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July 2026
OVID'S METAMORPHOSES THROUGH TIME: PARATEXTS, TRANSLATIONS AND ICONOGRAPHY
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain: July 2-3, 2026
We are delighted to open a call for papers for the closing conference of the research project “The Transformation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Modern Printing: text, image and new readership” (MedOvid, PID2023-153036NA-I00) entitled "Ovid’s Metamorphoses Through Time: Paratexts, Translations and Iconography" to be held in Barcelona on the 2nd and the 3rd of July 2026 (Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, Universitat de Barcelona).
The MedOvid project studies textual and paratextual changes of the medieval vernacular translations of the Latin poem from their manuscript form to their circulation as printed books (particularly, from 1480s to 1550). We focus largely on paratextual materials (prologues, epilogues, letters of dedication, marginalia, engravings) as a means to explore how the text is used or presented in a new light for a wider audience, and how this contributes to the emergent philological discourses on the translation of classical texts in the early modern period. We also pay attention to the role of women in these printed translations (as dedicatees, sponsors, readers).
The conference aims to bring together scholars who can contribute on the following topics:
1. Medieval and humanistic translations of Ovid’s "Metamorphoses" (preferably translations of the whole poem).
2. Later translations of Ovid’s "Metamorphoses" (17th-21st centuries).
3. Commentaries of the "Metamorphoses" up to the 16th c.
4. Representation of episodes from the "Metamorphose"s in medieval and Renaissance visual arts.
5. From manuscript to print: new readership, uses, censorship, the role of women in Ancient and Medieval works in printing. (This topic is open to the study of works other than the "Metamorphoses". We encourage researchers on medieval and Renaissance Catalan literature to present papers on this research topic).
Submission of proposals: Please send a short biography (a link to an institutional page or similar resource is also acceptable), a provisional title and an abstract of no more than 300 words by Thursday, 15th of January 2026 both to Gemma Pellissa Prades (gemmapellisa@ub.edu) and Pere Fàbregas (pfabregas@ub.edu). Papers should be 20 minutes long (plus discussion). The languages of the conference will be Catalan, English, French, Italian, and Spanish. Papers will be selected according to their intrinsic relevance and affinity with the project’s subject matter. Authors will be notified by Monday, 2nd of March.
Scientific committee: Anna Alberni (UB), Anna Cappellotto (U. Verona), Mattia Cavagna (UCLouvain), Juan Antonio Estévez (U. Huelva), Albert Lloret (U. Massachusetts Amherst), Carles Mancho (UB).
The conference is an in-person event. The inscription is free of charge, but unfortunately we cannot offer any funding to cover travel or accommodation expenses.
Should you have any questions or if you wish to make any informal inquiries, please contact either Gemma Pellissa Prades (gemmapellisa@ub.edu) or Pere Fàbregas (pfabregas@ub.edu).
Conference website: https://web.ub.edu/web/projecte-recerca-medovid/conference
(CFP closed January 15, 2026)
[HYBRID] "ANTIQUITY REACHES SOCIETY": 1ST WORKSHOP ON OUTREACH FOR CLASSICISTS
Hybrid/Warsaw (Poland): July 2-3, 2026.
This event is co-organized by the University of Warsaw and the University of Silesia in Katowice.
Presentation
The world is currently undergoing a period of rapid and profound change. The rapid emergence of technological advances in everyday life has fostered the expectation of immediate, tangible (often economic) results in every aspect of our lives. This acceleration is further amplified by the rise of artificial intelligence, where access knowledge seems to be only one click away. Nevertheless, this whole process has raised doubts regarding how knowledge is created and disseminated. While this trend affects society at large, it seems to be more evident among the younger generations. Yet reflection, communication skills, and the effort required to interpret and understand texts remain essential for living together in a democratic society.
Traditionally, these skills have been developed within the framework of the humanistic disciplines: history, philosophy, literature, etc., and among them, classical studies and the study of antiquity have traditionally occupied a prominent role, both in secondary education and at the university. However, over the last few decades, classical studies have been relegated to a small niche within higher education and are sometimes regarded by policymakers or even other academics as expendable, outdated, or elitist. This bias is also mirrored by society at large, which continues to view academics as isolated individuals working in an “ivory tower”. This lack of connection with society has been recognised by some academics who believe that including novel perspectives, such as gender studies or decolonial or postcolonial studies, is merely a timid attempt at updating the field (e.g., Umachandran & Ward, 2024). Therefore, the rapid technological advances and the socio-political changes the world has endured within the last thirty years lead academia to question what its function is to society.
Despite the many advantages and skills the Humanities and, particularly Classical Studies among them, offer to society, these fields end up losing support for their continued presence in university curricula (something that has been made explicit with the discontinuation of BA, MA, and PhD programmes in different universities around the world). As classicists, we are ultimately confronted with a Gordian knot that we cannot seem to unbind. Part of the solution, however, may lie in improving communication and fostering a more open engagement with society.
This workshop aims to address this challenge in a practical and hands-on way: combining specific training with the exchange of personal experiences in outreach across diverse social contexts. Its main objective is to offer classicists concrete tools for the improvement of the way they communicate their results beyond academia. This entails thinking of them as agents of change in both the social and academic spheres. Therefore, the proposed activities seek to foster a reflective non-hierarchical dialogue between all the participants, in which the interaction between the proposed tools and the specificity of classical studies is central.
The workshop will include three types of activities: plenary lectures by guest speakers; training courses offered by specialists focusing on communication between academics and policymakers, working with young children and teenagers, and plain language, as well as panels on shared experiences by the participants.
Workshop Programme
Thursday, July 2nd
09:00. Opening Words by:
· Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, Dean of the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw (Poland).
· Paweł Nowakowski, Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw (Poland).
· Janek Kucharski, Director of the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland).
09:15. Lecture 1. Alice König (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom): 'Classics as an Applied Subject'.
10:15. Coffee Break
10:30. Course 1. Jakub Dłubak (Silesian University of Medicine in Katowice, Poland): ‘When Science Leaves the University Walls: Plain Language in Practice’. (1:30 course + 30 min. Q&A).
12:00. Lunch Break
13:30. Panel 1: Pedagogical Experiences
· Analía Sapere (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina): ‘Outreach Courses: The "Letras Clásicas" Experience at the University of Buenos Aires’.
· Mariana Franco San Román (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) ‘Outreach for Kids: Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen for a gender-based reflection’.
· Jonatan Pérez Mostazo (University of the Basque Country) & Marina Bastero Acha (University of the Basque Country, Spain - University of Warsaw, Poland) and: ‘Ancient Romans go to High School: Epigraphy as a Tool for Outreach in Secondary Education’.
· Marta Fernández Corral (University of the Basque Country, Spain): ‘Bringing Antiquity to Older Adults. Teaching in the Experience Classrooms of the University of the Basque Country’.
· María Silvina Del Bueno (National University of the Centre, Argentina), Elsa Rodríguez Cidre (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), and María del Pilar Fernández de Agustini (National University of La Plata, Argentina): ‘The problems of the filicidal women: a humanizing proposal through the Greek myth to nowadays, from Medea to the XXI Century women’.
· Discussion about panel 1 (15 mins.)
15:00. End of the Day.
17:00. Optional for in-person attendees: City Walk.
Friday, July 3rd
09:00. Course 3. Laura Torcal Romero (University of Murcia, Spain): ‘Reconnecting Students with the Humanities: Practical Strategies for Bringing Classical Disciplines into the Classroom’ (1:30 course + 30 min. Q&A).
11:00. Coffee Break
11:15. Panel 2: Outreach Genres
· Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò (Dean, University of Warsaw, Poland): ‘History and classical studies online – a personal experience’.
· Fiona Radford & Peta Greenfield (The Partial Historians): ‘Sounds Like History: Podcasting and Historiography’.
· Tomás Aguilera Durán (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain): ‘Café Antique: bringing classical reception studies to bars and cafés’.
· Darío Sánchez Vendramini (National University of Córdoba, Argentina): ‘Teaching the Ancient World on YouTube: Can AI Help Create Visually Compelling Content Without Sacrificing Scholarly Rigour?’.
· Discussion about panel 2 (15 mins.)
12:30: Lunch Break
14:00. Lecture 2: Edith Hall (Durham University, United Kingdom): ‘Antiquity and Confronting 21st-Century Problems’.
15:00. Coffee Break
15:15. Course 4: Diego Forte (University of Buenos Aires - National Service for Agri-Food Health and Quality, Argentina): ‘Uncomfortable Knowledges: Strategies to Reconfigure the Role of Social Sciences and Humanities in the 21st Century’.
17:15. Closing Remarks by Marina Bastero Acha and Mariana Franco San Román
17:30. End of the Day
Although we encourage you to participate in person, this is a hybrid event. If you want to register for online participation, please, fill out these forms (there is one form for each day):
Meeting Registration DAY 1: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/register/iXpBP2DwQ7ezTmQi0ERc_w
Meeting Registration DAY 2: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/register/4y8SyStzQyOvc0mOJqXBcA
For those who are joining us via Zoom, you should bear in mind that the schedule is on Warsaw's time zone (CEST).
If you have any doubts, please feel free to write to us: mariana.franco@us.edu.pl (Mariana Franco San Román) and m.bastero-acha@uw.edu.pl (Marina Bastero Acha)
The workshop is supported by:
- University of Silesia in Katowice
- Faculty of History, University of Warsaw
- European Research Council
- StoneMasters
- Project: "Punishment in Classical Athens. A Cognitive Approach".
The workshop is endorsed by:
- Fédération International des Études Classiques
- Asociación Argentina de Estudios Clásicos
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;d7eeb8b.ex
NEW ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE: CONTEXTS, AUDIENCES, LEGACIES
Leuven, Belgium: July 8-10, 2026
The ongoing HellBel project organizes an international conference devoted to the vibrant but understudied phenomenon of New Ancient Greek (NAG) or Humanist Greek literature (also known as e.g. Neo-Greek). This body of texts, composed primarily during the Renaissance and the early modern period but by no means limited to it, sought to revive and reinvent classical Greek as a living literary language, bridging antiquity and Byzantium with the authors’ contemporary intellectual landscapes. Our conference aims to explore NAG literature not simply as a philological curiosity but as a dynamic cultural practice — crafted by specific authors, for specific audiences, and shaped by particular literary and performative conventions.
Keynote speakers:
Tua Korhonen (University of Helsinki)
Han Lamers (Norwegian Institute, Rome)
Filippomaria Pontani (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)
We invite proposals for papers on any topic relevant to the subject matter of the conference.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2025
Call (PDF): https://www.dalet.be/CfP_HellBel_conference2026.pdf
Website: https://www.dalet.be/hellbel
(CFP closed November 30, 2025)
[PANELS] 17TH CELTIC CONFERENCE IN CLASSICS
Department of Ancient Classics at Maynooth University, Ireland: July 14-17, 2026
The Celtic Conference in Classics is returning to Ireland next year and will be hosted by the Department of Ancient Classics at Maynooth University, from 14-17 July, 2026. This will be an in-person event.
This first announcement is a Call for Panels, inviting colleagues to submit proposals to the conference organizers by 31 October 2025. Please send on your panel title, abstracts, and the names and affiliation of any proposed speakers to classics@mu.ie.
This will be the 17th Celtic Conference in Classics, and we plan to host approximately twenty specialist panels here in Maynooth with – ideally – fifteen to twenty papers on each panel. (Though smaller panels are also acceptable.) In keeping with the founding principles of the conference, this CCC seeks to promote cross-fertilisation between separate fields and so panel suggestions on any Classical antiquity-related theme are most welcome.
Details about organizing and running a CCC panel can be found on the new Celtic Conference in Classics website.
Any further questions or queries can be directed to your hosts at classics@mu.ie.
EDIT: list of panels of classical reception relevance:
* Classical Antiquity and Northern Ireland
* Gramsci, Marx, and the Pre-Capitalist World
* Lyric Forms, Modern Worlds
* Myth Doesn't Work That Way
* Receptions of Homeric Scholarship in Antiquity
Full panel list: https://cccmaynooth2026.mailerpage.io/panels-full
Website: https://www.celticconferenceinclassics.org/
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;ab685bbd.ex
(CFP PANELS closed October 31, 2025; for calls for papers, see individual calls)
PACIFIC RIM ROMAN LITERATURE SEMINAR 34. THEME: TRAGEDY
Melbourne, Australia: July 20-22, 2026
Sponsored by the Classical Association of Victoria, and the University of Melbourne’s Classics Trust Fund.
To mark the revival of the Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar after its hiatus following the pandemic, the thirty-fourth meeting of the Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar will be held in Melbourne, Australia from 20-22 July 2026. The convenor invites proposals for papers addressing the theme of TRAGEDY, in any manifestation in ancient Roman literature. Topics might include the genre of tragedy itself (such as the plays of Seneca), or tragedy as a theme in any genre of Roman literature. Approaches might include literary analysis, textual criticism and paleography, historiography, ancient philosophy, medieval & Renaissance and neo-Latin studies, classical reception studies, performance studies, and more. 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, so that participants may attend any or all papers. Submissions are welcome from postgraduate students and early-career researchers as well as established academics. Abstract proposals of 200-300 words should be emailed to K.O. Chong-Gossard (pacrimlatin2026@gmail.com). Please submit abstracts by 1 April 2026. Earlier submissions are of course welcome.
The seminar will be held in a venue in the city of Melbourne, and it is expected that a seminar registration fee for participants will be required to cover the costs. We might be able to offer a reduced registration fee for postgraduate students. If there is a large number of papers, the seminar might be extended for an extra day (23 July). A seminar website will be built in due course.
Feel free to send enquiries to the Convenor, K.O. Chong-Gossard, Associate Professor in Classics (Ancient Greek & Latin), The University of Melbourne - pacrimlatin2026@gmail.com
Edit - Speakers:
• Tony Boyle (University of Southern California, KEYNOTE), “Ennian Tragedy: Ten Propositions”
• Monique Webber (Melbourne Girls Grammar), “Seneca and spolia: Counter-Reformation Reception of Roman Tragedy”
• Michael Hanaghan (Australian Catholic University), “Virgil’s Camilla as an anti-Medea”
• Andrew Benjamin (University of Melbourne), "'suasit amor facinus': Scylla and the Economy of Love. Metamorphoses Book VIII. 1-150"
• Bob Cowan (University of Sydney), “Not Hector but Hector’s body: identity, anagnorisis, and gender in Pacuvius and Accius”
• Paul Roche (University of Sydney), “Cicero’s tragic epistolarity: fragments in the correspondence”
• Jacque Clarke (Adelaide University), “Ovid’s Nurses: Shifting Genres from Tragedy to the Heroides”
• Peter Davis (Adelaide University), “Laodamia in Heroides 13: from Greek tragedy to Roman elegy”
• Marcus Wilson (University of Auckland), “Tragic and Anti-Tragic in Seneca’s De Providentia”
• Blake Wassell (Trinity College Theological School in Melbourne), “Euripides in Seneca and Josephus”
• Andrew Turner (University of Melbourne), “Livy and Nicholas Trevet’s Lucretia”
• K.O. Chong-Gossard (University of Melbourne), “Trevet’s Oedipus: reading Seneca through Nicholas Trevet”
Please email pacrimlatin2026@gmail.com if you want to know which papers will be delivered on which day. All persons with an interest in hearing about ancient Roman literature are welcome to purchase a ticket and attend! A “complete seminar” ticket can be bought to attend both days, or you can buy a single-day ticket if you want to come for only one day. Full rate is $120.50 for the 2 days, or $60.50 for only 1 day.Concession rate is $80.50 for the 2 days, or $40.50 for only 1 day. The concession rate is for students (including postgraduates), seniors, retirees, the unwaged, and financial members of the Classical Association of Victoria. Tickets include morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea at the Woodward Conference Centre. If you have dietary requirements (e.g. gluten free, vegetarian, vegan), please email after you purchase your ticket.
Book at https://www.trybooking.com/DNDOV
(CFP closed April 1, 2026)
#CFP THE MARY RENAULT PRIZE
The deadline for the 2026 Mary Renault Prize competition is: July 22, 2026.
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/
#CFP [BOOK CHAPTERS] DAUGHTER OF CLASSICS AND COMICS
Abstract deadline: July 31, 2026
First drafts: March 31, 2027
Final drafts: August 31, 2027
Long considered a medium produced by and for White men and boys, the reality of comics today is that comics are both consumed and produced by a large group of women and non-binary individuals. And this female and non-binary interest in medium has particularly flourished in comics that actively engage with material from the ancient Mediterranean world, including Rachel Smythe’s Eisner-award-nominated webcomic, Lore Olympus, and Mari Yamazaki’s Thermae Romae & Olympia Kyklos.
With an explicit focus on female practitioners (writers, artists, editors), significantly expanding upon the coverage of previous Classics and Comics volumes, this collection seeks to consider ways in which the ancient Mediterranean world has appeared and been interpreted in comics, manga, manhwa, and bande desinée. Bringing together scholars of classics & the ancient Mediterranean world, archaeology, comics studies, gender studies, and queer studies, amongst others, this volume collects interdisciplinary analyses of the particular engagement of female creators with this material. We hope that this volume will encourage a continuing engagement with classics in modern comics, while expanding scholarly discussions about the place of comics within the reception of the ancient Mediterranean world in the modern world. We further hope that this will inspire the creation of a similar volume that addresses non-binary creators and their engagement with material from the ancient Mediterranean world in comics.
Paper Proposals
We encourage proposals for chapters from a wide range of disciplines, including literature, comics studies, media studies, cultural studies, gender and queer studies, and (of course) Ancient Mediterranean studies. Submissions may also include creative-critical or practiced-based contributions.
We welcome proposals in English for chapters of 7000-8000 words in length. Please send an abstract (500 words plus bibliography) along with a brief biography (100 words) to Amanda Potter (amandapotter@caramanda.co.uk) and Natalie J. Swain (natalie.swain@acadiau.ca) with a deadline of 31 July 2026.
If you would like to discuss your ideas with the editors before submitting an abstract, please reach out to us.
Provisional Timeline:
30 September 2026 – Contributors are informed that their chapter proposal has been accepted, and any required amends to the abstract will be suggested
31 October 2026 – Abstracts submitted to publisher for peer review
31 December 2026 – Any suggestions from peer reviewers shared with contributors
31 March 2027 – First drafts of chapters are submitted
By 30 June 2027 – First drafts with comments are returned to contributors
31 August 2027 – Final drafts of chapters are submitted to the editors for submission to the publisher
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;c4a56cae.ex
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August 2026
#CFP [BOOK CHAPTERS] TEN YEARS OF ASSASSIN’S CREED ODYSSEY: LEGACY, IMPACT, FUTURE
Editors: Dr Richard Cole and Dr Alexander Vandewalle
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec, 2018) will celebrate its ten-year anniversary in 2028. This is the ideal moment to reflect on the game’s impact and legacy, and to look ahead to its potential future as a model and platform for virtual antiquity.
We invite chapter submissions for an edited volume on how the game has shaped classical reception, pedagogy, or discourse over the past decade. This is a chance to conceptualize what quests the game has unlocked, and where we are going next.
The volume is being proposed as a submission to the Screening Antiquity series at Edinburgh University Press.
Abstracts due August 24, 2026.
Full details: https://bristoldigitalgamelab.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/06/19/call-for-papers-ten-years-of-assassins-creed-odyssey-legacy-impact-future/
(CFP closes August 24, 2026)
[EEA PANEL] DIGGING UP THE DIRT: ARCHAEOLOGY, COLONIAL LEGACIES AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL OWNERSHIP IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
European Association of Archaeologists conference
Athens, Greece: August 26-29, 2026
Organisers: Martina Derada, Alessio Galli, Isabella Bossolino
This session brings together archaeological researchers working across the Eastern Mediterranean to interrogate the intertwined legacies of imperialistic and post-colonial archaeological practices, posing the question: who owns the past? By reassessing the historical presence of foreign schools and missions in the region, we aim to move beyond their conventional portrayal as paramount centres of scholarship and instead highlight their frequently overlooked role as agents of cultural diplomacy and political penetration.
While archaeology has long served as a vehicle of power, identity building, and diplomatic projection, especially in Mediterranean contexts where foreign missions have operated for over a century, there is a pressing need to revisit the assumptions, motivations, and social networks underlying those practices. In this regard, the session invites papers that explore: the transformation of research agendas of long-standing foreign missions; the archiving and collection practices that reproduce colonial narratives; the role of national and local institutions in renegotiating heritage ownership; and methodological reflections on how digital tools, open archives, and collaborative historiographies can contribute to de-colonising classical archaeology. We welcome case studies from Greece, Anatolia, North Africa, the Near East, and beyond, which investigate: the changing raison d’être of foreign institutes; the politics of excavation, restoration, and exhibition; the circulation of artifacts and archival sources; and the contemporary ethical responsibilities of archaeologists in contexts of contested heritage. Topics may also include the politicization of restoration and heritage tourism, the role of museums and archives as spaces where colonial logics persist, and the selective construction of “classical” and “national” pasts that have marginalized local and subaltern legacies.
By focusing on the entanglements of archaeology, politics, and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean, the session seeks to bridge the divide between scientific knowledge and public accountability, between past and present, and between disciplinary traditions and open, inclusive models of archaeological practice.
Organisers:
Alessio Galli (SNS / SAIA): alessio.galli@sns.it
Martina Derada (UniPv / SAIA): martina.derada01@universitadipavia.it
Isabella Bossolino (ULB): isabella.bossolino@ulb.be
If you are interested in giving a paper at our discussion session (15 minutes), please submit an abstract of 150–300 words via the EAA 2026 website: https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2026
The deadline for submitting or modifying an abstract is 5 February 2026, 23:59 CET.
Call: https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2026/sessions/overview/index
(CFP closed February 5, 2026)
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September 2026
[ONLINE] SEMINAR SERIES: STRONG WOMEN OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD AND THEIR RECEPTION
Online: September-December 2026 [dates TBC]
Organisers: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey), Martina Treu (Milan)
Sponsored by EuGeStA Network, AWAWS, The Imagines Project
This online series of meetings brings together scholars and practitioners from both hemispheres to discuss the stories of ancient historical and fictional women who inspire them and their work. We invite speakers to problematise the concept of what a 'strong' woman means to them, and how our ideas about the position and roles of women, gender and female agency have evolved over time. In turn this affects how we receive, interact with and adapt these ancient female figures and their stories.
Each speaker will reflect on their chosen ancient woman/women or group, as a launchpad for a wider examination of the impact of ancient women in recent scholarship and/or in a variety of modern media (including but not limited to the stage, screen and the visual arts). Speakers can choose to focus on the ancient material but must engage with recent scholarly debates on questions of gender, and/or diversity. Practitioners are particularly welcome to present their creative receptions of these ancient female figures, partnering up with a scholar or by themselves with a scholar as a respondent to foster dialogue and the exchange of ideas.
We welcome proposals from interested scholars, postgraduates and practitioners (a title and a short abstract of 200-300 words) by 6th of January. Collaborations between researchers and between scholars and practitioners are most welcome. Since our goal is to bring together people from both hemispheres, we aim to preserve a balance in terms of numbers between northern and southern speakers. We envisage a seminar series of between 10 and 12 speakers, with around 2 speakers, plus a chair/respondent per session. Dates and times to be decided after the selection of abstracts has been completed.
Southern Hemisphere contact: a.bakogianni@massey.ac.nz
Northern Hemisphere contact: martina.treu@iulm.it
Call: https://www.mommsen-gesellschaft.de/veranstaltungen/call-for-papers/3408-strong-women-of-the-ancient-mediterranean-world
(CFP closed January 6, 2026)
SAPIENS UBIQUE CIVIS XIII – SZEGED 2026
PhD Student and Young Scholar Conference on Classics and the Reception of Antiquity
Szeged, Hungary, September 2–4, 2026
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 XIII – Szeged 2026, for PhD students and 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 academics 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 antiquity are welcome. We are also happy to accept submissions regarding pedagogical methods in teaching Latin, Greek and other classical subjects. Panel submissions from multiple speakers on these subjects are also 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 online.
Application: Applications should be sent via Google Form: https://forms.gle/nf2rHpMZshFrMJgu9
Abstracts of a maximum of 300 words are welcomed and should be proofread by a native speaker. The application deadline is June 7, 2026. An acceptance notification will be sent to you by June 21, 2026 at the latest.
Registration: The registration fee for the conference is €80. The participation fee includes the conference pack, reception meal, closing event, extra programs, and refreshments during coffee breaks. The participation fee does not include accommodation, but the conference coordinators can assist conference participants in finding accommodation in the city.
The participants will also be informed about publication possibilities in due course.
Getting here: Szeged, the largest city in 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 take the Hungarian M5 motorway passing by the city.
For general inquiries about the conference, please contact us at sapiensuc@gmail.com.
Call: https://klasszika.hu/suc/
(CFP closed June 7, 2026)
4TH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS CONFERENCE IN GHANA (ICCG)
Theme: Classics at the Crossroads
Classical Association of Ghana
University of Ghana, Legon: September 3–4, 2026
Over the past decade, significant strides have been made to rethink Classics beyond its traditional boundaries. Collaborative initiatives such as Global Classics and Africa, Classics Beyond Borders, the Africa World Initiative, and Classics at the Crossroads have sought to reimagine the discipline as more inclusive, globally engaged, and responsive to diverse intellectual traditions. At the same time, ongoing conversations around decolonization, restitution, curriculum reform, language pedagogy, and the place of Classics in contemporary education continue to challenge and reshape the field. What does it mean to practice Classics in a global and interconnected world? In what ways can Classics contribute to broader conversations in the humanities and beyond? We invite papers from scholars in Classics and related disciplines (including archaeology, history, literature, religion, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, art history, performing arts) as well as from those working in interdisciplinary and comparative frameworks.
Sub-themes (not exhaustive):
Cross-cultural reception and reinterpretation of antiquity
Collaboration, partnership, and knowledge production
Pedagogy, curriculum development, and language teaching
Digital Classics and AI
Archives, museums, restitution, and material culture
Race, ethnicity, and identity
Gender, sexuality, and marginalized voices
Migration, mobility, and cosmopolitanism
Politics, democracy, and public discourse
Environment, ecology, and sustainability
Classics, the humanities and STEM
Public Classics and community engagement
Decolonizing Classics
Globalizing methodologies in Classical studies
Histories and historiographies
Africa and the Classics
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts should be no more than 200 words and should be submitted via: http://bit.ly/4 uWxL8f
Papers will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion
Deadline for submission: 15 May 2026
Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2026
Deadline for conference registration: 31 July 2026
Conference Fee
The conference fee, which includes conference materials as well as breakfast and lunch on both days, is $100 ($50 for students). Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodation.
Dinner and Excursion
The conference dinner will take place on Thursday, 3 September (7:00pm), and an excursion to the Shai Hills Resource Reserve on Saturday, 5 September (7:00am). At the previous conference, each cost approximately $50, and we do not anticipate a significant increase.
Special Event: A Mock Retrial of Socrates
A mock retrial of Socrates in a Ghanaian legal context, featuring qualified legal practitioners and a jury, will be held on the evening of Friday, 4 September at the University of Ghana. The event is open to the public and is supported by the Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities initiative of the Society for Classical Studies.
Please direct enquiries to Gifty Etornam Katahena (gekatahena@ug.edu.gh) or Michael Okyere Asante (moa24@cam.ac.uk).
Organising Committee: Peter Grant (Cape Coast), Gifty Etornam Katahena (Ghana), Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton), Michael Okyere Asante (Cambridge/UESD), Stephen Oppong Peprah (Ghana), Luke Roman (Memorial), Frisbee Sheffield (Cambridge)
The conference is co-sponsored by the Classics Beyond Borders initiative, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge with support of the Leventis Foundation; Princeton University’s Africa World Initiative; and the Classics at the Crossroads project funded by the SSHRC (Canada).
Call: https://casa-kvsa.org.za/2026/03/cfp-4th-international-classics-conference-in-ghana-iccg/
(CFP closed May 15, 2026)
THE FROBEN PUBLISHING HOUSE AND ROMAN HISTORY (1518-1554)
All Souls College, Oxford: September 3-4, 2026
The Last Historians of Rome project, hosted at the Universities of Edinburgh and Nottingham and sponsored by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/Z505936/1) welcomes proposals for contributions to a conference on ‘The Froben Publishing House and Roman History (1518-1554)’, to be held at All Souls College, Oxford, on 3-4 September 2026.
In the second decade of the sixteenth century, the Basel publishing house founded by Johann Froben (c. 1460-1527) achieved fame across Europe, with Desiderius Erasmus as the star contributor and designs by artists including Hans Holbein. This conference focuses on one particular aspect of the press’s varied output under Froben and his son Hieronymus (1501-63): its contributions in the field of ancient and especially Roman history. Aided by a wide network of scholars and by in-house correctors who were themselves acute historians and textual critics, above all Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547) and Sigismundus Gelenius (1497-1554), the press published the first editions of historians including Velleius Paterculus (1520/21), books 41-45 of Livy (1531), Landolfus Sagax (1532), and Josephus in both Latin (1524) and Greek (1544). The use of ancient manuscripts from monasteries across the German lands can be identified in editions of the Historia Augusta (1518) and Ammianus Marcellinus (1533), among others. The press also brought out historically significant texts, such as the editio princeps of the illustrated Notitia dignitatum and the De rebus bellicis (1552), and original works of historical scholarship including Beatus Rhenanus’ Rerum Germanicarum libri tres (1531).
This conference aims to bring together Classicists and ancient historians with historians of art, books, and the intellectual life of the Renaissance. We welcome papers on topics including:
* Froben editions of Roman historians.
* The manuscripts behind the editions.
* Commentaries included alongside the editions and publications of other works relevant to Roman history.
* Latin translations of historical works written in Greek.
* Design and illustration of books.
* Reeditions and republications, both by Froben and others.
* The correctors who worked on the shop floor and the networks of scholars who procured and edited texts.
* The broader context of publishing and historical scholarship in Basel and beyond.
Confirmed speakers include Andreas Ammann (Munich), Ann Blair (Harvard), James Hirstein (Strasbourg), Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh), and Valentina Sebastiani (Bern).
We welcome proposals for further longer (c. 40 minute) or shorter (c. 20 minute papers, to be sent to Prof. Gavin Kelly (Gavin.Kelly@ed.ac.uk) by Friday 1 May 2026; we aim to reply quickly thereafter. We should be able to cover accommodation costs and meals for speakers during the conference, and to contribute to travel expenses, dependent on need and distance. Please feel free to contact Gavin Kelly with any queries.
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;4d19ea1c.ex
(CFP closed May 1, 2026)
#CFP FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF STUDIES ON POPULAR CULTURES IN GREECE AND ROME, FROM II MILLENNIUM BCE TO MODERN FOLKLORE
Rome, Italy (Università di Roma Tre, via Ostiense 236)/limited online participation: September 9-12, 2026
Although Greek and Roman literature rarely focuses explicitly on popular culture, a substantial body of evidence allows us to reconstruct what may be described as the folklore of the ancient world. From precious testimonies emerge beliefs and ‘superstitions’, folktales and proverbs, imaginary beings, songs and other types of musical forms, folk-pharmacopoeia and medicinal remedies, apotropaic gestures and practices, along with many other traits characteristic of a popular culture of the ancients. This Greek and Roman folklore can often be approached (and effectively compared) on the one hand with other ancient Euro-Mediterranean traditions, and on the other hand with the documentation of modern popular culture, especially in certain culturally conservative areas such as central Greece and southern Italy. Studies on ancient Greek and Roman popular culture have witnessed significant developments in recent decades. New approaches and new research have contributed to a renewed reading of Greek and Roman authors and texts. Building on the experience of folkloricum.it, the time now seems ripe for organising an International Congress of Studies, aiming to bring together scholars from different disciplines (including Classics, folklore studies, anthropology, history of religions, and archaeology) and devoted to all aspects of popular culture in the Greek and Roman world. These will be the main fields of interest:
1 – Definitions and Methods. What is ‘popular’? ‘Lower’ and ‘upper’ cultures; ancient and modern cultural levels; diachrony and synchrony; ‘popular’ and ‘learned’ magic; comparation and philology; orality and literacy.
2 – Material Cultures. Art; archeology; history and sociology; objects; dress and clothes; amulets; games and toys; frescoes and gems.
3 – Languages and Non-verbal Codes. Non-standard and vernacular grammar, morphology and lexicon; proverbs and popular sayings; gestures; music and dances; riddles; dreams; curse formulae.
4 – The sacred and the supernatural. Cults and rites; festivals; religious practices (weddings, mourning, funerals, child-related protective practices); ‘superstitions’ and beliefs; Evil Eyes; figures of fear: monsters, witches, and others;
5 – Nature and Techniques. Animal-, plant- and stone-lore; agricultural practices; popular medicine, remedies and pharmacopaea; beliefs about stars and celestial phenomena.
6 – Beyond Literature and Orality. Narrative patterns (types and motifs), myths and folktales; fables; legends and belief tales; fairytales; sub-literary genres (folk theatre, mimes, popular narrative literature); popular songs (work-songs, festival-songs, seasonal and quest-songs).
The list is not intended to be exhaustive, and proposals addressing related topics are also encouraged.
Anyone interested in contributing a paper to the conference is invited to submit their title and a brief abstract in one of the conference languages (English, Italian, French, Spanish, German; papers may be delivered in the same languages) of no longer than 200 words to the two organisers, Prof. Tommaso Braccini (tommaso.braccini@unisi.it) and Prof. Emanuele Lelli (prof.emanuele.lelli@gmail.com) by 1 August 2026 (please send a Word document and cc both organisers). Scholars at all levels of juniority/seniority are equally welcome.
We will evaluate all submissions and inform all applicants about acceptance or rejection by mid-August.
Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Each accepted paper must be accompanied by an handout/abstract in English no longer than 3000 characters (including spaces).
Only in limited cases it will be possible online participation for speakers.
Conference fee (100 €) includes welcome dinner on September 9th, three buffet lunches, conference material and the volume of the Proceedings.
With the Patronage of Fédération Internationale des Associations d’études classiques,
Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica, Delegazione “Antico e Moderno”.
Scientific Committee: Igor Baglioni, Simone Beta, Tommaso Braccini, Ignazio E. Buttitta, Andrea Ercolani, Emanuele Lelli, Sonia Macrì, Camillo Neri, Riccardo Palmisciano, Giulia Pedrucci, Eleonora Rocconi, Silvia Romani, Andrea Taddei.
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;757dfcc.ex
[ONLINE] CLASSICAL THOUGHT AND THE GERMAN REICH (1871-1945)
Online: September 17-18, 2026
Conference Organiser: Aaron Turner (Knapp Foundation/Royal Holloway, University of London)
Confirmed Speakers:
Christoph Begass (Universität Heidelberg)
Mauro Bonazzi (Università di Bologna)
Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University)
James I. Porter (University of California, Berkeley)
Stefan Rebenich (Universität Bern)
In August 1870, Friedrich Nietzsche obtained leave from his position at the University of Basel to volunteer as a medical orderly following the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War a month earlier. Nietzsche was optimistic for Bismarck’s vision of the founding of the German Reich, “because in that power something will perish that we hate as the real opponent of every deeper philosophy and art consideration, a state of illness from which the German character has been suffering primarily since the Great French Revolution…not to mention the great crowd, in which that suffering is called...liberalism”. On account of illness, Nietzsche spent only a few weeks on active duty and by October 1870 he had returned to Basel. In July 1870, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff obtained his doctorate from the University of Berlin and, immediately afterwards, he enlisted as a grenadier and fought in the Franco-Prussian War until its end in January 1871. While Wilamowitz fought on the frontline, and while the possibility of the unification Germany and the establishment of Otto von Bismarck’s German Reich edged closer and closer to actuality, Nietzsche was already back in Basel working on his major work, The Birth of Tragedy. This book reignited the rivalry between Nietzsche and Wilamowitz, which had its origins when both were students at the Schulpforta and which in many ways became determinative for the future of classical studies in Germany until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and the consequent collapse of the Third Reich of National Socialism in 1945.
This conference explores the development of classical thought in Germany from out of this important dispute between Wilamowitz and Nietzsche and within the political context of the unification of the German Reich in 1871, its progress until the First World War, the period of the Weimar Republic from 1919, and the rise and fall of National Socialism between 1933 and 1945. Ultimately, this conference asks how and in what ways did the question of Antiquity inform and influence the question of Germany throughout this turbulent period and, simultaneously, how did the German question inform the study and reception of Antiquity?
For Nietzsche, by the 1860s classical philology in Germany had grown stagnant. “It is time”, he noted in 1867/68, “to stop bending over singular letters. The next generation of philologists must…take on the responsibility of the great legacy of the past”. Like Hölderlin before him, like his contemporary Burckhardt, and like George and Heidegger who came after him, Nietzsche belonged to a tradition that was strongly reproached by “conventional” philologists for its “radical” approaches to Greek thought. Wilamowitz in particular was critical of both Burckhardt and Nietzsche for ignoring the advancements made by the “science of antiquity”. When Nietzsche resigned from his Chair of Classical Philology in Basel in 1879 due to poor health, Wilamowitz set about revitalising the various philological schools, especially those of Welcker, Hermann, and Boeckh. Following his lead, a new generation of Altertumswissenschaftler emerged, including Diels, Leo, Meyer, and Schwartz.
In 1921, Wilamowitz declared the fulfilment of German classical philology wherein “the conquest of the ancient world by science had been completed”. And yet, despite Wilamowitz’s bluster, the spectres of both Burckhardt and Nietzsche had already begun again to haunt the hallowed halls of Altertumswissenschaft. Defeat in the First World War profoundly impacted the conception of the historical destiny of Germany upon which the German Reich was established. The transformation of classical studies after 1918 is indicative of these misgivings. Many philologists, including Friedländer, Reinhardt, Schadewaldt, Stenzel, and Friedemann sought to consolidate their duty to the traditional practices prescribed by Wilamowitz and the new ways of interpreting Antiquity offered through Nietzsche and George. Arguably the most significant of these was Werner Jaeger, who was as much influenced by George and Nietzsche as he was by Schleiermacher and Dilthey and it was out of this prism of traditions that Jaeger preached the need for a “cultural renewal” through what he termed a “third humanism”, which aimed at retrieving the fundamental values of Greek Paideia and appropriating them for German Bildung.
The volatile and ever-changing political landscape of the German state between 1918 and 1945 is reflected in the shifting focuses of classical philologists, for many of whom cultural renewal became the basis upon which their engagement with Antiquity laid. Despite the growing optimism of a new Germany founded on Greek ideals, and despite the radical departure classical philology had made from its traditional roots toward founding the question of this cultural renewal, the rise of National Socialism soon put such optimism to rest. Jaeger, whose wife was Jewish, emigrated to the US in 1936. Friedländer, one of the few Jewish officers to have served in the First World War, was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1938. At the same time, philologists such as Josef Vogt and Helmut Berve took up the call of National Socialism and began to integrate its fundamental principles into their work. For Vogt, this included recontextualising the wars between Rome and Carthage in terms of race, in which the “Nordic” Romans successfully fended off the Punic uprising, which according to Vogt, was “fundamentally Semitic”.
Between 1871 and 1949, between the unification of the German states and the division of Germany between East and West, the question of Antiquity and its role in the historical consciousness of modern Germany was constantly being posed and reposed anew. As the political and social landscape of Germany became increasingly unsettled and unstable over the course of these eight decades, so too the shape and purpose of the study of Classical Greece and Rome became increasingly contested and, in many cases, radical. Did Greek and Roman studies inform the question of Modernity, of Germania itself? Or did the question of Germania inform the study of Classical Antiquity? This conference seeks to answer neither question directly, but asks, ultimately, what lies at the confluence of these two questions?
This conference will take place entirely online on September 17th-18th 2026. If you would like to present a paper at this conference, please send an abstract (300-500 words) to aaron.turner@knappfoundation.ac.uk by Friday 27th February 2026. Notifications will be sent out by mid-April.
Edit - Program (UK time):
Thursday 17th September
12:50-13:00 – Introductory Remarks - Aaron Turner (Knapp Foundation)
13:00-13:45 – Mauro Bonazzi (Università di Bologna), The Politics of Eros: Kurt Hildebrandt between Plato and Hitler
13:45-14:30 – Emanuele Pedroli (University of Cambridge), Classical Antiquity as ‘vergangenes Preußentum’: Wilamowitz’s presentist Altertumswissenschaft
14:30-15:00 – Break
15:00-15:45 – Paul Demont (Sorbonne Université), The motif of ‘late’ in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and the Staging of References to Antiquity
15:45-16:30 – Facundo Bey (Instituto de Filosofía “Ezequiel de Olaso” (CONICET, Argentina)), Against Mystagogy: Julius Stenzel’s Political Plato between Third Humanism and the George-Kreis
16:30-17:15 – Aaron Turner (Knapp Foundation), Classical Thought and the Ground of Dilthey’s Crisis of Historical Consciousness
17:15-18:00 – Break
18:00-18:45 – Ricarda Meisl (NYU), Consuming Bodies: Völkerschauen and the Public Translation of Classical Aesthetics in Wilhelmine Germany
18:45-19:30 – Jame I. Porter (University of California, Berkeley), Scraps from the Cutting Table: More on Philologies in Exile from Weimar to the Third Reich
Friday 18th September
13:00-13:45 – Katie Fleming (Queen Mary, University of London), Plato at the Front
13:45-14:30 – Liberty Conlon (Royal Holloway, University of London), Classical Thought as Critique: Nietzsche's Meta-Philology
14:30-15:00 – Break
15:00-15:45 – Nicola Montenz (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan), A Tragic Humanism? Albrecht von Blumenthal and the Spiritualisation of Greek Antiquity under the German Reich
15:45-16:30 – Christoph Begass (Universität Heidelberg), Eduard Schwartz and Altertumswissenschaften in Imperial Germany
16:30-17:15 – Break
17:15-18:00 – Frank H.W. Edler (Metropolitan Community College), Kurt Hancke, Hölderlin, and the SS Surveillance of Martin Heidegger
18:00-18:45 – Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University), On Aryans and Scythians: The Problem of Central European Prehistory
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;f6fae34e.ex
Call: https://classicalassociation.org/events/classical-thought-and-the-german-reich-1871-1945/
(CFP closed February 27, 2026)
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October 2026
TRUTH IN THE CLASSICAL GREEK CITY: LOCAL AND UNIVERSAL RENDERINGS
University of Sydney, Australia: October 1-2, 2026
Organisers: Hans Beck & Julia Kindt.
In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, truth has become a deeply contested – if not divisive – concept. Intensifying political polarization, social media, identity politics, and the deliberate spread of mis- and disinformation have all contributed to a climate in which truth gradually forfeits its quality as a shared reference point. Rather, it might be deployed as a marker of exclusion, used to distinguish us from them.
This conference returns to the period that witnessed the emergence and proliferation of truth as such a shared frame of reference and communal value in Classical Greece. It invites speakers to examine the role of truth in a range of ancient Greek texts and social and political contexts. We will consider how truth – and, at times, its absence or its wilful distortion and manipulation – operates in the assembly and law courts of the city-state, as well as how truth claims are articulated across various genres of Classical Greek thought and literature, including myth, drama, historiography, and philosophy. Of particular interest is the tension between epichoric encodings of truth – grounded in specific local discourse environments – and their correspondence with, and aspiration toward, universal validity.
Our aim is not merely to recover ancient conceptions of aletheia, but to investigate the social, political, and cultural functions truth once served: what did truth mean in contexts where civic trust, justice, and collective decision-making depended upon it? And, crucially, what might be lost if contemporary societies abandon truth as a shared aspiration and horizon of meaning?
The papers presented at this conference will form the basis of a collaborative volume on Truth and the Ancient Greek City. The conference will be held from October 1 to 2, 2026 at the University of Sydney, Australia. Moderate travel bursaries may be available for participants.
To be considered as a speaker please send a short (200-300 word) abstract of your paper to Julia.Kindt@sydney.edu.au by the 6.12.2025.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;aed65b95.ex
(CFP closed December 6, 2025)
#CFP [ONLINE] AN EXTRAORDINARY SUBSTANCE: A HISTORY OF DEMONS AND BLOOD ACROSS TIME
Online: October 3, 2026
Organisers: Tiana Blazevic (Macquarie University), Ryan Denson (University of Silesia), Charlotte Spence (University of Oxford)
The history of demonic possession in various cultures and religions since antiquity seems to suggest a deep physiological connection that humans and demons share with blood. The relationship between blood and demons is a complex topic for scholars to approach for a number of reasons. One such reason is because the study of demons in any field often requires an interdisciplinary approach. Demonic figures appear in myth, religion, literature, medical texts, manuscripts, art, archaeology, and iconography. The other challenge for scholars is how to best sift through the various theoretical approaches to demons.
This conference focuses on demonic realism, which takes the view that nonhuman malevolent demons were perceived by humans as real physical (both material and immaterial) entities, and not just as metaphors for evil. Such a perspective is particularly useful for studying these ideas as they exist in various cultural systems of knowledge. The idea that demons may have existed in the human mind as tangible, real, and understood as being capable of intermingling with humans on a physiological and biological level, suggests the need for a revision of our assumptions as to the importance of demons and blood.
This conference is the first step in a broader project which will hopefully culminate in an edited volume. We seek to examine the longue durée history of the relationship between blood and demons and the changing nature of the relationship between demons and blood across the periods from the first century CE through until the nineteenth century CE. One of the key considerations is to examine the changing notions of demons and blood across periods and cultures. There will be a particular focus on demonic and/or supernatural realism as opposed to psychological or literary interpretations.
Select papers from this conference will be chosen for inclusion in an edited volume that we are
proposing on this theme. We welcome a broad range of topics, particularly those that are interdisciplinary in nature, including, but not limited to:
• Anthropological analyses or approaches to the relationship between demons and blood in human culture.
• Historical studies of the changing conceptions of demons and blood in religious, mythological, or folkloric systems of knowledge.
• Sociological analyses or approaches that explore the changing cultural understandings of demons and blood.
• Philosophical or theological taxonomies or ontologies of demons and blood across time
• Material or archaeological analyses of the connection between demons and blood in human societies across culture, time, and space.
• Literary analyses or approaches of the history of demons and blood in textual evidence.
This conference will take place on October 3, 2026. To apply for this conference please send an abstract via the link below of no more than 250 words for a 15-20 minute paper. Please include your name, affiliation, and a brief bio (50-100 words) with submissions. The deadline for submission is August 3.
Abstract submissions and conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/bloodanddemons2026/
(CFP closes August 3, 2026)
TRACING THE TRAUMATIC: EMOTION AND TRAUMA IN ANCIENT THEATER
Graduate Colloquium on Emotion and Trauma in Ancient Theater and Reception
Princeton University (in person): October 16-17, 2026
Note: In exceptional circumstances, remote presentation formats may be considered.
The aim of this colloquium is to investigate the interplay between the categories of ‘trauma’ and ‘emotion’ in the study of ancient Greek and Latin theater and reception, and how these two analytical lenses intersect, diverge, and can be mutually illuminating. ‘Trauma’ is a contested concept, ‘emotion’ no less so, and it is our intent to explore how the methods, theories, and insights from work done in the field of the history of emotion can enrich our understanding of ‘the traumatic,’ just as research in trauma studies can enhance our understanding of ‘emotion.’
“Not all violence and suffering are best described by trauma,” writes Michael Rothberg, quoted in Erika Weiberg’s 2024 volume on trauma in Greek tragedy, 'Demanding Witness: Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy.' In recent years, the popular (over)usage of the term has led many clinical experts to question how we delimit what counts as ‘trauma.’ At the same time, the critical utility of the trauma framework has produced a growing body of scholarship on trauma in Greek and Latin literature, where scholars have re-framed narratives of pain and suffering, acknowledging a greater intensity of experience, or explaining severe shifts in characters’ psychological and emotional states. The literary study of trauma both benefits from and is challenged by cross-pollination from the clinical field, in which the concept of ‘trauma’ is also one constantly in flux and development. The persistent reimagining of the concept is not without its risks; sketching the outlines of ‘trauma’ risks erasing experiences outside its borders, while too broad a definition risks diluting the significance granted to truly extreme psychological wounds. Further, it is an open question whether ‘trauma’ is something that can be systematically theorized, or something that requires a pluralistic interpretative model that allows for variation, specificity, and difference. The study of trauma in ancient literature adds a further complicating element through the distant context, and the risks of anachronism. Research into the conception, representation, and evaluation of emotions in antiquity has grown into a robust sub-field of Classics in the past thirty years, following an interdisciplinary trend of argumentation that posits emotional experiences as, at least in part, socio-cultural constructs. The benefits of studying emotional “episodes” as content-bearing, contextualized phenomena, is newfound insight into the specific social situations and relational configurations that catalyze or even prescribe certain feelings or emotional displays, an analysis that can illuminate communal values, interpersonal norms, and even ethical customs.
Using tools developed by scholars working on the history of emotions, methods of analysis beyond the lexicological, we aim to reassess and reframe the discourse of trauma within the realm of the ancient Mediterranean. With a focus on trauma in ancient drama and its reception, we hope to address questions such as: What are the boundaries between trauma and emotion? What is their causal relationship? What are the challenges in applying theories from each field in the study of ancient literature, and how do they add to our understanding of ancient works? How can insights gleaned from research in our field enrich discussions of ‘trauma’ across disciplines? Can one develop a systematic ‘theory of trauma,’ or ought we employ a pluralistic framework, stressing the variation, specificity, and difference of experience across time and culture? This colloquium proposes to gather graduate scholars in a productive discussion of these, and other questions in the field.
Event Format
The colloquium will take place at Princeton University on Oct. 16-17, 2026 and will feature graduate student paper presentations and a keynote address. In exceptional circumstances, remote presentation formats may be considered.
Eligibility
All PhD students in Classics and related departments are invited to submit an abstract.
Proposal Guidelines
Please submit the following materials:
· An abstract of 300 words describing your proposed presentation
· A 100-word author biography
· Your current institutional affiliation and program
· Contact information (email)
Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2026
Please send proposals to julia.pare@princeton.edu and ruprecht@uchicago.edu, as well as any questions related to the colloquium.
Applicants will receive a notification of acceptance by June 30th, 2026.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;3c222d0.ex
(CFP closed June 15, 2026)
"CIVILIZING" THE WORLD: CLASSICISM, NEO-CLASSICAL SCULPTURE, AND PLASTER CASTS IN THE SERVICE OF IMPERIAL POWERS AND POST-COLONIAL ELITES (1780-1945)
Warburg Institute, London: October 22-23, 2026
Papers deadline: 1 December 2025
A two-day conference to be held at the Warburg Institute (School of Advanced Study, University of London) in co-organization with the Institute of Classical Studies (SAS, UoL) and the Department of the Classics (University of Reading).
Organizers:
Dr Eckart Marchand (Warburg Institute)
Prof. Katherine Harloe (Institute of Classical Studies)
Prof. Amy Smith (University of Reading)
This conference aims to bring together and foster new research into the roles that classical and neoclassical art (broadly defined) fulfilled for European colonial powers and post-colonial elites globally, seeking critical exploration and assessment of the ways classical visual culture has been reused, redefined and also contested. The conference seeks to investigate classical visual culture in the service of self-presentation among competing nations and as a means to “civilize” and / or dominate indigenous, subaltern and settler populations. We encourage examination of the social, political and racial implications of engagement with the European classical tradition in both colonial and post-colonial contexts worldwide. We invite contributions on works including neo-classical sculpture, plaster casts after the antique, and works such as ethnographic life-casts, the creation and use of which amplified and illuminated concepts of race and evolution that underpinned notions of Greco-Roman cultural supremacy. While the principal focus of the conference is on sculptural works, proposals on other arts and/or the interaction of the visual and literary are also welcome.
Further details here: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/CFP-civilizing-the-world-2026
(CFP closed December 1, 2025)
SO(CIALLY) ANCIENT! REPRESENTING ANCIENT AND EARLY MEDIEVAL SOCIAL, ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS REALITIES IN VIDEO GAMES
Finnish Institute at Athens: October 22–23, 2026
Video games have become a significant and influential part of mainstream culture. Consequently, historical game studies have rapidly evolved into a new field of study over the last two decades. The objective of this conference is to direct attention towards two aspects of video games that have received comparatively little scholarly attention; firstly, the representations of social, ethnic and religious aspects of past worlds in video games and, secondly, the reception of the late antique and early medieval periods (however defined) in video games. We also wish to include non-Eurocentric points of view, such as papers focusing on the rarely discussed social, ethnic and religious aspects of the ‘Byzantine’ empire or SWANA (South-West Asian and North African) societies in video games.
In order to encourage discussion between different academic disciplines and to bridge the gap between classical and medieval reception studies, we welcome case studies and comparative studies on the reception - in any game genre - of social, ethnic and religious realities from Classical Antiquity until the Crusades.
The two keynote speakers who have confirmed their participation are Jane Draycott (Glasgow University) and Robert Houghton (Winchester University).
We warmly invite scholars from any discipline to submit an abstract, whether they are PhD students or more experienced academics. Please submit your abstracts and a short bio in English (max. 300 words for the abstract and 50 words for the bio) to ajlamp@utu.fi by 31 March 2026.
The results will be communicated in April. The proceedings of the conference will be published in a collected volume.
Organisers:
Antti Lampinen (University of Turku), ajlamp@utu.fi
Jasmin Lukkari (University of Helsinki), jasmin.lukkari@helsinki.fi
The full call for papers can be viewed here: https://lukkarij.wixsite.com/socially-ancient
(CFP closed March 31, 2026)
[HYBRID] ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN SPAIN (FOREVER ALEXANDER II)
Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain): October 22 (hybrid workshop) + October 23 (in-person), 2026
Alexander the Great is one of the most famous historical figures. Beyond his own age, his impact over the centuries has been widely studied. Recent volumes (like F. J. Gómez Espelosín's "En busca de Alejandro. Historia de una Obsesión" (2016) and P. Briant's "Alexandre: Exégèse des lieux communs" (2016) or the collective book edited by K. Moore, "Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great") have focused on the main topics and traditional lines of the presence of Alexander in tradition, reception, art and historiography, but a lot still remains to be analysed.
In Jan. 2023, the Online Conference "Forever Alexander" gathered a (wild?) bunch of scholars during two days concerning the many ways of Alexander's reception from Antiquity to our days, including a strong interest in pop culture and forms and themes of reception in elements and issues different from the 'usual', academic or traditional ways, like board games, video games, comic-books and manga or TV series and documentaries, among other topics.
In order to continue this path, we are organising a second conference now, but with a more defined context for the study of Alexander's reception: the Spanish tradition.
Proposals concerning Alexander's reception in Spain and the Iberian peninsula, and Spanish-speaking traditions elsewhere (from the end of Antiquity until our own days) would be very welcome. Poetry, Historiography, Fiction, or Gaming would be considered along with other more usual topics of Alexander's reception studies.
The languages of the communications in this conference should preferably be Catalan, Spanish, and English, but we are open to proposals in other languages after previous inquiry with the organisers.
Those interested in taking part in the conference can send a proposal with a title and a brief abstract (max. 300 words) to the organisers' emails before May 31st, 2026.
Any question, please, do not hesitate to contact us anyway:
borja.antela@uab.cat
marc.mendoza@uab.cat
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;16c77362.ex
(CFP closed May 31, 2026)
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November 2026
#CFP [ONLINE] AIMS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2026
Friday, Nov. 6 – Tuesday, Nov. 10 (Americas/UK/EU)
Saturday, Nov. 7 – Wednesday, Nov. 11 (Australasia)
Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) seeks proposals for its annual virtual conference on any topic related to the reception of the ancient Mediterranean world in modern media. AIMS has run this free annual conference for the past six years, during which we have brought together scholars and creators from various disciplines to discuss their work seeking to uncover the ways that antiquity is reimagined across different media: comics, video games, film, TV, analog games, podcasts, YouTube, music and music videos, among many others.
Please find the full CFP on our website: https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/annual-meeting/
(CFP closes August 3, 2026)
THE 19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF TAIWAN ASSOCIATION OF CLASSICAL, MEDIEVAL, AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES (TACMRS)
National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan (limited hybrid sessions): November 6-7, 2026
For centuries, the symbiosis between the sea and land has been a central
theme in Western cultures and thoughts: while land provides resources,
manpower, and technology to the sea, the sea opens channels for trade and
communication. As civilizations grew, the conceptual boundary between sea and
land was consistently redefined and reimagined. Maritime trading routes
centered around the Mediterranean began to flourish from the 5th century
onward, fostering economic, cultural, and religious exchanges and
cosmopolitan unities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. In
the 13th century, when the Venetian merchant Marco Polo ventured East, he
not only revealed broader markets in Asia (for silk, spices, porcelain,
etc.), but also prompted a surge of cultural interests in the East, real or
imagined. At the same time, the Hanseatic League emerged along the Baltic
shores starting in the late 12th century, linking coastal ports and cities
in the name of commerce. Not only did the organization contribute to the
success of commercial exchanges across Europe (such as raw materials,
necessities, and luxury goods), but it also brought political stability in
the regions.
Beyond the realm of commerce, the relationship between sea and land has
been thematized in literary works for centuries. In Virgil’s *Aeneid*, for
instance, the Roman poet describes Aeneas’ westward travels to Italy after
the fall of Troy, tracing the transition between old and new empires
(*translatio
imperii*). Even some of the oldest works of English literature, including *The
Seafarer, *projected contemporary theological questions onto an uncertain
seascape as if to take advantage of this conceptual no-man’s land to
explore questions of religion and poetics side by side. In the 15th
century, English mystic writer Margery Kempe faced perilous seas while
accompanying her daughter-in-law back to Danzig (now Gdańsk). While Kempe
described the experience as soul crushing, she managed to retrieve inner
strength and faith in the midst of it. Shakespeare himself, building on a
by then established tradition, frequently used the motifs of shipwreck
and piracy
to explore the porosity between comedy and tragedy, as seen in *The
Merchant of Venice*, *Twelfth Night*, and even *Hamlet*.
This conference calls for research from scholars working in classical,
medieval, and Renaissance studies under the topic of *The Sea and the World*
(in both English and Chinese). The 2026 international conference will
include primarily in-person sessions with a limited number of hybrid
sessions. For questions of accessibility, including remote presentation
and/or special technological requirements, please email the organizers
before submitting your abstract. We particularly encourage submissions from
MA and PhD studㄝents in the humanities across the country. Conference
participants may also form panels or roundtable topics among themselves
before submission. Suggested topics include the following (but are not
limited to):
- Maritime histories, literatures, and cultures
- Trading routes and the archeology of trade
- *mappa mundi* and cartography
- Piracy and shipwrecks
- Old Norse literature
- Human geography and islands studies
- Ecocriticism
- Emotion studies
- Empire and colonialism
- Subjectivity and alterity
- State borders and boundaries
- Sea voyage and immigration
- The hero’s journey and its adaptations
The conference will be held on November 6-7, 2026 at National Central
University. Please submit your proposal (250 words for English; 500 words
for Chinese) along with a one-page CV to tacmrs.ncu@gmail.com by July 1,
2025. There is no registration fee for the conference. Please note that
presenters should be members of TACMRS if they reside in Taiwan. Membership
application forms can be downloaded from the TACMRS website or upon request
via email. For more information, please visit the TACMRS website at https://
tacmrs.org.tw/.
Conference Coordinators:
· Dr. Yu-Ching (Louis) Wu, Assistant Professor, National Central
University
· Dr. Claudio Sansone, Assistant Professor, National Central
University
Conference Email Address: tacmrs.ncu@gmail.com
Conference website: https://tacmrsncu.wordpress.com/
(CFP closed July 1, 2025)
TARTALO. 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MYTH IN THE ARTS
Hybrid/Faculty of Arts, UPV/EHU (University of the Basque Country), Vitoria-Gasteiz: November 17–20, 2026
Myth, understood in its broadest sense, designates a form of narrative not bound to
historical time, yet endowed with the capacity to reflect reality in universal and profound ways,
as well as to embody essential truths about the human condition. In this respect, myth may be
understood as a means of rendering visible, in symbolic and condensed form, the
transcendent—that which is fundamental to both humanity and the cosmos. For this reason,
since the earliest stages of history, human societies have produced myths that, in many cases,
operate as metaphors for human nature itself: its fears, anxieties, and uncertainties, as well as
its deepest desires and aspirations. Thus, articulated as narratives that may appear simple or
even naïve, myths have persisted over time and have continually adapted to new contexts and
circumstances, while preserving their cultural relevance and interpretative potency.
With this aim in mind, TARTALO. 10th International Conference on Myth in the Arts
seeks to bring together scholars whose work explores myth across its diverse artistic
expressions, spanning different historical periods and geographical settings, and approached
from a wide variety of theoretical frameworks.
Accordingly, we invite the submission of proposals that examine myth within any of
the following thematic areas:
* Myth, Poetics, and Rewriting
Mythopoetics, the revision and evolution of myths and folklore, transtextual dialogues
and the relationship between myth, genres, traditions, and aesthetic movements.
* Myth, Media and Artistic Practices
Myth in the arts, sound, audiovisual media, and new forms of creation approached from
aesthetic, formal, and transmedia perspectives.
* Myth, Translation and Cultural Circulation
Myth within translation studies, intercultural transfer and the role of technologies in its
adaptation and resignification.
* Myth, Identity, Body, and Society
Myth and identity construction, gender studies and intersectionality, stereotypes,
power, diversity, disability, accessibility, and the social uses of myth.
* Myth, the Fantastic, and Aesthetic Traditions
The fantastic as an aesthetic and cultural category in dialogue with myth, its presence
in the visual and literary arts, its relationship with gender and representation, and its
articulation in traditions such as science fiction, the Gothic, and the legacy of the
Inklings.
TARTALO. 10th International Conference on Myth in the Arts will take place in
bimodal format (online and in person). Each presenter will be allotted 15 minutes for the
presentation of their paper. The working languages of the conference will be English and
Spanish.
Submission of Proposals
Members of the academic community are invited to submit paper proposals to
TARTALO. 10th International Conference on Myth in the Arts. Proposals must include the
author’s details (full name, institutional affiliation, and email address), an abstract of no more
than 200 words, a brief biographical note (maximum 100 words) and should state if the
presentation will be delivered online or in-person.
The abstract should clearly state the objectives, methodology or approach adopted, and
the main results and/or conclusions, and should include up to five keywords.
All materials must be submitted in a file compatible with MS Word, using Times New
Roman 12-point font, double spacing, and justified text.
Proposals must be submitted via the TARTALO platform (https://www.tartalogasteiz.com/en/congress) by 8 May 2026 for evaluation
by the Scientific Committee. Applicants will be notified of the decision by 5 June 2026. Upon
acceptance, participants will be able to proceed with registration, which will be confirmed once
the corresponding registration fee has been paid.
Accepted abstracts will be published in the fourth volume of the ISBN-registered series
The Fantastic in the Arts.
Modes of Participation
The conference will take place in a hybrid format, both online and in-person. All
papers will be allotted a maximum of 15 minutes for presentation and will be delivered in
English or Spanish.
The in-person sessions will be held at the Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque
Country (Paseo de la Universidad, 5, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava). Virtual presentations will
be delivered via the Microsoft Teams platform. Participants whose proposals are accepted for
virtual presentation will receive the access link a few days prior to the conference and will be
required to submit their presentation in advance (in .ppt, .pptx or .pdf formats) to minimise
potential technical issues.
The TARTALO Loyalty Awards are intended to cover the conference registration fee
for TARTALO. Myth in the Arts, to recognise and encourage the sustained participation of
researchers in this academic forum.
Two awards will be granted per calendar year. Applicants must meet the following
requirements:
• Be doctoral candidates or hold a PhD degree.
• Have participated in the TARTALO conference in at least two previous editions (not
necessarily consecutive) and be presenting a paper in the current edition.
• Not have been a recipient of this award in the immediately preceding call.
Publication
A selection of papers will be published in a journal operating under a Green Open
Access model. This system guarantees free and immediate access to published contents while
recognising and respecting authors’ copyright. Moreover, in line with the criteria established
by ANECA, the Green Open Access model promotes the wide circulation of research through
the possibility of depositing preprint and postprint versions in institutional or subject
repositories, thereby contributing to increased visibility, academic impact, and traceability of
publications.
Articles must be submitted via the TARTALO platform, within the section specifically
designated for this purpose, where authors will also find the journal’s style sheet and formal
guidelines. Authors wishing to have their work considered for publication must submit the
final version of their article by 11 January 2027. All submissions will undergo a double-blind
external peer-review process, and only those that successfully pass this evaluation will be
published. Articles must be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length (including notes and
references) and must follow the MLA style for citations and references.
Registration
All conference participants are required to pay the registration fee. In the case of coauthored papers, all authors must register individually.
Please consult the registration deadlines and fee options here: https://www.tartalogasteiz.com/en/congress
Organisation, Sponsorship, and Collaborating Institutions
TARTALO. 10th International Conference on Myth in the Arts is organised by
Knowledge Transfer Group TR42872 and by academic staff from the Faculty of Arts,
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
The conference is sponsored by the non-profit cultural association HEVENDAY; the
Department of English and German Philology and Translation and Interpreting; the
Department of Classical Studies; the Department of Philology and History; and the Master’s
Degree in Comparative Literature and Literary Studies of the Faculty of Arts, UPV/EHU.
Collaborating institutions include the Vice-Rectorate for the Álava Campus
(UPV/EHU), the Faculty of Arts (UPV/EHU), the Master’s Degree in Comparative
Literature (UPV/EHU), the REWEST Research Group (UPV/EHU), the IdeoLit Research
Group: Literature as Historical Document (UPV/EHU), the Basque Centre for Irish Studies
(Eusk-Cara), Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos País Vasco, and the International
Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA).
Confirmed Plenary Speakers
J. J. Benítez (Writer, Spain)
Jim Casey (ICFA Conference Director, USA)
Anke Eissmann (Illustrator and Graphic Designer, Germany)
Juan F. Elices (University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
David Higgins (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States)
Toti Martínez de Lezea (Writer, Spain)
Marisol Morales Ladrón (University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
Janina Ramírez (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Héctor Uroz (University of Murcia, Spain)
Organising Committee
Jon Alkorta Martiartu (University of the Basque Country)
Adrián Arana Armesto (University of the Basque Country)
Naiara Berganzo Besga (University of La Rioja)
María del Carmen Encinas Reguero (University of the Basque Country)
Olga Fernández Vicente (University of the Basque Country)
Alba Jimeno Ruiz de Larrinaga (University of the Basque Country)
Alicia Martínez Martín (University of the Basque Country)
Alejandro Martínez Sobrino (University of the Basque Country)
Jonatan Pérez Mostazo (University of the Basque Country)
Tamara Rojo Castro (University of the Basque Country)
Ane Belén Ruiz Lejarcegui (University of the Basque Country)
Scientific Committee
Mercedes Aguirre Castro (Complutense University of Madrid)
Asier Altuna García de Salazar (University of Deusto)
José Javier Azanza López (University of Navarra)
Antonio Andrés Ballesteros González (National University of Distance Education – UNED)
Richard Buxton (University of Bristol)
P. J. Matthews (University College Dublin)
Juan Ignacio Oliva Cruz (University of La Laguna)
David Río Raigadas (University of the Basque Country – UPV/EHU)
María Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya (Jaume I University)
África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca)
Social Media
Youtube: @tartalogasteiz
TikTok: @tartalogasteiz
Instagram: @tartalogasteiz
X: @TartaloGasteiz
Website: https://www.tartalogasteiz.com/en/congress
(CFP closed May 8, 2026)
TEXT, TRADITION, AND TRANSFORMATION IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD. INTERTEXTUAL PRACTICES IN COMPARISON
LMU Munich, Germany: November 19-21, 2026
Organised by Marco Besl and Claudia Wiener (LMU)
In times of social change, the need to refer back to cultural tradition seems particularly urgent. In literary production, this tendency is evident in intertextual techniques, which establish connections with literary works of authority to lend credibility to current statements and writings. Intertextuality therefore plays a central role in understanding cultural and social transformation processes.
This conference will take a comparative look at Late antiquity and the Early modern period, when authorities of the past were emphasised across cultures in Latin and Greek literature, but also had to be renegotiated. These authorities were not only simply accepted, but also transformed in new contexts. The underlying practices and objectives will be analysed and compared during the conference. In addition, the conference will examine the possibilities and trends of contemporary philological methods, especially digital ones, in the study of intertextual phenomena for our own methodological reflection.
We cordially invite you to attend the international conference organised by the Cluster of Excellence (EXC 3061) Cross-Cultural Philology at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU Munich) from Thursday, 19 November to Saturday, 21 November 2026 in Munich. Contributions from established researchers and early-career scholars of all relevant disciplines in German or English are welcome. Please submit an outline of your presentation (max. 1 page) and a short CV by 31 January 2026 to marco.besl@lmu.de. Feedback will be provided in February 2026. Presentations should last 25–30 minutes, followed by a 15-minute discussion. Travel and accommodation expenses can be covered.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;44833f07.ex
(CFP closed January 31, 2026)
[HYBRID] ANNUAL MEETING OF POSTGRADUATES IN RECEPTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD (AMPRAW)
Dates: November 19-21, 2026
Location: hybrid/University of Warsaw (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”/Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA))
Theme: Reimagining Futures, Reinventing Pasts: Classical Antiquity and the Making of Imagined Worlds
Call: https://al.uw.edu.pl/ampraw-2026/
Abstract deadline: June 15, 2026
AMPRAW is an annual conference designed to bring together early-career researchers in the field of classical reception studies. The 2026 meeting will mark the fifteenth edition of the conference. Since 2011, AMPRAW aims to contribute to the growth of an international network of PhD students and early career scholars working on the reception of classical antiquity, as well as to strengthen relationships between emerging researchers and established academics.
AMPRAW 2026 will be held at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, in the milieu of the Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA), from Thursday 19 November to Saturday 21 November 2026.
We anticipate holding this conference in a hybrid format. We warmly encourage participants to attend in person in Warsaw, while also providing the possibility of remote participation for both speakers and audience members. We cannot guarantee funding to cover speakers’ expenses, however, there is no conference fee.
Conference Theme: Imagined Worlds
In a world increasingly oriented toward the future – marked by rapid change, uncertainty, and recurring crisis – classical antiquity remains a powerful resource for imagining and questioning possible worlds. Far from belonging solely to the past, ancient myths, philosophies, and narratives are repeatedly drawn on to articulate hopes and fears, and to envision alternative futures. Ancient thought itself often engaged in speculative reflection, developing ways of thinking about time, nature, and society, as well as the limits of human agency – approaches that continue to shape contemporary debates.
This conference invites early career researchers to explore how classical antiquity participates in the making of imagined worlds across different temporal directions: how it is reactivated in visions of the future, used to reinvent or contest the past, and how it helps to frame the present. Particular attention is given to speculative practices – utopian, dystopian, futuristic, or counterfactual – in which antiquity functions as a shared point of reference, a critical language, or a site of ideological struggle.
At the same time, receptions of antiquity are never neutral. They emerge within specific social, political, and cultural contexts, and often reflect contemporary concerns and power relations. By approaching antiquity as a historically situated and contested resource, the conference aims to foster interdisciplinary discussion on how ancient material is used and reworked in politics, science, art, and cultural imagination.
The conference welcomes contributions from scholars working worldwide in classics, classical reception studies, cultural studies, history, sociology, and the arts. We particularly encourage innovative and interdisciplinary approaches.
Suggested Topics
Reimagining Futures
• Classical antiquity in utopian, dystopian, and speculative fictions
• Myths and classical figures in futuristic or post-apocalyptic settings
• Ancient paradigms of heroism, otherness, and hybridity in new mythologies
Reinventing and Contesting Pasts
• Counterfactual antiquities: rewriting ancient history in literature, art, and popular culture
• Political uses of antiquity in imagined communities and alternative histories
• The aesthetics of ruins and “future archaeology”: imagining antiquity from the future
Temporalities, Crisis, and Speculation
• Classical myth as a framework for negotiating crisis, catastrophe, and transformation
• Antiquity and the Anthropocene: ecological and environmental imaginaries
• Nonlinear, circular, or fragmented temporalities in classical reception
Media, Technologies, and Digital Worlds
• Digital antiquity: gaming, virtual reconstruction, and immersive worlds
• Classical reception in film, animation, and speculative media
• Mythological motifs in AI, algorithms, and other emerging media
Politics, Ethics, and Communities
• Classical antiquity in visions of political futures and alternative social orders
• Reappropriations of classical narratives in activism and critical art
• Classical frameworks in debates on democracy, justice, and citizenship
Submission Guidelines
The Organising Committee cordially invites proposals for papers. Those wishing to present a 20-minute paper are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words (as a Word document or PDF) to the organisers at ampraw2026@al.uw.edu.pl by 15 June 2026. Each individual may submit only one abstract. A template for the Word submission form can be downloaded here (https://al.uw.edu.pl/ampraw-2026/).
Applicants will be selected and notified by 20 July 2026.
Contact: for general inquiries about the conference, please contact us at ampraw2026@al.uw.edu.pl
The Organising Committee
Hanna Paulouskaya and Marta Pszczolińska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Website: https://al.uw.edu.pl/ampraw-2026/
Previous AMPRAW conferences:
2025: Malta Classics Association/University of Malta/online: November 21-23, 2025 - https://classicsmalta.org/ampraw2025/
2024: Malta Classics Association/University of Malta/hybrid: November 21-23, 2024. Theme: Rebirth and Renewal - Information.
2023: Superiore Meridionale, Naples, Italy: November 30-December 2, 2023. Theme: Cultures in fragments - Multifaceted approaches to the knowledge of Mediterranean antiquity through partial remains - Program.
2022: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA: November 3-5, 2022 (hybrid). Theme: Islands - Program.
2021: Columbia Uni, 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.
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January 2027
SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES - SCS 2027 ANNUAL MEETING
Boston, MA: January 7-10, 2027
Website: https://www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2027-annual-meeting
Classical reception panels:
CLASSICS AND EASTERN EUROPE
Organized by Nikola Golubović (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) & Maria Kovalchuk (Wake Forest University)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/classics-and-eastern-europe-organizer-refereed-panel
Deadline: March 1, 2026
THE INDIRECT METHOD: TRANSLATIONS AS SOURCES
SCS Committee on Translations of Classical Authors
Organizers: Scott McGill and Stephanie McCarter
Call: https://www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/indirect-method-translations-sources-committee-translations
Deadline: February 15, 2026
LUSO-HISPANIC RECEPTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM: CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES
Sponsored by Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World
Organized by Germán Campos-Muñoz, Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki, Julia Hernández, and Brian Jorge Bigio
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/luso-hispanic-receptions-classroom-challenges-and-strategies-hesperides
Deadline: February 15, 2026
NEOPLATONISM & THE PRESOCRATICS
Sponsored by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Organized by Jeremy Swist, Michigan State University
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/neoplatonism-and-presocratics-international-society-neoplatonic-studies
Deadline: March 1, 2026
TRANSLATION AND LANGUAGE LEARNING AS SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES IN CLASSICS
Sponsored by Classics and Social Justice
Organized by Serena S. Witzke (serena.witzke@gmail.com)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/translation-and-language-learning-social-justice-issues-classics-classics-and-social
Deadline: March 15, 2026
VERGIL BEYOND EUROPE
Panel Sponsored by the Vergilian Society
Call: https://www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/call-papers-panel-sponsored-vergilian-society
Deadline: February 23, 2026
THE VOICE OF THE ARTIST IN AND AFTER OVID
Sponsored by the International Ovidian Society
Organized by Daniel Libatique (Fairfield University) & Alicia Matz (San Diego State University)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/voice-artist-and-after-ovid-international-ovidian-society
Deadline: March 1, 2026
ETYMOLOGY IN FRENCH POETRY (14TH-17TH CENTURIES)/L’ÉTYMOLOGIE DANS LA POÉSIE FRANÇAISE (XIVE-XVIIE SIÈCLE)
Paris (Ecole Normale Supérieure): January 21-22, 2027
French poetry is often studied in the context of its ancient Greek and Latin roots, particularly in terms of themes and genres. By contrast, poets’ use of etymology has been the subject of more sporadic studies or has been incorporated into broader linguistic investigations, even though the history of a word—primarily from its Greek or Latin origins—has long fascinated poets.
This conference aims to explore how French poets chose their words based on their etymology, commented on the origins of words, or, more broadly, played with etymologies. This subject of study engages both the field of research on the reception of Antiquity, particularly through a linguistic approach, and studies concerned with the conception of poetry and its special relationship with truth.
Proposals (including a title and an abstract of 200–300 words, and a brief CV) should be submitted by 30 June 2026 to Lorène Bellanger, Adèle Payen de La Garanderie and Cécile Margelidon at the following addresses:
lorene.bellanger@free.fr
cecile.euler@ens.psl.eu
adele.payendelagaranderie@univ-nantes.fr
Call: [pdf] https://antiquite.ens.psl.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/20270121_etymologies_programme.pdf
(CFP closed June 30, 2026)
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February 2027
#CFP [HYBRID] AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES (ASCS) 48TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Dates: February 1-4 (or 1-5, TBA), 2027.
Location: hybrid/University of Sydney, NSW.
CFP (and panels) deadline: August 7, 2026.
Submissions should be made via the relevant google form.
For panels please use https://forms.gle/6NCAPteMfJE2iyjh7.
For individual proposals please use https://forms.gle/TpzuyJpQ6bGLSy368.
Panels should consist of three papers linked by a theme and area.
Enquiries should be sent to ascsconferenceabstracts@gmail.com.
Conference website: TBA.
ASCS website: http://www.ascs.org.au/.
(CFP closes August 7, 2026)
FROM THE IMAGINARY TO THE RUINS, FROM THE RUINS TO THE IMAGINARY: LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE IN ITS MATERIALITY (14TH–19TH CENTURIES)
French School of Athens, Greece: February 25-26, 2027
International conference ERC AGRELITA co-organized with the French School of Athens
This conference aims to explore representations of the material realities of ancient Greece in literary works written between the 14th and 19th centuries, and to examine how authors constructed images of ancient Greece based on its materiality, as they appropriated and incorporated it into various texts. Its purpose is to analyze how the materiality of ancient Greece (monuments, buildings, ruins, works of art, objects, clothing, etc.) was imagined or reproduced, reconstructed, reinterpreted and re-imagined, both before and after the discovery of material remains during travels, explorations and archaeological excavations. It thus focuses on the shifts and, above all, the interactions between, on the one hand, the constructions of the imagination and thought, and, on the other, the material remains of ancient Greece discovered over the centuries, which are reflected in literature.
We deliberately consider the corpus of literary texts in its broadest sense, as it was understood throughout most of the centuries under consideration: novels, poetry, historical texts, travelogues, antiquarian literature, literature on art and architecture, archaeological treatises, accounts of archaeological expeditions, educational texts… The aim will be to cross-reference analyses of writing forms that are often treated separately. Attention will be focused on the texts and also on the visual images that may accompany them, which depict material remains associated with ancient Greece, as well as the practices linked to them (political, artistic, religious, funerary, etc.).
The material realities depicted by the authors are, in fact, sometimes the product of the imagination alone. We are thinking here particularly of texts from the 14th and early 15th centuries, though not exclusively. More often, they reflect and rework Greek realia or elements identified as such: reproduction, transformation, and the projection of the imagination and/or conceptual frameworks are thus intertwined. The authors of the texts under consideration sometimes had direct access to the Greek realia they depict—travelers, antiquarians, archaeologists…—and/or wrote on the basis of various intermediary sources and their own vision of Greece. Their thinking and imagination may have shaped the representation and interpretation of this materiality, discovered directly or indirectly, to the point of reinventing it. Which aspects of the materiality of ancient Greece have interested authors over the centuries, through which modes of representation and for what purposes? How do different representations of the materiality of ancient Greece relate to one another from one era to the next, within the same era and sometimes within the same work? How does the reception of this materiality also vary from one cultural sphere to another?
From the growing fascination with ancient Greece that emerged in the 14th century through to the birth of modern archaeology in the 19th century, this conference aims to explore the fantasized material representations of ancient Greece found in literary texts. Its goal is to trace the evolution of the perspective taken by numerous authors on the material remains of Greece, and that of their representations—that is, their modes of appropriation. In this regard, we believe it is essential to place the works under study in their historical context in order to better understand the issues (aesthetic, political, identity-related, etc.) underlying these representations.
Proposals (including a title and an abstract of 200–300 words, and a brief CV) should be submitted by 15 May 2026 to Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas and Lorène Bellanger at the following addresses:
catherine.gaullier-bougassas@unicaen.fr
lorene.bellanger@unicaen.fr
Proposals may be submitted in French or English.
To ensure publication before the end of the ERC project, we ask authors to send us their text by 23 December 2026. Changes may be made after the conference.
The articles resulting from the contributions will be published by Brepols in the book series “Recherches sur les Réceptions de l’Antiquité”: http://www.brepols.net/ Pages/BrowseBySeries.aspx?TreeSeries=RRA.
Call: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/10578 (French & English)
(CFP closed May 15, 2026)
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March 2027
#CFP WORKSHOP: ON THE FRINGES OF THE CATENA FORMAT - CATENA-COMMENTARIES, COMPOSITE EXEGESIS, AND THE POSTERITY OF CATENAE
KU Leuven, Belgium: March 9-10, 2027
We invite proposals for 30’-papers for a workshop organized at KU Leuven from 9–10 March 2027.
The workshop will be held in person at KU Leuven and will be devoted to exegetical works situated at the boundaries of the catena genre, with particular interest in contributions exploring the transformation of Byzantine catenae into new exegetical forms and other manifestations of their literary posterity.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 October 2026.
The keynote lectures will be delivered by Prof. Dr. Luciano Bossina and Dr. Maria-Lucia Goiana.
Call: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/grieks/nieuws/catenaworkshop
(CFP closes October 15, 2026)
#CFP [RSA PANEL] THE MANY VIRGILS OF THE RENAISSANCE
Renaissance Society of America - Philadelphia: March 11-13, 2027
Co-sponsors: Hesperides and International Association of Neo-Latin Studies
Organizers: Leni Ribeiro Leite and Giacomo Comiati
Few classical poets could compete with Virgil in occupying a privileged position within Early Modern literary culture, not only within Europe but also in a broader global Renaissance context. Humanists, poets, educators, missionaries, and political thinkers across Europe and its overseas territories turned to his works as models of language, genre, authority, and cultural memory. Yet Early Modern engagements with Virgil were far from uniform. His poetry was continually adapted to address new intellectual, political, religious, and geographical realities.
This session seeks to explore the diverse ways in which Early Modern authors reimagined Virgil across a broad transnational landscape, with a particular focus on the transatlantic world. Bringing together studies of both European and colonial contexts, the panel aims to showcase how Virgilian texts, motifs, and poetic strategies circulated between the centres and peripheries of the Early Modern world (with a focus not only on European countries, but also on Central and South America), acquiring new meanings in the process. Contributions are invited to investigate how writers employed Virgil to construct political legitimacy, frame imperial and missionary enterprises, describe unfamiliar landscapes, negotiate local identities, and participate in evolving humanist traditions.
Rather than treating Virgilian imitation as a passive inheritance, the session emphasises the creative and often transformative uses of classical authority. By placing European and American materials in dialogue, it highlights the interconnected nature of Early Modern literary culture and demonstrates how Virgil served as a shared point of reference through which authors articulated both common ambitions and distinct local concerns. In this panel, we hope to find not a single Renaissance Virgil, but multiple Virgils shaped by different communities, languages, genres, and historical circumstances, thus contributing to ongoing discussions about classical reception, cultural exchange, and the global dimensions of Renaissance humanism.
Abstracts will be selected through anonymous evaluation. Send abstracts and a copy of your CV to contact@hesperideslusohispano.org by July 31 (200-word maximum; 15-word maximum for paper title).
Call: https://www.rsa.org/forms/FormResponseView.asp?id=9F363FFF-D959-476F-86F5-C9AA39D61B58
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April 2027
#CFP TRANSLATING THE BIBLE: THE CREATION, TRANSMISSION, AND RECEPTION OF THE LATIN BIBLE
KU Leuven (Belgium): April 7–9, 2027
The impact of the Latin Bible on the Western world is difficult to overstate. From the intricate illuminations of medieval codices to the intellectual frameworks of the Reformation, the Latin Bible has shaped not only what people believe but what people think, how they act, and create. From the earliest Vetus Latina translations to the Vulgate and its later reception, the Latin biblical tradition has exerted a profound influence on theology, literature, philosophy, and the arts. Recent years have witnessed renewed scholarly interest in the Latin Bible, particularly in the fields of translation studies, textual criticism, manuscript transmission, reception history, and digital humanities.
The conference aims to bring together researchers working on all aspects of the Latin Bible and foster dialogue across disciplinary boundaries. We particularly welcome contributions that bridge traditional divisions between Old and New Testament studies. Papers may address any period of the Latin biblical tradition, from the earliest translations to the medieval and early modern reception of the Vulgate.
We invite proposals for 30-minute papers (including discussion) on any aspect of the Latin biblical tradition. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Translation techniques and translation theory in Latin biblical texts
Textual criticism and the role of Latin witnesses in reconstructing other biblical traditions
Manuscript studies, codicology, palaeography, and book history
Paratexts, glosses, annotations, and their interpretative functions
Reception of the Latin Bible
Linguistic approaches to the Latin Bible and history of the Latin language
Digital methods for the study of biblical texts and manuscript traditions
Please submit a title and an abstract of no more than 200 words by 1 October 2026 to: anna.persig@kuleuven.be and martijn.jaspers@kuleuven.be
Conference languages are English, French, or German. Proposals in other languages may be considered upon consultation with the organizers. Notification of acceptance will be sent in early November 2026. Presenters are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses.
Source: https://reforc.com/events/translating-the-bible-the-creation-transmission-and-reception-of-the-latin-bible/
#CFP [HYBRID] THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Hybrid/University of Notre Dame’s London Campus: April 9-11, 2027
The key themes of the Conference are:
Ancient Mythologies
Classical Reception
Fragments
Historiography and Ancient History
Peripheral Communities
Roman Britain
Teaching Classics with AI and New Technologies
Women and Ancient Theatre
All are welcome to join us and anyone can submit a proposal; you do not have to be a member of an institution or a member of the Classical Association, but you must submit your proposal for a paper, lightning talk, panel, workshop or symposium by 25 September 2026. Pedagogical approaches are warmly encouraged.
We hope that sessions will juxtapose speakers from different disciplines and backgrounds, so that all can share ideas, challenges, and enthusiasms. There will be hybrid access.
Hashtag: #CA2027
Call: https://classicalassociation.org/conference/
(CFP closes September 25, 2026)
#CFP LITERARY RECEPTION AND HUMAN CREATIVITY IN THE AGE OF AI
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: April 16–17, 2027
Co-organizers: Asya Sigelman (Classics) and Margaret Strair (German Studies)
Keynote speaker: Barbara Graziosi (Princeton University)
The rapid integration of generative AI in everyday life brings renewed urgency to fundamental questions about human creativity: what constitutes the human act of writing, and how does human literary production differ from that of large language models (LLMs) — algorithms trained on vast textual corpora to predict and generate language?
The field of literary reception studies offers one way to engage with these questions. All literature draws on its predecessors: in the words of T. S. Eliot, “not only the best, but the most individual parts of [a poet’s] work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously.” On the surface, this dynamic resembles what LLMs do when they generate new texts by drawing on vast repositories of pre-existing texts. But while LLMs recombine existing patterns, human authors transform inherited forms and meanings in ways that open new imaginative possibilities. In her seminal article which introduced the concept of intertextuality, Julia Kristeva argued that the “literary word” is “an intersection of textual surfaces,” a “dialogue among several writings.” While reception studies have largely decentered intentionality, it is worth attending to those moments when an author is fully conscious that she is entering such a magical intersection, where the past is “altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past” (Eliot). It is just such a moment that Zora Neale Hurston captures when she reminisces on the first encounter between herself, an African American girl growing up in the Jim Crow South, and the seventeenth-century English poet John Milton: “So I read Paradise Lost and luxuriated in Milton’s syllables and rhythms without ever having heard that Milton was one of the greatest poets of the world. I read it because I liked it” (Dust Tracks on a Road).
This conference invites scholars working across ancient and modern literatures to examine what is distinctively human about such encounters—what writers do with the voices they inherit that resists algorithmic replication. We invite paper proposals that bring together literary works from different historical, cultural, and/or linguistic backgrounds and that explore the role that dialogue with literary contemporaries and predecessors plays in the choices that a text makes on the levels of language, imagery, plot, and themes. As artificial intelligence is poised to change notions of authorship and the act of writing, what can a human writer’s reception of her predecessors tell us about what it means to birth a vision of the future?
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• Dialogue between literary creations as a catalyst for the development of a literary movement (e.g., New Sophistic, Classicism, Romanticism).
• Literary adaptations of ancient mythical and Biblical prototypes (e.g., Daedalus, Oedipus, Book of Job).
• A work’s positioning of itself within or against an established generic tradition.
• A poet’s/writer’s self-identification with a poetic voice of the past (e.g., Horace’s identification with Pindar; Brodsky’s with Horace; Virginia Woolf’s with Sappho; Derek Walcott’s with Homer).
• One genre’s absorption of another (e.g., Greek tragedy’s absorption of Homeric epic; Goethe’s adaptation of Euripidean tragedy in Faust; Dostoyevsky’s novelistic absorption of the plays of Shakespeare and Schiller).
• The dialoguing of 17th-21st century playwrights with ancient and/or Elizabethan theatre.
The conference will be held April 16–17, 2027, on the campus of Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. We anticipate being able to subsidize accommodations.
Abstracts (300-500 words) should be sent to Asya Sigelman (asigelman@brynmawr.edu) by October 1, 2026. The committee will send notifications of acceptances by November 15, 2026.
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;b1cf599b.ex
(CFP closes October 1, 2026)
#CFP PERFORMING MENANDER TODAY
Limassol, Cyprus (Cyprus Theatre Museum): April 17-18, 2027
The Menander Redivivus research team invites proposals for the international conference “Performing Menander Today”, which will be held at the Cyprus Theatre Museum (Limassol, Cyprus), on 17-18 April 2027.
This event forms a core part of the Open University of Cyprus research project Menander Redivivus: New Comedy on the Modern Stage, which is dedicated to the study of Menander -the most prominent representative of Athenian New Comedy (342–291 BCE)- and his reception in modern theatre. The international conference will bring together classicists, theatre scholars, graduate students, theatre practitioners, and all those interested in the reception of New Comedy to foster dialogue between philology, theatre studies, and performance practice.
The conference encourages interdisciplinary approaches and welcomes contributions from scholars at all career stages, as well as theatre practitioners.
Confirmed Speakers
Dr. Antonis K. Petrides (Open University of Cyprus)
Dr. Chris Vervain (Artist, Theater Practitioner, Researcher)
Dr. Francesco Paolo Bianchi (University of Insubria)
Kiki Argyrou (Cyprus Theatre Organisation)
Dr. Kyriaki A. Ioannidou (Open University of Cyprus)
Dr. Leonardo Fiorentini (Università e-Campus)
Dr. Magdalena Zira (Fantastico Theatro / Open University of Cyprus)
Paul O’Mahony (Out of Chaos Theatre)
Dr. Stavroula Kiritsi (California State University, Sacramento)
Dr. Tommaso Suaria (University of Lisbon)
Abstract Submission
Abstracts may be submitted in either English or Greek and should include:
Title of the proposed 20-minute paper.
Abstract (maximum 300 words)
Five keywords
Short biographical note (150 words).
Institutional affiliation.
Email address.
Submission deadline: Please send abstracts as PDF attachments to kyriaki.ioannidou3@ouc.ac.cy by Tuesday, 1st September 2026.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
* Modern productions of Menander’s plays (complete or fragmentary)
* Performing fragments: dramaturgical reconstruction and creative strategies
* Translation and adaptation of Menander for the modern stage
* Reception of Menander in contemporary theatre and performance culture
* Reconstruction of lost plays: methodologies, limits, and creative interventions
* Audience reception and the recontextualisation of Menander today
* Menander in education, public engagement, and digital humanities
* Scenography, costume, and embodiment in staging Menander
* Comparative approaches: Menander and modern comic/theatrical traditions
* The role of fragmentary comedy in contemporary performance
Provisional Programme
Paper presentations (20-min. followed by discussion).
A practical workshop on scenography, by Andy Bargilly.
A practical workshop on acting and directing, by Paul O’Mahony (Out of Chaos, London).
Roundtable discussion with theatre practitioners on Evis Gavrielides’ productions of Menander for the Cyprus Theatre Organisation (Dyskolos, 1985; Samia, 1993 & 2012; Epitrepontes, 2003).
Publication
Selected papers will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed edited volume arising from the conference. After the event, the Organising Committee will contact the respective presenters with editorial guidelines for submission.
Registration Fee
There is no registration fee. Participation in all conference activities is free of charge.
Travel and accommodation
Travel and accommodation expenses cannot be covered by the organisers. However, information about accommodation and transport options will be made available, and we will be happy to assist participants where possible.
Venue
The Cyprus Theatre Museum, Panos Solomonides 8, 3032, Limassol - Cyprus
For further information, please contact the organisers at kyriaki.ioannidou3@ouc.ac.cy.
The international conference is co-organised by the Open University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Theatre Museum as part of the research project Menander Redivivus: New Comedy on the Modern Stage. The project is implemented under the programme of social cohesion “THALIA 2021-2027” co-funded by the European Union, through Research and Innovation Foundation.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;d2b58227.ex
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January 2028
SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES - SCS 2028 ANNUAL MEETING
Denver, CO: January 6-9, 2028
Website: https://www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/future-annual-meetings
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February 2028
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July 2028
FIEC (INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ASSOCIATIONS OF CLASSICAL STUDIES) XVIIITH CONGRESS
Ljubljana (Slovenia): July 3-7, 2028
Source: http://fiecnet.blogspot.com/2025/09/xviiith-fiec-congress-xviiie-congres-de.html
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