Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)

Agnolo Bronzino (Italy 1503–72) Cosimo I de' Medici in armour c1545, oil on poplar panel, 86 x 66.8 x 3.5 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, purchased with funds provided by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation 1996, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales

Issue 42.1 is in press! Cosimo I de' Medici graces the cover in full armour, giving some side eye. This is an open issue so there are great articles on a range of topics. Follow the link for the TOC and book reviews. We'll feature each article over the coming month.

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CFP! Anne Rüggemeier and I are organizing a FRIAS conference on silence in literature and culture from April 15-17, 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract by September 15 ✍️ (link below) @uni-freiburg.de @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social

#CFP Translation and Transformation in Late Antiquity - ACU Melbourne - Jan 29-30, 2026 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Due by Sept 30

Aug 12-Sept 6 Sydney (New Theatre, Newtown) THE #FROGS: IN HELL THEY SING SHOW TUNES (adapted by Alex Kendall Robson after Aristophanes) newtheatre.org.au/the-frogs-in... "a bold, outrageously camp and nonsensical new interpretation in a uniquely queer Australian voice."

Reminder! #PhD opportunity at Uni of Queensland (domestic students) on the theme of race, translation and adaptation, and tragedy - esp. tragedy, translation and adaptation, and Indigeneity - with Dr Emma Cole - see www.acrsn.org/news.html

#CFP [chapters] DOMINA: Screening a New Livia for the Twenty-First Century - eds. Antony Augoustakis & Monica S. Cyrino listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Abstracts by Sept 15

#CFP [journal] Archiv für Epigraphik. Special Issue: "Inscriptions on Paper. Printed and Manuscript Collections of Inscriptions in Europe from the 15th to the 20th Century" currentepigraphy.org/2025/07/02/i... Proposals by Aug 31, 2025; papers by April 30, 2026

#CFP Object Lessons: Knowledge Organization and Antiquity in Institutional Teaching Collections across the Long Nineteenth Century (1750-1940) - Rome - April 8-11, 2026 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Due by Aug 22

CFP: The Minotaur: From Antiquity to Today 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, Pennsylvani…

#CFP [panel] The Minotaur: From Antiquity to Today - 57th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - March 5-8, 2026 - antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/2025/06/21/c... [https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21639] Due by Sept 30

Amphorae XIX Registration The 19th annual AMPHORAE conference for post graduate students in Ancient World Studies will be held at the University of Adelaide from August 25-29, 2025.

Registration open: #AMPHORAE XIX - in-person or online - University of Adelaide - August 25-29 - events.humanitix.com/amphorae-xix... (conference website: amphorae-conference.weebly.com)

Heidegger and Classical Thought Reading Group 2025/26: #Parmenides - beginning October 15, 4pm UK (Wednesdays weekly). Email aaron.turner@knappfoundation.ac.uk for EOI/mailing list [https://www.heideggerandclassicalthought.com/]

Why Greek gods inspire space missions - ABC listen Who were Apollo and Artemis and why does Greek mythology so inspire space exploration?

#radio Why Greek gods inspire space missions - ABC Australia Nightlife - Suzanne Hill spoke with Mari-Claire Beaulieu, an Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Tufts University in Boston www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

#job Uni of Adelaide, South Australia - Lecturer B - Classical Studies - Continuing, Full-time - deadline Aug 24th careers.adelaide.edu.au/en/job/51714... Especially "socio-cultural history of the Greek & Roman worlds.. Many of the courses engage in comparative analysis with the modern world"

Many thanks to our wonderful colleagues in Coimbra for hosting the 16th Celtic Conference in Classics. Next up, the CCC returns to Ireland in 2026. Call for for panels now open. Please do spread the word - any questions or queries, contact classics@mu.ie

Australian #classicalreception (Advertiser, 30/7/2025) — Roman History’s Warning for Albanese. #cunctator

Medusa stones the gaze – Arena Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

[CW] #Medusa Stones the Gaze: Ali Schnabel in ARENA Quarterly, July 2025 arena.org.au/medusa-stone... "Many of my younger, online clients bring up the emerging practice of Medusa tattoos, with many victims posting.. about this tattoo as a nod to their having survived sexual violence"

#CFP [journal] Archiv für Epigraphik. Special Issue: "Inscriptions on Paper. Printed and Manuscript Collections of Inscriptions in Europe from the 15th to the 20th Century" currentepigraphy.org/2025/07/02/i... Proposals by Aug 31, 2025; papers by April 30, 2026

I spend a lot of time talking about all the things historical games do wrong when representing (or, mostly, not representing) women in the past - for a change, here I wrote about some games which I think do something better and more interesting in their depictions of historical women & girls!

The Performance of Roman Comedy

#openaccess THE PERFORMANCE OF ROMAN COMEDY - 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Higher Education Faculty, co-directed by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad & Christopher B. Polt romancomedy.pubpub.org [see also romancomedy.wfu.edu/]

Extended deadline now *August 9th* -- #CFP #ASCS47 Australasian Society for Classical Studies 47th Annual Meeting and Conference - University of Auckland, NZ - Feb 2-5, 2026 web-eur.cvent.com/event/27235b...

#exhibition from July 28 (until 30/5/2026) Melbourne (Baillieu Library, Uni of Melbourne) - The Grand Tour rarebooksmelbourne.com/event/the-gr... (free)

The Classical Association are delighted to announce the hosts for the 2026 CA Conference: The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University. The Conference will take place on the 10th to the 12th of April 2026. The call for papers is now open until September 2025. Click the link in our bio to learn more.

📢Announcing the hosts of #CA2026
@manchester.ac.uk @manmetuni.bsky.social
The CA Conference brings together everyone with an interest in the ancient world, from across the 🌎. See you in Manchester!

We are delighted to be opening the call for Contributions from now until 15 September- link in bio.

Ὁ ἐπὶ Τροίαν Πόλεμος (Ho epi Troian Polemos): A Greek Novella - At a celebration on Mount Olympus, a golden apple marked “for the most beautiful” appears without warning—setting off a bitter rivalry among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite.

Here we go! A new Greek novella for learners of Ancient Greek, covering the Trojan war. Available now

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Reading Group In 2021 we established a new online reading group for AWAWS members. This group connects members for regular discussions in a social setting. We set readings about a month beforehand, on a range of...

July 24 online [6pm AEST] Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies #AWAWS Reading Group: Reception - Anastasia Bakogianni & Luis Unceta Gómez, "Introduction: Classical Reception in the Early 2020s, Critical Times and Where to Next?".. Sign-up link: www.awaws.org/reading-grou...

July 29 Victoria Uni Wellington (Hunter Blg, Kelburn Campus, in person, 5–7 pm) 2025 Sir Ronald Syme Memorial Lecture: Prof Monica Cyrino (New Mexico), Dark Horses & Dead Ringers: Betting Big on Screen in Roman Sports & Society www.wgtn.ac.nz/slc/about/ev... Book vuw.eventsair.com/sir-ronald-s...

#openaccess Julia Kindt (Sydney) - “TRUTH, TRUTHFULNESS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY: A CRITICAL RESPONSE TO BERNARD WILLIAMS.” CQ 74.2 (2024): 409–27 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

#classicalreception @ BMCR - Daniel Orrells, Antiquity in print: visualizing Greece in the eighteenth century. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.07... (by Rasmus Sevelsted)

#classicalreception @ BMCR - Steven H. Wander, Flavius Josephus and artwork of Roman antiquity and the early Middle Ages. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.07... (by Honora Chapman)

#classicalreception @ BMCR - Luciano Canfora, La Germania di Tacito: da Engels al nazismo. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.07... (by Francesco Maria Galassi)

#classicalreception @ BMCR - David Christenson, Cynthia White, Sublime cosmos in Graeco-Roman literature and its reception: intersections of myth, science and history. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.07... (by Patrick Glauthier)