Publication news! Very excited to share that this special issue of Mouseion, with a focus on "Breaking New Ground with Comics and the Ancient Mediterranean World," was just published! Natalie Swain deserves so much credit for organizing this and I'm really excited about all the pieces here!

Parution le 13 janvier ! À travers les focus qui m'ont été confiés par Nicolas Genis, je me suis notamment employé à présenter des angles originaux autour des mes thèmes de recherche : Grande Grèce, histoire des femmes, iconographie, polychromie, musées, usages politiques actuels... #Capes

EOI to host #AMPRAW 2026 - Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World - email [email protected] by the end of January 2026 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Waking the Statues: Craig Dongoski at the Hellenic Museum, Melbourne - open until March 2026 www.hellenic.org.au/exhibitions/...

#CFP (& posters) The Science of Natural Properties: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice (6th – 15th century) - Bologna, Italy - June 17-19, 2026 www.academia.edu/145294551/Ca... Due by Jan 15

Dec 31 deadline #CFP 4th Workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece. Theme: Women Archaeologists and War - Athens (École française d’Athènes/British School at Athens) - March 10, 2026 - www.efa.gr/call-for-pap...

Registration open - Feminism & Classics IX: COMMUNITIES - hybrid/University of Cincinnati - May 7-10, 2026 www.wccclassics.org/femclas9 #FemClas9

#CFP [EAA conference panel] Digging up the Dirt: Archaeology, Colonial Legacies and the Politics of Cultural Ownership in the Eastern Mediterranean - European Association of Archaeologists - Athens, Greece - August 26-29, 2026 - submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2026/sess... Due by Feb 5

Divine tech? Tatiana Bur is marrying science and religion in ancient Greece - ANU Reporter reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...

Dec 31 deadline #CFP Rethinking Classical Mythology through Folklore, Popular Narrative and Fan Fiction - The Norwegian Institute in Rome - March 17-18, 2026 sisrweb.it/2025/11/20/r...

Dec 31 deadline #CFP Academia Vivarium novum conference: “#Ovid & philosophy”, esp. philosophy in Ovid's works or philosophical interpretations of, by commentators/authors from Late Antiquity to modern Aera - Villa Falconieri (Frascati) - May 24-26, 2026 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Tas Wansbrough, Fragments of Healing, 2025 - until Jan 26 at Backspace Gallery, Ballarat www.artgalleryofballarat.com.au/explore/exhi... "Dating back to ancient Greece, votive offerings are objects made and gifted in rituals of healing.. local artist Tas Wansbrough continues this tradition."

Oldest known Christian hymn with musical notation resurrected into modern church song - ABC Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

#CFP [EAA conference panel] Digging up the Dirt: Archaeology, Colonial Legacies and the Politics of Cultural Ownership in the Eastern Mediterranean - European Association of Archaeologists - Athens, Greece - August 26-29, 2026 - submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2026/sess... Due by Feb 5

#CFP 4th Workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece. Theme: Women Archaeologists and War - Athens (École française d’Athènes/British School at Athens) - March 10, 2026 - www.efa.gr/call-for-pap... Due by Dec 31

"One of this volume’s virtues is its desire.. to put ancient history in dialogue with urgent questions in political science" #review @ BCMR by Daniel Sutton of Vervaet/Rafferty/Dart, How republics die: creeping authoritarianism in ancient Rome and beyond (2025) bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.12...

"#Venus Rising" - poster by Lucinda Williams (1993) for a women's event at the University of Queensland Bistro, 18th Feb, 1993 www.archivesfinebooks.com.au/pages/books/...

#classicalreception @ BMCR #review by Joshua P. Ziesel: Richard H. Armstrong, Alexandra Lianeri, A companion to the translation of classical epic bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.12... "a valuable addition to the discourse on translation, both ancient and modern, as well as classical reception."

#classicalreception @ BMCR #review by Constanze Güthenke & Colin Guthrie King: Christiane Hackel, August Boeckh: Encyklopädie der Philologie bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.12... "a conception of philology as an open-ended and theoretically ambitious study of human culture"

#classicalreception @ BMCR #review by Aimee Hinds Scott: Juliette Harrisson, Martin Lindner, Luis Unceta Gómez, Playful classics: classical reception as a creative process bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.12... "an encouraging experiment in how we move forward with scholarship on reception"

#classicalreception @ BMCR #review by Tamara Neal (Sydney): Cristina Salcedo González, The #Persephone myth in young adult fiction: from girl to woman bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.12...

The more detailed program info is here! I will be panel chairing for the first time on the panel I co-proposed last year. Super excited because this is the first ever true archaeogaming/reception panel to run at an AIA-SCS Joint Annual Meeting!

#CFP Text, Tradition, and Transformation in Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period. Intertextual Practices in Comparison - LMU Munich, Germany - November 19-21, 2026 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Due by Jan 31

#CFP [edited volume] Museum of Dreamworlds: Silent Cinema, Classical Antiquity & the Politics of Representation - eds. Maria Wyke (UCL), Ivo Blom (Amsterdam) listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Proposals by Feb 9, 2026; first draft Oct 2026. Project: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Waking the Statues: Craig Dongoski at the Hellenic Museum, Melbourne - open until March 2026 www.hellenic.org.au/exhibitions/...

#EOI - Classical Reception Studies Network (#CRSN) - ECRs/postgrads to to convene/co-convene online Classical Reception seminar series at Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) summer 2026 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... [online, noon UK time (negotiable), between 27 April-15 June]

Re-upping this with a quote because of the Raphael reception in Waldorf kindergartens article. (1) There's a reproduction of the Sistine Madonna in every Waldorf kindergarten? Who knew?!? (2) Just an amazing subject for reception studies.

"ELISION also joins forces with Sydney Chamber Opera to stage the Sydney premiere of [Liza] Lim’s first opera, The #Oresteia, 33 years after its debut.. in 1993.. directed by Barrie Kosky, who also co-wrote the libretto with Lim." limelight-arts.com.au/news/elision... [July/Aug 2026]

Thrilling new versions of Greek myths pulse with queer desire and feminist fury - by Rachael Mead (Adelaide) @aunz.theconversation.com - theconversation.com/thrilling-ne...

AI, .com, myth, #Prometheus -- ‘Artificial intelligence’ myths have existed for centuries – from the ancient Greeks to a pope’s chatbot - by Michael Falk @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/artificial-i...

OBTA at the Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World #APRAW, Malta 2025 - #blog ourmythicalchildhoodblog.com/2025/12/04/o...

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

How #Aesop and Jean de la #Fontaine help us learn new languages - Antipodean Odyssey #blog antipodeanodyssey.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/h... (Anna-Olimpia Rosenblum's "teaching tool.. using animated retellings of Aesop’s fables to help language-learners with vocabulary acquisition"

𓋹𓍑𓋴 Dans l’Amérique du XIXe siècle, en pleine transformation politique, sociale, raciale et industrielle, Cléopâtre devient un miroir symbolique des tensions et des fantasmes d’une jeune nation américaine. C. Vanthournout se plonge dans la presse de l'époque : antiquipop.hypotheses.org/17235

A propos de la nouvelle série de la franchise Spartacus (poke @gaelleperrot.bsky.social) variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

Nouvel ouvrage d’Athéna Tsingarida, professeure à l’Université libre de Bruxelles et directrice du CReA-Patrimoine : "L’éternelle modernité de l’art grec. Archaïsmes et avant-gardes européennes (1870-1914)", aux Éditions de l’Académie royale de Belgique. academie-editions.be/histoire-et-...

Calendrier de l’Avent 2025 — Hall of femmes - from Actualités des études anciennes (le carnet scientifique de la Revue des Études Anciennes) reainfo.hypotheses.org/category/nos... #AdventCalendar

#CFP Text, Tradition, and Transformation in Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period. Intertextual Practices in Comparison - LMU Munich, Germany - November 19-21, 2026 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Due by Jan 31

Dec 10 hybrid/Durham 5pmUK. International Durham Prize in Classical Reception lecture: Dr Alexander Vandewalle [winner: Play the Hero, or Play God; Characterization of Greco-Roman Mythological Characters in Video Games] listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... - events.teams.microsoft.com/event/84e9bd...

Feb 2, 2026 - hybrid/Auckland NZ - Big Screen Rome 20 Years Later: Trends in Classical Reception inspired by Prof Monica Cyrino listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

#classicalreception in South Australian politics: "It's obviously been a tough day, politics is one of these games where you come back either with your shield or on it," Mr Tarzia said." - www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

#PhD x2 (3+1,5 years) Sustainability in Translation – Classical Reception Studies, Digital Humanities, Translation Studies - University of Würzburg - with Dr. Julia Jennifer Beine - see www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin... AND www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

Dec 6 deadline #CFP Truth in the Classical Greek City: Local and Universal Renderings - organisers: Hans Beck & Julia Kindt - Sydney University - Oct 1-2, 2026 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

#PhD opportunity - Adelaide University - ARC Discovery Project with Prof. Han Baltussen “Consoling the Self: Historical Grief Strategies & the Healing Arts”. PhD on some aspect of ancient history of grief & (self)consolation. 3.5yrs. Australian citizen/permanent resident only

"Inspired by ancient Greek myths, Szymanowski’s work has three movements: The Fountain of #Arethusa, #Narcissus, and #Dryads and #Pan..." #Myths (Brisbane Music Festival) limelight-arts.com.au/reviews/myth...

#classicalreception @ BMCR - #review by Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui of Ferdinand Saumarez Smith, #Eleusis and Enlightenment: the problem of the mysteries in eighteenth-century thought bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.11... - "opens the gates to an extremely interesting field of exploration"

Voting open - #Latin Word of the Year contest - Thesaurus linguae Latinae - parerga.hypotheses.org/4098

Dec 3-5 Melbourne (in person) - #ANZAMEMS Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 15th biennial conference - Theme: "Possibilities" - conference.anzamems.org

Dec 3 Oxford (CCC, in person, 5pm UK) Corpus Christi Classics Centre seminar series "Continuity and Discontinuity. Latin and Neo-Latin Epic Compared": Luke Houghton (University of Edinburgh): magnae vestigia Romae: Epic and History in Renaissance Venice listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Dec 2 online (4.30pm UK) JFF Project Euripides Byzantinus 'Euripides and the Middle Ages' seminar: Marta Lietti (Free University of Berlin/Ghent University), Reinterpreting the Euripidean stage with the scholia to Alcestis listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Teams email [email protected]