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CFP: Greek Texts and the Early Modern Stage

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Greek Texts and the Early Modern Stage

A one-day colloquium
at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York

Monday 14th
July 2014

Co-organised by:

Tania Demetriou
(York) and Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)

Keynote Speakers

Gordon Braden (University of Virginia), Yves Peyr Montpellier III), Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)

Roundtable discussion

Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Charles Martindale (York), Richard
Rowland (York)

This one-day colloquium will explore the impact of Greek
texts on the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Although recent
criticism has revitalised discussions of early modern engagement with Latin
literature, there has been little attention to the way English playwrights
responded to Greek writers. Yet Greek texts circulated at this time, in the
original language as well as in translations and adaptations, and critics are
beginning to explore their consequences for the period’s literary production.
Greek provoked strong responses for a number of reasons: its controversial
associations with Erasmus, Protestantism, and heresy; the spectre of democratic
governance; the rebirth of interest in Galenic medicine; the pervasive
influence of Greek culture on Latin literature; and the identification of Greece
with the origins of theatre. Excavating the influence of Greek texts in this
period comes with a set of challenges that require new approaches to classical
reception. The distinctive complications surrounding the transmission of Greek
texts give a new role to history of the book in such work. The texts
simultaneous availability in original and mediated versions calls for new
approaches to reading and intertextuality. The context of the early
professional theatre, and therefore of viewers and readers lacking reliable
familiarity with Greek texts, poses anew the question of the audience of classical
reception.

We invite papers addressing any aspect of early modern
English engagement with Greek texts, from Shakespeare’s Plutarch, to Jonson’s
Aristophanes and Chapman’s Epictetus, but also fresh approaches to the more
diffuse influence of Greek texts, such as: Galen and staging the humours,
antitheatrical responses to Plato and Aristotle, the Poetics and early
modern genre theory, Greek romance and the early modern stage. Last but not
least, we welcome explorations of the presence of Greek drama in theatrical
culture of this period through English printings, academic performances, and
early modern translations and adaptations.

Abstracts (c. 250 words) by 15th February 2014.

Contact: tania.demetriou AT york.ac.uk or tpollard AT brooklyn.cuny.edu.

APA Blog | CFP: Seduction: The Art of Persuasion in the Medieval World

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CFP: Seduction: The Art of Persuasion in the Medieval World
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CFP: Classics in extremis

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Call for Papers: Classics in extremis
University of Durham, July 6th-7th, 2014

This conference aims to examine some of the most unexpected, most hard-fought, and (potentially) most revealing acts of classical reception: it will ask how the reception of the ancient world changes – and what the classical looks like – when it is under strain. Current debates in classical reception studies are increasingly focused on less assured and comfortable engagements with the past. Bringing together scholars with a variety of interests, this conference aims to move the debate beyond the specific case studies emerging in the field and to encourage the broader development of fresh methodologies and perspectives in thinking about the ‘classical’ as a troubled space – a space in which fraught and remarkable claims have been made upon the ancient world.

Confirmed speakers at this time include Rosa Andújar (University College London), Barbara Goff (Reading), Simon Goldhill (Cambridge), Constanze Güthenke (Princeton), Edith Hall/Henry Stead (King’s College London), Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham) and Jennifer Wallace (Cambridge).

Issues which papers might address include, but are not limited to:

– Extraordinary readers: Many have had to fight hard for access to knowledge of the ancient world – constrained by social circumstances, gender and politics. Why was antiquity worth fighting for, for them? How are their readings of the classics different from some of their more solidly-situated peers?

– Reading under fire: What happens to classical reception in extraordinary situations: under censorship, for instance, or in times of war? Does the past become more or less valuable when access to it becomes fraught and dangerous? Can translation or reception become a means of expressing alternative voices under repressive regimes or social structures?

– Recovery: The material culture of antiquity has often been pursued, recovered and displayed in the most unlikely circumstances. British officers conducted excavations in the middle of the Crimean war. Victorian travellers wandered Afghanistan in search of lost cities. How were acts of excavation, preservation, collection and plunder pursued, against the odds?

– Distance: What happens to classical reception in extraordinary places? How are the classics read, for instance, in exile – or several weeks’ journey from the nearest library? Can distances in space or culture change the ways in which readers and reception communities conceive of distances in time, and the relationship between the past and the present? (Is Homer easier to find in St Lucia, for instance?)

Abstracts of 300 words (for papers of 40 minutes) should be sent to Edmund Richardson (edmund.richardson AT durham.ac.uk) by 31 January 2014. We hope to be able to offer a limited number of bursaries to postgraduate students giving papers.

CFP | APA Committee on Classical Tradition and Reception: Call for Panel Proposals

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AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
COMMITTEE ON CLASSICAL TRADITION AND RECEPTION

2015 ANNUAL MEETING: CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS

The Committee on Classical Tradition and Reception (COCTR) of the American Philological Association invites proposals for a panel to be held under the Committee’s sponsorship at the 146th Annual Meeting of the APA (New Orleans, January 8-11, 2015).

Submissions, which should not exceed 500 words in length, should include:

(a) the title of the proposed panel;

(b) a general outline of the proposed topic, with a reasoned justification of its significance in the context of contemporary work in the field of classical tradition/reception studies.

Proposers of panels should bear in mind that a panel will comprise either four 20-minute papers in a two-hour session, or four 20-minute papers plus short introduction and response in a two-and-a-half-hour session. Proposals need not indicate the names of envisaged participants in the panel; indeed, the Committee anticipates that the process following selection of the panel topic will include a call for papers.

Panel proposals should be sent via e-mail attachment (in Word format) to David Scourfield, Chair of the Committee on Classical Tradition and Reception (david.scourfield AT nuim.ie), by no later than November 15, 2013. All submissions will be subject to double-blind review by two referees, whose reports will inform the Committee’s decision.

It should be noted that selection and sponsorship of a panel topic by the Committee does not in itself guarantee final acceptance of the panel by the APA Program Committee.

It should be noted further that the organizer of any panel selected by the Committee will have to be a fully paid-up member of the APA for 2014.