Finnish Institute at Athens 22-23 October 2026 Please find the conference programme below. It is also available on the conference web page Participation is possible both in Athens and on Zoom. Due …

This event will take place online via Zoom as well as in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. A streaming link will be emailed to everyone on the morning of the event for those wishing to…

Ancient monsters are never far away, or as Liz Gloyn finds, in her 2020 monograph Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture they are ‘everywhere’ (p. 2). Over time our heroes fight…

Bryn Mawr College, April 16–17, 2027 Co-organizers: Asya Sigelman (Classics) and Margaret Strair (German Studies) Keynote speakers: Barbara Graziosi (Princeton University) and Azade Seyhan (Bryn Ma…

Books Podcast · Classics and Poetry Now is a series of occasional podcasts that have developed out of a research network of the same name. The network is made up of scholars and creative artists with ...

The Classics and Poetry Now podcast hosts conversations between creative artists and academics in which they discuss how the literature and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean are interwoven in t…

Annual Conference 2026 Call for Proposals: AIMS Virtual Conference 2026 Friday, Nov. 6 – Tuesday, Nov. 10 (Americas/UK/EU) Saturday, Nov. 7 – Wednesday, Nov. 11 (Australasia) Antiquity …

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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., …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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 …

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 a…

Organizers: Sarah Gonzalez (Harvard University), Richard Thomas (Harvard University), Thomas Munro (Yale University) Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the “Lyric For…

Veronica Capriotti – PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh What the Martha Graham & Greek Myth initiative presented on the evening of 14 November was perfectly in line with Graham’s life…

Veronica Capriotti – PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh What the Martha Graham & Greek Myth initiative presented on the evening of 14 November was perfectly in line with Graham’s life…

An International Classics Conference supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation. Website Link

International conference • ERC AGRELITAJune 10-12, 2026 at the University of Caen Normandie Among modern and contemporary interpretations of Antiquity, there is a striking proliferation of writings…

Dr Lucy Jackson, Associate Professor in Classics (ancient Greek literature) This month saw the launch of a new exhibition featuring some of the productions of ancient Greek drama that have been sta…