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Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· 7d

Aug 14 deadline #CFP #AEMA Australian Early Medieval Association conference. Theme: Faces of the Early Medieval World - Sept 30-Oct 2 - hybrid/University of Newcastle (Australia) aema.org.au/conference-c...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· 13d

#CFP #AMPHORAE XX 2026 - Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquities and Egyptology - hybrid/University of Newcastle, Australia - Nov 24-25 - Due by Sept 4 to docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Questions to amphorae2026@gmail.com

AMPORAE XX 2026 Call for Papers
Submissions are now open for the Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquities and Egyptology (AMPHORAE XX). The Classics and Ancient History postgraduates of the University of Newcastle are excited to hear from you. AMPHORAE XX will be held at the University of Newcastle from the 24th-25th November 2026 in hybrid form with social events and workshops to be held in person.
AMPHORAE XX provides postgraduate students a forum to share in the amazing research being conducted by their peers while presenting their own research in a supportive and encouraging environment. This is an opportunity to network and gain experience in the field of academia and we encourage submissions from Honors to PhD students. We invite papers of 20 minutes with 10 minutes of questions on a variety of research topics which seek to explore the ancient world.
Submissions require a completed application form found HERE [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpTaKYQyFlHUU5nQ8Yvnr5i-XslKkWoX5cOAS69nGczmXOtg/viewform] including an abstract of no more than 250 words and a biography of 100 words maximum. Submissions are due by 11:59 PM AEST on 4 September 2026.
If you have any questions do not hesitate to reach out to the organizers at amphorae2026@gmail.com

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· 18d

November 18-27 Christchurch, Auckland, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth -- An Evening with Mary Beard: Talking Classics fane.com.au/whats-on/an-...

Join renowned classicist and historian Mary Beard as she brings her treasure trove of lively stories, curious facts, and ancient gossip to the stage in An Evening with Mary Beard: Talking Classics.

You may ask: “What’s exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii? Why should we be bothered with the distant past anyway? What’s the point?”, and Mary answers!

The life, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome have something to offer everyone, and the bestselling author of SPQR and Emperor of Rome has made a career of refusing to let the ancient world stay ancient.

‘Britain’s most famous classicist is at the peak of her powers’
— THE TIMES
In celebration of her latest bookTalking Classics: The Shock of the Old, Mary will be appearing in conversation with some very special guest hosts, and invites you to ask your burning questions, because The Classics are best explored through talking.

Talking Classics will be available at each event, and copies will be signed by Mary Beard after the show.

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Jul 15

#classicalreception @BMCReview - Craig Davis on Brigid Ehrmantraut, Classical myth in medieval Ireland bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.07...

This volume explores the interest of medieval Irish authors in the myths and legends of the ancient classical world, which were used in part as a lens through which to reimagine, rethink and even in some cases “rescue” their own native storytelling traditions and find a place for them within the Christian worldview and value system cultivated in the early medieval monasteries of the island.

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Jun 29

July 2-3 hybrid/Warsaw - "ANTIQUITY REACHES SOCIETY": 1ST WORKSHOP ON OUTREACH FOR CLASSICISTS historia.uw.edu.pl/en/workshop-... [pdf historia.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u... ]

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Jun 15

#PACRIM34 Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar 34 - Uni of Melbourne (in person, Woodward Conference Centre) - July 21–22. Theme: "Tragedy". Book: www.trybooking.com/events/landi... Info: pacrimlatin2026@gmail.com

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· May 31

June 4-5 Catania, Italy - Transfer of Knowledge in Auxiliary Texts to Greek and Latin Literature (14th-16th c.). The Making of the Late Medieval and Renaissance Canon www.disum.unict.it/en/node/51814

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· May 31

July 10-18 Adelaide (Star Theatres) KING #ODYSSEUS www.trybooking.com/events/landi... (more: www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/spo...)

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· May 27

May 29-31 Melbourne (Doncaster Playhouse) #Lysistrata - by Creative Arts & Drama www.greekcommunity.com.au/events/lysis... (Greek with English live captioning)

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· May 20

#classicalreception in Colac, Victoria — #Neptune’s car wash 🔱🧼

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· May 17

Rick Amor, #Ithaca, 2010 connect.invaluable.com/deutscher_an...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· May 15

Love Underwater 2 by Lisa Lapointe shop.jamfactory.com.au/collections/... - "Her practice is renowned for its exploration of colour, texture, and form, creating works that evoke a sense of both the #ancient and the contemporary" #classicalreception

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 30

May 8 Wellington, NZ (5.30pm, VUW HMLT002) - Victoria Ancient Theatre Society script reading & fundraiser: #Euripides #Cyclops www.facebook.com/victoriaanci...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 27

"Every time I sing this song, I hope it’s the last time" - War, its costs and consequences: #Homer’s ‘#Iliad’ continues to speak to us - by Ben Brown (Sydney) on STC's An Iliad - ABC Religion & Ethics www.abc.net.au/religion/war...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 27

From April 13 Canberra (NGA) #exhibition - Blueprint for Temples - "brings together sculpture and assemblages, paintings, prints and photographs that map connections across architecture, #classicism and the human form" nga.gov.au/exhibitions/...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 19

April 23 Manchester (5pm UK, Roscoe Building, Room 1.008) Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar: Lilah Grace Canevaro (Edinburgh), The Book Leads the Way: William Morris and Classical Reception

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 19

April 22 Canberra (in person, RSSS Auditorium, 6.15pm) ANU Classics Research Seminar/Friends of the ANU Classics Museum Public Lecture: Prof. Edward Watts (Uni California, San Diego), Why the Roman State Lasted for 2000 Years—and What We can Learn from It slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/why-r...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 17

a lot going on there -- James #Gleeson (1915-2008), #Metamorphosis, 1967-68 www.bonhams.com/auction/3200...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 17

April 22-25 Canberra (ANU, Kamri Theatre) #Lysistrata - from the Shakespeare Society ANU campus.hellorubric.com?tab=events&s...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 14

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

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 14

New matinee performance added for #Antigone in Sydney on May 2 (rest of shows sold out) events.humanitix.com/antigone-f6c...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 8

April 20 hybrid/Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum (6:30pm Macau/GMT+8) - Dr. Yves Vendé (Lille/Paris), Bridging East And West: François Noël S.J. (1651–1729)’s Synthesis Of Aristotelian And Confucian Virtue Ethics In Philosophia Sinica riccimac.org/index.php/en... (register/Zoom)

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 7

American Journal of Classical Reception #AJCR www.ajcr.online

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Apr 7

#CFP Teaching Classical Languages Symposium 2026 - hybrid/University of Sydney - August 14th - Keynote: Carla Hurt - Due by April 28 to t.neal@sydney.edu.au & slawren4@une.edu.au mailman.sydney.edu.au/pipermail/us...

We are now inviting contributions for the 2026 iteration of the Teaching Classical Languages Symposium. The one-day hybrid event will take place Friday 14th August at the Vere Gordon Childe Centre, University of Sydney. We are delighted to announce that this year's keynote speaker is Carla Hurt. Carla is a Latin high-school teacher and You-Tuber working in Melbourne, Australia: https://foundinantiquity.com/ We invite proposals for 20 minute papers on any topic related to the pedagogy of Classical Languages. We are particularly interested in papers that speak to the following: Imagine the perfect textbook; under this theme we invite you to think broadly in terms of what you see as critical to Classical Languages pedagogy, the full range of formats available in an increasingly hybrid world, the integration of social themes and Classical content and best practice in raising student confidence. Possible provocations include: Should textbooks try to include “culture”? Is there still a role for a physical book? What kinds of exercises do students really need? Should we be insisting on translation from English into the target language? We also welcome panel presentations. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to the convenors, Tamara Neal t.neal@sydney.edu.au & Sarah Lawrence slawren4@une.edu.au by April the 28th.

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Mar 24

March 30-April 5 Nottingham, UK - Apple of Discord - "Experience the legendary myth that sparked the Trojan War in this ambitious immersive production from award-winning Nottingham theatre company Chronic Insanity" www.universe.com/events/apple...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Mar 18

March 24 hybrid/Auckland NZ (4pm NZ) Classics & Ancient History seminar: Dr Alex McAuley (Auckland), Harlot to Heroine: the Life & Afterlife of Thais of Athens www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Mar 14

March 26 online (4pm CET) NeoClassica: Texts & Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition seminar - The Classical Past in Early Modern Political and Historiographic Discourse - with Marianne Pade, Nicoletta Bruno, Paul White, Edward Wilson-Lee. www.facebook.com/prolepsis.as...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Mar 14

March 20 online [Zoom, 2-5pm GMT] Society for Neo-Latin Studies Postgrad & ECR Scholars Event. Email Luke Houghton lhought2@ed.ac.uk warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren... (doesn't work?) or www.facebook.com/groups/55134...

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Mar 13

April 16 Macquarie University (in person, 9.20-5pm) Workshop: The Material History of the Late Antique Mediterranean (organisers Ray Laurence & Thomas Derrick) celebrating the visit of Prof. Nicola Aravecchia (WU St Louis). RSVP thomas.derrick@mq.edu.au for more info/program

Workshop: The Material History of the Late Antique Mediterranean

April 16th - 9.20 – 17.00

Macquarie University: Wallumattugal Campus (25 Wally's Walk, C120 Function Room)

Ray Laurence and Thomas Derrick have organised a bumper workshop for the 16th of April titled: “The Material History of the Late Antique Mediterranean”. Our speakers will present their current research on archaeological and/or historical topics related to ‘Late Antiquity’ (mid-3rd to 7th/8th centuries CE) in the broadest sense along the Mediterranean littoral. Papers will have a focus on material culture and/or architectural remains, either actual or imagined/described.

The idea that sparked this workshop was to celebrate Prof. Nicola Aravecchia’s (Associate Professor of Classics and of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St Louis) visiting positions at both Macquarie (in late 2025) and at USyd in 2026 by bringing scholars (of all levels) together to share ideas, forge new connections and strengthen existing ones.

The day will begin at 9.20 am and run until 5 pm at the latest (depending on colleagues' availability) – we are also hoping to include an object-handling/viewing section as part of the workshop. There will be some funds for morning coffee during the break, but lunch is not provided.

Confirmed speakers include Emlyn Dodd (Adelaide), Nicola Aravecchia (WUSTL), Ryan Strickler (Newcastle (AUS)), Meaghan McEvoy (ANU), Jessica McKenzie, as well as Macquarie Colleagues Julien Cooper, Ewan Coopey, Bronwen Neil, Richard Bott, Peter Edwell, and Thomas Derrick.

RSVP-ing to thomas.derrick@mq.edu.au is helpful but not mandatory - it would be good to know who's coming and who to send a finalised programme to. Please do let us know if there's anyone you think we should send this invite to.

Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn· Mar 11

March 21 Brisbane (in person, 9am-1pm, Abel Smith Lecture Th.) UQ Friends of Antiquity 31st Annual Ancient History Day. Theme: In the eye of the beholder: the beautiful & monstrous in the Ancient World' alumni.uq.edu.au/event/sessio... (Book $)