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Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)
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#CFP Truth in the Classical Greek City: Local and Universal Renderings - organisers: Hans Beck & Julia Kindt - Sydney University - Oct 1-2, 2026 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Due by Dec 6
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, & the deliberate spread of mis- & 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 & proliferation of truth as such a shared frame of reference & communal value in Classical Greece. It invites speakers to examine the role of truth in a range of ancient Greek texts & social & political contexts. We will consider how truth – &, at times, its absence or its wilful distortion & manipulation – operates in the assembly & law courts of the city-state, as well as how truth claims are articulated across various genres of Classical Greek thought & literature, including myth, drama, historiography, & philosophy. Of particular interest is the tension between epichoric encodings of truth – grounded in specific local discourse environments – & their correspondence with, & aspiration toward, universal validity. Our aim is not merely to recover ancient conceptions of aletheia, but to investigate the social, political, & cultural functions truth once served: what did truth mean in contexts where civic trust, justice, & collective decision-making depended upon it? &, crucially, what might be lost if contemporary societies ab&on truth as a shared aspiration & horizon of meaning? The papers presented at this conference will form the basis of a collaborative volume on Truth & 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 6.12.2025
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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#CFP online seminar series: Strong Women of the Ancient Mediterranean World and their Reception - September-December 2026 - Organisers: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey), Martina Treu (Milan) sponsored by EuGeStA Network, AWAWS, The Imagines Project - Due by Jan 6
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.
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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"Roman Empire" ("any of various events, interests, subjects, etc., that one finds themselves frequently thinking about, especially one considered unusual") up for Macquarie Dictionary People's Choice Word of the Year www.macquariedictionary.com.au/vote-now-wor...
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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#CFP online seminar series: Strong Women of the Ancient Mediterranean World and their Reception - September-December 2026 - Organisers: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey), Martina Treu (Milan) sponsored by EuGeStA Network, AWAWS, The Imagines Project - Due by Jan 6
This online series of meetings brings together scholars & practitioners from both hemispheres to discuss the stories of ancient historical & fictional women who inspire them & their work. We invite speakers to problematise the concept of what a 'strong' woman means to them, & how our ideas about the position & roles of women, gender & female agency have evolved over time. In turn this affects how we receive, interact with & adapt these ancient female figures & 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 &/or in a variety of modern media (including but not limited to the stage, screen & the visual arts). Speakers can choose to focus on the ancient material but must engage with recent scholarly debates on questions of gender, &/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 & the exchange of ideas. We welcome proposals from interested scholars, postgraduates & practitioners (a title & a short abstract of 200-300 words) by 6th of January. Collaborations between researchers & between scholars & 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 & southern speakers. We envisage a seminar series of between 10 & 12 speakers, with around 2 speakers, plus a chair/respondent per session. Dates & times to be decided after the selection of abstracts has been completed.
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Nov 14 Cambridge (5pm UK, in person) Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies: Poetry, Myth, and the Body: The Launch of #Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/events/poetr...
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Starting Nov 26 (4pm CET) - online Prolepsis Research Network seminar series "#NeoClassica: Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition" listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Link: email [email protected]
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Varieties of #classicalreception in the Barossa/Eden Valleys (South Australia) — wines from Poonawatta (Tempus on Uva Cutis) & Sons of Eden (Selene, Eurus, Zephyrus)
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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That’s definitely cheating. #classicalreception #Marathon
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Nov 6-8 hybrid/Rome (Sapienza) Greek Myths in Arabic Literature. Reception, Translation, Circulation, Re-Creation www.digimyth.eu/upcoming-eve...
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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#TOC #CRJ Classical Receptions Journal - Volume 17, Issue 4, October 2025 academic.oup.com/crj/issue/17/4
November 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Nov 5-6 hybrid/Metz, France - Transmission, variation, and transformation of “Deuterocanonical” Literature over time ecritures.univ-lorraine.fr/manifestatio...
October 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Oct 31 hybrid/University Basque Country (Vitoria-Gasteiz) - ANIHO Workshop “X Jornadas Clasicismo y Modernidad. Antigüedad y extrema derecha en Europa y EEUU en el siglo XXI: estrategias, apropiaciones y distorsiones” Program: aniho.hypotheses.org/files/2025/1... Online link: labur.eus/aniho2025
October 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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#Medea House (Loxton, South Australia) #classicalreception 😱
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October 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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#Pharaonic Village, formerly #Glossop High School - #Egyptomania in the South Australian #Riverland
October 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Happy #classicalreception 📚 publication day 🍾 to Andreas (Tom) Zanker @tomzanker.bsky.social (University of Western Australia): José #Rizal, the Philippines, and Greco-Roman #Antiquity (Routledge) www.routledge.com/Jose-Rizal-t...
October 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Oct 24 Canberra (ANU, 9am-5pm) #Fulcrum LAUNCH - "Fulcrum [https://www.fulcrumnetwork.me/] brings together Australasian scholars working on science and technology before 1500" events.humanitix.com/fulcrum-launch (free)
October 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Oct 17 online - Melbourne (ACU) - Southern Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Register with [email protected] for Zoom link
October 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Oct 10 hybrid/Brisbane (UQ, 4pm AEST) UQ Classics & Ancient History seminar: Maxine Lewis (Auckland), ‘“Do You Believe Me Now?” Taylor Swift, ‘#Cassandra’ and the Reception of Sexual Violence’ Zoom - contact [email protected]
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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#TOC Dionysus ex machina 16 (2025) dionysusexmachina.it/dem-numero-1...
September 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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From Oct 16 online from Bristol (5pm UK) Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition Director’s Annual Reception Series "Oblique Classicisms/Hidden Histories" - program/registration: igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/events/direc...
September 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Sidney Nolan, Ancient mythologies, 1951 - connect.invaluable.com/deutscher_an...
September 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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#review Alessandro Galimberti @BMCReview on Keith Bradley, Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian: writing the life of a Roman emperor bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09...
L’autore suddivide la materia in dieci capitoli: dopo una presentazione del genere biografico nell’antichità e in età moderna e contemporanea (capitolo 1: ‘Imperial Biography’, pp. 3-29), l’autore affronta sostanzialmente un unico grande problema nei capitoli seguenti che è ben riassunto dal titolo del secondo capitolo: ‘Autenticity pursued’ (pp. 30-60), dal momento che l’indagine di Bradley si concentra per lo più nella ricerca e nella verifica sul piano strettamente storico dei modi in cui la Yourcenar ha cercato non solo di conferire verisimiglianza storica al suo Adriano ma ha, per dir così, costruito il suo personaggio in base ad un criterio di verisimiglianza umana.
September 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Oct 9-11 Wellington NZ - #VATS Victoria Ancient Theatre Society - #OCTAVIA www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/octavia...
September 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Sept 19 hybrid St Andrews (4.15pm UK) St Andrews Classics Research Seminar: Emily Pillinger (KCL) & Rowan Gard (KCL): ‘#Cassandra and the agency of hope: A workshop on translation, performance arts, and climate activism’. events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/cassa...
September 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Sept 15 online Australasian Ovidian Society: Shona Edwards (Adelaide), The Dido Project: creative research practice as resistance. Zoom - email [email protected] to join mailing list
September 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM