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 November 2023 Conference took place online between Thursday 16th and Saturday 18th November following the below programme.
Click the hyperlink below to access the recording of each presentation. We hope to include many of the papers in the 2025 edition of our Melita Classica.
Thursday 16th
16:30 – Registration
17:00 – Keynote Speech: The State of Hellenistic States: New Approaches and Directions
Eduardo Garcia-Molina, University of Chicago
Recording of the Keynote Speech
18:00 – Greek Gladiators: Adoption and Adaptation of Roman Spectacle in the East
Alexandra Sills, University of Leicester
18:45 – These People are on Fire: Emotions and Power in Plutarch’s Late-Republican Lives
Morena Deriu, University of Cagliari
Friday 17th November 2023
17:00 – The Cult of the Muses in Thespiai
Víctor García Martínez, University of Wales Trinity St David
17:45 – Antiquity in Soviet Animation
Nana Mukeria, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Saturday 18th November 2023
09:00 – A Comparative Study of the “New Music” Traditions in Ancient Greece and Early China
Patrick Huang, University of Western Ontario
09:45 – The Etruscan Woman and ‘Romanisation’: an Onomastic Case Study
Alex Daveloose, Ghent University
10:30 – Motifs and Symbols of Antiquity and the Function of Chorus in T.S. Eliot’s Play The Cocktail Party
Nia Kakhidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Tom Zhuohun Wang, Yale University
13:00 – Homer among the others: investigating Homeric reception in Rutilius Namatianus’ De Reditu Suo’.
Alessandro Bonvini, University of Pavia
13:45 – The Unspeakable Tail: Sexuality, Gender and Social Hierarchies in Herodas’ Mimiambs
Claire-Emmanuelle Nardone, University of Torino
14:30 – Identity Struggles and Discourse Strategies in Late Republican Italy
Lorenzo Serino, University of Molise
15:15 – The Adoption of Medea by International Cinema
Andreas Prasinos, Independent Scholar