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 2024 Conference took place online between Thursday 18th and Saturday 20th April following the below programme.
To view the recordings of some of the presentations below, click on their title to be redirected to the YouTube videO:
Thursday 18th
17:30 – Registration
18:00 – Keynote Speech: Julian on Augustus and the Conversion to Philosophy
Dr Jeremy Swist
19:05 – The Representation of the Greek Mythological Divine on the Modern Yiddish Stage
Tikva Blaukopf Schein, Bar Ilan University
19:40 – Spectacular and Visual Scenes of Violence in Seneca’s Tragedies
Andreas Prasinos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Friday 19th
17:00 – The Cult of Artemis in Thessalian Magnesia
Angelos Mefsout, University of Crete
17:45 – Chaos or Feminine Order? Violent Episodes of Greek Goddesses
Joana Pinto Salvador Costa, University of Lisbon
18:30 – Divine Pity: Mapping its Complexities in the Iliad
Gabriela Canazart, University of Sao Paolo/University of Edinburgh
19:15 – Pietas in Rome: Upholding Ethical Values for Gods, Family and Homeland
Laura Bevilacqua, University of Chicago
Saturday 20th (Morning Session)
09:00 – Female Writing, Female Memory: A Reading of Medea’s Power in the Heroides 12
Despoina Christou, University of Ioannina
09:45 – Constructing, Deconstructing and Faking Gender in Thesmophoriazusae
Sabira Hajdarevic and Doroteja Ivanec, University of Zadar
10:30 – Euripides’ Hippolytus and Phoenix in Aristophanes’ Anagyrus?
Effie Zagari, University of the Peloponnese
11:15 – The Reception of Ancient ‘Fragmentary’ Comedy in Plato: some Examples of Crates and Cratinus
Laura Luci, University of Genoa
12:00 – Committing Injustice Willingly in Plato’s Hippias Minor
Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi, University of Patras
Saturday 20th (Afternoon Session)
14:30 – The Civitas Batavorum: Assimilation and Discrepant Experience
Kristian Christiansen, Independent Scholar
15:15 – Caesar’s Memory at the Beginning of the Third Century
Antonio Romano, Le Mans University
16:00- Big Bad Wolf? Romulus and Remus on YouTube
Alyssa Goswell, Pascale LaRiviere and Kristen Raymond; Carleton University