The MCA’s Conference of Contemporary Classics Research 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 2021 Conference is being held online on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th April according to the below programme. All times given are CET.
Some of the Presentations are available in video format below. You can view the recorded versions of these presentation by clicking on the titles of the presentation. A large number of the papers presented at this Conference will also be published in Melita Classica Vol. 7 later on in 2021.
Thursday 8th
8:30 – Registration
9:00 – Learning from Silence. Disabled Children in Antiquity
8:30 – Registration
9:00 – Learning from Silence. Disabled Children in Antiquity
Link to Presentation Recording
Prof. Christian Laes, University of Manchester
9:40 – Panel 1: Speaking Out – Challenging the Centre
“From Old Men to the Furies” The Development of the Chorus in Aeschylus’ Oresteia.
Muditha Dharmasiri, University of Peradeniya
Sappho in the Greek Comedy. Mocked or Mocking?
Emanuele Vuono, Graduate of the University of Naples ‘Federico II’
10:45 – Panel 2: Defying Borders – Reading Beyond Time and Space
A Masculine Ending: Decapitation and the Story of Chiomara in Plutarch’s Moralia and Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre de la Cité des Dames
Roberta Marangi, University of St Andrews
The Use of Classical Model(s) in Graffiti and Street Art
Anna Socha, University of Liverpool
Onscreen Latin – The Latin language in Film and Television
Maria Giuliana Fenech, University of Malta
12:40 – Panel 3: Body and Soul – Philosophical Approaches to the Nature of Existence
Blood and Delirium in the Hippocratic Treatise Diseases I
Mary Elizabeth Harpas, University of Adelaide
The Theory of Being in Plato’s Sophist
Andrew Hull, Northwestern University
13:45 – Panel 4: No Laughing Matter – the Complexities of Roman Satire and Comedy
Sofia Foskolou, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
Oscar Goldman, University of Cambridge
Exaggeration, Pathos, Redundancy – The Style of Young Men in Roman Comedy
Felix Seibert, University of Tuebingen
15:15 – Panel 5: Adapting New Structures to New Realities
Innovations in Justice according to Saint Isaac the Syrian
Stavros Anastasiou, Queen’s College
The Christians and their Social Status in Gothia in the 4th Century
Miron Jurik, Masaryk University Brno
16:20 – Panel 6: Exploring Gender in Greek Literature
Polyxena and the Manly Maiden. Sacrifice as Free Will in Euripides’ Hecuba
Cristiana Lucidi, University of Roehampton
Gender Stereotypes in Hellenistic Poetry under the Microscope
Laura Kopp-Zimmermann, University of Mainz
17:25 – Panel 7: Divining the Muse – Studies in Homeric Text
Fire Imagery and Homeric Intertexuality in Odyssey 18 and 19
Eleonora Giunchi, University of Santiago de Compostela
Yiming Zhong, University College London
Maria Augusta de Silva, University of Sao Paolo
Friday 9th
9:00 – Panel 8: Beyond the Obvious – Imagery and Meaning behind the Apparent
9:00 – Panel 8: Beyond the Obvious – Imagery and Meaning behind the Apparent
The Unexpected Evolution of the Fearful Lion’s Image
Veronica Piccirillo, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’
Sirens, Lions, Wrestlers and Ring Composition in Lycophron’s Alexandria
William T. Farris, University of Texas at Austin
10:40 – Panel 9: Might makes Right? Power and the Person
Ralph Moore, Trinity College, Dublin
The Iliad and Rome: how glory in battle was thematic to both
Adam Aderman, Manchester Metropolitan University
Individuals as Agents of Political Change in Xenophon and Plutarch
Philip Hoehrep, University of Marburg
12:30 – Panel 10: On Either Side of the Silk Road
Harmony of the Spheres in Ancient Text: a Comparison between Ancient Greece and Early China
Patrick Huang, Western University
Goran Đurđević, Capital Normal University, Beijing
13:55 – Panel 11: Status at Law – Reflections on the Court and the Individual
Seduction or Rape? Power Dynamics between Citizen and Slave Sex
Zanthia Dwight, University of Edinburgh
Children’s Mischief, Delict and Crime in the Roman Empire
Tereza Antosovka, Masaryk University Brno