The Goddess Behind the Gorgon: Reclaiming the Colonial Monstrous Woman
Ariela Kristantina (in conversation with Dr Natalie J. Swain)
27 April, 12pm Online via Zoom
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The Goddess Behind the Gorgon: Reclaiming the Colonial Monstrous Woman

Happening next Monday (12pm - 1:30pm BST): the first online seminar in the @ics.bsky.social and @crsn-uk.bsky.social sponsored classical reception series, featuring the amazing @arielakris.bsky.social in conversation with Natalie J. Swain!

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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 ‘…

Now up on the CRSN site! The St Andrews Centre for the Reception of Antiquity (SACRA) has an upcoming workshop! Find out more information below:
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"Collaborations With Antiquity: Medieval and Early Modern"

SACRA #workshop
📆 6-7 May 2026
In person:📍Room S4, Swallowgate,School of Classics, St Andrews.

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Event is free. Booking essential. To attend: email eb221@st-andrews.ac.uk by 29 April.

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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…

CfP: The AGRELITA Project ERC Advanced Grant is now accepting papers for their conference From imagination to remains, from remains to imagination: literary representations of ancient Greece in its materiality (14th-19th centuries). Find out more information:
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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…

CfP: The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World 2026 is now accepting proposals for papers on the theme "Imagined Worlds". Submissions are due to the organisers by 15 June 2026. Find out more information below:
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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 …

CFP! The 4th International Classics Conference in Ghana is now accepting papers for their 3-4 September 2026 conference! Find out more information below:
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dccr-prize - Durham University

@durhamclassics.bsky.social and the Durham Centre for Classical Reception is now accepting submissions for their 3rd annal international prize for a doctoral thesis in Classical Reception Studies! Find more information below:
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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)…

Antiquity in Media Studies will be holding a series of wonderful papers on 29 March! Find out more information and register to attend below:
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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…

Now announcing the CRSN/@ics.bsky.social Summer Series beginning 27 April: "Overlooked/Undercooked: Classical Reception in Colonial and Postcolonial Southeast Asia"! Find more information, titles, and links below:
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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…

Now up on the CRSN site! On June 13, 2026 at Corpus Christi, University of Oxford, there will be a symposium honouring one of CRSN's founding members, Lorna Hardwick! More information on the event and how to sign up can be found below:
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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…

UCL Department of Greek and Latin and the Museum of Dreamworlds will be holding a screening of Giovanni Enrico Vidali's 1913 silent film "Jone o Gli utimi giorni di Pompei" or "The Last Days of Pompeii"! Find out more information and book your tickets below:
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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…

New call for applications on the CRSN site! Racing the Classics is now accepting applications for its fellowship. Read more below:

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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…

CfP: ‘So(cially) Ancient! Representing Ancient and Early Medieval Social, Ethnic and Religious Realities in Video Games’! Read more on the CRSN site:
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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…

New event on the CRSN site! Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) has a mini-conference on February 28, 2026. Read more below:
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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…

St Andrews Reception Research (STARR) Spring semester programme now up on the CRSN site!
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CfP: Teaching with Ovid: An Online Pedagogy Symposium (Friday 12th – Saturday 13th June 2026) 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…

New CfP up on the CRSN blog! The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana invite paper proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the university or school classroom, for a two-day symposium to be held on 12-13 June 2026. Find out more below:
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We’d also like to announce the creation of a CRSN Instagram account. Please give us a follow and let anyone who wants to keep up to date on the goings-on in the world of classical reception know!

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CfP: Lyric Forms, Modern Worlds (Celtic Conference in Classics 2026, Maynooth University, 14th-17th July 2026) 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…

Happy New Year! We have a brand new CfP up on the CRSN site for the "Lyric Forms, Modern Worlds" panel at the upcoming Celtic Conference in Classics (14-17 July 2026). The deadline to submit papers is 15 March 2026. Read more below:
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Two exciting doctoral positions in the Junior Research Group "Sustainability in Translation" at the University of Würzburg are now open for applications. The Group develops an interdisciplinary approach to analysing the relation between the genre of translation and sustainability. More below:

Martha Graham & Greek Myth in Review 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…

Martha Graham & Greek Myth in Review - from the @crsn-uk.bsky.social #blog - classicalreception.org/martha-graha...

Martha Graham & Greek Myth in Review 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…

In November, the A.G. Leventis conference "Telling Bodies" at the University of Edinburgh was graced by performances from Martha Graham's Greek repertoire and a presentation by Dr Nina Papathanasopoulou. Veronica Capriotti reminisces on the performance here:
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#Reminder: The 2025 Leventis conference at the University of Edinburgh "Telling Bodies: A Conference on Corporeal Classical Reception" is fast approaching (November 13-16). Register to attend at the link below:

www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-...

CfP: Cultures of violence and female resistance: receptions of ancient Greek myths from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond 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…

#CfP now up on the CRSN site: "Cultures of Violence and Female Resistance: Receptions of Ancient Greek Myths from the 14th to the 21st Century, in Europe and Beyond," 10-12 June 2026 at the University of Caen Normandie

Deadline for submission: 15 January, 2026
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Hello, there was an issue with the website for a bit due to an update, but it should be all fixed now!

Exhibition – The Greeks: Radical Reinvention 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…

We have updated this post to highlight a bit more about how to access the exhibition (especially remotely) and it's relevance for a Classics-based audience! The updated post can still be found at the same link:
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The Greeks: Radical Reinvention Written by Dr Lucy Jackson, Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Literature, Durham University.  This month sees the launch of a new exhibition – ‘The Greeks: Radical Reinvention’ – which Erin Lee …

Dr Lucy Jackson (@lucycmmjackson.bsky.social) writes about the new exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention" at the National Theatre which she worked on with the Head of Archive at the National Theatre, Erin Lee:
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