Reflecting on the CRSN/ICS Summer Series 2026 (Overlooked/Undercooked: Classical Reception in Colonial and Postcolonial Southeast Asia)

Growing up in Singapore, my conception of ‘the classics’ was confined to golden oldies on the radio, the composers haunting the ABRSM piano syllabus, and Great Illustrated Classics such as Ivanhoe,…

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CfP: Ted Hughes’ “Tales from Ovid”, Thirty Years On

2027 will be the 30th anniversary of the publication of Tales from Ovid. Twenty-four Passages from the Metamorphoses by the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Tales from Ovid was immediately acclaimed and w…

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CfP: AIMS Virtual Conference 2026

Friday, Nov. 6 – Tuesday, Nov. 10 (Americas/UK/EU) Saturday, Nov. 7 – Wednesday, Nov. 11 (Australasia) Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) seeks proposals for its annual virtual conference on any top…

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CfP: Ten Years of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Legacy, Impact, Future

Ten Years of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Legacy, Impact, Future  Editors: Dr Richard Cole and Dr Alexander Vandewalle Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec, 2018) will celebrate its ten-year anniv…

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CfP: Literary Reception and Human Creativity in the Age of AI

Bryn Mawr College, April 16–17, 2027Co-organizers: Asya Sigelman (Classics) and Margaret Strair (German Studies)Keynote speaker: Barbara Graziosi (Princeton University) The rapid integration of gen…

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Brave New Classics: Conversations on Communism, Series 2

The Brave New Classics project now has a new series of the Conversations on Communism podcast to celebrate the ten year anniversary of BNC. The new series, Οι Άλλοι: Antiquity and The Greek Left in…

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Professor Sven Günther (IHAC, Northeast Normal University, Changchun) – Augustus in Saigon!? Imperial and Post-Imperial Frames of Classicizing Iconography in Ho Chi Minh City

This paper deals with the reception of Classical antiquity in Vietnam through intermediaries. While there were only a few indirect points of contact and transfer in antiquity, “classicizing” i.e., …

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AIMS May Event

The next AIMS event will take place on May 30, 2026 12:00-4:45 PM Eastern Time. Register here:  for free to gain access to prerecorded videos and the live event. The schedule follows: 12-1 PM. Rese…

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Reimena Yee (in conversation with Dr Leslie Wong) – Becoming A Death Doula for the Alexander Romance

As a chronicle of one of history’s greatest conquerors, the Alexander Romance’s travels across time and space exceed even that of its much-storied subject. In her webcomic Alexander, the Servant &a…

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CfP: Myth and Drama: Crises, Borders, Otherness

The Second International conference Myth and Drama will be held on 27 – 28 October 2026 in Skopje. The event is co-organized by the Faculty of Philology “Blaže Koneski” in Skopje, Ss. C…

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CRSN/ICS Summer Series 2026

Overlooked/Undercooked: Classical Reception in Colonial and Postcolonial Southeast Asia, convened by Leslie Wong (King’s College London) Although the productive dialogue between classical rec…

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The Goddess Behind the Gorgon: Reclaiming the Colonial Monstrous Woman

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St Andrews Centre for the Reception of Antiquity (SACRA): Collaborations with Antiquity: Medieval and Early Modern

Workshop, 6-7 May 2026Room S4, Swallowgate, School of Classics, University of St Andrews  Teleological accounts of national literary histories valorise the ‘…

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CfP: From imagination to remains, from remains to imagination: literary representations of ancient Greece in its materiality (14th-19th centuries)

February 25-26, 2027 at the French School of Athens ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITAThe Reception of Ancient Greece in pre-modern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (13…

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CfP: Reimagining Futures, Reinventing Pasts: Classical Antiquity and the Making of Imagined Worlds (AMPRAW 2026)

Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World 2026 About the Conference AMPRAW is an annual conference designed to bring together early-career researchers in the field of cl…

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CfP: 4th International Classics Conference in Ghana (ICCG)

Classics at the CrossroadsUniversity of Ghana, Legon3-4 September 2026 Over the past decade, significant strides have been made to rethink Classics beyond its traditional boundaries. Collaborative …

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Events

AIMS Events Other than our annual conference, many of our committees have organised various events throughout the year. Some of these (such as the Pedagogy Potlucks and Works-in-Progress Workshops)…

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CRSN/ICS Summer Series 2026

Overlooked/Undercooked: Classical Reception in Colonial and Postcolonial Southeast Asia, convened by Leslie Wong (King’s College London) Although the productive dialogue between classical rec…

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Experiments in Classical Reception: A Symposium in Honour of Professor Emerita Lorna Hardwick

On June 13, 2026 at Corpus Christi, University of Oxford there will be a symposium honouring one of CRSN’s founding members, Lorna Hardwick. The programme, abstracts, and relevant information…

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Experiencing the last days of Pompeii through silent cinema

A one-off screening of the rarely seen silent epic film Jone o Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (Jone or The Last Days of Pompeii, 1913, dir. Giovanni Enrico Vidali) will be held in the 500-seat Bloomsb…

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Racing the Classics Fellowship 2026–Now Accepting Applications

Racing the Classics is now accepting applications for its second fellowship cohort. The Fellowship entails: a ten-day in-person academic seminar (July 20-31, 2026) an academic year-long online prac…

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CfP: ‘So(cially) Ancient! Representing Ancient and Early Medieval Social, Ethnic and Religious Realities in Video Games’

CALL FOR PAPERS for the international conference at the Finnish Institute at Athens, on 22–23 October 2026: Video games have become a significant and influential part of mainstream culture. Consequ…

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AIMS Mini-Conference

Save The Date! AIMS Event February 28th 2026, 1:00 – 4:00 pm ET Save the date! The first AIMS event of 2026 will take place on Saturday 28th February. All participants must register using the…

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St Andrews Reception Research (STARR) Programme – Spring ’26

The St Andrews Reception Research Group is meeting weekly for a series of work-in-progress seminars on classical reception. The group meets at 6pm GMT on Thursdays in S11 Swallowgate, School of Cla…

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