Conferences
An archive of previous calls for papers is available here
Conferences 2009
Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis
September 3-6
Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London.
Proposals panels are welcomed as are papers on relevant psychoanalytic or mythic texts. Please send a title and half-page abstract by 1st September 2008 to Vanda Zajko(v.zajko@bris.ac.uk) & Ellen O'Gorman (e.c.ogorman@bris.ac.uk), Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Bristol , BS8 1TB
This conference is organised under the aegis of The Bristol Institute for Greece , Rome and the Classical Tradition. For further details please see conference website at
www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha/centres/institute/
Sexual Knowledge: Uses of the Past
27th-29th July 2009
University of Exeter
Call for papers
Why and how have people throughout history turned to the past in order to make sense of sexual experience?
What kinds of authority has the past exercised in popular and scholarly debates about sexual practices, identities, civilization and morality?
How do changing interpretations of past sexualities reflect historical shifts in the way sex is understood?
This interdisciplinary conference invites abstracts for papers examining any aspect of the way that discussions about sex and human nature over the centuries have both been informed by and helped to shape ideas about past cultures and the interpretation of their material and textual legacies. We particularly welcome abstracts from postgraduates and early career scholars, for whom some limited funding may be available.
Title and abstract to be received by 31 October 2008
Contact details for further information:
Dr Rebecca Langlands, Classics Department, Amory Building, Rennes Drive,
Exeter, EX4 4RJ Email: r.langlands@exeter.ac.uk
Further conference information is available from the following website:
http://www.centres.ex.ac.uk/medhist/conferences/index.shtml
A conference poster is available here.
France and the Classics
A seminar series organised jointly between the Humanities and Arts Research Centre & the Centre for the Reception of Greece & Rome, Royal Holloway Univ. of London.
Papers include:
February 18, Fiona Macintosh 'Aeschylus and the Enlightenment'
March 4, Patrick Pollard 'Classical Improprieties in Modern France: Before and After Freud'
Contact: edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk
Conferences 2008
Classical Collections and British Country houses and Gardens
December 12
Call for Papers
Papers are invited for a one day research seminar on ‘Classical Collections and British Country houses and Gardens' to be held at in the Arts Faculty, the Open University in Milton Keynes on Friday 12 December 2008. We plan to consider the relationship between classical collections ( of statuary, coins, architectural fragments or archaeological material ), their historical context at key points in the formation of the British country house and its setting, and their present survival as historic collections.
Questions we hope to address include: Do these collections acquire new meanings for each generation? Are they necessarily ‘closed collections' in the range of meanings they can support today? How do we respond to themes of nation, identity and memory, for instance, as part of the cultural work produced by their historic owners?
We welcome papers (30 minutes) on any aspect of the topic, and especially from postgraduate students. Please email your proposal (with brief a abstract) to Susie West (S.West@open.ac.uk) or Janet Huskinson (J.A.R.Huskinson@open.ac.uk ) by 1 September 2008.
African Athena: Black Athena 20 Years On
November 6-8
University of Warwick
Keynote Speakers: Martin Bernal, Paul Gilroy, Shelley Haley, Stephen Howe, Partha Mitter, Valentin Mudimbe, Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Patrice Rankine and Robert J. C. Young.
In order to register your attendance, please visit the conference website at: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/africanathena
Please forward any inquiries to: Dr. Daniel Orrells, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
Scholarship and/as Reception
November 5-6
Scholarship and/as Reception, an international cross-disciplinary conference, will be held at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. The aim is to explore the relationship between scholarship and other activities in the reception of Classical texts, ideas and concepts. Speakers will include Julia Gaisser (Bryn Mawr), Constanze Güthenke (Princeton), Duncan Kennedy (Bristol), Johannes Süssmann (Frankfurt) and Norman Vance (Sussex). Full details will be posted later when the programme is finalised. Please note the date and publicise to non-classicists with interests in this field. We hope to offer some travel bursaries to support graduate students who wish to attend.
Further information can be obtained from the organisers: Lorna Hardwick (l.p.hardwick@open.ac.uk) and Christopher Stray (c.a.stray@swan.ac.uk).
Greeks, Romans, Africans: 9th UNISA Classics Colloquium
October 23-25
Contributions are invited on topics related to the reciprocal relationship between Africa and the cultures of Greece and Rome. Papers dealing with ancient authors writing about Africa or with an African connection, historical and archaeological issues, as well as the reception of the classical world in Africa are welcomed. While the colloquium focuses on classical material, we encourage proposals from related fields and of an interdisciplinary nature.
Papers are limited to 45 minutes. Please submit abstracts of appr. 200 words via e-mail attachment to bosmapr@unisa.ac.za by 1 September 2008. The body of your email should include your name, institution, department, e-mail address, and the title of your paper.
Poetry and Performance: A Conference in honour of Oliver Taplin
26–27 September
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies Oxford
If you would like to attend this conference (details below), please contact Bill Allan (william.allan@univ.ox.ac.uk). Please also state whether you would like to attend the dinner (c. £20 plus drinks). There is no conference fee. We gratefully acknowledge the support of The British Academy, The Classics Faculty Board, and the OUP's John Fell Fund.
Refashioning the Classics: modern fabrications of the ancient world
20-21 September 2008
Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melbourne
This international, multidisciplinary conference will explore the modern representation and reception of the Classical world in contemporary culture and scholarship. The keynote speaker will be Professor Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge).
Call for papers and conference information (Word document)
Thinking the Olympics - Modern Bodies, Classical Minds?
18th-19th September 2008 at the Institute of Classical Studies
The 2008 Olympics in Beijing, poised between the return of the Games to Athens in 2004, and the future return to London in 2012, present a striking opportunity to reassess the role of the classical tradition in the modern, post-classical Olympic Games.
This interdisciplinary conference will consider the versions of ancient Greece legible, or suppressed, in the iconography, histories, literature, and ceremonies, both official and unofficial, of the revived Olympic Games. Perspectives from a variety of relevant disciplines, including classical reception studies, history ancient and modern, literary criticism, cultural studies, history of art, anthropology, media studies, political science, philosophy, sports science, and the history of medicine, are all welcome.
Professor David Gilman Romano, of the University of Pennsylvania will be our keynote speaker.
The conference website is available at www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/ecl/thinking-olympics
A provsional programme can be downloaded here. A registration form is available here.
Exhibiting Antiquity: What place does the exhibited object have in the reception of classical antiquity?
September 18-19
Birkbeck, University of London,
This conference aims to establish exhibited objects as an important aspect of the reception of ancient Greece and Rome. It will provide a forum for discussion of theoretical issues arising from the reception of such objects, as well as the particular challenges facing those involved in planning displays or exhibitions of antiquities. We will also consider the relationship between different modes of display - the object as cast, as souvenir, as authentic antiquity. Speakers might explore such varied topics as Apollo Belvedere in the English country house, the role of exhibited objects in Wincklemann's periodisation of the antique, the commodification of specific objects (such as the Portland Vase in the eighteenth century), literary responses to collections in Italy and the link between classics, museums and national identity.
Organisers: Catharine Edwards (History, Classics & Archaeology); Kate Nichols (History, Classics & Archaeology); Luisa Calè (English and Humanities).
Conference website:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/about/conferences/antiquityconference
8th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama: Violence
17 June 2008, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
18 June 2008, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham
The Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London, and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford. are pleased to announce the 8th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the reception of Greek and Roman Drama, with the focus of the 2008 symposium being 'Violence'. This two-day event will take place on Tuesday 17 June 2008 at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford, and Wednesday 18 June at Royal Holloway, Egham. Short papers (20 mins) or performative presentations are welcomed from postgraduates in all fields working on the reception of ancient drama, as well as post-doctorates who have not yet taken up a post. Abstracts (up to 400 words) should be emailed to postgradsymp@classics.ox.ac.uk no later than Friday 28 March 2008.
Call for papers (PDF)
The Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Drama
Institute of Classical Studies, London
June 12 and 13
The Institute of Classical studies is organising a conference on The Reception of Greek and Roman Drama to take place on 12-13 June 2008. The aim of the conference is to examine different aspects of the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Drama in a variety of different media: theatre, literature, art, music film and popular culture. Different methodological and theoretical approaches are welcome. Papers may cover any aspect of reception from antiquity up to the present.
First Call for Papers
If you are interested in giving a paper or organising a panel please send an abstract of up to 500 words to the conference organiser Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni: Anastasia.Bakogianni@sas.ac.uk
Classical Empires in Contemporary Culture
University College London
23 May 2008
A conference sponsored by University College London and the Classical Reception Studies Network
The nineteenth century was the century of empires, the twentieth saw theirdemise. At the start of the twenty-first century, according to Eric Hobsbawm in his most recent work Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism (2008), the old era of empires is beyond revival and there is no prospect of a return to the imperial worlds of the past. Yet, in popular political debate, the empires of the ancient world have a vital place as parallels and warnings about contemporary political formations – most notably the United States of America has widely been perceived as a modern Roman empire. Classical empires also surface regularly in media such as historical fiction, Hollywood cinema, or computer games. Documentaries reconstructing these ancient worlds routinely appear on European and American television networks.
This conference aims to explore the rich presence of the classical empires in contemporary culture, across a broad range of media (such as scholarship, education, fiction, art, theatre, film, television, advertising and the internet) and for a wide variety of purposes (education, entertainment, political argument, consumer pleasure).
The conference will be run according to a workshop format, with papers limited to 20 minutes each to allow for ample discussion. Please send abstracts of about 350 words to Maria Wyke at m.wyke@ucl.ac.uk by 3rd December 2007. There is no registration fee, and the conference is open to all.
American Philological Association Annual Meeting
4-6 January 2008
Hyatt Regency, Chicago
A large number of papers and panels at this year's conference deal with classical reception themes. A guide to papers (with links to abstracts) is availabale here.
Conferences 2007
Current Debates in Classical Reception Studies
18-20 May
A Conference to be held at The Open University, Milton Keynes
Current Debates in Classical Reception is an international cross-disciplinary conference organized by the Open University Reception of Classical Texts Research Project. The conference marks the importance of Reception as a main area of research in Classics and Ancient History. Through its Plenary and Panel sessions, the conference will promote international debate on current work, including investigative approaches, research methods and theoretical frameworks. It will seek to create new cross-disciplinary contacts and collaborations in the study of relevant aspects of material and literary culture and to promote awareness of the histories of scholarship that have developed in different national and international contexts.
A Programme is available here.
Conference abstracts are available here.
Literature in English and Classical Translation 1850-1950, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
June 16
Proposals are invited for this one-day interdisciplinary conference that aims to investigate the impact of translation from the classical languages on literature written in English in the period between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of high modernism (circa 1950).
The conference welcomes both diachronic approaches that examine issues arising from the translation of particular classical authors or texts in the period, and approaches that consider the significance of the theory and practice of classical translation for a modern author or group of authors.
The conference follows from a series of seminars on the same theme that took place in the School of Advanced Study of the University of London over the academic year 2006-2007. It will conclude with a roundtable discussion to which the speakers of the London seminars will be invited to contribute in the form of short presentations.
Please submit paper proposals in the form of 300-word abstracts to Stefano Evangelista (stefano-maria.evangelista@trinity.ox.ac.uk) by 1 May 2007. Proposals from graduate students are particularly welcome.
7th Annual Postgraduate Symposium: Performing Identities
25-26 June 2007
Hosted by APGRD, Oxford and the Department of Theatre and Drama, RHUL
Call for papers and further information (Word document)
Greece, Rome, and Colonial India
29 June
This conference, which is to be held at SOAS (London), is sponsored by the University of Reading, Royal Holloway, SOAS, the British Academy, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
The aim of the conference is to draw attention to the double anniversary marked by the year 2007 -- the 150th year since the Indian ‘Mutiny' of 1857 and the 60th since Indian Independence in 1947 -- by disseminating the results of mutually illuminating research conducted by an international team of scholars (but as yet unpublished) into India's interactions with the (received and perceived) past of European antiquity. Contact: Phiroze Vasunia (p.vasunia@reading.ac.uk).
Conference website at www.reading.ac.uk/classics/grci/
Greek Drama IV
3 July - 6 July, 2007
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Proposals for papers are invited for the conference Greek Drama IV to be held at Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand. Offers of papers are welcome on all aspects of Greek drama, including Nachleben. An abstract of approx. 250 words should be sent by the deadline of 30 September 2006 to Professor John Davidson (john.davidson@vuw.ac.nz). A website will be set up at a later stage with details of cost, accommodation etc.
NEER Conference
3-8 July, 2007
The University of Western Australia
Website: www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au/neer_conference_2007
The Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research (NEER) is a national framework for enhancing Australian research into the culture and history of Europe between the fifth and early nineteenth centuries. The inaugural International NEER Conference seeks to fulfil these aims by inviting proposals for sessions addressing the conference theme - Networks, Communities, Continuities: Europe 400-1850 or one of the Network’s identified research themes: cultural memory - the persistence of early European culture into the present as the major component of Australia’s cultural memory; social fabric - social structures in early Europe, and their relationship to contemporary issues, especially poverty; families and gender; war, peace and conflict; intellectual formations - science, medicine and philosophy; early European/Australasian connections - the significance of early European contacts with the peoples of the Australasian region; and religion and spirituality - the diversity of religious practice, thought and spirituality that shape European identity
Perceptions of Horace, University College London
July 5-6
For the first conference this millennium devoted exclusively to the works of this poet, a distinguished programme of speakers from the UK, USA and Europe will present papers on numerous aspects of the construction of Horace and his works over a range of historical periods and a wide variety of media.
Contact: Luke Houghton (l.houghton@ucl.ac.uk) for further details.
Conference Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/GrandLat/horace.html
Ancient Drama in Modern Opera, 1600-1800 an APGRD Conference, Classics Centre, Oxford.
July 12
The importance of Greek drama for the evolution of European opera is well known but tends not to be distinguished from the influence of Greek mythology more generally. In keeping the focus of this conference on the influence of ancient drama in the first 200 years of opera's development we hope to shed new light both on that development and on the reception of Greek drama. The speakers are drawn from the worlds of Classics, Modern Languages, and Music, and they include people involved in the performance of operatic works as well as some of the leading academics in this field. Further details and provisional programme are available from the conference website: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/confopera.htm
Ruins and Reconstructions: Pompeii in the Popular Imagination
17th-19th July 2007
Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol
Website: www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/pompeii/index_html
In the two hundred and fifty years since excavations began, Pompeii has become a major source of inspiration to western imaginations. The site, and the widely accessible creations it inspired throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (novels, films, paintings, exhibitions, domestic interiors, souvenirs and guide books) brought antiquity into the public sphere of knowledge, to be shared between gentleman enthusiasts, middle-class readers and music hall audiences alike. More recently, whilst the physical state of the site itself has reached a critical state of decay, a surge of popular interest in Pompeii, a prototype ground zero, has seen the city, as imaginative tool, model of disaster and tourist hotspot, reach a wider audience than ever before.
This conference, sponsored by the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts, will explore the popular receptions and representations of Pompeii. Our aim is to provide a stimulating environment in which academics studying the city and its reception can be brought together with practitioners who have tried to bring Pompeii to life in media such as novels, painting, photography, documentary and journalism. Confirmed keynote speakers include Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Mary Beard, Stephen Harrison, Stefano de Caro and Lindsey Davis.
For further information, please contact Shelley Hales (Shelley.Hales@bris.ac.uk) or Joanna Paul (Joanna.Paul@liverpool.ac.uk) or visit the website.
Theorising Performance Reception
A conference organised by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford
September 14-15
Topics to be addressed include semiotics, the body, Shakespearean Performance history as comparand, audiences, authenticity, post-modernism and performance, paganism in the light of contemporary metaphysics, and the historical (re)constitution of the text.
For further details, and to register for the conference, please go to www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/conftheory.htm
Plaster Casts: Making, collecting, and displaying from classical antiquity to the present
24-26 September 2007
Building on the strong response to the study day Plaster Casts: making, collecting and display (University of Reading, October 2005), this conference will bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars interested in plaster casts and their various functions from classical antiquity to the present day. Sessions will address issues relevant to archaeologists, classicists, art historians, cultural historians, museologists and conservators from teaching institutions, and museums.
Conference website: www.plastercasts.org
Reception, Disciplinarity and Academic Careers
A CRSN workshop for research students
7th November 2007, 10am-5pm
Birkbeck, University of London (Room 152, Malet Street)
The study of classical receptions has come to occupy an assured place within many undergraduate programmes in Classics and Classical Studies, while some institutions offer MAs in the reception of antiquity and an increasing number of research students are working on projects in this area.
This workshop will offer a forum to explore the relationship of reception to Classics, but also to other disciplines such as History, English Literature and Art History. Reception projects are by their very nature inter-disciplinary but how does this affect the disciplinary identity of research students in particular? The theoretical issues at stake here are important in themselves but they also have a bearing on the more practical questions faced by research students in the reception of antiquity who would like to pursue an academic career.
How can I convince prospective colleagues that what I do is a fundamental part of Classics? If Classics doesn't seem the obvious home for my long-term future, how should I best approach other departments (e.g. English or History or Art History?) This workshop will offer the opportunity to share concerns and to learn from the experiences of distinguished academics with an interest in reception working in a variety of different institutional contexts.
No fee will be charged but space is limited. Those interested in attending should contact Catharine Edwards to book a place (C.Edwards@bbk.ac.uk). Programme details are available here.
Prometheus on Stage and Screen
November 24
A joint study day organised by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, The Open University and the British Museum in the BP Lecture Theatre, The British Museum Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.
Provisional Programme (pdf)
Contact: Russell Shone (office@hellenicsociety.org.uk)
Imagining slavery/celebrating abolition at Royal Holloway, University of London and the British Library
December 17-18
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British colonies.
The conference will bring together RHUL staff & PhD students, and an international team of researchers including Patrice Rankine, Brycchan Carey, William Fitzgerald, Greg Thalmann, Emily Greenwood, Ahuvia Kahane, Richard Alston, Deborah Kamen, Steve Hodkinson, John Hilton and Margaret Malamud. Accommodation will be provided at Royal Holloway's main site in Egham, a short train ride from central London and a taxi ride from London Heathrow airport. Contact: Edith Hall (edith.hall@rhul.ac.uk) or Leanne Hunnings (l.j.hunnings@rhul.ac.uk).
Further Information (pdf)
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