The Malta Classics Association is honoured to be entrusted with organising this year’s Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World 2024 in Malta, together with the University of Malta’s Department of Classics and Archaeology. The Conference is planned to run on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd November, with an optional excursions and social events day on Saturday 23rd November 2024. The conference will be held in Valletta at the University of Malta’s “Valletta Campus” on St Paul’s Street. Online attendees are asked to join by clicking on the name of each panel, which should link directly to the virtual Zoom Room.

Kindly consider the draft program below If you would like to register to attend the Conference whether in person or online, please email the organising committee at [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you.

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Thursday 21st

9:00 – Registration

9:30 – Welcoming Speeches

TBC

10:00 – Coffee Break

10:30 – Panel 1 – Classics on the Screen

Tyresias, Oedipus or Both? Blindness and Free Will in Dune’s Paul Atreides

Michele Ambrogio Lanza, University of Salerno

The Basic Ways of Transcoding Aristophanes’s Lysistrata in Spike Lee’s Movie Chi-Raq

Nana Mukeria, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Drawing Antiquity in Soviet Animation: Visual Representations of the Ancient World in Films Made in the USSR

Dr Hanna Paulouskaya, University of Warsaw

12:00 – Lunch Break

13:00 – Panel 2 – Reforging Characters

Vampires in Ancient Egypt: Modern Media Perceptions of Ancient Monsters

Dr Abraham I. Fernández Pichel, University of Lisbon

Opiated Ovid: Grafting Yoko Tawada’s Opium for Ovid onto Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Elizabeth Raab, Heidelberg University

Forging Contemporary Identities: a re-Shaping of Medea’s Artistic Profile

Dr Despoina Christou, University of Ioannina

14:30 – Coffee Break

15:00 – Panel 3 – Looking Back to the Past

The Use of Myth and History of the Ancient World for Political Purposes in Georgian Medieval Chronicles The Life of Kartli

Prof. Ekaterine Kobahhidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

War and Literature: The Library of Federico da Montefeltro

Maria Angela Carfora, University of Urbino

Friday 22nd

8:30 – Registration

9:00 – Panel 4: Receiving through Character

Those About to Die: Locating Roland Emmerich’s Epic in the Landscape of Spectacle Reception

Alexandra Sills, University of Leicester

The Many Faces of J.W. Waterhouse’s Circe

Ellie Wallis, University of Edinburgh

The Ancient Proletarian Hero of the Stalinist Regime – Spartacus and Class Struggle in Magazines for Young People in Communist Poland

Marta Pszczolińska, University of Warsaw

10:30 – Coffee Break

11:00 – Panel 5: Tensions and Injustices

Odi et Amo: Conflicting Attitudes of the Sri Lankan Poet, Jean Arasanayagam, towards the Study of Classical Texts

Anushka Dhanapala, Australian National University

Using Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to Highlight the Suffering of Modern Women

Theshira Pather, University of Edinburgh

Representing Rape in Madeline Miller’s Circe

Holly Axford, Columbia University

12:30 – Lunch Break

14:00 – Panel 6: Studious Inspiration

Hannibal Barca and the imitatio Alexandri: from the nineteenth-century conception to the Hellenistic Hannibal.

Christian San José Campos, Alcala University/Sacro Cuore Catholic University

Anatomy of the scholia: reception of an ancient literary genre in the works and thought of Nicolás Gómez Dávila

José Miguel Gómez-Arbeláez, Oxford University

Isocrates’ Influences in Giacomo Leopardi’s Operette Morali

Anita Malagrinò Mustica, Foggia University

Saturday 23rd

Museum Visits – TBC