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December 2025
ANZAMEMS 15TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE: ‘POSSIBILITIES’
University of Melbourne, Australia: December 3–5, 2025 (in person)
The 2025 Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies is delighted to announce its 15th Biennial Conference.
For 2025, as well as papers on any area of medieval and early modern studies, the conference committee particularly welcomes papers on the theme of ‘possibilities’. How did medieval and early modern societies imagine, conceptualize, live with, and manage possibilities? What new interpretations are opened up by thinking about the possible in relation to our methods, approaches and attitudes to past societies and their study in the present and into the future?
Possibility is a multifaceted concept, extending from medieval and early modern perceptions of the future and the unknown to philosophical conceptualizations of capability, powers, and potentials. The possible also prompts us to examine what might seem impossible or unknowable in relation to historical subjects and our disciplinary configurations. Because possibility can open up the space of speculation in our work, this conference particularly invites contributions that consider arguments which are possible, but refuse absolute determination; approaches which develop new possibilities for transdisciplinary conversations; and practices open to the possibilities of new technologies in medieval and early modern studies.
Possible topics include:
* Possibility and future-oriented affects: hope, dread, fear, trust
* Contingency and uncertainty: predicting and managing possible futures
* Possible encounters and worlds
* Possibilities of the body: senses, transformations, habits, and identities
* Thinking possibility, impossibility, compossibility, necessity, and actuality
* The art of the possible: politics, pragmatism, compromise, idealism
* The art of the impossible: medieval and early modern worlds in fantasy, science fiction and speculative writing
* Contemporary methods and im/possibility: fabulation, historical speculation, and counterfactuals
* ‘Another university is possible’: reflections on institutions, pedagogy and curriculum
* Material affordances: the possibilities of material worlds
Keynote speakers:
Professor Emma Dillon, Thurston Dart Professor of Music (Medieval Music and Cultures), King’s College London
Dr Kate Franklin, History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London
Professor Leah DeVun, History, Rutgers University.
The ANZAMEMS Postgraduate and Early Career Training Seminar will take place on the 2nd December 2025. Details to be announced shortly.
The conference committee invites proposals for individual papers (20 minutes duration) and thematic panels (90 minutes duration and 3 to 4 speakers).
Proposal and deadline: 14th February 2025
Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2025
If an early decision is required, please contact the conference committee: ANZAMEMS-conference@unimelb.edu.au
Proposals for other events such as roundtables or workshops will also be considered; please contact the conference committee directly.
Please note that the ANZAMEMS Conference 2025 will be an in-person only event.
Website with links to proposal submission & travel bursaries: https://conference.anzamems.org/cfp/
(CFP closed February 14, 2025)
THE FUTURE OF THE ANTIQUE: INTERPRETING THE SCULPTURAL CANON
London (Warburg Institute/Institute of Classical Studies): December 10-12, 2025
The University of Buckingham, the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), the Warburg Institute, and the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London) are organising an interdisciplinary conference, 10-12 December 2025, to celebrate the publication of the new edition of Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s seminal work Taste and the Antique (Harvey Miller/Brepols, December 2024).
Organized by Adriano Aymonino and Kathleen Christian
The conference aims to assess the current state of research, rethinking established methodologies and exploring possible future directions in the field. Its primary goal is to foster discussion among different generations of scholars whose research outputs are often separated by language and methodological barriers. We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers on interrelated topics such as the following, outlined by the book or extending beyond it. Priority will be given to innovative papers focusing on the legacy of antique sculptural models in European/Colonial art and culture since the Renaissance:
* Academy and Canon — examining their establishment, radical alteration, and dissolution in the modern era.
* New Canons — the antique in modern and postmodern theoretical frameworks and practices.
* Antique / Modern Bodies — classical statuary’s influence on human anatomical study; proportioned and disproportioned body concepts; the representation of the male and female body; physiognomy; conceptions of race and ethnicity.
* Empire and its Enemies — political and racial implications of the antique.
* Priorities and Display — the antique within modern museum contexts.
* Restorations and Forgery — reconfigurations of the antique and notions of authenticity.
* Narrative Patterns — the classical language of gesture, story-telling/narrative.
Proposals due by 15 May 2025
Full details: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/call-papers-future-antique-interpreting-sculptural-canon
(CFP closed May 15, 2025)
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January 2026
SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES - SCS 2026 ANNUAL MEETING
San Francisco, CA: January 7-10, 2026
Classical reception panels:
A MONSTER OF OUR CREATION: RETHINKING CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (WOMEN’S CLASSICAL CAUCUS)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/monster-our-creation-rethinking-classical-reception-children%E2%80%99s-literature-women%E2%80%99s
Deadline: February 10, 2025
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND THE INTERPRETATION OF VERGIL (VERGILIAN SOCIETY)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/contemporary-issues-and-interpretation-vergil-vergilian-society
Deadline: February 22, 2025
FROM DISPERSION TO DIALOGUE: A COMPARATIVE RECEPTION STUDIES PANEL (HESPERIDES)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/dispersion-dialogue-comparative-reception-studies-panel-hesperides
Deadline: February 28, 2025
IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP, THEN AND NOW (CLASSICS & SOCIAL JUSTICE)
Call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTcm8QHkVkErSD_ZgjfjRu5-RWUNwHfFQZ3PvyQL-buR1_UIPOMtAiQ1X-su_Ehz8kI6XfYprpzvU4F/pub
Deadline: March 15, 2025
THE POSTCLASSICAL MAGHREB (ORGANIZER-REFEREED PANEL)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/postclassical-maghreb-organizer-refereed-panel
Deadline: February 28, 2025
QUEERNESS BEYOND IDENTITY (LAMBDA CLASSICAL CAUCUS)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/queerness-beyond-identity-lambda-classical-caucus
Deadline: March 1, 2025
QUEER ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;5d68009e.ex
Deadline: March 28, 2025
YELLOW GOLD: ORNAMENTALISM, ANTIQUITY, AND THE ASIATIC FEMALE (ASIAN AND ASIAN AMERICAN CLASSICAL CAUCUS)
Call: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/yellow-gold-ornamentalism-antiquity-and-asiatic-female-asian-and-asian-american
Deadline: March 7, 2025
Website: https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2026-annual-meeting
NEO-LATIN AT THE BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG (1622-1810): NETWORKS - MODELS - CONTEXTS
Salzburg, Austria: January 15-16, 2026
We are delighted to announce the opening of submissions for the 1st interdisciplinary AMBL workshop to be held at the University of Salzburg on 15 and 16 January 2026. This workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue between researchers at all career-stages (including PhD candidates) from the fields of Neo-Latin, early modern history, law studies and legal history, philosophy, theology, and digital humanities. Contributions will take the form of 30mins presentations followed by a respondent’s comments (5mins) and an open Q&A (20-25mins).
The workshop will be centered around the Neo-Latin writings produced at Salzburg’s Benedictine University (1622-1810), then “the focal point of Southern German Benedictine culture” (Lehner 2011, 36): for a succinct summary of the university’s history, see Schachenmayr 2022 (cf. Brandhuber 2012 for highly readable introductory essays on a wide variety of topics). It will combine wide-ranging survey approaches with detailed case studies offering sustained engagement with individual authors and/or texts. The workshop will build towards a new appreciation of the Benedictine University’s place in intellectual history and will lead to a more refined understanding of its peculiarities.
*Approach and key authors/works*
The 1st AMBL workshop is intended to initiate a long-term research program focused on the Neo-Latin writings produced at the Benedictine University. The sheer bulk of authors and works invites a broad survey approach aimed at collecting, classifying, and making the material accessible in a searchable online database. We propose ‘genre’ as a useful guiding principle to map the territory, with legal, philosophical, and theological writings (representing the university’s three faculties) as well as drama, historiography (including church and monastic history), poetry, didactic materials, and occasional writings as central categories (for this approach to surveying regional Neo-Latinity, see Korenjak et al. 2012). To draw a fuller picture, however, broad survey perspectives need to be supplemented with detailed, well-documented case studies focusing on key authors (e.g. Otto Aicher, Anselm Desing, Paris Gille, Franz, Joseph, and Paul Mezger, Simon Rettenpacher) and their works. For a provisional annotated list of authors and works, see https://www.plus.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AMBL-Autoren-und-Werke-Stand-04.01.25.xlsx
*Sections*
We ask participants to prepare contributions for the three (overlapping) sections (1) networks, (2) models, and (3) contexts. Papers in Section 1 offer sustained explorations of personal networks (including secular and religious dignitaries, esp. archbishops, abbots, aristocrats, the university’s rectorate and professorate; patrons, printers, etc.). They primarily focus on elucidating interpersonal (power) relations, self-fashioning strategies, and the functional aspects of particular texts. Contributions to Section 2 investigate the reception of ancient and medieval models within a ‘continuity and transformation’ framework. Papers in Section 3 situate the texts within their wider intellectual, cultural, institutional, historical, religious, and literary contexts, e.g. significant events in the university’s history (such as the ‘sycophantic strife’ of 1740/41), discourses within supra-regional learned communities, and developments in the wider European res publica litteraria.
*Topics*
Topics might include (but are not limited to):
-AMBL digital: towards a searchable database of authors and works—perspectives and challenges
-personal networks at the AMB: towards a digital dataset (for section 1)
-panegyrical writings (e.g. Paris Gille’s Corona gratulatoria [1681], on which see Brandhuber/Fussl 2020) (for section 1)
-Johann Baptist Mayr, court and academic printer—contributions to university life and relationships (for section 1)
-collected inscriptions (e.g. Aicher’s Theatrum funebre [1675] and Hortus variorum inscriptionum [1676], on which see Brandhuber/Fussl 2017) (for section 1)
-university life at the AMB (e.g. as represented by inaugural, funerary, or congratulatory occasional writings, as well as in texts such as Virgilius Gleißenberger’s Boleslais [1722], on which see Klecker 2000) (for section 1)
-school and university theatre at the Benedictine University (see Witek 2009) (for section 1, 2, and 3)
-impact of Ludovico Antonio Muratori’s ideas at the AMB (for the so-called ‘Muratori circle’, see Zlabinger 1970) (section 1 and 3)
-reception of ancient Greek and Roman poetry (e.g. in Thomas Mezler’s and Simon Rettenpacher’s lyric poetry: see Till 2003, 57–8; Wintersteller/Zrenner 2006) (for section 2)
-representations and interpretations of Roman history in legal writings (e.g. in Franz Joseph von Herz zu Herzfeld’s Historia civilis [1734]) (for section 2)
-Thomistic philosophy at the Benedictine University (for section 2 and 3)
-Salzburg’s Benedictine University and German Jesuit Universities (e.g. Ingolstadt, Dillingen)—influences, parallels, and contrasts (for section 3)
-the law faculty’s excellent reputation and supra-regional importance (as demonstrated by significant works such as Ernst Friedrich von Something’s Principia iuris canonici [1691] and frequent requests for legal opinions from Salzburg’s law professors (cf. Brandhuber 2012, 85) (for section 3)
-commentaries, handbooks, and language manuals—didactic materials at the AMB (e.g. Otto Aicher’s Iter poeticum [1674] and Iter oratorium [1675]) (for section 3)
-historiographical method, source criticism, and periodization (e.g. in Franz, Joseph, and Paul Mezger’s Historia Salisburgensis [1692], Roman Sedlmayr’s Historia almae et archiepiscopalis universitatis Salisburgensis [1728], Beda Seeauer’s Novissimum Chronicon [1772]) (for section 3)
-enlightened thinking at the AMB (see Lehner 2011; Wallnig 2019) (for section 3)
-baroque emblem books at the AMB (e.g. the emblems in Paris Gille’s panegyrical writings and the anonymous Vigiliae rhetorum et somnia poetarum [1682] (for section 3)
Both survey and case study approaches are welcome. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary studies that combine well-proven methodologies with more unconventional ones to deal with the rich material under investigation.
*Call for contributions*
The organizers invite contributions exploring the three sections and topics outlined above (as well as additional perspectives). Expressions of interest may be submitted as soon as possible. Abstracts for 30-minute talks (in German, English, French, or Italian) of max. 500 words should be sent to Bernhard Söllradl (bernhard.soellradl@plus.ac.at) and Gottfried E. Kreuz (gottfriedeugen.kreuz@plus.ac.at) by 31 March 2025. Please indicate your paper’s section in the title and include your name, affiliation, and a short bio. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 15 June 2025. We will start sharing the paper drafts with participants and assign respondents by 1 December 2025. Selected papers from the workshop will be published in a peer-reviewed edited volume.
For any questions or further information, do not hesitate to contact us at the email addresses given above. We look forward to receiving your submissions!
*References*
Brandhuber, C. (2012) Aus Salzburgs Hoher Schule geplaudert. Hundert Mini-Traktate unter einen Hut gebracht (uni:bibliothek 2). Salzburg.
Brandhuber, C. - Fussl, M. (2017) In Stein gemeißelt: Salzburger Barockinschriften erzählen. Salzburg.
Brandhuber, C. - Fussl, M. (2020) “Iudicium Paridis. P. Pars Gille OSB (1623-1701) aus dem Stift Michaelbeuern. Leben und Werk”, SMGB 131, 247–346.
Klecker, E. (2000) “Episches Theater im Barock”, WSt 113, 335–58.
Korenjak, M. - Schaffenrath, F. – Šubarić, L. - Töchterle, K. (eds.) (2012) Tyrolis Latina. Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur in Tirol. 2 vols. Wien et al.
Lehner, U. (2011) Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines 1740-1803. Oxford.
Schachenmayr, A. (2022) “400 Jahre Salzburger (Benediktiner-)Universität (1622-2022)”, SMGB 133, 163–200.
Till, D. (2003) “Barockrhetorik in Salzburg. Zur Stellung der Benediktiner im frühneuzeitlichen Rhetorikunterricht”, MGSL 143, 45–72.
Wallnig, T. (2019) Critical Monks: The German Benedictines, 1680-1740 (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 25). Leiden.
Wintersteller, B. - Zrenner, Walter (20062) Simon Rettenpacher. Oden und Epoden (lateinisch/deutsch) (Wiener Neudrucke 11). Wien.
Witek, F. (2009) Gestalten der antiken Historie im lateinischen Drama der Salzburger Benediktineruniversität. Salzburg.
Zlabinger, E. (1970) Ludovico Antonio Muratori und Österreich. Innsbruck. Zlabinger 1970.
Call: https://www.academia.edu/127256431/CfP_Neo_Latin_at_the_Benedictine_University_of_Salzburg_1622_1810_models_networks_contexts_interdisciplinary_workshop_15th_16th_January_2026_Salzburg_ or https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;bc09bd24.ex.
(CFP closed March 31, 2025)
TRANSLATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria: January 29-30, 2026
Organiser: Michael Hanaghan (ACU) michael.hanaghan@acu.edu.au
Translations proliferated in the Late Antique world (300-700 CE) across a wide range of language groups, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Coptic, and Armenian. Our project, funded by the Australian Research Council (DP250102285), aims to:
* explore how Late Antique translations evolved under patronage and communicated and shaped new knowledge;
* analyse translation across a diverse range of political, social, religious, linguistic, and cultural transformations in Late Antiquity;
* expand our understanding of the range of translation methods used in Late Antiquity, including literal, interpretative, and interlinear translations (typology) across a wide range of text types.
Confirmed Speakers:
Prof. Andy Cain (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Assoc. Prof. Stephen Carlson (ACU)
Dr Christopher Dowson (Humboldt Fellow)
Assoc. Prof. Michael Hanaghan (ACU)
Prof. Bronwen Neil (Macquarie University)
Please send abstracts of 250 words to the conference organiser Michael Hanaghan (michael.hanaghan@acu.edu.au) by 30 September 2025. Papers will be 20 minutes in length followed by questions. The conference will take place in person at the Australian Catholic University’s St Patrick campus in the heart of Melbourne.
There will be some limited travel bursaries available for graduate student and early career presenters to help offset the cost of their attendance.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;72a6878.ex
(CFP closed September 30, 2025)
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February 2026
AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR CLASSICAL STUDIES (ASCS) 47TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Dates: February 2-5, 2026.
Location: University of Auckland, NZ +/- hybrid.
CFP (and panels) deadline: July 26, 2025 extended deadline August 9, 2025.
Conference website: https://eur.cvent.me/0lP1qe.
ASCS website: http://www.ascs.org.au/.
(CFP closed August 9, 2025)
#CFP [BOOK/JOURNAL CHAPTERS] CLASSICS AND AFRICA
Abstract deadline: February 2, 2026
As members of a global collaborative project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, Nigeria and Canada, we recently held a conference at University College London entitled Classics and/in Africa (July 3-4, 2025). This conference was intended to facilitate a flexible and open-ended dialogue, where Africa is at once the focus of research and the site of current disciplinary praxis. Recent scholarship in Classics has both redirected the exclusive focus on ancient Greece and Rome to study of the broader ancient Mediterranean as a space of diversity and connectivity and traced the transmission of classical antiquity in cultures and regions beyond the West. Such work includes the study of ancient African cultures, representations of Africa by Greco-Roman authors, and African receptions of the Classics. Speakers at the conference offered innovative contributions to these topics, at once building on previous work and pointing toward new directions for the future. We now wish to draw on this rich, varied cache of papers for two publication projects.
The first will be a special, guest-edited issue of the online, open-access journal Res Difficiles on Classics and Africa. We anticipate that this special issue will be a focused distillation of approaches to the question of what Classics means in Africa, represented by four to six essays (each approximately 6,000 words in length). The essays in this volume, rather than privileging a single paradigm for African Classics, will speak to the diversity of approaches, including points of debate and disagreement. Topics and sub-fields may include, but are not exclusive to, African receptions and adaptations, comparative studies, representations of Africa in antiquity, and analyses of Classics’ colonial legacy and/or globalizing approaches to the Classics. We anticipate that this special issue will be published in 2027.
The second publication project will be a larger edited volume on Classics and/in Africa (press TBA—we have already received some expressions of interest). This volume will feature essays on the themes outlined above by scholars from all regions of the world; it will also include space for scholarship in Classics by Africa-based researchers that may or may not thematize Africa (approximate publication date in 2028).
We invite expressions of interest for both publication projects. You may indicate a preference for either publication project, but keep in mind that the editors will make the final decision as to acceptance and publication venue and that all submitted essays will go through the peer-reviewing process. Potential contributors should submit an abstract of no more than one page in length to Luke Roman (romanl@mun.ca) by February 2, 2026.
Editors: Hasskei Majeed (U. Ghana), Justine McConnnell (KCL), Olakunbi Olasope (U. Ibadan), Luke Roman (Memorial University).
Editorial Board of Res Difficiles: Hannah Čulík-Baird, Editor; Luke Roman, Associate editor;
Elke Nash, Associate editor.
Call: https://resdifficiles.com/classics-and-africa-cfp/
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA (RSA)
Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
Boston MA, USA: February 19-21, 2026
Website: https://www.rsa.org/
THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND THE BRITISH MUSEUM: PASTS AND FUTURES
London (Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU): February 25-27, 2026
The Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum and the Institute of Classical Studies are inviting proposals for contributions to a conference exploring the past impact and future potential of the Museum’s collections from the ancient Mediterranean world.
This conference is being organised in the context of the British Museum’s ‘Masterplan’, a once-in-a-century opportunity to redisplay and re-interpret the collections from the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, Assyria and the Middle East for twenty-first century publics. The Department of Greece and Rome is one of the Museum’s curatorial departments leading this work.
To avoid the repetition of old narratives, and to ensure that the redisplay of the galleries is based on a comprehensive reimagining of the Museum’s collections, the Department considers it vital to explore the ways in which the Museum’s collections and displays have influenced (for better or worse) modern constructions of Mediterranean antiquity. We wish to invite the widest possible range of contributions and perspectives to inform this reflection. A dialogue has already begun, in a public seminar series co-organised with our neighbour, the Institute of Classical Studies (Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum). This conference, also in partnership with the ICS, aims to extend the conversation. Whether you engage with the Museum and its ancient Mediterranean collection academically, creatively, professionally, or in other ways, we invite you to help us investigate its history and plan for the future.
We will consider proposals for single or paired papers of 20-30 minutes each in length that reflect any line of research relevant to the ways in which the Museum’s ancient Mediterranean collections have shaped and been shaped by culture, politics and society, from the Museum’s foundation in 1753 to the present day. We particularly welcome papers on topics related to the three strands described below, which we have identified as particularly promising areas for exploration. While the focus of the conference will be on the British Museum and on the ancient Mediterranean, we also welcome proposals which introduce cross-institutional, comparative or international perspectives. Proposals for alternative formats, such as panel discussions or creative workshops, are also encouraged.
Artistic engagement
How have artists and other makers (including for example filmmakers and craftspeople) engaged with the British Museum’s collections from the ancient Mediterranean? What was the impact of the collection and its display on artistic practice, and vice-versa? The role of the Parthenon Sculptures in inspiring artists of the early nineteenth century is well-known, as is the extensive use of the Townley and later Graeco-Roman sculpture galleries for the training of artists (Jenkins 1992). There has been vibrant engagement with the classical world, in general, by modern and contemporary artists (Holmes 2017; Squire et al 2018). But there is much more to uncover about artistic engagement with the British Museum’s collection.
Literary engagement
From Lord Byron to HD and beyond, the British Museum is well-known as a site of poetic inspiration and provides a setting and reference-point in numerous works of literature (Ellis 1981; Stallings 2023). What do literary receptions make of the British Museum’s ancient Mediterranean collection? Has attention been concentrated on certain objects or tropes, and which figures and receptions have been overlooked to date? In what ways do the Museum’s collections from the ancient Mediterranean continue to inspire and provoke contemporary literature?
Scholarship and intellectual history
The role of museums in the evolution of academic disciplines is an established topic of study (Marchand 1996; Dyson 2006). We welcome papers that examine how the British Museum’s collections and galleries have been instrumental in shaping approaches to the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean, or to understandings of ancient societies more widely. How has their interrelation with academic disciplines such as Archaeology, Classics, and Art History changed over time? What have been the impacts of the British Museum’s approach to chronological, regional and thematic display, to the representation of different ethnicities, or the division of material into different curatorial departments? Have the particular strengths and omissions of the British Museum collection directed or limited the field of study of the ancient Mediterranean world?
Through all these themes and throughout the conference will be threaded questions of the Museum’s relationship with social, political and historical contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, gender, race and class. How and why did collections from the ancient Mediterranean take on such prominence in the British Museum? To what extent has the British Museum reinforced messages of power and control? What histories have been neglected and elided? Are there also narratives of subversion and resistance to be found?
The conference will be held in-person only at Senate House (Malet St, London WC1E 7HU) from Wednesday 25th to Friday 27th February 2026. Abstracts of maximum 300 words should be submitted by Monday 16th June 2025, together with a short (100 words) speaker biography. A limited number of travel bursaries will be available to help support attendance for speakers who cannot access alternative sources of funding. Please indicate in your submission if you would need to apply for a bursary and we will be in touch with details of the separate application process.
Please send paper proposals to Dr Isobel MacDonald (IMacdonald(at)britishmuseum.org).
This conference is co-sponsored by the British Museum and the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London School of Advanced Study.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;78919c5b.ex
(CFP closed June 16, 2025)
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March 2026
CLASSICAL EPIC STRUCTURES IN NON-EPIC LITERATURE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
North-West University (Potchefstroom, South Africa): March 4-7, 2026
For as long as it has existed, epic has been considered as the archetypal literary genre. Grammarians in antiquity placed it at the top of a hierarchy of genres. So, too, have questions of continuity and change within the epic tradition been ever-present in both Classical scholarship and literary scholarship more broadly. Here scholars have largely sought to understand how the conventions of epic are adapted and modified for various times, places, and forms falling under the rubric of “epic”. But what of epic’s influence outside of its own genre?
We are inviting proposals on the conference theme which aims at describing, analysing, and understanding the use of structures from the genre of classical epic in literature that is not epic. Typical epic structures include:
· Type scenes or story patterns
· Epic formulae
· Ekphrasis
· Banquet scenes
· Catalogues
· Myth
· Aetiology
· Similes
· Battle and combat scenes
· Religious games
· Ana- and prolepseis
We welcome papers on literatures other than Latin and Greek, but the connection to Classical structures should be the main focus.
Titles with short abstracts (around 300 words) should be submitted to Dr. Lynton Boshoff (Lynton.Boshoff@nwu.ac.za) or Dr. Johan Steenkamp (Johan.Steenkamp@nwu.ac.za).
Submission deadline: 31 October 2025
The conference aims at publishing a selection of papers in a peer-reviewed edition. We are therefore especially, but not exclusively, interested in philological papers from different theoretical vantage points.
Practical information about the conference:
· The conference will be held at a conference venue on a country lodge on the banks of the Vaal River a short distance outside Potchefstroom. Registration will include accommodation and all meals (about €350.00 per person)
· Information on the conference fee and planned excursions will be communicated to delegates when finalised.
For further information, please, contact
Lynton Boshoff (Lynton.Boshoff@nwu.ac.za) or
Johan Steenkamp (Johan.Steenkamp@nwu.ac.za).
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;bb4f1987.ex
(CFP closed October 31, 2025)
[PANEL] THE MINOTAUR: FROM ANTIQUITY TO TODAY
57th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: March 5-8, 2026
A Call for Papers has been announced for the panel “The Minotaur: From Antiquity to Today” at the 57th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (March 5-8, 2026). Abstracts of 250-300 words along with an author bio (up to 100 words) should be sent to minotaurstudies@gmail.com by 30 September 2025.
CFP: The Minotaur and the Labyrinth from multidisciplinary perspectives, specifically on how the symbol of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth has been used from antiquity to now. How has the Minotaur been used, or abused, throughout time? How has the mythology surrounding it been used to generate or regenerate cultural structures? Referencing Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Monster Culture, what does the Minotaur reveal about the cultures he exists within?
The Minotaur is an enduring symbol throughout Western thought: The Minotaur, the bull-human hybrid, the unnatural, adopted son of Minos, the terror of Crete, has found a home outside of his Labyrinth in Western literature. Singular, this monster – or should monster be in quotation marks? – has been used at times to embody the horrors of unnatural desires, and at other times an embodiment of Otherness that ‘had’ to be destroyed, and in still others, an incorporated member who still is somehow odd.
This panel aims to apply the theme of the 2026 NeMLA Convention, (Re)generation, in order to examine the uses of the Minotaur, the Labyrinth in which he resides, and the reason for the shifts in his attendant mythologies from antiquity to today. How has the Minotaur been used, or abused, throughout time? How has the mythology surrounding it been used to generate or regenerate cultural structures? Referencing Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Monster Culture, what does the Minotaur reveal about the cultures he exists within?
Perspectives to possibly address:
* Feminist and Queer readings of the Minotaur or the Labyrinth
* Psychoanalytical readings of the Minotaur or the Labyrinth
* Monstrous masculinity and the Minotaur, or monstrous femininity of the Labyrinth
* The role of heroes and “heroes”
* The Minotaur or the Labyrinth in art and art history
* The Minotaur or the Labyrinth as a symbol – of what, and to what end?
* The Economics of the Minotaur or the Labyrinth – who benefits from the Minotaur, and how?
* The Minotaur or the Labyrinth in a specific work or time period
* The Antique Minotaur
* The Renaissance Minotaur
* The image of the Minotaur in modern popular culture
* Anything else! What about Ariadne? What about Minos and Pasiphae?
Please submit a 250-300 word abstract and approx. 100 word author bio to Michael Dalpe at minotaurstudies@gmail.com by 30 September 2025 to be considered for the panel.
Call: https://antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2025/06/21/cfp-the-minotaur-from-antiquity-to-today/
(CFP closed September 30, 2025)
AI AND THE STUDY OF ANTIQUITY
Rutgers University-New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA: March 12-13, 2026
On the afternoon/evening of Thursday 12 March and all day Friday 13 March 2026, the Department of Classics at Rutgers-New Brunswick will host a central Atlantic regional conference on developments in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and the study of antiquity.
The Rutgers-based journal Critical AI aptly explains the current meaning of “Artificial Intelligence” as “a computer model’s ability to ‘optimize’ for useful predictions while ‘training’ on data”, a process known in short as “deep learning”. The application of AI to the study of antiquity is still in its earliest stages, but already it seems likely that the technology will be a routine partner in the humanistic study of the ancient world.
Three hallmarks of the shape of ancient evidence are its scale, its incompleteness, and its fragility. Recent innovations in AI seem well poised to offer a new generation of tools to tackle these challenges, to archaeologists, epigraphers, papyrologists, numismatists, philologists and conservators alike.
Some current applications in AI include transcribing handwritten texts; reading, translating and analyzing ancient textual corpora at scale; reconstructing degraded visual artifacts (including literary and non-literary texts); distinguishing typographical variations in material remains; monitoring shifts in the state of preservation of monuments; and remote sensing in landscape archaeology, detecting the likely presence of features invisible to the eye.
We are interested in short (15-20 minute) contributions that assess contemporary and potential contributions of AI to the study of the Old World (including Asia and Africa) through the end of the first millennium CE. Within those parameters, we welcome papers on any aspect of the reconstruction, preservation, classification, and analysis of the past through AI. We are especially glad to receive abstracts that focus on human—AI collaborations, where the aim is primarily to reshape the division of labor, freeing specialists for higher-order interpretation of the past. Conversely, we also welcome contributions that address the limits of machine predictions in exploring the history, languages, literature, and archaeology of the ancient Old World.
Please send a .pdf to armbruster@classics.rutgers.edu with an abstract (no more than 400 words) of a proposed contribution by Friday 21 November 2025, along with a short (ca. 100 word) biographical statement. Accepted papers will be notified by Friday 12 December 2025. Presenters will receive two nights accommodation, meals during the conference, and reimbursement for ground transportation.
Inquiries may be directed to T. Corey Brennan (tcbr@classics.rutgers.edu) and/or Serena Connolly (serena@classics.rutgers.edu)
With support from Rutgers University-New Brunswick School of Arts & Sciences Division of Humanities and Rutgers University Libraries.
Conference organizers: T. Corey Brennan, Kristina Chew, Serena Connolly (Rutgers Classics faculty), Francesca Giannetti (Rutgers University Libraries faculty, Digital Humanities Librarian), Christina Demitre (Rutgers ’25, post baccalaureate student in Classics).
Conference coordination: Katherine Armbruster (Rutgers Classics Program Coordinator).
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;6e277c9c.ex
(CFP closed November 21, 2025)
#CFP [ONLINE] RES DIFFICILES 7 – CHALLENGES AND PATHWAYS FOR ADDRESSING INEQUITY IN CLASSICS
Online Webinar: March 13, 2026 (US Pacific time)
Organizers: Hannah Čulík-Baird and Elke Nash
Since 2020 Res Difficiles has been a venue for addressing inequities within the field of Classics, examining issues arising out of intersectional vectors of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, class, socio-economic status, and beyond. In our papers and conversations, we explore how people on the margins in our texts and contexts are invited—or pushed further from—the center and explore avenues through which such marginalization might be addressed. Following each conference, recordings of conference presentations are made available online at https://resdifficiles.com/. In preparation for Res Diff 7, we invite papers from all those who study and teach the ancient world. Submissions from individuals, pairs, or organizations are welcome, as are submissions from students (undergraduate or graduate), faculty, and K-12 teachers.
Our keynote speaker will be Samuel Agbamu, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading.
The conference will be hosted as a Zoom webinar with a capacity of 500. Please note that the time zone of the conference will be US Pacific.
Abstracts of 350 words should be sent electronically to Hannah Čulík-Baird (culikbaird@humnet.ucla.edu) by Monday, January 12, 2026. Papers will be 20-25 minutes with coordinated discussion at the end of each session.
Call: https://resdifficiles.com/cfp/
#CFP RETHINKING CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY THROUGH FOLKLORE, POPULAR NARRATIVE AND FAN FICTION
The Norwegian Institute in Rome (Viale Trenta Aprile 33): March 17-18, 2026
Classical (ancient Greek and Roman) mythology has long been an intense object of study for narratologists, as mythology constitutes the narrative backbone of some of the most important literary genres in antiquity, especially epic and tragedy. However, since epic and tragedy were considered ‘highbrow’ literary genres in antiquity, mythology has only rarely – and insufficiently – been considered an object of study in relation to supposedly ‘less sophisticated’ forms of narrative (the oral and performative nature of much of ancient literature notwithstanding). In particular, the consideration of folkloristic motifs and other non-‘highbrow’ elements – and, accordingly, the application of methods from fields such as Popular Narratology, Folklore Studies and Fan Fiction Theory – constitutes a major research gap in the study of classical mythology.
This conference addresses this issue and fills this sorely felt research gap. We invite anyone interested in contr ibuting a paper to the conference to submit their title and a brief abstract (in English or Italian) of no longer than 200 words to the two organisers, Prof. Silvio Bär (silvio.baer@ifikk.uio.no) and Prof. Emanuele Lelli (prof.emanuele.lelli@gmail.com) by 31 December 2025 at 12:00 CET (please send a Word document and cc both organisers). Late submissions will not be considered.
Any topics that fit within the overarching framework of the conference as described above are welcome, whereby we explicitly invite scholars working on textual as well as non-textual (iconographic, material, etc.) forms of narrative to participate. 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-January.
Papers should be no longer than 25 minutes (to be followed by questions and discussion). The languages of the conference are English and Italian. We plan to publish the results of the conference in a peer-reviewed bilingual edited volume.
Please note that we are not able to cover the costs for speakers’ journeys and accommodation. However, no conference fee is charged, and catering, including a conference dinner on the evening of the first conference day, will be offered free of charge to all speakers, courtesy of The Norwegian Institute in Rome.
Please also note that all speakers are expected to be present for the entire conference so that a fruitful dialogue can be guaranteed, and that this is an in-person event without the option of participating digitally.
Call PDF: https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/groups/novel-and-epic-ancient-and-modern/cfp_rethinking_classical_mythology.pdf
Call: https://sisrweb.it/2025/11/20/rethinking-classical-mythology-through-folklore-popular-narrative-and-fan-fiction/
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April 2026
[PANEL] ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACHES TO THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPE, 1750-1920
Annual Conference of the Association for Art History
University of Cambridge, UK: April 8-10, 2026
For centuries, the territories of the eastern Mediterranean were home to the ethnically, religiously, and culturally diverse communities that comprised the Ottoman Empire. These territories simultaneously served as travel destinations for artists, antiquarians, and archaeologists seeking out the region’s ancient ruins, Biblical heritage, and ‘Orientalist’ exoticism. For insiders and outsiders to the region alike, the land of the eastern Mediterranean itself had long been a site of significance, whether as contested territory in trans-imperial and nationalist conflicts or as the source of valuable commodities, whether antiquities, agricultural products, or geological matter. While scholars have explored travellers’ desire to assimilate the region into sublime or picturesque frameworks, there has been less critical study of how the region’s landscapes have been represented visually, particularly in the case of vernacular image-making traditions. Art and visual culture witness the complex ways that human labour and territorialization shaped the eastern Mediterranean through a broad array of cultural and aesthetic tropes pertaining to land, landscape, and ‘nature’.
We invite papers that approach artistic representations of eastern Mediterranean landscapes through an environmental lens, focusing on the period 1750-1920. The panel welcomes papers on topics including but not limited to: micro-ecologies; animal-human relations; agricultural labour and resistance; agroecological continuity/transformation; infrastructural/industrial impacts on landscape (e.g. railways, urbanisation); intersections of extractive practices (e.g. mining, archaeology); state/private/common land ownership; territories contested by local/national/imperial actors; landscape and tourism; landscapes as sites for mythology and history; (dis)continuities between ancient and modern land use; rivers, coasts, deserts, mountains; and images which conform/subvert pastoral/picturesque/sublime tropes.
To view the listing for this panel on the Association for Art History website, see https://forarthistory.org.uk/environmental-approaches-to-the-eastern-mediterranean-landscape-1750-1920/. To submit your title and abstract (250 words maximum) for a 20-minute paper, please follow the link to download the submission form. Once completed, please send it directly to the Session Convenors below by Sunday 2 November 2025:
Dr Sebastian Marshall, University of St Andrews, sam66@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Alexandra Solovyev, School of Advanced Study, University of London, alexandra.solovyev@sas.ac.uk
(CFP closed November 2, 2025)
OBJECT LESSONS: KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION AND ANTIQUITY IN INSTITUTIONAL TEACHING COLLECTIONS ACROSS THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY (1750-1940)
Rome, Italy: April 8-11, 2026
Co-hosted by University of Texas at Austin, the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, and the American Academy in Rome, this conference focuses on the evolution of teaching collections for classical studies and archaeology from about 1750 to 1940. Just as the advent of digital technologies and AI are currently reshaping our academic landscape, scholarship was profoundly reshaped by moments such as J.J. Winckelmann’s Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums and the formalization of the Ashmolean as an archaeological museum under Arthur Evans. Curiosity cabinets gave way to physical teaching collections consisting of casts of ancient gems or sculpture, coin cabinets, and a wide range of archaeological objects, usually comprising representative type-items of modest quality. Advances in material replication such as photographs, paper squeezes, and rubbings introduced new ways to disseminate knowledge of better-known artworks and artifacts. While supporting instruction in art history and archaeology, these collections also served as models for students in fine arts and architecture. As ideas about how to understand the premodern world changed, the organization, display, and use of these collections changed too, responding to art-historical paradigm shifts like Adolf Furtwängler’s reclassification of Winckelmann’s system for sculpture and gems and to new national and imperial political realities. This conference will bring together scholars from various backgrounds to explore such collections in the context of the broader intellectual history of the period and the epistemological and classificatory transformations it witnessed. We hope the contextualization of these collections will also inspire discussion of their ethical use in the future.
Although our center of focus is the classical world, we welcome contributions that discuss institutional teaching collections related to any aspect of antiquity, the middle ages, or archaeology. Some relevant topics may include:
* Intellectual currents that drove changes in institutional collections and their modes of presentation
* Individuals, collections, or institutions that drove changes at the regional, national, or international level
* Provenance and the social contexts of the acquisition of teaching collections
* How paradigm shifts or inflection points in approaches to antiquity transformed teaching collections
* How important historical or geopolitical events precipitated such paradigm shifts
* A historically informed biography of a specific collection that evolved with the times
* The role played by a new technology or genre in transmitting knowledge in new ways
We especially welcome presentations by Ph.D. students and early-career scholars. We hope to lay the foundations for an international community of practice, seeding collaborations that will raise awareness of these collections at their home institutions while engaging with new technological possibilities for their dissemination and classification. We intend to publish the papers delivered at this conference as an edited volume that will spark a larger conversation about the role of teaching collections for classical art and archaeology in both the past and the future.
This conference is co-sponsored by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, the American Academy in Rome, and the University of Texas at Austin. Sessions will be held both at the American Academy and the Swedish Institute. Speakers are invited to a tour of the American Academy in Rome’s antiquities; we also expect to include a tour of the collections at the French School in Rome. A welcome reception, one or two catered lunches, and a closing dinner will be provided. We are seeking funding to subsidize travel and accommodation costs for participants.
Submission Guidelines:
Abstract length: 200 words
Languages: English and Italian
Deadline for submission: Friday, August 22nd
Presentation format: Roughly 20-minute presentations, followed by discussion; format will be determined more precisely after we have a full roster of speakers
Please submit your abstract along with your name, your affiliation, and the title of your paper to Amber Kearns (akearns@austin.utexas.edu) by Friday, August 22nd.
We hope to inform all applicants by mid-September. For further inquiries, please contact Amber Kearns (email above) or Rabun Taylor (rmtaylor@austin.utexas.edu).
https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;88fbe94b.ex
(CFP closed August 22, 2025)
[ONLINE] MEDITERRANEAN ANTIQUITY IN THE WORK OF H. P. LOVECRAFT
Online (Zoom): April 10-11, 2026
Given the findings of the Pharos Project and other anti-racist scholarly endeavors, it is perhaps not surprising that H. P. Lovecraft, a man as famous for his white supremacy as he is for his cosmic horror, cites Mediterranean antiquity as a personal touchstone. “Few students of mankind, if truly impartial,” he opines, “can fail to select as the greatest of human institutions that mighty and enduring civilisation which, first [appeared] on the banks of the Tiber… If to Greece is due the existence of all modern thought, so to Rome is due its survival and our possession of it” (Lovecraft 2004: 23). So begins Lovecraft’s 1918 essay “The Literature of Rome.” This interest in and dedicated beliefs regarding the superiority of Greco-Roman antiquity threads throughout his work, from the lengthy excursus into the Magna Mater and her rites during “The Rats in the Walls” (1923) to Lovecraft’s collaboration with Sonia Greene on an adaptation of Euripides’ Alcestis (see Jenzen-Jones and Romano 2024 on the Alcestis and e.g. Joshi 2010, Quinn 2011, Salonia 2011, Norris 2016 and 2017, and Krämer 2017 on Lovecraft’s greater engagement with Mediterranean antiquity). This is not to say that Lovecraft limited himself to Greece and Rome within the ancient Mediterranean, however, as even the single example of his short story “Under the Pyramids” (1924) attests, or the realm of writing; as he once recorded: “I have in literal truth built altars to Pan, Apollo, Diana, and Athena, and have watched for dryads and satyrs in the woods and fields at dusk” (cited in Krämer 2017: 94).
Contributions to this virtual conference (which will be held over Zoom on April 10-11, 2026) aim to elucidate the multifarious ways that Lovecraft manipulates the ancient Mediterranean in his criticism and fiction, and particularly, how he maneuvers ancient Greece, Rome, and/or other civilizations in support of his bigotry. Lovecraft’s fascination with Mediterranean antiquity persisted from childhood, and so informed his development as a writer and thinker. Further still, the uses to which he put that fascination, as Robinson Peter Krämer (2017: 116) observes, don’t cohere to “a specific order or system.” This diversity of engagement raises important questions regarding how Lovecraft makes use of different cultures of Mediterranean antiquity at different moments within his philosophy and literature, and how consistent these uses are with each other.
Such an investigation will offer a timely opportunity to further ongoing work on the horrors of Mediterranean antiquity (e.g. Cueva 2024, Kazantzidis and Thumiger, eds. 2025). At the same time, it will contribute to recent investigations into how these cultures themselves have proved to offer fecund material across various genres of speculative and popular fiction (e.g. Rogers and Stevens, eds. 2015, Rogers and Stevens, eds. 2017, Weiner, Stevens, and Rogers, eds. 2018, and Rogers and Stevens, eds. 2019). This is also a valuable time to consider Lovecraft more fully in particular, both due to the renewed publication of his works engaging with Greco-Roman antiquity (e.g. Jenzen-Jones, ed. 2024) and recent discourse on how exactly Lovecraft’s fraught legacy should be navigated (e.g., Flood 2015). The example set by, for instance, the television series Lovecraft Country (HBO, 2020) and its reception might be informative for us as classicists as we reckon with the likewise fraught legacy of our own discipline (see Umachandran and Ward, eds. 2023 for a particularly recent example).
Each session of the workshop will include a paper of between 25-30 minutes accompanied by a response of 5-10 minutes, prepared in advance by an invited respondent, before general Q&A. Abstracts of no more than 500 words are due by November 26 and decisions will be sent out by December 5. A draft of the paper will then be requested by March 10 to allow the respondents time to prepare.
Please find the full CFP, bibliography, and instructions for submitting abstracts on the event website: https://www.carmanromanophd.com/lovecraftconference
If you have any questions or would like any further information, please contact Carman Romano (cromano1@brynmawr.edu) or Kathleen Cruz (kancruz@ucdavis.edu).
(CFP closed November 26, 2025)
[HYBRID] THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION - ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Hybrid/Manchester Metropolitan University & University of Manchester: April 10-12, 2026
Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester will host the Classical Association Conference on 10-12 April 2026. Academic events will take place at the Business School of Manchester Metropolitan University, with other events taking place across the venues of the two Universities. Delegates will be supported to make their own arrangements for off-campus accommodation in the local area. More detailed information about practical issues will be distributed when the programme is finalised.
The programme will feature keynote addresses, one of which will be delivered by the CA’s Honorary President, the historian and broadcaster Michael Wood, Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. You can also look forward to a variety of classically-themed entertainment, receptions, the CA Prizegivings, and much more to still be revealed!
We’re inviting academics, postgraduates, teachers, early-stage researchers, and anyone with an interest alike to submit your ideas for individual papers, panels, lightning talks, workshops, posters, and digital stories. See further below for details on the various formats designed to encourage participation from a wide range of speakers.
Conference themes
We propose the following themes as likely to inspire interdisciplinary and comparativist approaches but encourage other suggestions too. We welcome proposals on all topics across ancient literature and philosophy, ancient history, classical art, archaeology, epigraphy and numismatics, linguistics, critical approaches, popular culture and the reception of the classical tradition. We aim to foster a friendly and inclusive environment, in the hope that panels will juxtapose speakers from different backgrounds, so that postgraduates, academics, and teachers can all share ideas, challenges, and enthusiasms.
The Conference will have a range of delegates: if you would like to target your material specifically at school-age or undergraduate students, please make this clear in your proposal.
* Africa (including, but not restricted to, Egypt) and the Classical World;
* Ancient Political Philosophy;
* Classical Heritage and Global Conflict;
* Classics in North West England;
* Commemorating the Dead;
* Environment, Resources and the Ancient World;
* Inscriptions and their Audiences;
* Papyrology;
* Pedagogy (particularly justice- and access-centred pedagogies);
* Queer Classics;
* The Near East and the Classical World
Types of Session
Anyone can submit a proposal. Please consider which of the following you would like to do:
* present an individual paper
* give a lightning talk
* share a printed poster
* share a digital story
* form a panel of papers
* organise or contribute to a workshop
Please see website for our descriptions of each of these types of sessions.
Please also see website for Speaker Information and details of in-person and online participation.
What to do next
Please submit your proposals to ca2026submissions@gmail.com by 23:59 BST on 15 September 2025. No late submissions will be accepted.
To assist with scheduling, when submitting your email, please let us know if you will NOT be able to attend a particular day of the Conference (e.g. Friday, Saturday or Sunday) and/or if you are expecting to only be able to participate remotely.
Your email must include an attachment in MS Word or PDF format containing the following details, depending upon the type of session you are proposing. The attached document filename must be clearly labelled with your surname and an abstract title (not just ‘CA 2026 Proposal’!). Please make absolutely clear which format you are proposing.
Please see website linked above for details of what to include in your proposal for each of the types of session, including word-limits, abstracts, and presenter details.
We look forward to receiving your ideas at ca2026submissions@gmail.com
To assist with scheduling, when submitting your email, please let us know if you will NOT be able to attend a particular day of the Conference (e.g. Friday, Saturday or Sunday).
Manchester Organising Committee: Jenny Bryan, Peter Liddel, April Pudsey
Website: https://classicalassociation.org/conference/
(CFP closed September 15, 2025)
[PANEL] TRIUMPHAL ARCHES AND CLASSICIZING MONUMENTS IN THE AMERICAS
Confererence: Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians
Mexico City, Mexico: April 15-19, 2026
We’d like to encourage you to submit a paper for our session, Triumphal Arches and Classicizing Monuments in the Americas, at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians. You can do so by visiting the SAH website and the Call for Papers link located here - https://www.sah.org/2026/call-for-papers-mexico-city.
The submissions are due by June 5 (Thursday) at 11:59 pm CDT.
Session Title: Triumphal Arches and Classicizing Monuments in the Americas
Session Description: Mexico City's Monument to the Revolution counts among the many classicizing monuments built in the Americas since 1492. While these freestanding arches, columns, and obelisks initially served to advance political projects such as imperialism, communities have continued to reinterpret, reshape and repurpose them. Past studies have addressed these monuments individually, often in comparison to European precedents.
Forging an intersection between critical monument studies and classical reception studies, this panel brings the classicizing monuments of South, Central, and North America into dialogue with each other for the first time. We aim to sharpen awareness of the role monuments played in the broader phenomenon of classical reception in the Americas. We also seek to understand the role of the Americas in creatively reimagining the classical designs of monuments that have become global in their popularity.
We welcome case studies that consider any facet of triumphal arches and other classicizing monuments in the Americas: their role in settler colonialism; their negotiation of global, regional, and local art and architectural traditions; the social and political contexts of their patronage, dedication, and commemoration; the significance of settings and recurrence in urban design; reception of individual structures over time, including destruction, neglect, and adaptive reuse; and current usefulness for wayfinding and anchoring community gatherings such as protests and farmers’ markets. Ephemeral monuments designed for special events and world’s fairs are also core to this discussion. While assembling case studies from different regions, we also aim to build an international cohort of specialists who are in conversation with each other.
Source: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;65543ebb.ex
(CFP closed June 5, 2025)
[HYBRID] ECOCRITICAL APPROACHES TO ANCIENT PERFORMANCE CULTURE
Online/University of Durham, UK: April 22-24, 2026
Proposals are invited for papers to be delivered at a hybrid conference, convened at the University of Durham by Emma Bentley and Edith Hall, which will address the relationship between ancient Greek and Roman dramatic/mimetic performances and the natural world, including their reception. Ancient performance culture (c.550 BCE-500 CE), under the aegis of the arboreal/vegetal/viticultural/mountain god Dionysus, encompassed tragedy, comedy, satyr play, mime, operatic/balletic pantomime and aquatic/hunting spectacles; these enacted, in venues requiring vast quantities of timber and stone, myths involving creation, plague, flood, fire and marine, tree, metallurgical and agricultural divinities.
Questions to be addressed may include:
How can evidence (textual/artistic/archaeological) for the rich performance culture of the ancient Greek/Roman worlds (North Africa to Ukraine, Portugal/England to Afghanistan) be read to unmask its producers/consumers’ unease with the relationship between humans and their environment?
How can we use dramatic texts and enactments to unravel the ambivalent ancient view of humans’ conflicted relations with nature via (mis)representation/ erasure?
Can we refine an ecocritical method that accommodates ‘traditional’ philological/archaeological analysis but advances beyond the (often woolly) antihumanism of New Materialism, the frequently anthropocentric environmental insensitivity of traditional literary Marxism and the nebulous psychological anti-materialism entailed by the Jungian concept of the ‘ecological consciousness’?
How best can we test the hypothesis that anthropogenic environmental damage has subsequently been legitimised by receptions of the celebration of the exploitation of nature in the canonical performance texts of antiquity?
Can we leverage the creative arts in new receptions of ancient literature to raise awareness of the environmental crisis?
Confirmed speakers include Alicia Stallings, Arnaud Zucker, Alison Sharrock, Joel Christensen, Niklas Bettermann, Jason König, Christopher Schliephake, Magdalena Zira, Andrew Fox, Bill Freeman and Michael Loy. Submissions from Early Career Researchers are particularly welcome.
Please send an abstract of around 300 words to emma.bentley@durham.ac.uk by 1st November 2025.
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;63c4cba6.ex
(CFP closed November 1, 2025)
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May 2026
#CALL VISITING RESEARCHERS 2026: THE RECEPTION OF ANCIENT GREECE IN PRE-MODERN FRENCH LITERATURE AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS (1320-1550): HOW INVENTED MEMORIES SHAPED THE IDENTITY OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
University of Caen Normandie: 4 to 6 weeks length; in May/June/early July 2026.
The ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA Project n° 101018777, “The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities”, directed by Prof. Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (Principal Investigator), opens guest researchers residences.
This call for applications is open to anyone, of French or foreign nationality, who holds a PhD in literature, art history, or history, whose work focuses on the history of books, cultural and political history, visual studies, or memory studies, wherein the competence and project are deemed to be complementary to the ones of the AGRELITA team.
These residencies indeed aim to open the reflections carried out by the team, to enhance its scientific activity through interactions with other scholars and other universities. The guest researchers will have the opportunity to contribute to a major project, to work with a dynamic team that conducts a wide range of activities at the University of Caen Normandie and within the research laboratory CRAHAM where many Antiquity, Medieval and Renaissance times specialists work. They will also be able to publish in a prestigious setting.
The AGRELITA project is based at the University of Caen Normandie (https://www.unicaen.fr/). Caen is a city in the heart of Normandy, located only 2 hours from Paris by train. Residing in this city offers the chance to discover the rich medieval heritage of Normandy and to carry out research in nearby libraries, museums, and archives, with very rich collections (Caen, Bayeux, Avranches, Rouen…).
The ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA Project
Until now the reception history of ancient Greece in pre-modern Western Europe has focused almost exclusively on the transmission of Greek texts. Yet well before the revival of Greek teaching, numerous vernacular works, often illustrated, contained elaborate representations of ancient Greece. AGRELITA studies a large corpus of French language literary works (historical, fictional, poetic, didactic ones) produced from 1320 to the 1550s in France and Europe, before the first direct translations from Greek to French, as well as the images of their manuscripts and printed books. These works and their illustrations – exploring texts/images interactions as well as the distinctive impact they have – show representations of ancient Greece we can analyze from a perspective that has never been explored until now: how a new cultural memory was elaborated. AGRELITA thus examines this corpus linked with its political, social, and cultural context, but also with the literary and illustrated works of nearby countries from Europe. Situated at the crossroads of literary studies, book history and art history, visual studies, cultural and political history, and memory studies, AGRELITA’s ambition is to explore how the role played by ancient Greece was reassessed in the processes of shaping the identity of European communities. The project also aims to contribute to a general reflection on the formation of memories, heritages, and identities.
Missions of visiting researchers
The ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA Project is funded for six years (2021-2027) and has budgetary support available in order to invite researchers at the University of Caen Normandie (France), in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (https://ufr-hss.unicaen.fr/), and attached to the CRAHAM laboratory (Centre Michel-de-Boüard, Research Centre of Ancient and Medieval Archaeological and Historical / CRAHAM – UMR 6273, https://craham.unicaen.fr/), housed in the Campus 1, right in the city centre of Caen, very close to the castle of Caen.
Stays at the University of Caen Normandie may be 4 to 6 weeks length, and during the year 2026 may take place in May/June/early July.
Visiting researchers will work with the Principal Investigator and the AGRELITA team.
Visiting researchers undertake to produce research for the project during their stays in Caen as follows:
* they will write one paper (which must not exceed 50 000 characters, including spaces) published in one of the volumes edited by ERC AGRELITA (Brepols ed.), or in one of the team’s files published in an academic journal;
* they commit to present the topic of the paper or another topic dealing with AGRELITA’s research during a seminar session organized by the team;
* they will contribute to the Hypotheses academic blog.
In 2026, the AGRELITA project will focus on these lines of research:
* “Cultures of violence and female resistance: receptions of ancient Greek myths from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond”;
* “The reception of ancient Greece in Europe through the dialogue between texts et images inside and outside the book (14th-16th century)”;
* a broader line of research: “Uses and exploitations of Antiquity memories, from the beginning of our era until the 21th century”.
Conditions for defraying mission expenses
Visiting researchers will receive, in the form of mission expenses, a maximum fixed amount of 2000 euros per month, based on all necessary receipts of the costs of stay in Caen (accommodation, transport in the Normandy region, and meal costs). A further maximum fixed amount is added to cover their travel expenses from their place of residence to Caen (round trip):
* travel from a European country (based on proof of expenses): 400 €;
* travel from a country outside Europe (based on proof of expenses): 1200 €.
The expenses will be paid following the mission. AGRELITA will not arrange visas.
How to apply
The application file must include the two following documents:
* a completed and signed application form, including the dates of the stay (during the period specified above);
* a curriculum vitae;
A scientific project (2 pages) the candidate will be working on during his stay, dealing with the AGRELITA team’s research, from which the researcher intends to write the required article, due at the end of the stay. The provisional title of the paper is required.
Please send your application in a PDF document to the following addresses: catherine.gaullier-bougassas@unicaen.fr and lorene.bellanger@unicaen.fr.
Application deadline: by February 15th, 2026.
Call: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/9813
[HYBRID] FEMINISM & CLASSICS IX: COMMUNITIES
Hybrid/Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio: May 7-10, 2026
The program committee for the next Feminism & Classics conference (May 7–10, 2026) invites submissions of abstracts, panels, roundtables, workshops, and innovative presentation formats related to the theme of “Communities.” Presentations for this hybrid conference may be delivered in person in Cincinnati, Ohio or on the virtual conference platform. For more details about the conference theme, see below.
In addition to traditional research papers, the committee is eager to receive proposals related to pedagogy, mentorship, hidden labor, accessibility, creative work, and beyond. We are enthusiastic about participation from K–12 teachers and independent scholars as well as faculty and students from all types of institutions. Grant funding from the Loeb Classical Library has been earmarked to provide registration waivers and other subsidies to students, K–12 teachers, contingent faculty, and others requiring financial assistance. Since this will be a hybrid conference, all participants will have the option to attend events in person, online, or in combination; proposals for both in-person and online presentations and events will be accepted. Thoughtful approaches to ensuring that in-person events are fully accessible to online participants are especially encouraged.
Submission Instructions:
Abstracts and proposals should be sent to feminism.classics@gmail.com by September 12, 2025 as anonymized attachments in Word or PDF format. Please remove all personally identifying information from the attached document, including from the file name. In the body of the message, please list your name, the title of your proposal, and the email address at which you would like to receive communications about the conference.
Individual abstracts should be no more than 350 words (excluding bibliography) and should reflect plans for oral delivery of a paper lasting maximum 15 minutes.
a. Please indicate at the top of your abstract whether you intend to deliver the paper in person or online.
Proposals (for panels, roundtables, workshops, or other innovative modes of delivery) should be no more than 350 words (excluding bibliography). Individual abstracts within proposed panels can each be up to 350 words in addition.
a. Please indicate at the top of the proposal document whether you plan for your event to last 60, 90, or 120 minutes; the number of speakers; and whether each speaker will attend in person or online. Hybrid panels (with some in-person and some online participants) are absolutely acceptable.
b. If you are proposing an innovative mode of delivery, please explain clearly what your plans are and how you will ensure accessibility for online participants. (This explanation can be excluded from the 350 word limit.)
Conference Theme: COMMUNITIES
The organizing theme for this meeting of Feminism & Classics will be COMMUNITIES. Communities formed around human connection and exclusion have long shaped social identities, enforcing or eliding differences in the pursuit of political, intellectual, artistic, or affective goals. In the modern world, when such connections can be made across vast distances at the speed of a computer click, we are primed to reflect on the formation, development, and impact of communities in antiquity—how and why did ancient people come together to collaborate over shared goals or commiserate over shared grievances? How did factors like sex, gender, civic status, social and political capital, disenfranchisement, disability, or ethnos influence the formation of communities? What physical spaces housed ancient communities? What material traces did they leave behind? How did those experiencing exclusion from certain communities respond to being denied the benefits or privileges of membership?
Communities have a powerful influence on the unity or fragmentation of the people with whom they interact. Shared ideologies regularly generate extreme reactions, from empowerment and compassion to anger and fear. These affective conditions may precipitate actions upon other individuals or communities, resulting in increased division, hierarchical power differentials, and desires for resistance—considerations which have long been foundational to feminist scholarship in the Classics and beyond (see Rabinowitz and Richlin 1993, Weiss and Friedman 1995, McManus 1997). Community studies, as an interdisciplinary branch of sociological and anthropological investigations encompassing a number of frameworks and terminologies familiar to scholars in Classics (e.g., ethnography, social network analysis, liminality; see Blackshaw 2009), has also contributed a great deal in recent decades to explorations of antiquity. Scholars in Classics have examined the dynamics of ancient communities based on political networks (Brock and Hodkinson 2000; Broekaert et al. 2020), religious practices (Collar 2013; Muñiz-Grijalvo and Tejedor, 2023), urban infrastructure (Simelius 2024), education and class (Mosconi 2008), provinces and colonies (Christol 2010), women’s associations (Hirschmann 2003), and wealth disparities (Carlà-Uhink et al. 2023), often situating the peoples of antiquity within networks that transcend governed entities and elite social ranks (e.g., Taylor and Vlassopoulos 2015).
Aspirations toward communities of equality have long motivated feminist practitioners; importantly, historical failures of feminist movements to recognize intersectional oppressions and to acknowledge the contributions of women of color and trans women have inhibited the formation of accessible communities within both academic disciplines and political movements. This conference’s focus on communities will therefore necessarily escape the temporal bounds of the ancient Mediterranean world, as disciplinary discourses reflect ongoing concerns about the formation and continuity of a truly accessible global community for the study of antiquity.
With these considerations in mind, we invite submissions to Feminism & Classics IX that reflect on the concept of Communities, broadly conceived. In formulating their proposals for this conference, authors are invited to understand “feminism” from an intersectional perspective that embraces numerous theoretical approaches as relevant and important to the conference’s mission. These may include queer theory, critical race theory, disability studies, ecocriticism, and postcolonial theory, among many others. Possible topics and approaches to the theme of Communities include (but are by no means limited to):
* How social, political, and economic forces shaped ancient communities (and sub-communities) into hierarchical, oligarchic, aristocratic, democratic, and/or autocratic structures
* How access to education, texts, and convivial gatherings contributed to the construction of elite and exclusive communities of literacy in antiquity; how those denied access to such resources still built or maintained communities engaged with storytelling, narrative, and oral traditions
* Communities of care, whether in the ancient world or in our modern discipline (e.g., fostering mentorship, empathy, accessibility, and growth in academia, especially for junior and contingent teachers and scholars)
* Communities of choice, as aligned with or divergent from communities of birth
* Gendered communities, with consideration of the ways in which communities form or exclude based on social perceptions and constructions of gender
* Community building(s), including both the action of forming communities and the physical spaces that may house those communities
* The spaces and tools of community: how sites, objects, and interactions between them constructed or affected communities
* Communities and social identity, with consideration of in-group/out-group dynamics or how/whether individuals fit into certain communities
* Strategies for community-building within and beyond the discipline, including outreach or engagement with the public, collaboration between academia and other spheres, and networks of communal pedagogy
Our commitment to ACCESSIBILITY:
Feminism & Classics is committed to creating a welcoming and accessible hybrid conference that enables all attendees to engage fully with the program. We pledge to take concrete steps to support neurodivergent attendees and attendees with physical disabilities, mental illnesses, and/or chronic illnesses. If you require any accommodations to participate in this event, or have any questions or concerns related to access, please contact our Accessibility Team so that we can make sure your needs are met: femclas.accessibility@gmail.com
We will encourage all conference participants to consult the “Making SCS Presentations More Accessible” document here , created by Zoé Elise Thomas and Clara Bosak-Schroeder, to ensure that their conference presentations and materials are as broadly accessible as possible. As the conference gets closer, we will update the website with more detailed information about on-site and online accessibility.
Contact and Logistics:
For more information about conference logistics, planned events, and our commitment to hosting an accessible and welcoming gathering for all participants, please visit our webpage: https://www.wccclassics.org/femclas9
If you have any questions about the conference, please direct your inquiries to Caitlin Hines (caitlin.hines@uc.edu).
If you require accommodations or have questions about accessibility, please email femclas.accessibility@gmail.com
Works Cited
Blackshaw, Tony. 2009. Key Concepts in Community Studies. SAGE.
Brock, Roger, and Stephen Hodkinson (ed.). 2000. Alternatives to Athens: varieties of political organization and community in ancient Greece. Oxford University Press.
Broekaert, Wim, Elena Köstner, and Christian Rollinger (eds.). 2020. The Ties that Bind: Ancient Politics and Network Research. Journal of Historical Network Research 4. Luxembourg.
Carlà-Uhink, Filippo, Lucia Cecchet, and Carlos Machado (eds.). 2023. Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome: Realities and Discourses. Routledge.
Christol, Michel. 2010. “L’organisation des communautés en Gaule méridionale (Transalpine, puis Narbonnaise) sous la domination de Rome.” Pallas 84: 15–36.
Collar, Anna. 2013. Religious Networks in the Roman Empire: The Spread of New Ideas. Cambridge University Press.
Hirschmann, V. E. 2003. “Methodische Überlegungen zu Frauen in antiken Vereinen.” In de Ligt, L., E. A. Hemelrijk, and H. W. Singor (eds.), Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c.200 B.C. – A.D. 476), Leiden, June 25–28, 2003. Brill: 401–414.
McManus, Barbara. 1997. Classics and Feminism: Gendering the Classics. The Impact of Feminism on the Arts and Sciences. Twayne.
Mosconi, Gianfranco. 2008. “‘Musica & Buon Governo’: paideía aristocratica e propaganda politica nell’Atene di V sec. a.c.” Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale 1: 11–70.
Muñiz-Grijalvo, Elena, and Alberto del Campo Tejedor (ed.). 2023. Processions and the construction of communities in antiquity: history and comparative perspectives. Routledge.
Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin, and Amy Richlin. 1993. Feminist Theory and the Classics. Routledge.
Simelius, Samuli. 2024. “Networks of Inequality: Access to Water in Roman Pompeii.” Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 7: 54–74.
Taylor, Claire, and Kostas Vlassopoulos. 2015. Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World. Oxford University Press.
Weiss, Penny A., and Marilyn Friedman. 1995. Feminism and Community. Temple University Press.
Website: https://www.wccclassics.org/femclas9
(CFP closed September 12, 2025)
THE ANCIENT WORLD ON SCREEN CONFERENCE
Commemorating 50+ years of classics and film reception
The University of Granada, Spain: May 14-15, 2026
It is 50 years since the start of Classics and Film reception as an academic discipline, with the publication of early key texts, including The Ancient World in the Cinema (1978) by John Solomon, Classics and Film (1991) edited by Martin M. Winkler, and Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History (1997) by Maria Wyke. To commemorate this milestone, and to showcase the vast array of different approaches to the Ancient world on different screens (cinema, TV, computer, phone) that have since emerged, we would like to invite you to contribute to an international conference on the Ancient World on Screen to be held from 14-15 May 2026. The conference will be in person at the University of Granada, and will include keynote lectures by Profs Maria Wyke and Francisco Salvador.
Topics within this broad area could include the following:
• Films, Television drama series, animation or documentaries based on the ancient world/mythology
• Video games drawing on aspects of the ancient world
• Ancient world media fandom, including fanfiction and fan art
• Modern screen-based media as a means to engage viewers in the ancient world (YouTube, TikTok etc.)
• VR and immersive experiences, including the use of multi-media in museums and as education/entertainment
• New methodological approaches to the ancient world on screen
Please submit abstracts of 250 words for 20-minute papers in English or Spanish to classicalreceptiongranada@gmail.com by the 1st December, 2025.
Organisers: Dr Javier Martínez Jiménez and Dr Amanda Potter
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;b96aca33.ex
(CFP closed December 1, 2025)
#CFP 4TH IJSEWIJN LECTURE & LABORATORIUM
KU Leuven, Belgium: May 21-22, 2026
The 18th Jozef IJsewijn Lecture will take place on Thursday 21 May 2026, at 5pm, in the Justus Lipsius Room of the Erasmushuis (8th floor; Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven), and will be delivered by Professor Marc Laureys (Universität Bonn), offering a quo vadis? view on Neo-Latin studies at the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae. The lecture will be followed by a reception at 6pm in the big hall of the Erasmushuis on the ground floor. Attendance is completely free, but registration will be required.
The next day, on Friday 22 May 2026, the 4th IJsewijn Laboratorium will be held at the Colloquium (University Library, Mgr. Ladeuzeplein 21, 3000 Leuven). The Laboratorium will have a full-day program devoted to ongoing Neo-Latin research, and has two main aims: (1) showcasing state-of-the-art research in Neo-Latin studies, in terms of both subject and methodology, and (2) bringing together young scholars with established researchers, including the Jozef IJsewijn Lecturer. There is, in other words, no specific thematic focus, and everyone is encouraged to present work-in-progress, paying due attention to both successes and pitfalls in Neo-Latin research, and how to build on, or deal with, them. In the frame of the sixtieth birthday of the Seminarium, we do encourage participants to engage critically with the legacy of Jozef IJsewijn and the Seminarium within the discipline. The scientific committee will make a competitive selection of abstracts, as we have a maximum of 10 paper slots.
The Laboratorium aims to create an active exchange among the participants, in order to address and discuss promising research perspectives. All sessions will be plenary, including a research pitch by local Neo-Latin students. Each session will last one hour and include two presentations of 15’ each, followed by 30’ discussion time. Presenters will be asked to pre-circulate their materials and ideas in a way they see fit (e.g. a Neo-Latin text with translation and/or commentary, a short paper summarizing the main points of their work-in-progress, an advanced paper not yet submitted for publication, a poster file, …). The only prerequisite is that these materials contain two to three questions you want to see addressed during the discussions. The pre-circulated materials will be shared only with those registered for the workshop and will serve to encourage in-depth discussions. The main workshop language will be English.
Abstracts are due 15 December and should be sent to Adriaan Demuynck (adriaan.demuynck[aet]kuleuven.be) and Raf Van Rooy (raf.vanrooy[aet]kuleuven.be).
The registration fee for the IJsewijn Laboratorium will be €35 to cover catering. (BA and MA students of KU Leuven are exempted from paying the Laboratorium's fee.)
Organizing committee:
Marijke Crab (KU Leuven Libraries), Nicholas De Sutter (KU Leuven), Adriaan Demuynck (KU Leuven), Raf Van Rooy (KU Leuven)
Scientific committee:
Susanna de Beer (Leiden University), Gianmario Cattaneo (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale), Marijke Crab (KU Leuven Libraries), Ingrid De Smet (University of Warwick), Nicholas De Sutter (KU Leuven), Martine Furno (Université Grenoble Alpes / ENS Lyon), Christian Laes (University of Manchester / University of Antwerp), Han Lamers (University of Oslo), Marc Laureys (Universität Bonn), Vasileios Pappas (University of Ioannina), Maxim Rigaux (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Ghent University), Florian Schaffenrath (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien, Innsbruck), Toon Van Houdt (KU Leuven), Raf Van Rooy (KU Leuven)
Call: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/ijsewijnlab
#CFP ACADEMIA VIVARIUM NOVUM CONFERENCE: “OVID AND PHILOSOPHY”
Villa Falconieri (Frascati), Italy: May 24-26, 2026
After the conferences on philosophy in Virgil (2024) and in the post-Virgilian epic (2025) the Academia Vivarium novum organizes a conference on “Ovid and philosophy”.
The conference will take place on 24-26 May 2026 at Villa Falconieri (Frascati). The Academy will accomodate the participants in the Villa.
Interested scholars can propose a paper on (1) philosophy in the works of Ovid, or on (2) philosophical interpretations of the works of Ovid by commentators and other authors from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age.
Proposals, accompanied by an abstract of 20/30 lines, must be sent BY DECEMBER 31 to the following addresses:
Fabio Stok: fabio.stok@uniroma2.it
Giampiero Scafoglio: Giampiero.Scafoglio@univ-cotedazur.fr
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;c3e1bdeb.ex
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#CFP ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES: 54TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
University of Haifa, Israel: June 3-4, 2026
The ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CLASSICAL STUDIES is pleased to announce its 54th annual conference to be held at the University of Haifa on 3-4.6.2026. The official languages of the conference are Hebrew and English.
With renewed faith in the possibility of peace in the Near East, we hope that our CfP will be received as a call for reconciliation, mutual respect for the sanctity of life, and academic cooperation in the pursuit of knowledge.
Our keynote speaker this year will be Prof. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (University of Göttingen).
We welcome papers on a wide range of classical subjects, including, but not limited to, history, philology, philosophy, literature, papyrology, classical reception and archaeology of Greece, Rome and the neighbouring lands. The time limit for each presentation is 20 minutes.
The conference fee is $50. Accommodation at reduced prices will be available at local hotels. Registration forms with a list of prices will be sent to participants in due course.
Proposals, abstracts and other correspondence may be emailed to ISPCS Secretary, Dr. Merav Haklai, at haklaime@bgu.ac.il.
A general Call for Papers can be found at the ISPCS webpage, as well as a CfP for a Student Session and one for a Poster Session.
All proposals should consist of a one-page abstract (about 250-300 words). Proposals in Hebrew should also be accompanied by a one-page abstract in English to appear in the conference brochure.
All proposals are to reach the Secretary by 24.12.2025. Decisions will be made after the Organizing Committee has duly considered all the proposals. If a decision is required prior to late January, please indicate this in your letter and we will try to accommodate your needs.
Website: https://israel-classics.org/en/conferences/
CIRCULATING PERSPECTIVES OF THE PAST - EPIGRAPHIC MATERIAL IN MANUSCRIPTS (15TH–17TH CENTURIES). COLLOQUIUM IN MEMORIAM OF MARCO BUONOCORE
La Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy: June 8-10, 2026
We invite proposals for contributions to a forthcoming colloquium, to be held at Sapienza Università di Roma on 8–10 June 2026, to honour the late Marco Buonocore (1954–2022), former Scriptor Latinus of the Vatican Library.
The colloqium will be dedicated to the study of the circulation of epigraphic material in manuscript (and printed sources) from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. This initiative seeks to explore not the inscriptions themselves, nor individual manuscripts, but rather the modalities of their transmission.
We aim to explore to what extent the selection, excerpting, adaptation, and repurposing of epigraphic texts reflected the intellectual mindset of the time, and how these practices may have contributed to the circulation of manuscripts or their integration into printed works. We are also examining the networks that facilitated the dissemination of epigraphic information via manuscripts.
The aim is to reconstruct the pathways through which knowledge of ancient inscriptions travelled across Europe and beyond, shaping antiquarian discourse, humanist scholarship, and broader cultural practices. We are particularly interested in the infrastructures, actors, and textual strategies that underpinned the mobility of epigraphic information.
We welcome proposals that address (but are not limited to) the following three key axes:
i) Types and Methods of Manuscript Transmission of Epigraphic Information in the Context of Print Culture. How was epigraphic material copied, organized, and circulated in handwritten form before and alongside print culture? What kinds of compilations, excerpta, or antiquarian notebooks preserved such data, and how were these manuscripts shared or transmitted among scholars and collectors? Was there a particular style and quality to the presentation of inscriptions in manuscripts that made them more appealing for dissemination than the prints produced at around the same time or shortly afterwards?
ii) Manuscript–Print Interactions. What relationships can be traced between manuscript testimonies and printed works that incorporate or are based on epigraphic content? How did print both stabilize and transform the dissemination of epigraphic knowledge, and in what ways did it rely on, or diverge from, manuscript traditions?
iii) Evidence of Circulation in Broader Contexts. How did epigraphic materials—transmitted via manuscripts or printed books—find their way into more general historical, literary, or encyclopedic works? What can such occurrences tell us about the cultural functions and perceived authority of inscriptions within early modern knowledge systems?
Rather than analyzing individual inscriptions or their philological features, this colloquium focuses on epigraphy as a medium of transmission: its formats, networks, uses, and epistemic roles. We are especially interested in methodological reflections and case studies that illuminate the mechanisms of transmission, the interplay of media, and the evolving status of epigraphic evidence in early modern intellectual life.
Contributions may be in AIEGL working languages (English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish).
The organization may be able to provide some financial support to early-career researchers. This support could include coverage of travel and accommodation expenses, subject to availability of funds and specific eligibility criteria. Further details regarding the application process and selection criteria will be made available in due course.
Proposals (250–500 words), along with a short bio, should be sent to manuscript2026@uni-mainz.de by 30 November 2025.
Accepted authors will be notified by 20 December 2025.
Scientific Committee:
Maria Letizia Caldelli, La Sapienza Università di Roma
Xavier Espluga, University of Barcelona, Spain
Marietta Horster, JGU Mainz and CIL / BBAW, Germany
Silvia Orlandi, La Sapienza Università di Roma
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;27368f48.ex
(CFP closed November 30, 2026)
#CFP CULTURES OF VIOLENCE AND FEMALE RESISTANCE: RECEPTIONS OF ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS FROM THE 14TH TO THE 21ST CENTURY, IN EUROPE AND BEYOND
ERC AGRELITA International Conference
University of Caen Normandie, France: June 10-12, 2026
Call for papers
Among modern and contemporary interpretations of Antiquity, there is a striking
proliferation of writings about mythical female figures from ancient Greece. In numerous
dramatic adaptations, novels, and comic books—the list is not exhaustive, and these works
are often linked to visual representations—authors give voice and interiority to female figures
who, in ancient texts and many of their later interpretations, were often subordinated to male
heroes, rendered invisible, reduced to supporting roles, or depicted as deserving of the
symbolic, physical, psychological, and/or political violence inflicted upon them.
Far from the previously dominant male perspective, these adaptations often imagine
how these women themselves experienced their own stories, how they endured this violence
and attempted to resist it. Many recent works of fiction are explicitly militant and feminist in
the context of increased discussion and awareness of violence against women and the
affirmation of revolts. Some examples of reception: Circe, who in Homeric poetry weaves
while singing and mastering the science of phármaka, becomes the protagonist of Madeline
Miller’s eponymous novel (2018). Margaret Atwood—an author who became world famous
thanks to the success of the series The Handmaid’s Tale, adapted from her dystopian novel
in which women serve society only as reproducers for their masters—rewrites The Odyssey,
this time from the perspective of Penelope in The Penelopiad (2005) and that of her maids,
who sang in chorus but remained ignored. More recently, Emily Hauser’s The Golden Apple
Trilogy (2016-2018) and Nathalie Haynes’ A Thousand Ships (2019) evoke the Trojan War
from the perspective of the Trojan women.
The increasing number of theatrical adaptations featuring Greek female characters,
not only in Europe but also in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, particularly
in the postcolonial context, often combines the representation of violence against women
with the denunciation of violence perpetrated by colonial, racist, and slave-owning systems,
multiple forms of discrimination, and/or authoritarian political regimes. We can mention,
among many adaptations, Malintzin, Medea americana, by Jesús Sotelo Inclán (1957,
Mexico), La pasion segun Antigona Pérez by Luis Rafael Sánchez (1968, Puerto Rico), Gota d’Agua by Paulo Pontes and Chico Buarque (1975, Brazil), Antígona by José Watanabe (1999, Peru), Medea, the adaptation of Medea by Satoshi Miyagi (1999, Japan), Tegonni: An African Antigone by Femi Osofisan (1999, Niger), Mojada by Luis Alfaro (United States, 2013), Yocasta by Mariana Percovich (2003, Uruguay), and Antigone in the Amazon by Milo Rau (2023).
These modern and contemporary works, written in such diverse cultural contexts, thus find in ancient myths a privileged medium for representing and often denouncing violence against women. Their reception is shaped by the political, social, and cultural contexts of their authors: the appropriation and transformation of texts from the culture of what is most often the colonizer constitute acts of affirmation and emancipation—a phenomenon that a priori does not exclude the existence of rewritings which continue to justify the violence of patriarchal traditions. The fact that these receptions extend beyond Europe gives them a transcultural dimension, which warrants further analysis in terms of how women are viewed.
This proliferation of rewritings in the 20th and 21st centuries, in Europe and on other continents, is also a response to ancient texts, and/or to textual and visual receptions of these ancient texts and myths that emerged from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. Many of the receptions of the Middle Ages and subsequent centuries—but not all, as we shall see—exalt the submission of these Greek female figures to male authority, denying or justifying violence against them, starting with sexual violence and rape, so often depicted as scenes of loving union and aestheticized in works of art, and ultimately legitimized by a culture of rape that did not wait for its modern definition to exist.
While the concepts of gender studies and postcolonial studies must always be historicized and contextualized in relation to texts and works of art, the fact remains that strategies for legitimizing violence against women—what we call “cultures of violence”—as well as opposing views on the violence suffered, the absence of consent, the suffering endured, and women’s resistance or attempts at resistance, can already be seen in certain European interpretations of ancient myths from the Middle Ages onwards, especially with the flourishing, from the 14th century onwards, of rewritings and adaptations of the texts of Ovid and medieval Latin mythographers. While cultures of violence certainly dominated for centuries, voices were raised against them. This was the case in France at least since the so-called Roman de la Rose controversy, launched by Christine de Pizan at the end of the 14th century in her letters responding to Jean de Meung’s misogynistic discourse in the Roman de la Rose. This was followed by the “Querelle des femmes” (Quarrel of Women), a debate on the promotion and emancipation of women that lasted for five centuries in part of Europe, but whose historical reality was long been obscured, as Éliane Viennot studied. In her Cité des Dames, Christine de Pizan responds explicitly to the misogynistic discourse of the Latin author Matheolus, which was widely circulated, but sometimes also implicitly to Boccaccio’s very ambiguous view in his De mulieribus claris: she imagines and traces the symbolic development of a city of women, which, while claiming and proving the fundamental contribution of women to the history of humanity since Antiquity, must also serve as a refuge for them. The aim is to make visible what we now call “matrimony” and also to reject male violence, starting with the discourse advocating the supposed inferiority of women. Numerous collections on illustrious women have been written over several centuries, very often reworking ancient Greek myths. Jennifer Tamas also recently showed how certain works of classical literature have given women, including some Greek heroines, the power to resist and say “no.”
The questioning of cultures of violence and rape is therefore much older than is often claimed, and the accusations of anachronism or activism sometimes levelled at critical studies of these themes in works from the Middle Ages and later centuries should therefore be dismissed.
What is more, in the course of establishing studies on women in ancient Greece—whose work solidly demonstrates their presence in areas of life previously denied by certain sources and by a whole misogynistic tradition that had been built up around them—the development of reception research has enabled us to renew our understanding of certain female figures in the ancient world. This research is not limited to Antiquity itself: it draws inspiration from it, questions it, and projects new issues onto it. Works ranging from Women in the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers, edited by John Peradotto and John Patrick Sullivan (1978), to the project Eurykleia – celles qui avaient un nom (Sandra Boehringer, Adeline Grand-Clément, Sandra Péré-Noguès, and Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet, 2015), as well as Reflections of Women in Antiquity (1978) by Hélène Foley and Women in Greek Myth (1986) by Mary Lefkowitz, also show that, through various strategies, women responded to male violence, often by challenging dominant discourses. Beyond understanding the ancient world, reception studies that focus on mythical Greek women and sometimes rewrite their stories have also led to a reflection on the relationship that later contexts sought to establish with Antiquity, whether to reinforce or challenge rape culture, as several recent studies have shown (Rosanna Lauriola, 2022; Susan Deacy, José Malheiro Magalhães, and Jean Zacharski Menzies, 2023).
It therefore no longer seems possible to read adaptations of Greek myths relating to violence against women without exploiting and, where necessary, discussing concepts developed in the field of gender studies (for example, but without excluding other concepts, rape culture, agency, the male gaze, situated knowledge, and intersectionality). These concepts allow us to better understand and analyze representations of violence in literary adaptations of ancient myths, to better decipher the frequent strategies of justification and, conversely, denunciations, as well as, often, the staging of female reactions.
It is these rewritings of Greek myths and their depictions of multifaceted violence against women, as well as the resistance or attempts at they sometimes oppose to it, that we would like to examine during this conference. The corpus under consideration is very broad: it includes texts written over a long period, from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond, with, where appropriate, the images that illustrate them or the data from dramatic performances. The aim will be to question the perspectives underlying these representations in relation to their contexts of reference. Studying how violence is portrayed in Greek myths will also highlight the similarities and differences, developments, and changes between the systems of thought specific to Greek Antiquity and those of later periods, and to examine the different perceptions of violence/violences and the different attitudes which are attributed to women in the face of such violence, and which give rise to diverse judgments.
How do authors approach Greek myths, and how do adaptations of these myths take a stance, either explicitly or implicitly, within the ideological debates of their time on the place of women in society and on political and social relations of domination and violence? Today, we recognize in these mythical narratives not only physical violence, but also symbolic gender violence, as defined by Pierre Bourdieu, imposed by a system of male domination (guilt, norms, language, discourse, etc.): thus, although violence against women is mostly committed by men, Greek myths also feature forms of violence inflicted on women by women (Athena on Arachne, Juno on Latona, etc.), and these too are part of this patriarchal system, as punishments for disobeying the order imposed by an androcentric society.
From one text, context, and era to another, what acts or situations were considered violent by the authors who revisited these myths? What moral judgments did they make about the characters? Who did they recognize as guilty and on what grounds? What forms of resistance are attributed to women and what comments are made about them, particularly those that sometimes take the form of revenge? What differences can be noted between the points of view of these authors who have reworked Greek myths and those of the authors of their sources they have reworked, whether ancient or later (already receptions of ancient texts)?
We will also examine how representations and issues surrounding violence and power relations have evolved based on the ancient texts that authors have appropriated and adapted. From the 14th to the 17th century in Europe, Ovid was a major source: his Metamorphoses and Heroides inspired countless textual and visual interpretations, with a plurality of perspectives on these acts of violence from the outset, as early as the 15th and 16th centuries. Striking examples can be found in the various stories devoted to Arachne and Philomela, as well as in the rewritings and adaptations of Ovid’s Heroides. Ovid’s works have inspired rewritings and adaptations to this day, with a resurgence of influence in contemporary novels. Other Latin sources have also been exploited, such as Seneca’s tragedies. But above all, when the teaching of Greek resumed in Western Europe and Greek literary texts were rediscovered, ancient tragedies became major sources of inspiration and, through their countless adaptations, multiple receptions of Greek myths about women persisted for centuries. The study of the plurality of their perspectives on violence against women still needs to be explored in greater depth.
Finally, how did representations of violence against women evolve over time and space, from the 14th to the 21st century? Greek myths relating to violence against women have inspired numerous adaptations since the 14th century in France and Western Europe, continuing to the present day. This process of appropriation began much later outside Europe, in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, but it has taken root there with great vitality. What are the geographical and historical contexts, and the political and social factors that gave rise to and fueled this abundant reception outside Europe? While the adaptations initially seem to be linked to the liberation movements from the colonial empires, they continue to denounce other forms of authoritarian power. What new representations and interpretations of violence against women do they convey? What resistance do they lend to women and from what perspectives?
The aim of this conference is therefore to reflect, from a broad diachronic and transcultural perspective, on the ways in which the reception of Greek myths has represented violence against women, either perpetuating it or combating it. It will also examine the drivers and challenges of this process of reception, i.e., reappropriation, critical reading, and transformation. Why, how, and in what circumstances have these Greek myths been mobilized to express the challenges of other socio-historical contexts? To what extent is the concept of “reception” a relevant theoretical tool for analyzing these representations of violence against women and the resistance attributed to them?
Submission Guidelines
Proposals for papers, in French or English (title and abstract of 200-300 words), should be sent, along with a brief CV, no later than January 15, 2026, to the following addresses:
catherine.gaullier-bougassas@unicaen.fr
lorene.bellanger@unicaen.fr
After review of the proposals, acceptance will be notified around mid-February 2026.
Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered according to the terms and conditions of the University of Caen Normandy.
The conference proceedings will be published in the collection “Recherches sur les réceptions de l’Antiquité” by Brepols (https://www.brepols.net/series/RRA).
Proposed articles must be unpublished.
Organization:
Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, University Professor of Medieval French Language and Literature, ERC Agrelita (Principal Investigator), CRAHAM (UMR 6273), University of Caen Normandie
Lorena Lopes da Costa, Associate Professor of Ancient History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Lorène Bellanger, Project Manager, ERC Agrelita, CRAHAM (UMR 6273), University of Caen Normandie
Julie Labregère, Postdoctoral Fellow, ERC Agrelita, CRAHAM (UMR 6273), University of Caen Normandie
Giulia Parma, Postdoctoral Fellow, ERC Agrelita, CRAHAM (UMR 6273), University of Caen Normandie
Adrian Faure, Postdoctoral Fellow, ERC Agrelita, CRAHAM (UMR 6273), University of Caen Normandie
Call (French & English): https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/9587
#CFP TRANSLATING LATIN IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
University of Bologna (Italy): June 11-12, 2026
The conference will address the topic of translation of Latin texts into modern languages – both natural and computer-based – by combining theoretical, historical, and cultural perspectives on translation. The goal is to bring together scholars from translation studies, classics, modern languages, comparative literature, linguistics, and digital humanities, to foster an interdisciplinary discussion of how the translation of Latin continues to shape the cultural and intellectual landscapes of the contemporary world. The conference will feature two keynote lectures by Alexandra Lianeri (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Siri Nergaard (University of South-Eastern Norway).
We invite proposals that address the topic of translation of Latin texts into modern languages from a variety of perspectives, including but not limited to the following areas:
- Challenges arising from the translation of Latin into modern languages
- Case studies of Latin translations that have played a key role in the development of a given national literature or intellectual tradition
- Instances of ideological or cultural manipulation of Latin texts in their modern translations
- Comparative analyses of multiple translations of the same Latin text into a given language
- The impact of digital humanities, machine translation, and artificial intelligence on the translation and interpretation of Latin texts
- Didactic perspectives on the use of AI-based tools for the automatic translation of Latin texts
- Pedagogical perspectives on translation as a hermeneutic tool for learning Latin
- Cognitive approaches to translation and their relevance to the study of classical languages.
Contributions focusing on less commonly studied languages and traditions are particularly welcome.
Please send abstracts of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers (followed by a 10-minute discussion). Abstracts may be submitted in Italian, English, French, German, or Spanish; however, the working languages of the conference will be Italian and English. Submissions will be subject to blind review by the scientific committee. Please send your proposal to translating.latin@gmail.com by 15 January 2026, attaching an anonymous abstract and including the following information in the body of the email: paper title, author’s name, affiliation, and email address for correspondence. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 February 2026.
For further information please visit the conference website: https://eventi.unibo.it/translating-latin-contemporary-world
#CFP [ONLINE] TEACHING WITH OVID
Online: June 12-13, 2026
Multiple time zones: 9am-1pm ET / 2-6pm BST / 3-7pm CEST
The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana welcome proposals for papers
(15-20 mins), panels (1 hr), or roundtables (1hr) for an online pedagogy symposium.
We invite proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the university or school classroom.
Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of:
● Classroom exercises based on Ovidian texts and themes (e.g. love; exile; epic;
tragedy);
● Teaching with Ovidian intermediaries (e.g. medieval moralised Ovids; early modern
translations);
● Using modern editions and/or translations in the classroom;
● Ovidian retellings in the classroom;
● Teaching with the material text, archives, or library resources;
● Language teaching with Ovid (e.g. Latin; medieval languages);
● Producing creative responses to Ovidian texts and ideas.
The CFP deadline is Friday 16th January 2026.
Please send abstracts of c. 200 words with a brief author bio to rebecca.menmuir@lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
The symposium will be free to attend, but membership to the International Ovidian Society (https://ovidiansociety.org) will be required.
Call: http://ovidiansociety.org/calls/
#CFP THE RECEPTION OF ANCIENT GREECE IN EUROPE THROUGH THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN TEXTS AND IMAGES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE BOOK (14TH-16TH CENTURY)
International conference - ERC AGRELITA
University of Caen Normandie, France: June 18-19, 2026
This conference aims to explore the literary, artistic, and cultural reception of ancient
Greece through the prism of the relationships between texts and images in Europe from the
14th to the 16th century. How are the different visual and textual forms associated in this
context? How was the alliance between text and image integrated into the processes of
reception of ancient Greece, in the broad sense defined by Lorna Hardwick i.e., both the
reception of its knowledge and texts, and the development of representations of ancient
Greece? What does the collaboration between literary and visual creation bring to the various
forms of reception of ancient Greece? What aspects of Greek antiquity, real or imagined, are
particularly highlighted through the dialogue between texts and images in literary, historical,
and philosophical works?
The conference will take place at the University of Caen Normandie on June 18–19,
2026. It will focus on the dialogue between texts written in Europe from the 14th to the
16th century (editions, translations, and commentaries on ancient Greek works, as well as
new literary, historical, philosophical, and didactic texts) and images. Two main themes will
be considered.
The first theme—texts and images in the book—concerns the dialogue between texts
and images within manuscripts and printed books, from the perspective of their materiality
and content. We will study the different links established between texts and images, the roles
assigned to images in the multiple forms of reception of ancient Greece, and the evolution of
this collaboration between textual and visual representations from the 14th to the 16th
century. Attention will be given to the different forms of illustration and decoration found in
manuscripts and printed works (paintings, engravings, drawings, marginal decorations,
frontispieces, inscriptions, etc.).
The second theme—texts and images outside the book—focuses on the creation of
images that exist outside the book but originate in one or more books, and that illustrate,
develop, or rework a textual tradition about ancient Greece, containing a textual trace or sign
(caption, inscription, poem beneath the image, speech scroll, representation of a book
within the image or visual object, etc.). This corpus includes various categories of works
belonging to visual arts (drawings, engravings, emblems, paintings, sculptures, architecture,
etc.), decorative arts (furniture, goldsmithing, stained glass, tapestry, precious objects, etc.),
performing arts (ceremonies, theater, dance, opera, etc.), or applied arts (fashion, everyday
objects, etc.).
These two themes invite reflection on the importance of intermediality in the reception
of ancient Greece, in other words on the transfers of form and meaning between different
media that contribute to this reception. Furthermore, the intermedial approach is not born ex
nihilo but is founded on a legacy from the theorists of ancient Greek, as Jürgen E. Müller has
pointed out, developing this concept in the 1980s.
The assertion of close links, even kinship, between the different arts is indeed ancient,
as Aristotle already noted, in his Poetics, the similarities between the work of the poet and
that of the painter: “the poet is a maker of representations, just like the painter or any other
maker of images.” Horace’s famous formula, ut pictura poesis , lies at the heart of 2 3
Renaissance art theory, justifying the idea that the work of painters is no less noble than that
of writers. While the dialogue between the arts was strongly affirmed and valued from the
16th century onward, it was not absent in previous centuries, albeit in a less theorized form.
The intermedial perspective thus allows us to address the processes of creation and the
transfers of form and meaning between text and image within a vast interdisciplinary field of
study. Without excluding other approaches, proposals will highlight aspects still little
explored concerning the versatility of artists, the circulation of models, and the strategies of
representation of ancient Greece in the transmission from books to other visual works.
Within the space of the book, our first theme, what types of dialogue are established
between text and image, and in what forms of illustrated books? What roles does the text play
in relation to the image that illustrates it, and conversely, the silent image to the speaking text?
The image illustrates the text, complicates a story, or, on the contrary, selects and simplifies
the narrative; the image interprets the text, allegorizes or personifies a concept, sometimes
alters its meaning, and can make present (“re-present”) what is not said; it deploys an
ornamental function where it is not necessarily expected (in the margin, for example),
gradually gaining autonomy from the text.
Other questions are raised by the second theme : how do images related to ancient
Greece take shape outside the space of the book, while drawing on textual traditions about
ancient Greece? How do they reveal this heritage through the presence of short texts or
textual signs on the image? and how to interpret these different forms of links between text
and image, and these devices of mise en abyme? How do artists use them in their
representations of ancient Greece?
The various ways in which images emerge and are arranged in relation to texts do not
exclude each other, and others undoubtedly remain to be studied in the field of reception
studies of ancient Greece.
Submission guidelines
Proposals for papers, in French or English (title and abstract of 200–300 words), should be
submitted along with a brief CV by December 15, 2025 to the following addresses:
• catherine.gaullier-bougassas@unicaen.fr
• lorene.bellanger@unicaen.fr
After review, notification of acceptance will be sent by January 15, 2026.
Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered according to the regulations of the
University of Caen Normandie.
The conference proceedings will be published in Brepols’ series "Recherches sur les
Réceptions de l’Antiquité" (https://www.brepols.net/series/RRA). Submitted articles must be
original and previously unpublished.
Organization
• Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Professor of Medieval French Language and Literature, ERC
Agrelita (Principal Investigator), CRAHAM (UMR 6273), Université de Caen Normandie
• Julie Labregère, Postdoctoral Researcher, ERC Agrelita, CRAHAM (UMR 6273),
Université de Caen Normandie
• Giulia Parma, Postdoctoral Researcher, ERC Agrelita, CRAHAM (UMR 6273), Université
de Caen Normandie
• Lorène Bellanger, Project Manager, ERC Agrelita, CRAHAM (UMR 6273), Université de
Caen Normandie
ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA • The Reception of Ancient Greece in Premodern French
Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320–1550): How Invented
Memories Shaped the Identity of European Communities.
The AGRELITA project was launched on October 1st, 2021. It is a 6-year project
(2021-2027), which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No
101018777).
For more information on the project: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org
Call: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/8943
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#CFP 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
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.
Website: https://www.celticconferenceinclassics.org/
Call: https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CLASSICISTS;ab685bbd.ex
(CFP PANELS closed October 31, 2025 - calls for *papers* will be advised.)
#CFP THE MARY RENAULT PRIZE
Applications close: July annually.
The deadline for the 2026 Mary Renault Prize competition is: TBA (usually second half July).
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/
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September 2026
#CFP [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 [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.
Call: https://classicalassociation.org/events/classical-thought-and-the-german-reich-1871-1945/
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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)
"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)
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November 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)
#CFP 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
ANNUAL MEETING OF POSTGRADUATES IN RECEPTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD (AMPRAW)
Location & dates: TBA - generally late November.
Call: TBA.
Deadline: TBA.
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
#CFP 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:
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
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
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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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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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