will provide information on available accommodation.
The organising committee: Susanna Barsotti; Arianna Brunori; Ilaria Ottria; Paola Tricomi; Marina Zanobi
Call: https://www.fabula.org/actualites/aere-perennius-il-dialogo-con-l-antico-fra-medioevo-e-prima-modernit-seminario-dottorale_91179.php
(CFP closed June 30, 2019)
LECTIO DOCTORAL SEMINAR: THE CHURCH FATHERS IN THE REFORMATION AND EARLY MODERN ERA
Leuven, Belgium: November 6, 2019
Every year, LECTIO (Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance) awards the LECTIO Chair to a renowned scholar specialized in one of the disciplines studied by LECTIO researchers. Holder of the 2019 LECTIO Chair is prof. John Monfasani (University at Albany). In addition to his public lecture on Thursday 7 November 2019 entitled “The Letters of Ignatius of Antioch as a Philological and Epistemological Issue from the Reformation to Today”, the day before (6 November 2019), he will give a doctoral seminar on “The Church Fathers in the Reformation and Early Modern Era.”
Theme: In a brilliant Leuven dissertation of 1932, “L’Élément historique dans la controverse religieuse du XVIe siècle”, Pontien Polman, OFM, analyzed how Protestant and Catholic historians treated the history of the Church. One crucial aspect, however, of these historical investigations not studied by Polman, save in passing, was the way scholars approached individual Church Fathers. The study of the Fathers involved editions, translations, commentaries, and a variety of other philological and historical publications that continue to this very day. The study of, and debates about, the Apostolic Fathers Clement of Rome and Ignatius of Antioch are a case in point. But the same can be said of all the Fathers, pre-Nicene as well as post-Nicene. What is especially interesting to observe is how specific scholars from the sixteenth century onward reacted, often in contrary ways, to a given Church Father or to a set of Church Fathers. There is a large and growing literature on the Church Fathers in the Reformation era, but much remains to be investigated.
On the occasion of this seminar, LECTIO invites early career researchers (PhD students and postdocs) to submit proposals on how specific scholars from the sixteenth century onward reacted, often in contrary ways, to a given Church Father or to a set of Church Fathers. The selected scholars will be given the opportunity to present their research (20 minutes) and to discuss it with the chair holder and colleagues, both junior and senior. A one-page description of the proposed paper and a short CV should be submitted no later than 6 October 2019 to lectio@kuleuven.be.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
Thursday 6 November 2019 | Museumzaal – MSI 02.08 – Erasmusplein 2 Leuven (Belgium)
10.00 Introduction – Prof. dr. Andrea Robiglio (KU Leuven)
10.05 Doctoral Seminar – Prof. dr. John Monfasani (University at Albany) - “The Church Fathers in the Reformation and Early Modern Era”
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Paper session 1 (5 papers)
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 Paper session 2 (5 papers)
17.30 Final conclusions
Wednesday 7 November 2019 | Promotiezaal – University Hall 01.46 – Naamsestraat 22 Leuven (Belgium)
17.00 Public lecture (Lectio Chair) – Prof. dr. John Monfasani (University at Albany): “The Letters of Ignatius of Antioch as a Philological and Epistemological Issue from the Reformation to Today”
Scientific & organizing committee
KU Leuven : Erika Gielen, Andrea Robiglio, Céline Szecel
UGent : Steven Vanden Broecke, Wim Verbaal
Scholars who want to attend the seminar without presenting a paper or the official lecture are also asked to register by 25 October 2019, by sending an email to lectio@kuleuven.be.
For more information , please visit our website (http://lectio.ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/training-and-tools), or contact erika.gielen@kuleuven.be.
Call: http://lectio.ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/training-and-tools
(CFP closed October 6, 2019)
REBUILDING / RESTORING ROME. THE RENEWAL OF BUILDINGS AND SPACES AS URBAN POLICY, FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
Rome (École française de Rome, Sapienza Università di Roma): 30-31 October, 2019
Everywhere in Rome, monuments are covered with ancient or modern inscriptions that not only contain the name of the original builder but also commemorate their restoration. Popes from the Quattrocento and Cinquecento who acted as urban planners, such as Sixtus IV, presented themselves as ‘restorers’, even when they were actually modernising the City. This phenomenon is not restricted to the Renaissance period: many Roman emperors already claimed to be rebuilders, such as Augustus who repaired all the damaged temples of Rome according to the Res Gestae, or Septimius Severus who was called Restitutor Vrbis on his coinage. Rome thus seems to be a city that constantly needs to be restored, rebuilt, born again. In the vein of the studies on urban heritage and memory and on cities’ resilience after disasters, more and more historians are interested in the question of restoration. This conference aims to investigate how the notions of restoration and rebuilding were a driving force of Rome’s urban transformation throughout its history, from Antiquity to the 21st century, as well as a political program put forward by the authorities and an ideal more or less shared by the different key actors of the city.
Three aspects of this topic will be discussed. First, the conference will analyse the rebuilding and restoration programs of Rome and its main monuments. We shall consider the scope of these programs, compare the main objectives of the projects and their actual realisation, and examine the concrete aspects of their implementation (funding, construction operations, use and creation of specific tools, etc.) The more paradoxical aspects, such as destroying in order to restore or presenting modernisation as a return to the past, will be welcome. We shall also enquire whether the ideal of renovation was an obstacle to a broad urban restructuration. We invite speakers to look at paradigmatic cases, and to keep a view on the city or district scale rather than narrowly focusing on a single building.
The second aspect concerns the political implications of Rome’s rebuilding. To what extent and in which ways did restoration projects fall within more general political programs, as for example the restoration of the State and its political traditions under the Roman emperors, the reinforcement of papal authority during the medieval and modern periods, or the recreation of classic Rome (republican or imperial) from the ‘French period’ to the fascist regime? What are the connections between the practical and the symbolic dimensions of restoration? Is the purpose always to tend toward the same ideal, to get back to the same period? All these questions are closely related to how the very idea of ‘Rome’ has evolved, from Antiquity to the present. Nevertheless, speakers should avoid a purely metaphorical understanding of the notions of ‘restoration’, ‘rebirth’ and ‘return to the past’: all the papers should connect ideologies and policies with actual interventions or at least projects of material renewal.
Finally, we would like to examine the relationships between rebuilding projects and urban actors (central, municipal or spiritual powers, public experts, inhabitants, etc.) taking into account claims, resistances and conflicts. The wish to return to a previous or idealised form of the city was sometimes a demand expressed by the inhabitants of Rome in response to urban transformations initiated by the popes or the public authorities or caused by economic imperatives. Some humanists, such as Flavio Biondo, even wanted to protect Rome from the ‘violence’ of its own population, and from the popes themselves! At the end of the Middle Ages, the idea that the Romans had been stripped of their own past became a topos. In the second half of the 20th century, associations devoted to heritage preservation like Italia Nostra and intellectuals like Antonio Cederna petitioned for the dismantlement of the fascist urban design of Rome’s area centrale, in order to enhance its historical heritage. More broadly, we shall examine who were the initiators of these restorations, and whom these projects were to benefit.
Speakers are also invited to pay attention to vocabulary and concepts. We will interrogate and historicise the terms of ‘rebuilding’, ‘restoration’, ‘renewal’, ‘restitution’, etc. Are these terms interchangeable or do they have very specific meanings, both in the sources and in the categories used by historians? This conference will provide an opportunity to reflect simultaneously on the production of urban space and on the discourses about the city.
This conference is part of the activities of the LIA Mediterrapolis – Espaces urbains, mobilités, citadinités. Europe méridionale-Méditerranée. XVe-XXIe siècle, and is co-financed by the Centre Roland Mousnier.
The conference will be held at the Ecole française de Rome and Sapienza Università di Roma, on 30-31 October 2019. Papers are accepted in English, French and Italian.
Paper proposals (500 words) should be sent by 1 February 2019, together with a brief bio-bibliography (150-200 words), at the following email address: reconstruire.rome@gmail.com.
The École française de Rome will provide accommodation to the selected speakers and contribute to their travel expenses.
A selection of papers from the conference might be considered for publication in a journal or edited book.
Organizing Committee: Bruno Bonomo (Sapienza Università di Roma), Charles Davoine (École française de Rome), Cécile Troadec (École française de Rome)
Scientific Committee: Martin Baumeister (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom), Bruno Bonomo (Sapienza Università di Roma), Sandro Carocci (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Amanda Claridge (Royal Holloway, University of London), Charles Davoine (École française de Rome), Chiara Lucrezio Monticelli (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur (Università Roma Tre), Cécile Troadec (École française de Rome), Vittorio Vidotto (Sapienza Università di Roma), Maria Antonietta Visceglia (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Call: http://www.efrome.it/en/research/actualite-et-appels/news/ricostruirerestaurare-roma-il-rinnovamento-degli-spazi-pubblici-e-dei-monumenti-come-politica-urba.html
(CFP closed February 1, 2019)
HIERONYMUS NOSTER: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE 1600TH ANNIVERSARY OF JEROME’S DEATH
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia: October 24-26, 2019
We are delighted to inform you that the International Symposium on the 1600th Anniversary of Jerome’s Death, "Hieronymus noster", will take place in Ljubljana, on October 24th–26th, 2019, at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. It is being organised by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; the Universities of Ljubljana, Zagreb, Graz, and Warsaw; Central European University (CEU); International Network of Excellence “Europa Renascens”; DANUBIUS Project (Université de Lille); and the Institut des Sources chrétiennes.
Call for Papers:
Hieronyme, veni foras, “Jerome, come out,” Jerome himself wrote in his letter to a friend (Ep. 4), stating a personal desire addressed to God. His own call will provide the starting point of the international scholarly symposium in 2019, commemorating the 1600th anniversary of Jerome’s death. The encounter will highlight recent research trends related to Jerome’s life, to his opus, and to the reception of this ancient ascetic, Biblical scholar, biographer, traveller, epistolographer, theologian, exegete, satirist, and controversialist. The meeting will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, among the archaeological sites of Roman Emona from his letters (Ep. 11–12), whose genius loci remains influenced by the proximity of Jerome’s birthplace, Stridon. While the exact whereabouts of Stridon remain unknown, an excursion will be offered by symposium’s organizers in order to discuss some of its potential locations. The conference will be interdisciplinary and will present Jerome in the light of the latest discoveries; its particular focus will be the archaeological finds of Christian Emona from 2018. The papers invited will consider – but will not be limited to – researching Jerome within the framework of historical context, archaeology, biblical exegesis, patristics, classical philology, and theology.
To Offer a Paper:
Please email simpozij.hieronim@teof.uni-lj.si. Provide a title and an abstract in 200 words for a twenty‐minute paper, to be followed by a five‐minute discussion, in English, German, French, or Italian, until March 31st, 2019. Please make sure the title is concise and reflects the contents of the paper. There will be some funds available for food and accommodation. – A separate session will be dedicated to graduate students; their applications are particularly encouraged. – The Committee will reply by April 30th, 2019. Papers will be published in Bogoslovni vestnik: Theological Quarterly – Ephemerides theologicae, and in Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca.
Organizing Committee:
Pablo Argárate, Institute of Ecumenical Theology, Eastern Orthodox Church and Patrology, Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Karl‐Franzens‐University Graz
Ivan Bodrožić, Department of the History of Christian Literature and Christian Teaching, Catholic Faculty of Theology Zagreb
Jan Dominik Bogataj OFM, Patristic Institute Victorinianum, Ljubljana, secretary
Rajko Bratož, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Alenka Cedilnik, History Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Antonio Dávila Pérez, Department of Classical Philology, University of Cádiz – International Network Europa Renascens
Laurence Mellerin, Institut des Sources chrétiennes (HISOMA‐UMR 5189 research centre)
Dominic Moreau, DANUBIUS Project (Université de Lille/HALMA‐UMR 8164 research centre)
David Movrin, Department of Classical Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Elżbieta M. Olechowska, Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw
Katalin Szende, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna
Miran Špelič OFM, Patristic Institute Victorinianum, Ljubljana
Rafko Valenčič, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana
Website: https://ff.classics.si/2019/01/11/hieronymus-noster/
(CFP closed March 31, 2019)
CIVIL RELIGION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Newcastle University, UK: 23-24 October, 2019
Civil religion – the belief that public religion could be subsumed within the administration of the state – has long been recognised by intellectual historians of the early modern period as a feature of republican discourse, most often conceived of as an inheritance from ancient Rome. This recognition, however, has allowed civil religion to remain underexplored as an intellectual tradition on its own terms. A language and concept seeking to reconcile church and state, it draws on numerous traditions, including the legacy of the Reformation and notions of Royal Supremacy, Freethought, Gallicanism, and more. Liberated from the confines of being a subsidiary to republicanism, a rich and complex discourse emerges, through which efforts were made to develop a persuasive vision for a religion conducive to a tolerant and harmonious citizen body. In order to achieve a comprehensive understanding of civil religion and its significance, an open dialogue between religious and intellectual historians is of fundamental importance, a dialogue which has previously been limited by the intense focus of scholars examining civil religion in its political dimension to the exclusion of religion. Moreover, a broad chronological overview of civil religion’s development from Antiquity to Enlightenment is required, beyond its origins in Republican Rome and episodic manifestations in the early modern period, further necessitating the interaction of scholars usually divided by chronological boundaries.
The aim of this conference is to facilitate these urgently needed discussions, bringing together religious and intellectual historians, classicists and early modernists, historians of scholarship and historians of political thought. The resultant rehabilitation of civil religion from its status as a handmaid of republicanism will not only promote methodological innovation through its interdisciplinary emphasis, but will interrogate dominant traditions in these disciplines regarding the relationship between church and state, and that between religion and the Enlightenment.
We are seeking proposals for papers on a range of questions, including, but not limited to:
* Can a clear definition of civil religion be determined? How can a viable framework for its discussion be developed?
* Was the religion of the Roman Republic a civil religion? How was this precedent used by later thinkers? Was it employed beyond the confines of republicanism?
* To what extent were accounts of civil religion influenced by the historical context out of which they emerged?
* How far did the notion of civil religion evolve as a response to the Reformation and its legacy?
* In what ways did civil religion inform Enlightenment thinking?
* Does civil religion need to be situated alongside irreligion, freethought, and priestcraft, or can it also be positioned as a discourse within the church?
* What were the aims of civil religion? Were they simply negative, seeking the limitation of church power, or can they be interpreted as positive, as part of an effort to develop a civil, virtuous society?
* What impact, if any, did civil religion have beyond political and religious discourse? How was it represented in literature, art, biographical writing, and scholarship?
Proposals are invited for papers of twenty minutes, with abstracts of no more than 300 words, to be submitted by Friday 22nd March 2019, to katherine.east@newcastle.ac.uk.
Website: https://newcastlecivilreligion.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed March 22, 2019)
PRO PUBLICA: A PUBLIC CLASSICS WORKSHOP
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA: October 18-19, 2019
How can we better speak and write about the ancient Mediterranean for the general public? How can academics engaged in the study of antiquity underscore the relevance of Classics in the present day? The Society for Classical Studies and the Department of Classics at Northwestern University invite applications to participate in the Public Classics Workshop (PCW) scheduled on October 18-19, 2019 on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The workshop will explore issues surrounding public scholarship rooted in the study of the ancient Mediterranean through a combination of lectures, mentoring, and workshopping a piece of public-facing scholarship. The ultimate goal will be not only to learn, but also to polish a piece of public scholarship that can be pitched for future publication.
Speakers and Mentors:
Sarah E. Bond
Nyasha Junior
Scott Lepisto
Denise McCoskey
Nandini Pandey
Claire Voon
Donna Zuckerberg
Participants will gather on the evening of Friday, October 18th for an opening lecture panel with Sarah Bond and Donna Zuckerberg on Classics in the Public Sphere. Events on Saturday, October 19th will fall into two parts. In the morning, invited speakers will offer a series of short presentations on topics such as finding the right publication, using accessible language, writing about race and gender, podcasting, pitching pieces to editors, and other issues connected to public scholarship. In the afternoon, participants will break into small groups led by a mentor to workshop a pre-circulated public-facing piece of writing (< 3000 words). Attendees are not required to workshop the piece mentioned in the application, but if chosen, they are expected to circulate a piece to the rest of the group by September 15, 2019. Participants are also expected to provide written and oral feedback for fellow public classicists during the workshop.
The Friday evening lecture panel is free and open to the public. Admission to the Saturday workshop is limited to 20 participants, each of whom will be given a stipend of $250 to cover travel expenses. Applicants should apply using this Google Form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfphb-2W8ike-SLZipMUQ_83TuoBQq85VqqLEGnXwsbjW9uSQ/closedform] by May 1, 2019. Accepted participants will be notified by June 1, 2019. Advanced graduate students and early career professors are especially encouraged to apply.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/pro-publica-public-classics-workshop
(CFP closed May 1, 2019)
NIHIL OBSTAT: READING AND CIRCULATION OF TEXTS AFTER CENSORSHIP
NYU Global Studies Center, Prague, Czech Republic: October 17-19, 2019
Literary scholars, sociologists, and historians have long explored the processes and ideology of censorship as well as the histories of the censors themselves. Pre-publication censorship practices and the institutions of church and state that foster them have dominated the field of study. Fewer efforts have taken texts after the fact of censorship or have detailed their further intellectual, cultural, and social trajectories. But as Deleuze wrote in Negotiations (1995), "Repressive forces don't stop people expressing themselves, but rather force them to express themselves." While censorship takes various forms, many of them violent, it has tended toward failure, and historically the experience of censorship amongst groups as disparate as 17th century Puritans and 20th century Lithuanian poets is often deeply instructive in the means of subversion, publication, and dissemination. Censorship has informed collecting practices, as with Thomas James, who used the Catholic Index Librorum Prohibitorum to dictate the acquisitions policy of the Bodleian library from the late 16th century onward. Censorship creates new relationships between people and places because it is enforced differently from country to country, even from building to building; for example, in 1984 when the police raided Gay’s the Word bookshop in London to confiscate “obscene” imported books by Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Kate Millet, and Jean-Paul Sartre, the same titles remained available for loan at Senate House Library a few streets away, and UK publishers continued to publish the same authors unpunished. In the spirit of these examples, this conference seeks to foster an interdisciplinary conversation broaching a larger number of underexplored issues that begin only after the moment of censorship—the excess of argument, collaboration, revision, and in many cases, creative thinking, that are given shape by the experience of suppression.
We are pleased to announce that Hannah Marcus (History of Science, Harvard University) and Gisèle Sapiro (Sociology, Centre national de la recherche scientifique / École des hautes études en sciences sociales) will deliver respective keynote addresses each evening of the conference
This conference aims to be as broad as possible in its geographical, historical, and disciplinary range. The organizers welcome applications from anthropologists, bibliographers, classics scholars, comparative literature scholars, gender studies scholars, historians, philosophers, sociologists, and those within allied fields, including library and information sciences and the publishing industry. The working language of the conference will be English, but participants are naturally encouraged to present research completed in any language(s). The goal of the conference will be to publish the proceedings in a collective volume.
Applications should consist of a title, three-hundred word proposal, and one-page CV, due on May 31, 2019. Accommodations will be available for participants and some funds may be possible for travel assistance within continental Europe.
Possible topics include:
- The reception history of expurgated, bowderlized, and censored texts
- The social history of reading censored and samizdat editions
- The impact of ‘market censorship’ on the rise of small, independent or clandestine publishing establishments.
- Religious communities formed around mutual practices of censorship
- The history of translation vis-à-vis censored texts
- Publishing within colonized spaces
- Canonical texts’ reception vis-à-vis censored editions
- Strategies for circumventing censorship, i.e. scribal publication and xerography
- Scientific and medical pedagogical traditions employing censored texts
- Teaching censored texts: period pedagogy and teaching practices today
- The contingencies of space and geography in censorship practices and the international circulation of censored texts
- ‘Asymmetric’ publication or the coordination of censored and uncensored editions
- The changing status of texts from uncensored to censors, and the inconsistent enforcement of banned items
- Textual histories of self-censored texts and later full republication
- Reversing censorship
- Bibliographical challenges in book description
- Publishing, marketing, and openly advertising censored texts
- Hermeneutic and exegetical concerns facing censored or expurgated texts
- Classical scholarship built upon expurgated texts and embedded polemical citations
In order to apply, please send the materials detailed above to Brooke Palmieri and John Raimo by May 31, 2019: bspalmieri@gmail.com and john.raimo@nyu.edu.
Call: https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/discussions/3779083/cfp-nihil-obstat-reading-and-circulation-texts-after-censorship
(CFP closed May 31, 2019)
HUMANITIES IN THE THIRD MILLENIUM: APPROACHES, CONTAMINATIONS, AND PERSPECTIVES
University of Verona, Italy: October 17-18, 2019
PhD School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Verona is organizing an interdisciplinary PhD Conference to be held in Verona on October 17th-18th 2019.
The Doctoral School in Arts and Humanities of Verona University organizes a multidisciplinary workshop directed
to PhD Students and PhD Doctors (maximum two years within dissertation). This meeting will constitute a suitable
occasion for meeting and interacting with students and researchers engaged in the Humanities Studies in the
multidisciplinary perspective which characterizes our Doctoral School.
The committee will evaluate abstracts for oral presentations regarding the following areas:
Area 1: Theoretical Framework and Methodology in Human Science
Possessing a methodological system apt for the record of human evidence is fundamental for every researcher in Humanities. The methodological apparatus guides the scholar by means of definitions and proceeds following the different questions about theoretical and systemic perspectives - although they can be sometimes controversial - in which we can found the object of our investigation. What are the criteria that guides the processes of interpretation, classification, inference and production of the knowledge and of the discovery?
Keywords: Methods and Theory of Humanities, New Perspectives and Approaches, History of Science
Area 2: Fragments and layers
Research in Humanities often starts from fragments: they can be represented as either single phenomenon or in connection (as layers, structures, landscapes, texts). In a synchronic as well as in a diachronic perspective, the comprehension of the fragment in its context is essential for the study and narration of the human expression.
Keywords: Fragments, Layers, Context, Landscape
Area 3: Hybridization
By means of the social phenomenon described as contact, cultures tend to hybridize and assume new configurations: it is not about abandoning one element for the other, but it is rather a form of coexistence and transformation of the two original elements into a new entity, which will become unique and enriched by this contamination.
Keywords: Hybridization, Contact, Contamination, Evolution
Area 4: Ambivalence
The idea of ambivalence can be found in many branches of cultural studies. It may be found when interpreting the meaning of a word in the field of linguistics, when choosing between textual variants in textual criticism, when deciding which portion of land to excavate in archeological research, when analyzing the “Doppelgänger” topic popping up in fiction, philosophy, iconography and sculpture. The question it is the same: which option is to be chosen, which explanatory strategy is to be favored? Ambivalent are psychological impulses, ethical values and cultural characteristics observed in a society, a folk, a historical period.
Keywords: Ambivalence, Hermeneutics, Textual Variants, Doppelgänger, Cultural Dialogue
The abstracts (word format, max 450 words, in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian) must be sent within 31st May by e-mail to ScienzeUmanistichecon2019@gmail.com
The authors should specify within the e-mail text: 1) Name(s) of the Author(s) and e-mail address; 2) Affiliation(s) (University and Doctoral Course); 3) Title of talk; 4) Selected thematic area; 5) At least three key-words.
For further information please contact ScienzeUmanistichecon2019@gmail.com or see the site https://sites.google.com/view/scienzeumanistiche2019
Coordinating committee: Marta Tagliani, Francesco Tommasi, Elia Marrucci, Vittoria Canciani.
Scientific committee: Andrea Rodighiero (Director of the Doctoral School in Arts and Humanities),
Stefan Rabanus (Coordinator of the PhD Program in Foreign Literatures, Languages and
Linguistics), Manuela Lavelli (Coordinator of the PhD Program in Human Sciences), Paolo
Pellegrini (Coordinator of the PhD Program in Philology, Literature and Performance Studies),
Attilio Mastrocinque (Coordinator of the International JDP Program in Arts and Archaeology).
Call: https://sites.google.com/view/scienzeumanistiche2019/call-for-papers
(CFP closed May 31, 2019)
WORKSHOP - CLASSICS AND RACE: RESEARCH AND PEDAGOGY
University of St Andrews, Scotland (Lower College Hall): October 14, 2019
We will consider concepts of race in relation to the classical world, Greek and Roman. The aim of the workshop is both academic and pedagogical: to consider ideas of racial identity in ancient societies, and the role of race in shaping the discipline of ‘Classics’ that we as modern-day classicists have inherited. We hope to generate discussion on the way that we understand and present ‘Classics’ in relation to race in the present day, and how it (and we) should change and adapt in the future.
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome, Rebecca Sweetman (University of St Andrews, Head of the School of Classics) & Introduction, Sian Lewis (University of St Andrews)
10.15 – 11.00 Classics for all? Challenges facing the discipline in the 21st century, Mai Musie (University of Oxford)
11.00 – 11.45 Greek Racism, Tom Harrison (University of St Andrews)
11.45 -12.30 ‘Otherness’ in Jewish and Roman Identities in the First Century AD, Rebecca Hachamovitch (University of St Andrews)
12.30 – 1.00 Recent Initiatives in Philosophy: the Minorities and Philosophy Project, Maria Jimena Claval Vasquez (University of St Andrews)
1.00 – 2.00 Buffet lunch
2.00 – 2.45 Postcolonial Classics, Barbara Goff (University of Reading)
2.45 – 3.30 #ClassicsForAll: what studying Classics taught me about my relationship with western civilisation, Hardeep Dhindsa (University of Edinburgh)
3.30 – 4.00 Teaching Black Athena, Ralph Anderson (University of St Andrews)
4.00 – 5.00 Round table discussion
All students and staff are welcome; no registration is required.
Information: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/events/conferences/
BETWEEN OEDIPUS AND THE SPHINX: FREUD AND EGYPT
The Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SX: October 12, 2019
Egypt played a prominent role in Freud’s personal life and writings. From his childhood encounter with the Phillipson Bible, through his psychobiography of Leonardo da Vinci (in which the Egyptian goddess Mut becomes a key to the artist’s sexual and creative identity) to his final work Moses and Monotheism in which he makes the scandalous claim that Moses was not a Jew but an Egyptian. Accompanying the exhibition at the Freud Museum in London, this conference explores the themes of Egyptomania, sexuality, death and psychoanalysis.
Speakers:
Miriam Leonard (UCL), Introduction
Simon Goldhill (Cambridge), Digging the Dirt: Freud's archaeology and the lure of Egypt
Daniel Orrells (Kings College London), Freud and Leonardo in Egypt
Phiroze Vasunia (UCL), Egyptomania before Freud
Claus Jurman (Birmingham), Egyptology in Vienna
Griselda Pollock (Leeds), Freud’s Egyptian Moses, Mummies, Mothers and other Revenants: A Political-Cultural Reading
Joan Raphael Leff (Anna Freud Center), Speculations on the pre-oedipal significance of Egypt for Freud.
Michael Eaton (Nottingham), Discussing his research in writing a new play about Freud and Petrie
A limited number of bursaries are available for NHS mental health service users and applicants on low incomes or UK benefits. The bursary tickets are £15. Please apply to Ivan Ward on ivan@freud.org.uk
For more information and to book a place please go to: https://www.freud.org.uk/event/freud-and-egypt-between-oedipus-and-the-sphinx/
METAMORPHOSIS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION, FROM OVID TO SHAKESPEARE
UCLA: October 11-12, 2019
Narratives of metamorphosis, from human into other living forms, have long provided an important site for thinking through the complexities of our relationship with the world around us. From Ovid to David Cronenberg, thinkers and artists have used the trope of physical transformation to figure the ways in which human and non-human agencies have evolved from and adapted to one another in a relationship characterised by fluctuating perceptions of friction and symbiosis, distance and proximity. This conference seeks to locate the theme of metamorphosis in the early history of the western environmental imagination, from Classical antiquity to the Early Modern period; and to explore the ways in which the various cultural and historical manifestations of metamorphosis from this earlier period resonate with the environmental approaches and concerns of our present day.
Metamorphosis may be an idea with a long history, yet it continues to answer to the eco-critical imperatives of our own era. Its exposure of the porousness of human and non-human categories calls into question many other dualisms that current environmental discourses seek to deconstruct: between mind and matter, self and other, subject and object, culture and nature, all these the legacy of an epistemic shift introduced in the Early Modern period that laid the groundwork for the widely prevailing view of human exceptionalism that subsequently took hold. Eco-criticism has, since the nineteenth century, sought to reposition man as the object of environmental factors and forces, and to invest the non-human world with an agency and dynamism that was hitherto held to be the exclusive domain of humankind, even as, more recently, ideas of the Anthropocene have brought this process of redistribution full circle. Nowadays, we are invited to think more of an entangled mesh of human and non-human forces, a hybridizing compound of natureculture, and a fusion of material and discursive practices as biosemiotics and related ideas concerning the creative biosphere transform the world's contents into so much storied matter. Increasingly, eco-critics have turned back to the pre-modern era to search for intellectual analogues for the kinds of ontological continuum and/or hybridization between human and non-human that we are currently seeking the conceptual terminology to describe. Narratives of metamorphosis, a popular theme in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance storyworlds, provide a ready resource for this quest: on the one hand, the transformation of human into non-human bodies stages metamorphosis as a subordination to 'lower' forms of life. At the same time, it also offers a parable (admittedly, a highly anthropocentric one) for explaining the kinds of mind and agency that we now find attributed to non-human matter. Indeed, the emphasis that accounts of metamorphosis characteristically place on the physical aspects of transformation displaces the hegemony of the cognitive faculties as any kind of privileged index of human identity, and speaks rather to a mode of trans-corporeality that sees the human as just one bodily interface among many others.
While Ovid is by no means the first author in the western canon to draw on the theme of metamorphosis in order to reflect on man's relationship with the environment, his epic poem is a cultural landmark that enshrines this theme as a crux for later environmental discourse.
Yet its significance as such has garnered more attention from cultural receptions of the poem, above all in the English Renaissance, than from modern scholarship on it (an imbalance that might in turn be attributed to the relative explosion of eco-critical studies of Renaissance culture since the 1990s as compared to a more incipient trend in Classical scholarship). Authors from Chaucer to Shakespeare, whose connection with antiquity is often owed overwhelmingly to a familiarity with Ovid's texts, frequently draw on images of metamorphosis to figure their own environmental questions and concerns, and have attracted a range of modern eco-critical approaches in recent times: from eco-feminist readings of Chaucer's bird narratives to the panoply of environmental concerns located in Shakespeare's probing of the limits of the human.Drawing inspiration from the poem's reception history, the organizers of this conference seek to reposition the Metamorphosesas a foundational text for the history of environmental thought, by investigating how its central theme of metamorphosis resonates with the environmental questions and discourses of the pre-modern era, and by considering how these echo and/or diffract our own. Using Ovid and Shakespeare as bookends for this important chapter in the history of environmental thought, we will invite scholars of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance culture to approach metamorphosis as a prism through which to explore both the continuities and the breaks in a tradition of environmental thinking that connects us, however discontinuously, with the distant past.
Please send a proposal of approximately 500 words to fmartelli@humnet.ucla.edu
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: October 15, 2018
Confirmed Participants
Jonathan Bate, Professor of English, University of Oxford
Lara Bovilsky, Associate Professor of English, University of Oregon
Emily Gowers, Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge
Lesley Kordecki, Professor of English, DePaul University
Mark Payne, Professor of Classics, University of Chicago
Alex Purves, Professor of Classics, UCLA
Robert Watson, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, UCLA
Bronwen Wilson, Professor of Art History, UCLA
Organizers:
Francesca Martelli, Assistant Professor of Classics, UCLA
Giulia Sissa, Professor of Classics and Political Science, UCLA
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/931031740410738
Program: https://cmrs.ucla.edu/conference/metamorphosis-and-the-environmental-imagination/schedule/
(CFP closed October 15, 2018)
COMICS UP CLOSE - NEW PERSPECTIVES IN COMIC ART
Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal, Cumbria UK: October 11, 2019
‘Comics Up Close’, the opening event of Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2019, welcomes the submission of abstracts for short
papers that explore any aspect of comic art or graphic novels. This is an opportunity to share your
current project with other researchers, illustrators, writers and teachers in the field, as well as
members of the general public passionate about comics. These papers will be part of sessions
inspired by the ‘PechaKucha’ presentation method: participants are asked to speak for 8 minutes
with 8 slides.
Areas of interest include but are not restricted to:
- Comic histories
- Comics and the Reinterpretation of Literature
- The politics of comic art
- International comics
- Graphic narratives and memoir
- Comics and horror
- Comics and cinema
- Comics and Science Fiction
Abstracts: please submit a title and an abstract of up to 150 words.
Email address: a.tate@lancaster or n.lackovic@lancaster.ac.uk
Deadline for submission of extracts: 5pm, Friday 16 August
More widely the programme for Comics Up Close is coming together with keynote presentations from Dr Simon Grennan, Leading Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Chester and Hannah Berry, Comic Artist and Comics Laureate, plus papers by Professor Kiko Saez de Adana at the University of Alcalá (Spain) and Prof Ana Merino (Wikipedia page here), Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Iowa, amongst many others. More information is now available via the LICAF website at https://www.comicartfestival.com/.
Information: https://www.comicartfestival.com/comics-close-new-perspectives-comic-art
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1907&L=CLASSICISTS&P=96753
(CFP closed August 16, 2019)
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF FELLINI SATYRICON (1969-2019)
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia: October 4-6, 2019
Fellini Satyricon (1969), directed by the master Italian director Federico Fellini, was first shown in Rome on 3 September 1969 and released throughout Italy on 18 September 1969. It is among the most famous (and unusual) representations of the Roman world. Originally both admired and attacked, this colloquium aims to mark the film’s 50th anniversary and reconsider its originality and importance.
Programme
- Friday 4 October (evening): a showing of the film (venue and time tba)
- Saturday 5 October: a series of papers, followed by a roundtable discussion (venue and times tba)
- Sunday 6 October: Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey) – a public lecture to the UQ Friends of Antiquity on cinematic receptions of the classical world (2 p.m., venue tba): ‘Fidelity vs. Creativity: The Screen Reception of Ancient Tragedy in Modern Greece’
Abstracts
Please send abstracts (200 words) to Tom Stevenson (t.stevenson@uq.edu.au). Abstracts must be received by Friday 19 July 2019.
Conference Fees
- October 4 – the film showing is free
- October 5 – non-members of the UQ Friends of Antiquity will be charged $30 for the day of papers – payable on the day to the Friends
- October 6 – non-members of the UQ Friends of Antiquity will be charged $10 for the public lecture – payable on the day to the Friends
Organiser
Assoc. Prof. Tom Stevenson
Classics and Ancient History, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
The University of Queensland,
Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
T +61 7 3365 3143 - E t.stevenson@uq.edu.au W uq.edu.au
Edited 20/9/2019. Speakers:
Prof. Alastair Blanshard (University of Queensland), ‘Introduction’
Assoc. Prof. Tom Stevenson (University of Queensland), ‘Fellini Satyricon (1969) in the Context of Fellini’s Oeuvre’
Dr. Leanne Glass (University of Newcastle), ‘Fragmentation and Impotent Strides in Fellini-Satyricon’
Prof. Arthur Pomeroy (Victoria University of Wellington), ‘The Fragmentary World of Fellini Satyricon’
Assoc. Prof. Marcus Wilson (University of Auckland), ‘Fellini and Petronius: Envisioning the Past’
Assoc. Prof. Ika Willis (University of Wollongong), ‘Reception, Reception, Reception: The Satyricon of Goodreads and IMDB’
Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University), ‘Italian vs. Greek Style? A Comparative Study of Federico Fellini and Theo Angelopoulos'
Information: film (https://hpi.uq.edu.au/event/session/4345), conference (https://hpi.uq.edu.au/event/session/4351), public lecture (https://hpi.uq.edu.au/event/session/4356)
Call: -
(CFP closed July 19, 2019)
[SEMINAR] THE LANDSCAPE OF ROME'S LITERATURE
Annual Conference of the Association of Literary, Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW)
The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA: October 3-6, 2019
This CFP is for the seminar "The Landscape of Rome's Literature," one of many seminars that will occur during the ALSCW 2019 annual conference.
Moderator: Aaron Seider, Associate Professor of Classics, The College of the Holy Cross
In the stories of Rome’s beginnings along the Tiber’s bank; of its fields stained by the blood of civil war; and of its battles beyond empire’s edges, Roman authors turned to the landscape to reflect on their society and their writing. What can close readings of Livy’s early Rome, Vergil’s Italian settings, or Tacitus’ British battles, for instance, reveal about the relationship between language and landscape in Roman literature? This seminar offers a forum for exploring a range of questions related to the literary construction of landscapes, with a particular interest in what the Romans’ written landscapes communicate about their identity and their work as authors. We invite papers that address these questions from any perspective, with a range of potential topics including the intersection between landscape and areas such as emotion, memory, genre, time, or aesthetics; the relationship between the natural and built environment; metaphorical uses of the landscape; and literary receptions of the classical landscape.
The seminar will last about two hours and consist of 6-8 participants. Participants exchange drafts of their papers 2-4 weeks before the seminar, and, at the seminar itself, each participant offers a 5-7 minute summary of their paper, and this is followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion.
Anyone who is interested in presenting should submit a proposal of 300 words and a C.V. by email to Lee Oser at leeoser@holycross.edu and Ernest Suarez at Suarez@cua.edu on or before June 1, 2019. While membership in ALSCW is not required to submit a proposal, it is required for participation in the conference. Please feel free to email Aaron Seider aseider@holycross.edu with any questions about the seminar.
Website: http://alscw.org/events/annual-conference/alscw-2019-conference/
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1905&L=CLASSICISTS&P=4924
(CFP closed June 1, 2019)
CICERO IN BASEL. RECEPTION HISTORIES FROM A HUMANIST CITY
Basel, Switzerland: 3–5 October 2019
With the generous support of the foundation Patrum Lumen Sustine (PLuS) the Department of Ancient Civilizations of the University of Basel and the Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron (SIAC) are jointly organising the international conference "Cicero in Basel. Reception Histories from a Humanist City".
The conference Cicero in Basel aims at charting the presence of the statesman, orator, and philosopher M. Tullius Cicero in the cultural history of Basel, the city located in the border region between Switzerland, Germany and France. While the study of Classical receptions tends to focus on particular cultural forms and discourses, the scope of the planned conference is programmatically open. Cicero in Basel explores a broad spectrum of engagements with Cicero through the ages: from the manuscript tradition of his works, to Humanist editions and commentaries, up to the political debates and controversies of today. In this, Cicero in Basel will assess Cicero’s impact on the formation of a specific idea of Humanism in Basel as well as Basel’s role in Cicero’s Nachleben.
The aim of the conference is twofold: It seeks to contribute both to the study of Ciceronian reception and to further our understanding of the history and development of Basel and the regio Basiliensis. Indeed, we expect this critical survey of Ciceronian reception histories from Basel to shed light on the emergence and development of the specific idea of Humanism that to this day plays a fundamental role in the self-image and identity politics of the Humanistenstadt Basel.
The conference will feature contributions that fall under the following general rubrics:
I) Textual history and transmission
II) History of scholarship
III) Politics and society
IV) Literature and visual arts
Confirmed speakers include Alice Borgna, Leonhardt Burckhardt, Giovanni Giorgini, Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer, Gesine Manuwald, Hans-Peter Marti, Michael D. Reeve, Federica Rossetti, Benjamin Straumann, Petra Schierl, Bram van der Velden, Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ueli Zahnd.
In this Call for Papers we cordially invite early career researchers and PhD students to submit proposals for papers of ca. 25mins; contributions which focus on Ciceronian receptions in literature and the visual arts are particularly welcome. Submissions, including an abstract c. 400 words and a brief CV, should be sent to cicero-latinistik@unibas.ch by 28 April 2019. The selection of contributions will be communicated in the first week of June.
The conference will meet the cost for accommodation and food for all speakers and will be able to contribute to their travel expenses. Conference languages are German, English, French, and Italian. Selected contributions will be proposed for publication in the series Cicero (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, with full peer review and open access).
Organisation: Ermanno Malaspina (SIAC) and Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle (Univ. Basel)
Edited 28/9/2019. Program:
Thursday, 03 October
9.00–9.15 | Registration / coffee
9.15–9.30 | Welcome / Opening remarks
Ciceronian foundations – Chair: Cédric Scheidegger Lämmle
9.30–10.15 | Tommaso Ricchieri (Padova) | Looking for a conditor: Munatius Plancus and the cultural history of Basel from Cicero to the 20th century
10.15–11.00 | Alice Borgna (Piemonte Orientale) | Basilea scrive a Cicerone: Lucio Munazio Planco
11.00–11.30 | Coffee break
11.30–12.15 | Michael Reeve (Cambridge) | Piccolominiana
12.15–13.45 | Lunch break
Ciceronian editions – Chair: Ermanno Malaspina
13.45–14.30 | Gesine Manuwald (London) | Cratander’s edition of Cicero’s works (1528) from Humanist Basel
14.30–15.15 | Thomas Vozar (Exeter) | Froben’s Ciceroniana: Humanism and the Printshop in Sixteenth-Century Basel
15.15–15.45 | Coffee break
Ciceronian commentaries I – Chair: Petra Schierl
15.45–16.30 | Federica Rossetti (Napoli) | Cicerone nella Basilea della Riforma. I commenti e le edizioni di Celio Secondo Curione
16.30–17.15 | Bram van der Velden (Leiden) | Basel and Renaissance Commenting on Cicero’s Speeches
Evening lecture (Kollegienhaus der Universität, Hörsaal 114)
18.15–19.45 | Gregor Vogt-Spira (Marburg) | Erasmus’ Ciceronianus und die Debatte um Cicero
20.00 | Dinner
Friday, 04 October
9.00–9.30 | Coffee
Ciceronian commentaries II – Chair: Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
9.30–10.15 | Petra Schierl (Basel) | Ciceros Somnium Scipionis im 16. Jh.: Kommentare aus Basler Pressen
10.15–11.00 | Christoph Schwameis (Wien/Dresden) | In L. Muraenam – Ein Humanist als Ankläger am ambitus-Gerichtshof
11.00–11.30 | Coffee break
Ciceronian engagements I (16th/17th c.) – Chair: Ermanno Malaspina
11.30–12.15 | Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (Basel) | Cicero scepticus in der ‘Weltbeschreibung’ des Ioachim Vadianus
12.15–13.45 | Lunch break
13.45–14.30 | Giovanni Giorgini (Bologna) | Cicero, Erasmus and Machiavelli's Ghost in Basel
14.30–15.15 | Ueli Zahnd (Genève) | Cicero und die Reformation am Oberrhein
15.15–15.45 Coffee break
Ciceronian engagements II (18th/19th c.) – Chair: Gregor Vogt-Spira
15.45–16.30 | Benjamin Straumann (Zürich/New York) | Cicero und die Aufklärung
16.30–17.15 | Leonhard Burckhardt (Basel) | Cicero, Jacob Burckhardt und Basel. Eine Spurensuche
17.15–17.35 | Coffee break
17.35–18.20 | Francesca Benvenuti (Padova) | Gerlach’s Cicero versus Mommsen’s Cicero in 19th-century Basel
18.20–18.35 | Concluding remarks
20.30 | Conference dinner
Saturday, 05 October
9.30–10.00 | Welcome / coffee (Foyer Bildungszentrum) | walk to Universitätsbibliothek Basel
10.00–12.00 | Ueli Dill (Basel) | Satura Ciceroniana libris ex armariis Bibliothecae Basiliensis repleta
12.00 | Conclusion / farewell
Program: https://latinistik.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/details/news/cicero-in-basel-rezeptionsgeschichten-aus-einer-humanistenstadt-reception-histories-from-a-humani/
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-cicero-basel-reception-histories-humanist-city
(CFP closed April 28, 2019)
AEMA14: THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION
Theme: Legitimacy - Illegitimacy
Monash University, Clayton, Australia: October 3-5, 2019
This conference invites papers on the broad theme of legitimacy. In a modern world dominated by deeply polemical counter narratives not afraid to adjust facts to claim dominance and, thereby, legitimacy, we look at the ways in which modern forms of the pursuit of legitimacy evolved in the early Middle Ages. Legitimacy can have several meanings, covering aspects of authenticity, legality, validity, and conformity. While it literally refers to something that meets the requirements of the law, this legal aspect is not inherent: something can be legitimate without being legal, or be legal without being legitimate.
In the context of the early medieval period, who legitimated? What was their reasons for doing so? Conversely, what was set aside in the process of illegitimisation? And what do these dominant and counter narratives mean for the presentation of history?
Legitimacy implies dominant views on authority, cultural legitimacy, status, and control of the means to ensure dominance, such as publication. It can create hidden communities and counter-narratives. Even though the early medieval period continues to exist in the popular imagination as backward and insular, in many ways it is a period marked by innovations in both the practice and pursuit of legitimacy, innovations which still resonate to this day. This conference aims to challenge the perception that the modern world is particularly modern in the way it contests legitimacy.
We invite submissions on the following topics:
• Politics and Culture
• Individuals and Institutions
• Law and Justice
• Status and Inheritance
• Authenticity and Fraud
• Orthodoxy and Heresy
• Truth and Propaganda
• Dominant and Counter Narratives
• Objects and Spaces
• Modern (re)interpretations of the Early Medieval
AEMA also welcomes papers concerned with all aspects of the Early Medieval period (c. 400–1150) in all cultural, geographic, religious and linguistic settings, even if they do not strictly adhere to the theme.
We especially encourage submissions from graduate students and early career researchers. Abstracts of 250-300 words for 20-minute papers should be submitted via email to conference@aema.net.au by 5 April 2019 EXTENDED DEADLINE May 20, 2019.
Limited financial assistance is available to AEMA members on acceptance.
Website: http://www.aema.net.au/conference.html
(CFP closed May 20, 2019)
THE PATRISTIC LEGACY IN EARLY MODERN CULTURE
Trinity College, Cambridge, UK: September 30, 2019
Postgraduate and Early Career Conference, with Keynote Lecture by Professor Karla Pollmann (Bristol)
In recent decades, our understanding of the early modern period has been transformed by close attention to the legacy of the Church Fathers. Under the label ‘Renaissance’, the years c. 1400–1700 were long defined in relation to an apparent renewal of interest in the secular texts of ancient Greece and Rome. Now, however, it is clear that early modern intellectual culture owed at least as great a debt to religious, and in particular patristic, texts.
The transmission of patristic learning was never straightforward; aspects of the Fathers’ works were constantly manipulated, reinterpreted, or ignored. Scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds have contributed to the recovery of this complex, multifaceted story. Intellectual historians and theologians have emphasised the ways in which the writings of the Church Fathers served as competing authorities within theological debates, provided tools for research in the developing field of Biblical scholarship, or sources for the knowledge of pagan antiquity. Scholars of classics and political thought have traced the Fathers’ enduring influence as sources of arguments and models of style for written texts and orations. Nor was the reception of the Church Fathers purely of relevance to the elite: as studies of literature, art and cultural history have revealed, patristic writings furnished rich sources to pioneers of the theatre and visual arts, and their wide dissemination influenced the devotional practices of the laity.
Despite these rich and varied developments in the field, the need to bring together insights from separate academic disciplines has only slowly been recognised. Our one-day conference aims to give young scholars an opportunity to bridge the gaps between disciplines. We invite doctoral candidates and early career scholars from the fields of history, divinity, classical studies, literature and art history to present their work to a multidisciplinary audience. Panels will be arranged by theme, to shed light on the diverse ways similar questions have been approached by scholars from different areas.
Professor Karla Pollmann, whose outstanding work in the field has consistently transgressed disciplinary boundaries, will give a keynote lecture, entitled ‘We are what we read or we read what we are? The reception of Augustine of Hippo as a case-study’.
Suggested topics for discussion include (but are not limited to):
* The changing prominence of different fathers in the patristic ‘canon’
* The production of new editions and translations of patristic texts; the importance of Greek, Hebrew and linguistic erudition; ways in which early modern editing choices affect patristic scholarship today
* Ways in which the relationship between the Fathers and pagan antiquity was understood; the importance placed (or not placed) on biographical knowledge of the Fathers
* The role of patristic authority in early modern religious controversies; ways in which contradictions between Fathers were negotiated and exploited; early modern use of Fathers as a normative source for present practice
* How far patristic scholarship was driven by ideals of objectivity or confessional polemic
* The role of Jews and other non-Christians in interpreting the Church Fathers
* The influence of patristic scholarship on early modern beliefs about sacred and secular history
* The patristic legacy beyond the elite; the popular presence of the Fathers; patristic reception amongst women
* Examples of the Fathers being ignored, forgotten or undermined
* Methodological papers exploring fault-lines between disciplines and what patristic scholars can learn from other disciplines; how interdisciplinary cooperation (or lack thereof) affected understandings of the patristic legacy to date
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a CV (max. 1 page) to the convenors, Odile Panetta, Eloise Davies and Thomas Langley, at trl36@cam.ac.uk. The deadline for applications is 1 May. Successful applicants will be notified by 15 May.
We have some funds available to contribute to visiting speakers’ expenses. If you wish to be considered for financial support, please make this clear in your application.
We are grateful to the Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council for funding.
Call: https://ptih.wordpress.com/conference-the-patristic-legacy-in-early-modern-culture/
(CFP closed May 1, 2019)
HELLENIC POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
Herceg Novi (Montenegro): September 29-October 4, 2019
Center for Hellenic Studies, from Podgorica (Montenegro) is happy to announce the international conference on the topic "Hellenic Political Philosophy and Contemporary Europe", to be held in Herceg Novi (Montenegro), from 29 September to 04 October 2019.
The Conference is of an interdisciplinary character, and aims at addressing different social and political issues from perspectives of history, philosophy, economics, theology, history of ideas, anthropology, political theory and other disciplines. Such conception of the scholarly exchange does not fulfill only the purpose of an historical investigation, but will provide a systematic treatment of the topic, thus clarifying existing ideas and advancing new ones. We welcome papers on topics like:
* The concept of the polis in antiquity and modernity
* Freedom and democracy
* Politics and economy
* Democracy, liberalism, totalitarianism
* The philosophy of the polis: Citizen, polis and cultural ideals
* Autonomy and responsibility in politics
* The philosophy of the cosmopolis
* The polis and happiness
* Ethics and politics
* and other relevant themes.
Please see the full call for papers at: http://ichs.me/call-for-papers/
Abstracts of up to 200 words should be submitted by 1 March 2019 EXTENDED DEADLINE MAY 15, 2019, via the registration form, or sent by email to conference@ichs.me
For more information please visit the website: http://ichs.me which will be constantly updated with new information.
Website: http://ichs.me.
(CFP closed March 1, 2019 extended deadline May 15, 2019)
SICUT COMMENTATORES LOQUUNTUR - AUTHORSHIP AND COMMENTARIES ON POETRY
Leipzig University, Germany: September 26–28, 2019
Organisers: Ute Tischer (Leipzig), Thomas Kuhn-Treichel (Heidelberg), Stefano Poletti (Pisa)
Confirmed speakers: Maria Luisa Delvigo (Udine), Massimo Gioseffi (Milan), Fabio Stok (Rome), Daniel Vallat (Lyon)
We are pleased to invite proposals for an upcoming conference dealing with authorial concepts and authorial figures in ancient commentaries on poetry, with a focus on Virgilian exegesis.
From a hermeneutical point of view, referring to the author of a text is useful in many respects. Knowledge about the author helps to situate a work in time and space and to identify contexts; defining a work as the product of a (single) author can explain its coherence in respect of topic and style. The ‘speaking I’ becomes the target of the reader’s attribution of intentions and authority, especially when the rhetorical design of a text creates authorial figures or voices.
In recent years, studies in classical literature have focused increasingly on author roles, author figures and author voices as part of the rhetorical texture. Technical prose and exegetical literature in particular are attracting attention as discursive areas, where emphasising authorial activities and authorial voices is a rhetorical means to constitute authority. Common to most of the work to date is that scholars usually investigate author roles and authority in texts whose attribution to an empirical author is not questionable.
Our conference by contrast will concentrate on works whose authorial status is in question. The corpus of the extant Virgilian exegesis provides a good example. Apart from commentaries attributed to certain authors (Servius and Tiberius Claudius Donatus), it comprises various authorless, anonymous and pseudepigraphic compilations. The aim of the conference is to shed light on the possible consequences of such doubtful authorial attribution for the reading of these and other collective, authorless texts from an ancient as well as a modern perspective. Taking this as a starting point, we will concentrate on the following topics and possible questions:
1. Problematic authorial status and authority – the example of Virgilian exegesis
* What role do compilers and collectors play as ‘authors’ within Virgilian exegesis?
* Which authorial attributions can be observed on the side of readers (e.g. pseudepigrapha or references to sources)? How can these attributions be explained and what is their effect on the reading and reception of the explanations?
* How do producers and users of compilations deal with alternative or conflicting explanations and with contradicting authorial voices?
2. The “author” as an interpretive tool for exegetical texts
* To what extent can we talk about ‘authorial strategies’ in the process of transmitting and transforming exegetical literature?
* How can authorial roles help us to grasp the stratification behind these texts?
* How do assumed authorial roles or authorial activities (compiler, collector, falsifier, epitomator, glossator etc.) influence our reconstruction of textual genesis, for example, as represented in modern editions?
3. Figured authorial roles in exegetical texts
* Which authorial images, voices and personae can emerge from the specific form and argumentative structure of exegetical texts, and how do the texts differ in these respects?
* What kind of relationship can be seen between the construction of authorial roles in the commentary and in the work commented on?
* How does the construction or evocation of authorship contribute to authorising what is said?
We welcome submissions for talks of about 30 minutes which deal with the above and/or similar questions and topics using the example of Virgilian exegesis or comparing other exegetical corpora on poetry.
We expect to publish selected papers from the conference in an edited volume.
Deadline: Please send abstracts of about 500 words by March 31, 2019 to one of the following addresses:
ute.tischer@uni-leipzig.de
tkuhntr@uni-heidelberg.de
stefano.poletti@sns.it
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1901&L=CLASSICISTS&P=184489
(CFP closed March 31, 2019)
DIGITAL EDITING IN THE CLASSICS
Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany: September 25-27, 2019
The Bavarian State Library (BSB), together with the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BadW), is organizing a conference on digital editions in the fields of Classical and Byzantine Studies. The conference will take place in Munich from September 25-27, 2019 (Ludwigstraße 16, 80539 Munich, Friedrich-von-Gärtner-Saal). The main focus will be on the interaction of different stakeholders, such as scientists, publishers, data centers, and libraries. The presentations cover a broad range of different ancient materials (epigraphy, papyri, manuscripts) and their specific challenges within an editing project.
Conference papers are held in both German and English.
Speakers:
ECKHART ARNOLD (Munich): Old Jobs – New Challenges. Producing, Providing and Sustaining Digital Scientific Literature
MONICA BERTI (Leipzig): The Digital Marmor Parium: Materiality of ancient Greek fragmentary historiography
THEODOR COSTEA, MARTIN FECHNER, NORA GÖTZE (Berlin): ediarum.EPIGRAPHY
PAUL DE JONGH (Turnhout): Perspektive Brepols Verlag
CLAUDIA FABIAN, KERSTIN HAJDÚ, CAROLIN SCHREIBER (Munich): Das Handschriftenportal und seine Rolle für Editionsprojekte und Digital Humanities
OLIVER GASPERLIN (Tübingen): Perspektive Pagina Publikationstechnologien
MICHAEL GRÜNBART, ANDREAS KUCZERA (Münster/Gießen): Census Epistularum Graecarum – Die Erfassung und Analyse der griechischen Briefüberlieferung in den Handschriften vom 8. bis 18. Jahrhundert
STEFAN HAGEL (Vienna): Perspektive Classical Text Editor
UTA HEIL (Vienna): Digital Critical Edition of the Expositiones in Psalmos of (Ps)Athanasius of Alexandria
JOHANN MARTIN THESZ (Würzburg): Die Kriege Prokops in synoptischer Darstellung
ARLETTE NEUMANN (Basel): Perspektive Schwabe Verlag
TORSTEN SCHAßAN (Wolfenbüttel): „Mehr als ein Dienstleister“: Die Rolle der Digital Humanities und der Infrastruktur für den Erfolg einer digitalen Edition
RAIMONDO TOCCI (Komotini): Wie sinnvoll sind Hybrideditionen byzantinischer Chroniken?
ANNETTE VON STOCKHAUSEN (Berlin): Digitale Edition der Homilien Severians von Gabala
CHRISTOPH WEILBACH (Leipzig): Digitale Edition von Papyri und Ostraka aus den Sammlungen in Halle, Jena und Leipzig
If you plan on coming to Munich we can offer support in finding a suitable hotel. Please register via email by September 10 (Arnold@badw-muenchen.de, Sieber@ub.uni-heidelberg.de or philipp.weiss@bsb-muenchen.de).
Links: https://www.propylaeum.de/blog/article/2019/07/18/workshop-digitales-edieren-in-der-klassischen-philologie/ and https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen-und-ausstellungen/article/workshop-digitales-edieren-in-der-klassischen-philologie-3121/
UNPRIVILEGED PASTS, UNWRITTEN ORIGINS
University College Cork, Ireland: September 21, 2019
How do we moderns conceptualize the “roots” and the “beginning” of our collective identities? How have the traditions and habits we recognize as ours been shaped in time? How do lost ancient peoples, civilizations, and myths survive in modern imagination? In an era of re-emergence of populisms, increase in hate speech, and resurgence of xenophobia, reflecting on how political, social and personal identities are shaped by our perception of the past is crucial. The reception and re-use of image of the ancient in modern literatures, film, historiography and scholarship can take different forms. However, these are often studied within the boundaries of the discipline of Classical Reception. Despite the wide remit of this discipline, the reception of ‘Classics’ in the widest sense of the term has mostly to do with the transmission of texts. The notion itself of ’Classical reception’ does not always suffice to describe the reception of ancient histories, myths, images, figures: it follows that this notion is sometimes inadequate and a new framework including the reception of primitive, archaic, uncanny, mute, more problematic legacies is necessary. In order to develop new paradigms for understanding the reception of ancient histories, symbols, and myth, and to define how these uncategorized forms of “ancient” legacies survive in modernity, cultural historians with diverse backgrounds interested in how modernity has interrogated other ‘subaltern’ antiquities: more ‘local’ – as opposed to the alleged ‘universality’ of the Classical heritage – and more mysterious – since they left little or no trace of themselves as opposed to the model of the so-called ‘Classical tradition’.
Program:
9.00 Welcome coffee and registration
Panel 1: Delving in Darkness
Chair: Dr Clare O’Halloran
9.30: Prof. John Carey (University College Cork): The Nature of the Fomoiri: Imagining the Dark Other in Medieval Ireland
10.00: Prof. Barbara Goff (University of Reading): Touching in the Dark: ‘natives’ and ‘barbarians’ in the classicising fiction of Naomi Mitchison
10.30: Discussion
11.00-11.30: break
Panel 2: Choosing your ancestors
Chair: [TBC]
11.30 Prof. Nelly Blanchard (Université de la Bretagne Occidentale): The benefits of the Celtic ancestors. From the Celtomanes to the present-day Breton business-model
12.00: Dr Martin Lindner (Universität Göttingen): ‘Ex septentrione lux’ – Nordic High-Culture Narratives in German Documentary Films from the 1930s
12.30: Dr Kate Hodgson (University College Cork): Memory and the ‘children of Anacaona’: Indigenous Caribbean traces in Haitian writing
13.00: Discussion
13.30-14.30: lunch
Panel 3: Etruscan places
Chair: Dr Daragh O’Connell
14.30: Prof. Maurizio Harari (Università di Pavia):The Etruscans. A myth of the twentieth century between literature and movies.
15.00: Prof. Bart Van Den Bossche / Dott. Chiara Zampieri (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Etruscan myths in early twentieth-century Britain
15.30: Coffee break
15.45: Dr Martina Piperno (University College Cork): The malleability of the Pre-Roman past: challenges, imagination, risks
16.15: Discussion and final remarks
The event is funded by the Irish Research Council through a New Foundations Grant.
Information: martina.piperno@ucc.ie and https://www.facebook.com/events/474540629768505/
'CONNECTING CLASSICAL COLLECTIONS': ENGAGING WITH HISTORIES, NETWORKING FOR THE FUTURE
Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle, UK: September 20, 2019
This one-day event builds on last year’s successful conference which explored the potential for a new Subject Specialist Network for classical collections. ‘Classical’ collections are defined broadly as collections from the ancient Mediterranean, including Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Cypriot material. There are at least 70 such collections across the UK, which have varying levels of curatorial support, and there is scope to do more by pooling expertise and sharing experiences. Attendees will have the chance to review progress and give their views on next steps.
The event will also present projects on the theme of connecting with audiences through collection history. The venue, the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle, houses the Shefton Collection of Greek Art and Archaeology, and offers an excellent opportunity to explore this theme as August 2019 marks the centenary of Brian Shefton’s birth. Attendees will have the opportunity to visit the collection as part of the day’s events.
Please join us for a day of networking, inspiration, and support in making the best use of classical collections in museums.
Booking is FREE, but essential.
The final version of the programme can be found below, along with further details.
Website: https://connectingclassicalcollections.wordpress.com/20th-september-event/
COMMUNICATION WITH THE UNDERWORLD: FROM ANCIENT LITERATURE TO MODERN CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE / KOMMUNIKATION MIT DEM JENSEITS: VON DER ANTIKEN LITERATUR BIS ZUR MODERNEN KINDER- UND JUGENDLITERATUR
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany: September 19-20, 2019
Programm
19. September 2019
1. Kommunikation mit der Unterwelt in der antiken Literatur
9.00-9.30: Darja Šterbenc Erker: Begrüßung
Darja Šterbenc Erker, Andreas Heil: Kurzvorstellung der Leitidee des Workshops
9. 30-10.10: Andreas Heil (Universität Wien): Jörgensens Gesetz in der homerischen Nekyia
10.10-10.50: Roland Baumgarten (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Jenseitserfahrung als Wissensquelle: Das Katabasisorakel des Trophonius und der platonische Jenseitsmythos der Politeia
Pause 10.50-11.20
11.20-11.50: Giacomo Sclavi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): … formam aliquam figuramque quaerebant: Ciceros Kritik an der Körperlichkeit von Toten in Tusc. I, 36 ff.
11.50-12.30: Darja Šterbenc Erker (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Rituelle Kommunikation mit den Toten im intermedialen und intergenerischen Wandel in Ovids Fasti
12.30-12.45 Zwischenfazit
12.45-14.15 Mittagspause
14.15-14.55: Patrick Kappacher (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): cuius vos estis superi: Ericthos Nekromantie zwischen Jenseits-Kommunikation und Erzähl-Raum
14.55-15.35: Bernhard Söllradl (Universität Wien): satis est meminisse priorum: Zur Totenbeschwörung in Statius’ Thebais
15.35-16.05 Pause
16.05-16.45: Nicole Kröll (Universität Wien): Aspekte des Jenseits in den Dionysiaka des Nonnos von Panopolis
16.45-17.25: Julia Doroszewska (University of Warsaw): Between dream and reality: post-mortem apparitions of saints in late-antique Greek literature
2. Rezeption antiker Repräsentationen der Unterwelt in Renaissance und in moderner Literatur
17.40-18.20: Marko Marinčič (University of Ljubljana): Homers Schatten an Epochenschwellen: Ennius, Petrarca, Andreas Divus und Ezra Pound
19.00 Abendessen
20. September 2019
9.30-10.10: Eva María Mateo Decabo (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Geister in der römischen Elegie: Der Besuch der verstorbenen Geliebten und der Tod des Autors
10.10-10.50: Sonja Schreiner (Universität Wien): Tierische Hölle oder: Wie kommt ein Kater in die Unterwelt? Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariäs Murner in der Hölle im Vergleich mit der englischen Übertragung Tabby in Elysium und der lateinischen Nachdichtung Aelurias
Pause: 10.50-11.20
11.20-12.00: Madeleine Scherer (University of Warwick): A Quest for Remembrance: The Graeco-Roman Underworld in Ireland and the Caribbean
3. There and Back Again: The Underworld in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture Inspired by Classical Antiquity
12.00-12.45: Katarzyna Marciniak (University of Warsaw): Unterwelt oder Untergrund: Vom Hades zum Goblin-König in Jim Hensons fantastischem Universum
12.45-14.15: Mittagspause
14.15-14.55: Karolina Kulpa (University of Warsaw): Have Fun with the Ancient Underworld! Some Examples of the Reception of Classical Antiquity on the Basis of the Products for Children and Young Adults
14.55-15.35: Agnieszka Maciejewska (University of Warsaw): Cleopatra Reactivated! The Classic Image of Cleopatra VII Transformed in Animations
15.35-16.10 Pause
16.10-16.50: Viktoryia Bartsevich (University of Warsaw): True Love? Hades and Persephone in Comic Books
16.50- 18.00: Abschlussdiskussion
19.00 Abendessen
Organiser: darja.sterbenc.erker@staff.hu-berlin.de
Information: https://www.klassphil.hu-berlin.de/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen#2019-09-19
TEMPORALITIES, IDEOLOGIES, POETICS: ANCIENT AND EARLY MODERN PERSPECTIVES
Venice, Italy (Palazzo Pesaro Papafava): September 12-13, 2019
This conference explores Classical and Early Modern literary forms that draw connections between, and are concerned with the dynamics of, time and power. It constitutes part of a larger research project exploring the politics and aesthetics of time in ancient and early modern writing. The conference will focus mainly on Latin and Early Modern Latin texts; however, we welcome presentations on any of the topics suggested below:
* aspects of time in didactic, antiquarian, epistemological and scientific literatures, and the ways in which these texts interact with power discourse;
* changes in the reckoning, recording, organising, or understanding of time, and their embodiment in literary and/or other representational forms;
* grand narratives of time and their ideological uses (e.g. the Golden Age, apocalypse, ‘progress’, decline, etc.);
* the ‘tense’ of certain classical literary genres (e.g. the lyric present; the general impulse towards the past in pastoral poetry; etc.) and their early modern reception;
* literary forms that explore how individual/collective experiences of time are mediated by class, race, and gender;
* literary forms that encode, or proleptically address, modern understandings of the modes of time, the consciousness of time, the unreality of time, etc.
Format: Each speaker will be allocated 30 minutes for their presentation, followed by 15 minutes of discussion.
Confirmed speakers include: Helen Dixon (University College Dublin), Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge), Duncan Kennedy (University of Bristol), and Caroline Stark (Howard University, US).
Funding: This conference has the financial support of the British Academy and the Warwick in Venice Programme. Further sources of funding are being sought. Depending on the outcome of our funding applications, we may be able to offer (whole or part) financial support towards the cost of travel for graduate students.
Submission of abstract: Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words of your proposed paper by email to Bobby Xinyue (b.xinyue@warwick.ac.uk). The abstract should omit any reference identifying the author to ensure anonymity in the review process. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 5pm, 8th March 2019.
Edited 21/06/2019:
Program: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/news_and_events/conferences/redesigningtime
Day 1, Thursday 12 September 2019
Welcome and Opening Remarks
8.50-9:00 Prof. Ingrid De Smet and Bobby Xinyue (University of Warwick, UK)
Panel 1: History of Time
9:00-9:40 Ahuvia Khane (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Ancient Narrative Time: Homer, Literary History, and Temporality
9:40-10:20 Duncan Kennedy (University of Bristol, UK)
Time, Historical Ontology, and Interpretation: the Case of Lucretius
10:20-11:00 Andrew Laird (Brown University, US)
Angelo Poliziano’s Brief History of Time
Panel 2: Temporalities in Roman Epic
11:30-12:10 Anke Walter (University of Newcastle, UK)
The ‘Grand Narrative’ of Time and Fate in Vergil’s Aeneid
12:10-12:50 Siobhan Chomse (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
History in Ruins: Temporality, Irony and the Sublime in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
Panel 3: Epistolary Time
14:40-15:20 Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford, UK)
Time to Come: Horace’s Epistolary Futures
15:20-16:00 Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
The Day of Reckoning: Seneca’s Epistolary Time
Panel 4: The Representation of Time and the Writing of History
16:30-17:10 Martin Stöckinger (University of Cologne, Germany)
Historiography and Chronography in Rome
17:10-17:50 Marco Sgarbi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Francesco Robortello on History
Day 2, Friday 13 September 2019
Panel 5: Personification and Embodiment of Time
9:00-9:40 Susannah Ashton (Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
The Apotheosis of Time: Chronos and Cosmos in Pherecydes’ Heptamychos
9:40-10:20 Rebecca Batty (University of Nottingham, UK)
Rivers as the Embodiment of Disrupted Time: the Metamorphoses’ Apocalyptic Episodes
10:20-11:00 Tom Geue (University of St Andrews, UK)
Slaving Time: brevitas from the Bottom Up
Panel 6: Time and Politics in Early Modern Latin Poetry
11:30-12:10 Bobby Xinyue (University of Warwick, UK)
Extension and Closure in Renaissance Poetic Calendars
12:10-12:50 Elena Dahlberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Time as a Political Tool in Neo-Latin Poetry from the Swedish Empire
Panel 7: Humanist Refoundations of Early Rome
14:40-15:20 Helen Dixon (University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
Ancient Chronology and the Origins of Rome in the Renaissance
15:20-16:00 Caroline Stark (Howard University, US)
Shaping Realities: Refounders and the Politics of Time in the Renaissance
Panel 8: Prediction and Finality
16:30-17:10 Ovanes Akopyan (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Power, Fortune and scientia naturalis: Predicting Disasters in the Italian Renaissance
17:10-17:50 Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge, UK)
The End of Time: Early Modern Poems on the Last Judgement
Response and Conclusion: 18:00-18:20 Prof. Tiziana Lippiello (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Call: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/about_us/centrestaff/xinyueb/redesigningtime
(CFP closed March 8, 2019)
TIME, TENSE AND GENRE IN ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE
King’s College London: 12-13 September, 2019.
Offers of papers are invited for a conference in the Classics Department at King’s College London on 12th and 13th September 2019. It will be convened by Edith Hall and Connie Bloomfield in the college’s Anatomy Museum. The title is Time, Tense and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature. The intention is to deepen our understanding of the distinctive temporal dimensions of written documents in ancient Greek, of whatever genre, provenance, authorship and date.
Confirmed keynote lectures will be delivered by Dr Katherine Harloe and Professor Felix Budelmann.
The conference is a response to increasing interest in the evocation of time in classical literature under the influence of Aristotle’s discussion of the temporal modes in which different varieties of speech operate in the Rhetoric, Suzanne Langer’s Feeling and Form: a Theory of Art (1953) and especially Mikhail Bakhtin’s argument that genres are ways of being in time.
Questions that might be addressed are these:
* Can we helpfully think of ancient genres as operating within certain tenses?
* What kind of ‘presents’ are/are not used and shared by lyric and comedy, encomium and epistle?
* How do authors periodise mythical time, for example the tendency of satyr play to reach back beyond the myths of Troy, Argos and Thebes to the world of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, the birth of gods and the creation of civilization?
* What techniques and effects are created by the inclusion of prophetic and oracular voices and perspectives in envisioning the future, or ghosts to articulate voices from the past?
* How do discrete genres address the future and use future tenses, performatively, deliberatively or potentially?
* What is the effect of present-tense narrative and dialogue in texts ostensibly set in the past?
* How has our understanding of the Greek aorist and perfect tenses been affected by advances in literary theory such as narratology?
* How did the Greeks think about the different relation to time inherent in visual and textual media?
* How have the sophistication of Greek thinking about time, and availability of complex tense modes contributed to the creation and projection of a ‘classical tradition’?
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to connie.bloomfield@kcl.ac.uk by May 1st 2019.
Edited 27/7/2019. Provisional Program:
Thursday 12th September 2019
0945 Registration and Coffee
1020 Welcome (Connie Bloomfield and Edith Hall)
Session 1: Archaic Time
1030 Tobias Myers Imperfective Moments: The Celestial Perspective in Iliadic Battle Narratives
1100 Rioghnach Sachs Homoeroticism, Time and the Determination of Genre in Sappho's Fragments
1130 Alex Purves Alcman, Sappho, and the ‘Lyric Present'
1200 Break
1230 Peter Moench Bending Time: Cosmic History and Human Temporality in Pindar's Nemean 6
1300 Ditmar Dragnev Aesop and the Future
1330 Lunch
Session 2: Ethnographic and Historiographic Time
1430 Tobias Joho Tense Usage, Dialogue Form and Characterization in Herodotus
1500 Keating McKeon Perseid Wars and Notional Nostos in Herodotus' Histories
1530 Kenneth Yu Aetiology and Temporality in Greek Ethnographic Literature
1600 Brian McPhee Ethnography in the Past Tense: The Amazons in Apollonius' Argonautica
1630 Tea
1700 Keynote 1: Felix Budelmann Tense, Aspect and Temporality in the Greek Lyric Present
1800 Drinks and Speakers' Dinner
Friday 13th September 2019
Session 3: Time, Knowledge and Narrative
0900 Carol Atack Temporalities of Knowledge in Plato's Protagoras
0930 Isobel Higgins Conceptualising the Future in Lycophron's Alexandra
1000 Alessandro Vatri The Living Past: Tense and Genre in the Critical Essays of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
1030 Coffee
1100 Robert Rohland The time of Dining and the Time of Death: Sardanapallus, Epitaphs and Performance
1130 Carlo Delle Donne Tenses in the Genre of Greek Cosmology: the Case of Plutarch
1200 Jody Cundy Turning Hierophany into Text: Pausanias on Lebadeia and the Oracle of Trophonius
1230 Lunch
Session 4: Dramatic and Theatrical Time
1330 Keynote 2: Sheila Murnaghan The Singularity of the Tragic Day
1430 Marcus Bell Mis-step in Time—Dancing Elsewhen through Euripides' Bakkhai
1500 Efstathia Athanasopoulou Entangled in Time: Satyr Drama in Present Tense
1530 Tea
1600 Devan Turner Silenus and the Chorus of Satyr Drama as Time Travellers
1630 Peter Swallow Time in Old Comedy
1700 Roundtable Discussion over Wine
1800 Depart
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/1148183248695585
(CFP closed May 1, 2019)
'BECOMING' AND THE ROMAN WORLD
Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University (UK): September 11-12, 2019
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the following conference, organised by and for postgraduates and ECRs working on the Roman world in its widest sense:
Change and transformation occupied daily life in the Roman world on many different levels, from the repeated adjustment of imperial boundaries and political shifts in government to semantic shifts and changing fashions in dress and hairstyle. Unsurprisingly, then, the concepts of transformation, change, and metamorphosis have found various expressions in Roman culture and literature. Such transformations have been studied extensively through a variety of methodological lenses, such as gender studies, genre studies, and reception studies. Recent interest in the concept of liminality provides a means for focusing on the process of transformation itself.
This conference will explore the transitional phase(s) of transformation, or, in other words: processes of ‘becoming’. It aims to discuss how different kinds of change were experienced, conceived of, and explored in the Roman world, and how modern perceptions and engagement with the Roman world have changed.
We aspire to bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars, in order to make progress towards a fuller understanding of change and metamorphosis in the Roman world. We invite proposals from subjects including - but not limited to – history, art and archaeology, literature, architecture, reception studies and philosophy; and we are especially keen to welcome doctoral students and ECRs.
We welcome proposals for 20 minute papers. Some suggested interpretations include:
* ‘Becoming’ and the navigation and performance of gender and adulthood, e.g. rites of passage and the transformation from child to adult;
* ‘Becoming’ and identities in the Roman world, e.g. the development and transformation of identities throughout time, changing conceptions of “the other”, or philosophical approaches to identity and selfhood;
* ‘Becoming’ in urban spaces and ‘becoming’ in and of landscapes more broadly, e.g. transformations of the cityscape, construction work and its effects on urban life and environment;
* ‘Becoming’ a text, story or topos across literature and material culture, e.g. the development and/or reception of written texts, genres, stories, or characters throughout time;
* ‘Becoming’ Classics and ‘becoming’ evidence, e.g. changes in methodology, the physical changes undergone by evidence, and changing relationships with and reception of evidence.
Confirmed keynote speaker: Dr Alexander Kirichenko (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
If you would like to present a paper at this conference, please send an abstract of up to 300 words to becominginrome2019@gmail.com before 5pm (GMT+1) on Friday 28 June. Thanks to generous contributions from our sponsors, the Northern Bridge Consortium and the Department of Classics and Ancient History (Durham University), there will be no conference fee. Lunch, coffee breaks, and a conference dinner will be provided. Additionally, there is a limited number of travel bursaries available: please indicate in your submission whether you would like to apply for a travel bursary. Applicants will be selected and notified in early July.
NB. We are committed to making the event as inclusive as possible, so please do get in touch directly with the organisers via becominginrome2019@gmail.com if you have any enquiries regarding access, and for any further information.
The organisation team: Peter Donnelly; Simona Martorana; Esther Meijer; Sophie Ngan (Durham University); Sara Borello (Newcastle University).
More information: Please feel welcome to follow our conference via @becominginrome and https://becominginrome.wordpress.com
(CFP closed June 28, 2019)
LATIN IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY HABSBURG MONARCHY
Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislava, Slovakia): September 6, 2019
The colloquium seeks to accommodate short, 15-minute presentations
in the Slovak, Czech, German, English or Latin languages, followed by relevant
discussions. The topic may be approached from the perspective of literary
studies, history, linguistics, and other related disciplines.
Please e-mail your proposals (consisting of a title, an abstract of no more than
250 words, and your affiliation) to svorad.zavarsky@savba.sk
before 18 April 2019.
Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs.
The proceedings will be published in electronic format by the Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics.
Call: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/CfPHabsburg
Program [pdf]: http://www.slavu.sav.sk/konferencie/Kolokvium_6Sept19.pdf
(CFP closed April 18, 2019)
LIFE AND MIND. ARISTOTELIAN THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris, France: September 5-6, 2019
Aristotle’s views on the nature of life and mind, and the relation between them, are taking on a renewed significance in contemporary philosophy. Increasingly, Aristotelian themes arise in a number of different fields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology, metaethics, and philosophy of biology. Central issues include whether Aristotle’s conception of human nature can usefully form the ground of a naturalized ethics, whether current discussions of the continuity between life and mind can benefit from Aristotle’s own version of the continuity thesis, whether evolutionary biology could benefit from a theory of the organism of the sort that Aristotle’s biological works offer.
Despite the interest in exploring Aristotelian themes in contemporary philosophy, there has been no coordinated attempt to survey or integrate the ways in which Aristotle’s approach to understanding life, mind, and the relation between them might inform and enrich our own. The objective of this workshop is to explore the way in which Aristotelian thought can brought to bear on contemporary research on the much-debated issue of the so-called mind-body problem and on its implications for the conceptualization of notions such as those of organism, animal and human perception and action, human moral agency, and the relation between mind and life. Such themes are of crucial importance for philosophical research and beyond.
Scholars working in ancient philosophy are paired with researchers in psychology and/or contemporary philosophy of biology. Each pair will discuss a common theme with a dual focus on the potential of Aristotle’s philosophy to contribute to the contemporary debate, on one side, and on the actual impact of such contributions for contemporary research, on the other. The workshop constitutes an explicit attempt to bridge the gap between classics and contemporary biological and psychological theory and, as such, it features an exploratory research design.
Participants include Christopher Austin (Oxford), Pia Campeggiani (Bologna), Victor Caston (Michigan), Sophia Connell (Birkbeck, London), Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen), Véronique Decaix (Paris 1), James Lennox (Pittsburgh), Anna Marmodoro (Durham), Laura Nuño de la Rosa (Complutense, Madrid), Denis Walsh (Toronto), Michael Wheeler (Stirling).
Registration is free. Full programme and registration information: https://www.paris-iea.fr/en/events/life-and-mind-aristotelian-themes-in-contemporary-philosophy-2
THE LITERARY IMAGE AND THE SCREEN
Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Genoa, Italy: September 5-6, 2019
The conference is co-organised by the University of Genoa and the University of Oxford.
Our conference aims to explore the connections and relationships between literature and the screen, from the pre-cinematic age to the era of new digital technologies. A cross-media approach, aimed at understanding the reciprocal influences between these various artistic forms, as seen from the point of view of techniques of representation, theoretical exchanges and the circulation of works, will shed new light on ideas in, and theories of, both literature and the cinema.
The dialogue between different genres of literature and film has been crucial in their respective developments from the birth of cinema to the present day. Moreover, various texts and authors in the literature of the pre-cinematic era can be analysed through film techniques and be regarded as, in some ways, anticipating them.
Our keynote speakers are Nikolaj Lübecker and Laura Marcus (University of Oxford).
Please send your abstracts (max. 250 words) and short bios (max. 50 words) in PDF to: oxford.genoa.conference.2019@gmail.com
The deadline for submissions is 30 June.
Below are the links to the full version of our CFP as well as to our Facebook event.
Call: https://www.academia.edu/39368828/Call_for_Papers_The_Literary_Image_and_The_Screen
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2238637746401362/
(CFP closed June 30, 2019)
CONSTRUCTING THE ‘PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL’ IN THE PREMODERN WORLD
University of Manchester, UK: September 5-6, 2019
A two-day conference co-hosted by the Genealogies of Knowledge project, the Division of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, and the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK
A notable feature of intellectual history has been the role of translation in the evolution and contestation of key cultural concepts, including those involved in the negotiation of power: we may think here of the extent to which modern terms such as ‘politics’ and ‘democracy’ derive ultimately from classical Greek, often mediated through different languages. Translation and other forms of mediation are similarly implicated in renegotiating the concept of the public intellectual in different historical and cultural locations.
The role and future of the public intellectual in the contemporary world continues to inspire academic and non-academic debate. In his 1993 Reith lectures, Edward Said gives voice to what might be called a ‘common-sense’ vision of the public intellectual. At first glance, Said’s description of the fiercely independent, incorruptible intellectual whose writing and thought serve as a lifelong calling to relentlessly and selflessly oppose injustice has a timeless quality. Closer examination reveals, however, that Said’s vision is very much a product of his time and personal circumstances. Several assumptions underlie Said’s vision. For example, Said insists on a strict division between the public and the private sphere. He declares that the public intellectual’s main task is making enlightened representations in language that assess actual states-of-affairs against the prescriptions of universal moral precepts. For Said, the public intellectual must be secular, being staunchly opposed to religion spilling outside ‘private life’. Finally, Said holds that the norms that serve as the public intellectual’s moral compass are the principles of liberal democracy. These ostensibly universal elements of Said’s portrait – the division between public and private realms, the view of democratic liberalism as a universally valid moral system, and a robust secularism that staunchly opposes religion spilling outside ‘private life’ – are all in reality the product of the particular historical experiences of Western Europe.
Research undertaken by the Genealogies of Knowledge team serves as a challenge to such contemporary constructions of the public intellectual as a timeless and culturally ubiquitous figure in human societies, and demonstrates that the figure of the public intellectual has also been inscribed into historical representations of premodern society and politics. In the premodern world, perhaps more than today, the status of ‘public intellectual’ derived from access to cultural capital associated with particular bodies of knowledge – often but not necessarily religious as well as secular – and in particular from the construction of intellectual authority via expertise in a privileged learned language (Greek, Latin, classical Arabic, Sanskrit).
‘Constructing the public intellectual in the premodern world’ is based on the premise that the term ‘public intellectual’ can meaningfully be used either of individuals or of groups in the premodern world. It has two aims. The first is to examine the specific historical conditions, including both the continuities but also the changes in conceptual and cultural categories, which served to construct this figure in the premodern world. The second is to understand how modern representations of the premodern ‘public intellectual’ have been used to inspire and shape modern ideas about the role and remit of public intellectuals in the contemporary world.
The conference welcomes proposals for individual papers or panels (ideally of three papers) that grapple with how the ‘public intellectual’ was constructed in premodern societies, and how their legacy influences how we understand the public intellectual today. The conference invites scholars to present research on, but not limited to, the following broad themes:
Constructing categories. Focusing on the historically and culturally specific categories from which representations of the public intellectual are constructed. Topics include: the premodern ‘public’, premodern textual and visual political representation, premodern ‘intellect’ and ‘intellectuals’, premodern sites of representation, power and representation in the premodern world, the self in premodern politics, political life in the premodern world.
Constructing authority with language and translation. Focusing on privileged languages of learning as a mode of access to political privilege. Topics include: politics of translation, constructing scientific lexicons, language and power in the premodern world, premodern lingua francas, politics and vernacular languages.
Constructing authority with knowledge. Focusing on the historical changes and cultural differences in the specialised forms of knowledge that give its possessor the power to govern the lives of others. Topics include: political knowledge; specialisation and professionalism in the premodern world; the relationship between specific learned languages and particular areas of expertise such as religious learning, legal learning and medical learning; political authority and privileged languages of learning; premodern education and political power; patronage and patrons; centre and periphery in premodern intellectual geography; public intellectuals on the move.
Utilising the premodern public intellectual. Focusing on how portraits of premodern ‘public intellectuals’ influence our ideas about what the public intellectual should be today. Topics include: using ancient models for making the modern public intellectuals, contemporary legacies of ancient philosophers, ‘practical philosophy’ in the modern world.
Submissions are welcome from diverse fields, including but not limited to: history, linguistics, translation studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, political science, religious studies, development and regional studies, and classics.
Individual abstracts and panel proposals should be sent to Kamran Karimullah (karimullah.kamran@manchester.ac.uk) by 1st March 2019.
Speakers and the titles of their papers are listed below: fuller details including abstracts are available at the conference website.
Keynote speakers:
Khaled Fahmy (University of Cambridge), “To Whom Does the Body Belong: Modern Medicine and Medical Professionals in Times of Upheaval”
Chris Stray (Swansea University) “The Politics of the Classical: Language and authority in the 19th century”
Other confirmed speakers:
Nilza Angmo (Ambedkar University, Delhi), “The Reciter and the Translator: Transmission of religious texts in Tibetan Buddhism”
Radha Chakravarty (Ambedkar University, Delhi), “The River of Knowledge: Rabindranath Tagore and Premodern Thinkers”
Tim Cornell (University of Manchester), “Ancient and modern ideas of History and Historical Writing”
Eduardo Crisafulli (Independent researcher), “The construction of Dante as a modern intellectual ahead of his time”
Maribel Fierro (ILC-CSIC, Madrid), “Ibn Tumart and Ibn Rushd (Averroes): exploring the ‘public intellectual’ from the Medieval Maghreb”
Chiara Fontana (Sapienza University of Rome/Italian Institute of Oriental Studies), “A Farewell to the Beauty: Political, Aesthetical and Social Aspects of Ibn al-Muʽtazz’s (861 – 908) Legacy as a Pre-modern Public Intellectual. An In-Depth Inquiry in His Neglected Work Fuṣūl at-Tamāthīl fī Tabāshīr as-Surūr (Examples and Similes on the Pleasure of Sharing Joy)”
Matthias Haake (University of Münster), “All over the Ancient Mediterranean world? The social figure of the intellectual in the Greek and Roman worlds from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity – a comparative approach”
Joanna Komorowska (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw), “Knowing the Future: the Public Face of an Astrologer”
Taro Mimura (Hiroshima University, Japan), “Arabic Translation Contests in the Abbasid Courts – The Process of Publicizing Greek Scientific Knowledge in the Abbasid Period”
Seán Morris (University of Exeter), “In Latin and French: a Bilingual Mathematician writing for two Audiences”
Zrinko Novosel (University of Zagreb/Croatian Institute of History), “Writing on the Topic of Law in the Periphery. The Case of Imbrih Domin and Konstantin Farkaš”
Hammood Obaid (University of Manchester), “Ǧābir Bin Ḥayyān and The Earl of Northumberland: Elizabethan conceptions of science, magic and their role in society”
Matthew Payne (Leiden University), “Cicero and Aulus Gellius: the public intellectual as translator and mediator in the Roman world”
Dino Piovan (University of Verona), “Reading Thucydides in Early 20th-Century Italy”
Koen Scholten (Utrecht University), “Scholarly Identity in Early Modern Europe: A Quantitative Approach to Early Modern Collective Vitae of Learned Men and Women”
Emily Selove (University of Exeter), “The Sorcerer Scholar: al-Sakkākī (d. 1229) as grammarian and court magician”
Youcef Soufi (University of British Columbia), “Some Precursors of the Modern Public Intellectual; Disputation and Critique Among Islamic Jurists in the 10th-13th Century”
John Taylor (University of Manchester), “English historians of ancient Greece from Mitford to Grote”
Rogier van der Wal (Leiden University/University Campus Fryslân, Leeuwarden), “Another kind of public intellectual: Oscar Wilde and Harry Mulisch”
Laura Viidebaum (New York University), “Past Perfect: Isocrates and the Emergence of Public Intellectuals”
Hans Wietzke (Carleton College, Minnesota), “Wit to Power: Rethinking the Royal Addressee in Archimedes’ Sand-Reckoner”
Website: http://genealogiesofknowledge.net/events/public-intellectual/
(CFP closed March 1, 2019)
[SESSION] ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE 21st CENTURY
25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
Bern, Switzerland: September 4-7, 2019
Two decades into the 21st century, the political and social framework of Europe is facing multiple challenges with issues such as migration, growing political and social instabilities, and economic uncertainties on the table. Against the backdrop of these current transformations, Roman Archaeology could (rightly?) be considered an exclusive and elitist pastime by detached academics. Our session thus aims at discussing two major topics:
(1) Who cares about the Roman past anyway?
In the light of demographic changes in Europe, we must consider to which parts of society and to which audience Roman Archaeology is catering. Is the Roman past an identity marker only for a white, indigenous, European, Western civilization? What role can Roman Archaeology play in a society in quantitative and structural demographic transition? What strategies might Roman Archaeology develop to include all strata of the population?
(2) What is the take on Roman Archaeology at grassroot level?
Certain methodological, theoretical and intellectual issues of current international scholarship, such as the fragmentation of Archaeology into subdisciplines, growing language barriers, or questions on the costly application of natural sciences and new technologies are often only related to the realm of well-funded, higher-education research institutions. What are the key issues that fall under the remit of local museums, archaeological parks, heritage agencies and the large number of non-academics engaging in Roman Archaeology?
Interested non-academics from the re-enactment scene, field archaeologists and find officers of regional heritage agencies, museum curators and managers, university faculty, and political stakeholders are invited to share their perspectives about the current state, potentials and limits of Roman Archaeology in the 21st century. The session aims at exploring Roman Archaeology’s relevance today by giving a voice to all those involved in the discipline and by gathering professionals from all backgrounds contributing to the study of the Roman World.
Important Information: Deadline for paper proposals February 14th. Submissions and registration at https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2019
Organizers: Lawrence, Andrew (Switzerland/the Netherlands) – University of Berne, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department Archaeology of the Roman Provinces/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, CLUE+; Murer, Cristina (Switzerland) – University of Berne, Historical Institute, Department of Ancient History and Reception of History; Krmnicek, Stefan (Germany) – University of Tübingen, Institute of Classical Archaeology.
Contact: andrew.lawrence@iaw.unibe.ch; cristina.murer@hist.unibe.ch; stefan.krmnicek@uni-tuebingen.de
Call: https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2019/Programme.aspx?Program=3#Program (Session #212)
(CFP closed February 14, 2019)
SAPIENS UBIQUE CIVIS VII - SZEGED 2019
PhD Student and Young Scholar Conference on Classics and the Reception of Antiquity
Szeged, Hungary: August 28–30, 2019
The Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary is pleased to announce its International Conference Sapiens Ubique Civis VII – Szeged 2019, for PhD Students, Young Scholars, as well as M.A. students aspiring to apply to a PhD program.
The aim of the conference is to bring together an international group of young scholars working in a variety of periods, places, languages, and fields. Papers on a wide range of classical subjects, including but not limited to the literature, history, philology, philosophy, linguistics and archaeology of Greece and Rome, Byzantinology, Neo-Latin studies, and reception of the classics, as well as papers dealing with theatre studies, comparative literature, contemporary literature, and fine arts related to the Antiquity are welcome.
Lectures: The language of the conference is English. Thematic sessions and plenary lectures will be scheduled. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes, followed by discussion. It is not possible to present via Skype.
Abstracts: Abstracts of maximum 300 words should be sent by email as a Word attachment to sapiensuc@gmail.com strictly before June 11, 2019. The document should also contain personal information of the author, including name, affiliation and contact email address, and the title of the presentation. Acceptance notification will be sent to you until June 18, 2019.
Registration: The registration fee for the conference is €70, however for those who apply before May 19, 2019, we provide a €20 discount. The participation fee includes conference pack, reception meal, closing event, extra programs, and refreshments during coffee breaks. The participation fee does not include accommodation, but the conference coordinators will assist the conference participants in finding accommodation in the city centre. Those who intend to bring a guest are obligated to pay €20 in addition to the registration fee.
Publication: All papers will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed international journal on Classics.
Getting here: Szeged, the largest city of Southern Hungary, can be easily reached by rail from Budapest and the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. Those who prefer travelling by car can choose the European route E75, and then should take the Hungarian M5 motorway, a section of E75, passing by the city.
We look forward to your participation in this conference.
Dr. János Nagyillés PhD - Head of Department, Chairman of the Conference Committee
Members of the Conference Committee:
Dr. Endre Ádám Hamvas PhD; Dr. Imre Áron Illés PhD; Dr. habil. Péter Kasza PhD;
Dr. Ferenc Krisztián Szabó PhD; Prof. László Szörényi DSc; Dr. habil. Ibolya Tar CSc
Conference coordinators:
Fanni Csapó (fannicsapo@gmail.com)
Attila Hajdú (attila.hajdu85@gmail.com)
Dr. Tamás Jászay PhD (jaszaytamas@gmail.com)
Dr. Gergő Gellérfi PhD (gellerfigergo@gmail.com)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-sapiens-ubique-civis-vii-szeged-2019
(CFP closed June 11, 2019)
CLASSICAL HERITAGE FORUM II: LANGUAGE AND LEARNING
University of Sydney (CCANESA), NSW, Australia: August 22, 2019
Our next Classical Heritage Forum turns to the place of Classics in NSW secondary schools.
This evening forum is for teachers, academics, museum educators and all those interested in the Classics at The University of Sydney. Join educators and scholars as we investigate the way Classical language and learning have influenced education in New South Wales.
We will explore the changing nature of pedagogy in the Classics from the early days of the colony to the present, both within and beyond formal schooling, and examine the shifting history of Classics as the hallmark of a liberal education, as it has changed from a field that was conventionally the preserve of the educated few to one that attracts a culturally and ethnically diverse group of students, with as many young women as men. Against this backdrop, our panellists will discuss the rewards and challenges of an education in the Classics, and their place in the school curriculum of the 21st century.
Program
4pm Arrival and afternoon tea
4:20pm Welcome and introductions: Professor Penny Russell
4:30pm – 5.30pm. Classical Learning: A Shifting Landscape
Speakers:
Professor Penny Russell, University of Sydney; Associate Professor Julia Horne, University of Sydney
Associate Professor Helen Proctor, University of Sydney;
Dr Emily Matters, President, Classical Languages Teachers Association.
5:40pm – 6:50pm Classical Learning Today (Panel Discussion)
Panel chair: Professor Peter Wilson, University of Sydney
Speakers:
Helen Pigram, North Sydney Girls High;
Michael Salter, Baulkham Hills High;
Alison Chau, Sydney Girls High;
Nathan Bottomley, Sydney Grammar;
Anthony Gibbins, Sydney Grammar.
6:50pm Closing remarks: Professor Penny Russell
6:50pm–7.30pm Drinks and supper
Information: https://fass.e-newsletter.com.au/link/id/zzzz5d083f82ab0fe831Pzzzz5c1334172635a000/page.html
ANNIVERSARIES, CELEBRATIONS AND COMMEMORATIONS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, AND THEIR RECEPTION
Annual Unisa Classics Colloquium. Pretoria, South Africa: August 15-18, 2019.
The conference aims to explore issues marking celebrations, commemorations and anniversaries of all kinds around the ancient world (up to the 7th century CE, but including its reception in later periods). Topics enlarging on the social and political significance of such events in the building of not only civic identities but also individual legacies, as well as the appropriation of these occasions in later contexts, will be welcome. The aim is not only to explore literary and material evidence which relates to the social and historical aspects, but also to examine the function and meaning of fictional celebrations and commemorations in genres such as epic, drama or the novel.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers are:
Ian Rutherford, University of Reading
Rebecca Benefiel, Washington & Lee University
Paper proposals (approximately 300 words) are invited for papers of 30 minutes debating current issues and problems on any aspect of the above theme.
Abstracts and titles should include your name and university affiliation, and should be submitted to either:
• Liana Lamprecht at lamprjc@unisa.ac.za
• Martine De Marre at dmarrmea@gmail.com
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April, 2019 extended deadline 30 June, 2019.
Details of the conference venue, accommodation and other important information will be made available on the conference website, which we hope to have up-and-running soon.
Call: [pdf] http://www.casa-kvsa.org.za/Vicennalia.pdf
Website: https://dmarrmea3.wixsite.com/website
(CFP closed June 30, 2019)
POSTCLASSICISMS WORKSHOP: COMPARATIVE GLOBAL ANTIQUITY
Yale-NUS, Singapore: August 2-4, 2019
In this gathering, we’ll be thinking about three conceptual and methodological keywords: “comparative,” “global,” and “antiquity.” The disciplines of comparative literature, linguistics, history, politics, religion (which is different from comparative theology) are long established fields. Almost all written cultures of the world have a period that they designate “antiquity,” along with a canon of received or discovered texts that are called “classics.” (Or do they?)Traditional scholarship largely studies the various national and historical languages within circumscribed disciplinary boundaries. In recent decades, however, particularly in the field of classical reception, scholars have begun to scholars have begun to integrate comparative approaches in the construction of antiquity and the understanding of “classics” or the “classical.”
We are foregrounding comparison as an activity, methodology, mode of thinking, a way of dealing with differences and similarities in the ancient world. Indeed, our terminology of “classics” or “ancient” or “antique” already presupposes a dialectical opposing term, whether it be “medieval,” “modern,” “vernacular,” or even “baroque” or “romantic” (and these are period styles from European literary history. Other fields will have their own). For example, does the use of “classical” in itself denote the kind of value judgement about certain periods of the past that is more overt in the term “ancient”? In what way does global comparisons elide or ignore those traditions that are primary oral or non-textual? What are the promises and perils of a global study of antiquity?
In short, what is the common denominator, or commensurability of comparison? The term commensurable has its historical roots in mathematics. For the ancient Greeks, who had not recognized irrational numbers, the dimensions of certain mathematical objects were found to lack a common unit of measurement. Are there artifacts and concepts and phenomena from antiquity that are simply incommensurable to us, to each other, and therefore irrational, or beyond our categories of cognition? How do we account for diversity or even universals?
This workshop builds on the momentum of several projects: at Princeton, the Postclassicisms Network, headed by Brooke Holmes, and the Comparative Antiquity Initiative, headed by Martin Kern; and the global study of ancient worlds at Yale-NUS (Andrew Hui and Mira Seo). Taken together, we aim to transform the research and study of comparative antiquity, broadly conceived at Yale-NUS and Princeton, in hopes of providing a model for similar changes elsewhere.
Confirmed participants:
Liu Chen (Yale-NUS)
Katie Cruz (Princeton)
Tom Davies (Princeton)
Gavin Flood (Oxford and Yale-NUS)
Johannes Haubold (Princeton)
Brooke Holmes (Princeton)
Andrew Hui (Yale-NUS)
Martin Kern (Princeton)
Vincent Lee (Yale-NUS)
Jinyu Liu (Depauw and Shanghai Normal University)
Nicholas Lua (Yale-NUS)
Federico Marcon (Princeton)
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton)
Lisa Raphals (UC Riverside)
Marina Rustow (Princeton)
Mira Seo (Yale-NUS)
Thu Truong (Yale-NUS)
Matthew Walker (Yale-NUS)
Zhuming Yao (Princeton)
Website: https://www.postclassicisms.org/workshops/forthcoming-2/comparative-global-antiquity/
THE MARY RENAULT PRIZE
Applications close: July annually.
The deadline for the 2019 Mary Renault Prize competition is: Friday, July 26, 2019.
The Mary Renault Prize is a Classical Reception essay prize for school or college sixth form pupils, awarded by the Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College, and funded by the royalties from Mary Renault’s novels.
The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College offer two or more Prizes, worth up to £300 each, for essays on classical reception or influence submitted by pupils who, at the closing date, have been in the Sixth Form of any school or college for a period of not more than two years. The prizes are in memory of the author Mary Renault, who is best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece, recently reissued by Virago. Renault read English at St Hugh’s in the 1920s and subsequently taught herself ancient Greek. Her novels have inspired many thousands of readers to pursue the study of Classics at University level and beyond. At least one prize will be awarded a pupil who is not studying either Latin or Greek to A-level standard. The winning essay will be published on the College’s website. Teachers wishing to encourage their students to enter the competition can download, display and circulate the competition poster in the ‘related documents’ section.
Essays can be from any discipline and should be on a topic relating to the reception of classical antiquity – including Greek and Roman literature, history, political thought, philosophy, and material remains – in any period to the present; essays on reception within classical antiquity (for instance, receptions of literary or artistic works or of mythical or historical figures) are permitted. Your submission must be accompanied by a completed information cover sheet. Essays should be between two-thousand and four-thousand words and submitted by the candidate as a Microsoft Word document through the form below.
Website: https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/prospectivestudents/outreach/mary-renault-prize/
(CFP closed July 26, 2019)
CLASSICAL THEATRE AND THE MIDDLE EAST
St Hilda's College, Oxford (Jacqueline du Pré Music Building): July 12, 2019
On Friday 12 July, the APGRD will host a one-day conference on Greek drama and the 'classic(s)' in the Arab-speaking world and Iran, co-organised with Dr Raphael Cormack (Edinburgh). The conference will be followed by a performance of 'Jogging', inspired by Euripides' Medea, by Hanane Hajj Ali.
Speakers and Chairs: Marilyn Booth (Oxford); Malika Bastin-Hammou (Grenoble); Marios Chatziprokopiou (Athens); Raphael Cormack (Oxford); Carmen Gitre (Virginia Tech); Sameh Hanna (Leeds); Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones (Cardiff); Shaymaa Moussa (Cairo); Evelyn Richardson (Chicago); Ons Trabelsi (Bordeaux); and Houman Zandi-Zadeh (Flinders).
Email apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk to register. There will be a fee of £20 (£15 concessions), which includes lunch and a reception. A full programme will be available soon.
Edit 21/06/2019. Speakers:
Raph Cormack (Columbia): Foreign or local: what did ancient Greece mean in an age of modern nationalism?
Carmen Gitre (Virginia Tech): Shadow Play to Proscenium Stage: Najib al-Rihani and the Crafting of Modern Egyptian Comedy
Sameh Hanna (Leeds): Reconfiguring the ‘classic’ in the Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s tragedies: Khalīl Muṭrān’s Othello
Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones (Cardiff): Greek theatre in Iran - a long view?
Shaymaa Moussa (Cairo): Ahmed Etman and Classics in Egypt
Evelyn Richardson (Chicago): Greek myth and ancient history on the early Arabic stage: three translations of Racinian tragedies
Ons Trabelsi (Lorraine): Molière, un classique arabe?
Sandra Vinagre (Lisbon): The Syria Trojan Women: From therapeutic theatre to a cry for action
Houman Zandi-Zadeh (Flinders): The Politics of State Festivals: Disloyal to the Queen, Loyal to Peter Brook
Website: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2019/03/classical-theatre-and-the-middle-east
PACIFIC RIM ROMAN LITERATURE SEMINAR 33: ROMAN MEMORY
University of Newcastle (Australia): July 10-12, 2019
The thirty-third meeting of the PacRim Roman Literature Seminar will be held at the University of Newcastle from 10 to 12 July 2019. The theme for the 2019 conference will be Roman Memory.
We are inviting papers on Roman literature on the subject of memory. This might include: representations of Roman history in subsequent periods, the ways in which Latin authors rewrite earlier Roman literature, the use of the Muses as repositories of cultural memory, commemorations of the dead, the methods by which Roman writers position themselves in the literary tradition, the reception of Latin literature in both antiquity and later eras, the loss and recovery of historical memory, the processes of collective memory, the art of forgetting, and resistance to official efforts to erase memory through damnatio memoriae.
The theme may be interpreted broadly and papers on other topics will also be considered.
Papers should be 30 minutes in length (with fifteen minutes of discussion time). The Pacific Rim Seminar does not run parallel sessions; participants may attend any or all papers. Abstract proposals of 200-300 words should be sent to Marguerite Johnson (marguerite.johnson@newcastle.edu.au) and/or Peter Davis (peter.davis@adelaide.edu.au). Submissions from graduate students and early-career researchers are welcome. Please submit abstracts by 28 February 2019. Earlier submissions are of course welcome.
We expect that conference will be held in a venue in the city of Newcastle. A conference website will be built in due course.
(CFP closed February 28, 2019)
THE GREEKS & THE IRRATIONAL, REVISITED
University College London, UK: July 9, 2019
Organizers: Francesca Spiegel, Giulia Maria Chesi, Tom MacKenzie
We invite you to join us on this day of discussion of Dodds' classic as we unpack the term 'irrational' and the power dynamics behind it.
E. R. Dodds' The Greeks and the Irrational first appeared in 1951, and has since become a classic in our field. It is also one of the small handful of scholarly Classics books to have crossed the academic/mass-market readership border, comparable to J. G. Frazer's The Golden Bough.
Like Frazer's, Dodds' argument capitalized on 20th century modernist attraction to the occult and the psychic, on the sexualization and fetishization of the shamanistic and oracular wisdom – in short, forms of thought that to a scientifically trained mind fell under the so-called irrational.
Historically, the label of irrationality often served as a rhetorical device to infantilize, pathologize, feminize, denigrate, or demonize others, especially subaltern others.
Even in current affairs, it takes only a very small sample of public discourses or political campaigns of demonization (and their media) to realize how over-stressed and strained the rational/irrational dichotomy really is.
In Classics, the cultural-critical dimension of conceptualizing the rational/irrational binary is most clearly visible in the history of scholarship on ancient Greek drama. There are numerous case scenarios : the irrational could be attributed to women (hysterical/ uncontrolled); or to enslaved men, whose personal integrity becomes undermined by rhetorics tactics of unwanted feminization; or again to non-Greeks, ridiculed through portrayals of outsize sexual appetites, or impulsive behaviour and ideas more generally.
In sum, discourses that contrast the perceived foreignness of irrational thought against the relatability of logical thinking are apt to expose xenophobic, classist, misogynist, ablist, or racist undercurrents of an argument. This conference is intended to unpack these undercurrents, taking the rational/irrational binary and Dodds' classic work as our entry point. The aim is to sharpen critical focus on our field's received scholarly and intellectual legacies.
Confirmed speakers:
Nick Lowe (RHUL),
Ella Haselwerdt (Cornell),
Francesca Spiegel (Humboldt, Berlin),
Martin Devecka (UC Santa Cruz),
Maria Gerolemou (Exeter),
Giulia Maria Chesi (Humboldt, Berlin),
Katherine Fleming (QMUL)
Generously supported by the A. G. Leventis Foundation and the Institute of Classical Studies
Information/Registration: https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-humanities-c01/department-of-greek-and-latin-f13/f13-the-greeks-the-irrational-revisited
DESCENT OF THE SOUL: KATABASIS AND DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
Freud Museum, London: July 5-6, 2019
Jung regarded the Nekyia as a ‘meaningful katabasis ...a descent into the cave of initiation and secret knowledge’ (CW5). He saw this as an appropriate model for deep self-descent toward healing. Famously he allowed himself to drop deep within the Self during a time of near-psychosis, and encountered the archetypal figures who formed crucial elements of his psychology: the old man, the hero, anima and animus. Included in this insight is acknowledgement of the paradoxical idea of one of his often cited sources, Heraclitus: descent and ascent are the same.
From Poe to Nietzsche, the self has always presented as an ‘abysmal’ problem as it was also for the ancients: the self is a dilemma to be resolved in confronting the risks of staring into the depths, exposing oneself to the risks, and moving on, possibly to acceptance...
Seneca advises ‘[that even the bravest of men go] blind with dizziness if he looks down on an immense depth (vastem altitudinem) when standing on this brink (in crepidine eius)’ (57.4)
‘So cast, the brink of life begins to resemble the brink of nothingness ... and the point is that the destitution of the self is not an aberration: it is one of the commonest ways in which subjects are formed in antiquity. Self-destitution paradoxically is a finely honed technique of the self, a practice that produces, literally constitutes – the self.’ (Porter, Foucault Studies 2017).
Using these insights as a springboard we want to explore the formation of self as a look into the abyss: as Poe proposed in ‘The Imp of the Perverse’ staring into the abyss was dangerous because it looked back at you. Nietzsche attests to this in more dire terms in Beyond Good and Evil. Yet Seneca would scoff at fear of this examination of the self; the momentous problem of self-formation was an ethical imperative.
And in his essay about the collective unconscious, projection of universal anxieties that the ‘rumours’ of flying saucers attest to, Jung quotes Goethe’s Faust: ‘Then to the depths!/I could as well say height:/It’s all the same.’
The achievement of the Self is a life-long endeavour involving confrontations or engagements to dissolve elements of projection that split the self into dissociated fragments. It could be argued that fragments or multiplicity is also what Jung meant by Self. This has been a considered motif since ancient times, in many cultures. During this conference the different modes of self-formation, as problem, or rather as self-fashioning endeavour/process or one of discovery can be seen through depth psychology’s enterprise as a therapy to heal the soul, or the self.
We are looking for papers exploring the abyss, and how it constitutes and heals the Self, or does not. Papers will be accepted that explore aspects of this problematic of descent/ascent into the depths within the frame of analytical and all theoretical orientations of depth psychology and archaic thought. Please present a proposal by end of October 2018 of approx. 300 words to lgardn@essex.ac.uk.
5th July (+ tentatively also 6th July) 2019: Freud Museum, Hampstead London.
Leslie Gardner (University of Essex), Richard Seaford (University of Exeter), Paul Bishop (University of Glasgow), Terence Dawson (Singapore), Ben Pestell (University of Essex), Mark Saban (University of Essex), Catriona Miller (Glasgow Caledonian University), Alan Cardew (University of Essex).
Call: https://katabasisdepthpsychology.wordpress.com/2018/06/23/the-descent-of-the-soul-katabasis-and-depth-psychology/
(CFP closed October 31, 2018)
COMICS AND TRAVEL
Oxford, UK: July 5, 2019
Organised by the Oxford Comics Network & the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Comics are a static medium capable of rendering the most dynamic and fantastic forms of travel. This conference seeks papers that engage with comics and travel in a range of ways, drawing on multiple disciplines and comic genres, as well as the practice of the movement of comics themselves, as artefacts and vessels for ideas and ideologies. From representations of international movement to comics used to help narrate migrant experience, from graphic journalism to Lois Lane, from consideration of the practical aspects of depicting movement to the reception of comics having themselves travelled, whether domestically or internationally, this conference looks to bring together scholars diverse in both approaches and geography to provide an insight into the broadly conceived area of comics and travel.
Topics might include:
* representations of travel (international, interplanetary/stellar, interdimensional, interchronal)
* industrial histories of distribution and reception
* the evolving nature and practice of depicting movement in comics
* refugees and migrants in comics
* the national and international distribution of comics and attendant political problems
* comics and/in translation
* national and global comics traditions and how these travel across borders
Proposals of 250 words plus a short biography should be sent to comics@torch.ox.ac.uk (cc: enrique.delreycabero@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk and michael.goodrum@canterbury.ac.uk) by the 8th of March. We also welcome proposals for panels, though all-male panels will not be considered.
Call: https://twitter.com/TORCHComicsOx/status/1088426761979858944
(CFP closed March 8, 2019)
15TH CONGRESS OF FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DES ASSOCIATIONS D'ÉTUDES CLASSIQUES (FIEC) & THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2019
Institute of Education (University College London): July 4-8, 2019
Plenary Lectures:
Prof. Alastair Blanshard (Queensland), Travel, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of Classical Greece
Prof. Corinne Bonnet (Toulouse), Tackling the complexity of polytheisms: cult epithets as a language
Prof. Paula da Cunha Corrêa (São Paulo), Cattle and other animals in the Catalogue of Women
Prof. Jonas Grethlein (Heidelberg), Metalepsis in Ancient Greek Literature and Criticism? The Limits of Narratology in Classics
Prof. Alison Keith (Toronto), Epicurean Postures in Martial’s Epigrams
Prof. Irad Malkin (Tel Aviv), 'They shall sail on equal and fair terms': equality and kleros in the Greek Mediterranean
Prof. Ida Östenberg (Gotheburg), Dulce et decorum. Dying for the fatherland (or not) in ancient Rome
Call for Panels & Posters: http://fiecnet.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/fiec-congress-call-for-panels-and.html. Revised deadline: September 1, 2018
Program: http://fiec2019.org/programme/.
Twitter: @Fieca2019.
(CFP closed September 1, 2018)
PERFORMANCE [IN] PIECES: FRAGMENTARY DRAMA FROM GREECE TO ROME TO NOW
University of Notre Dame (London): July 3, 2019
The theatre of the ancient Greeks and Romans has been the object of fascination for many scholars throughout time. While only a small percentage of the plethora of work produced exists in what is considered complete form, the extant plays of Greek and Roman drama, are regularly retranslated and reproduced for contemporary audiences. However, in recent years scholarship has also started to engage with productions that are considered incomplete and have often been ignored. This resurgence in the academic sphere has also been reflected in the creative arts with fragmentary classical theatre inspiring new works.
This conference aims to consider dramas from ancient Greece and Rome that now exists in fragmentary form and their subsequent reception throughout time, be it on the stage, screen or page. By examining both what is left of the original play and how it has inspired new responses, we hope to discover, but not limited to, what can be learnt from what has been lost, and what appeals to those who are inspired by these ancient works.
Is there a desire to complete the incomplete? Do these fragmented productions appeal due to the universal themes that are portrayed? Can we discover new voices in what was lost? Do we need to find a balance between the past and the present?
We welcome 20 minute papers from both scholars and practitioners at all levels of their careers, and are open to collaborative papers on specific case studies. Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words of your proposed paper by email to: performanceinpieces@gmail.com
The abstract should omit any reference identifying the author to ensure anonymity in the review process. Deadline for paper submission is Monday 29th April extended deadline Monday 6th May.
Organisers: Dr Charlotte Parkyn (University of Notre Dame) and Dr Maria Haley (University of Leeds/ Manchester).
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1903&L=CLASSICISTS&P=130481
(CFP closed May 6, 2019)
READING THE CLASSICAL PAST: A COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP
London, UK (FutureLearn Camden, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, NW1 8NP): July 3, 2019
We are delighted to announce this collaborative workshop that we hope will be of particular interest to colleagues working in classical reception studies. The event is free to attend but places are limited, so please register by emailing me directly (Joanna.Paul@open.ac.uk).
Hosted by the Open University’s Classical Reception Research Cluster/Classical Reception Studies Network and the History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) and Digital Humanities Research Collaborations
At the same time that classical reception studies have become an important and vibrant part of the broader discipline of classical studies, research into the history of books and reading has flourished in English departments, especially at the Open University. Yet the connections between these fields of research, which often pursue parallel aims in seeking to understand exactly how the literature of the past has been read (to what ends, and with what effects), remains relatively under-explored and under-exploited. This workshop is therefore designed to bring together scholars working in these two areas, to share their research, experiences, and expertise, with two main aims: firstly, to raise awareness of the methodologies and tools that classical reception study and book history might fruitfully share, with a particular emphasis on introducing classical reception scholars to the READ-IT project (readit-project.eu); and secondly, to identify possible avenues for future collaborative and/or mutually beneficial research.
12.15 onwards Arrival and lunch
1.00-1.15 Welcome - Dr Joanna Paul, Classical Reception Research Cluster Lead (OU)
1.15-1.40 History of Books and Reading Research at the Open University -
Dr Shafquat Towheed, Director of the Book History Research Group (OU); Dr Francesca Benatti, Research Fellow in Digital Humanities (OU)
1.40-2.00 Introducing the READ-IT project -
Dr Alessio Antonini, Research Associate, Knowledge Media Institute (OU)
2.00-2.20 The Reading Experience Database, Classics, and Social Class -
Dr Henry Stead, Postdoctoral Research Associate in English (OU)
2.20-2.40 Refreshment break
2.40-3.30 ‘Reception History, Book History, Media History’ - Dr Ika Willis, Associate Professor in English Literatures (University of Wollongong, Australia)
3.30-4.00 Round table discussion
Information: https://classicalreception.org/event/reading-the-classical-past-a-collaborative-workshop/
PHANTASTIC RELIGIONS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM: DEITIES, MYTHS AND RITES IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
Velletri (Rome) - Museum of Religions “Raffaele Pettazzoni”: July 2-6, 2019
The conference purports to be an occasion for an interdisciplinary discussion about the representation of religions in Fantasy and Science Fiction literary production and in any possible artistic manifestation connected to the two genres.
The themes the conference intends to tackle are the following:
• Representation of “historical” religions. Why does an author represent them in a particular way? What is their relationship with the historical context the author belongs to?
• Construction of “made-up” religions. What elements characterise religions invented by individual authors? According to what motivations does an author outline their features? Are their characterising elements taken from “historical” religions? According to what aims and modalities?
• Representation of deities and other extra-human beings present in “historical” religions. How and why does an author portray a deity or another extra-human being according to a specific image? What is their relationship with the author’s historical and cultural context?
• Representation of deities and other extra-human beings in “made-up” religions. What are their features? How and why does an author build a deity or another extra-human being by determinating its peculiar traits? What is their relationship with the beliefs present in “historical” religions and the historical and cultural context the author belongs to?
• Representation of myths and sacred tales present in “historical” religions. According to what modalities and motivations are they reported?
• Representation of myths and sacred tales present in “made-up” religions. How does an individual author build a myth or a sacred tale of the world he or she created? What features qualify it as such? Are these taken from myths and sacred tales present in “historical” religions? What is their relationship with the author’s historical and cultural context?
• Representation of rites present in “historical” religions. According to what modalities and motivations are they reported?
• Representation of rites present in “made-up” religions. How does an individual author outline a rite of the religion they created? Is there a relationship with rites present in “historical” religions?
• The impact of Fantasy and Science Fiction production in society in relation to religious beliefs. Did some of the works belonging to these genres concretely influence and condition contemporary religious life?
Scientific committee: Roberto Arduini (Associazione Italiana Studi Tolkieniani), Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”), Ada Barbaro (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”), Tommaso Braccini (Università degli Studi di Torino), Elisabetta Marino (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”), Francesca Roversi Monaco (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna).
Administration: Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”).
The scholars who would like to contribute may send a one-page abstract (max 2.000 characters) to Igor Baglioni, the director of the museum, (igorbaglioni79@gmail.com) by April 20, 2019.
Attached to the abstract should be: the title of the paper; a short biography of the authors; email address and phone number.
Papers may be written and presented in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
The acceptance of papers will be communicated (by email) only to the selected contributors by 2019, April 30.
Please send the complete paper by email not later than June 20. The delivery of the paper is required to participate in the conference.
Important deadlines:
Closing of call for papers: April 20th, 2019.
Notification about acceptance: April 30th, 2019.
Delivery of papers: June 20th, 2019.
Conference: July 2-3-4-5-6th, 2019
There is no attendance fee. The participants who don’t live in Rome or surroundings will be accommodated in hotels and bed-and-breakfasts which have an agreement with the Museum of Religions “Raffaele Pettazzoni” to offer discounted prices.
Papers may be published on Religio. Collana di Studi del Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni” (Edizioni Quasar), and in specialized journals. All the papers will be peer-reviewed.
In the evenings there will be free-of-charge visits to the museums and monuments of Ariccia, Castel Gandolfo, Frascati, Nemi, Rocca Priora. The excursion programme will be presented at the same time as the conference programme.
Edited 29/06/2019. Speakers:
• Caterina Agus (Università degli Studi di Torino), A oriente del sole, a occidente della luna: sulle tracce del Re Dorato del bosco
• Elena Angelucci (Laboratorio di Traduzione Istituto Nolfi - Fano) - Tommaso Di Piazza (Laboratorio di Traduzione Istituto Nolfi - Fano) - Elena Tiberi (Laboratorio di Traduzione Istituto Nolfi - Fano), The Inky Bough: A Study in Classics and Religion in Providence
• Roberto Arduini (Associazione Italiana Studi Tolkieniani), “Adorando il popolo delle stelle”: I movimenti religiosi ispirati alla mitologia di Tolkien
• Marcos Bella-Fernández (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) - Leticia Cortina Aracil (Independent Researcher), Week-end devotions: religion creation for Living-Action Role Playing games. The case of Spain
• Ilaria Biano (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici - Napoli), The leftovers and the lost ones: narrazioni postsecolari tra millenarismo e sincretismo in due casi di serialità fantasy
• Francesca Boldrer (Università degli Studi di Macerata), Dèi e miti nella fantascienza di Calvino: riletture di Proteo e Euridice
• Martina Broccoli (Laboratorio di Traduzione Istituto Nolfi - Fano) - Veronica Orciari (Laboratorio di Traduzione Istituto Nolfi - Fano), Do Men Dream of Electric Religions?
• Lottie Brown (University of Bristol), Wonder Woman: A Consideration of her Roman Antecedents
• Davide Burgio (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), La questione della salvezza dei pagani nell’universo finzionale tolkieniano: il Dibattito di Finrod e Andreth
• Alberto Cecon (GRIMM - Gruppo Triestino di Ricerca sul Mito e la Mitografia), Il messia malato. Passione, morte e putrefazione nell'anti-moderna teologia lovecraftiana
• Jim Clarke (Coventry University), The Dharma of Dune (and other Buddhist adventures in 1960s Science Fiction)
• Mattia Cravero (Università degli Studi di Torino), Una “furtiva occhiata d’allarme”. Primo Levi, Prometeo e il Golem
• Chiara Crosignani (Independent Researcher), It was the darkness between: il Dualismo (im)perfetto della Ruota del Tempo di Robert Jordan
• Giuseppe Cuscito (Vanderbilt University), La paleoastronautica tra fantascienza e religione
• Eleonora D’Agostino (Sapienza Università di Roma), L. Ron Hubbard, la fantascienza e Scientology: viaggio di una religione dalla cultura pop degli anni ‘50 ad oggi
• Andrew Daventry (Associazione Culturale “Le Belle Lettere”), Studies in the History of the Church under the Reign of His Imperial Majesty, John IV, by the Grace of God, King and Emperor of England, France, Scotland, Ireland, New England, New France, King of the Romans and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Defender of the Faith, et cetera.
• Barbara Giulia Valentina Lattanzi (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Verso la Nuova Mecca. L’immagine dell’Islam in Pitch Black e nella saga di Riddick
• Pascal Lemaire (Independent Researcher), Byzantine theology in alternate history: a not so serious matter?
• Ubaldo Lugli (Università degli Studi di Genova), La morte non esiste. Riti funerari e miti escatologici nel “ciclo di Ayesha”
• Giulia Mancini (University of Iceland - Háskóli Íslands), Un ponte verso l’ignoto: echi della mitologia norrena nel Trono di Spade?
• Nicola Martellozzo (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna), Come gli uomini diventano deva. Rappresentazione e funzione delle religioni in Lord of Light
• Roberta Matkovic (Università “Juraj Dobrila” - Pola), “Dylan Dog” - L’indagatore dell’incubo, gli inferi e i personaggi infernali
• Lucrezia Naglieri (Independent Researcher), La religione e il potere ne Il racconto dell’ancella di Margaret Atwood. Analisi iconografica e storico-artistica della teocrazia distopica di Galaad
• Nicola Pannofino (Università degli Studi di Torino), Mistica dell’oscurità e dark fantasy. L’incontro con il numinoso ne Il Labirinto del fauno
• Fernanda Rossini (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Eppur si muove! Le conoscenze scientifiche come forme di superstizione religiosa nel romanzo Orfani del cielo (1941) di Robert A. Heinlein
• Sebastian Schwibach (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici - Napoli), Contatto tra mondi: cosmologia e figure divine nella trilogia fanta-teologica di C.S. Lewis
• Roger Sneed (Furman University - Greenville), ‘Black Panther’, Afrofuturism, and African American Religious Life
• Liliana Tangorra (Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”), Animali fantastici e dove cercarli. Dalla tradizione pre-cristiana a quella dantesca, dal Physiologus all’Harry Potter di Serena Riglietti e Jean-Claude Götting
• Gianni F. Trapletti (Independent Researcher), Il bokononismo: da religione fittizia nel romanzo Ghiaccio-nove (1963) di K. Vonnegut a sistema spirituale plausibile?
• Krzysztof Ulanowski (University of Gdańsk), Did historical and invented Achilles believe in the Greek gods?
• Panel Discussion: Making Gods and Heroes - The Creation of Fantastic Universes in the World of Comics - with Marika Michelazzi (Independent Author), A Twist in the Myth - Emiliano Mammucari (Sergio Bonelli Editore) - Matteo Mammucari - (Sergio Bonelli Editore) - Giovanni Masi (Sergio Bonelli Editore) - Mauro Uzzeo (Sergio Bonelli Editore), Nero
• Book presentation: Star Wars. Il mito dai mille volti. Un saggio di antropocinema - by Andrea Guglielmino, Golem Libri, Roma 2018.
• Book presentation: Il fabbro di Oxford. Scritti e interventi su Tolkien - by Wu Ming 4, Eterea Edizioni, Roma 2019.
Programme: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HDoYZAotGvjXQLjZLjWodTRH0zfRsPSy/view?usp=sharing
Email: igorbaglioni79@gmail.com
Call for papers (versione italiana): https://drive.google.com/file/d/11yeZtwy5s5sBnzykbmveL7Sd3Ey1_CjC/view?usp=sharing
Call for papers (english version): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VA6Jftqm1jnKXFOnpf6rEcDchlGlzALy/view?usp=sharing
(CFP ended April 20, 2019)
LASTING IMPRESSIONS II: MAKING AND RE-MAKING THE REPLICA
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford: June 28, 2019
Following the success of our last study day on the role and perception of replicas in museums and heritage, the Lasting Impressions team is delighted to announce that on 28th June 2019, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford will play host to a follow-up study day on the subject of Making and Re-Making the Replica. We propose to explore issues of materials and manufacture, encouraging interdisciplinary and collaborative work.
The morning of the event will be dedicated to short speaker presentations, with the afternoon giving attendees the opportunity to explore an interactive pop-up exhibition. Students and early career researchers are warmly invited to submit abstracts for oral presentations and/or posters to be delivered at the event. We also seek creative contributions to the exhibition.
Further details:
Let’s put the materiality of replicas under the microscope! Join us to explore the ‘object-ness’ of copies through a consideration of their own unique materials and manufacturing processes. After the
success of Lasting Impressions 2018, which focused on the institutional role of the replica, the 2019 study day aims to challenge notions of value in relation to reproductions, especially concepts of ‘(un)originality’ and ‘aura’. We aim to consider how making reproductions constitutes its own form of knowledge construction, questioning how changes in materiality through the reproduction process impacts upon the form, functionand meaning of objects in museums and beyond.
The study day will comprise a morning session of conference-style presentations, complemented in the afternoon by an interactive pop-up exhibition. Tours of reproduction galleries across Oxford University Museums will complete the programme.
Call for Contributions: We invite proposals for research posters and paper presentations of approximately 15 minutes on themes including, but not limited to:
• Materials and technologies for replica-making, both historical and modern
• Conservation projects and innovation
• Engagements with the materiality of the replica in museums and heritage
• The making of replicas within experimental archaeology
• Relationships between materiality, authenticity and aura.
We encourage PhD students and early career researchers to contribute in particular, but all contributions are very welcome.
Creative contributions to the exhibition are also encouraged. Please get in touch with the organising team to discuss your ideas further.
DEADLINE: Please submit abstracts (max 300 words) by March 31st 2019 to the LI2019 Team specifying if you would like to present a POSTER, an ORAL PRESENTATION or both: lastingimpressionsnetwork@gmail.com
Event fees and bursaries will be advertised in due course, subject to funding.
If you have any questions or would like to be involved in the event in any capacity, please contact the organising team:
Valentina Risdonne (Victoria and Albert Museum/Northumbria University): v.risdonne@vam.ac.uk
Abbey Ellis (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford/University of Leicester): alre1@leicester.ac.uk
Kathy Clough (Victoria and Albert Museum/Newcastle University): k.clough2@newcastle.ac.uk
Carolyn Alexander (Historic Environment Scotland/The Glasgow School of Art): c.alexander1@student.gsa.ac.uk
Keep up to date: http://lastingimpressions-reproductions.blogspot.com/
(CFP closed March 31, 2019)
CAROLUS QUINTUS: IMAGE AND PERCEPTION OF EMPEROR CHARLES V IN NEO-LATIN LITERATURE (21ST NEOLATINA CONFERENCE)
Freiburg im Breisgau, 27–29 June 2019
The reign of Charles V (1519–1556) coincided with the diffusion of Renaissance humanism throughout Europe. Whereas various research projects and a host of publications in the domain of history and art history have significantly improved our knowledge about Charles V and his court, it is surprising to see that his reception in literature, and especially in Neo-Latin literature, has to date received much less scholarly attention. Important work has nonetheless paved the way for further research. Suffice it to mention John Flood’s Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-Bibliographical Handbook (Berlin / New York 2006), the investigation of Habsburg panegyric, conducted by a Neo-Latin research team in Vienna, led by Franz Römer and Elisabeth Klecker (see, among others, their contributions in Karl V. 1500–1558. Neue Perspektiven seiner Herrschaft in Europa und Übersee, edd. Alfred Kohler e.a. [Vienna 2002]), and the collection of essays, published by Roland Béhar and Mercedes Blanco (“Les Poètes de l’Empereur. La cour de Charles-Quint dans le renouveau littéraire du XVIe siècle”, in: e-Spania, 13, 2 [2012]), as well as seminal studies by Peter Burke (“Presenting and Re-Presenting Charles V”, in: Charles V 1500–1558 and his Time, edd. Hugo Soly / Wim Blockmans [Antwerp 1999], 393–475) and Hermann Wiegand (“Das Bild Kaiser Karls V. in der neulateinischen Dichtung Deutschlands”, in: Acta conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis, edd. Rhoda Schnur e.a. [Tempe, AZ 2006], 121–143).
Neo-Latin authors have played a substantial role in fashioning the image and perception of Charles V. Their writings help us to refine and correct our understanding of the image-building and communication strategies surrounding the Emperor. The 500th anniversary of the election of Charles V as King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor on 28 June 1519 offers a symbolic occasion for a fresh look at the Latin literature devoted to or connected with him. At stake are not only contemporary authors, but also litterati from later periods, who looked back and reflected on his rule. The range of possible topics is very wide and includes, among others, the following themes and questions:
The imperial myth: Neo-Latin authors have contributed substantially to the development of an imperial ideology surrounding Charles V in all its allegorical and symbolic dimensions. Charles’s chancellor, Mercurino Gattinara (1465–1530), in particular, propagated the idea of an empire, established by divine providence, and others elaborated upon this concept with messianic motifs and prophetic claims. In this perspective, the Emperor was entrusted with the task of uniting the world under his sole pastoral care, waging war against the heretics and infidels, and re-installing a universal monarchy. At the same time, the Emperor was styled as a hero and a saint according to literary, historical, philosophical and religious norms, conventions and models, drawn from both Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The rich Neo-Latin source material, that is abundantly available in both printed and manuscript form, yields a multiplicity of literary contexts to be explored, topics and techniques of praise and blame to be analyzed and different forms of imperial representation to be examined.
Divergences and similarities:
Beyond the universal ambitions of the Emperor, the relevant texts offer a multitude of both laudatory and critical statements and judgments about Charles V, which need to be scrutinized in their respective historical contexts. In addition to the special case of foreign enemies of Charles and his opponents within the Empire, such as the Protestants, there are various national or regional perspectives to be taken into account: How did other courts and territories position themselves vis-à-vis the Emperor and the Holy Roman Empire? How were dramatic events, such as the Sacco di Roma of 1527, commented upon in different milieus? Did all Neo-Latin authors share the same ethical and aesthetical ideals in the way they portrayed Charles? To what extent were the literary discourses surrounding Charles determined by the rules and principles of distinctive literary genres?
Social strategies and patronage: The Latin literature devoted to or connected with Charles V plays a special role in the context of patronage and, more generally, in the construction of social relationships in a court environment. Throughout the early modern age Neo-Latin literature, in particular, often served as a literary instrument for securing the support of a mecenas and gaining access to specific communities. At times the Emperor himself acted as a patron, but high-ranking persons from his entourage assumed that role as well. It will thus be interesting to pursue the question how the relationships between these different partners were constructed and staged in Neo-Latin texts. The panegyrical Poemata of Antonio Sebastiano Minturno (1500–1574), e.g., published in 1564 but partly written already during Charles’s lifetime, illustrate both options at the same time: the poems eulogize not only Charles V, but also his secretaries Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle (1484–1550) and Francisco de los Cobos (ca. 1477–1547), as well as Miguel Mai (ca. 1480–1546), who served as Charles’s ambassador in Rome from 1528 to 1533 and was thereafter Vice-Chancellor of the Crown of Aragón. The timing of the publication is, in this case as in many others, a further factor that merits attention.
Practical information:
Topics: We welcome papers on specific case studies that focus on individual texts, authors or courts, but it will also be possible to combine various facets and analyze, e.g., specific events, such as a coronation or a Joyous Entry, from different points of view. Neo-Latin texts in both verse and prose can be dealt with.
Proposals and registration: Paper proposals, containing a provisional title and an abstract of ca. 10 lines, should reach one of the organizers by 1 December 2018 via e-mail. Participants who will not give a paper do not need to register.
Travel and accommodation: The conference will start with a key-note lecture on 27 June in the evening and close on 29 June around noon. Rooms will be booked by the organizers, unless
participants explicitly point out that they prefer to make their own arrangements. Further practical details will be communicated after the deadline for proposals has passed and the list
of speakers has been established. The organizers will make every effort to raise the funds necessary for covering travel and accommodation costs of all speakers.
Location: Haus zur Lieben Hand (Löwenstraße 16) and the library of the Seminar für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie of the University of Freiburg.
Format: 20 minutes for the paper and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers can be delivered in German, English, French, Italian or Latin.
Publication: The conference proceedings will be published in the series ‘NeoLatina’ (Tübingen: Gunter Narr-Verlag).
About the ‘NeoLatina’ conferences:
The Neo-Latin conferences in Freiburg were initiated in 1999 by Eckard Lefèvre and Eckart Schäfer under the title ‘Freiburger Neulateinisches Symposion’. Since then, they have been organized every year and have become an acclaimed event in the community of Neo-Latin scholars. Since 2013 the conference runs under the title ‘NeoLatina’ in order to document its link with the Gunter Narr publishing house, which produces the conference proceedings.
Organizers:
Virginie Leroux (École pratique des hautes études, EPHE, PSL; virginie@leroux.netv), Marc Laureys (Universität Bonn; m.laureys@uni-bonn.de), Florian Schaffenrath (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien, Innsbruck; florian.schaffenrath@neolatin.lbg.ac.at), Stefan Tilg (Universität Freiburg; stefan.tilg@altphil.uni-freiburg.de)
Call: http://neolatin.lbg.ac.at/upcoming-conferences/call-papers-carolus-quintus-image-and-perception-emperor-charles-v-neo-latin-literature
(CFP closed December 1, 2018)
POETICS AND POLITICS: NEW APPROACHES TO EURIPIDES
Lyon, France: June 27-29, 2019
P. Brillet-Dubois, A.-S. Noel, B. Nikolsky and research center HiSoMA (https://www.hisoma.mom.fr/) invite paper proposals for an international conference to be held in Lyon, June 27-29th 2019.
In recent years, the tragic art of Euripides has been examined in more eclectic ways than during the peak of new historicist studies, and methods have been developed involving not only social, political, anthropological and religious but also (meta-)poetic, structural, dramaturgical and musical considerations. These perspectives are either juxtaposed to encompass the complexity of Euripides's drama or articulated to each other, aesthetic form being seen as a mode of political thought. The context within which drama needs to be interpreted has been expanded to include not only the institutions and dynamics of the Athenian city, but also other forms of poetry, art and thought to which the poet alludes in a constantly creative way or with which he competes. The conference aims at bringing together such diverse approaches to reexamine the relation between Euripides's poetics and the politics of his time.
Some of the questions that the conference hopes to raise are the following:
* How would we define today the political meaning of Euripides's plays?
* How is this meaning articulated to their form, structure, rhythm and other poetic aspects? How do studies on the materiality of Greek drama contribute to the question of politics?
* How does performance actualize or enhance the political impact of the tragic text and how do performance studies contribute to the political interpretation of Euripides's plays?
* Should we renounce the idea that Euripides is conveying a precise political message in a given play or does the combination of new methods allow us to identify his voice in a more subtle way than before? What is the specificity of his tragedies and of his approach to politics?
* Does a political interpretation preclude a search for a universal human meaning? When both meanings coexist, what are the poetical or dramaturgical means that unite or distinguish them?
* How can we integrate the fragmentary plays in the interpretation of Euripides's politics?
* Can the political reception of Euripides's plays throughout the centuries help us frame in a fresh way the relation between Euripides's poetics and the politics of his time?
Questions and abstracts (no more than half a page) should be sent before [extended deadline] October 12th October 7th, 2018 to:
pascale.brillet@mom.fr.
Submissions will be examined by the members of the scientific committee: P. Brillet-Dubois (Université Lumière Lyon 2-HiSoMA), A. Beltrametti (Università di Pavia), D. Mastronarde (UC Berkeley), B. Nikolsky (RANEPA, Moscow), A.-S. Noel (ENS Lyon-HiSoMA), V. Wohl (University of Toronto).
Call: [pdf] https://www.hisoma.mom.fr/sites/hisoma.mom.fr/files/docs/Recherche/appels2018-2019/Euripidesconferenceannouncement.pdf
(CFP closed October 12, 2018)
AMERICAN CLASSICAL LEAGUE (ACL) CENTENNIAL INSTITUTE
New York City: June 26-29, 2019
Theme: Classical Receptions
One hundred years of teaching Latin and Greek. One hundred years of pedagogical innovation.
One hundred years of connecting a community of teachers and professors. The American Classical
League is marking a milestone, one hundred years of celebrating, supporting, and advancing the
teaching and learning of Greek and Latin languages. I invite you to participate in the ACL
Centennial Institute in New York City, June 26-29, 2019. The New York Hilton Midtown will be
the Institute location. Additional housing will be available on the campus of New York University.
If you have never attended a Summer Institute, it is an experience unlike any other Classics
conference, one that enables Latin teachers and Classicists to mingle, interact, and genuinely get
to know each other. Presentations at Institute range from 30 to 60 to 90 minutes so that everyone
there has a chance to let a new idea really take root and to give plenty of time for everyone to ask
questions or to truly do a workshop. In between sessions, there are frequent opportunities to meet
others in the exhibit hall and gathering spaces. There are, moreover, scholarships to help support
travel to New York City and participation in the Centennial Institute.
The theme of this year’s Institute is classical receptions. So there will be special plenary featuring
three writers who draw inspiration from the classical world: Steven Saylor, Madeline Miller, and
George O’Connor. In addition, excursions to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rockefeller
Center, the American Numismatic Society, and the Queens Museum are planned, not to mention
special panels and festivities.
I encourage you to submit an abstract for an Institute presentation,
poster, or roundtable discussion. The deadline for abstracts is January 15. For more information,
feel free to contact me [John Gruber-Miller, jeph@UMD.EDU] or visit the 2019 ACL Centennial Institute website at
https://aclclassics.org/ACL-Institute/2019-ACL-Centennial-Institute.
Website: https://aclclassics.org/ACL-Institute/2019-ACL-Centennial-Institute
(CFP closed January 15. 2019)
[CCC PANEL] SOVEREIGN OF THE SEA: THE STAYING POWER OF THETIS IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD AND BEYOND
12th Celtic Conference in Classics. Coimbra, Portugal: 26-29 June, 2019
And there came the daughter of Nereus, silver-footed Thetis,
The fair-tressed sepia, dread goddess with mortal voice,
Who alone, being a fish, knows both white and black.
(Matron, Attikon Deipnon = Ath. 1.135, tr. E. Aston 2009)
Despite languishing in relative obscurity, the Nereid Thetis is one of the most intriguing and ambiguous female figures of Greek myth. In her seminal work (The Power of Thetis - 1991), Laura Slatkin demonstrates that the Iliad presents Thetis as a formerly powerful, yet ultimately marginalised deity. The mistress of cords and binding, Thetis both averts and brings on destruction (Slatkin 1991: 65-67). In this capacity, she plays an active role in divine affairs: in one instance, she rescues Hephaestus and Dionysus, and in another she frees Zeus from the bonds clapped upon him by the rebellious Olympians (Slatkin 1991: 56-61). Furthermore, Zeus and Poseidon both “court” Thetis until they learn that she is destined to bear a son more powerful than his father. To avert this threat to his kingship, Zeus decides to marry her off against her will to his mortal grandson, Peleus (Pi. I. 8.26-45). Thetis metamorphoses into many forms to evade Peleus but eventually yields to his violent advances; their struggle is frequently portrayed in Greek pottery.
The post-Iliadic receptions of Thetis likewise characterise her in terms of both awe and ambiguity. The Greeks deemed her both lovely and terrifying: the Thetis of Thessalian folklore commands the barren depths of the sea and wards off plagues (Aston 2009), while the lost poem Aegimius has her throw her children into a cauldron of boiling water to ascertain whether they are mortal, an ordeal which only Achilles survives. Roman writers brought new meanings to the name of Thetis, who merits the title of shapeshifter from her diverse appearances in the Latin literary tradition. Catullus describes her marriage to Peleus as voluntary and employs it to frame the epyllion of Poem 64; she resurfaces in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and features so prominently in Book 1 of Statius’ Achilleid that it is sometimes termed the ‘Theteid’ (Koster 1979: 199). Thetis has even captured the modern imagination: she appears in the cult classic Clash of the Titans (1981), in quasi-mortal form in Troy (2004), and as a prominent (albeit one-note) antagonist in Miller’s Song of Achilles (2012).
Throughout history, myths on Thetis have constantly been refashioned by creative retellings into nebulous networks of ideologically biased narratives. Even though each version differs from its counterparts, they hold one element in common: the Nereid remains a “figure of cosmic capacity” (Slatkin 1991: 12), holding sway over hearts and minds. Our desire to focus on her at the 2019 Celtic Conference in Classics, almost thirty years after the publication of The Power of Thetis, further attests to her enduring appeal. We invite proposals for papers which comprehensively reexamine the complex figure of Thetis and her depictions in different media (text, pottery, painting, song, opera, film, theatre, etc.) both in Graeco-Roman antiquity and beyond.
Papers might address, but are not limited to, the following questions:
* The nature and extent of Thetis’ power and weakness - different conceptualizations of Thetis’ position in the divine hierarchy - Thetis and the prophecy of Zeus’ downfall - Thetis’ voice and agency
* Visions of Thetis in post-Classical works: facets of Thetis’ mythos (e.g. structures of cosmic power; divine relations; maternity and mortality) reverberating in traditions, contexts, and media beyond the Greco-Roman world
* The myth of Thetis employed as political and/or social commentary - how do literary works in the Greco-Roman world take up (or activate) and reshape the paradigm of Thetis?
* The roles of gender, sexuality, and sexual violence in the mythos of Thetis - transgression and conformity - ancient and post-ancient interpretations of Thetis’ “courtship” with Zeus and Poseidon (how do we interpret Thetis’ ‘almost γάμος’ in this context?) and her relationship with Peleus - double standards concerning sexual violence, whether committed by divine characters against mortals or vice versa
* Thetis’ relationships with other deities - her sympathies and dislikes - interactions with Olympian deities (e.g. Zeus, Hera, Hephaestus, Dionysus, Apollo, etc.) and her immediate family (Nereids, Nereus)
* Thetis in relation to non-Olympian goddesses (e.g. Eos, Medea, Circe, Tethys, Metis, Amphitrite, Eurynome, Nemesis, Aphrodite) or as an exceptional character who evades obvious parallels
In order to encourage discussion of work-in-progress, we have designed our panel schedule to accommodate two different paper lengths: 20 minutes and 40 minutes. Please submit a proposal of 350 words if you would like to present a shorter paper and 500 words for the longer option, and indicate which length you prefer.
The submission deadline for abstracts is 28th February 2019 EXTENDED DEADLINE March 8th, 2019. Submissions are to be sent to the following address: powerofthetis@gmail.com
Please include a short biography and specify your affiliation in the body of your email: attach the abstract as a separate file (preferably WORD/PDF) with no personal identification.
Notification of acceptance will be given by 31st March 2019.
PANEL CONVENERS:
David J. Wright (Fordham University)
Maciej Paprocki (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Gary Vos (University of Edinburgh)
Astrid Khoo (University College London)
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Laura Slatkin (NYU Gallatin)
Seemee Ali (Carthage College)
Diana Burton (Victoria University of Wellington)
Peter J. Heslin (Durham University)
As the organization is unable to provide financial support, participants will need to pay for their travel and accommodation expenses as well as registration fees. A subscription fee of ca. 100€ is to be expected with some optional plans for a half day excursion and a final dinner.
CCC website: https://www.celticconferencesinclassics2019.com/
Program: [pdf] https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/14f5b2_f49bbb40f5cb42039fa655ebb667136b.pdf
(CFP closed March 8, 2019)
[CCC PANEL] THE POLITICS OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC
12th Celtic Conference in Classics. Coimbra, Portugal: 26-29 June, 2019
Panel Coordinators:
Janet Downie (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): jdownie@email.unc.edu
Lawrence Kim (Trinity University): lawrence.kim@trinity.edu
Aldo Tagliabue (University of Notre Dame): atagliab@nd.edu
The term “Second Sophistic” has always been political. Flavius Philostratus, who invented it, used the phrase to connect Imperial epideictic with the classical past of Athens, and when Erwin Rohde revived the term in the nineteenth century, his picture of Imperial Greek writers struggling to preserve an evanescent Hellenism reflected the fears of nineteenth century German nationalism. In recent decades, the label “Second Sophistic” has been adopted pragmatically as a convenient and meaningful frame for the growing scholarly conversation about Greek literary culture of the first three centuries CE, but it seems time to examine the intellectual consequences of this frame: What do we gain, and what do we miss when we read Imperial literature through the lens of the Second Sophistic? Does the term foster what Tim Whitmarsh describes as a “modern fantasy” of “seamless panhellenism”, or does it help to illuminate creative tensions between tradition and innovation in the literature of the period? What is distinctly “sophistic” about the “Second Sophistic”? And where does this term stand in relation to Imperial Literature understood more broadly as encompassing not only more or less classicizing Greek texts from the pagan sphere, but also Latin, Christian, Jewish, and other literary and paraliterary texts?
We invite contributions that approach the politics of the Second Sophistic from a variety of perspectives: papers that address the literary, cultural, visual, linguistic, religious politics of the Imperial period itself, as well as papers that address the politics of the scholarly reception and interpretation of the period’s literary and cultural products – from large-scale cultural narratives of Greek tradition, decadence, and “Oriental” othering, to the politics of canonicity and disciplinary divides in the modern academy.
Paper presentations will be 30 minutes, followed by twenty minutes for discussion, as we hope to encourage dialogue.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 800 words (including bibliography), as well as a CV, by 18 February 2019 to the following email address: jdownie@email.unc.edu
For further information, please contact any of the organizers.
Notification of acceptance will be given by 4 March 2019
Program: [pdf] https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/14f5b2_c024eadb45f2437eb2bb6a31c12572c1.pdf
CCC website: https://www.celticconferencesinclassics2019.com/
(CFP closed February 18, 2019)
[CCC PANEL] MAKING SENSE OF LATIN CLASSICS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
12th Celtic Conference in Classics. Coimbra, Portugal: 26-29 June, 2019
Conveners:
Silverio Franzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa & École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL, Paris) [silverio.franzoni@sns.it]
Elisa Lonati (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa & École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL, Paris) [elisa.lonati@sns.it]
Adriano Russo (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa & École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL, Paris) [adriano.russo@sns.it]
Through a path sometimes glorious, sometimes humble, a major part of classical literature has survived through the Middle Ages and has acquired a new life, according to the different historical moments which characterized each area of Europe.
The aim of this panel is to explore how medieval authors have dealt with the classical heritage within their own cultural context. On the one hand, we will look at what type of classical texts they had at their disposal, what textual tradition was known to them and how this tradition moved from one place, library or scholar to the other.
On the other hand, we aim at an in-depth evaluation of the role of classical models in medieval works. This enquiry could illustrate different degrees of exploitation of classical texts: from systematic excerption to scattered quotations naturalized in different frameworks, from the reshaping of biographies, political and philosophical treatises to the reuse of poetical patterns in order to convey new values.
Making sense always implies a multiple perspective. The goal of this panel is to encourage the interaction between different points of view – historical, philological, literary, philosophical, scientific – in order to get a better understanding of the cultural background through which the Classics had to pass before reaching us.
Topics for papers may include:
- Manuscript traditions of classical texts from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages
- Latin classics in medieval libraries
- Medieval scholarship on Latin classics
- Classical authors in medieval florilegia
- Scattered quotations in medieval works
- Reuse of Latin classics in literary, philosophical and scientific works
- Christian reshaping of classical models
Prospective speakers: young (graduate students, PhD students, Post-doc researchers) and established scholars (researchers, professors, librarians).
Submitting papers:
We envisage a panel of around 15 speakers, so that each speaker could present a paper of around 35-40 minutes. Both papers in English and in French are accepted.
If you wish to submit a paper, please send a short abstract in English to makingsenseoflatinclassics@gmail.com.
The deadline for submitting papers is 22/02/2019. Acceptance of the papers will be communicated shortly thereafter.
Program: [pdf] https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/14f5b2_131b1ee50b3d44ceb466a9297065f618.pdf
CCC website: https://www.celticconferencesinclassics2019.com/
(CFP closed February 22, 2019)
[CCC PANEL] CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN BRAZILIAN LITERATURE
12th Celtic Conference in Classics. Coimbra, Portugal: 26-29 June, 2019
Conveners:
Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa (FALE/UFMG) [tereza.virginia.ribeiro.barbosa@gmail.com]
Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza (FALE/UFMG - Brazil) [mpelluci@gmail.com]
This panel aims to be a display of how Brazilian Literature receives the Classical Tradition in some of its most renowned works. We intend to reflect about the ways in which Brazilian literary authors reread and rewrite Classical culture in a significant way to their own cultural context. Avoiding the traps of ethnocentric comparative interpretations, we suggest that the survival of Classical texts in Brazilian Literature rests in a dialogue between reiterating identity and inaugurating fundamental differences. Therefore, this panel aims to display some significant examples of the Brazilian literary richness, dealing with works which are capable of being utterly innovative in their use of Classical elements to create their own universe. It is our wish to point at the potentialities of works that are still unknown, or little studied worldwide, in order to offer our audience the possibility of getting in contact with some of the most important and influential authors of Brazilian literature, while offering comments and insights on the main themes in their works and on how they explore the Classics in their own creations. In this sense, this panel wants also to investigate how diverse the Brazilian Classical Reception can be from the European one. We follow two main theoretical approaches in our analysis: the idea of “cultural appropriation” (Benjamin; Sanders) and the notions of Intertextuality and Classical Reception (Martindale, 1993; Fowler, 1997).
The theory of “cultural appropriation” was forged by the mixing of two other theories: Walter Benjamin’s ideas about translation, and Julie Sanders’ thoughts on adaptation and appropriation in literature (Castello Branco, 2008; Sanders, 2006). This theory is also in contact with some of the ideas expressed by T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges and Silviano Santiago. The main developments of this trend of thought can be illustrated by different projects of Brazilian intellectuals, such as Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade, Mário Faustino and Haroldo de Campos, who worked intensely analyzing how Brazilian authors made use of different cultural traditions (including the Classical one), at a time when Reception Studies were not even a well established discipline. The main ideas circulating amongst such intellectuals, from the 1920’s onwards, were to build new artistic theories and practices from the Brazilian potpourri of European, African and Indigenous cultures. Intending to provide new ways of thinking and writing, as an alternative to more traditional and Eurocentric ones, the main objective of this cultural movement was to reflect upon an authentic Brazilian national identity. Taking these ideas into account, the notion of “cultural appropriation” intends to analyze in which ways different cultures interact and develop in new cultural contexts, such as the Brazilian one.
In turn, we work also with the notion of Inter textuality (from the perspective of reception), as it locates intertextuality in the reader. Fowler (1997), for instance, contrasts the structuralist perspective of intertextuality, centered on the text and on a literary system considered stable, and its post-structuralist perspective, focused on the reception process. From this post-structuralist point of view, intertextuality is located in a reading practice, in such a way that modern theories or modern stories may affect our constructions of Antiquity. This approach presents the “possibility of reversing the directionality of intertextual reference”, and proposes intertextuality as a non-unidirectional process. From a similar point of view, Martindale (1993) mentions some of Derrida’s ideas concerning the capacity of texts for “reingrafting themselves within new contexts,” and suggests a process of “recontextualization,” according to which the meanings of a text become constantly new at the point of different receptions. This is precisely what happens in the process of incorporation and appropriation which some Brazilian authors make of the Classical Tradition and the ancient texts.
Considering the possibilities offered by such theoretical approaches, this panel deals with works of Brazilian literature of different literary genres (such as poetry, short story, theater, and novel), in order to highlight various forms of dialogue with the Classical Tradition. The authors covered by our analysis are as varied as: José de Anchieta, Machado de Assis, Jorge de Lima, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Cecília Meirelles, Guimarães Rosa, Murilo Rubião, Guilherme de Figueiredo, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Millôr Fernandes, Haroldo de Campos, Hilda Hilst, Mário Faustino, Paulo Leminski, and the theatrical group Teatro Invertido.
Program: [pdf] https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/14f5b2_a0501110c9274588ba01f06557a8129a.pdf
CCC website: https://www.celticconferencesinclassics2019.com/
[CCC PANEL] CLASSICAL MOTIVES IN CONTEMPORARY SHORT NARRATIVE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF SUMMARIES IN CLASSICAL RECEPTION
12th Celtic Conference in Classics. Coimbra, Portugal: 26-29 June, 2019
Conveners:
David Bouvier (University of Lausanne) [david.bouvier@unil.ch]
Maria de Fátima Silva (University of Coimbra) [fanp13@gmail.com]
Maria das Graças Augusto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) [mgmaugusto@yahoo.com.br]
Classical reception studies have paid great attention to the process of transformation and re-appropriation of mythological themes and ancient literary motives from Antiquity to Contemporary period. Our panel will aim at examining the use and references to ancient literature and mythology in two contrasting genres that have in common the principle of “brevity”: short stories and summaries. Is there a special way to refer to Classics in short stories? How much an epic, a tragedy, a comedy, a historical episode or a philosophical argument can be transformed into a short story? How a special episode of an ancient work can become the argument of a short story or of a tale? What narrative strategies are used to transpose a motive from an extensive work to a short story? Is the technique of summary an important tool in this process?
This panel will not only be interested in the presence of mythological themes in contemporary short narratives, but will also pay attention to the role of summary in the process of classical reception. Summary is a good way to recapture a previous narration into a new work. In Archaic Greece, for example, we can find summaries of the Trojan war already in the Odyssey. Demodocos’ song about the Ilioupersis is summarised at Book 8 of the Odyssey. Odyssean episodes offer an ideal material for short stories. Even short stories writers found also their idea and themes in ancient historians, philosophers and prose writers. Examples are numerous.
Summaries will also play an important role in the transmission of tragedies and mythology. Many manuscripts contain summaries of the different books of the Homeric epics or of tragedies. Many myths have also been summarised by different mythographers. Is this material used today by short stories writers, editors, screenwriters who propose abbreviated forms of ancient epics or dramas?
The variety of contributions will allow a comparative perspective in the adoption of greco-latin models, considering subjects and aesthetic solutions.
Different perspectives to be adopted:
* aesthetic strategies on importing ancient subjects and forms
* theoretical testimonies about affinities between classical paradigms and contemporary rewriting
* transversal connections within different literatures
* ancient and other intermediary sources
* personality of different authors and their access, more or less direct, to the ancient sources
* analysis of particular authors and texts
Program: [pdf] https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/14f5b2_b11a0ef8abaf4d839c9f65b1cbfa8324.pdf
CCC website: https://www.celticconferencesinclassics2019.com/
[CCC PANEL] CHERCHEZ LA FEMME: WOMEN IN HELLENISTIC HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND RECEPTION
12th Celtic Conference in Classics. Coimbra, Portugal: 26-29 June, 2019
Conveners:
Marc Mendoza (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) [Marc.Mendoza@uab.cat]
Borja Antela-Bernárdez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) [Borja.Antela@uab.cat]
Eran Almagor (Independent Scholar) [eranalmagor@gmail.com]
The growing role of women exercising power - or at least having agency - is considerably evident in descriptions of the political upheavals in the broad Greek-speaking world after Alexander, as compared with previous periods. Seemingly, they were no longer the passive players in the internal and international sphere, as often found in myths, or in the stock - and half earnest - explanations for the causes of wars (e.g., Herodotus, 1.1-5). Hellenistic queens have been a subject of research. Yet, this panel seeks to address this role of women in the political scene both as a historical phenomenon at large and as a historiographical or literary topos.
The panel attempts to tackle the question of whether this was a truly significant historical change, and if so, whether it stemmed from real political and structural developments that the societies of newly formed kingdoms underwent. The panel will also focus on the historiographical tradition that began to take shape in the Hellenistic period - roughly from the Alexander era until the dominance of Rome in the Mediterranean. This literary tradition included references to men and women of the new courts, allotting them roles that were known to exist till then in barbaric environs, like the Persian court. The Hellenistic tradition evolved over the years and it is in the roots of our modern approaches, mixed with contemporary influences, biases and commonplaces.
This panel is not limited to Hellenistic history researchers, but rather seeks to add different perspectives coming from genre studies or modern reception studies, among others, for a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue. In addition, it will aim to combine well-established scholars as well as young scholars.
Topics suggested for this panel include, but not exclusively, the following questions:
- The powers of Hellenistic Queens.
- Power, agency and sexuality in the Hellenistic period.
- Women in the propaganda wars of the Hellenistic period.
- Women at the crossroads of Greek and non-Greek traditions in the Seleucid and Ptolemaic monarchies.
- Hellenistic queens and Roman politics.
- Queens in the Hellenistic minor kingdoms (e.g. Hasmonean and Greco-Bactrian kingdoms, among others).
- Women in Hellenistic historiography: the formation of new themes and agendas.
- Depictions of non-royal women and their agency in Hellenistic historiography.
- The relationship between depictions of women agency in historiographical writing and literature or visual arts during the Hellenistic period.
- Modern reception of the image of Hellenistic Queens in historiography.
- Modern reception of the image of Hellenistic Queens in literature and other media.
Prospective speakers are invited to send a short abstract (no more than 300 words) to marc.mendoza@uab.cat no later than 28/02/2019. Acceptance of the papers will be communicated in the following weeks.
Program: [pdf] https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/14f5b2_c9ea5c59472a4e1ab07956a0c7c2804f.pdf
CCC website: https://www.celticconferencesinclassics2019.com/
(CFP closed February 28, 2019)
[PANEL] CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGIES IN JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, AND ISLAMIC SOURCES
Thematic session at: EASR 2019 Religion – Continuations and Disruptions
Tartu, Estonia: June 25-29, 2019
Convener(s): Daniel Barbu, CNRS, PSL Research University, UMR 8584; Francesco Massa, University of Geneva
This panel proposes to explore the different modes of interaction with the mythological traditions of the classical world in the Jewish, Christian or Islamic literatures of the late antique and medieval periods. The aim of this panel is to engage in a reflexions on the status, place, function and role of the “pagan” past in the elaboration of a discourse articulating religious identities to a historical rupture, while at the same time becoming an important channel of transmission and reception of classical mythology. In this process, “pagan” myths, understood not only as a deceitful form of speech but also as a source of historical knowledge, came to contribute to the various ways in which Jews, Christians and Muslims thought about history, and especially, the history of religions.
This panel, encouraging a comparative perspective, grounded in rigorous historical and/or philological methodologies, welcomes contributions on case studies shedding light on the ambiguities of this relation between myth and history in specific historical contexts. Are also welcome contributions addressing the question from a historiographical vantage point, for instance by considering the place of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic discourses about the “pagan” past in the historiography of the comparative study of religion.
If you are interested in submitting an abstract to this open session, please do so by December 15, 2018 on the conference website:
https://easr2019.org/call-for-individual-papers/?fbclid=IwAR2Qp5rxVIgvjmaqBbZHwBGihr0QQyhrXITExTCBd8jIDugDqS1zsZW64_s
Information/Contact: daniel.barbu@cnrs.fr; francesco.massa@unige.ch
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1811&L=CLASSICISTS&P=124910
(CFP closed December 15, 2018)
19th ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT DRAMA
Theme: Communities and Contexts in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama
Oxford (Ioannou Centre) & Royal Holloway, Egham: June 24-25, 2019
The 19th Annual APGRD / Royal Holloway, University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Ancient Drama will take place on Monday 24 June (at the Ioannou Centre, Oxford) and Tuesday 25 June (at Royal Holloway, Egham). This year’s theme will be: ‘Communities and Contexts in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: This annual Symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy, exploring the afterlife of these ancient dramatic texts through re-workings by both writers and practitioners across all genres and periods. This year’s focus will range from the concept and involvement of communities (choruses, audiences, etc.) in and out of their (cultural, performative, etc.) contexts in the interpretations of Greek and Roman drama. This year’s guest respondent will be Dr Hallie Marshall (University of British Columbia). Among those present at this year’s symposium will be Prof. Fiona Macintosh, Prof. Oliver Taplin and Dr Justine McConnell. The first day of the symposium will include a performance from By Jove Theatre Company.
PARTICIPANTS: Postgraduates from around the world working on the reception of Greek and Roman drama are welcome to participate, as are those who have completed a doctorate but not yet taken up a post. The symposium is open to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of Classics, modern languages and literature, and theatre and performance studies.
Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on ancient drama. Papers may also include demonstrations. Undergraduates are very welcome to attend.
Those who wish to offer a short paper (20 mins) or performance presentation on ‘Communities and Contexts in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’ are invited to send an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk by FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2019 AT THE LATEST (please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution).
There will be no registration fee. Some travel bursaries will be available again this year - please indicate if you would like to be considered for one of these.
Speakers:
Vasileios Balaskas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and University of Malaga) – ‘Local Involvement in Modern Greek Revival of Ancient Theatres: Epidaurus and Delphi in the Interwar Period’
Marcus Bell (King’s College London) – ‘Queer Contexts and Communal Hauntings: Re-enacting Neil Greenberg’s ‘Not-About-AIDS-Dance’ through Euripides’ Bacchae’
Connie Bloomfield (King’s College London) – ‘Graeco-Roman drama in rural Brazil: orality, popular poetry, and performing identities’
Triantafyllos Bostantzis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – ‘Delphic Festivals: Jesus Christ as the Neo-Romantic Thirteenth God of Olympus’
Eri Georgakaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) – ‘The Generic Fluidity of Euripides’ Cyclops during his Reception by the Athenian Stage and Press in the Late Nineteenth Century’
Leonor Hernández Oñate (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa) – ‘Tragic Patterns and Performance in Lope de Vega’s Mythological Drama’
Mariam Kaladze (Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University) – ‘The Reception of Chorus in Georgian Interpretations of Ancient Tragedy (Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex)’
Dimitris Kentrotis-Zinelis (Leiden University) – ‘Ostracized for her Tinker’s Blood: Medea as an Irish Traveller in Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats…’
Peter Swallow (King’s College London) – ‘Sexual Violence and Aristophanic Humour’
Nebojša Todorović (Yale University) – ‘Border-line Communities and Traumatic Cartographies: Re-performing Greek Tragedy during the Yugoslav Wars’
Charitini Tsikoura (University of Paris Nanterre) – ‘A Chorus of Clowns: Splendid Productions’ Antigone’
Francesca Tuccari (University of Trento) – ‘Testori's Edipus: Greek tragedy and modern context’
Program: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2019/02/postgraduate-symposium-2019-19th-annual-joint-postgraduate-symposium-on-ancient-drama
CONTACT FOR ENQUIRIES: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1902&L=CLASSICISTS&P=22054
(CFP closed April 5, 2019)
SPORTULA'S NAKED SOUL CONFERENCE
Worldwide [via Zoom]: June 22, 2019 (9am-4pm PST)
Join us on Zoom on June 22nd (9am-4pm PST) as we showcase the scholarship and artistry of scholars of color and working-class scholars. Our talks focus on the misappropriation of Classics, the instability and expectations of gender, and the experience of marginalized groups both in antiquity and modern day.
In addition to conference papers, there will be opportunities for attendees to network with each other in breakout groups that center on issues faced by scholars of color and other marginalized groups within academia.
Even though this is an online conference and you are free to attend in the comfort of your own home and pjs, we especially encourage you to get together with your cohort/colleges/friends in Classics and host viewing parties! We’ll be discussing some heavy issues and want to make sure that you’re supported/ can support one another.
Schedule
Welcome Address from members of the collective - 9am-9:20am (PST)|12pm-12:20pm (EST)
Panel 1: Gender Expectations and Instability - 9:25am-10:40am (PST)|12:20pm-1:35pm (EST)
Izzy Levy: “‘Where the Rift Is, The Break Is’ Persephone in Drag: A Non-Binary Reading”
Kenneth Kim: “Quid sis nata vide: Ovid’s repeated question of gender image and identity”
Yurie Hong: “Between Appreciation and Complicity: A Korean-American Take on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Arranged Marriage, and Women’s Honor”
Panel 2: Classical Reception(s) - 10:45am-12pm (PST)|1:45pm-3pm (EST)
Elyanna Choi: “Orientalism in the Ancient World: the Persians in Classical and Hellenistic Greek Thought and Art”
Mariana Pini: “The Philosopher King is Naked!: Denouncing Reactionary Interpretation of Ancient Sources of Contemporary Brazilian Far-right”
Samuel Powell: “The Tragedy of Misunderstanding”
Lunch (with breakout session) and Introduction to the Asian American Classical Caucus - 12pm-1:35pm (PST)| 3pm-4:35pm (EST)
Panel 3: Marginalization in Antiquity - 1:45pm-3pm (PST)|4:45pm-6pm (EST)
Mason Shrader: “In the Hands of the God or in the Depths of a Well? Examining the Evolution of Disability in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin”
Briana Grenert: “God’s Elect: Chastity and the Other in Ephrem’s Reading of Genesis 6:1-8”
Wynter Pohlenz Telles Douglas: “Imprisonment and the Body: A Corporal Investigation of Athenian Social Status within the Athenian Structure of Imprisonment”
Final Breakout Session - 3:10pm-3:40pm (PST)|6:10pm-6:40pm (EST)
Closing Thoughts - 3:40pm-4:00pm (PST)|6:40pm-7:00pm (EST)
Program: https://nakedsoul2019.wordpress.com/schedule/
Twitter: @Libertinopatren
ASSESSING CICERO'S (IN)CONSTANTIA THROUGH THE AGES
Leiden University, The Netherlands: June 21-22, 2019
We invite proposals (for papers of 30 minutes) for a two-day workshop at Leiden University (The Netherlands) on the theme “Assessing Cicero’s (in)constantia through the Ages”. The workshop will be dedicated to the question how later authors reacted to the theme of philosophical, political and oratorical consistency, which was so prominent within Cicero’s oeuvre and his own life. To give just one example per category: (a) philosophy: in De officiis 1.125, Cicero affirms that nothing is more fitting than preserving consistency in every action and plan; (b) politics: long parts of the Pro Sulla are dedicated to Cicero’s self-defence from the charge of not showing political consistency compared to his behaviour as consul; (c) (forensic) oratory: in the Pro Cluentio, Cicero has to explain why his stance is completely opposite to his views during a previous court case involving Cluentius.
Cicero’s (in)constantia has consistently triggered readers in antiquity and beyond. In antiquity, one can think of Velleius Paterculus’ praise that Cicero acted with exceptional constantia in handling the Catilinarian conspiracy and contrast this to the critical remark by Iunius Bassus in Seneca’s Controversiae that Cicero lacked constantia. Famous is Petrarch’s disappointment about the inconsistency between Cicero’s public and private behaviour after having rediscovered his Letters to Atticus or Theodor Mommsen’s biting characterisation of Cicero as a person without any moral compass and without any consistent behaviour.
During the workshop, we would like to examine why the theme continued to interest readers through the ages. We are especially interested in the underlying moral expectations and evaluations with regard to Cicero’s (in)constantia. We especially welcome proposals that investigate the interrelatedness of two or even all three fields mentioned above: philosophy, rhetoric and politics.
Keynote speaker: Matthew Roller (Johns Hopkins University).
The workshop will take place in Leiden on Friday 21 and Saturday 22 June, 2019. Hotel costs of the participants will be covered (for two nights), but travel costs will be at personal expense.
The workshop is organised as part of the Leiden research project "Mediated Cicero", funded by the ‘Netherlands Organisations for Scientific Research’ (NWO), principle investigator Christoph Pieper.
If you are interested in participating, please send your proposal of max. 300 words by February 10, 2019 to Christoph Pieper (c.pieper@hum.leidenuniv.nl). For further information, please also contact the organiser.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1812&L=CLASSICISTS&P=109890
Website: https://www.ru.nl/oikos/news/current-events/workshop-assessing-cicero-constantia-through-ages-0/
(CFP closed February 10, 2019)
CLASSICAL ENCOUNTERS: RECEPTIONS OF ANTIQUITY IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
Durham Centre for Classical Reception (Durham University, UK): June 21-22, 2019
The Durham Centre for Classical Reception is pleased to invite you to a two day interdisciplinary conference to be held in Durham on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd June, 2019.
‘Classical Encounters: Receptions of antiquity in the long nineteenth-century’ will bring together scholars from a broad range of disciplines to explore encounters with the ancient world in nineteenth-century visual, material, literary and political culture and the implications of these encounters on discourses such as nationhood, colonialism, race, religion, gender, sexuality and death. A roundtable will offer interdisciplinary interventions on classical receptions to discuss the future(s) of reception studies.
Confirmed contributors include Abigail Baker (Warwick), Athena Leoussi (Reading), Carrie Vout (Cambridge), Charles Martindale (York), Daniel Hartley (Durham), Edmund Richardson (Durham), Laura Jensen (Bristol), Liz Prettejohn (York), Rachel Bryant-Davies (Durham) and Shelley Hales (Bristol).
The event is free to attend and registration open to all. Postgraduate and early career researchers working in classical reception are especially encouraged to attend.
Speakers:
Abigail Baker (Great North Museum) : 'Troy in London: making sense of Schliemann’s first exhibition'
Rachel Bryant Davies (Durham) : '‘Little Archaeologists': the Impact of Schliemann's Excavations at Hissarlik in Victorian Children's Magazines'
Sarah Budasz (Durham) : 'Archeological racialization in French travel writing to the Orient: exploratory thoughts'
Thomas Couldridge (Durham) : 'South Kensington Cupid: A New Chapter?'
Emily Dunn (Durham) : 'Dr Price and the 1884 Cremation of the Christ Child'
Shelley Hales (Bristol) : 'Mortal Remains and Immortal Ruins: Classical Archaeology and Cultures of Death in the Nineteenth Century'
Athena Leoussi (Reading) : 'Citizens and Athletes: Classical Greek concepts of humanity in the making of modern European nations in the long 19th century'
Daniel Orrells (King’s College London) : 'Visualising Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century'
Maddalena Ruini (Durham) : 'The Prime Minister and the Archaeologist: retelling the Homeric Age'
Helen Slaney (Roehampton) : Title TBC
Carrie Vout (Cambridge) : 'The classical and biblical in dialogue: a conversation in Victorian sculpture'
Roundtable: Interdisciplinarity and the Futures of Classical Reception (with Blaz Zabel (Durham), Charles Martindale (York), Daniel Hartley (Durham), Edmund Richardson (Durham), further contributors TBC)
Book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/classical-encounters-receptions-of-antiquity-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-tickets-60809853910
2019 SYMPOSIUM CUMANUM: VIRGIL AND THE FEMININE
Villa Virgiliana, Cuma, Italy: June 20-22, 2019
The Vergilian Society invites proposals for papers for the 2019 Symposium Cumanum at the Villa Virgiliana in Cuma, Italy.
Co-Directors: Elena Giusti (Warwick) and Victoria Rimell (Warwick)
The ‘Father of the West’ has not escaped scrutiny by feminist criticism. Since identifying the repressed female voice with Virgil’s subversive voice of loss (Perkell 1997, Nugent 1999), scholars have turned from a practice of reading Virgilian women to an investigation of women reading Virgil (Desmond 1993, Cox 2011), from accounts of the patriarchal structures underpinning the Aeneid, and the poem’s performances of masculinity (Keith 2000), to readings that assert the centrality of the feminine in what is after all a history of reproduction (McAuley 2016, Rogerson 2017). Yet feminist approaches to Virgil still represent a tiny portion of contemporary scholarship, and Virgil – unlike Homer, or Ovid – has traditionally not been seen as fertile territory for feminist philosophy. This Symposium asks how ever-evolving contemporary feminisms might engage in new dialogues not just with the Aeneid, Eclogues and Georgics, but also with the Appendix Vergiliana, and aims to reassess, through Virgil, the role and potential of feminist modes of reading within classical philology. We welcome papers on any aspect of Virgil and the feminine/feminist criticisms and theories, and particularly encourage proposals by scholars interested in engaging across disciplines, and/or with any of the following topics:
abuse, affect, agency, animal, circularity, colour, desire, ecology, hysteria, identity, identity politics, ineffectiveness, intersubjectivity, lack, maternity, metaphor, metonym, nature, origin, pain, pleasure, the political, post-critique, pregnancy, queer, race, resistance, silence, song, teleology, time, touch, transferral, translation, virginity.
Confirmed Speakers: Sergio Casali (Roma Tor Vergata), Rita Degl’Innocenti Pierini (Firenze), Alex Dressler (Wisconsin-Madison), Erik Gunderson (Toronto), Alison Keith (Toronto), Helen Lovatt (Nottingham), Sebastian Matzner (KCL), Mairéad McAuley (UCL), Ellen Oliensis (Berkeley), Christine G. Perkell (Emory), Amy Richlin (UCLA), Sarah Spence (Georgia).
Papers will be 30 minutes with 15 minutes for discussion. Participants will arrive on Wednesday 19th June and the Symposium will include visits to Virgilian sites.
Anonymised abstracts of no more than 400 words in length should be sent to virgilandthefeminine@gmail.com by December 1, 2018.
NB. We are committed to make the event as inclusive as possible, so please do get in touch directly with the organisers if you have any enquiries regarding access or childcare, and for any further information:
Dr Elena Giusti E.Giusti@Warwick.ac.uk
Prof. Victoria Rimell V.Rimell@Warwick.ac.uk
For further information on this event and previous symposia, please visit the page of the Vergilian Society:
https://www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium_cumanum/symposium-cumanum/
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-%E2%80%9Cvirgil-and-feminine%E2%80%9D-vergilian-society%E2%80%99s-symposium-cumanum-2019.
Update 13/4/2019 - Program available: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1904&L=CLASSICISTS&P=65581
Speakers:
LAURA ARESI (Firenze) ‘The hidden seduction: Circe, the Sirens and the pseudo-Virgilian Copa’
FRANCESCA BELLEI (Harvard) ‘E pluribus unum: reassessing race relations in ancient Rome through Scybale’s gender”
FRANCES BERNSTEIN (Princeton) “Vergil’s Camilla and the metapoetics of gendered paradox”
SERGIO CASALI (Roma Tor Vergata) “The dangerousness of Dido”
SIOBHAN CHOMSE (RHUL) “Virgil’s Aeneid and the feminine sublime”
BOB COWAN (Sydney) “Mothers in arms: towards an ecofeminist reading of the Georgics”
RITA DEGL’INNOCENTI PIERINI (Firenze) “In and out of the palace. The feminine spaces in the Aeneid”
ALEX DRESSLER (Wisconsin-Madison) “Vergil, gender, personification, and aesthetics: “omni nunc arte magistra” (Aeneid 8.442)”
CRESCENZO FORMICOLA (Napoli Federico II) “Female revenge, revenge of destiny: from Virgil to Ovid to Rushdie.”
TOM GEUE (St Andrews) “Power of deduction, labour of reproduction: Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the exploitation of women”
ERIK GUNDERSON (Toronto) “The asexual reproduction of gender as problematic: Vergil, Aeneid 4 and beyond”
ERIN M. HANSES (PSU) “Natura creatrix? Virgil’s de-feminizing of Lucretius’ concept of nature in the Georgics”
JACQUELINE KLOOSTER (Groningen) “Love and the city. Dido in the Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante.”
HELEN LOVATT (Nottingham) “The power of sadness and women’s grief in the Aeneid”
MAIRÉAD MCAULEY (UCL) ‘Dextrae iungere dextram: Virgil, Venus, and the affective dynamics of touch in the Aeneid’
NANDINI PANDEY (Wisconsin-Madison) “Metapoetic midwives in and around Vergil: gender-bending generative labor from Vulcan to Proba”
CHRISTINE G. PERKELL (Emory) “Creusa and Dido revisited”
SARAH SPENCE (Georgia) “Dido redux”
VIOLA STARNONE (UCD) ‘Erotic love and its matrix in Virgil’
JEFFREY ULRICH (Rutgers) “Vox omnibus una: a re-assessment of the feminine vox in Aeneid 5”
KATHRIN WINTER (Heidelberg) “Woman without womb. Scylla’s body, identity and fluidity in the pseudo-Virgilian Ciris”
(CFP closed December 1, 2018)
THE ALDINE EDITION OF THE ANCIENT GREEK EPISTOLOGRAPHERS: ROOTS AND LEGACY
John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK: June 17, 2019
Accompanied by an exhibition: "Old and Rare Editions of Ancient Greek Epistolographers"
The Aldine edition of Greek epistolographers, published in 1499 in Venice, is the first printed edition of most of the 36 letter collections that it contains. Its text was based on earlier medieval epistolaria, and itself formed the basis for most of the subsequent printed editions of the collections it contained. Despite its principal position and importance, the current value of this edition for the study of Greek epistolography is not widely understood. The aims of the Rylands event are to examine collections of ancient Greek epistolographers included in the Aldine and to explore i) the roots of the Aldine edition, ii) its relationship to the medieval Byzantine manuscript epistolary collections, iii) its legacy and relationship to modern critical editions of the Greek epistolographers, and iv) its value for the needs of a modern editor and student of Greek epistolography.
Programme:
10.00-10.45 Registration and Coffee
10.45-11.00 Opening Remarks: Professor Roy Gibson (Durham University)
11.00-12.30 Session 1: Aldine edition volume 1 (Chair: Professor Andrew Morrison, University of Manchester)
11.00-11.30 Professor Anna Tiziana Drago (University of Bari): “Alciphron and Theophylact Simocatta”
11.30-12.00 Professor Raphael Gallé Cejudo (University of Cadiz): “Philostratus”
12.00-12.30 Dr Owen Hodkinson (University of Leeds): “Aelian”
12.30-1.30 Lunch/Coffee
1.30-2.00 Collections Encounter: “Old and Rare Editions of Ancient Greek Epistolographers”
2.00-3.30 Session 2: Aldine edition volume 2 (Chair: Dr Vinko Hinz, Goettingen University)
2.00-2.30 Dr Antonia Sarri (University of Manchester): “Basil the Great”
2.30-3.00 Professor F. Mestre (University of Barcelona): “Apollonius of Tyana”
3.00-3.30 Dr Émeline Marquis (C.N.R.S., Paris): “Phalaris”
3.30-4.00 Round Table Discussion and Closing Remarks (Chair: Professor Andrew Morrison)
Thanks to generous support from the John Rylands Research Institute and the University of Manchester a buffet lunch and refreshments will be offered to all attendants free of charge. To aid the estimate of the seating and catering numbers, if you are planning to attend please let us know by the 1st of June 2019, by email to antonia.sarri@manchester.ac.uk.
After the conclusion of the day’s events, there will be an informal dinner at a nearby restaurant, which attendants are welcome to join on a pay-for-yourself basis.
The event is being organised by the AHRC project “Ancient Letter Collections”, Department of Classics Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Manchester.
Attendance is free and all are welcome.
For any questions, please contact Antonia Sarri (antonia.sarri@manchester.ac.uk).
Information: https://livesofletters.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/conference-on-the-aldine-edition-of-the-ancient-greek-epistolographers-john-rylands-library-17-june-2019/
PARADEIGMATA: EXAMPLES AND PRECEDENTS ACROSS TIME
Senate House, University of London: June 13-14, 2019
Organisers: William Coles (RHUL), Giulia Maltagliati (RHUL), assisted by Matthew John Mordue (Roehampton), Katy Mortimer (RHUL), Dimitrios Xerikos (Roehampton).
The Ancient Greeks used analogical reasoning as a key cognitive and heuristic device: comparisons of new situations with past events or similar circumstances helped foster their understanding of new situations and created expectations about the potential outcome of their decisions. In classical rhetorical theory, Aristotle describes examples as inductive arguments from analogy, central to logical reasoning (Rh. 1357b 28-30); meanwhile, Anaximenes highlights the role of past actions in lending credibility to a certain statement (Rh. Al. 1429a 22-28). Speakers could indeed resort to past events and historical figures to urge or discourage a course of action, to give post factum justification to certain choices, to comfort an addressee (non tibi hoc soli), or to emphasize the uniqueness of a given situation.
This conference aims to investigate the uses of paradeigmata comparatively and diachronically from the Ancient Greeks to the present day, exploring a variety of genres and contexts. Among the questions that will be addressed are the following: does the approach to mythological and historical material vary across time? To what extent do the various argumentative tasks performed by historical examples depend on contextual constraints? Does the literary genre influence the choice and the function of the example? How does the usage of persuasive examples change from Classical Greece to the modern day? How does the notion of legal precedent fit in?
Previous scholarship has explored the use of historical and mythical examples in epic (Wilcock 1964, Grethlein 2006), tragedy (Nicolai 2012), and oratory (Nouhaud 1982, van der Blom 2010). However, there is still scope for investigating the persuasive functions of examples and precedents: bringing together scholars from different fields, we aim to test the flexibility and continuing importance of paradeigmata, so to understand what is that makes them such a lasting and recurrent argumentative device.
Potential topics include:
* The use of persuasive examples in classical and post-classical literature: epic, lyric, drama, historiography; oratory (forensic, deliberative, epideictic) and rhetoric.
* The use of examples for didactic purposes; the moral value of examples.
* The sources of examples (history, myth, fables, literature).
* The narrative dimension of examples: omissions, manipulations, and fictitious narratives.
* Legal precedents and the use of persuasive precedents in Common and Civil Law.
* Uses of examples in religious discourse.
We warmly invite postgraduate students, early career researchers, and established academics to submit abstracts. The conference will include talks by Prof. Emmanuelle Danblon (L'Université Libre de Bruxelles), Dr. Jon Hesk (University of St. Andrews), Dr. Kathryn Tempest (University of Roehampton).
Those wishing to present a paper of 20 minutes should submit an abstract of 300 words outlining the subject of their discussion by 5th January 12th January, 2019 (extended deadline) to examplesandprecedents@gmail.com. Please include your name, affiliation, and a brief biography of no more than 50 words in your email. An earlier expression of interest will also be welcome.
Edited 4/5/2019:
Speakers:
Antiopi Argyriou-Casmeridis (RHUL): Moral paradeigmata in Hellenistic honorific decrees: arete as a living example
Annette Baertschi (Bryn Mawr): Exemplarity in Petrarch’s Africa
Johanna Cordes (Hamburg): Mythological Examples in Ovid’s Ars amatoria
Simone Corvasce (Pisa): The ancient theory of paradigm and Pindaric myth
Steven Cosnett: Scipio Africanus as a negative exemplum in Livy
Irene Giaquinta (Catania): Demosthenes’ historical examples in the Against Aristocrates
William Guast (Bristol): Declamation as Exemplum
Jon Hesk (St. Andrews): [Kaynote] Analogy, metaphor, example. Reframing and folk psychology in Athenian deliberative speeches
Katarzyna Jazdzewska (Warsaw): Animal Paradeigmata in Imperial Greek Prose
Sabrina Mancuso (Pisa-Tübingen): Ino and Procne in Euripides’ tragedies: use of two mythical paradigms
Elizabeth McKnight (UCL): The use of exempla-based legal argument – Cicero, the jurists and the modern common law
Matthew Mordue (Roehampton): Negative Exempla in Pliny the Younger’s Epistles
Benoît Sans (Bruxelles): Paradeigma: an ambiguous way of proof
Kathryn Tempest (Roehampton): [Keynote] Engineering Exemplarity: The case of M. Iunius Brutus
Jessica Thorne (RHUL): Bending the Bars: Franco’s Political Prisoners and the British Left, 1960-1975
Guy Westwood (Oxford): Paradigms on Stage: Comedy, Oratory, and Historical examples in Classical Athens
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1811&L=CLASSICISTS&P=22783
(CFP closed January 12, 2019)
LEXICOGRAPHER: HISTORY OF A PROFESSION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
Prolepsis’ International Workshop on Latin and Greek Lexicography
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München: June 13, 2019
The Prolepsis Association in collaboration with the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae is organizing a workshop on the history of lexicography and encyclopedic literature, and lexicography as a profession from antiquity to the present. The event will take place at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Munich, home of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, partly in celebration of its 125th anniversary of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae.
We are soliciting abstracts proposals about topics such as (not exclusively):
* ancient, medieval and modern lexica and encyclopedic works concerning the Greek and Latin language;
* cases of correct and incorrect lexicographical interpretations, revisions, misunderstandings;
* biographical portraits of famous (ancient or modern) lexicographers or encyclopedists (e.g. Photius, Stephanus, Egidio Forcellini, etc.);
* the history of lexicographical scholarship;
* the lexicography today: what is the job of a lexicographer today, and the role of the digital humanities?
This workshop will be structured in three sessions, two in the morning and one in the afternoon, with a total of nine speakers. Each paper will last 20 minutes at most, and a short discussion will follow each presentation. An introductory speech by the Generalredaktor of the TLL, Dr. Michael Hillen, will begin the workshop.
The most relevant papers may be selected for publication. The official language of the workshop will be English.
Early career academic researchers are invited to send an anonymous abstract, not exceeding 300 words, to the email address: prolepsis.associazione@gmail.com by 15 April 2019.
Successful speakers will be notified by 30 April 2019.
Prolepsis Commitee:
Roberta Berardi (University of Oxford)
Nicoletta Bruno (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, BadW, München)
Martina Filosa (Universität zu Köln)
Luisa Fizzarotti (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna)
Edited 24/5/2019. Program:
8:30-9.00 Registration and Welcome Addresses - Michael Hillen (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, BAdW, München)
9:00-10:30 Session 1 Ancient Greece Chair: Eduard Meusel (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, BAdW, München)
Stylianos Chronopoulos (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Compiling/Creating an ancient Thesaurus: the composition of different lexicographic and encyclopedic genres in Pollux’ Onomasticon
Francesco Camagni (University of Manchester), Gamma or Digamma? The strange case of gamma used to denote the sound of digamma
Chiara Monaco (University of Cambridge), Where the lexicographers got wrong: an analysis of lexicographical mistakes and their influence on the transmission of Greek language
Coffee Break 10:30-11:00
11:00-12:30 Session 2 Rome - Chair: Nicoletta Bruno (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, BAdW, München)
Alessia Pezzella (Università di Napoli “Federico II” – PLATINUM project”), Latin Lexical Peculiarities in an Account from Tebtynis (P. Tebt. II 686 recto – II in. AD)
Adam Gitner (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, BAdW, München), Lucus a non lucendo: Enantiosemy in Ancient Latin Lexicography
Eleni Bozia (University of Florida), 2nd century lexicography : cases of language, politics and social dynamics
12:30-13:30 Session 3 Byzantine Lexicography - Chair: Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto (Università degli Studi della Basilicata)
Alessandro Musino (Universität Hamburg), Editorial practices in the field of Greek lexicography: a case study
Claudia Nuovo (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro), Pope, Suidas and a Quotation: “Just a Little Misunderstanding”
Lunch Break 13.30-14:30
14:30-16:00 Session 4 Lexicography in Medieval and Modern Europe - Chair: Joan Maria Jaime Moya (Universitat de Barcelona)
Pavel Nývlt (Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Odillum, clavator, manio, liciricium: originality in Czech Medieval Lexicography
Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto (Università degli Studi della Basilicata), A case of Phanariot encyclopedism: Demetrius Procopius Moschopolita
Johannes Isépy (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), German-Latin Lexicography around 1800
16:00-17:30 Session 5 New Lexicographical Projects - Chair: Roberta Marchionni (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, BAdW, München)
Marzia D’Angelo (Istituto Papirologico “Girolamo Vitelli” Firenze), An on-going supplement to traditional dictionaries : WiP – Words in Progress and the contribution of Greek documentary papyrology
Elena Spangenberg Yanes (Trinity College Dublin), Lexicographical structures in Latin grammarians: preliminary observations for a critical digital Thesaurus dubii sermonis
Antonella Bellantuono-Laura Bigoni (Université de Strasbourg), The upcoming historical and theological Lexicon of the Septuagint. Some notes about an ongoing lexicographical project
17:30-18:00 Closing remarks
Nicoletta Bruno (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, BAdW, München), Some thoughts on the Post-Doc at the TLL
Conference Dinner 19:00
Call: https://prolepsisblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/153/ (pdf: https://prolepsisblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/workshop-tll-prolepsis.pdf)
(CFP ended April 15, 2019)
DIGGING POLITICS: THE ANCIENT PAST AND POLITICAL PRESENT IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
Durham University, UK: June 12-13, 2019
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, comparative and interdisciplinary manner. We invite proposals for papers from scholars working on the region (loosely conceived) to establish a conversation about uses of the ancient past from the Cold War to the present.
Possible questions and issues might include (but are not limited to):
• Thinking about why ancient pasts became so important to east-central Europe from the late-twentieth century
• Considering which narratives emerged
• The location and exhibition of ‘ancient pasts’
• The formation of networks of knowledge and knowledge transfer among experts in the regions
• Identifying transnational and comparative developments in the period
• The relationship between the local, the national, and the transnational/European dimension
• Processes of forming cultural identity
• Exploring the actors in shaping ‘ancient pasts’
• The role particular disciplines took on in ‘creating’ ancient pasts
• The wider reception of ancient pasts in east-central European societies
Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words with a brief biography to e.r.hanscam@durham.ac.uk and james.koranyi@durham.ac.uk by 15 March 2019.
Call: https://www.dur.ac.uk/history/events/cfpdiggingthepast/
(CFP closed March 15, 2019)
ESTATES GENERAL OF ACADEMIC THEATRE: THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF ACADEMIC THEATRE
Pisa (Scuola Normale Superiore), Italy: June 11, 2019
We would like to invite researchers, performers and practitioners to submit their work for discussion at the Estates General of Academic Theatre, which will take place on 11 June 2019 at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy.
Estates General and FAcT
Academic theatre is a lively and widespread experience throughout Europe. Almost every university supports and nurtures a theatrical company, each one striving to define its own identity through both theory and performance. It is a specific feature of the theatrical experiences within the academic milieuto combine a nonprofessional engagement with the dramatic performance and a more systematic involvement in study and research. This particular combination deserves a special attention by both scholars and practitioners, since it constitutes a unique opportunity to explore the various and complex interrelations between living practices and theoretical elaborations in the field of theatre.
Moreover, the various companies now active in Europe are generally isolated centres of production and performance, which would benefit greatly from a mutual exchange of ideas and experiences. Such a network, however, is still a desideratum.
The Estates General of Academic Theatre undertake the challenge of gathering the best instances of theatrical practices in university, with the aim of building a permanent and active network of companies and groups all around Europe. The first annual meeting of the Estates General will take place in close connection with the second edition of FAcT – Festival of Academic Theatre, after the success of the first one in 2018 (http://fact.sns.it/en/thefestival/). FAcT is a theatre festival entirely devoted to university companies, and a celebration of the creative energies of international students/actors.
The Estates General wish to complement this all-performative side with a more theoretical approach – to try and understand theatre in all its aspects.
The scientific committee of the Estates General of Academic Theatre is composed by:
- Luca D’Onghia | Scuola Normale Superiore
- Emma Dante | theatre director
- Fiona Macintosh | APGRD, University of Oxford
- Eva Marinai | Università di Pisa
- Margherita Rubino | Università di Genova, I.N.D.A.
- Piermario Vescovo | Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
- Daniele Vianello | Università della Calabria
2019 Call for proposals – Theories and Practices of Academic Theatre
The 2019 meeting, open to any representative of academic theatrical companies, will examine the living practices of university theatre in Europe and the theoretical elaborations sustaining them. What is the relationship between the literary study of theatre and its performance on stage? What is the difference between reading a play and staging it? What are the features of actors within university? What kind of experience do the companies intend to offer to their audience? Which atypical social contexts could or should be addressed by academic theatre? How does being a university student change the approach to staging and performance?
In order to answer those questions (and many more!) we welcome proposals from active members of European university companies willing to present their own experience in the field as a case-study. We strongly encourage the presentation of the most interesting recent initiatives by the companies in any area connected to the study, the popularization, and the enjoyment of theatre.
Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Translation studies and theatre
- Classical reception studies and theatre
- Theatre outside theatre: experiences in prison, suburban areas, vulnerable social environments
- Theatre outside theatre: experiences in primary and secondary schools
- Music and theatre: original composition and innovative employment of existing material
- Original playwriting and group work; playwriting laboratories
- Innovative staging and direction practices
- Innovative performing and actorial mentoring and teaching for nonprofessional actors
- Scenography, set design and costume design
- Practices of theatre popularization
- Interactions between performance and theatre studies
- Dramatic adaptations and textual fidelity
Submitting your abstract
Proposals, in either English or Italian, must be submitted to the address fact@sns.it within 15 April 2019. Please submit:
* An abstract of max. 1000 words describing the best practice of your choice. Since we welcome strictly academic proposals alongside with performances and practical demonstrations, the nature of the presentation is entirely in your hands, but you do have to specify the format of your proposal (talk/paper; short performance; photo/video presentation; etc.).
* A presentation of your company. The presentation will be used to increase our database of university companies (already accessible at http://fact.sns.it/en/companies/). For reasons of harmonization and consistency with the existing database, presentations must include:
(1) complete name of the company;
(2) Alma mater/University of affiliation;
(3) seat of the company (city or town);
(4) active email address;
(5) social accounts (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube) (if any);
(6) personal website (if any);
(7) a brief history of the company (max. 200 words);
(8) 3-5 significative pictures of the company’s work;
(9) videos or other interesting material (if any).
Acceptance and further information
Applicants will be notified of acceptance by early May 2019.
Each participant will be granted 20-30 minutes depending on the type of proposal and the number of speakers; particularly motivated requests of more time will be taken into consideration. If necessary, the conveners will arrange proposals into panels grouped by connected topics.
We aim to encourage lively and energized debates during the sessions, and in this spirit, we invite observers to attend and welcome their contributions to the discussions.
The group of FAcT is welcoming and inclusive and we will be organizing lunch and drinks (aperitivo) for all the attendees.
Call: [pdf] http://fact.sns.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Theories-and-Practices-of-Academic-Theatre-in-Europe.pdf
(CFP ended April 15, 2019)
MAP BRISTOL CONFERENCE 2019: “POSTCOLONIAL AND DECOLONIAL RECEPTION OF EUROPEAN THOUGHT”
University of Bristol, UK: June 6-7, 2019
Philosophers recently have become aware that there is a risk that Eurocentric biases in philosophical tradition may distort the scholarship of the broad academic theoretical work. To correct these biases -- which have been critically denounced by the scholars from non-European continents -- the post-colonial scholarship has made an effort in deconstructing the European theoretical referents, as well as developing new theories. The aim of this conference is to offer an opportunity for the discussion of broad issues concerning the reconsideration of the classical western thought in the post-colonial era, that is, a revision of the dialogues and tensions among European and peripheral epistemologies. With this purpose, we plan to center the discussion in two foci. On the one hand, the deconstruction of the global influence of the European classical and modern epistemologies during the past few centuries; and on the other hand, their present critical reception via a ‘non-Eurocentric’ or decolonial view. We hope that the conference will contribute to the good understanding of the post-colonial and decolonial standpoints.
The questions that will be mainly addressed are as follows: To what extent does the post-colonial scholarship from different fields add to contemporary philosophy by offering new insights? How are the European classical and modern epistemologies received and understood by the different postcolonial/decolonial theoretical approaches? How is this criticism made? Or what are the basic ideas developed in this criticism?
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The Conference will be located in room G16, Cotham House, University of Bristol. The Conference will be divided in four panels (two panels per day). Every panel will count on the participation of two PGR speakers (20 min talks), which will be followed by a general discussion. After a break, we will count on the presentation of two Keynote speakers (30 min talks), which will also be followed by a general discussion.
Panel 1: Decolonising Classics, 6th June 10.00-13.30 hrs.
(Here, we expect to receive abstracts regarding the Postcolonial/Decolonial reflection on the process of the reception of Classics in non-European contexts)
Keynote speaker Dr. Mathura Umachandran, Department of Classics University of Oxford; and Dr. Justine McConnell, Department of Comparative Literature King´s College.
Panel 2: Decolonising movements in Africa and South Asia, 6th June 14.30-18 hrs.
(Here, we would like to receive abstracts specifically focused on the intersection between African, South Asian and European thought)
Keynote speaker Dr. Foluke Adebisi, School of Law University of Bristol; and Dr. Su Lin Lewis, Department of History University of Bristol.
Panel 3: Enlightenment revised, 7th June 10.00-13.30 hrs.
(Here we expect to receive abstracts focused on the Postcolonial/Decolonial criticism to the Enlightenment; or on the contrary, abstracts focused on answering, what could the Enlightenment offer to Postcolonial/Decolonial contemporary studies?).
Keynote Speakers Professor Gregor McLennan, School of Social Sciences University of Bristol; and Dr. Tzu Chien Tho, Department of Philosophy University of Bristol.
Panel 4: About Reparation, 7th June 14.30-18.00 hrs.
(Here we wish to receive abstracts focused on ethical reflexions about reparation)
Keynote speaker Joanna Burch-Brown, Department of Philosophy University of Bristol.
To make an abstract submission, please send an anonymized abstract of no more than 500 words to mapbristolconference@gmail.com by the 3rd of April, 2019 with a separate document with author information. Please note that while catering and refreshments will be provided throughout the day. Unfortunately, we are at the moment unable to reimburse any travel or accommodation costs for graduate conference attendees, but we hope to be able to offer some bursaries to make the participation more accessible (we are applying for extra funding for this purpose).
This conference is generously sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Classics and Ancient History of the University of Bristol, Marc Sanders Foundation and MAP UK (Minorities and Philosophy).
Program (added 18/5/2019):
Panel 1: Decolonising Classics, 6th June 10.00-13.30 hrs.
10.00-10.40 Facing the Human: David Malouf’s Ransom and the Rejection of Categories. Valeria Spacciante (MA student in Philology, Scuola Normale Superiori, Italy)
10.45-11.25 Traveling Ideas across Postcolonialism and Romanization: a comparative study of the Romanization discourse from postcolonial perspectives in Anglo-American and French scholarship in 20th and 21st centuries. Dr. Danielle Hyeon (PhD graduate in Classics, King´s College London)
11.25-11.35 Break
11.40-12.30 Classics at the Borderlands: How to decolonize a discipline. Dr. Mathura Umachandran (Keynote speaker from Department of Classics, University of Oxford).
12.35-13.30 Decolonising the Hero's Homecoming. Dr. Justine McConnell (Keynote speaker from Department of Comparative Literature, King´s College London).
Panel 2: Decolonising movements in Africa, South Asia, and Oceania 6th June 14.30 -18.00 hrs
14.30-15.20 The Meanings of ‘Decolonisation’ within African Legal Thought. Dr. Foluke Adebisi (Keynote speaker from School of Law, University of Bristol)
15.25- 16.15 Afro-Asian Solidarity Networks in the Decolonising World. Dr. Su Lin Lewis (Keynote speaker from Department of History, University of Bristol).
16.15-16.25 Break
16.30-17.10 Between Worlds: J.L. Mehta’s Postcolonial Hermeneutics. Dr. Evgenia Ilieva (Department of Politics, Ithaca College, USA).
17.15- 18.00 Maori philosophy, Heidegger and the tempo of the earth. Professor Ruth Irwin (University of Aberdeen, School of Education).
Panel 3: Enlightenment revised, 7th June 10.00-16.20 hrs.
10.00-10.40 The Treat of European, Enlightenment Thinking in (Post)colonial Spaces. Kate Holland (MA student in Global Studies, Humboldt University, Germany).
10.45-11.25 The Paradoxical Localization of Philosophy and Hegel’s Paradoxical Engagement with Chinese Philosophy. Lea Cantor (PhD student in Philosophy, University of Oxford).
11.25-11.35 Break
11.40- 12.30 Hegel in Beijing: Debating the Science of Logic during the Cultural Revolution. Dr. Tzu Chien Tho (Keynote Speaker from Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol)
12.30- 13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-14.20 Enlightenment: A Subversive Reading from The Hugo Zemelman’s Thoughts. Hugo Parra (PhD student in Education, University of Bristol).
14.30-15.20 Critique, epistemology, abstraction: problems for postcolonial social theory? Professor Gregor McLennan (Keynote speaker from School of Social Sciences, University of Bristol)
15.20- 15.30 Break
Final Talk 15.40-16.30
From Effective Altruism to Effective Empowerment. Dr. Joanna Burch-Brown (Keynote speaker from Department of Philosophy University of Bristol)
16.30.-17.00 Drinks
Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/map-bristol-postcolonial-and-decolonial-reception-of-european-thought-tickets-61694167917
Call: https://philevents.org/event/show/70906
(CFP closed April 3, 2019)
ARS ET COMMENTARIUS
Paris - Sorbonne Université: 05-07 juin 2019
Colloque international organisé par l’EA 4081 Rome et ses renaissances, Sorbonne Université, l’Université Lyon 2, l’UMR 5189 HiSoMA et l’Institut Universitaire de France.
En plus de la tradition proprement fragmentaire, notre connaissance de la grammaire latine antique dépend de plusieurs sources : les manuels scolaires (artes), les glossaires et les commentaires aux auteurs littéraires.
La grammaire des commentaires, mêlée à d’autres notes de toutes sortes, forme un champ d’étude encore largement sous-exploité, sans doute en raison de son caractère épars et difficile à synthétiser : il s’agit d’un savoir diffracté, morcelé, et qui, loin de s’organiser de façon méthodique, n’a de justification que dans des explications ad locum ; c’est en particulier le cas pour Servius, qui sera l’objet du présent colloque.
Il n’existe quasiment aucune étude sur la question. Si l’on excepte les travaux inspirés de la Quellenforschung (notamment H. Kirchner 1876 et 1883), on peut citer la thèse de R.J. Bober (1971, un classement sans analyse), les travaux de R. Kaster (1978, 1980, entre autres) et d’A. Uhl (1998) sur les méthodes de Servius et leurs bases intellectuelles, mais rien en ce qui concerne le contenu linguistique proprement dit.
L’objectif de cette rencontre sera donc d’étudier les scolies grammaticales dans le commentaire de Servius à Virgile, en mettant en valeur ce qui peut constituer l’ars commentarii dans ses grandes lignes linguistiques : catégories, morphologie, syntaxe, concepts – en soi et dans son rapport aux artes grammaticae conservées.
Comité scientifique: Frédérique Biville (Lyon 2), Paolo De Paolis (Cassino), Maria Luisa Delvigo (Udine), Jean-Yves Guillaumin (Franche-Comté).
Informations pratiques:
-Les propositions de communication (titre et 15 lignes maximum de présentation, dans une des principales langues européennes) sont à adresser à Alessandro Garcea et Daniel Vallat (alessandro.garcea@sorbonne-universite.fr; Daniel.Vallat@univ-lyon2.fr) avant le 30/09/2018.
-La durée de chaque intervention est fixée à 30 minutes maximum (25 + 5 min de discussion).
-L’organisation du colloque ne pourra prendre en charge que les frais de séjour ; les frais de transport seront à la charge des participants.
-La publication des Actes du colloque est prévue après expertise des contributions, qui devront être impérativement remises avant le 30/09/2019.
Call: http://www.compitum.fr/appels-a-contribution/11752-ars-et-commentarius
(CFP closed September 30, 2018)
THE 12 LABOURS OF HERAKLES: BETWEEN ICONOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE
Velletri (Rome, Italy): June 4-8, 2019
The object of the conference will be the ancient attestations, both literary and iconographic, of the traditions about the 12 labours of Herakles, and the way they have been elaborated in the art and literature of following eras. On the whole, the conference is meant to be an occasion for an interdisciplinary exchange of opinions that will favour the dialogue among each different approach to documentary analysis and its related discipline: anthropology, archaeology, classical philology, history, art history, history of literature and history of religions. A specific section of the conference will be dedicated to the “Sarcophagus of the 12 Labours of Hercules” housed in the “Oreste Nardini” Civic-Archaeological Museum in Velletri.
Scientific Committee: Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”), Corinne Bonnet (Université Toulouse “Jean Jaurès”), Rachele Dubbini (Università degli Studi di Ferrara), Giuseppe Capriotti (Università degli Studi di Macerata), Andrea Ercolani (Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico - Roma), Massimo Fusillo (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila), Claudia Santi (Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”)
Administration: Igor Baglioni (Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”).
The scholars who would like to contribute may send a one-page abstract (max 2.000 characters) to Igor Baglioni, the director of the museum, (igorbaglioni79@gmail.com) by April 1, 2019.
Attached to the abstract should be: the title of the paper; the chosen area; a short biography of the authors; email address and phone number.
Papers may be written and presented in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
The acceptance of papers will be communicated (by email) only to the selected contributors by April 10, 2019.
Please send the complete paper by email not later than May 25. The delivery of the paper is required to participate in the conference.
Important deadlines:
Closing of call for papers: April 1st, 2019.
Notification about acceptance: April 10th, 2019.
Delivery of paper: May 25th, 2019.
Conference: June 4-5-6-7-8th, 2019
There is no attendance fee. The participants who don’t live in Rome or surroundings will be accommodated in hotels and bed-and-breakfasts which have an agreement with the Museum of Religions to offer discounted prices.
Papers may be published on Religio. Collana di Studi del Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni” (Edizioni Quasar), and in specialized journals. All the papers will be peer-reviewed.
In the evenings there will be free-of-charge visits to the museums and monuments of Albano Laziale, Genzano di Roma, Lanuvio, Rocca di Papa and Velletri. The excursion programme will be presented at the same time as the conference programme.
Edit 1/6/2019. Speakers:
Stefano Acerbo (Université de Lille), Eracle a processo. La contesa con Augia nella Biblioteca dello ps. Apollodoro
Laura Ambrosini (ISMA - Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico, Roma) - Shirley J. Schwarz (University of Evansville), Hercle/Herakles/Hercules. A Hero-God: The Labors of Herakles in Etruria and beyond
Kinga Araya (Independent Researcher), Twelve Labors of Hercules: from Olympus to Hollywood
Roberta Belli (Politecnico di Bari) - Rita Sassu ("Unitelma Sapienza" Università degli Studi di Roma), Herakles fra mito e politica: l'utilizzo dell'immagine dell'eroe come legittimazione del potere in Grecia e a Roma
Marcello Bellia (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Il principe e l'eroe: Ercole sulle carte e le scene della Ferrara estense fra Quattro e Cinquecento
Alfonsina Benincasa (Università degli Studi di Salerno), Herakles, Hesperides e i pomi dorati
Mariafrancesca Berretti (Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma) - Marco Nocca (Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma), Ercole "Megafusto" eroe di fumetti e disegni animati
Paolo Bonini (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brescia "Santa Giulia"), Ercole e l'Idra… del lago d'Idro. La singolare geografia delle fatiche nella tradizione umanistica bresciana
Francesca Ceci (Sovrintendenza di Roma Capitale - Musei Capitolini) - Annarita Martini (Independent Researcher), Le fatiche su un vaso: l'uso iconografico del mito di Ercole in contesti cultuali di origine orientale
Massimo Cultraro (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Catania), Le cavalle di Diomede: spunti di riflessione su un rituale della regione caucasica dell'età del Bronzo
Silvia Cutuli (Università degli Studi di Messina), Eracle nella poesia epica arcaica: dalle Herakleiai al canone?
Michela De Bernardin (Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa), Ercole alle Terme. Le grandi terme di Lambesi e il ciclo statuario delle fatiche erculee: interpretazione e ipotesi ricostruttiva
Pamina Fernández Camacho (Universidad de Cádiz), Entre vengadores, piratas e impostores: la figura del Hércules del Décimo Trabajo en la historiografía española tardomedieval y renacentista
Pamela Gallicchio (Università Ca' Foscari - Venezia), Le fatiche del Potere. Il ciclo pittorico di Hans Clemer a Casa Cavassa
Angela Gatti (Università degli studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"), Eracle e le stalle di Augia. Fonti letterarie e iconografiche dall'età arcaica a quella imperiale
Guglielmo Genovese (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila), Herakles eroe dei processi acculturanti in Magna Grecia. Le sue fatiche nella ceramica figurata delle colonie achee fra Kroton e Metapontion
Giuseppina Ghini (Soprintendenza Archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio per l'area metropolitana di Roma, la provincia di Viterbo e l'Etruria meridionale), Il sarcofago di Herakles dagli Arcioni di Velletri: mito e simbolismo
Clara Granger Manier (Université Lyon II), Héraclès en Grèce archaïque et classique : un cycle ou des cycles ?
Dominique Josseran-Ehrmann (Université de Perpignan Via Domitia), The Place of Hercules on the Sarcophagus of Velletri called « The Twelve Works of Hercules »
Andrea Lattocco (Università degli Studi di Macerata), Necare liberos: la ‘tredicesima' fatica di Ercole in Sen. Herc. fur. 86-124
Massimo Lazzeri (Università degli Studi di Salerno), Le frecce avvelenate di Eracle: lo spettro dell'Idra di Lerna
Umberto Livadiotti (Sapienza Università di Roma), Domatore, bodybuilder, gladiatore. Ercole e il leone nemeo nell'immaginario pop contemporaneo
Maria Rosaria Luberto (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Eracle OIKISTES a Crotone
Antonio Manuel Poveda Navarro (Universidad de Alicante), Presencia del Ciclo de Hércules en el proceso de sincretismo paleocristiano de Hércules con Cristo
Luca Mazzocco (Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia - Roma), Le fatiche di Ercole nella decorazione pittorica di Villa Poniatowski
Andrzej Mrozek (Jagiellonian University - Krakow) - Lucio Sembrano (Istituto di Teologia Claretianum - Roma), Sansone (Gdc 13-16) e Herakles. Topoi letterari comuni
Alessandra Nanni (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale), Le fatiche di Ercole interpretate dalla letteratura carolingia
Tiziano F. Ottobrini (Università degli Studi di Bergamo), Herakles come inventore della storia: l'eccezionalità delle dodici fatiche come paradigma di "eroica poetica" nell'interpretazione di Giambattista Vico
Tiziano Presutti (Università degli Studi "Gabriele d'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara), "Per riscuotere a forza da Augia prepotente la mercede servile": Eracle, il Tempo e la Verità nell'Olimpica 10 di Pindaro
Stefano Prignano (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila), Senofonte Anabasi 6.2.1. Eracle e il cane Cerbero ovvero la rifunzionalizzazione di un paradigma mitico
Ilaria Pulinetti (Università degli Studi Milano), Eracle e il leone. Alcune riflessioni iconografiche
Michela Ramadori (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Dal furto dei pomi d'oro nel giardino delle Esperidi compiuto da Herakles, alle storie di Adamo ed Eva del Maestro di Boucicaut: un caso esemplare di rielaborazione iconografica
Ilaria Ramelli (Università Cattolica di Milano), Le fatiche di Herakles e il πόνος stoico: L'ultima fatica nella tragedia stoica (pseudo-)senecana e la divinizzazione
Heather L. Reid (Morningside College & Exedra Mediterranean Center), Herakles: Hero, Athlete, and Early Moral Educator
Arturo Sánchez Sanz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Heracles e Hipólita. La imagen del noveno trabajo en la Antigüedad
Paolo Vitellozzi (Università degli Studi di Perugia), Le fatiche di Ercole nella glittica antica
Book presentation (1): Herakles Inside and Outside the Church: from the First Apologists to the end of Quattrocento - edited by Arlene Allan (Otago University), Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Macquarie University), Emma Stafford (Leeds University), Leiden (Brill) 2019. The volume will be presented by: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Macquarie University).
Book presentation (2): H - Memorie di Eracle - by Sergio Fontana, Edipuglia, Bari 2019. The volume will be presented by: Emanuele Brienza (Libera Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore")
Programme: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13VOv27xuOz1_IaknbsbDX89Ej8hXvgjF/view?usp=sharing
For information: email igorbaglioni79@gmail.com
Call: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hjBOCFfLsumjKgo9_QagkNShi8-Rbty_/view
(CFP closed April 1, 2019)
FREUD'S ARCHAEOLOGY
The Warburg Institute, London: June 4-5, 2019
Freud’s interest in antiquity and his self-described obsessive collecting of ancient artefacts is well documented. His library, as well as his own texts, are replete with references to excavation, buried cities, and to the works of archaeologists and philologists. The dialogue between analysis and excavation that prevails throughout Freud’s thought has since generated a history of work engaging archaeology as allegory. This conference explores the conceptual inseparability of archaeology and psychoanalysis, invoking Freud’s claim that the excavation of repressed memories and of historical artefacts is “in fact identical.”
Freud’s Archaeology thus takes as its starting point archaeology’s double function of allegory and practice within psychoanalysis and the fact that archaeology and psychoanalysis as disciplines oscillate between theoretical and practical work. This makes a clear distinction between these two “identical” disciplines within psychoanalysis impossible. The conference dwells on these convergences—of archaeology and analysis, allegory and practice—by asking what can be generated by taking seriously Freud’ claim of equivalence between archaeology and analysis, between his work as an analyst and as a collector of antiquity.
By bringing together scholars from the fields of Classics, Literary Studies, Archaeology, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis, this conference activates Freud’s claim of identity between psychoanalysis and archeology by putting into practice conversation between practitioners and theorists of these two fields.
Confirmed speakers include:
Richard Armstrong (University of Houston)
Mary Bergstein (Rhode Island School of Design)
Jane McAdams Freud
Marco Galli (Sapienza University of Rome)
Jutta Gerber (Westfälische Wilhelm-Universität)
Felix Jäger (BFZ, Warburg Institute)
Vered Lev Kenaan (University of Haifa)
Marion Maurin (Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School, FU Berlin)
Claire Potter
Carol Seigel (Freud Museum)
Frederika Tevebring (Warburg Institute)
Matthew Vollgraff (BFZ, Warburg Institute)
Alex Wolfson (University of Chicago)
Chiara Zampieri (Catholic University of Leuven)
Free and open to all. Programme to be announced shortly.
Organised by Frederika Tevebring (the Warburg Institute) and Alexander Wolfson (University of Chicago).
Information: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19762
COME DA SORGENTE PERENNE - PERSISTENZA E ATTUALITÀ DELL’ANTICO
Istituto “Garibaldi” - Via Franchetti, 3 - 42121 Reggio Emilia, Italy: May 30, 2019
I am pleased to announce the event COME DA SORGENTE PERENNE - PERSISTENZA E ATTUALITÀ DELL’ANTICO, which will be held on May 30, 2019. For the VI Giornata Nazionale della Cultura Classica, is planned an all-day dedicated to the Classics and their reception in the modern and contemporary age. The events are organized in collaboration between the University of Parma - Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali, the Delegazione of Parma of the Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica and the High Schools of Parma, Reggio Emilia and Guastalla (RE).
The program provides a series of meetings:
9.15 am Aula Magna of the Liceo Classico-Scientifico "Ariosto-Spallanzani" (Istituto “Garibaldi” - Via Franchetti, 3 - 42121 Reggio Emilia), conference Nuove acquisizioni da papiri;
2.30 pm guided tour to the city of Reggio Emilia and to the exhibition "Antonio Fontanesi e la sua eredità" (by teachers and students of the Liceo Classico-Scientifico "Ariosto-Spallanzani" and the Musei Civici of Reggio Emilia);
6.00 pm Biblioteca dei Paolotti – University of Parma (Strada Massimo D'Azeglio, 85 - 43125 Parma), reading of texts with musical interludes, by teachers, PhD students and students of the University of Parma and High Schools (Gimnasium) "G.D. Romagnosi” of Parma, “Ariosto-Spallanzani ”of Reggio Emilia and “B. Russell” of Guastalla (RE).
Scientific Coordinator: Anika Nicolosi (anika.nicolosi@unipr.it)
Information: https://dusic.unipr.it/en/notizie/may-30-2019-come-da-sorgente-perenne-persistenza-e-attualita-dellantico
ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES: 48th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Tel Aviv University, Israel: May 29-30, 2019
Our keynote speaker in 2019 will be Professor Robert Kaster, Princeton University.
The conference is the annual meeting of the society. Papers on a wide range
of classical subjects, including but not limited to history, philology,
philosophy, literature, reception, papyrology and archaeology of Greece and
Rome and neighboring lands, are welcome. The time limit for each lecture is
20 minutes. The official languages of the conference are Hebrew and
English. The conference fee is $50.
Accommodation at reduced prices will be available at local hotels.
Registration forms with a list of prices will be sent to participants in
due course.
All proposals should consist of a one page abstract (about 250-300 words).
Proposals in Hebrew should also be accompanied by a one-page abstract in
English to appear in the conference brochure.
Proposals, abstracts and other correspondence should be sent to Dr. Lisa
Maurice, Secretary of the ISPCS at lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il.
ALL PROPOSALS SHOULD REACH THE SECRETARY BY 20th DECEMBER, 2018.
Decisions will be made after the organizing committee has duly considered
all the proposals. If a decision is required prior to early February,
please indicate this in your letter and we will try to accommodate your
needs.
Call: https://www.archaeological.org/events/28645
(CFP closed December 20, 2018)
LES ACTEURS ET INTERLOCUTEURS LOCAUX DE LA FIÈVRE ANTIQUAIRE DANS L’EMPIRE OTTOMAN (1780-1830) / LOCAL ACTORS AND CONTACTS DURING THE ANTIQUARIAN CRAZE IN THE OTTOMAN LANDS (1780-1830)
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Collège de France, Paris: May 28, 2019
9h00 Accueil et présentation de la journée / Welcoming remarks and presentation of the workshop -
Edhem Eldem, Collège de France
9h30 Alain Schnapp, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, De l'abbé Fourmont au comte de Laborde : modèles de curiosité antiquaire et pratiques de terrain en Grèce et en Asie mineure du XVIIIe au XIXe siècle. / From Abbé Fourmont to Count de Laborde: Modes of Antiquarian Curiosity and Practices on the Ground in Greece and in Asia Minor at the Turn of the 19th Century
10h00 Dyfri Williams, Université libre de Bruxelles,
Muslims, Rayahs and Franks: Reactions to Lord Elgin and his Artists /
Musulmans, rayas et francs devant Lord Elgin et ses artistes
10h30 Discussion
11h00 Pause - Break
11h30 Emily Neumeier, Temple University,
Rivaling Elgin: Ottoman Governors and Archaeological Agency in the Morea /
Les rivaux d’Elgin : les gouverneurs ottomans et leur action archéologique en Morée
12h00 Yannis Hamilakis, Brown University,
Sensorial clashes in the indigenous archaeologies of the Ottoman lands /
Conflits sensoriels des archéologies locales dans l’Empire ottoman
12h30 Discussion - Debate
13h00 Pause-déjeuner – Lunch Break
14h30 Alessia Zambon, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,
Comment fouillait-on à Athènes dans les premières décennies du XIXe siècle ? Quelques cas exemplaires /
How Did One Excavate in Athens in the First Decades of the 19th Century? Some Exemplary Cases
15h00 Edhem Eldem,
L’État ottoman et les antiquités : indifférence, opportunisme et curiosité /
The Ottoman Empire and Antiquities: Indifference, Expediency, and Curiosity
15h30 Discussion - Debate
16h00 Pause - Break
16h30 Gonda Van Steen, King’s College London,
The Venus de Milo, or Sculpture as Literature and Greek Revolutionary History /
La Vénus de Milo, ou la sculpture comme littérature et l’histoire de la révolution grecque
17h00 Irini Apostolou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Réactions officielles et spontanées des Grecs à l’enlèvement des antiquités par les Occidentaux : l’expression d’une conscience patrimoniale collective (1828-1834) / Official and Spontaneous Greek Reactions to the Removal of Antiquities by Westerners: Expressions of a Collective Consciousness of Heritage (1828-1834)
17h30 Discussion générale – General Debate
NB. La journée d’études se déroulera en français et en anglais, avec traduction simultanée dans les deux sens. Les titres des interventions apparaissent dans le programme dans leur version originale, suivis de leur traduction. / NB. The workshop will be held in French and in English, with simultaneous translation in both directions. The program lists the presentations in their original language, followed by a translation.
Information: https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/edhem-eldem/symposium-2018-2019.htm
THE RESTITUTION OF THE CLASSICS IN ANCIENT RÉGIME
University of La Réunion: May 28, 2019
In collaboration with the Unité de Recherche "Déplacements, Identités, Regards, Ecritures" – Université de La Réunion
Organisers:
Tristan Alonge (Unité de Recherche Déplacements, Identités, Regards, Ecritures – Université de La Réunion)
Giuseppe Pezzini (University of St Andrews, Director of the Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama – University of St Andrews)
Ancient Régime France is a period troubled by debates prompted by the confrontation with ancient models – from the Pléiade poets to Voltaire, to Boileau and Fontanelle. And yet the relationship of the savants with ancient literature and culture remains fluid, verging between the desire to discover the secret and that to overlook it, the attempt to restore lost literary genres and the ambition to overcome them, the aspiration to translate as faithfully as possible and the need to modernise.
The workshop aims to investigate, within a variety of different forms (epic, comedy, tragedy, etc.), the processes of ‘restitution’ of ancient texts in Ancient Régime France. The term is chosen because of its semantic ambivalence (‘restitution (of the Ancients) to their right place’ or ‘restitution (of the Ancients) to the moderns’?), in order to overcome a traditional dichotomy between ‘translation’ and ‘adaptation’. With papers focusing on different texts and genres, the workshop will aim to show how this distinction is inadequate and alien to the culture of the period, and to highlight the ‘porousness’ between the ancient and the modern, restoration and reinterpretation, imitation and innovation, within the superimposition of the literary worlds of Athens, Rome and Paris.
Si la France d’Ancien Régime est traversée régulièrement – des poètes de la Pléiade à Voltaire en passant par Boileau et Fontenelle – par les querelles que suscite la confrontation avec les modèles de l’Antiquité, la nature de la relation des hommes de lettres à la littérature et culture antiques reste fluctuante, entre désir d’en retrouver le secret et volonté de les dépasser, tentative d’en reproduire les genres littéraires perdus et ambition de s’en distinguer par des formes plus abouties, aspiration à traduire le plus fidèlement possible et nécessité de moderniser.
La journée se propose de dépasser volontairement les distinctions de genre littéraire pour retrouver dans des formes distinctes (épopée, comédie, tragédie, etc.) les péculiarités de l’art d’adapter et appréhender les textes de la littérature antique du XVeau XVIIIesiècles, dans la conviction que la dualité trop souvent mise en avant entre “traduction” et “adaptation” se révèle inadéquate et peu conforme à l’esprit de l’époque. La vocation des différentes interventions est d’interroger et de tenter un dépassement des ces deux notions antithétiques à travers la mise en lumière d’une porosité permanente entre ancien et moderne, reprise et réinterprétation, imitation et renouveau. La réflexion s’axera donc autour de la notion plus large de “restitution”, avec toute l’ambiguïté intrinsèque qu’elle comporte en termes de destinataire, autorisant à la fois à “rendre aux propriétaires légitimes, les anciens” mais aussi à “rendre aux récepteurs contemporains, les modernes”, dans une superposition permanente entre Athènes, Rome et Paris.
Confirmed speakers:
Tristan Alonge (Réunion)
Guilhem Armand (Réunion)
Anne-Cécile Koenig-Le Ribeuz (Réunion)
Giuseppe Pezzini (St Andrews)
Julia Prest (St Andrews)
Information: https://drama.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/the-restitution-of-the-classics-in-ancient-regime-france/
PROGETTO ODEON: 4TH GRADUATE INTER-UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE
Theme: μέσαι δὲ νύκτες – «It is midnight». Nights of love, war and madness from Homer to Medieval Literature
University of Turin, Italy: 23-24 May, 2019
The Odeon Project, a university cultural project for the study and divulgation of classical culture, is organising in May 2019 its fourth inter-university conference, dedicated to postgraduates (or, exceptionally, soon-to-be graduates) or PhDs in humanistic, historical, anthropological and philosophical studies.
The conference’s aim is to analyse all the literary, philological, anthropological, philosophical, historical, folkloric values and meaning that a broad theme such as that of the night can offer in Greek and Latin literary texts, either in prose or poetry, extant or fragmentary, handed down by papyrus or scrolls, epigraphs or other finds.
The historical period taken into account is the one that goes from the first examples of epic poetry (the Epic of Gilgamesh in Middle East, the Iliad and the Odyssey in Greece) to the Greek and Latin medieval literary production (the chronological limit is fixed on the birth of national languages, for Latin literature, and on the fall of Constantinople in 1453, for Greek and Byzantine literature), including Near-Eastern, Hebrew and ancient Christian literary productions.
The conference is open to all students from Italian or European Universities who are currently studying for a master’s degree or a PhD (half of the candidates will be chosen between master students and half between PhD students, to maintain and preserve the young students’ attendance and growth that has always been of crucial importance for this project from its very beginning, four years ago); exceptionally and under the unquestionable judgement of the Scientific Committee, students who have not yet earned a bachelor’s degree but who are committed to earning one before the end of 2019 may be accepted to the conference.
In order to participate as speakers, it is necessary to send to progettoodeon@gmail.com an email containing:
* an abstract (around 300 words) of the speech which the author intends to present at the conference (together with the title);
* a brief curriculum vitae et studiorum presenting the candidate’s qualifications and the university attended.
Abstract due on: 28th February 2019.
Each speech will last about 25-30 minutes and will be followed by a 10-minutes discussion; preferred languages of communication are Italian and English (French, Spanish and German candidacies will however be considered and valued).
By March 2019 the Scientific Committee, composed of graduates from Odeon Project, will publish the list of the selected speakers.
Eventual refunds for speakers coming from foreign countries or from Regions different from Piedmont and Aosta Valley will eventually be determined.
By decision of the Scientific Committee a printed or digital copy of the conference proceedings may be published.
For any information consult the website http://progettoodeon.wixsite.com/sito or send an email to progettoodeon@gmail.com.
Website: http://progettoodeon.wixsite.com/sito/iv-convegno-universitario
(CFP closed February 28, 2019)
FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY: PERFORMING GREEK AND ROMAN DRAMA IN MODERN EUROPE
Prague (Czech Republic): May 22-26, 2019
Program:
May 22, 2019
17.30 Registration
18.00 Welcome drink
May 23, 2019
8.30 Registration
9.00 Institutional greetings
Panel 1: Modes of Performing Classical Drama Around Europe and Beyond
9.20 KEYNOTE: Edith Hall, King’s College, London ‒ Performing Euripides and Ezra Pound’s Metrical Modernism
10.00 C. W. Marshall, University of British Columbia ‒ Performing Tragedy in The Brazen Age
10.30 Peter Swallow, King’s College, London ‒ Aristophanes in the Phrontisterion: Staging Old Comedy in Oxford and Cambridge 1883‒1914
COFFEE BREAK
11.15 Jakub Čechvala, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha ‒ Appropriation through Gaps. Czech Reception of Greek Tragedy in the 19th and at the Beginning of the 20th Century
11.45 Dmitry Trubochkin, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), Moscow ‒ Ancient Drama and the Russian Psychological Theatre
LUNCH BREAK (own arrangements) 12.15‒14.15
Panel 2: Theorizing Discourse: Bridging and Exploiting the Gaps
15.15 KEYNOTE: Henri Schoenmakers, Universiteit Utrecht & Friedrich–Alexander Universität Erlangen, Nürnberg ‒ Re-contextualization as a dramaturgical strategy
14.55 Athina Kavoulaki, University of Crete, Rethymno ‒ The challenge of ritual: exploring ritual dynamics in 5th-century drama
COFFEE BREAK
15.30 Hallie Marshall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver ‒ Ruins and Fragments: The impact of material culture on the plays of Tony Harrison
16.00 Martin Pšenička, Charles University, Praha ‒ Aesthetics of Uncanny (Unheimliche) in Ancient Tragedy
16.30 Dana LaCourse Munteanu, Ohio State University, Newark, Ohio ‒ Woody Allen on Aristotle on Greek Tragedy: the ‘Poetics’ Meets Hollywood
May 24, 2019
Panel 3: Staging Classical Drama After 2000
9.15 KEYNOTE: Freddy Decreus, Universiteit Gent ‒ The ritual theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos, or how to stage a ‘bodymind’ as a special form of everyday life?
9.55 Özlem Hemiş, Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Istanbul ‒ The Historical Encounter of East and West in Aeschylus’ The Persians
10.25 Martina Treu, Università IULM (Milan, Italy) and CRIMTA (Centro Interdipartimentale Multimediale Teatro Antico), Università di Pavia, Italy ‒ Aeschylus’s heritage: Greek tragedy in Sicily
COFFEE BREAK
11.15 Nurit Yaari, Tel Aviv University ‒ Theatre space and spectators experience: Seneca’s Thyestes at Carmel Market, Tel Aviv
11.45 Maddalena Giovanelli, Università degli Studi di Milano ‒ Onomastikomodein? Political Aristophanes in Italian productions
LUNCH BREAK (own arrangements) 12.15‒14.00
14.00 Anastasia Bakogianni, Massey University, New Zealand ‒ Antipodean Antigones: Performing Sophocles’ Tragedy Down Under
14.30 Malika Bastin-Hammou, Université Grenoble-Alpes ‒ Staging Menander in the Francophone world
15.00 Dáša Čiripová, Theatre Institute, Bratislava ‒ The pressure of exclusivity: stage productions of Classical Drama in Slovakia at the beginning of the 21st century
COFFEE BREAK
15.50 Eva Stehlíková, Masaryk University, Brno ‒ Medea for Ever. Dramaturgical transformations in staging Classical Drama in the Czech Republic (1925‒2018)
16.20 Cleo Protokhristova, Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski ‒ Bulgarian stage productions of Medea in the twenty-first century
16.50 Romain Piana, Université de Paris III, Sorbonne nouvelle ‒ Greek and Roman drama on French stage in the database Théâtre antique en France
May 25, 2019
Panel 4: War, Peace, and Politics: Enacting the Distressed Self & Other
9.00 KEYNOTE: George Harrison, Carleton University, Ottawa ‒ Choral Reconciliation in the Octavia and Hercules Oetaeus: modern sex scandals for the ancient stage
9.40 Monica Centanni, Università IUAV di Venezia ‒ Did Osama Bin Laden’s mother read The Persians by Aeschylus?
10.10 Évelyne Ertel, Université de Paris III, Sorbonne nouvelle ‒ The Persians in the Gulf War
COFFEE BREAK
11.00 Eliška Poláčková, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague ‒ Masaryk University, Brno ‒ A Glimmer of Hope With Plautus. Frejka’s Pseudolus in the National Theatre, Prague, 1942
11.30 Alena Sarkissian, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague – Charles University, Praha ‒ Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre during the Nazi occupation
12.00 Efthymios Kaltsounas, Tonia Karaoglou, Natalia Minioti and Eleni Papazoglou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ‒ Imaginings of Antiquity and Ancient Drama Performances in Greece (1975‒1995): Between Ideology and Style
NETWORKING LUNCH 12.30‒14.30
14.30 Annual Meeting of the Network of Research and Documentation of Ancient Greek Drama
May 26, 2019
9.30 Annual Meeting of the Network of Research and Documentation of Ancient Greek Drama
12.00 Conclusions
Website: https://networkconference2019.org
OUR MYTHICAL HISTORY: CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULTS’ CULTURE IN RESPONSE TO THE HERITAGE OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
University of Warsaw (Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA)): May 22-26, 2019
Website: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/our-mythical-history-materials
Program [pdf]: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/assets/images/history/OMH_BOOKLET_2019_int_.pdf
CLASSICAL AND WESTERN LEGACIES: REVISITED (1500-1900) - THE TRANSLATION OF CULTURES AND THE MAKING OF HISTORIES
King’s College London (Bush House (SE) 6.03): May 22, 2019
Symposium Programme:
10.30 Registration and Coffee
11.00 Welcome and Introduction
11.15 - 12.45
Simon Ditchfield (University of York), ‘Eleven thousand times eleven thousand’: the cult of St Ursula and her companions in the making of a world religion
Sarah Knight (University of Leicester), ‘For Latine is our mother tongue’: cultural and linguistic translation at the early modern universities
12.45 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00
Andrew Laird (Brown University), Biblical translation and the invention of Nahuatl literature - The legacies of Amerindian Latinists in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Javed Majeed (King’s College London), ‘World philology’ and Indian legacies in British colonial linguistics: G.A. Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928)
15.00 Tea and Refreshments
15.30 Discussion
17.00 End
17.30 Conference Dinner
Please register at maria_giulia.genghini@kcl.ac.uk by 5th of May 2019.
Thanks to the generosity of the Leverhulme Trust there is no fee for attending this conference.
ANCIENT AND EARLY MODERN STOIC (META)PHYSICS
Utrecht, The Netherlands: May 20-21, 2019
OZSW meeting of the study groups in Ancient Philosophy and Early Modern Philosophy
The influence of Stoic thought on Early Modern authors has largely been analysed in the field of moral philosophy. Its influence in other domains of philosophy, however, has been relatively neglected, while at the same time generally accepted as crucial for the development of early modern thought.
This OZSW workshop is devoted to Stoic physics and metaphysics. It aims to bring together scholars of both Ancient and Early Modern philosophy to study Stoic (meta)physics both in its ancient articulation and its early modern reception. In order to do so, the workshop will feature both paper presentations and readings of primary texts.
Invited speakers: Keimpe Algra (Utrecht), Frederik Bakker (Nijmegen), Peter Barker (Oklahoma), Carla Rita Palmerino (Nijmegen), Jan Papy (Leuven).
If you would like to present a paper, please send a 300-word abstract to the organisers by January 15th. Please copy in both organisers.
If you would like to attend, please register by April 30th (or earlier if you have to make travel arrangements). Participation in the workshop is free of charge. Please note, however, that we are unable to offer financial support for travel or accommodation.
Organisers: Albert Joosse and Doina-Cristina Rusu (L.A.Joosse@rug.nl, D.Rusu@rug.nl)
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1901&L=CLASSICISTS&P=38598
(CFP closed January 15, 2019)
GAME OF THRONES: VIEWS FROM THE HUMANITIES
Seville, Spain: May 16-18, 2019
The series of novels by G.R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, adapted for the screen with the title Game of Thrones, has become a true mass phenomenon worldwide. The books are eagerly awaited by their fans, while the broadcast of the episodes of the series breaks ratings and HBO subscriptions, and any news about it is featured in the first page of newspapers worldwide. The episodes of the last season have become the most downloaded files on the Internet ever.
Previous studies have shown the richness of both the books and the series. The battles, the political plots, the internal or family struggles, the landscapes and scenarios, the motivations of the characters, the ethnic groups represented, the expressly invented languages??, among many other subjects, provide numerous possibilities for analysis. The study of this world through the diverse perspectives provided by the Humanities and its academic rigor, will offer a new and enriching vision of this fantasy land and our own world.
What does a linguist have to say about the Dothraki language? A specialist of Communication studies about the phenomenon of fans? A political scientist about the machinations in King's Landing? A historian of the Roman world about the circle formation of the "Battle of the Bastards"? A jurist about the possibilities of bastard children to inherit? An economic historian about the Iron Bank? A classicist about the motives of Roman literature in the world of Game of Thrones? A geographer on the topography of the Seven Kingdoms? Etc, etc.
If you are interested in participating with a 20-minute presentation on any aspect of that world through the prism of the Humanities, in a totally relaxed but academically rigorous way, send us your name, affiliation, a title and an abstract (maximum 300 words), before 30th November 2018 to the following address: gotsevilla@gmail.com
The congress will take place in Seville, Spain, 16th to 18th May 2019. The proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee and the participants will be informed of the decision throughout the month of January 2019.
Organized by: Rosario Moreno and Cristina Rosillo-López (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Departments of Ancient History and Latin); Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio and Fernando Lozano (Universidad de Sevilla, Department of Ancient History)
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1809&L=CLASSICISTS&P=95823
(CFP closed November 30, 2018)
RITRATTI DI CICERONE - PORTRAYING CICERO
Rome, Italy: May 15-17, 2019
The Department of Ancient World Studies, Sapienza University of Rome (http://www.antichita.uniroma1.it/), and the International Society of Cicero’s Friends (SIAC, www.tulliana.eu), with the support of the Cultural Association Italia Fenice (http://www.italiafenice.it/), are pleased to announce the International Conference ‘Portraying Cicero’, to be held in Rome from 15th to 17th May 2019.
Cicero has exerted a durable impact on intellectual life throughout the centuries. Universally recognized as a master of Roman prose and the embodiment of the art of words, he has influenced the history of ideas and contributed to the intellectual maturation of generations of students and scholars. Yet his controversial position in Roman politics has elicited different reactions since late Republic. As a historical figure, he has encountered criticism from intellectuals and men of culture. As Zielinski (Cicero im Wandel der Jahrundherte) has shown, each age has reacted to Cicero with its own sensibility. This conference aims to explore how Cicero has been represented- and interpreted- over the times. It seeks to shed light on the multiple, often contrasting, ways in which Cicero was received by later scholars and intellectuals. Special attention will be paid then to the reception of Cicero as an individual and man of letters, including his fortune as philosopher, epistolographer, and orator and his presence in literature and culture in modern times.
PhD students and young or early career scholars are invited to submit a proposal (400 words max) on the reception of Cicero as a historical figure and man of letters over the centuries.
Papers should be 20 minutes long (followed by discussion of 5-10 minutes). All the papers will be considered for publication in the peer-reviewed Series ‘Cicero’, edited by the Patrum Lumen SustineFoundation (Basel), under the supervision of the SIAC, and published by De Gruyter (Berlin).
Please send an abstract of no more of 400 words to Giuseppe La Bua (giuseppe.labua@uniroma1.it) by the end of October 2018. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of November 2018.
Confirmed speakers are: Y. Baraz, F.R. Berno, A. Casamento, R.A. Kaster, T. Keeline, G. La Bua, R. Pierini, F. Prost, Ph.Rousselot, C. Steel, H. van der Blom, J. Zeztel.
The Conference is organized by:
Francesca Romana Berno,
Leopoldo Gamberale,
Giuseppe La Bua,
Ermanno Malaspina,
Emidio Spinelli.
Call: https://www.academia.edu/36126973/Call_for_papers_Portraying_Cicero
(CFP closed October 31, 2018)
CLASSICAL MARVELS
University of St Andrews, Scotland: May 9-10, 2019
Convened by Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (University of St Andrews). Supported by the School of Classics, University of St Andrews, the Institute of Classical Studies and the Classical Association
The conference explores discourses and experiences of the marvellous in Graeco-Roman culture, through a variety of sources, including literature and material culture. A key aim is to investigate the role of medium and genre in the ‘texture’ of the experience of the marvellous. Two current scholarly approaches in particular offer new pathways into this subject: (1) new materialism, the agency of the object, embodiment (2) increasing awareness of diversity amongst those experiencing the marvel (across race, gender, age, disability, social status). These approaches offer the possibility of writing ‘micro histories’ of specific, individual, possibly marginalised, or popular, experiences of marvels and setting these against broader cultural discourses, shedding light on the way that the marvellous intersects with other important areas of culture, in particular religion, technology and travel. The conference aims to bring together scholars from across the sub disciplines of Classics (in particular literature, archaeology and art history, philosophy) to benefit from a variety of methodologies, including, but not limited to, phenomenological, sensory and embodied approaches. In addition there will be dialogue with practitioners, including a visual artist and socialist magician (see confirmed speakers below).
Questions we seek to explore:
* Can the concept of the marvellous be applied cross-culturally? Does the study of Greek and Latin terminology (thauma, paradoxon, mirabilium etc) shed light on the specificity of the concept within Graeco-Roman culture?
* How does the discourse of the marvellous in Graeco-Roman culture change over time?
* How far can we trace links between a classical tradition engaged with marvels and later discourses of the marvellous?
* How are marvels presented in different types of texts, ranging from fictional narratives to technical treatises? What is their range of functions? How do literary genealogies, structures, and literary effects create the ‘texture’ of the experience of the marvellous?
* How is the marvellous experienced in material culture, ranging in scale from the colossal (e.g. architecture, statues) to the minute (e.g. jewellery), in ‘quality’ from highly crafted man-made objects (e.g. gadgets) to naturally occurring things (e.g. large bones)? What strategies are employed in the depiction of marvels in the visual arts? What is the relationship between art / techne and the marvellous?
* How does the marvellous intersect with physical location (familiar / unknown) and with time (pre-, post-eventum, and in the immediate present flow?)
* What is the role of the human body in the experience of the marvellous? How does it function as a marvel in its own right, in life and in death?
* How do marvels manifest themselves in nature (e.g. physical phenomena like volcanoes, extraordinary animals)?
* Is there a distinction in the reception of staged / performed marvels, and the unexpected encounter? What are the effects of the scientific explication of the marvellous?
Confirmed speakers: Tatiana Bur (PhD candidate, Trinity College, Cambridge), Ruth Ewan (Visual Artist), Maria Gerolemou (Leventis postdoctoral research associate, Exeter), George Kazantzidis (Assistant Professor of Latin Literature, Patras), Jessica Lightfoot (Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge), Karen Ni-Mheallaigh (Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Exeter), Irene Pajón Leyra (Assistant Professor of Greek Philology, University of Seville), Ian Ruffell (Professor of Greek Drama and Culture, Glasgow), Ian Saville (Socialist Magician)
Please submit abstracts of c.250 words for 20-minute papers to Alexia at aipd@st-andrews.ac.uk by 14 December 2018, and replies will be sent out by 25 January 2019. Abstracts may propose in-depth analyses of specific pieces of evidence within their cultural context or broader theoretical discussions. While the focus is on the Graeco-Roman world, proposals on the post-antique period, including those related to Classical Reception, are also welcome. Diverse voices are actively sought, particularly those of early career researchers and of minority groups underrepresented in the Classical academy.
Edited 4/5/2019:
Conference Programme
Day 1, 9 May 2019
9.15-9.30 Registration
9.30-9.45 Introduction - Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (Lecturer in Classics, University of St Andrews)
Session 1: Texts, Objects and Space
Chair: Dr John Hesk (Senior Lecturer in Greek and Classical Studies)
9.45-10.15 Paper 1
Professor Karen Ni-Mheallaigh (Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter) ‘The glass imaginary: towards a substance and sociology of the marvellous’
10.15-10.45 Paper 2
Anna Athanasopoulou (PhD candidate, University of Cambridge) ‘Unflattening’ space: the material fabric of marvellous architecture in Lucian’s Hippias’
10.45-11.15 Coffee
Session 2: Material Culture
Chair: Professor Rebecca Sweetman (Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of St Andrews)
11.15-11.45 Paper 3
Dr Hugo Shakeshaft (Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church College, Oxford) ‘Temple C at Selinous: a case study in the marvels of Archaic Greek religion’
11.45-12.15 Paper 4
Dr Eris Williams-Reed (Teaching Assistant, Durham University) ‘Environmental marvels at Roman Yammoune in Beqaa Valley (Lebanon)’
12.15-13.15 Lunch
Session 3: Definitions and discourses
Chair: Dr Kelly Shannon-Henderson (Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Alabama)
13.15-13.45 Paper 5
Dr Peter Singer (Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London) ‘No wonder? Medical and philosophical narratives of amazement in the Platonic tradition’
13.45-14.15 Paper 6
Dr Jessica Lightfoot (Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge) ‘Words or wonders? The place of marvel making in the contest of Demosthenes and Aeschines’
5 Minute Break
Session 4: Contemporary Marvels
Chair: Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (Lecturer in Classics, University of St Andrews)
14.20-14.45 Presentation 1: Local marvels: St Andrews, golf and the public engagement
Presentations by Raley Abramczyk and Michael Sheffield (UG research assistants) on their research in June 2018 on marvels and golf in contemporary St Andrews drawing on video interviews; and presentation by Raley Abramcyk, Honours student on CL4605 ‘Classical Bodies’ on public engagement with P2/3 Lawhead School on the theme of ‘Marvellous Bodies’.
14.45-15.30 Presentation 2: Practitioners’ perspectives
Presentations by visual artist Ruth Ewan on her work ‘Sympathetic Magick’ commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival 2018 to reanimate the sense of magic as a powerful tool for social change (as opposed to mass entertainment); and by Ian Saville, socialist magician, who participated in the project, on the practitioner’s experience of eliciting the sense of the marvellous in the audience.
15.30-16.00 Tea
Session 5: Break out Discussion Groups & Round Table
16.00-16.45 Discussion Groups
Group 1: Dr Pamina Fernandéz Camacho (Lecturer at the University of Cádiz) (C26):
‘To explain the unexplainable: Strabo Geography 3.5.7 and the intellectual approach to marvels’
Group 2: Colin MacCormack (PhD candidate, University of Texas at Austin) (S12):
‘Marvelous Animals, Monstrous Animals: Venomous Serpents in Nicander's Theriaca (282-319) and Lucan's Bellum Civile (9.700-36, 805-14)’
Group 3: Dr Fiona Mitchell (Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham) (C31):
‘Marvellous people in Greek accounts of India: Ctesias Fr. 45.20, 45.40-42 & Megasthenes Fr. XXIX and Fr. XXXIII’
Group 4: Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (Lecturer in Classics, University of St Andrews) (S4):
‘Archaeological artefacts and the sense of marvellous: intimate encounters with textures’
Group 5: Jessica Venner (M3C AHRC PhD Candidate, University of Birmingham) (S11):
‘The Mimesis of ‘Human Nature’ in the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii’
16.45-17.30 Round Table
Half hour break / making our way to the Bell Pettigrew Museum
18.00-19.00 Drinks Reception & Magic Performance by Ian Saville at Bell Pettigrew Museum of Natural History
19.15 Conference Dinner at Tail End
Day 2, 10 May 2019
Session 6: Ekphrasis and Technology
Chair: Professor Karen Ni-Mheallaigh (Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter)
9.00-9.30 Paper 1
Tatiana Bur (PhD candidate, University of Cambridge) ‘The mēchanē and/as religious marvel’
9.30-10.00 Paper 2
Professor Ian Ruffell (Professor of Greek Drama and Culture, University of Glasgow) ‘Mechanics of performance: Negotiating marvels in the Hellenistic world’
10.00-10.30 Paper 3
Dr Maria Gerolemou (Leventis Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Exeter) ‘Technical Wonders in Byzantine ekphraseis’
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Session 7: Animals and Humans
Chair: Professor Jason König (Professor of Greek)
11.30-12.00 Paper 4
Dr Martin Devecka (Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Cruz), ‘Danger Mouse: Marvelous animal behavior in Roman zoology’
12.00-12.30 Paper 5
Dr Kelly Shannon-Henderson (Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Alabama), ‘Tacitus and Paradoxography’
12.30-13.00 Paper 6
Dr George Kazantzidis (Assistant Professor of Latin Literature, Patras) ‘Towards a poetics of wonder in early Greek paradoxography: mental patients in the pseudo-Aristotelian Περὶ θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
Session 8: Nature and Religion
Dr Jessica Lightfoot (Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge)
14.00-14.30 Paper 7
Dr Irene Pajón Leyra (Assistant Professor, Seville) ‘Between extraordinary and miraculous, or How to transform natural curiosities to real wonders in ancient paradoxography’
14.30-15.00 Paper 8
Dr Claire Jackson (College Teaching Associate, Sidney Sussex, University of Cambridge) ‘‘A Beauty not human but divine’: thauma, beauty, and interpretation in Chariton’s Callirhoe’
15.00 - 15.15 Tea in S11
15.15-15.45
Session 9: Final discussion & Conclusions
15.45 Departure
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1811&L=CLASSICISTS&P=29267
Website: https://classical-marvels.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/conference-programme/
(CFP closed December 14, 2018)
GAMES AND GAMING SYMPOSIUM
Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow, Scotland: May 9, 2019
Programme:
9:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:10 Introductory Remarks
10:10-10:55 Keynote 1: Dunstan Lowe (University of Kent): ‘Can We “Gamify” Classical Antiquity?’.
10:55-11:00 Break
11:00-11:40 Lightning Talks
• Tim Barker (University of Glasgow)
• Francis Butterworth-Parr (University of Glasgow)
• Caitlin Butchart (University of Glasgow)
11:45-12:30 Keynote 2: Matthew Nicholls (University of Reading): ‘Virtual Rome: 3D modelling of the ancient city and its public uses’.
12:30-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:00 Keynote 3: Esther MacCallum-Stewart (University of the West of England): ‘“Something’s Rotten in Kislev”: How Players Engage Historical Perspectives in Games’.
14:00-14:45 Breakout Groups
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-15:45 Keynote 4: Dr Jenny Cromwell (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘Assassin’s Creed Origins and Widening Participation in Egyptology’.
15:45-16:30 Keynote 5: Andrew Reinhard (University of York): ‘How to be a Video Game Archaeologist’.
16:30-16:45 Closing Remarks
A selection of curated games available for demonstration at gaming stations:
Assassin’s Creed: Origins in Discovery Mode (Ancient Egypt)
Rome: Total War (early Roman Empire)
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (16th century Italy)
Sid Meier’s Pirates (16th & 17th century Caribbean)
Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry (18th century Caribbean)
Return of the Obra Dinn (early 19th century seafaring)
Valiant Hearts (World War I)
Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway (World War II)
Company of Heroes (World War II)
Civilisation V (everything)
September 12th (contemporary)
The symposium is free, but if you wish to attend, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/games-and-gaming-symposium-history-and-archaeology-university-of-glasgow-tickets-59532169321
If you have any questions or would like any further information about the symposium, please contact Dr Jane Draycott, University of Glasgow, Jane.Draycott@Glasgow.ac.uk
LA RICEZIONE OVIDIANA FRA LETTERATURE E ICONOGRAFIA
Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, L'Aquila, Italy: May 7-8, 2019
Speakers:
Costanza Barbieri, Roma, Le metamorfosi aeree di Sebastiano per Agostino Chigi
Giuseppe Capriotti, Macerata, Immagini e testi della fortuna di Ovidio: edizioni volgarizzate e illustrate delle Metamorfosi in età moderna
Lucio Ceccarelli, L’Aquila, L’eredità metrica di Ovidio. La commedia elegiaca
Franca Ela Consolino, L’Aquila, Un Ovidio scozzese: le Epistolae quindecim e le Heroides di Mark Alexander Boyd
Luisa Corona, L’Aquila, Muoversi attraverso le Metamorfosi. La codifica linguistica del moto in Ovidio e nei suoi traduttori.
Donato de Gianni, Wuppertal, Citazioni e allusioni ovidiane in Isidoro di Siviglia
Stefania Filosini, L’Aquila, Tracce di Ovidio nella Psychomachia di Prudenzio?
Michele Maccherini, L’Aquila, Il mito di Narciso tra Cinque e Seicento: narrazione, paesaggio, figura.
Francesco Marzella, Cambridge, Dame, profeti e draghi: Ovidio alla corte di Artù
Valeria Merola, L’Aquila, Le Metamorfosi sulla scena settecentesca: la Mirra di Vittorio Alfieri
Maria Pace Pieri, Firenze, Ovidio in Reposiano e la complessità della ricezione
Giusi Zanichelli, Salerno, La ricezione dell' Ovidius moralizatus nelle corti del Nord Italia alla fine del Medioevo.
Contact: francaela.consolino@cc.univaq.it
Source: https://www.fasticongressuum.com/single-post/2019/04/13/La-ricezione-ovidiana-fra-letteratura-e-iconografia---07-08052019-LAquila-Italy
TEACHING ROME AT HOME: THE CLASSICS IN AMERICA
University of Maryland, College Park: May 2-4, 2019
Program:
Thursday, May 2
3:30 PM Keynote lecture: “The Lion in the Path: Classics Meets Modernity”
Hunter R. Rawlings III, Professor and University President Emeritus, Cornell University
5:00 PM Reception
Friday, May 3
1:00 – 1:50 “The ‘Gender Turn’ in Classics,” Eva Stehle, University of Maryland, Emerita
1:50 – 2:00 Break
2:00 – 3:30 Paper session
2:00 “The Value of Latin in the Liberal Arts Curriculum,” Norman Austin, University of Arizona, Emeritus
2:30 “Vergil’s Aeneid and Twenty-first Century Immigration,” Christopher Nappa, University of Minnesota
3:00 “A Latin Curriculum Set in Africa Proconsularis,” Holly Sypniewski, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi; Kenneth Morrell, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee; and Lindsay Samson, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
3:30 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 5:00 Workshop: “Confronting Sexual Violence in the Secondary Latin Classroom,” Danielle Bostick, John Handley High School, Winchester, Virginia
5:00 Reception
Saturday, May 4
10:00 - 12:00 Paper session
10:00 “Confronting the Present by Way of the Past: Topics Courses in High School Latin,” Ian Lockey, Friends Select School, Philadelphia
10:30 “Bringing Culturally Responsive Teaching into the Latin Classroom,” Jane Brinley, The School without Walls, Washington, D.C.
11:00 “Teaching Latin at a Girls’ School in Bedford-Stuyvesant,” Sonia Wurster, Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy, Brooklyn, New York
11:30 “Let Them Use They: Teaching Inclusive Third Person Singular Pronouns in the 21st Century,” Michael Goyette, Hunter College
Lunch 12:00 – 1:00
1:00--2:00 Workshop: “From First-Century Empire to Twenty-first Century Social Justice,” Andrea Weiskopf, Seneca Ridge Middle School, Loudoun County Public Schools, Virginia
2:00-3:00 Workshop: “Teaching venalicius in the Age of #MeToo: A Conversation,” Benjamin Joffe and Jacqueline Nelson, The Hewitt School, New York City
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30 – 5:00 Workshop: “Rome in the Art and Architecture of Washington, D.C.”
3:30 "Classical Washington: Greece & Rome in the Art and Architecture of Washington, D.C.," Elise A. Friedland, George Washington University
4:00 "D.C. as a Latin Classroom: Capitoline Hill vs. Capitol Hill,” Emily Marcus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
4:30 "Art and Propaganda: Using Classicism to Legitimize Native American Displacement," Michele Cohen, Curator for the Architect of the Capitol, Washington, D.C.
https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/conference-classics-america
THUCYDIDES GLOBAL: TEACHING, RESEARCHING, AND PERFORMING THUCYDIDES
London (Institute of Classical Studies): April 30, 2019
An international workshop on Thucydides’ modern reception, organised by the School of History, Archaeology and Religion of Cardiff University, Ancient History at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, London, with the support of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (SPHS) and the Classical Association, UK.
Why and how does Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War continue to invite dialogues between past, present and future? How do different societies, educational systems, groups and individuals respond to it and receive its historical lessons? Does Thucydides owe its lasting value and relevance to its ability to resonate with global and local crises? ‘Thucydides Trap’, a term coined recently to describe the inevitability (the ‘deadly trap’) of war when power dynamics between major international players shift, is a case in point. At local level, the unprecedented interest in theatrical productions of Thucydides in Greece from 2010 onwards (the ‘Greece of the Crisis’) will receive special attention, as an artistic and intellectual response to social crisis.
Programme
12:30-13:15 Registration
13:15-13:30 Welcome and introduction (Maria Fragoulaki, Cardiff University)
13:30-15:00 Session 1 (Chair: Neville Morley)
13:30-14:00 Hans Kopp, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Thucydides’ ideal reader? Hartvig Frisch, the classics, and international politics in the 1930s and 1940s
14:00-14:30 Liz Sawyer, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford University, UK: American politics, international relations and military education since 1945
14:30-15:00 Sandra Rodrigues da Rocha, University of Brasília, Brazil: Oral features of Thucydides: Thinking reception through translations
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:30 Session 2 (Chair: Maria Fragoulaki)
15:30-16:00 Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith, King’s College London: The Politician and the Historian: Venizelos and Thucydides
16:00-16:30 Christian Wendt, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Thucydides Trapped, or: The Importance of Being Labelled
16:30-17:00 Neville Morley, University of Exeter:The Melian Dilemma: Choose Your Own Thucydidean Adventure
17:00-17:30 John Lignadis, Hellenic Education and Research Center, Greece: κτῆμα ἐς αἰεὶ and ἀγώνισμα ἐς τὸ παραχρῆμα ἀκούειν: Thucydides on stage
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-19:00 Round Table
Responses: Peter Meineck (New York University, USA); Sara Monoson (Northwestern University, Evanston IL and ICS, London), Daniel Tompkins (Temple University, Philadelphia, USA)
Chairing and concluding remarks: Christian Wendt
Attendance is free and all are welcome.
For any questions, please contact: Maria Fragoulaki (FragoulakiM@cardiff.ac.uk)
Please book: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19267
ALIA ASTRA: A HISTORY OF AUSTRALASIAN WOMEN IN ANCIENT WORLD STUDIES
An Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies Workshop
Macquarie University, Sydney NSW: April 26, 2019
While women are conspicuous in number and achievement in Australian history, they remain largely unacknowledged and underrepresented in continuing positions and research fellowships in Australasian Ancient World Studies. The absence of any comprehensive history of Australasian women involved in the study of the ancient world contributes to marginalising the impact of women on the discipline.
This workshop aims to consolidate efforts to collect and work up data towards a history of Australasian women in Ancient World Studies by bringing together everyone who has worked on, or is undertaking, research on women in the field in Australia and New Zealand.
If you are working on the living or past history of women in the discipline please come and share your findings and join us to map out a special journal issue dedicated to a history of women in the discipline in the next two years as well as a five-year strategy for the ongoing effort to collect, archive, and disseminate information on women in the discipline for the future.
The workshop will involve three planning sessions on Friday the 26th of April at Macquarie University in which research already completed or underway will be reported on, desiderata identified, and tasks assigned. The day will culminate in a panel presentation, open to the public, which will discuss the issues involved in developing a history of women in the field.
If you are interested in participating in this workshop and /or contributing to the project, please register here (https://mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3ftDiKr5nFhlC6N). If you cannot attend but have worked in this area, please register to let us know about your efforts.
An additional registration page will be established for the public panel event.
Website: https://socawaws.wordpress.com/2019/01/30/alia-astra-a-history-of-australasian-women-in-ancient-world-studies/
LATIN LITERATURE AND ITS CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies and Moore Institute (NUI) Event
Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland: April 24, 2019
11.30-11.40am Welcome and overview of event
11.40-12.00noon The importance of early modern Latin studies 1. Scotland (Dr David McOmish, Moore Institute Visiting Fellow)
12.00-12.20pm The importance of early modern Latin studies 2. Ireland (Dr Jason Harris, University College Cork)
12.20-12.50pm Lunch Break
12.50-2.00pm Trends in early modern Latin studies 1. Vernacular (Irish/Gàidhlig) to Latin
Professor Michael Clarke (NUI, Galway): Overview of the tradition ofLatin literature in Irish culture
Dr Alan Macquarrie (University of Glasgow), Society for Neo-Latin Studies Lecture: Roderick MacLean’s Ionis and the Latin Epic tradition in early modern Gàidhlig Scotland
2.00-2.30pm Tea and Coffee
2.30-3.40pm Trends in early modern Latin 2. Sé mo chaesar: identity and politics in Scoto-Hibernian Latin culture Dr Padraig Lenihan(NUI, Galway): Jacobites inthe Poema de Hibernia
Dr David McOmish (Moore Institute Visiting Fellow), Moore Institute lecture: Counter-Reformation Propaganda and Stuart Loyalism in the poetry of Adam King
3.40-4.00pm An undiscovered Country: texts and source material in archives and online (NUI archives).
4.00-4.20pm Publishing your research 1. Digital output (Dr Justin Tonra and Anne Hurley, NUI, Galway)
4.20-4.40pm Publishing your research 2. The new Bloomsbury Neo-Latin series: monographs/collections and critical editions (Dr Jason Harris and David McOmish, editorial committee Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series).
Thanks to generous support from the Moore Institute and the SNLS, there is no event fee and lunch will be provided. As places are limited, those wishing to attend should email david.mcomish@glasgow.ac.uk in advance.This joint event is also the annual SNLS Researcher and Postgraduate Day in honour of Philip Ford.
Program [pdf]: http://cas.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2019/03/programme-SNLS.pdf
RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE PAST: HOW DO WE MAKE THEM AND DO THEY MATTER?
25th Archaeology and Theory symposium organised by Stichting Archaeological Dialogues.
University of Leiden, The Netherlands: April 17, 2019
Archaeology studies the past through material remains of this same past, but these material remains only go so far. A leap of imagination is required to bridge the gap between the soil marks interpreted as post-holes and the reconstructed shape of the house that occupies the mind of the lay visitor to a site, the reconstruction drawing at the site, but also the scholarly discussion of whether they would have had conical or domed roofs. This reconstructive gap between the physical evidence and interpretation is the subject of the 25th Archaeology and Theory symposium organised by Stichting Archaeological Dialogues on April 17th 2019 at the University of Leiden, for which we invite abstracts for papers.
We are interested in the topic of reconstruction in a broad sense. Topics that we hope to address include, but are not limited to:
* Reconstruction drawings, are they art or science? How can an artistic approach help the scholarly pursuit and vice versa?
* What role does laboratory science play in (engagement with) reconstructions of the past?
* How can experimental archaeology help us in creating better and more engaging reconstructions of the past? What are its pitfalls?
* What role can re-enactment play in reconstructions and interpretations, or how can those engaged in traditional archaeology (academic, professional and interested public) meaningfully engage with the re-enactment community?
* Can we ethically make things up when we fill in the blanks, in reconstruction drawings, archaeological stories or fictionalised archaeological pasts?
* What role do the reconstructions we make play in the interaction between all those engaged with the profession (be they (interested) public, professional or academic)?
* How do reconstructions influence our research questions?
Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and should be sent to archaeologicaldialogues@gmail.com. Closing date for submission of abstracts is 20 December 2018. Proposers will be informed of the committee’s decision early January 2019.
Stichting Archaeological Dialogues: http://www.archaeologicaldialogues.nl/
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1810&L=CLASSICISTS&P=70378
(CFP closed December 20, 2018)
SEVENTH ANNUAL CORK/LEXINGTON NEO-LATIN SYMPOSIUM
University College Cork, Ireland: 11-13 April, 2019
The Seventh Annual Cork/Lexington Neo-Latin Symposium will take place 11-13 April, 2019 in Cork, Ireland, hosted by the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies, University College Cork.
The Neo-Latin Symposium is devoted to the presentation of scholarly research in the area of Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Latin Studies. The symposium was established in 2013 by Professor Jennifer Tunberg at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, under the auspices of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). Since 2017 it has been held in Lexington and Cork in alternate years as part of a continuing collaboration between University College Cork and the University of Kentucky (Lexington).
Abstracts are invited in all areas and aspects of Neo-Latin Studies, which may embrace linguistic, literary or historical approaches to the examination of texts and their contexts.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Neo-Latin Literature, Neo-Latin Historiography and Ethnography, Neo-Latin Language and Style, Neo-Latin Imitation, Adaptation or Translation from the Vernacular, Neo-Latin Letter Collections, Journals, Biographies, Autobiographies, Neo-Latin Pedagogy, Neo-Latin Rhetoric, Neo-Latin Treatises on Architecture, Botany, Cartography, Geography, Mathematics, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Theology, Science, etc.
Papers are 20 minutes followed by a 10-minute question & answer session. In addition to individual abstracts for paper presentations, proposals for panels of 3 papers will be considered. The deadline for abstract submission is 16 November 2018.
Individually submitted abstracts should be no more than 250 words.
Proposals for individual papers should be submitted as follows:
The proposer should email a panel proposal to j.harris@ucc.ie. The proposal should consist of the name, contact information, and affiliation of the speaker(s), and an abstract of the proposed paper.
anel proposals of 3 presentations should be submitted as follows:
The panel organizer should email a panel proposal to j.harris@ucc.ie. The panel proposal should consist of a single document containing the theme of the panel, the organizer's name and contact information, the names, contact information and affiliations of the panel participants, and an individual abstract for each participant.
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 16 November, 2018.
Papers should be read in English. Acceptance of a paper or complete panel implies a commitment on the part of all participants to register and attend the conference. A registration fee of €50 will apply to all participants of the symposium. All presenters must pay the registration fee by 15 February, 2019 in order to confirm participation and be included in the program.
For further information about the conference, registration process, and guidelines for paper presentation, please visit our website: http://www.ucc.ie/en/cnls/symposium2019
(CFP closed November 16, 2019)
ICONOTROPY: SYMBOLIC AND MATERIAL CHANGES TO CULT IMAGES IN THE CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL AGES
Autonomous University of Madrid & the National Museum of Archaeology, Madrid: April 4-5, 2019
Iconotropy is a Greek word which literally means “image turning.” William J. Hamblin (2007) defines the term as “the accidental or deliberate misinterpretation by one culture of the images or myths of another one, especially so as to bring them into accord with those of the first culture.” In fact, iconotropy is commonly the result of the way cultures have dealt with images from foreign or earlier cultures. Numerous accounts from classical antiquity and the Middle Ages detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. Pagan cultures for example deliberately misrepresented ancient ritual icons and incorporated new meanings to the mythical substratum, thus modifying the myth’s original meanings and bringing about a profound change to existing religious paradigms. Iconotropy is a fundamental concept in religious history, particularly of contexts in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. At the same time, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images.
The earliest approach to the concept was in Robert Graves’s The Greek Myths (1955), where Graves justified his own ideas about the origins of many Greek myths, claiming that classical Greek culture had essentially misinterpreted images from the Bronze Age. In some cases, Graves conjectured a process of iconotropy by which a hypothetical cult image of the matriarchal period had been misinterpreted by Greek culture. More broadly, since the 1970s, cultural anthropologist Leopold Kretzenbacher published a large number of meticulous studies on European religious iconography. In these critical studies, Kretzenbacher focused on reinterpretations of both religious and secular images whose original meaning was lost, forgotten or even ignored on purpose. In Kretzenbacher’s view, iconotropy refers to the conversion of religious iconography from one mode of spiritual organization to another. Apart from Graves’s and Hamblin, scholars have paid only attention to a concept that is fundamental for the articulation of an integrative discourse on the visual culture and anthropology of the ancient and medieval cult image.
The conference hopes to generate new research questions and creative synergies by initiating conversation and the exchange of ideas among scholars in the arts and humanities. We invite researchers from ancient and medieval periods to propose contributions engaging questions on themes such as:
* Changes in the symbolism and materiality of the religious image
* Iconotropy and rituality
* Reinterpretation of non-Western cult images
* Mythology and cult image in Antiquity
* Symbolic and material appropriation of pagan images in the Middle Ages
General information: The workshop will take place in April 4 and 5 of 2019 at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the Autonomous University of Madrid and the National Museum of Archaeology.
Keynote speakers: Prof. Michele Bacci (Universität Freiburg); Prof. Cecilie Brøns (Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhague); Prof. Adolfo Domínguez Monedero (UAM); Prof. Alejandro García Avilés (Universidad de Murcia).
Participants accepted will present papers up to a maximum length of twenty minutes.
Deadlines:
* January 15, 2019: submission of paper proposals (including title, abstract of 300 words maximum and brief CV)
* February 15, 2019: announcement of accepted proposals
* July 31, 2019: submission of articles for publication
Paper proposals, questions and articles should be sent to: icam.uam@gmail.com
.
Organizers: Jorge Tomás García (UAM), Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez (UAM). Secretary: David Vendrell Cabanillas (UAM).
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1810&L=CLASSICISTS&P=155800
(CFP closed January 15, 2019)
TACITUS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London: April 1, 2019
Conveners: Richard Alston/Siobhan Chomse/Henriette van der Blom
Recent years have seen an increasing diversity of approaches to the study of Tacitus. This day-workshop aims to build on that trend by bringing together people who are thinking about Tacitus from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, including philology, political theory, political philosophy, and history, to consider how and why we are reading Tacitus in the twenty-first century. Tacitus has for centuries been a deeply controversial writer; his writings have been seen as having contemporary political resonances throughout the modern period. The workshop considers how those resonances work now how Tacitus might influence our political and literary thought, and how we might understand, question and challenge Tacitus’ writings.
Our concerns cross the literary, political, and philosophical boundaries. To understand the richness of Tacitus, we need to bring together many perspectives and disciplines. We thus invite proposals for contributions on subjects from the linguistic to the aesthetic to the political. We aim to be inclusive and are open to work in progress on issues such as the writing and rhetorics of history, Tacitean politics, constructions of identity (including those of gender), and the possibilities of freedom. We also welcome proposals on the modern reception of Tacitus.
Programme:
10: 30 – 10: 50: Registration and Welcome.
10: 50 – 11: 20: Matt Myers: Vision, Space, and Violence in the Histories
11: 20 – 11: 50: Panayiotis Christoforou: Vis Principatus: Tacitus’ Conception of the Princeps’ Power
11: 50 – 12: 20: Aske Poulsen: Arminius, Germanicus, and other ‘side-shadowing’ devices in the works of Tacitus
12: 20 – 12: 50: Discussion
12: 50 – 13: 35: Lunch Break [Not provided]
13: 35 – 14: 05: James McNamara: The fright of the mind: philosophy and its limits in the Agricola and Germania
14: 05 – 14: 35: Katie Low: Tacitus and Brexit
14: 35 – 15: 05: Leen van der Broeck: Calgacus Polyvalens: Invoking Calgacus in the third millennium
15: 05 – 15: 35: Discussion
15: 55 – 16: 25: Darrel Janzen (Skype): Performing Solitude for Others through Literary Narrative in Tacitus
16: 25 – 16: 55: Nicoletta Bruno: Better not to say: some examples of reticentia and silence in Tacitus
16: 55 – 17: 15: Discussion
17: 15 – 17: 30: Plenary
Please book through: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19365
For further information and proposals, please contact r.alston@rhul.ac.uk
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1901&L=CLASSICISTS&P=181805
ORALITY & LITERACY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD XIII: REPETITION
The University of Texas at Austin, USA: March 27-31, 2019
The Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin invites
all classicists, historians, religious studies and biblical scholars,
and scholars with an interest in oral cultures to participate in the
Thirteenth Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, to
take place in Austin (TX) from Wednesday 27 March 2019 to Sunday 31
March 2019.
The conference will follow the same format as the previous conferences,
held in Hobart (1994), Durban (1996), Wellington (1998), Columbia,
Missouri (2000), Melbourne (2002), Winnipeg (2004), Auckland (2006),
Nijmegen (2008), Canberra (2010), Ann Arbor (2012), Atlanta (2014), and
Lausanne (2016). It is planned that the refereed proceedings once again
be published by E.J. Brill as Volume 13 in the "Orality and Literacy in
the Ancient World" series.
The theme for the conference is "Repetition", and papers in response to
this theme are invited on topics related to the ancient Mediterranean
world or, for comparative purposes, other times, places, and cultures.
Also welcome are papers that engage with the transition from an oral to
a literate society, or which consider the topic of reception.
Further details about accommodations and other conference-related
activities will be circulated later.
Papers should be 30 minutes in length. Any graduate student who would
prefer a 20-minute paper slot is invited to express their preference in
the cover email accompanying their abstract. Anonymous abstracts of up
to 350 words (not including bibliography) should be submitted as Word
files by June 30, 2018. Please send abstracts to:
OralityLiteracyxiii@austin.utexas.edu.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/call-papers-orality-and-literacy-ancient-world
(CFP closed June 30, 2018)
DIVERSITY OF WRITING SYSTEMS: EMBRACING MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
12th International Workshop of the Association for Written Language and Literacy
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge: March 26-28, 2019
The Association of Written Language and Literacy’s twelfth gathering
(AWLL12), organized in conjunction with the Faculty of Classics,
University of Cambridge, will focus on the wealth of diversity within
the world’s historical and contemporary writing systems. The conference
sets out to offer an opportunity for exchange between a wide range of
scholars interested in writing systems and written language, in order to
foster greater mutual understanding of their multiple perspectives on
the typological, structural, historical, sociocultural, technological,
and individual variety present within writing systems. Abstracts are
therefore welcome from researchers working on reading and writing within
any academic discipline, including, but not limited to, linguistics,
psychology, archaeology, sociology, education and literacy, technology,
digital humanities, and computer science. PhD students and early-career
researchers are also especially encouraged to apply.
Key issues to be addressed include:
• What fundamental principles underlie the structure and function of the
world’s historical and contemporary writing systems? Is a single
unified typology of writing systems possible or are separate taxonomies
preferable?
• What linguistic and psychological processes are at work in the
adaptation of one writing system to another? How are these affected by
the cultural and social context of the adaptation?
• What linguistic, psychological, cultural and social, and technological
factors bring about diversity within writing systems? How do such
factors influence literacy acquisition and shape the use of writing?
• How can studying the development of historical writing systems enhance
our understanding of contemporary writing systems? How can contemporary
research on reading and writing contribute to the study of historical
writing systems?
• How are the world’s writing systems likely to develop in the future?
What principles should guide orthography development for as yet
unwritten languages?
The 2.5-day programme will include two keynote lectures, a symposium
focusing on research into ancient Mediterranean and Chinese writing
systems at Cambridge, oral and poster presentations, and a panel
discussion.
Keynote speakers:
Sonali Nag, University of Oxford (Research interests: literacy and
language development and the relationship between writing systems and
learning, particularly in South and South-East Asian languages).
Kathryn Piquette, University College London (Research interests:
Egyptian and Near Eastern writing and art, and the development and
application of advanced imaging techniques for the elucidation of
‘visual’ culture from the wider ancient world and beyond).
Local organisers:
Robert Crellin and Anna Judson (University of Cambridge, U.K.)
Programme committee:
Lynne Cahill (University of Sussex, U.K.), Robert Crellin (University of
Cambridge, U.K.), Terry Joyce (Tama University, Japan), Anna Judson
(University of Cambridge, U.K.), Dorit Ravid (University of Tel Aviv,
Israel)
Abstract submission:
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted as a PDF
attachment to AWLL12.2019@gmail.com by September 30th, 2018. Please
indicate whether you would prefer to be considered for an oral
presentation (20-25min) or a poster presentation (maximum size portrait
A0 or landscape A1). Applicants will be notified on the acceptance of
their abstracts by the end of November 2018.
Details of registration for presenters and for others wishing to attend
without presenting will be circulated along with the final programme
after this date.
Further information:
Conference website: https://awll12.wordpress.com/
AWLL website: http://faculty.tama.ac.jp/joyce/awll/index.html
Twitter: @awll2014
Facebook: Association for Written Language and Literacy
If you have any queries regarding the conference please contact the
local organisers, Anna and Robert, at AWLL12.2019@gmail.com. For queries
about AWLL, please contact Terry Joyce, at terry@tama.ac.jp.
(CFP closed September 30, 2018)
[PANEL] CONNECTING WITH THE ANCIENTS: PHILOLOGICAL RECEPTION IN THE RENAISSANCE
Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR): Panel at the 2019 Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
Toronto, Canada: 17–19 March, 2019
As an Associate Organization of the Renaissance Society of America, the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) invites proposals for papers on classical philology in the Renaissance to be delivered at the 2019 meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Toronto.
Renaissance engagement with the linguistic and literary culture of antiquity - whether in the form of language study, textual transmission, or translation - constitutes a relatively coherent body of evidence through which to understand the processes of and motivations for ‘receiving’ the classics. Renaissance appropriations of Greek and Latin philology become vehicles of cross-cultural communication in an increasingly divided early modern Europe. We welcome proposals that highlight the mutual benefits arising from closer engagement between classicists and early modernists on the topic of classical philology in the Renaissance.
The Society is committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into classics and early modern studies, and hence welcomes abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research.
Abstracts of no more than 150 words and a short CV of no more than 300 words should be sent as separate email attachments to caroline.stark@howard.edu (see the RSA's abstract guidelines and CV guidelines and models). The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page. Proposals must be received by August 10, 2018.
Please include in the body of the email:
• your name, affiliation, email address
• your paper title (15-word maximum)
• relevant keywords
Call: https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1696718/305582/Connecting-with-the-ancients-Philological-reception-in-the-Renaissance
(CFP closed August 10, 2018)
[PANEL] CLASSICAL ORIGINS OF RENAISSANCE AESTHETICS
Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR): Panel at the 2019 Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
Toronto, Canada: 17–19 March, 2019
The Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) welcomes proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2019 meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Toronto. For one of its four panels, SEMCR invites abstracts on the reception of classical theories of poetics and aesthetic experience in Renaissance art and music.
Plato’s and Aristotle’s theories of mimesis, Horace’s Ars Poetica, and “Longinus”’s sublime have long dominated discussions of early modern aesthetics. Scholars have also sought to trace the influence of other, less explicitly didactic texts in defining the origin and value of art and the aesthetic experience in the Renaissance. Paul Barolsky, for example, has argued that Ovid's Metamorphoses lies at the heart of Renaissance aesthetics, whether in the story of Pygmalion bringing art to life or, conversely, Medusa's petrifaction of the living as competing metaphors for sculpture. Barolsky likewise sees Ovidian transformation behind Michelangelo’s “non finito” and in the depiction of Botticelli’s Chloris becoming Flora in the Primavera. Wendy Heller has explored the ways in which Monteverdi and Busenello’s groundbreaking opera L’incoronazione di Poppea draws upon and challenges Tacitus’ methods of historiography. More recently, Sarah Blake McHam has argued for the pervasive influence of Pliny’s Natural History and its emphasis on life-like “naturalism” from Petrarch to Caravaggio and Poussin.
Building on these and other studies that move beyond questions of classical influence on the subject matter of Renaissance texts, this panel seeks papers that explore the strategies through which visual artists and musicians draw on classical aesthetics and the extent to which these hidden roots underlie Renaissance theory and practice.
The Society is committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into classics and early modern studies, and hence welcomes abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research.
Abstracts of no more than 150 words and a short CV of no more than 300 words should be sent as separate email attachments to caroline.stark@howard.edu (see the RSA's abstract guidelines and CV guidelines and models). The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page. Proposals must be received by August 10, 2018.
Please include in the body of the email:
• your name, affiliation, email address
• your paper title (15-word maximum)
• relevant keywords
Call: https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1696718/305576/Classical-Origins-of-Renaissance-Aesthetics
(CFP closed August 10, 2018)
[PANEL] CLASSICAL AND EARLY MODERN EPIC: COMPARATIVE APPROACHES AND NEW PERSPECTIVES
Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR): Panel at the 2019 Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
Toronto, Canada: 17–19 March, 2019
The Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) welcomes proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2019 meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Toronto. For one of its four panels, SEMCR invites abstracts on the subject of “Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives”. In particular, we welcome papers offering reassessments of the current state of the field from cross-cultural and cross-temporal perspectives, or proposing new approaches to the connections between classical and early modern epic using methodologies from philology, digital humanities, cognitive studies, visual studies, or world literature.
In the shadow of a rising nationalism, epic poetry has taken on an ever greater importance through its mediation of national identity and as a focal point of reference and contestation. Even within rarefied scholarly discussions, the study of the genre, like epic itself, can appear to dominate other material, whether less canonical genres or non-Western epic. While the genealogical bonds between classical and early modern epic can seem to strengthen national ideologies and academic conventions, however, the content of the poems often works against such assumptions. Moreover, increasing diversity in research methods and scope, especially through collaboration, enables the scholarly community to renew the study of epic in more expansive and imaginative ways. Our panel aims, therefore, to reflect on the reception of Greco-Roman epic in early modernity partly as a topic in its own right, and partly as a means of understanding more general issues of theory, practice, and canonicity in literature and culture at large.
Proposals responding to recent developments in the scholarship might address, but are not limited to, one of the following questions:
- In light of recent work by Mazzotta, Ramachandran, Laird, and others, how might attention to worldmaking, post-colonial thought, and classical reception in the New World reframe our understanding of the relationship between ancient and early modern epic?
- Does the study of the relationship between classical and early modern epic have anything to gain from comparison with non-Western material, e.g., the Indic tradition? More generally, what are the advantages and disadvantages of analysing these traditions in terms of genealogy, ecology (cf. Beecroft), cosmopolitanism (cf. Pollock), or other systemic relationships?
- What light can cross-disciplinary approaches, especially those using computational tools (cf. Coffee and Bernstein) or cognitive models (cf. Jaén and Simon), shed on continuities and disjunctions between ancient and early modern forms of the genre?
- How did the idea of epic change as a genre during the early modern period, in particular given the different transmission histories of classical epics, especially works in ancient Greek? How might the growing attention to neo-Latin literature affect the fields of epic and/or reception studies?
- Are there developments in the aesthetics of a particular period that shed light on goings-on elsewhere? Besides substantial interest in the sublime (Cheney) and the mock-epic (Rawson), recent work has also focused on the quotidian (Grogan). More generally, what comparative understanding of epic can be gleaned from a study of contemporary critics and theorists, e.g., Horace or Tasso?
- What areas of research in early modern epic might benefit from the contributions of classicists without an extensive background in the field, and vice versa?
The Society is committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into classics and early modern studies, and hence welcomes abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research.
Abstracts of no more than 150 words and a short CV of no more than 300 words should be sent as separate email attachments to caroline.stark@howard.edu (see the RSA's abstract guidelines and CV guidelines and models). The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page. Proposals must be received by August 10, 2018.
Please include in the body of the email:
• your name, affiliation, email address
• your paper title (15-word maximum)
• relevant keywords
Call: https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1696718/305583/Classical-and-Early-Modern-Epic-Comparative-Approaches-and-New-Perspectives
(CFP closed August 10, 2018)
[PANEL] ANCIENT ENMITIES: CLASSICISM AND RELIGIOUS OTHERS
Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR): Panel at the 2019 Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
Toronto, Canada: 17–19 March, 2019
Renaissance Europe sought to define itself in relation to multiple models, prominent among which were ancient Greco-Roman culture and contemporary non-Christian (as well as Christian heterodox) cultures. The Humanist emulation of classical ideals in text and image occurred within a larger context of religious, ethnic, and frequently military interactions: the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, harassment from North African Corsairs, mass migrations of Jews, and internecine tensions resulting from the Protestant Reformation. The “classical” provided a discourse through which scholars and artists could negotiate a religious, national, or pan-European identity transhistorical in scope yet ultimately presentist in defining “the other”. This panel seeks to explore the function of the classical and classicism across these identities in both textual and material sources.
Points of contact between classical culture and religious others turned antiquity into a battleground of competing traditions. Underlying such tensions was a longstanding sense dating from Homer and Herodotus onwards of classical identity as culturally and geographically contested, its meaning located variously in Western Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East. Both as traces of ancient ethnographies and as largely presentist rhetoric, projections of classical identity in the Renaissance could be deployed in numerous and diverse ways. Trojan ancestry was claimed not only by various European noble lines, such as the Habsburgs and the Estes of Ferrara, but also by the Turks. Orthodox Greeks under Ottoman rule were ostracized as the barbaric descendants of their enlightened ancestors. Antiquarians in post-Reconquest Spain invented Roman origins to Andalusi architectural marvels, while Roman ruins in North Africa and the Ottoman Empire, represented both visually and through ekphrastic description, fueled dreams of European conquest. At the same time, the means by which the classical past were known could be diminished or lost: despite its importance during the Medieval period for accessing intellectual traditions, for example, Arabic struggled to maintain its place in European scholarship as a learned language alongside classical Greek and Latin, and even as other distant foreign traditions, such as Egyptian Hermeticism, fascinated artists and scholars.
The panel addresses two areas that have been the focus of recent research in Renaissance studies: intercultural relations and concepts of temporality. While the importance of the classics for European identity has been extensively studied, their role in defining what lay beyond Europe’s margins has received less attention. Some scholarship, however, has shown the potential richness of the field: Craig Kallendorf’s reading of the Aeneid’s portrayal of colonized entities (The Other Virgil, 2007), for example, and Nancy Bisaha’s study of the competing portrayals of the Ottoman Turks as either Goths, Vandals, Scythians or heirs to the Trojans and Romans (Creating East and West, 2006). Furthermore, the panel seeks to understand the temporal and explanatory concepts undergirding various early modern genealogies, ethnographies, and histories. Although a topic of theory since Warburg, the problem of time and temporal relations in early modernity has received renewed attention with the publication of Nagel and Wood’s Anachronic Renaissance (2010). Applied beyond the original domain of art history, Nagel and Wood’s ideas prompt a wider re-evaluation of the importance of antiquity in framing our understanding of Renaissance Europe. At stake is a view of the central conflicts in Europe’s formative years not as exclusively early modern events, but rather as events crucially shaped by the vital force of classicism.
Potential topics include:
-- How did differing claims to Greco-Roman heritage shape religious rhetoric and antagonisms? How did the interpretation of classical texts evolve with the shifting needs of their early modern readers, either in marginalizing or legitimizing particular groups? How do these texts transcend class lines, especially among the uneducated and illiterate?
-- How did different national traditions of Humanism approach the contrasting degrees of religious alterity? How did classical writings and thought provide agency for marginalized groups?
-- How can a deeper knowledge of classical texts reshape historical understandings of crusades, jihads, reformations, expulsions, and heresies? In teaching these encounters, what pedagogical methodologies can guide students toward recognition of the pervasive relevance of these texts?
Abstracts of no more than 150 words and a short CV should be sent as separate email attachments to pramit.chaudhuri@austin.utexas.edu (please see RSA guidelines for abstracts and CVs). Abstracts will be judged anonymously, so please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page.
Please include the following in the body of your email:
• your name, affiliation, email address
• your paper title (15-word maximum)
• relevant keywords
Proposals must be received by August 10, 2018.
Organized by David M. Reher (University of Chicago) and Keith Budner (UC-Berkeley) with the sponsorship of the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR)
Call: https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1696718/305579/Ancient-Enmities-Classicism-and-Religious-Others
(CFP closed August 10, 2018)
SAPPHIC VIBES: LESBIANS IN LITERATURE FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT
Université de Haute-Alsace (Mulhouse): March 14-15, 2019
Sappho’s poetry was rediscovered by the humanists in the 1540s, and translated into English for the first time in 1652. While her poems remain significant as a benchmark of lesbian representation in high literature, the name Sappho has become synonymous with desire and love between women in wider popular culture. In the first episode of the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black (2013–pres.), for instance, one inmate says to the protagonist: “I’m feeling some Sapphic vibes coming off you.” The word “vibes” calls into question the widely accepted belief that sexual identity can be reduced to a heterosexual–homosexual binary, and invites us to consider representations of love between women other than through explicit acts, words and relationships. Indeed, it recalls Adrienne Rich’s concept of a “lesbian continuum”—that is, “a range […] of woman-identified experience; not simply the fact that a woman has had or consciously desired genital sexual experience with another woman” (Rich 648). For this conference, then, we use the term “vibes” as a starting point for exploring the lesbian continuum as depicted in literature, from the explicit to the implicit, the said to the unsaid, the visible to the hidden. We will examine literary currents and movements, viewing the “vibe” as a reflection of the continuity and fluctuations in the representations of lesbianism from period to period, author to author.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers in English or French focusing on any language area, but quotations and titles should be translated into English or French; comparative approaches are also welcome. Papers could explore, but are not limited to, the following questions:
How have the central motifs of lesbian-themed writing changed over time?
* Are some literary forms and genres more conducive to Sapphic representation than others? Is there a specific language that will transcribe the lesbian vibe?
* Is there a lesbian literary canon?
* What about texts in which desire and love between women are concealed, muted or repressed? Are there any “classic” texts that can be (re-)read from a lesbian perspective?
* How does literature depict female companionship and solidarity?
* How does lesbian-themed writing engage with debates on the place of sexual minorities in society?
A second conference, organised by Irma Erlingsdottir, will be held at the University of Iceland in 2020 exploring the same theme through history, literature, politics and philosophy.
Please send abstracts of up to 250 words and a brief CV to Carine Martin (carine.martin@univ-lorraine.fr), Claire McKeown (claire.mc-keown@univ-lorraine.fr), Maxime Leroy (maxime.leroy@uha.fr) and Robert Payne (robert.payne@uha.fr) by 1 October 2018.
Organisers: Carine Martin (Université de Lorraine), Claire McKeown (Université de Haute Alsace), Maxime Leroy (Université de Haute Alsace), Robert Payne (Université de Haute Alsace).
Scientific Committee: Organisers and Jennifer K Dick (Université de Haute Alsace), Irma Erlingsdottir (University of Iceland), Marion Krauthaker (University of Leicester), Guyonne Leduc (Université de Lille), Marianne Legault (University of British Columbia), Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre (Université de Haute Alsace).
Call: https://www.ille.uha.fr/803-2/
(CFP closed October 1, 2018)
FLESHING OUT WORDS: POETRY ON OBJECTS, FROM CLASSICAL EPIGRAMS TO MODERN 'LIGHT POEMS'
University of Warwick, UK: March 9, 2019
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge
Robert Montgomery, London
When in 2012 the artist Robert Montgomery placed the aluminium letters of his poem ‘All palaces are/ temporary palaces’ in an empty swimming pool (Stattbad Wedding, Berlin), he deliberately embodied the written word into a physical context. With his ‘light poems’, he demonstrates how poetry can be a billboard, a tattooed body or even a gift to exchange for coffee: this interplay between word and object was already a quintessential feature of Graeco-Roman 'epigrammatic' poetry, which could be scratched or carved into walls, statues and stones. In our era of ‘Instagram poets’ and the quotation-culture of tweets, bits of poetry are spread across urban landscapes and social networks in the most variated forms, ingeniously combining words and objects, and making us aware of our inheritance of ideas developed in different ways in classical antiquity, linking poetry, materiality and objects.
The ancient epigram, a poetic form conscious of its ‘writtenness’ which originated as inscription (on gravestones, monuments and other objects) and which in fascinating ways lives on in our contemporary society, foregrounds questions about the materiality of texts in ways that we will take as a point of departure for this inter-disciplinary conference. When poetry is engraved on stones, scratched into walls, written on an object, how does the nature and use of that object affect our interpretation of the text? To what extent and how does the medium on which a poem is viewed influence the reader/viewer’s perception of it? This conference aims to investigate the shift between the epigram as embodying an inseparability of text and materiality, as conceived in the classical period and in the Renaissance (Neo-Latin epigram), and the modern re-interpretation of poetry on objects.
The conference aims to create cross-disciplinary discussion amongst scholars in Classics, Arts, Comparative Literature, Renaissance.
We therefore welcome proposals engaging with - but not limited to - the following topics:
• Theoretical/ philosophical perspectives on poetry and materiality;
• The epigram book/ epigram as inscription;
• Continuities and differences between the conception of object and text in ancient/Renaissance epigrams and the new material expressions of modern poetry;
• (Responses to) the visual context/visuality of epigrams;
• The extent to which readings of ancient and/or Renaissance epigram might spur new perspectives on the contemporary production and consumption of poetry;
• The extent to which ‘epigram’ is a useful category/ recognizable poetic form in the modern world;
• The emergence of the Neo-Latin epigram.
Abstracts for 20-minute papers of no more than 300 words should be sent to fleshingoutwords.warwick@gmail.com by Monday September 24, 2018 (end of the day) Extended deadline October 1, 2018.
Please include in the body of your email: name, university affiliation and current position. Following the conference, we intend to submit proposal to the Warwick Series in the Humanities (with Routledge) for a collected volume: potential speakers should state with their abstract whether they wish to participate in this volume. Abstracts should be attached in PDF format with no identifying information.
We will inform participants of our decision by 31st October 2018.
Please see our conference website https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/words, follow us on twitter (@fleshingw) and feel free to contact the organisers at fleshingoutwords.warwick@gmail.com for any queries.
We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts!
The Conference Organisers:
Paloma Perez Galvan (p.perez-galvan@warwick.ac.uk) and Alessandra Tafaro (A.Tafaro@warwick.ac.uk).
Website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/words
(CFP closed September 24, 2018 Extended deadline October 1, 2018)
THE LONDON RENAISSANCE SEMINAR: OVID IN LOVE AND TROUBLE
Birkbeck, London (Keynes Library): March 9, 2019
Join us for a day of papers on Ovid in England; Ovid’s reproduction through Elizabethan textiles; models of abject creativity; gender and sex; the genre of love elegy.
Speakers include: Catherine Bates; Cora Fox; Linda Grant; Liz Oakley-Brown.
The London Renaissance Seminar is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of early modern history, literature, and culture. It meets regularly at Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square.
Anyone with a serious interest in the Renaissance is welcome and no registration is necessary.
For further information about LRS, contact Sue Wiseman (s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk).
Information: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=4868
CLASSICAL ANTIQUTY AND LOCAL IDENTITIES: FROM NEWFOUNDLAND TO NIGERIA AND GHANA
Department of Classics, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland (Canada): March 7-9, 2019
This conference, based on the collaboration of classicists at Memorial University (Canada), the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), and the University of Ghana, explores the presence of classical antiquity in different cultural traditions and geographical settings at the intersection of the local and the global. While Classics has become more global in perspective, scholarly networks on the practical level still remain highly constrained by regional, and sometimes national, boundaries. One major focus of this project will be to generate dialogue around ways of confronting those boundaries with the goal of creating a truly global Classics through the interchange of ideas and the mobility of students and researchers. The conference, supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Connection Grant, as well as internal funding from the Scholarship in the Arts and the Memorial University Conference Fund, is part of a larger project entitled, “The Place of the Classics: Receptions of Greco-Roman Antiquity from Newfoundland to Nigeria” (Collaborators: Folake Onayemi, Department of Classics, University of Ibadan; Greg Walsh, Rooms Provincial Archives).
Keynote presenters: Justine McConnell, King’s College, London; Folake Onayemi, University of Ibadan
Program:
Thursday March 7: Nexus Centre, Central Campus
9:00 – 10:30 Panel 1: Classical Adaptations and Migrations
1. Olakunbi Olasope (Ibadan): With oppression is always a clamour for justice: unmasking Antigone in Nigeria
2. Brad Levett (Memorial): Gadamer and Classical Reception
3. Bosede Adefiola Adebowale (Ibadan): Fate in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Ola Rotimi’s The Gods Are Not to Blame: A Socio-Cultural Perspective
4. Luke Roman (Memorial): The Mobility of the Classics
11:00 – 12:00 Visit to Exhibition in Queen Elizabeth II Library: Classics in Newfoundland
1:00 – 3:30 Panel 2: Places and Traditions
1. David Stephens (Memorial): Masterless Men and Irish Princesses: Newfoundland’s Classical Mythology
2. Jonathan Asante Otchere (Ghana): Summum Bonum: A Study of its Reception in Ghanaian Socio-Cultural Discourses
3. Milo Nikolic (Memorial): Architecture as an Expression of Convergent Evolution: Large-scale Building Projects in Newfoundland and Ancient Rome
4. Mark Joyal (Manitoba): “A lovely place”: A classical topos in portrayals of Newfoundland
4:00 – 5:30: Keynote: Folake Onayemi (Ibadan): Yoruba Adaptations of Classical Literature
5:30 – 7:00 Reception
Friday March 8: Signal Hill Campus
10:00 – 12:00 Panel 3: Teaching, Learning, Books, and Objects
1. Tana Allen (Memorial): A Particular Sense of Place: Teaching the Classics in Newfoundland
2. Michael Okyere Asante (Ghana, by video link): Towards a Revival of Latin Language Learning in Ghanaian Schools: A Vocabulary-Based Approach
3. Mercy Owusu-Asiamah (Ghana): The Reception of the Classics in Ghana: The Use of Latin Mottoes in Formal Educational Institutions
4. Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby (Memorial): The Classical Collection of John Mullock and the Intellectual Culture of Nineteenth Century Newfoundland
1:00 – 1:30 Classics in Newfoundland: some highlights of paired exhibitions at the QE2 and the Rooms (Karen Gill, Kara Hickson, Morgan Locke, Marina Schmidt, Luke Roman)
1:30 – 3:00: Discussion of future international collaborations in Classics
3:30 – 5:00: Keynote: Justine McConnell (King’s College London): At the Crossroads: Euripides, Wole Soyinka, and Femi Osofisan
Saturday March 9: Downtown St. John’s
Tour of St. John’s and Visit to the Rooms Provincial Museum and Archives
For all inquiries, please contact the organizer Luke Roman, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Classics, Memorial University: romanl@mun.ca
via: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1902&L=CLASSICISTS&P=89245
ANCIENT IMAGES, MODERN EYES: THE CLASSICAL WORLD IN MODERN MEDIA & ADVERTISING
The University of Warwick, UK: Wednesday March 6, 2019
An exciting day of interactive workshops, discussions and activities on the theme of Classical Antiquity as it appears in modern media and advertising.
Beginning with the Renaissance and happening as recently as Ariana Grande’s video for the hit song 'God is a Woman', the ancient – and most often the Classical – world has been a constant source of inspiration for the visual media we create. Whether we reference it allusively or borrow from it directly, the Classical World has never gone out of fashion when it comes to art, advertising and design – and shows no sign of doing so.
Why does modernity seemingly have such an obsession with all things ancient and mythical? In what ways has classical imagery been used to be persuasive, beautiful, aspirational or evocative? How might our continued reliance on this imagery serve to enshrine negative or derogatory ideas concerning race, gender and aesthetics?
This event will involve a series of interactive talks and activities on numerous themes pertaining to the depiction of the ancient world in modern media – including issues of diversity, gender expectations and beauty ideals - hosted by researchers from Department of Classics and Ancient History at Warwick University, culminating in participants designing their own advertising campaign inspired by an aspect of ancient society. The day will get young people engaging with Classics and Ancient History in a way that is purposeful and feels strongly relevant to them – not just as students, but also as consumers of modern media.
This event is open to students in secondary school Years 9 – 11. ALL are welcome; however, it may be of particular interest to those studying Media, English Literature, Sociology, Fine Art, and Classics/Ancient History. Indeed, this event will provide a stimulating vehicle for putting into practice some of the wider aims of the various GCSE Media syllabi, helping to inform students’ critical understanding of the role of the media on its contemporary society.
To book please visit: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/warwickclassicsnetwork/events/ancientimages
Attendance at this event is entirely FREE OF CHARGE. Lunch & refreshments will be provided. Please kindly arrange your own transport – for information regarding transport links, parking & accessibility, please get in touch.
Any questions? ancimagesmodeyes@gmail.com
FROM TOMIS TO CHINA: OVID’S EXILE POETRY AND ITS TRANSLATION ACROSS TIME AND CULTURE
Yale-NUS College, Singapore: February 25-26, 2019
Invited Participants:
Jinyu Liu (DePauw University/ Shanghai Normal University; PI of Ovid translation project)
Chun Liu (Peking University; project translator)
Ying Xiong (Shanghai Normal University; project translator)
Pei Yun Chia (alumna, Yale-NUS; project translator)
I will be running a two-day workshop on Ovid’s exile poetry, which is designed to support an existing international project charged with translating into Mandarin, and providing commentaries for, the entire corpus of Ovid. Three international Chinese scholars working on the translation project will be attending the workshop, as well as one of our own Yale-NUS alumni who is attached to the project, and the aim is to explore different aspects of Ovid’s exile poetry, discover synergies with Chinese (exile) poetry, and discuss challenges in translating a mercurial author like Ovid into Mandarin for a contemporary non-specialist Chinese audience.
Four sessions will focus on: Ovid’s poetic book of exile; Tomis as constructed land of exile; Ovid as Virgil’s hero; Ovid as the sum of all sufferers (which will involve discussion of Heroides and Metamorphoses).
The workshop is generously sponsored by both Yale-NUS and the Tan Chin Tuan Chinese Culture and Civilisation Programme.
Attendance is free and all are welcome. Supporting materials for the workshop will be in Latin, English, and Mandarin. Interested parties should let me know by email (steven.green@yale-nus.edu.sg) so that I can ensure adequate catering.
GARDENS: HISTORY, RECEPTION, AND SCIENTIFIC ANALYSES
Nagoya University, Japan: 23-24 February, 2019
The heat wave in Summer 2018 has revealed designs of historic gardens in the UK that have been lost and only known to us through prints and publications. Unlike these discoveries, finding historic gardens usually involves time, patience, as well as archaeological practice.
It is often difficult for modern visitors to visualize and understand historic gardens that have not survived. But researchers employ various approaches, techniques, and resources to understand gardens of the past. For example, Wilhelmina F. Jashemski commenced the excavation of Pompeian gardens in the 1960s and showed how people planted trees and embellished the garden area. She collaborated with natural scientists in order to determine what types of plants had been planted in Pompeian gardens. Around the same time in Japan, the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties excavated an ancient palatial block in Nara and discovered a garden which was later reconstructed based on finds such as branches, leaves, seeds, and pollen.
The study of historic gardens requires an interdisciplinary approach: historians studying gardens via texts and inscriptions, archaeologists analysing gardens by excavation, archaeobotanists examining finds, and natural scientists scrutinizing samples provided by archaeologists. In addition, we should not disregard the influences and legacy of historic gardens. Without the collaboration of all these disciplines, our perceptions of such gardens will remain incomplete.
This conference aims to deepen our understanding of garden history by bringing together specialists working in various fields. Confirmed papers will cover areas including: gardens in Classical Antiquity (Y. Kawamoto, Marzano, Purcell, and Suto) and in the Renaissance (Higaya, Kuwakino), garden excavation in Pompeii and the Villa Arianna (Gleason), excavated (and reconstructed) gardens in Nara and Kyoto (Ono and S. Kawamoto), radiocarbon dating analysis of archaeological finds (Oda), and the latest survey of a garden in the villa in Somma Vesuviana (Italy) employing cosmic-ray Muons (Morishima).
Keynote speaker:
Nicholas Purcell (Roman History; Oxford)
Confirmed Speakers (alphabetically):
Kathryn L. Gleason (Roman Archaeology and Landscape; Cornell)
Jyunichiro Higaya (Renaissance Architectural History; Tohoku)
Shigeo Kawamoto (Japanese Architectural History; Kindai)
Yukiko Kawamoto (Roman History; Nagoya)
Koji Kuwakino (Renaissance Art and Architecture; Osaka)
Annalisa Marzano (Roman History; Reading)
Kunihiro Morishima (Astro Physics; Nagoya)
Hirotaka Oda (Radiocarbon Dating; Nagoya)
Kenkichi Ono (Japanese Garden History and Archaeology; Wakayama)
Yoshiyuki Suto (Greek Archaeology; Nagoya)
We invite submission of abstracts related to topics of discussion in this conference of no more than 300 words (excluding bibliography) for a 30-minutes paper. Please submit your abstract and a brief CV to Yukiko Kawamoto by email at: yukiko.kawamoto@classics.ox.ac.uk by 10th December 2018. Selections will be made and announced by the 31st December 2018.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/european-gardens/conference
(CFP closed December 10, 2018)
2019 HISTORICAL FICTIONS RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Manchester, UK: 22-23 February, 2019
The Call for Papers is now open. Papers on all topics and from all disciplines are welcomed.
This year, in honour of the 100th anniversary of the “Peterloo Massacre” we welcome in particular papers on the loose topic “Radical Fictions”.
Historical fictions can be understood as an expanded mode of historiography. Scholars in literary, visual, historical and museum/re-creation studies have long been interested in the construction of the fictive past, understanding it as a locus for ideological expression. However, this is a key moment for the study of historical fictions as critical recognition of these texts and their convergence with lines of theory is expanding into new areas such as the philosophy of history, narratology, popular literature, historical narratives of national and cultural identity, and cross-disciplinary approaches to narrative constructions of the past.
Historical fictions measure the gap between the pasts we are permitted to know and those we wish to know: the interaction of the meaning-making narrative drive with the narrative-resistant nature of the past. They constitute a powerful discursive system for the production of cognitive and ideological representations of identity, agency, and social function, and for the negotiation of conceptual relationships and charged tensions between the complexity of societies in time and the teleology of lived experience. The licences of fiction, especially in mass culture, define a space of thought in which the pursuit of narrative forms of meaning is permitted to slip the chains of sanctioned historical truths to explore the deep desires and dreams that lie beneath all constructions of the past.
We welcome paper proposals from Archaeology, Architecture, Literature, Media, Art History, Musicology, Reception Studies, Museum Studies, Recreation, Gaming, Transformative Works and others. We welcome paper proposals across historical periods, with ambitious, high-quality, inter-disciplinary approaches and new methodologies that will support research into larger trends and which will lead to more theoretically informed understandings of the mode across historical periods, cultures and languages.
We aim to create a disciplinary core, where researchers can engage in issues of philosophy and methodology and generate a collective discourse around historical fictions in a range of media and across period specialities.
Paper proposals consisting of a title and abstract of no more than 250 words should be submitted to: historicalfictionsresearch@gmail.com. The CfP closes on July 1st 2018.
Call: https://historicalfictionsresearch.org/conference-2019/
(CFP closed July 1, 2018)
KEATS AND MYTHOLOGY (1819-2019)
Rome, 22-23 February 2019
This conference celebrating the bicentenary of Keats’s annus mirabilis, 1819, the year he wrote the Odes, will be organised by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association in collaboration with the Société d'Études du Romantisme Anglais and hosted at the British School at Rome.
All papers will be given on Friday 22nd February, and delegates remaining in Rome on Saturday 23rd February will be invited to take part in special tours of the Non-Catholic Cemetery, where Keats and Shelley are buried, and of the Keats-Shelley House, Keats’s final dwelling place, in order to mark the anniversary of Keats’s death.
Mythological considerations of Keats’s life and art will be welcomed: myths and literary influences, myth and tradition, myth and science, myth and genre, myth and painting, myth and literary criticism, myth and modernity (including cinema and popular culture). Papers may explore the study of Greek and Roman myths in Keats’s poetry (Psyche, Apollo, Endymion, Hermes, Hyperion). They could also consider the modern mythology (from the Middle French, mythologie, ‘legend or story’) which has amassed around Keats’s life and work, and engage with the complexity of the Keatsian mythologia, a subtle mix of poetic fiction (mythos) and romanticised discourse (logia).
The conference is being organised by Giuseppe Albano, Curator of the Keats-Shelley House, Caroline Bertonèche, from the University of Grenoble Alpes and President of the SERA (Société d’Études du Romantisme Anglais), and Maria Valentini from the University of Cassino and Chair of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association in Rome.
Papers may be given in English, French or Italian, and abstracts accepted in any one of these languages. Deadline for submission of abstracts (c. 200 words): 1st November 2018.
For further information on registration, and to send your abstract, please contact:
Dr Giuseppe Albano: giuseppe.albano@ksh.roma.it or
Prof. Caroline Bertonèche caroline.bertoneche@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr or
Prof. Maria Valentini: gerrima@tiscali.it
Registration fee €50. We plan to publish a selection of papers from the conference in an issue of the Keats-Shelley Review.
Call: http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/en/news/keats-and-mythology-1819-2019-%E2%80%93-a-call-for-papers
(CFP closed November 1, 2018)
AUTHORITY IN CREATING CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES ABOUT THE CLASSICS
Newcastle University, UK: 21-22 February, 2019
The current boom of works and media about the Ancient World aimed at a general audience is a product of some converging circumstances: the rethinking of meaning and value of the Classics among scholars, in need of justifying our very own existence in contemporary academia; a market-driven demand for either recalling Western tradition and exempla from the ancients – on the conservative side, or questioning the multiple facets of elite privilege – on a progressive approach; and ultimately as a consequence of the “explosion of information” in the hyper-connected XXI century. In this last regard, narratives from non-scholars ranging from fairly accurate Wikipedia articles to “fake news” tweets are now competing with classicists for space and authority.
This new “shared authority”, a term coined by public historian Michael Frisch, calls for reflection. We invite papers on topics related to the topics above, inviting discussion on themes such as:
* What is the role of the scholar in determining narratives for the general audience?
* How to understand and respond to the public’s demand on topics, old and new, about the ancients?
* Forms of dialogue with non-scholar producers of knowledge about the Classics, esp. online;
* Political and global aspects of conservative and progressive approaches to Ancient World.
We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers, which will be followed by debates led by assigned commentators. Presenters will be requested to participate as commentators in at least one other presentation. The conference will be published in a proceedings volume, including the resulting debate.
Please send abstracts (PDF format) of no more than 350 words, including 3-5 keywords to authorityinclassics@gmail.com. Submissions from PhD students are welcome.
Deadline: 30 October 2018.
The event will have no submission or attendance fees.
Keynote speakers:
Neville Morley (University of Exeter)
Sarah E. Bond (University of Iowa)
Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University)
Conference organisers: Juliana Bastos Marques (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) and Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University). This conference is supported by a Newton Advanced Fellowship funded by the British Academy.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1809&L=CLASSICISTS&P=112362
Update 3/2/2019:
Program:
FEBRUARY 21
10:00-11:00 - Sarah Bond (University of Iowa), The Judgement of Paris: Statues, “the West”, and Ideals of Beauty
11:20-12:00 - Vanda Zajko (University of Bristol), Participatory Cultures and Contemporary Mythopoiesis
12:00-13:00 – lunch
13:00-14:00 - Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University), West is Best? "Western Civilization", White Supremacy, & Classics in Popular Media
14:00-14:40 - Catalina Popescu (Holland Hall), The New Agora? Online Communities and a New Rhetoric
14:40-15:20 - Cora Beth Knowles (Open University), The authority of sharing: postgraduate blogging in Classics
15:20-15:40 - coffee break
15:40-16:20 - Ayelet Lushkov (University of Texas at Austin), Classical Literature and Contemporary Classics
16:20-17:00 - Juan Garcia Gonzalez (Newcastle University), The Syme–Yourcenar controversy about "Memoirs of Hadrian"
FEBRUARY 22
10:00-11:00 - Neville Morley (University of Exeter), 'The society that separates its scholars from its keyboard warriors...’: tracking Thucydides on Twitter
11:20-12:00 - David García Dominguez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), The ruthless law of the jungle? Ideology, discourse, and the dangerous success of Realist views on Roman history
12:00-13:00 – lunch
13:00-14:00 - Juliana Bastos Marques (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State), Is Livy a good Wikipedian? Authority and authorship in ancient historiography through the lens of contemporary anonymous writing
14:00-14:40 - Joanna Kenty (Radboud University), Philology and Outreach
14:40-15:20 - Ivan Matijašić (Newcastle University), Artemidorus on Trial: A Papyrus between Philology, a Court of Justice and the Media
15:20-16:00 - closing remarks
Register: authorityinclassics@gmail.com by February 17, 2019
Website: http://www.authorityandclassics.org/events
(CFP closed October 30, 2018)
CLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN POPULAR CULTURE
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) - 40th Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico: February 20-23, 2019
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 40th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/
Classical Representations in Popular Culture
Papers on any aspect of Greek, Roman, or Mediterranean antiquity in contemporary or popular culture are eligible for consideration.
Potential topics include representations of ancient literature or culture in:
* Classical Motifs/Allusions/Parallels in Popular Music
* Graphic Novels and Cartoons
* Cinema directly or indirectly reflecting aspects of the ancient world in cinema: recent films involving * Classical themes which you might consider include The Legend of Hercules, Pompeii, La Grande Belezza, Inside Llewyn Davis, the new Ben Hur, as well as television series which engage with classical themes like Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Spartacus, Battlestar Galactica.
* Literary Theory/Postcolonial Theory/Reception Studies: Literary or theoretical analysis of literature employing classical references or motifs, like Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, or Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad.
* Classical themes in productions of theater, opera, ballet, music, and the visual arts.
* Science Fiction/Fantasy: Analysis of representations of classical history, literature, or philosophy in science fiction movies or books, as Edward Gibbons to Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy or the impact of Thucydides in Cold War cinema. Or, conversely, the influence of Science Fiction on representations of the ancient world in later cinema (e.g., how did George Lucas’ empire of the Star Wars franchise influence later representations of the Roman Empire?)
* Pedagogy: applications of classics in popular culture: how can we use contemporary films, literature in the classroom?
* Children’s Literature: Greek and Roman mythology in children’s film, television, or literature.
All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca
For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/
Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 words. Including a brief bio in the body of the proposal form is encouraged, but not required.
For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.
The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2018.
SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due January 1, 2019. For more information, visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/
Registration and travel information for the conference is available at http://southwestpca.org/conference/conference-registration-information/
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-classical-representations-popular-culture
(CFP closed November 1, 2018)
"MIND AND BODY": 7th LIVING LATIN AND GREEK IN NEW YORK CITY
New York City, USA: Feb 16-17, 2019
The Paideia Institute is pleased to welcome abstract submissions to the seventh iteration of Living Latin and Greek in New York City. This conference, which features papers delivered in Latin and Ancient Greek as well as small breakout sessions where participants practice speaking Latin and Greek under the guidance of expert instructors, will be held at Fordham University on February 16th and 17th.
The theme of this year's conference is "Mind and Body." How are the life of the mind and the life of the body related? Are they friends or enemies, equals or unequals? Are human beings made up of essentially different "parts" — and, if so, are there two, three or more such parts? How, ideally, do these parts interact? Does the body rule the mind, or the mind the body?
We invite proposals for short talks in Greek or Latin on this theme with examples from Ancient Greek and Latin literature. Topics might include: advice on the upkeep of the mind and/or body; literary treatments of the mind and/or body; discussions of material culture relating to the theme of mind and body. We also welcome submissions on how the theme of mind and body relates to classical language pedagogy. Outstanding submissions on other topics, especially on Latin or Greek pedagogy, will also be considered.
Please follow the link https://www.paideiainstitute.org/llinyc_abstract_submission to send in an abstract of no more than 500 words. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2018. Travel bursaries are available and can be applied for through the same link. We encourage accepted speakers to apply for external funding as well since the number of travel bursaries is limited. All talks will be recorded, subtitled, and (with each speaker's permission) published on Paideia's Youtube channel.
Call: https://www.paideiainstitute.org/llinyc_2019_call_for_papers
(CFP closed September 15, 2018)
SOCIETY OF NEO-LATIN EARLY CAREER DAY
University College London: February 15, 2019
A final reminder that the Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising a one-day event on Career Development for Neo-Latinists, aimed at advanced PhD students and early-career researchers with an interest in neo-Latin. (Please note that Neo-Latin does not have to be your main or only area of study, and the event may also be of use to early career scholars in other areas that belong to no single department.) The event will take place at UCL (106 Gordon House, 29 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0PP) on the 15th February 2019, running from 10am-5pm. This will be an opportunity to discuss the implications and challenges of being an early-career researcher in such an interdisciplinary, non-traditional, and rapidly evolving field as neo-Latin, as well as the strategies and types of position open to scholars with a PhD in this area.
The day will consist of a series of short talks on: post-doc applications and the post-doc experience; teaching fellowships, temporary and permanent lectureships; planning publications and developing a book proposal; teaching post-classical Latin in different departments; careers in school teaching and librarianship; and applying for research grants. Our confirmed speakers include both early-career researchers and more senior academics, as well as former PhD students who are or have been working outside academia. There will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion.
Attendance is free of charge; lunch and coffee will be provided. To register, please email bianca.facchini@kcl.ac.uk by the 31st January 2019.
See: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/news/?newsItem=8a1785d7675a40330167735c57ee62be
COMPLAINT AND GRIEVANCE: LITERARY TRADITIONS
National Library of New Zealand/Victoria University of Wellington, NZ: February 14-15, 2019
‘O woe is me / To have seen what I have seen, see what I see’. Shakespeare’s Ophelia, wooed and cast aside by her one-time lover, Hamlet, amplifies her woe in the open-ended expression of grief that characterises complaint, a rhetorical mode that proliferates from the poetry of Ovid to the Bible, from the Renaissance to the modern day.
This symposium explores the literature of complaint and grievance, centring on the texts of the Renaissance but welcoming contributions from related areas. Shakespeare (A Lover’s Complaint) and Spenser (Complaints) are central authors of Renaissance complaint, but who else wrote complaint literature, why, and to what effect? Female-voiced complaint was fashionable in the high poetic culture of the 1590s, but what happens to complaint when it is taken up by early modern women writers? What forms—and what purposes—does the literature of complaint and grievance take on in non-elite or manuscript spheres, in miscellanies, commonplace books, petitions, street satires, ballads and songs? What are the classical and biblical traditions on which Renaissance complaint is based? And what happens to complaint after the Renaissance, in Romantic poetry, in the reading and writing cultures of the British colonial world, in contemporary poetry, and in the #metoo movement?
Keynote speakers:
Professor Danielle Clarke, University College, Dublin
Professor Kate Lilley, University of Sydney
Professor Rosalind Smith, University of Newcastle, Australia
We invite anyone with an interest in the literature of complaint and the politics of grievance to submit a 250-word paper proposal by 31 October 2018 to the conference organiser, Sarah.Ross@vuw.ac.nz.
This conference is supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Marsden Fund, as part of the three-year project ‘Woe is me: Women and Complaint in the English Renaissance’.
Call: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/amems/resources/conferences#complaint
(CFP closed October 31, 2018)
AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES 40TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
University of New England, Armidale (NSW): February 4-7, 2019.
CFP: http://www.ascs.org.au/news/ascs40_call_for_papers.html. Abstracts due by: July 31, 2018.
Conference website: http://www.une.edu.au/about-une/faculty-of-humanities-arts-social-sciences-and-education/school-of-humanities/australasian-society-for-classical-studies
Program [pdf]: http://www.ascs.org.au/news/ascs40/ASCS%2040%20Booklet.pdf
ASCS: http://www.ascs.org.au/
(CFP closed July 31, 2018)
GLACIE CIRCUMDATUS UROR – DER NEULATEINISCHE PETRARKISMUS
Einladung zur Teilnahme an einer internationalen Tagung an der Universität Bonn: January 24-26, 2019
Der Petrarkismus hat die volkssprachliche europäische Lyrik der Frühen Neuzeit entscheidend geprägt. Der Einfluss auf die frühneuzeitliche lateinische Literatur ist dabei bislang allenfalls konstatiert und vereinzelt besprochen, aber nur sporadisch in größerem Zusammenhang untersucht worden. Explizite Übersetzungen, wie etwa Nicolas Bourbons lateinische Übertragung von RVF 134 („Pace non trovo“), der sich das Zitat im Veranstaltungstitel verdankt, sind jedoch in der neulateinischen Liebesdichtung des gesamten frühneuzeitlichen Europas ebenso zu finden wie subtile sprachlich-formale, strukturelle und konzeptionelle Bezugnahmen auf das petrarkistische Modell.
Dem neulateinischen Petrarkismus kommt im Vergleich zu den nationalsprachlichen Petrarkismen aus zwei Gründen eine Sonderstellung zu: Zum einen steht das Neulateinische in einem besonderen Nahverhältnis zur lateinischen Literatur der Antike. Hierdurch ist mit starken sprachlichen, motivischen und inhaltlichen Interferenzen zwischen dem Petrarkismus und Modellen antiker (Liebes-)Dichtung zu rechnen. Die zweite besondere Eigenart des neulateinischen Petrarkismus liegt im soziokulturellen ,Sitz im Leben‘ des Lateinischen, das in der Frühen Neuzeit als paneuropäische lingua franca fungierte. Die neulateinische Literatur oszilliert hierdurch zwischen Regionalität und Internationalität, sie interagiert mit regional unterschiedlichen Kontexten und kann gleichzeitig international rezipiert werden.
Die Tagung möchte sich nun erstmals gezielt dem Phänomen des neulateinischen Petrarkismus widmen und in Fortsetzung der Arbeiten Scorsones 2004 und Cintis 2006 wesentliche Spielarten der Petrarkismus-Aneignung in der lateinischen Poesie der Frühen Neuzeit diskutieren. Es soll dabei insbesondere auch nach Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden zwischen dem neulateinischen und volkssprachlichen Petrarkismus gefragt werden.
Den Vortragenden können die Kosten für Anreise und Übernachtung erstattet werden. Eine Veröffentlichung der Beiträge im Anschluss an die Tagung ist geplant.
Für Vorträge von ca. 30 Minuten werden Themenvorschläge zum neulateinischen Petrarkismus in Europa, insbesondere aber in England, Skandinavien, Osteuropa, Spanien und Portugal – vorzugsweise als Email-Attachment – bis zum 15.06.2018 erbeten an: Alexander Winkler (a.winkler@uni-bonn.de). Der Themenformulierung sollte ein kurzes Exposé (max. 300 Wörter) beigefügt sein.
Website: https://www.philologie.uni-bonn.de/de/medneolat/nlat-petrarkismus
(CFP closed June 15, 2018)
ILIAS LATINA – INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
Erlangen, Germany: January 24-25, 2019
The Ilias Latina has been one of the reference texts of the Homeric poem
until the rediscovery of Greek in the West. After the richly commented
edition by Scaffai (1997) and the translation in French with a brief
commentary by Fry (2014), the aim of this international Workshop is to
focus on this peculiar cultural product.
We warmly encourage PhD students, Post-docs and early-career researchers
to present papers of 20 minutes in length. Proposals may focus on one of
the following topics:
a)metaphrastic devices and the comparison with the Greek model
b)the text and the manuscript tradition
c)the Ilias Latina in the literary context of the Neronian age
d)its reception, starting from Late Antiquity.
We welcome abstracts of up to 350 words, to be submitted per email by
July 31th 2018, including brief curriculum vitae.
Proposed workshop languages: English, Italian, German, and French.
A flat-rate reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses is
offered.
Confirmed invited speakers: Anton BIERL (Basel), Caterina CARPINATO (Venezia), Maria J. FALCONE
(Erlangen), Thomas GÄRTNER (Köln-Bonn), Gerlinde HUBER-REBENICH (Bern),
Christiane REITZ (Rostock), Christoph SCHUBERT (Erlangen).
Public evening lecture: Maurizio BETTINI (Siena), on the cultural meaning of translation.
Contacts:
Maria Jennifer FALCONE: maria.jennifer.falcone@fau.de
Christoph SCHUBERT: christoph.schubert@fau.de
Call: https://www.mommsen-gesellschaft.de/call-for-papers/2067-ilias-latina-internationaler-workshop-erlangen-24-25-januar-2019
(CFP closed July 31, 2018)
ANTIQUE WORLDS - MODERN PERSPECTIVES
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany: January 18-19, 2019
Although the scientific knowledge gained in humanistic and cultural research is generally theory-based, the explicit and reflective use of different and disparate theory-concepts has only in recent years found it´s way into the field of classical studies. The so called 'cultural turn', that happened in the early 90s of the last century, can be marked as a starting point, as it led to an increased development and use of cultural studies-theories.
This movement also reached the different disciplines of classical studies, in which henceforward there can be witnessed a steadily increased use and development of these cultural studies-key concepts. Now theories, such as the 'Material-Agency Theory' or 'Actor-Network Theory', that already have been used for some time in the English-speaking regions, make their way into classical studies-investigations around here and complement for instance spatial-sociological or media-theoretically studies, whose potential already has been discussed for some time. But what about the concrete applicability and reflection of those methods and theories, that at first seem to be outside the subject area? How to utilize certain theoretical concepts for one's own questioning and material? And are there any adjustments to those theoretical concepts necessary, in order to assure their fruitful use? These and further questions shall be elaborated in this Barcamp 'Antique Worlds - Modern Perspectives'!
The main focus of this Barcamp is to discuss these questions in an interdisciplinary context: There will not only be the classical conference format with talks and following discussions but also more intensive debates, that will be held in smaller groups after short keynote-speeches. The papers shall present and discuss different theory-concepts and show how they can be used for certain questionings and how exactly they are being applied 'in praxi' on different matters – both of textual and material nature. The paper is expected to point out, how the use of the theory offers new insight.
There is neither limitation to specific theories, nor periods, cultures, or material. The theory-concepts being presented can either be ones, that are already well known and have been extensively discussed for quite a while or innovative and so far in the German-speaking research field mostly unknown concepts and ideas.
This Barcamp addresses PhD students from all disciplines within the field of classical studies. We are looking forward to abstracts in either German or English that do not exceed 400 words. The talk is restricted to 25 minutes followed by a 15-minute discussion.
Please send your proposal for papers and short academic CV to us by 15th October 2018: info@antike-welten-freiburg.de.
Cost-sharing is subject to funding.
Organisation: Working Group “Antike Welten – Moderne Perspektiven” of the Graduate School 'Humanities' at the University of Freiburg
Website: https://www.antike-welten-freiburg.de
Call: https://www.antike-welten-freiburg.de/?page_id=38#A1
(CFP closed October 15, 2018)
L’INVENTION DU THÉÂTRE ANTIQUE À LA RENAISSANCE : FORME ET RÔLE DES PREMIÈRES ÉDITIONS (1470-1518)
Université Lyon 3 - Lyon, France: January 7-8, 2019
Il s'agira d'analyser les paratextes savants des premières éditions des poètes dramatiques anciens (1470-1518) afin de déterminer une éventuelle spécificité de ces premières éditions et de cerner le rôle qu'elles ont pu jouer dans l'interprétation des textes qu'elles présentent au public.
L’équipe travaillera sur un paratexte par auteur dramatique antique (sept paratextes seront donc traités) afin de tester ses méthodes, de vérifier l’intérêt des paratextes choisis, de prendre conscience des problèmes surgissant chaque étape du travail et de tenter d’y apporter des réponses.
7 janvier:
10h30-11h Compte-rendu des journées précédentes ; rappel des éléments de soumission de la pré-proposition du PRC à l’ANR et du calendrier ; présentation des journées et des attendus.
11-12h30 Malika Bastin-Hammou « Étude de trois éditions aldines : 1498 (Aristophane), 1502 (Sophocle), 1518 (Eschyle) ».
12h30-13h30 pause déjeuner
13h30-15h00 Alexia Dedieu « Euripide édité par Alde Manuce : Euripidis tragoediae septendecim, 1503 »
15h00-16h30 Mathieu Ferrand : « La lettre-préface de Simon Charpentier (éditeur) à Fausto Andrelini, dans la première édition française de Plaute (Paris, Denis Roce, 1512) »
16h30-17h discussion et bilan partiel
8 janvier
9h-10h30 Laure Hermand-Schebat « Les gravures et descriptions de gravures du Térence de Grüninger (Strasbourg, 1496) »
10h30-12h Christian Nicolas « L’Expositio in ‘Heautontimorumenon’ de Giovanni Calfurnio dans ses cinq commentaires à Térence » (Terentius cum quinque commentis, Venise, 1518) »
12h-13h déjeuner
13-14h30 Pascale Paré-Rey : « Le in tragoedias Senecae interpretatio des Tragoediae Senecae cum commento de Gellius Bernardinus Marmitta (Lyon, 1491) : le premier paratexte des éditions humanistes des tragédies latines »
14h30-15h bilan des deux journées : méthodologie à observer, notions à explorer, questions transversales.
Lieu: Université Lyon 3, 18 rue Chevreul, 69007 Lyon. Salle 404 (4ème étage du Palais de la Recherche)
Contact: pascale.rey@univ-lyon3.fr
Website: http://www.compitum.fr/evenements/details/5272-linvention-du-theatre-antique-a-la-renaissance--forme
[SCS ROUNDTABLES]
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
* Gaming and Classics - Organized by Hamish Cameron, Bates College
* Classical Traditions in Science Fiction and Fantasy - Organized by Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College, Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound, and Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University
* Graphic Classics: Education and Outreach in a New Medium - Organized by Jennifer A. Rea, University of Florida, and Aaron L. Beek, University of Memphis
* Approaching Christian Receptions of the Classical Tradition - Organized by Alexander C. Loney, Wheaton College
Information: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 81: CLASSICS AND THE INCARCERATED: METHODS OF ENGAGEMENT
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Workshop organized by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, and Elizabeth A. Bobrick, Wesleyan University
Elizabeth A. Bobrick (Wesleyan University), Introduction
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College), "Is this the Examined Life? Book Discussion Groups in Prison"
Nancy Felson (University of Georgia), "Masculinity, from Achilles to Socrates: Teaching Male Inmates in a Maximum-Security Prison"
Sara Itoku Ahbel-Rappe (University of Michigan), "Teaching in the Cave: A Classical Philosopher on Teaching Great Books in State Prisons"
Jessica Wright (University of Southern California), "The Freedom to Say No: Studying Latin in an American Prison"
Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers University), "Classics Behind Bars: Identity, Connection, and Civic Bridges"
Alexandra Pappas (San Francisco State University), "Classical Myth on the Inside: Lessons from a County Jail"
Information: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 68: OVID STUDIES - THE NEXT MILLENIUM
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Organized by Sharon L. James, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Alison Keith, University of Toronto
Sharon L. James (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Introduction
Sara Myers (University of Virginia), "New Directions in Ovidian Scholarship"
Carole Newlands (University of Colorado Boulder), "Actaeon in the Wilderness: Ovid, Christine de Pizan and Gavin Douglas"
Alison Keith (University of Toronto), "Ovid In and After Exile: Modern Fiction on Ovid Outside Rome"
Daniel Libatique (Boston University), "Ovid in the #MeToo Era"
Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University), Response
Information: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 79: NEO-LATIN IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT: CURRENT APPROACHES
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Organized by the Association for Neo-Latin Studies and Quinn E. Griffin, Grand Valley State University
Quinn E. Griffin (Grand Valley State University), Introduction
Stephen Maiullo (Hope College), "The Classical Tradition in the Personal Correspondence of Anna Maria van Schurman"
Anne Mahoney (Tufts University), "Cristoforo Landino's Metrical Practice in Aeolics"
Kat Vaananen (The Ohio State University), "Syphilitic Trees: Immobility and Voicelessness in Ovid and Fracastoro"
Joshua Patch (University of Dallas), "Sannazaro's Pastoral Seascape"
Information: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 64: TURNING QUEER: QUEERNESS AND THE TROPE
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus, Robert Matera, University of Maryland, College Park, David Wray, University of Chicago, and Hannah Mason, University of Southern California
The Lambda Classical Caucus invites abstracts for papers that investigate relationships between tropes and queerness in the ancient Mediterranean. Ancient and modern scholars have enumerated and explored tropes in visual arts, language, literature, politics, and other parts of ancient cultures. A trope may be “a figure which consists in using a word or a phrase in a sense other than that which is proper to it” (OED), such as a metaphor, or a theme or device used commonly in a particular style, genre, or discourse, such as the lament of the exclusus amator, and it may also be thought of in its root sense: a turning. We understand queerness broadly as questioning, ignoring, resisting, or in other ways not conforming with norms of gender, sex, sexuality, and/or erotics in a society. We welcome submissions on tropes and queerness in any part of an ancient Mediterranean culture or its later reception. We hope that, by examining ideas of turning, figurative representation, and commonly used themes or devices in relation to queer modes of non-conformity, this panel will reveal new dimensions of tropes and queerness.
Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:
How have tropes been used to represent queer people and queerness?
* Have people tried to control or limit non-conformity with tropes?
* How have non-conforming people found empowerment in tropes? Have they used tropes to understand themselves? To question norms? To communicate with each other?
* How does queerness interact with a particular trope or with an idea of a trope?
* How have modern queers troped cultures of the ancient Mediterranean or interacted with tropes of the ancient Mediterranean?
Please email abstracts for 20-minute papers to by February 1, 2018. Abstracts may be up to 500 words (not including works cited). Please submit abstracts as anonymized PDF’s, and include 1) the author’s name and 2) contact information and 3) the title of the proposed paper in the text of the email. Membership in the Society for Classical Studies is required for participation in this panel. Please email any questions to David Wray at dlwray@uchicago.edu, Hannah Mason at hannahzm@usc.edu, and Rob Matera at materar@beloit.edu.
Update: 8/12/2018
Session 64: Turning Queer: Queerness and the Trope
Hannah Mason (University of Southern California), Introduction
Rowan Ash (University of Western Ontario), "'ἦλθον Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι,' or, Going Amazon: Queering the Warrior Women in the Iliad"
Sarah Olsen (Williams College), "Io's Dance: A Queer Move in Prometheus Bound"
James Hoke (Luter College), "Homo Urbanus or Urban Homos?: The Metronormative Trope, Philo's Therapeuts, and Ancient Queer Subcultures"
Mark Masterson (Victoria University of Wellington), "Normal for Byzantium is Queer for Us"
Mary Mussman (University of California, Berkeley), "Blank Marks; Absence as Interpretation of Queer Erotics in 20th-21st Century Reception of Sappho"
Robert Matera (University of Maryland, College Park) and David Wray (University of Chicago), Response
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/call-abstracts-turning-queer
(CFP closed February 1, 2018)
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 59: A CENTURY OF TRANSLATING POETRY
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Organizers: SCS Committee on Translations of Classical Authors; Diane Arnson Svarlien, Independent Scholar, and Diane Rayor, Grand Valley State University
From Livius Andronicus to the multifarious translation landscape of the twenty-first century, the re-creation of classic works in new languages has brought ancient literature to new audiences and new cultural contexts.
This panel seeks papers that focus on the art of literary translation. For our society’s sesquicentennial, we especially welcome papers that address translation into English since 1869.
All translation is interpretation: Textual decisions drive interpretations, yet interpretive stances also drive textual decisions. Translation is an especially intimate and visible active reading in which the reader of the source language work becomes the writer of the English work.
Possible areas of focus include, but are not limited to:
* How literary translations of single authors have changed over time.
* Trends in literary translation
* Translation in times of crisis
* The status of translation in classics
* How translation engages with scholarship
* The responsibilities of the translator
* Theories of and approaches to translation
* Political or cultural use of translation
The Committee on Translations of Classical Authors is in the process of producing a searchable database bibliography of all translations of Greek and Latin authors translated from 1869 (and ongoing) initially in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Grand Valley State University developed the Tiresias database, before transferring it to UC-Irvine, who has agreed to host the project at the International Center for Writing and Translation.
Abstracts for papers should be submitted electronically as Word documents by January 31, 2018 to Donald Mastronarde (djmastronarde@berkeley.edu), preferably with the subject heading “abstract_translation_SCS2019”. All abstracts will be judged anonymously and so should not reveal the author’s name, but the email should provide name, abstract title, and affiliation. Abstracts should be 650 words or fewer and should follow the guidelines for individual abstracts (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts), except that works cited should be put at the end of the document, not in a separate text box.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/call-abstracts-literary-translation-greek-and-latin-1869
Update: 8/12/2018
Session 59: A Century of Translating Poetry
Elizabeth Vandiver (Whitman College), "'Exquisite Classics in Simple English Prose': Theory and Practice in the Poets' Translation Series (1915-1920)"
Rachel Hadas (Rutgers University), "Quisque suos patimur manes: Trends in Literary Translations of the Classics"
Tori Lee (Duke University), "'Tools' of the Trade: Euphemism and Dysphemism in Modern English Translations of Catullus"
Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves (Federal University of Paraná), "Performative Translations of Lucretius and Catullus"
Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania), "Faithless: Gender Bias and Translating the Classics"
Diane Rayor (Grand Valley State University), Response
(CFP closed January 31, 2018)
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 58: ANCIENT DRAMA, NEW WORLD
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Sponsored by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance
Organizers: Anna Uhlig, (asuhlig@ucdavis.edu), University of California, Davis & Al Duncan, (al.duncan@unc.edu), The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Research Fellow, University of the Free State
The performance of ancient drama, whether in updated stagings or more radically adapted variations, represents one of the most significant influences on contemporary views of the ancient world. As Helene Foley and others have shown, the “reimagining” of ancient drama in the New World has a long and fascinating history, and one that continues to be written. The recent flurry of scholarly work on the performance of ancient drama in the Americas attests to the range and complexity of new-world engagement with Greece and Rome. Landmark studies include Foley’s Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage (2012) and the Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (2015) among diverse other publications. In the years since the publication of these volumes, ancient drama has continued to demonstrate its ability to speak to a changing New World, whether in Harrison David Rivers’ And She Would Stand Like This (2017), a transgender version of Euripides’ Trojan Women, Bryan Doerries’ evolving “Theater of War” Productions (2009-present), or Elise Kermani’s juxtaposition of contemporary and ancient in Iphigenia: Book of Change (2016). In many ways, theater artists in the Americas are once again redefining our relationships with ancient Greek and Roman culture.
In light of the overall goal of the Sesquicentennial Program to celebrate the past and future of Classical Studies in the Americas, this panel will focus on the dynamic forms that ancient drama has taken in new-world performances. This rich and still-unfolding history provides a powerful window on how the performance of classical drama constitutes a vital channel through which the future of Classics has taken—and continues to take—shape. As theater has long been recognized as a bellwether within our discipline, a goal of this panel is to highlight emergent trends in new-world theater that may presage future turns in Classical Studies as a whole.
We invite submissions on any aspect of the performance of ancient drama in the Americas, but are especially eager for contributions that focus on the cultural or political immediacy of ancient drama as demonstrated in staged productions from the last decade or so. Possible areas of focus include, but are not limited to:
* How does a synchronic approach facilitate our understanding of ancient drama within an interconnected world?
* How does the shared history of colonialism and/or slavery in the Americas shape approaches to ancient drama?
* What similarities/differences are found in the performance/adaptation of ancient drama in distinct linguistic communities of the Americas (e.g. Spanish, English, Portuguese, French)?
* How have recent changes in social or economic conditions in the Americas found form in the performance/adaptation of ancient drama?
* How are contentious issues of borders, identity, nationality, and culture reflected in the performance/adaptation of ancient drama in the Americas?
* How are shifting discourses on gender, sexuality, and race making themselves felt in the performance/adaptation of ancient drama?
The session will conclude with a response to the papers by Helene Foley.
Please send anonymous abstracts following SCS guidelines (http://apaclassics.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-of-abstracts) by email to Timothy Wutrich (trw14@case.edu), not to the panel organizers. Review of abstracts will begin 1 March 2018. The deadline for submission is 15 March 2018.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/call-abstracts-ancient-drama-new-world
Update: 8/12/2018
Session 58: Ancient Drama, New World
Al Duncan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Anna Uhlig (University of California, Davis), Introduction
Charles Pletcher (Columbia University), "Antigone: Anastrophe in Griselda Gambaro's Antígona furiosa"
Christina Perez (Columbia University), "Textual Ruins: The Form of Memory in José Watanabe's Antigona
Laurialan Blake Reitzammer (University of Colorado Boulder), "Reimagining Creon and his Daughter in Euripides' Medea: Armida as Queen of the Barrio in Luis Alfaro's Mojada"
Claire Catenaccio (Duke University), "'Why We Build the Wall': Hadestown in Trump's America
Helene Foley (Barnard College), Response
(CFP closed March 15, 2018)
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 56: MUSIC AND THE DIVINE
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Organized by MOISA, Andreas J. Kramarz, Legion of Christ College of Humanities
Many literary and philosophical sources throughout antiquity attest the view that music serves as a connection between human and the supernatural realities. The concept of music as a “gift of the gods,” also applicable to instruments and divine (or divinely inspired) musicians, already points at this relationship. From the Pythagoreans to Aristides Quintilianus and beyond, cosmological speculations are frequently aligned with the structure and dynamics of the human soul and described in musical terms. Hence the need of a deeper inquiry about the relationship between music and the divine.
Possible questions to be investigated and topics to discuss include (but are not limited to):
* What are historical, psychological, philosophical, and theological reasons for the perception that music is something divine, which surpasses what is properly human?
* Greek and Roman mythology is full of stories where gods or divine figures are related to or the origin and practice of music as such, instruments, tunes, practices, etc. What does divine patronage reveal about the character of music and its impact on human life?
* The “divinely inspired” musician: origin, role, and development of the concept of musical genius.
* Dionysian “frenzy”: how does the “dark side” of music become associated with divinities? How is this represented in other cultural traditions?
* Human music as a competition or rebellion against the divine (for instance, the stories of Marsyas or Orpheus).
* Cosmology and mathematical musicology: to what degree can modern science support the parallelism between musical and cosmic processes as first described by the Pythagoreans and still thoroughly developed by Kepler? How does such “ideal” music relate to “real” music?
* Contributions of individual classical authors or schools: what are the various views on the relationship between music and creation, and how do they compare? How are these theories reflected and further developed in post-classical traditions?
* Music as mediation between the human and the divine.
* Is the numinous character of music particular, or is it found similarly in other art forms?
* How do ethnomusicological findings support – or question – the idea of a universal notion of music being a privileged link between the human sphere and the divine?
* Is there a continuity or rather a discontinuity between the classical and the Christian (Western or Eastern) view on the role of music in worship or on its divine character?
In an effort to showcase the best papers and the most innovative research in the field of ancient music, we also welcome abstracts that deal with interdisciplinary aspects of Greek and Roman music and its cultural heritage within the framework of the panel theme.
Abstracts for 20-minute papers to be presented at the 2019 SCS annual meeting should observe the instructions for the format of individual abstracts that appear on the SCS web site. The deadline for submission is March 9th, 2018, and all prospective presenters should be SCS members in good standing at the time of submission. Please address your abstract to gurds@missouri.edu and any question related to the panel to akramarz@legionaries.org. In accordance with SCS regulations, all abstracts for papers will be read anonymously by two referees.
Call: http://www.fasticongressuum.com/single-post/2018/02/22/CALL-09032018-PANEL-16-Music-and-the-Divine-MOISA-at-SCS-2019---San-Diego-CA-USA
Update: 8/12/2018
Session 56: Music and the Divine
Andreas J. Kramarz (Legion of Christ College of Humanities), Introduction
Pavlos Sfyroeras (Middlebury College), "The Music of Sacrifice: Between Mortals and Immortals"
Spencer Klavan (University of Oxford), "Movements Akin to the Soul's: Human and Divine Mimēsis in Plato's Music"
Victor Gysembergh (Freie Universität Berlin), "Eudoxus of Cnidus on Consonance, Reason/Ratio, and Divine Pleasure"
Noah Davies-Mason (The Graduate Center, CUNY), "The Silent Gods of Lucretius"
Francesca Modini (Kings College), "Singing for the Gods under the Empire: Music and the Divine in the Age of Aelius Aristides"
Andreas J. Kramarz (Legion of Christ College of Humanities), Response
(CFP closed March 9, 2018)
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 55: GLOBAL FEMINISM AND THE CLASSICS
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
WCC Sponsored Panel. Chairs: Andrea Gatzke (SUNY-New Paltz) and Jeremy LaBuff (Northern Arizona University)
Global/transnational feminism is a framework that challenges the universalizing tendencies of Western feminism, and works toward a more expansive appreciation of the diversity inherent to the experiences of women and sexual minorities across the globe. It accomplishes this by taking into consideration the wide variation of cultural, economic, religious, social, and political factors that differentially impact women in different places. Yet the potential utility of this concept to the discipline of classical studies remains largely untapped. For all of the modifications and corrections made to Foucault’s History of Sexuality, the Greco-Roman world’s position as ancestor to the Modern West too often frames how we situate the study of gender and sexuality in antiquity. Global/transnational feminism offers ways to make the discipline more inclusive by transcending this ancient-modern comparison and further contextualizing classical phenomena through contemporary cross-cultural study and consideration of how gender and sexuality might intersect with other social categories like ethnicity or class. Such approaches can help us identify important connections and differences between distinct cultures, but perhaps more importantly, can serve to establish the value and limitations of the theories and methodologies we implement in studying gender and sexuality.
This panel seeks to provide a venue for advancing discussions of gender and sexuality in classical antiquity in both scholarship and the classroom through the lens of global/transnational feminism. Among the questions we hope to explore are:
* How can we make fruitful comparisons between Greek and Roman constructions of gender and sexuality and those of other ancient societies, whether neighboring and interacting (e.g., Celtic, Egyptian, Persian) or disparate (China, Japan, South Asia, etc.)?
* How might a global/transnational feminist approach help us and our students more critically compare ancient constructions of gender and sexuality to our own modern ones?
* How might an emphasis on intersectionality complicate our understanding of the diverse experiences of women and sexual minority groups in antiquity?
* How does Western feminism limit our ability to understand and analyze concepts of gender and sexuality in antiquity?
* What does a global/transnational feminist approach mean for our relationship to the ancient past, more broadly conceived?
* We solicit papers from both scholarly and pedagogical perspectives that consider the above and related questions regarding the study of gender and/or sexuality in the ancient world from a global/transnational perspective.
Abstracts of ca. 450 words, suitable to a 15-20 presentation, should be sent as a .pdf file to Martha Teck (teckm@newpaltz.edu). Please do not identify yourself in any way in the abstract itself so that all submitted abstracts can be evaluated anonymously. Please follow the formatting guidelines for abstracts that appear on the SCS website: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/guidelines-authors-abstracts. All persons who submit abstracts must be SCS or AIA members in good standing, and all proposals must be received by March 1, 2018. Any questions about the panel should be directed to the organizers.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2017/150/call-abstracts-global-feminism-and-classics
Update: 8/12/2018
Session 55: Global Feminism and the Classics
Jeremy LaBuff (Northern Arizona University) and Andrea F. Gatzke (SUNY-New Paltz), Introduction
Margaret Day (The Ohio State University), "The Sisters of Semonides' Wives: Rethinking Female-Animal Kinship"
Elizabeth LaFray (Siena Heights University), "The Emancipation of the Soul: Gender and Body-Soul Dualism in Ancient Greek and Indian Philosophy"
Sarah Christine Teets (University of Virginia), "Mapping the Intersection of Greek and Jewish Identity in Josephus' Against Apion"
Hilary J. C. Lehmann (Knox College), "Past, Present, Future: Pathways to a More Connected Classics"
Erika Zimmermann Damer (University of Richmond), Response
(CFP closed March 1, 2018)
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 53: HORACE AND HIS LEGACY
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
(Alison Keith, University of Toronto, presiding)
Edgar Garcia (University of Washington), "Teucer, Twofold: Echoes and Exempla in Odes 1.7"
Alicia Matz (Boston University), "Deus nobis haec otia fecit: Illusions of Otium at the End of the Republic"
Katherine Wasdin (George Washington University), "Horace the Communist: Marx's Capital as Satire"
Aaron Kachuck (University of Cambridge), "Ursine Poetics in Horace and the Classical Tradition"
Program: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 37: WRITING THE HISTORY OF EPIGRAPHY & EPIGRAPHERS
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy and Sarah E. Bond, University of Iowa
The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy invites submissions for a panel at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Diego. The history of epigraphy as a discipline stretches back to antiquity itself. In the same manner that Herodotus used inscriptions in order to list the temple inventories from Delphi and Delos and Suetonius appears to have drawn on the myriad inscriptions that dotted the Roman Forum, modern epigraphers continue to publish, interpret, and interweave epigraphic remains today. Although the focus is normally on the ancient content of these epigraphic remains, this panel turns its focus on the epigraphers themselves.
As the Society for Classical Studies looks back on 150 years of its existence as an academic organization in 2019, epigraphers should similarly take a moment to reflect on the evolution of our field. From the Rosetta Stone to the Vindolanda Tablets, behind every great inscription is a great woman, man, and sometimes an entire archaeological team. We often contextualize inscriptions in their original time and provenance as a means of understanding the context and historical milieu in which they were written, yet understanding the motives, biases, and ethics of an epigrapher are similarly enlightening. Moreover, the role of the epigrapher as both historian and philologist is extensive. Whether it be Louis Robert’s (1904-1985) and his wife Jeanne’s publication of the Bulletin épigraphique from 1938 to 1984 or Joyce Reynolds’ publication of The inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania in 1952, epigraphers have helped to influence classics, ancient history, and digital humanities in many meaningful ways.
The main objective of this panel is to explore broadly the relationship between classical antiquity and the epigrapher. This might include but is not limited to how ancient and early medieval writers used epigraphic evidence, how Renaissance antiquarians drew on classical epigraphy in order to create new fonts for the printing press, the impact of German scholars publishing over 250,000 inscriptions in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum and the Inscriptiones Graecae from the latter half of the 19th century up until the present. The role of epigraphers in shaping the current state of digital humanities today is of equal import. Histories of epigraphers dedicated to working with ancient Near Eastern, Hebrew, Greek, Roman, Syriac, Etruscan, and any other language inscribed within the ancient Mediterranean world are welcome to apply.
Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by members of the ASGLE Executive Committee and external readers, and should not be longer than 650 words (bibliography excluded): please follow the SCS “Guidelines for Authors of Abstracts.” All Greek should either be transliterated or employ a Unicode font. The Abstract should be sent electronically as a Word file, along with a PDF of the Submission Form by March 3, 2018 to Sarah E. Bond at sarah-bond@uiowa.edu.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/call-abstracts-writing-history-epigraphy-and-epigraphers
Update: 8/12/2018
Session 37: Writing the History of Epigraphy and Epigraphers
Sarah E. Bond (University of Iowa), Introduction
Alastair J. L. Blanshard (University of Queensland) & Robert K. Pitt (College Year in Athens), "Inscription Hunting and Early Travellers in the Near East: The Cases of Pococke and Chandler Compared"
Graham Oliver (Brown University), "150 Years, and More, of Teaching the Epigraphical Sciences (or, Epigraphical Training Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow)"
Daniela Summa (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), "The Correspondence of Günther Klaffenbach and Louis Robert (1929-1972)"
Holly Sypniewski (Millsaps College), "The Method and Madness of Matteo Della Corte"
Morgan Palmer (Tulane University), "Res Gestae: The Queen of Inscriptions and the History of Epigraphers"
(CFP closed March 3, 2018)
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 35: ROME AND THE AMERICAS: NEW SOUNDINGS IN CLASSICS, ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Sesquicentennial Panel, Joint AIA-SCS Session, organized by Andrew Laird, Brown University, and Erika Valdivieso, Brown University
Erika Valdivieso (Brown University), Introduction
Andrew Laird (Brown University), "American Philological Associations: Latin and Amerindian Languages"
Erika Valdivieso (Brown University), "Transformation of Roman Poetry in Colonial Latin America"
Stella Nair (University of California, Los Angeles), "Seeing Rome in the Andes: Inca Architectural History and Classical Antiquity"
Claire Lyons (J. Paul Getty Museum), "Alterae Romae? The Values of Cross-Cultural Analogy"
Greg Woolf (Institute of Classical Studies), Response
Information: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 33: FEMINIST RE-VISIONINGS: TWENTIETH-CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS AND CLASSICS
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Organized by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, University of Lille, and Emily Hauser, Harvard University
Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania), "Inside Stories: Amateurism and Activism in the Classical Works of Naomi Mitchison"
Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths, University of London), "Edith Wharton and Classical Antiquity: From Victorian to Modern"
Emily Hauser (Harvard University), "Re-visioning Classics: Adrienne Rich and the Critique of 'Old Texts'"
Elena Theodorakopoulos (University of Birmingham), "The Silencing of Laura Riding"
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (University of Lille), "Marguerite Yourcenar's Sappho (Feux, La Couronne et la Lyre) and Lesbian Paris in the Early Twentieth Century"
Information: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 29: "AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE CLASSICS," BY MARGARET MALAMUD
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Organized by the Committee on Diversity in the Profession, Victoria E. Pagán, University of Florida
Shelley Haley (Hamilton College), "Response to Margaret Malamud, African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism"
Daniel R. Moy (Harvard Kennedy School of Government), "Response to Margaret Malamud, African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism"
Heidi Morse (University of Michigan), "Response to Margaret Malamud, African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism"
Nicole A. Spigner (Columbia College Chicago), "Historical [Re]constructions: Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood and Proto-Afrocentric Classicism"
Margaret Malamud (New Mexico State University), Response
Information: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 21: RE-EVALUATING HERAKLES-HERCULES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Organized by Emma Stafford, University of Leeds; Classical Association of the UK
Alastair Blanshard (University of Queensland, Brisbane), Introduction
Karl Galinsky (University of Texas at Austin), "Herakles/Vajrapani, the Buddha"
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff University), "Hercules' Birthday Suit: Performing Heroic Nudity between Athens and Amsterdam"
Emma Stafford (University of Leeds), "'I Shall Sing of Herakles': Writing a Hercules Oratorio for the Twenty-First Century"
Monica Cyrino (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque), "How the Rock became Rockules: Dwayne Johnson's Star Text in Hercules (2014)"
Information: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 20: ANIMATED ANTIQUITY: A SHOWCASE OF CARTOON REPRESENTATIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Workshop; Organized by Chiara Sulprizio, Vanderbilt University
Ray Laurence (Macquarie University), Respondent
Andrew Park (Cognitive Media LLC), Respondent
Information: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS WORKSHOP] SESSION 17: THEORIZING AFRICANA RECEPTIONS
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
For our inaugural workshop at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, we invite abstracts for papers that develop trans-historical and transnational models of Africana reception. Contributions will be pre-circulated and then discussed at the 2019 SCS meeting in San Diego.
As Classical Reception Studies has burgeoned, existing models of appropriation, creativity, and dialogue have struggled to capture the complexity of the relationship between classical works and their receptions. For example, studies often focus exclusively on one temporal point over the other, trace a direct line of influence from source to target, or hierarchize in such a way that source works become the privileged creative inspiration to a later 'political' manifestation. This is not just a scholarly problem. Artists themselves have rejected attempts to categorize their refigurations without acknowledging their idiosyncratic perspectives: as Romare Bearden said, 'we must remember that people other than Spaniards can appreciate Goya, people other than Chinese can appreciate a Sung landscape, and people other than Negroes can appreciate a Benin bronze...an artist is an art lover who finds that in all the art that he sees, something is missing: to put there what he feels is missing becomes the center of his life's work' (S. Patton, Memory and Metaphor 1991: 31).
Classicists have already begun to find new paths forward. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Lorna Hardwick has argued for utilizing a rhizomatic network of classical connections that recognizes multiple, non-hierarchical points of entry ("Fuzzy Connections" 2011: 43). Emily Greenwood has further developed Hardwick's classical connectivity model by advocating the 'omni-localism' of classical works and of their Africana Receptions ("Omni-Local Classical Receptions" 2013). Striation or layering, as discussed in Deep Classics (Butler, ed. 2016) and "The Reception of Classical Texts in the Renaissance" (Gaisser 2002) respectively, has also been proposed as an alternative metaphor for conceptualizing the varied processes of reception.
To that end we seek papers that go beyond a focus on one point of entry, privileged viewpoint or implied 'tradition' into the network of classical connections and offer a distinctive methodological contribution, a case study of a model through multiple receptions, or a novel theoretical analysis.
Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the following sub-disciplines: intellectual history; literature; visual art and performance studies; music; political activism; and education.
Eos is committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into Classics, and hence welcomes abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research. Above all, we aim to create a supportive environment for scholars of all stages working on Africana Receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be sent as an email attachment to cfp@eosafricana.org. All persons who submit abstracts must be SCS members in good standing. The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page. Proposals must be received by February 23rd, 2018.
Website: http://eosafricana.org/posts/theorizing-africana-receptions/
Update: 8/12/2018
Eos is delighted to announce the program for Theorizing Africana Receptions, our inaugural workshop at the 2019 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies.
Session 17: Friday January 4, 2019 (10:45-12:45)
Anja Bettenworth (Cologne), “The Reception of St. Augustine in Modern Maghrebian Novels”
Sarah Derbew (Harvard), “Bodies in Dissent”
Ellen Cole Lee (Fairfield), “Reader-Response to Racism: Audre Lorde and Seneca on Anger”
Jackie Murray (Kentucky), Respondent
Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewEvrs-b9VWqPKCbVj4ik6rj5iC38OGunQla_psGnRrHmwkw/viewform
Information: http://eosafricana.org/posts/theorizing-africana-receptions-panel-at-scs-2019/
(CFP closed February 23, 2018 EXTENDED DEADLINE March 2, 2018)
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 11: THEATRE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: THE WORK OF LUIS ALFARO
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Organized by Nancy S. Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, Mary Louise Hart, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Melinda Powers, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Nancy S. Rabinowitz (Hamilton College), Introduction
Mary Louise Hart (J. Paul Getty Museum), "Family, Fate, and Magic: An Introduction to the Greek Adaptations of Luis Alfaro"
Amy Richlin (University of California, Los Angeles), "Immigrants in Time"
Tom Hawkins (The Ohio State University), "9-1-1 is a Joke in Yo Town: Justice in Alfaro's Borderlands"
Rosa Andújar (King's College London), "Chorus and Comunidad in Alfaro's Electricidad and Oedipus El Ray"
Jessica Kubzansky (The Theatre @ Boston Court), "Directing Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles"
Melinda Powers (John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY), Response
Website: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 13: RECEPTION AND NATIONAL TRADITIONS
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University, presiding
Jacobo Myerston (University of California, San Diego), "Greek Andes: Briceño Guerrero and the Latin American Tragedy"
James Uden (Boston University), "Ventriloquizing the Classics: Cicero and Early American Gothic"
Andrew Porter (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee), "From Homer to Lescarbot: The Iliad's Influence on the First North American Drama"
Emilio Capettini (University of California, Santa Barbara), "'Ne quid detrimenti capiat res publica': The Senatus Consultum Ultimum and a Print of George Washington"
Kelly Nguyen (Brown University), "Classical Reception within the Vietnamese Diaspora"
Information: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[SCS PANEL] SESSION 10: CLASSICAL & EARLY MODERN EPIC: COMPARATIVE APPROACHES & NEW PERSPECTIVES
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Organized by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception, Pramit Chaudhuri, University of Texas at Austin, Caroline Stark, Howard University, and Ariane Schwartz, McKinsey & Company
The Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) invites proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2019 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Diego. For its fourth panel, SEMCR invites abstracts on the subject of “Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives”. In particular, we welcome papers offering reassessments of the current state of the field from cross-cultural and cross-temporal perspectives, or proposing new approaches to the connections between classical and early modern epic using methodologies from philology, digital humanities, cognitive studies, visual studies, or world literature.
In the shadow of a rising nationalism, epic poetry has taken on an ever greater importance through its mediation of national identity and as a focal point of reference and contestation. Even within rarefied scholarly discussions, the study of the genre, like epic itself, can appear to dominate other material, whether less canonical genres or non-Western epic. While the genealogical bonds between classical and early modern epic can seem to strengthen national ideologies and academic conventions, however, the content of the poems often works against such assumptions. Moreover, increasing diversity in research methods and scope, especially through collaboration, enables the scholarly community to renew the study of epic in more expansive and imaginative ways. Our panel aims, therefore, to reflect on the reception of Greco-Roman epic in early modernity partly as a topic in its own right, and partly as a means of understanding more general issues of theory, practice, and canonicity in literature and culture at large.
Proposals responding to recent developments in the scholarship might address, but are not limited to, one of the following questions:
* In light of recent work by Mazzotta, Ramachandran, Laird, and others, how might attention to worldmaking, post-colonial thought, and classical reception in the New World reframe our understanding of the relationship between ancient and early modern epic?
* Does the study of the relationship between classical and early modern epic have anything to gain from comparison with non-Western material, e.g., the Indic tradition? More generally, what are the advantages and disadvantages of analysing these traditions in terms of genealogy, ecology (cf. Beecroft), cosmopolitanism (cf. Pollock), or other systemic relationships?
* What light can cross-disciplinary approaches, especially those using computational tools (cf. Coffee and Bernstein) or cognitive models (cf. Jaén and Simon), shed on continuities and disjunctions between ancient and early modern forms of the genre?
* How did the idea of epic change as a genre during the early modern period, in particular given the different transmission histories of classical epics, especially works in ancient Greek? How might the growing attention to neo-Latin literature affect the fields of epic and/or reception studies?
* Are there developments in the aesthetics of a particular period that shed light on goings-on elsewhere? Besides substantial interest in the sublime (Cheney) and the mock-epic (Rawson), recent work has also focused on the quotidian (Grogan). More generally, what comparative understanding of epic can be gleaned from a study of contemporary critics and theorists, e.g., Horace or Tasso?
* What areas of research in early modern epic might benefit from the contributions of classicists without an extensive background in the field, and vice versa?
We are committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into classics, and hence welcome abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research. Above all, we aim to show how the field of early modern classical reception can bear on a wide range of literary and cultural study, and to dispel the notion of an intimidating barrier to entry.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words, suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation, should be sent as an email attachment to Pramit Chaudhuri (pramit.chaudhuri@austin.utexas.edu). All persons who submit abstracts must be SCS members in good standing. The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page.
Proposals must be received by February 19th, 2018.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/call-abstracts-classical-and-early-modern-epic
Update: 8/12/2018
Session 10: Classical and Early Modern Epic: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives
Adriana Vazquez (University of California, Los Angeles), Introduction
Richard H. Armstrong (University of Houston), "Emerging Markets and Transnational Interactions in Translation and Epicization: The Case of Spain 1549-1569"
Maxim Rigaux (University of Chicago), "The Epics of Lepanto: Between Tradition and Innovation"
Viola Starnone (Independent Scholar), "Virgil's Venus-virgo in Christian Early Modern Epic"
Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia), "Travesty: The Ultimate Domestication of Epic"
Ralph Hexter (University of California, Davis), Response
(CFP closed February 19, 2018 EXTENDED DEADLINE March 1, 2018)
[SCS PANEL] GLOBAL CLASSICS [PRESIDENTIAL PANEL]
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Omar Daniele Alvarez Salas (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
Obert Bernard Mlambo (University of Zimbabwe), "Classics in Zimbabwe"
Ophelia Riad (University of Cairo), “The Correlation between the Classical, Pharaonic and Arabic Studies”
Harish Trivedi (Delhi University), "'Yet Absence Implies Presence': The Cloaked Authority of Western Classics in India"
Jinyu Liu (DePauw University and Shanghai Normal University), "Who's 'We' in Classics"
Information: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2019/150/preliminary-program-2019-annual-meeting
[PANEL] CLASSICS & SOCIAL JUSTICE AFFILIATED GROUP: WHO "OWNS" CLASSICS? WHO IS THE FIELD OF CLASSICS FOR? DEFINING THE FIELD/DIVERSIFYING THE FIELD.
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting - San Diego: January 3-6, 2019
Chair: Amy Pistone (apistone@nd.edu) and Kassandra Miller (millerk3@union.edu)
Many initiatives, many possibilities come to mind when we think of Classics and Social Justice. But as we pursue these initiatives, or even before, an important early task for us, is that of self-reflection. Classics traditionally has been the preserve of elites, and has served to exclude individuals and groups from power, institutions, and resources thereby perpetuating their definition as inferior. Let us examine and confront this element of our history carefully, and more particularly our behaviors. Is Classics white? In the light of the appropriation of classical themes and motifs by the alt right, we need to think about how we ourselves have presented the field so as to render such (mis)appropriations possible. At the same time "ownership" of classics has always been contested--and the classics deployed-- by those very same groups who have been defined as outsiders. What are we doing when we say “classics for all” or teach these ancient materials to members of marginalized groups? Why do we do what we do?
We solicit 650-word abstracts by Feb. 20, 2018, for 15-20 minute papers. Paper topics might include but are by no means limited to questions such as the following: the "gatekeeping" and imperialist traditions of classics; the pedagogy of canons and unchanging tradition; the challenges from perceived outsiders to the discipline, for instance working class individuals, people of color, women. How do such individuals fare in our national meetings? Or in our discipline?
Please submit anonymous abstracts of less than 650 words to Kaitlyn Boulding (boulding@UW.EDU).
Call: https://classicssocialjustice.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/cfp-society-for-classical-studies-2019/
(CFP closed February 20, 2018)
Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2018
TRANSLATING GREEK TRAGEDY IN 16TH-CENTURY EUROPE
St Hilda’s College (Oxford) - Vernon Harcourt Room: December 14, 2018
Programme:
10.00-10.30 Registration and Coffee (Vernon Harcourt Room)
10.30-11.00 Welcome from Fiona Macintosh and the organizers; presentation of APGRD Translating Ancient Drama project by Cécile Dudouyt
11.00-12.00 Southern Europe I – Chair: Sarah Knight (Leicester)
Elia Borza (Université Catholique de Louvain) – Neo-Latin Sophocles; an Overview of the Neo-Latin Translations of Sophocles in Renaissance Europe
Giovanna Di Martino (Oxford) – Theatre Translation and Aeschylus in Early Modern Italy: three case studies
12.00-12.15 Coffee Break
12.15-1.15 Southern Europe II – Chair: Blair Hoxby (Stanford)
Claudia Cuzzotti (Independent) – The Hecuba by Michelangelo the Younger (1568-1647): translation and adaptation of Greek tragedy in the Italian Renaissance
Luísa Resende (Coimbra) - Sophocles in sixteenth-century Portugal. Aires Vitória’s Tragédia del Rei Agaménom
1.15-2.30 Lunch
2.30-3.50 Northern Europe I – Chair: Blair Hoxby (Stanford)
Malika Bastin-Hammou (Université Grenoble Alpes) – Translating Greek (para)tragedy in the Renaissance
Thomas Baier (Würzburg) – Camerarius on Greek Tragedy
Angelica Vedelago (Padua) – Thomas Watson’s Antigone: the didacticism of Neo-Latin academic drama
3.50-4.10 Coffee Break
4.10-5.30 Northern Europe II – Chair: Tiphaine Karsenti (Paris X)
Cécile Dudouyt (Paris 13) - Translating and Play-writing: Robert Garnier’s patchwork technique
Tristan Alonge (Université de la Réunion) - Praising the King, Raising the Dauphin: an unknown sixteenth-century French translation from Euripides recovered
Tanya Pollard (CUNY) – Translating and Transgendering Greek Heroines in Early Modern England
5.30-6.30 Plenary led by Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow)
6.30-7.45 Drinks Reception (Senior Common Room): book launch of Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century, eds. Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison and Claire Kenward (OUP 2018)
Register: https://translatinggreektr.wixsite.com/sixteenthcentury
For more information: giovanna.dimartino@classics.ox.ac.uk
AMPLIFYING ANTIQUITY: MUSIC AS CLASSICAL RECEPTION
Strand Campus, King’s College London: December 12-13, 2018
The departments of Classics, Music, and Comparative Literature at King’s College London are delighted to announce a call for papers for an upcoming conference: Amplifying Antiquity: Music as Classical Reception.
The focus of the conference is deliberately wide, and we welcome proposals to speak on any aspect of how the culture, history, and myth of the Greek and Roman worlds have influenced the music of the 17th-21st centuries. We hope that papers will demonstrate the scope for fresh work and new collaborations in this area.
Musical works addressed need not be conventionally viewed as part of the classical tradition. Papers might touch on topics such as: the use of antiquity in the invention of new musical genres and development of aesthetic priorities; the relationship between performative speech and song, past and present; the gendering of ancient voices in modern productions; the social contexts of musical commissioning and performance; the conservative and radical political potential in music inspired by the classical world.
Speakers already confirmed include Sina Dell’Anno (Basel), Edith Hall (KCL), Wendy Heller (Princeton), Sarah Hibberd (Bristol), and Stephanie Oade (Oxford).
We are currently awaiting the outcome of applications to support the funding of this conference, and plan to cover at least the expenses of each speaker's stay in London. While King’s does not have on-site childcare, every effort will be made to accommodate speakers with caring commitments.
Please send abstracts (no more than 300 words) to amplifyingantiquity@gmail.com, by July 9th. Any questions can be directed either to amplifyingantiquity@gmail.com, or to the organisers.
Organisers: Emily Pillinger (emily.pillinger@kcl.ac.uk) and Miranda Stanyon (miranda.stanyon@kcl.ac.uk)
Update (25/11/2018) - Speakers:
Peter Burian (Duke University), Aristophanes Goes to the Opera: The Politics of Schubert’s Verschworenen and Braunfels’s Vögel
Luca Austa (Università degli Studi di Siena), Making a Joke out of Antiquity. Ancient Myth as Mockery in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera
Samuel N. Dorf (University of Dayton), Performing Sappho’s Fractured Archive, or Listening for the Queer Sounds in the Life and Works of Natalie Clifford Barney
Eugenio Refini (Johns Hopkins University), From Naxos to Florence via Mantua: Layers of Reception in Vernon Lee’s Ariadne
Markus Stachon (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), The Triumph of Aphrodite: Youth, Love, and Antiquity in Carl Orff’s Settings of Ancient Poetry
Stephanie Oade (Oundle School), Lyric(s) in Song
Kristopher Fletcher (Louisiana State University), Latin in Heavy Metal
Christodoulos Apergis (University of Athens), Screaming for the Gods: the Reception of Ancient Greek Hymnography in the Greek Black Metal Scene
Jo Paul (Open University), Pompeii Goes Pop: The Curious Story of Pompeii in Popular Music
Wendy Heller (Princeton University), Ovidio Travestito: Viewing Seicento Opera through Anguillara’s Lens
Tiziana Ragno (Università di Foggia), Ariadne and the others: A mirrored myth on the operatic stage
Theodor Ulieriu-Rostas (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris / University of Bucharest), Marsyas pardoned: rewriting musical violence for the baroque stage
Myrthe Bartels (Durham University), Tried by Love: Socrates and Socratic philosophy in Telemann's comic opera Der geduldige Socrates
Sina Dell’Anno (Universität Basel), Corydon and Mopsa. On Bucolic Travesty in Purcell’s Fairy Queen.
Lottie Parkyn (University of Notre Dame in England), Salieri and his deadly Danaids
Emily Mohr (University of Toronto), Carmen the Siren
Ian Goh (Swansea University), Salieri’s Catilina, or: What to do about (Roman) Revolution?
Sarah Hibberd (Bristol University), Cherubini’s Médée and the Vengeful Sublime
King’s Chapel: Echoes of Hellas - A recital of classically-inspired works written at King’s from 1883-2017, including music by Rioghnach Sachs (King’s College London).
Register: https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/department-of-classics/amplifying-antiquity-music-as-classical-reception
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1806&L=CLASSICISTS&P=38992
(CFP closed July 9, 2018)
THE ROMAN ART WORLD IN THE 18TH CENTURY AND THE BIRTH OF THE ART ACADEMY IN BRITAIN
The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca and the British School at Rome, Rome: December 10-11, 2018
The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca and the British School at Rome (BSR) invite submissions for papers for the conference The Roman Art World in the 18th Century and the Birth of the Art Academy in Britain, to be held in Rome between 10 and 11 December 2018. The conference will focus on the role of the Roman pedagogical model in the formation of the British academic art world in the long 18th century.
Even as Paris progressively dominated the modern art world during the 18th century, Rome retained its status as the ‘academy’ of Europe, attracting a vibrant international community of artists and architects. Their exposure to the Antique and the Renaissance masters was supported by a complex pedagogical system. The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, the Capitoline Accademia del Nudo, the Concorsi Clementini, and numerous studios and offices, provided a network of institutions and a whole theoretical and educational model for the relatively young British art world, which was still striving to create its own modern system for the arts. Reverberations of the Roman academy system were felt back in Britain through initiatives in London such as the Great Queen Street Academy, the Duke of Richmond’s Academy, the Saint Martin’s Lane Academy and the Royal Society of Arts. But it was a broader national phenomenon too, inspiring the likes of the Foulis Academy in Glasgow and the Liverpool Society of Artists. The foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1768 officially sanctioned the affirmation of the Roman model.
If past scholarship has concentrated mainly on the activities of British artists while in Rome, this conference wishes to address the process of intellectual migration, adaptation and reinterpretation of academic, theoretical and pedagogical principles from Rome back into 18th- century Britain. It responds to the rise of intellectual history, building on prevalent trends in the genealogy of knowledge and the history of disciplines, as well as the mobility and exchange of ideas and cultural translation across borders.
The conference welcomes diverse approaches to investigating the dissemination of the academic ideal from Rome to Britain. These might address, but are by no means limited to, the following topics:
• The impact of the Roman academic structure, theory and pedagogy on British art academies, artists’ studios and architects’ offices.
• The impact of art and architectural theory in Rome on the formation of a public discourse on art and architecture in Britain.
• The process of adaptation and reinterpretation of Roman theoretical and pedagogical principles to the British artistic and architectural context, and the extent to which British art academies developed new principles, absorbed the Roman model, or derived them from elsewhere.
• The role played by Roman and Italian artists and architects in the formation and structuring of the 18th-century British art academies and, in particular, of the Royal Academy of Arts.
• The presence and activities of British artists and architects in Roman studios, offices and academies and the presence of Italian artists in British academies.
• The role played by other relevant academies – such as those at Parma and Florence – on the formation of British artists and architects in relationship/opposition to the Roman model.
This conference will conclude a series of events celebrating the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. It will also be part of a series of conferences and exhibitions focusing on the role of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in the spread of the academic ideal in Europe and beyond, inaugurated in 2016 with an exhibition and conference on the relationship between Rome and the French academy, held at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca and at the Académie de France à Rome.
Please provide a concise title and abstract (250 words maximum) for a 20-minute paper. Send your proposal, with a current CV of no more than two pages, to humanities@bsrome.it. Proposals must be received by midnight, Monday 12 March 2018. Speakers will be notified of the committee’s decision in mid-April 2018. Travel grants will be available.
Organizers: Dr Adriano Aymonino, Professor Carolina Brook, Professor Gian Paolo Consoli, Dr Thomas-Leo True
Call: http://www.bsr.ac.uk/call-for-papers-the-roman-art-world-in-the-18th-century-and-the-birth-of-the-art-academy-in-britain
(CFP closed March 12, 2018)
SENSUAL REFLECTIONS: RE-THINKING THE ROLE OF THE SENSES IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK: 8-9 December, 2018
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
George Gazis (Durham University)
Emma-Jayne Graham (The Open University)
Katerina Ierodiakonou (University of Athens/Université de Genève)
Chiara Thumiger (University of Warwick/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
The study of the classical past is currently experiencing a spatial and sensory turn, affecting the work of classicists, classical archaeologists, ancient philosophers and historians alike. Despite the growing number of ideas and approaches developed by individual specialists, so far the attempts to develop an interdisciplinary conversation on the matter have been limited. The aim of this conference is therefore to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines and to create a lively and challenging setting for discussion of new methodological approaches to ancient senses.
The conference will be divided into four sessions, each focused on specific aspects of ancient senses and their study:
(i) ‘Sensing the world’ will explore some of the theories of sense-perception put forward in antiquity. The emphasis will be placed on some of the epistemological issues that follow from the different ways in which ancient philosophers explained the relation between the perceiver and the external world, e.g. on the kind of knowledge we acquire through our senses, and the phenomenon of misperception.
(ii) ‘Sensing ruins’ will explore the possibilities offered by sensorial approaches to the study of material culture in classical antiquity. We invite contributions engaging with all the aspects of the physicality of the ancient world and its reception and welcome proposals which seek to present the material in a sensorially engaging and non-traditional way.
(iii) ‘Sensing the body’ will investigate the involvement of the senses in ancient beliefs and theories about disease and the body. This session will be particularly devoted to exploring the connections between literature, medicine and philosophy in the Greco-Roman world, by focusing on their relations with the senses and the human body.
(iv) ‘Sensing beauty’ will broaden the discussion, debating the role of the senses in early aesthetic theory. While encouraging contributions on traditional themes, e.g. mimesis and the sublime, the organizers will give priority to papers that focus specifically on the role of sensorial perception in the theorising of beauty in antiquity, and on how the ‘sensorial turn’ in classical scholarship can deepen our understanding of the early philosophical engagement with beauty and art.
*We aim to publish the results as an edited volume in the Mind Association Occasional Series published by Oxford University Press. Speakers will present preliminary versions of articles to be published in the conference volume.
Submission Guidelines
We especially encourage academics in the early stages of their career to apply (including final-year PhD students), but also welcome proposals from established academics. Applicants are kindly invited to submit the following documents:
1. An anonymised abstract of no more than 500 words (papers should be suitable for 30 min presentations). Abstracts should include (i) the thesis of your paper; (ii) a clear presentation of the main argument you will put forward in support of that thesis; (iii) a brief explanation of the novelty of your argument/thesis; (iv) and an indication of how the argument/thesis fits within the current scholarship on the matter.
2. A separate cover sheet indicating (a) your name, (b) the title of your paper, (c) institutional affiliation, (d) contact details, and (e) the session you would like to be part of. We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups in academia. Please feel free to indicate in the cover sheet whether you are a member of such a group.
Deadlines: Proposals should be sent to the organisers (sensual.reflections2018@gmail.com) by 21 September 2018, 11:59pm. Selected applicants will be contacted by 1 October 2018 and will be expected to send a draft of their papers to circulate among speakers and attendees by 15 November 2018.
A limited number of bursaries (of around 70£) will be available for selected speakers to cover part of their travel expenses, but we encourage them to apply for bursaries from their home institutions. We are aiming to offer a limited number of bursaries to attendees too. Further details will be given at a later stage. The registration fee will be 25£ (covering welcome reception, coffee and lunches), and 15£ for graduate students.
The conference is made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Mind Association.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any queries at sensual.reflections2018@gmail.com
The organisers:
Chiara Blanco (University of Cambridge)
Giacomo Savani (University of Leicester)
Rasmus Sevelsted (University of Cambridge)
Cristóbal Zarzar (University of Cambridge)
Call: https://philevents.org/event/show/64038
Website: https://sensualreflectionsconference.weebly.com/
(CFP closed September 21, 2018)
COMBAT STRESS AND THE PRE-MODERN WORLD
Manchester Metropolitan University: Friday 7th December, 2018
Since the genesis of ‘shell shock’, the pre-modern world has been used to aid our understanding of the psychological and moral injuries incurred during military service. From the turn of the millennium, there has been a surge of research that has tried to identify the symptomology of combat stress and post-traumatic stress in the source material, leading to the retrospective diagnosis of such prominent figures as: Achilles, Alexander the Great, Henry V, Samuel Pepys, to name but a few. This universalist approach has recently been challenged, giving birth to an important debate about the use of the modern PTSD model as a way to explore pre-modern combat, and post-combat, experiences. The aim of this one-day workshop is to bring together scholars from ancient, medieval, and early-modern history in order to examine the use of PTSD in the study of the pre-modern world and invigorate a cordial and lively debate within a friendly network.
We would like to invite papers of 20 minutes from postgraduates, ECRs, and established scholars working on ancient, medieval, or early-modern history, which might cover such topics as (but are not restricted to):
* The presence of combat stress in the written evidence and relevant case-studies.
* The experience of combat and military service.
* The use of historical precedents in the study of combat stress, PTSD, ‘shell shock’ and so forth.
* The dialogue between the disciplines of Psychology and History.
* The ‘PTSD in history’ debate and methodological considerations.
* Moral injury as an alternative historical model.
* PTSD and non-combatants: women, children, the elderly, the enslaved.
A title and 250 word abstract should be sent to Owen Rees at o.rees@mmu.ac.uk or Dr Jason Crowley j.crowley@mmu.ac.uk by Friday 26th October 2018. Postgraduate speakers and ECRs and warmly encouraged to submit a paper.
Update (25/11/2018) - Speakers:
Melissa Gardner (Durham): “PTSD and the Study of the Ancient World”
Constantine Christoforou (Roehampton): “Combat Trauma in Sophocles’ Ajax.”
Jeffrey J Howard (Memorial University): “Vectors Leading to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Roman Soldiers in the Republic”
Andy Fear (Manchester): “Marius’s Dreams and other phantoms of Roman PTSD”
Bernd Steinbock (Western Ontario): “Combat Trauma in Ancient Greece: The Case of the Athenians’ Sicilian Expedition”
Giorgia Proietti (Trento): “A ‘collective war trauma’ in Classical Athens? Coping with war deaths in Aeschylus’ Persians”
Jamie Young (Glasgow): “The Psychological Impact of Slavery; Mental Illness and Stockholm Syndrome in Slaves of the Roman Republic.”
Kathryn Hurlock (Man Met): “Was there combat trauma in the middle ages?”
Chelsea Grosskopf (Iceland): “Combat Trauma and Eyrbyggja Saga”
Ismini Pells (Leicester): “Adventure or adversity? Child soldiers, childhood experience and trauma during the British Civil Wars”
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1809&L=CLASSICISTS&P=121165
(CFP closed October 26, 2018)
PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CORPUS CORANICUM CHRISTIANUM. THE QURAN IN TRANSLATION – A SURVEY OF THE STATE-OF-THE-ART
Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), December 5–7, 2018
We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for our workshop ‘Preliminary Considerations on the Corpus Coranicum Christianum. The Quran in Translation – A Survey of the State-of-the-Art’ at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), December 5th – 7th, 2018. In this workshop, we aim to lay the groundwork for an interdisciplinary research project, which will focus on comparing the different translations of the Quran made within Christian cultural backgrounds. The project will study the Quran and its reception from the Christian perspective by analyzing all Greek, Syriac, and Latin translations of the Quran from the 7th century CE until the Early Modern period.
The keynote speech will be delivered by Professor Angelika Neuwirth, head of the project Corpus Coranicum (CC) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The workshop aims to map out the different scholars and research traditions dealing with varied translations of the Quran. In addition, it seeks to connect these experts and to facilitate the scientific exchange between the multitude of studies previously conducted in this field. Finally, the workshop will examine the possibilities of using methods in the Digital Humanities for building an open-access database for systematically collecting and presenting the material for further research.
The structure of the planned project will correspond with the languages that will be analyzed. The Corpus Coranicum Christianum (CCC) shall, in a first step, consist of the three subprojects: Corpus Coranicum Byzantinum (CCB), Corpus Coranicum Syriacum (CCS), and Corpus Coranicum Latinum (CCL). Papers for the workshop are welcome in one or more of the following four sections:
* Greek translations of the Quran (CCB)
* Syriac translations of the Quran (CCS)
* Latin translations of the Quran (CCL)
* Digital Humanities (DH)
The workshop is focused on interdisciplinary research, which will, the organizers hope, encourage fruitful discussions about the state-of-the-art of the field and highlight potential areas for future research cooperation. For this purpose, we welcome abstracts of up to 300 words, to be submitted in English by May 31st, 2018 to: corpus.coranicum.christianum@klassphil.fu-berlin.de. Abstracts should include your name, affiliation, position, the title of the proposed paper, your specific source(s) you want to work on, and a brief curriculum vitae. Please also indicate the preferred section (see above: CCB, CCS, CCL, DH). Notifications will be sent out in June 2018. Full papers should be submitted by 15th November, 2018. Limited funding will be available for accommodation and/or travel. Proposed workshop languages: English, German, Spanish, and French. Papers will be published as edited volume.
The project initiative Corpus Coranicum Christianum is financed by the Presidency of the Freie Universität Berlin. For further information about the structure of the planned project and for a more detailed Call for Papers, please visit our website.
We are looking forward to welcoming you soon in Berlin!
Call: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we02/griechisch/byzantinistik/projekte/corpus-coranicum-christianum/workshop/index.html
Website: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/we02/griechisch/byzantinistik/projekte/corpus-coranicum-christianum/index.html
(CFP closed May 31, 2018)
NEO-LATIN SCHOLARSHIP ON THE SLAVS
Bratislava (Malé kongresové centrum SAV, Štefánikova 3): December 5–7, 2018
Organised by the Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Program: https://neolatinscholarshi.wixsite.com/conference2018/programme
2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ANCIENT DRAMA: THE FORGOTTEN THEATRE (IL TEATRO DIMENTICATO) #2
University of Turin, Italy: November, 28-30, 2018
Studies and discussions about classic fragmentary theatre and its modern staging.
The Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico (Centre for Studies on Classic Theatre) has scheduled for November 2018 its second academic conference for Professors, Young Researchers and Ph.D. Students of Humanities.
The conference The Forgotten Theatre aims at revitalizing the scientific interest in dramatic Greek and Latin texts, both transmitted and fragmentary, which have been long confined in restricted areas of scientific research and limited to few modern staging. The conference will host academics - Professors, Young Researchers and Ph.D. Students – who wish to contribute in cast new light on the forgotten theatre through their studies, reflections and experiences.
Themes discussed:
• Criticism, commentary, and constitutio textus of complete and fragmentary texts (comedy and tragedy);
• Reasonable attempts of reconstructions of incomplete tetralogies;
• Research on theatrical plots known for indirect tradition;
• Developments of theatrical plots between the Greek and Latin world;
• Influence of foreign theater traditions on the Greek and Roman theatre;
• Influence of other forms of camouflage art (dance, mime) on the development of the Greek and Latin theatre;
• New scenographic considerations based on the testimonies of internal captions, marginalia and scholia to the texts;
• New proposals for modern staging of ancient dramatic texts;
• Medieval, humanistic, modern and contemporary traditions of ancient drama.
In order to participate, the candidates are required to send an e-mail to teatro.classico@unito.it containing:
• an abstract (about 300 words) of the lecture they intend to give at the conference and the title;
• a brief curriculum vitae et studiorum which highlights the educational qualifications of the candidate and the university they are attending.
The candidacies may be submitted until 31st July 2018 -- EXTENDED DEADLINE 31st August 2018. Each lecture should be 20-25 minutes long, plus a few minutes for questions from the public and discussion. The lectures may be given in Italian or English. Within the month of August 2018, the scientific committee will publish the list of the lecturers whose contribution has been accepted.
Refunds for the lecturers coming from other countries than Italy will be quantified thereafter. The scientific committee will also consider publishing the proceedings of the conference on the second issue of Frammenti sulla Scena, the official scientific series of The Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico (University of Turin), directed by Professor Francesco Carpanelli and published by Editore dell'Orso of Alessandria.
Scientific committee: The exact composition of the Scientific Committee, chaired by the Director of the Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico, prof. Francesco Carpanelli, will be announced in April 2018.
Organization: The organization of the conference is entrusted to the Secretary of the Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico, dott. Luca Austa; for any information about the technical and organizational aspects of the event please contact him at teatro.classico@unito.it.
Call: http://www.teatroclassico.unito.it/it/content/cfp-ii-international-conference-ancient-drama-november-2018
(CFP closed August 31, 2018)
'CLASSICAL DISPLACEMENT(S)': AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ONE-DAY CONFERENCE ON THE DISPLACEMENT OF MARGINALISED IDENTITIES THROUGH AND WITHIN THE CLASSICS
Senate House, London: November 23, 2018
Keynote Speaker: Katherine Fleming
Voices that were once kept at the fringes of the Classics have begun to claim a role at the heart of the discipline, particularly through the lens of Classical Reception. Yet antiquity is still appropriated to justify nationalism, misogyny and homophobia. How can we negotiate this crisis of representation surrounding the Classics?
This interdisciplinary colloquium aims to explore the involvement of Greco-Roman antiquity, appropriated by societies throughout history, in the displacement and marginalisation of minority identities. It will also consider the response of those marginalised voices - how groups excluded from and through the Classics have used antiquity to reassert subjectivities. We welcome abstracts for 20-minute papers that consider such questions as:
* How have the Classics been used as a tool of displacement and marginalisation?
* How have those who have been marginalised responded to their displacement through the Classics?
* How have the Classics themselves been displaced?
* How have marginalised identities and voices within the Classics been repressed or ‘rescued’?
* How have reactionary narratives used the ancient world to reinforce exclusionary practices?
We also welcome papers on related themes.
We invite contributions from postgraduates and early career researchers. We hope to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue, welcoming historians, linguists, literary scholars, sociologists, archaeologists, classicists, and researchers in related fields.
Please send abstracts of up to 300 words, as well as a biography of 50 words, to classicaldisplacement@gmail.com by 21st September 2018 EXTENDED DEADLINE October 5, 2018. We will let presenters know whether they are successful by 5th October 12th October 2018.
Organizers: Sam Agbamu, Rioghnach Sachs, Sam Thompson (King’s College London)
For further information, please visit: https://classicaldisplacement.wordpress.com
(CFP closed October 5, 2018)
CLASSICAL MATERIAL CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
London (Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square): November 22-23, 2018
On 1st December 2018 the second cast court at the Victoria and Albert Museum will reopen to the public after an extensive programme of renovation. First opened in 1873 as the Architectural Courts, the two cast courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum contain casts of medieval and renaissance monuments from all over the world, as well as classical casts, including Trajan’s column from the second century AD.
This conference brings together scholars working across a range of disciplines (art history, classics, literature) to discuss the reception of classical material culture in the nineteenth century. It begins on the evening of Thursday 22nd November with a lecture by Holly Trusted, Senior Curator of Sculpture at the V&A on the redesigned cast courts and the following day, speakers discuss the mediation of classical material culture across a range of nineteenth-century cultural production including paintings, photographs, sculpture, book illustrations, and various writing genres including art criticism, theory, the novel and poetry. The conference will ask how writers and artists encountered the materiality of the ancient world. What was the role of reproduction in recreating the antique past? What kind of embodied relationships underpin nineteenth-century engagements with classical material culture? How did the remodelling of ancient histories shape questions of national identity, religion, gender?
Join us as we explore the nineteenth century’s fascination the material culture of the ancient world.
Organised by the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. Please contact Dr Vicky Mills (v.mills@bbk.ac.uk) with any queries
Speakers and respondents: Rees Arnott-Davies (Birkbeck), Patrizia di Bello (Birkbeck), Jason Edwards (York), Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck), Stefano Evangelista (Oxford), Melissa Gustin (York), Shelley Hales (Bristol) Victoria Mills (Birkbeck), Kate Nichols (Birmingham) Lindsay Smith (Sussex), Holly Trusted (V&A), Caroline Vout (Cambridge) Rebecca Wade (Leeds Museums and Galleries)
Programme
Thursday 22nd November
Holly Trusted (Senior Curator of Sculpture, V&A) ‘Displaying Plaster Casts at the Museum: South Kensington and the Reproduction of Sculpture’ Introduced by Victoria Mills (Birkbeck)
6-7.30 pm followed by drinks
Friday 23rd November
9.30-10.00 Registration
10.00-11.00 Jason Edwards (York) ‘Sodomising Edward Bulwer-Lytton, or Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Last Days of Pompeii’. Introduced by Luisa Calè (Birkbeck)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-1pm. Panel one: Gendering C19 Classical Material Culture.
Victoria Mills (Birkbeck) ‘Text, image and the sculptural body in Victorian antique fiction’
Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck) ‘Encounters with an alien world? C19th British and Irish women travellers to Rome’
Chair: Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck
1pm-2pm Lunch
2-3:30pm Panel two: Sculpture, Reproduction, Aesthetics
Rees Arnott Davies (Birkbeck) ‘‘The most violent enthusiasm’ – Henry Hart Milman’s critique of Winckelmann’s aesthetic experience’.
Rebecca Wade (Leeds Museums and Galleries ) – ‘The Lost Leeds Cast Collection, 1888-1941’
Melissa Gustin (York) ‘American Psychopomp: Harriet Hosmer’s Pompeian Sentinel and Problems with Plaster’
Chair: Carrie Vout, (Cambridge)
3:30-4.00.pm coffee break
4.00-5.00pm: Lindsay Smith (Sussex), ‘Photographers in Athens 1840-1879’. Introduced by Patrizia di Bello (Birkbeck)
5.00-5.45pm – Response panel/discussion: Patrizia di Bello (Birkbeck); Shelley Hales (Bristol); Kate Nichols, (Birmingham); Stefano Evangelista (Oxford)
5.45-7.00 Drinks
Registration is free but required. Please book your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/classical-material-culture-in-the-nineteenth-century-tickets-48774520905
Information: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/thursday-friday-22-23-november-classical-material-culture-in-the-nineteenth-century/
II ANIHO YOUNG RESEARCHERS’ CONFERENCE – IV SHRA: ANTIQUITY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES: FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Faculty of Arts of the University of the Basque Country, in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain): November 21, 2018
In the following link you can download the CFP for the II ANIHO Young Researchers’ Conference – IV SHRA: Antiquity and Collective Identities: from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary World.
Deadline: September 5, 2018
Call: https://aniho.hypotheses.org/255
(CFP closed September 5, 2018)
THE MAKING OF THE HUMANITIES VII
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands: 15-17 November, 2018
‘The Making of the Humanities’ conference returns to Amsterdam! This is the place where the conference series started in 2008, 10 years ago. The University of Amsterdam will host the 7th Making of the Humanities conference at its CREA facilities, from 15 till 17 November 2018.
Goal of the Making of the Humanities (MoH) Conferences: The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.
We welcome panels and papers on any period or region.
Deadline for paper and panel submissions: 1 June 2018.
For the full Call for Papers and Panels, see http://www.historyofhumanities.org/
(CFP closed June 1, 2018)
HYBLAEA AVENA - RECEPTION OF THEOCRITUS IN GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE OF THE ROMAN IMPERIAL AND EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany: November 15-16, 2018
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Richard Hunter, Trinity College, Cambridge
Pipes being handed down from one shepherd to another in the tradition of music making can easily be imagined as a scenario in real life, whether in ancient times or today. And indeed, some pipes from antiquity are still in use 2000 years later, at least metaphorically speaking. Easy to track are the ones Theocritus used in creating the genre of pastoral poetry with idyllic landscapes and characters that seem to be transported from their real life duties and dialogues into the realm of verses. His pipes are depicted as the instrument of the predecessor offered to a poet of a new era and language in Virgil’s 10th eclogue (Verg. ecl. 10,51: carmina pastoris Siculi modulabor avena), and are from there given to another even later poet in Theocritus’ and Virgil’s footsteps, Calpurnius Siculus (Calp. 4,62f.: Tityrus hanc [sc. fistulam] habuit, cecinit qui primus in istis / montibus Hyblaea modulabile carmen avena).
This tradition was renewed, when the Greek text of Theocritus was rediscovered and printed for the first time during the Renaissance. Thus, Joachim Camerarius, for instance, coined Greek and Latin verses inspired both by Virgil and Theocritus. Finally, the Leipzig schoolmaster Johann Gottfried Herrichen even staged his Greek idylls so that they came back to life using perhaps also real pipes.
Hence a tradition and continuity in the bucolic genre and beyond can be traced back to the inventor, still hundreds of years later. As others have recently concentrated on the reception of Theocritus in comparative studies beginning in antiquity moving to modern times and modern languages (e.g. M. Paschalis [ed.]: Pastoral Palimpsests. 2007; H. Seng/I. M. Weis [eds.]: Bukoliasmos. 2016), the two day-conference Hyblaea avena aims at a new focus in a selected and narrower timeframe, namely the reception of Theocritus in Greek and Latin literature in the Roman empire (1st-6th c.) and the early modern age (15th-17th c.). Within the early modern period, we would like to concentrate on imitations in Greek but of course not exclusively. A view into Byzantine literature is also welcome.
Beyond the passing of pipes the main focus of the meeting is exemplified by the following questions that can be asked or can be answered afresh:
- What role did the reception of Theocritus play in Greek and Roman literature?
- How is the imitation of Theocritus made explicit?
- Which part of Theocritus was used and which was neglected?
- Is the imitation of Theocritus sometimes deliberately left out and why?
- What are the new contexts and functions of Theocritean scenarios and allusions?
- How was Theocritus integrated into other literary genres (e.g. epic poetry or anacreontic verse)?
- What was the impact of the edition of Theocritus, either as the original text or as a translation?
- How did the renaissance of Theocritus during the early modern age change the way poetry was written?
We cordially invite papers of approx. 20-30 minutes in length, with following time for questions and discussion. The languages of the meeting are German and English.
Please submit titles and abstracts (as pdf-attachments) of approx. 500 words, along with a short CV and contact details by 30th April 2018 to either Stefan Weise or Anne-Elisabeth Beron. Applicants will be notified of the organizers’ decision shortly thereafter.
The publication of a conference volume is planned. Travel and lodging expenses will be covered for selected speakers.
Contact: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Weise (weise@uni-wuppertal.de) & Anne-Elisabeth Beron (beron@uni-wuppertal.de).
Speakers:
Keynote: Richard Hunter (Cambridge): The Prehistory of Theocritus’ Nachleben
Valeria Pace (Cambridge): Class in Daphnis & Chloe and Theocritus
Anne-Elisabeth Beron (Wuppertal): Standing in Tityrus’ Shadow: Theocritus in the Political Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus
Hamidou Richer (Rouen): Three Faces of Theocritus during the Roman Empire
Manuel Baumbach (Bochum): Bienenstich und Hyazinthenschläge: die Schattenseiten der Bukolik im poetischen Raum der Carmina Anacreontea
John B. Van Sickle (New York): Traces of Virgil and Ovid in the Translation of Theocritus by Eobanus
Christian Orth (Freiburg i. Br.): Theokritrezeption in den griechischen Eklogen von Joachim Camerarius
Thomas Gärtner (Köln): Die diversen Reflexe des Epitaphium Bionis bei Lorenz Rhodoman
Janika Päll (Tartu): Greek Bucolic Cento in Early Modern European Poetry Merging Theocritus and Virgil
Stefan Weise (Wuppertal): „Der berühmte Leipziger Theocritus“ – Zu Theokritrezeption und Performanz in den Idyllia Graeca solennia von Johann Gottfried Herrichen
William Barton (Innsbruck): Adam Franz Kollár’s Χάριτες εἰδύλλιον (1756): Theocritean Praise of Maria Theresa and her Educational Developments
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/903491503164762
(CFP closed April 30, 2018)
[PANEL] MEDEA ON THE CONTEMPORARY STAGE & SCREEN
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA: November 9-11, 2018
In recent years, the afterlives of Greek tragedy have received special attention in the rapidly expanding field of classical reception studies. With reincarnations ranging from Japanese Noh theater to the Mexican screen, Euripides’ Medea is now more than ever a truly global “classic.” The time is ripe for dedicated focus on Medea and its traditions in contemporary theater and film.
The panel organizers (Zina Giannopoulou, University of California, Irvine; Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College) invite proposals for papers on receptions of Euripides’ Medea on the contemporary stage and screen, to be presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. The conference will take place Nov. 9-11, 2018 at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. Questions papers might address include but are not limited to:
* Medea assumes many roles in Euripides’ play, from abject suppliant to dea ex machina. How do recent adaptations of Medea portray Medea’s inherent theatricality?
* How have different translations of Medea affected the performance of the play?
* How have late 20th and 21st century stagings of Medea departed from previous models and trends?
* How have non-Western dramatic traditions (for example Japanese Noh) adapted Medea and how might they inflect our readings of their classical source text?
* How have recent dramatic productions of Medea staged or rewritten the infanticide?
* How have recent Medeas on stage and screen engaged with social and institutional hierarchies, including (but not limited to) issues of race, class, gender, nationality, and citizenship, and how have these issues and identities intersected with one another?
Paper proposals must be submitted through PAMLA’s online submission platform by May 30, 2018.
Please contact the session organizers, Zina Giannopoulou (zgiannop@uci.edu) and Jesse Weiner (jweiner@hamilton.edu) with any questions.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/call-papers-medea-contemporary-stage-and-screen
(CFP closed May 30, 2018)
MAPPING WORKSHOP [CLAIMING THE CLASSICAL (CTC): CLASSICS AND POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY]
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London: November 9, 2018
This workshop will ‘map’ how Greco-Roman antiquity is being deployed in political rhetoric in the 21st century, identifying differences across national and continental boundaries as well as across the political spectrum.
Does invoking the Spartans mean something different in the banlieues of Paris from what it means in Charlottesville, Virginia? If Europa on the bull represents internationalism in Brussels, what does it signify in Beirut, Brisbane, or Beijing? Looking internationally, does the Right make more use of classical antiquity than the Left? And if so, why?
The workshop will feature a combination of formal papers and discussion sessions. The range, extent, and nature of politicised appropriations of antiquity during the twenty-first century will be mapped; considering geographical, social, and ideological variation.
Following the workshop, we will draft a short paper, offering a ‘snapshot’ of how classics is currently being used in political discourse globally. This will be made available freely online, to inform future research.
Call for papers: We are inviting proposals for brief papers focusing on a specific country or other defined area (15 mins), as well as for spotlight talks on particular cases (5 mins). Funds are available to support travel and accommodation for early career researchers and international participants.
Extended Deadline: 1st July 2018 7th July, 2018.
Please email your proposals to either: Naoíse Mac Sweeney (nm241@le.ac.uk) or Helen Roche (hber2@cam.ac.uk)
Call: https://claiming-the-classical.org/events/
(CFP closed July 7, 2018)
CATULLUS IN THE TREEHOUSE RIDES AGAIN
University of Newcastle (NSW), Australia: November 9, 2018
In 2004, Catullus scholars gathered in the Treehouse at The University of Newcastle to talk Catullus. This memorable event, aptly named ‘Catullus in the Treehouse,’ resulted in the first Special Issue of Antichthon, ‘Catullus in Contemporary Perspective’ in 2006.
After 14 years, and due to popular demand, it’s time to revisit ‘Catullus in the Treehouse’ with another one-day conference to celebrate Catullus, his poetry, his life and his legacy.
‘Catullus in the Treehouse Rides Again’ will be held at The University of Newcastle on:
Friday 9 November 2018, 9 am – 5 pm.
If you would like to present a paper (30 or 40 minutes), please send an abstract between 300-500 words by 1 September to Marguerite Johnson (The University of Newcastle) marguerite.johnson@newcastle.edu.au & Leah O’Hearn (La Trobe University) ohearn.l@students.latrobe.edu.au.
Postgraduates and honours students who wish to present are welcome. Undergraduates are also welcome to attend the conference.
Registration: Waged: $60; Unwaged / Studying: $30
Registration covers morning/afternoon tea and light lunch.
The events will be held at The University of Newcastle, NSW (Callaghan Campus).
As this is a preliminary call for papers, registration forms and advice on travel and accommodation will be available in the next few weeks. In the meantime, please email to signal your interest, attendance and / or presentation.
More information: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/about-uon/governance-and-leadership/faculties-and-schools/faculty-of-education-and-arts/school-of-humanities-and-social-science/conferences/catullus-in-the-treehouse-rides-again
(CFP closed September 1, 2018)
AMPRAW 2018: ANNUAL MEETING OF POSTGRADUATES IN THE RECEPTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
University of Coimbra, Portugal: November 8-10, 2018
It is with great pleasure that we announce the Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World 2018. AMPRAW 2018 will be a two-day conference (November 8th-9th) aiming to provide postgraduate students from all disciplines with the opportunity to present their research to the growing academic community focusing on classical reception. A third day, Saturday, will be devoted to a cultural visit to Coimbra and Conímbriga Ruins.
We propose Corpus/Corpora as the main theme, more specifically its dialectical relations between physical/individual/material body and social/collective/conceptual body. By motivating submissions on this subject, we intend to open up several corpora to multiple layers of instantiation, from a meditation on the body itself (thus playing with the relation between the literary “corpus” and the lived body) to an ethical assessment of the possibilities laid out by hermeneutics’ continuous reinterpretation of the classical heritage. Following that line of thought, bodily experiments linked to theatre or music are among our range.
In fact, without any chronological restriction, we welcome proposals exploring the reception of corpus/corpora in different areas, such as:
* literary texts (including their transmission and reception), philosophy, and arts (e.g. painting, sculpture, dance, cinema or television).
* How does one envision the religious, social, economical, political and gendered expressions of the body?
* How does a body see, understand and conceive another body?
* How does a body relate to itself?
These are some of the many questions we intend to reflect upon.
We welcome abstracts for twenty-minute papers (250 words). All proposals should be sent using the online form at https://ampraw2018.wixsite.com/home/call-for-papers by June 1st 2018. Languages accepted are English and Portuguese. Some bursaries for two nights accommodation will be available. Lunches and coffee breaks will be provided to all participants.
For more information on location and accommodation, please visit https://ampraw2018.wixsite.com/home and for up-to-date details join Facebook Group AMPRAW 2018 https://www.facebook.com/groups/224418934806398/.
Should you have any other question, please send us an e-mail to ampraw2018@gmail.com.
(CFP closed June 1, 2018)
HEIDEGGER AND THE CLASSICS
Senate House, London: November 8th, 2018
The Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome (CRGR) at Royal Holloway, University of London is pleased to announce that a one-day workshop on the relationship between Martin Heidegger and the Classics will be held at Senate House, London on November 8th 2018.
Martin Heidegger remains a controversial figure not just in the history of western philosophy but in just about every school of thought that his philosophy pervades. He is widely regarded, along with Wittgenstein, as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century and the limit of his influence, encompassing the likes of Gadamer, Foucault, Arendt, Koselleck, Derrida, and Sartre, is beyond measure. The source of Heidegger’s controversy, notwithstanding his political views and allegiances, is the radical nature of his appropriation and reformulation of practically every major philosophical development since antiquity. He conceived of his project as the overcoming of metaphysics that was initiated by Plato, advanced through Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, and Hegel, and brought to completion by Nietzsche. In doing so, he upturned nearly 2,500 years of western thought in order to turn philosophy back to what he conceived to be its fundamental, yet forgotten, question: the question of Being. In the Classics, Heidegger is largely ignored. This is perhaps somewhat puzzling given the extent to which the evolution of Classical scholarship over the past century has been grounded in precisely those conceptual developments - hermeneutics, experientialism, intertextuality, narratology, and postmodernism - that Heidegger has, to some degree or another, influenced. It is the purpose of this workshop to assess the nature and legitimacy of Heidegger’s broad exclusion from Classical discourse and to determine how, if at all, his philosophy might be reconciled with modern studies of the ancient world.
The workshop will focus on the following three core points of discussion, which inevitably interrelate, but all the same require definition:
1) The Classics in Heidegger
* What is the nature of Heidegger’s engagement with the Classics?
* To what extent does Heidegger misappropriate the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle?
* How are they incorporated into his work and what do they contribute to his overall project?
* What is Heidegger’s interest in the wider Classical literature (tragedy, poetry, history)?
* How is Greek language employed/manipulated by Heidegger?
2) The Classics against Heidegger
* Does the Classics have a bad relationship with Heidegger?
* Why does such a paucity of Heideggerian philosophy in modern studies of the ancient world endure?
3) Heidegger in Classical Scholarship
* In what ways has Heidegger so far contributed to modern Classical scholarship?
* To what extent can a reading of Heideggerian philosophy, encompassing his observations on concepts such as time, truth, subjectivity, method, and history, inform our understanding of ancient thought?
The workshop consists of four individual papers and three roundtable discussion sessions corresponding to the above divisions.
Confirmed Speakers:
Prof. Andrew Benjamin (Kingston University)
Prof. Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Dr. Katherine Fleming (Queen Mary, University of London)
Prof. Denis McManus (University of Southampton)
Confirmed Discussants
Prof. Emanuela Bianchi (NYU)
Prof. William Fitzgerald (Kings College London)
Prof. Laurence Hemming (Lancaster University)
Prof. Brooke Holmes (Princeton University)
Dr. Kurt Lampe (University of Bristol)
Prof. Miriam Leonard (UCL)
Dr. Daniel Orrells (Kings College London)
Prof. Mark Payne (University of Chicago)
Prof. Thomas Sheehan (Stanford University)
Registration for the workshop will open on August 1st once the programme and other details have been finalised. If you have any queries in the meantime, please get in touch with me at aaron.turner@rhul.ac.uk.
Organisers:
Dr. Aaron Turner (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Prof. Ahuvia Kahane (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1806&L=CLASSICISTS&P=80519
Website: https://heideggerandtheclassics.com/
[PANEL] CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY: SCREENING THE 'POLITICAL ANIMALS' OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
An area of multiple panels for the 2018 Film & History Conference: Citizenship and Sociopathy in Film, Television, and New Media
Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club, Madison, WI (USA): November 7-12, 2018
Full details at: www.filmandhistory.org/conference
Aristotle famously defined humans as “political animals”: organizing themselves within the social structure of the polis and its codes of conduct, defining members from outsiders and different types of member in relation to each other and to the whole. From the time of the city’s foundation, Romans were no less concerned with the civitas and citizen status — increasingly so as Roman imperium expanded to encompass ethnic “Others.” The narratives generated and consumed by these societies both acknowledged and questioned the clarity of these theoretical concepts: the Odyssey marks Penelope’s aristocratic suitors as morally base and condemns them to divinely-authorized death worthy of enemies; Herodotus and Thucydides observe the increasingly despotic behavior of democratic Athens, as compared to both “barbarian” and other Greek adversaries; Livy emphasizes how abducted Sabine women stopped a war by asserting their own status and moral authority as Roman wives. Perhaps Julius Caesar would have been reviled as a traitor for his march on Rome, like the failed insurrectionary Catiline, had Caesar’s heir Octavian not gained control over the state, proclaiming the assassinated dictator in perpetuo divine and himself princeps.
All depictions of socio-political relations within the frameworks of kingdom, ethnos, polis, civitas, and empire in the ancient Mediterranean world have been shaped and reshaped through the lens of subsequent interest—both in antiquity and in modernity. The Classical Antiquity area solicits abstracts for papers that discuss how film, television, video games, and other screen media represent these relations and frameworks, on topics including but not limited to:
--how representations help modern audiences to imagine those social relations through dramatization — or promise to, despite reshaping ancient accounts to modern tastes
--how representations radically re-envision ancient accounts of political actors and communities to suit contemporary purposes (e.g. the noble rebel Spartacus in Kubrick’s 1960 film or the vengeful survivor Artemisia in 2013’s 300: Rise of an Empire)
--how modern social constructs (e.g. race, sexuality, gender) have been retrojected into depictions of ancient communities and individuals’ relations to each other and that whole
--how depictions of epochal shifts (e.g. constitutional, epistemological) redefine enfranchised/disenfranchised, subversive/revolutionary, patriot/traitor, barbarian/civilized
--how a “bad ruler/system” is critiqued by focus on a good/conscientious community member, or a “good ruler/system” is destroyed by criminality/sociopathy
--“rise and/or fall” narratives that turn on revolution, civil war, tyrannical coup, restoration
--use of ancient Mediterranean societies to stage modern romance with e.g. democracy, republicanism, fascism, imperialism
Proposals for complete panels of three related presentations are also welcome, but should include an abstract and contact information (including email) for each presenter.
DEADLINE for abstracts: 1 June 2018.
Please e-mail your 200-400-word proposal to the area chair:
Meredith Safran, Trinity College - classicsonscreen@gmail.com
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/call-papers-screening-political-animals-ancient-mediterranean
(CFP closed June 1, 2018)
19TH UNISA CLASSICS COLLOQUIUM IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ARC DISCOVERY PROJECT, 'MEMORIES OF UTOPIA: DESTROYING THE PAST TO CREATE THE FUTURE (300-650 CE)'
Pretoria, South Africa: 7-10 November, 2018
We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the annual Unisa Classics Colloquium in collaboration with the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project: “Memories of Utopia: Destroying the Past to Create the Future (300-650 CE)”.
The conference aims to explore a wide variety of aspects relating to the building, dismantling and reconstructing of memory and reputation across the various cultures bordering on the ancient Mediterranean, and over a wide time-frame. We know that memory and history are not fixed, objective occurrences, but are subjective representations of reality, and we can see evidence of this in the way in which those items which transmit memory are manipulated and used throughout antiquity. Memory and history, for example, are often reconstructed in light of various utopian (or even dystopian) ideals, thereby creating visions of the future that are based on strategic manipulations of the past. The unmaking and reconstitution of memory can be discreet, but more often occurs through violent means, whether through discursive and/or physical violence, which is an important aspect for further investigation.
The proposed conference aims to create fruitful interaction between the disciplines of Classics, Early Christian Studies, Late Antiquity and Byzantine Studies, by exploring both ancient written material and/or ancient material culture within the stated theme. The conference thus offers plenty of areas for further exploration, of which the following fields are a sample:
• Methodological considerations on the use of Memory Studies and Utopia Studies in the field of Ancient History
• From damnatio to renovatio memoriae. The mutilation, transformation and/or re-use of items representing the past such as buildings, statues and iconography
• The effects of iconoclasm and intersectional violence
• Spolia: from the narrative of power to repurposing of architectural fragments
• The importance of promoting or undermining ancestry in the ancient world, for example in Greek or Roman portraiture and busts and the recutting of busts to new portraits
• Continuity and change in historiography – debates on the past among the ancient historians
• The making and breaking of reputations, e.g. techniques and strategies (and their effectiveness) in ancient biography and hagiography
• Memory, utopia and ancient religion
• Utopias and the building of collective identities
• Building genealogies and ancestry, and aristocratic genealogy-competition and rivalry
• The purpose of evoking memory though Classical reception
Paper proposals (approximately 300 words) are invited for papers of 30 minutes debating current issues and problems on any aspect of the above theme.
Abstracts and titles should include your name and university affiliation, and should be submitted to either:
• Prof Martine De Marre (Ancient History and Classics) at dmarrmea@unisa.ac.za or dmarrmea@gmail.com
• Prof Chris de Wet (Early Christian Studies) at chrisldw@gmail.com
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2018
We look forward to hearing from you, and please do not hesitate to contact us at the addresses provided above if you have any queries.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/895844247262821
(CFP closed June 30, 2018)
IL SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE TRADICIÓN CLÁSICA
Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico: October 29-31, 2018
* Teoría y método
* Tragedia y comedia griegas y su recepción
* Uso y adaptación de los mitos clásicos en la literatura española
* La tradición de la retórica clásica
* Sistemas Culturales
Organizer: Dr. David García Pérez
Information: simposiotradicion@gmail.com & https://www.facebook.com/events/2045900145740753/
CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF CHRIS STRAY
Corpus Christi College, Oxford: October 27, 2018
A one-day conference on select topics in the history of classical scholarship will be held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on Saturday 27 October 2018, to mark the 75th birthday of Chris Stray. The speakers will include Mary Beard (Cambridge), Jas Elsner (Oxford), Edith Hall (KCL), Judy Hallett (Maryland), Lorna Hardwick (Open), Chris Kraus (Yale) and Chris Pelling (Oxford).
A detailed programme will be posted nearer the date. Any enquiries should be sent to Stephen Harrison (Stephen.harrison@ccc.ox.ac.uk).
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1801&L=CLASSICISTS&P=75895
Update (6 Sept, 2018):
Program: https://classicalreception.org/event/classics-and-classicists-a-colloquium-in-honour-of-christopher-stray/
Speakers:
Mary Beard (Cambridge) - Classics?
Jas’ Elsner (Oxford) - Room with a Few: The Fraenkel Room, the Refugee Scholars Room and the reception of Reception
Edith Hall (KCL) - Classics Invented: The Emergence of a Disciplinary Label 1670-1733
Judy Hallett (Maryland) - Gender and the Classical Diaspora
Lorna Hardwick (OU) - Tracking Classical Scholarship: myth, evidence and epistemology
Chris Kraus (Yale) - ‘Pointing the moral’ or ‘adorning the tale?’ Illustrations and commentary on Vergil and Caesar in 19th- and early 20th-century American textbooks.
Chris Pelling (Oxford) - Gomme’s Thucydides and the idea of a ‘historical commentary’.
Chris Stray (Swansea) - Closing remarks
Cost to non-speakers: £15.00 (please bring cash on the day); graduate students free of charge.
To book a place please e-mail Stephen.harrison@ccc.ox.ac.uk by 1st October.
GALEN AND THE EARLY MODERNS
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice: October 25-26, 2018
Along with Hippocrates, Galen was the most celebrated physician of antiquity. Among ancient physicians, he was also the one who exerted the most persisting influence not only on western medical thought and practice but also on western culture and philosophy in general. In spite of their early medieval oblivion caused mainly by linguistic barriers, in the eleventh century Galen’s works began to circulate again in Europe through Arabic mediation. As soon as Latin translations made in Italy and Spain became available, Galen entered the canon of natural philosophy, medicine, and anatomy. This medieval and late-medieval revival of the Galenic tradition lasted throughout the early modern era up to the eighteenth century at least.
However, Galen’s influence was not limited to the medical field. Although his theories and practices certainly represented a mandatory reference for early modern anatomy, physiology, and therapeutics, Galen also contributed to orient the interpretation of Aristotle’s natural philosophy. In particular, his De usu partium was a reference work for any confrontation with the Aristotelian biological treatises. The famous Epode inserted as an appendix to this work strongly supported the theologically-oriented reading of Aristotle’s physics. Furthermore, the finalistic account of organic structures offered by De usu partium was an inspiring source for the eighteenth-century development of Teleology as an autonomous philosophical discipline.
So far, studies on Galen’s modern revival have focused mainly on the post-medieval period and the Renaissance. Frequent attention was paid especially to Galen’s presence in the medicine and physiology of the sixteenth century. The reasons for this emphasis are perfectly understandable, since the sixteenth-century edition of the Opera had the indeniable effect of reviving the interest in this author among both the medical and the philosophical communities.
On the other hand, this privileged focus on the sixteenth century may easily result in overlooking the long-term effect of Galen’s rediscovery, which in fact did not cease to exert its powerful influence both on medicine and philosophy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Galen’s theories appear to be mentioned, endorsed, discussed or even fought in the works of first-rank scientists and philosophers such as Boyle, Cudworth, Malebranche, and Leibniz – just to name the best known ones. A still open question, for instance, concerns the extent to which Descartes’ physiology and especially his sketch of embriology might contain some implicit reference to Galen’s work as their polemical target.
In light of these considerations, the Venice conference aims to broaden the study of Galen’s reception in the early modern philosophy of nature, teleology, physiology, medicine, and philosophy of medicine by investigating his presence from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. We therefore invite submissions on all aspects of the early modern reception of Galen’s scientific and philosophical works. Proposals on iconographical or iconological issues related to the early modern Galenic tradition will also be considered.
Keynote speakers: Raphaële Andrault, Dennis DesChene, Guido Giglioni, Hiro Hirai.
Please submit your proposal (max. 1,000 words) as a Word or PDF attachment to matteo.favaretti@unive.it
Submission deadline: 15 March 2018. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of April.
We will cover both accommodation and travel costs for speakers, provided that they travel in economy class and buy their tickets at least one month before the conference.
Conference attendance is free. There are no registration fees.
This conference is organized by Emanuela Scribano and Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero.
CREMT – Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Thought, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Speakers:
Dennis DesChene (Washington University in St. Louis), TBC
Hiro Hirai (Radboud University), Galen in the medical context of the scientific revolution
Elisabeth Moreau (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Galenism and matter theories in Renaissance physiology
Craig Martin (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Galen’s causes in the theoretical and practical medicine of Giambattista da Monte
Guido Maria Giglioni (University of Macerata), Galen and the irritable self: Reading De naturalibus facultatibus in the early modern period
Caroline Petit (University of Warwick), Galen, the early moderns and the rhetoric of progress
Fabrizio Baldassarri (HAB Wolfenbüttel / University of Bucharest) and Robert Vinkesteijn (Utrecht University), A green thread from Galen to early-modern medicine: The analogy between animals and plants
Andrea Strazzoni (University of Erfurt), Galenism as a driving force in ‘Cartesian’ medicine: The case of Henricus Regius
Raphaële Andrault (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Leibniz et l’Hymnus Galeni
Brunello Lotti (University of Udine), Galen as a source for natural theology in early modern British philosophy
Emanuela Scribano (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), De usu partium: Mechanicism versus Galen
Gideon Manning (Claremont Graduate University), How to identify a Galenist: The case of Robert Boyle
Charles Wolfe (Ghent University), Galen’s contribution to the history of materialism
Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Christian Wolff’s mechanization of Galen
Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (University of Bucharest), Galen and eclectic philosophy in eighteenth-century Germany
Charles Goldhaber (University of Pittsburgh), The humors in Hume’s skepticism
Program: https://people.uniud.it/node/2224
Call: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL/posts/1621409601272049
(CFP closed March 15, 2018)
MANIAS: MODERN DESIRES FOR GREEK PASTS
British Academy, London: October 25, 2018 (6:00 pm)
A panel discussion with Prof Liz Prettejohn (York), Prof Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol), Dr Katherine Harloe (Reading), Dr Andrew Shapland (British Museum), and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St. Andrews).
Why does the Greek past fascinate us? Building on recent collective volumes published by the British School at Athens – Cretomania (2017) and Hellenomania (2018) – this panel brings together specialists on Greek material culture to discuss modern responses to and engagements with the Greek past. Topics to be explored include modern versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey, ancient Greek pots in Ottoman Greece, and more recent responses to the ancient worlds of Crete and Greece.
This event is free and will be followed by light refreshments. There is a suggested voluntary donation of £15 to attend. Cheques should be made payable to the ‘British School at Athens’ and may be sent in advance to the London Secretary, British School at Athens, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH. A donation box for cash and cheques will also be available at the event. RSVP to Kate Smith if you would like to attend: bsa@britac.ac.uk / 0207 969 5315.
Source: https://classicalreception.org/event/manias-modern-desires-for-greek-pasts/
ANABASES IN ANTIQUITY AND BEYOND. XENOPHON'S ANABASIS AND ITS LEGACY
Heraklion, Crete (Chamber of Commerce and Industry): 19-21 October, 2018
Program: http://www.philology.uoc.gr/conferences/Xenophons_Anabasis_&_its_Legacy_2018/Programme.pdf
THE FRAGRANT AND THE FOUL: THE SMELLS AND SENSES OF ANTIQUITY IN THE MODERN IMAGINATION
Toulouse, France: 18-20 October, 2018
Colloque international IMAGINES/ International Conference IMAGINES
The classical tradition has long confined Antiquity to an immaculate, sanitized whiteness : thus idealised, it was deprived of its multi-sensorial dimension, and conveniently limited to the visual paradigm. Olfaction, in particular, has often been overlooked in classical reception studies due to its evanescent nature which makes this sense difficult to apprehend. And yet, the smells associated with a given figure, or social group convey a rich imagery which conotes specific values : perfumes, scents and foul odours both reflect and mould the ways a society thinks or acts. The aim of this conference will be to analyse the underexplored role of smell – both fair or foul – in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal or idealisation of Antiquity. We will pay particular attention to the visual and performative arts especially when they engage a sensorial response from the reader or the viewer.
We therefore invite contributions focusing not only on painting, literature, drama, and cinema but also on advertising, video games, television series, comic books and graphic novels, as well as on historical re-enactments which have recently helped reshape the perception and experience of the antique for a broader
audience.
Conference papers (in English or French) will be twenty minutes in length. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
* The materiality of smell: what are the substances, plants and/or objects associated with antique smells in the modern imagination? To what extent may we confront current archeological data concerning the fragrant objects used in Antiquity with representations of smell in modern works? What new technical means are now mobilized to make modern audiences ‘smell’ and sense Antiquity (for instance in museums and multi-media productions)? We also invite papers that address the role flowers play in the modern construction of the antique smellscape and how this connects with the other senses.
* The sensoriality of antique rituals: How do fragrances (incense, burnt offerings, perfumed oils) shape modern representations of antique ritualistic and magical practices? To what extent does the staging of ritualistic gestures and objects associated with smell (and notably the burning of incense) create a form of estrangement between past and present, and deepen the rift between polytheistic and monotheistic faiths?
* The erotics of smell and scent: How was the antique body (both male and female) made desirable thanks to the use of perfume and cosmetics? How was this in turn exploited in painting, films, advertisement etc. – especially in connection with Orientalism? What role does smell play in gendered constructions of the antique body? What relation can we establish between the fragrant and the (homo)erotic? We also welcome discussions of
modern representations of antique baths, hygiene and ‘sane’ classical bodies in relation to
scent.
* Foul smells and diseased bodies: to what extent did the hygienistic shift which affected Western societies in the modern age (as described by A. Corbin) influence the perception of the antique smellscape? When did Goethe’s conception of the classical as ‘sane’ start being challenged? More generally, how are antique illnesses and decaying bodies depicted in the modern imagination and for example performed on stage or in historical reenactments
aiming to recreate ‘authentically’ the experience of antique battles? Does smell have a specific social/national identity? Since Antiquity, whose bodies have been most recurrently perceived as pestilent: those of enemies, foreigners, lower social classes (artisans, peasants, slaves…)?
Proposals (300 words) and short biographies should be sent to Adeline Grand-Clément (adelinegc@yahoo.fr) and Charlotte Ribeyrol (ribeyrolc@gmail.com) no later than 15th December 2017.
The contributions must be original works not previously published. The abstract should clearly state the argument of the paper, in keeping with the topic of the conference.
A selection of contributions (in English) will be considered for a volume publication by Bloomsbury in the series ‘Imagines – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts’.
Website: http://www.imagines-project.org/2018/05/the-fragrant-and-the-foul-conference-programme-released/
(CFP closed December 15, 2017)
V INTERNATIONALCONFERENCE ON MYTHCRITICISM: MYTH AND AUDIOVISUAL CREATION - CLASSICAL MYTHS
Madrid (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Spain: 17-19 October 2018
The ÉTICAS GRIEGAS research group is pleased to announce the celebration of the international conference, dedicated to the study of Greek and Roman myths in audiovisual creation. On this occasion, “Classical Myths” is one of the four branches of the V International Congress of Mythcriticism “Myth and Myth and Audiovisual Creation”, which will be held at the UAH, UAM, UFV, and UCM from October 15 to 26, 2018.
Throughout the conference, the growing presence of the myths of Greece and Rome will be analyzed in the creative languages that fuse image and sound, especially in films, TV series and video games. We will also discuss the reception of classical myths in opera or theater, as well as their impact on contemporary arts that integrate the auditive and the visual to produce a new reality or language, as in comics, happenings, installations or performances.
What do we understand by classical mythology? Fundamentally and, usually, a set of Greek and Roman stories referring to gods and heroes, that is, to the two types of characters that were the object of worship in ancient cities.
The study of Greek and Roman mythologies is an indispensable piece to understand many of the keys of contemporary audiovisual creation. Starting from the Greek epic poems – the Iliad and Homer’s Odyssey – or the Latin epic – the Aeneid of Virgil -, we intend to approach the study of classical myths as a coherent whole in which each divinity, each mythological figure, exercises a concrete domain over the different spheres and institutions that structure social life. Likewise, we will study the audiovisual representation of the great mystery cults that arrive in Rome, imported from Egypt and the East, as well as the analysis of the conflictive relationships that primitive Christianity and the Fathers of the Church entered into with the myths of paganism.
During the conference, the mythical roots of the audiovisual themes will be explored, selecting from the corpus of the Greek and Roman myths those episodes that seem to lend themselves to a new reading, taking into account the most recent contributions of mythcriticism. For example, in The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979), the withdrawal of Swan to his base in Coney Island “has something of a journey of Ulysses in his return to Ithaca”, which Roman Gubern identifies with “the theme of eternal return, of the return to the home”.
In the current audiovisual creation, we see the presence of the great themes of classical mythological structures: cosmogonies, theogonies, anthropogony, stories related to sacrifice, animals, gods and heroes of war and hunting, artisan gods, death, the erotic, philosophy and the city. It is, in short, to explore in what way the characteristic features and unique characters of Greco-Roman mythology, in the case of heroes, such as Odysseus, Achilles, Heracles / Hercules, the Amazons, the Argonauts, or the gods, as Zeus / Jupiter, Athena / Minerva, Apollo, Orpheus, Dionysus / Bacchus, Aphrodite / Venus, Hermes / Mercury or Bread, are translated into the language of audiovisual creation.
Deadline for abstracts: May 1, 2018.
Website: https://mythcriticism.com/en/classical-myths/
(CFP closed May 1, 2018)
«MULTAS PER GENTES ET MULTA PER AEQUORA VECTUS». TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS FROM ANCIENT TO CONTEMPORARY AGE. (HISTORICAL DEBATES, 2ND EDITION.)
Vercelli, Italy: October 17-19, 2018
The specific methods and different approaches that characterize the historians’ craft sometimes make difficult to set up a dialogue that goes beyond traditional periodizations. Despite of shared themes, historians rarely operate in a common area of discussion. In order to promote a wide confrontation, the Second Edition of "Historical Debates" will focus on the theme of travel as one of the most recurring issues of historiographical reflection, with the purpose to promote a debate beyond these traditional divisions. Humanity has never been limited to frontiers. From Ancient Times to Contemporary Age societies have always met and cultures interacted and mixed by crossing borders and travelling.
Proposals can develop the following topics:
• Travel memories: historical accounts written by intellectuals, diplomatists, ecclesiastics, soldiers, merchants, scientists etc.
• Migrations: temporary or permanent movements of groups of people.
• Discoveries of new lands: colonization or exploration of continents or places madeby explorers and scientists, whether historians or technicians, space travels.
• Grand tours and study trips from Ancient to Contemporary Age.
• “Forced” journeys: people leaving their own land for political reasons.
• Pilgrimages and memorial trips: journeys towards places of worship and historical cultural heritage.
The Seminar is organized by History PhD Students of the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Eastern Piedmont “Amedeo Avogadro” with the purpose of encouraging the academic debate and strengthening our Academic Community:
1. Greek and Roman History (PhD Student: Martina Zerbinati)
2. Medieval History (PhD Student: Matteo Moro)
3. Modern History (PhD Students: Michela Ferrara, Eugenio Garoglio)
4. Contemporary History (PhD Student: Stefano Scaletta)
The Seminar will be held at the Department of Humanistic Studies in Vercelli from 17th October to 19th October 2018.
PhD students and young researchers interested in participating are warmly invited to submit to all our contacts a proposal including a brief CV (max. 5000 characters, spaces included), the name of the University in where they study, title of presentation together with a short abstract (max. 3000 characters, spaces included) within 15th June 2018. Proposals of students from University of Eastern Piedmont (except for the organizers) will not be accepted.
Selected speakers will be contacted within 29th June 2018.
Publication of papers with a scientific publisher is expected.
Contacts:
Michela Ferrara – (Modern History) 10038816@studenti.uniupo.it
Eugenio Garoglio – (Modern History) 20027194@studenti.uniupo.it
Matteo Moro – (Medieval History) 10023381@studenti.uniupo.it
Stefano Scaletta – (Contemporary History) 20022491@studenti.uniupo.it
Martina Zerbinati – (Ancient History) 20006283@studenti.uniupo.it
Call: https://www.disum.uniupo.it/call-papers-dibattiti-storici-ii-ed%C2%ABmultas-gentes-et-multa-aequora-vectus%C2%BB
(CFP closed June 15, 2018)
[WORKSHOP] DIGITISING THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
Split (Palace Milesi, Trg brace Radica 7): October 12-13, 2018
Organisation: Neven Jovanovic (Univ. of Zagreb), Martin Korenjak (Univ. of Innsbruck), Braco Lucin (Književni krug Split)
Friday, 12/10/2018
14:00–15:00 Gregory Crane (Leipzig): Early Modern Latin, 21st Century Europe and the work of Transnational Philology
15:00–16:00 Philipp Roelli (Zürich) & Jan Ctibor (Prag): Big Data in Latin Philology: the Corpus Corporum
16:00–16:30 Coffee
16:30–17:30 Neven Jovanovic (Zagreb): Exploring the CAMENA Corpus with BaseX
17:30–18:30 Manuel Huth (Würzburg): Opera Camerarii – a Semantic Database of the Printed Works of Joachim Camerarius (1500–1574)
20:00 Dinner
Saturday, 13/10/2018
9:00–10:00 Stefan Zathammer (Innsbruck): Noscemus – A Semantic Database for Scientific Literature in Latin Including a Digital Sourcebook Compiled with the Help of Transkribus
10:00–11:00 Bryan Brazeau (Warwick): Teaching an Old Database New Tricks: Migrating the Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy (VARI) Database to VARI 2.0: Discussion and Demonstration
11:00–11:30 Coffee
11:30–12:30 Peter Sjökvist & Anna Fredriksson (Uppsala): Digital Approaches to Early Modern Dissertations
Link: http://neolatin.lbg.ac.at/news/workshop-digitising-classical-tradition
CLASSICS AND GLOBAL HUMANITIES
University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana: 11-12 October, 2018
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Barbara Goff, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
Studies have explored the cross-cultural engagement between Western civilisation and other cultures (Stephens and Vasunia 2010) as well as the legacy and reception of the Classics in the Arab world (Pormann 2015), India (Vasunia 2013), West Africa (Goff 2013; Goff and Simpson 2007) and recently, South Africa (Parker 2017). Classical reception studies thus continue to play a key role in bringing different parts of the world into greater dialogue with each other.
We invite abstracts for papers not only from Classics but also from other disciplines and sub-disciplines which explore ways in which reception studies is giving a new voice to classical research in West Africa, consider ways in which Classics in West Africa engages with the legacies of Egypt, Greece, and Rome or examine cross-cultural themes in both ancient and modern traditions. We also welcome papers which draw lessons from other parts of Africa and the world.
The conference sub-themes might include but are by no means limited to the following:
* Africa in the Greek and Roman World
* Art and architecture
* Drama, theatre and literature
* Ancient, medieval and modern philosophy
* Democracy, culture and globalisation
* Politics, law, and public speaking
* Gender, slavery, and sexuality
* Race, ethnicity and identity
* Science and technology
* Geography and environment
* Medicine and health
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to CFPlegonclassics@mail.com by 30th June, 2018. Extended Deadline: July 8th, 2018.
Notification of acceptance: 31st July, 2018.
Organising Committee:
Martin Ajei, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
Olakunbi Olasope, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Peter Grant, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
Kofi Ackah, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1805&L=CLASSICISTS&P=58260
(CFP closed July 8, 2018)
ANCIENT WORLD AND MODERN SOCIETIES: HOW CLASSICS HELP RESHAPE OUR WORLD
Dept of Classics, University of Reading: October 6, 2018
Beset by terrorism, environmental degradation, as well as by alienation and social inequalities often fanned by war, the modern world suffers from depression. Modern means of relief, such as the newest technological advancements, impose mass behaviour and threaten all facets of freedom. On the other hand, it is intriguing how easily the modern reader relates to a frustrated poet of the 1st c. AD. The opposition to moral decay and artistic decadence has indeed motivated authors of all times, from antiquity until the present day. Apart from their significance for literary studies and the subsequent development of respective theories, the thoughts of these authors can tell us much more about diachronic problems and the troubles of humanity.
At the same time, the ancient world reinvigorates almost every area of study and academic discipline. The aim of this workshop is to bring together those interested in applying the lessons from antiquity in the modern world or inspired by how the ancient world has shaped modernity and has the potential to improve aspects of everyday life. Academics and practitioners of every discipline are invited to share their experiences and suggest new ways the classical world can benefit our society. Themes could be (but are not limited to):
* How ancient medicine can open new roads and inform new methods.
* How educators across the globe make use of classical themes and texts for their pedagogical merits and how this can be expanded.
* How psychologists engage with ancient drama in the practice of dramatherapy.
* Approaches to how we can bridge the distance between reading a text and applying its content, or
* how one can embed a wider reception of Classics beyond the discipline.
Please send an abstract of 250 words or your enquiries to Andreas Gavrielatos (a.gavrielatos@reading.ac.uk) by 1 September EXTENDED DEADLINE 7 September. Presentations will be of 20 minutes followed by discussion. The workshop will be held on 6th October in the University of Reading, generously supported by the School of Humanities.
It’s not about learning from the past; it’s about learning FOR the future!
A note: It has come to our attention that some terms and statements in our CfP might have given an erroneous impression of the nature and purpose of the event. The aim of the event is simply to discuss the public utility of Classics in the modern world, and no political agenda lies behind it.
Program:
9:00 – 9:20 Registration
9:20 – 9:30 Introduction: Andreas Gavrielatos
9:30 – 10:05 Keynote Speaker: Susan Deacy (University of Roehampton), Turning Classical myth into a turning opportunity for autistic children
10:05 – 11:20 Session 1
Re-Telling Antiquity as an Educative Experience in Elderly Care and in Prison: The Penelope Project (2009–2012) & Cesare deve morire (2012) - Penelope Kolovou (Universities of Bonn - Sorbonne-Paris-IV)
We Need to Talk about Epizelus: ‘PTSD’ and the Ancient World - Owen Rees (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Dramatherapy: “Ancient things remain in the ear” - Trish Thomas (Independent Scholar)
11:20 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:20 Keynote speaker: Gabriele Galluzzo (University of Exeter), Ancient philosophy and modern life: different approaches
12:20 – 13:10 Session 2
Two Concepts of Heroism - David Hodgkinson (University of Oxford)
Reception: What's in it for us? - Paula James (Open University)
13:10 – 14:25 Lunch
14:25 – 15:40 Session 3
The Cyrus cylinder propaganda (*with the presentation of a historical archive film) - Mateen Arghandehpour (University College London)
The Axial Age of Ancient Greece and the Modern World - Athena Leoussi (University of Reading)
Urbanism, scale, and a break from the past - John William Hanson (University of Reading)
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 – 17:00 Session 4
New Old Values in Medical Ethics: The Case of Euthanasia - Michaela Senkova (University of Leicester)
Public perceptions of plagues in the Classical Tradition - James Cross (University College London)
17:00 – 17:30 Closing Remarks
Emma Aston (e.m.m.aston@reading.ac.uk)
Andreas Gavrielatos (a.gavrielatos@reading.ac.uk)
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1808&L=CLASSICISTS&P=34441
(CFP closed September 7, 2018)
AUTHOR.NET: A TRANSDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED AUTHORSHIP
UCLA: October 5-7, 2018
Co-Organizers: Francesca Martelli and Sean Gurd
Long associated with pre-modern cultures, the notion of “distributed authorship” still serves as a mainstay for the study of Classical antiquity, which takes 'Homer' as its foundational point of orientation, and which, like many other disciplines in the humanities, has extended its insights into the open-endedness of oral and performance traditions into its study of textual dynamics as well. The rise of genetic criticism within textual studies bears witness to this urge to fray perceptions of the hermetic closure of the written, and to expose the multiple strands of collaboration and revision that a text may contain. And the increasingly widespread use of the multitext in literary editions of authors from Homer to Joyce offers a material manifestation of this impulse to display the multiple different levels and modes of distribution at work in the authorial process. In many areas of the humanities that rely on traditional textual media, then, the distributed author is alive and well, and remains a current object of study.
In recent years, however, the dynamic possibilities of distributed authorship have accelerated most rapidly in media associated with the virtual domain, where modes of communication have rendered artistic creation increasingly collaborative, multi-local and open-ended. These developments have prompted important questions on the part of scholars who study these new media about the ontological status of the artistic, musical and literary objects that such modes of distribution (re)create. In musicology, for example, musical modes such as jazz improvisation and digital experimentation are shown to exploit the complex relay of creativity within and between the ever-expanding networks of artists and audiences involved in their production and reception, and construct themselves in ways that invite others to continue the process of their ongoing distribution. The impact of such artistic developments on the identity of 'the author' may be measured by developments in copyright law, such as the emergence of the Creative Commons, an organization that enables artists and authors to waive copyright restrictions on co-creators in order to facilitate their collaborative participation. And this mode of distribution has in turn prompted important questions about the orientation of knowledge and power in the collectives and publics that it creates.
This conference seeks to deepen and expand the theorising of authorial distribution in all areas of human culture. Ultimately, our aim is to develop and refine a set of conceptual tools that will bring distributed authorship into a wider remit of familiarity, and to explore whether these tools are, in fact, unique to the new media that have inspired their most recent discursive formulation, or whether they have a range of application that extends beyond the virtual domain.
We invite contributions from those who are engaged directly with the processes and media that are pushing and complicating ideas of distributed authorship in the world today, and also from those who are actively drawing on insights derived from these contemporary developments in their interpretation of the textual and artistic processes of the past, on the following topics (among others):
* The distinctive features of the new artistic genres and objects generated by modes of authorial distribution, from musical mashups to literary centones.
* The impact that authorial distribution has on the temporality of its objects, as the multiple agents that form part of the distribution of those objects spread the processes of their decomposition/re-composition over time.
* The re-orienting of power relations that arises from the distribution of authorship among networks of senders and receivers, as also from the collapsing of 'sender' and 'receiver' functions into one another.
* The modes of 'self'-regulation that authorial collectives develop in order to sustain their identity.
* Fandom and participatory culture, in both virtual and traditional textual media.
* The operational dynamics of 'multitexts' and 'text networks', and their influence by/on virtual networks.
Paper proposals will be selected for their potential to open up questions that transcend the idiom of any single medium and/or discipline.
Please send a proposal of approximately 500 words to gurds@missouri.edu by January 15, 2018.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/821448078035772
Update (6 Sept, 2018) - Speakers:
Nandini Pandey, University of Wisconsin-Madison - The Anxieties of Distributed Authorship in the Vergilian Vita Tradition
Joseph Howley, University of Columbia - Not evenly distributed: pursuing 'the author' in Roman book slavery
Scott McGill, Rice University - Mega-Intertextuality: Writing and Reading Vergilian Centos
Alexis Crawshaw & Marcos Novak, University of California, Santa Barbara - Bridging the Ancient to the Digital Contemporary through Algorithmic Intertextuality
Pia Carolla, Universita Roma Tre - Distributed Authorship and Authoritative Texts; an Imperial Collection
Sandeep Bhagwati, Concordia University, Montreal - Notwithstanding Unique. Intertwined Authorship in Musical Comprovisation
Dorota Dutsch, University of California, Santa Barbara - Novelty and Meaning in a Pseudo-Pythagorean Network
Mario Biagioli, University of California, Davis - Ghostly Collaborations: making up co-authors in the age of big science
Daniel Selden, University of California, Santa Cruz - The Worlding of the Life of Ahiqar
Sergio Basso, Universita Roma Tre - The Barlaam and Joasaph - a New Paradigm Theory for its Formation
Francesca Martelli, University of California, Los Angeles - "Cicero's" Letters and the Selfie
Simon Biggs, University of South Australia - Distributed Authorship, Machine Learning and the heterogeneous Posthuman (dancing) subject.
(CFP closed January 15, 2018)
FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN AUSTRALASIAN CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS
University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia: October 4-5, 2018
THURS 4 OCTOBER 9-5: A one-day conference, ‘Future Directions in Australasian Classical Receptions’; and / or
FRI 5 OCTOBER 10-3: A workshop for postgraduates and honours students on their current research in Classical Reception Studies.
Please send your abstracts for day one by 1 August to Marguerite Johnson, The University of Newcastle: marguerite.johnson@newcastle.edu.au.
Abstracts should be approximately 300 words.
Presentation will be 30 minutes + 10 minutes for questions.
Confirmed speakers:
Emeritus Professor John Davidson, Wellington
Professor Michael Ewans, Newcastle
Dr Laura Ginters, Sydney
Professor Chris Mackie, La Trobe
Dr Sarah Midford, La Trobe
Associate Professor Jane Montgomery Griffiths, Monash
Dr Reuben Ramsay, Newcastle
Dr Rachael White, Oxford
Dr Ika Willis, Wollongong
Postgraduates and honours students who wish to attend day two, should send an outline of their current – and/or future – projects, which will be workshopped with their peers and with scholars currently working in Classical Reception Studies.
Please send your outlines for day two by 1 August to Marguerite Johnson, The University of Newcastle: marguerite.johnson@newcastle.edu.au.
It is hoped that scholars researching at all levels – from academics, independent researchers, postgraduates, and honours students – will participate in both days. Postgraduates and honours students are also welcome to submit abstracts for day one, and academics and independent researchers are welcome to participate in the workshop on day two. Undergraduates are welcome to attend either one or both days.
Registration:
Two days: Waged: $120; Unwaged / Studying: $60
One day (either day one or day two): Waged: $60; Unwaged / Studying: $30.
There is a travel subsidy for up to three students who wish to participate in the workshop on day two.
Registration covers morning/afternoon tea and light lunch on day one; morning coffee and light lunch on day two.
The events will be held at The University of Newcastle, NSW.
As this is a preliminary call for papers, registration forms, venues, advice on travel and accommodation will be available in the next few weeks. In the meantime, please email to signal your interest, attendance and / or presentation.
Sponsored by The Centre for 21 Century Humanities, Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle.
Registration: https://payments.newcastle.edu.au/OneStopWeb/SHSSEvents/booking
Website: https://margueritejohnson1.wixsite.com/mysite
(CFP closed August 1, 2018)
LVDI PLAVTINI SARSINATES. CHARACTERS ON STAGE: THE PARASITE
Sarsina, Italy: 29 September 2018
After twenty years of Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates, the CISP (International Center for Plautine Studies of Urbino) and the PLAVTVS (Center of Plautine Research of Sarsina - Urbino), have the
pleasure of inviting you to the second in a new series of annual graduate conferences, the Ludi Plautini Sarsinates: Characters on Stage. As the title clearly highlights, the main focus of the conference will be on stage and theatrical issues as well as on a deeper evaluation of the personae scaenicae to be conducted every year on a different character. The conference aims at a fertile encounter between those who study Plautus and those who actually perform his plays on stage. Its scope will therefore encompass a wide set of themes, ranging from dramatical questions in the text to modern and contemporary adaptations of it. In order to enable a stimulating and interdisciplinary dialogue, we welcome any proposal dealing with these
issues from different cultural contexts and perspectives.
The second Ludus Plautinus will look at the character of the parasitus and its reception up to modern and contemporary drama. Applicants may wish to devote their attention to the following topics:
a) confronting philological and / or anthropological approaches with the techniques employed by professional actors and stage directors
b) translations aimed at reviving the parasitus on contemporary stage
c) literary, theatrical and cinematic reception of the parasitus.
We also very much encourage proposals beyond these topics, as long as they fit within the overall theme illustrated above. The conference will be held in Sarsina on 29th September 2018. Costs of accommodation and travel are NOT covered by the CISP. There will be 2 initial lectures given by the two Keynote
Speakers appointed by the CISP and 6 presentations (30 mins each) to be allotted through the present CfP. Applicants are kindly request to send (deadline 30 April 2018) a 600 words abstract and a brief academic CV to this address: giorgia.bandini@uniurb.it
Italian, English, German, French and Spanish are all permitted for presentation and publication. Given the particular nature of the event, each paper should ideally be accompanied by images, movies, performances or any kind of multimedia. The CISP committee will select the best and most relevant papers through peer review and will announce the results by 31 May 2018.
Call: http://www.plautusfestival.it/ludi_plautini/
(CFP closed April 30, 2018)
DISTINCTIVE TRAITS OF HUMANISM IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE AMERICA (16TH & 17TH CENTURIES)
Santiago de Compostela (School of Philology), Spain: September 27-28, 2018
The research group "Spanish Humanists", created in 1989 by Dr. Gaspar Morocho at the University of León, has already left a mark, through its publications, scientific meetings and other initiatives, in this academic field, with a research work in steady progression, reaching out to other research groups and individual researchers from other Universities. Currently the work is centralized in the Institute of Humanism and Classical Tradition in León.
In this 14. Meeting, taking advantage of the special situation of Santiago de Compostela in the Iberian Peninsula and in relation to America, the focus will be on what defines and distinguishes Humanism in the Iberian context (with the differences to be explored between Portugal and the rest of the Peninsula), and its projection in America. There will also be a monographic session dedicated to Humanism in Galicia.
The thematic lines will be:
* Distinctive Traits of Humanism in Spain, Portugal and Spanish and Portuguese America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
* The renewal of the Christian tradition and the echoes of pagan classicism in Spanish, Portuguese and Ibero-American humanism of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
* The use of Latin and vernacular languages in Spanish, Portuguese and Ibero-American Humanism of the sixteenth and sixteenth centuries: neo-Latin versus translation.
* The history and historiography of the vision of Spanish, Portuguese and Ibero-American humanism from the 18th onwards.
* Humanism in Galicia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Coordination: Angel Ruiz.
Scientific Comittee: José Manuel Diaz de Bustamante (USC), Elisa Lage Cotos (USC), José María Maestre Maestre (UCA), Isabel Morán Cabanas (USC), Jesús-María Nieto Ibáñez (ULE), Jesús Paniagua Pérez (ULE), Soledad Pérez-Abadín Barro (USC).
Organizing Comittee (USC): Maria Teresa Amado Rodríguez, Concepción Cabrillana Leal, María José García Blanco, José Virgilio García Trabazo, Amelia Pereiro Pardo.
Sponsors:
Instituto de Humanismo y Tradición Clásica – Universidad de León.
Grupo de Investigación «Estudos Clásicos e Medievais» - USC.
SEEC Galicia.
Keynote Speakers:
1. Francisco García Jurado. Professor of Latin Philology (UCM): "Alfredo Adolfo Camús (1817-1889) and the Literary History of Renaissance".
2. Javier de Navascués. Professors of Hispanic American Literature (UNAV): “American Colonial Epic, between the Chronicles and the Classical Tradition”.
3. Armando Pego. Professor of Humanities (URL): “¿A Monastic Humanism? Spanish Spiritual Literature through the Renaissance”.
COMMUNICATION PROPOSALS
Participants who wish to submit a communication must send a summary of a maximum of 200 words, including the title, the summary and bibliography to 14rhumanistas@gmail.com as well as personal data (postal address, e-mail and work center).
The deadline is June, 15th 2018. The proposals will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and their acceptance will be informed before July 1st, 2018.
Registration can be made until September 10, 2018 at 14rhumanistas@gmail.com, sending personal information: name, postal address, e-mail and work center.
The registration fee is € 60 for participants with communication and € 30 for participants without communication and students. The members of the Research Groups of the Project of the University of León are exempt. The bank account is: IBAN: ES08 2080 0343 0230 4000 5068 // C.C.C .: Code BIC / Swift: CAGLESMMXXX with the line: «14 Reunion Humanistas».
Call: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/05/16/14-meeting-on-spanish-humanists
(CFP closed June 15, 2018)
WINCKELMANN'S VICTIMS. THE CLASSICS: NORMS, EXCLUSIONS AND PREJUDICES
Ghent University (Belgium): September 20-22, 2018
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 cultural history of Western Europe. Few would call this into question. Since the Carolingian period, notably ‘classical’ literature has served as a constant source and model of creativity and inspiration, by which the literary identity of Europe has been negotiated and (re-)defined. The tendency to return to the classics and resuscitate them remains sensible until today, as classical themes and stories are central to multiple contemporary literary works, both in ‘popular’ and ‘high’ culture. Think for instance of Rick Riordan’s fantastic tales about Percy Jackson or Colm Tóibín’s refined novels retelling the Oresteia.
At the same time, this orientation and fascination towards the classics throughout literary history has often —implicitly or explicitly— gone hand in hand with the cultivation of a certain normativity, regarding aesthetics, content, decency, theory, ... Classical works, and the ideals that were projected on them, have frequently been considered as the standard against which the quality of a literary work should be measured. Whether a text was evaluated as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depended on the extent to which it could meet the ‘classical’ requirements. Probably the most famous example of someone advocating such a classical norm was the German art critic Johannes Winckelmann (1717-1768), whose death will be commemorated in 2018. His 'Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums' may be considered as the embodiment of the idea that the classics should be the norm for aesthetic or even any evaluation, such as, in Western Europe, it has recurrently cropped up, to a greater or lesser degree, from the Early Middle Ages until modern times.
Almost inevitably, this normativity has implied, shaped and fed prejudices and thoughts of exclusion towards literary features and aesthetic characteristics that seemed to deviate from classical ideals. Throughout literary history, examples occur of literary works, styles and genres that were generally appreciated within their time or context of origin, yet whose quality was retrospectively called into question because they were said not to be in accordance with the classical norm as it prevailed at the moment of judgement. Sometimes, this has even applied to whole periods. The persistence of similar assessments up until today is telling for the impact classical normativity still exercises. Besides, literary texts, though clearly not created to conform to the ‘classical’ standard, have been ‘classicized’ during judgement, being forced by a critic to fit into a classical framework and celebrated for its so-called imitation of antiquity. Even the Classics themselves often had and have to obey to this process of ‘classicization’. Therefore, with a sense for drama, one could say that all these works, literary forms, periods, etc. have seriously ‘suffered’ from the prejudices born from classics-based normativity, being the ‘victims’ of Winckelmann-like ideas concerning ‘classical’ standards.
This conference aims to consider classical normativity with its including prejudices and exclusions as a case-study for cultural self-fashioning by way of European literature. It seeks to explore how the normative status ascribed to the classics and the ensuing prejudices have, from the Early Middle Ages to modern times, influenced and shaped thoughts and views of the literary identity of Western Europe. Therefore, we propose the following questions:
• What are the processes behind this normativity of the Classics? Is it possible to discern a conceptual continuum behind the time and again revival of the Classics as the norm for ‘good’ literature? Or, rather, are there clear conceptual and concrete divergences between succeeding periods of such ‘classical’ normativity?
• What are the links (conceptual, historical, aesthetic, political, …) between the normativity of the Classics and the excluded ones, both in synchronic and diachronic terms? How does literary normativity of the Classics imply literary prejudices and exclusions?
• How has normativity of the Classics with its prejudices and exclusions imposed an identity on European literature (and literary culture)?
• What does this normativity of the Classics with its prejudices and exclusions mean for the conceptualization of European literary history?
Besides these conceptual questions, we also welcome case studies that may illustrate both the concrete impact of classical normativity and concrete examples of prejudice and exclusion as resulting from this normativity. We think of topics such as:
• the Classics themselves as victims of retrospective ‘classical’ normativity
• the exclusion of literary periods that are considered non- or even contra-classical (baroque, medieval, …) and the clash with non-European literature
• literary ‘renaissances’ and their implications
• classical normativity and its impact on literatures obedient to political aims (fascism, populism, …)
• literary appeal to the classics as a way of structuring and (re-)formulating society (‘higher’ liberal arts vs. ‘lower’ crafts and proficiencies, literary attitudes towards slavery, …)
• …
We accept papers in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Please send an abstract of ca. 300 words and a five line biography to relics@ugent.be by 15 April 2018.
ORGANISATION: Wim Verbaal, Paolo Felice Sacchi and Tim Noens are members of the research group RELICS (Researchers of European Literary Identities, Cosmopolitanism and the Schools). This research group studies historical literatures and the dynamics that shape a common, European literary identity. It sees this literary identity as particularly negotiated through languages that reached a cosmopolitan status due to fixed schooling systems (Latin, Greek and Arabic), and in their interaction with vernacular literatures. From a diachronic perspective, we aim to seek unity within the ever more diverse, literary Europe, from the first to the eighteenth century, i.e. from the beginning of (institutionally organized) education in the cosmopolitan language to the rise of more national oriented education.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/880354295478483
Website: http://www.winckelmannsvictims.ugent.be.
(CFP closed April 15, 2018)
ATHLETICS AND IDENTITY IN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN WORLD
School of Classics, University of St Andrews, Scotland: 20-21 September, 2018
The School of Classics of the University of St Andrews is happy to announce the call for papers for the conference "Athletics and Identity in the Ancient and Modern World", taking place in 20-21 September 2018 in St Andrews.
Despite the increasing inclusion of ancient sport into the mainstream of classical scholarship and the rise in research on the links between athletics and identity in ancient culture, there has been relatively little collaborative academic work on that subject. It is the aim of this conference to bring together scholars, especially postgraduates, researching across disciplines on different aspects of athletic practice, from a multitude of perspectives, methodologies and cultures. Through this initiative we aim to advance our understanding of the role of athletics in ancient Mediterranean society. We are not limiting ancient culture to just Greece or Rome. Recent scholarship has shown that the influence of the other earlier Mediterranean sporting cultures had a significant impact on the development of Greek sport (Decker 1992, Rolinger 1994, Scanlon 2006, Puhvel 2002). Taking this fact into consideration, we also plan to raise questions about near-Eastern as well as Greco-Roman sporting culture, and about the interrelations between them.
More specifically, this conference aims to understand what it meant to be an athlete in the ancient world, and what range of options were available for representing athletes in public commemoration. Do different kinds of sources (literature, inscriptions, art) represent athletic identity consistently? Lastly, how does the depiction of athlete and athletic identity change from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity? These are only a few of the main questions we will be addressing. We hope this conference will enlighten us on the complex relationships of identity formation, self-representation, sociopolitical identity, and the physical regime of becoming an athlete and how these aspects changed over time. We particularly welcome papers from postgraduate students on festivals, their participants and material culture; the athletic body and the culture of the gymnasion; other ancient cultures and their athletes; female athletes and their commemoration.
Those wishing to present a paper of 20-30 minutes should submit an abstract of up to 300 words to athleticsandidentity2018@gmail.com by Monday 19 March 2018. Submissions must also include personal details (Name, affiliation, and email). We strongly encourage postgraduate submissions. If you have any further queries please don’t hesitate to email athleticsandidentity2018@gmail.com.
Confirmed speakers: Prof Onno van Nijf (Groningen), Prof Zahra Newby (Warwick), Prof Stamatia Dova (Hellenic College Holy Cross and Center for Hellenic Studies), Dr Sofie Remijsen (Amsterdam), Dr. Sebastian Scharff (Mannheim).
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1802&L=CLASSICISTS&P=90915
Website: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/events/conferences/athletics-identity/
(CFP closed March 19, 2018)
"SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW": THE RECEPTION OF CLASSICS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SONGWRITING
Kapodistrian University of Athens: September 14, 2018
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.
The strong influence of Classics in music of all periods and genres is increasingly becoming a topic of interest, especially with regard to Classical Music: we might remember some widely known examples of opera libretti, such as those of Gluck, Monteverdi, Mozart, Wagner, to mention but a few. However, given the variety of genres that permeate modern and contemporary music, it would be of great value to attempt a deeper investigation on the reception of Classical Antiquity in genres such as pop, hip-hop, R’ n ’B rock, and more.
Therefore, Prolepsis Association in cooperation with the School of Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens are inviting postgraduate students and Phd candidates to send their proposals for a one-day conference which will be particularly focused (but not limited to):
I. The echoes of Classics in the lyrics, exclusively or in conjunction with music videos and/or cover artwork (myth, art, history).
II. The reception of Classics in local music, e.g. modern musical versions of Classical or Classical inspired poetry (any country is most welcome).
III. Ancient Greek or Latin words as part of modern and contemporary songs.
The main focus will be the music produced around the mid-1950s and onwards, but we will accept contributions that are focused on any music genre starting in the 20th and the 21st century.
Please send two abstracts (one anonymous and one signed) of around 300 words – excluding bibliography - (in English, or Greek with an English translation) of an unpublished work to the e-mail address clamus.prolepsis.philekpa@gmail.com by the 5th of July 2018. Successful applicants will be notified shortly after.
All abstracts should follow the instructions below:
1. Font: Times New Roman 12pt
2. Lead: 1.5
3. Text alignment: fully justified
4. For the anonymous copy: Title (centered)
In the signed one, the participants must include the following details:
1. Surname and first name
2. University
3. Stage of Study [master student or doctoral candidate]
4. Email
Selected papers will be considered for publication.
The organising committee:
Christos Diamantis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Nickos Kaggelaris (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Georgia Mystrioti (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Eirini Pappa (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
The supporting committee (Prolepsis boarding committee)
Roberta Berardi (University of Oxford)
Nicoletta Bruno (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften – München)
Martina Filosa (Universität zu Köln)
Luisa Fizzarotti (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)
Call: https://prolepsisblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/14/call-for-papers-prolepsis-in-cooperation-with-the-school-of-philosophy-at-the-national-and-kapodistrian-university-of-athens/
(CFP closed July 5, 2018)
'CONNECTING CLASSICAL COLLECTIONS': BRINGING MUSEUMS TOGETHER TO EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL FOR A NEW SUBJECT SPECIALIST NETWORK FOR COLLECTIONS FROM THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
University of Reading, UK: Friday, 14 September 2018 (10:30 – 16:00)
FREE – booking essential
This one-day event aims to explore the potential for a new Subject Specialist Network for classical collections, and to shape its development. ‘Classical’ collections are defined broadly as collections from the ancient Mediterranean, including Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Cypriot material. There are at least 70 such collections across the UK, which have varying levels of curatorial support, and there is scope to do more by pooling expertise and sharing experiences. The aim of the proposed SSN is to share best practice, develop collective responses to challenges, and to make the best use of these collections.
Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the potential role of a new SSN, including the extent of its remit, and to give their views on the way forward. Focusing on the theme of ‘Activism’, the workshop will also present case studies of museum projects which connect classical collections with contemporary social issues. Please join us for a day of networking and inspiration, to help shape the future of classical collections in museums.
For the latest version of the programme, please see: https://connectingclassicalcollections.wordpress.com/programme/
Space has been left in the programme for an additional presentation as we would like to involve as wide a range of speakers as possible. If you have a perspective on classical collections and activism which you would like to share, drawing on your own experiences, please email vicky.donnellan.09@alumni.ucl.ac.uk by Monday 13th August 2018.
Who should attend? Anyone working with classical collections in UK museums. In particular, curators whose remit includes such collections, but anyone with a related interest is extremely welcome, including PhD students, academics and volunteers researching or working with classical museum objects.
How to register: Attendance at this workshop is free, but places are limited. To register for a place, please follow the link to our Eventbrite page. A limited number of travel bursaries are available for those who would otherwise be unable to attend. If you would like to be considered for a travel bursary, please indicate this during the registration process.
This event has been made possible thanks to the Vivmar Foundation, and their generous support of the British Museum's national Knowledge Share programme. It has been organised with additional support from the SSN The Society for Museum Archaeology.
Website: https://connectingclassicalcollections.wordpress.com/
BYZANTIUM AND THE MODERN IMAGINATION. PATTERNS OF THE RECEPTION OF BYZANTIUM IN MODERN CULTURE
Masaryk University, Brno: 12-14 September, 2018
Organisers: Marketa Kulhánková (Brno, Czech Republic) & Przemyslaw Marciniak (Katowice, Poland)
The conference is organised as part of the activities of the "Byzantine Receptions Network. Towards a New Field of Reception Studies" generously funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.
The imagery of Byzantium in popular discourse is a culturally and historically constructed notion. As has been noted, the very name "Byzantium" is both a retronym and an exonym, and scholars today very often insist on using a more proper description – "The Eastern Roman Empire". Writers, playwrights, musicians, and politicians throughout centuries constructed their own versions of Byzantium, which depended on local artistic or political needs. In many cases these constructed versions had very little to do with the "historical" Byzantium. Yet, at the same time, academic discourse might – and did – influence the imagery of Byzantium in the popular imagination. During the conference we would like to discuss these imaginary visions of Byzantium, including the intersections of popular and academic images of Byzantium. We also welcome papers dealing with the use (and abuse) of key events in Byzantine history (such as the Fall of City) and their reworkings in literature and culture.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- The reception of Byzantium in schoolbooks in Europe and beyond;
- Byzantium for the young – Byzantium in children's literature and games;
- Literary reworkings of key events and personages in the history of Byzantium;
- Byzantine Studies and its influence on the popular understanding of Byzantium;
- The ways of popularising Byzantium;
- Byzantium in the digital age;
- Byzantium in popular culture (games, speculative fiction, TV series, films).
Please send the abstract (no more than 300 words) for a 20 minutes presentation to Przemyslaw Marciniak (przemyslaw.marciniak@us.edu.pl) by March, 30 2018.
Call: http://bizantinistica.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/all-for-papers-byzantium-and-modern.html
(CFP closed March 30, 2018)
III. INTERDISCIPLINARY SUMMER SCHOOL OF MUSICOLOGY AND ANCIENT STUDIES MAINZ: ANCIENT HISTORIES AND NARRATIVES IN CHR. W. GLUCK’S OPERAS
Mainz, Germany: September 10–15, 2018
Orpheus, the hanging gardens of Semiramis, and the olympic gods – through the ages, ancient myths and subjects have strongly impacted the arts. The III. Summer School in Mainz will approach these topics from an interdisciplinary perspective by combining methodologies from musicology and the field of ancient and classical studies, focusing on the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787). His compositions will be introduced from a holistic perspective, highlighting the interconnectedness of the many processes involved in the production of his operas and giving participants more insights into Baroque music theater and the reception of ancient subjects in the arts in general.
How did narratives change through librettists’ adaptations of the myths and histories and how did this impact their understanding? How did Gluck approach setting these librettos to music? What restrictions and possibilities did Baroque stagecraft impose on the representation of the ancient subjects? In exploring these and other questions, comprehensive portraits of selected operas will be developed which contribute to an understanding of Gluck’s operas as a form of representational art.
The Summer School will be accompanied by a colorful program, such as introducing the participants to the city of Mainz and its history. Furthermore, we will visit the Baroque Schlosstheater in Schwetzingen of 1753 in which architectural conventions of Gluck’s time come to life. The tour contributes to a better understanding of the circumstances under which his operas were performed in the eighteenth century.
Application: The Summer School is a cooperative course, jointly organized by the Musicology Division and the Department of Ancient and Classical Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University as well as the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the project “Christoph Willibald Gluck – Sämtliche Werke.” The course is designed for German and international students of musicology and of ancient and classical studies and thereby offers an international study program in Mainz. We award credits according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). The Summer School will be held in English and in German. As the number of participants is limited, applicants are asked to submit a letter of motivation and a short CV. There is no course fee. Financial support for accommodation might be awarded.
Please submit your application by e-mail (as PDF) by July 1, 2018 to gluck_mz18@uni-mainz.de.
Course Program
Monday – Tuesday
• General introductions to ancient myths and histories
• Librettology
• Adaptation and transformation of myths for the stage
• Gluck’s approach to setting librettos to music
• Baroque stagecraft
Wednesday – Friday
• Comprehensive portraits of selected operas by Chr. W. Gluck
• Excursion to the Baroque theater in Schwetzingen
• City tour of Mainz
Saturday
Final discussion and results of the Summer School
Contact: gluck_mz18@uni-mainz.de (Jun.-Prof. Dr. habil. Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch)
Organizers:
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Fachbereich 07: Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft / Abteilung Musikwissenschaft
Institut für Altertumswissenschaften
D-55099 Mainz
Hashtag: #gluck_mz18
Information PDF: http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/musikwissenschaft/files/20180529%20Summer%20School_gluck_mz18.pdf
DRAWING ON THE PAST: THE PRE-MODERN WORLD IN COMICS
Senate House, London: September 10-11, 2018
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 concept of comics itself is similarly broadly interpreted, covering different traditions including but not limited to the American graphic novel, the Franco-Belgian tradition, and Japanese manga. Contributions may focus on series as well as on individual episodes, including those from series that do not consistently engage with the pre-modern world.
We hope to capture a wide variety of experiences of comics and the pre-modern world, so the conference will be aimed at academics (PGR, ECR and established), teachers, and artists.
Suitable topics for discussion might include:
* how and why writers and illustrators engage with these periods and cultures in comics;
* literary, historical or archaeological analysis of comics, for example:
- accuracy of representation and poetic licence
- engagement with sources
- cultural fusions
- allegorical uses
- connections to modern nationalistic histories;
* use as pedagogical tools in the classroom (including translations of comics into Latin or Ancient Greek);
* comics as methods for communicating historical research of the pre-modern world.
Papers should be 20 minutes each; workshops no more than 1 ½ hours; posters can be A1 or A2 size. Please submit 300-word abstracts or 500-word workshop proposals to leen.vanbroeck.2014@live.rhul.ac.uk by 22 December 2017. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out no later than 31 January 2018.
Organisers: Leen Van Broeck, Royal Holloway; Dr Zena Kamash, Royal Holloway; Dr Katy Soar, University of Winchester. This conference is made possible with the generous assistance of the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.
Website: https://drawingonthepast.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed December 22, 2017)
TZETZES
Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy: 7th-8th September 2018
John Tzetzes was a towering figure in the scholarly landscape of twelfth-century Constantinople, and his name crops up time and again in modern scholarship, Classical and Byzantine alike. He commented extensively on poets such as Homer, Hesiod, Aristophanes, and the intractable Lycophron. He is a source of the greatest importance for the history and transmission of scholarship in antiquity. He had access to works that are lost to us; he may have been the last person to read Hipponax at first hand before the age of papyrological discoveries.
Gifted with a cantankerous personality which he made no attempt to conceal, he had a very high opinion of his own worth as a scholar and a correspondingly low opinion of almost everybody else's. He was the sort of person who would pepper his letters with erudite references, then compose an enormous poem to elucidate them and write scholia to it. His idiosyncratic writerly persona has made him an easy target for the irony of twentieth-century scholars; Martin West dubbed him a 'lovable buffoon', and he was kinder to him than others.
It is all too easy, especially for classicists, not to see beyond a combination of Tzetzes the caricature and Tzetzes the footnote fodder; someone to use without engaging too closely. But his vast learning and the variety and influence of his writings demands a more discerning attention. The past few decades have witnessed an increasing interest in his works, with several editions (and more in progress), a steady flow of articles, and even a few translations into modern languages. The time is ripe for scholars in classical and Byzantine studies to join forces towards a better understanding of Tzetzes and his output.
The colloquium will take place in the scenic Aula Baratto of Ca' Foscari University, overlooking the Grand Canal, on 7th and 8th September 2018. Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be sent by email, preferably in PDF format, to enricoemanuele.prodi@unive.it by 31st January 2018.
Possible themes include (but are not limited to):
Tzetzes as a commentator and critic
Tzetzes as a poet
Tzetzes as an epistolographer
Tzetzes on the Greek language
Tzetzes and his contemporaries
Tzetzes in the tradition of Byzantine scholarship
Editing Tzetzes' works
Tzetzes' legacy and his reception.
Speakers will be offered accommodation and a contribution to travel expenses can also be made available. The colloquium is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 708556 (Ancient scholarship on archaic Greek iambic poetry / ASAGIP).
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/866444356869477
(CFP closed January 31, 2018)
VITRUVIUS’ HOMO BENE FIGURATUS INTER DISCIPLINAS: METHODOLOGICAL VARIATIONS ON A SINGLE PASSAGE (VITRUVIUS DE ARCHITECTURA III.1)
An experimental two-day workshop at Penn State University: September 7-8, 2018
In April 2016 a Fixed Handout Workshop was held at the University of Cambridge. Its aim was to encourage early-career Latinists to reflect on the impact that their varying academic influences and different methodological preferences have on the research they produce. In particular, the workshop tested the strengths and limits of each scholar’s intertextual practice. The participants delivered papers that were based on a pre-arranged selection of thematically connected passages, yet although several groups were presented with identical sets of Latin quotations, the papers they produced—and additional texts they adduced—varied widely.
The present workshop aims to continue this exploration of interpretative methodologies in a slightly altered format. We invite Classicists and scholars from other disciplines (especially Renaissance Studies, Art History, Philosophy, Architecture, Mathematics) to each present a paper on the same passage, but to use a different, clearly stated methodological approach. By asking scholars from different schools-of-thought and disciplines to focus their attention on a particular moment in Latin literature, we aim to:
a) measure the interpretive impact of different methodologies within the field of Classics;
b) explore how texts take different shapes under the lens of disciplines outside the Classics;
c) test in concrete terms the interpretative potential of an interdisciplinary dialogue.
The passage we have selected for the workshop is Vitruvius’ De Architectura III.1. While discussing the role of symmetry in the composition of temples, Vitruvius introduces the image of a well-formed human being (ad hominis bene figurati membrorum exactam rationem), from which proportional relations and principles of good measure are derived. The passage was famously the basis for Leonardo da Vinci’s interpretation of the “Vitruvian Man”, and continued to attract the attention of early modern exegetes and contemporary architectural specialists alike. With its textual, visual, philosophical, and scientific features, De Architectura III. 1 has an obvious and distinct interdisciplinary potential.
We are looking for speakers to deliver a methodologically informed reading of this Vitruvian chapter and/or its reception. We have six confirmed invited speakers (listed below), and we now invite applications for six more papers, especially (but not solely) from early-career researchers and finishing graduate students in Classics, Archaeology, Philosophy, Renaissance Studies, Art History, Architecture, and Mathematics.
If you wish to be considered as a speaker, please provide:
An abstract on De Architectura III.1, stating explicitly the approach that you wish to take;
A brief cv;
A list of 6 major academic and cultural influences, both from within and from outside your field.
Send these items (preferably in pdf format) to homobenefiguratus@gmail.com by April 30, 2018. Decisions will be made by mid-June. Accommodation will be provided at Penn State for the nights of September 6 and 7, but we regret that speakers will be expected to cover their travel expenses. We aim to publish the contributions in a collected volume.
Confirmed Speakers:
Tom Geue (St Andrews)
Mathias Hanses (Penn State)
Jared Hudson (Harvard)
Elizabeth Merrill (MPIWG)
Marden Nichols (Georgetown)
Kathrin Winter (Heidelberg)
For further information, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers:
Mathias Hanses (Penn State) mhanses@psu.edu
Giovanna Laterza (Heidelberg) giovanna.laterza@uni-heidelberg.de
Elena Giusti (Warwick) E.Giusti@Warwick.ac.uk
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/908447186002527
Program: http://www.cams.psu.edu/news/vitruvius-homo-bene-figuratus-inter-disciplinas-methodological-variations-on-a-single-passage-vitruvius-de-architectura-iii.1-..
(CFP closed April 30, 2018)
ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA IN LATIN 1506-1590. READERSHIP, TRANSLATION, AND CIRCULATION
King’s College London: 3-4 September, 2018
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 an extraordinary period of dramatic and literary composition across Europe in the Early Modern period. By bringing together scholars in Classics, Comparative and World Literature, English, Theatre, and Translation, this conference aims to create a forum for rich and nuanced discussion of the multiform and variously situated acts of reading and translation of Greek drama during this period.
It is hoped that case studies – where acts of reading or translation can be seen to have wide implications for our understanding of the presence of Greek drama in literature at this time – will be complemented by papers highlighting more thematic or methodological considerations.
Papers may address (but need not be limited to) any of the following questions:
* Who do we mean when we speak of ‘the’ readers and translators of Greek drama?
* What kinds of readers and translators took part in the circulation of drama in Latin during this period?
* What is ‘Greek’ about Greek drama in Latin?
* How can we construe these acts of translation beyond ‘ad verbum’ vs. ‘ad sensum’ e.g. as creation, as refraction, or as collaboration?
* How do we envisage translations of Greek drama ‘circulating’ in Europe during this period? As publications, in manuscript form, with prefaces or other paratexts, as partial translations, or as language learning exercises?
Confirmed Speakers:
* Sarah Knight (University of Leicester), ‘‘Sois sage aux despens de Rome et de la Grèce’: Learning from classical and sixteenth-century Antigones’
* Angelica Vedelago (Università degli Studi di Padova), ‘Didacticism in Neo-Latin Academic Drama: Mind-reading and 'Mind-leading' in Thomas Watson’s Antigone’
* Micha Lazarus (University of Cambridge), ‘Sophocles in Exile: Reformation Tragedy from Wittenberg to Cambridge’
* Elia Borza (Université Catholique de Louvain), ‘Understanding Drama in 16th Century Latin Translations: from Poetics to Politics’
* Anna Clark (University of Oxford), ‘Reading Lady Lumley’s Library: Towards a New Understanding of
Female Classical Translation’
* Marchella Ward (University of Oxford), ‘Assemblage Theory and the Uses of Classical Reception: the case of Aristotle Knowsley’s Oedipus’
* Malika Bastin-Hammou (Université Grenoble Alpes), ‘Doctor Translator and Mister Adaptor : Alciatus and Aristophanes’
* Petra Šoštaric (University of Zagreb), ‘Bound to teach: Aeschyli Prometheus by Matthias Garbitius Illyricus’
* Nathaniel Hess (University of Cambridge), ‘An Alexandrian in Paris: Willem Canter’s 1566 edition of Lycophron’s Alexandra’
* Alexia Dedieu (Université Grenoble Alpes), ‘Discovering and translating Euripides’ Electra in the second half of the XVI century’
* Fabio Gatti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano), A Latin Euripidean Cyclops in XVIth century Italy: satirical drama in a counter-reformation climate’
Please send an abstract of no more than 350 words (for a 30-minute paper), together with your name and contact details, to lucy.jackson@kcl.ac.uk by 16 April, 2018.
Call: https://www.facebook.com/expressum/posts/883997105114202
Registration / Programme: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ancient-greek-drama-in-latin-1506-1590-readershiptranslationcirculation-tickets-47014695219
(CFP closed April 16, 2018)
THE HELLENIZING MUSE
Venice (Ca’ Foscari University): Aug 30-31, 2018
We are pleased to announce that a workshop on poems written in ancient Greek from the 15th century to the present will take place in Venice, Italy (Ca’ Foscari University) on Aug. 30th-31st, 2018.
The programme includes the scholars involved in the international project The Hellenizing Muse directed by Filippomaria Pontani (Ca’ Foscari University) and Stefan Weise (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): each scholar or team will present a couple of case-studies from the respective geographical area. The mid-term goal of this project is to publish an anthology of “neualtgriechische Gedichte”, to which each national équipe will contribute a chapter.
All welcome (no registration fee). For further information, please contact: Filippomaria Pontani (f.pontani@unive.it).
Aug. 30th, 14.30 - 18.30 (Aula Morelli, Malcanton-Marcorà, Ca’ Foscari Univ., Venice)
Kostas Yiavis, Yerasimos Zoras: Greece
Filippomaria Pontani: Italy
Filippomaria Pontani: Spain and Portugal
Luigi-Alberto Sanchi (J.-M. Flamand, R. Menini): France
Han Lamers, Raf Van Rooy: Low Countries
Aug. 31st, 9 - 13 (Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari Univ., Venice)
Martin Steinrück, Janika Päll: Switzerland
Martin Korenjak: Austria
András Németh, Farkas Kiss: Hungary
Stefan Weise, Thomas Gärtner: Germany
Marcela Sláviková: Czech Republic
Aug. 31st, 14.30 - 18.30
(Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari Univ., Venice)
Vlado Rezar: Balkan Countries
Tomas Veteikis: Poland and Lithuania
Elena Ermolaeva: Russia
Janika Päll (Johanna Akujärvi, Tua Korhonen, Erkki Sironen): Northern Countries
Thomas Gärtner, Stefan Weise: Great Britain
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1806&L=CLASSICISTS&P=96670
TACITUS' WONDERS
Victoria University of Wellington, 27-29 August 2018
Readers have been attracted to the remarkable and wondrous, the admirable and the uncanny in Tacitus. But in order to appreciate what is mirum or novum, we also need to understand the apparently mundane material between the monstra. Tacitus famously derides the praises of new public buildings as a topic more worthy of the daily gazette than illustres annales (A. 13.31.1); his own criteria for selection, however, and his own judgments on what is worthy of note, have often differed in interesting ways from the preoccupations of his readers.
Abstracts (250 words) are invited on the topic of Tacitus' wonders.
Submissions on comparative material are very much welcome.
Reflection is invited on the consequences of different methods of dividing or reconciling historical events and historiographical representation, e.g. Woodman (1993), O'Gorman (2001), Haynes (2003), and Sailor (2008). In preparing abstracts, it will be helpful to consider the challenge extended by Dench (in Feldherr, 2009), the 'awkward question' of whether the much admired Tacitean text 'represents anything other than itself'. Papers treating the Classical tradition, reception and history of scholarship are welcome.
Please send abstracts to James McNamara at Victoria University of Wellington (james.mcnamara@vuw.ac.nz) by Friday 26 January 2018.
Organizers: Prof. Arthur Pomeroy & Dr. James McNamara, Classics Programme, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Website/Program: https://tacitusconferencenz.wordpress.com/
Call: https://classicsvic.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/tacitus-wonders/
(CFP closed January 26, 2018)
[WORKSHOP] GREEK MATTERS
University of York, UK: July 19, 2018
This one-day workshop will consider the intersection of Hellenism and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). Expanding upon recent interest in the influence of Greek antiquity on early modernity, this workshop sets out to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue that explores the reception of texts alongside other encounters with the past: the circulation of images, the collecting of antiquities, archaeology, architecture, epigraphy, etc. From difficulties in printing the Greek alphabet to developments in Neoplatonism, is there a special dialogue between Hellenism and the engagement with matter and material form that emerges for the early modern period? How is the memory of ancient Greece imagined and reconstructed across different media? We are interested in materiality understood in its broadest sense and welcome proposals on anything from book historical approaches to those considering Hellenism in dialogue with art, architecture, the material world or the philosophy of matter. The early modern period is the intended focus but we welcome proposals from beyond this time period that engage with this intersection.
Abstracts are invited for 10 minute papers on the topic of the reception of Greek in the Renaissance at the intersection with materiality. The format invites scholars to give short presentations on work in progress with time for extended discussion. Proposals should take the form of 150 word abstracts and be sent to Camilla.Temple@york.ac.uk and Jane.Raisch@york.ac.uk by Friday 11th May 2018. There may be some funding available to contribute towards the travel expenses of junior scholars (PhD students and those within 5 years of submission): if you would like to be considered for this funding then please let us know in your submission email. Proposals for presentations that are accepted but which cannot be given for financial reasons will still be considered in future publication plans, so do please contact us or submit a proposal even if you will not be able to attend.
Program: https://www.york.ac.uk/crems/events/conferences/2018-19/greek-matters/.
(CFP closed May 11, 2018)
CLASSICS, THE LEFT & THE SUBLIME
King's College London, July 18-19, 2018
Proposals of up to 400 words are invited for 30-minute papers to be delivered at this conference, convened jointly by Dr Tom Geue (St Andrews), Dr Henry Stead (OU) and Edith Hall (KCL) at KCL on July 18-19th 2018. Please send them to edith.hall@kcl.ac.uk in the first instance.
This conference addresses the 'missing' Marxist/materialist theory of the artistically beautiful. It aims to bring together an interdisciplinary team of philosophers, literary theorists, cultural critics, art historians and classicists to address questions including these: Why has the Left (defined as Marxists/Cultural and Historical Materialists/New Historicists/Postcolonial theorists and some Feminists) evaded concepts of the Beautiful, the Sublime, and cultural/aesthetic Value? Is the 'labour' theory of commodity value inadequate to explain the way that markets operate in relation to artworks, whether literary, musical or material? What attempts at producing a theory of cultural value sensitive to cultural relativism, aesthetic subjectivity and class-determination of taste can be identified and how have they been informed by classical concepts in e.g. Homer, Aristophanes, Gorgias, Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Plutarch, Tacitus and Quintilian? Can the debate be pushed much beyond Lukacs, Benjamin, Adorno, Eagleton, Caudwell, Jameson, Bourdieu, and Zizek, none of whom is truly comfortable with talking about art's aesthetic impact, pleasure, sublimity and transcendence for fear of being identified as Eurocentric and culturally imperialist? What schools of thought and intellectual models from non-literary disciplines might offer promising avenues to illuminate the problem? Cognitive and Neurological Science? Evolutionary Psychology? Most importantly, How could a better 'Left' defence of aesthetic excellence and pleasure help make the case for Arts and Humanities as essential to the intellectual health of universities and societies at large? The Left has allowed the Right to hold monopoly ownership of the concepts of Great Art and The World's Best Books for far too long.
Speakers:
John Connor (KCL), ‘Rebellious Breasts': Lindsay, Lysistrata and A Left Defence of Beauty
Marcus Bell (KCL), Goat-Song: The Beauty of the Dancing Body’s Labour
Ralph Rosen (UPenn), Social Class and the ‘Comic Sublime’
Fran Middleton (Cambridge), Aesthetic Pleasure as Cultural Consumptiion
Ben Pestell (Essex), Marxist Athenas? – Seeking Legitimate Authority in Transcendent Literature
Kay Gabriel (Princeton), Satire and Militant Classicism: The Case of Marx’s Capital
Michael Wayne (Brunel) (KEYNOTE): Kant, Aesthetics and the Left
Richard Alston (RHUL), Royalty, Enlightenment and Contentious Pasts in the Architecture of Ottonian Athens
William Fitzgerald (KCL), Beauty and Boredom: Thoughts on Two Servant-Goddesses (Thorvaldsen's Hebe and Manet's A Bar at the Folies Bergeres)
Siobhan Chomse (RHUL), Once More with Feeling: Tacitus’ Ironic Sublime
Miryana Dimitrova (KCL), Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra-too Sublime for (Post)communist Bulgaria?
Page duBois (UCSD) (KEYNOTE): Red-baiting, the Sublime and the Beautiful
Salvatore Tufano (Rome), Franco Fortini’s A Test of Powers & Posthistoricism
Mathura Umachandran (Princeton), Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag: Photographing Marsyas
Martin Devecka (UCSC), The Aporiai of a Lucretian Materialist/Hedonist Approach to the Beautiful.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1709&L=CLASSICISTS&P=29151
Program: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;285e628d.1806.
Registration: https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/arts-humanities-research-institute/classics-the-left-and-the-sublime
(CFP closed January 1, 2018)
[PANEL] TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY POPULAR CLASSICS
Celtic Conference in Classics, University of St Andrews, Scotland: 11-14 July 2018
Organizer: Amanda Potter
Website: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/events/conferences/ccc/#panelscfp-tab
[PANEL] DEMOCRATISING CLASSICS
Celtic Conference in Classics, University of St Andrews, Scotland: 11-14 July 2018
Abstracts are sought for the 3-day panel "Democratising Classics", to be held at the Celtic Conference in Classics (University of St Andrews, 11-14 July 2018). Prospective speakers are asked to send a title and short abstract (max. 300 words) to Jenny Messenger (jlm30@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Rossana Zetti (Rossana.Zetti@ed.ac.uk) by 31 January 2018. Outcomes will be communicated by 12 February 2018. Papers at the CCC are usually 35-40 minutes long; however, shorter presentations may also be considered. Please specify desired paper length in the submission. The languages of the CCC are English and French.
This panel aims to explore the "democratisation" of Classics in academia and the creative arts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and to consider the impact of this process on Classics as a discipline, on classical receptions produced during this period, and on the interaction between art and academia.
Classical texts are now widely available in translation, allusions are rife in mass media, and comparisons between ancient and contemporary politics abound. But despite the presence of classical antiquity in popular discourse, Classics is not yet open to all. Barriers remain for students who want to study Classics at a high academic level—particularly if they have not had access to a traditional education in Latin and Ancient Greek. In the UK today, Latin and Greek teaching provision in schools varies greatly, and remains heavily concentrated in independent schools. Initiatives like the "Advocating Classics Education" and "Literacy Through Latin" projects, however, show there is significant interest in ensuring Classics is truly open to all students.
An overall interest in exploring Classics beyond the confines of elite institutions and social groups has been borne out in recent scholarship, such as Hardwick & Harrison (2013) on the "democratic turn" in Classics, and Stead & Hall (2015) on the role of class. Post-colonial receptions of classical material have played an important role in the destabilisation of the elite Western canon and its cultural hegemony, and increasingly innovative ways of discussing Classics with audiences far and wide (through platforms like the online journal Eidolon, blogs like Minus Plato, and hybrids of contemporary art and scholarship like Liquid Antiquity) have also begun to push all Classicists, not just Classical Reception scholars, to question the assumptions and biases that underpin their discipline.
Central to this debate—and to the process of "democratisation"—are creative practitioners, including translators, writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers. Practitioners are often at the forefront of shaping the wider public's engagement with Classics, and frequently spearhead new ways of approaching classical antiquity which later permeate academic debate. Practitioners also have varying levels of traditional classical expertise: they might inhabit both the "creative" and "academic" spheres, but their work may also challenge ideas of "authenticity" and "ownership", as in the case of Vincenzo Monti's Italian translation of Homer's Iliad (1810) and Christopher Logue's War Music (1959-2011), produced with little knowledge of the Greek language. Is this democratisation in action? Has Classics moved beyond its role as the "intellectual furniture of the well-to-do-middle class" (Brecht 2003: 77)? If so, what have been the implications for the discipline? Who was and is tasked with the translation of ancient works, with teaching others about classical antiquity, and with shaping the future of the subject? What has been the impact of "democratisation" on creative responses to the classical world, and how do these responses feed into academic debate and practice?
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
Notions of democracy, authenticity, ownership and expertise in classical receptions and scholarship
Points of convergence and friction between the creative arts and academia
Twentieth and twenty-first classical receptions that confront ideas of "incomplete", "inauthentic", or "partial" knowledge of the Classics
Classics, class, and elitism
Challenges to the "classical canon"
The impact of post-colonial studies, and gender and sexuality studies in Classics
Classical reception in contemporary art, books, music and films
The history of classical scholarship
The role of Latin and Greek within the study and reception of Classics
Teaching and studying Classics today worldwide
Call: http://www.fasticongressuum.com/single-post/2017/12/21/CALL-31012018-panel-5-Democratising-Classics-Panel-at-the-CCC---St-Andrews-Scotland
Website: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/events/conferences/ccc/#panelscfp-tab
(CFP closed January 31, 2018)
[PANEL] APPROACHING LANDSCAPE IN THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
Celtic Conference in Classics, University of St Andrews, Scotland: 11-14 July 2018
We invite expressions of interest and abstracts for 'Approaching Landscape in the Classical Tradition', which will form a 3-day panel at the 11th Celtic Conference in Classics, to be held at the University of St Andrews from 11th-14th July 2018. We are actively seeking abstracts from scholars at all stages in their career and from a range of disciplines who are engaged in landscape research from historical and literary perspectives.
The panel will focus on the theories and methodologies underpinning the study of landscape within Classics and cognate fields. 'Approaching landscape' in a historical, literary, or critical sense is by no means straightforward. The humanities have come relatively late to the 'landscape turn' in cultural research, and researchers of space and landscape have often drawn on self-made toolkits of theories and methodologies collected from disparate disciplines – such as geography, anthropology, and sociology - to form their own approaches to landscape. Prospective speakers are invited to share their own toolkits, and to make explicit the assumptions and ideas underlying their analyses of human interaction with the landscape in past contexts.
Our goal is to assemble a series of 20-30 minute papers that focus especially on theoretical frameworks for analysis, and on the impact of different vocabularies, particularly anachronistic ones, for explicating past engagements with landscape. Broad themes may include, but are by no means limited to: landscape and memory, landscape and power, phenomenological, cognitive, ecocritical, anthropological, narratological and poststructuralist approaches to the representation of landscape.
At the same time, potential speakers are asked to base their discussions on a specific topic from their own research, to ensure that each paper not only offers new methodological insights but is also grounded in the context of a particular text or era. Our aim is to include papers on ancient Mediterranean literature and culture, across a wide geographical range and from archaic Greece through to late antiquity, side by side with others on the reception of ancient ideas about landscape in postclassical culture. Possible topics for discussion include locus amoenus and pastoral traditions, mountain landscapes, urban, sacred, mythical and battle landscapes, and landscape depictions in ancient art.
In addition to individual papers, the panel will feature extensive time for discussion between participants. As one output from the panel, we plan to produce a detailed report which will serve as a working guide to the different methodologies proposed, and the potential they might offer to future research on landscape.
Please contact either Dawn Hollis (dawn.hollis@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Jason König (jpk3@st-andrews.ac.uk) with questions, expressions of interests, and abstracts. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words in length and should be submitted by 31st January 2018. We hope to notify potential participants of decisions regarding their papers by Friday 16th February, if not before.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;be1479d4.1712.
Website: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/events/conferences/ccc/#panelscfp-tab
(CFP closed January 31, 2018)
PACIFIC RIM ROMAN LITERATURE SEMINAR 32: INTERIORITY IN ROMAN LITERATURE
University of Sydney, 11-13 July 2018
The thirty-second meeting of the PacRim Roman Literature Seminar will be held at the University of Sydney from 11 to 13 July 2018. The theme for the 2018 conference will be interiority in Roman literature.
Papers are invited to explore Roman literature’s inner voices, visions and narratives; psychologies; inner lives; the ‘inward turn’ of Roman literature at various periods, such as the first and fourth centuries; interior spaces; inner sanctums and circles of power. Roman literature is conceived of as the literature of Roman world from its earliest beginnings to the end of antiquity. The theme may be interpreted broadly, and papers on other topics will also be considered.
Papers may be either 20 minutes (with ten minutes of discussion time), or 40 minutes (with 20 minutes of discussion). The Pacific Rim Seminar does not run parallel sessions; participants can attend any or all papers. Abstract proposals of 200-300 words should be sent to the convenor, Paul Roche, at paul.roche@sydney.edu.au. Submissions from graduate students and early-career researchers are welcome. Please have abstracts submitted by 27 February 2018 (earlier submissions welcome; please indicate whether your paper is of 20 or 40 minutes duration).
The conference venue will be the University of Sydney’s Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies (http://sydney.edu.au/ccanesa/about/index.shtml).
Website & Programme: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/classics_ancient_history/research/conferences.shtml
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/call-papers-interiority-roman-literature
(CFP closed February 27, 2018)
CAVAFY AND ANTIQUITY: INTERNATIONAL CAVAFY SUMMER SCHOOL 2018
Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece: July 9-15, 2018
The International Cavafy Summer School is a major international annual scholarly event organised by the Cavafy Archive and the Onassis Foundation, the first such regular event to be devoted exclusively to Cavafy and the impact of his work.
Following the inaugural summer school that took place in July 2017, on the theme of Cavafy in the World, this year's summer school will take place on 9-15 July 2018. The International Cavafy Summer School 2018 will focus on Cavafy and Antiquity, a theme that shares many points of connection with the first summer school and its global concerns. The study of antiquity is itself experiencing a junction where both the ancient world and the modern world relating to it have expanded and changed. To probe against this background Cavafy's antiquity, which is decentred yet concrete, untimely yet temporally specific, shared yet individually mediated, uncertain yet asserted, offers the potential for new insights and new second-order questions about the study of Cavafy and of the study of Classics alike.
Among the topics that the Summer School will aim to consider are: does Cavafy's approach to antiquity constitute a form of classicism, or post-classicism? Does it constitute a critical classicism, as well as enable a new, critical approach to canonicity? How capacious is Cavafy's ancient world, spatially and temporally? Can Cavafy's antiquity provide new impetus for thinking about the relationship of the classical, untimeliness, or lateness? What new models and theoretical insights for both Classical Reception Studies and Modern Greek Studies can Cavafy's antiquity offer? What mediators shaped and shape Cavafy's antiquity, such as scholarship, translations, or archaeology? To what extent has Cavafy shaped them in turn? What is Cavafy's relation to the archeological, museological and philological breakthroughs of his time? How is Cavafy's antiquity related to notions and histories of Greek nationalism or other forms of ethnic, community and affective belonging? How does Cavafy's Hellenism respond to the international movements of Aestheticism and Decadence? To what extent can we categorize Cavafy's antiquity as a “queer fiction of the past”? What media does Cavafy's antiquity communicate with, other than textuality? Does Cavafy offer us new forms of comparison and relationality with the past? Is Cavafy's antiquity an urgent antiquity for our time? We are encouraging research and thought that is open to theoretical, historical, and comparative issues, and that seeks to leverage Cavafy's antiquity to ask fresh questions about the knowledge of antiquity and the stances and practices this knowledge can involve.
The International Cavafy Summer School 2018 will be convened by Constanze Güthenke and Dimitris Papanikolaou (both at the University of Oxford). Tutors and presenters will include Johanna Hanink (Brown University), Brooke Holmes (Princeton University), Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford), Alastair Blanshard (University of Queensland), Takis Kayalis (University of Ioannina) and Christodoulos Panayiotou (artist); it will take place at the historical building of the Onassis Foundation in the centre of Athens.
Workshops will run mornings and afternoons for 6 days (pending finalised timetable). Built around morning seminars and afternoon research presentations, this year's programme aims to enrich and enhance the participants' knowledge of Cavafy and his work, opening up new directions and comparative perspectives within world literature, while simultaneously broadening the scope of Cavafy research. The tutors, all senior experts in the field, will offer comprehensive 3-hour seminars in the mornings. Twelve junior participants (doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and early career academics) will be invited to present their work in the afternoon sessions, receive feedback from their peers, and engage in discussion. Additional lectures, performances and events will also be scheduled for the duration of the School.
One of the aims of the Cavafy Summer School is to encourage future collaborations and research, especially among scholars who follow different methodologies and are at different stages of their career. For this reason, successful applicants will be notified by the end of February 2018, and will be required to submit a version of their presentation in advance.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Onassis Foundation and the Cavafy Archive, the Summer School will be able to cover all expenses for tuition, accommodation and subsistence for all participants. There is, therefore, no fee requirement for tuition. Students and early career researchers can also apply for a grant to cover all or part of their travel expenses for coming to Athens.
The Cavafy Summer School is a unique opportunity to attend world-class talks and to showcase new research. Doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and early-career academics whose work relates to the fields of Comparative Literature, World Literature, Gender Studies, Cavafy Studies, Greek Studies and related areas, and who would like to take part in the Cavafy Summer School are encouraged to apply with:
a) a letter containing a short overview of their current research and their motivation for participating in the school (no more than 500 words)
b) a description of the specific topic they would be able to tackle in the Summer School in a 30 minute presentation (no more than 300 words), as well as
c) a full CV and
d) the name of one referee who can be contacted to provide support for their application.
In exceptional cases, one or two post-graduate students with verified skills and an apt interest in the theme of the summer school might also be accepted as participants.
The working language of the International Cavafy Summer School will be English. Proceedings will be recorded and parts of the talks published online on the Cavafy Archive Youtube Channel.
Knowledge of Modern Greek is not a prerequisite, but familiarity with Cavafy's work is.
Deadline for applications for the 2018 Cavafy Summer School: Wednesday 31 January 2018.
Please address all relevant material and any inquiries to: Theodoros Chiotis and Marianna Christofi at cavafyarchive@onassis.org.
Website: http://www.onassis.org/en/cavafy-archive-education.php?id=163
(Applications closed January 31, 2018)
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE EUROPEAN RECEPTION OF WINCKELMANN'S AESTHETICS
Christ Church Oxford: June 29, 2018
A conference has been organised in Oxford as part of the European celebration of Winckelmann’s jubilee. It will be held on June 29th, with Alex Potts and Elisabeth Décultot as keynote speakers.
It also coincides with the opening of the ‘Winckelmann and curiosity in the eighteenth-century gentleman’s library’ exhibition at Christ Church Library.
For the programme and to register, please follow this link:
https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/events/library-and-archives/winckelmann-anniversaries-symposium
Registration must close Friday, 22nd June.
For further details, please contact the organisers: Lucy Russell, levrussell@outlook.com and Fiona Gatty, fiona.gatty@materials.ox.ac.uk.
Website: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/conference-ideals-and-nations-new-perspectives-european-reception-winckelmanns-aesthetics
[20TH] NEOLATINA SYMPOSIUM: PLAUTUS IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Würzburg (Germany): June 28-30, 2018
When Nicholas of Cusa transferred a manuscript containing 12 previously unknown Plautine comedies to Rome and handed them over to Cardinal Giordano Orsini (Cod. Ursinianus, Vat. lat. 3870), he increased the number of preserved plays to 20 and gave way to an intensive revival in the study and appreciation of Plautus in the Early modern period.
Textual criticism carried out on the comedies by Italian humanists contributed to the revaluation of Plautus, whom the Middle Ages had regarded as both stylistically and morally inferior to the school author Terence. Since the editio princeps of the comedies prepared by Giorgio Merula and published in 1472, humanists all over Europe showed increasing interest in the older playwright and made his dramatic work subject of numerous Latin and vernacular imitations, adaptions and stage performances. The complete edition of the Plautine comedies by the German humanist Joachim Camerarius (Hervagius: Basel, 1552) can be regarded as a milestone of Plautine philology. It was the artistic reception of Plautine comedy that prepared the ground for the broad tradition of vernacular comedy and established the important role of the theatre during the Early modern period.
The 20th NeoLatina Symposium aims to contribute significantly to the understanding of the Neo-Latin reception of Plautus from the 15th to the 17th century in Europe. We welcome proposals on topics such as: humanistic work on and distribution of Plautine comedies; images of Plautus; early modern theories on Plautine comedy; theory and practice of stage performances; relationship between Latin and vernacular imitations of Plautus.
Please submit working titles and abstracts (max. 200 words) by September 15th 2017 to Prof. Thomas Baier (thomas.baier@uni-wuerzburg.de) and Tobias Dänzer (tobias.daenzer@uni-wuerzburg.de).
Proposed papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. They will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Papers may be given in German, English, French, Italian and Latin.
The organisers will reimburse travel and accommodation expenses. The publication of the conference proceedings in the series NeoLatina (Narr-Verlag, Tübingen) is planned for 2019.
Organiser: Institut für Klassische Philologie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in collaboration with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies (Innsbruck)
Venue: Würzburg, Toscanasaal and Philologische Bibliothek (Residence), Institut für Klassische Philologie, Lehrstuhl II (Latinistik) – Prof. Dr. Thomas Baier
Residenzplatz 2, Tor A, 97070 Würzburg
CFP: http://neolatin.lbg.ac.at/upcoming-conferences/20th-symposium-neolatina-plautus-early-modern-period
(CFP closed September 15, 2017)
TEA WITH THE SPHINX: RECEPTION OF ANCIENT EGYPT’S MYTH, MAGIC AND MYSTICISM
University of Birmingham, UK: June 28-30, 2018
At the first roundtable of ‘Tea with the Sphinx: Defining the Field of Ancient Egypt Reception Studies’ in September 2017 a debate arose surrounding the idea of ‘truth’, ‘facts’, the ways in which knowledge is formed in the popular imagination, and how this relates to reception studies as a field. This prompted discussion surrounding how reception studies should define itself, but also, and just as importantly, how myth, incorrect ‘facts’, and changing knowledge can be valuable in constructing a picture of how the knowledge of the ancient past and cultures has been formed, used and re-used, contributing to an ever-evolving history of the representation of ancient Egypt and its cultural offshoots.
Thus, the organisers of Tea with the Sphinx 2018 invite papers on any aspect of the reception of ancient Egypt in the global imagination, and especially those which engage with the following themes:
* Myths, curses, and legends
* Magic and ritual
* Mysticism, occultism, and spiritualism
* Re-incarnation and transcendental experiences
* Orientalism and imperialism
* Mummymania
* Literature and fiction
* Newspapers and the media
* Visual representations and the arts
* Replicas, souvenirs, and Egyptomania’s paraphernalia
* Museums and display
* Talismans and amulets
* Science and ‘rational truth’ vs superstition
* The ‘celebrity’ of Egyptology and Egyptologists
* Historical ‘fact’ and evolving knowledge of ancient Egypt
Abstracts of up to 300 words for 20 minute papers along with a short biographical note (in the same Word document) should be sent to teawiththesphinx@gmail.com by February 9th 2018.
The organisers also encourage PGRs to submit ideas for poster presentations to be presented during lunch of the first day of the conference.
Call: https://teawiththesphinx.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed February 9, 2018)
18th ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT DRAMA
Ioannou Centre, Oxford / Royal Holloway, Egham: June 25-26, 2018
Theme: Misdirections and Misconceptions in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama
The 18th Annual APGRD / Royal Holloway, University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Ancient Drama will take place on Monday 25 June (at the Ioannou Centre, Oxford) and Tuesday 26 June (at Royal Holloway, Egham). This year’s theme will be: ‘Misdirections and Misconceptions in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: This annual Symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy, exploring the afterlife of these ancient dramatic texts through their re-workings by both writers and practitioners across all genres and periods. This year’s theme invites discussions of old and new interpretations of Greek and Roman drama with a particular focus on their (non)conformity to ancient (and modern) models, as well as the way that they are shaped by theatre conventions. Speakers from a number of countries will give papers on the reception of Greek and Roman drama. This year’s guest respondent will be Dr Helen Eastman (Theatre Director/Writer). The following academics will attend this year: Prof. Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Prof. Elizabeth Schafer (RHUL), Prof. Oliver Taplin (Oxford). There will be a performance of Tony Harrison’s The Labourers of Heracles on the evening of Monday 25 June in Oxford.
PARTICIPANTS: Postgraduates from around the world working on the reception of Greek and Roman drama are welcome to participate, as are those who have completed a doctorate but not yet taken up a post. The symposium is open to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of Classics, modern languages and literature, and theatre and performance studies.
Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on ancient drama. Papers may also include demonstrations. Undergraduates are very welcome to attend.
Those who wish to offer a short paper (20 mins) or performance presentation on ‘misdirections and misconceptions in the theory and practice of ancient drama’ are invited to send an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk by FRIDAY 6 APRIL 2018 - EXTENDED DEADLINE April 20th, 2018 - (please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution).
There will be no registration fee. Some travel bursaries will be available this year - please indicate if you would like to be considered for one of these.
Contact: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk
Website: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/
(CFP closed April 20, 2018)
ANCIENT & MODERN KNOWLEDGES COLLOQUIUM
University of Sheffield, UK: June 22-23, 2018
The Ancient and Modern Knowledges Colloquium will take place at the Information Commons library of the University of Sheffield on the 22 and the 23 June, generously funded by the British Academy.
Register by June 18, 2018 by email to h.l.ellis@sheffield.ac.uk
Programme:
Friday 22 June 2018
12.00 – Welcome, Registration and Lunch
12.30 -2.30 Panel 1: Renaissance Historiography and Philosophy
* Lorenzo Valla, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the History of Early Rome - Daniele Miano (University of Sheffield)
* L’uso della storiografia antica nei Discorsi di Machiavelli - Paolo Desideri (Università degli Studi Firenze)
* Machiavelli and Seneca: Parallel Virtues - Amanda J. Griffiths (University of Chicago)
2.30-3.00 – Tea/Coffee
3.00-5.00 – Panel 2: Architecture, Aesthetics and Epigraphy
* Between Ancient Wisdom and Modern Knowledge: New Science and Modern Architecture in the Case of Claude Perrault - Katerina Lolou (National Technical University, Athens)
* Modern Aesthetics, Ancient Theory: Jean-Baptiste Dubos (1670-1742), Aesthetic Theory and Classical Philology at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century - Floris Verhaart (Queen’s University, Belfast)
* The Use and Abuse of Greek Epigraphical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century - Peter Liddel (University of Manchester)
5.15 – 6.15 Keynote: Elegabalus’ Cobwebs - David Hume on Knowing Past and Present - Neville Morley (University of Exeter)
7.00pm - Conference Dinner
Saturday 23 June
9.00 – 10.30 – Panel 3 – Knowledge Making in 18th and early 19th Centuries
* 'The Common Lot': James Montgomery, Progress and the Dissemination of Knowledge, 1800-1835 - Jon Mee (University of York)
* Classical Knowledge and the Discourse of Gentlemanly science in early nineteenth-century Britain - Heather Ellis (University of Sheffield)
10.00-10.30 – Tea/Coffee
10.30-12.30 – Panel 4 – Ancient and Modern Ideas of History
* Polybius in Hegel and Bossuet - John Thornton (Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma)
* Hegel and Herodotus - William Desmond (University of Maynooth)
* Ancient and Modern Concepts of Historiography - Tim Cornell (University of Manchester/University of Birmingham)
12.30 – 2.00 – Lunch and Concluding Discussion
Information: https://www.facebook.com/ancientandmodernknowledges/.
EDITING CONTEXTS: HISTORICAL EDITIONS OF LITERARY WORKS & THEIR AFTERLIVES
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH): Friday June 22, 2018
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rhiannon Daniels, Senior Lecturer in Italian, University of Bristol
Editing Contexts is a one-day interdisciplinary conference on historical editions of literary works, kindly supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). It will be held on Friday 22nd June at TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford. We invite abstracts from graduate students and early career researchers working on editorial practices in all periods of European literature.
Throughout history, editing has been a crucial stage in the reception of literary works. Editorial decisions could dramatically alter the experience of the audience and issues of interpretation. Beyond acts of correction and emendation, some editors have made substantial omissions, interpolations and rewritings, deliberately repurposing texts for new audiences. Although these non-authorial interventions are not always relevant to modern textual criticism, the work of historical editors nonetheless provides significant insights into how literary works were adapted in different eras, and how particular generations of readers would have known and understood them. These editions had currency in their day, and are integral to textual traditions as witnessed by their audiences.
Historical contexts – intellectual, cultural, political, religious – shaped the production, circulation, and influence of these editions. They played an important role in determining the aims and methods of editors, the extent of dissemination, and the responses of audiences. Some of the more influential editions had a lasting impact on the reception of particular works, provoking changes in scholarly method, in literature, and in wider society.
This one-day conference aims to bring together graduate students and early career researchers working in a wide range of disciplines from Classics to English Literature, Modern Languages, and History. We welcome papers across all periods, languages, and genres of European literature from Antiquity to the present. Possible themes include but are not limited to:
· Editions from Antiquity to the present;
· Interpolations and rewritings in manuscript traditions;
· Editorial practice through the ages;
· Editorial censorship;
· Ideological commitments of modern editors.
We welcome abstracts for twenty-minute papers (ca. 250 words). Please send all submissions to editingcontexts@gmail.com by Friday 18th May 2018. There is a small conference fee (£5) to cover the costs and refreshments. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Rhiannon Daniels, Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol.
For more information, please visit https://editingcontexts.wordpress.com/.
(CFP closed May 18, 2018)
THE FORGOTTEN OTHER: DISABILITY STUDIES & THE CLASSICAL BODY
Kings College London, June 18-19 2018
Organisers:
Ellen Adams (Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology, Kings College London)
Emma-Jayne Graham (Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University)
The influence of the classical bodily ideal on Western notions of beauty has been vast. But what of the broken body, as so many classical marble sculptures have become? While philosophical explorations of the body and the senses may reference the ancient world as a starting point, there is generally little engagement with the sensory body that is impaired or progressively failing. If we are interested in the body, past or present, experienced or represented, we must look to what happens when it ‘breaks’ – the challenges posed and met, the hurdles overcome or un-surmounted, and the remarkable strategies adopted to mitigate any disabling effects of physical and sensory impairments – by both individuals and their societies. Studying the disabled in the ancient past has yet to engage with Disability Studies in a way comparable with other areas of identity politics, such as gender, sexuality and race. Classics, and its cognate disciplines, has nevertheless played a role in shaping the modern concepts of impairment and disability that form the basis of contemporary Disability Studies, and this relationship deserves further exploration.
This conference seeks to explore shared ground by examining what modern debates concerning impairments and disabilities can add to our understanding of ancient bodies and identities. It will question why ‘non-normative’ bodies are so rarely brought into the mix by classicists, historians and archaeologists studying ancient social and cultural contexts, and how doing so can offer suggestive new ways of understanding the complex relationship between bodies, identities and divergent experiences of the world.
We invite papers which explore these issues from the standpoint of both Classical Studies and Disability Studies (of all periods). Plenty of time will be dedicated to discussion and, where possible, the organisers hope to ‘pair up’ speakers from different disciplinary backgrounds in order to encourage greater reflection on the synergies and differences of each approach. Free-standing papers will also be welcomed. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- The ableism inherent in the Humanities
- Reference to the classical world and ancient thinkers in Disability Studies
- ‘Fixing’ impairments (including aids)
- The tension between ‘disabled’ and ‘unable’
- The terminology of disabilities
- Moving beyond etic objectification to the emic voice of the (impaired) person
- The application of social, medical and interactional models to the classical world
- Other approaches to treating disabilities (e.g. ritual)
- The phenomenology of impairment, including movement and kinaesthesia
- Sensory impairment and embodied experience
- The disabled ‘beautiful body’ and the beautiful disabled body
- Experiences of and attitudes towards progressive disabilities and sensory impairments.
Confirmed speakers include: Patty Baker, Eleanor Betts, Lennard Davis, Jane Draycott, Edith Hall, Brian Hurwitz, Helen King, Christian Laes, Michiel Meeusen, Georgia Petridou, Tom Shakespeare, Michael Squire, Hannah Thompson.
Papers should be 20 minutes in length and abstracts of approximately 200-300 words should be submitted to either Ellen Adams (Ellen.Adams@kcl.ac.uk) or Emma-Jayne Graham (Emma-jayne.graham@open.ac.uk) by 31st July 2017. Successful contributions may be considered for publication in a conference volume. Funding may be available to support travel and accommodation for speakers where necessary.
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;616df4e6.1703
(CFP closed July 31, 2017)
LUCRETIAN RECEPTIONS IN PROSE
University of Patras, Greece: 16-17 June, 2018
I am pleased to announce a two-day conference on 'Lucretian Receptions in Prose', which will take place at the University of Patras, Greece on the 16th and 17th of June 2018.
Confirmed speakers so far:
Bakker, Frederik (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Berno, Francesca Romana (Sapienza University of Rome)
Campbell, Gordon (University of Maynooth)
Garani, Myrto (University of Athens)
Hardie, Philip (University of Cambridge)
Kazantzidis, George (University of Patras)
Lipka, Michael (University of Patras)
Markovic, Daniel (University of Cincinnati)
Nelis, Damien (University of Geneva)
Nicoli, Elena (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Schiesaro, Alessandro (University of Manchester)
Shearin, Wilson (University of Miami)
Tutrone Fabio (University of Palermo)
Zinn, Pamela (Texas Tech University)
Those who wish to attend, send an e mail to gkazantzidis@upatras.gr (there is no registration fee). Further details about the conference, including the venue and a preliminary program, will be circulated at the beginning of January 2018.
Website: TBA.
SOCIETY FOR NEO-LATIN STUDIES: ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE EVENT
John Rylands Library, Manchester: June 15, 2018 (postponed from March 16, 2018)
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies has organised a one-day event to be held in Manchester next March to give postgraduate and post-doctoral researchers opportunities to discuss ideas, meet other scholars in the discipline, present papers on their current research, and to attend a special workshop on 'Editing Neo-Latin Texts' led by Prof. Sarah Knight. This will be the sixth in a successful series of meetings the Society has organised for researchers at relatively early stages of their careers. Masters and PhD students, as well as students who have recently received their doctorates, are encouraged to attend; advanced undergraduate students considering a postgraduate career are also very welcome. In the past, participants have come from a variety of departmental and disciplinary backgrounds, including classics, cultural and intellectual history, literary studies, philology, philosophy, rhetoric, and textual scholarship.
We invite proposals from any interested postgraduate or post-doctoral researchers to give 20-minute papers on their work. The papers will be organised into two- or three-speaker panels on related topics. Proposals should take the form of a brief outline of the speaker's affiliation and research interests; an abstract of the paper to be given (100-150 words) and a provisional paper title. Proposals should be submitted by the deadline of Friday 2 February 2018 and speakers will be notified as soon as possible of the outcome of the selection process.
Proposals should be submitted via email to the organiser Paul White (p.m.white@leeds.ac.uk); if you have any questions or require any further information about the event, please also contact Dr White. The event will be held at the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester (http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/)
Call: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/news/snlsgradforum2018
For further information about the Society for Neo-Latin Studies, please visit the website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/
(CFP closed February 2, 2018)
'WHAT REMAINS?': FASCIST AND NATIONAL SOCIALIST ANTIQUITIES AND MATERIALITIES FROM THE INTERWAR ERA TO THE PRESENT DAY
An interdisciplinary workshop of international experts, including historians of Germany and Italy, classicists, archaeologists and art historians.
The Old Library, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge: June 8, 2018
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, along with other twentieth-century authoritarian regimes, have often attempted to create consensus through propagandistic reinterpretations of the classical past. As recent scholarship has shown, the Fascist appropriation of romanità and Nazi philhellenism were not only conditioned by prior cultural receptions of antiquity, but were also a key political tool in motivating and mobilizing citizens to fulfill the aims of the fascist state.
Once Fascism and Nazism had fallen, the material legacies of both regimes then became the object of destruction, reinterpretation and memory work. Thus, the archaeological and architectural heritage of these regimes, now tainted by their ideology, has not only suffered the consequences of damnatio memoriae in the aftermath of regime change, but continues even today to inflame contemporary public debate.
This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together a group of international experts, including historians of Germany and Italy, classicists, archaeologists and art historians, to explore the complex relationships between antiquity and materiality, both during and after Fascism and National Socialism. Our aim is to examine the shifting conditions of the reception of antiquity under dictatorial regimes, and the fate of fascist material legacies from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present day.
The workshop, organized by Dr. Helen Roche (Faculty of History), Flaminia Bartolini (Department of Archaeology) and Timothy Schmalz (Faculty of History), is a joint collaboration between the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, the Department of Archaeology, and the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. It will be the first of a series of workshops on the theme of Heritage and Dictatorship, and is supported by the DAAD-University of Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office and the Faculty of History. It will also form a launchpad for ‘Claiming the Classical’, a new network for scholars interested in political appropriations of the classical past.
Programme
START OF WORKSHOP - 10am
Helen Roche / Flaminia Bartolini: Introduction: On Fascist and National Socialist Antiquities and Materialities
PART I - FASCIST ANTIQUITIES
Jan Nelis (Ghent) - On Fascist and National Socialist Classicism
Han Lamers (HU Berlin) / Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Groningen) - Architecture and Material Culture in the Latin Literature of the ventennio fascista
Helen Roche (Cambridge) - German Philhellenism and the Reception of Winckelmann during the Third Reich
LUNCH BREAK
PART II - FASCIST MATERIALITIES
Joshua Arthurs (West Virginia): Burning Paper and Crushing Bedbugs: Iconoclasm, Memory and Expectation during the Fall of Mussolini
Clare Copley (Central Lancashire) - National Socialist Prestige Buildings and the Postwar Urban Landscape
Flaminia Bartolini (Cambridge): From Iconoclasm to Heritage: Renegotiating the Fascist Past in Contemporary Italy
TEA BREAK
PART III - ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION
Aristotle Kallis (Keele)
Hannah Malone (FU Berlin)
Jimmy Fortuna (Cambridge)
Martijn Eickhoff (NIOD)
Donna Storey (Melbourne)
OPEN DISCUSSION - including all of the participants
END OF WORKSHOP [c. 6pm]
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-remains-fascist-and-national-socialist-antiquities-and-materialities-tickets-45291122968
ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES: 47TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 6-7 June 2018
Call for Papers
The ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES is pleased to announce its 47th annual conference to be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Wed-Thurs, 6-7 JUNE 2018.
Our keynote speaker in 2018 will be Professor Edith Hall, King's College London.
The conference is the annual meeting of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies. Papers on a wide range of classical subjects, including but not limited to history, philology, philosophy, literature, reception, papyrology and archaeology of Greece and Rome and neighboring lands, are welcome. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes. The official languages of the conference are Hebrew and English. The conference fee is $50.
Accommodation at reduced prices will be available at local hotels.
Registration forms with a list of prices will be sent to participants in due course.
Proposals, abstracts and other correspondence may be forwarded to Dr.Lisa Maurice, Secretary of the ISPCS: lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il
All proposals should consist of a one page abstract (about 250-300 words). Proposals in Hebrew should also be accompanied by a one-page abstract in English to appear in the conference brochure.
ALL PROPOSALS SHOULD REACH THE SECRETARY BY 21st DECEMBER, 2017.
Decisions will be made after the organizing committee has duly considered all the proposals. If a decision is required prior to early February, please indicate this in your letter and we will try to accommodate your needs.
Website: http://www.israel-classics.org/?page_id=17
(CFP closed December 21, 2017)
RECONSTRUCTING & ADAPTING ANCIENT GREEK FRAGMENTARY TRAGEDY: METHODOLOGIES & CHALLENGES FOR CLASSICISTS AND THEATRE PRACTITIONERS
Senate House, London: June 2, 2018
This one-day workshop on “Reconstructing & Adapting Ancient Greek Fragmentary Tragedy” will be the first of its kind and will look at the Methodologies & Challenges for Classicists and Theatre Practitioners bringing to life the lost Greek plays.
Experts from Classics, English and Drama as well as playwrights and theatremakers will discuss their own take on the lost plays, producing an engaging and informative workshop addressed at colleagues, students, theatre artists and members of the public interested in the undiscovered plays of Greek civilisation.
The speakers will explore past and current trends in the reconstruction of lost Greek tragedies and will look at the creative and interdisciplinary potential of reimagining these plays. Each of them will showcase their methodology on the plays they chose to reconstruct and the benefits and practicalities of their approach. The event organiser, Dr. Andriana Domouzi, defines these trends as follows:
• The “faithful” reconstruction, resulting in a new play trying to appear as if it was written by the ancient tragedian (pastiche).
• The imaginative/creative reconstruction, resulting in a new play that might not be close to the original, but still makes use of available ancient sources; the action is often transferred to the contemporary era.
• The Classicist’s reconstruction, one that does not usually produce a fully formalised new play, but prefers to dramatically explore and experiment with the potential scenarios, reflecting the classicist’s struggle to deal with usually contradictory sources on the same lost tragedy.
The event will be hosted by the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome of the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London. It is generously funded by the Classical Association and co-sponsored by the theatre company Cyborphic.
Confirmed speakers:
Timberlake Wertenbaker (playwright, translator)
Adam Roberts (author, Prof. of English at Royal Holloway, University of London)
David Stuttard (author, classicist, director, founder of Actors of Dionysus theatre company)
Colin Teevan (playwright, Prof. of Playwriting at Birkbeck, University of London)
Martin Wylde (director, Lecturer in Acting at Central School of Speech and Drama)
Leta Koutsohera (poet, playwright)
Lily Karadima (director, dramaturg, artistic director of Atrapos theatre company)
Plays under discussion:
Sophocles' Tereus (Wertenbaker, The Love of the Nightingale)
Euripides' Phaethon, Hypsipyle and Telephos (Roberts)
Euripides' Alexandros, Palamedes and Sisyphus (Stuttard)
Euripides' Alcmaeon in Corinth (Teevan and Wylde)
Euripides' Cretans (Koutsohera and Karadima)
Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-reconstructing-adapting-ancient-greek-fragmentary-tragedy-tickets-45919159442
MAKING NEW WORLDS FROM OLD: THE TRANSLATION AND TRANSFERENCE OF ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY INTO CONTEMPORARY HISPANIC THEATRE (AND BEYOND)
King’s College London: June 1, 2018
We would like to invite you to Making New Worlds from Old: The Translation and Transference of Ancient Mythology into Contemporary Hispanic Theatre (and Beyond) on 1st June from 2 – 8pm at King’s College London.
The adoption and adaptation of classical myth is common in present-day UK theatre, where many celebrated playwrights routinely re-imagine stories and characters forged in the distant past. The Greeks, in particular, are seen as an essential part of the contemporary ‘English-language’ theatrical canon, as recent successful productions at the National and Almeida Theatres can attest.
This afternoon and evening event addresses this practice in today’s Hispanic theatrical tradition, examining the manner in which writers from the Spanish-speaking world readapt tales from the Biblical and ancient worlds for their respective audiences. We focus in particular on two recent plays from the theatre of Chile and Spain, in English translation: Juan Radrigán’s The Desolate Prince (El príncipe desolado) and Pedro Víllora’s Electra in the Forest of Oma (Electra en el Bosque de Oma). In the Desolate Prince, Chilean dramatist Juan Radrigán re-versions the Lucifer and Lilith myth in an exploration of theocratic dogma and intransigence. In Electra in the Forest of Oma, Spanish playwright Pedro Víllora blends a contemporary Basque forest with the Classical setting of Argos as Electra stands firm to protect her father’s memory. Our discussions of these two plays will additionally pay critical attention to the practice and challenges of translating them into English. The event will conclude with a rehearsed reading of Electra in the Forest of Oma.
Website: https://languageacts.org/events/making-new-worlds-old-translation-and-transference-ancient-mythology-contemporary-hispanic-theatre-and-beyond/
Register: https://makingnewworldsold.eventbrite.co.uk
LYRIC BEYOND LYRIC: 'SUBMERGED' TRADITIONS, GENERIC INTERACTIONS, AND LATER RECEPTIONS
King's College London: May 24th, 2018
As early as the Hellenistic period, the study of ancient Greek lyric poetry was identified most predominantly with the study of the nine, major canonical lyric poets and their texts. This process saw the redefinition of lyric as genre and the crystallisation of a lyric canon. The postclassical condition of lyric also influenced its Latin reception and adaptation, as it became an authoritative model for Roman poetry. The existence of an established canon, however, has often pushed to the side-lines of the lyric realm other 'minor' poets and song traditions. At the same time, the incorporation of lyric in other genres has been primarily acknowledged in order to detect quotations of poems or as a source of biographical information about poets. More recent scholarship, however, has broadened these narrow views of lyric by exploring the performative context and the socio-political dimension of lyric genres. Archaic song culture has been studied more and more with attention being paid both to the broader cultural discourses that lyric negotiated and to its interactions with other performative occasions and textual traditions. Equally, marginal lyric poets and texts have increasingly attracted scholarly attention.
In the wave of this trend, this postgraduate workshop seeks to further investigate Greek and Latin lyric poetry by focusing on some of its still under-explored aspects, in an attempt to go beyond what has been most traditionally conceived as 'lyric'. In order to broaden the conception of lyric, we aim at considering texts other than the canonical ones, as well as at exploring ancient receptions and reciprocal influences of lyric in other genres. On the one hand, we are interested in the fascinating variety of song traditions and 'peripheral' authors thriving in archaic and classical times, as well as in the development of lyric culture in the post-classical period. On the other, we are willing to consider how lyric poetry interacted with different literary genres, both synchronically and diachronically. We would like to look at the various ways in which lyric could overlap with contemporary genres such as philosophy and historiography, sharing not only literary patterns and motifs but also filtering thoughts and beliefs of the surrounding cultural and intellectual context. At the same time, we are interested in how lyric authors and poems have been the object of later receptions, acting as models and touchstones while being transformed and reshaped to fit new contexts and functions.
Confirmed keynote speaker will be Prof. Pauline LeVen (Yale University).
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Department of Classics at King's College London, the Classical Association and the Gilbert Murray Trust. A number of postgraduate bursaries will be available to cover part of the travel expenses and/or accommodation.
We invite postgraduate students and early career researchers (within three years from PhD completion) to submit proposals for 30-minutes papers, to which academics from the Department with research interests in lyric poetry will respond chairing the discussion. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
* 'Submerged' song traditions: e.g. Carmina popularia; anonymous hymns and cult songs of the classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods
* Relationship between the nine poets of the canon and 'minor'/non-canonical poets and texts
* Synchronic interactions with other genres: e.g. lyric poetry and the philosophical tradition; lyric poetry and historiography; lyric and rhetoric
* Later receptions of lyric in antiquity: e.g. quotations, appropriations of lyric themes, attitudes, and gestures
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to lyricbeyondlyric2018@gmail.com by 24th January 2018.
Organisers: Chiara Ciampa, Antonio Genova, Francesca Modini
Call: https://classicalreception.org/event/lyric-beyond-lyric-submerged-traditions-generic-interactions-and-later-receptions/
(CFP closed January 24, 2018)
EPITOME. FROM FRAGMENTATION TO RE-COMPOSITION (AND BACK AGAIN)
Ghent University (Belgium): May 23-25, 2018
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Virginia Burrus (University of Syracuse) – Jas Elsner (University of Cambridge) – Eva Geulen (Humboldt University of Berlin/Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung) – Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge) – Jesús H. Lobato (University of Salamanca) – Scott McGill (Rice University) – Grant Parker (Stanford University) – Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed (Uppsala University) – Jürgen P. Schwindt (Heidelberg University) – Michael Squire (King’s College London)
For centuries, the term epitome did not enjoy great appreciation, intuitively connected as it was to an idea of textual recycling and derivativeness. It is thus no coincidence that a number of ages in which epitomatory works witnessed a widespread diffusion - from Late Antiquity up to the long season of humanistic and late humanistic erudition - were equally doomed to an aesthetical damnatio memoriae. Yet, in more recent years a renovated scholarly enthusiasm has been paving the way for both an aesthetic and heuristic revaluation of these “obscure objects”.
Our aim here is not so much to concentrate on the definition, indeed quite problematic, of a genre called epitome, nor to fall back to that theoretically limiting Quellenforschung whose only purpose was to treat epitomized texts as mines for lost textual sources. We would like, instead, to conceptualize epitomai as the result of two very basic movements, dismemberment and re-composition, and to survey the hermeneutic fields so disclosed. Among others:
• What do we mean by textual integrity? What is at stake here is, of course, the problem of different open, closed, and fluid textualities.
• At what and at how many textual levels can the dialectics dismemberment/re-composition take place?
• Far from being neutral objects or mere shortened reproductions of the so-called primary objects, epitomai establish with them a complex, dialectic relationship. They sometimes end up undermining the primary meaning (the apparent meaning of the primary object). Can we identify a semiotic principle which regulates such an overturning?
If then we take the “text” in its broadest sense, it is not hard to realize that to reflect on epitome means to wonder about the most fundamental mechanisms of cultural memory:
• Should epitomatory gestures be interpreted as auxiliary (continuity) or as contrasting (rupture) to the tradition?
• What kind of relationship can be identified between epitomatory practices and other forms of cultural archiving (chronologies, thematic repertoires, encyclopaedism, museification, cartography)?
• How did the evolution of media influence the epitomatory dimension?
• Can we define a socio-cultural figure to be named “The Epitomizer”? What is its ethos?
On a more literary and aesthetic ground, reflecting on these types of texts may lead us to further questions:
• How could they be related to modernist and post-modern techniques such as collage or montage?
• Generally speaking, we are referring to practices that fissure the textual surface – practices in which the pleasure of the subjects involved in the textual play originates from the creation of a primal void (dismemberment of the primary text) and then by the erasure of this void itself (re-composition), but in such a way that a sense of the void keeps on being perceivable: what about thinking of epitome as a textual embodiment of absence?
• Accordingly, and contrary to the common opinion which tends look at aesthetic systems dominated by the epitomatory dimension as to static ones, does not such an aesthetic configuration show a state of inexhaustible and dynamic tension, of perpetual self-projection towards perpetually absent objects – all the more so as they seem to be conjured up?
Late Antiquity (ca. III c. CE – VII c. CE) provides a fruitful field of investigation, not only for the obvious reason that a great number of surviving epitomai dates back to that period, but also because what we have called the epitomatory dimension seems to have attained at that time a previously unparalleled pervasiveness, retrievable in many cultural phenomena: from the spolia-aesthetics to the literary fondness for centones, as well as, just to mention Latin evidences, the tendency to create textual corpora (Historia Augusta, Panegyrici Latini, Anthologia Latina, hagiographic collections etc…) and the success of corpora-texts (Macrobius’s Saturnalia, Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Nonius Marcellus’s De compendiosa doctrina etc…). Indeed, the list might easily be made longer by looking at the whole complexity of antique and late antique textual production (Greek, Syrian, etc…).
In the light of the above-mentioned broad theoretical problems we envisage contributions from any field of Classics, History, History of Art, Archaeology, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Theory, in order to take advantage of diverse expertise and promote an integrated approach to the subject. We would cherish contributions from artists, writers, composers etc. as well.
Abstracts in English, French, and German containing about 300-350 words should be sent by 15 May 2017 by 18 June 2017 to Marco.Formisano@UGent.be and PaoloFelice.Sacchi@UGent.be.
For further queries please contact PaoloFelice.Sacchi@UGent.be.
ADVISORY BOARD: Prof. Virginia Burrus (University of Syracuse); Prof. Marco Formisano (Ghent University); Prof. Scott McGill (Rice University); Prof. Gert Partoens (University of Leuven); Paolo Felice Sacchi (Ghent University); Prof. Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent University)
(CFP closed June 18, 2017)
THE POETRY OF NATURE AND THE NATURE OF POETRY: GRECO-ROMAN DIDACTIC POETRY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Engineers House, Bristol UK: 9 May, 2018
This international, interdisciplinary workshop, sponsored by the Institute for Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition, and the Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol, will begin to map the ‘before’, ‘beside’ and ‘beyond’ of Greco-Roman didactic poetry: not just its European vernacular and neo-Latin Nachleben but also its relationship and/or resonance with Islamic, Chinese, African, Indigenous American, Australian and Papuan poetry and song.
Participants: Professor Yasmin Haskell (Bristol), Dr Rowan Tomlinson (Bristol), Dr Michael Malay (Bristol), Professor Ian Rutherford (Reading), Professor Nicholas Evans (Australian National University), Dr Charles Pigott (Cambridge), Dr Chisomo Kalinga (Edinburgh), Dr Sophie Wei (Hong Kong), Dr Giulia Fanti (Oxford), Dr Elena Nicoli (Nijmegen), Dr Jorge Ledo (Basel), Dr Victoria Moul (King’s College, London), Dr Iman Sheeha (Brunel University, London), Dr John Gilmore (Warwick), Ewelina Drzwiecka (Cracow), Oliver Budey (Freiburg).
This is a closed workshop but we hope to make available the keynote address by Professor Nicholas Evans, FAHA, FASSA, FBA, Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australian National University: "Waving to the other side: the language of poetry in indigenous Australian song."
For further information please contact Professor Yasmin Haskell: yh16780@bristol.ac.uk
LES NOCES DE PHILOLOGIE ET DE GUILLAUME BUDÉ: L’ŒUVRE DE GUILLAUME BUDÉ AU PRISME DU SAVOIR HUMANISTE, CINQ SIÈCLES ET DEMI APRÈS SA NAISSANCE
Paris, 3-5 mai 2018
Au cours de son existence bien remplie, Guillaume Budé (1468-1540) a conçu, publié, augmenté nombre d’œuvres dont la valeur littéraire et la portée scientifique ont profondément marqué son époque et la postérité, à l’égal de son contemporain Érasme. Or les productions de Budé sont connues de façon inégale, demeurent parfois peu étudiées, non traduites, dépourvues d’éditions modernes, malgré un regain d’intérêt qui s’est déployé tout au long du xxe siècle comme en ce début du xxie. Le colloque « Les Noces de Philologie et de Guillaume Budé » a pour ambition de revenir, à la lumière des recherches les plus récentes, sur les différentes facettes d’une œuvre polycentrique, allant de l’essai historique novateur qu’est le De Asse et partibus eius à l’épistolographie humaniste en grec et latin, des traductions de textes grecs en latin (de Plutarque à Basile de Césarée) à la lexicographie grecque (Commentarii linguæ Græcæ), de l’exégèse des sources du droit romain (Annotationes in Pandectas) aux recommandations politiques de l’« Institution du prince », en passant par les considérations morales et religieuses confiées tour à tour aux lettres, aux digressions et à deux traités indépendants, De Transitu hellenismi ad christianismum et De Contemptu rerum fortuitarum.
À travers l’analyse de ce corpus multiforme, il s’agit en premier lieu de retracer les différentes sources de Budé, intellectuelles et matérielles, filtrées par sa formation hybride de juriste humaniste au sein des cénacles de l’humanisme parisien, depuis le cercle d’hellénistes alimenté par Georges Hermonyme de Sparte, puis par Janus Lascaris, et le groupe de savants réuni autour de Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, jusqu’aux premiers lecteurs du roi et aux imprimeurs humanistes de la génération de Robert Estienne, sans oublier sa riche expérience à la cour. Il importe également de bien comprendre les méthodes de travail d’un atelier si surprenant, ce dont la documentation existante fournit d’intéressants échantillons en termes de cahiers autographes, d’annotations marginales, de réécritures diverses. Le style budéen pourrait aussi faire l’objet de nouvelles investigations : comment définir et caractériser la latinité si singulière du prosateur ? Avons-nous mesuré toutes les implications de son recours — et de son amour — pour la langue grecque ? Y aurait-il une manière philologique propre à l’auteur du De Asse, prompt à mettre en œuvre les savoirs antiques ? On n’oubliera pas que Budé le latiniste prit aussi sa part à l’illustration de la langue française, que ce soit avec l’ « Institution du Prince » ou avec l’ « Epitome » du De Asse.
À la convergence de plusieurs disciplines, nous nous proposons d’identifier les parcours que Guillaume Budé a tracés, cerner les passerelles entre les différents noyaux de son écriture, reconstituer l’unité intellectuelle de son œuvre à une époque où la diffusion du patrimoine écrit de l’Antiquité achevait sa première grande saison et ouvrait l’époque des études philologiques spécialisées.
Les propositions, d’un volume de 2000 caractères au plus, sont à adresser à l’un des organisateurs au plus tard le 3 mai 2017, assorties d’une brève présentation bio-bibliographique.
Organisation : Christine Bénévent, EnC, Paris (christine.benevent@enc-sorbonne.fr); Romain Menini, Univ. Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (romain.menini@hotmail.fr); Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, Cnrs-I.H.D., Paris (luigi-alberto.sanchi@u-paris2.fr)
Source: https://www.fabula.org/actualites/les-noces-de-philologie-et-de-guillaume-bude_78604.php
(CFP closed 3 May, 2017)
WOMEN AND CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP: AN INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM CELEBRATING THE RETIREMENT OF JUDITH P. HALLETT
University of Maryland, USA: April 27, 2018
A one-day international colloquium on women and classical scholarship will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park on Friday, April 27, 2018, to honor the retirement of Judith P. Hallett.
The speakers will include Eric Adler (Maryland), T. Corey Brennan (Rutgers), Sandra Messenger Cypess (Maryland), Sheila K. Dickison (Florida), Jane Donawerth (Maryland), Arthur Eckstein (Maryland), Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Lille), Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (Basel), Donald Lateiner (Ohio Wesleyan), Amy Richlin (UCLA), Diana Robin (New Mexico) and John Weisweiler (Maryland).
A detailed program will be posted nearer the date.
Source: https://www.archaeological.org/events/26960
PLACING MEDEA: TRANSFER, SPATIALITY, AND GENDER IN EUROPE 1750-1800
Uppsala and Stockholm, April 25-27, 2018
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Edith Hall, King’s College London
Professor Fiona Macintosh, Oxford University
The late eighteenth century saw a variety of Medeas performed on stage in Europe ranging from Jean-Georges Noverre’s 1763 ballet Jason et Médée and Richard Glover’s tragedy Medea (1767) to Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter’s successful melodrama Medea (1775) and François Benoît Hoffmann’s and Luigi Cherubini’s opera Médée (1797). Performances took place in Stuttgart, London, Gotha, and Paris—just to mention a few venues. In the same decades texts and scores of these works were printed, reissued, translated, revised, and circulated throughout Europe. Some Medeas of the late eighteenth century never reached the stage but were printed as texts, for example, the Swedish author Bengt Lidner’s opera libretto Medea from 1784 and Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger’s two Medea tragedies, one from 1786 and the other from 1790.
The sheer number of Medea dramas is considerable, which raises questions about why this particular and rather extreme character of ancient tragedy is placed on stage and on the page throughout Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century. As a transgressive character Medea seems to overstep a number of eighteenth-century borders: language borders, nation borders, cultural borders, borders of ideal motherhood and femininity, and genre borders. How is this surging eighteenth-century interest in Medea, one that moves beyond national borders, to be interpreted within a European perspective?
The eighteenth-century Medea has recently received renewed attention from scholars of various disciplines and nationalities. The groundbreaking work of Edith Hall and Fiona Macintosh in publications such as Medea in Performance 1500-2000 (Oxford 2000; with Oliver Taplin) have paved the way for subsequent scholarship. However, several studies focus exclusively on a single nation or language area, and the transgressional trajectories of the European Medea story seem to be a neglected field of study. The conference aims at bringing together scholars from various language areas and disciplines with a focus on the late eighteenth-century Medea. It will address themes concerned with the transgressions of Medea, focussing particularly on space and gender.
The Medea story from Antiquity is certainly concerned with space—the Colchian enchantress betrays her family and flees to Greece with Jason—and the question is how and why this story is translated and transported to different parts of Europe in the late eighteenth century. Is a German Medea identical to a French or a Swedish one? In what sense does Medea in the eighteenth century connect to the literary models of Athens and of Rome respectively? How are Athens and Rome, as models, constructed as real or imagined spaces, in relation to Paris, London, or Stockholm? How does the transgression of genre borders affect the Medea theme?
Gender in the eighteenth-century is connected to spatiality, not least through the concept of the public-private divide. The discussion about Habermas’ conceptual framework was intensified after the 1989 English translation of his seminal Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit (1962). The Medea figure poses a challenge to the notions of eighteenth-century femininity as centred on the private sphere: on tenderness, sexual modesty, and motherhood. A question of interest is how this vengeful child murderess from Greek and Roman antiquity fits into the sentimental framework of European eighteenth-century culture.
The conference wishes to highlight the transcultural aspects of the various European Medeas, displayed by gendered spaces, local appropriations, and reconsiderations of otherness. How can we move beyond the national point of departure and incorporate an awareness of the specific local conditions of Paris, London, or Gotha? In what sense do the Medea texts and performances engage in a transfer across language borders, nation borders and cultural borders? And how are these spatial aspects interconnected with gender issues?
The conference is interdisciplinary, bridging disciplines such as literature (comparative literature as well as specific European languages and literatures), theatre studies, gender studies, classical reception, musicology, performance studies, and material culture, and it aims to relate Medea to issues about transcultural exchange in the late eighteenth-century European culture.
We welcome submissions in the form of individual papers (20 minutes). The following topics can serve as guidelines in exploring Medea from 1750-1800: cultural transfer; gender; spatiality; translation and adaptation; the barbarian; public and private; local adaptations and European classicisms; the stage as a gendered space; genre and space in Europe; circulation of performances, texts, and music in a European perspective; reception and performance; music, text, and gesture as a means of conveying passion.
The conference is organized by Prof. Anna Cullhed, Department of Culture and Aesthetics (Literature) at Stockholm University, in collaboration with Theatre Studies, Stockholm University, and the research network AGORA, Uppsala University. It is generously supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ), the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, which is currently funding the project “Moving Medea: The Transcultural Stage in the Eighteenth Century”, and by the Faculty of Humanities, Stockholm University.
The general programme:
Wednesday, April 25: Keynote lectures in Uppsala—in collaboration with AGORA
Thursday, April 26: Conference in Stockholm
Friday, April 27: A visit to the Drottningholm Palace Theatre
Please send an abstract of 200 words and a five-line biography to anna.cullhed@littvet.su.se by 1 August, 2017. For enquiries, please contact: anna.cullhed@littvet.su.se
(CFP closed August 1, 2017)
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR BOARD GAME STUDIES
Benaki Museum, Athens: 23-26 April, 2018
The 21st annual Board Game Studies Colloquium will be hosted by the Benaki Museum at Athens (Greece), from Monday 23rd April to Thursday 26th April 2018. In collaboration with Véronique Dasen, professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Fribourg, principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant Project "Locus Ludi. The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity" , and Ulrich Schädler Director of the Swiss Museum of Games and partner of the ERC project, the organizers would like to dedicate one entire day to explore ancient game-related material evidence, putting special emphasis on the role of games as vehicle of cultural transmission and interactions. Continuity and reception of antiquity in board games-related materials of different ages, will be also explored. Papers on other aspects of board game studies, in any academic field, will also be equally welcome.
Proposals should aim at a 20-minute presentation in English or in French. They should include the following: • Title • Abstract (max. 200 words) • Author's brief bio, recent publications, institutional affiliations, and academic or other
relevant credentials.
They should be sent as an email attachment in doc, docx, or pdf format to Barbara Carè, Veronique Dasen and Ulrich Schädler before January 10th, 2018. You will be notified of whether your proposal is accepted by mid-February, and you should then provide a formal abstract of 200 – 500 words by March 15th, 2018. Presentations should not exceed twenty minutes to allow for questions and discussion. PowerPoint or Keynote-type slide documents to support your presentation are welcome. Detailed information on travelling to Athens, accommodation, arrangements for the cultural visits and colloquium dinner, and an online booking facility will be soon provided at http://www.bgs21.com
Contacts:
Barbara.Care@nottingham.ac.uk
veronique.dasen@unifr.ch
u.schaedler@museedujeu.ch
Call: http://gameculturessociety.org/cfp-for-board-game-studies-colloquium-april-2018-in-athens/
(CFP closed January 10, 2018)
TEXTUAL PHILOLOGY FACING LIQUID MODERNITY: IDENTIFYING OBJECTS, EVALUATING METHODS, EXPLOITING MEDIA
Sapienza Università di Roma: April 18-20, 2018
Organising committee:
Andrea Chegai (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Michela Rosellini (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Elena Spangenberg Yanes (Sapienza Università di Roma-Trinity College Dublin)
Wednesday, 18th April 2018
15:00 Institutional greetings
15:30 Michela Rosellini – Elena Spangenberg Yanes, Introduction
Session 1. Sorting Methods in Critical (Digital) Editing:
Panel A. Classical and Late Antique Philology – chair Michela Rosellini
16.00 Dániel Kiss (Budapest, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem), New media for the edition of Latin classics
16:30 Justin Stover (University of Edinburgh), Material transmission: the study of textual traditions in a Digital Age
17:30 Caroline Macé (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen), About sirens and onocentaurs, best manuscripts, fluid traditions and other myths
18:00 Paolo Monella (Università di Palermo), L’edizione sinottica digitale: una terza via
18:30 Discussion
Thursday, 19th April 2018
Session 2. Philologists and Texts Floating in the Net – chair Paolo Trovato
09:00 Paola Italia (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna), Fake texts e Wiki edizioni. Per una filologia digitale sostenibile
09:30 Lorenzo Tomasin (Université de Lausanne), Qualche tesi per la filologia nell’epoca della novità digitale
10:00 Claudio Lagomarsini (Università degli Studi di Siena), Un progresso obsoleto? La trasmissione online dell’epica medievale
11:00 Research Group “Nicoletta Bourbaki” (Benedetta Pierfederici, Salvatore Talia), La narrazione della storia in Wikipedia: pratiche, ideologie, conflitti per la memoria nell’Enciclopedia libera
11:30 Claudio Giammona (Sapienza Università di Roma) – Elena Spangenberg Yanes, Dalla stampa al digitale, dal digitale alla stampa: Internet e la tradizione indiretta
12:00 Discussion
Session 1. Sorting Methods in Critical (Digital) Editing:
Panel B. Lachmann’s Legacy – Chair Claudio Giammona
15:00 Federico Marchetti (Università di Ferrara) – Paolo Trovato (Università di Ferrara), The study of codices descripti as a Neo-Lachmannian weapon against the notions of mouvance and textual fluidity
15:30 Ermanno Malaspina (Università di Torino), Edizioni digitali critiche (cioè lachmanniane) di testi classici a recensio complessa in xml: il rebus delle lezioni da mettere o non mettere in apparato
Panel C. Medieval Philology – chair Lorenzo Tomasin
16:30 Raymund Wilhelm (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Elisa De Roberto (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre), Stephen Dörr (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg),La banca dati del Dizionario dell’antico lombardo (DAL). Il trattamento delle varianti filologiche
17:15 Odd Einar Haugen (Universitetet i Bergen), The critical edition in Old Norse philology: Its demise and its chances of revival
17:45 Matthew Driscoll (Københavns Universitet),Textual and generic fluidity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iceland
18:15 Discussion
Friday, 20th April 2018
Panel D. Musical Philology – chair Andrea Chegai
09:00 Fabrizio Della Seta (Università degli Studi di Pavia), La filologia dell’opera italiana tra testo ed evento
09:30 Federica Rovelli (Beethovens Werkstatt, Beethoven-Haus Bonn), Prospettive digitali per l’edizione dei quaderni di schizzi di Beethoven
10:00 Eleonora Di Cintio (Sapienza Università di Roma), Filologia di un’opera empirica: per un’edizione critica digitale della Penelope di Cimarosa et alii (1794-1817)
Round table. Matching Editions and Traditions – chair Andrea Chegai
11:00-12:30 Monica Berté (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti – Pescara), Lino Leonardi (Università degli Studi di Siena), Ermanno Malaspina, Paolo Trovato
12:30 Michela Rosellini, Conclusions
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1802&L=CLASSICISTS&P=153989
TRANSMITTING A HERITAGE - THE TEACHING OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE 21ST CENTURY
Polis Institute in Jerusalem: April 16-17 2018
The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities is pleased to announce our 4th Interdisciplinary Conference: Transmitting a Heritage - The Teaching of Ancient Languages from Antiquity to the 21st Century (La transmission d’ un héritage – l ’enseignement des langues anciennes de l ’Antiquité à nos jours), which will be held on the 16th and 17th of April 2018, at the Polis Institute in Jerusalem.
Confirmed speakers include Randall Buth, Eleanor Dickey, Nancy Llewellyn, Milena Minkova, Jason Pedicone, Christophe Rico, Eran Shuali and Terence Tunberg.
Further paper proposals should be submitted until the 15th of February 2018. Every proposal should include a short abstract (max. 150 words; in English, French, or Latin), the title of your paper, a separate attachment containing your personal details (name, surname, university/affiliation, postal address, email ). All attachments should be doc , docx or pdf files. To submit your documents and for any further information please send an email to the following address: conference@polisjerusalem.org.
Subjects may evolve around the following topics: current methods of teaching ancient languages in a living way – evolution of language instruction through the centuries – influence of the target language on the method (Classical, Semitic, Modern) – theoretical background of various methodological approaches to language teaching – history of the accessibility of knowledge and its influence on language teaching. As with the previous conferences, Polis wishes to provide an international and interdisciplinary framework, gathering linguists, historians, philosophers and specialists from other disciplines of the humanities in order to facilitate lively and profound debates among them. Consequently, every presentation (with a maximum duration of 20 minutes) will be followed by 15 minutes of discussion, in which the present experts and members of the general audience may exchange opinions and suggestions around the topic of the presentation.
These debates will be recorded, transcribed and published together with their articles in the proceedings. This book will also feature a general introduction that will show the points of convergence between participants as well as possible breakthroughs in research. The articles themselves will be published in the language in which they were presented (English, French , or Latin), preceded by a small summary in either Latin or Greek. The editors of the proceedings will be Christophe Rico, director of the Polis Institute, and Jason Pedicone, president of Paideia Institute. It is highly desirable that the resulting book, through its inner consistency, will renew and reinvigorate the scientific debate on this core topic within the humanities.
Contact: conference@polisjerusalem.org
Website: http://www.polisjerusalem.org/conferences
(CFP closed February 15, 2018)
LOCATING THE ANCIENT WORLD IN EARLY MODERN SUBVERSIVE THOUGHT
Newcastle University, UK: 12th-14th April, 2018
I am pleased to release the Call for Papers for 'Locating the Ancient World in Early Modern Subversive Thought', a conference taking place at Newcastle University, 12th-14th April 2018, and featuring keynote speakers Marianne Pade and Peter Harrison. Please see below for further details:
Dichotomies have long been used to define the intellectual developments of early modern Europe - reason and faith; authority and subversion; science and humanism; radicalism and tradition; heterodoxy and orthodoxy — with classical thought usually located on the side of tradition, a behemoth of learning which inhibited man’s reason and his ability to learn through observation. Such unilinear accounts of the progression to modernity have been subjected to increasingly numerous challenges in the last two decades, as scholars have sought to demonstrate that the ideas which drove Europe towards the Enlightenment were far more complex and multi-layered than suggested by the traditional narratives.
The aim of this conference is to expand on this revived appreciation of the classical influence in early modernity by looking specifically at the role played by the ancient world in that sphere from which it has most usually been excluded: subversive literature. The idea that the texts, philosophies, and exempla of the ancient world might have served as significant tools for those who sought to undermine and challenge political, religious and cultural authority stands in direct opposition to the traditional role assigned to the classics in this period. Emphasising an interdisciplinary approach, this conference will draw scholars together to build a coherent picture of how the classical tradition functioned as a tool for subversion, illuminating a previously neglected aspect of the ancient world in the early modern thought.
The keynote speakers will be Peter Harrison (University of Queensland) and Marianne Pade (Danish Academy at Rome).
We are inviting abstracts for papers of thirty minutes on topics including, but not limited to:
• Ancient philosophical involvement in epistemological challenges to traditional understandings of knowledge and belief
• Ancient theories of natural philosophy in the debates concerning God and the universe in both religion and science
• The contribution of ancient texts to the arguments for natural religion, and against magic, miracles, and the supernatural
• Classical rhetoric and literary forms as models for argumentation in subversive treatises, polemics, pamphlets, poetry, and other literary genres
• Ancient religion in the construction of arguments in favour of toleration, and the establishment of a civil religion
• The function of ancient examples in radical political ideologies, including republicanism, democracy, and theories of resistance and revolution
• Classical scholarship as a tool for subversion, and print culture as a sphere facilitating this function of the classics
If you would like to offer a paper for the conference, please submit an abstract of 300 words to katherine.east@ncl.ac.uk by 9th February 2018.
Website: https://locatingsubversion.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed February 9, 2018)
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDDLE WEST AND SOUTH (CAMWS) 2018
Albuquerque, New Mexico: April 11-14, 2018
Classical Reception Panels:
Fashioning Ancient Women on Screen
Stacie Raucci (Union College), organizer and presider
1. Historicizing Women’s Costumes: Anachronisms and Appropriations. Margaret Toscano (University of Utah)
2. Costuming Lucilla in 20th and 21st -Century Screen Productions. Hunter H. Gardner (University of South Carolina)
3. Accessorizing the Ancient Roman Woman on Screen. Stacie Raucci (Union College)
4. Response. Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico)
Classics and White Supremacism
Victoria Pagán (University of Florida), organizer and presider
1. The Summer of Our Discontent: Rethinking the Intersections of Ancient History and Modern Science in Contesting White Supremacy. Denise McCoskey (Miami University)
2. White Supremacists Respect Classical Scholarship…If It Was Written Before the 1970s. Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University)
3. How to Save Western Civilization (for Men): White Supremacy and the New Kyrieia. Donna Zuckerberg (Eidolon, Editor)
Wonder Woman and Warrior Princesses
Anise K. Strong (Western Michigan University), organizer and presider
1. Gender-flipping the Katabatic Hero: Starbuck as Aeneas in Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009). Meredith Safran (Trinity College)
2. Same Sex, Different Day: the Amazon Communities of Wonder Woman (2017) and Xena: Warrior Princess. Grace Gillies (University of California, Los Angeles)
3. Paradise, Bodies, and Gods: The Reception of Amazons in Wonder Woman. Walter Penrose (San Diego State University)
4. Respondent. Anise K. Strong (Western Michigan University)
Ovid in China
Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University), organizer and presider
1. Globalizing Classics: Ovid through the Looking Glass. Lisa Mignone (Brown University)
2. Translating Ovid into Chinese. Jinyu Liu (DePauw University)
3. Laughing at the Boundaries of Genre in Ovid’s Amores. Caleb Dance (Washington and Lee University)
4. Ovidian Scenes on 18th-century Chinese Porcelain. Thomas J. Sienkewicz (Monmouth College)
5. Respondent. John F. Miller (University of Virginia)
Popular Classics
Vincent E. Tomasso (Trinity College), organizer and presider
1. Textual Poachers: Scholars, Fans, and Fragments. Daniel Curley (Skidmore College)
2. The Elite and Popular Reception of Classical Antiquity in the Works of Cy Twombly and Roy Lichtenstein. Vincent E. Tomasso (Trinity College)
3. Replication, Reception, and Jeff Koons’s Gazing Ball Series. Marice Rose (Fairfield University)
4. The Passion of Cleopatra (2017): Anne Rice's Sequel to The Mummy (1989). Gregory Daugherty (Randolph-Macon College)
Travels, Treasures, and the Locus Terribilis: Myth in Children’s Media
Krishni Burns (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), organizer and presider
1. Midas, Mixed Messages, and the “Museum” of Dugald Steer’s Mythology. Rebecca Resinski (Hendrix College)
2. Fairy-Tale Landscapes in the d’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths (1962). Alison Poe (Fairfield University)
3. Spiritual Odysseys in Children’s Television. Krishni Burns (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign)
4. Domesticating Classical Monsters on BBC Children’s Television: Gorgons, Minotaurs and Sirens in Doctor Who, the Sarah Jane Adventures and Atlantis. Amanda Potter (The Open University)
From the Theater of Dionysus to the Opera House
Carolin Hahnemann (Kenyon College), organizer and presider
1. What Happened to Euripides? Iphigenia among the Taurians and Handel’s Orestes. Robert Ketterer (University of Iowa)
2. From Medea to Norma. Duane Roller (Ohio State University)
3. Elements of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King in Verdi’s Don Carlo. Carolin Hahnemann (Kenyon College)
4. Opera as Social Medicine in Mikis Theodorakis’ Antigone. Sarah B. Ferrario (Catholic University of America) and Andrew Simpson (Catholic University of America)
Casting Die: Classical Reception in Gaming
William S. Duffy (St. Philip’s College) and Matthew Taylor (Beloit College), co-organizers and co-presiders
1. Imagining Classics: Towards a Pedagogy of Gaming Reception. Hamish Cameron (Bates College)
2. 20-sided monsters: The Adaptation of Greek Mythology to Dungeons and Dragons. William S. Duffy (St. Philip’s College)
3. Civilization and History: Ludological Frame vs. Historical Context. Rosemary Moore (University of Iowa)
4. Touching the Ancient World through God of War’s Kratos. Matthew Taylor (Beloit College)
5. Games and Ancient War: Serious Gaming as Outreach and Scholarship. Sarah Murray (University of Toronto)
Website: https://camws.org/2018PanelsWorkshops
ECHOES: A SYMPOSIUM ON CLASSIC-MODERN RELATIONS
University of Birmingham (Strathcona Lecture Theatre 2): April 11, 2018
Keynotes: Kate Nichols & Lara Pucci
Speakers: Harriet Lander, Robin Diver, Clare Matthews, Chiara Marabelli, Elizabeth O'Connor, Abbe Rees-Hales
Organisers: Abbey Rees-Hales, Rebecca Batty, Sean Richardson
Website: https://echoessymposium2018.wordpress.com/
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018
University of Leicester, UK: 6-9 April, 2018
CFP & Program: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/news-and-events/conferences/ca2018
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CA2018Leicester/.
ANACHRONISM AND ANTIQUITY: CONFIGURING TEMPORALITIES IN ANCIENT LITERATURE AND SCHOLARSHIP
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida: March 23-24, 2018
The Anachronism and Antiquity team is delighted to announce 'Anachronism and Antiquity: Configuring Temporalities in Ancient Literature and Scholarship', a conference to be held at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, on March 23-24, 2018. Speakers and their titles are:
* Carol Atack, St Hugh's College, Oxford, 'Plato's Queer Time: Dialogic Moments in the Life and Death of Socrates'
* Emily Greenwood, Yale University, 'Reading Across Time: Thucydides' History as Literature of Witness'
* Constanze Güthenke, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, '"For Time is / nothing if not amenable" – Exemplarity, Time, Reception'
* Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, 'The Temporal Relation: Flow, Fold, Kairos'
* K. Scarlett Kingsley, Agnes Scott College, 'Euripides' Scholiasts: Blending Temporalities Heroic and Present'
* Ellen O'Gorman, University of Bristol, 'Reception and Recovery: Rancière's Authentic Plebeian Voice'
* Mark Payne, University of Chicago, 'The Future in the Past: Hesiod and Speculative Fiction'
* Tom Phillips, Merton College, Oxford, 'Shelley's Plastic Verse: the "Hymn to Mercury"'
* Barnaby Taylor, Exeter College, Oxford, 'Archaism and Anachronism in Lucretius'
The conference will run all day Friday and Saturday morning, ending with lunch on Saturday. There is no charge for registration but we ask that people register so that we can have an accurate account for meals. If you are interested in attending or have any questions, please email John Marincola at jmarinco@fsu.edu.
Anachronism and Antiquity is a Leverhulme Trust-funded project, running from 2016 to 2019, which is undertaking the first systematic study of the concept of anachronism in Greco-Roman antiquity and of the role played by the idea of anachronism in the formation of the concept of antiquity itself. The project, led by Professor Tim Rood and Professor John Marincola, with research associates Dr Tom Phillips and Dr Carol Atack, looks at both classical and modern material, pairing close analysis of surviving literary and material evidence from classical antiquity with detailed study of the post-classical term 'anachronism', and with modern theoretical writings that link the notion of anachronism with the conceptualization of antiquity.
For further details please visit our blog at https://anachronismandantiquity.wordpress.com/. Twitter: @Anachron_Antiq.
SOCIETY FOR EARLY MODERN CLASSICAL RECEPTION (SEMCR) PANELS AT RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2018 MEETING
Hilton New Orleans Riverside, 22–24 March 2018
(1) Encountering the ancients: philological reception in the Renaissance: http://rsa.site-ym.com/blogpost/1595547/274734/Encountering-the-ancients-philological-reception-in-the-Renaissance
(2) 'Deep Classics' and the Renaissance ?http://rsa.site-ym.com/blogpost/1595547/274735/Deep-Classics-and-the-Renaissance
(3) Unleashing the “mad Dogge”: Classical Reception in Early Modern Political Thought http://rsa.site-ym.com/blogpost/1595547/274731/Unleashing-the-mad-Dogge--Classical-Reception-in-Early-Modern-Political-Thought
Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2017.
(CFP closed May 31, 2017)
THE OLD LIE. I CLASSICI E LA GRANDE GUERRA
Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna: March 21, 2018
The associations Rodopis - Experience Ancient History and Prolepsis are delighted to announce the call for paper for their joint event: The Old Lie. I Classici e la Grande Guerra.
[English version below]
The Old Lie. L'eco dell'antica bugia, "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" (Orazio, Odi III, 2), riecheggia a distanza di secoli nelle celebre ripresa di Wilfred Owen, posta quale polemico e amaro suggello di una poesia scritta tra il 1917 e il 1918, che è una spietata accusa delle atrocità della guerra, mistificata da una propaganda che la descrive, invece, come evento glorioso ed epocale. "Un'antica bugia", dunque, perpetuata nei secoli da chi si tiene, in realtà, lontano dai conflitti.
La poesia di Owen è solo un esempio del reimpiego dei Classici durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale. Essi divennero talvolta filtro o termine di paragone dell'esperienza dei giovani combattenti - come Patrick Shaw-Stewart -, talvolta irrinunciabili "ancore" in anni di aberrazione umana e culturale; talvolta, ancora, il loro messaggio fu riattualizzato in chiave antibellicista; è il caso, per esempio, del riadattamento de Le Troiane ad opera di Franz Werfel. D'altra parte, in quei tumultuosi anni alcuni classicisti ebbero un ruolo non solo culturale, ma anche politico e ideologico; si pensi, per esempio, a Giorgio Pasquali.
In occasione dell'ultimo anno di celebrazioni per il Centenario della Grande Guerra, l'associazione culturale Rodopis - Experience Ancient History e l'associazione culturale Prolepsis organizzano un Workshop Internazionale dal titolo "The old lie. I Classici e la Grande Guerra", per invitare a tornare su un tema che, nonostante l'attenzione recentemente dedicatavi, merita ancora indagini e riflessioni.
Le proposte di intervento potranno riguardare, anche se non in via esclusiva, i seguenti temi:
* Ricezione dei Classici durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale;
* Reimpiego ideologico di testi dell'antichità greco-latina durante il primo conflitto mondiale;
* Riflessioni novecentesche su tematiche di guerra attraverso il filtro dei Classici;
* Analisi dell'impegno politico di classicisti dell'epoca e relativa influenza sull'opera scientifica.
Il workshop sarà composto da tre sessioni, due mattutine e una pomeridiana, per un totale di nove relatori da selezionarsi. Ogni intervento avrà la durata massima di 20 minuti, con discussione alla fine di ciascuna sessione. È prevista una relazione introduttiva da parte del Prof. Giovanni Brizzi, in qualità di keynote speaker.
Le relazioni presentate possono essere oggetto di valutazione per un'eventuale pubblicazione.
Le lingue ammesse nel workshop sono italiano e inglese.
Dottorandi, dottori di ricerca e giovani studiosi sono invitati a inviare un abstract di massimo 300 parole, in italiano o in inglese, in forma anonima, all'indirizzo e-mail: Iclassicielagrandeguerra@gmail.com, entro il 15 dicembre 2017.
I relatori selezionati saranno contattati entro il 31 dicembre 2017.
THE OLD LIE. CLASSICS AND THE GREAT WAR
The Old Lie, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (Horace, Odes III, 2): more than two thousand years later, the line was resumed by Wilfred Owen as a polemical and bitter seal for one of his poems, written between 1917 and 1918, a sharp accusation against the atrocities of war, which is often mystified by some sort of propaganda describing it as a glorious and monumental event. “The old lie”, therefore, over the centuries perpetuated by people who are in fact far away from the conflict.
Owen’s poem is just an example of the the way Classics were reused during the First World War. They sometimes became filters or even benchmarks for the experience of young fighters (e.g. Patrick Shaw-Stewart); other times they were indispensable/essential “safety nets” during an age of human and cultural aberration; yet other times, their message underwent a shift in an antiwar direction (as for The Trojan Women in Franz Werfel’s adaptation). On the other hand, some classicists not only had a cultural role, but were also active in the political and ideological scene (as Giorgio Pasquali).
On the last year of celebration for the centenary of the Great War, the cultural associations Rodopis – Experience Ancient History and Prolepsis, are organising an International Workshop entitled “The old Iie: Classics and the Great War”, a recently explored topic, which still deserves to be investigated and debated.
Proposal for oral presentations can be about (but not limited to) the following topics:
* Reception of Classics during the First World War;
* Ideological reuse of Classical texts during the First World War;
* Twentieth century reflections on issues regarding the war, filtered by Classics;
* Analyses of the political engagement of classicists of the time and how their political views influenced their scientific production.
This Workshop will be structured in three sessions, two in the morning and one in the afternoon, with a total of nine speakers to be selected. Each paper will last 20 minutes at most, and a final discussion will follow each presentation. An introductory lecture by Prof. Giovanni Brizzi (University of Bologna) will precede the workshop.
The most valuable papers may be considered for publication.
Official languages of the workshop are Italian and English.
PhD students, post-docs and early career academic researchers are invited to send an anonymous abstract not exceeding 300 words, to the e-mail address: iclassicielagrandeguerra@gmail.com, by the 15th of December 2017.
Successful speakers will be notified by the 31st of December 2017.
Call: http://www.rodopis.it/archivio-call-for-papers/call-for-papers-i-classici-e-la-grande-guerra/
(CFP closed December 15, 2017)
*CANCELLED* - 2ND ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM IN CLASSICAL RECEPTION: "CLASSICAL RECEPTION AND GENDER"
University of Patras, Greece: 17-18-19 March, 2018
Jocasta Classical Reception Greece is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Postgraduate Symposium in Classical Reception, which will take 17-18-19 March 2018 at the Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece.
Reception is conceived not as a subdivision of Classics but as a mode of historicised inquiry and constant self-critique intrinsic in Classical Studies. In this respect, the reader assumes the role of the decoder who examines reception of the ancient world from the 8th century BC onwards: from Antiquity to Byzantium, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Early and Late Modernity and the future, while ceaselessly moving from the West to the East and from the North to the South and vice versa. Classical Reception is studied through a variety of media ranging from literature to theatre and film, to materialised configurations of everyday experience and through a plurality of approaches ranging from Philosophy to Cultural and Social Studies to Performative arts and science-driven discourses, thus foregrounding interdisciplinary research.
The Jocasta Postgraduate Symposium seeks to create a venue for Classical Reception in Greece, where international postgraduate students can engage into interdisciplinary dialogue and share research. It enables students to present their work in a friendly environment, develop presentation skills and get constructive feedback. This year we expand our scope intergenerationally so as to include beyond MA and PhD students and early career researchers who are kindly invited to present a 20 minute paper followed by 10 minutes discussion and US undergraduate students who are kindly invited to deliver transatlantically a 10-minute paper presentation followed by 5 minute discussion via our partners at the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University. This year’s theme is “Classical Reception and Gender”.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
• Is there a third gender in the reception of antiquity or our understanding of it?
• Gender fluidity in classical antiquity (e.g. manifested in or conceptualised via transvestism, metamorphosis)
• How have classics been used for the idealization of the male body (eg. Laocoon, Nazism, current masculinity discourses), the corroboration of feminist discourses in theory and practice (eg. Greek heroines) the modern construction of homosexual identity (eg. the reception/ appropriation of Plato in 19th century) and the expression of queer identity (eg. queer adaptations of Greek tragedy)
• Why do initially female scholars work in the field of classical reception and how is this research orientation associated with notions of (in)authenticity and the hierarchically flavoured notion of hardcore and lesser classics.
• How do the notions “genre” and “gender” interrupt and cross-fertilize each other in antiquity and modernity (eg. Hall’s reading of tragedy as a genre for female emotions vs satyr drama as a genre of re-affirmation of masculinity, novels)
• Has antiquity been received as a gendered or genderless past? Does this gender changes through time and space? And if so in what ways does antiquity constitute a wide spectrum for representation of mutative conceptualizations of gender in the postclassical world.
We invite abstracts in either Greek or English of no more than 250 words to be sent to jocastapostgraduate@gmail.com no later than 15th of December 2017. There is the possibility of notification of acceptance/ dismissal upon submission for those interested in funding options from their institutions, if requested in the email body.
Please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution in the body of your email (not in your abstract).
Website: http://jocasta.upatras.gr/event/call-for-papers-2nd-annual-postgraduate-symposium-in-classical-reception-i-classical-reception-and-gender/
(CFP closed December 15, 2017)
THE LEGACY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES IN PLATO'S TIMAEUS FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EUROPE
The Miners' Hall, 8 Flass Street, Durham DH1 4BB: March 14-16, 2018
Wednesday 14 March:
1.30-2.00 Arrival and registration
2.00-2.30 INTRODUCTION: Edmund Thomas (Durham)
2.30-3.40 PAPER 1 Federico Petrucci (Durham), "Why the Timaeus? The Philosophical Reasons for the Priority of the Timaeus in Middle Platonist Exegesis"
RESPONDENT: Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)
4.10-5.20 PAPER 2 Sarah Byers (Boston), "The concept of matter-as-such in the Neoplatonism of Marius Victorinus" [by SKYPE]
RESPONDENT: Phillip Horky (Durham)
5.20-6.30 PAPER 3 Gijsbert Jonkers (Zwolle), "From disorder to order, Plato's Timaeus and Proclus' Commentary"
RESPONDENT: George Boys-Stones (Durham)
Thursday 15 March:
9.10-10.20 PAPER 4 Nancy Van Deusen (Claremont Graduate University), "'What is it that we want to know?' Plato's Timaeus, with Chalcidius' Commentary, on the Topics of Understanding Motion through Sight and Sound"
RESPONDENT: Jacomien Prins (Warwick)
10.20-11.30 PAPER 5 Jacomien Prins (Utrecht), "'Not for Irrational Pleasure': Music in Marsilio Ficino's Timaeus Commentary"
RESPONDENT: Hector Sequera-Mora (Durham)
11.50-1.00 PAPER 6 John Hendrix (Roger Williams University, Rhode Island), "The Timaeus and Durham Cathedral"
RESPONDENT: Michael Chapman (Newcastle, NSW)
2.15-3.45 Cathedral tour: Contributions by John Hendrix, Edmund Thomas, and others
4.30-5.40 PAPER 7 Guy Claessens (Leuven), "Saving the phenomena: geometric atomism and the Timaeus in the Renaissance"
RESPONDENT: tba
5.40-6.50 PAPER 8 Andrew Briggs (Oxford): "Curiosity in an age of science" (with lunch)
RESPONDENT: Peter Vickers (Durham)
Friday 16 March:
9.10-10.20 PAPER 9 Carlos Steel (Leuven), "Ficino and Ambrogio Fiandino explaining Plato's views in the Timaeus on the origin of the world"
RESPONDENT: Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck)
10.40-11.50 PAPER 10 Christian Frost (Birmingham), "The Timaeus, Movement, Medieval Architecture, and the City"
RESPONDENT: Kimberley Skelton (St Andrews)
11.50-13.00 PAPER 11 Nicholas Temple (Huddersfield), "The Timaeus, the Trinity and Renaissance Concepts of Architectural Space"
RESPONDENT: tba
13.30-14.30 ROUND TABLE
CO-CHAIRS: Sarah Broadie (St Andrews), Edmund Thomas (Durham)
Website: http://www.dcamp.uk/legacy/
'MULIER FORTIS'/STRONG WOMAN
The Recital Room, Victoria Rooms, Bristol: Friday 23 February 2018, 17:00 – 18:30
The Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT), University of Bristol.
This year, for its Donors Celebration, the IGRCT has teamed up with the University of Bristol's Madrigal and Baroque Ensembles to present a rare concert performance of 'Mulier Fortis', or 'Strong Woman'. This musical drama, first produced in 1698 by Viennese Jesuit Johann Baptist Adolph and composer Johann Bernhardt Staudt, celebrates the martyrdom of a Japanese noblewoman who converted to Christianity in the 16th century.
Ethnomusicologist and baroque musician, Dr Makoto Harris Takao (Berlin), along with Professor Yasmin Haskell (Institute Director), will provide a short introduction to this fascinating piece, which portrays the collision between Christian values and Japanese tradition in a Classical context. The Ensembles will then perform extracts from 'Mulier Fortis' using period instruments to capture the drama's personified emotions, which, like the chorus in Greek tragedy, act as a symbolic commentary on the action.
Since its debut for the Holy Roman Empress, Eleonor Magdalene, and her husband, Leopold I, Mulier Fortis has only been performed rarely; in Tokyo, Cambridge, and Perth, Australia. Our celebration provides a unique opportunity to experience this exciting drama and meet the scholars and performers who have brought it to life.
The concert will be followed by a drinks reception. All are welcome at this free event.
Booking required via https://strong-woman.eventbrite.co.uk
More information on the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition: http://www.bris.ac.uk/igrct/.
REJECTING THE CLASSICS
University College London: February 21, 2018
This is a call for proposals for a half-day interdisciplinary workshop to be held on the afternoon of 21st February 2018 at UCL on the topic of 'Rejecting the Classics', generously hosted by UCL's Department of Greek and Latin and Institute of Advanced Studies. Many of the most exciting writers and thinkers of modernity have defined their projects through a rejection of the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome, whether Nietzsche and Plato, Brecht and tragedy, or Fanon and the exclusionary humanism he glimpsed on the 'Graeco-Latin pedestal' of western culture. This workshop aims to engage critically with the narrative of rejection that such receptions mobilise, and to explore its role in the definition of classical reception as well as its implications for the place of classical reception within the broader discipline of classics. It hopes to consider the complex position that the study of such antagonistic responses to the classical legacy holds in a discipline committed to imparting the value and benefit of the classical past, and to reflect on the challenges of constructively integrating negative evaluations of literature and culture in the humanities more generally. To this end, although the workshop will be primarily focused on exploring the dynamics of this debate within classics, papers are particularly welcome from humanities disciplines beyond classics in order to facilitate discussion across disciplinary boundaries.
Proposals are sought for short, 5-10 minute presentations that focus on the value of the idea of 'Rejecting the Classics' to understanding the engagement with antiquity displayed by a particular author, text or artwork. Each presentation will have a 30-minute time slot so that the maximum amount of time can be devoted to discussion. Proposals should take the form of an abstract of at most 150 words.
Deadline for submission is 31st October 2017, and all abstracts and queries should be submitted to Adam Lecznar at a.lecznar@ucl.ac.uk. Sources of funding are currently being explored for the workshop and there may be some funding available to contribute towards the travel expenses of junior scholars (PhD students and those within 5 years of submission): if you would like to be considered for this funding then please indicate so in your submission email. Proposals for presentations that are accepted but which cannot be given for financial reasons will still be considered in future publication plans, so do please still get in touch or submit a proposal even if you will not be in London next February.
Provisional schedule:
1.30-2: Registration and introduction
Panel 1
2-2.30: Samuel Agbamu (KCL) – 'The Arco dei Fileni: forgetting places of memory in the postcolony'.
2.30-3: Valeria Spacciante (Scuola Normale/UCL) – 'Divesting Ulysses of Myth in Alberto Savinio's Capitano Ulisse'.
3-3.30: Henry Stead (OU) – '"The poet is steeped is Street Fighter 2": Ross Sutherland, Anti-classicism and contemporary class conflict'.
3.30-4: Break
Panel 2
4-4.30: Jonathan Groß (Düsseldorf) – 'Magna gloria inde non nascitur: Adolph Philippi, Professor of Classics, on the irrelevance of classical scholarship'.
4.30-5: Rossana Zetti (Edinburgh) – 'Doubting the myths: the limits of Classics in a post-war world' on Bertolt Brecht.
5-5.45: Katie Fleming (Queen Mary) / Daniel Anderson (Cambridge) – 'Ulysses Wakes Up: the anticlassical James Joyce' and 'Anti-Platonism in James Joyce'.
5.45-6: Concluding remarks
Call: https://classicalreception.org/event/rejecting-the-classics/
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/rejecting-the-classics
(CFP closed October 31, 2017)
LGBT+ CLASSICS: TEACHING, RESEARCH, ACTIVISM
University of Reading, UK: February 12, 2018
Organised by: Katherine Harloe, Talitha Kearey, and Irene Salvo
The Women's Classical Committee UK is organising a one-day workshop on Classics and Queer studies to highlight current projects and activities that embrace the intersections of research, teaching, public engagement, and activism.
The day will feature a series of talks and a roundtable bringing together academics in Classics (and related fields), LGBT+ activists, museum curators and those working in other areas of outreach and public engagement. We intend to explore how LGBT+ themes are included in Classics curricula; how public engagement with queer Classics and history of sexualities can contribute to fight homophobia and transphobia; and the ways in which the boundaries between research, teaching, and activism can be crossed. The roundtable will focus in particular on strategies of support for LGBT+ students and staff, current policies in Higher Education, and what still needs to be improved.
Confirmed speakers include: Beth Asbury, Clara Barker, Alan Greaves, Jennifer Grove, Rebecca Langlands, Sebastian Matzner, Cheryl Morgan, and Maria Moscati.
Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham University) will deliver the keynote address 'Queer Classics: sexuality, scholarship, and the personal'.
We are also reserving time during the day's schedule for a series of short (five-minute) spotlight talks by delegates. Through this session, we hope to provide a chance for delegates to share research projects, teaching programmes, and experiences related to LGBT+ issues. We are particularly interested in spotlight talks on:
- new queer and gender-informed work in classics, ancient history, archaeology, papyrology, philosophy, or classical reception;
- fresh ideas on teaching the history of queerness through texts and material culture;
- the difficulties and discriminatory experiences encountered by members of staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and early-career researchers, because of their gender identity and/or sexual orientation.
If you would like more information or to volunteer to give one of these talks, please e-mail Irene Salvo, LBGT+ liaison officer, salvoirene@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday 5th December 2017.
People of any gender expression or identity who support the WCC's aims are welcome to attend this event. Attendance is free for WCC UK members, £10 for non-members (to cover catering costs). You can join the WCC UK here https://wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/about-us/join-us/ (and if you're a student, underemployed, or unemployed, membership is only £5). As with all WCC events, travel bursaries will be available for students and the un/under-employed.
The WCC is committed to providing friendly and accessible environments for its events, so please do get in touch if you have any access, dietary, or childcare enquiries. For a full statement of the WCC's childcare policy please see here https://wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/events/.
Website: https://wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/12/03/event-lgbt-classics-teaching-research-activism/
(CFP closed December 5, 2017)
AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES 39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
University of Queensland, Brisbane: Tuesday, 30 January - Friday, 2 February 2018
CFP & Conference website: https://hapi.uq.edu.au/australasian-society-classical-studies-conference-39-2018
ASCS: http://www.ascs.org.au/
Abstracts due by 28 July, 2017.
LES PROGYMNASMATA EN PRATIQUE DE L'ANTIQUITÉ À NOS JOURS
Paris (Université Paris Est - Créteil): 18-20 January 2018
Organisers: Pierre Chiron and Benoît Sans
A conference on the Progymnasmata in ancient and modern education to be held at the Université Paris Est - Créteil (Salle des thèses) from the 18th to the 20th of January.
Thursday 18th January
I Premiers aperçus des pratiques : les documents papyrologiques
9:45 Raffaella CRIBIORE The Versatility of Progymnasmata: Evidence from the Papyri and Libanius
10:15 Lucio DEL CORSO Rhetoric for Beginners (and Dummies) in Graeco-Roman Egypt. A Survey of Papyrological Evidence 10:45
Pause
11:00 José Antonio FERNANDEZ DELGADO & Francisca PORDOMINGO La pratique des Progymnasmata dans les sources papyrologiques (et leur présence dans la littérature)
12:00 Jean-Luc FOURNET Éthopées entre culture profane et christianisme
II Pratiques progymnasmatiques et cognition
14:30 Emmanuelle DANBLON Les exercices de rhétorique à l'école de Bruxelles
15:00 Julie DAINVILLE & Benoit SANS L'éloge paradoxal : regards croisés sur deux expériences bruxelloises
16:00 Pause
16:15 Victor FERRY Exercer l'empathie : une limite de l'ethopoeia et une méthode alternative
16:45 Jeanne CHIRON & Pierre GRIALOU « Connais-toi toi-même », les Progymnasmata comme entraînement métacognitif
Friday 19th January
III Les Pratiques entre passé et présent
9:15 Danielle VAN MAL-MAEDER Des Progymnasmata dans la déclamation – des Progymnasmata à la déclamation
9:45 Sandrine DUBEL Défense et illustration de la paraphrase
10:15 Anders ERIKSSON Writing and teaching a contemporary progymnasmata textbook
10:45 Pause
11:00 Natalie Sue BAXTER Imitatio, Progymnasmata, Paideia, and the Realization of Ancient Ideals in Modern Education
11:30
Jim SELBY Aphthonius, Coherence, and Cohesion: The Practice of Writing
12:00 Ruth WEBB L'exercice de l'ekphrasis : des Progymnasmata aux étapes ultérieures de la formation de l'orateur
IV Pratiques contemporaines
14:30 David FLEMING A role for the Progymnasmata in U.S. postsecondary English Education today
15:00 Marie HUMEAU Pratiquer les Progymnasmata à l'université aujourd'hui : de l'exercice de style à la réflexion sur le discours
15:30 Christophe BRECHET Les enjeux des Progymnasmata pour les humanités, ou pourquoi les humanités doivent refonder la formation rhétorique dans l'enseignement supérieur
Saturday 20th January
V Parcours : les pratiques à travers les siècles
9:15 Silvana CELENTANO Quintilien et l'exercitatio rhétorique : entre tradition et innovation
9:45 Rémy POIGNAULT Exercices préparatoires pour éloquence princière dans la correspondance de Fronton
10:15 Eugenio AMATO La pratique des Progymnasmata dans l'école de Gaza
10:45 Pause
11:00 Marcos MARTINHO Emporius : les Progymnasmata entre exercice scolaire et outil oratoire
11:30 Luigi PIROVANO Emporius and the practice of Progymnasmata during Late Antiquity
12:00 Marc BARATIN La place et le rôle de la traduction latine des Progymnasmata du Ps.-Hermogène dans l'œuvre de Priscien
VI Parcours : les pratiques à travers les siècles (suite)
14:30 Francesco BERARDI Diversité des pratiques didactiques en Grèce et à Rome : réflexions sur le lexique des Progymnasmata
15:00 Jordan LOVERIDGE The practice of the Progymnasmata in the Middle Ages: Education, Theory, Application
15:30 Diane DESROSIERS An muri faciendi ? La pratique des Progymnasmata dans l'œuvre de François Rabelais
16:00 Pause
16:15 Trinidad ARCOS-PEREIRA The presence of Progymnasmata in Spain in the 16th century
16:45 María Violeta PEREZ-CUSTODIO Teaching more than Rhetoric: Progymnasmata Handbooks in Spain during the Renaissance
17:15 Manfred KRAUS La pratique des Progymnasmata dans les écoles du XVe au XVIII e siècle au travers des traductions latines d'Aphthonios
17:45 Discussion et conclusions
Website: http://www.aplaes.org/node/1167
[Panel] Classical Reception Studies
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting 2018 (Boston MA): 4-7 January, 2018
Sponsored by the American Classical League and organized by Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, Editor of The Classical Outlook, and Jared Simard, Hunter College.
The American Classical League invites scholars and teachers to submit abstracts for its panel session on Classical Reception Studies at the Boston meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, in January, 2018. We are interested in papers that address any aspect of Classical Reception Studies. Papers should be accessible to a wide audience of classics scholars and teachers.
Papers accepted for the panel will be considered for publication in The Classical Outlook, journal of the American Classical League.
Abstracts should be submitted to Ronnie Ancona (rancona@hunter.cuny.edu). They should conform to the instructions for the format of individual abstracts that appear in the SCS Program Guide. Please put “ACL panel at SCS 2018” in the subject line of your email submission.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is February 15, 2017.
Source: http://fiecnet.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/american-classical-league-cfp.html
(CFP closed 15 February 2017)
[Panel] Classics and Social Justice
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting 2018 (Boston MA): 4-7 January, 2018
The Classics and Social Justice Affiliated Group invites paper proposals for its inaugural Panel at the 2018 meeting of the SCS.
The panel organizers are Jessica Wright (USC) and Amit Shilo (UCSB).
We welcome papers that discuss any aspect of social justice work in which you are engaged as well as papers that theorize the place of social justice work in Classics and the place of Classics in social justice work.
Possible topics might include: the presentation of projects already underway (for instance, prison education or the use of Classics in other sites such as homeless centers or with veterans’ groups); the scope and limits of academic activism; appropriate methods for approaching social issues; performance and activism; and the power of specific Classical traditions to address the urgency of social change.
Please send anonymous abstracts of approximately 500 words to Professor Alexandra Pappas (apappas@sfsu.edu).
Deadline for the receipt of abstracts is January 31, 2017.
The newly formed Classics and Social Justice Affiliated Group is a forum for scholars who wish to integrate their academic expertise with community work promoting social justice and positive transformation. The group envisions its first panel as the beginning of a new, more formal conversation about Classics and Social Justice and an effort to discover what social justice work Classicists are doing outside of the classroom as well as inside of the classroom.
More information: please write to Classicists involved in activism CLASS-SJ@listserv.hamilton.edu
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2018/149/call-abstracts-classics-and-social-justice
(CFP closed 31 January, 2017)
[Panel] Deterritorializing Classics: Deleuze, Guattari, and their Philological Discontents
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting 2018 (Boston MA): 4-7 January, 2018
In recent decades, the field of classics has witnessed a burgeoning interest in postmodern literary theory. Yet the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari has received far less attention. Although Deleuze and Guattari were contemporaries of Lacan, Foucault, and Derrida, the latter have elicited significantly greater curiosity from classicists (Janan, “When the Lamp Is Shattered”, 1994; Porter and Buchan, Before Subjectivity?, 2004; Larmour, Miller, and Platter, Rethinking Sexuality, 1998; Leonard, Derrida and Antiquity, 2010). With few exceptions (Holmes, “Deleuze, Lucretius, and the Simulacrum of Naturalism,” 2012), Deleuze and Guattari have appeared only as ancillary figures in classical scholarship.
Deleuze and Guattari are best known for their collaborative works L'Anti-Œdipe (1972) and Mille plateaux (1980), which offer a sustained critique of psychoanalysis through their valorization of the liberated schizophrenic, and supply new models for a post-ontology based in process and complexification. The two also made individual contributions, from Deleuze’s reformulation of continental philosophy in Différence et répétition (1968) and La logique du sens (1969), to Guattari’s writings on anti-psychiatry, ecology, and becoming-woman. Furthermore, Deleuze and Guattari offer practical models for a discipline familiar with adjunctification, student debt, and criticism for its lack of praxis—both were participants in Paris protest movements, open-access education at Université Paris VIII (Vincennes), and innovations in democratic psychiatry at La Borde.
This panel asks how these two thinkers might aid us in “deterritorializing” classics—unraveling its entrenched structures, hermeneutics, and habits. Questions might include:
* Can Deleuze and Guattari’s theories improve our understanding of certain ancient genres and their lived practices?
* Does their belief in a multiplicity that underlies ontology alter our philological underpinnings? Might we use their concept of assemblage to advance recent work on textual criticism (Gurd, Iphigenias at Aulis, 2005) or Homeric multiform (Nagy, Homer’s Text and Language, 2004)?
* Can Deleuze the continental philosopher offer new insights into Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus?
* Might his later work on the movement-image (Cinéma 1, 1983) reorient our perspectives on ancient visual culture? (ekphrasis, cinematic narrative theory, enargeia)
* Does Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of minor literature as a revolutionary enunciation within a dominant language (Kafka, 1975) provide additional approaches to canonical texts? (slang and translation in Greco-Roman comedy; poetic intersections of Greek dialects)
* Can their critique of metaphorical representation guide us away from language to more active engagements with antiquity?
The panel invites abstracts for 20-minute papers (650 words maximum, excluding bibliography) to be submitted to info@classicalstudies.org by February 24, 2017. Please include the panel name in your subject line, and do not identify yourself in the abstract. Submissions will be blind-refereed by Kyle Khellaf (Yale University), Charles Platter (University of Georgia), and Mario Telò (University of California, Berkeley).
Source: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2018/149/call-abstracts-deterritorializing-classics-deleuze-guattari-and-their.
(CFP closed Feb 24, 2017)
[Panel] Translation and Transmission: Mediating Classical Texts in the Early Modern World
Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting 2018 (Boston MA): 4-7 January, 2018
The Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) invites proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2018 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Boston. For its third panel, SEMCR invites abstracts on the translation of classical texts in the early modern world.
Despite their importance as vehicles of transmission - and their comparatively greater sales - translations always seem relegated to secondary status behind the principal models of classical scholarship, the critical edition or the commentary. This hierarchy is no less true of early modernity, at least according to our discipline’s construction of the history of philology, in which Bentley trumps Dryden, and Scaliger trumps Dolce. Some redress has been achieved through reception studies, though, as so often, the effect has partly been to replicate traditional divisions between philology and literary criticism.
The main goal of this panel is twofold: 1) to locate the study of early modern classical translations within larger currents of literary scholarship, especially translation studies; 2) to reintegrate literary criticism and philology through a renewed assessment of the role of translation in early modern culture.
To that end we seek papers that go beyond the remit of a typical case study and instead offer a distinctive methodological contribution, prospectus for the field, or novel theoretical analysis.
We invite perspectives drawn from world literature, history of the book, digital humanities, as well as translation studies and other approaches. Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the following areas:
a) High Theory/Deep Classics. How does early modern translation intersect with cross-temporal and cross-cultural themes of contemporary importance? Against the backdrop of Renaissance humanism, is there something distinctive to be learned from this form, and this period, of engagement with the classics? In Lawrence Venuti’s terminology, do these translators foreignize or domesticate? Can quantitative studies tell us something new and interesting about this corpus?
b) Philology and Education. How do histories of textual criticism, the book, and pedagogy enhance our understanding of early modern translation? What does the tradition of the questione della lingua have to contribute to reception studies? How might early modern translations of Hebrew and other classical languages affect our contemporary conception of our field? At the level of practice, what might we learn from annotations, drafts, and translators’ correspondence?
c) Outreach and Reception. How were translations affected by the mechanisms of circulation, publishers, material and economic factors, readerships, etc.? Did they always seek to popularize? In what sense were they scholarship, and were they recognized as such? Does the particular relationship between the classical and the vernacular in early modernity make translations of Latin and Greek an idiosyncratic point of comparison against other periods of outreach?
We are committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into classics, and hence welcome abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research. Above all, we aim to show how the field of early modern classical reception can bear on a wide range of literary and cultural study, and to dispel the notion of an intimidating barrier to entry.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words, suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation, should be sent as an email attachment to caroline.stark@howard.edu. All persons who submit abstracts must be SCS members in good standing. The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page. Proposals must be received by February 20th 2017.
Source: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2018/149/call-abstracts-translation-and-transmission-mediating-classical-texts-early.
(CFP closed 20 February 2017)
[Panel] Literary Wordplay with Names
American Name Society Panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, New York: 4-7 January 2018
The American Name Society (ANS) is issuing its First Call for Papers for the ANS panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention: 4-7 January 2018, New York City.
The American Name Society is inviting abstract proposals for a panel with the literary theme “Literary Wordplay with Names.” Case studies in world literature have repeatedly demonstrated the effectiveness of wordplays in producing puns or highlighting aspects of a narrative. However, comparatively little scholarly attention has been given to examining the names themselves as a rhetorical tool for literary wordplay. The use or omission of names has received scholar attention for the works of specific authors, e.g. Aristophanes (e.g. Kanavou 2011) and Virgil (e.g. Paschalis 1997), whereas the ὀνομαστὶ κωμῳδεῖν is crucial for our understanding of both Greek comedy and Roman satire.
Interested authors are encouraged to submit an abstract examining the use of any type of name (e.g. personal names, place names, trade names, etc.) in literary wordplays for any period or genre of literature. We welcome submissions from the following areas, which of course are not exhausted:
* utilizing interdisciplinary approaches
* examining the nature of the name-wordplay (semantics and/or etymology)
* focusing on case studies from classical literature, and
* the reception and use of names from antiquity in later times (e.g. Shakespeare).
Proposal Submission Process: Abstracts proposals of up to 400 words should be sent as an email attachment (PDF format) to Andreas Gavrielatos (a.gavrielatos@ed.ac.uk). Proposals should include “MLA proposal” in the subject line of the email. All submissions must include an abstract title, the full name(s) of the author(s), the author affiliation, and email address in the body of the email and NOT with the abstract.
Proposals must be received by 5pm GMT on 11 March 2017. Authors will be notified about results of the blind review on or by 20 March 2017. Contributors selected for the thematic panel must be members of both MLA and ANS in order to present their papers.
(CFP closed March 11, 2017)
[Panel] Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century
5th Annual International Conference on Humanities & Arts in a Global World, Athens: 3-6 January 2018
Sponsored by the Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts
The Arts and Humanities Research Division (AHRD) of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) is organizing A Panel on Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century, 3-6 January 2018, Athens, Greece as part of the 5th Annual International Conference on Humanities & Arts in a Global World sponsored by the Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts.
The aim of the panel is to bring together academics and researchers whose work is related to Ancient Greek law.
Interest in the study of ancient Greek law has been revived in recent years. Traditionally, research had been largely confined to the better attested legal system of the classical Athenian democracy. Yet, early (archaic) Greek law as well as the legal systems of other city-states have formed the focus of latest studies relating to politics, classics, legal history, social and cultural anthropology. This cross disciplinary approach to Greek law proves that its study need not be a sterile examination of the distant past. On the contrary, lessons can be extracted if research is linked with contemporary issues in a way that leads to an intellectual ferment for the improvement of our lives.
Areas of interest include (but are not confined to):
* The rule of law in ancient Greece
* Equality before the law in ancient Greece
* Unity of ancient Greek law
* Relevance in Athenian courts
* Evidence in Athenian courts
* Study of the Attic orators
* The rhetoric of Athenian litigants
* Promoting the study of Greek law in the 21st century
* Teaching ancient Greek law in the 21st century
* Incorporating ancient Greek law in university curriculum
Fee structure information is available on http://www.atiner.gr/fees.
Special arrangements will be made with a local hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of special events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment with dinner, a special one-day cruise to selected Greek islands, an archaeological tour of Athens and a one-day visit to Delphi. Details of the social program are available here.
Please submit an abstract (email only) to: atiner@atiner.gr, using the abstract submission form by 30 June 2017 to: Dr. Vasileios Adamidis, Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Current Position, Institutional Affiliation, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission.
If your submission is accepted, you will receive information on registration deadlines and paper submission requirements. Should you wish to participate in the Conference without presenting a paper, for example, to chair a session, to evaluate papers which are to be included in the conference proceedings or books, to contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER & Honorary Professor, University of Stirling, UK (gregory.papanikos@stir.ac.uk).
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association and its mission is to act as a forum, where academics and researchers – from all over the world – can meet in Athens in order to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines.
The organizing and hosting of International Conferences and Symposiums, the carrying out of Research, and the production of Publications are the basic activities of ATINER. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 400 International Conferences and other events, and has published close to 200 books. In 2012, the Association launched a series of conference paper publications, and at the beginning of 2014, it introduced its own series of Journals.
Academically, the Association is organized into seven Research Divisions and fourty Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes at least an Annual International Conference, and may also undertake various small and large research projects.
Academics and Researchers are more than welcome to become members and to contribute to ATINER’s objectives. If you would like to become a member, please download the relevant form (membership form). For more information on how to become a member, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr.
Website: http://www.atiner.gr/humlaw
Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2017
The Impact of Learning Greek, Hebrew and ‘Oriental’ Languages On Scholarship, Science, and Society in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Leuven, Belgium: 13-15 December 2017
In 1517, Leuven witnessed the foundation of the Collegium Trilingue. This institute, funded through the legacy of Hieronymus Busleyden and enthusiastically promoted by Desiderius Erasmus, offered courses in the three ‘sacred’ languages Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. LECTIO (Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance) seizes the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the Leuven Collegium Trilingue as an incentive both to examine the general context in which such polyglot institutes emerged and—more generally—to assess the overall impact of Greek and Hebrew education, by organizing a three-day international conference. Our focus is not exclusively on the 16th century, as we also welcome papers dealing with the status and functions accorded to Greek, Hebrew, and other ‘Oriental’ languages in the (later) Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period up to 1750. Special attention will be directed to the learning and teaching practices and to the general impact the study of these languages exerted on scholarship, science and society.
Please find below the full call for papers or visit our website (http://lectio.ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/conferences).
Keynote speakers are Luigi-Alberto Sanchi (Institut d’Histoire du Droit Paris) and Saverio Campanini (Università di Bologna)
Participants are asked to give 20-minute papers in English, German or French. To submit a proposal, please send an abstract of approximately 300 words (along with your name, academic affiliation and contact information) to lectio@kuleuven.be by 30 April, 2017 20 May, 2017. Notification of acceptance will be given by 20 May, 2017.
The publication of selected papers is planned in a volume to be included in the peer-reviewed LECTIO Series (Brepols Publishers).
Venue of the Conference: The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
If you have any questions, please contact lectio@kuleuven.be.
Website: http://lectio.ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/conferences
(CFP closed 30 April, 2017 20 May, 2017)
Performing Greece 2017: The 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Greek Theatre
Birkbeck College, University of London: 9 December 2017
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Angeliki Varakis-Martin (University of Kent)
Performing Greece, currently in its third year, returns to Birkbeck this December. In an increasingly difficult time for European artists working in the UK, contemporary Greek theatre, like its cinema, is also increasingly relevant – both in its exploration of crisis and immigration, and in its role in the reception of classical Greek drama. There have been a number of successful productions of contemporary Greek theatre lately in the UK – in venues such as The National, Royal Court and Barbican, but fringe venues also – as well as a recent conference at the University of Oxford on Karolos Koun. Reflecting on the presence and potential of this theatrical culture, Performing Greece brings together scholars, critics and theatremakers to explore contemporary Greek theatre in the UK and beyond. At the previous two conferences, apart from academic papers, we had also presented staged readings of new Greek plays and we are keen to present more, and to inspire fruitful discussion between academics, writers, performers and theatre artists in general.
Performing Greece will be a one-day event and will take place on 9 December 2017 at Birkbeck College, University of London. Those interested are welcome to submit proposals for individual papers or performances on any topic related to Contemporary Greek Drama and Culture. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
-Modern and contemporary Greek directors and/or playwrights
-The reception of ancient Greek drama in modern Greece
-New Greek playwriting
-The relation between Greek theatre and European theatre
-The current state of theatre and the arts in Greece
-Theatre education (e.g. differences in actor training in Greek and British drama schools, different approaches to theatre studies in Greek and British universities)
-The work of Greek theatre artists in the UK and beyond (not necessarily to do with topics relevant to Greece)
The conference welcomes proposals for presentations and performances from any discipline and theoretical perspective. Please send a title and a 300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper or 5-20 minute performance (rehearsed reading or screening) along with your name, affiliation and a 100 word biography to performinggreece@gmail.com by 9 November 2017.
Performing Greece 2017 is organised by Dr. Christos Callow Jr, Birkbeck, University of London and Dr. Andriana Domouzi, Royal Holloway, University of London.
The conference is on Twitter as @PerformGreece. If interested but unable to attend, we'll be posting updates there.
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/performing-greece-iii-conference-on-contemporary-greek-theatre-tickets-39923027851?aff=es2
(CFP closed November 9, 2017)
Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World
School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University UK: 8-9 December, 2017
On the eightieth anniversary of the death of Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University is pleased to announce a conference on Gramsci and the ancient world. The aim of this two-day event, which will take place in Newcastle on 8-9 December 2017, is to investigate and discuss the enduring significance of Gramsci’s reflection on power and culture as an analytical tool in the study of Antiquity. Concepts like hegemony and Caesarism will play an especially significant role, but it is expected that the debate will cover a broad range of problems across Greek and Roman politics, economy, literature, and culture.
Confirmed Speakers:
Mattia Balbo (Turin)
Michele Bellomo (Milan)
Mirko Canevaro (Edinburgh)
Philip Horky (Durham)
Emma Nicholson (Exeter)
Jeremy Paterson (Newcastle)
Federico Santangelo (Newcastle)
Christopher Smith (St. Andrews)
Laura Swift (OU)
Cristiano Viglietti (Siena)
Kostas Vlassopoulos (Crete)
Jane Webster (Newcastle)
A full programme will be circulated in due course.
For further information, please contact us at gramsciandantiquity@gmail.com
Organisers: Sara Borrello, Roberto Ciucciové, Luigi Di Iorio, Federico Santangelo, Emilio Zucchetti.
The Objects of Reception: an interdisciplinary conversation & book launch
Sydney Business School, Gateway Building, Sydney, NSW: December 6, 2017
Five leading scholars come together for an interdisciplinary conversation about the theory and practice of reception study.
The event will be followed at 2:30pm by a drinks reception and the book launch of Ika Willis' Reception (Routledge, 2017).
Speakers:
Classical reception: Professor Alastair Blanshard, University of Queensland
Digital humanities and the history of reading: Associate Professor Katherine Bode, Australian National University
Biblical reception: Dr Jennifer Clement, University of Queensland
Medievalism: Professor Louise D'Arcens, Macquarie
Media audience studies: Professor Sue Turnbull, University of Wollongong
Reception is everywhere. From the medieval to the new media landscape, audiences interpret, immerse in, adapt, and creatively remix the texts they encounter, in ways both unruly and rule-bound. Reception practices range from sermon-writing to Goodreads reviewing, from close reading and critical commentary to cosplay. How can we map this vast terrain? What objects of inquiry might we discover as we travel through it? And what are our objectives in undertaking the journey?
This event is supported by the Centre for Cultures, Texts, and Creative Industries at the University of Wollongong, and by Routledge.
Information and contact: Ika Willis, ikaw@uow.edu.au
Website: http://www.academia.edu/35049044/The_Objects_of_Reception_an_interdisciplinary_conversation_and_book_launch
Metamorphosis: the Landslide of Identity
Urbino (Italy) - 30 November and 1 December 2017
On the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of Ovid's death, the Cultural Association Rodopis and the Department of Humanities (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici) of the University of Urbino Carlo Bo organise an International Workshop, titled "Metamorphosis: the Landslide of Identity".
Nowadays the Metamorphoses are surely Ovid's most renowned work: some of their characters entered contemporary imagery, became the focus of theoretical reflections, art and literary works. The tragedy encountered by Narcissus, Daphne, Hermaphroditus (just to mention a few examples) talks to readers and gets them deeply involved: it is the tragedy of the transformation in action, focusing on the very moment of being "no more" and "not yet". In Ovid's poetry we find the tragedy of the encounter with an alterity that becomes endemic while being refused, and the difficulty of leaving an originary shape to embrace a different one; this together with a constant tension to mutation, and to an evolution without conclusion. The incidents Ovid's characters live push the readers to question their own identity, to wonder about what keeps them the same through space and time, and what stands as pledge of their non-renounceable essence. On the other hand, they stand there to question the possibility of dismissing and forgetting their own self, in order to become something else.
The problem tackled by Ovid in poetical terms is the same with which many fields in the Humanities and Social Sciences (from history to anthropology, from psychology to sociology) have struggled, constituting one of the major philosophical questions from the XVII century onwards. The XX century has put an end to (or at least eclipsed) the "strong" or essentialist conceptions of "identity", and left the floor to "weak" interpretations of the term, aiming at including in such an intrinsically static concept the categories of change and relationality, space and time. Finally, some scholars proposed a full obliteration of "identity" (intended as a category of analysis) from the scientific and scholarly discourse, in the light of the inevitable ambiguity of the notion itself. The reflection on "transformation" widens the field of investigation to the relationships between identity and alterity, the very instant of passing from one shape to the other, and the possibility that this change may affect one's very essence. It puts into question the very existence of an immutable essence and its features, the assumed necessity of maintaining or dismissing it, in an ongoing dialectic which interprets the "origins" as either roots or chains.
This Workshop aims at taking inspiration from Ovid's work in order to stimulate an interdisciplinary dialogue on the notion of "metamorphosis", and on the relationship between identity and alterity. Abstracts may concern different disciplines (such as ancient and modern literatures, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology), and tackle the envisaged issues both in individual and collective terms.
Proposals may concern (but do not have to be limited to) artistic and literary expressions of transformation; issues linked to the identity/alterity relationship in specific political and social contexts; anthropological or ethnographic case-studies concerning the encounter of different cultures or populations (with a particular focus on hybridization phenomena or the origin of "frontier-cultures"); the definition of personal identity through the relationship with the "other". We also encourage papers presenting a purely methodological and epistemological approach, taking into account the theoretical issues connected to the concept of metamorphosis.
Official languages of the Workshop will be Italian and English. Each paper should be planned for a 20 minutes presentation.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Francesco Remotti (University di Torino - Italy); Prof. Massimo Fusillo (University of L'Aquila - Italy). On November, 30th, speakers will be invited to assist to the performance Metamorfosi, by Debora Pradarelli and Giulietta Gheller.
PhD Students and Early Career Researchers are invited to submit an anonymous abstract of maximum 300 words to rodopismetamorphosis2017@gmail.com, by October, 10th 2017. The paper selection will be carried out in the following two weeks.
The Workshop is part of the project "A partire da Ovidio". For more information: http://www.rodopis.it/2017/06/05/a-partire-da-ovidio/.
CFP: http://www.rodopis.it/archivio-call-for-papers/cfp-metamorfosi-identita-in-smottamento-urbino-2017/
1st International Conference in Ancient Drama: The Forgotten Theatre
University of Turin (Italy): 30th November – 1st December, 2017
Conference coordinator: Francesco Carpanelli (Professor of Greek-Latin theatre, University of Turin).
Keynote speaker: Enrico V. Maltese (Head of the Department of Classics, University of Turin).
The Centro Studi sul Teatro Classico (Centre for Studies in Classic Theatre) has scheduled for 30th November-1st December 2017 its first academic conference for young researchers, Ph.D. students and Professors of Humanities.
The conference The Forgotten Theatre aims at revitalizing the scientific interest in dramatic Greek and Latin texts, both transmitted and fragmentary, which have been long confined in restricted areas of the scientific research and limited to few modern stagings. The conference will host academics (philologists, scholars in history of theater) and exponents of the theatrical world (directors, screenwriters) who wish to contribute in cast a new light on the forgotten theatre through their studies, reflections and experiences.
Themes discussed:
* Criticism, commentary, and constitutio textus of complete and fragmentary texts (comedy and tragedy);
* Reasonable attempts of reconstruction of incomplete tetralogies;
* Research on theatrical plots known for indirect tradition;
* Developments of theatrical plots between the Greek and Latin world;
* Influence of foreign theater traditions on the Greek and Roman theatre;
* Influence of other forms of camouflage art (dance, mime) on the development of the Greek and Latin theatre;
* New scenographic considerations based on the testimonies of internal captions, marginalia and scholia to the texts;
* New proposals for modern staging of ancient dramatic texts;
* Medieval, humanistic, modern and contemporary traditions of ancient drama.
How to participate: In order to participate, the candidates are required to send an e-mail to teatro.classico@unito.it containing:
* an abstract (about 300 words) of the lecture they intend to give at the conference and the title;
* a brief curriculum vitae et studiorum which highlights the educational qualifications of the candidate and the university they are attending.
Each lecture should be 20-25 minutes long, plus a few minutes for questions from the public and discussion. The lectures may be given in Italian, English, or French (with preference for the Italian language).
The candidacies may be submitted until 31th August 2017. Within the month of September 2017, the scientific committee will publish the list of the lecturers whose contribution has been accepted. Refunds for the lecturers coming from other countries than Italy will be quantified thereafter. The scientific committee will also consider publishing the proceedings of the conference.
Scientific committee:
Professor Francesco Carpanelli (University of Turin)
Professor Enrico V. Maltese (University of Turin)
Professor Giulio Guidorizzi (Emeritus of University of Turin)
Professor Angela M. Andrisano (University of Ferrara)
Information: teatro.classico@unito.it
Website: http://www.teatroclassico.unito.it/it/content/cfp-ist-international-conference-ancient-drama.
Recovering the Past: Egypt and Greece
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London: Wednesday 22 November, 2017
Few ancient cultures have been studied as intensely as ancient Egypt and Greece. But how exactly do we learn about these ancient cultures and their connections? This multimedia event looks at the many ways in which the Graeco-Egyptian past has been recovered. Come and find out all about it—the recuperation of texts on papyri, the deciphering of hieroglyphs, Freudian theories of Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and the representation of priests of Isis in film.
"Recovering a lost language: the Rosetta Stone" - Stephen Colvin
"Egypt, Greek papyri, and Victorian Britain" - Nick Gonis
"Freud on Moses and Oedipus" - Miriam Leonard
"Murder in Pompeii! The Priests of Isis in Fiction and Cinema" - Maria Wyke
This event is part of Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities.
Website: https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/recovering-the-past-egypt-and-greece/
Between nostos and exilium: “home” in on-screen representations of the ancient Mediterranean world and its narratives
An area of multiple panels for the 2017 Film & History Conference: "Representing Home: The Real and Imagined Spaces of Belonging"
The Hilton, Milwaukee City Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA): November 1-5, 2017
Artists working in screen media have long explored the concept of “home” in ancient Mediterranean narratives. For example, Homer’s Odyssey, the most frequently adapted narrative, depicts a homecoming that will restore the protagonist’s identity within his family, estate, and community, all of which are threatened by a band of outsiders that attempts to destroy that home by claiming his wife, killing his heir, and seizing his property: an ironic replay of Odysseus’ role in the Trojan War. The surviving Trojans end their exile by founding a new homeland, Rome, where shifting alliances within the socio-political network of ancestral houses blur the boundaries of domestic and civic interests until one household subsumes the homeland. In what ways are modern depictions of e.g. oikos, polis, domus, and patria reflective of these ancient concepts? In what ways is the private sentimentality that “home” entails in contemporary discourse fused with the affective value of such concepts in order to facilitate audience investment in ancient characters’ aspirations and struggles?
This area invites 20-minute papers (inclusive of visual presentations) considering the depiction of “home” as physical or symbolic structure in on-screen interpretations of the ancient Mediterranean world and its narratives. Topics include, but are not limited to:
--articulating family relations within the home: parents, children, spouses, siblings
--gendered roles within the oikos or domus
--the ancestral “house”: individual, familial, and civic functions
--“others” in the home, e.g. slaves, guests, hostages, and illegitimate offspring
--home as patrimony: dramas of property, kinship, and inheritance
--tension between domestic and civic loyalties
--domestic space as public and/or private space
--the significance of the house as mise-en-scène
--the view of home from away, e.g. during military service, pilgrimage, exploration
--narratives of return: the romance and danger of homecoming, challenges of reintegration
--exiles and home: longing and alienation
--the destruction of house or homeland, from within or without
--foundations: the creation of new houses and homelands
Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, so long as they include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.filmandhistory.org).
Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by 1 June 2017 for early consideration, and by 1 July 2017 for general consideration, to the area chair:
Meredith Safran, Trinity College (USA): classicsonscreen@gmail.com.
Call: http://www.filmandhistory.org/conference/2017/2017-CFP-Classical-Antiquity.php
Poverty & Wealth: 32nd Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa
Pretoria (South Africa): 26-29 October, 2017
The Classical Association of South Africa (CASA) and the Classics Section of the Dept of Biblical & Ancient Studies, University of South Africa
invite proposals for papers for the 32nd Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa to be held in Pretoria in October 2017.
We invite submissions that focus on (but are not limited to) the conference theme “Poverty and Wealth”.
Across the world today there is much discourse around relative wealth and poverty, particularly relating to issues of privilege, class and inequality. Studies on wealth and poverty in antiquity are often centred on the transitional period towards Christianity, but Graeco-Roman antiquity as a whole has much to offer in terms of material for study. Although we are to some extent hampered by the fact that ancient literature, and even material remains, favour the views and lives of the wealthy, there are still many fruitful areas for exploration:
* Representations of poverty and wealth in literature and art
* Links between poverty, patronage and wealth
* Land ownership and wealth
* Transitions: wealth to poverty and poverty to wealth
* Images and metaphors of poverty and wealth
* The role of fate or fortune in views on poverty and wealth
* Actions and motivations towards alleviating poverty
* Material wealth and spiritual poverty
* Idealised poverty
* Differentiations between urban poverty/wealth, and rural situations
* Inequality and social tension
* Political theory and property distribution
* War and conquest and their effects on poverty/wealth.
In addition to the main theme of the conference, we also welcome individual or panel proposals on all other aspects of the Classical World and Classical Reception.
The deadline for proposals is 1 February 2017. Please submit a paper title, an abstract (approximately 300 words) and author affiliation to either:
Dr Liana Lamprecht – lamprjc@unisa.ac.za – or
Dr Martine De Marre – dmarrmea@unisa.ac.za.
Details of the conference venue, accommodation and other important conference information will be made available on the conference website, which we hope to have up-and-running soon.
(CFP closed 1 February, 2017)
Preserving, Commenting, Adapting: Commentaries on Ancient Texts in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
An international workshop at the University of Silesia in Katowice organised by the Centre of Studies on Byzantine Literature and Reception: 20-21 October, 2017
Keynote speakers: Panagiotis Agapitos & Aglae Pizzone
Every commentary first and foremost is an interpretation or specific reading of the text that is commented upon. In commenting on ‘their’ text, commentators construct questions of meaning and problems perceived as complicating this meaning, neither of which are inherent in the text. Commentaries, therefore, are firmly grounded in their intellectual and socio-cultural context and ‘may come to be studied as cultural or ideological texts in their own right, with didactic aims of their own, steering the “primary” text in a direction intended to answer very contemporary questions of meaning’ (R.K. Gibson, C.S. Kraus (eds.), The Classical Commentary: Histories, Practices, Theory. Leiden 2002). This ‘contemporariness’ of commentaries involves both their production and their reception: on the one hand, commentators tend to read their own (didactic) programme into the ‘primary’ text and address questions of meaning relevant to their intellectual context; on the other hand, commentaries serve to preserve, comment, and adapt a text for contemporary purposes and for a contemporary target audience.
As ‘documents of their time’, commentaries thus may be said to form an excellent starting point for exploring the reception of authoritative texts in a certain period. In this workshop, we propose to do exactly this: to explore the use of ancient texts in twelfth-century Byzantium through commentaries. Classical scholarship flourished in twelfth-century Constantinople; scholars such as Eustathios of Thessalonike and John Tzetzes undertook ambitious projects of Homeric exegesis, while Eustratios of Nicaea produced commentaries on various of Aristotle’s works. In a broader sense, treatises like those by John Tzetzes on ancient tragedy and comedy or literary works such as Theodore Prodromos’ Katomyomachia and Bion Prasis can also be said to comment on ancient texts and, thus, reveal the manifold ways in which Byzantines dealt with their ancient heritage.
We therefore invite abstracts that explore commentaries on ancient texts in twelfth-century Byzantium in order to shed light on the ways in which the Byzantines used—preserved, commented, adapted—the ancient texts in question. We define ‘commentary’ in a broad sense, to include generically diverse texts that in one way or another comment on the ancient literary heritage. Questions that might be addressed include but are not limited to the following: What (contemporary) questions of meaning do Byzantine commentators seek to answer? What is their hermeneutic and/or didactic programme? How do commentators perceive their own role in preserving or defending the authority of the ancient text? What function do these commentaries fulfil within their intellectual and socio-cultural context? What is the relationship between commentaries on ancient texts and the transtextual use of ancient texts in Byzantine literary practice? Since we would like to put the activity of twelfth-century commentators in a wider context, we would also consider proposals dealing with commentaries on ancient texts in other periods (e.g. antiquity, Palaiologian Byzantium etc.).
Deadline for abstracts: Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to baukje.van-den-berg@us.edu.pl by 30 April 2017. Any enquiries about the conference may also be addressed to this email address.
Organisers:
Baukje van den Berg
Tomasz Labuk
Divna Manolova
Przemyslaw Marciniak
Katarzyna Warcaba
(CFP closed 30 April, 2017)
Classical Antiquity & Memory from the 19th - 21st Century
University of Bonn, Germany: 28-30 September, 2017
Quand l'homme a voulu imiter la marche, il a créé la roue, qui ne ressemble pas à une jambe
[When man wanted to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg]
Apollinaire: Les mamelles de Tirésias, Préface
Reading Antiquity always already presupposes an act of re-membering and thereby a bringing back to heart (ri-cordare). At the same time, remembering is based on generating difference, i.e. on differences enabling the reappearance of the past as a phantom-like present. When identifying significant historical events and explaining their impact, classical mythology is often engaged in literary and cultural discourses that re-shape and re-interpret narratives that develop our sense of self. Therefore, constructing collective memories and remembering a shared antiquity are often interwoven through mechanisms of encoding, storing, retrieving and forgetting the Greco-Roman past.
Remembering Antiquity implies calling into question past cultural and political amnesia and repression: With the return of the ghost of right-wing politics which deny the relevance of intellectuals, the criteria of choosing one text and not the other become all the more important. This Conference will explore and discuss Dis-/Re-Membering as an urge to consume and/or erase the memory of “classical” texts that we may call into question by re-writing them in the context of various literary, artistic, visual or musical representations.
Possible subjects for papers:
Re-/Dis-Membrance:
To what extent does the re-appropriation of classical texts contribute to (de-)constructing memory?
What is the rhetoric of constructing memory in modern literature and art?
How are dis-continuities exploited in favour of rejecting the concept of a collective cultural memory?
Re-Presentation:
To what extent does contemporary literature exploit classical antiquity as propaganda?
Does the ancient world progressively elude our memories in the era of postmodern cultural amnesia, or do the spectres of the classical past still haunt us?
How do the mechanisms of re-membering the classical past change within the context of national and transnational, sociohistorical and fictional accounts of classical literature?
What impact does the digital age have on our relationship with our (remembrance of the) past?
Re-Canonisation:
What are the politics of (re-)establishing a Greco-Roman literary canon?
How is cultural memory constructed as a form of opposition or as a survival technique that makes use of classical antiquity?
How does re-/dis-membering the Greco-Roman past operate in our fragmented and/or catalogued present?
What is the connection between personal literary and collective cultural memory, especially in times of crisis when there is a blatant lack of founding myths.
How is the classical world (re-)mediated – as a dead corpse or as a living organism - and what aspects make Antiquity relevant for our social, moral, artistic and intellectual world?
This international conference is organised in collaboration with the Centre for the Classical Tradition (CCT) Bonn (University of Bonn), and Jocasta | Classical Reception Greece (University of Patras), and will take place in Bonn (Germany), from 28-30th September, 2017.
We invite abstracts of approximately 300 words (30'+10'). Abstracts and presentations are to be delivered in English.
Abstracts and any inquiries may be sent to the organisers, at memory.bonn2017@gmail.com. Submissions are due May 15, 2017.
Organisers:
Dr. Milan Herold (Romance Philology, Bonn)
Penelope-Foteini Kolovou, PhD Student (Classical Philology, Bonn)
Efstathia Athanasopoulou, PhD Student (Classical Philology, Patras)
Website: jocasta.upatras.gr/event/cfp-classical-antiquity-memory-from-the-19th-21st-century-international-conference-at-the-university-of-bonn-28-30-september-2017/
The Making of Humanities VI
University of Oxford, Somerville College, UK: September 28-30, 2017
The sixth conference on the history of the humanities, ‘The Making of the Humanities VI’, will take place at the University of Oxford, Humanities Division and Somerville College, UK, from 28 till 30 September 2017.
Goal of the Making of the Humanities (MoH) Conferences
The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.
We welcome panels and papers on any period or region. We are especially interested in work that transcends the history of specific humanities disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines and civilizations.
Please note that the Making of the Humanities conferences are not concerned with the history of art, the history of music or the history of literature, and so on, but instead with the history of art history, the history of musicology, the history of literary studies, etc.
Keynote Speakers:
* Elisabeth Décultot, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg: From an Antiquarian to an Historical Approach? The Birth of Art History in the 18th Century
*Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town: Styles of Writing History in Timbuktu and the Sahara/Sahel
* Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge: The Rise (and Fall?) of the Humanities
Paper Submissions: Abstracts of single papers (30 minutes including discussion) should contain the name of the speaker, full contact address (including email address), the title and a summary of the paper of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting abstracts, see the submission page.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2017. Notification of acceptance: June 2017.
Panel Submissions: Panels last 1.5 to 2 hours and can consist of 3-4 papers and possibly a commentary on a coherent theme including discussion. Panel proposals should contain respectively the name of the chair, the names of the speakers and commentator, full contact addresses (including email addresses), the title of the panel, a short (150 words) description of the panel’s content and for each paper an abstract of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting panels, see the submission page.
Deadline for panel proposals: 15 April 2017. Notification of acceptance: June 2017
Website: http://www.historyofhumanities.org/2016/12/27/call-for-papers-and-panels-mohvi-oxford-28-30-september-2017/
(CFP closed 15 April 2017)
Ovid Across Europe: Vernacular Translations of the Metamorphoses in the Middle Ages & Renaissance
University of Bristol, UK: 28-29 September, 2017
From the 12th-century onwards, Ovid’s Metamorphoses exerted an enduring influence on Western culture. The capacity of this poem to be constantly present in our world is due to its innate transformative ability. In the Middle Ages, the Metamorphoses was often read as a philosophical text in which to find advice on Christian morality and ethics. In the Renaissance and Baroque periods, it constituted the most important repertoire of myths, an encyclopaedic work plundered by writers, musicians, and painters. The Metamorphoses found a permanent place in Western culture not only because it could be easily reinterpreted, but also for its capacity to be successfully rewritten and translated into various languages. In the medieval and the early modern ages, the reception of Ovid’s major poem did not happen exclusively through the Latin text; translations in the vernaculars played a pivotal role, transmitting the Latin Metamorphoses to all the emerging European vernacular cultures.
This conference aims to bring together scholars working on medieval and early modern translations of the Metamorphoses in Europe in order to shed light on the various ways in which Ovid’s poem was re-purposed and received, as well as to trace connections between different literary traditions. When was the Metamorphoses first translated into European vernaculars? How many Ovids can we talk about? Were there interferences between translations in the different vernaculars? The vernacularization of transnational texts contributed to the shaping of national identities, and this colloquium, fostering an exchange between scholars working in any European linguistic area, aims to shed light on the process of national acquisition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses through translation. The objective of this conference is to chart the changing face and function of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the vernacular Europe of the Middle and Early Modern Ages.
Areas of research might include:
* Text, language, and style of the Metamorphoses’ vernacular translations;
* The physical structure and presentation of the translations (support material, script or type, size, layout and decorations, marginalia) and their relationship with the Latin editions;
* The handwritten tradition and the oral tradition of the vernacular Metamorphoses;
* From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, from manuscript to printed book: disruption, or continuity?
* Allegories and commentaries attached to Ovid’s poem and their influence on the Metamorphoses’ translations;
* Vernacular Metamorphoses and national cultures: the transformations of Ovid’s poem in the language and style of the receiving culture and the role of vernacularization for the consolidation of a cultural identity.
* The changing worlds of the vernacular Metamorphoses: evolution and re-purposing of this text from the court, to the school, the street, the Academy, and the printing shop.
Key-note Speakers:
Genevieve Lively, Bristol University, UK (George Sandy’s Translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses)
John Tholen, Utrecht University (Ovid in the Early Modern Netherlands)
Mattia Cavagna, UCL Belgium (Ovide Moralisé in the Middle Ages)
Elisa Guadagnini, CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), (The Italian Metamorphoses in the Middle Ages)
Please send an abstract (roughly 500 words) and a short curriculum by 30 March 2017 to:
Marta Balzi m.balzi@bristol.ac.uk
Gemma Pellissa Prades gemmapellisa@gmail.com
Website: http://translatingovid.weebly.com/
(CFP closed March 30, 2017)
Literary Windows: Imitative Series and Clusters in Literature (Classical to Early Modern)
This conference will be held in 2017 in either London or Oxford: preferably in the early autumn of that year, though this will only be finalized when we know the outcome of our funding applications.
(Addendum: 25-26 September, 2017 at All Souls College, Oxford. Website: http://www.ehrc.ox.ac.uk/LitWin)
We are looking for 30-minute papers on previously unpublished material that discuss examples of imitative series and clusters from classical literature to roughly the end of the seventeenth century. By "imitative series" we mean what has also been defined as "two-tier allusion" or "window reference" (Nelis), i.e. when author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to a passage or text by author A and its imitation by author B; by "imitative cluster" we mean an instance in which author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to passages or texts that are already interconnected at the source in a formal or conceptual way: these passages will typically be by the same author, or they can be by two different authors and be connected in some way other than straightforward imitation. In short, if an "imitative series" may be represented as a line, an "imitative cluster" corresponds more to a triangle. (Examples of these practices are discussed in C. Burrow, "Virgils, from Dante to Milton", in The Cambridge Companion to Virgil and E. Tarantino, "Fulvae Harenae: The Reception of an Intertextual Complex in Dante's Inferno", Classical Receptions Journal 4.1.) If applicable, proposals should point out any political, philosophical or other issues that were being addressed via these allusions.
We are particularly interested in instances of the imitation of the "Elysian fields" passage in Aeneid 6, but also welcome proposals dealing with a wide range of texts and national literatures - though for reasons of congruity we would limit the geographical scope to European literary traditions. We would also be very interested to hear of any instances of the theoretical discussion of these imitative practices up to c. 1700.
Please send proposals of 100-200 words to ISCL@humanities.ox.ac.uk by 31st January 2016, accompanied by the following:
* a short text listing main academic affiliations to date (if any) and main publications (especially those relevant to this conference);
* confirmation that your paper deals with previously unpublished material, and that you will send us your text for exclusive publication after the conference;
* an indication of whether you would require financial support in respect of travel expenses and accommodation in order to attend this conference (we are hoping to be able to meet at least some of these costs, but we will not know until we hear about the outcome of our funding applications).
Notification of inclusion in the conference will be sent by 15 February 2016.
Conference organizers: Colin Burrow, Stephen Harrison, Martin McLaughlin, Elisabetta Tarantino.
(CFP closed 31 Jan 2016)
PONTES IX: Classical Heroism in the Modern Age: Ideas, Practices, Media
Freiburg, Germany (Classics Library of the Seminar für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie of Freiburg University): 21-23 September, 2017
Classical antiquity is the fountainhead of much of our Western ideas of heroism. Starting from religious Greek hero cult, elements of the heroic manifested itself in myth, literature, war politics, and a number of other domains. The influence of these ideas on later concepts of heroism is obvious until the end of the early modern period. With the rise of industrialized societies since the 19th century, however, the reception of ancient heroism becomes more obscure, and postmodernist currents have questioned the very idea of heroism in many ways. Nonetheless, the concept of heroism keeps informing our perception of and desire for extraordinary persons and actions. For the period from ca. 1800 to our own day, the role of classical patterns in these processes often remains to be uncovered – witness D. Voss’ recent contribution on „Heldenkonstruktionen“ (KulturPoetik 11, 2011, 181-202), in which the author describes a number of differences between ancient and modern heroism but remains silent about reception. Readers are left with the impression that there is a gaping divide between modern day heroism and antiquity. True to its name, the PONTES conference will attempt to build bridges of reception across that divide.
Preference will be given not to individual hero figures, but to larger ideas, practices and media of heroism. Individual heroes may be dealt with, however, as long as their representative character is emphasized. Possible subjects include, for instance, the strategies of hero-making in fascism, Lucretius’ praise of Epicurus as a blueprint for modern heroes of science, or the massive return of ancient heroes in contemporary epic films.
This PONTES conference will be held in cooperation with the Freiburg Sonderforschungsbereich 948 ‘Helden–Heroisierungen–Heroismen’. For further information see the Sonderforschungsbereich’s survey of recent research on heroism, ‘Das Heroische in der neueren kulturhistorischen Forschung: Ein kritischer Bericht’:
http://www.hsozkult.de/literaturereview/id/forschungsberichte-2216.
Registration: Researches on all career levels are invited to submit proposals. The proposal should contain a working title and a short abstract of ca. 100 words. Please send your proposal by 15 March 2017 to stefan.tilg@altphil.uni-freiburg.de. Decisions about acceptance will be made by 30 March 2017. For participation without a paper no registration is needed.
Travel: Since we start on Thursday morning at ca. 9 am, arrival on Wednesday might be advisable for those who come from further afield. Rooms will be booked by the organizers, unless otherwise requested. We shall contact you with all the details after the end of the submission period. We aim to refund travel and accommodation costs if they are not refundable at your home institution.
Place: Classics Library of the Seminar für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie of Freiburg University.
Format: Papers of 30 minutes + 15 minutes discussion. Revised versions of the papers will be published in a conference volume.
The PONTES conferences on the reception of Classical Antiquity were founded in 1999 by Karlheinz Töchterle and Martin Korenjak. They took place biannually until 2011 and have been organized triennially since then. So far, conference venues have been Innsbruck, Bern, and Freiburg, where the PONTES will return to in 2017.
(CFP closed March 15, 2017)
Medea in the Artistic Culture of the World
The Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia): September 17-21, 2017
The Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, established in 1997 in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University through the unification of the Chair of Classical Philology and the Centre of Mediterranean Studies, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. In connection with the jubilee, the Institute will hold an international conference on The Theme of Medea in the Artistic Culture of the World from September 17 to 21, 2017. Along with researchers, the event will gather representatives of literature and art.
Those willing to participate in the conference are kindly requested to forward the following information to greekstudies@tsu.ge before March 15, 2017:
Personal information (first name, last name), affiliation and position (title), contact details (telephone, mailing address and email); type of presentation (conference paper, performance or exhibition), title and brief summary (no more than 300 words). The Organizing Committee will provide additional information to shortlisted applicants before April 30, 2017.
The conference welcomes professors, researchers and students from all the three academic levels.
Contact persons:
Ekaterine Kvirkelia - 598 60 46 67; kvirkvelia_e@yahoo.com
Mariam Kaladze - 577 42 69 82; mariami.kaladze@tsu.ge
13 I. Chavchavadze ave. 0179, Tbilisi, Georgia
Tel.+ 99532222-11-81
Fax.+ 995 32222-11-81
E-mail: greekstudies@tsu.ge
(CFP closed 15 March, 2017)
Neo-Latin Literary Perspectives on Britain and Ireland, 1520–1670
Churchill College, Cambridge: 15-16 September 2017
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies invites submissions for papers for a conference on 15–16 September 2017, at Churchill College, Cambridge, on Neo-Latin Literary Perspectives on Britain and Ireland, 1520–1670. In this period, Latin was the international language of European literature and a host of material dealing with British and Irish political and cultural identity survives both by authors working within Britain and Ireland and by those outside. Proposed papers dealing with the perception and depiction of Britain and Ireland from elsewhere in Europe are therefore encouraged as well as those on works written by authors resident in Britain or Ireland. Papers may discuss works in poetry or prose, and international scholars are very much encouraged to submit abstracts for consideration.
Examples of topics and authors relevant to the call include (but are by no means limited to): the idea of ‘Britain’ and ‘Ireland’ in Latin literature (including historiography); Latin verse responses, both in England and on the continent, to major events, such as the death of Philip Sidney, the defeat of the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, the Thirty Years War, and the events of the Civil War, Protectorate and Restoration; the work of British and Irish Catholic authors resident abroad (often in France and Italy); the role of national identity in major Neo-Latin authors of the period such as Leland, Polydore Vergil, Camden, Stanihurst, Buchanan, Harvey, O’Meara, Owen, Campion, Barclay, Milton, Hobbes; the role of Latin literature in shaping distinct identities and communities of readership, for instance among Irish and Scottish authors, as well as among Catholic writers. Contributors may also want to consider the role of translation into and out of Latin in the formation of British and Irish identity in the period.
SNLS takes particular responsibility for encouraging graduate students and early-career scholars in the field. There will be a special early-career panel of slightly shorter (20 minute) papers only for those currently working towards a PhD or who are within two years of submission.
All other abstracts should be for 30-minute papers.
For all proposed papers, a title and abstract of up to 200 words (along with the name of the presenter, their affiliation and, for students, their year of study) should be submitted to neolatinsociety@gmail.com by 15 September 2016.
In addition, junior scholars, at MA or PhD level, who would like to present their work in a briefer form are encouraged to submit proposals (title and two-sentence summary) for a poster session (by the same deadline).
SNLS is in the process of applying for funding, but at this stage it cannot be guaranteed that all expenses of presenters will be covered.
Source: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/news/?newsItem=094d434554f376b50154fd111f0e1d6f.
(CFP closed 15 September 2016)
Telling Tales out of School: Latin Education and European Literary Production
Ghent University (Belgium), 14-16 September, 2017
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Anders Cullhed (University of Stockholm) - Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania) - Erik Gunderson (University of Toronto)
ADVISORY BOARD: Anders Cullhed (University of Stockholm), Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), Françoise Waquet (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Karl Enenkel (University of Münster), Piet Gerbrandy (University of Amsterdam), Wim François (University of Leuven), Wim Verbaal (Ghent University), Koen De Temmerman (Ghent University) and Marco Formisano (Ghent University)
At an early stage in its history, Latin went from a vernacular language to the most pervasive and enduring cosmopolitan language in European history. Latin did not only function as the language for international diplomacy, but, more importantly, it also served as the Church's liturgical language all over Europe and gave form to an intellectual climate that stimulated an extensive literary production. Literature written in Latin, from Roman Antiquity over the long Middle Ages to the early modern period, preserved and renewed literary and aesthetic standards. It laid the foundation for a European literature (and culture), which crossed national boundaries. Not surprisingly, ‘Great Authors’ such as Dante, Rimbaud, etc. that are now mainly known for their works in vernacular languages, also wrote several works in Latin.
In the development of this intellectual climate and literature, Latin education was a driving force. Latin education, as it took shape in Classical Antiquity, combined technical matters (morphology, prosody, metric, syntax,...) with broader ways of thinking such as rhetoric, literature, philosophy and theology. Hence, being educated in Latin always meant an initiation into a social, intellectual and literary elite. Most authors, even the ones who only wrote in vernacular languages, followed a Latin educational program and had a reading audience in mind that shared the same background.
The main focus of this conference will be the dynamic interaction between European literary production and Latin education as its undercurrent. At the two extremes, this relation can, on the one hand, be defined as one in which education only functioned as a transmitter of knowledge and literary attitudes; on the other hand, education can also be seen as a full part of the intellectual environment in which literary techniques, values and texts were not only transferred, but also evaluated and (re-)created. From the latter perspective, Latin literature and education were involved in a constant negotiation about (changing) aesthetic, social and historical elements.
This conference seeks to cover the entire Latinitas from the institutionalization of Latin education, as embodied by Quintilian, to the end of Latin as a primary language of schooling in modern times. We invite proposals for 30-minute papers on the interaction between education and literature. Particularly welcome are proposals with a comparative approach to different periods, geographical areas and/or literatures in other languages that had to emancipate from their Latin background.
The following topics can serve as guidelines in exploring the correlation between schooling and literature:
• Methods of reading and writing literature (genre, style, subject matter, literary attitude, etc.): What is their relation to the methods of the Latin educational system? How do they emancipate from them?
• Commentary and reflection on literary values and traditions: How does the Latin school curriculum create literary expectations and stimulate theoretical ways of thinking about literature? In what way are canons created and continued by school programs and instruction?
• Tensions and interactions between literary fields: How did the influence of Latin education affect, decelerate or accelerate the rise of literature in vernacular languages? How do the innovative force of literary production and the conservative nature of schooling disturb, challenge, and at the same time balance each other?
• Power structures and social identification in and through literature: how are power relations and social identities such as gender, class, race, etc. negotiated through schools and literature? How do schools create an elite community of readers and authors of literature by projecting a model of a homo litteratus? How does Latin play a role in establishing or changing this intellectual elite?
• Broad historical-cultural shifts: How does the interaction between Latin schooling and literary production change under the influence of political, demographical, and religious transformations? How do developments within the intellectual climate, such as the rise of universities, the new sciences, the enlightenment etc. affect literary production?
• The end of Latin schooling: What is the impact of the end of Latin as the language of instruction on literary production? What explains sudden and brief revivals of Latin as a literary language in modern times?
We accept papers in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Please send an abstract of ca. 300 words and a five line biography to relics@ugent.be by 1 February 2017.
ORGANIZATION: Tim Noens, Dinah Wouters, Maxim Rigaux and Thomas Velle are four FWO-funded doctoral researchers at Ghent University. Their research projects focus on Latin topics ranging from the 1st to the 18th century and in various geographical areas from Spain to Scandinavia. Their common interest in the correlation between Latin and other literatures resulted in the foundation of a new research group RELICS (Researchers of European Literary Identities, Cosmopolitanism and the Schools), of which this conference is the launching event.
Website: http://research.flw.ugent.be/en/relics.
(CFP closed 1 February, 2017)
ZOOGRAPHEIN – Depicting and describing animals in ancient Greece, Rome and beyond
Cornell University, Ithaca NY – September 8-10, 2017
In collaboration with the research network ZOOMATHIA
Greek and Roman culture is replete with verbal and visual descriptions and depictions of animals, from Herodotus’ gold-digging ants or Pliny’s bestiary to Greek vase painting or the decoration of Roman houses and gardens. Research on ancient zoological knowledge has traditionally centered on identifying animal species in texts and images, determining the various sources of such knowledge, and relating these inquiries to their broader socio-historical and philosophical contexts. While these approaches can be fruitful, they often operate on the assumption that verbal and pictorial testimonies always record and illustrate specific information, echoing concrete ancient zoological knowledge.
This conference takes a decisively different approach. We propose to consider depictions and descriptions of animals as methods of inquiry in and of themselves, rather than illustrations of knowledge ex post facto. Thus, for instance, Aristotle’s account of gregarious animals at the start of Historia Animalium may serve as a mode of understanding humans’ position within the animal world, rather than an account of ancient discoveries. In addition, ancient zoographers’ views might have been shaped by encounters with animals in contexts and media other than 'scientific' study or simple observation in nature. In this sense, do we seek to consider visual and textual sources as creative and active modes of representation and thereby forms of knowledge production, rather than reflections of it.
Contributions may focus on a single ancient description or depiction of an animal, or on a group of cases. We particularly welcome contributions that engage with cognitive or media studies in their approach to texts or images. We also encourage contributors to consider ways in which ancient and medieval European zoological knowledge was produced differently from that of other cultures.
Papers Submissions may address the following questions:
* How do ancient descriptions and depictions of animals work as forms of inquiry to produce knowledge?
* How do visual and verbal studies of animals interact with each other?
* How do descriptions and depictions of animals reflect human observation and experience?
* How do rhetorical images or metaphors work function as methods of inquiry?
* How do common knowledge vs. specialized inquiry influence depiction and description?
* (How) do sources distinguish between mythical and real animals?
* If depiction and description of animals create knowledge, do they shape literary or artistic styles? How do they relate to concepts of aesthetics and rhetoric?
* How do shifts in historical and cultural context affect animal description and depiction?
* What is the reception of famous depictions or descriptions (e.g. Herodotus' crocodile, Aristotle’s elephant, Myron’s cow?)
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words by February 1, 2017 to the conference organizers: Annetta Alexandridis (aa376@cornell.edu) and Athena Kirk (aek238@cornell.edu).
Source: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/call-papers-zoographein-depicting-and-describing-animals-ancient-greece-rome-and-beyond.
(CFP closed 1 February, 2017)
Reception Histories of the Future: a conference on Byzantinisms, speculative fiction, and the literary heritage of medieval empire
Uppsala University, Sweden: August 4th-6th, 2017
The study of Classical reception in modern speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy) is an old and broad field, with roots in both the academy and the popular press. However, much as Classics is often reluctant to look beyond the temporal borders of the antique world and venture into its medieval Greek imperial successor, the consideration of classical reception in speculative fiction has mostly neglected the significant impact of Byzantium and other post-Roman imperial formations and their literatures on modern SFF. However, many of the central thematic tenets of the literary heritage of medieval empire – including but not limited to decadence, the post-Roman world, the problem of defining barbarian and citizen, and the use of ‘Byzantine’ settings and symbology as codes for the foreign or exotic – have had deep effects on the development of science fiction and fantasy in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This conference aims to bring together some of the most innovative modern writers of speculative fiction with scholars working at the cutting edge of Byzantine reception studies for a two-day discussion of Byzantinism, decadence, empire, and storytelling. The conference will therefore collapse the distance between practitioners and critics, and bring reception studies into a direct dialogue with one of today’s most vibrant genres of popular fiction. Planned activities include public events at local bookstores, presentations of scholarly papers, and group panel discussions between writers and scholars. A post-conference publication will include both essays, academic articles, and commissioned fiction.
Details of the Conference
The conference is organized by AnnaLinden Weller, a postdoctoral researcher in Byzantine Studies, who writes speculative fiction under the pen name Arkady Martine. It is supported by the “Text and Narrative in Byzantium” project (principal investigator: Professor Ingela Nilsson) within the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University. The conference will bring together scholars working on the reception of Byzantium, scholars working on classical reception in speculative fiction, and active writers producing speculative fiction in order to broaden and deepen the consideration of how medieval literatures and Byzantinism have far-reaching impact on the popular imagination. Since speculative fiction is a crucial mode of popular cultural expression of life in the modern and technological world, exploring the significant reception of medieval literatures – a ‘non-technological’ and foreign/distant subject in comparison – within it is of real interest to both the scholarly community and the general public.
There has been substantial recent scholarly interest in the reception of classics (and Classics) in speculative fiction. This interest has come both from the academy (volumes like Rogers, Brett M. and Benjamin Eldon Stevens, eds. 2015. Classical Traditions in Science Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press., and Bost-Fiévet, Mélanie and Sandra Provini, eds. 2014. L’Antiquité dans l’imaginaire contemporain: Fantasy, science-fiction, fantastique. Paris: Classiques Garnier) and from the popular SF press (i.e. Liz Gloyn’s “In a Galaxy Far Far Away: On Classical Reception and Science Fiction” in the SF magazine Strange Horizons, available at http://www.strangehorizons.com/2015/20150427/1gloynb-a.shtml). However, very little work has been done to explore the equally prevalent reception of postclassical Greco-Roman subjects and themes in speculative fiction. This conference aims to bring scholars, writers, and the general public together to investigate medieval imperial receptions – and concepts of Byzantinism – which are deeply embedded in speculative fiction. Recent work on Byzantine reception has examined Byzantinism in contemporary film and art, and explored the reception of Byzantium in Enlightenment and fin-de-siècle literature, but has not addressed the presence of post-Roman themes and ideas in speculative fiction. This conference’s three days of discussion and the subsequent publication of a volume of essays from international scholars and commissioned fiction from leading writers in the speculative fiction genre will contribute to the closure of these gaps.
The thematic elements of post-Roman imperial formations and the literatures which they produced – including but not limited to decadence, the post-Roman world, the problem of defining barbarian and citizen, and the use of ‘Byzantine’ settings and symbology as codes for the foreign or exotic – are of substantial importance to writers of speculative fiction. Byzantium has been an explicit setting in several significant novels (Turtledove’s Videssos cycle, Guy Gavriel Kay’s Sarantine Mosaic) and many of its central thematic tenets — an empire gone decadent, the permeability of frontiers, the creation of an imperial ideology and the survival of that ideology – appear in others: perhaps most intriguingly in Ann Leckie’s recent Hugo and Nebula-award-winning Imperial Radch books, which, while not being specifically Roman or Byzantine, can be interpreted usefully by being viewed through a Byzantine lens. These and other questions of the reception of post-Roman concepts and literatures are what this conference is meant to engage with.
A major aim of this conference is to bring writers and academics – practitioners and analysts – together in innovative ways. While portions of the conference will allow academics to present prepared papers in the traditional format of a short lecture on recent or ongoing with a subsequent question period, the majority of the panels will be themed discussions in which a group of panelists have a public conversation on a pre-arranged topic, guided by a moderator. This method of discussion comes from the world of speculative fiction conferences and produces a focused, vibrant, and wide-ranging exploration of the subject. It is also widely accessible to a popular audience, even when the discussants are specialists. An entire day of the conference will be reserved for this format. Additionally, since there is substantial public engagement with speculative fiction topics — as well as significant public interest in Byzantium – this conference will open up the group panels to the general public on that day, bringing both Byzantium and speculative fiction to the Scandinavian audience in a direct and engaging manner. The public, creative professionals, and academics will all be able to share in the investigation of the effects of Byzantinism on popular culture.
The volume that results from this conference will include both academic articles written by leading reception history scholars, critical essays on Byzantium and medieval empire written by members of the speculative fiction community, and new speculative fiction on Byzantine themes commissioned especially for this project from award-winning and bestselling authors.
Call for Papers (Academic Track) – Deadline February 28, 2017
Please submit an abstract of approximately 300 words which describes research which responds to or contributes to the discussion of Byzantine and post-Roman reception in speculative fiction, to annalinden.weller@lingfil.uu.se.
Alternately or additionally, suggest topics for group panel discussions which you would be interested in participating in, alongside writers and other creative professionals.
Call for Interest & Panel Topics (Creative Track) – Deadline February 28, 2017
If you are a speculative fiction writer or industry professional who would like to participate in the conference, write to arkady.martine@gmail.com with your contact details, professional experience, and ideas for panels.
Practical Information: This conference conveniently takes place the weekend before WorldCon 75 in Helsinki, Finland – Sweden is quite close to Finland! Come early, start talking about speculative fiction before WorldCon even begins.
Website: http://www.historiesofthefuture.net/news/
Source: https://swordssorcerysandalsspace.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/cfp-reception-histories-of-the-future-a-conference-on-byzantinisms-speculative-fiction-and-the-literary-heritage-of-medieval-empire/
(CFP closed 28 February, 2017)
Sibylline Leaves: Chaos and Compilation in the Romantic Period
A Bicentennial Conference at Birkbeck, London: 20-21 July 2017
Keynote Speakers: Deidre Shauna Lynch (Harvard) and Seamus Perry (Oxford)
July 2017 marks the bicentenary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry collection Sibylline Leaves and Biographia Literaria, which he had initially planned as an introduction to the poems. For Coleridge the collection included 'the whole of the author's poetical compositions', from those already published in Lyrical Ballads to those taken down on 'loose papers and [in] numerous Common-place or Memorandum Books […] including Margins of Books & Blank pages'. While Coleridge ennobles his poems through an allusion to Virgil's Cumaean Sibyl, their 'fragmentary and widely scattered state' also evokes the cheap materiality of newspapers. For William Hazlitt Biographia was no more significant a work than the 'soiled and fashionable leaves of the Morning Post' from which it was supposedly composed. From the prophetic to the everyday, through the high and low traditions of flying leaves, this conference focuses on the materiality of Romantic collections.
This conference invites participants to investigate the play of papers between proliferating 'snips', 'scraps', and 'scattered leaves', and the promise of the 'great work', complete edition, or philosophical system. We welcome proposals on the metaphorical, material and political implications of the 'leaf in flight', and on the composition, publication and reception of romantic poetry in relation to a diverse range of collections and composite texts: miscellanies, anthologies and beauties, multi-volume or serialised fiction, magazines and newspapers, annuals and albums, common-place books and notebooks, catalogues and guidebooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries. Revisiting 1817 in 2017 might also involve rethinking the connections between seemingly disparate texts and diverse media in the twenty-first century. How do we read around and make connections within such texts now? How does poetry interact with the paratextual pressures and juxtapositions of these media and genres? What potential do digital tools and platforms offer for representing and reading these collections and tracing connections between them?
Topics might include:
* The compilation, publication and reception of Coleridge's Sibylline Leaves
* The relation of Sibylline Leaves to composite prose works, eg. Biographia Literaria
* 'Flying leaves and penny publications': newspapers, political propaganda and the diffusion of knowledge
* The 'phantasmal chaos of association': metaphors and materialities of order and disorder
* Connections within collections: the mechanics of indexing, footnotes, contents pages, errata, advertisements, paratexts, editorial groupings and interventions, text and image
* Collections, collaboration, and the dynamics of authorship
* Contested collections: literary invention, literary property, republication
* Practices of recollection, common-placing, annotation, extra-illustrating and album-making
* Ephemera, playfulness and popular entertainment
* Romantic reimaginings of the classical tradition of sibylline leaves
* Uncollected papers, literary remains, posthumous orders
Please submit a 500 word abstract by 15 October 2016 to sibyllineleaves2017@gmail.com.
Conference organizers: Marianne Brooker and Luisa Calè
Website: https://sibyllineleaves2017.wordpress.com.
(CFP closed 15 October 2016)
[Panel] The Reception of Ancient Drama in the Scholarly Works of Early Modern Europe
10th Celtic Conference in Classics - McGill University and the Universite of Montreal (Montreal, Quebec): 19–22 July, 2017
Organizers: Malika Bastin-Hammou (Grenoble Alpes University) and Pascale Paré-Rey (Lyon University, Lyon 3 – Jean Moulin)
The panel will welcome any proposal dealing with the reception of Ancient drama in scholarly works during Early Modernity. The first objective of the panel will be to examine the nature of these works and in what way they have grown to be at the heart of reflections on the way this theatre was understood or made to be understood by its readers. It will also try to grasp in what way these works either echo, define or set aside some of the debates on contemporary vernacular theater. The construction of a text, its translation (if required), analysis, explanation, criticism or indexing in plays written by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, as well as Plautus, Terence and Seneca, can be seen as so many literary tasks embraced by scholars, each driven by a range of objectives.
If the humanistic ideals of curiosity and freedom are necessary motives which seem to guide the well-read towards Ancient texts, the different historical, political and literary contexts in Europe have not always been favorable to such works. Very often something is indeed at stake in the productions and underlying motivations of these learned men for whom this approach to drama can only be passed on as a contribution to intellectual progress. But it can also represent a challenge, an obstacle, even a danger, against which they would have had to protect themselves or find a relevant justification.
The panel also hopes to explore the scholarly works of a period which starts in the XVIth and extends all the way to the XVIIIth century : from principes editions to Father Brumoy’s Greek Theatre (1730), from the translations in Latin verse to the more complete translations in the vernacular, including the ad verbum translations as well, it is indeed a period when the editorial work of the Classics starts to gather momentum and when critical arguments are thus being formulated.
These scholarly works, whether they be placed alongside theatrical texts, namely in certain editions where prefaces, essays, dissertations, commentaries are added to the final volume, or whether they appear in separate texts, often convey a vision of Ancient drama which, as such, has not yet been explored. This vision, of course, cannot be seen as a single, identical and unchanging vision. It varies all throughout the period, according both to national traditions as well as the conceptions of each author, depending on the play at hand.
The panel should highlight this abundance whilst asking questions which will allow us to tackle this large, theoretical corpus in the most joint and enthusiastic way.
Possible topics and suggestions include:
* Language issues: what relationship did these works have with Ancient languages ? Were they written in Latin or in the vernacular, and why? Were the translations poetic, literal or ad verbum ? What are the choices made in terms of metrics?
Historical and political contexts: what are the concerns, the objectives, the issues at stake, including the risks, of the editorial process, namely studying and staging Ancient drama, either in a pacified Europe or in a Europe torn by the Wars of Religion and boundary disputes?
* Drama and performance: Were the plays intended to be performed? What adaptations were recommended?
* Texts and readers: Were they read by drama theorists? The educated public? Were they the sole concern of professors? Were they in any way made to fit the teaching of Ancient languages? Or of drama? What pedagogical approach to drama did they offer?
* Role played by scholarly works: what sort of resonance or impact did they have? What trace or aftermath did they leave behind? How did one work influence the other or, more generally, influence the later reception of Ancient drama? What new concepts did they produced?
* Editors, translators, printers: who was interested in Ancient dramatic texts? What were the leading figures? What were their links with the world of theatre? In what way were they made to appear in and/or alongside theatrical texts?
* History of books: how can one find common grounds between a flourishing, scholarly literature and the history of books? What are the material evolutions which both explain, restrict the choices and define the postures of commentators?
The 10th Celtic Conference in Classics will take place in Montreal (Canada), from 19-22 July, 2017. The Conference provides panels with up to 15 hours of papers and discussion across four days. For this panel we are asking for papers of 30 minutes in length, with 10-15 minutes for questions and discussion.
Please submit titles and abstracts of approximately 300 words to Malika Bastin-Hammou (Malika.Bastin@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr) and Pascale Paré-Rey (pascale.rey@univ-lyon3.fr) by 31st January 2017. Applicants will be notified of the panel’s decision shortly thereafter. It is expected that a number of the papers delivered at this panel will form part of a peer-reviewed edited volume. Applicants should state whether they would intend their papers to be considered for publication.
The languages of the Celtic Conference in Classics are English and French. The conference website can be found here: http://www.celticconferenceclassics.com/.
(CFP closed 31 January, 2017)
[Panel] Popular Classics
A panel at the Tenth Celtic Conference in Classics, Montreal, Canada: 19-22 July, 2017
As scholars, Classicists tend to conceptualize our field as the stewardship of a cultural inheritance that links us with Greco-Roman antiquity in a relationship that has been cultivated since the Renaissance. This self-conscious imagined community also includes members of society who have been acculturated to revere classical antiquity and thus to participate in its reception: through educational systems and other institutions that incorporate classical references into their discourses; as artists whose relationships with classical sources inform new works; as consumers and patrons of the works acknowledged to constitute the classical tradition. For sociological and historical reasons, the conversation around this tradition has tended to focus on groups and discourses associated with elites and those striving for the social validation that allegiance to elite mores and values is thought to earn. But what of engagements with elements of Greco-Roman antiquity that signal little, or even no, allegiance to the classical tradition as the purveyor of a set of values, protocols, and ideological imperatives that long undergirded Classics?
This panel aims to investigate the potentially self-contradictory concept of "popular Classics." How do elements of the ancient Greco-Roman world appeal to, and appear to, people who are not invested in the classical tradition as cultural patrimony? While the products of "popular Classics" usually can be explained by scholars within the framework of the classical tradition, and marketers have at times leveraged that connection to appeal to institutional gatekeepers, this identification may not reflect how their creators conceptualized them, nor how their consumers ultimately perceive or value them. But if not as expressions of the classical tradition, what cultural work are elements of Greco-Roman antiquity performing for members of a given society? To what extent is a distinction between "popular" and "elite" culture-as defined by medium, genre, and/or testimony from creators, critics, marketers, or consumers-explanatory of how ancient Greco-Roman material is handled and discussed in a particular place and period?
The participants in this panel will collaborate toward building a theoretical framework for interpreting such engagements with Greco-Roman antiquity. In proposing individual presentations, applicants are invited to use case studies from a variety of media, including but not limited to blockbuster films, television series, video games, comics, graphic novels, non-fiction and mass-market fiction, fan fiction, editorial cartooning, fashion, advertising, sports reporting, children's literature, cartoons, political/sketch comedy, music, and music videos. Applicants might further focus on specific genres, e.g. superhero comics, science fiction films, biography, or heavy metal music. Engagements with Greco-Roman material may be fundamental to the cultural product in question (e.g. television series like Hercules: The Legendary Journeys or Plebs), or may be used as a key idea (e.g. the "gladiators" of Shonda Rhimes' Scandal).
This panel will accept a total of 15 papers of 35 minutes each; a limited number of slots may be shared by pairs of scholars who would like to deliver a joint presentation or two shorter, related presentations. Participants are expected to attend all four days of the conference in order to contribute to the discussion as it develops. Applicants of any rank are invited to submit an abstract of 300-500 words plus select works cited, and a one-page CV including any relevant research, teaching, and service/organizing experience, to Professor Meredith Safran, Trinity College (USA), at classicsonscreen@gmail.com. Submissions are due by 9 January, 2017. NB the Celtic Conference in Classics is self-funding; all participants must bear their own expenses.
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/world-classics/10th-ccc-panel-call-papers-popular-classics
(CFP closed 9 January 2017)
Epic and Elegy. A Panel for the 10th Celtic Conference in Classics
10th Celtic Conference in Classics - McGill University and the Universite of Montreal
(Montreal, Quebec): 19–22 July, 2017
Co-Organizers: Micah Myers (Kenyon College), Bill Gladhill (McGill University), Alison Keith (University of Toronto), Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin)
This panel welcomes new approaches to the long, fruitful, and contentious relationship between the epic and elegiac genres, in Greek and Latin poetry and in the classical tradition.
Domitius Marsus rehearses conventions about the relationship between epic and elegy as well as some of the ways that those conventions may be defied in his epigram on Tibullus’ death (fr. 7 Courtney):
Te quoque Vergilio comitem non aequa, Tibulle,
mors iuvenem campos misit ad Elysios
ne foret aut elegis molles qui fleret amores
aut caneret forti regia bella pede.
The verses pair the deaths of Vergil and Tibullus, making the poets companions in the Elysian Fields and claiming with traditional hyperbole that the demise of each poet brings an end to their respective genres. Tibullus is linked to elegy, the “bewailing of soft loves.” Vergil is connected with epic, fortis in meter and content where elegy is soft. Yet in a flourish that evokes the tensions between the genres elsewhere, the description of elegy is in a hexameter line and epic in a pentameter. Moreover, Marsus’ dichotomy between elegy as “bewailing soft loves” and epic as “singing of kingly wars” both epitomizes each genre and also undercuts itself, since epic from its origins encompasses both themes: witness Achilles weeping over Patroclus or the funeral lamentations that close the Iliad.
The goal of this panel is to interrogate and contextualize further the relationship between epic and elegy, a relationship whose terms have often been defined by Callimachean aesthetics, the recusationes of Roman elegy and lyric, and genre mixing. Engagements between epic and elegy, however, are also evolutionary and intertwined with specific cultural and historical contexts that can be traced from Homer to the present. The panel invites reconsiderations of this intergeneric relationship within and across linguistic and cultural traditions from antiquity to the modern period, and investigations that reframe the question in order to think about not only how epic responds to elegy and elegy to epic, but also how these genres allow audiences to filter their worldviews in new ways.
Papers are invited on topics including (but not limited to):
* How did ancient writers understand epic's relationship to elegy? Was elegy “always already” secondary to or implicit in epic? Or can elegy serve as a governing or correcting force upon epic?
* How and why did later authors tease out elegiac modes and themes found in early Greek epic and elegy?
* How do different elegiac poets utilize the epic tradition, and likewise, how do epic poets respond to the elegiac pull?
* What is the role of lyric poetry (especially Horace) in negotiating the interplay between epic and elegy?
* What do shifting generic stances between epic and elegy say about the social and cultural contexts in which poems were produced?
* In what ways do didactic epic and other hexameter poetry reframe elegiac poetics and invite new ways of assessing epic and elegy?
* How do authors like Vergil, Ovid, and Statius in their various poetic productions filter Greek epic through Roman elegy and elegiac thematics?
* How do elegy and epic conceptualize time and its passage differently? How might these genres’ different visions of history be ironized or conflated by historical events?
* How do scholiasts and commentators interpret and evaluate the linkages between epic and elegy?
* How do poets’ biographies or the paratexts surrounding their works affect the generic discourse and audiences’ subsequent reception of these works?
* How do authors such as Dante, Ariosto, Pontano, Chaucer, Milton, and Melville (to gesture to a few) respond to ancient entanglements between epic and elegy?
The 10th Celtic Conference in Classics will take place in Montreal, Canada from 19-22 July, 2017. The Conference provides panels with up to 15 hours of papers and discussion across three days. For this panel we are asking for papers of 35-40 minutes in length, with 10-15 minutes for questions and discussion, but shorter papers (20+10) are also welcome.
Please submit titles and abstracts of approximately 300 words to myersm1@kenyon.edu by 31 January, 2017. Applicants will be notified of the panel’s decision shortly thereafter. The languages of the Celtic Conference in Classics are English and French. For more information on the conference see www.celticconferenceclassics.com.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1612&L=CLASSICISTS&P=27796
(CFP closed 31 January, 2017)
[Panel] Landscapes of War
10th Celtic Conference in Classics, Montreal, 19–22 July 2017
Organizers: Chris Mackie (La Trobe University), Marian Makins (University of Pennsylvania), and Bettina Reitz-Joosse (University of Groningen)
Modern scholarship has seen a significant interest in spatial approaches to place and landscape in the ancient sources. And yet relatively little attention has thus far been paid to intersections of landscape (either real or imagined), war, and memory in ancient Greek and Roman culture. That is the territory we plan to explore with this panel.
Landscape can give rise to armed conflict when two or more groups stake claims to territory possessing special strategic, economic, or even cultural significance. Features of a landscape such as hills, valleys, forests, and streams can also dictate the nature and progress of battles that take place there. At the same time, fighting in a certain landscape—a particularly idyllic or hostile one, say, or one imbued with symbolic importance—can condition soldiers’ experience of war, potentially causing them to imagine the landscape as a participant in the conflict.
Moreover, warfare changes landscapes, both physically and in the way they are later perceived and experienced. Environmental changes—deforestation, water and soil pollution, dammed or diverted watercourses—are just the beginning. Military engagements can make (mental) maps obsolete through the construction of tunnels, trench networks, and roads; the founding or erasure of settlements; the movement of borders; and the generation of new place-names and landmarks. Finally, landscapes of war give rise to new landscapes of remembrance, as survivors create the cemeteries, monuments, tourist itineraries, art objects, and texts in which later generations might form an impression of what the war was like, and what it meant.
“Landscapes of War” follows from and builds on the successful 2016 CCC panel “Landscapes of Dread,” organised by Debbie Felton and Will Brockliss. Whereas the 2016 panel considered “landscapes of dread, desolation, and despair” in a broad sense, this panel focuses specifically on war landscapes, whether real or imagined. We are particularly keen to see interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to war landscapes, and whilst a focus on Greco-Roman antiquity will unite the panel’s discussions, we also invite contributions that focus on modern intersections of war, landscape, and the classical past.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Representations of place and space in literary treatments of war
* Battle landscapes—beautiful and horrid
* War landscapes and ecocriticism
* Classical ‘traumascapes’
* Commemorative and memorial landscapes
* Sites of contested memory (e.g., sites where more than one battle occurred)
* Battlefield tourism, pilgrimage, and conservation
* War landscapes and imperialism
* The landscape imagined as a participant in war
* Battle landscapes in the visual arts
* Modern wartime receptions of classical landscapes
* Classical archaeology in times of war
Confirmed speakers include:
* C. Jacob Butera (University of North Carolina Asheville)
* Virginia Fabrizi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
* Debbie Felton (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
* Chris Mackie (La Trobe University)
* Marian Makins (University of Pennsylvania)
* Sarah Midford (La Trobe University)
* Elizabeth Minchin (Australian National University)
* Bettina Reitz-Joosse (University of Groningen)
We invite papers of 35–40 minutes in length, to be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding bibliography) to makins@sas.upenn.edu by 1 March 2017. Applicants will be notified of the panel’s decision shortly thereafter. We hope to publish a volume featuring a selection of papers from the panel in due course.
About the Conference: The 10th Celtic Conference in Classics will take place at McGill University and the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Canada from 19–22 July 2017. The conference provides each panel with up to fifteen hours of papers and discussion over three days. The languages of the conference are English and French. For more details, visit http://www.celticconferenceclassics.com/. Please note that the Celtic Conference in Classics is self-funding; all speakers must arrange and bear their own travel and accommodation expenses. However, as part of the NWO-VENI project Landscapes of War in Roman Literature, our panel is able to offer up to two bursaries for (a) postgraduate students currently writing a Ph.D. dissertation on a related subject or (b) contingent faculty, who lack funding to travel to Montreal. Each bursary will cover the participant’s actual travel costs to Montreal, up to a maximum amount of €1,000. To apply for one of these bursaries, please submit a CV along with your abstract and briefly describe in your e-mail your reasons for wishing to participate, other sources of funding available to you, and the estimated cost of travel.
Website: http://www.celticconferenceclassics.com/landscapes-of-war.
(CFP closed 1 March, 2017)
[Panel] The Alchemy of Myth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
10th Celtic Conference in Classics - McGill University and the Universite of Montreal
(Montreal, Quebec): 19–22 July, 2017
Of the numerous forms and intellectual domains in which Greco - Roman
mythology survived in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, alchemy and more
specifically alchemical symbolism is as important as it is elusive. Whether
one interprets alchemical imagery as the manifestation of a perennial
wisdom expressed in eternal symbols of transformation, or rather as poetic
veils shrouding actual experiments conducted in laboratory, myths like the
Golden Age, the Golden Fleece or the Golden Bough are often found in
countless poems, tracts, frescoes and sculptures charged with alchemical
meanings, which are still waiting to be deciphered. This panel invites
scholar to focus on specific cases of Medieval or Early Modern alchemical
adaptations of Greco - Roman myths. While every approach and method is
welcome, priority will be given to papers focusing on specific authors,
individual texts and works of art from an historical perspective. Possible
areas of investigation are:
* Late Ancient and Medieval alchemical allegories;
* Texts and legacy of the Pseudo Lull;
* Aurora Consurgens and alchemical iconography;
* Hermes and Renaissance Hermetism;
* Renaissance mythographers and iconography;
* Painters, sculptors and alchemical imagery;
* Alchemical poems and poets.
Please send a 200 words abstract and CV to Matteo Soranzo (matteo.soranzo@mcgill.ca) and Bill Gladhill (charles.gladhill@mcgill.ca).
The deadline is January 7, 2017; acceptance will be communicated in the first week of January.
Website: http://www.celticconferenceclassics.com/
(CFP closed January 7 2017)
Pacific Rim Roman Seminar 2017
July 10-14, 2017: San Diego State University
The Pac Rim 2017 Seminar in Roman Literature will be held at San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA, from Monday, July 10 to Friday, July 14. The conference will begin the evening of July 10 with a special opening paper & reception; paper sessions will continue through Fri afternoon.
The thematic focus of this PacRim will be Roman Receptions. Papers are invited on such topics as:
* the reception of Roman literature in late antiquity, Renaissance and post-Renaissance Europe and/or the modern world
* the reception of Greek and Roman texts by Roman writers themselves
* the reception of the political and social world in Roman literary texts
* the reception of an inherited canon of Roman authors in modern scholarship
* translation as reception.
Papers investigating other kinds of ‘Roman Reception’ are also strongly encouraged: the organizing theme offers sufficient liberty of interpretation so as to encompass as broad a range of personal research interests as possible.
Abstract proposals (200-300 words) for papers (30 minutes maximum) should be sent to jasmith@mail.sdsu.edu. I’ll provide a submission link into the web address http://pacrim2017.sdsu.edu/pacrim2017/PacRimHome.html.
Please have abstracts submitted by January 31, 2017.
Conference fee: $40.00 (or its currency equivalent) per person (which can be waived for those delivering papers) will help offset daily seminar costs. A fee reduction for students will be offered.
Joseph Andrew Smith, PhD, Associate Professor of Classics, San Diego State University
Website: http://pacrim2017.sdsu.edu/pacrim2017/PacRimHome.html.
(CFP closed 31 January, 2017)
[Panel] Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century
14th Annual International Conference on Law, Athens, Greece: 10-11 July 2017
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), a world association of academics and researchers based in Athens, organizes a Panel on Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century, 10-11 July 2017, Athens, Greece as part of the 14th Annual International Conference on Law, 10-11 July 2017, Athens, Greece. You are more than welcome to submit a proposal for a presentation by email to atiner@atiner.com, before 29 May 2017. The registration fee is 540 euro and includes accommodation during the days of the conference, participation to all sessions of the conference, breakfasts, two lunches and all taxes. If you need more information, please let me know (Dr Vasileios Adamisis, Vasileios.adamidis@ntu.ac.uk) and our administration will send it through to you.
The language of the conference is English for both presentations and discussions. Abstracts should be 200-300 words in length and it should include names and contact details of all authors. All abstracts are blind reviewed according to ATINER’s standards and policies. Acceptance decisions are sent within four weeks following submission. Papers should be submitted one month before the conference only if the paper is to be considered for publication at ATINER’s series.
Celebrating Hercules in the Modern World
University of Leeds: 7-9 July, 2017
In June 2013 the conference Hercules: a Hero for All Ages laid the foundations for a large-scale project on the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles in post-classical culture. Work has been proceeding quietly on four volumes arising from the original conference, to be published in Brill’s series 'Metaforms: Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity'. A grant from the AHRC’s Networking fund is now supporting, amongst other things, the development of a new website (http://herculesproject.leeds.ac.uk/) and a follow-on conference at Leeds in July 2017.
Celebrating Hercules in the Modern World will reflect on the progress of the project so far, and work towards finalising the content of the volumes, due for publication in 2018-19: while the first two volumes are almost complete, there is scope for additional papers in all four, as detailed in the Call for Papers below. The conference will reunite a number of scholars from the 2013 conference, but also aims to bring new contributors on board: scholars from a wide range of disciplines are welcome – including history, art history, world literatures, drama, music, film and cultural studies – to share their expertise on the many contexts in which Hercules appears.
In 2013 we welcomed a number of practitioners talking about their Hercules-related work, including dramatists and the contemporary New Zealand artist Marian Maguire. This time there will be a presentation in the Clothworkers’ Concert Hall of 'Herakles', a new oratorio by Tim Benjamin, fresh from its April 2017 première.
The conference will again make use of the excellent facilities on the main Leeds campus, with academic sessions based in the School of Music, and comfortable overnight accommodation in Storm Jameson Court.
CALL FOR PAPERS: All sessions will be plenary, to maximise the potential for cross-disciplinary discussion. Papers should be c.20 minutes in length. While proposals on any aspect of Herculean reception will be considered, we are particularly looking to enhance the volumes’ coverage in the following areas:
* Herakles Inside and Outside the Church: from the first Christian Apologists to the end of the Quattrocento: This volume examines Herakles-Hercules' adoption inside and outside the early Church as an allegorical figure, and appropriations of this figure in medieval Italian ecclesiastical literature and art. Papers on receptions in other parts of Christendom, and by other religions, would be particularly welcome. NB this volume is almost ready to go to press: any paper accepted for publication will need to be finished by the end of August 2017.
* The Exemplary Hercules: This volume covers receptions of the hero in the Early Modern period, debating Hercules’ status as the incarnation of virtue, ways in which this might be presented or problematised in different media, and the varieties of political capital made out of the figure. NB this volume will be the next to go to press: any paper accepted for publication will need to be submitted to the editors by the end of September 2017.
* Hercules Performed: This volume explores Hercules’ development in works written for performance, encompassing new works as well as re-workings of ancient tragedy and comedy, opera and oratorio as well as stage plays. Papers on receptions of Seneca’s Hercules-plays, and on comic performances, would be particularly welcome. Any paper accepted for publication will need to be submitted to the editors by the end of December 2017.
* The Modern Hercules: This volume covers Hercules' appearances in various media from the nineteenth century to the present day, including consideration of contemporary art, children's literature, cartoons, film, radio, video-games, political and commercial discourses. Papers on the use of Hercules in branding and political discourse would be particularly welcome. Any paper accepted for publication will need to be submitted to the editors by the end of December 2017.
If you are interested in offering a paper, please submit a title and short abstract (200-250 words) by 31st January 2017 to the address: herculesproject@leeds.ac.uk. If you want to discuss an idea before submission, you are welcome to e-mail Emma Stafford (e.j.stafford@leeds.ac.uk).
Website: http://herculesproject.leeds.ac.uk/conferences/conference-2017/
(CFP closed 31 January, 2017)
Cyborg Classics: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
University of Bristol, UK: July 7, 2017
We are pleased to announce a one-day symposium, sponsored by BIRTHA (The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts) to be held at the University of Bristol, on Friday July 7th 2017.
Keynote speakers:
Dr Kate Devlin (Goldsmiths)
Dr Genevieve Liveley (Bristol)
Dr Rae Muhlstock (NYU)
The aim of the day is to bring together researchers from different disciplines – scholars in Archaeology & Anthropology, Classics, English, History, and Theology as well as in AI, Robotics, Ethics, and Medicine – to share their work on automata, robots, and cyborgs. Ultimately, the aim is an edited volume and the development of further collaborative research projects.
Indicative key provocations include:
* To what extent do myths and narratives about automata, robots, and cyborgs raise questions that are relevant to contemporary debates concerning robot, cyborg, and AI product innovation?
* To what extent, and how, can contemporary debate concerning robot, cyborg, and AI product innovation rescript ancient myths and narratives about automata, robots, and cyborgs.
* Can interdisciplinary dialogues between the ‘soft’ humanities and the ‘hard’ sciences of robotics and AI be developed? And to what benefit?
* How might figures such as Pandora, Pygmalion’s statue, and Talos help inform current polarized debates concerning robot, cyborg, and AI ethics?
* What are the predominant narrative scripts and frames that shape the public understanding of robotics and AI? How could these be re-coded?
We invite scholars working across the range of Classics and Ancient History (including Classical Reception) and across the Humanities more widely to submit expressions of interest and/or a title and abstract (of no more than 250 words) to the symposium coordinator, Silvie Kilgallon (silvie.kilgallon@bristol.ac.uk). PhD students are warmly encouraged to contribute. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is May 31st, 2017.
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;dff7a7a4.1704
Adapting the Classics (panel)
The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Utrecht, The Netherlands: 6-9 July 2017
Organizer: Ricardo Apostol
Co-Organizer: Anastasia Bakogianni
Panel Description: What is a classic? And what is an adaptation? Is an adaptation of a classic always in a disadvantaged position vis-à-vis the source text? These seemingly disparate questions converge upon a single set of problems about authority in discourse, about hierarchies of influence, and about originality and interpretation. Studying the intersection of adaptation theory and the notion of the ‘classic’ or ‘classical’ broadly understood has the potential to shed light on fundamental issues across a variety of time periods, disciplines, and media.
This seminar invites papers that seek to explore the place of ‘the classical’ within discourses and traditions; that examine particular instances of reception and adaptation of ‘classics’ in and/or across various media; or that delve into the hierarchies and processes of adaptation.
Abstract length: Less than 250 words
Timeline: If you are interested in submitting an abstract but would like to know more please contact the panel organizers: Ricardo raa81@case.edu and Anastasia a.bakogianni@massey.ac.nz.
Submission Process: Abstracts will be accepted from 1st to 23rd of September 2016 through the ACLA portal.
Information about timelines and seminars can be found on the ACLA website at http://acla.org/annual-meeting/seminars/seminar-organizer-faqs.
For more information about the ACLA: http://www.acla.org/.
Please note that you do not have to be a member of the association to submit an abstract, but you do have to join to attend the conference.
Website: http://acla.org/adapting-classics.
(CFP closed 23 September 2016)
Greek Drama V
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: July 5-8, 2017
This is a call for papers for Greek Drama V, a conference to be held at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, from Wednesday 5 July to Saturday 8 July 2017. The conference is the fifth of the periodic Pacific Rim Greek Drama conferences, after Sydney 1982, Christchurch 1992, Sydney 2002, and Wellington 2007. The keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Eric Csapo, University of Sydney.
As with the previous Greek Drama conferences, we seek to bring together scholars at all career stages, providing an opportunity to establish new directions for the study of ancient theatre. We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers on all aspects of Greek drama and performance.
Abstracts of no longer than 300 words (exclusive of bibliography) should be submitted to greek.drama@ubc.ca. The deadline for abstracts is August 31, 2016 September 6, 2016.
Inquiries may be directed to the conference organizers, Hallie Marshall, Department of Theatre & Film (hallie.marshall@ubc.ca) and C. W. Marshall, Department of Classical, Near Eastern & Religious Studies (toph.marshall@ubc.ca).
The publication of a volume of selected papers is planned. Such a volume from Greek Drama III was published as BICS Supplement 87 (London, 2006), and from Greek Drama IV with Aris and Phillips (Oxford, 2012).
(CFP closed 6 September 2016)
Roman Emperors and Western Political Culture from Antiquity to the Present
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia: 5-7 July 2017
We are pleased to announce an international conference, “The Once and Future Kings: Roman Emperors and Western Political Culture from Antiquity to the Present”, to be held at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia), from Wednesday July 5 – Friday July 7, 2017. The conference will be convened by Dr Caillan Davenport and Dr Shushma Malik in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry.
Roman emperors play a significant role in contemporary political discourse, with rulers such as Augustus, Caligula, Nero, and Marcus Aurelius regularly cited as positive or negative models in newspaper editorials, stump speeches, and Twitter. Our understanding of these emperors as paradigms of power has been shaped by centuries of intellectual debate from Tacitus and Seneca to Erasmus and Machiavelli.
The conference aims to answer the question: ‘How have literary and artistic representations of Roman emperors been manipulated for political purposes throughout history?’ This overall question is divided into two areas:
* Roman emperors within a specifically Roman political context, from Augustus to the fall of Constantinople in A.D. 1453;
* Roman emperors in the western medieval world and beyond.
The conference aims to connect these two aspects as part of a larger study of the process of reception, which occurred across temporal, spatial, and social boundaries in antiquity and continues to take place up to the present day.
The conference will feature as keynote speakers Professor Rhiannon Ash (Oxford), who will be the 2017 RD Milns Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland, and Professor David Scourfield (NUI Maynooth). We hope to announce further featured speakers soon.
The conference will run from Wednesday 5 July to Friday 7 July 2017 at the University of Queensland’s extensive and beautiful St Lucia Campus in Brisbane. The conference will open on July 5 with a public lecture by Professor Ash, followed by two full days of papers, including a lecture by Professor Scourfield and a conference dinner on the evening of July 6.
We invite 300-word abstracts for 30 minute papers on the topic of Roman emperors and political culture. We are particularly interested in paper proposals dealing with novel aspects of imperial political culture during the principate, the western late antique and medieval world, and the Renaissance. In selecting papers for the conference, we will be looking to ensure a balance between different time periods. We already have sufficient papers on the emperor Augustus and his legacy.
Please send abstracts to both Dr Davenport (c.davenport@uq.edu.au) and Dr Malik (s.malik@uq.edu.au) by 20 January 2017. We are committed to providing decisions about acceptance of abstracts by the end of January to enable speakers to make travel arrangements. We look forward to welcoming delegates to Brisbane in July 2017.
We are grateful for the RD Milns Perpetual Endowment Fund and the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland for their financial and administrative support of this conference.
Website: https://hapi.uq.edu.au/call-papers-roman-emperors-and-western-political-culture-brisbane-australia-5-7-july-2017
(CFP closed January 20 2017)
Aristophanic Laughter: How Was/Is Old Comedy Funny?
King's College London: July 3rd-4th 2017
A two-day symposium, "Aristophanic Laughter: How Was/Is Old Comedy Funny?", will be held at King's College London on July 3rd-4th 2017. Despite all the work of the last few decades on Aristophanic Politics, Paratragedy, Ritual and Stagecraft, theoretical analyses of the mechanics of eliciting laughter in historically specific audiences of Old Comedy--audiences ancient or modern, western or global-village, masculine, feminine or gender-fluid--remain under-evolved.
Exciting proposals to explore this question from the perspectives of Neuroscience, Psychology, Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethology, the Sociology of Alcohol Consumption, Comparative Linguistics, Philosophy (e.g. 'Superiority' and 'Incongruity' theories) and Performance Reception are particularly welcome. Symposiasts already confirmed include Nick Lowe, Mario Telo, Natalia Tsoumpra, Rosie Wyles, Helen Eastman and Ian Ruffell. Please send abstracts to the convenor, edith.hall@kcl.ac.uk, by 24th December 2016.
Call: http://www.fasticongressuum.com/single-post/2016/11/06/CALL-24122016-Aristophanic-Laughter-How-WasIs-Old-Comedy-Funny---London-England
(CFP closed 24 December, 2016)
Sensing Divinity: Incense, religion and the ancient sensorium /
Les sens du rite: Encens et religion dans les sociétés anciennes
British School at Rome and the École française de Rome: 23-24 June, 2017
An international, interdisciplinary conference.
Organisers:
Mark Bradley, Associate Professor of Ancient History, University of Nottingham (mark.bradley@nottingham.ac.uk)
Beatrice Caseau, Professor of Byzantine History, University of Paris-Sorbonne (beatrice.caseau@paris-sorbonne.fr)
Adeline Grand-Clément, Associate Professor in Greek History, University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (adelinegc@yahoo.fr)
Anne-Caroline Rendu-Loisel, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Assyrology, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (acrenduloisel@hotmail.com)
Alexandre Vincent, Associate Professor in Roman History, University of Poitiers (alexandre.vincent@univ-poitiers.fr)
Keynote speakers:
Joël Candau (University of Nice)
Esther Eidinow (University of Nottingham)
This conference will explore the history of a medium that has occupied a pivotal role in Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian religious tradition: incense. According to Margaret E. Kenna in her provocative 2005 article ‘Why does incense smell religious?’, this aromatic substance became a diagnostic feature of Greek orthodoxy during the Byzantine period, but it is clear that incense was also extensively used in the rituals of earlier polytheistic societies to honour the gods. Fragrant smoke drifting up towards the heavens emblematized the communication that was established between the mortal and the immortal realms, which in turn contributed to the sensory landscape of the sanctuary.
Although several studies have drawn attention to the role of incense as an ingredient in ritual and a means of communication between men and gods, there remains no comprehensive examination of the practical functions and cultural semantics of incense in the ancient world, whether as a purifying agent, a performative sign of a transcendent world, an olfactory signal to summon the deity, a placatory libation, or food for the gods. Moreover, recent archaeological research has provided evidence (alongside literary, epigraphic and iconographic evidence) that the physical origins and chemical constituents of incense are complex and diverse, as are their properties: resins, vegetable gums, spices, and a welter of aromatic products that could be exhibited and burned before ancient eyes and noses. These were components of a multi-sensory religious experience in which music, colourful costumes, lavish banquets and tactile encounters defined the ritual sensibilities of the community.
During the two days of the conference, incense will be interrogated as a historical phenomenon. We will explore its materiality, provenance and production, as well as the economic and commercial aspects of the incense trade. The conference will also examine the mechanics of incense use and the various ways it was integrated into various Mediterranean rituals (following the lines of enquiry set out by N. Massar and D. Frère), as well as its role within religious topography. The properties associated with the term ‘incense’ will be evaluated in the context of work by M. Detienne on The Gardens of Adonis (1989): what components of incense make them effective and potent within ritual? And what mechanisms and processes are used to release their aromas? And what was the perception of incense by the various participants of the ritual – deities, priests, assistants, spectators? These research questions will be informed by the recent research synergies of the organisers: M. Bradley, whose edited volume Smell and the Ancient Senses (Routledge, 2015) probes ‘foul’ and ‘fragrant’ odours as part of both human and divine social relations; A. Grand-Clément and A.-C. Rendu-Loisel, who lead the Toulouse research project on Synaesthesia that is dedicated to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of polysensoriality in ancient religious practice; and A. Vincent, who is engaged in the study of sensory perception in Roman ritual in his work on the Soundscapes (Paysages sonores).
This conference sets out to compare approaches across a range of disciplines in order to examine the role and significance of incense in ancient religion, and compare it to later aromatic practices within the Catholic Church. By adopting this cross-disciplinary and comparative approach, we hope to move beyond a universalist approach to religious aromatics and reach a more sophisticated understanding of the religious function of incense in the Mediterranean world: we hope to identify continuities in both the practice and interpretation of incense, as well as to identify specific features within individual historical contexts and traditions.
Although the conference is principally concerned with the use of incense in antiquity, we also welcome contributions from Byzantine and Medieval scholars, as well as church historians, to help provide a comparative perspective on the use and significance of incense within the Mediterranean world. We also hope to use the conference’s setting in Rome to examine current practice in the use of incense and aromatics in Roman Catholic contexts and other religious traditions. The conference will also provide an opportunity to examine first-hand the material properties of incense through a practical workshop around incense-production and burning (co-ordinated by A. Declercq, one of the scientific researchers on the Synaesthesia project at Toulouse), which will allow participants to handle a range of aromatic products and experience their various multi-sensory properties. The outcome of this workshop will be presented as the Musée Saint-Raymond at Toulouse in November 2017, as part of an exhibition on ‘Greek rituals: a sensible experience’, currently in preparation.
It is hoped that this conference will be of interest to scholars working in archaeology, anthropology, cultural history, literature, art history, and the history of religion, as well as local artists and members of the public. Papers should last approximately 20 minutes, and may be in English, Italian or French; they should be original and should not have been previously published or delivered at a major conference.
Paper topics might include, but are certainly not limited to, the following themes related to incense:
* Material and chemical properties
* Geography and distribution
* Economics and commerce
* Production and release
* Religious topography
* Transcendence and supernatural experience
* Transition and rites of passage
* Incorruptibility and immortality
* Relationship to perfumes
* Sacred and profane scents
* Religious experience and synaesthesia
* Community and homogenous sensations
* Concealment of unwashed humanity and smells of sacrifice
* Fumigation and purification
* Drama and performance
* Frankincense and myrrh
* Censers and censing
* Judaeo-Christian traditions
Abstracts of approximately 200-300 words should be submitted by 31 October 2016 to Mark Bradley (mark.bradley@nottingham.ac.uk) or Adeline Grand-Clément (adelinegc@yahoo.fr). Successful contributions may be considered for publication in a conference volume.
This conference has been funded with generous support from the École française de Rome, the British School at Rome, the Institut Universitaire de France and the IDEX of the University of Toulouse.
CFP: https://sensorystudiesinantiquity.com/2016/09/08/cfp-sensing-divinity-incense-religion-and-the-ancient-sensorium/.
(CFP closed 31 October 2016)
Lucretius, Poet and Philosopher. Six Hundred Years after his Rediscovery
Alghero/Sassari (Sardinia, Italy): 15-17 June 2017
The conference, entitled “Lucretius Poet and Philosopher. Six Hundred Years after his Rediscovery”, will bring together leading scholars and young researchers to share their research on Lucretius’ philosophy and writings. The conference will also be a celebration of the 600th anniversary of the rediscovery of Lucretius during the Renaissance. The conference will deal with the impact of Lucretius’ Epicureanism within ancient philosophy as well as on the reception of both his philosophical teaching and his poetry in Early Modern culture.
Topics can focus on any relevant aspects of Lucretius’s poetry and thought. Possible topics include: papers engaging with the impact Lucretius had either in his own day or in subsequent ages and cultures; and papers dealing with ancient thought, Epicureanism and Lucretius’s relationship to previous Greek and Latin thinkers.
Scholars from all academic levels are invited to submit an abstract. The Conference will be held in English and Italian.
The deadline for receipt of submissions is 15 February 2017.
Abstracts in English should be sent to the following address: lucretiuscongressalghero@gmail.com.
Please send a max. 1000-word abstract (Microsoft Word or PDF) with a separate attachment containing your personal details (name and surname, university / affiliation).
The conference will be held in Sardinia: Alghero, “Bastioni Marco Polo 77” (at the Department of Architecture, Design and City Planning, Santa Chiara).
Schedule:
- 15 February 2017: submission deadline
- 15 March 2017: notification of acceptance/refusal deadline;
- 15-17 June 2017: conference in Alghero
Confirmed invited speakers:
Federico Condello (University of Bologna)
Ivano Dionigi (University of Bologna)
Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge)
Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford)
Francesca Masi (University of Venice ‘Ca’ Foscari’)
Pierre Marie Morel (University of Paris IV – Sorbonne)
Ada Palmer (University of Chicago)
Luigi Ruggiu (University of Venice)
Alessandro Schiesaro (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’)
Francesco Verde (University of Rome)
For further information please contact the organizers:
Diego Zucca (zucca.diego@gmail.com) and Valentina Prosperi (prosperiv@uniss.it)
(CFP closed 15 February 2017)
Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies 46th Annual Conference
Haifa University, Israel: 14-15 June, 2017
The Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies is pleased to announce its 46th annual conference to be held at Haifa University on Wed-Thurs, 14-15 June 2017.
Our keynote speaker in 2017 will be Professor Simon Hornblower, Oxford University.
The conference is the annual meeting of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies. We welcome papers on a wide range of classical subjects, including, but not limited to, history, philology, philosophy, literature, papyrology, classical reception and the archaeology of Greece, Rome and neighbouring lands. The time limit for each lecture is 20 minutes. The official languages of the conference are Hebrew and English. The conference fee is $50. Accommodation at reduced prices will be available at local hotels.
Registration forms with a list of prices will be sent to participants in due course.
Proposals, abstracts and other correspondence may be forwarded to Dr. Lisa Maurice, Secretary of the ISPCS: lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il.
All proposals should consist of a one page abstract (about 250-300 words). Proposals in Hebrew should also be accompanied by a one-page abstract in English to appear in the conference brochure.
PLEASE SEND YOUR ABSTRACT AS TEXT IN YOUR EMAIL, _NOT_ AS A SEPARATE FILE. ALL PROPOSALS SHOULD REACH THE SECRETARY BY 16TH DECEMBER, 2016. DECISIONS WILL BE MADE AFTER THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE HAS DULY CONSIDERED ALL THE PROPOSALS.
If a decision is required prior to late January, please indicate this in your letter and we will try to accommodate your needs.
Contact: lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il
Website: http://www.israel-classics.org/?page_id=17.
(CFP closed 16 December, 2016)
Mountains in Antiquity
St Andrews, Scotland: 8-9 June 2017
We are delighted to announce a two-day international conference on mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman culture, to be held at St Andrews in June 2017. We aim to explore ancient engagement with mountains from a wide range of different angles, including literary, historical, archaeological and art-historical approaches, and to open up a series of new questions for further study. We particularly welcome contributions that analyse views of and from mountains; the literary and visual function of representations of mountains and the significance of mountains for ancient thought; the contribution of mountains to the lived experience, self-representation and identity of ancient communities; and the post-classical reception of ancient thinking about mountains.
Invited contributors include Alexis Belis, Richard Buxton, Klaus Geus, Thomas Poiss, Betsey Robinson, Irina Tupikova, and Gareth Williams.
If you are interested in offering a 30-minute paper, please send an abstract of up to 500 words by the 15th September to both Jason König at jpk3@st-andrews.ac.uk and Nikoletta Manioti at nm66@st-andrews.ac.uk. Do not hesitate to contact us via email if you have any questions.
This event is generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust and the School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
Website: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/events/conferences/2016-2017/mountains/.
(CFP closed 15 September 2016)
"The elders are twice children": Aging in ancient thinking
University of Montreal, Canada: June 7-9, 2017
Confirmed speakers: Louis-André Dorion (University of Montreal), Annie Larivée (Carleton University), Anne-France Morand (Université Laval), Patrizia Birchler Emery (Université de Genève), Stéphane Adam (Université de Liège)
The picture of aging that we get from ancient sources reflects various and conflicting views. The pathetic discourse of tragedy seems to be counterbalanced by Plato’s idealized conception in which aging is consonant with both moral and intellectual superiority; but one can also think of Aristophanes’ silly old men and women ridiculed on the comic stage, of Aristotle’s devastating portrait of biological degenerescence, or of the scientific hypotheses of Galen and the authors of the Corpus Hippocraticum. The Greek proverb “Elders are twice children” (CPG I.235) carries a double-edged meaning, depending on the relative degree of contempt, condescendence, or tenderness that it expresses. Should old age be viewed as a privileged position in society or rather as a predicament due to the undermining of one’s cognitive skills, moral authority, and political importance? The ancients were evidently ambivalent as regards these questions.
Remarkably, these issues are also largely those of contemporary research on aging. For instance, in the Laws Plato states that the frequent unwanted biological signs of aging are not inescapable, and that it is desirable to lessen their impact by political measures in order to improve the life of a population facing challenging conditions. Aristotle’s depiction of aging as an illness is also reminiscent of the atttiude now referred to as ageism, which sees the whole process as a pathological event that we should try to oppose, thus evoking the universal but dangerous fantasy of an immortal humanity.
This conference aims to explore how far ancient societies and thinkers have raised some of the fundamental questions on aging that are still relevant today. Some of the issues that we propose to look at touch on the following (by no means exclusive) fields of reflection as their appear in ancient discourse and representations:
* Biology: Is aging a normal process or a pathological one? What is its impact on mental capacities?
* Medical ethics: Can we, and should we, endeavor to extend life? Should we favor quality or duration of life?
* Politics: If wisdom is proportional to experience, should political power be handed over to the senior citizens? Or is this so-called declining population legitimately left at the margins of society?
* Anthropology: Is aging a regression or an ascension toward a full actualization of our capacities?
* Myth and metaphysics: Is human condition hopelessly condemned to a circular fate as the ancient tragedians, as well as Hesiod in the ‘myth of races’, seem to imply?
* Society and demography: What perceptions of elders were current in ancient societies? Are these perceptions dependent on the way that age pyramids are configured?
We invite papers of 30 minutes, in French or in English, addressing any aspect of this topic. We hope to bring together scholars working in the various fields of ancient studies (e.g. philosophy, history, literature, material culture).
Please send your abstract (max. 500 words) to l.monteils-laeng@umontreal.ca before September 1st 2016.
(CFP closed September 1, 2016)
[Panel] Echoes of Ancient Myths in Contemporary Literature
10th Annual International Conference on Literature - Athens (Greece): 5-8 June 2017
The Literature Research Unit of ATINER organizes A Panel on Echoes of Ancient Myths in Contemporary Literature, 5-8 June 2017, Athens, Greece as part of the 10th Annual International Conference on Literature sponsored by the Athens Journal of Philology.
This panel aims to investigate the survival of ancient myth, or parts of an ancient myth, in any piece of contemporary literature, be it a play, a novel, a short story, etc. Remains of any myths of any cultural system are welcomed, as long as those myths are what we call ancient, or old–socially registered as part of the culture of a society that existed in pre-modern times–and still remain in the societies that came after that Ancient one. The main objective of this panel is to analyze the uses Contemporary Literature makes of ancient myths in its stories, in the development of its themes, and in the appeal to its readers. Thus, this panel will consider any works that deal with the reception of Ancient Folklore, Mythology, Tradition and Culture by the literature that was produced from the 20th Century onward. In short, this panel is seeking papers that deal with reception of ancient culture in Contemporary Literature.
Please submit an abstract (email only) to: atiner@atiner.gr, using the abstract submission form by 7 November 2016 to: Dr. Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza, PhD in Ancient Greek Language and Literature, UFMG, Brazil.
Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Current Position, Institutional Affiliation, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission.
If your submission is accepted, you will receive information on registration deadlines and paper submission requirements. If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. organize a session-panel, chair a session, review papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to info@atiner.gr.
Fee structure information is available on http://www.atiner.gr/fees. Special arrangements will be made with a local hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of special events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment with dinner, a special one-day cruise to selected Greek islands, an archaeological tour of Athens and a one-day visit to Delphi.
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association and its mission is to act as a forum, where academics and researchers – from all over the world – can meet in Athens in order to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines. The organizing and hosting of International Conferences and Symposiums, the carrying out of Research, and the production of Publications are the basic activities of ATINER. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 400 International Conferences and other events, and has published close to 200 books. In 2012, the Association launched a series of conference paper publications, and at the beginning of 2014, it introduced its own series of Journals. Academically, the Association is organized into seven Research Divisions and fourty Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes at least an Annual International Conference, and may also undertake various small and large research projects. Academics and Researchers are more than welcome to become members and to contribute to ATINER’s objectives. If you would like to become a member, please download the relevant form (membership form). For more information on how to become a member, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr.
Website: http://www.atiner.gr/litech
Conference: http://www.atiner.gr/literature
(CFP closed Nov 7, 2016)
Spartacus - History and Tradition
Department of Ancient History, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland: June 5-6, 2017
We would kindly like to inform you that on the 5th-6th of June 2017 the Department of Ancient History at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland, will be organising an international conference titled “Spartacus - History and Tradition”.
Academic volumes, the result of the previous “Roman Republican” symposia, which were published by Maria Curie Sklodowska University Press (L. Cornelius Sulla – history and tradition, Lublin 2013,and Marcus Antonius – history and tradition, Lublin 2016, ed. I. Luc, D. Slapek) are a confirmation of the importance of our academic enterprise and our readiness to continue the tradition of researching the period of the Late Roman Republic, the studies which have been for many years now conducted at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.
The choice of the “iconic” man such as Spartacus is fully conscious and is by no means a simple attempt to refer to Professor Roman Kamienik’s interest in this historical figure. In fact, academic publications of this Lublin-based historian are nowadays somewhat forgotten, similarly to Polish historiography on ancient slavery, slave rebellions and the leader of the most well-known uprising. It has been nearly 30 years now since the significant changes in Central and Eastern Europe have been responsible for significantly quietening the previous ideological disputes(present in the historiography and provoked mainly by the assessments of the Roman slavery, in which Spartacus was always an icon).
The fatigue caused by this heavily politicised discourse (lasting until the end of the 1980s) may seem to apply mainly to the scholars fromthe elder generation. The younger academics were not in any way caught up in this unequivocal “phenomenon”, at that time coming from both sides of the Berlin Wall; many elder academics of the now “free world” may therefore want to express their views, which were at that time supressed. We do not want, however, to limit the session to the studies on modern historiography on Spartacus. We believe it is the right time- in the atmosphere thoroughly different from the one of the very first fascination with the freedom of speech which motivated many of us to present too hasty opinions- to once again approach the subject of the Roman slavery (and its sublimation in the form of gladiatorial fights), slave revolts and, at times,unusual reactions to them from the Roman state and society.
Three decades of a rather distinctive silence of history on these problems offer particularly rich research opportunities which should not, however, focus only on the popularity of Spartacus in tradition and myth. While in the recent years there have been several works published about Spartacus, valuable assessments of purely historical nature have been very few. It can be even suggested that nowadays Spartacus is somewhat threatened by the fate of remainingan eternal and universal icon of popular culture. This also results largely from the nature of historical accounts referring to Spartacus, which were limited in number, often rhetorical and of various provenance, but always written from the Roman perspective only. The scale of difficulties in studying this topic is consequently determined by the said problems. It is also a serious challenge, but not only for the scholars of the Late Roman Republic;the echoes of Spartacus’ rebellion were heard for a long time in the tradition of the Empire and then Byzantium. Undoubtedly, these initially suggested research problems will trigger extremely important questions concerning non-standard research methods and, perhaps, equally original methodology. It is possibly too early to declare any interdisciplinary nature of the conference, but it appears that the topic itself guarantees the diversity in approaches, opinions and analyses.
We would therefore kindly like to invite historians (of all specialisations), archaeologists, classicists, experts in cultural studies, literature and art to join our conference in Lublin in spring of 2017. Depending on the number and nature of abstracts we will decide on all the necessary details regarding the logistics of the sessions/panels. Expressing your interest in this very first information about our conference “Spartacus – history and tradition” will further our preparations for welcoming you in always-friendly city of Lublin and at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University.
Contact: slapekdariusz@gmail.com and iluc@poczta.onet.pl. Abstracts due January 31, 2017.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1611&L=CLASSICISTS&P=91680 and http://www.antiquity.umcs.lublin.pl/
(CFP closed 31 January, 2017)
Transnational Monstrosity in Popular Culture
York St John University, York UK: Saturday 3rd June 2017
This one-day conference will explore the figure of the monster in transnational popular culture, across cinema, television, games, comics and literature, as well as through fandoms attached to global monster cultures. It is our intention to bring together researchers to consider how transnational monstrosity is constructed, represented and disseminated in global popular culture.
Since the popularisation of monster narratives in the nineteenth century, the monstrous figure has been a consistent border crosser, from Count Dracula’s journey on the Demeter from Romania to Whitby, to the rampaging monsters of Godzilla movies across multiple global cities. In folklore, such narratives have long been subject to specific local and national cultures, such as the shape-shifting Aswang of Filipino folklore or the Norwegian forest Huldra, yet global mediacapes now circulate mediatised representations of such myths across borders, contributing to a transnational genre that spans multiple media. Aihwa Ong has referred to ‘the transversal, the transactional, the translational, and the transgressive’ in transnational ‘human practices and cultural logics’, and each of these categories can encompass the scope of transformations imagined within cross-border constructions of monstrosity.
There has been significant recent interest in the ways in which transnationality, particularly in film studies, has depicted flows of people and demonstrated lines of cultural flow. This conference will explore cultural flow as it relates to the construction of a transnational genre (by producers and audiences), but will also explore the ramifications of representations of monstrosity in socio-political terms. The event also intends to engage with the ways in which monsters metaphorically represent forms of social and political otherness as they relate to cross-cultural or transnational forms and social groups, either directly or indirectly. Monstrosity has long been explored in a number of ways that connect gender, sexuality, class, race, nationality and other forms of otherness with depictions of monsters or monstrosity. The representation of refugees across Europe has been just one example of the ways in which cross-border monstrosity and otherness are culturally fused, with media outlets and political figures contributing to the repeated representation of refugees as a monstrous ‘swarm’ moving into and across European borders.
While the study of monsters in fiction is nothing new, the examination of the figure of the monster from a transnational perspective offers the opportunity to better understand: issues of cultural production and influence; the relationship between national cultures and transnational formations; hierarchies of cultural production; diasporic flows; the ethics of transnationalism; as well as the possibility to explore how shifting cultural and political boundaries have been represented through tropes of monstrosity. Hence, this conference seeks to offer new insights into the nature of transnational cultures and help us to understand how one of the oldest fictional metaphors has been transformed during the age of globalisation.
We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers, on topics around transnational monsters and monstrosity. Possible themes might include (but are not limited to):
* Monstrous-genders/sexualities/ethnicities: transnational approaches to femininity and/or sexuality as monstrous or othered; interpretations of otherness in cross-cultural or comparative approaches.
* Monster fandoms: transnational fandoms around monsters, or representations of monstrosity, which might include Whitby Dracula pilgrimages, kaijū eiga, or Pokemon.
* Transnational horror and the monster: approaches to investigating particular monster tropes in comparative national cultures or across media that might include the figure of monsters in the slasher film, or the transnational appropriation of folkloric monsters in horror games such as the Wendigo in Until Dawn.
* The transnational monster genre: theoretical explorations of the genericity of monster narratives and their relationships with national and transnational cultures (including regional approaches to affinitive transnational areas, such as Scandinavia or Latin America).
* Reimagining monsters: cross-cultural appropriations of specific monster figures; issues of cultural power and difference within appropriations that might include Dracula, Godzilla, King Kong or zombies.
* Monster as metaphor: cultural metaphors relevant to the figure of the monster as it relates to transnational, cross-border concerns, which might include the reflection of concerns about migration in The Walking Dead and the potential impact of those metaphors.
Proposals are welcomed on any other relevant topics. Please send proposals of 300 words, along with a brief biography (50 words), to transnationalmonsters@gmail.com by Wednesday the 1st of March 2017. We will be announcing details of our invited speakers early in 2017.
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Website: http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/s.rawle/call-for-papers/
(CFP closed 1 March, 2017)
Globalizing Ovid: Shanghai 2017
An International Conference in Commemoration of the Bimillennium of Ovid's Death
Guangqi International Center for Scholars of Shanghai Normal University: May 31–June 2, 2017
Jointly sponsored by the Chinese National Social Science Foundation, Shanghai Normal University, and Dickinson College
Keynote speakers:
* Michael von Albrecht (Universität Heidelberg)
* Maurizio Bettini (Università di Siena)
* John Miller (University of Virginia)
* Alison Sharrock (University of Manchester)
* Gareth Williams (Columbia University)
* Wei Zhang (Fudan University)
Welcome addresses:
* Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (Universität Dresden/Peking University)
* Yang Huang (Fudan University)
Concluding address: Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
Why Shanghai? One may be surprised to learn that this is not the first time that an anniversary of a Latin poet is commemorated in China. 1930, the Bimillennium of Vergil's birth, represented a watershed in the reception of Vergil and Roman literature in China. Aeneid Book I and Eclogues IV and VIII were translated into Chinese for the first time. The translator praised Vergil's "modern" spirit: his critical attitude toward Empire, his questioning of the cost of civilization, his doubts of the value of progress, and his portrayal of the loneliness of his main characters. In 1932, well-known poet Dai Wangshu translated Ovid's Ars Amatoria into vernacular Chinese prose based on Ovide: L'Art d'Aimer in the Collection Budé. These translations were both products of and participants in the Chinese exploration of modernity and a "New Culture," a process that involved a full scale reexamination of a wide range of issues, from the status of the Confucian canon, relationships with authority, modes of heroism, gender roles and sexuality, to ways of expressing desire and emotion. It was only after a long hiatus that complete translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Vergil's Aeneid appeared in 1984 and 1987 respectively, both created by Yang Zhouhan (1915–1989), working from the original Latin and various English translations. Today there is a remarkable surge in interest in both Chinese and Western classics in China. Latin literature is gaining momentum at a speed faster than one could have imagined a generation ago. In 2015 the Chinese National Social Science Foundation announced "Translating the Complete Corpus of Ovid's poetry into Chinese with Commentaries" (PI: Jinyu Liu) as one of the major projects to fund in the next five years. With this initiative, Ovid's Fasti and exile poetry will be translated into Chinese for the first time, his other poems will be retranslated, and comprehensive commentaries will accompany the translations of all of Ovid's poems for the first time.
Consilium resque locusque dabunt (Tristia I.1.92). This conference serves as an opportunity not only to pay tribute to Ovid, but also to promote cross-cultural conversations about the globalization of the Greco-Roman Classics. The conference invites papers that represent the most recent developments in the Ovidian scholarship—philological, textual, critical, literary, and historical—as well as contributions that explore perspectives from comparativism, translingualism, and postclassicism to address larger issues of translating and interpreting the Classics in a globalizing world. These two strands of themes should not be perceived as being either isolated from or in competition against each other, especially if scholars and translators of Ovid are understood as participants in assigning meanings to his work. The conference intends to bring together scholars and translators to explore the dynamic processes of selection, tension, and negotiation that have been integral to the making and interpreting of Classical canon, including Ovid. How has Ovid been taught, disseminated, transmitted, and evaluated in Roman antiquity and in other cultures? If the viability of the Greco-Roman Classics in the postclassical eras, and in the non-Western contexts hinges on the willingness of the host cultures to assign new meanings to them, what may motivate that "willingness," and through whose agency? What are those new meanings? Where and how are they being worked out and developed? What translation strategies have been applied to Ovid's poetry in different locales and languages, and for what audiences? What are the challenges of translating Ovid in cultures with their own vibrant but different poetic traditions, and literary culture concerning themes of love, abandonment, transformation, and exile? How and where are Classics changed by their interaction with different host cultures?
Topics and abstract submissions:
The conference will include plenary addresses, individual paper presentations, as well as roundtables organized by project team members and the board of referees (see below). In accordance with the dual function of the conference both to highlight current scholarship and trends in thinking on Ovid and to consider modes of cross-cultural reception, comparison, and translation, we provide the following list to illustrate the range of questions and topics in which the conference is interested. It is by no means an exclusive or restrictive list:
* Amor: Force of destruction?
* Emotions in Ovid
* The dearth of same-sex relationships in Ovid
* Intertextuality in Ovid: What's new?
* The Ovidian aesthetics
* Ovid's literary persona(e)
* Ovid's lieux de mémoire
* The psychology of exile in the Ovidian corpus
* The human and Roman past(s) in Ovid
* Ovid in provinces and Roman imperialism
* Locus urbanus versus locus barbarus in Ovid
* Seduction in ancient literature: a comparative examination
* Tales of Transformation compared (within Metamorphoses, across genres, and/or across cultures)
* The Ovidian corpus: critical editions
* Teaching Ovid in Antiquity and/or the modern world
* Translating Ovid (and Classics in general) in a Global Context
* Visualizing Ovid
* Post-classical Ovid (reception and adaptation in all genres)
* Commentary tradition and digital commentary
We welcome submissions from advanced doctoral students and scholars of all seniorities. Please send brief vitae and proposals (300 words excluding bibliography) for 25-minute papers by April 30, 2016 to Jinyu Liu, HH 117, Department of Classical Studies, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135, USA, or email: both OvidShanghai2017@hotmail.com and jliu@depauw.edu.
Abstract submissions will be evaluated by a board of seven referees, whose names are listed below, and the results will be announced by June 1, 2016:
* Christopher Francese (Dickinson College, USA)
* Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University, USA)
* Steven Green (Yale-NUS, Singapore)
* Jinyu Liu (DePauw University/Shanghai Normal University, USA/China)
* Lisa Mignone (Brown University, USA)
* Bobby Xinyue (University of Warwick, UK)
* Wei Zhang (Fudan University, China)
Publication plan: Selected contributions will be translated into Chinese, and published in either a collected volume or in Chinese academic journals. The authors will retain copyright to the non-Chinese versions of their articles. The possibility of publishing the conference proceedings in English with a European or American publisher will also be explored.
Organizers:
* Heng Chen (Shanghai Normal University)
* Christopher Francese (Dickinson College)
* Jinyu Liu (DePauw University/Shanghai Normal University)
Please send all inquiries to Professor Jinyu Liu at jliu@depauw.edu.
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2015/12/22/cfp-globalizing-ovid-shanghai-2017/
(CFP closed 30 April 2016)
Ancient Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
Princeton University: May 15-16, 2017
We write to invite your submission to an interdisciplinary conference to be held at Princeton University in May of the coming year. The conference will explore the reception of Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy in the philosophy of the Early Modern period in Europe, bringing together scholars in Classics, Philosophy, History of Science, and related disciplines. We expect to fund or subsidize travel and accommodation for all accepted speakers.
Confirmed speakers: Christia Mercer (Columbia), Jessica Moss (NYU), Peter Anstey (Sydney), Benjamin Morison (Princeton), Daniel Garber (Princeton).
Call for Abstracts:
We are seeking relatively long abstracts (max. 1200 words) for papers 30-35 minutes in length.
Papers may treat of any aspect of the impact of ancient philosophy on the thought of Early Modern Europe. We also welcome papers on the textual and editorial transmission of Ancient Philosophy in earlier periods, especially the Islamicate and Byzantine reception and transmission.
Special consideration may be given to papers relating to the interests of our invited speakers:
* Geometry and geometrical method in philosophy
* Skepticism
* Platonic and Platonist epistemology
* Theory of Science
* Biology and zoology
* Chemistry
* Physics and mechanism
Submission Information and Guidelines:
Please send an anonymized abstract (with title) of up to 1200 words, along with a document containing your name, contact details, and the title of your proposed paper. If you are a graduate student, please indicate on your cover letter that you are applying for a graduate student presentation slot. Documents must be in .pdf or .doc format.
Abstracts must be submitted via email to ancientearlymodern@gmail.com by the submission deadline of 10:00 PM EST, January 21st, 2017. All abstracts will be subject to a process of blind review, and applicants will receive a response within ten days of the submission deadline.
Questions may be directed to the organizers, Tom Davies (tdavies@princeton.edu) and Erin Islo (eislo@princeton.edu).
Call: https://ancientearlymodern.com/call-for-papers/
(CFP closed January 21 2017)
Europe’s journey through the ages: history and reception of an ancient myth
Collège Doctoral Européen, Strasbourg: 11th May, 2017
The conference “Europe’s journey through the ages: history and reception of an ancient myth” will take place in Strasbourg, on May 11, 2017.
The myth of Europe is attested as soon as the 8th century BC, in the Homeric poems and in Hesiod’s Theogonia. This myth was indeed very popular from Antiquity on, giving rise to different revisions in the literary European productions, as well as in the artistic, theatrical, musical, philosophical ones. It had, therefore, great influence until nowadays in shaping and modelling some visions, figures and images in building theories connected to the debate around the influence of Graeco-Roman culture into the development of the idea of Europe.
In an essay titled Europe Vagabonde (in L'univers, les dieux, les hommes: récits grecs des origines, Paris: Seuil, 2000), J.-P. Vernant defines the myth of Europe, kidnapped by Zeus from Syria to Greece, and the resulting establishment of Cadmus’ dynasty in Thebes, as the history of a “vagabondage, plus encore que passage”, underlining the pluralistic, dynamic, multicultural perspectives at the bases of this myth of the origins.
The present international, multidisciplinary graduate Conference aims to join different cultural perspectives about the reception, transmission and usage of the ancient myth of Europe.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Laurent Pernot (Université de Strasbourg, Member of the Institut de France); Prof. Luigi Spina (Università di Napoli Federico II)
We welcome proposals from Phd Students and early career Researchers in the following fields: Classics, Modern Literatures, Philosophy, Religions Studies, Visual and Performing Arts.
Papers could focus on the following topics:
* The reception and use of the myth of Europe in philosophy and politics, in connection with the construction of symbols, images, conceptions and theories of the idea of Europe;
* The tradition and reception of the myth of Europe in Ancient literatures up to contemporary literature;
* New perspectives in the etymological researches about the term Europa;
* Comparative approaches to the analysis of the myth in the frame of the interrelations between Western and Eastern mythology;
* The reception and reuse of the myth of Europe in modern and contemporary artistic, theatrical, cinematographic and musical productions.
Contributions related to a general assessment about the trends of the influence and permanence of Classics in European culture are also welcome.
The University of Strasbourg will be glad to welcome participants in the European capital, the most suitable place to share ideas and perspectives on Europe in an international frame.
Abstracts of maximum 300 words must be sent as an anonymous attachment (i.e. the file must not contain the name of the author) no later than 28th February 2017 to mythedeurope@gmail.com (email subject: Mythe d’Europe 2017 Abstract). All papers should be planned for a maximum of 30 minutes, including 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.
The official languages of the conference will be French and English. Papers will be selected by the scientific committee following a double blind procedure. Confirmed speakers will be notified no later than 20th March 2017.
The Conference is promoted by the Centre d’Analyse des Rhétoriques Religieuses de l’Antiquité (CARRA EA3094) and the Faculté des Lettres of the University of Strasbourg, with the support of the Programme Doctoral International (PDI), the Strasbourg Association of International Researchers (StrasAir) and the association Rodopis - experience ancient History.
Certificates of attendance, if needed, will be released at the end of the conference.
Organizers:
Maria Consiglia Alvino, Phd Student (Università di Napoli Federico II – Université de Strasbourg)
Matteo Di Franco, Phd Student (Università di Palermo – Université de Strasbourg)
Federica Rossetti, Phd Student (Università di Napoli Federico II – Université de Strasbourg)
Gabriella Rubulotta, Phd Student (Université de Strasbourg)
Website: http://grec-ancien.unistra.fr/actualites-agenda/actualites/actualite/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=14023&cHash=d625dbac52e519b5447d0507ce4aebaa
(CFP closed 28 February 2017)
Trifling Matters: Nugatory Poetics and Comic Seriousness
A conference at the University of Exeter, 2nd - 3rd May 2017
Keynote Speakers: William Fitzgerald (KCL), Ian Ruffell (Glasgow)
The defence of a comment that causes injury or offence with the response "it's just a joke" is commonplace and widespread. In a sense, it is derived from, or a development of, the plea made in antiquity towards the freedom of speech granted at certain religious festivals (i.e. parrhesia or licentia). How problematic, however, are such claims? Is a joke really ever just a joke? Part of the difficulty lies in the traditionally marginal position of genres that employ jokes and humour. Whether categorized as nugae or paignia (with its associations of inconsequential play), ancient authors had a set of terms that could be used to sideline a work as bad or "non-serious", or define their own work as reveling in such an estimation. Most strikingly of all, these texts can even use their inherent self-deprecation to insist (however paradoxically) a level of (self-)importance and relevance at the expense of traditional Great Works.
Our conference seeks to explore this innate tension within nugatory works in Graeco-Roman literature and their reception, and to examine what it means to write (and read) the comic seriously. So when Catullus, Martial, or Persius (for instance) describe their work as little more than trifling matters, are they actually signaling that trifling matters, that the nugatory somehow bears significance? Similarly, when Dicaeopolis claims that even comedy knows what is just (Ar. Ach. 500), how paradoxical is this statement meant to appear and why?
Scholars have long grappled with questions of "comic seriousness", with the frequent use of inverted commas marking our concerns at fulling committing to the idea that the comic can be serious at all. We aim to use a theoretically informed approach to humour and the construction of meaning to examine the broader concerns of nugatory literature across the full geographic and temporal range of our discipline. In particular, we seek to establish how trifling literature promotes itself, reveling in its own perceived frivolity, and how the comic reconstructs our view of the serious.
Those interested in the conference are encouraged to submit abstracts for thirty minute papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
* The Nature of the Nugatory. What makes a text nugatory, and who makes that value judgement (is it the author, or someone else)? How do nugae destabilize the serious? Does destabilizing serious texts make nugatory texts unserious? Are nugatory poetics ‘bad’ poetry? With which techniques do nugatory texts revel in their own trifling nature?
* Generic and Political Contexts of nugae. How do nugatory texts subvert and reinforce the literary canon? How far does undermining textual authority interact with systems of political authority? Do nugatory poetics transcend cultural boundaries, or do certain socio-political atmospheres encourage them? How far do nugatory texts react to and reinforce narratives of political/generic decline, and should such narratives be avoided? Do nugatory texts encourage freedom of speech (simplicitas, parrhesia)?
* Responses to the Nugatory. How does the concept of the nugatory develop, both over the course of classical antiquity and beyond it? How do nugatory and non-nugatory texts interact, if at all? How dependent are ‘serious’ genres like history and tragedy upon the nugatory? How has scholarship reacted to the nugatory?
Abstracts of up to 400 words are encouraged from academics and postgraduate researchers working on any aspect of the nugatory. Please send an anonymous abstract for your proposed paper as a PDF document to triflingmatters2017@gmail.com by the 22nd January 2017. For further information please contact the organizers: Sam Hayes (sah217@ex.ac.uk) and Paul Martin (pd292@ex.ac.uk).
Triflers are most certainly welcome.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;f66350de.1612
(CFP closed January 22, 2017 - extended to February 3, 2017)
Revisiting C. H. Sisson: Modernist, Classicist, Translator
London, 28-29 April 2017
The poetry of C. H. Sisson (1914-2003) continues to fascinate for its stringency, peculiar metrical accent, radical Englishness, religious power and countercultural force. Sisson’s relations to various traditions – including classical literature, literary modernism, and Anglicanism – are fruitfully complex. His translations (‘one of the greatest translators of our times’, according to the classicist Jasper Griffin) are as integral to his own poems as Dryden’s and Pound’s were to theirs. In particular, his versions of Catullus, Lucretius, Horace, Dante, and Racine, taken together with his highly allusive and assimilative original poems, constitute one of the most important bodies of English reception of Greco-Roman antiquity in the twentieth century.
Despite sustained support for his work from major critics including Donald Davie, and an enduring body of readers, there has been no previous event devoted specifically to Sisson’s work. With the recent publication of The C. H. Sisson Reader (2014) and a series of centennial articles in P. N. Review (May-June 2014), the time is ripe for a reassessment of the work of one of modernism’s most distinctive voices.
This symposium will bring together English scholars, classicists, translation scholars, and poets to explore the relations between Sisson’s modernism, translations, and inheritance of the classical tradition.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Sisson and the classical tradition, broadly defined; so
* Sisson’s poetry and the Greek and Latin classics
* Sisson’s translations of the Greek and Latin classics
* Sisson’s translation of Dante’s Commedia
We also welcome papers on Sisson’s relations to other traditions, and on other topics, for example:
- Sisson’s relations to modernism (esp. Pound, Eliot, Geoffrey Hill), especially where these may overlap with classicism or translation
* Sisson’s relations to the Movement poets
* Sisson’s relation to poets of ‘Englishness’ (e.g. Edward Thomas, Philip Larkin, Geoffrey Hill)
* Sisson and Anglicanism
* Sisson and politics
* Sisson’s technique (e.g. poetic metre and form, diction, etc.)
We invite abstracts of 300 words (plus a brief biographical note) for papers of twenty minutes. Abstracts from PhD students, early career scholars and contributors from outside academia are all welcome.
Abstracts by 15 December 2016 to Victoria Moul: victoria.moul@kcl.ac.uk.
Depending on the outcome of funding applications, support for travel and accommodation expenses may be available.
We are very grateful to Brigham Young University whose support has made this event possible.
(CFP closed 15 December, 2016)
Investigating the Translation Process in Humanistic Latin Translations of Greek Texts
Department of Greek Philology, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece: 28-29 April, 2017
The Department of Greek Philology at Democritus University of Thrace is pleased to announce its International Conference “Investigating the Translation Process in Humanistic Latin Translations of Greek Texts”.
Possible topics for discussion include:
* Acquisition of translation competence (methods and practices, education and training, grammars and dictionaries, etc.)
* Translation challenges and solutions (difficulties in the translation process as can be traced in manuscripts, dedicatory epistles, other paratexts, etc., and ways of dealing with them)
* Translation practices and strategies
* Cases of retranslation – relations with earlier translations (reasons for retranslation, cases of plagiarism, etc.)
* Witnessing translators at work (paraphrases or simplifications of hard or complicated parts of the original, interlinear or marginal translation notes/glosses, rough translations, translation attempts, corrections, erasures, omissions, substitutions, insertions, etc.)
* Translation and ideology (deliberate alterations of the original in the translation for moral, religious, ideological, political and/or other purposes)
* Theories on translation (humanistic treatises on translating and translation practices, etc.)
* Creating a translation canon (what texts are translated, classification, genres, etc.)
* Social position and function of the translator (prestige, status, position within the “republic of letters”, etc.)
* Gender issues (women as translators, women authors translated, etc.)
* The translator as “cultural mediator”
* Other topics (translators and translations, readership, preferences for particular translators and/or Greek texts and authors, manuscripts and incunabula, bilingual editions, relations with book production, spatiotemporal circulation of the Latin translations, identification of Greek manuscripts used by translators, etc.)
Confirmed keynote speakers:
* Prof. Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University, USA
* Prof. Silvia Fiaschi, Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy
* Prof. Martine Furno, IRHIM, Ens-Lyon, & Université Grenoble Alpes, France
* Prof. Fabio Stok, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy
* Prof. Giancarlo Abbamonte, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
* Dr. Paola Tomè, University of Oxford, UK
Papers: The language of the conference is English. The allotted time for papers is 20 minutes + 10 minutes of question/discussion-time.
Abstract Submission: The Conference Organizing Committee invites abstracts (of up to 300 words) from academics at any stage of their career and encourages the participation of early career researchers (PhD candidates, recent PhD graduates, Post-docs). Abstracts should be sent by e-mail as a PDF attachment to inteligi@helit.duth.gr by no later than 31 October 2016. The document should also contain paper title and author information including name, full affiliation and contact e-mail address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer reviewed, and notifications will be communicated by no later than 31 December 2016.
Participation: The participation fee for the conference is €60, which will include conference pack, refreshments/tea/coffee at all breaks, and dinners on the two days. Payment should be made in person at the conference. Please note that the participation fee does not include travel and accommodation expenses. The registration for the conference will start in January 2017. All practical information (provisional conference programme, travel and accommodation details, registration procedure, etc.) will be communicated in due course.
Publication: All submitted papers will be subjected to double-blind peer review. The accepted papers will be published as a proceedings volume or as a special issue of a journal derived from the conference.
(CFP closed 31 October 2016)
New Light on Tony Harrison
British Academy/Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London: 27-28 April 2017
Advance notice that registration will soon be available Registration now open via the British Academy website for a conference, convened by Edith Hall jointly at the BA and the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London, to mark the 80th birthday of poet Tony Harrison on 30th April 2017. This landmark conference will illuminate more recent works by Britain's greatest living poet. A transdisciplinary team will analyse Harrison's evocation of sexuality and imperialism, his metres, stage/screen works and intellectual influences, and the challenges of translating his distinctive idiom into other languages.
The conference will be held at the Academy on 27th and 28th April from 09.30 unto 17.00. There will also be a public event on the evening of 27th April, for which separate registration will be required, with contributions from speakers including Andy Burnham, Wole Soyinka, and Richard Eyre, and actors including Vanessa Redgrave, Barrie Rutter, and Sian Thomas. Confirmed speakers at the conference include:
Prof Simon Armitage, University of Oxford
Dr Josephine Balmer, Translators' Association & Society of Authors
Dr Jacob Blakesley, University of Leeds
Dr Rachel Bower, University of Leeds
Dr Sandie Byrne, University of Oxford
Dr Giovanni Greco, La Sapienza
Lee Hall, Cross Street Films
Dr Cécile Marshall, Université Bordeaux
Prof Hallie Marshall, Univ. of British Columbia
Prof Blake Morrison, Goldsmith's London
Prof Peter Parsons, University of Oxford
Prof Christine Regan, Australian National University
Prof Antony Rowland, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Henry Stead, Open University
Prof Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford
Website: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/new-light-tony-harrison
Classical Association Annual Conference 2017
The Annual Conference of the Classical Association, in association with the University of Kent and the Open University.
Canterbury (UK): 26-29 April 2017.
We welcome proposals for papers (twenty minutes long followed by discussion) from graduate students, school teachers, academic staff and others engaged with the ancient world, on the themes suggested below or on any other aspect of the classical world. We encourage papers from a broad range of perspectives. We are particularly keen to receive proposals for coordinated panels (comprising either three or four papers on any classical topic). Closing date for proposals or abstracts: 31 August 2016. Please see below for details on how to submit your abstract.
Contact: ca-2017@kent.ac.uk
Suggested conference themes are:
Livy’s Bimillennium
Classics in the Contemporary World
Classical Archaeology as Heritage
Experiencing the Body
Everyday Life
Acquiring and Structuring Knowledge
Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Livy’s Bimillennium: Once considered little more than an elegant compilation of source material, Livy’s history has been rehabilitated as a sophisticated and original work of literature. Scholarship in recent years has demonstrated the complexity of the relationship of Ab urbe condita with its sources and other classical literature, explored its didactic functions and its use of exempla, and shed new light on its narrative techniques. At the bimillennium of Livy’s death, however, many aspects of his work remain to be (re-)examined in light of these new approaches. The relationship of the history to its author’s present still raises many questions, and it is perhaps worth revisiting the extent to which the work can be regarded as ‘Augustan’ or ‘Republican’. Given the literary focus of most recent treatments, it may also be time to reassess Ab urbe condita as an historical source, and to discuss the significance of the new literary understanding for ancient historians.
Classics in the Contemporary World: Classics and Classical Studies form part of the contemporary world. How does that world respond to Classics, and Classics to it? This is not just an academic or rhetorical question, but a question of the agency of all things classical in the contemporary world. Why has ‘the Classical’ become a target of extremism, and what does ‘the Classical’ know about extremism? The classical world can easily provide examples of those within the state who threaten security, through its endemic wars, revenge tragedy and peace-seeking, but do these exempla have an agency in the contemporary world, and vice versa does contemporary extremism shape our understanding of the Classical? Another characteristic of the contemporary world is the ascendance of the digital. Does ‘the digital’ create opportunities for non-canonical receptions? For example, how does archaeogaming relate to established digitisations of classical texts and objects? Do we urgently need new data ontologies to link the classical to the digital and to enable machines to read the classical world? Finally, how are these connections with the contemporary world shaping our pedagogy, as we equip individuals to act or be employed in the world? We invite individual papers, panel sessions and workshop proposals to explore and debate the interface between the contemporary and classical worlds.
Classical Archaeology as Heritage: Classical archaeology and heritage studies are intertwined with issues of nationalism, identity and politics. How has classical archaeology been used to fight against or build national identity(ies)? How has classical archaeology been represented and how has this impacted on issues of nationalism and identity? Who owns classical antiquities and archaeology and with what consequences? Different approaches to the management, interpretation and representation of Classical archaeology also entwine it with heritage studies. How can classical archaeology be interpreted and who has been entitled and given authority to interpret classical archaeological sites? What are the recent approaches to fighting against illicit trades in antiquities, both politically and academically? What solutions have been found to the issues of iconoclasm or destruction of classical antiquities and archaeology? How has classical archaeology been used for (sustainable) development projects? Why have these projects been implemented? Who has benefited from these projects and what have been the impacts of these projects for different stakeholders? We invite individual papers, panel sessions and workshop proposals to explore and debate the interface between Classical archaeology and heritage.
Experiencing the Body: Experiencing the body invites us to consider a broad range of topics related to the lived body in the Graeco-Roman world. What can the body tell us about life in the past? How do ancient perceptions of the body relate to definitions of age, health, gender and identity? Besides questioning cultural conceptions, is it possible to access an individual’s experience of the ancient world? Can this be found through studies of the senses, phenomenology of landscapes and spaces, and the world created by the artist: that is the writer, painter, or sculptor, for example? Both social and individual experiences of the body can be accessed through a variety of remains: material culture, literature, epigraphy, art and spatial analyses, allowing for interdisciplinary study. We invite individual papers, panel sessions and workshop proposals to explore and debate the topic.
Everyday Life: The theme of everyday life invites sessions and papers which explore the relationship between urban space and the activities and rhythms of everyday life in antiquity (ranging from the Archaic to Late Antiquity). Sessions and papers might, for example, explore the extent to which ritual activities and occasions, such as festivals, funerals and pilgrimage, were part of or separate from everyday life. What made the ordinary and the extraordinary? How was everyday life experienced, and how did it change over time? How did everyday activities, behaviours and perceptions shape individual and group identities? What made everyday urban and rural life different from one another? What evidence can we use to support our understandings? For example, how did material culture and architecture shape everyday use of urban space? How is everyday life represented in literature, and how is it theorised in Greek and Latin philosophy? What can digital analytical tools add to our understanding? Is it possible to distinguish between elite and non-elite practices, and the experiences of inhabitants as well as visitors to a place?
Acquiring and Structuring Knowledge: Nowadays we classify knowledge with a complexity that was unthinkable in antiquity. Advances in technology and scientific methods let us assess the ancient natural sciences from a position of superior understanding. Meanwhile, new light is shed on the past by advances in technical discourse: politics, sociology and literary criticism are cases in point. Another is philosophy, whose agenda has changed little since its formation in antiquity, but has given rise to numerous sub-disciplines, each with its own specialist terminology and conceptual toolkit. By contrast, some histories and archaeologies of ideas are recent inventions, and others still remain to be written. There are also potential advantages to recovering the integratedness of fields of inquiry in the classical past: recent scholarship has highlighted important interactions between astronomy, anthropology, philosophy, medicine and more. We invite papers and co-ordinated panels exploring topics in ancient inquiry. How did disciplines form? What did concepts owe to empirical experience? How were new developments sparked? What, and how, did the Greeks and Romans know?
Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Rather than artificially separating the worlds of Late Antiquity and Byzantium from Classical Antiquity, we wish to highlight how the chosen themes of the CA conference apply holistically. Late Antiquity and Byzantium bridge the classical and the contemporary, nurturing the beginnings of Islam and the creation of modern Europe. How might they be re-conceptualised in the light of current debates on extremism, migration, identity and porous borders? Conflict and cultural heritage are also key current issues, for example in the context of the war in Syria. Why is such heritage so important, why does its destruction matter, and what can be done? Spatial studies and the senses have been understudied. How might our understandings of urbanism, networks – social or otherwise -, pilgrimage and visualisation, for example, be broadened by taking a holistic approach? What roles do cognitive reasoning, science and philosophy play? Lastly, literature, performance, dialogue and argument were core features of antiquity and fundamental in Byzantium. How might syntax, rhetoric, revision, rewriting and dissemination conceptually influence our ideas of Late Antiquity and Byzantium? We invite individual papers, panel sessions and workshop proposals to explore and debate these and any other ideas relating to Late Antiquity and Byzantium.
Submitting Your Abstract: Abstracts should be no longer than 200 words and should be submitted as Word files (no pdfs, please).
If you are proposing a panel, please label your file clearly with the name of the convenor, conference theme and title of the session, and include both the session and paper abstracts in a single document. Please indicate whether the convener of the panel will also be the official Chair of panel. If you have an alternative Chair confirmed, please also indicate this in your proposal document.
If you are proposing an individual paper, please label your file with the name of the speaker, conference theme and brief title.
Completed abstracts should be sent to ca-2017@kent.ac.uk by 31 August 2016.
Source: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classicalstudies/?page_id=621.
(CFP closed August 31, 2016)
Classics and Women: Ancient and Modern
WCC UK Panel at the Classical Association Annual Conference, Canterbury: 26-29 April, 2017
The WCC UK invites submissions for our inaugural panel at the CA. Our aim is to demonstrate how much there is to gain from recognising historical, conscious, and unconscious bias in the ancient classical world (broadly defined) and in studies of the ancient world. The panel seeks to showcase recent academic work from a range of perspectives, underscoring the benefits of embracing heterogeneity in the study of Classics. We welcome in particular papers that seek to diversify Classics in approach, findings, or methodology.
We invite submissions that focus on (but are not limited to) the following: gender and the non-human, resistances to hierarchy, new approaches to ancient and modern pedagogy, women in war, gendered bodies, women in material culture/archaeology, gendered economies, and pioneering women in classics, ancient history and archaeology. We warmly encourage Classicists at any career stage and of any gender to submit abstracts.
Please send anonymous abstracts of no more than 200 words to either virginia.campbell@classics.ox.ac.uk or lucy.jackson@balliol.ox.ac.uk by Tuesday August 2nd 2016.
For more information on the aims and goals of the WCC UK, including information on how to become a member, please see https://womensclassicalcommittee.wordpress.com/.
(CFP closed 2 August 2016)
Latin Enlightenment
Corpus Christi College, Oxford: 20 April 2017
Organisers: Laurence Brockliss, Stephen Harrison, and Floris Verhaart
Traditionally the eighteenth century in general and the Enlightenment in particular are seen as hostile to the use of Latin. After all, the most widely known key works of this century, such as Diderot’s Encyclopédie and Kant’s Kritik der Reinen Vernunft, were all written in vernaculars.
Only recently have students of the Enlightenment come to realise that Latin remained a vigorous language of scholarly, scientific, and cultural exchange well into the eighteenth century and beyond, thanks to case studies by among others Maurizio Campanelli, Françoise Wacquet, and Yasmin Haskell. Another example is the project Mapping the Latin Enlightenment (2009-2011) led by Yasmin Haskell and funded by the Australian Research Council (http://www.accademiadellarcadia.it/doc/Mapping.the.Latin.Enlightenment_website21May2010.pdf).
Despite these developments, many basic questions regarding this topic still need to be surveyed and “mapped”: who was using Latin, when, where, for what purpose, and in which genres?
The organisers therefore aim to bring together a group of scholars at any stage of their career whose research is in any way related to the uses of Latin in the age of the Enlightenment. If you wish to present a thirty-minute paper at this event, please send a proposal (of no more than 300 words) and a short bio/CV to latin.enlightenment@gmail.com by 22 July 2016. It is the intention of the organisers to publish the proceedings of this conference as a collection of essays.
Suggested themes for papers include but are not limited to:
1) National identity. French enjoyed considerable and increasing prestige as a language of national and international communication in the eighteenth century. However, it also came with considerable political and cultural connotations and associations, since, after all, it was also the language of one of Europe’s nations, France. As a consequence, many regions, such as the Low Countries and Italy witnessed a revival of Latin, partly in an attempt to emphasise their own identity vis-à-vis France. In addition, in Eastern European states, such as Hungary, which had a mix of different ethnicities and nations, Latin served as unifying factor.
2) Authority and subversiveness. Latin was the language of traditional humanistic learning that was deemed inaccessible to the general public and therefore could be used as an instrument of authority and a means to exclude readers from material that could otherwise empower them or give them dangerous ideas. This mechanism could also be applied to subvert authority, since using Latin could help to avoid getting noticed, at least by the wrong kinds of readers. Some of the most potentially shocking writings of the Enlightenment were therefore in Latin, such as the Hypothesis Copernicana (1777), in which the Jesuit Camillo Garulli praised the scientific discoveries of his age, even if they appeared incongruous with the Catholic orthodoxy of his time.
3) Audience. Jürgen Habermas argued in his Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit (1962) that this century witnessed the beginning of a democratisation of cultural and political debates in which previously exclusive groups such as statesmen, scholars and scientists increasingly needed to take into account not just the opinion of their peers, but also the public at large. Over the last decades, a heated debate has taken place about the development of this so-called public sphere in the eighteenth century (for an overview see Van Horn Melton, The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (2001)). By looking at the target audiences of Latin writings a contribution could be made to this debate. Did authors, for example, deliberately use Latin to exclude particular readers and did the language thus curb the development of the public sphere or was the situation more complicated?
4) Humanism and the Enlightenment. The publication of Jonathan Israel’s Radical Enlightenment (2001) has triggered a debate about the true character of the Enlightenment, as Israel argues that it was propelled by a group of radical thinkers, most prominently Spinoza. Thinking about the continued relevance of Latin during the eighteenth century, which had been the corner stone of the intellectual life of the Renaissance, is therefore an ideal means to think about the relationship between Renaissance Humanism and eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Is the break between them really as strong and radical as Israel claims?
(CFP closed 22 July 2016)
Flores Augustini: Roundtable on Augustinian Florilegia in the Middle Ages
University of Leuven, Belgium: April 19-21, 2017
On 19-21 April 2017 the research units Latin Literature (Faculty of Arts) and History of Church and Theology (Faculty of Theology) of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) will organize, together with LECTIO (Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance) and its Laboratory for Critical Text Editing, a Roundtable on Augustinian Florilegia in the Middle Ages. This conference will be organized within the framework of the research project ‘Augustine's Paul through the eyes of Bede: Critical edition, content analysis and reception study of the Venerable Bede's Collectio ex opusculis sancti Augustini in epistulas Pauli apostoli', funded by the University of Leuven, and will bring together scholars working on compilation-commentaries and anthologies which consist entirely and exclusively of excerpts from the works of Augustine of Hippo. During the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, these purely Augustinian florilegia have been one of the privileged vehicles for the transmission and reception of the works and thinking of the Bishop of Hippo.
The conference will take place in Leuven, at the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe (Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven). We warmly welcome all contributions devoted to one or more Augustinian florilegia, and are especially interested in contributions which deal with Augustinian anthologies from a methodological and/or text-critical point of view, emphasizing the difficulties and specificities that their analysis presents to the editors both of the works in question and of Augustine's oeuvre, their place in the edition of the original works of Augustine, or the specific editorial problems that come into play in those florilegia of which source manuscripts have been preserved. Lectures may be presented in English or French, should be 30 minutes long and will be followed by a general discussion of some 15 minutes.
If you are interested to deliver a lecture during this conference, please send a provisional title, abstract (max. 250 words) and a concise CV (max. 500 words) before 15 October 2016 to: shari.boodts@kuleuven.be or jeremy.delmulle@gmail.com.
You will be notified whether your paper has been accepted by 31 October 2016. Subsequently, all participants are kindly invited to announce the definitive title of their lecture before 1 January 2017 and send us any materials to be included in the conference folder (hand-outs, text fragments, manuscript images) before 10 April 2017.
The organizing committee has the intention of publishing the conference proceedings in the international peer-reviewed Lectio-series Studies in the Transmission of Texts & Ideas, published by Brepols Publishers (Turnhout).
KU Leuven will provide lodging for two nights and all meals during the conference. Participants are asked to make and pay for their own travel arrangements.
Source: http://fiecnet.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/cfp-flores-augustini-leuven.html.
(CFP closed 15 October 2016)
Sirens and Centaurs: Animal Studies and Gender Studies, from Antiquity to the Renaissance
New York University, USA: 14-15 April 2017
Keynote speakers:
Leonard Barkan (Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
Andreas Krass (Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt University, Berlin)
The sirens and centaurs of the Physiologus tradition make up an odd but notorious couple: they appear as monstrous, exaggerated incarnations of heteronormative notions of femininity and masculinity. This interdisciplinary conference will combine the theories and methods of gender studies and animal studies in order to examine how imaginary representations of nonhuman animals such as these were used to construct gender and sexuality in premodern times, and also how those constructions were subverted. To what extent did the bodies of animals – as imagined in premodern science, literature and art – serve as cultural signifiers of sex, gender and desire? In what ways did premodern mythology, theology and zoology contribute to the formation of gender stereotypes that corresponded (and often still correspond) to ideas of the “natural” or “unnatural”? How do perceived continuities or discontinuities between human and other animals support such notions as bestiality and miscegenation, and the taboos and fantasies surrounding them? In what ways are pleasure or disgust, attraction or loathing, desire or fear, conjured or manipulated in particular texts or images from this period? To what extent do the answers to these questions change over time?
The conference, to be held at NYU in New York on April 14-15 2017, will re-examine texts and images connected to:
* biblical stories, such as those of the creation and fall of humankind
* stories of metamorphoses of human beings into animals (such as Ovid and other myths)
* the tradition of the Physiologus and subsequent works on natural science (such as Thomas of Cantimpré, Konrad of Megenberg, Pierre Belon)
* the tradition of Aesopian and other fables
* beast epic
* romances and other tales in which monsters serve as protagonists (such as Melusine)
Please send abstracts (ca. 250 words) of proposed papers to the organizers Sarah Kay (sarah.kay@nyu.edu) and Andreas Krass (andreas.krass@hu-berlin.de) to reach them by November 4, 2016. Decisions will be notified by December 15, 2016.
Call: http://medren.columbia.edu/resources/papers/cfp-sirens-centaurs-nyu-marc-spring-2017/
(CFP closed November 4, 2016)
[Panel] Beyond the Mediterranean: The Diaspora of Greek Tragedy
A panel organized as part of the 10th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies
10-13 April 2017, Athens, Greece
Sponsored by the Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) organizes the panel “Beyond the Mediterranean: The Diaspora of Greek Tragedy”, as part of the 10th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, 10-13 April 2017, Athens, Greece sponsored by the Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies.
Commenting on a recent staging of Sophocles’ Antigone in Melbourne, Australian playwright Christine Lambrianidis claimed that “Greek tragedy remains the most modern form of drama [because] it is unafraid to question everything we value”. This panel will look at the continual appeal of Greek tragedy beyond the Mediterranean countries, focusing on modern stagings and adaptations throughout the world. Papers are invited that discuss the use of Greek tragedy in fiction, comic books, theatre, opera, television and cinema beyond the Southern European area, and explore the motivation for the use of the classics for audiences that may not be familiar with them. Topics may include the use of Greek tragedy to discuss contemporary political and historical events, gender issues, post-colonial identities, social and war trauma, religious debates and ethical concerns; revisionist rewritings by women authors; adaptations in non-Western theatrical traditions and in post-dramatic theatre; new translations; productions in higher education settings; directors’ perspectives.
Please submit a 300-word abstract before 12 September 2016, by email, to atiner@atiner.gr, Dr. Daniela Cavallaro, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Current Position, Institutional Affiliation, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Please use the abstract submitting form. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission.
If your submission is accepted, you will receive information on registration deadlines and paper submission requirements. Should you wish to participate in the Conference without presenting a paper, for example, to chair a session, to evaluate papers which are to be included in the conference proceedings or books, to contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER & Honorary Professor, University of Stirling, UK (gregory.papanikos@stir.ac.uk).
Special arrangements will be made with a local hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of social events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment with dinner, a special one-day cruise to selected Greek islands, an archaeological tour of Athens and a one-day visit to Delphi. Details of the social program are available here.
Fee structure information is available on http://www.atiner.gr/fees.
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent world association of Academics and Researchers. Its mission is to act as a forum where Academics and Researchers from all over the world can meet in Athens, in order to exchange ideas on their research, and to discuss future developments in their disciplines.
The organizing and hosting of International Conferences and Symposiums, the carrying out of Research, and the production of Publications are the basic activities of ATINER. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 400 International Conferences and other events, and has published close to 200 books. In 2012, the Association launched a series of conference paper publications (click here), and at the beginning of 2014, it introduced its own series of Journals (click here).
Academically, the Association is organized into seven Research Divisions and forty Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes at least an Annual International Conference, and may also undertake various small and large research projects.
Academics and Researchers are more than welcome to become members and to contribute to ATINER’s objectives. If you would like to become a member, please download the relevant form (membership form). For more information on how to become a member, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr.
(CFP closed 12 September 2016)
Natales Grate Numeras? International Conference to mark the 60th anniversary of the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Zadar, Croatia
University of Zadar, Croatia: 7-8 April 2017
Based on the ancient Roman foundations of the city of Zadar and several centuries of higher education, the contemporary Faculty of Humanities was founded in the academic year 1956/7. The Department of Latin was one of the six original departments of the new Faculty. The study of Greek was introduced in the 80s and, after a turbulent period marked by war in the 90s, the Department grew in both the number of new members and the varied scope of academic disciplines which they pursued.
To mark the 60th anniversary of its foundation, the Department of Classical Philology will host an international conference „Natales grate numeras?“ that will take place on 7 and 8 April 2017. Friends, colleagues as well as scholars from other disciplines and from abroad are invited to join us in celebration in order to give a positive answer to Horace’s question referred in the conference title.
Academics from abroad working in different areas of Classics and related disciplines will join Croatian colleagues in a fruitful dialogue. The keynote speakers are world-renowned experts in their respective areas: professor David Elmer (Harvard University), professor Stephen Heyworth (University of Oxford) and professor Darko Novakovic (University of Zagreb). The proceedings will come to a close with a conference dinner and a guided tour of the city of Zadar, which has recently come to boast of the title 'European Best Destination 2016'.
Proposals for papers should fall within the scope of the following subject areas:
1. Homer, Hesiod and the Greek epic
2. The poetry of the Augustan age
3. Greek and Roman religion and mythology
4. Late Antiquity and Byzantium
5. Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin
6. Dalmatia in antiquity
7. The state of Classics today and related issues.
Please also note:
- The official languages of the conference are Croatian, English and Latin.
- In order to apply one needs to fill out an application form (follow the link https://app.box.com/s/u5fja9eaqe2hbb320238j6m4l5or0dmo) and send it to Diana Soric, assistant professor, via email: diana.soric@unizd.hr
- One author can submit a maximum of two papers if one of these papers is co-authored.
- The deadline for submission of proposals is 1 December 2016. Applicants will be notified whether or not their paper is accepted by 15 December 2016.
- Speakers will be allocated 30-minute slots: twenty minutes to give their paper and ten minutes for questions and discussion.
- There is no conference fee for participants.
- The organiser is not able to cover any travel or accommodation costs.
- All other information regarding the conference will be sent via email and posted on the website of the Department of Classical Philology:
http://www.unizd.hr/klasicnafilologija/tabid/7355/Default.aspx.
STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Diana Soric, PhD (University of Zadar), president
Milenko Loncar, PhD (University of Zadar)
Krešimir Vukovic, DPhil (Oxon.) (University of Oxford)
Linda Mijic, PhD (University of Zadar)
Ankica Bralic, PhD (University of Zadar)
Anita Bartulovic, PhD (University of Zadar)
Teuta Serreqi Juric, PhD (University of Zadar)
Sabira Hajdarevic, PhD (University of Zadar)
Zvonko Liovic, PhD (University of Zadar)
(CFP closed December 1, 2016)
Neo-Latin Symposium
University College Cork, Ireland: 6-8 April, 2017
The Fifth Annual Neo-Latin Symposium, held heretofore under the auspices of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC), will take place 6-8 April, 2017 in Cork, Ireland, hosted by the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies, University College Cork.
The Neo-Latin Symposium is devoted to the presentation of scholarly research in the area of Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Latin Studies. Abstracts are invited in all areas and aspects of Neo-Latin Studies, which may embrace linguistic, literary or historical approaches to the examination of texts and their contexts.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Neo-Latin Literature, Neo-Latin Historiography and Ethnography, Neo-Latin Language and Style, Neo-Latin Imitation, Adaptation or Translation from the Vernacular, Neo-Latin Letter Collections, Journals, Biographies, Autobiographies, Neo-Latin Pedagogy, Neo-Latin Rhetoric, Neo-Latin Treatises on Architecture, Botany, Cartography, Geography, Mathematics, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Theology, Science, etc.
Papers are 20 minutes followed by a 10-minute question & answer session. In addition to individual abstracts for paper presentations, proposals for panels of 3 papers will be considered. The deadline for abstract submission is 9 January 2017.
Please note that the Neo-Latin Symposium will not be part of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference in 2017, but will be hosted by the Cork Centre for Neo-Latin Studies in association with the University of Kentucky Institute for Latin Studies. From 2017 onwards, the location of the conference will vary between Cork and Kentucky in alternate years.
Individually submitted abstracts should be no more than 250 words.
Proposals for individual papers should be submitted as follows:
The proposer should email j.harris@ucc.ie. The proposal should consist of the name, contact information, and affiliation of the speaker(s), and an abstract of the proposed paper.
It is also possible to submit proposals for panels of 3 presentations as follows:
The panel organizer should email a panel proposal to j.harris@ucc.ie. The panel proposal should consist of a single document containing the theme of the panel, the organizer's name and contact information, the names, contact information and affiliations of the panel participants, and an individual abstract for each participant.
Papers should be read in English. Acceptance of a paper or complete panel implies a commitment on the part of all participants to register and attend the conference. A registration fee of €50 will apply to all participants of the symposium. All presenters must pay the registration fee by 14 February, 2017 in order to confirm participation and be included in the program.
Further information about the conference, registration process, and guidelines for paper presentation, will soon be available on this website: https://www.ucc.ie/en/cnls/symposium2017/.
(CFP closed January 9 2017)
The Stoic Tradition Conference
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest: 24 March, 2017
Keynote speaker: John Sellars (King's College London)
Eötvös Loránd University and the Philosophy Department of the Association of Hungarian PhD Students invite graduate students, young researchers and scholars to submit paper proposals for their conference on the reception of Stoicism. Proposals may focus on any period from antiquity to the present and any philosophical tradition regarding the reception of Stoicism.
Presentations should be in English and aim at approximately 30 minutes. Abstracts of maximum 500 words are expected to be sent with the name and affiliation of the participant as an e-mail attachment in Word to thestoictradition@gmail.com.
Travel and accommodation expenses unfortunately cannot be reimbursed, but participation is free. A conference volume with a selection of the papers will be published.
Submission Deadline: 15th of December 2016
Notification: 15th of January 2017
For further details visit the webpage of the conference at http://phil.dosz.hu/thestoictradition or feel free to contact us.
Organisers:
Nikoletta HENDRIK, PhD Candidate, Eötvös Loránd University; President, Association of Hungarian PhD Students, Philosophy Department
Kosztasz ROSTA, PhD Candidate, Eötvös Loránd University
(CFP closed 15 December, 2016)
Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve: Archetypes of the Masculine and Feminine and their Reception throughout the Ages
Bar-Ilan University, Israel: 20-22 March 2017
Keynote Speakers: Professor Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge & Professor Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr College
We are happy to give notice of a conference that will take place as the first project of a collaborative research group that has been set up at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. This group aims to examine the joint Classical and Judeo-Christian foundations of Western civilization, and their reception. Both strands have contributed to western societies in areas as diverse as art, philosophy, politics and architecture, and in many cases, the two strands intertwine and play off against each other. Yet very little sustained research to date has incorporated experts from a wide range of different fields, including, but not limited to, scholars of Jewish studies; Christianity; Classical studies; European literature, history and art; politics; philosophy. This is despite the fact that such collaboration would undoubtedly lead to greater understanding. The intention of this research group is therefore to provide enlightenment in a way that individual researchers, in their own closed specialisations, could not.
Within this framework and theoretical understanding, this conference will focus on “Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve: archetypes of the masculine and feminine and their reception throughout the ages”. The topic takes as its starting point the idea that the way in which a society regards mankind, and especially the roots of mankind, both male and female, is crucial to an understanding of that society. Different models for the creation and nature of mankind, and their changing receptions at different periods and places, reflect fundamental evolutions and developments in society. This project thus will investigate the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian stories about the beginning of mankind, and the reception of these tales in the Western world, at a range of influential periods and places.
Abstracts (up to 300 words) are invited for papers (20 minutes in length) on any aspect of the conference topic. Papers may focus on broader issues and overviews of the subject in general or more specific reading and interpretations of individual works or collections.
Possibilities of subjects include, but are not limited to the following questions and issues:
* Adam and Eve, Prometheus and Pandora: overlap and differences in presentation
* The reception of Classical/Judeo-Christian Male and Female archetypes in different genres and media (literature, art, music, film, popular culture etc.)
* Archetypes and representations of masculine and feminine with reference to their classical roots
* Differences between Jewish and Christian views of Adam and Eve
* Male and female ideals at different periods/locations in the Western tradition
* Differing receptions in Europe, the United States and the Middle East
* Gender constructions in foundational texts and their reception throughout the ages
* The presentation of Adam and Eve and/or Prometheus and Pandora for children.
Please send abstracts to lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il, citing full name and title, institution, provisional title of the paper, by 30th September 2016 by 31st October 2016 (extended deadline).
(CFP closed 31 October 2016)
Readers and Interpreters of Cicero, Ancient and Modern. In honour of Emanuele Narducci and Alberto Grilli
Sestri Levante/Chiavari (Italy): 17-18 March, 2017
The “Emanuele Narducci” Centre for the Study of the Reception of the Ancient World”, Sestri Levante (Centro di Studi sulla Fortuna dell'Antico “Emanuele Narducci”, Sestri Levante) together with the International Society of Cicero's Friends (SIAC) and the “Lucilla Donà Barbieri” Delegation of the Italian Association for [the promotion of] Classical Culture, Chiavari (Delegazione di Chiavari “Lucilla Donà Barbieri” dell'Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica, Chiavari), is sponsoring a two-day conference on the reception of Cicero in antiquity and the modern world, Readers and Interpreters of Cicero, Ancient and Modern. In honour of Emanuele Narducci and Alberto Grilli.
The two-day event will be held next year, on the 17th and 18th of March 2017, in honour of Emanuele Narducci and Alberto Grilli to mark the tenth anniversary of their death. The first day of the conference will focus on Cicero's reception in the modern era and will take place in Sestri Levante, thus coinciding with the 14th Meeting of the “Emanuele Narducci” Centre for the Study of the Reception of the Ancient World; the second day will be devoted to Cicero's reception in antiquity and late antiquity, and will be held in Chiavari.
On the 18th, keynote presentations will be offered by Prof. Rita Pierini (Florence), on Cicero in Seneca; Prof. Paolo Esposito (Salerno), Cicero at Pharsalus; and Prof. Fabio Gasti (Pavia), on Cicero in the Breviary Tradition. There are three further slots available on the day, and the organisers are inviting proposals for papers exploring Cicero's afterlife in the antique and late antique eras. The CfP is open to anyone with a doctorate, who is aged 40 or under; the papers will be original contributions to the subject, to be delivered in Italian.
Deadline for the abstracts is set for the 30th September 2016, after which proposals will be reviewed by the selection committee, made up of Prof. Giancarlo Mazzoli (Pavia; Vice-Coordinator of the “Emanuele Narducci” Centre for the Study of the Reception of the Ancient World”), Prof. Ermanno Malaspina (Turin; President of the Advisory Board of the International Society of Cicero's Friends) and Prof. Sergio Audano (Coordinator of the “Emanuele Narducci” Centre for the Study of the Reception of the Ancient World and President of the “Lucilla Donà Barbieri” Delegation of the Italian Association for [the promotion of] Classical Culture, Chiavari).
Proposals should consist of an abstract, no longer than a side of A4, and CV, both of which should be attached to an email and sent to all three members of the selection committee, Giancarlo Mazzoli (giancarlo.mazzoli@unipv.it), Ermanno Malaspina (committee@tulliana.eu) and Sergio Audano (sergioaudano@libero.it) by the closing date.
The committee will accept three proposals by the 31st of October 2016, and the selected speakers will be expected to develop their abstract into a 30-minute presentation in Italian, which will be offered in the afternoon session on the 18th of March, chaired by Prof. Andrea Balbo (Turin; President of the International Society of Cicero's Friends). We also expect to publish a revised version of the papers in Ciceroniana online – an invitation the committee might extend to proposals considered to be of interest, even beyond the three selected for presentation at the conference.
Meals and accommodation will be provided for the speakers, but not costs relating to travel arrangements.
(CFP closed 30 September, 2016)
Australasian Society for Classical Studies 38th Annual Conference
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand: 31 Jan-3 Feb, 2017
CFP: http://www.ascs.org.au/news/ascs38_call_for_papers.html
Conference website: http://ascs2017.wix.com/ascs2017
ASCS: http://www.ascs.org.au/index.html
Abstracts due by 1 August, 2016.
(CFP closed 1 Aug 2016)
Once upon a time... the Antiquity / Érase una vez... la Antigüedad
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain): January 13, 2017
"Once upon a time… the Antiquity" is a congress focused on new approaching to ancient world researching. Nowadays not only traditional academic works on History, Arts, Archaeology or Philology are being carried out, but this frame of study has been expanded to the so called classic reception studies. Consequently, new studies on preconceptions about ancient world throughout history up to the present day emerge. Historical novels, perfume’s or food advertisements set in a Hellas as unlikely as timeless, or peplums have been subject of specialized congresses.
Once upon a time… the Antiquity congress focuses on this cultural heritage with specific interest in media productions for children. Through this very first image, with which we have all grown up, they are shaped a visual concept of Antiquity, an arrangement of Olympic pantheon and, ultimately, a way of understanding daily life of people thousands of years ago.
As researchers, we understand the complexity of ancient societies, the problems implied in approaching to them getting over our own time’s problems and, above all, reform this preconceived vision of Antiquity. The main objective of this congress is approaching this phenomenon through cinema and serials, both animated and with real actors, biased to a childish or young audience. From Disney movies to child serials and mass phenomena such as Harry Potter, this congress includes every production suitable for all audiences, which constitute our first ancient history school. Every proposal related with this topic, whether dealing with a specific production or a transversal aspect in different movies or serials.
The congress is divided in three main sessions, divided in papers and debates. Presentations will be 15 minutes in length with time for discussion after each session. The congress will take place on Friday January 13, 2017, in the Aula de Grados of the Facultad de Geografía e Historia of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
In order to participate, it's required to send a 200-300 words abstract to the congress e-mail address, erase.antiguedad@gmail.com, up to December 4, 2016. Proposals will be assessed by the organizing committee, and those selected will be informed by December, 11, 2016. All the information is available in the congress website.
Likewise, every student interested in attending the congress will receive a certificate of assistance if they attend the 80% of sessions at least. Organizing committee cannot offer travel or any other kind of grants for participants, but participation is totally free.
Organizing committee:
Irene Cisneros Abellán (U. of Zaragoza)
M. Cristina de la Escosura Balbás (Complutense U. of Madrid)
Elena Duce Pastor (Autonoma U. of Madrid)
María del Mar Rodríguez Alcocer (Complutense U. of Madrid)
David Serrano Lozano (Complutense U. of Madrid)
Nerea Tarancón Huarte(Complutense U. of Madrid)
Website: http://antiguedadanimada.wixsite.com/erase1vezlantiguedad/home
(CFP closed December 4, 2016))
Imagining the Future through the Past: Classical and Early Modern Political Thought (AFG-2017)
Society for Classical Studies (SCS) Annual Meeting: Toronto, January 5-8, 2017
Sponsored by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR)
Organized by Pramit Chaudhuri, Dartmouth College, and Ariane Schwartz, Harvard University
The new Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR) invites proposals for papers to be delivered at the 2017 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Toronto. For its second panel, SEMCR invites abstracts on the reception of classical texts in early modern political thought.
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes called ancient books a "Venime" akin "to the biting of a mad Dogge," which had the power to corrupt their readers and bring down monarchies. Hobbes' violent reaction captures the authority Greek and Roman political thought commanded in a period of radical change in systems of government and, concomitantly, in contemporary theorizing about politics. Early modern readers absorbed Plautus, Plutarch, and rhetorical handbooks along with the authors central to later modern formations of the classical canon like Homer and Cicero. These texts helped give shape to new debates over legitimacy, authority, virtue, community, and a host of other vital issues.
This panel invites papers that illuminate the historical impact of that reception or make a methodological contribution to the study of the reception of political thought in particular. Following recent developments in the field, it welcomes studies of poetry and other media as well as canonical prose texts (e.g., Marsilius of Padua, Christine de Pizan, Machiavelli, More, Bodin, Jonson, Grotius, Hobbes, Harrington, Cavendish, Makin, Locke).
The study of classical political reception is an emergent field in the context of the SCS, and the panel specially invites scholars new to this area to submit abstracts. We are committed to creating a congenial and collaborative forum for the infusion of new ideas into classics, and hence welcome abstracts that are exploratory in nature as well as abstracts of latter-stage research.
Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the following questions:
* What distinctive contribution can classicists make to the history of political thought?
* How do less well-known texts (e.g., neo-Latin epic, legal texts) affect current conventional interpretations of the history of political thought?
* How do early modern thinkers understand temporality?
* What role does genre play in the transmission and transformation of early modern thinkers' engagement with classical thought?
* Recent work by Quentin Skinner and others has refocused scholarly attention on the connections between poetry and political theory. How can classicists best contribute to this line of research?
Abstracts of no more than 450 words, suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation, should be sent as an email attachment to pramit.chaudhuri@dartmouth.edu. All persons who submit abstracts must be SCS members in good standing. The abstracts will be judged anonymously: please do not identify yourself in any way on the abstract page. Proposals must be received by March 1, 2016.
See more at: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2017/148/imagining-future-through-past-classical-and-early-modern-political-thought#sthash.lp4dUFwi.dpuf
(CFP closed March 1 2016)
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Sixth Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World: 'Displacement'
University of Oxford: 12-13 December, 2016
The Sixth Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW) will be held this year at the University of Oxford. AMPRAW is an interdisciplinary conference which explores the impact of the classical world in literature, art, music, history, drama and popular culture. Our theme this year is 'displacement'.
The title suggests the intrinsic impossibility of reconstructing and retaining original meanings without creating and overlaying new ones. In the very act of placing a classical text or myth into translation, adaptation, work of art or performance, a displacement always occurs.
Dr. Constanze Güthenke (Corpus Christi, Oxford) will be a guest respondent.
Those wishing to present a paper of 20 minutes should please submit an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to: ampraw@classics.ox.ac.uk by Friday 2nd September.
We also welcome displays of practice based research. Please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution. We would welcome papers on any topic relating to ‘displacement’ in the reception of the ancient world.
Further information about the conference is available at: https://amprawoxford.wordpress.com/ and more details will be announced later in the year.
Any queries, please email the conveners at: ampraw@classics.ox.ac.uk.
Handy pdf of the cfp - available here: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/CFP_AMPRAW.pdf.
(CFP closed September 2, 2016)
[1st] International Conference on Contemporary and Historical Approaches to Emotions
University of Wollongong (UOW) Sydney CBD Campus (Circular Quay, Sydney): 5-6 December 2016
The conference will bring together researchers working in the area of emotions in contemporary and historical societies from a range of disciplines for the first time, including sociology, philosophy, politics, law, history, literature, creative arts and media. It will showcase cutting-edge research from international experts on approaches to studying emotions from across these fields. We are interested in receiving and papers for presentation in expert panels and general sessions on (but not limited to) the following topics:
* Emotions in space and place;
* The expression and function of emotions such as shame, anxiety, and anger in contemporary society
* The relationship between emotions, embodiment, and affect
* Emotion management in inter-personal relationships
* Methodologies for researching emotions
* The role of emotions in social change
* Emotions in work and professional life
* Emotions and care work
* Emotions in the public sphere
* Emotions in education
* Emotions and law
* The philosophy of emotions
* The history of emotions
* The creative and literary expression of emotions
* Emotions and culture.
Please submit a 500-word panel proposal, or a 200 word abstract for an individual paper to cern-admin@uow.edu.au by Friday 1 July 2016.
Convened by: Roger Patulny and Sukhmani Khorana (UOW CERN), Andrew Lynch (ARC CHE) and Rebecca Olson and Jordan McKenzie (TASA SEA).
Hosts: The University of Wollongong (UOW) Contemporary Emotions Research Network (CERN), the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE), and The Australian Sociological Association Sociology of Emotions and Affect Thematic Group (TASA SEA).
For more information, and for updates about keynote speakers and other conference related information, please visit the CERN events page: https://www.uowblogs.com/cern/category/events/.
CFP: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/1st-international-conference-on-contemporary-and-historical-approaches-to-emotions/.
(CFP closed 1 July 2016)
Authority beyond the Law: Traditional and Charismatic Authority in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford: 3 December, 2016
We warmly invite graduate students and early career researchers in Classics, Medieval studies, Near Eastern studies and other disciplines to submit abstracts for a one day workshop on traditional and charismatic authority in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, to be held on Saturday, 3 December 2016 at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies in Oxford.
In Economy and Society, Max Weber theorised three ideal types of authority: charismatic, traditional and legal. While legal authority has been well-explored in modern scholarship and most resembles the structures of authority in our own world, more recent work has indicated the importance of the charismatic and traditional ideal types as lenses for viewing Ancient and Medieval authority. Thus, in his 2016 monograph, Dynasties, Jeroen Duindam stresses the importance of charisma to royal power, exploring the pageantry of power, ritual actions undertaken to safeguard the harvest or control the weather, and the personal delivery of justice, while Kate Cooper, especially in The Fall of the Roman Household, has argued that power in the ancient world was inseparably linked to individual households in a way similar to Weber's theorisation of traditional authority, making the (late) Roman 'state' seem significantly smaller than it has tended to before.
By bringing together scholars of many different periods and contexts, we intend to explore the value of Weber's traditional and charismatic types for understanding changes, continuities and complexities in the construction of authority across Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Submissions might consider the following themes:
* The use of the irrational and supernatural as a basis of authority
* Ways that charismatic authority perpetuated itself without the creation of legal authority
* The interactions between charisma and tradition within individual contexts
* The use of traditional and charismatic authority legitimise law and legal instruments (rather than vice versa)
* Status groups' use of appeals to time-honoured rights and the distant past to legitimate their authority
* The use of tradition and charisma by heretics and rebels to construct their own authority and delegitimise that of their opponents
* The applicability of Weber's typology to non-political authority and to the authority of places and objects
* The influence of ideas about the ancient and Medieval worlds on sociological thought about authority (and vice versa)
Abstracts of 20 minute papers from researchers in all fields of ancient and Medieval studies are welcome and should be sent to authoritybeyondthelaw@gmail.com by the 16th September 2016. Publication of some or all of the papers may be sought as a themed journal issue.
(CFP closed 16 September 2016)
Rousseau between Antiquity, Enlightenment and Modernity
University College London: December 2, 2016
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is widely recognised as one of the first critics of modern civilisation and its discontents: the pursuit of self-interest, the division of labour, lack of authenticity, and political structures founded on greed and exploitation. However, recent research has opened up a variety of new perspectives on Rousseau that do not necessarily fit the traditional picture. This event is aimed at a reassessment of such recent views of Rousseau and their relationship with wider trends in Enlightenment studies. It will be based on a discussion of two new publications: the volume Engaging with Rousseau: Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2016); and ‘Rousseau’s Imagined Antiquity’, a special issue of the journal History of Political Thought (2016), both edited by Avi Lifschitz (UCL History).
Speakers: Prof. Céline Spector (Paris IV – Sorbonne) and Prof. John Robertson (Cambridge)
Friday 2 December 2017; 5 p.m. onwards; in Chadwick G07, University College London.
All welcome; the discussion will be followed by a reception.
Please register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rousseau-between-antiquity-enlightenment-and-modernity-tickets-28684412851
Authority Revisited. Towards Thomas More and Erasmus in 1516
Leuven, Belgium (Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Janseniusstraat 1, 3000): 29 Nov-Dec 2, 2016
500 years ago, Thomas More’s ‘Utopia’ and Desiderius Erasmus’ ‘Novum Instrumentum’ saw the light. Both works dealt freely with authoritative sources of Western civilization, and opened new pathways of thought on the eve of invasive religious and political changes. The fact that both texts are closely linked to the city of Leuven (Belgium) as well as their historic significance prompted LECTIO (Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance) to take the lead in this commemoration. The international conference represents the academic highlight among the array of special events in Leuven celebrating Thomas More and Erasmus.
The conference will be devoted to studying not only the texts ‘Utopia’ and ‘Novum Instrumentum’ themselves, but also their authoritative precursors in Classical Antiquity, the Patristic period and the Middle Ages, as well as their immense reception and influence in the (Early) Modern Era. The conference will thus lead to a better understanding of how More and Erasmus used their sources, and it will address the more encompassing question of how these two authors, through their own ideas and their use of authoritative texts, have contributed to the rise of (early) modern Western thought.
This international conference, multidisciplinary in scope, brings together scholars working in the field of theology, philosophy, history (of science), art history, historical linguistics and literary studies.
Keynote speakers are prof. Brad Gregory (Notre Dame), prof. Gillian Clark (Bristol), prof. Günter Frank (Bretten), prof. Uwe Baumann (Bonn) and prof. Henk Jan de Jonge (Leiden).
Website: http://lectio.ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/conferences
Contact: lectio@kuleuven.be
The conference takes place in the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Participation is free, but please register online before 20 November 2016.
[Book] Reception and Transformation of Ancient Sea Power
The reception of antiquity in the Middle Ages and especially the Early Modern period has been extensively studied. Sea power and thalassocracy are familiar topics in the fields of classics and ancient history. Nevertheless, only rarely have the two themes been combined, and to date there has been no overarching treatment of the later reception of ancient sea power.
In order to fill this gap, we organized a conference in Berlin in May 2015, entitled ‘Thalassokratographie: Rezeption und Transformation antiker Seeherrschaft’. This title was programmatic. On the one hand, we were interested in the act of writing about sea power and thalassocracy, in the act of creating images and ideas that gave ancient sea power a prominent place in later times – ‘thalassocrato-graphy’, so to speak, not ‘thalassocracy’. On the other, we were concerned with issues of transformation. The conference was not focused solely on a one-dimensional process of reception of classical antiquity in later epochs, but aimed above all to ask how, during this process, images and ideas of antiquity were newly created, with which intentions and to what ends, and how these newly-developed ideas about ancient texts, myths and narratives may even have influenced the later scholarly treatment of these phenomena.
We intend to publish the proceedings of this conference, the program of which can be seen here: http://www.topoi.org/event/29492/ in a volume that will then be the first publication dedicated to this topic. It will be published as a volume in the series ‘Transformationen der Antike’ (de Gruyter), depending on a successful peer-review-process. In addition to the papers presented at the conference we would welcome further contributions (in English, German or French) that, while adhering to the approach outlined above, treat one of the following topics:
The reception of ancient sea power:
• in architecture
• as part of monuments or fountains
• in the visual arts, esp. in paintings
• in music
• in literature, esp. historical novels
• in the naming of ships
• in film, theatre and opera
• in modern mass media
Submission Details: Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short CV should be sent before 30 November 2016 to h.kopp@fu-berlin.de. Those who submitted an abstract will be informed within two weeks after the deadline whether or not their proposals have been accepted. Final versions of accepted papers should then be submitted by 31 March 2017.
Christian Wendt (christian.wendt@fu-berlin.de) and Hans Kopp (h.kopp@fu-berlin.de) will be glad to answer any questions you might have.
Call: http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-32446
(CFP closed 30 November, 2016)
Media and Classics
Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition, University of Bristol: 25-27 November 2016
'The realm of the dead is as extensive as the storage and transmission capabilities of a given culture,' writes the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler in Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (originally published in 1986). The emergence since the 1970s of electronic and knowledge-based technologies, and more specifically of digital media, has brought to the fore the close link that exists between media, knowledge, and perception, a link generating both exhilaration and anxiety. The centrality of media, however, to epistemological debates around the ways in which knowledge is produced, stored, and disseminated has a long history in Western thought. Under the banners of media history, media archaeology, and cultural transmission, important work has been undertaken in recent years on the history of media since the Renaissance and on persistent tropes in media discourse that make it possible to set current debates about digital media in a broader historical and theoretical context. One of the most complex and multifaceted case studies in the history of media in the West yet to receive systematic examination has to do with the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. What is the role of media (new and old, material and spiritual, perceptible and imperceptible) in the formation and reproduction of Greco-Roman arts and more broadly in what might be called the transmission of 'classical' culture?
Certain aspects of this topic have been touched on by media theorists (on both sides of the Atlantic) in suggestive but highly selective and often problematic ways. Other aspects have been approached by classical scholars in more careful but historically and disciplinary insular manners. Issues such as orality, literacy, performance, memory, materiality, the senses, textual transmission, translation, archival practices, the history of the book, and more recently humanities computing are all implicated in the production, transmission, and reception of the Greco-Roman literary, performing, and plastic arts that we now call classical. However, there has been no systematic attempt to date to shift the focus away from issues of historical usage of media towards more theoretical concerns that can link the media of the classical past with one another, with larger processes of artistic production and reception, and with contemporary debates around media, knowledge, and perception. As a result, the processes of production and reception of the arts of Greece and Rome are still perceived in ways that remain at once too narrow and too broad: on the one hand they are dominated by the agency of long-dead artists or ever-changing audiences; on the other hand they are dominated by abstract ideas - the continuities of the Classical Tradition, the discontinuities of Reception, the cosiness of 'conversing' with the past, or the rather nebulous qualities of textuality and visuality.
Revisiting Martin Heidegger's provocative claim that 'the more questioningly we ponder the essence of technology, the more mysterious the essence of art becomes' (in his seminal essay 'The Question Concerning Technology' originally published in 1954), this conference focuses attention on the cultural history of the material conditions and technical and technological practices that give shape to artistic creativity and make possible its transmission as 'classical' and as 'culture.' How are media conceptualized by artistic works and their users in Greece and Rome? How do media shape the specificity, convergence, and/or transference of different artistic forms and contents? How do continuities and ruptures in artistic production and transmission manifest themselves? How are artworks, artists, and audiences networked through material and embodied structures of media technology? How are ideas, concepts, and practices related to the classical arts implicated in the history and culture of modern theoretical debates around media and information technology? And how are they implicated in broader discussions around the philosophical apparatus of technology, culture, and biology as they are played out against a critique of modernity?
Papers are invited on topics in areas such as the following:
* cultural transmission as reproduction and/or as transformation
* art as techne between historicity and metaphysics
* fantasies of communication and horizons of incommunicability
* technologies of writing systems and scripts
* media as conduits, languages, and/or environments
* media specificity and convergence
* media and non-human agency
* the body as a medium
* humanism and anti-technological bias
* Greece and Rome in debates in media theory
* Greco-Roman arts in an age of media convergence, networks and computation<\p>
30-minute papers are anticipated, but proposals are also welcome for presentations outside the normal lecture format, including proposals from artists and other creative practitioners; please provide details of your plans in your application. Prospective presenters should send a title, an abstract of 500 words, and a short biography by 1 April 2016 to: Pantelis Michelakis (P.Michelakis@bris.ac.uk).
(CFP closed 1 April 2016)
[Simposio] La mitología griega en la tradición literaria: de la Antigüedad a la Grecia contemporánea
Universidad de Granada, Spain: 24-25 de noviembre de 2016
Website with link to Programme: http://www.centrodeestudiosbnch.com/es/noticia/35
Organización:
Universidad de Granada
Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas
Grupo de investigación: Estudios de la Civilización Griega Medieval y Moderna (HUM 728)
P. I. Excelencia: Estudios sobre la transmisión y tradición de Paléfato y la exégesis racionalista de los mitos (FFI2014-52203-P)
Colaboración:
Departamento de Filología Griega y Filología Eslava
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Biblioteca de la Universidad de Granada
Polymnia. Réseau de recherche sur les mythographes anciens et modernes
Lugar: Universidad de Granada - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Aula “Federico García Lorca”
[BOOK] Classics and the Western (edited collection)
In 1820, a writer for the Cincinnati Western Review warned his readers
that "should the time ever come when Latin and Greek should be banished
from our universities and the study of Cicero and Demosthenes, of Homer
and Virgil should be considered as unnecessary for the formation of a
scholar, we should regard mankind as fast sinking into an absolute
barbarism, and the gloom of mental darkness is likely to increase until
it should become universal." Almost two hundred years later, Americans
are no longer required to learn Greek and Latin, but their necessary
connection to antiquity continues - in film and television Westerns. John
Ford, Raoul Walsh, Howard Hawkes, Budd Boetticher, Anthony Mann, and Sam
Peckinpah (to name only a few Western film directors), all have borrowed
from the Greats to invent, reinvent, and often reinterpret the American
experience on the frontier. The popular Western owes much of its impact
to the power of "high" art - classical epic, tragic and comic forms which
have celebrated, affirmed, and deconstructed the American Character in
the Wild West for over a century, transmitting a complicated cultural
coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life,
assimilation and settlement, and American masculinity and femininity.
I am currently soliciting abstracts of 200 words for essays that
consider the richness and complexity of the Western's association with
the Greats and foreground the contributions that such intersections and
fusions have made to our understanding of America's epic (and tragic)
narratives of nation and cultural identity. How have Westerns drawn on,
transmitted, furthered, and critiqued the ideas of classical authors
like Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Sophocles,
Euripides, Cicero, and Virgil?
Proposals may examine any aspect of the Western's relationship with
classical thinking and texts, including but not limited to those authors
named above. Proposals may address the genre-at-large; particular
periods, cycles or series; the work of individual filmmakers, actors or
other personnel; or any combination thereof.
Completed essays of approximately 5000 words in length will be due in
September of 2017. This book is under contract with McFarland Press.
Proposals are due by November 15, 2016. Please feel free to contact me
with any queries.
Sue Matheson, PhD - University College of the North - smatheson@ucn.ca.
(CFP closed November 15, 2017)
Refuge and Refugees in the Ancient World: Columbia University Ancient World Graduate Student Conference
Columbia University in the City of New York, USA: November 11-12, 2016
Keynote Speakers: Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) and Demetra Kasimis (University of Chicago)
We invite papers from graduate students working across disciplines related to the ancient world for a two-day conference which will explore the issues of refuge and refugees. From representations of refugees and the notions of "refuge" to their physical traces in the archaeological record, we hope to discuss how ancient societies experienced and conceptualized the flight and plight of displaced peoples.
In light of the recent upsurge in work on ancient Mediterranean migration and exile, as well as current events, new questions arise: What heuristic value does the term "refugee" have for our understanding of the ancient equivalent? How do we define refuge and refugees? Where do we look for the voices of refugees among the ancient evidence? What and where are the sites of "refuge" attested across the ancient Mediterranean world?
We welcome papers in any disciplinary field––and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged––pertaining to the ancient Mediterranean world and surrounding regions (including Egypt, the Near East and the expanses of the Roman Empire) and falling within the period spanning from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity.
Potential topics could include:
* Literary and artistic representations of flight, refuge, or supplication, for example, in epic, tragedy, vase or wall painting.
* Classical reception (contemporary engagements with classical representations of refuge and refugees).
* Philosophical and theoretical conceptualizations of refuge, for example, in Stoic thought.
* Locations of refuge, such as sanctuary spaces.
* Intersections between refugees and the related spheres of ancient migration, exile, and diaspora.
* Ancient histories of migration catalyzed by displacement through war or other factors.
* The demographic impact of ancient refugees on ancient cities, landscapes, and economies.
* Archaeological evidence, for example, hoards and their significance in tracing ancient refugees.
* Refugee identity, for example, the transition from being a "refugee" to becoming a citizen of a new city.
The conference will include a roundtable on how the content and themes discussed in the context of the ancient world can be brought into dialogue with the contemporary refugee crisis.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be emailed to cuconference2016@gmail.com no later than May 2, 2016. In the body of your email, please include your name, institution, contact information, and the title of your abstract. The abstract should be anonymous and sent as an attachment. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes in length, in order to accommodate questions.
Housing accommodations will be provided by Columbia graduate students on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information please visit: cuancientrefugees2016.wordpress.com
(CFP closed 2 May 2016)
Divine (In)Justice in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
University of Sheffield: Friday 4 November 2016
Plenary speaker: Professor Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge)
Respondent: Professor John Arnold (Birkbeck, University of London)
We invite proposals for 20 minute papers on topics including (but not limited to):
* Literary and artistic portrayals of divine judgment
* Human versus divine concept of justice
* Monotheistic versus polytheistic notions of divine justice
* Divine (in)justice in Judaism and Islam
* Secular versus religious justice
* Signs of divine (dis)approbation in national and/or political and/or institutional discourse
* Anxieties about divine justice
* Divine justice and natural disasters
* Postmortem justice
Papers may consider all aspects of divine (in)justice during the period (roughly 8th century B.C.E. to 1500 C.E.), from a variety of disciplinary angles, including literary, historical, artistic, and theological. Medieval culture, its concept of justice, and its major religions were undeniably influenced by classical traditions, and this conference seeks to explore continuities and divergences between these two periods in order to shed further light on the various factors that determine the conceptualisation and representation of divine justice, and define its role in society.
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to Charlotte Steenbrugge (c.steenbrugge@sheffield.ac.uk) by 30 June 2016.
(CFP closed 30 June 2016)
atopia
Villa Empain, Brussels: November 4-5, 2016
atopia is an encounter with classical antiquity enacted by a group of historians, theorists and artists on November 5th at the Villa Empain in Brussels. Ancient Greece has long functioned as the supposed origin of “Western civilization,” and as such the common ground of Europe, its colonial territories, and the humanist project. atopia approaches the classical tradition not as a homeland whose borders are secure, but as a constellation, heterogeneous from the outset and open to being recomposed. The Villa Empain’s focus on the institution as an inhabited home creates conditions for an embodied experience that displaces classicism’s familiar narrative: atopia locates classical antiquity in a space between everywhere and somewhere.
Organized by Brooke Holmes, Isabel Lewis, and Asad Raza
Website: http://www.postclassicisms.org/public-events/forthcoming/atopia/
By Jove! Invoking Ancient Deities on Modern Screens
An area of multiple panels for the 2016 Film & History Conference: "Gods and Heretics: Figures of Power and Subversion in Film and Television"
The Milwaukee Hilton Milwaukee, WI (USA): October 26-30, 2016
Long after their worship ceased, the gods and goddesses of the ancient Mediterranean world have remained potent forces in the modern imaginary. While their traditional names remain the same, modernity's shifting ideological matrices change the signification of these deities. The meaning of worshipers paying homage to them; of priests and prophets claiming to speak on their behalf; and of heroes and rulers challenging their authority or receiving their favor, all change when the moral authority and even existence of these gods and goddesses is no longer a self-evident truth. Technologies for visualizing the divine in e.g. film, television, and video games further complicate the way audiences comprehend deities associated with living cultural traditions but defunct belief systems. Furthermore, viewers may relate very differently to the re-imagining of these ancient Mediterranean gods and goddesses on the modern screen, depending on their various social, cultural, religious, ethnic and/or national identities.
This area invites 20-minute papers (inclusive of visual presentations) considering the motivations, execution, conditions, ramifications, and reaction to representing deities of the ancient Mediterranean world on screen. Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Embodying the gods: how divine identity, gender, and power are visually depicted; why certain god/desses are more (or less) frequently depicted; whether visual representation reinforces the viewer's sense of realism, or makes the god/dess seem too quotidian
* Gods and stars: the interaction of divine identity and star texts, the resultant effect on viewer interpretation of character and/or actor
* Contextualizing the gods: do god/dessess function differently in ancient vs. modern mise-enscene; the shifting ideological function of ancient god/desses in relation to modern narratives, history, religious systems/theologies; whether genre as context changes the signification of a deity
* Sizing up (or down) the deities: depicting the stature of god/desses relative to humans; how the scale of a medium (e.g. film versus television) or the viewing platform (e.g. movie screen versus smartphone) affects perception of divinity
* Presence without substance: how excluding god/desses as active participants in the onscreen drama affects perception of the their power and even existence (e.g. Troy)
* Interacting with the gods: how god/desses relate to humans (e.g. heroes, priest/esses, kings/queens, worshippers); the interactive experience of video game players (e.g. God of War) and app users versus the comparatively passive experiences of film/TV viewers
Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.filmandhistory.org).
DEADLINE for abstracts: June 1, 2016; EXTENDED DEADLINE July 15 2016
Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by 1 June 2016 to the area chair: Meredith Safran, Trinity College: classicsonscreen@gmail.com.
(CFP closed 15 July 2016)
Stoic Guidance for Troubled Times
Queen Mary University of London: October 22, 2016
Can the ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism help us in responding to acute political and personal problems? How does Stoicism reconcile the search for inner peace of mind with positive affection or love and social concern?
A series of talks, interviews, and question-and-answer sessions, with scope for audience participation and social breaks. One of a series of such public events at QMUL on Stoic guidance held since 2014. The programme will include:
* Tim LeBon on Stoic responses to the Brexit vote or a possible Trump victory.
* Christopher Gill interviews Elena Isayev on her experiences with refugees in the West Bank and the Calais ‘jungle’.
* Jules Evans talks to member of the Saracens rugby club about the value of Stoic messages in dealing with training, victory and defeat.
* Donald Robertson talks about Stoic approaches to resilience and love and how the two are linked.
* Gabriele Galluzzo discusses Stoic emotions – those we want to get rid of and those we want to develop.
To book for this event go to: http://eshop.qmul.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=34&catid=1&prodid=652 (cost £15).
The event forms part of ‘Live like a Stoic Week 2016’ – the fifth such event since 2012.
To follow this year’s week-long on–line course (Oct 17-23) on living a Stoic life go to: https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/introduction-to-online-course/
To find out more about Stoicism in daily life see ‘Stoicism Today’ blog (http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/).
Tim LeBon is a psychotherapist and author of Positive Psychology. Christopher Gill is an Emeritus Professor and author of several books on Stoicism; he has edited the Oxford World Classics Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. Elena Isayev is an Associate Professor who works on migration, refugees and asylum in the ancient and modern worlds. Jules Evans is a philosophical writer and author of Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations. Donald Robertson is a psychotherapist and author of Stoicism and the Art of Happiness; he also designed a four-week course on promoting Stoic resilience. Gabriele Galluzzo is a university lecturer and author of several books on ancient philosophy.
The E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series on the Classical Tradition 2016
Warburg Institute, London: 11, 12, 13 October 2016
Organized by the Warburg Institute and Princeton University Press
Speaker: Philip Hardie, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
Celestial Aspirations: 17th and 18th Century British Poetry and Painting, and the Classical Tradition
11 October - Visions of apotheosis and glory on painted ceilings: from Rubens’ Banqueting House, Whitehall to Thornhill’s Painted Hall, Greenwich
12 October - Poetic ascents and flights of the mind: Neoplatonism to Romanticism
13 October - ‘No middle flight’: Miltonic ascents and their reception
Pre-registration (free) is required in order to attend the lectures, at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celestial-aspirations-17th-and-18th-century-british-poetry-and-painting-tickets-27305083239.
Neo-Latin in Fascism
Brixen, South Tyrol: October 7-8, 2016
The Fascist regime in Italy saw itself as a rebirth of the greatness of ancient Rome. Accordingly, Roman antiquity played a crucial role in its ideology. This also holds true for the language of the Romans – Latin. Not only was Latin a central subject of the school curriculum, Latin texts were also written in great numbers in order to promote and justify Fascism. Yet, the phenomenon of Fascist Neo-Latin literature has not attracted the scholarly attention it deserves so far.
The international conference Neolatin in Fascism, organised by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies and going to take place on the 7th and 8th of October 2016 at the Vinzentinum in Brixen/Bressanone, will be the first attempt ever made to address this often repulsive, yet fascinating topic as a whole and on a larger scale. On its first day, two events for a broader audience will take place – an introductory class for grammar school pupils and an evening lecture for a broader audience. On the second day, ten experts from Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Nederlands and England will present and discuss their research on Fascist – and anti-Fascist – lyric and epic poetry, rhetoric and epigraphy written in Latin. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the prestigious series Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia.
Website: http://neolatin.lbg.ac.at/conferences/neo-latin-fascism.
The Making of the Humanities V
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA): 5-7 October, 2016
The Making of Humanities conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, musicology, philology, and media studies, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day. We welcome panels and papers on any period or region. We are especially interested in work that transcends the history of specific humanities disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines and civilizations.
Please note that the Making of the Humanities conferences are not concerned with the history of art, the history of music or the history of literature, etc., but instead with the history of art history, the history of musicology, the history of literary studies, etc.
Keynote speakers:
1.Karine Chemla (ERC project SAW, SPHERE, CNRS & U. Paris Diderot): “Writing the history of ancient mathematics in China and beyond in the 19th century: who? for whom?, and how?”
2.Anthony Grafton (Princeton U.): “Christianity and Philology: Blood Wedding?”; Sarah Kay (New York U.): “Inhuman Humanities and the Artes that Make up Medieval Song”
MoH-V will feature three days of panel and paper sessions, next to three keynote speakers and a closing panel on the Status of the Humanities. A reception will take place on the first day in the magnificent Peabody Library, and a banquet on the second day. An overview of the previous conferences and resulting publications is on the Society’s homepage.
Abstracts of single papers (25 minutes including discussion) should be in Word format and contain the name of the speaker, full contact address (including email address), the title and a summary of the paper of maximally 250 words. Abstracts should be sent (in Word) to historyhumanities@gmail.com. Deadline for abstracts: 30 April, 2016. Notification of acceptance: End of June 2016.
Panels last 1.5 hours and can consist of 3-4 papers including discussion and possibly a commentary. Panel proposals should be in Word format and contain respectively the name of the chair, the names of the speakers and commentator, full contact addresses (including email addresses), the title of the panel, a short (150 words) description of the panel’s content and for each paper an abstract of maximally 250 words. Panel proposals should be sent (in Word) to historyhumanities@gmail.com. Deadline for panel proposals: 30 April, 2016. Notification of acceptance: End of June 2016.
For full information about the conference, please visit: http://www.historyofhumanities.org/2015/10/29/call-for-papers-and-panels-the-making-of-humanities-v.
(CFP closed 30 April 2016)
Classics -- Right Now!
Autumn conference of the California Classical Association (North), Stanford University: October 1 2016
In this era of instantaneity, when the label "classic" gets slapped onto anything more than five years old, what hope is there for getting people interested in the considerably earlier achievements of Greek and Roman culture? This day-long conference will examine ways in which movies, video gaming and other media can engage new audiences with the ancient past. Papers (15-20 minutes) are welcome on any aspect of such encounters. A special focus will be on creative pedagogical uses of media (K-12 and college levels) for introducing the Classics.
Abstracts (maximum 500 words, including any bibliography, and specifying exact length of talk) should be sent by August 22 to Prof. John Klopacz (jklopacz@stanford.edu). Selected participants will be notified soon after the deadline. Please indicate on the abstract any technological requirements for the talk.
Website: http://www.ccanorth.org/
(CFP closed August 22 2016)
IMAGINES V: The Fear and the Fury - Ancient Violence in Modern Imagination
Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin: September 29 - October 1 2016.
The Fear and the Fury is the fifth international conference organised by the research project Imagines (www.imagines-project.org) in order to attract and connect international scholars working in the field of the representation of Antiquity in the visual and performing arts.
Violence, fury and the dread that they trigger are factors that appear frequently in the ancient sources. They often feature human violence, wars and natural disasters, but also the inherent violence of mythical figures and stories and their inexorable impact on the life and destiny of mortals.This dark side of antiquity, so distant from the pure whiteness that the classical heritage usually calls forth, has repeatedly struck the imagination of artists, writers and scholars across ages and cultures. Examples are the countless depictions of the destruction of Pompeii (i.e. Karl Bryullov's painting The Last Day of Pompeii, which in turn has become a source of inspiration for several following artists), the works performing the Spartans' tragic heroism at Thermopylae (the obvious reference is Frank Miller's 300, and its cinematographic adaptation by Zack Snyder), and the representations of Medea's fury (from Euripides to Pier Paolo Pasolini and Lars von Trier).
The conference will look at how modern and contemporary performing and visual arts represent the evildoers – those who provoked fear and who were led by fury –, the catastrophic events, the battles and the ancient everyday tragedies, as well as the fears they generated, both in those who found themselves facing such misfortunes and in those who interact with the ancient world and its representations.
Papers should either focus on a specific post-classical period or follow a cross-temporal perspective. In addition, they can cover one or more artistic languages (painting, book art and graphic design, comics, sculpture, architecture, theatre, opera, dance, street art, photography, cinema, computer animation, videogames etc.) and propose comparative approaches.
Questions addressed in the conference include (but are not limited to) the following:
* How has post-classical imagery staged the conquerors' violence and the fear felt by the subjugated, from the fall of Troy to the Rape of the Sabine Women and the sack of Rome in 410 A.D.?
* How has the human impotence against the forces of the nature (from the storms that have hampered the nostoi of the Homeric heroes to the total destruction of Pompeii caused by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius) been perceived and performed?
* How have military powers of the ancient World, from the Macedonian phalanx to the Roman legions, and their acts of conquest and destruction, been translated into forms of contemporary entertainment, such as videogames?
* How has political violence, be it individual of collective, from rebellions against the rulers (i.e. Harmodius and Aristogeitons killing the tyrants) to the struggles for power (i.e. the disorders that tainted the last years of the Roman Republic) been staged and perfomed?
* What forms of domestic or private violence – as they have been handed down from Graeco-roman sources – have most impacted the modern and contemporary visual arts and why?
We welcome proposals for papers of 30 minutes each. The abstracts should have a length of max. 500 words, be written in one of the conference languages (English and Italian) and be sent by January, 31st 2016 to imagines5.torino@gmail.com.
The conference organization will cover the accommodation expenses for all accepted speakers if needed. There are no conference fees.
(CFP closed 31 Jan 2016)
[JOURNAL] thersites #6/2017 - Special Issue: Advertising Antiquity
The journal thersites. Journal for transcultural presences and diachronic identities to date is planning a special issue, edited by Filippo Carlà-Uhink (University of Exeter), Marta García Morcillo (University of Roehampton) and Christine Walde (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) on the topic of “Advertising Antiquity”, and is looking for potential contributors to the issue.
We are looking for contributions that cover:
1) the existence of forms of “advertisement” in Classical Antiquity, as well as those that study this from a transdisciplinary perspective through models and concepts developed in social and economic studies
2) the role of Classical Antiquity in modern advertising, as a repertoire of symbols and values, and as a shared cultural reference that can be easily recognized by the public
While studies in the field of Classical Receptions have flourished in recent years, in particular regarding the visual and performing arts, advertising has until now been substantially neglected, owing to its (elitist) exclusion from many definitions of “art” or “culture”. We, on the other hand, are convinced that advertising – through its very aim to appeal to a broad public – is a highly relevant indicator of the presence, significance and symbolic value of Classical Antiquity in popular culture, and thus worthy of much greater attention. Ancient themes and figures are in fact regularly present in modern Western advertising, constituting familiar reference points in which many of the “values” that ads attempt to communicate find a reliable symbol or pictogram that can be immediately recognized by the public – Hercules (for strength) being possibly the most obvious example. Similarly, the high prestige attributed to the Classical world and its knowledge until just a few decades ago is often used in the Western world to confer an immediate credibility to the product or element being advertised.
Ancient forms of advertising have also been substantially neglected in scholarship, eventually studied only by scholars of ancient economy and almost only ever in reference to Rome. Nevertheless, as is the case today, adverts were part of everyday life for the inhabitants of ancient cities, who covered their walls with offers, promises and public announcements of every kind, private and official. The very term “advertising” derives from the Latin adverto or “turn towards”, hence also “draw attention to” – a word that captures the very essence of advertising. This paves the way to multiple potential approaches that link to social and cultural studies, such as the relationship between advertising and identity.
This relationship is, once again, central to studying the presence of Antiquity in modern advertising: should the audience identify with the Ancient Greeks and Romans, recognize them as a part of their cultural heritage, or should they feel different from them? How is such a message constructed, and what pre-knowledge of the Classical world do the ad-creators expect from their targeted audience?
As within our multimedia saturated world, ads were also acknowledged and perceived in different ways in ancient times. They could be read or seen but also heard, appearing in the form of inscriptions, paintings, and announcements read aloud by the kerykes/praecones.
We therefore welcome contributions that, whether they concern Antiquity or the modern world, highlight the multimedia character of advertising and interrogate its multisensorial communication and reception. We particularly encourage contributions that are able to bring together both the aspects mentioned above, for instance through an investigation of how ancient forms of advertising have been represented in Classical Receptions (e.g. the representation of praecones and written announcements in the HBO series Rome).
thersites is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal – previous issues can be seen at http://www.thersites.uni-mainz.de.
Abstracts for possible contributions should be sent to f.f.carla@exeter.ac.uk by the 30th September 2016. The proposals, and the eventual ensuing papers, can be in English, German, Italian, French or Spanish.
The accepted articles, which must be a max. of 90,000 characters including empty spaces, footnotes and bibliography in length and contain an English abstract of around 150 words, will have to be submitted by the 30th June 2017.
The papers will undergo a peer review process according to the journal’s guidelines, found here: http://www.thersites.uni-mainz.de.
The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Four Artists from Cyprus Discuss Archaeology and Contemporary Art
British Museum, London: September 30, 2016
The Cyprus High Commission-Cultural Section and the British Museum cordially invite you to:
"The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Four Artists from Cyprus Discuss Archaeology and Contemporary Art"
Is reconstructing the past as speculative as constructing the future? Exploring the politics and poetics of the archaeological finds, four prominent artists from Cyprus, Alev Adil, Haris Epaminonda, Maria Loizidou, and Christodoulos Panayiotou will discuss the ‘archaeological turn’ in contemporary Cypriot art. Developed by Christina Lambrou and Elena Parpa, the artists’ talks will be followed by a round-table discussion chaired by Dr Gabriel Koureas, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London.
Held under the auspices of the High Commissioner for the Republic of Cyprus Euripides L. Evriviades to celebrate the Cyprus National Day.
Friday, 30 September 2016, The British Museum (BP Theatre), Great Russell St, London WC1B 3DG at 6:30 pm
Free entrance but booking is essential: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ground-beneath-our-feet-four-artists-from-cyprus-discuss-archaeology-and-contemporary-art-tickets-26349667565.
Modernist Fragmentation and After: International Postgraduate Conference
Princeton University: 29-30 September 2016
Keynote Speaker: Dr Nora Goldschmidt (Durham University)
We invite proposals for papers for a conference on modernist tropes of
fragmentation, to be held at Princeton University, September 29-30,
2016.
Fragmentation is an inescapable aesthetic technique of 20th- and
21st-century literature and art, overdetermined as a figure for both
social processes of alienation and atomization and the psychological
interiorization of these processes. “Modernist Fragmentation And After”
seeks to interrogate this category from the perspective of classical
reception and history, examining modernist experiments with
fragmentation as a formalization of modernist problems of artistic
representation while also investigating the deployment of this technique
as a dominant aesthetic mode of receiving and adapting the cultural
products of Greek and Roman antiquity.
Fragmentation as a mode of composition rather than an accident of the
historical process of preserving literary and material artifacts has, of
course, a significant history before its assumption in modernism, which
the theorist and historian of Romantic literature John Beer has
adumbrated. Beer suggests that the Romantic compositional treatment of
the fragment tracked the developing 18th-century European investment in
the past as a “locus of feeling” as exemplified in interests in
architectural ruination and broken statuary. Thus the post-Romantic
voice of Rilke’s famous sonnet on a headless ancient Greek statue of
Apollo exemplifies the paradox whereby the fragment takes on an
independent aesthetic interest beyond its ruination that depends on a
lost and imagined whole. Rilke’s poem also points up the origins of the
aesthetic interest in fragmentation as reflecting on the loss of a
classical past. These meditations prefigure the programmatic and
widespread modernist interest in fragmentation: when Eliot in the final
lines of The Waste Land writes, “These fragments have I shored against
my ruins,” he both offers a program of interpreting his poem through the
technique of synthesized fragmentation and gestures towards the
dominance of fragmentation as a poetic technique and aesthetic mode in
his contemporaries, as seen in the poems of H.D. and Pound and the
disjunctive prose compositions of Joyce, Faulkner, Woolf, and others.
While these moments of fragmentation frequently reflect on and adapt the
cultural products of classical antiquity—conceived of in such terms—they
do so in complex and contradictory ways.
This conference seeks to address the historical circumstances that
rendered fragmentation a dominant aesthetic and analytic mode of
modernist engagements with Greek and Roman antiquity. We aim to foster
cross-disciplinary investigations into this complex history, and invite
abstracts from graduate researchers in Classics, English, Comparative
Literature, Modern Languages, History, Architecture, Art History, and
related disciplines. We also seek abstracts from practising artists.
Possible approaches might include (but are not limited to):
* Case studies of concrete instances of this engagement in literature,
the performing arts, and visual and material media
* Theoretical approaches exploring modernist fragmentation as an
aesthetic trope
* The historical development of modernist fragmentation from its
prehistory in Romanticism, other aesthetic movements of the 19th
century, and/or Early Modern interest in classical civilisations
* Meditations on the transformations of this trope in postmodernist
poetics and aesthetics
* Papers from practising artists in various disciplines exploring their
own engagement with modernist fragmentation, and illuminating dynamics
of fragmentation in the history and practice of a given artistic medium.
Abstracts for papers of 20 minutes should be sent to
fragmentation2016@gmail.com by NO LATER THAN JULY 1ST. They should be no
longer than 300 words, and be attached in .pdf or .doc format. Please
ensure that they contain no identifying information.
Questions should be addressed to the conference organisers, Kay Gabriel
(kgabriel@princeton.edu) and Talitha Kearey (tezk2@cam.ac.uk).
CFP: http://bit.ly/fragment2016
(CFP closed 1 July 2016)
Ciceronianism, European Studies, Eurolinguistics
RomaTre University: 29-30 September 2016
Ciceronianism, European Studies, Eurolinguistics, a joint symposium of the 'Euro-Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Mannheim' and of the scholars who identify with the aims of '2.000. The European Journal', will be held at RomaTre University on 29-30 September 2016.
The themes of the symposium are:
1) Theodor Mommsen and Cicero. For Theodor Mommsen's (1817-2017) bicentenary.
2) Genesis and Migration of Indo-European Languages- Research and theories on their origin.
3) On the origins of the idea of Europe.
Those who would like to take part should send an abstract of their papers, along with a short c.v, to Cicero_Euro_Linguistics@fastwebnet.it (Matthew Fox and Ermanno Malaspina for Ciceronianism, P. Sture Ureland for Eurolinguistics, Vincenzo Merolle for European Studies), by May 31, 2016.
This will be the first of a number of symposia, to be held in the coming years, in Rome or at other European universities.
The underlying idea from a philological point of view is that of analyzing the current development of European languages and of selecting a common vocabulary for Europe and the West. From a philosophical point of view, it will be that of promoting the ideas of tolerance and civilization proper to Western democracies.
Therefore, we invite the submission of papers and participation on the part of colleagues who, we are sure, will appreciate our efforts towards the advancement of learning.
Participants could be asked a small entrance fee (of no more that €30 per person), unless we are able to find some form of grant or sponsorship.
Organizers: Matthew Fox; Ermanno Malaspina; P. Sture Ureland; Vincenzo Merolle
Website: http://www.compitum.fr/appels-a-contribution/10240-ciceronianism-european-studies-eurolinguistics.
Manifesto of the symposium on 'Ciceronianism, European Studies, Eurolinguistics' to be held at the University of Roma-Tre on 29-30 September 2016
The 'Euro-Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Mannheim' (chairman P. S. Ureland, Mannheim), together with the scholars who identify with the aims of "The European Journal', (editor Vincenzo Merolle, 'La Sapienza', Roma), convinced, as they are, that our civilization needs a greater endeavour aimed at superior understanding and maturity, have decided to unite their efforts to run joint symposia on 'Ciceronianism, European Studies, Eurolinguistics'. The symposia will take place every year, in autumn, c/o a European university, that will be chosen according to the opportunities that our colleagues will suggest.
First of all, why Ciceronianism? The obvious reason is that politically we support democratic and liberal ideas against any form of tyranny and of authoritarian, or limited, democracy. Cicero, as the champion of republican ideas and of the mixed constitution, is the main representative of such a tradition.
From a cultural point of view, Europe is a unified entity. Paradoxically, our cultural unity failed, although only in part, during the age of the Enlightenment, the age which historians commonly define as 'cosmopolitan', although it was then that the writers, Hume, Voltaire, Kant, abandoning Latin, or the 'lingua franca', began to write in their national languages. The common cement of our tradition remained nevertheless Latin, and Cicero is the author who more than any other is a recognized authority in this tradition.
As for our contemporary European world, languages are nowadays silently discarding words that are not shared in common, and the needs of communication, in Europe and the West, every day become more urgent and compelling. In daily practice we are therefore selecting a vocabulary that will be increasingly shared in common, and will eventually become understandable to cultivated people.
The aim of our project, from a linguistic point of view -here, as in its other aims, sketched in broad lines- is that of accompanying this process of selection, a process we must become fully aware of, and which we shall not simply receive from daily practice, but consciously direct and command.
The world is in fact becoming a 'global village', and the next step, the one which we aim to achieve, is a comprehensive picture of European civilization and of the history of our continent and the West.
For this aim we need the cooperation of more cultural associations, which only apparently have different aims, but whose efforts are directed to the end, common to all of us, of uncovering the roots of our history, in order to know and understand our modern world.
Languages reflect the history of peoples and, in our effort, linguistics will be one of the main fields of research. Communication is in fact what civilization principally needs, in the sense that peoples, when communicating, and therefore achieving a better knowledge of each other, realize that there is much in common between them, and fewer or no reasons at all for enmity and confrontation. The expansion of democratic ideas, which we have experienced in Europe after the tragedies of the last century, is mainly due to the spread of the means of communication, which demonstrate every day to all of us how humankind is everywhere the same, and that what is needed is a greater consciousness of this reality. The spread of learning produces, as a natural consequence, this consciousness. Its advancement is therefore the preliminary premise to a higher level of civilization, and will be our principal concern.
Democracy, as recent experiences show, cannot be exported with weapons, while past experiences justify us in the fear that it might not be 'irreversible', not a conquest forever. By contrast, democracy needs the maturity of generations, the superior consciousness of the nature of humankind and its aims. Acquiring such concepts, humankind can avoid passing through more tragedies such as the ones that last century covered both Europe and the world with blood.
Summarizing our aim: we want to accompany the historical process that is taking place, since historical change is uninterrupted; we want to be witnesses of our history, but with a glance towards the future.
Contact: Cicero_Euro_Linguistics@fastwebnet.it (Matthew Fox and Ermanno Malaspina for Ciceronianism, P. Sture Ureland for Eurolinguistics, Vincenzo Merolle for European Studies).
(CFP closed 31 May 2016)
Renaissance Prototypes: Tensions of Past and Present in Early Modern Europe
An international, multidisciplinary conference in Oslo organized by the Norwegian Renaissance Society.
Oslo, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters: 28-30 September 2016
The conference Renaissance Prototypes will focus on that particular early modern notion of the past as composed of predictions of the future. “Prototype” was a term coined in the Renaissance to sanction the recycling of historical objects and concepts. It conveyed the idea that the true fulfillment of a trope, a motif, an image or a building would always lie in the future. With venerated ancient models thus “reduced” to a mere sketch or an outline, linear time appears to go in loops and conventional chronologies run backwards. The past is recast as a trial run for the present.
We invite contributors to reflect on the cross-temporal scheme entailed by the concept of prototype or implied by related notions such as forewarning, prefiguration, premonition, and prophecy. In short, we ask for presentations of texts and images that in some way or the other are seen to contradict, confound, or misinterpret conventional sequences between cause and effect. One might want to discuss the relationship between original and copy, between sketch and realization, between beginning and end. In contrast to modern ideas of history as progression, a “prototypical history” finds itself in constant negotiations with the past, revealing a Renaissance culture engaged in readjustments, manipulations, and other undercover operations. In this way a bygone era offered the design of things ahead as well as legitimized a contemporary world that in many ways was novel. Arguably, the Renaissance may seem like a continuation of antiquity only to the extent antiquity itself is refashioned as its proto-manifestation.
The main objective of the Oslo conference is to explore and identify the precise and varied forms of the dynamic interchange between past and present in different scholarly disciplines (art, architecture, music, literature, philosophy and history of ideas). The point of departure is how Renaissance humanists, artists, theologians, and philosophers returned to the beginnings, to the ancient foundations, to revive them and to purge or restore them from the corruption of the present. Myths of origins, the “prototypes”, were thus transformed into myths of new beginnings—to vigorous and future-oriented projections of politics, sciences, education, technology, music, literature and art. A second aim of the conference is to discuss how Renaissance scholars have shaped modern interpretations of the past. On the one hand, Renaissance historiographers such as Jacob Burckhardt, Erwin Panofsky, Eugenio Garin or Paul Oskar Kristeller have offered lenses through which the past traditions are explored; on the other hand, their readings represent obstacles that are necessary to address and discuss in modern scholarship today.
A focus on the philosophy and theory of history as well as on concrete examples of a convoluted temporality makes the subject of the conference Renaissance Prototypes doubly historiographical: The Renaissance view on classical antiquity constitutes one segment of the timeline just as our view on the Renaissance constitutes another. This doubly-lensed vision of past traditions throws light on contemporary presentations and perceptions of history.
The conference is initiated by the Norwegian Renaissance Society and organized within the framework of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies. The conference in supported by: the Research Council of Norway, the University of Oslo, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and the Nansen Humanistic Academy.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 17 March 2016.
Website: http://renessanseforum.no/conference/index.html.
(CFP closed March 17, 2016)
Into New Frames. De-contextualisation and Transmediality in Ancient Literatures
Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Workshop, Exzellenzcluster Topoi, Berlin / Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: 28-29 September 2016
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Peter Bing, Emory University
The workshop aims at exploring the phenomenon of de- and re-contextualisation of Ancient Greek works into new literary, cultural and social contexts. Especially in the archaic and classical period the genres of Ancient Greek literature were attached to one specific occasion and cultural context, but later re-framing and re-performance into new contexts were not rare. Particularly interesting is also the translation of contents into different media and new spatial settings, from text to image, or vice versa.
The interdisciplinary workshop addresses PhD students and early career scholars in various fields, from Classical philology to linguistics and Classical archaeology. We will reflect on the mechanisms connected with de- and re- contextualisation from different perspectives. Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to:
1. "Beyond quotations": the use and re-use of words, sentences and whole passages in new works:
* Which consequences are related to the re-use of words and passages in new textual frames?
* How are texts quoted?
* Which linguistic changes are connected with quotations?
2. "Re-performance in new contexts":
* Which examples of re-performance in cultural and social contexts different form the original ones are attested?
* Did these texts retain part of their original context? Did it produce a sense of alienation?
* What kind of changes did the re-performance entail (linguistic changes, omissions, re-actualization strategies)?
3. "Multimediality": translation to new media and loss of material context:
* Which consequences are related to the translation from a medium into a new one?
* Which kind of changes must be achieved?
* How much does it influence the perception?
The form of the workshop has been chosen in order to achieve an interesting and fruitful discussion among participants. Every section will host three presentations of 20 minutes each, which will be followed by discussion.
Please submit abstracts (no more than 300 words; .pdf file) to the following address flavia.licciardello@hu-berlin.de by March 1st, 2016. The language of the workshop is English; German papers may also be accepted. Funding includes one night in the guest house of the Humboldt Universität and a partial travel allowance. For further information, please contact Nina Ogrowsky (ninaogrowsky@googlemail.com).
(CFP closed March 1 2016)
Bestiarium: Human and Animal Representations - International PhD [& ECR] Conference
Università degli studi di Verona, Scuola di Dottorato in Studi Umanistici: 28-30 September 2016
The PhD School of Humanities of the University of Verona is organising the international trans-disciplinary Conference "Bestiarium. Human and Animal Representations" which will take place from the 28th to the 30th September 2016.
From Aristotle's philosophy to the Medieval Bestiaries, from the ancient fables to the works of artists such as Damien Hirst, Joseph Beuys and Bill Viola, through George Orwell's Animal Farm and Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka, the animal and its various representations have always played a lead role in the cultural production of human kind. For example, from the XVI century onwards Aesop's fables and the oriental tales collected in Panchatantra and in its Arab version Kalila e Dimna have influenced a number of essays and short stories, such as those by Agnolo Firenzuola (La prima veste dei discorsi degli animali), Anton Francesco Doni and Jean de la Fontaine.
In the last decades, however, new achievements in fields such as Ecology and Cognitive Ethology have created the social need to deeply reconsider the ethical status of animals. From a theoretical point of view, these peculiar social demands have imposed an interpretative shift in the Humanities, leading to the so-called "Animal Turn" in cultural studies (Harriet Ritvo, "On the Animal Turn", 2007). This theoretical turn raised some fundamental questions about human-animal relationships, otherness, the ontological status of animals and the meaning of humanity and animality. As a result, the traditional epistemological categories of Humanities have been called into question. Indeed, if on the one hand the contribution of scholars such as Jacques Derrida (L'Animal que donc je suis, 2006), Giorgio Agamben (L'Aperto: l'uomo e l'animale, 2002), Cora Diamond (The Realistic Spirit, 1991), and J. M. Coetzee (The lives of Animals, 1999) has allowed to dismiss the conception, typical of the Enlightenment, according to which "animals were mere blank pages onto which human wrote meaning" (Erica Fudge, "The History of Animals", 2009), on the other hand, it has demonstrated a substantial inability to abandon the anthropocentric point of view which has always characterized the discourse on animals.
Hence the need to overcome the traditional tendency to read the animal merely as a symbol, a metaphor or an allegory, whose only purpose is that of representing and negotiating human power relations of race, class, and gender. This new perspective allows the adoption of a critical attitude capable of shortening the ontological distance between the human and the animal, referring to a phenomenological dimension in which the two elements are different, but equally possible, modes of corporeality of a particular form of animality.
The international trans-disciplinary Conference "Bestiarium. Human and Animal Representations" intends to give a contribution to this debate by focusing on texts and discursive practices which reveal the epistemological and cultural dynamics structuring the representation of the animal.
The human-animal relationship has always been characterised by a wide net of interactions and exchanges. The aim of the Conference will be to rethink the very nature of humanity through animality - considering all the various meanings that this term can acquire - in order to highlight diversity and to find a new sense of the human and of the animal.
What are the ontological, phenomenological and ethical differences emerging from the comparison of the human with the animal? How does the distinction between humanity and animality change over time and in different cultural contexts? How can we rethink the categories of otherness, agency, embodiment and experience in the human-animal relationship? How are the mechanisms of empathy triggered through the textual representation of the animal? How does the interpretation of a text change when assuming a non-anthropocentric point of view on the representation of the animal? Which linguistics strategies are deployed when speaking of animals and what do they reveal?
Given the strong interdisciplinary character of the reflection on the animal and its representation, the Conference is open to scholars of different disciplines such as Italian, ancient Greek, Latin, and foreign literatures and philology, philosophy, linguistics, history and anthropology, art, cinema and new media.
We invite contributions which study, discuss and promote, among others, the following issues:
* Human-animal relationship
* Animalising the human and humanising the animal
* Animal bodies and human bodies
* Discursive significance of animal metaphors, symbols and tropes - Textual animals
* Animal societies and Human societies
* Animals and visual culture
* Language and animality
The Conference is addressed to PhD students and researchers who have no more than 5 years post-Doctoral experience.
The time limit for each presentation is 20 minutes, followed by discussion. Please submit an abstract of 300 words (title included) in .pdf format by April 15, 2016 to the following address: convegno.animali@ateneo.univr.it
All submissions should be written in English or Italian, and be prepared for anonymous review. Name, affiliation, and research field should appear only in the text of the e-mail. All submissions will be acknowledged and acceptance of abstracts will be communicated by June 15, 2016. Contributions in English will be preferred.
The publication of the Conference proceedings is expected.
Organising Committee: Mariaelisa Dimino, Alessia Polatti, Roberta Zanoni.
Scientific Commitee: Giulia Anzanel, Stefano Bazzaco, Francesca Dainese, Francesco Dall'Olio, Damiano De Pieri, Mariaelisa Dimino, Anja Meyer, Damiano Migliorini, Silvia Panicieri, Giulia Pellegrino, Alessia Polatti, Simone Pregnolato, Marco Robecchi, Giacomo Scavello, Tania Triberio, Roberta Zanoni.
For more information you can visit our website: https://bestiariumconvegno.wordpress.com/
or our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Convegno-Bestiarium-Rappresentazioni-dellumano-e-dellanimale-1670070243246827/?fref=ts
(CFP closed 15 April 2016)
The Sophistic Renaissance: Authors, Texts, Interpretations
Ca' Foscari University, Venice: 26 September, 2016
This International Conference aims at exploring the influence and diffusion of the ancient sophistic traditions in early-modern Europe, fostering an interdisciplinary discussion among scholars and enhancing a new network for a future collaboration across fields. The Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca' Foscari University hosts a growing team of scholars working on early modern philosophy and literature. The conference will investigate the early-modern rebirth of ancient sophists in different linguistic areas, including but not limited to Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, and English, within all genres. Papers will examine ancient sophists' legacy, translations and interpretations of their works, and new forms of sophistry from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The development of sophistry is tightly connected with Skepticism, Platonism, and Aristotelianism, and these traditions, therefore, might be addressed in papers and discussions. The participants will investigate the state-of-the-art and open new paths of research for the future. No conference on the sophistic tradition and its legacy has investigated Renaissance culture and only few, though important, studies have been dedicated to this topic. This conference on the sophistic Renaissance, supported by Katinis' MSC research project at Ca' Foscari University, will contribute to fill the gap in international scholarship and enhance the research in the field. The Conference will be held in the Aula Baratto, one of the historical rooms of Palazzo Ca' Foscari. The papers will be in English, although papers in Italian are acceptable. The proceedings of the conference will be published in a special issue of the journal Philosophical Reading.
Programme:
Opening Remarks and Introduction: Teodoro Katinis / Luigi Perissinotto
Eric MacPhail (Indiana University Bloomington), Peri Theon: The Renaissance Confronts the Gods
Lodi Nauta (University of Groningen), Humanists on Sophistic Arguments
Leo Catana (University of Copenhagen), Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plato's Gorgias
Marco Munarini (University of Padua), Rhetoric's Demiurgy: from Synesius of Cyrene to Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola
Marc van der Poel (Radboud University), The Greek Sophistical Tradition in Rudolph Agricola's De Inventione Dialectica and beyond
Stefano Gulizia (Independent Scholar), Atticismus and Antagonism: Greek Antiquarianism, Scholarly Networks, and the Career of the Sophist Alcidamas in Renaissance Italy
Jorge Ledo (University of Basel), From Wit to Shit. Notes for a (Emotional) Lexicon of Sophistry in the Renaissance
Teodoro Katinis (Ca' Foscari University Venice), Closing Remarks: Enhancing Research on the Sophistic Traditions in the Renaissance
Discussion session: Eugene Afonasin (Novosibirsk University); Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins University); Glenn Most (SNS Pisa); Carlo Natali (Ca' Foscari University Venice); Luigi Perissinotto (Ca' Foscari University Venice).
Bernard Williams and the Ancients
University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK: 19-20 September, 2016
The work of Bernard Williams covered an astonishing diversity of topics, but the ancient history, philosophy and literature he studied as an undergraduate at Oxford in the late-1940s remained a touchstone throughout his career. He published extensively on Plato and Aristotle, proving himself both a sensitive expositor of the texts and a provocative critic. Despite his disciplinary affiliation in philosophy, his lifelong engagement with the ancient world extended to other branches of classical studies. From his early reflections on irresolvable dilemmas in Aeschylus ('Ethical Consistency') to his influential Sather Lectures at Berkeley on ideas of agency and responsibility in Homer and the Athenian tragedians (Shame and Necessity) to his late reflections on ideas of historical truth in Herodotus and Thucydides (Truth and Truthfulness), Williams repeatedly demonstrated what he often asserted: that there are innumerable ways in which we today can put the ancients to use.
This conference invites papers that use Williams's reflections on the classical world as invitations to fresh work on the themes that concerned him. These include, but are not restricted to, the ethics, moral psychology and political philosophy of Plato and Aristotle; Greek ideas of philosophical method; ethical ideas in Greek tragedy; the relationship between philosophy and literature; the use of literary texts in philosophy; Nietzsche's reception of Greek thought; contemporary virtue ethics; luck and justice; tragedy and pessimism; Thucydides and political realism; the origins of the idea of historical time in antiquity. Papers are invited from philosophers, philologists, historians, literary scholars, and others in classical studies whose interests intersect with Williams's.
Speakers will present their papers in panels, followed by responses from invited commentators. Papers will be no longer than 20 minutes.
Extended abstracts of 500–600 words may be e-mailed, preferably as PDFs, to Dr Nakul Krishna (nk459@cam.ac.uk) on or before 12 noon on the 1st of April 2016. Scholars submitting abstracts must make it clear in their abstracts how their papers address the conference theme.
Additional information regarding the schedule for the conference and other logistical details will be announced in April 2016. For more information, please write to Dr Sophia Connell (sme1000@cam.ac.uk).
http://philevents.org/event/show/20510.
(CFP closed 1 April 2016)
Reading Rancière Reading the Classics: International interdisciplinary workshop
London (RHUL central London – 11 Bedford Square): Sept. 7-8, 2016
The international workshop ‘Reading Rancière Reading the Classics’ brings together innovative aspects of contemporary philosophy, political thought, democracy, ethics and aesthetics and discussions of ancient politics, literature and art, focused on the extensive use of discussions of antiquity in the prolific and widely influential work of French philosopher Jacques Rancière.
Jacques Rancière is one of the most original voices in recent critical debates. He has offered important reformulations of such categories as “democracy”, “the political”, “equality”, “dissent”, “history” and “the sensible”. His thought has attracted a very wide range of responses in many academic fields, including philosophy, political science, art history and practice, literature, public cultural debates and more. Rancière’s attention to groups that are excluded from public discourse, speech and recognition has led him to rethink political representation, and thence also literary and artistic representation and aesthetics. Rancière is a distinct and unapologetic contemporary thinker, yet central to his work are comprehensive, informed and repeated engagements with classical antiquity, its history, literature and thought: The works of Plato, Aristotle, the Greek and Roman historians and many of the key literary texts of classical antiquity, discussions of Athenian democracy, Roman Imperial history, common soldiers, rebellious leaders and classical literary figures. Rancière traces, reappraises and sometimes radically revises the place of classical antiquity in the genealogy of thought and political practice and provide one of the most important contemporary links between past and present.
Workshop sessions will include introduced discussions of key topics and readings from Rancère’s work:
i. Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy (Minneapolis, MN, 2004):
Chapters 1, ‘The Beginning of Politics’ (pp. 1-20).
Chapter 2, ‘Wrong: Politics and Police’ (pp. 21-42).
ii. The Philosopher and his Poor (Durham, NC, 2004)
Chapter 1 ‘Plato’s Lie’ (pp. 1-56)
iii. Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics (New York, 2011):
Chapters 4, ‘From the Poetry of the Future to the Poetry of the Past’ (pp. 73-85).
Chapter 6, ‘The Fable of the Letter’ (pp. 93-100).
iv. The Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge (Minneapolis, MN, 1994)
Chapter 3, ‘The Excess of Words’ (pp. 24-41)
v. The Future of the Image (London, 2007)
Chapter 5, ‘Are Some Things Unrepresentable?’ (pp. 109-38)
vi. Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (London, 2010)
Chapter 1, ‘Ten Theses on the Politics’ (pp. 27-44).
Organized by Ellen O’Gorman (Bristol) and Ahuvia Kahane (RHUL).
The workshop is free and open to all. To register, go to
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-ranciere-reading-the-classics-tickets-25865964797.
[BOOK] Antipodean Antiquities: Classics 'Down Under'
This new volume to be edited by Marguerite Johnson and published by Bloomsbury aims to produce a collection of articles on the use of the Classical Tradition in Australian and New Zealand literature and screen. Papers should be around 6-8,000 words. Current contributors to the project are Ika Willis, Liz Hale, Anna Jackson and Geoff Miles.
Please contact one of the project members or the editor for more information:
Dr Ika Willis: School of the Arts, English and Media; University of Wollongong ikaw@uow.edu.au
A/Prof Anna Jackson: School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies; Victoria University of Wellington Anna.Jackson@vuw.ac.nz
Dr Geoff Miles: School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies; Victoria University of Wellington
Geoff.Miles@vuw.ac.nz
Dr Liz Hale: School of Arts, University of New England ehale@une.edu.au
A/Prof Marguerite Johnson: School of Humanities and Social Science, The University of Newcastle
marguerite.johnson@newcastle.edu.au
Note: forthcoming 2017: M. Johnson, A. Jackson, I. Willis, G. Miles & E. Hale (eds), Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under (Bloomsbury Press).
Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World XII - Orality & Narration: Performance and Mythic-Ritual Poetics
Crêt-Bérard, Puidoux (Chemin de la Chapelle 19 a, CH – 1070 Puidoux), Switzerland: Sept 1-3, 2016
The Departments of Classics at Lausanne and Basel invite all classicists, historians, and scholars with an interest in oral cultures to participate in the Twelfth Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, to take place in Switzerland, at Puidoux near Lausanne, on September 1-3, 2016. The conference will follow the same format as the previous ten conferences, held in Hobart (1994), Durban (1996), Wellington (1998), Columbia, Missouri (2000), Melbourne (2002), Winnipeg (2004), Auckland (2006), Nijmegen (2008), Canberra (2010), Ann Arbor, Michigan (2012), and Atlanta (2014). It is planned that selected refereed proceedings will hopefully once again be published by E. J. Brill as Volume 12 in the Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World series (anticipated for 2018).
Theme: The theme for the conference is “Orality and narration: performance and mythic-ritual poetics”. Papers in response to this theme (see more below) are invited on topics related to the ancient Mediterranean world or, for comparative purposes, other areas. Also welcome are papers that engage with the transition from an oral to a literate society, or which consider the topic of reception.
Accommodations: Situated between Vevey and Lausanne in the vineyards above the Lake Geneva (by train at 1h from Geneva Airport), the Centre Crêt-Bérard in Puidoux (canton Vaud, Switzerland) is located in a beautiful landscape and is a very convenient meeting place for conferences. It has a restaurant and many rooms for 1, 2 or 3 persons. We chose this Center for its quality and its very interesting prices. The organizers will offer all the dinners and meals. Travel and room expenses will be charged to the participants (individual room: 100 CHF (Swiss Francs) with WC and shower/ 75 CHF with ; double room (prices for two persons): 160 CHF with WC and shower/ 120 CHF without).
Abstracts: Abstracts of 250 words should be sent by 20 March 2016 via email as Word attachments to Ombretta Cesca, with cc to Anton Bierl and David Bouvier: ombretta.cesca@unil.ch, a.bierl@unibas.ch, david.bouvier@unil.ch. All abstracts will be reviewed by a scientific committee.
More on the Theme: The meeting aims at exploring to what extent different conditions — regarding the context of enunciation, the audience, the medium (oral or written), etc. — define the manner of how a story is told and structured. For example, in a narration executed under the conditions of a ‘composition-in-performance’ (Lord) and in traditional societies, we can expect other features than in literary fictions that highly sophisticated authors compose as literature for a readership of connoisseurs. We can think of what Foley coined ‘traditional referentiality’, when narration in an oral poetics as ‘traditional art’ follows a pars pro toto or metonymic relation: behind and between the signs is a diachronic dimension that opens up the totality of possibilities – alternative narrative routes, different exits and instantiations. Moreover we want to study how myths and rituals as well as the occasion inscribe themselves into the performance of an oral narration. As Nagy pointed out, in ‘small-scale’ and traditional ‘societies’ myth and ritual in interaction and correlation constitute a marked discourse so that we can speak of a ‘mythic-ritual poetics’ (Bierl). The cultic setting or ritual occasion of the performance, moreover, frames not only the heroes’ mythic narration in an idealized past but also the poetic language itself since there is a close interconnection between the conception of the past and the metrical form. Narration can thus be understood as myth, while figures inside the story tend to emphasize their speech-acts through mythic examples. In addition, numerous myths (or stories of the past) come from the infinite web of tradition, and the performer metonymically alludes to and partakes in this mythic galaxy through elliptical forms. Myth shares with traditional narrative the feature of being authorless. Both are also transformed through endless variation and combination with a stable nucleus of motifs. In many traditional narrations we encounter variations of death and rebirth, disappearance and reappearance, search and retrieval, separation and reunion, hiding and epiphanic arrival. On the ritual side, we can highlight the ephebic pattern and initiation motifs, theoxeny, scenarios of the Other, relapses into the primordial or atavistic, new yearand king ritual, agonistic reversals, elements of supplication, lament, marriage, choreia and dancing, feasting, sacrifice, prayer, epiphanies, remnants of solar imagery, burial and hero cult. Socio-political and cultural changes, also on the spatial axis of local to larger entities, act on all these elements so that they can almost disappear behind a new, realistic veil. Yet they remain operable in an implicit fashion through allusions or anticipation. Occasion and the ritual context of a performance may also influence an oral narration, not only its argument, but also its linguistic form and length.
Under written conditions myth and ritual do not cease to inscribe themselves into literature. We believe that myth and ritual are not separated from ancient literature understood as l’art pour l’art but interact with literary texts and their plots. We can extend our questions from traditional and Homeric epics and popular tales to other genres where performed narration is an issue: E.g., how do myth and ritual influence and shape traditional historia, the novel and any other traditional and fictional tales? To what extent are also lyric songs and drama relevant for a study of traditional narration? How can an episode be marked by superimposing certain rituals and myths? Can we talk about a mythopoeia of these tales? Why were the Greeks so pleased to repeat the same myth or episode of their history in so many different ways and forms?
Beyond the core study of Classical literature under these premises, we encourage investigations on topics related to the ancient Mediterranean world in general or, for comparative purposes, other areas. Also welcome are papers that engage with the transition from an oral to a literate society, or which consider the topic of reception.
Organisers: David Bouvier (david.bouvier@unil.ch) & Anton Bierl (a.bierl@unibas.ch).
(CFP closed March 20, 2016)
[BOOK] Medieval Poetry and Classical Influence: Imitatio, Aemulatio, and Innovatio, 400-1400
"aurea Roma iterum renovata renascitur orbi": Moduin, Ecloga 1.27
Classical images, vocabulary and style proliferate medieval works whether as the basis for the study of Latin language, as a template for a new work, or as an inspiration for a new interpretation of a Classical trope. Distinguishing different processes of reception of the Classical world by medieval poets and observing the operation of such processes helps to ground the understanding of medieval poetry, comprehend the medieval tastes for Classical poetry and culture, and understand consequential choices of conservation. This collection thus seeks proposals on any of area of ‘Imitatio, Aemulatio and Innovatio,’ widely construed, but particularly chapters giving voice to lesser known or obscure works for the benefit of widening their audience amongst scholars and students. Annotated translations as a part of the chapters are also welcome.
Suggested topics may include (but are not limited to):
* Connections and correlation between scriptoria and their works produced
* Links, continuity or intentional breaks between the Classical period and later medieval eras
* Medieval poetry which borrows or adapts Classical forms
* Medieval comparisons of contemporary culture to the Classical world
* Medieval authors who re-shape Classical forms or images for medieval context
* Adaptation of Classical history to medieval purposes
* Stylistic elements and tropes borrowed from or adapted from the Classical world
Proposals of ca 500 words (including footnotes) will describe a 5000-8000 word chapter discussing a medieval poet and one of his/her works as a case study. Proposals on longer works will also be considered, especially if the author plans to include significant or substantial excerpts to support his or her work. Proposals should be sent as a Word file, and should include a brief curriculum vitae and full contact information including mail, email and phone/fax numbers.
Submissions are due by 1 September 2016. Successful contributors will be notified by 1 October 2016.
Proposals should be emailed to both editors under the same cover:
Dr Carey Fleiner (carey.fleiner@winchester.ac.uk)
Senior Lecturer of Classical and Early Medieval History, University of Winchester, UK
A/Prof. Pedro Schmidt (pedro.schmidt@letras.ufrj.br)
Assistant Professor of Latin and Latin Literature, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
(CFP closed September 1, 2016)
Where Does it Hurt? Ancient Medicine in Questions and Answers
Leuven, Belgium: 30–31 August 2016
Asking the right questions and obtaining the right answers is vital to modern medical healthcare. It is essential for efficient doctor-patient communication, forming an important component of medical treatment. This was no different in Antiquity. Already the Hippocratic writings give us an idea of which kinds of questions physicians asked in diagnosing their patients, and which answers they received in return (see, e.g., the case histories in the Epidemics). However, one can imagine that patients or, in case of severe illness, their relatives were often incapable of providing an accurate answer to (some of) the doctor’s questions. Galen, for instance, says that certain types of pain are actually felt by patients, but cannot be described by them when asked to (Loc. Aff. 2, 9 [8, 117 Kühn]). As such, a good doctor had to be able not simply to ask the right questions, but also to look for the right answers himself, if necessary.
The use of question-and-answer (Q&A) formulas is widely attested in ancient medical literature. By employing specific interrogative turns in their discourses, medical authors not only sought to provide practical information for proper treatment of patients, but also to amass theoretical insights about the human body and its physiological and pathological processes more generally. They dealt with several types of questions, including questions that sought to locate, define and explain certain illnesses or disorders in the body (“Where does it hurt?”, “What is it that hurts?”, ”Why does it hurt?”). Questions of this kind were common in medical treatises of the Greco-Roman period (they can be found, e.g., in medical manuals, medical papyri and collections of problemata). The popularity of the Q&A format is largely due to the fact that it became well-entrenched in the ancient medical school curriculum. Through its dialogical and interrogative structure, it provided teachers and students with a useful method to question and memorize all types of medical knowledge, both practical and theoretical. Once condensed in a textual form, it was also useful in transferring this knowledge between author and reader.
This conference aims to bring together scholars from the field of medical history and related fields (history of science, [natural] philosophy, theology, literary studies, linguistics, ...) with the goal of examining the role of Q&A in medical literature, from the Hippocratic writers to Late Antiquity and its reception in the Middle Ages. The conference is open to various approaches, and aims to address – but is not restricted to – questions of content (e.g., transfer and transformation of medical knowledge in Q&A style), textuality (e.g., development from orality to written text), context (e.g., socio-intellectual relations between doctor/patient, teacher/student, author/reader), and use (e.g., theoretical contemplation vs. practical application of medical knowledge).
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Robert Mayhew (Seton Hall University)
Please send your abstract (ca. 500 words) and a short bio (ca. 10 lines) by 15 January 2016 [note: CFP extended to 1st February 2016] to Erika Gielen (Erika.Gielen@hiw.kuleuven.be) and Michiel Meeusen (Michiel.Meeusen@arts.kuleuven.be). Presentations should be 20 minutes in length. In your abstract, please include a clear summary of your argument and an indication of how your paper would contribute to critical reflection on the topic as a whole. Early career researchers are especially encouraged to send in an abstract. The organisers hope, but cannot promise, to be able to offer accommodation to speakers.
(CFP closed 1 Feb 2016)
[BOOK] Digital Literacies for the Ancient World: A Special Issue of Classics@, the CHS Online Journal
CFP: http://kleos.chs.harvard.edu/?p=5862
Editorial committee: David Bouvier – Claire Clivaz – Paul Dilley – David Hamidović; chief editor: Paul Dilley
Abstract 300 words: June 1st, 2016
Deadline to forward the articles to the editors: August 31st, 2016
This volume of Classics@, an open-access journal of the Center for Hellenic Studies, aims to explore and analyze how the present digital turn enables a renewed theoretical engagement with multimodal ancient literacies. Cultural transmission in Antiquity was primarily oral, supplemented by images and texts. Texts were read by, at most, 10% of the population. Nevertheless, Classicists first employed the term literacy in the singular, according to its 19th-century definition: the ability to read and write texts (Clivaz, 2013). William Harris employed it this way in his milestone Ancient Literacy (1989). But since the 2000s, the plural form has gained currency, notably in Parker and Johnson’s collection of essays, Ancient Literacies (2009), which explores “new essentialist questions, such as what ‘book’ and ‘reading’ signify in antiquity, why literate cultures develop, or why literate cultures matter” (p. 4). The complex notion of “illiteracy” has also enriched our understanding of ancient literacies (Kraus, 2000; Cribiore 2013, p. 66–69).
Since modernity, almost all the tools for studying ancient sources have reflected the logic and standards of singular literacy and its association with the written (and especially printed) word. Now, emerging digital tools and culture have added urgency to the ongoing revision of research on ancient literacy. Contributions are invited on a rich variety of relevant topics, including:
* Multimodal literacies in Antiquity and/or today
* Digital literacies and their connection to ancient literacies
* Digital literacies and their implications for the study of Antiquity
* Digital Pedagogy and teaching Antiquity
* Comparison of orality in Antiquity and contemporary digital culture
* Comparison of textuality in Antiquity and contemporary digital culture
* Metacritical analysis of standard printed tools used for the study of the ancient world.
Submissions on the Ancient Near East, Greece, or Rome (through Late Antiquity) are welcome. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words by June 1st, 2016, to Paul Dilley: paul-dilley@uiowa.edu.
Articles should be between 30,000 and 45,000 characters long, including bibliography and footnotes; the deadline for submission is August 31st, 2016. As Classics@ is an open access online publication, authors can link directly to relevant sites, and may update articles after publication.
Guidelines: http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/1386
(Abstract deadline closed 1 June 2016; article deadline closed 31 August 2016)
Stoicism & German Philosophy
University of Miami (Florida, USA): 18-20 August 2016
The study of Hellenistic philosophy has flourished in recent decades, with increasing attention going to the reconstruction of the doctrines and arguments of the ancient Greek and Roman Stoics. Neo-Stoicism has also emerged as a significant player in cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness therapies. However, though the situation differs from country to country, on the whole the breadth of continental interpretations has not been well integrated into either the scholarly or the therapeutic mainstream. Our goal is not simply to map how continental authors have received Stoicism, but rather to consider how continental approaches can enrich our understanding of Stoicism's theoretical, ethical, therapeutic and political importance in antiquity and today, and how renewed engagement with Stoic texts and scholarship can enrich continental philosophy.
From August 18-20 2016 we will hold the second workshop of the international research network, Continental Stoicisms: Beyond Reason and Wellbeing. This workshop will focus on the German tradition since Wilhelm Dilthey, which we take to include not only Germanophone philosophers in Europe (e.g. Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Hans Blumenberg, Peter Sloterdijk), but also émigrés and philosophers in other countries working in the same broad tradition (e.g. Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Hans Jonas). Furthermore, we draw no firm distinction between scholarship and philosophy, so that scholarly work on Stoicism by (e.g.) Franz Brentano, Ludwig Stein, Günter Abel, or Max Pohlenz could also be relevant. However, we are not interested in papers that focus on the historical correctness of interpretations. Rather, our focus is on exploring how dialogue between these traditions can be poetically and philosophically interesting.
The venue will be the University of Miami (Florida, USA). We invite abstracts of no more than 400 words for papers of 40 minutes delivery time, which should be emailed to Kurt Lampe at clkwl@bristol.ac.uk by Sunday March 13th 2016 (NOTE: new deadline April 1). You may direct any questions about the suitability of topics to the same address. Submissions from graduate students are most certainly welcome.
Through the generosity of the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom, we are able to offer financial assistance to any speakers who do not have travel budgets at their own institutions.
(CFP closed 1 April, 2016)
Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History and Historiography
Senate House, London: 18-19 August 2016
Conference Organiser: Aaron Turner (Royal Holloway, University of London).
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Katherine Clarke (Oxford) - Prof. Jonas Grethlein (Heidelberg) - Prof. Neville Morley (Bristol) - Prof. Aviezer Tucker (Harvard)
Classical scholarship and methods were prominent in the early development of the modern philosophies of history and historiography. Giambattista Vico, whose scholarly output is littered with classical analysis, is now generally considered as one of the progenitors of modern anthropology and philology. Leopold Ranke, widely regarded as the father of modern scientific historiography, presented himself as profoundly influenced by Thucydides. The historical philosophies of Wolf, Hegel, Weber, Croce, Nietzsche, and Collingwood were similarly influenced, at least partially, by the classical corpus of historical texts and by trends in classical studies including textual criticism and later archaeology. The philosopies of history and historiography consequently conceptualised and sometimes formalised the traditional epistemological problems of evidence, interpretation and explanation, causation, realism, and narrative. This conference aims to reconcile ancient ideas concerning the interpretation and explanation of the past and the methods and theories of classical studies with the modern philosophies of history and historiography.
The theme of the conference is based on two fundamental questions:
* How can modern approaches, methodologies, hypotheses, and theories in the philosophies of history and historiography inform our analyses of ancient historiography?
* Are ancient historical writers still relevant in the modern discourse of the philosophies of history and historiography? Can they contribute to ongoing debates regarding the interpretation and explanation of past events and the production and presentation of historical knowledge?
Scholars of all disciplines are invited to contribute papers that engage with the above questions and provoke fruitful and edifying interdisciplinary discussion. Some possible topics for discussion include, but are not by any means limited to:
* To what extent do ancient historians produce generalisations in their explanations of historical events? Are they nomic or simply analytic? How do ancient historical writers differentiate between the universal and the particular, between types and tokens?
* What do the criteria for selecting historical evidence reveal about the ancient and modern historian's ideological or theoretical understanding of historical processes? How is meaning constructed/imposed/interpreted?
* How can the analysis of counterfactuals within ancient historical narrative improve our understanding of the ancient philosophy of historiography? How does such analysis contribute to the current discourse on counterfactuals in historiographical explanatory models?
* What do ancient ideas of causation and contemporary historiography of the classical world offer modern philosophers of historiography in terms of their methodological approach (for example, unificationism vs. exceptionalism; eliminativism; primitivism)?
* To what extent did ancient historians consider past events to be determinate/indeterminate? How can we relate such models to the existing debate regarding historical necessity and contingency?
* How was the autonomy of human agency conceived in ancient historical explanations? Can arguments be made for or against methodological individualism/methodological holism in ancient historiography?
* How do ancient writers theorise the function of narrative in their production of historical explanations?
Scholars of all disciplines are invited to contribute papers of 30 minutes with 10 minutes of discussion to follow. Abstracts between 350-500 words may be sent to aaron.turner.2013@live.rhul.ac.uk. The deadline for abstract submission is March 18th. Notifications will be sent out by mid-April.
(CFP closed March 18, 2016)
Ain't Love Grand: Romance Writers' of Australia & Flinders University Love and Romance Conference
Stamford Grand Hotel, Adelaide, South Australia: August 18-21, 2016
Flinders University is partnering with the Romance Writers of Australia to deliver two peer-reviewed academic streams at the Romance Writers of Australia national conference in August 2016. One stream will be focussed on Historical Representations of Love; the second will be for Popular Romance Studies. The Love Research Cluster for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Studies are partners for these streams and we aim to bring together a diverse and dynamic community of researchers on love and romance.
Love is central in the personal, social, and political construction of how we understand, organise, categorise, and measure our relationships. For historians, cultural theorists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and literary scholars it is not possible to understand our areas without some understanding of the role of love. For Romance writers, it is the centre of their narratives. This is an increasingly reciprocal relationship. Writers use the work of scholars to give their work immediacy and accuracy, while scholars use popular depictions to explain cultural difference or illustrate cultural paradigms both in their work and their teaching. This conference aims to bring together those who create representations of love, sex, and romance with those who study them through its transdisciplinary academic stream, 'Historical Representations of Love' and its popular romance specific stream 'Popular Romance Studies'.
Keynote Speakers at the conference will be:
* Professor Catherine Roach (New College, University of Alabama)
* Professor Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne)
* Dr Danijela Kambaskovic (University of Western Australia)
The call for papers is welcome on but not limited to the following:
* Affect
* Representations of women and sexuality
* Historical representations of love, romance, and lust
* The history of emotions
* The philosophy of love, romance, lust
* Constructions and/or representations of marriage
* Gender and power dynamics
* Men and masculinity and love, romance, lust
* LGBTQI and love, romance, lust
* Gender fluidity and love, romance, lust
* The psychology of love, romance, lust
* History and philosophy of legal perspectives on rape and/or marriage
* Medievalism and emotion
* The reception of depictions of love and/or lust in Pre-Modern texts
Deadline for Submission of Papers is Monday 29 February, 2016. Send to: amy.t.matthews@flinders.edu.au
For further information please contact: Dr Amy Matthews (amy.t.matthews@flinders.edu.au) and Dr Erin Sebo (erin.sebo@flinders.edu.au)
via http://anzamems.org/?p=5669.
(CFP closed 29 Feb 2016)
[Workshop] Playing with History: Games, Antiquity and History
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) First Joint International Conference
Abertay Univerity, Dundee, Scotland: 1-6 August 2016
Games have often found inspiration from ancient times to contemporary history. Popular game series such as the Creative Assembly’s Total War or Sid Meier’s Civilisation have provided entertaining alternative simulations to established historical narratives. Playing with the past and connecting it to the present provides a greater understanding and arguably appreciation, of the human condition.
Despite the potential for games to deliver visualisations of and interactions with historical events, the uptake and use of games, game design and technology as a research or teaching tool by historians and educators has been relatively slow. In part this is due to the established pedagogical methods of studying history as a discipline, combined with the lack of digital skills of subject experts and the perceived complexity of the technology.
Games have also often garnered a reputation for playing too loosely with historical fact and arguably the most popular game genres have relied heavily on violence both as a core mechanic and for the bulk of content, and this creates a limitation on how games can be deployed in the classroom. However, we are at a point where as the digital skills of researchers have increased, the technical barriers to game technology have been lowered, and when combined with the increasing digitisation of research and archive material, games are not just an increasingly an important tool for visualising data and disseminating research, but are also a vital element in allowing people to play with different and challenging historical narratives and in constructing popular understandings of the past.
The workshop aims to discuss relevant theories, perspectives and techniques that can be used to better understand how game designs and history can interact with each other and how games can be used, and played with, to influence players’ perceptions and understanding of historical narratives. A wide range of questions can be explored:
* How do videogames represent particular pasts?
* What opportunities and pressures does the game form introduce to historical representation?
* How do researchers, academics, developers and the media (including the gaming press) view historical content within games?
* How well do these perceptions reflect the players’ understanding of historical game content?
* Is there a discrepancy between the players’ perceptions of historical content and established historical narratives?
* Does the setting, establishment and accuracy of historical content in games disrupt immersion or player’s gameplay?
* How much should historical games encourage playing with historical outcomes? Does the playfulness of the medium challenge the boundaries of how to teach and study history? How does gaming subvert dominant narratives (gender, race, colonial theory, etc.)?
* How does the increasing availability of advanced technology (Smartphone, VR, Wearables, 3D printing, Motion Controls) affect how we use games with history?
The workshop is intended to explore new ideas and directions, submission of incomplete and in-progress results are encouraged. This workshop therefore seeks submissions that:
* Explore the nature of games as a form for historical representation.
* Explore the audience reception of historical games.
* Explore how interdisciplinary approaches and practices can enhance the study of game design, historical research, and critical theory.
* Analyse established digital practices in historical research together with n
ew and emergent practices in game design and technology for enhancing historical narratives.
* Identify games, game design techniques and game technology that can be used by historians and educators to stimulate audiences and encourage wider discussion of historical narratives.
* Develop games that encourage interaction with history (e.g. interactive Documentary) or foster audiences playing with narratives.
* Demonstrate how game design approaches (such as paper craft, physical prototyping and game jams) can be applied to improve and challenge historical research and established narratives.
The organisers are keen that games academics and scholars together with historians, archaeologists, classics and other related disciplines are represented. Research or development experiences from the games industry are also encouraged but not necessary.
Submission Details
The workshop takes place on 1 August 2016 at DiGRA/FDG 2016, August 1st-6th at Abertay University (http://digra-fdg2016.org/).
Important dates:
* Paper submission: 25 April, 2016
* Notification to authors: 23 May, 2016
* Camera Ready: 27 Jun 2016
Workshop organization:
Paper submission: The research paper program will consist of short papers (4 pages) and full papers (8 pages) selected via a peer-review process. Since the workshop is intended to explore new ideas and directions, submission of incomplete and in-process results are encouraged.
Demonstrations: We are also inviting demonstrations of historical games or games that play with history. Game demonstrations should be submitted with an accompanying 1-2 page abstract describing the game and its research purpose.
Papers should be formatted using the DiGRA/FDG template.
Papers can be submitted using this EasyChair link.
The workshop will be separated into two sessions. Each session will consist of individual presentations, selected on the paper submissions and grouped thematically. Plenary discussions contextualizing the perspectives presented will occur in each session.
Presentations and discussions from the workshop will form the background for a Call for Papers for a research seminar and future anthology on the topic.
Organizers:
* Iain Donald, Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland, UK
* Adam Chapman, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
* Anna Foka, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
* Andrew Elliott, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
* Robert Houghton, University of Winchester, Winchester, UK
Contact: For more information, contact Dr Iain Donald at i.donald@abertay.ac.uk.
Website: http://digra-fdg2016.org/workshop-playing-with-history-games-antiquity-and-history/
(CFP closed 25 April 2016)
Algernon Swinburne's Poems and Ballads: 150th Anniversary Conference
St John's College, Cambridge: 29-30 July 2016
William Michael Rossetti writes in his defence of Swinburne's Poems and Ballads that 'If Shelley is "the poet for poets", Swinburne might not unaptly be termed "the poet for poetic students"'.
A century and a half later, Swinburne's poetry continues to prove divisive for readers. While few fail to recognise Swinburne's technical achievement, technique remains a central area of controversy: students of poetry continue to wrestle with the status of Swinburne as the 'prosodist magician'.
This conference proposes further consideration of Swinburne's achievement. By focusing on his most notorious work, we aim to foster new ways of thinking about the significance of this collection to the development of English poetry during a period of staggering metrical experimentation. It is for this reason that we are soliciting papers which look first and foremost to questions of form, style, genre, and technique.
Possible guiding questions for papers include, but are not limited to, the following:
* How stable are the conventions of genre (the link between lyric and subjectivity, for example, or between epic and empire) over time?
* What can renewed attention to Poems and Ballads teach us about Swinburne's apprenticeship to poets such as Sappho, Catullus, Baudelaire, Shelley, and the troubadours, and his interest in medieval forms?
* How did Poems and Ballads influence subsequent generations of poets as diverse as Hardy and Hopkins, Yeats and the Rhymers' Club, H.D. and Eliot, Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Dylan Thomas?
* In what sense might Poems and Ballads present a 'crisis' in the lyric mode?
* How far can Poems and Ballads be considered a test-case for the existence of the 'Pre-Raphaelite' poem?
* How do the poetic techniques of Poems and Ballads engage questions of religion and theology, secularity and anti-theism?
* What can we learn about form and genre from the discussions of Poems and Ballads in the period, by both canonical critics and the popular press?
* What is the significance of imitation and translation for the forms, genres, and metres of Poems and Ballads and subsequent responses to it?
* What influence did parallel developments of poetic genre in other European countries have on Poems and Ballads?
* What is the significance of this collection for fin de siècle, modernist, feminist or queer receptions?
* What is the function of poetic translation in Swinburne's 1866 poems?
* Are there unique formal features of erotic poetry (that of Swinburne, for example) that suggest a challenge to social norms?
We hope that the conference will bring together established scholars, early career researchers, and graduate students working on or in relation to Swinburne. Attendance by graduate students will be encouraged by means of a reduced fee.
Please send proposals of no more than 500 words to: poemsandballadsat150@gmail.com
Proposals should be received no later than 29th February 2016. Please attach abstracts in a separate .doc or .pdf file, without name or affiliation. You are welcome to include a brief biographical note in the body of your email.
Conference webpage: https://swinburne2016.wordpress.com/.
(CFP closed 29 Feb 2016)
Revolutions and Classics
University College London: 22 July 2016
'Revolutions and Classics': a one-day workshop at University College London, Friday July 22nd 2016.
Researchers in classical reception are increasingly intrigued by the political significances of antiquity for subsequent cultures and societies: the field has been energised by the recent publication of Classics and Communism (2013) and Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform (2015).
'Revolutions and Classics' examines the manner in which classical texts and artefacts have been deployed in societies undergoing rapid and radical social change. This one-day workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary discussion of intersections between classics and revolutions; substantial time will also be given to discussion of teaching across classical reception, classics, and politics.
The workshop is hosted by The Classical Reception Studies Network and the Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network, with the support of the Department of Greek and Latin at UCL, and the Department of Classics at the University of Reading. In line with the aims of the Classical Receptions Studies Network, the day is designed to be especially useful for doctoral researchers and early career academics.
Confirmed speakers include Rosa Andújar (UCL), Carol Atack (Warwick), Emma Cole (Bristol), Nicholas Cole (Oxford), Susan Deacy (Roehampton), Benjamin Gray (Edinburgh), Adam Lecznar (Bristol), Jo Paul (Open), Sanja Petrovic and Rosa Mucignat (KCL), and Luke Richardson (UCL).
There is no charge to attend, but registration is required. Interested participants should register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revolutions-and-classics-tickets-22796492924.
Should you have any questions, please contact the organisers: Barbara Goff, University of Reading (b.e.goff@reading.ac.uk) and Rosa Andújar, UCL (r.andujar@ucl.ac.uk)
The organisers are very grateful to the A. G. Leventis Fund at UCL for their generous support, as well as the UCL Institute for Advanced Studies.
Ecstatic Ancient/Archaic Thought and Analytical Psychology: An Inquiry
Freud Museum, London: July 15-16, 2016
In 2014 at a conference at the University of Leuven organized by the Faculty of Arts entitled 'Psychology and the Classics: A Dialogue of Disciplines,' speakers presented papers arguing that ancient thinkers, especially among the Greeks and Romans, recognized a human interior that likely pointed to an understanding of the unconscious among the ancients, although that understanding was articulated in ways unfamiliar to modern psychology. This point of view conventionally runs counter to many contemporary assumptions about ancient thought based on the notion that knowledge of an interior world and and unconscious is based on a specific way of articulating that knowledge.
In the course of examining this question presentations attempted to bring ancient texts and ideas into conformity with 21st Century psychology, arguing, for example, that the ideas of the Stoics regarding mental health correlate with contemporary ideas about cognitive behavioral therapy (Christopher Gill, University of Exeter).
Indeed, we are all aware that the idea of a “talking cure” appears as early as Homer, and was alluded to in the Hippocratic canon. Disparaging as he was of emotive rhetoric, Plato felt ‘divine frenzy’ was emblematic of expressive human creativity, and Aristotle’s “Problems” discussed personality in ways that Freudian and Jungian psychology would find familiar.
Crossing these disciplinary lines is only one hurdle in trying to focus on the theme of ancient thought and analytical psychology (whether of ancient Greek, Roman, African or Asian origin). Non-human interiors are spoken of in ‘Aesop’s Fables’ too, and certainly gestures of communication emanate from an ‘inside’ that rhetoricians have traditionally tracked.
The other hurdle is that psychoanalysis, from Freud to Lacan and Kohut, is the mainstay of such disciplinary discussion. Jung is typically only mentioned by speakers in myth or media studies, but not much by classicists. We hope there will be more representation of his work: Jung would have been stunned to learn that he was left out; as a close reader of Plato and Cicero, Jung was convinced of their importance to him regardless of whether he was in agreement with prevailing interpretations of their work or not.
Speakers committed to present papers include (alphabetically) Dr Emannuela Bakola (Warwick), Professor Paul Bishop (University of Glasgow), Professor Alan Cardew (University of Essex), Dr Terence Dawson (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Dr Raya Jones (Cardiff University), Professor Richard Seaford (University of Essex) and Mark Saban (University of Essex).
Additional papers are welcome that would run for 15-20 minutes plus discussion and that approach the theme of ancient thought and analytical psychology in the broadest terms. We would also welcome additional discussion from Lacanian and Freudian perspectives. The overall theme will be the interior dynamics of healing in ancient thought and modern psychology toward achieving the goal of individuation and wholeness.
The deadline for submitting a brief description (5 to 6 sentences) of a proposed presentation is March 15, 2016. Please also provide a brief note on your personal background and disciplinary base. Speakers selected will be notified by 1 May. We will convene at the Freud Museum in north London (www.freud.org.uk).
Website: https://ecstaticthought.wordpress.com/.
(CFP closed 15 March 2016)
Plotinus and Film Studies: A One-Day Symposium
The American College of Greece (Athens): Friday, July 15, 2016
The symposium revolves around the publication of the forthcoming book Plotinus and the Moving Image: Neoplatonism and Film Studies (Brill 2017), edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos, and contains essays by international scholars. The contributors to the book as well as other experts associated with the project will animate the symposium. The main topic is whether Neoplatonic philosophy can be used for film studies by considering concepts such as contemplation, image, grace, time, human freedom, and the self.
Program
Registration and Opening
9:00–9:30 Welcome Remarks: Patrick Quinn, Dean of the Liberal Arts Department at The American College of Greece
Paper Presentations
9:30–10:00 Thorsten Botz-Bornstein “Cut Away Excess and Straighten the Crooked:” The Simplicity of Contemplative Cinema in the Light of Plotinus’ Philosophy
10:00–10:30 Tony Partridge Is the Universe a Work of Art that We Can Perceive in a Film?
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:00 Giannis Stamatellos Beyond the Moving Images: A Plotinian Reading of The Truman Show
12:00–12:30 Panayiota Vassilopoulou Images of a Moving Self: Plotinus and Bruce Nauman
12:30–13:00 Discussion
13:00–14:00 Refreshments
Art Performance
14.30-15.30 at the ACG – Art Gallery
Steve Boyland | MYTHOS A Ritual for Improvised Voice
Website: http://www.acg.edu/events/plotinus-and-film-studies.
The Reception of Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche from 1600 to Today
An international conference at the University of Leeds, 13th - 15th July 2016
Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century AD as part of his novel Metamorphoses or the Golden Ass. This story of the love between the mortal princess Psyche (or "Soul") and the god of Love, their secret meetings, separation and final union in eternal love and marriage has fascinated readers as early as Fulgentius and as recent as Emily C.A. Snyder, readers who themselves produced their own responses to and versions of the story. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche has given rise to treatments as diverse as plays, masques, operas, poems, sculptures, paintings and novels, with a huge range of diverse approaches to the text. The early reception of the novel as a whole has been treated in depth by Robert H.F. Carver: The Protean Ass: The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Oxford 2007 and Julia Haig Gaisser: The Fortunes of Apuleius and The Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception. Princeton 2008, but both volumes cover only up to the seventeenth century. During the last 400 years, however, the reception of Cupid and Psyche has blossomed in rich and ever varied responses throughout the Western world.
This conference proposes to bring together international scholars from various disciplines to study the reception of Apuleius' story ofCupid and Psyche in all its incarnations during the last 400 years, and to encourage interactions between diverse subjects to understand more deeply the historic and continuing impact of Cupid and Psyche on Western fine art and literature.
Topics for papers might include:
* Genres of reception (e.g. drama, poetry, kinds of art)
* Use of C&P in political discourse
* Influences of contemporary religious or philosophical movements on reception of C&P
* Case-studies on specific works of art or literature
* Country- or language specific reception
* C&P as children's literature or protreptic text
Invited speakers include: Robert Carver, Julia Haig Gaisser, Lucia Pasetti and Christiane Reitz.
The organisers welcome proposals from a wide range of disciplines, including classics, modern languages, art history, history, musicology and others. A selection of papers delivered at the conference will be published in an edited volume.
Conference papers will be 30 minutes, with 15 minutes for discussion.
Organisers: Regine May, University of Leeds (r.may@leeds.ac.uk) & Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College Oxford (stephen.harrison@ccc.ox.ac.uk)
Please send proposals for papers (300 words) by December 31st 2015 to Regine May (r.may@leeds.ac.uk).
(CFP closed 31 Dec 2015)
Website: https://pvac-sites.leeds.ac.uk/cupidandpsyche/. Twitter: @Apuleius16.
LIST OF SPEAKERS:
Andreadakis, Zacharias (Michigan): Kierkegaard as a Reader of Apuleius
Benson, Geoffrey (Colgate University): Psyche the Psychotic: Cupid and Psyche in Franz Riklin's Wunscherfüllung und Symbolik im Märchen
Carver, Robert (Durham): The Platonic Ass: Thomas Taylor's Cupid and Psyche in Context (1795-1822)
Cueva, Edmund (University of Houston-Downtown): Apuleius' Graphic Novel: the Comics and Cupid and Psyche
Drews, Friedemann (Muenster): Cupid & Psyche in C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces: a Christian-Platonic metamorphosis
Gaisser, Julia Haig (Bryn Mawr): Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom: Cupid and Psyche on the Natchez Trace
Harrison, Stephen (Corpus Christi College, Oxford): Apuleius at the court of Louis XIV: Lully and Molière
James, Paula (Open University): Looking back and forward with Apuleius: Why Cupid and Psyche keep moving from the simple to the complex
Kirkman, C.R. (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa): Venus reimagined: the reception of Apuleius' Venus from Cupid and Psyche as C.S. Lewis' Orual in Till We Have Faces
Leidl, Christoph (Heidelberg): Between Symbolism and Popular Culture: Cupid and Psyche in Fin de Siècle Book Illustration
Maurice, Lisa (Bar-Ilan University): Cupid and Psyche for Children
May, Regine (Leeds): Keats's Ode to Psyche: Poetry and Inspiration
Müller, Hendrik (independent scholar): Cupid and Psyche on stage in the 21st century
O'Brien, Maeve (Maynooth): Classical Themes in Irish Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
Panayotakis, Stelios (Crete): Operatic adaptations of Cupid and Psyche
Paschalis, Michael (Crete): Walter Scott's Kenilworth and the story of Cupid and Psyche
Pasetti, Lucia (Bologna): "In the calm whirlpool of the void". Psyche in Italian literature between XIX and XX centuries
Prettejohn, Elizabeth (York) and Charles Martindale (York & Bristol): Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche: Narrative, Reception, Aestheticism in 19th-Century Britain (Pater, Morris, Burne-Jones)
Provencal, Vernon (Beveridge Arts Centre, Wolfville, Canada): 'The heart in conflict with itself': Faulkner's humanistic reception of Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche in The Reivers
Ragno, Tiziana (University of Foggia): Del soffrir degli affanni è dolce il fine: Ancient Myth and Comic Drama in G.F. Fusconi (with G.F. Loredano and P. Michiel) for F. Cavalli, Amore innamorato (1642)
Ranger, Holly (Birmingham): 'I have tried to be blind in love': Sylvia Plath's House of Eros
Reitz, Christiane (Rostock): Apuleius and Interior Decoration: Cupid and Psyche on a French Wallpaper
Ruggeri, Luca (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Robert Bridge's Eros & Psyche and Its Models
Schultze, Clemence (Durham): Gothic allegory and feminist critique: Cupid and Psyche in the novels of Charlotte M. Yonge and Sylvia Townsend Warner
Scippacercola, Nadia (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy) & Rosanna Scippacercola (Art Scholar and Tour Guide, Rome): Psyche and Beauty in Paintings from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
Siegel, Janice (Hampden-Sydney, Virginia USA): Undertones of Cupid and Psyche in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth
Simard, Jared (CUNY): Psyche in the Salon: French Interior Decoration in the 18th Century
Trzcionkowski, Lech (Jagiellonian University, Cracow): The Background Radiation of the Tale. Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche in the Gardzienice performance Metamorphosis, or The Golden Ass.
[Workshop] What's Not New in the New Europe: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions
The 15th International Conference of The International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI): What's New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity
Lodz, Poland: 11-15 July 2016
The political, social, and economic challenges Europe faces today appear to many people as utterly new and unprecedented, but most of them had their parallels in the ancient world. Throughout antiquity, members of Greek states and communities were confronted with numerous threats to their life and livelihood, and felt the need to defend the social and political entities that defined them. They lived in a world of constant economic crises, wars, destruction of entire cities, immigration, and social instability. The remedies for these pressing issues and their causes were the subject of public deliberation and theoretical reflection, constantly in search for a more stable and viable political order.
Instead of simply idealising the 'wisdom of the Greeks', this workshop seeks to identify those of the ancient experiences that can be fruitfully compared with the challenges lying ahead of modern Europe, along with their causes and proposed solutions. How, then, did the Greeks confront their own crises? Given their political assumptions and realities, how would they have dealt with the 'European experience' today, and would their solutions be acceptable to us? Is there anything in particular in their answers that may now be followed or, to the contrary, avoided?
Scholars are invited to submit proposals on topics relating to the ancient Greek states and communities from the archaic to the pre-Byzantine period, with a particular focus on their practical, ideological, and philosophical response to crisis and change. These may include:
* shifts in political power and the threat of losing political autonomy;
* economic and humanitarian crises, immigration, and regional instability;
* alliances, peace treaties, and interstate agreements;
* social, political, and legal innovation, changes in status of individuals and groups;
* regime change and coups d'état;
* the effects of (civil) wars, social conflicts, and large-scale enslavement;
* the threat of annihilation.
Panellists are encouraged to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to linking the past to the present in line with the general theme of the conference. The workshop is open to scholars of all disciplines who can provide in-depth readings of ancient history, politics, and/or the primary sources.
Please submit a 250-300 word abstract and a tentative list of references and main sources by 31 March 2016 to Jakub Filonik, at jakub.filonik@uw.edu.pl.
Workshop website: www.issei2016.com/jakub-filonik-.html
Conference website: www.issei2016.com/
(CFP closed 31 March, 2016)
[Workshop] Homer and Ancient Greek Drama, or Why Are Actions More Reliable Than Words?
The 15th International Conference of The International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI): What's New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity
Lodz, Poland: 11-15 July 2016
For directors, performers and audiences ancient Greek drama provides a compressed narrative of the Western understanding of human existence over the course of nearly three millennia. It allows contemporary audiences to rediscover the Homeric heritage through the gratitude and amazement experienced and recorded by Athens' democratic polis. The performances of Reinhardt, Rondiris, Stein, Suzuki and many others since the 1920s demonstrate that these qualities can be cultivated to provide a bulwark against the postmodern relativism that many theatre-makers rightly view as undermining their ability to "project the theatrical, philosophical, social and aesthetic issues of the play as seen with the eyes of the time in which the production is attempted" (Spiros Evangelatos, To Vima, 2 July 1972). "The gods have not withdrawn or abandoned us," as Karolos Koun stated some 35 years ago, "We have kicked them out." That we have lost the sense of being in the world, which the Greeks found so natural, should therefore not hinder directors from depicting contemporary society as capable of self-transformation as our ancient ancestors depicted it. It is this question of how to regain "the call of the gods" that has informed and shaped Greek and Cypriot productions of classical Greek drama since the 1970s.
Achilles' speech in Hades—like all the poetry Plato wanted to expunge from his ideal republic—is a key to understanding that "Homer's heroes, like the rest of us, had a great deal of trouble with suffering and evil, those things that make the meaning of life problematic" (Dietrich Ebener). They also had trouble with alienation—or how else should we understand Odysseus?—"the charismatic man who can find his way anywhere but is nowhere at home is a prototype of modern ambivalence—down to the love for his wife that coexists with the enjoyment of other erotic attachments too deep to be called flings" (Jannis Ritsos).
Workshop presentations should seek to illuminate how performing ancient dramatic actions challenges us with questions of heroism, destiny, love, politics, tragedy, science, virtue, and thought itself.
An interdisciplinary workshop for theatre makers, scholars and beyond. Please send brief abstracts by 1 March 2016 to Prof. Heinz-Uwe Haus, at huhaus@udel.edu.
Workshop website: www.issei2016.com/haus-home-and-ancient-greek-drama.html
Conference website: www.issei2016.com/
(CFP closed March 1 2016)
Remaking ancient Greek and Roman myths in the twenty-first century
The Open University in London (1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden, London NW1 8NP): 7th July, 2016.
Offers of papers are invited for a one-day colloquium on the theme of Remaking ancient Greek and Roman myths in the twenty-first century.
The recent upsurge in revivals of classical myth on the stage – with UK theatres currently programming adaptations of both Greek tragedy and the Homeric epics on an unprecedented scale – is mirrored in other artistic media ranging from the visual arts to contemporary poetry and fiction as well as television and film. This one-day colloquium aims to foster conversation between academics and practitioners working on contemporary versions of the ancient myths in order to examine some of the issues encountered by both scholars of classical reception and those whose creative works they study. How might we account for the ongoing appeal of ancient myths for artists/writers and their audiences? In what ways are retellings of ancient myths shaped by the new contexts or media within which they are produced? Whilst myth is by its nature pliable, are there any limits to the flexibility which creative practitioners have in adapting the ancient tales for a twenty-first century audience? We also hope to consider the ways in which audience engagement with retellings of mythical narratives can foster wider interest in the classical world.
Proposals for twenty-minute papers are invited; we would also welcome proposals for presentations in formats other than lecture-style delivery (e.g. performance pieces from practitioners or ‘in conversation’ sessions).
Confirmed speakers: Emma Cole (Bristol); Lorna Hardwick (Open University); Laura Martin-Simpson (Blazon Theatre); Justine McConnell (Oxford); Henry Stead (Open University).
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to Emma Bridges at the Open University (e.e.bridges@open.ac.uk) by Monday 18th April 2016.
Website: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classicalstudies/?p=539.
(CFP closed 18 April 2016)
Kant and the Stoics: St Andrews Kant Reading Party 9
Burn House, Edzell (Scotland): July 4-6, 2016
It is our pleasure to invite you to the 9th edition of the St Andrews Kant Reading Party, which will take place between the 4th and the 6th of July 2016 at the Burn House in Edzell (http://theburn.goodenough.ac.uk/). The title of this year’s edition is ‘Kant and the Stoics’, and the focus will be on practical philosophy.
Questions about the two philosophies abound already if each is considered in its own right; and even if one grants a certain degree of diachronic coherence to Kant’s theory, and assume a simplified version of Stoicism, determining the philosophical relations between the two remains a multi-faceted and complex task. Kant’s own reception of Stoicism involves both acknowledgment of its merits and attempts at distancing himself from it. This is further complicated by the fact that Kant rarely discussed specific passages from Stoic texts, and that his knowledge of Stoicism is thought to have come mainly from reading Roman Stoics (Cicero and Seneca).
This year, there will be up to five discussion sessions (all the relevant texts will be made available in English) and up to four paper sessions (see CFA below). In addition to these, we will also hold an informal 'Kant in Progress' workshop on the 7th of July at the St Andrews Philosophy department (a separate CFA will be circulated in due course).
Fees: The participation fee is 120 GBP for staff members and 65 GBP for students. Students invited to give papers will be reimbursed the entire participation fee. The fees cover transportation from St Andrews to the Burn House and back, as well as accommodation and full board.
Registration: The number of participants is limited to 25, and the deadline for registration is the 2nd of May. To secure your place, please register here (or go to http://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/ → Product Catalogue → Schools → Philosophy → Trips → Kant Reading Party 2016) and e-mail a short, informal application to Stefano Lo Re (slr7@st-andrews.ac.uk). To be put on the waiting list, please only send the application.
Call for abstracts: Students are invited to send anonymised abstracts of no longer than 750 words and a separate cover sheet including name, position, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address to Lucas Sierra (lsv2@st-andrews.ac.uk) by the 31st of May [extended deadline]. Abstracts will be selected by blind review.
Papers should be suitable for a presentation of approximately 40 minutes. Preference will be given to abstracts on both Kant’s and Stoic practical philosophy that have a historiographical and/or comparative approach (or at least makes substantial references to both practical philosophies), and strong preference will be given to abstracts addressing topics from the following list: the nature of moral value; living in accordance with nature (κατὰ φύσιν ζῆν) and the universal-law-of-nature formulation of the Categorical Imperative; virtue and virtues; the highest good and the sensuous side of human nature; teleological reasoning in ethics and meta-ethics; moral psychology and practical reasoning; free will, determinism and moral responsibility; moral expertise (the figure of the sage, ὁ σοφός); sympathy and compassion; the moral status of suicide.
Please, do not hesitate to contact Stefano Lo Re (slr7@st-andrews.ac.uk) if you have any questions.
The organisers: Stefano Lo Re, Pärttyli Rinne, Professor Jens Timmermann
The Kant Reading Party is made possible by the support of the Scots Philosophical Association and the St Andrews Philosophy Department.
via http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.region.europe/21606
(CFP closed 31 May 2016)
Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in Britain, 55 BC - 2016 AD
Radcliffe Humanities Building, Oxford: 2 July, 2016
This interdisciplinary conference will investigate the profound influence of Celtic and Classical heritage on the development of British historical identity. A series of chronologically arranged panels will attempt to trace the respective importance of Ancient Britons and Romans in British culture over the centuries, from the pre-Roman period to the present day. Speakers specializing in a wide range of different subjects, from ancient archaeology to 20th century literature, will discuss the ways in which these two cultures have been appropriated, rejected, combined, and contrasted by different generations of Britons. Were they seen as opposing poles of savagery and civilization, or did they embody competing ideals of Britishness? Did they at any time lose relevance, and what is their status in British culture today? Despite the obvious ways in which this subject would benefit from a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach, there has thus far been only limited dialogue between specialisms in this area. Our day-conference seeks to address this problem, hoping to foster a genuinely diverse and multi-faceted discussion of this aspect of British historical identity.
Programme:
10:00 – Registration + Coffee.
10:30 – Introduction by the organisers.
Session 1: Chaired by Prof. Thomas Charles-Edwards (Oxford)
10.40 – Prof. Barry Cunliffe (Oxford).
Pre-Roman Britain: “Celtic from the West.”
11:10 – Dr. Alex Woolf (St. Andrews).
Early Medieval Period: “The Ethnogenesis of the Britons: a Late Antique story.”
11:40 – Prof. Helen Fulton (Bristol).
Late Medieval Period: “Origins and Introductions: Troy and Britain in Late-Medieval Writing.”
12:10 – Questions and Discussion
12:40 – Lunch
Session 2: Chaired by Rhys Kaminski-Jones (University of Wales)
13:40 – Prof. Ceri Davies (Swansea).
Sixteenth Century: “Meeting the classical challenge: Sir John Prise and defending the British History.”
14:10 – Prof. Philip Schwyzer (Exeter).
Seventeenth Century: “The Politics of British Antiquity in the Stuart Era.”
14:40 – Dr. Mary-Ann Constantine (University of Wales).
Eighteenth Century: “Celts and Romans on Tour: Visions of Early Britain in C18th travel literature.”
15:10 – Questions and Discussion
15:40 – Coffee
Session 3: Chaired by Dr. Nick Lowe (RHUL)
16:00 – Prof. Rosemary Sweet (Leicester).
Nineteenth Century: “Antiquaries and the Romanized Briton.”
16:30 – Dr. Philip Burton (Birmingham).
Twentieth Century: “Looking for Celts and Romans in Middle-earth.”
17:00 – Prof. Richard Hingley (Durham).
Twenty-first Century: “Hadrian’s Wall and the unity of the nation: putting monumentality to use in thoughts about Scottish and English identity.”
17:30 – Questions and Discussion
18:00 – Drinks Reception.
Registration: FREE for students/unwaged attendees, £15 waged (includes refreshments/lunch/wine reception).
Registration Required, Space Limited. To register, contact the organisers at celtclassics@gmail.com. Deadline for registration is June 1st 2016.
For more details, see the conference website: https://celticclassics.wordpress.com/.
Organised by Francesca & Rhys Kaminski-Jones, in association with The University of Wales Centre For Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS) and Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), Royal Holloway University of London, the Classical Association, and the Learned Society of Wales.
[JOURNAL] SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies. Theme volume: Shaw and Classical Literature
SHAW 37.1 (to be published in June 2017) will be a theme volume devoted to “Shaw and Classical Literature,” with Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain) as guest editor. Classical elements in Shaw’s works abound. They include plays set in the classical period (Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion), reincarnations of classical mythology (Pygmalion), characters defined by their relation to classical scholarship (Adolphus Cusins), even dramatic devices from the classical period borrowed and adapted (Senecan sententiae in The Revolutionist’s Handbook; chorus-like characters such as the Courtiers or Guardsmen in Caesar and Cleopatra). Shaw’s non- dramatic writings also evince Shaw’s familiarity with the classical tradition: classical rhetoric underlies some of his speeches and essays; Greek and Roman philosophers influenced his thinking; and classical sources helped shape his sense of history. Very few studies – Gilbert Norwood’s 1912 lecture “Euripides and Mr. Bernard Shaw,” Michael von Albrecht’s “Bernard Shaw and the classics” in Classical and Modern Literature (1987), and Sidney P. Albert’s recent book, Shaw, Plato, and Euripides: classical currents in ‘Major Barbara’ (2012) – survey this neglected area of research.
One could explore Shaw’s images of classical civilization (Egypt and Rome in Caesar or Androcles; echoes of classical antiquity in Back to Methuselah; experimental forms of social order à la Plato’s Republic in Methuselah, Farfetched Fables, and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles); classical languages and spelling reform (the Latin alphabet as an inadequate vehicle for English phonetics); classical history and mythology as sources for characters and settings (Acis, Pygmalion, and Lilith in Methuselah; Balbus or Crassus in The Apple Cart); classical characters in non-classical settings (and vice versa); dramatic techniques echoing those of classical drama (as mentioned above, chorus-like groups in Androcles, Caesar, or the (unspeaking) Soldiers in Great Catherine; Shaw, Shakespeare and the classics: legacy, canonicity, and critical reception (to what extent is Shaw’s use of classical material proof that he also looked back on the classics for a measure of his greatness?); rhetoric and didacticism (can Shaw’s oratorical and argumentative techniques be traced to the classics?); democracy, politics, and the Greek model (do Shaw’s political essays borrow from classical Greek political theory?); recreation and exploitation of classical dicta (how are quotations from famous classical authors distorted by Shaw for his own ideological/rhetorical ends? See, e.g., Maxims for Revolutionists).
Submit abstracts (100 to 150 words) and/or papers to Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín at garoma@unex.es or gustavoadolform@gmail.com. Papers are to be submitted before June 30th. Abstracts are welcome at any time before that date. All submissions are peer-reviewed by external reviewers from the editorial board of the SHAW. For questions of style and formatting, please refer to earlier issues of the journal. Available at:
Project MUSE: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/annual_of_bernard_shaw_studies/
JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/journal/shaw
Penn State University Press: http://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_shaw.html
via https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-shaw-journal-bernard-shaw-studies
Amphorae X: Old is New? Circling to the World’s End
University of Tasmania, Hobart: 29 June-1 July 2016
Amphorae provides an opportunity for postgraduate students throughout Australiasia to interact with others in the field of classical studies. Those eligible for the conference include all those studying at an Honours, Masters or PhD level, encompassing research into literature, history, archaeology, art or reception studies.
The theme for this year’s Amphorae conference is 'Old is New? Circling to the World’s End'. The theme is inspired by our position on the map and what we believe to be the essence of Amphorae and Classical studies.
Final call for papers! Please send your completed registration form and abstract to amphoraex@gmail.com by 11 March 2016 29 April 2016 (5pm EST).
Website: http://amphoraex.wix.com/amphoraex. Facebook: web.facebook.com/groups/130989816977206/. Twitter: @amphorae_x.
(1st CFP closed 11 March 2016 -- CFP extended until April 29)
Memory and Imagined Futures in the Theory and Practice of Ancient Drama
16th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Ioannou Centre, Oxford & Royal Holloway, Egham: June 27-28, 2016
The 16th Annual APGRD / Royal Holloway, University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Ancient Drama will take place on Monday 27 June (at the Ioannou Centre, Oxford) and Tuesday 28 June (at Royal Holloway, Egham). This year’s theme will be: ‘Memory and Imagined Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama.’ Abstracts of papers should be sent by 11 April 2016 to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk (please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution).
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
This annual Symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy, exploring the afterlife of these ancient dramatic texts through re-workings by both writers and practitioners across all genres and periods. Speakers from a number of countries will give papers on the reception of Greek and Roman drama. This year’s guest respondent will be Stephe Harrop (Liverpool Hope University). Among those present at this year’s symposium will be Prof. Oliver Taplin and Prof. Fiona Macintosh (Oxford) and Prof. Laura Ginters (Sydney). The first day of the symposium will include a performance of William Zappa’s one-person version of the Iliad.
PARTICIPANTS
Postgraduates from around the world working on the reception of Greek and Roman drama are welcome to participate, as are those who have completed a doctorate but not yet taken up a post. The symposium is open to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of Classics, modern languages and literature, and theatre and performance studies.
Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on ancient drama. Papers may also include demonstrations. Undergraduates are very welcome to attend.
Those who wish to offer a short paper (20 mins) or performative presentation on ‘Memory and Imagined Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’ are invited to send an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk by MONDAY 11th APRIL 2016 AT THE LATEST (please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution).
There will be no registration fee. Some travel bursaries will be available this year - please indicate if you would like to be considered for one of these.
CONTACT FOR ENQUIRIES: postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk
(CFP closed 11 April 2016)
Alcibiades and his Reception: historical, literary, philosophical approaches.
9th Celtic Conference in Classics, University College Dublin: June 22–25, 2016
"If ever a man was ruined by his own reputation, that man was Alcibiades." (Plutarch, Alcibiades 35.3)
Overview: Alcibiades was one of the most well-known and controversial figures of classical antiquity: a pupil of Socrates, and an Athenian commander during the Peloponnesian War, his outrageous personal life led both to wild adulation and to suspicions that he wanted to overthrow the democracy. Exiled twice, he advised both the Spartans and the Persians, before being assassinated shortly after the end of the war. Thucydides and Xenophon brought out both his brilliance and the difficulty his contemporaries had in judging him, a difficulty summed up by Aristophanes' famous saying that the city ‘longs for him, and hates him and wants to have him' (Frogs 1425). Socratic writers, on the other hand, tried to defend and explain Socrates' failure to reform him. His career was debated in the Athenian courts, and he became the subject of later display speeches rhetorical exercises, and numerous anecdotes. Cornelius Nepos wrote a biography of him and Plutarch famously paired him with the Roman general Coriolanus, another exile who fought against his own city. He features in Shakespeare and is the subject of a tragedy by the seventieth-century dramatist Thomas Otway.
This panel aims to bring together scholars working on Alcibiades from diverse disciplines and approaches (e.g. history, literature, philosophy, art, reception studies, English, etc.). It is hoped that considerable cross-fertilisation will result. Papers discussing any aspect of Alcibiades will be welcome. For example:
* Historical aspects of Alcibiades' life and career
* The construction or characterization of Alcibiades in any ancient text(s)
* The role of Alcibiades in philosophical texts
* The reception of Alcibiades in antiquity or after
* Source criticism of texts portraying Alcibiades
* Alcibiades in art
* Alcibiades as a rhetorical or moral exemplum
Panel Chairs: A. David Newell (UCD); Prof. Timothy Duff (University of Reading)
Conference Information: The 9th Celtic Conference in Classics will take place at the University College Dublin from June 22–25, 2016. The conference provides panels with up to 15 hours of papers and discussion across three days. For this panel we are asking for papers of 35-40 minutes in length, with 10-15 minutes for questions and discussion, but short papers (20+10) are also welcome. It is expected that a number of the paper delivered at this panel will form part of an edited volume. The languages of the Celtic Conference in Classics are English and French.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to adnewell89@gmail.com by the 15th of January. Applicants will be notified of the panel's decision shortly thereafter.
(CFP closed 15 January 2016)
Classics and Irish Politics 1916-2016
Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin: 20-23 June 2016
This conference addresses for the first time, in an academic context, how models from Greek and Roman antiquity have permeated Irish political discourse over the last century. The 1916 Easter Rising, when Irish nationalists rose up against British imperial forces, became almost instantly mythologized in Irish political memory as a key turning point in the nation’s history which paved the way for an independent Irish Republic. Its centenary provides a natural point for reflection on Irish politics, and the aim of this conference is to highlight an under-appreciated element in Irish political discourse, namely its frequent reliance on and reference to classical Greek and Roman models.
Irish engagement with classical models is complex. Rome, for example, could easily serve as a model for imperial domination, and thus could represent Britain in Irish thought. The issue is complicated, however, by the power and influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, the use of ecclesiastical Latin, and the popularity of certain classical Roman authors like Virgil among Irish readers of Latin. Greek resistance to Persian invasions could represent resistance to empire, and parallels were drawn between Greece and Ireland by authors like Patrick Pearse and W.B. Yeats. Nevertheless, a tension existed in Irish political thought between seeking inspiration in Greek models and creating an independent national Irish identity. Much work has been done in recent years on the tensions associated with the exploitation of classical models in post-colonial societies, where the classical, which normally represents the colonizer, is re-appropriated and re-purposed for a nationalist agenda. Ireland very rarely features in such discussions and indeed Ireland is a unique case in this context, since the Irish (unlike other colonized peoples) were very well versed in Greek and Latin before ever the British plantations began in the 16th century. For the Irish, then, classical sources are essentially indigenous to the people and are not models appropriated from the colonizer.
Twenty-six speakers from Ireland, Britain, continental Europe, and North America will address the conference theme from a range of perspectives including the immediate context of 1916, tensions between classical and celtic mythologies, classical models of political expression, twentieth century classicists and Irish politics, the politics of narrative and performance, the politics of gender and sexuality, the influence of Greek material culture, classical models and political poetry, and comparative perspectives from ancient Rome.
Keynote lectures will be given by Terry Eagleton, Edith Hall, and Declan Kiberd.
For a provisional schedule of events, see http://classics.nd.edu/events/2016/06/20/37528-classics-and-irish-politics-1916-2016/. Registration for the conference will be free but required; details will be posted in due course. The conference will be part of the three week 2016 Notre Dame Irish Seminar. For details of the full Irish Seminar see http://oconnellhouse.nd.edu/academic-programs/the-irish-seminar/is10/ and for further information please contact Isabelle Torrance at itorranc@nd.edu.
This conference is generously supported by the Henkels Lecture Fund, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame; the Global Collaboration Initiative at Notre Dame International in partnership with Trinity College Dublin’s Department of Classics; the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies; the Nanovic Institute for European Studies; Notre Dame Research; Notre Dame’s Department of Classics.
Website: http://classics.nd.edu/events/2016/06/20/37528-classics-and-irish-politics-1916-2016/.
Commenter la Rhétorique d'Aristote de l'Antiquité à nos jours
École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris: June 16-17, 2016
Programme
16 juin 2016
9h45-10h00 : Ouverture du colloque par Pierre Caye, Directeur du Centre Jean Pépin (UMR 8230, CNRS/HASTEC)
10h00-10h15 : Frédérique Woerther (UMR 8230, CNRS/HASTEC) : Présentation du colloque
De l’Antiquité gréco-romaine au Moyen Âge, discutant: Marcos Martinho Dos Santos (Universidade de São Paulo)
10h15-11h00 : Camille Rambourg (ENS-Ulm) : «Qu’est-ce que le commentaire anonyme des Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca XXI.2 ?»
11h00-11h30 : Pause
11h30-12h15 : Pierre Chiron (Université de Paris-Est/IUF/HASTEC) : «Les commentaires médiévaux à la Rhétorique: hypothèses sur une (quasi-)absence»
L’Occident médiéval et la Renaissance, discutant : Christophe Grellard (EPHE/HASTEC)
14h00-14h45 : Iacopo Costa (UMR 8584, CNRS/HASTEC) : «Les Questions sur la Rhétorique d’Aristote de Jean de Jandun»
14h45-15h30 : Costantino Marmo (Università di Bologna) : «Le commentaire littéral de la Rhétorique d’Aristote par Gilles de Rome (1272-73)»
15h30-16h00 : Pause
16h00-16h45 : Lawrence Green (USC, Los Angeles) : «Commentaries on Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance»
17 juin 2016
Traditions syriaques et arabes, discutant : Henri Hugonnard-Roche (CNRS/EPHE/HASTEC)
9h30-10h15 : John Watt (Cardiff University) : «Bar Hebraeus»
10h15-11h00 : Maroun Aouad (UMR 8230, CNRS/HASTEC) : «La méthode d’al-Fārābī dans les Didascalia in Rethoricam Alfarabii»
11h00-11h30 : Pause
11h30-12h15 : Gaïa Celli (Scuola Normale di Pisa) : «La Rhétorique du Shifā’ d’Avicenne»
La période contemporaine, discutant : Harvey Yunis (Rice University)
14h-14h45 : Harvey Yunis (Rice University, Houston) : «Edward Meredith Cope : Victorian Commentator on Aristotle’s Rhetoric»
14h45-15h30 : Daniel M. Gross (University of California, Irvine) : «Heidegger’s Commentary»
15h30-15h45 : Pause
15h45-16h30 : Christof Rapp (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München) : «Commenting on Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the 21st century: Constraints, Methods, Presuppositions»
16h30-17h15 : Jean-Baptiste Gourinat (UMR 8061, CNRS) : Conclusions et discussions
Colloque organisé avec le soutien financier du LabEx HASTEC, de l’IUF / Université de Paris-Est Créteil-Val-de-Marne, du Centre Jean Pépin (CNRS, UMR 8230) et du LEM (CNRS, UMR 8584)
Organizer: Frédérique Woerther, frederique.woerther@GMAIL.COM.
Reading the Wall: The Cultural Afterlives of Hadrian's Wall
Newcastle University: 15-17 June 2016
Hadrian's Wall is an iconic monument, and the impressive remains of the Wall were inscribed in 1987 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
The Wall is typically perceived of as a complex of Roman frontier remains, studied by archaeologists and historians, and protected by heritage managers for the benefit of scholars, visitors, and future generations.
Over the centuries, however, Hadrian's Wall has accumulated a number of intangible associations in addition to its original function as a militarised border monument.
From the Venerable Bede to Rosemary Sutcliff, and from Gildas to George R.R. Martin, the Wall has become a site of international cultural significance. How has the Wall shaped our cultural imaginary? And how has our cultural imaginary shaped the Wall?
Join us as we explore the cultural impact of Hadrian's Wall from its Roman origins up to the present day in a conference at Newcastle University, 15-17 June 2016.
Keynote Speakers: Professor Richard Hingley (Durham), Dr Lindsay Allason-Jones, OBE (Newcastle), and authors Christian Cameron & Garth Nix.
Website: https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/readingthewall/">https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/readingthewall/">https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/readingthewall/.
Making and Rethinking Renaissance between Greek and Latin in 15th-16th Europe
Auditorium of Corpus Christi College, Merton Street, Oxford: June 14-15, 2016
Programme:
14 JUNE 2016
9.15-9.40 registration
9.40 Stephen Harrison, Martin McLaughlin, Paola Tomè: welcome and introduction
READING from Aldus Manutius’ prefaces (‘sottofondo’ music by J. Ciconia, MS. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Class. Lat. 112)
TRANSMISSION AND CIRCULATION OF THE TEXTS
CHAIR: STEPHEN HARRISON (University of Oxford)
10.00 Nigel Wilson (Lincoln College, Oxford): Some remarks on Aldus and his prefaces
10.30 Stefano Martinelli Tempesta (University of Milan): The wanderings of a Greek manuscript of Aristotle’s Physics from Byzantium to Aldus’ printing house and beyond
11.00 11.20 discussion
11.20 -11.40 coffee break
11.40 – 12.10 Paola Tomè (University of Oxford): Aldo Manuzio and the learning of Greek
12.10-12.40 Federica Ciccolella (Texas A&M University): Through the Eyes of the Greeks: Byzantine Émigrés and the Study of Greek in the Renaissance
12.40-13.10 Han Lamers (Humboldt University of Berlin): Janus Lascaris’s Hellenizing Etymologies and the Renaissance 'Reception' of Aeolism
13.10-13.30 discussion
13.30-15.00 conference lunch
TRANSLATIONS
CHAIR: GIACOMO COMIATI (University of Warwick)
15.00 Giancarlo Abbamonte (University of Naples Federico II) and Fabio Stok (University of Rome Tor Vergata): From L2 to L2. Translating Plutarch's Moralia from Greek into Latin: Iacopo di Angelo and Niccolò Perotti
15.30 Caterina Carpinato (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): From Greek to Greeks: Homer (and Pseudo-Homer) in Greek-venetian context (late fifteenth and early sixteenth century)
16.00 – 16.20 discussion
16.20 -16.45 coffee break
16.45 Giovanna Di Martino (University of Oxford): The Reception of Aeschylus in sixteenth-century Italy: the case of Coriolano Martirano’s Prometheus Bound
17.15 Tristan Alonge (Paris-Sorbonne University): Rethinking the Birth of French Tragedy: from Sophocles to Evangelism in Marguerite de Navarre’s network (1537-1550)
17.45 – 18.15 discussion
20.30 conference dinner
15 JUNE 2016
RECEPTION OF THE TEXTS
CHAIR: ETTORE CINGANO (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
10.00 Michael Malone-Lee (University of Oxford): Cardinal Bessarion and the introduction of Plato to the Latin West
10.30 Maude Vanhaelen (University of Warwick): The revival of Plato in 16th-century Italy, from Greek to Latin and the vernacular
11.00 discussion
11.20 – 11.40 coffee break
11.45 Rocco Di Dio (University of Warwick): The Scholar at Work: Marsilio Ficino and the De Amore
12.15 Eugenio Refini (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore): The Philosopher in Limbo: translating Aristotle in Italy, 1300-1500
12.45 discussion
13.10 conference lunch
RE-USE AND AFTERLIFE
CHAIR: ANGELO SILVESTRI (University of Cardiff)
14.15 Wes Williams (University of Oxford): “Pantagruel, tenent un Heliodore Grec en main [....] sommeilloit”: Reading the Aethiopica in C16th France
14.45 Martin McLaughlin (University of Oxford): The lion, the dog and the fly: Alberti's classical menagerie
15.15 Nicola Gardini (University of Oxford): Beccadelli and his Greek sources
15.45 – 16.15 discussion
16.15 – 16.35 coffee break
16.35 Christopher Wright and Charalambos Dendrinos (Royal Holloway, University of London): Greek Studies in Tudor England: George Etheridge’s Encomium on Henry VIII addressed to Elizabeth I (1566)
17.05 Pablo Aparicio (University of Oxford): Rethinking Renaissance between Italy and Spain
17.35 – 17.55 discussion
18.00 -18.30 ROUND-TABLE
CHAIR: MARTIN MCLAUGHLIN (University of Oxford)
Giancarlo Abbamonte, Caterina Carpinato, Federica Ciccolella, Ettore Cingano, Charalambos Dendrinos, Nicola Gardini, Stephen Harrison, Han Lamers, Stefano Martinelli Tempesta, Eugenio Refini, Paola Tomè, Maude Vanhaelen, Wes Williams
BOOKINGS: http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk
The Irish Seminar 2016: Classical Influences
Dublin & Kylemore Abbey, Connemara, Ireland: 13 June - 1 July 2016
There has been much scholarly discussion in recent decades of the tensions inherent in the appropriation of classical models by colonized nations (e.g. B. Goff (ed.) Classics and Colonialism (London, 2005), M. Bradley (ed.) Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire (Oxford, 2010)). Such tensions were immortalized by Derek Walcott’s reference to ‘all that Greek manure under green bananas’. The Irish, however, were well versed in Greek and Latin before the British colonizers arrived. Classical models, then, do not necessarily represent the colonizer in Irish culture. Some authors, like Yeats, drew parallels between Britain and imperial Rome, but Latin was also the language of the Roman Catholic Church, and so Irish rather than British in a general sense. The 2016 Irish Seminar is designed to examine Irish culture from a number of different historical, sociological, and literary perspectives under the umbrella of the theme ‘Classical Influences’, with the aim of recognizing the wide-ranging impact of Greek and Roman models on the development of Irish society. Literary greats, such as Yeats, Joyce, and Heaney, whose work is well known to have been influenced by classical literature will naturally be addressed, as will the work of prominent contemporary poets and playwrights such as Eavan Boland, Marina Carr, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and Frank McGuinness. Modern Irish literature will represent an important thread of analysis throughout the course of the three-week seminar. We will discuss what Irish authors do with classical material, how their approaches differ from each other, and what is particularly Irish about their adaptations. However, we will also seek to contextualize Irish engagement with the Classics both diachronically and synchronically. Diachronically by looking back to classical influences on early Irish monasticism, to classical influences in Irish heroic epic, in writings from the early modern period, and to the 18th and 19th century reception of medieval Irish literature. Synchronically by looking beyond literature to classical influences in Irish philosophy, pedagogy, material culture, and particularly in Irish politics in recognition of the centenary of the 1916 Rising.
The 2016 Seminar will be in three parts. Week One will follow the usual format and will take place in O’Connell House. Week Two will feature an international conference on Classics and Irish Politics, and will take place at the Royal Irish Academy and at Trinity College Dublin (http://classics.nd.edu/events/2016/06/20/37528-classics-and-irish-politics-1916-2016/). Week Three will take place in Notre Dame’s new education centre at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara.
For more information on the Irish Seminar and to join our mailing list contact irishseminar@nd.edu.
Website: http://oconnellhouse.nd.edu/academic-programs/the-irish-seminar/is10/.
Closing date for applications is the 17th of March.
Femi Osofisan, Post-Negritude Tradition and 50 Years of Nigerian Literary Drama
University of Ibadan, Nigeria: 13-17 June 2016
You are invited to submit abstracts / panels for this international conference taking place at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in June 2016 in honour of playwright, novelist, critic and poet Femi Osofisan. To reflect the interdisciplinary contributions of Osofisan to the academy, and his use of African performance culture to expose societal ills through his writing, the conference is inviting papers by scholars exploring his work, and drama, music, dance, gender issues, poetry and literature from a range of perspectives, including but not limited to the work of his contemporaries.
Themes:
a) The drama and theatre of Femi Osofisan
b) Femi Osofisan and the performance of poetry in Nigeria
c) Femi Osofisan and the culture of adaptations, translations and re-readings in African drama
d) African diasporan cultural encounters: the nature of classics
e) The Classical tradition and influence on Nigerian literature
f) Dance and music in the drama of Femi Osofisan
g) Design and scenography: interpreting Osofisan for the stage
h) Femi Osofisan's fiction and popular journalism Nigeria
i) Film and Television: The Visitors Series of Detective Drama
j) Film and Television: Concert Parties, Nollywood and the aftermath
k) Arts Management and Cultural Administration
l) Femi Osofisan and the politics of arts management in Africa
Convenors: Sola Adeyemi, Kunbi Olasope, Jahman Anikulapo, Tunde Awosanmi
Deadline for Abstract: 16 December 2015. All abstracts to be sent to femiosofisan2016@gmail.com. Proposals should include a 250-word abstract and title, as well as the author's name, address, telephone number, email address and institutional affiliation.
Conference booking will open in February 2016, where you can benefit from the Early Bird rates and reserve your accommodation at the University of Ibadan Guest Houses!
Conference Contact: Dr. Sola Adeyemi, University of Greenwich, London, UK: femiosofisan2016@gmail.com
(CFP closed 16 Dec 2015)
Classical Reception and the Human
International Conference at the University of Patras, 10-12 June 2016
Jocasta Classical Reception Greece (http://jocasta.upatras.gr/) based at the University of Patras is pleased to announce an International Conference on 10-12 June 2016 which seeks to explore the interrelatedness of Classical Reception and the Human.
In the very first line of the choric stasimon from Sophocles' Antigone we read the susceptible to differentiated translational reception choices phrase «πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει». With the advent of digital technologies and the recent developments in biomedical and neurological science, the notion of the human becomes highly contested. At the same time, the continuous growth of racist, sexist, terrorist, economic, cultural, and other discriminatory practices forges our forgetting of the human. With B. knox's comment at the 1980 American Philological Association that "classical texts are the humanities" in mind, this international conference seeks to address the issue of how classical reception from early modernity onwards informs and re-shapes our conceptualization of the human.
We focus on the following research questions:
* How has classical reception (e.g. newly-translated Greek texts, Neo-Latin drama, early modern tragic adaptations) influenced Renaissance
humanistic discourses, thought and culture?
* How have re-readings of antiquity informed literary, theatrical or other reconfigurations of the human in 18th and 19th century?
* Are the adaptations of Greco-Roman drama a locus for the contemplation, expression and vindication of human rights?
* How do ideological appropriations of the past allow for the legitimization of fascist agendas and the perpetuation of inhumanities?
* How can the classics help us rethink the (post)human in theory and practice after the demise of liberal individualism and the emergence of multiple permeated digital and non-digital, organic and inorganic subjectivities?
Organizers: Efimia D. Karakantza and Efstathia Athanasopoulou
Contact: classicalreception.human@gmail.com.
(CFP closed 15 Oct 2015)
Modernity and the Shock of the Ancient: The Reception of Antiquity in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford: June 10th, 2016
"Two personalities fought for possession of his soul, and he could not always keep back the lower of the two. They interpenetrated.something very, very old projected upon a modern screen." (Algernon Blackwood, The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath, 1916)
The ancient world was vital to what it meant to be 'modern' at the turn of the last century. Yet antique reception in this period is vastly understudied in all areas except that of classical Greece and Rome. At a time when the looting or wholesale destruction of non Graeco-Roman ancient sites is creating new public interest in their importance to modern cultures around the world, it is crucial that this narrow picture is reconsidered.
We invite abstracts for a one-day interdisciplinary conference at the Ashmolean Museum on June 10th, 2016. This conference will re-evaluate the reception of the ancient past in the late 19th and early 20th century, and its relation to constructions of 'modernity'. It will explore the reception of a geographically diverse antiquity - from Greece and Rome to Egypt, Mesopotamia and East Asia - in a variety of spheres including literature, public art and architecture, museum exhibitions, cinema, and consumer goods. As a new century began, the 'ancient' was signalling the 'modern' in both popular and high avant-garde culture, and was harnessed to a range of (often opposing) political agendas. In the process, a 'new' antiquity was born, the study of which illuminates what it means to be both 'modern' and 'Western', today as much as in the early 20th century.
We are pleased to be hosting three invited speakers, Prof. Sarah Iles Johnston (Ohio State University), Prof. Richard B. Parkinson (University of Oxford), and Prof. Fritz Graf (Ohio State University). The day will include a guided tour of relevant museum collections led by Dr. Paul Collins (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford). The conference will promote genuine interdisciplinary exchange, to which end panels will be followed by a lengthy discussion period. Papers might explore such questions as:
* In what ways was the past reappropriated and reimagined, and 'ancient' used to signal 'newness'?
* How did discovery and decipherment enable 'new' pasts and how did this transform historical narratives, of the self and/or the other?
* Did the past become more accessible or more alien in this period?
* What did narratives of 'modern progress' owe to scientific, technological, and political power?
* How is this demonstrated in the uncovering of ancient objects and decipherment of texts?
* How did museums narrate the journey from ancient to modern?
* How do interpretations of the ancient in these periods continue to inform our experiences of historical narrative, political projects, and cultural institutions today?
We welcome abstracts on these or related themes from postgraduates and early career researchers across humanities disciplines, including literature, classics, art history, oriental studies, and anthropology. Please send abstracts of up to 300 words, for papers of 15-20 minutes, along with CV to shockoftheancient@torch.ox.ac.uk by Friday, April 8th. For more information see this website or visit us on facebook at facebook.com/shockoftheancient.
Organizers: Eva Miller (DPhil, Assyriology; Wolfson College, Oxford) & Sarah Green (DPhil, English; Merton College, Oxford).
Funded by TORCH.
Website: https://shockoftheancient.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
Twitter: @shockofancient
(CFP closed 8 April 2016)
Italy and the Classics
Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles', Oxford: Friday 10 June 2016
10.15am - Welcome (Marina Warner)
10.30-11.30am: Fin de Siècle Italy (Chair: Matthew Reynolds)
Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Freelance Writer)
Michael Subialka (Oxford)
11.30-12.45: The Performance Arts (Chair: Ela Tandello)
Eleftheria Ioannidou (Birmingham)
Rosella Simonari (London)
Simone Spagnolo (Anglia Ruskin)
2-3.15pm: Early Modern Italy (Chair: Glenn Most)
Martin McLaughlin (Oxford)
Matthew Leigh (Oxford)
Nicola Gardini (Oxford)
3.45-5pm: Film (Chair: Oliver Taplin)
Maria Wyke (London)
Massimo Fusillo (L'Aquila)
6pm - DRINKS RECEPTION
6.30-7pm: Pre-Performance Talk (Chair: Marina Warner)
Roberto Cavosi (Playwright), Jane House (Translator), Marco Gambino and Sasha Waddell (Actors)
7-8pm PERFORMANCE of Roberto Cavosi's Bellissima Maria
8.15pm - Q&A
8.30pm DINNER
Please email apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk for more information on registration and booking.
Tradizione classica e cultura contemporanea. Idee per un confronto
Conference of the Consulta Universitaria di Studi Latini: Milan/Pavia: June 9-10, 2016
Programme
I sessione (Milano, Università Statale, Sala Napoleonica, Palazzo Greppi, via S. Antonio, 10)
giovedì 9 giugno, ore 9,00
La percezione e l'uso dell'antico nella società contemporanea
9,00 Saluti autorità accademiche
9,30 Ivano Dionigi (Università di Bologna): Il latino al tempo di Twitter
10,00 Roberto Andreotti (giornalista, «Il Manifesto»): Sopravvivere al Classico
10, 30 Bianca Pitzorno (scrittrice): Un lungo filo che non si è mai spezzato
11,00 Pausa
Comunicazioni
11,30 Arianna Sacerdoti, Percorsi sui classici antichi nei romanzi di Bianca Pitzorno
11,45 Marco Malvestio, L'uso del mito nel romanzo contemporaneo
12,00 Pietro Verzina, Impiego del mito e paradigmi epici in Julio Cortázar: Circe (1951)
12,15 Alice Bonandini, Ubi solitudinem o ubi desertum? Quando il latino diventa slogan
II sessione (Milano, Università Cattolica, Aula Pio XI, L.go A. Gemelli, 1)
giovedì 9 giugno, ore 15,00
Il ruolo dei classici in una società multiculturale
15,00 Saluti autorità accademiche
15,30 Giusto Picone (Università di Palermo): Paradigmi. Esuli, profughi e migranti nelle rappresentazioni letterarie latine
16,00 Craig Williams (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): Orpheus Crosses the Atlantic: Native Americans and Classical Studies
16,30 Maurizio Bettini (Università di Siena): A che servono i Greci e i Romani?
17,00 Pausa
Comunicazioni
17,30 Cristiana Franco, Latino per mediatori culturali. Prove di didattica in contesti multiculturali
17,45 Giuseppe Galeani, In Giappone si parla latino. Sulla fortuna dell'antica Roma nel fumetto giapponese contemporaneo
18,00 Fausto Pagnotta, Il pensiero politico antico alla prova della società multiculturale: alcune riflessioni
18,15 Massimo Manca, Da Erodoto a Rat-Man: Classici come virus
18,30 Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, «Il sont fous, ces Romains !»: Asterix, Le papyrus de César, e la trasmissione della conoscenza
III sessione (Pavia, Aula Volta - Sede centrale Università, C.so Strada Nuova, 65)
venerdì 10 giugno, ore 9,30
Il latino nella scuola e nell'Università
9,30 Saluti autorità accademiche
10,00 Nuccio Ordine (Università della Calabria): Elogio della lentezza. Le scuole e le università non sono aziende
10,30 Elio Franzini (Università Statale di Milano): Il latino e il basso bretone
11,00 Carmela Palumbo (Direttore Generale Ordinamenti didattici - MIUR): Gli studi classici nella scuola superiore - Situazione attuale
11,30 Pausa
Comunicazioni
11,45 Alice Borgna, Il latino (digitale) all'Università: il progetto DigiLibLT
12,00 Concetta Longobardi, Le nuove risorse della e-philology per l'edizione dei testi classici
12,15 Alessandra Rolle, Imparare la retorica con lo Pseudo-Quintiliano
12,30 Fabio Tutrone, Interdisciplinarità e autori classici: per un approccio storico-epistemologico all'enciclopedismo antico
12,45 Chiusura dei lavori: Marco Mancini (Capo Dipartimento Università - MIUR)
Website: http://www.cusl.eu/wordpress/?p=619
Classics And/As World Literature Conference
King's College London Centre for Hellenic Studies, Department of Classics, and Department of Comparative Literature: 3-4 June, 2016
The aim is to explore (1) how Greek and Latin classical authors, often in modern-language translations, have historically functioned as part of the colonial curriculum and (2) their status relative to Comparative Literature and World Literature. World Literature has been advocated as new approach to the study of literature in a globalised age, and as one which avoids the nationalist and colonialist pitfalls of studying literatures in traditional departmental and disciplinary formations. But prominent advocates of World Literature have as yet evaded the challenge presented by the ancient Greek and Roman literature to their conceptual framework. Histories of World Literature progress from Gilgamesh immediately to Dante and skip everything in between. This conference is designed to address that lacuna and emphasise the rightful place of ancient Greek and Latin texts, imperialist warts and all, at the heart of the 21st-century international World Literature syllabus.
We have about 30 confirmed speakers, chairs and other participants (see below); the Council Room holds 50, which means that there will be room for only about 20 further delegates. Details of how to book and pre-pay a modest sum for sandwiches etc will be posted as soon as possible. But in the meantime, if you want to make sure of a place, please send an email to edith.hall@kcl.ac.uk and she will let you know personally as soon as the website goes live.
Program:
3rd June
1000 COFFEE and Registration
1030 Welcome Edith Hall (KCL) and William Fitzgerald (KCL)
1100-1230 Session 1 Chair, Russell Goulbourne (KCL)
1100 Michael Silk (KCL), Introductory Address: Problematising 'World Literature' (but not 'Classics'?)
1130 Andrew Laird (Warwick), Aztec Humanists: Uses of the Classics by Nahua Writers in Early Colonial Mexico
1200 Nicholas Ollivere (Oxford), The Road to Morocco: Reading Back to the Classics via Sartre
1230 SANDWICH LUNCH
1330-1500 Session 2 Chair, Sebastian Matzner (KCL)
1330 Emily Greenwood (Yale), Local World Classics: A Manifesto
1400 Pramit Chaudhuri (Dartmouth), Outsourcing: Classics in World Literature and Digital Humanities
1430 Ayelet Haimson Lushkov (University of Texas at Austin), Broad Classics: Damnatio Memoriae on the Global Stage
1500 TEA
1600-1730 Session 3 Chair, William Fitzgerald (KCL)
1600 Justine McConnell (Oxford), Riddling Mirrors: Comparing Oral Poetics in Ancient Greece and Contemporary South Africa
1630 Keynote 1, David Damrosch (Harvard), Hellenistic World Literature: Apuleius and Walcott Read the Greeks
1800 Drinks Reception in RIVER ROOM
1930 Speakers’ dinner in local restaurant, hosted by Department of Comparative Literature
4th June
10-00-1100 Session 4 Chair, Dan Orrells (KCL)
1000 Henry Stead (Open University), A spectre is haunting World Literature -- the spectre of Classics (1917-1956)
1030 Miryana Dimitrova (KCL), Dissident Ancients: The Cases of the Theatrical Socrates and the Cinematic Aesop in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria
1100 COFFEE
1130-1300 Session 5 Chair, David Ricks (KCL)
1130 Rachel Bower (Leeds), World Literature and Epistolarity
1200 Ziad Elmarsafy (KCL), Photosynthesis: Neoplatonisms from Suhrawardi to Abdelwahab Meddeb.
1230 Maria Vamvouri Ruffy (Lausanne), A Translation’s Sociolect: The Weak Point of ‘World Literature’?
1300 LUNCH
1400-1600 Session 6 Chair: Pavlos Avlamis (KCL)
1430 Bobby Xinyue (Warwick), Ovid in China
1500 Simon Perris (Wellington, NZ), Māori Writers and the Classics: Sources, Questions, and Hypotheses
1530 Phiroze Vasunia (UCL),How we Lost the Classics, in India, For Example
1600 TEA
1630-1830 CLOSING SESSION Chair: Susan Bassnett (Glasgow)
1630 Keynote 2, Patrice Rankine (University of Richmond), Slavery, the Book, and Classical Tensions: The U.S. and Brazil
1730 Roundtable, kicked off by Susan Bassnett as Respondent
1830 Wine or Pub
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/eventrecords/2015-16/Classics-world-literature-conference.aspx.
Byzantine Colloquium: Arcadia - Real and Ideal
Institute for Classical Studies (Court Room, Senate House): 2-3 June 2016
The Colloquium aims at exploring important elements that contributed to the creation, preservation and promotion of the Arcadian Ideal from Antiquity, through the Middle Ages (in East and West) and the Renaissance to the modern world. It discusses themes reflecting the Arcadian ideal and legacy in dialogue with the geographical, real Arcadia. Twelve speakers from Britain, Cyprus, Greece, France and the United States of America present and discuss their work spanning across various disciplines including theology and philosophy, history and literature, art and archaeology, economy and numismatics, sociology and geography, education and culture.
Co-organized by the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, The Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London and the International Society for Arcadia.
Supported by the Hellenic Foundation (London), The Friends of the Hellenic Institute and the History Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
Organizing Committee: Charalambos Dendrinos, Nil Palabiyik and George Vassiadis
All welcome. To reserve a place and for further information please contact Charalambos Dendrinos: ch.dendrinos@rhul.ac.uk.
Speakers:
Keynote: Pedro Olalla (Athens): "Arcadia: bearer of Hellenism, fundamental
component of culture"
Anna Vasiliki Karapanagiotou (Arcadia): "Mantinea: the earliest democracy in Arcadia"
Professor James Roy (Nottingham): "Progress in classical Arcadia"
George Kakavas (Athens): "Et in Arcadia Ego: bringing to light the ancient Greek
and Roman Arcadian coins of the Epigraphic and Numismatic Museum in Athens"
Evangelos Chrysos (Athens): "Arcadia in Byzantium"
Alessandro Scafi (London): "Et in Arcadia Ego? Is sex even in Arcadia?"
Stefano Cracolici (Durham): "Nineteenth-century Arcadian landscapes in Italy from
a British perspective"
William Bainbridge (Durham): "Douglas Freshfield and Arcadian geography in the
Dolomites"
Solon Charalambous (Nicosia): "Arcadia and Cyprus"
Marie-Claude Mioche (Goutelas), "Arcadia real and ideal: the case of Forez"
David Gilman Romano (Arizona): "The Parrhasian Heritage Park of the
Peloponnesos: Greece’s first Cultural Heritage Park"
Angelos Dendrinos (Athens): "The Arcadia International Network: the Arcadian
legacy in the 21st century"
Draft programme [pdf] http://www.icls.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Arcadia-Colloquium-Provisional-Programme.pdf via http://www.icls.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences.
Kenneth Dover's Greek Homosexuality: a discussion
Institute of Classical Studies, London: Tuesday 31 May, 2016
To mark the reissuing by Bloomsbury Academic of the 1989 edition of Kenneth Dover’s Greek Homosexuality (with two new forewords), there will be a panel discussion of the book and its influence at the Institute of Classical Studies (room G22/26) on Tuesday 31st May at 6 pm. The discussion will be chaired by Paul Cartledge and the panellists will be Caroline Vout, Mark Masterson, James Robson and Stephen Halliwell. All are welcome.
The organisers are extremely grateful to the Jowett Copyright Trust for funding in support of this event.
Further information: http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/public-events/2016/greek-homosexuality-event-mark-publication-new-edition-kenneth-d.
[1st] Annual Postgraduate Symposium in Classical Reception, University of Patras
University of Patras: 28-29 May 2016
Jocasta Classical Reception Greece is pleased to announce the 1st Annual Postgraduate Symposium in Classical Reception, which will take place on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th of May 2016 at the Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece.
Reception is conceived not as a subdivision of Classics but as a mode of historicised inquiry and constant self-critique intrinsic in Classical Studies. In this respect, the reader assumes the role of the decoder who examines reception of the ancient world from the 8th century BC onwards: from Antiquity to Byzantium, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Early and Late Modernity and the future, while ceaselessly moving from the West to the East and from the North to the South and vice versa. Classical Reception is studied through a variety of media ranging from literature to theatre and film, to materialised configurations of everyday experience and through a plurality of approaches ranging from Philosophy to Cultural and Social Studies to Performative arts and science-driven discourses, thus foregrounding interdisciplinary research.
The Jocasta Postgraduate Symposium seeks to create a venue for Classical Reception in Greece, where international postgraduate students can engage into interdisciplinary dialogue and share research. It enables students to present their work in a friendly environment, develop presentation skills and get constructive feedback.
This year's theme is "Continuities and Discontinuities in Classical Reception". Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
* In what ways can discontinuities in fragmentary literary corpora be bridged?
* Do we read intertextual continuities between different ancient and/or modern genres?
* Are continuities and discontinuities in characters' agency, author's stylistic choices and narrative techniques determined by different poetics?
* Have we learnt to read transhistorical, transcultural and transdisciplinary reconfigurations of antiquity on the basis of continuities or discontinuities?
* Have philosophical or artistic "interruptions" of classical texts re-informed classical research?
We invite abstracts in either Greek or English of no more than 250 words for 20-minute paper presentations to be sent to jocastapostgraduate@gmail.com no later than 28th February 2016 15th March 2016. Please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution in the body of your email (not in your abstract).
The organising committee: Efstathia Athanasopoulou, Gesthimani Seferiadi, Alexandros Velaoras.
(CFP closed 28 Feb 2016; extended until 15 March)
Fate and Fortune in Renaissance Thought
A one-day Colloquium to be held at the University of Warwick: 27th May 2016
Keynote address: Dilwyn Knox (University College London).
Respondent: Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)
The aim of the colloquium is to explore the significance of the concepts of fate and fortune in Renaissance thought. While having a significant medieval background in theological texts and in The Consolation of Philosophy and other philosophical treatises, these concepts received new interpretations during the Renaissance period. The cause was a renewed interest in Cicero's treatises, as well as in Alexander of Aphrodisias and Stoic philosophy. On the other hand, the question of fate and fortune seems to be closely related to religious disputes of the sixteenth century.
Hopefully, the colloquium will contribute to a better understanding of these concepts and their crucial role in the history of Renaissance thought. Despite some valuable publications on the topic, a number of its aspects still remain unclear. The interdisciplinary character of the conference would allow to explore the place of fortune and fate in religious, philosophical and artistic contexts in the Renaissance.
A number of fundamental questions will be addressed including:
* The classical tradition and its contribution to the (re)consideration of these concepts in the Renaissance
* Renaissance Stoicism and the reception of Alexander of Aphrodisias
* Religious controversies in the sixteenth century and the disputes on free will, fate and fortune in theological texts.
* Determinism
* Fate and fortune in respect of controversies on astrology and magic in the Renaissance
* The image of fate and fortune in Renaissance art
Please send a title and abstract of no more than 250 words as well as a one-page CV to O.Akopyan@warwick.ac.uk no later than 1 February 2016.
(CFP closed 1 Feb 2016)
ANTIQUIPOP. La référence à l'antiquité dans la culture populaire contemporaines / Reference to Antiquity in Contemporary Popular Culture
Lyon 2 Lumière University & at the Musée gallo-romain, Lyon (France): 26-28 May 2016
While studies in Antiquity may be considered useless and old-fashioned, and the recent decisions of the French government themselves makes this kind of generalizing statement a reality, we may think that Antiquity and what is left of it, are doomed to decay and disappear. However, at the same time, media, artistic and cultural creations for the general public, as well as new types of digital art, reflect a different phenomenon: our screens seem to be overwhelmed with themes and aesthetics from Antiquity, thus putting up some resistance to Cassandras' predictions.
It is precisely this phenomenon of resistance to disappearance, in a word, this obstinacy, that we which to examine. The fact that Antiquity is so present in our artistic and cultural world is not self-evident, far from it. Research on Antiquity has recently been shaken up by a whole range of groundbreaking studies, especially Reception and Reception Theories studies, bringing to light several analyses focusing on comics, manga, peplums, video games, etc. We wish then to tackle the question of Reception of Antiquity in a field that has been until now underestimated, if not completely neglected, by scholars: the popular culture in all its features: the pop, musical and video worlds, television, fashion, etc.
Starting from the identification of images of Antiquity in pop music, TV series, modern art, fashion and video games, the analyses will question the existence of stereotypes, the invention of new codes, their deciphering as well as their hermeneutical range, aethetically speaking as well as from an Images and Reception theory perspective.
We welcome papers exploring these questions, coming from different fields of expertise, in a resolutely interdisciplinary approach: historians, art historians, aesthetics experts, visual artists, literature and comparative studies specialists, archaeologists, semanticists and semiology experts are particularly welcome to submit their proposal.
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (in French or English) and should be sent via the "Submit" tab at antiquipop.sciencesconf.org/ at the latest January, 31th 2016. Would you have any question, please send an email to the organizing comittee: antiquipop@gmail.com.
(CFP closed 31 Jan 2016)
Feminism & Classics VII (FEMCON7): Visions
University of Washington, Seattle: May 19-22, 2016
This conference will focus on vision in – and visions of – the ancient Mediterranean world, primarily ancient Greece and Rome, but without excluding, for example, Egypt and the Near East. We welcome submissions related to any aspect of this theme, including sight, blindness, voyeurism, the gaze, spectacle, illusion, dreams, hallucinations, epiphany, and similar topics. We also encourage abstracts that construe the theme of vision more broadly: What can we know about self-perception in the ancient Mediterranean world, particularly among women and other groups defined as Others? How have post-antique cultures envisioned or reimagined Classical material, whether in art, theater, literature, theater, film, or other media? What is to be learned from looking at the history of women and feminism in Classical studies, and what paths forward can we envision, both for scholarship and for pedagogy? What can views from outside (e.g., outside Classics, the humanities, academia, the United States, the West) teach us, and how does the field look from within different parts of the academy (e.g., students, adjuncts, tenured or tenure-track faculty, librarians, museum staff)? Are there new lenses through which we might profitably examine old material?
Keynote Speakers: Bettina Bergmann (Helene Phillips Herzig '49 Professor of Art History, Mount Holyoke College), Sheila Murnaghan (Professor of Classical Studies and Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek, University of Pennsylvania); Alison Wylie (Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy, University of Washington).
Draft program: https://sites.google.com/site/femcon7/program
Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/site/femcon7/
(CFP closed 1 September 2015)
Calleva Events on Make-Believe in Drama
Calleva Centre, Magdalen College Oxford: May 20-21, 2016
Why do adults believe in fictional worlds? Why do they spend time and money at the theatre committing emotionally to stageworlds they know are not real? In May 2016, the Adults at Play(s) project of the Calleva Centre will host two events exploring these questions.
FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016: ONE-DAY COLLOQUIUM
This international one-day colloquium brings together speakers from the worlds of Theatre, Classics, English, Cognitive Studies and Psychology. The aim of the day is to facilitate dialogue among practitioners in these different fields: we will explore the issues involved in dramatic make-believe in multidisciplinary panels of short (15-minute) papers.
Our speakers include: Jennifer Barnes (Psychology), Max van Dujin (Psychology), Henry Goodman (actor – RSC, National, TV and film), Nick Lowe (Classics), Raphael Lyne (English), Keith Oatley (Psychology), Nicola Shaughnessy (Theatre Studies), Robert Shaughnessy (Theatre Studies), Helen Slaney (Classics), Ineke Sluiter (Classics).
A complete programme will be posted here in March: http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/research/calleva-research-centre/calleva-events/.
Registration is £15 and includes sandwich lunch with tea and coffee.
To register your attendance, visit: http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk, and search ‘Make-Believe Symposium’.
SATURDAY, 21 MAY 2016, 3.30-6.00pm: PUBLIC EVENT
Magdalen alumni and interested members of the public are invited to this event, featuring a keynote lecture by novelist and mythographer Professor Dame Marina Warner, as well as shorter talks by members of the Calleva research team, actor Henry Goodman (Royal Shakespeare company, National Theatre, film and television), and psychologist Professor Jennifer Barnes.
To register, please contact the Magdalen Alumni office at alumni.office@magd.ox.ac.uk.
For inquiries about both events: sophie.duncan@magd.ox.ac.uk / evert.vanemdeboas@magd.ox.ac.uk.
Classical Traditions in Latin American History
Warburg Institute (University of London, School of Advanced Study, Woburn Square, London): 19-20 May 2016
Organisers: Andrew Laird (Warwick/Brown University) and Nicola Miller (UCL)
Speakers:
ANDREW LAIRD, Warwick/Brown University: Conflicts of Classical Legacies in Spanish America
NICOLA MILLER, UCL: Classical Motifs in Spanish American Nation-building: Looking Beyond the Letrados
ERIC CULLHED, Uppsala University: "Born with the Wrinkles of Byzantium": Unclassical Traditions in Latin America
NATALIA MAILLARD ALVAREZ, Universidad Pablo de Olavide: Early Circulation of Classical Books from Europe in New Spain and Peru
ALEJANDRA ROJAS, The Ohio State University: Indigenous and Classical Conventions and Iconography in the Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis (Mexico, 1552)
BYRON ELLSWORTH HAMANN, The Ohio State University: The higa and the tlachialoni: Material Cultures of Seeing in the Mediterratlantic
ANTONELLA ROMANO, Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS: Assessing American Native Knowledge from Europe: A Global Perspective
ANDREW LAIRD, Warwick/Brown University: Innovations of Classical Humanism (1520-1570): Grammar, Rhetoric and Philosophy in a New World
STUART M. MCMANUS, Harvard: Humanist Eloquence and Erudition in Colonial Latin America: Reassessing the Funeral Exequies for Philip IV
ROBERT CONN, Wesleyan University: Classicism and the Forging of Institutions and Traditions in Latin America: From Sor Juana to Alfonso Reyes
DESIREE ARBO, University of Warwick: Guaraní Indians, Plato's Republic and 18th century Americanismo
ELINA MIRANDA, Universidad de La Habana: Greece in José Martí
ROSA ANDÚJAR, UCL: Henríquez Ureña's Hellenism and the American Utopia
Website: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2015-16/classical-traditions-in-latin-american-history/.
Chasing Mythical Beasts... The Reception of Creatures from Graeco-Roman Mythology in Children's & Young Adults' Culture as a Transformation Marker
Warsaw, Poland: May 12–15, 2016
Full Programme: http://mythicalbeasts.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/programme/
Papers (alphabetical):
Jerzy Axer, Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Wobo's Fabulous Itinerary:
From East African Mythology to a Polish Formative Novel for Youth
Małgorzata Borowska, Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, The Awakening
of the κνώδαλα, or Inside a Great Fish Belly
Marilyn Burton, Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Man as Creature:
Allusions to Classical Beasts in the Novels of N.D. Wilson
Simon Burton, Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Winged Horses,
Talking Horses and Unicorns in C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia": Entwining Classical
and Christian Motifs
Susan Deacy, Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton, Bright-Eyed
Athena and Her Fiery-Eyed Monster
Konrad Dominas, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University
in Poznań, New Reception Spaces of Literature and Ancient Culture – Children's
Creations of Mythical Creatures on the Internet
Elena Ermolaeva, Department of Classical Philology, St. Petersburg University, Centaurs
in Russian Fairy Tales: From the Half-dog Pulicane to the Centaur Polkan
Liz Gloyn, Department of Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Mazes Intricate:
The Minotaur as a Catalyst of Identity Formation in British Young Adult Fiction
Elizabeth Hale, School of Arts, University of New England, Medusas and Minotaurs:
Metamorphosis and Meaning in Australian Contexts
Edith Hall, Department of Classics, King's College London, Cheiron the Centaur as
Narrator
Maria Handrejk, Heinrich Schliemann Institute for Classical Antiquity, University of
Rostock, Murder in the Moonlight: Harry Potter and the Return of the Werewolves
Owen Hodkinson, Department of Classics, University of Leeds, Reclaiming Medusa
Markus Janka, Institute of Classical Philology, University of Munich, & Michael Stierstorfer,
Faculty of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Regensburg,
Semibovemque virum semivirumque bovem – Mythological Hybrid Creatures as
Key Actors in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and in the Postmodern Fantasy Literature for
Children and Young Adults
Katarzyna Jerzak, Department of Philology and History, Pomorska Academy in
Słupsk, Remnants of Myth, Vestiges of Tragedy: Peter Pan in the Mermaids' Lagoon
Joanna Kłos, Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Pheme the Gossip
(Series "Goddess Girls") by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
Przemysław Kordos, Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Modern
Greek Children Face to Face with Hydra, Cerberus and Minotaurs
Weronika Kostecka & Maciej Skowera, Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw,
Womanhood and/as Monstrosity: Cultural and Individual Biography of a "Beast"
in Anna Czerwińska-Rydel's "The Baltic Siren"
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, German Department, University of Tübingen, On
the Trail of Pan: From the Eternal to the Strange Child
Helen Lovatt, Department of Classics, University of Nottingham, Magical Beasts and
Where They Come From: How Greek Are Harry Potter's Mythical Animals?
Adam Łukaszewicz, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Fantastic Creatures
Seen by a Shipwrecked Sailor and by a Herdsman
Katarzyna Marciniak, Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Chasing
Mythical Muppets: Classical Antiquity According to Jim Henson
Sheila Murnaghan, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
(with Deborah H. Roberts), "A Kind of Minotaur": Mythical Monsters in the Works of
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sonya Nevin & Steve K. Simons, The Panoply Vase Animation Project, Animating
Mythical Vase Scenes, with the National Museum in Warsaw
Daniel A. Nkemleke & Divine Che Neba, Department of English, University of
Yaoundé 1, Myth, Beasts and Creatures: Towards the Construction of Human Categories
in Oral Tradition in Cameroon
Elżbieta Olechowska, Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Heracles
Facing Monsters in Twenty-First-Century French Comic Books by Joann Sfar and
Edouard Cour
Hanna Paulouskaya, Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Mythical
Beasts in the Soviet Animation: Interpretation of the Monster Phenomenon
Deborah H. Roberts, Department of Classics, Haverford College (with Sheila Murnaghan),
Picturing Duality: The Minotaur as Beast and Human in Illustrated Myth Collections
for Children
Jörg Schulte, Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Cologne, Old Wine Bottled for
the Young: The Image and Mysteries of Dionysos in Tadeusz Zieliński's "Skazochnaia
Drevnost' Ėllady"
Christian Stoffel, Institute of Classical Studies, University of Mainz, Protecting the
Ancient Past and Its Mythical Beasts: Julia Golding's "The Companions Quartet"
Robert A. Sucharski, Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Stanisław
Pagaczewski and His Tale(s) of the Wawel Dragon
Karoline Thaidigsmann, Slavic Department, University of Heidelberg, (Non-)Flying
Horses in the Polish People's Republic: The Crisis of the Mythical Beast in Ambivalent
Polish Children's Literature
Peter Tirop Simatei, Department of Literature, Theatre & Film Studies, Moi University,
Eldoret, The Nandi Bear: A Mythical Profile of a Ferocious Beast
Alfred Twardecki, Curator of the Ancient Art Collection, National Museum in Warsaw,
Presentation of plans for a new gallery to be opened in 2019
Reading and rewriting ancient texts in the long eighteenth century: A one-day colloquium
Corpus Christi College, Oxford: Saturday 14 May, 2016
Organizers: Stuart Gillespie & Stephen Harrison
Programme
10:30-11:00 Coffee/Registration
11.00-1:00
Helen Slaney (Oxford): Ancient Geographies Translated as Narratives of Travel
Micha Lazarus (Cambridge): Sublimity by Fiat: New Light on the English Longinus
David Hopkins (Bristol): The Poet as Annotator: Pope’s Observations on his Iliad
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30
Clare Bucknell (Oxford): William Popple’s Works of Horace
Penelope Wilson (Cambridge): ‘Never let me trifle with a book’: Philip Doddridge as Reader of Homer and Virgil
3:30-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:30
Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow): Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800
Philip Hardie (Cambridge): Eighteenth-Century Flights of the Mind
5:30-6:30 Drinks
Cost £15 including lunch, tea/coffee and drinks, payable on the day. Please book in advance with Prof. Stephen Harrison by 1 May 2016: Stephen.harrison@ccc.ox.ac.uk. Graduate students may attend for £10.
Ancient Greek Pots and Social Class in the Britain 1789-1939
Under the aegis of AHRC-funded Classics and Class research project based at King’s College London and directed by Professor Edith Hall and Dr Henry Stead.
King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS: Thursday 5 May 2016
Convener: Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
Material culture can be used to enact class. This occurs in manifold ways including on human bodies through fashion, in the interior domestic environment and architecture through inhabited space and in taste in art. These ideas have been explored in a variety of media and cultural contexts, including academia (notably in the work of Pierre Bourdieu), and in the ceramic art and broadcasting of Grayson Perry (e.g. Channel 4 documentary series 2012 ‘In the best possible taste’). Classical material culture has been part of British material culture from at least the C17th onwards and as such has played an important role in delineating class distinctions. Its popularity in the late C18th and C19th is to be seen within the context of British colonialism and rising luxury consumption, itself a marker of class. In C18th and C19th Britain Greek pots were seen as the cheap cousins of more durable and “elevated” marble sculpture. While the reception of marginalized Greek pots is receiving increasing scholarly attention, research has focused predominantly on elite reception, notably collections in the houses of the rich, and expensive ceramics, furnishings and fashions, inspired directly by Greek pots and indirectly by their two-dimensional images in publications.
This symposium seeks to explore the reception of ancient Greek pots through the lens of social class and to bring to prominence hitherto marginalized working class and middle class engagements with this area of Classical material culture. Greek pots offer rich possibilities for revisionist histories of engagement with Classical culture for several reasons. First they themselves are connected to non-elites of ancient Greece through their cheap material and manufacture by non-elite craftsmen, whose work had a direct analogue in that of the labourers in the Potteries and other factories; second through their depiction of the lives of non-elite Athenians, and third (arguably) through their use by non-elites. A class-focused exploration of the reception of Greek pots, then, offers the opportunity to analyse non-elite responses to ancient non-elites.
Abstracts of up to 300 words, should be sent to alexia.petsalis-diomidis@kcl.ac.uk by 16 November 2015, including (but not limited to) the following themes in the context of Britain 1789-1939:
* the place of Greek pots and the objects they inspired within broader British material culture and consumption
* the role of gender in different class engagements with Greek pots
* the role and agency of craftsmen creating objects inspired by Greek pots (potters, cabinet makers etc.)
* widening access and viewing experiences of working and middle classes of Greek pots in houses and museums
* the role of Greek pots and the objects they inspired in the demarcation of class (particularly the appeal and consumption of cheaper objects such as Dilwyn pottery)
* the relationship between different class engagements with classical pots (agency, top down models of influence or interpenetration)
* the influence of the arts and crafts movement on Sir John Beazley's approach to Greek pots
* the view from abroad: class and ancient Greek pots in countries other than Britain (particularly in Italy, France, Germany, the Ottoman empire). This could include the role of class in (licit and illicit) excavating, collecting and imitating Greek pots.
(CFP closed 16 Nov 2015)
Portals, Gates: The Classics in Modernist Translation
McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 30 and May 1, 2016
As Steven Yao observes in Translation and the Languages of Modernism, both the practice and the idea of translation were integral to experimental early twentieth-century modernist work in English: "feats of translation not only accompanied and helped to give rise to, but sometimes even themselves constituted, some of the most significant Modernist literary achievements in English." And in their translation work, many anglophone modernists were especially responsive to the literatures of Ancient Greece and Rome. As H.D. would say of Euripides, whose plays she translated, "these words are to me portals, gates."
Modernists Ezra Pound, H.D., W.B. Yeats and E.E. Cummings--among others--pursued translations of work from dramatists and poets such as Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Homer, Sappho, Meleager, Theocritus, Catullus, Horace, Ovid, and Propertius. In some cases they developed more traditional translations, aimed to render in English a text from another language, culture, and time; in other instances, they ventured into more maverick translations, often construed by contemporary reception studies as adaptations or interventions (which sometimes incurred the ire of early twentieth-century scholarship). For many modernists, such translation work not only served as "good training"--as Pound phrased it--but also contributed to the enrichment of English beyond its ordinary boundaries, allowing fine-grained and radical access to the aesthetic and intellectual wisdom of a corpus of ancient literature they saw as valuable to the present. Many even used the concept of translation to capture a broader modernist commitment to 'bringing over' to the early twentieth century resources of the ancient past, its cultural archive--to speak to questions, conceptual nodes and problematics of the contemporary moment.
Situated at the intersection of Classical studies, Modernist studies, and Translation studies, this conference invites commentary on the work of early twentieth-century modernist "translation," broadly interpreted - responses by modernist writers to texts and cultural materials from the Classical world. We welcome papers, performances, and creative or multimedia work addressing:
1) more traditional translation work, such as work for the Poets' Translation Series edited by Richard Aldington, Yeats's King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus, and Louis MacNeice's Agamemnon;
2) more experimental translation work by modernists such as Pound (e.g. Homage to Sextus Propertius, Women of Trachis) and H.D. (e.g. Hippolytus Temporizes, Ion);
3) freer appropriations and adaptations of Classical material, such as H.D.'s responses to Sappho and Meleager; Pound's and Joyce's engagements with the Odyssey; Pound's and H.D.'s work with the Eleusinian mysteries; and Cummings's experiments with Catullus, Homer, and Greek myth.
Please send 250-word abstracts, along with current CV, to miranda.hickman@mcgill.ca and lynn.kozak@mcgill.ca by January 10, 2016. The conference will take place at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 30 and May 1, 2016.
(CFP closed 10 January 2016)
Mary Renault: A Celebration
St Hugh’s College, Oxford: 26 April 2016
Few historical novelists have ever rivalled the achievements of Mary Renault, author between 1956 and 1981 of eight novels set in the ancient Greek world. She is best known for her re-imagination of Theseus in The King Must Die (one of John F. Kennedy’s favourite novels) and for her brilliant Alexander trilogy, in which she resurrected one of history’s most mesmerising figures, Alexander of Macedon.
Programme
5.00 pm Reception in the Hamlin Gallery: There will be a small exhibition of material from the Mary Renault papers in the college archive and of artwork from the new Folio Society editions of Renault’s novels.
6.00 pm Mordan Hall: Lecture by Professor Paul Cartledge, Emeritus A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge, with further contributions on Mary Renault and historical fiction by the historians Tom Holland and Bettany Hughes; followed by discussion.
This event in honour of St Hugh’s alumna Mary Renault is to mark the recent launch of the Mary Renault Prize for essays by pupils in Year 12 or 13 on the theme of the influence of classical antiquity.
If you would like to attend, please email development.office@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk.
Revival and Revision of the Trojan Myth
Conference Hall, CNR Building (Roma, Italy): 22 April 2016
In the last years the rewritings of Homeric epics and Trojan myth dating back to the Imperial Period and Late Antiquity have increasingly attracted scholarly interest. This is the case of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis, who claimed to be eyewitnesses of the Trojan war and more reliable interpreters of the events compared to the Homeric version. The recent proliferation of translations, commentaries, studies and philological enquiries fills a gap that finds no justification, especially since these works were well known and widely circulated over the centuries up to the Middle Ages, so as to make a major contribution to the collective imagination concerning the Trojan war as well as the characters who took part in it, starting from the figure of Aeneas. The international meeting, to be held in Rome (in a conference hall of the CNR building, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7) on 22nd April 2016, is meant to fit in such a 'revival' about Dares and Dictys : proposals are hereby solicited for papers on textual or literary criticism, including historical and anthropological enquiries, in order to shed light on some aspects of their works and/or of the wider cultural context in which they are framed.
Organizers: Graziana Brescia; Mario Lentano; Giampiero Scafoglio
Program:
9.30 Apertura dei lavori / Meeting opening: Mario Lentano
9.45 Dalla Grecia a Roma a Bisanzio: le tre vite di Ditti Cretese / From Greece to Rome to Byzantium: Dictys' three lives
Chair: Emanuele Lelli (Università di Roma "La Sapienza")
* Alessio Ruta (Università di Palermo), "Latine disserere". I papiri greci di Ditti Cretese (P.Tebt. II 268, P.Oxy. XXXI 2539, P.Oxy. LXXIII 4943 - 4944) e la traduzione di Settimio : osservazioni su lingua letteraria, stile, lessico
* Elísabet Gómez Peinado (Universidad de Alicante), La « Ephemeris belli Troiani » griega de Dictis cretense y sus testimonios latino y bizantinos
10.45 Pausa caffè / Coffee break
11.00 Ditti e il contesto storico e culturale / Dictys and his historical and cultural context
Chair: Sergio Casali (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")
* Silvio Bär (University of Oslo), Fakers, liars, plagiarists? Narrators and authorial voices in reworkings of the Trojan saga in the imperial period
* Valentin Décloquement (Université de Lille III), Le jeu du faire-vrai: lire Dictys de Crète à la lumière de la "paideia"
* Mireia Movellán Luis (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Elements of internal cohesion in the « Ephemeris belli troiani »
12.30 Pausa pranzo / Lunch break
14.30 Modelli, motivi e personaggi / Models, motifs, characters
Chair: Eugenio Amato (Université de Nantes / Institut Universitaire de France)
* Graziana Brescia (Università di Foggia) & Mario Lentano (Università di Siena), Amore e guerra. Achille e Polissena in Ditti Cretese e Darete Frigio
* Giampiero Scafoglio (Université de Nantes / Seconda Università di Napoli), Antenore, il traditore
* Valentina Zanusso (Università di Roma "La Sapienza"), Ditti di Creta e il dramma attico
16.15 Pausa caffè / Coffee break
16.30 Ricezione / Reception
Chair: Riccardo Scarcia (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")
* Thomas Gärtner (Universität zu Köln), Die Kriegstagebücher von Dares Phrygius und Dictys Cretensis als Beispieleinerliterarisch "offenen" Rezeptionsvorlage
* Valentina Prosperi (Università di Sassari), I cavalieri della tavola troiana : Ditti e Darete dal « Troiano a stampa » all'« Innamoramento di Orlando »
17.30 Conclusioni / Conclusions : Giampiero Scafoglio
Website: http://lamo.univ-nantes.fr/Revival-and-Revision-of-the-Trojan
From Thucydides to Twitter: Towards a History of the Soundbite
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London: 22-23 April, 2016
The conference aims to to explore the nature and history of the 'soundbite' as a feature of political rhetoric and other forms of communication in the classical and modern worlds. It will bring together classical scholars, researchers in the fields of rhetoric, media and communication, and practising speechwriters, broadcasters and journalists, to explore the history of the phenomenon, compare its ancient and modern manifestations in theory and practice, and highlight its advantages and disadvantages in the context of public debate.
Conference speakers:
Tom Clark (Melbourne)
Michael Edwards (Roehampton)
Bruce Gibson (Liverpool)
Richard Hawley (Royal Holloway)
Brian Jenner (UK Speechwriters guild)
Joshua Katz (Princeton)
Asako Kurihara (Osaka)
Christian Kock (Copenhagen)
Simon Lancaster (Bespoke speeches Ltd)
Nigel Rees (BBC broadcaster and author)
Peter Rhodes (Durham)
Catherine Steel (Glasgow)
Anne Ulrich (Tübingen)
Lisa S. Villadsen (Copenhagen)
Website: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/cor/thucydides2twitter/t2thomepage.aspx.
The Fixed Handout Workshop: Exercises and Variations in Reading Latin Texts
An experimental two-day workshop in Cambridge
Cambridge Classics Faculty / St John's College Cambridge: 16-17 April 2016
Registration is open for The Fixed Handout Workshop, an experimental 2-day symposium in which 12 speakers from different institutions, in four groups of three speakers each, will deliver papers based on a fixed selection of texts from Latin literature and its reception.
Program:
Saturday 16th April 2016
Welcome and Introduction (Siobhan Chomse & Elena Giusti)
1st Session: Witches
Handout Passages: Ovid Amores 3.7.1-38; Plautus Miles Gloriosus 182-94; Horace Satires 1.8.14-36; Petronius Satyricon 131; Lucan Bellum Civile 6.624-41; Virgil Aeneid 4.474-93; Dante Inferno 9.16-57; Goethe Faust Part Two, Chapter 22.
Speakers: Mathias Hanses (Pennsylvania State University); Viola Starnone (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa); Ian Goh (Birkbeck, University of London).
2nd Session: Gardens
Handout Passages: Virgil Georgics 4.125-46; Horace Epodes 2.1-28; Tibullus 1.1.7-18; Appendix Virgiliana Moretum 52-89; Seneca Epistles 21.9-11; Seneca Epistles 94.69-71; Voltaire Candide, Chapter 30; Shakespeare Richard II, Scene IV.
Speakers: Martin Stöckinger (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Barbara Del Giovane (Università degli Studi di Firenze); Nick Ollivère (Royal Holloway, University of London).
Sunday 17th April 2016
3rd Session: The East
Handout Passages: Propertius Elegies 3.4; Ovid Ars Amatoria 1.177-228; Sidonius Panegyric on Anthemius 30-67; ClaudianThe Fourth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius 565-610; Virgil Georgics 3.109-39; Virgil Aeneid 8.685-728; Ezra PoundHomage to Sextus Propertius, Section VI; Spenser Faerie Queene, Book IV, Canto XI.
Speakers: Christian Badura (Freie Universität Berlin); Michael Hanaghan (University of Exeter); Bram van der Velden (University of Cambridge).
4th Session: The Underworld
Handout Passages: Seneca Apocolocyntosis 13; Seneca Hercules Furens 662-96; Juvenal Satires 2.149-70; Petronius Satyricon72-3; Horace Odes 2.13; Virgil Aeneid 6.268-81; Ezra Pound, Canto XIV; T.S. Eliot Little Gidding 2.
Speakers: Kathrin Winter (Universität Heidelberg); Tom Geue (University of St Andrews); Giovanna Laterza (Université de Strasbourg).
Closing Keynote: William Fitzgerald (King's College London)
There is no fee for participation, but please write to Dr Elena Giusti (eg382@cam.ac.uk) by the 1st of April so that we can have an idea of numbers.
'The Modern Prometheus; or, Frankenstein'
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York: Friday 8 April and Saturday 9 April 2016
In July of 1816, that famous European 'year without a summer,' a young British woman vacationing with friends—including Lord Byron, Polidori, and Percy Shelley—wrote a 'ghost story' that would go on to become one of the most important and influential novels of our time. The young woman was Mary Shelley, and the novel of course is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. To celebrate the bicentennial of the ghost story challenge that conceived that "hideous progeny," scholars, students, and other readers are invited to a conference on The Modern Prometheus; or, Frankenstein, 8-9 April 2016 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, USA. A special focus of the conference is Frankenstein's deep roots in classical traditions. In addition to the Prometheus myth, for example, the text explicitly signals Plutarch and Seneca (in its first edition), and the novel has recently been shown to engage with Lucretius and Lucan. Since Frankenstein is a formative work of modern science fiction, indeed often cited as the starting-point of the genre, it raises the question of further interaction between that most modern genre and materials from classical antiquity. The study of classical receptions in Frankenstein, and in works inspired by it, also bridges the gap between 'canonical' or 'high' literature and more 'popular' fiction. The conference thus seeks to raise questions like:
* How do Greek and Roman myth, philosophy, literature, and history inform Frankenstein, and how might Frankenstein lead to new readings of the classics?
* As a generative work of modern science fiction, what relationships between that genre and classical antiquity might Frankenstein suggest?
* How do artistic and other traditions arising from Frankenstein invoke, or shed light on, ancient ideas in metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, and aesthetics?
* How might Frankenstein serve as a mediating prism, refracting classical traditions into later works of science fiction?
* And how do classical receptions inform the other works, and other traditions, which originated with the ghost story challenge of July 1816?
Date: Friday, 8 April, 2016 (All day) to Saturday, 9 April, 2016 (All day)
Location: Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
Organizers: Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College), Brett M. Rogers (University of Puget Sound), Benjamin Eldon Stevens (Trinity University).
Contact: modernprometheus2016@gmail.com
(CFP closed 15 Oct 2015)
'Inexcusabiles' - The Debate on Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period (1595 - 1772)
Warburg Institute (University of London, School of Advanced Study, Woburn Square, London): 8 April 2016
Organisers: Alberto Frigo (University of Reims) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute)
Speakers include: Michela Catto (FBK-ISR, Trento), Alberto Frigo (Reims), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Douglas Hedley (Cambridge), Franck Lessay (Paris), John Marenbon (Cambridge), Giuliano Mori, Michael Moriarty (Cambridge), François Trémolières (CELLF and Paris Ouest Nanterre) and Han van Ruler (Rotterdam)
In his pioneering Le Problème du salut des infidèles (1912, 1934), Louis Capéran devoted a number of pages to the theological debate on pagan salvation and the limbo at the time of Fénelon and Rousseau. More recently, Michael Moriarty has produced a comprehensive study on this topic (Oxford 2011), highlighting the role played by the French moralists. Yet the multiple forms that the Medieval and Renaissance debate on the pagans took during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries remain to be addressed in full. This one-day conference intends to fill this gap by looking at the history of early modern controversies on the salvation and virtues of the pagans. The posthumous edition of Montaigne’s Essais (1595) and Johann August Eberhard’s Neue Apologie des Socrates (1772) are the chronological limits that define the context that will be examined in this conference. Its aim is to reassess the question of the moral status of unbelievers in the early modern period by analysing how some specific theological issues were reshaped at the time. Above all, the conference will explore how the theme of the virtues and the salvation of the pagans intersected the early modern reception of ancient philosophy. The modern revival of Stoicism, Epicureanism and Scepticism is well known and has been studied extensively. Little attention, however, has been devoted to the relationship between the ethical models inspired by the heroes and philosophers of antiquity and the ‘new philosophy’.
Programme
Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) - Between St Paul and Galen: How Juan Huarte de San Juan Responded to Inquisitorial Censorship
Alberto Frigo (University of Reims) - Montaigne’s Gods
Michael Moriarty (University of Cambridge) - ‘Would God Have Created the World in Order to Damn It?’; or is that a ‘Stupid Question’?
John Marenbon (University of Cambridge) - Pagan Salvation and Pagan Virtues – Collius and La Mothe Le Vayer
Han van Ruler (University of Rotteram) - The Scope of Grace: Early Modern Moral Philosophy and the Metaphysico-Moral Paradoxes of Divine Assistance
Franck Lessay (University of Paris) - Hobbes’s Covenant, a Refuge for Heretics and Atheists?
Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge) - Cudworth and Pagan Monotheism
François Tremolières (CELLF and Paris Ouest Nanterre) - Vertu des païens et salut des infidèles dans l’oeuvre de Fénelon
Giuliano Mori - Historia Gentilium (ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam): Jesuits, Missionaries, and the Seventeenth-Century Quest for a Universal History
Michela Catto (FBK-ISR, Trento) - Jesuits and Chinese Atheism: Back and Forth between Europe and China
Registration and payment details: http://store.london.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=5&catid=38&prodid=960.
Website: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2015-16/pagan-virtues/.
Antiquity in Italy (1 BC – 1800): Continuities and Refractions
Warburg Institute (University of London, School of Advanced Study, Woburn Square, London): 6-7 April 2016
Organisers: Francesco Caglioti and Bianca de Divitiis (University of Naples)
Speakers: Howard Burns (Scuola Normale Superiore), Francesco Caglioti (Naples), Francesco De Angelis (Columbia), Sible De Blauuw (Radboud, Nijmegen), Bianca de Divitiis (Naples), Julian Gardner (Warwick), Isabella Lazzarini (del Molise), Tod Marder (Rutgers), Tanja Michalsky (Biblioteca Hertziana), Tomaso Montanari (Naples), Anna Ottani Cavina (Bologna), Susanna Pasquali (Rome La Sapienza), Filippomaria Pontani (Venice Ca' Fosari) and Guido Rebecchini (Courtauld Institute)
The aim of the conference is to examine the concept of the 'classical past' by analysing how ruling elites, civic communities, social groups and families in Italy in different periods and in different contexts invented and shaped their own 'classical' past according to their actual concerns.
The conference is conceived as the final international meeting of the HistAntArtSI project. Funded by an ERC grant, HistAntArtSI (www.histantartsi.eu) has been studying over the last five years (2011-2015) historical memory, antiquarian culture and artistic patronage in the cities and towns of southern Italy between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In particular, the project has been looking at how documents sanctioning the existence of local administrative institutions, and monuments from antiquity and from the more recent past, both surviving in conspicuous quantities, were central to the processes of constructing the local identities of urban centres throughout the Kingdom of Naples. Identity was expressed both through new literary works and new works of art and architecture. The results of the research are now established and are ready for comparison with similar researches relating to other areas and to other historical periods, with the aim above all of questioning, through this comparative approach, the underlying reasons which motivated the creation of urban and civic identity.
By examining a very wide chronological range, from ancient Roman times to the Neoclassical period, and focusing on various contexts in the Italian territory, the conference aims to look at how in different periods different areas shaped their notions of the 'antique' and their own idea of the past, an idea which was not necessarily confined to Greek and Roman remains, but could include examples from pre-Greek and pre-Roman indigenous pasts, as well as from more recent history. Real or fictive ruins, inscriptions, and literary works were used to express a particular vision of a place's local origins, to rewrite its history or manifest its civic pride.
We ask speakers to select from their own research themes and cases addressing the idea of why and how 'antiquity' was reused, and examine the ways in which individuals or communities of patrons or artists, in looking back to the past, chose to select specific features from it. In particular, we seek papers on cultural operations in which the reuse or revival of 'antiquity' was not only intended as a formal and aesthetic element, but was guided by an ideological need to build a contemporary sense of identity, which took the past as its point of departure. Papers might also consider how the exchange or intermittence of past and present led to the strategic selection and display of ancestors and genealogies as part of the reconstruction of a family or centre's history and therefore of their identity. They may also address the concepts of 'geographical antiquity' and 'chronological antiquity', that is to say, cases where ancient remains were reused because they were local and therefore in order to enhance local history (as in Capua or Milan during the fifteenth century), or because there was a need to refer back to a specific period of the past (as in the Paleochristian revival in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Rome).
Website: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2015-16/antiquity-in-italy.
Translating and Interpreting Ovid in the Late Middle Ages
Department of the Classics, Harvard University: April 4th, 2016
With the support of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University and the Secretary for Universities and Research at the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge of the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia.
Speakers:
Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard): Introduction
Frank T. Coulson (The Ohio State University): The Latin School Tradition on the Metamorphoses in the Middle Ages
Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich and Beatrice Wyss (Universität Bern): Giovanni del Virgilio's Expositio
Ana Pairet (Rutgers University): Christine de Pizan, a reader of the Ovide moralisé
Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Medieval Catalan Translations
Gemma Pellissa Prades (Harvard University): The 15th-Century Catalan Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Francesc Alegre (1494)
Website: http://translatingovid.weebly.com/.
Antiquity and the History of Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Europe
University of Edinburgh (New College): 4 April 2016
This one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Edinburgh on 4 April 2016 aims at exploring the reception of antiquity in Europe in the long eighteenth century (ca 1650-1800). This period is frequently referred to as the 'birthplace of modernity', yet scholars have long recognised that the ancient world exerted a profound impact on the European 'Enlightenment'. By either contrast or identification, contemporaries appealed to the ancient world – in its classical, Christian, and extra-European guises – in their engagement with a variety of religious, political, philosophical, historical, literary, and cultural debates. The conference seeks to build on the rich and diverse range of scholarship produced in this field by providing an interdisciplinary forum for researchers in departments including History, Classics, and Theology to discuss their work. In so doing, we hope to gain a deeper understanding of the substantial European engagement with antiquity, and thus also of the central intellectual concerns of eighteenth-century thought and 'enlightened' culture. The conference will consist of several panels followed by a key-note lecture from Dr Anthony Ossa-Richardson of the University of Southampton. We invite proposals for twenty-minute individual papers from postgraduate and early-career researchers, dealing with any aspect of the engagement with antiquity in the long eighteenth century.
Topics may include but are by no means limited to:
* How did the reception of antiquity shape contemporary definitions of 'modernity'?
* Are ancient texts, civilisations, and characters used as a source of comparison with contemporary events, and/or to create a contrast between past and present?
* What role did antiquity play in contemporary religious debates?
* What role did antiquity play in shaping contemporary perceptions of the 'other'?
* How did new developments in 'orientalism' affect the encounter with antiquity?
* In what ways did the reception of antiquity contribute to political ideologies and institutions?
* How does the reception of antiquity contribute to eighteenth-century notions of progress?
* How does thinking about eighteenth-century engagements with antiquity help us to shed light on the contested label of 'the Enlightenment'?
* How can investigating the reception of the ancient world in the long eighteenth century help us to define and understand the practice of classical studies?
Abstracts of around 250 words along with a short biography should be sent in the body of an email to antiquity18thc@gmail.com by 1 December 2015.
For more information see our website: http://antiquity18thc.weebly.com
Speakers:
Keynote: Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Southampton) – The Comedies of Plattus
Thomas Hopkinson (Lancaster) – The 'Nymphs' of the Fountain of Arethusa and Representations of Classical Sicily in Travel Works c. 1770–1850
Nicole Cochrane (Hull) – Reception Theory and Material Culture in the Gentleman's Sculpture Gallery
Marta Dieli (Independent) – The Enlightenment and the Teaching of Ancient Greek Grammar in Greece
Alexander Jordan (Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Turin) – Epicureanism and Stoicism beyond the Scottish Enlightenment: Thomas Carlyle as Critic of David Hume
Alan Montgomery (Birkbeck College, London) – "An all-grasping rapacious nation": Celebrating the Rejection of Rome in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Flora Champy (ENS Lyon – Rutgers) – Rousseau's Rome: A Model or an Inspiration?
Anthony Ellis (Bern) – The Jealous God of Ancient Greece: Early-Modern and Enlightenment Theories on τὸ θεῖον φθονερόν, between Theology, Anthropology, and Classical Scholarship
Kelsey Jackson Williams (St Andrews) – Innovation and Heresy: Episcopalianism, Catholicism, and Antiquarianism in Enlightenment Scotland
Marco Duranti (Verona) – "I do not believe that any God is bad" (Eur. IT 391) – The Euripidean Premises for the Religious Message of Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris
(25/2/2016): register at http://antiquity18thcentury.eventbrite.co.uk before 28 March, or contact the organisers at antiquity18thc@gmail.com.
Oratory and Rhetoric: Ancient to Early Modern
University College London, Foster Court 307 (Gower Street, London): Wednesday, 23 March 2016
A consideration of the ways in which classical theories of oratory and rhetoric were redeployed, understood and influential in the early modern world.
Speakers:
Sarah Knight (Leicester), "Take heede of that dull, cold, idle way of reading Syllogismes out of a paper": learning to argue at the early modern English universities
Michael Trapp (KCL), Aelius Aristides’ Platonic Orations: Orators, Politicians and Plato’s Gorgias
Gesine Manuwald (UCL), 'that talker, Cicero': the orator Cicero as a figure in early modern drama
Mike Edwards (Roehampton), tbc.
All welcome, followed by a wine reception.
Book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oratory-and-rhetoric-ancient-to-early-modern-tickets-20056624905.
Classics and Resistance to World War One (1914-18)
The Rose Bowl, Leeds Beckett University, Portland Crescent, Leeds: Sunday March 20, 2016
Classics panel at the International Conference: 'Resistance to War', in association with the University of Leeds World War One Centenary project. 'Legacies of War 1914-18/2014-18'
Speakers:
Professor Angie Hobbs (Chair) (University of Sheffield): 'Classics in WW1'
Professor Lorna Hardwick (The Open University): 'The poetics of slippery concepts: WW1 receptions of ancient peace, power and struggle'
Dr Elizabeth Pender (University of Leeds): 'Hellenic Idealism: from Gilbert Murray to the Union of Democratic Control'
Professor Miranda Hickman (McGill University): 'Iphigenia and 'The Sight of Ships': H.D.'s Euripidean Resistance to WWI'.
Registration: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125259/conference_resistance_to_war_1914-1924.
The Classical and the Contemporary
University of Queensland and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane: March 16-18, 2016
Over the past fifteen years, the category of "the contemporary" in art history has been rapidly institutionalized, embedding the scholarly engagement with art practices in the present within the established discourses of history and redefining the space of exchange between the academy and the world outside its walls: "contemporary art" is now at once a field of academic study and the art world in real time. Art historians' interest in whether the institutional category of "the contemporary" marks a potentially troubling unmooring of their discipline from history and traditional scholarly practice seems to have been (symptomatically?) fleeting. Bringing together art historians as well as classicists, ancient historians, and artists, we aim to take up the category here under more capacious comparative conditions, as a phenomenon both specific to the global art world right now and a case study for thinking about points of engagement between academic study, especially history and philosophy, and the practice and production of art; between the study of ancient Greece and Rome and interventions in the present; between Greco-Roman antiquity and other classical traditions.
Rather than opposing "the contemporary" to history or the past tout court, we partner it with a term that's been a less familiar companion, "the classical," in order to explore the dynamics not of disjunction but of conjunction: not the contemporary or the classical but the contemporary and the classical. The workshop aims to occupy not just a temporal axis but also, in its conjunction with the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at Queensland Art Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, a spatial axis. The idea is not for participants to be occupying all axes at all times but to create a space for unpredictable intersections and resonant affinities.
We want to ask, in part: Can these terms, classical and contemporary, be thought together? Or does bringing one into focus obscure the other? Is the classical just another way of marking a historical consciousness foreign to the state of being contemporary? Or does it suggest, rather, a strategy for eliciting untimely dimensions of the contemporary? How does the conjunction of the classical and the contemporary change when we replace the classical with the postclassical? Does joining the classical with the contemporary expose the Eurocentrism that persists into current notions of the contemporary? Or is "the classical" itself a global concept? By contrast, what happens if we think of the classical not as a homogenizing term—a common tradition or the object of a "classical" education—but as a body of material encountered locally and contingently within a present at once pluralistic and networked? How does the enactment of these questions in and around art mimic or diverge from other forms of cultural production? We also want to invite participants to enact the conjunction of the classical and the contemporary—that is, not so much to theorize, defend, or reject the partnering of these terms as to map possible practices of imbricating past and present, classical and postclassical, local and global.
The workshop is jointly supported by the Postclassicisms network at Princeton University and the University of Queensland.
Confirmed Participants:
Alastair Blanshard (Queensland)
Christian Blood (Yonsei)
Rex Butler (Queensland/Monash)
Richard Fletcher (Ohio State University)
Jane Griffiths (Monash)
Constanze Güthenke (Oxford)
Brooke Holmes (Princeton)
Polina Kosmadaki (Benaki Museum)
Paolo Magagnoli (Queensland)
Richard Neer (University of Chicago)
Simon Perris (Wellington)
Asad Raza (Independent Artist)
Website: postclassicisms.org/public-events/forthcoming/the-classical-and-the-contemporary/.
Note: this is a closed workshop. Please contact Alastair Blanshard for further information.
There is a public lecture and panel discussion associated with the workshop:
Into Pan’s Cave: Ancient Greece meets Contemporary Art
Brisbane - University of Queensland Art Museum: Wednesday 16 March, 6.00pm
In the history of art, classical antiquity has always had an important place. But its uses and abuses vary widely at different times and contexts. What is the status of classical antiquity in contemporary art today? In a global world crisscrossed by hybrid traditions, what is at stake in engaging with "the Greeks"? In this lecture and panel discussion, Brooke Holmes, Polina Kosmadaki and Asad Raza discuss with Alastair Blanshard the conjunction of the classical and the contemporary in current art practices. Into Pan’s Cave explores, in particular, several sites of this conjunction. The panellists will focus on the zone of contact between art production and academic work as well as contemporary Athens as a place for making and exhibiting art.
Participants:
Brooke Holmes: Professor of Classics at Princeton University, USA. She is currently curating an exhibition entitled Liquid Antiquity for the new Benaki Museum in Athens, with the support of The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art (to open in Spring 2017).
Polina Kosmadaki: Curator of Paintings at the Benaki Museum, Athens, and an expert on Greek contemporary art.
Asad Raza: an artist and art producer, well known for his work with Tino Sehgal. In 2015 he developed a piece on the figure of Pan for Frieze Projects, London, and in 2014, he was the producer for Tino Sehgal’s work in the Roman Agora in Athens. He is currently developing a project for Documenta 14: Learning from Athens in 2017.
Alastair Blanshard (chair), Paul Eliadis Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland.
This event is part of the Postclassicisms project, an initiative funded by the Global Collaborative Networks Fund at Princeton University, USA, and is supported by the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland and the UQ Art Museum.
Free. All welcome. RSVP Friday 11 March to artmuseum@uq.edu.au / 07 3365 3046.
Beyond the Romans: What can Posthumanism do for Classical Studies?
TRAC: Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Rome: 16-19 March 2016
The term "posthumanism" is used to refer to a multitude of theoretical positions, with the common denominator of being critical of traditional conceptions of the privileges and limitations of "the human". Scholars within diverse fields have recently embraced posthumanist theories to challenge the standard dichotomies of Renaissance humanism in their research, stressing instead the mutual relationship between matter and discourse, and considering the agency of animals, artefacts, landscapes, and ideas alongside humans.
The session demonstrates posthuman theory's great potential to develop classical scholarship in general, and specifically classical archaeology, in relation to how we approach both ancient cultures and our own positions as researchers. Posthuman perspectives are particularly relevant for the topics of Roman mythology and religion, with their emphasis on metamorphoses, hybrid creatures, and encounters between actors that are human, divine, monstrous, or all of it. Roman religion is rife with animated landscapes and sacred groves, the oracular capacity of "inanimate" objects and liquid boundaries between images of gods and the gods themselves. In such instances, the assumptions of traditional scholarship have sometimes resulted in the construction of philosophical conundrums that may have been alien to Roman culture.
We explore how posthuman perspectives instead are capable of acknowledging the various ways in which Roman approaches to elements of myth, art and material culture, built and natural space and the sacred, displace and complicate modern notions of human exceptionalism and individualist subjectivity. The session aims to critically engage with the human/individual-focused research practices that have dominated archaeology, to explore the possibilities posthuman perspectives can provide for the development of Roman archaeology.
The session opens with Selsvold's paper that provides a general introduction to posthuman theory, its contexts, uses, and central debates, followed by papers presenting case studies demonstrating the perspective's potential. Åshede focuses on images of Priapus, who despite being the embodiment of phallic aggression is portrayed as blurring the boundaries between masculine/feminine, god/man/animal/tree and animate/inanimate. Filippo Carla (Exeter) investigates the connection between transgendered elements and divine claims in the self-presentation of Roman emperors, and Anna Foka (Umeå) explores how advancements in digital film technology affect modern understandings of the Roman amphitheatre.
We invite further papers that engage with the possibilities of posthuman perspectives for various aspects of Classical Studies!
Organised by Linnea Åshede linnea.ashede@gu.se and Irene Selsvold, irene.selsvold@gu.se, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
(CFP closed 18 December 2015).
Myth and Emotion in Early Modern Europe
University of Melbourne: 10 March 2016
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Greek and Roman classics became increasingly central to the European literary imagination, being referenced, translated, adopted and reshaped by a huge range of authors. In turn, current criticism of early modern literature is ever more concerned with the period’s reception and appropriation of the classical past. Greek and Roman myths held a twofold appeal for authors: they were ‘known’ stories, culturally iconic and comfortingly familiar to the educated reader, but readerly knowledge could also be manipulated, and the myths reshaped in emotionally provocative and iconoclastic ways. This one day symposium at the University of Melbourne will be an investigation into early modern use of classical myths, asking how myth was used both ‘privately’, to excite emotional effect, and ‘publically’, to respond to political, religious, or social events. This symposium will focus on how and why myth was used specifically to excite and manipulate emotional responses in early modern readers and audiences: responses that might run counter to the original, classical focus of such stories.
Confirmed Speakers
* Dr Gordon Raeburn (CHE, The University of Melbourne)
* Dr Katherine Heavey (The University of Glasgow)
* Associate Prof. Cora Fox (Arizona State University)
* Dr Diana Barnes (UQ)
* Dr Brandon Chua (UQ)
* Dr Kirk Essary (UWA)
Convenors: Dr Gordon Raeburn (CHE, The University of Melbourne) & Dr Katherine Heavey (The University of Glasgow)
An event of the Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800)
Registration: www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/myth-and-emotion-in-early-modern-europe/
Medeia(s), entre a filosofia, a retórica e a literatura (XIII Seminário Internacional Archai)
Centro Universitário de Brasília (UniCEUB): 7-9 March 2016
Por que Medeia(s)?
Como organizadores, acreditamos que cabe a estudiosos, em colaboração, analisar o papel de obras complexas e fundantes das origens do pensamento ocidental, como as Medeias de Eurípides e Sêneca, bem como sua recepção posterior, seja na adaptação e transposição de tais textos para o cinema, teatro ou literatura, ou no estudo de temas ali encontrados, como os do infanticídio e exílio, que ainda reverberam, hoje, nas páginas dos jornais e discussões sobre direitos humanos e liberdade, nas esferas da vida pública e privada, mesclando obras ficcionais e episódios reais do cotidiano. Destarte, convidamos para o debate especialistas ou não, interessados nesses problemas de fronteira, em um diálogo aberto e, esperamos, profícuo. O seminário dá continuidade a um projeto de eventos em que é, também, discutida a interface entre representações imagéticas e textuais do passado, estimulando um diálogo interdisciplinar entre áreas afins: filosofia, direito, letras clássicas, literatura comparada, cinema e teatro, dentre outras.
Sejam todos/as muito bem-vindos/as e enfrentemos, em g, as velhas tragédias e o que podemos ainda aprender com elas.
Convidados:
Frederick Ahl (Classics/Cornell University, EUA)
Sérgio Alcides Amaral ((FALE/UFMG)
Teresa V. R. Barbosa (FALE/UFMG)
Maria Regina Cândido (FALE/UERJ)
Renata Cazarini (DLCV/USP)
Carla Milani Damião (FAFIL/UFG)
Gabriela Geluda (cantora lírica/atriz)
Stefania Giombini (Derecho/Universitad de Girona, Espanha)
Imaculada Kangussu (FIL/UFOP)
Delfim Ferreira Leão (Letras/Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
Anderson Martins (LETRAS/UFRJ)
Alia Rodrigues (Cátedra UNESCO Archai/UnB)
Fernando Rodrigues (DLCV/USP)
Ana Maria Vicentini (UnB/Association Encore)
Martin Winkler (Classics/George Mason University, EUA)
Organização: Maria Cecília de M. N. Coelho (FIL/UFMG), Gabriele Cornelli (Cátedra UNESCO Archai/ PPGμ/UnB), Carolina Assunção e Alves (COM/UniCEUB)
Promoção: Cátedra UNESCO Archai da UnB, PPGμ–Programa de Pós-Graduação em Metafísica da UnB, PPGFIL–Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia da UFMG, Projeto de Extensão Cine UniCEUB.
Website: http://www.archai.unb.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=113.
Classical Representations in Popular Culture
37th Annual Southwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico: 10-13 February 2016
The Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) will once again be sponsoring sessions on CLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN POPULAR CULTURE at their 37th annual conference, February 10-13, 2016 at Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center in beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Papers on any aspect of Greek and Roman antiquity in contemporary culture are eligible for consideration. Potential topics include:
* Cinema directly or indirectly reflecting aspects of the ancient world in cinema: recent films involving Classical themes which you might consider include The Legend of Hercules, Pompeii, La Grande Belezza, Inside Llewyn Davis, as well as television series which engage with classical themes like Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Spartacus, Battlestar Galactica.
* Literary or theoretical analysis of literature employing classical references or motifs, like Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red or Night.
* Analysis of representations of classical history, literature, or philosophy in science fiction movies or books, as Edward Gibbons to Asimov's Foundation Trilogy or the impact of Thucydides in Cold War cinema.
* Or, conversely, the influence of Science Fiction on representations of the ancient world in later cinema (e.g., how did George Lucas' empire of the Star Wars franchise influence later representations of the Roman Empire?)
* Intellectual history of popular culture: how has Classics in popular culture created or shaped social or intellectual currents?
* Classical themes in productions of theater, opera, ballet, music, and the visual arts.
* Paedagogical applications of classics in popular culture: how can we use contemporary films, literature in the classroom?
Other possible topics include (but are not limited to): the Classical heroic figure in modern film or literature; Greek epic or drama in popular culture; Greek and Roman women in film; Classics and the Western; and Greek and Roman mythology in children's film, television, or literature.
Submit abstracts of 500 words or fewer to the online submission database at conference2016.southwestpca.org.
The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2015. Presentations are limited to 15 minutes. For questions, contact Area Chair Benjamin Haller at bhaller@vwc.edu.
(CFP closed 15 Nov 2015)
Australasian Society for Classical Studies Annual Conference (ASCS37)
University of Melbourne: February 2-5, 2016
Papers on reception topics (alphabetical):
K.O. Chong-Gossard (UMelb), Who was Sisyphus? Glosses of Greek Mythology in Badius' 1493 Edition of Terence
Joel Gordon (Otago), Who the hell is Hades? Hades' reception within modern film
Maxine Lewis (Auckland), A feminist reception of Catullus: Anna Jackson's I, Clodia
Samantha Masters (Stellenbosch University), Sculptural assemblage and Homeric poetry:
Charlayn von Solms' A Catalogue of Shapes
Sarah Midford (La Trobe), 'A Possession Forever': Writing Homer and Thucydides into The Official History of Australia in the
War of 1914-1918
Elizabeth Minchin (ANU), Story, landscape, memory: the enduring power of the notion 'Troy'
Simon Perris (VUW), Orpheus and Māui in Robert Sullivan's Captain Cook in the Underworld
Arthur Pomeroy (VUW), Franco Rossi and Social Renewal
Tom Stevenson (UQ), Julius Caesar in Film
Giulia Torello-Hill (Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), The Theatricality of Badius' edition of Terence
Andrew Turner (UMelb), Donatus' Terence commentary in Renaissance Italy and the edition of Badius
Conference webpage: http://shaps.unimelb.edu.au/events/australasian-society-for-classical-studies-conference-2016.
Sacrificing Iphigenia through the Ages
CADRE (Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception), University of Nottingham: 29-30 January 2016
The story of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, as told by the ancient tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides, has been repeatedly retold over the centuries. This international, interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars and practitioners to explore some of these retellings in a range of media. Conference participants will have the opportunity to attend a rare screening of the 1990 BBC production of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis. Topics include: ancient visual representations; Lady Lumley; Racine; Italian opera; de la Touche; Gluck; HD; Cacoyannis; Mike Carey.
Keynote Speaker: Edith Hall (KCL) 'Iphigenia and atheistic thought from Lucretius to the 21st century'.
Confirmed speakers: Lindsey Annable (Nottingham); Anastasia Bakogianni (UCL); Mike Carey (author); Alison Findlay (Lancaster) & Emma Rucastle (The Rose Company); Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham); Mary-Kay Gamel (UCSC); Sarah Hibberd (Nottingham); Robert Icke (Almeida Theatre); Miranda Hickman & Lynn Kozak (McGill); George Kovacs (Trent); Susanna Philippo (Newcastle); Amanda Potter (OU); Magdalena Zira (Fantastico Theatro).
Conference website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/humanities/classics/iphigenia/index.aspx.
The Use and Abuse of the Classical Tradition: A workshop with Professor Alastair Blanshard,
University of Queensland, IAS visiting fellow
University of Warwick: 22nd January 2016, 1-6 pm
Program:
Bobby Xinyue, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Augustus, Ovid's Fasti, and the French monarchy in the mid-seventeenth century
Vicky Jewell, PhD student, Department of Classics & Ancient History
Representations of the Acropolis in the art of the 1830s
Clare Siviter, PhD student, Department of French Studies
The (re)birth of 'la tragédie classique'
John McKeane, Department of French Studies, The University of Reading
Defining democratic tragedy in post-war Europe
Alison Cooley, Department of Classics and Ancient History
Latin inscriptions in the Ashmolean - the story beyond the Arundel Collection
John Gilmore, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
'In manu portat citharam sinistrâ'. Translation into Latin and Chinese literature as world literature: Some Latin versions of poems from the Confucian Book of Songs
Free lunch and tea/coffee provided for all attendees. Attendance is limited so please email J.Kemp@warwick.ac.uk to book your place.
Classics on Screen: A Warwick Classics & Warwick Film and Television Departments Joint Conference
University of Warwick: 13 January 2016, 12-6pm
Program:
Prof Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Edinburgh)
Salome, Good Girl: Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Biblical Vamp
Dr Kim Shahabudin (Reading)
'A man of large appetites': a Southern Cyclops in the Coens' O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
Dr Joanna Paul (Open University)
'Frescos steep'd in subterranean damps': an underground antiquity in Fellini's Roma
Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham)
Godard's Contempt: in search of Homer
Dr Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol)
The future of epic in cinema: tropes of reproduction in Ridley Scott's Prometheus
Prof Maria Wyke (UCL)
Antiquity and the origins of cinema
Final thoughts led by Prof Alastair Blanshard (University of Queensland), IAS visiting fellow
To attend please email J.Kemp@warwick.ac.uk.
Response and Responsibility in a Postclassical World
Session #72, Society for Classical Studies 147th Annual Meeting, San Francisco: January 7-9, 2016
What does it mean to respond to Greco-Roman antiquity? What forms of responsibility does a responsive relationship to the past entail? Are orientations of responsibility towards the otherness and difference of the past necessarily in tension with orientations of responsibility towards the "now" of the present, or do they inform one another in productive ways, and how? What does it mean to be responsible to long-dead cultures or one's own time? Or is response as responsibility better understood in terms of responsibility to specific others, or to oneself?
The term "reception" is often criticized for casting relationality to the past as inherently passive. It is possible that "response" simply inverts the hierarchy in reallocating agency to the reader (as in an overly reductive notion of "reader response" theory). We propose to use the term "response" to probe the implications of reframing reception as a particular kind of embedded act, and one in which we are ourselves implicated. Even if we suspend the idea that antiquity speaks back to those who follow, response still implies a mode of attention formed by the belief that one is being addressed, such that the question of what the Other wants from me is never far away (and of course may be front and center). Framed in this way, response raises questions both about the claims the past makes on us and other claims that the call of the past heightens or diminishes. These claims can also be understood as invitations to reimagine the future, insofar as responsibility to oneself or another is also an open-ended call to grow into and through a new or renewed relation. Here again we can ask what is at stake in framing responsibility in terms of obligation or invitation, and whether these terms exist in tension. Finally, it is worth probing how the concepts of responsibility and response are inflected differently within different disciplinary traditions, including philosophy, political theory, literary studies, anthropology, religion, and history, in addition to classics.
Organized by James I Porter (Berkeley) and Constanze Güthenke (Oxford)
Constanze Güthenke, University of Oxford
Introduction
James I Porter, University of California, Berkeley
Towards an Irresponsible Classics
Phiroze Vasunia, University College, London
Socrates, Gandhi, Derrida
Brooke Holmes, Princeton University
Situated Knowledges and the Dynamics of the Field
Alastair Blanshard, University of Queensland
Response
General Discussion
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Marx and Antiquity
Session #41, Society for Classical Studies 147th Annual Meeting, San Francisco: January 7-9, 2016
This panel examines the legacy of Karl Marx's attitude toward classical antiquity and its implications for the discipline of classics, both for those studying the afterlife of the ancient world and for those re-reading ancient texts. Individually the papers offer literary and philosophical approaches to this tradition, focusing on the writings of Marx himself, Virgil and Plutarch; taken as a whole, they seek to encourage discussion of how to imagine afresh the relationship between Marx and antiquity in an era when Marxist ideas are gaining renewed traction in social and political debates. Organizer: Adam Edward Lecznar, University of Bristol.
Adam Edward Lecznar, University of Bristol
Ode on a Grecian Printing-Press: Marx and the Possibility of Antiquity
Tom Geue, University of St. Andrews
Marxing out on fundus: Salvaging the Slave from Virgil's Farm
Martin Devecka, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Hell of the Populace: Marx, Epicurus, and the Limits of Enlightenment
Peter W. Rose, Miami University of Ohio
Response
General Discussion
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Traditions of Antiquity in the Post-Classical World: Religious, Ethnographic, and Political Representation in the Poetic Works of Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, and George of Pisidia
Session #14, Society for Classical Studies 147th Annual Meeting, San Francisco: January 7-9, 2016
The period of Late Antiquity witnessed the perpetuation of classical literary traditions under an empire facing unprecedented challenges and change. From the fourth to seventh centuries, Roman authors responded by adapting classical models and modes of discourse to the new political and social conditions by which they were surrounded. Proceeding chronologically, these four papers illustrate ways in which poets of the age appropriated classicizing forms in the renegotiation of political, religious, and ethnic identities—as these were conceived not only internally within the empire but also in relation to peoples beyond the frontiers.
Organizer: Randolph Ford, New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
Roald Dijkstra, Radboud Universiteit
TBA
Diederik Burgersdijk, University of Amsterdam
The Satirical and Epical Basis of Damasus' Anti-pagan Invective Carmen Contra Paganos
Randolph Ford, New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
A Still Triumphant Empire with the Barbarians at the Gates: Imperial Epic and Ethnographic Discourse in the Bellum Geticum of Claudian
Erik Hermans, New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
TBA
Noel Lenski, Yale University
Response
General Discussion
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New Wine in Old Wineskins: Topicality in Modern Performance of Athenian Drama
Session #66, Society for Classical Studies 147th Annual Meeting, San Francisco: January 7-9, 2016
Organized by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance; Eric Dugdale, Gustavus Adolphus College, and Rosanna Lauriola, Randolph-Macon College
This panel examines a range of contexts in which contemporary ethical, social, or political concerns have informed modern performance of Athenian drama. The papers analyze strategies adopted in translating, adapting and performing ancient drama for modern audiences. They investigate contexts in which the reception, diffusion and cultural reach of ancient drama is expanded through the use of non-dominant genres such as hip-hop or the incorporation of subaltern voices, and in which ancient drama becomes a vehicle for engaging with issues such as structural poverty, gender and income inequality, and euthanasia.
Eric Dugdale, Gustavus Adolphus College
Introduction
Casey Dué, University of Houston
Flippin' the Oedipus Record: Will Power's The Seven and Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes
Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State University
Do Something Addy Man: Herbert Marshall's Black Alcestis
Rosanna Lauriola, Randolph-Macon College
Antigone, Once Again: The Right to Live and To Die with Dignity
Wilfred Major, Louisiana State University
How New is Aristophanes in New Orleans
Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California, Santa Cruz
Response
General Discussion
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Classical and Early Modern Tragedy: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives
Session #28, Society for Classical Studies 147th Annual Meeting, San Francisco: January 7-9, 2016
Although the study of classical tragedy and its reception is flourishing, it continues to show the preferences characteristic of both fields: emphasis of Greek over Latin, modernity over early modernity. This inaugural panel of the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception examines how both fields stand to gain from taking fuller account of Renaissance tragedy and its context. The four papers address questions of vital interest to any student of tragedy or reception: How should tragedy be defined, and what does the early modern tradition contribute to that definition? What opportunities does this material offer today's classicists and cultural historians?
Organized by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception; Pramit Chaudhuri, Dartmouth College, and Ariane Schwartz, Harvard University.
Lothar Willms, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Tragic Phaidra: A Diachronic Case Study between Antiquity and Early Modern Age
Malika Bastin-Hammou, Université Grenoble Alpes
Hanc fabulam nescio an tragoediam vocare debeam: Florent Chrestien, Isaac Casaubon, Tragedy and Euripides' Cyclops
Emma Buckley, University of St. Andrews
Totus Ulixes: Versions of Ulysses in the Neo-Latin Ulysses Redux
Tatiana Korneeva, Freie Universität Berlin
Merope's Legacy on the Italian Stage
Robert Miola, Loyola University Maryland
Response
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Imitation in Medieval Latin Literature
Session #76, Society for Classical Studies 147th Annual Meeting, San Francisco: January 7-9, 2016
Organized by the Medieval Latin Studies Group; Bret Mulligan, Haverford College
Ian Fielding, University of Oxford
Imitation as Reincarnation? Rutilius, Messalla, and ‘Ouidius rediuiuus' at the Thermae Taurinae
Carey Fleiner, University of Winchester
Classical Poetry and a Carolingian Problem: Ermoldus Nigellus (829) and His Adaptation of Exile Poetry in his Verse-Epistle Ad Pippinum Regnum
Pedro Baroni Schmidt, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Archpoet's Archicancellarie, vir discrete mentis: Ovidian Imitation and its Metapoetical Implications
Justin Haynes, University of California, Los Angeles
Interpreting Twelfth-Century Imitation of the Classics: Walter of Châtillon's Imitation of the Aeneid in the Exordium of the Alexandreis
General Discussion
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Beyond the Case Study: Theorizing Classical Reception
Session #57, Society for Classical Studies 147th Annual Meeting, San Francisco: January 7-9, 2016
Organized by the Committee on Classical Tradition and Reception (Seminar – Advance Registration Required)
The seminar aims to engage participants in a dialogue about theorizing classical reception studies beyond the case study, which currently forms the backbone of this burgeoning subfield. Discussion questions include: What happens when western European models of classicism are exported beyond the traditional geographical boundaries? What happens to a classical object, figure, or text when it is produced for a mass audience whose knowledge of the ancient world cannot be assumed? Can the fragmentary nature of classical literature justify the polyphony of modern responses? How can temporality and the historicity of the act of reading affect classical reception?
Rosa Andujar, University College London, and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Saint Joseph's University
Introduction
Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge
Reception and Staying in the Field of Play
Vanda Zajko, University of Bristol
Affective Interests: Ancient Tragedy, Shakespeare and the Concept of Character
Laura Jansen, University of Bristol
Borges' Classical Receptions in Theory
Leah Whittington, Harvard University
Theorizing Closeness in Classical Reception Studies: Renaissance Supplements and Continuations
Shane Butler, The Johns Hopkins University
Response
General Discussion
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Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2015
Tragedy and World War II
University of Patras, Greece: 15 December 2015
Jocasta Classical Reception Greece (http://jocasta.upatras.gr/) is pleased to organise an interdisciplinary workshop on Tragedy and World War II which will take place on Tuesday 15 December 2015 at the University of Patras, Greece. On the occasion of the completion of 72 years since the Kalavrytan Holocaust (13 December 1943) and 70 years since the end of WWII, the workshop seeks to explore the interrelatedness between tragedy and events preceding or succeeding World War II, thus being circumscribed in a postclassical total-war climate.
We are interested in examining whether tragedy anchored in the Graeco-Roman world has functioned as a template for the renegotiation of anxieties, traumatic experiences or conflicting memories related with the advent or the aftermath of World War II. In particular we are interested in asking the following methodological questions:
* Is tragedy conceived as a genre or as a vehicle of a worldview adequate for the articulation and the negotiation of a large-scale tragic event?
* Why do adaptations of Ancient Greek myths proliferate in the years before and after World War II?
* Are the tragic adaptations reconfigurations of politics of resistance or of poetics of remembrance?
* What does it mean that tragedy was a medium for the dramatisation of conflicting worldviews at a climactic moment in modernity after which the value of Classics became highly contested?
We warmly welcome researchers interested in the aforementioned topics to join us and engage into dialogue on this aspect of Classical Reception at a workshop generously hosted at the University of Patras Library and kindly supported by the University of Patras Network Operations Centre.
Website: http://jocasta.upatras.gr/event/workshop-on-tragedy-and-world-war-ii/
Greece, Greeks and Greek in the Renaissance
Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus (Nicosia, Cyprus): 13 Dec 2015
Programme:
Welcome and Introduction (Natasha Constantinidou & Han Lamers) (9.00-9.15)
Session A: Classical Greek Learning in the Latin West (9.15-11.15)
Paola Tomé (Magdalen College, Oxford), Aldus Manutius and the Learning of Greek
Luigi-Alberto Sanchi (Institut d’Histoire du Droit - UMR 7184), Greek studies in Paris, ca 1490-1540: From a Thirsty Desert to the Rise of the Collège de France
Raf Van Rooy (University of Leuven), A Professor at Work: Hadrianus Amerotius (1490s–1560) and the Study of Greek in 16th-century Louvain
Coffee Break (11.15-11.30)
Session B: Reconciling the Classical and Byzantine Pasts (11.30-13.30)
Eirini Papadaki (University of Cyprus), ‘The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Early-Modern Greek Literature
Federica Ciccolella (Texas A&M University), ‘The Anacreontic Hymns of Maximos Margounios (1549-1602): A Revival of Byzantine Poetry?
Calliopi Dourou (Harvard University), ‘The Longs and Shorts of an Emergent Nation: Nikolaos Loukanes’s 1526 Iliad and the Unprosodic New Trojans
Lunch Break (13.30-14.30)
Session C: Reception, Appropriation, and Uses of Classical Greek Learning (14.30-16.30)
Hélène Cazès (University of Victoria), ‘A Passion for Ancient Greek in Renaissance Europe: (Re-)Inventing Philology and Humanism
Malika Bastin-Hammou (Grenoble University), ‘Teaching Greek with Aristophanes in the French Renaissance
Luigi Silvano (University of Turin), ‘Studying Humanist School Commentaries on the Greek Classics (XV-early XVI c.): A state of the Art
Coffee Break (16.30-16.45)
Session D: Responses & Round Table Discussion (16.45-18.00)
All are welcome! For further information and registration, please contact constantinidou.natasha@ucy.ac.cy
The conference is supported by the Department of Classics and Philosophy (University of Cyprus). Organizers: Natasha Constantinidou (University of Cyprus); Han Lamers (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
Mirrors for Princes in Antiquity and Their Reception
The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Leuven (Belgium): 2-3-4 December 2015
From 2-4 December 2015 Lectio hosts a conference, entitled 'Mirrors for Princes in Antiquity and their Reception', with a focus on classical Greek and Roman texts that served as sources of inspiration for similar writings in Byzantium, the Western Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
The keynote lectures are given by Prof. Oswyn Murray (Balliol College Oxford): 'The Classical Traditions of Panegyric and Advice to Princes' and by Prof. Aysha Pollnitz (Grinnell): 'Where the Mirrors really for Princes? The Use and Abuse of specula in Royal Education, 1500-1649'.
Program and more information: ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/international-conference-mirrors-for-princes/international-conference-mirrors-for-princes
Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2014
CFP Myth Criticism: "Myths in Crisis. The Crisis of Myth"
Universidad Complutense, Madrid
22-24 October 2014
The Crisis of Myth” emerges as the initiative of the National Research Project I+D “New forms of myth: an interdisciplinary methodology”, the Research Group on Myth Criticism ACIS, Amaltea. The organizing Committee aims to bring together researchers who can provide —either through theoretical reflection or textual analysis— their methodological principles or practical approaches on the problematic of the crisis of ancient, medieval and modern myths in contemporary literature and arts.
Conference Website: http://mythcriticism.wix.com/conference2014
Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society
Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
4-6 September 2014
The Classics Programme at Victoria University of Wellington is delighted to announce a conference on the reception of antiquity in New Zealand, to take place in Wellington on 4-6 September 2014. This conference seeks to explore New Zealand's relationship with its Greco-Roman heritage both through a critical appraisal of its effects but also by glimpsing into the creative experiences of New Zealand's writers and artists. To that end, we solicit presentations from students of antiquity as well as New Zealand culture and society, and from New Zealand writers, artists, and performers who have engaged with texts, themes, and ideas from antiquity. We also invite all of those interested in the subject, even if not offering a paper, to consider attending the first-ever conference devoted wholly to this topic. In particular, we hope for a mix of scholars, practitioners, and others, both in the audience and at the podium: we welcome abstracts for academic papers as well as presentations, from practitioners, of a more applied nature. Our common goal will be the elucidation of New Zealand's distinctive appropriation of the classics.
Possible topics include, but are in no way limited to, the following: poetry; fiction; graphic novels; drama; film and television; myth; architecture; education. Please submit a brief abstract (200-250 words), including a title and description of the contents of your paper, to Simon Perris (simon.perris@vuw.ac.nz). With a view to facilitating travel arrangements, we will begin assessing abstracts received, and notifying participants, immediately after the first deadline of Monday 5 May. Though preference will be given to abstracts received before that deadline, we will consider abstracts until the final deadline of Monday 4 June.
Registration for the conference is now open online. Standard registration is NZ $180 (full)/$80 (student), with day rates available. 'Earlybird' registrations for both days before 30 June 2014 will be charged at a discounted rate of $160/$60. A conference website with information about the conference, Victoria University, and the city of Wellington will appear in due course.
In the meantime, please send abstracts and requests for information to Simon Perris: simon.perris@vuw.ac.nz
Classics in Extremis
University of Durham
6th-7th July, 2014
Call for Papers
This conference aims to examine some of the most unexpected, most hard-fought, and (potentially) most revealing acts of classical reception: it will ask how the reception of the ancient world changes – and what the classical looks like – when it is under strain. Current debates in classical reception studies are increasingly focused on less assured and comfortable engagements with the past. Bringing together scholars with a variety of interests, this conference aims to move the debate beyond the specific case studies emerging in the field and to encourage the broader development of fresh methodologies and perspectives in thinking about the ‘classical’ as a troubled space – a space in which fraught and remarkable claims have been made upon the ancient world.
Abstracts of 300 words (for papers of 40 minutes) should be sent to Edmund Richardson (edmund.richardson@durham.ac.uk) by 31 January 2014. We hope to be able to offer a limited number of bursaries to postgraduate students giving papers.
See here for more information.
Classics and Classicists in the First World War
University of Leeds
April 8th-10th 2014
Call for Papers
This conference is organised as part of the University of Leeds’ Legacies of War project commemorating the centenary of the First World War (1914-18). The conference has two broad themes: the influence of WWI on Classics and Classicists and, conversely, the influence of Classics and Classicists on WWI. The programme will explore how wartime experiences impacted on Classicists' lives and the discipline itself, including WWI's continuing legacy in Classical scholarship, and how Classical ideals, archetypes and forms influenced public discourses of the war period, in politics, civic life, culture and the arts.
Abstracts of 300 words (for papers of 45 minutes) or expressions of interest should be sent to e.e.pender@leeds.ac.uk by Friday November 22nd.
See here for more information.
From I, Claudius, to Private Eyes: the Ancient World and Popular Fiction.
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
16-18th June 2014
Call for Papers
Over the last few years work, has begun on the subject of classics and children's fiction, with conferences being held in Lampeter (Hodkinson and Lovatt, 2009) and Warsaw (2012), and three publications presently forthcoming on this subject. Yet there has been surprisingly little sustained consideration of adult fiction and the ancient world, or indeed of children's literature within the wider context of popular fiction, despite the fact that this is a vast and rich field. The forthcoming conference, therefore, by way of setting about rectifying this situation, will be the first serious consideration of the full range of receptions of classics in popular fiction. It will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines (classics, English and other modern languages, comparative literature etc.) with popular modern authors, in order to acquire a range of perspectives on the subject.
Abstracts (up to 300 words) are invited for papers (20 minutes in length) on any aspect of the reception of the ancient world in popular fiction. Please send abstracts to lisa.maurice@biu.ac.il, citing full name and title, institution, provisional title of the paper, by 31st December 2013.
See here for more information
New Antiquities: Transformations Of The Past In The New Age And Beyond
Berlin
26–28 June 2014
Call for Papers
The twentieth century witnessed a surge of fascination with the religious culture of the ancient Mediterranean, whose allure was appropriated in innovative ways by various actors and movements ranging from Rudolf Steiner to Goddess-cult(ure)s, from Neo-Gnostics in Brazil to the Russian New Age. In these diverse interpretations and productive misunderstandings of antiquity, ancient gods, philosophers, religious specialists, sacred institutions, practices, and artifacts were invoked, employed, and even invented in order to legitimize new developments in religious life. Focusing on the contemporary period (from the 1960s to the present day), our goal is to identify these appropriations and changes of ancient religious life. We seek papers that address transformations of the past in the literature and cultural discourse of the New Age and beyond, extending into movements such as Neo-Paganism and Neo-Gnosticism.
Please send abstracts together with a CV (both no more than 500 words) to
newantiquities@yahoo.de. Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 1 December 2013.
Further inquiries can be directed to the co-organizers of the workshop: Prof. Dr. Almut-Barbara Renger (renger@zedat.fu-berlin.de) and Dr. Dylan M. Burns (dylan.burns@uni-leipzig.de).
Nationalism, Patriotism, Ancient And Modern
Warwick University HRC
10th May 2014
Call for Papers
The age of the concept of the nation has been the subject of much debate within the field of nationalism. Different schools have emerged during the course of the debate and each has argued either for the antiquity or modernity of the concept of the nation. Perennliasts and Primordialists have argued for the antiquity of the nation. Modernists have argued for the exclusivity of the nation to the modern, that is to say the post-nineteenth century, world. In 2012, Dr Caspar Hirschi published a work that reviewed the different positions in the field of nationalism. Hirschi advocated for a more interdisciplinary approach by combining both theoretical arguments with historical analysis. Nationalism, Patriotism, Ancient and Modern aims to build upon this interdisciplinary approach to the field of nationalism. Furthermore, it wishes to re-explore the relationship between nationalism and ancient civilisations.
Abstracts: maximum of 300 words with a short bibliographical note should be sent to a.g.peck@warwick.ac.uk by 20th January 2014.
See here for more information.
Theorising Reception Studies Downunder
University of Newcastle
20-21 February, 2014
Call for Papers
Classical Reception is an exciting and increasingly vocal element of Classical Studies today. While much research has been done on the interconnections between antiquity and modernity in terms of the United States, Europe and Britain, there has not been a thematic focus on the interchanges between the ancient worlds and Australia and New Zealand.
This two-day think-tank seeks to unpack the role of Reception Studies and its place within Australia and New Zealand from multiple perspectives.
See here for more details.
Enquiries: Marguerite Johnson (Marguerite.Johnson@newcastle.edu.au)
TRIVIUM
Institute of Classical Studies
Autumn Term 2013 and Winter Term 2014
Call for Papers
An interdisciplinary research network hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies, is holding a series of seminars. We are seeking proposals for collaborative papers; the choice of topic is open. An interdisciplinary approach is preferred, but not essential. What we hope is that this series will highlight the potential for collaborative research in the humanities, present a range of models and methods, and generate dialogue between scholars working in adjacent but otherwise segregated fields.
Each session will comprise a 40-minute paper delivered by two speakers working in tandem. Material may be divided as you choose: as two separate but complementary papers, or as a single integrated piece. You may be working on an existing collaborative project, or alternatively can form an ad hoc partnership for the purposes of the seminar. Reports by individuals involved in ongoing collaborations are another possibility.
Please send abstracts to londontrivium@gmail.com by September 13th, 2013
Inquiries: londontrivium@gmail.com
Website: www.londontrivium.wordpress.com
Classical Association Annual Conference 2014
University of Nottingham
13-16 April 2014
Call for Papers
In 2014 the Annual Conference of the Classical Association will be hosted by the Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham. The dates for the conference are Sunday 13 April to Wednesday 16 April 2014. The conference dinner will be held at Colwick Hall, ancestral home of Lord Byron.
We welcome proposals for papers (twenty minutes long followed by discussion) from graduate students, school teachers, academic staff, and others interested in the ancient world, on any aspect of the classical world. We are keen to encourage papers from a broad range of perspectives. We are particularly keen to receive proposals for coordinated panels (comprising either three or four papers on any classical theme). We also welcome suggestions for informal round-table discussions; for instance, we propose one on ‘Classics, popular culture and recruitment’.
For more information see here.
Please send your title and abstract (no more than 300 words), not later than 31 August 2013 to ca2014@nottingham.ac.uk.
Website: www.nottingham.ac.uk/classics
Cicero Awayday VIII: Call for Papers
13 May 2014
University of Glasgow
This day seeks to continue the Awayday's tradition of friendly, informal and wide-ranging discussion. Papers on any aspect of Cicero's life, works and reception are welcome. Papers should be no longer than 30minutes in length; shorter papers will be considered, and the presentation of work in progress is encouraged.
No funds are available for travel or accommodation, and there are no plans to publish proceedings.
Abstracts: Proposals should be submitted to Professor Catherine Steel (catherine.steel@glasgow.ac.uk) by January 10th 2014.
New Perspectives on Virgil’s Georgics
3rd – 4th April 2014
University College London
T. S. Eliot branded the Aeneid ‘the classic of all Europe’, but the importance of Virgil’s Georgics within the European tradition has often been overlooked. This conference will provide a venue for a long overdue reappraisal of the Georgics and their contribution to the history of art, thought, and literature.
We invite submissions from disciplines including but not limited to Classics and Classical Reception, Philosophy, Ancient History, Art History, Critical Theory, and the History of Science. By bringing together scholars from diverse fields of study, the conference aims to foster new perspectives and theoretical approaches to this fascinating text.
More information found here.
Abstracts: No more than 300 words by 5pm Sunday 30th June 2013.
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/events/GeorgicsConfApril2014
Commemorating Augustus: A bimillennial re-evaluation
Call for Papers
18th-20th August 2014
University of Leeds,
Recent publications by Barbara Levick, Karl Galinsky and others demonstrate the ongoing strength of contemporary interest in the historical Augustus. But while the reception histories of figures such as Nero, Julius Caesar and Elagabalus have benefited from focused large-scale scholarly investigations, Augustus’ remains seriously under-explored. Given the controversial nature of his career and the widely variant responses which he has provoked, this is a serious barrier to a full 21stcentury understanding of Augustus. We cannot see him clearly for ourselves until we have explored the full range of his past receptions and their impact on our own view.
The bimillennium of Augustus’ death on 19th August 2014 is the perfect opportunity for a systematic assessment of his posthumous legacy and a re-evaluation of his current significance. Commemorating Augustus, a major international conference running over the bimillennium itself, will bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines to undertake this work. The aim is to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and enable new perspectives through a shared focus on a single iconic figure.
Further information found here.
Deadline for abstracts: 1st December 2013
Email: p.j.goodman@leeds.ac.uk
Classics and Classicists in the 'Great War' 1914-18
April 8th - 10th 2014
Classics, University of Leeds
Part of the University of Leeds “Legacies of War” centenary commemorations of the First World War (http://arts.leeds.ac.uk/legaciesofwar).
The conference will consider in parallel the impact of the war on Classics and Classicists and the recourse to classical thought and archetypes in mainstream cultural forms during the war and its aftermath, including political discourse, literature, poetry and the arts. Discussions will explore how classical scholars, alongside thinkers, writers and artists across the world, sought to respond to the catastrophe and how voices and images from antiquity were present in the political and cultural life of the war period. At a remove of one hundred years, the conference will reflect on the different histories of Classics in the First World War and the legacies that remain. A programme and call for papers will follow in June.
Legacies of War, About Us: “The 2014-18 centenary of what was referred to at the time as the ‘Great War’ will be a time for reflection and debate about what happened during the war and what its profound and long-term consequences were. Members of the Legacies of War project will participate in and help to coordinate a series of events and activities that will take place across Leeds in 2014-18 in theatres, cinemas, museums, galleries and at the University. These events will commemorate and explore different histories of the First World War, and will examine its multiple historical, cultural and social legacies.”
Classical Association Annual Conference 2014
13-16 April 2014
Colwick Hall, University of Nottingham
We welcome proposals for papers (twenty minutes long followed by discussion) from graduate students, school teachers, academic staff, and others interested in the ancient world, on the topics suggested below, or on any other aspect of the classical world. We are keen to encourage papers from a broad range of perspectives. We are particularly keen to receive proposals for coordinated panels (comprising either three or four papers on any classical theme). We also welcome suggestions for informal round-table discussions; for instance, we propose one on ‘Classics, popular culture and recruitment’.
Please send your title and abstract (no more than 300 words), not later than 31 August 2013 to ca2014@nottingham.ac.uk. We prefer to receive abstracts by email attachment.
Further details are here.
Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage
24-26 June 2014
University College London
This international conference seeks to explore the broad afterlife of Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy in Latin American theater in the modern period. Latin American dramatists have repeatedly engaged with their classical forebears in order to interrogate and debate new political, social, and religious paradigms. Especially in the past few decades, the region has seen a number of pioneering theatrical adaptations of classical drama that directly address the turbulence of the twentieth century and the dilemmas of postcolonial reality. Latin American ‘Antígonas’, for example, make use of their Athenian prototype as a means to explore issues that are pertinent to the region’s painful history of social and political conflicts.
Please send 600 word abstracts by Monday, 1 July 2013 to: greeksromanslastage@gmail.com.
Further details are here.
Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2013
Third Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World
University of Exeter
5th – 6th December 2013
AMPRAW is a two day residential conference which provides both UK and international postgraduate students, from all disciplines, with the opportunity to present their research on the reception of the ancient world to the thriving classical reception academic community. Over thirty papers will be presented by postgraduate students from a variety of disciplines and institutions, both on the conference’s central themes and on a range of other aspects of the reception of the ancient world.
Conference Website:
http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/postgraduateresearch/ampraw2013
For more information, please contact: AMPRAW2013@exeter.ac.uk
The Art of Reception
University of Hamburg
28–30 November 2013
The conference which aims mainly at young researchers is dealing with processes of reception in visual arts. Images (in the broadest sense: sculpture as well as performance, oil on canvas or Hollywood movies) are rambling through cultures and times. Decoding of their changing meanings and references is a key to the understanding of the involved cultures. Looking at recent publications it seems that in the wake of Aby Warburg’s analysis of classical reception in the renaissance art history and classics are still the protagonists of reception studies.
mail@kunstderrezeption.de (contact persons: Jacobus Bracker, Ann-Kathrin Hubrich)
See here for more details.
The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry 600BC-400AD:
Transmission, Canonization, and Paratext
University of Reading
6th-8th September 2013
Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poetry have come down to us through the filter of selection, editing, and commentary by ancient scholars. This amounts to a textual and diachronic context for lyric poetry no less crucial to its understanding than the oral and synchronic context of an original performance. This conference aims to appraise the variety of ways in which the reading of the scholarly ‘paratext’ affects our reading of the lyric poems.
Conference website: http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/research/songconference.aspx
Lucretius in Theory: Literary-critical approaches to the De Rerum Natura
University of Edinburgh
30 September & 1 October 2013
This conference brings together leading scholars from the UK, Europe, and the US to explore and develop approaches to the interpretation of Lucretius? De Rerum Natura. Recent reception-criticism has suggested that ?modernity? owes much to Lucretius; a central concern of this conference will be the extent to which the DRN is, accordingly, a suitable text to which to apply contemporary interpretative practices. The conference will consider, in particular, the value and/or limitations of modern critical theory alongside more traditional approaches. Papers will encompass a wide range of philological, literary-critical, and philosophical methodologies, and the boundaries and complementarities between these will be explored.
See here for more details.
Conference website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/history-classics-archaeology/news-events/events/lucretius-2013
Transhistorical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slavery
Purdue University
September 26-27, 2013
The conference brings together noted scholars in the study of slavery, both through live presentations and by video, and features a keynote address by Harvard University sociologist Orlando Patterson, author of several books on slavery and race, including Slavery and Social Death (1982) and Freedom in the Making of Western Civilization (1991). In addition to conference papers, the speakers will participate in a roundtable discussion defining slavery in modern and ancient contexts and challenges to its study.
Conference program: www.cla.purdue.edu/slc/main/news/SlaveryConference/TIAS-brochure-final.pdf
Registration: www.conf.purdue.edu/TIAS
Enquiries: Patrice Rankine (rankine@hope.edu)
The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry 600BC-400AD
Classics Department, University of Reading
6th-8th September 2013
Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poetry have come down to us through the filter of selection, editing, and commentary by ancient scholars. This amounts to a textual and diachronic context for lyric poetry no less crucial to its understanding than the oral and synchronic context of an original performance. This conference aims to appraise the variety of ways in which the reading of the scholarly ‘paratext’ affects our reading of the lyric poems.
Website: http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/research/songconference.aspx
The Platonic Letters: Readings and Receptions
University College London
2nd-4th September 2013
The letters attributed to Plato have had a colourful history. Although now almost universally regarded as spurious, they nevertheless hold an important place in the history of both the Platonic tradition and the wider Greek epistolary tradition. Circulating with the Platonic corpus, they have enjoyed a wide readership and prompted a fascinating variety of responses. The question of authenticity has, perhaps unfortunately, tended to dominate modern scholarship.
This international and interdisciplinary conference aims to move beyond the question of authenticity and to consider the varied roles of the Platonic Letters within the philosophical and literary tradition. It brings together experts in philosophy and epistolary literature from the UK, the USA and Europe to discuss the impact and reception of the Letters throughout antiquity. Topics to be discussed include the Letters’ philosophical relevance and influence on later philosophical works, literary readings of individual letters, the arrangement of the collection, and the question of their importance for later composers of literary and fictional letters.
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/events/PlatoConfSept2013
The Ancient Lives of Virgil: History and Myth, Sources and Reception
Classics Faculty, Cambridge,
5-7 September 2013
The tradition of ancient lives of poets (and other intellectuals) has attracted considerable attention in recent years, and the reception of Virgil has been studied over an increasing range of literary-historical, cultural-historical, and political perspectives. This conference in September 2013,organized by Philip Hardie and Anton Powell, will aim to bring into dialogue philological and historical scholarship on the Lives of Virgil together with more recent approaches to ancient biographical traditions and to legends about poets. There will also be papers on the reception and elaboration of the Lives in the post-classical world, and on the relationship of the Lives to portraits of Virgil.
For the conference program see here.
The Art of Reception: Call for Papers
28–30 November 2013
University of Hamburg
In November this year the conference "The Art of Reception" will be held at the University of Hamburg dealing with theories and methods of reception analysis. It is organised by students of classical archaeology and art history and aims particularly at young researchers.
More information found here.
Abstracts: Until 31 July 2013. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words. Further we would be grateful to receive a short academic CV. Email Jacobus Bracker mail@kunstderrezeption.de
The Amphora Issue of MHJ
Call for Book Reviews
The Amphora Issue invites submissions of Book Reviews for their 2013 publication.
Potential books for review must have a publication date within the last two years. Book reviews of single books should be 1000 words in length; reviews of two related books should be 1500 words in length.
Submissions due 31st August, 2013.
Website: theamphoraissue.wordpress.com
Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century
22-23 June 2013
Durham University
An international conference in the Department of Classics, to be held on Saturday 22 June and Sunday 23 June 2013 in the Ritson Room, 38 North Bailey.
There will be a small conference fee of 20 GBP for participants from outside Durham University. A reduced rate of 10 GBP is available for graduate students. Please note that this does not include the conference dinner for which there is a separate charge of 25 GBP.
For details and payments, please get in touch with Thorsten Fögen.
Website: https://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/events/upcoming_events/nationalism/
The Reception of Greek and Roman Culture in East Asia
Texts & Artefacts, Institutions & Practices
Freie Universitaet Berlin
4th – 6th July 2013
This conference will explore the reception(s) of Greek and Roman culture in East Asia from antiquity to the present. That is, the conference seeks to explore the movement and transmission of knowledge between Western antiquity and East Asia as well as the circulation of this knowledge within East Asia.
All participants are kindly asked to register through the conference website no later than 25 June 2013. The conference registration fee is €35 (€25 for students).
Inquiries: greeceandromeinasia@gmail.com
Website: http://greeceandromeinasia.wordpress.com
Latin literature and the Classical World in Early Modern Scotland
June 22nd 2013
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is pleased to announce a one day conference on ‘Latin literature and the Classical World in Early Modern Scotland’, which will take place on June 22nd 2013 at the University of Glasgow.
Further information found here.
The Platonic Letters: Readings and Receptions
2nd-4th September 2013
University College, London
The letters attributed to Plato have had a colourful history. Although now almost universally regarded as spurious, they nevertheless hold an important place in the history of both the Platonic tradition and the wider Greek epistolary tradition. Circulating with the Platonic corpus, they have enjoyed a wide readership and prompted a fascinating variety of responses. The question of authenticity has, perhaps unfortunately, tended to dominate modern scholarship.
This international and interdisciplinary conference aims to move beyond the question of authenticity and to consider the varied roles of the Platonic Letters within the philosophical and literary tradition. It brings together experts in philosophy and epistolary literature from the UK, the USA and Europe to discuss the impact and reception of the Letters throughout antiquity. Topics to be discussed include the Letters’ philosophical relevance and influence on later philosophical works, literary readings of individual letters, the arrangement of the collection, and the question of their importance for later composers of literary and fictional letters.
Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/events/PlatoConfSept2013
Hercules: a hero for all ages
24th-26th June 2013
University of Leeds
A major international conference focusing on the reception of Heracles involving scholars, playwrights and artists. The scope of the conference ranges from the early-Christian and mediaeval periods through eighteenth-century France and Victorian Britain to today, considering a wide range of Herculean appearances: from emblem books to children’s literature, from animation to political symbolism, from France to Australasia, from virtue to vice. Full programme and abstracts available on the conference website.
If you can’t be in Leeds, you can take advantage of the Virtual Delegate rate (£35), appear on the delegate list and be able to listen to recordings of the papers online after the conference. The “Listen again” facility is part of full conference registration, to enable attendance at both parallel sessions.
Website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125177/hercules_conference_2013/2061/programme
Framing Classical Reception Studies
6th-8th 8 June 2013
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Further information found here.
Website: www.ru.nl/hlcs/framing-classicalreception-studies
Encounters with Athens, Rome and Jerusalem: (Re)Visiting Sites of Textual Authority in the C19th and early C20th
1st – 2nd July 2013
University of London
This two-day inter-disciplinary international conference explores the diverse ways in which the cultural authority of Athens, Rome and Jerusalem has mediated the experience and identities of those places in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
More information here.
Reconsidering Popular Comedy, Ancient and Modern
Wednesday 28–Friday 30 August 2013
University of Glasgow
The comic theatre of Greece and Rome, like that of many other crucial periods of comic history (e.g. Elizabethan and Jacobean drama; music hall; vaudeville) is often described as popular comedy. This conference aims to investigate the extent, limits and utility of considering comic drama to be "popular". We are particularly interested in the modes of performance and reception of comedy. How far does performance in front of a mass audience shape the form and language of comedy? How genuinely "popular" are different comic traditions? To what extent and in what ways do "elite" and "popular" interact in the original and subsequent contexts of reception? Is "popular comedy" a useful term or is it subsuming other more challenging concepts (such as, for example, class)? And to what extent can parallel themes in the production and reception of popular comedy be seen across cultures? The conference begins with the comic traditions of Greece and Rome, but is intended to broaden out the question to consider popular comedy in other periods and modes.
Website: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/classicsresearch/popularcomedyconference/
Indigenous Ideas and Foreign Influences
Interactions among Oral and Literary, Latin and Vernacular Cultures in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe International Workshop
26th – 27th September, 2013
Helsinki, Finland
The Medieval and Early Modern periods in Northern Europe (ca. 600–1600), defined broadly to include both Scandinavia, the Baltic, the British Isles and the Hanseatic areas of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, were characterized by the simultaneous existence of oral and literary as well as Latin and vernacular cultures. Worldviews, ideas, beliefs, customs and norms were neither purely Christian nor purely pagan. Instead, the surviving sources show traces of various cultural layers as a result of cultural blending; sometimes the different elements are easily discernible, but sometimes they are so intermingled that they cannot be distinguished. The syncretism applies to both religious and secular texts; the coexistence of Latin and vernacular sometimes appears literally in manuscripts that combined both Latin and vernacular content or used different vernacular languages in parallel. Moreover, some texts (defined in the broad sense of the word) were never written but remained oral, manifesting themselves in later folklore.
The workshop Indigenous Ideas and Foreign Influences will offer an arena for discussion of the interaction between oral and literary and the Latin and vernacular cultures in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe.
Further information found here.
Deadline for abstracts: 3rd May 2013
Email: indigenousandforeign@gmail.com
Reception of Ancient Myths in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Culture
November 28-29, 2013
Lodz, Poland
Chair of Classical Philology, University of Lodz (Poland) and Science Committee of
Ancient Culture, Polish Academy of Sciences, invite for the 1st International Interdisciplinary Conference Reception of Ancient Myths in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Culture which will be held November 28-29 in Lodz.
Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts of no more than 350 words (including bibliography) should be sent by email as a Word attachment to mythconference@op.pl by 15 June 2013.
Further information found here.
The Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond
Collection of Essays
Call for proposals [2013]
Herodotus’ Histories has proved to be one of the most influential and controversial texts to have survived from antiquity. It has been adopted, adapted, imitated, contested, admired and criticized across a diverse range of genres, historical periods, and geographical boundaries. We invite papers that explore the reception of the Histories in specific works or genres (including the literary, visual, and performing arts), or which trace the impact of the Histories on intellectual or cultural history at different times (diachronically or in circumscribed periods) and in different places. Proposals with a thematic focus (within a given reception context) are particularly encouraged in anticipation that this will lend new perspectives to the reception of Herodotus by considering the subject in a different way from traditional, chronologically arrangedaccounts.
Further details are here.
The Afterlife of Plutarch
A colloquium addressing the uses of Plutarch’s historical and philosophical works by late antique, medieval and early modern scholars, writers and artists.
23 – 24 May 2013
The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London
Speakers: Ewen Bowie (Oxford), Roberto Guerrini (Siena), Constanze Güthenke (Princeton), Edith Hall (Kings College London), Judith Mossmann (Nottingham), Frances Muecke (Sydney), John North (Institute of Classical Studies), Marianne Pade (Danish Institute Rome), Chris Pelling (Oxford), Alberto Rigolio (Oxford), Fred Schurink (Northumbria), Frances Titchener (Utah State), Mary-Rose Wyles (Oxford), Sophia Xenophontos (Cyprus) and Alexei Zadorojnyi (Liverpool)
Website: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia/afterlife-of-plutarch/
Swords, Sorcery, Sandals and Space: The Fantastika and the Classical World. A Science Fiction Foundation Conference
29 June – 1 July 2013
The Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, UK
The culture of the Classical world continues to shape that of the modern West. Those studying the Fantastika (science fiction, fantasy and horror) know that it has its roots in the literature of the Graeco-Roman world (Homer's Odyssey, Lucian's True History). At the same time, scholars of Classical Reception are increasingly investigating all aspects of popular culture, and have begun looking at science fiction. However, scholars of the one are not often enough in contact with scholars of the other. This conference aims to bridge the divide, and provide a forum in which SF and Classical Reception scholars can meet and exchange ideas.
Please send proposals to conferences@sf-foundation.org, to arrive by 30 September 2012. Paper proposals should be no more than 300 words. Themed panels should also include an introduction to the panel, of no more than 300 words. Please include the name of the author/panel convener, and contact details.
Further details are here.
Website: http://www.sf-foundation.org/events/index.html
Receptions of Antiquity, Receptions of Gender? Stereotype and Identity in Classically Informed Art
College Art Association Annual Conference
13-16 February 2013, New York City
While post-classical artists’ responses to the ever-broadening classical canon have received much scholarly attention, and while the range of theoretical approaches to these works has expanded, there have been few systematic studies of gender construction within art that seeks to adapt, appropriate, reuse, and/or reinterpret antiquity. This session explores gender stereotypes and identities found in classically informed art from the medieval era through today. Do the later artworks maintain anything authentically ancient? How do gender stereotypes of the different centuries intersect? Do the post-classical works uphold, question, or reject the cultural authority of classical art in their treatment of gender? Classical reception theory posits that meaning occurs at the moment of reception. How is reception of classical visual culture mediated by different viewing contexts in regard to gender issues? How do changing interpretations of ancient art and applications of new approaches affect the making and reading of art that looks back to antiquity?
Deadline: May 4, 2012
Please follow the CAA guidelines for formatting abstracts, available on-line at
http://www.collegeart.org/news/2012/03/28/propose-a-paper-or-presentation-for-the-2013-annual-conference/
Bodies in Motion: Contemporary Approaches to Choral Performance
A Panel Sponsored by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance
January 2013
APA/AIA Joint Annual Meeting, Seattle,
For this panel, we invite panelists to describe and discuss contemporary productions of Greek drama (tragedy and comedy) that emphasize the physicality/corporeality of the chorus. Topics that may be addressed include, but are certainly not limited to, the following: How is collective movement used in the production? Are the choral moves inspired by a particular performative tradition or technique? Do the movements of the chorus respond to specific cues in the Greek text or its translation(s)? Does the chorus contribute to a particular meaning (artistic, political, social, economic) of the dramatic performance as a whole? Can this contemporary rendering of the chorus help us revisit the original ancient performance with fresh eyes?
Further information available here.
Please submit abstracts by e-mail attachment by February 8, 2012 to Judith Hallett, jeph@umd.edu.
Abstracts should be only one page in length and must not include the author's name. In accordance with APA regulations, all abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Please follow the APA guidelines for formatting abstracts, available on-line at: http://apaclassics.org/index.php/annual_meeting/instructions_for_authors_of_abstracts
Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2012
Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance: Revenge and Gender from Classical to Early Modern Literature
5-6 September 2012
University of Bristol, UK
Revenge is often thought of as a quintessentially masculine activity, set in a martial world of blood feuds and patriarchal codes of honour. However, the quest for vengeance can also be portrayed as intensifying passionate feelings traditionally thought of as feminine. In such instances revenge does not confirm a man's heroic valour, but is a potentially emasculating force, dangerous to his reason, self-mastery, and gender identity. Such alternative ways of viewing revenge are also relevant when the avenger is a woman. To what extent is revenge deemed to be natural or unnatural to a woman, and what is its effect upon her psyche and perceived gender? Does the same impulse which effeminizes a man make a woman dangerously masculine? And how should we view the indirect ways that women influence retribution, such as through mourning, cursing, or goading? Are these an important means of female agency, or do they suggest women's exclusion from active revenge, reinforcing traditional gender roles? Are certain acts of violence interpreted differently if the perpetrator is a man or woman, father or mother, son or daughter?
This conference aims to explore these questions, re-evaluating the complex and varied ways that gender impacts the performance and interpretation of revenge. Further details are available here.
Go! Classics Go! The Beat Generation, the avant garde and the roots of counterculture
Research workshops at the University of St Andrews and the University of Pennsylvania
10th October (St. Andrews) & 17th November (University of Pennsylvania)
The School of Classics, University of St Andrews and the Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania will host joint research workshops that will explore the relationship between the discipline of Classics and the Beat Generation writers of the 1950s and early 60s. The workshops will examine the topic through a range of disciplines and consequently contributors from Classics, American Literature, Comparative Literature, Cultural History, Political Science, Gender Studies, and Music are welcome. There will be two research workshops, one in Philadelphia and one in St Andrews. The joint nature of the project is to provide opportunities for interdisciplinary discussions and exchange of ideas in two discrete locales.
Further details here.
Performing Sappho: A conference and performance
14 July 2012
Venue: Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford
Speakers: Armand D'Angour (Oxford) Josephine Balmer (Poet) Andrew Benjamin (Monash) Jane Griffiths (Monash) Marguerite Johnson (Newcastle, New South Wales) Margaret Reynolds (Queen Mary's, London) Margaret Williamson (Dartmouth) Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Johns Hopkins)
A performance of Jane Griffiths' Sappho…in 9 Fragments will take place in the evening
To register: please contact Justine.mcconnell@classics.ox.ac.uk
Website: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2012/01/performing-sappho-a-conference-and-performance
Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Conflict in World Fiction since 1989
5-6 July 2012
British Academy, London
This conference kindly funded by and hosted at the British Academy, July 5th and 6th 2012, is co-organised by Edith Hall (soon to be in the Classics Department, King's College London) and Katie Billotte (the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway). This unprecedented conference will bring together a global team of writers and scholars to discuss the importance of ancient Greek myths in the recent fictional narration of war. Novels from every continent will be discussed, including works by Maori, Chinese, African, Brazilian and Japanese authors. The conference will ask whether it is the very difficulties involved in addressing large-scale trauma that have elicited this new ‘mythical turn' in the medium; it will also explore the tensions involved in the use of canonical ancient Greek texts central to the western ‘colonial' curriculum in self-consciously anticolonial and postcolonial writing. Speakers will include Aleksandar Gatalica, Yan Lianke,Anna Ljunggren, Tom Holland, Fiona Macintosh, Patrice Rankine, Efie Spentzou, Adam Ganz, Girgio Amitrano, Justine McConnell and Ferial Ghazoul.
Olympics Ancient and Modern: Exhibitions, Conferences, Workshops
June-September 2012
Various Locations
2012 is a great year for athletics. And for the history of athletics. The whole concept of peaceful international competition through sport has its origin in the ancient world. To celebrate the return of the games to London after 64 years cultural bodies across London are offering a rich programme of events devoted to sport and competition, ancient and modern. Through exhibitions, public lectures, conferences, the programme looks not just at events and sites but at the idea of competition, the pursuit of excellence, motivation, rewards and prizes; it the way the ancient games have travelled across space and time, from a small site in ancient Greece to worlds then undreamt of. We look at the rebirths and revivals, at the different shapes the original idea has taken in different periods and cultures down to today.
Full programme of events is available here.
The programme now has a dedicated website, which will be updated regularly, at http://www.romansociety.org/events/olympics-2012.html
Athletic Foundations: Identity, Heritage and Sport
18 June 2012, 5-8pm
The Open University in London
A half day conference exploring the uses of heritage in the construction and consolidation of identities through modern sports events. Organised by the Open University in association with the Olympics 2012 Humanities programme.
Programme and registration details here. Conference website: www.open.ac.uk/Arts/af/
War as Spectacle Colloquium
15 June 2012
Michael Young Building, Meeting Rooms 1-4
Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
A programme and contact details are available here.
IMALIS workshop at Epidaurus
2nd - 9th June, 2012
Epidaurus, Greece
The Center for Ancient Hellenic Theatre of Epidaurus, IMALIS, in partnership with the Municipality of Epidaurus announces the 2012 Research Workshop Series titled "Shed the skin, trace the path, set the post: Approaches to the performance and staging of Ancient Greek Plays" with master instructors Atsushi Takenoushi (Jinen Globe), Paul Goodwin (Drama Center London), Prof. Demetrios Lekkas (Imalis, Open University) and Vasilios Arabos (Imalis).
For further details, see here
Masks, Echoes, Shadows: Locating Classical Receptions in the Cinema
29 May
Institute of Classical Studies, London
Cinema's fascination with the classical past can take many forms. In recent years, scholarly and popular attention has mostly been directed at films that recreate and reconstruct the narratives of ancient history and mythology, such as Gladiator and Clash of the Titans. Alongside these high-profile titles, though, are a wide range of other films whose relationship to antiquity may be much more intangible and ephemeral. Whether identifying Homeric references in O Brother, Where art Thou? or Mike Leigh's Naked, assessing Star Wars' debt to Roman history, or examining the recurrence of the Oedipus story in the cinema, there are a multitude of ways in which shadows of the past can be detected, classical motifs can be masked and unmasked, and echoes of ancient texts or events can reverberate. Recent publications by scholars such as Martin Winkler and Simon Goldhill have advanced this area of classical reception studies, but the underlying theoretical issues require further attention. This one-day colloquium will bring together scholars and students of classics and film in order to discuss new research in this area.
Registration details and a programme of speakers is available here.
Teaching Classical Receptions: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions
Classical Reception Studies Network/Higher Education Academy Workshop
Tuesday 15 May, 2012
Drayton House, UCL, London
This workshop, generously supported by the Higher Education Academy, will enable higher education teachers with experience of and/or interest in teaching reception topics to meet for focused discussion of some of the most pressing issues relating to classical receptions and pedagogy. These include the benefits of studying modern receptions of antiquity; how to integrate them into existing curricula; and how to support students and staff in this kind of study. In addition to the interactive sessions outlined below, the workshop will provide ample opportunity for participants to discuss their own experiences, to share best practice, and to help the CRSN formulate future plans for developing our support of reception teaching.
For further details, see here.
Preservation Amid the Ruins of Time: Classics and its Modern Contexts of Reception
Reception Seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting
Brown University
29th March-1st April 2012
A programme of speakers is available here.
Poetry and the Olympics - Ancient and Modern
29 March
New Academic Building, Goldsmiths, University of London
Keynote reading by Jo Shapcott; illustrated talks by Armand D'Angour, Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson; readings by Blake Morrison, Joan Anim-Addo, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight
For programme and further details of the event, go to: http://www.gold.ac.uk/olympics/events/poetryandtheolympics/#d.en.31361
RSVP to m.macdonald@gold.ac.uk
Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics
Contexts for Classics at the University of Michigan
March 22-24, 2012
Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Why do ancient stories and figures of war continue to capture our imagination at a time when modern warfare appears to be so thoroughly dominated by technology? Why do we continue to study them, and to be moved by them? What can we learn not only from ancient writings on war, but from our continuing fascination with them? How does our relationship to ancient war influence and shape our understanding of and reaction to our long contemporary wars? Is there an aesthetics of war that owes its force to our long engagement with those powerful stories that allowed Joseph de Maistre to claim that “war is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it”?
Our “Ancient Wars” brings together scholars in history, political theory, philosophy, and literary studies from the US and abroad, who are working at the cutting edge of the field: Kurt Raaflaub (Brown), Hans van Wees (University College London), Arlene Saxonhouse (University of Michigan), David Potter (University of Michigan); Sara Monoson (Northwestern University), Paul Woodruff (University of Texas), Nancy Sherman (Georgetown University), Peter Meineck (NYU); James Tatum (Dartmouth), Seth Schein (UC Davis), Susanne Goedde (University of Munich), and Page DuBois (UC San Diego).
Website: http://www.umich.edu/~ancwars/index.html
Caractacus: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Sunday
18th March
Victoria Rooms, University of Bristol
Elgar's cantata explores patriotism and imperialism through historical re-imagining of early British resistance to the Roman empire. This unique event examines Caractacus, the historical figure and the myth, from a range of disciplinary perspectives - archaeology, art history, classics, history, music and reception.
Speakers include: Tim Barringer (Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University); Stephen Banfield (Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music, University of Bristol); Richard Hingley (Professor of Archaeology, University of Durham); Ellen O'Gorman (Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol); Julian Rushton (Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds).
Website: http://caractacusstudyday-autohome.eventbrite.com/
Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2011
Straddling the Divide// Reception Studies Today
1-2 December, 2011
The University of Melbourne
This conference aims to bring together scholars in Australia and New Zealand, particularly postgraduates, who are interested in the Classical tradition and to ask what is unique about the Australasian vision of Classical Reception. We hope to facilitate meetings between scholars who otherwise would not have the opportunity to interact in such an interdisciplinary forum. Those who work in reception are often found in Classics departments, but may also be working in English Literature, Linguistics, Art History, Drama, History, Philosophy or even Fine Arts, Architecture or Politics. As such it can be difficult to know who around you is working on research which interacts with the Classical world. We hope to find you all at this conference. For further details about the conference, see
http://receptionscholars.com/conference-information/
Historiography and Antiquarianism
12-14 August 2011
University of Sydney, Australia
This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from Greco-Roman antiquity to the 17th century, and to assemble scholars interested in the relationship between history and antiquarianism in the ancient and pre-modern worlds. While antiquarian studies have expanded significantly in early modernist circles in the last 30 years, earlier centuries of antiquarianism (up to the 16th century) are only now beginning to attract interest. Was Arnaldo Momigliano right in 1950 that historians write narratives and solve problems, while antiquaries build systems and collect material remains? What has changed in our view of historiography and antiquarianism? Must we reconsider the disciplinary value of antiquarian methods? One historian has even recently argued: 'in the twentieth century antiquarianism conquered history.' The hope at this conference is to cross the boundaries between ancient and early modern historians and to provide new ideas for the study of culture in both fields.
Conference details here
Cinema and Antiquity: 2000-2011
12-14 July
University of Liverpool
The resurgence of cinema’s interest in antiquity that was triggered by the release of Gladiator in 2000 shows no signs of abating. This major international conference seeks to explore the directions that have been taken in a decade of moviemaking and scholarship, and to advance the field by concentrating on issues too often overlooked.
Keynote Speakers: Monica Cyrino, Pantelis Michelakis, Jon Solomon, Martin Winkler (tbc), Maria Wyke.
Further details: http://sace.liv.ac.uk/cinemaantiquity/
Re-imagining the Past: Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture
June 27-28
Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Burmingham
The aim of the conference is to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Modern Greece and Antiquity by exploring strategies of engagement with, appropriation, or even rejection of the ancient past. It will seek to re-examine Greek perceptions of the ancient past from the fifteenth century onwards, to re-consider different cultural or ideological uses of this past and to re-assess the contribution of antiquity to the emergence and development of modern Greek culture. Call for papers: www.reimaginingthepast.bham.ac.uk
Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2010
Seduction and Power - IMAGINES II: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts
September 22-25
Sponsored by the University of Bristol (Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition) and the University of Wales at Lampeter
Seduction and Power (IMAGINES II) is the second in a series of major international and interdisciplinary conferences focusing on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts. It explores the impact in post-classical imagery of the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power attributed to historical or legendary characters and events of the Ancient World. For the main outlines of the IMAGINES project and past and future conferences see project website: www.imagines-project.org
APGRD Annual Conference: Choruses: Ancient and Modern
September 13-14
This conference on the reception of the ancient chorus will take place in the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies and the Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Confirmed speakers include: Karen Ahlquist (George Washington), Josh Billings (Oxford), Claudia Bosse (theatre director), Laurence Dreyfus (Oxford), Zachary Dunbar (Central School of Speech and Drama), Simon Goldhill (Cambridge), Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität, Berlin), Albert Henrichs (Harvard), Martin Revermann (Toronto), Ian Rutherford (Reading), Roger Savage (Edinburgh).
For further details please contact naomi.setchell@classics.ox.ac.uk.
‘From Sappho to ... X’: Classics, performance, reception
August 20-22, 2010
A conference presented by the Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies and the Classical Studies Program of Monash University, in partnership with the Victorian College of the Arts and Music, the Australasian Classical Studies Reception Network, and Malthouse Theatre.
To coincide with Malthouse Theatre’s staging of the play Sappho...in 9 fragments, Monash University, the Victorian College of Arts and Music and the Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network are hosting a 3 day interdisciplinary conference on the relationship between performance and the Classics. The conference will bring together Classical scholarship, theatre studies, translation studies and cultural studies to investigate how performance manipulates and embodies our understanding of the classical world. Using the figure of Sappho as a metaphor for the many gaps we have to fill as we grapple with the otherness of the ancient world, the conference will explore how readers, translators, performers and spectators endlessly recreate the Classics in our imaginations and our embodiments.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)
Professor Page Du Bois (University of California, San Diego)
Professor Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
Professor Lorna Hardwick (Open University)
Professor Stanley Lombardo (University of Kansas)
Dr Margaret Reynolds (Queen Mary’s College, University of London)
Professor Peter Snow (Monash University)
A call for papers is located here.
Classics and Class
July 1-2, 2010
The Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome at Royal Holloway is delighted to announce that registration is now open for its British Academy-sponsored conference, 'Classics & Class', to be held at the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH, on July 1st and 2nd 2010.This is a change from the previously advertised venue of Bedford Square.
Speakers include Jonathan Rose (Keynote, Author of The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes), Chris Stray, Ed Richardson, Ekaterina Basargina, Adam Roberts, John Holford, Peter Rose (Closing Lecture), Paula James, Annie Ravenhill, Graham Oliver, Robert Crawford, Sarah Butler, Richard Alston, Margaret Malamud, and Katharine T. von Stackelberg.
In addition, there will be a Performance Event on the evening of July 1st with poetry and prose looking at the history of Classics through the prism of social class, featuring Tony Harrison and chaired by Peggy Reynolds (BBC's Adventures in Poetry). Separate registration for both the conference and the event (both of which are entirely free of charge and open to the public) is now open online at http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2010/classicsandclass/index.cfm. Places for attendees other than speakers and chairpersons are limited to 60, and will be offered on a firmly first-come first-serve basis. For further information please contact edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk.
Classics in the Modern World - a Democratic Turn?
An International Conference to be held at The Open University, Milton Keynes
18-20 June 2010
Classical texts, material culture and ideas seem in the last thirty or forty years to have become more widely and radically used and re-used among many groups and communities, irrespective of whether or not they have had a classical education of any kind. Furthermore, such rewritings and re-imaginings of classical material have frequently been used as part of the advocacy of liberation and emancipation or in social and political critique. Discussions about the relationship between classical languages and the vernacular or the demotic continue, as do debates about whether ancient historiography and philosophy provide a usable basis for decision making today. Such contested appropriations are not new and there is a long history of examples in which classical referents have been used by all sides in struggles for power and in aesthetic debate. This Conference will provide a forum for vigorous review and debate of these and other knotty issues. For a full programme and conference details, see http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/Conf2010/confpage2010.htm
Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2009
Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis
September 3-6
Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London.
Proposals panels are welcomed as are papers on relevant psychoanalytic or mythic texts. Please send a title and half-page abstract by 1st September 2008 to Vanda Zajko(v.zajko@bris.ac.uk) & Ellen O'Gorman (e.c.ogorman@bris.ac.uk), Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Bristol , BS8 1TB
This conference is organised under the aegis of The Bristol Institute for Greece , Rome and the Classical Tradition. For further details please see conference website at
www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha/centres/institute/
Sexual Knowledge: Uses of the Past
27th-29th July 2009
University of Exeter
Call for papers
Why and how have people throughout history turned to the past in order to make sense of sexual experience?
What kinds of authority has the past exercised in popular and scholarly debates about sexual practices, identities, civilization and morality?
How do changing interpretations of past sexualities reflect historical shifts in the way sex is understood?
This interdisciplinary conference invites abstracts for papers examining any aspect of the way that discussions about sex and human nature over the centuries have both been informed by and helped to shape ideas about past cultures and the interpretation of their material and textual legacies. We particularly welcome abstracts from postgraduates and early career scholars, for whom some limited funding may be available.
Title and abstract to be received by 31 October 2008
Contact details for further information:
Dr Rebecca Langlands, Classics Department, Amory Building, Rennes Drive,
Exeter, EX4 4RJ Email: r.langlands@exeter.ac.uk
Further conference information is available from the following website:
http://www.centres.ex.ac.uk/medhist/conferences/index.shtml
A conference poster is available here.
International Numismatic Conference
July 16-18
The Oriental Society of Australia, University of Sydney, Australia, July 2009
The conference will comprise seven papers by international speakers on aspects of oriental coinage and economy from Japan to the Mediterranean.
Conference Theme
Coins are ideas. There are two traditions of coinage, the Chinese in the east and the Greek in the west. These traditions meet in a line roughly stretching from Iran to Nepal, through eastern India and Burma, and down south-east Asia to Indonesia. Along this line there are coins which reveal a mixture of both traditions. When two ideas meet, we get a better understanding of each idea, and in turn new ideas are created. This conference, involving papers considering coinage on either side of and on this line, as well as non-monetary economy, aims to investigate the nature of human ideas and the very nature of coinage.
For further information, see conference website at:
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/JOSA/Numismatic.htm
France and the Classics
A seminar series organised jointly between the Humanities and Arts Research Centre & the Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome, Royal Holloway Univ. of London.
Papers include:
February 18, Fiona Macintosh 'Aeschylus and the Enlightenment'
March 4, Patrick Pollard 'Classical Improprieties in Modern France: Before and After Freud'
Contact: edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk
Classical Tradition and the Epic Impulse in Australian Theatre: The Lost Echo and The Women of Troy
A One-Day Colloquium, sponsored by The School of Arts and the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, University of New England.
Date: Monday, 2 February; 9 am to 5 pm.
Venue: Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney
Admission: $20 or $10 with student ID.
This colloquium will explore the recent collaborations in classical performance between Barrie Kosky, Tom Wright and the Sydney Theatre Company: The Lost Echo and The Women of Troy.
The Lost Echo was staged in 2006 at the Sydney Theatre Company: it provided a dazzling eight-hour adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The Women of Troy was staged in 2008 at the Wharf Theatre in Sydney and in Melbourne at the Malthouse Theatre. It provided an intimate staging of Euripides' text.
The colloquium will examine the significance, influence and dynamism of these two very different adaptations of classical texts.
Speakers from disciplines such as performance, literature, music, and classical studies will speak about The Lost Echo or The Women of Troy.
Tom Wright, the writer and translator of both productions, will give the keynote address.
For further details, see http://www.une.edu.au/arts/events/epic-impulse.php
or contact Dr Elizabeth Hale, School of Arts, University of New England.
Ph: (02) 6773-2356 E-mail: ehale@une.edu.au.
Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2008
Classical Collections and British Country houses and Gardens
December 12
Call for Papers
Papers are invited for a one day research seminar on ‘Classical Collections and British Country houses and Gardens' to be held at in the Arts Faculty, the Open University in Milton Keynes on Friday 12 December 2008. We plan to consider the relationship between classical collections ( of statuary, coins, architectural fragments or archaeological material ), their historical context at key points in the formation of the British country house and its setting, and their present survival as historic collections.
Questions we hope to address include: Do these collections acquire new meanings for each generation? Are they necessarily ‘closed collections' in the range of meanings they can support today? How do we respond to themes of nation, identity and memory, for instance, as part of the cultural work produced by their historic owners?
We welcome papers (30 minutes) on any aspect of the topic, and especially from postgraduate students. Please email your proposal (with brief a abstract) to Susie West (S.West@open.ac.uk) or Janet Huskinson (J.A.R.Huskinson@open.ac.uk ) by 1 September 2008.
African Athena: Black Athena 20 Years On
November 6-8
University of Warwick
Keynote Speakers: Martin Bernal, Paul Gilroy, Shelley Haley, Stephen Howe, Partha Mitter, Valentin Mudimbe, Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Patrice Rankine and Robert J. C. Young.
In order to register your attendance, please visit the conference website at: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/africanathena
Please forward any inquiries to: Dr. Daniel Orrells, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
Scholarship and/as Reception
November 5-6
Scholarship and/as Reception, an international cross-disciplinary conference, will be held at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. The aim is to explore the relationship between scholarship and other activities in the reception of Classical texts, ideas and concepts. Speakers will include Julia Gaisser (Bryn Mawr), Constanze Güthenke (Princeton), Duncan Kennedy (Bristol), Johannes Süssmann (Frankfurt) and Norman Vance (Sussex). Full details will be posted later when the programme is finalised. Please note the date and publicise to non-classicists with interests in this field. We hope to offer some travel bursaries to support graduate students who wish to attend.
Further information can be obtained from the organisers: Lorna Hardwick (l.p.hardwick@open.ac.uk) and Christopher Stray (c.a.stray@swan.ac.uk).
Greeks, Romans, Africans: 9th UNISA Classics Colloquium
October 23-25
Contributions are invited on topics related to the reciprocal relationship between Africa and the cultures of Greece and Rome. Papers dealing with ancient authors writing about Africa or with an African connection, historical and archaeological issues, as well as the reception of the classical world in Africa are welcomed. While the colloquium focuses on classical material, we encourage proposals from related fields and of an interdisciplinary nature.
Papers are limited to 45 minutes. Please submit abstracts of appr. 200 words via e-mail attachment to bosmapr@unisa.ac.za by 1 September 2008. The body of your email should include your name, institution, department, e-mail address, and the title of your paper.
Poetry and Performance: A Conference in honour of Oliver Taplin
26–27 September
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies Oxford
If you would like to attend this conference (details below), please contact Bill Allan (william.allan@univ.ox.ac.uk). Please also state whether you would like to attend the dinner (c. £20 plus drinks). There is no conference fee. We gratefully acknowledge the support of The British Academy, The Classics Faculty Board, and the OUP's John Fell Fund.
Refashioning the Classics: modern fabrications of the ancient world
20-21 September 2008
Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melbourne
This international, multidisciplinary conference will explore the modern representation and reception of the Classical world in contemporary culture and scholarship. The keynote speaker will be Professor Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge).
Call for papers and conference information (Word document)
Thinking the Olympics - Modern Bodies, Classical Minds?
18th-19th September 2008 at the Institute of Classical Studies
The 2008 Olympics in Beijing, poised between the return of the Games to Athens in 2004, and the future return to London in 2012, present a striking opportunity to reassess the role of the classical tradition in the modern, post-classical Olympic Games.
This interdisciplinary conference will consider the versions of ancient Greece legible, or suppressed, in the iconography, histories, literature, and ceremonies, both official and unofficial, of the revived Olympic Games. Perspectives from a variety of relevant disciplines, including classical reception studies, history ancient and modern, literary criticism, cultural studies, history of art, anthropology, media studies, political science, philosophy, sports science, and the history of medicine, are all welcome.
Professor David Gilman Romano, of the University of Pennsylvania will be our keynote speaker.
The conference website is available at www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/ecl/thinking-olympics
A provsional programme can be downloaded here. A registration form is available here.
Exhibiting Antiquity: What place does the exhibited object have in the reception of classical antiquity?
September 18-19
Birkbeck, University of London,
This conference aims to establish exhibited objects as an important aspect of the reception of ancient Greece and Rome. It will provide a forum for discussion of theoretical issues arising from the reception of such objects, as well as the particular challenges facing those involved in planning displays or exhibitions of antiquities. We will also consider the relationship between different modes of display - the object as cast, as souvenir, as authentic antiquity. Speakers might explore such varied topics as Apollo Belvedere in the English country house, the role of exhibited objects in Wincklemann's periodisation of the antique, the commodification of specific objects (such as the Portland Vase in the eighteenth century), literary responses to collections in Italy and the link between classics, museums and national identity.
Organisers: Catharine Edwards (History, Classics & Archaeology); Kate Nichols (History, Classics & Archaeology); Luisa Calè (English and Humanities).
Conference website:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/about/conferences/antiquityconference
8th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama: Violence
17 June 2008, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
18 June 2008, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham
The Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London, and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford. are pleased to announce the 8th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the reception of Greek and Roman Drama, with the focus of the 2008 symposium being 'Violence'. This two-day event will take place on Tuesday 17 June 2008 at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford, and Wednesday 18 June at Royal Holloway, Egham. Short papers (20 mins) or performative presentations are welcomed from postgraduates in all fields working on the reception of ancient drama, as well as post-doctorates who have not yet taken up a post. Abstracts (up to 400 words) should be emailed to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk no later than Friday 28 March 2008.
Call for papers (PDF)
The Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Drama
Institute of Classical Studies, London
June 12 and 13
The Institute of Classical studies is organising a conference on The Reception of Greek and Roman Drama to take place on 12-13 June 2008. The aim of the conference is to examine different aspects of the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Drama in a variety of different media: theatre, literature, art, music film and popular culture. Different methodological and theoretical approaches are welcome. Papers may cover any aspect of reception from antiquity up to the present.
First Call for Papers
If you are interested in giving a paper or organising a panel please send an abstract of up to 500 words to the conference organiser Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni: Anastasia.Bakogianni@sas.ac.uk
Classical Empires in Contemporary Culture
University College London
23 May 2008
A conference sponsored by University College London and the Classical Reception Studies Network
The nineteenth century was the century of empires, the twentieth saw theirdemise. At the start of the twenty-first century, according to Eric Hobsbawm in his most recent work Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism (2008), the old era of empires is beyond revival and there is no prospect of a return to the imperial worlds of the past. Yet, in popular political debate, the empires of the ancient world have a vital place as parallels and warnings about contemporary political formations – most notably the United States of America has widely been perceived as a modern Roman empire. Classical empires also surface regularly in media such as historical fiction, Hollywood cinema, or computer games. Documentaries reconstructing these ancient worlds routinely appear on European and American television networks.
This conference aims to explore the rich presence of the classical empires in contemporary culture, across a broad range of media (such as scholarship, education, fiction, art, theatre, film, television, advertising and the internet) and for a wide variety of purposes (education, entertainment, political argument, consumer pleasure).
The conference will be run according to a workshop format, with papers limited to 20 minutes each to allow for ample discussion. Please send abstracts of about 350 words to Maria Wyke at m.wyke@ucl.ac.uk by 3rd December 2007. There is no registration fee, and the conference is open to all.
American Philological Association Annual Meeting
4-6 January 2008
Hyatt Regency, Chicago
A large number of papers and panels at this year's conference deal with classical reception themes. A guide to papers (with links to abstracts) is availabale here.
Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2007
American Philological Association Annual Meeting
4-7 January, 2007
San Diego
This year's APA conference features more reception panels than ever before. For a guide to what's available in classical reception scholarship at the conference, click here.
Roman Politics Revisited: The Use of Rome in Modern Political Discourse
18 January -29 March
A series of papers presented at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Senate House. A list of the papers is available here.
CRSN Postgraduate Conference
14 February 2007
Institute of Classical Studies, London
Website: www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/crsn/
The UK-based CRSN will hold a one-day postgraduate conference on the Reception of Antiquity at the Institute of Classical Studies, London on 14 February, 2007. Programme details are available from the website.
Alexander the Great in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
8-10 March 2007
Victoria College, University of Toronto
Website: www.chass.utoronto.ca/medieval (click on Conferences)
The Centre for Medieval Studies and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Annual conference, with keynote addresses by Christopher Baswell (UCLA), Christine Chism (Rutgers University) and Klaus Grubmüller (University of Göttingen).
Receptions of Homer
27 April
A one-day conference in the reception of the Homeric epics from antiquity to modern times will be held at Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL Wilkins Building organized by the Department of Greek and Latin, UCL. Contact: Antony Makrinos a.makrinos@ucl.ac.uk
Current Debates in Classical Reception Studies
18-20 May
A Conference to be held at The Open University, Milton Keynes
Current Debates in Classical Reception is an international cross-disciplinary conference organized by the Open University Reception of Classical Texts Research Project. The conference marks the importance of Reception as a main area of research in Classics and Ancient History. Through its Plenary and Panel sessions, the conference will promote international debate on current work, including investigative approaches, research methods and theoretical frameworks. It will seek to create new cross-disciplinary contacts and collaborations in the study of relevant aspects of material and literary culture and to promote awareness of the histories of scholarship that have developed in different national and international contexts.
A Programme is available here.
Conference abstracts are available here.
Literature in English and Classical Translation 1850-1950, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
June 16
Proposals are invited for this one-day interdisciplinary conference that aims to investigate the impact of translation from the classical languages on literature written in English in the period between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of high modernism (circa 1950).
The conference welcomes both diachronic approaches that examine issues arising from the translation of particular classical authors or texts in the period, and approaches that consider the significance of the theory and practice of classical translation for a modern author or group of authors.
The conference follows from a series of seminars on the same theme that took place in the School of Advanced Study of the University of London over the academic year 2006-2007. It will conclude with a roundtable discussion to which the speakers of the London seminars will be invited to contribute in the form of short presentations.
Please submit paper proposals in the form of 300-word abstracts to Stefano Evangelista (stefano-maria.evangelista@trinity.ox.ac.uk) by 1 May 2007. Proposals from graduate students are particularly welcome.
7th Annual Postgraduate Symposium: Performing Identities
25-26 June 2007
Hosted by APGRD, Oxford and the Department of Theatre and Drama, RHUL
Call for papers and further information (Word document)
Greece, Rome, and Colonial India
29 June
This conference, which is to be held at SOAS (London), is sponsored by the University of Reading, Royal Holloway, SOAS, the British Academy, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
The aim of the conference is to draw attention to the double anniversary marked by the year 2007 -- the 150th year since the Indian ‘Mutiny' of 1857 and the 60th since Indian Independence in 1947 -- by disseminating the results of mutually illuminating research conducted by an international team of scholars (but as yet unpublished) into India's interactions with the (received and perceived) past of European antiquity. Contact: Phiroze Vasunia (p.vasunia@reading.ac.uk).
Conference website at www.reading.ac.uk/classics/grci/
Greek Drama IV
3 July - 6 July, 2007
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Proposals for papers are invited for the conference Greek Drama IV to be held at Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand. Offers of papers are welcome on all aspects of Greek drama, including Nachleben. An abstract of approx. 250 words should be sent by the deadline of 30 September 2006 to Professor John Davidson (john.davidson@vuw.ac.nz). A website will be set up at a later stage with details of cost, accommodation etc.
NEER Conference
3-8 July, 2007
The University of Western Australia
Website: www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au/neer_conference_2007
The Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research (NEER) is a national framework for enhancing Australian research into the culture and history of Europe between the fifth and early nineteenth centuries. The inaugural International NEER Conference seeks to fulfil these aims by inviting proposals for sessions addressing the conference theme - Networks, Communities, Continuities: Europe 400-1850 or one of the Network’s identified research themes: cultural memory - the persistence of early European culture into the present as the major component of Australia’s cultural memory; social fabric - social structures in early Europe, and their relationship to contemporary issues, especially poverty; families and gender; war, peace and conflict; intellectual formations - science, medicine and philosophy; early European/Australasian connections - the significance of early European contacts with the peoples of the Australasian region; and religion and spirituality - the diversity of religious practice, thought and spirituality that shape European identity
Perceptions of Horace, University College London
July 5-6
For the first conference this millennium devoted exclusively to the works of this poet, a distinguished programme of speakers from the UK, USA and Europe will present papers on numerous aspects of the construction of Horace and his works over a range of historical periods and a wide variety of media.
Contact: Luke Houghton (l.houghton@ucl.ac.uk) for further details.
Conference Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/GrandLat/horace.html
Ancient Drama in Modern Opera, 1600-1800 an APGRD Conference, Classics Centre, Oxford.
July 12
The importance of Greek drama for the evolution of European opera is well known but tends not to be distinguished from the influence of Greek mythology more generally. In keeping the focus of this conference on the influence of ancient drama in the first 200 years of opera's development we hope to shed new light both on that development and on the reception of Greek drama. The speakers are drawn from the worlds of Classics, Modern Languages, and Music, and they include people involved in the performance of operatic works as well as some of the leading academics in this field. Further details and provisional programme are available from the conference website: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/confopera.htm
Ruins and Reconstructions: Pompeii in the Popular Imagination
17th-19th July 2007
Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol
Website: www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/pompeii/index_html
In the two hundred and fifty years since excavations began, Pompeii has become a major source of inspiration to western imaginations. The site, and the widely accessible creations it inspired throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (novels, films, paintings, exhibitions, domestic interiors, souvenirs and guide books) brought antiquity into the public sphere of knowledge, to be shared between gentleman enthusiasts, middle-class readers and music hall audiences alike. More recently, whilst the physical state of the site itself has reached a critical state of decay, a surge of popular interest in Pompeii, a prototype ground zero, has seen the city, as imaginative tool, model of disaster and tourist hotspot, reach a wider audience than ever before.
This conference, sponsored by the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts, will explore the popular receptions and representations of Pompeii. Our aim is to provide a stimulating environment in which academics studying the city and its reception can be brought together with practitioners who have tried to bring Pompeii to life in media such as novels, painting, photography, documentary and journalism. Confirmed keynote speakers include Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Mary Beard, Stephen Harrison, Stefano de Caro and Lindsey Davis.
For further information, please contact Shelley Hales (Shelley.Hales@bris.ac.uk) or Joanna Paul (Joanna.Paul@liverpool.ac.uk) or visit the website.
Theorising Performance Reception
A conference organised by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford
September 14-15
Topics to be addressed include semiotics, the body, Shakespearean Performance history as comparand, audiences, authenticity, post-modernism and performance, paganism in the light of contemporary metaphysics, and the historical (re)constitution of the text.
For further details, and to register for the conference, please go to www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/conftheory.htm
Plaster Casts: Making, collecting, and displaying from classical antiquity to the present
24-26 September 2007
Building on the strong response to the study day Plaster Casts: making, collecting and display (University of Reading, October 2005), this conference will bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars interested in plaster casts and their various functions from classical antiquity to the present day. Sessions will address issues relevant to archaeologists, classicists, art historians, cultural historians, museologists and conservators from teaching institutions, and museums.
Conference website: www.plastercasts.org
Reception, Disciplinarity and Academic Careers
A CRSN workshop for research students
7th November 2007, 10am-5pm
Birkbeck, University of London (Room 152, Malet Street)
The study of classical receptions has come to occupy an assured place within many undergraduate programmes in Classics and Classical Studies, while some institutions offer MAs in the reception of antiquity and an increasing number of research students are working on projects in this area.
This workshop will offer a forum to explore the relationship of reception to Classics, but also to other disciplines such as History, English Literature and Art History. Reception projects are by their very nature inter-disciplinary but how does this affect the disciplinary identity of research students in particular? The theoretical issues at stake here are important in themselves but they also have a bearing on the more practical questions faced by research students in the reception of antiquity who would like to pursue an academic career.
How can I convince prospective colleagues that what I do is a fundamental part of Classics? If Classics doesn't seem the obvious home for my long-term future, how should I best approach other departments (e.g. English or History or Art History?) This workshop will offer the opportunity to share concerns and to learn from the experiences of distinguished academics with an interest in reception working in a variety of different institutional contexts.
No fee will be charged but space is limited. Those interested in attending should contact Catharine Edwards to book a place (C.Edwards@bbk.ac.uk). Programme details are available here.
Prometheus on Stage and Screen
November 24
A joint study day organised by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, The Open University and the British Museum in the BP Lecture Theatre, The British Museum Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.
Provisional Programme (pdf)
Contact: Russell Shone (office@hellenicsociety.org.uk)
Imagining slavery/celebrating abolition at Royal Holloway, University of London and the British Library
December 17-18
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British colonies.
The conference will bring together RHUL staff & PhD students, and an international team of researchers including Patrice Rankine, Brycchan Carey, William Fitzgerald, Greg Thalmann, Emily Greenwood, Ahuvia Kahane, Richard Alston, Deborah Kamen, Steve Hodkinson, John Hilton and Margaret Malamud. Accommodation will be provided at Royal Holloway's main site in Egham, a short train ride from central London and a taxi ride from London Heathrow airport. Contact: Edith Hall (edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk) or Leanne Hunnings (l.j.hunnings@rhul.ac.uk).
Further Information (pdf)
Archive of Conferences and Calls for Papers 2006
Re-Assemblage: Fifth Annual Symposium of the Cultural Transformation Research Network
30 November - 2 December
The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Proposals are invited for papers that engage with the theme of Re-Assemblage. Papers may explore ways in which cultures, histories and cultural elements/artworks have been, or are being, re-assembled into different media, new locations, and new forms, whether in theoretical, critical, aesthetic, or social terms. Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent to Barry Empson (barry.empson@stonebow.otago.ac.nz) by October 2, 2006.
FLUX: The University of Melbourne School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology’s (AHCCA) FINAL Postgraduate Association Conference
9 - 10 November 2006
University of Melbourne, Australia
Website: www.ahcca.unimelb.edu.au/news/flux-CFP.html
To mark the end of AHCCA in 2006 the Postgraduate Association is holding a two-day conference on the subject of FLUX. With its connotations of flow and fusion, of formation, dissolution and reformulation, FLUX reflects both the interdisciplinary spirit of this year’s conference and the current status of AHCCA within The University of Melbourne.
Papers are now invited that consider and/or engage with the theme of FLUX from a range of perspectives in Art History, Cinema Studies, Classics, Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Classical Archaeology, Curatorship and Conservation, as well as other related disciplines within the humanities. Papers are welcome from all postgraduate students across Australia and New Zealand.
Theater and the Visual Arts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Aspects of Representation
October 20 - 21, 2006
Binghamtom University, New York
Website: cemers.binghamton.edu
An interdisciplinary international conference sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University, New York. One of the aspects of the conference is the use of ancient drama and dramatic theory (Aristotle, Horace, Plautus, Terence, Seneca) by medieval and Renaissance practitioners.
Close Relations: The ‘Spaces’ of Greek and Roman Theatre
19 - 23 September 2006
University of Melbourne, Australia
Website: www.cca.unimelb.edu.au/close/
An international, multi-disciplinary conference linking theatre and performance studies, archaeology, classical studies and reception studies.
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