Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)

Poster showing a manuscript image and giving the following information: PUBLIC LECTURE: Dr Sarah Corrigan Newman Tàin Bò Cuailgne: How the Manuscript Tradition of the Irish Epic Ended, and Ended Up, in Melbourne. The St Mary’s Newman Academic Centre (SNAC), Manuscript Táin Bó Cuailnge (‘The Cattle Raid of Cooley’) is a nineteenth-century manuscript copy of the most famous Irish narrative of the Middle Ages. Although its oldest surviving copies were produced in the twelfth century, the story of the Táin is set in the first century, and it has been argued to have been written in several periods in between. This talk will highlight the dual significance of this beautiful manuscript by exploring the history of its contents, the physical object, and its creator, Seosamh Ó Longáin, the last official scribe of Ireland. Wednesday 11 March 2026 5–6pm Venue: The Oratory, Newman College, University of Melbourne, 887 Swanston Street, Parkville. Bookings / Free Entry Online: https://www.trybooking.com/DJULZ Email: outreach@snac.unimelb.edu.au Telephone: (03) 9342 1614

And will have more opportunity to talk about the fantastic project of getting @rialibrary.bsky.social MS 24 B 1 digitised and displaying and discussing it alongside the Newman College Táin manuscript here @unimelb.edu.au ...

In Gargantua (ed. princ. 1535) Rabelais has his narrator describe the accidental discovery and unearthing of a bronze tomb containing ancient writings. One of these he appends to his account, in fragmentary form, “par reverence de l’antiquaille” (sic). At the same time the whole rollicking account is a singular illustration of Rabelais’ irreverence, as the collection’s editor shows in his introduction, where he foreshadows the diversity of approaches to the ancient literary inheritance that the book explores. Some obvious diversities emerge in the titles of the four sections into which the book is divided, and the wide range of figures and topics discussed in them. The first three sections treat transmission and reception through the lenses of different categories: editors, commentators and translators; encyclopedists and philologists; and poets. The last returns to veneranda antiquitas via Guillaume Budé (“premier révérent de l’antique en France”, p. 198) and Rabelais himself.

#classicalreception @ BMCR #review Frances Muecke (Sydney) on Nicolas Le Cadet, "Révérence de l’antiquaille." Les diverses formes de transmission du patrimoine textuel antique à la Renaissance bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03...

Call for Papers: 26th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance: ‘Technologies in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception’ (APGRD/Royal Holloway) - Th... 26th ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT PERFORMANCE, 25–26 JUNE 2026: ‘Technologies in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception’ CALL FOR PAPERS The 26th An...

#CFP APGRD/Royal Holloway 26th postgraduate symposium on Theory & Practice of Greek & Roman Performance & its Reception(s). Theme: Technologies in Theory & Practice of Greek & Roman Performance & its Reception - June 25-26 - Oxford/London classicalassociation.org/events/call-... Due by March 20

March 5-21 Brisbane (Roundhouse Theatre/La Boite) #Antigone laboite.com.au/shows/antigone

Menmuir, Rebecca. Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile. Classics after Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xii, 250. $120.00. ISBN: 978-1-009-55392-6. Reviewed by Ralph Hexter University of California, Davis hexter@ucdavis.edu Medieval Responses to Ovid’s Exile is not merely a valuable contribution to the study of the medieval reception of the poetry Ovid wrote while relegated to Tomis on the Black Sea during the last decade of his life. It is itself an exemplary model of reception history. It balances breadth of coverage in Part I (“Responding to Exile”) with a focus on fourteenth-century England in Part II (“Becoming the Exile), indeed, on specific works by John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer considered against the backdrop of the troubled reign of Richard II. But it is not only in her analyses of the presence of the exiled Ovid in the works of the English poets where one finds specificity and new insights. Throughout, when Menmuir is...

Thrilled to receive a review of my book, Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, in my inbox this morning! Ralph Hexter for The Medieval Review calls it an 'exemplary model of reception history'. 🤯

✨Our new book is here✨

This volume analyzes the reception of certain heroes and heroines in different processes of construction of national or collective identity and in mass culture, from the XIX to the XXI century by Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Classical Architecture x 2 (Fixed Term) at University of Cambridge Searching for an academic job? Explore this Postdoctoral Research Associate in Classical Architecture x 2 (Fixed Term) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

#Postdoctoral Research Associate in Classical Architecture x 2 (Fixed Term) - Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture (CSCA) at the University of Cambridge UK - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS045/p...

Stitch with Sappho: Community Art Project Workshop series A contemporary textile art workshop series inviting you to explore creative textile-making through the lens and words of Ancient Greek poet Sappho. Facilitated by local artist Juliet D Collins during ...

March 5, 8, April 9 Kingston Arts, Moorabbin VIC - Stitch with #Sappho: Community Art Project Workshop series www.kingstonarts.com.au/whats-on/lan... - "contemporary textile art workshop series inviting you to explore creative textile-making through the lens & words of Ancient Greek poet Sappho"

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

The 2026 Critical Antiquities Workshop kicks off this Wed morning (Sydney time) with Sara Brill’s paper, ‘“From the womb of capital itself”: Commodity Fetishism, Reproductive Fantasy, and the Use of Birth.’ For more details and to register, go to: criticalantiquities.org/workshop

March 6 hybrid/Newcastle AU (10am/UTC+11, L326 Auchmuty Library Callaghan Campus) Dr. Nicole Kimball (Newcastle), From Chronicle to Canon: Classical Style and Insular Tradition in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Vita Merlini. Zoom - see poster. Recordings: YouTube History@Newcastle

Works and Days Remarkable wordless theatre from Belgium’s celebrated company FC Bergman.

March 5-8 Adelaide Festival: Works & Days (FC Bergman) - "Inspired by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s original verse.., eight highly physical performers embody the rituals of toil, tradition and transformation, without a single word spoken" Book $ www.adelaidefestival.com.au/whats-on/sea...

March 5 hybrid/Cambridge 5pm GMT Cambridge Centre of Greek Studies: Prof Persefoni (Fiona) Antonelaki, Anglo-Greek radio culture, 1945–1960. With discussion of the creative reimagining of ancient Greek myth in the BBC’s Greek-language broadcasts in Cyprus www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/events/greek...

March 4 Edinburgh (Meadows L/T in person, 5.10pm UK) Classics research seminar: Dr Martina Gatto (Rome Tor Vergata), Sparta in the Late French Renaissance: Lycurgus & Spartan Institutions in the Political Thought of François Hotman, Jean Bodin & Michel de Montaigne listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

March 4 hybrid/Sydney (9am AEDT) Critical Antiquities Workshop: Prof. Sara Brill (Fairfield University), From the womb of capital itself: Commodity Fetishism, Reproductive Fantasy, and the Use of Birth criticalantiquities.org Zoom - sign up signup.e2ma.net/signup/19302...

March 4-7 North-West University Potchefstroom, South Africa - Classical epic structures in non-epic literature from antiquity to the early modern period theology.nwu.ac.za/ancient-texts

#CFP #PACRIM34 34th Meeting of the Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar. Theme: #TRAGEDY - Melbourne, July 20-22, 2026 - due by April 1 to pacrimlatin2026@gmail.com

March 3 hybrid/Oxford (2pm UK; Ioannou Centre) Revoicing Classical Poetry -- Josephine Balmer and Ulrike Draesner in conversation with Karen Leeder www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...

March 3 online (4.30pm UK) JFF Project Euripides Byzantinus 'Euripides & the Middle Ages' seminar: Luigi Bravi, The honesty of manuscripts and the speculations of modern scholars. Notes on #Euripides’ Ion listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Teams email ugo.mondini@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

March 1 deadline #CFP New Meanings in Ancient Texts: Modern Reconstructions, Reinterpretations and Recontextualizations of Ancient and Medieval Sources - Bucharest, Romania - May 29-30, 2026 - listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Call for Papers: 'Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games' (University of Oxford) - The Classical Association Call for Papers: Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games Date: 13th June 2026 Location: Classics Faculty, Ioannou Centre (OX1 3LU) Keynote Speakers: Dr Dunstan...

#CFP Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games - June 13 - Oxford UK (Ioannou Centre - "virtual presentation is possible in extraordinary circumstances") classicalassociation.org/events/call-... Due by March 20

#CFP Imaginative Landscapes and Otherworlds 2026: The Alterity of Deserts and Arid Environments - online - June 13, 2026 - www.cfplist.com/CFP/46848 Due by April 20

ORPHEUS/EURYDICE ★★★★ Read the Limelight review.

ORPHEUS/EURYDICE (Wright&Grainger, Adelaide Fringe Festival) - Limelight - limelight-arts.com.au/reviews/orpe... - "...Dave, who encounters the great love of his life one night during a blackout at a karaoke bar while singing Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing in the Dark."

Canberra's museum of everyday objects from ancient history It doesn't look like much from the outside, but the inside of the Australian National University Classics Museum in Canberra is akin to peering into the cupboards of a kitchen from 2,000 years ago.

Great to see the ANU Classics Museum and the work of Prof Elizabeth Minchin and Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney featured on ABC News! 🏛️🏺

"The collection has all the latest interior decor, gadgets and gizmos during ancient Greek and Roman times ... akin to peering into a kitchen cupboard 2,000 years ago"

National Library of Australia Fellowships #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/nationa...

NUMISMA The Zoom Seminar Series of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies March 04 at 6.00pm: Dr. Ewan Coopey Money Talks: Imperial Coinage and the Roman Military 'Regime of Signs'

Got an upcoming talk for the Australian Centre for Ancient #Numismatic Studies about how coins were implicit to the flows of power and symbols in the #Roman military world, with reference to Deleuze and Guattari of course!

Wed Mar 4th, 6pm Sydney, on Zoom

Email ewan.coopey@mq.edu.au for rego

PACIFIC RIM ROMAN LITERATURE SEMINAR 34 - TRAGEDY MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, 20–22 JULY, 2026 To mark the revival of the Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar after its hiatus following the pandemic, the thirty-fourth meeting of the Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar will be held in Melbourne, Australia from 20-22 July 2026. The convenor invites proposals for papers addressing the theme of TRAGEDY, in any manifestation in ancient Roman literature. Topics might include the genre of tragedy itself (such as the plays of Seneca), or tragedy as a theme in any genre of Roman literature. Approaches might include literary analysis, textual criticism and paleography, historiography, ancient philosophy, medieval & Renaissance and neo-Latin studies, classical reception studies, performance studies, and more. Papers on other topics will also be considered. Papers should be 30 minutes in length, with fifteen minutes of discussion time. The Pacific Rim Seminar does not run parallel sessions, so that participants may attend any or all papers. Submissions are welcome from postgraduate students and early-career researchers as well as established academics. Abstract proposals of 200-300 words should be emailed to K.O. Chong-Gossard (pacrimlatin2026@gmail.com). Please submit abstracts by 1 April 2026. Earlier submissions are of course welcome. The seminar will be held in a venue in the city of Melbourne, and it is expected that a seminar registration fee for participants will be required to cover the costs. We might be able to offer a reduced registration fee for postgraduate students. If there is a large number of papers, the seminar might be extended for an extra day (23 July). A seminar website will be built in due course. Feel free to send enquiries to the Convenor, K.O. Chong-Gossard, Associate Professor in Classics (Ancient Greek & Latin), The University of Melbourne pacrimlatin2026@gmail.com

#CFP #PACRIM34 34th Meeting of the Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar. Theme: #TRAGEDY - Melbourne, July 20-22, 2026 - due by April 1 to pacrimlatin2026@gmail.com (Convenor: A/Prof. K.O. Chong-Gossard, Melbourne)

Feb 28 deadline #CFP International Students’ Conference: Contemporaneity of Antiquity - hybrid/Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia) - May 13-15, 2026 - listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

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…

Feb 28 online (1pm-4pm Eastern US Time) Antiquity in Media Studies #AIMS Mini-Conference. Program: classicalreception.org/event/aims-m... Register docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Call for Papers: 'Classical Thought and the German Reich (1871-1945)' (online) - The Classical Association Call for Papers Classical Thought and the German Reich (1871-1945) to be held online on 17th-18th September 2026 Conference Organiser Aaron Turner (Knapp Foundation/Royal Holloway, University of Londo...

Feb 27 deadline #CFP Classical Thought and the German Reich (1871-1945) - online conference - September 17-18, 2026 - classicalassociation.org/events/class...