The MCA’s Conference of Contemporary Research in Classics series is dedicated to showcasing ongoing or recently completed research in any field of Classics study, with a particular emphasis on the work of postgraduate students and early career scholars from around the world. The April 2025 Conference took place online between Thursday 24th and Saturday 26th April following the below programme.
Thursday 24th
17:30 – Registration
18:00 – Keynote Speech: TBC
19:15 – The Narrative of the Legio Linteata in Livy and Samnite Elites during the Social War: the Many Adaptations of a Myth.
Lorenzo Serino
19:45 – The Rise and Fall of Family and Female Potential in Plutarch’s Life of Caesar
Lien Van Geel
Friday 25th
18:00 – Reception of Ancient Myths in Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne
Nana Mukeria
18:30 – The Image and Portrayal of Zeus in The Lightning Thief
Ilona Lőrincz
19:00 – Another New Example of “Mythological Pairs” – The Representation of the Myth of Odysseus and Polyphemus in Caucasian Folklore
Giorgi Barnabishvili
19:45 – Judeo-Christian Eschatology and Late Antique Mystery Praxis
Prof. Eugene Afonasin
20:15 – Empedocles’ Love and Strife: should we regard them as manifestations of good and evil beginnings?
Dr Anna Afonasina
Saturday 26th – Morning Session
09:00 – Hecuba in Sri Lanka: A Study of Kamala Wijeratne’s Poems on Motherhood and Warfare
Dr Anushka Dhanapala
09:30 – A Feminist Rereading of Desire in the Odyssey’s Calypso Episode
Alexandra Meghji
10:00 – Greek Religion(s) in Miletus and its Aegean Colonies: a New Perspective
Iulia Petrariu
10:45 – The Preposition ΣΥΝ in Plutarch’s Moralia
Dr Adamantia Katsoula
11:15 – “Silent” Seduction in Aristaenetus’ Erotic Letters
Prof Sabira Hajdarević
12:00 – Hecuba’s Social Responsibility: Euripides’ Hecuba between Sophistic and Platonic Thought
Valentino Gargano
12:30 – The Mirror of Guilt: Theseus’ Projection of Moral Failure onto Hippolytus
Angela Hurley
13:00 – Non-verbal Communication in Aristophanes’ Frogs
Marino Marinović, Ivana Šimić
Saturday 26th – Afternoon Session
14:30 – Plato and Saussure On the Correctness of Names
Beka Gkelasvili
15:00 – The Alternative in Euclid’s Alternative Definitions: A Case Study of the Sentential Connective ἤ in Greek Scientific Prose
Dr Benjamin Wilck
15:30 – The Homeric Myth: from Platonic Condemnation to Neoplatonic Elevation
Laura Luci
16:15 – Ancient figures in Byzantine and medieval Georgian historical writings: some examples of antiquity’s reception in Christian environment
Dr Eka Tchkoidze
16:45 – What did medieval historiography take from Antiquity? The case of the Lithuanian Chronicles
Dr Vytas Januskas