Classical Reception Studies Network

Convinced that ancient civilisations aren't dead? Passionate about contemporary poetry? Then Tellus is the magazine for you. This new venture provides a space for contemporary poetry which engages with ancient worlds in any way, poetry whose beauty and bite gives such lost worlds fresh and sometimes startling leases of life. Confirmed contributions so far include work by Michael Longley, Josephine Balmer, Jamie McKendrick and Maureen Almond. Further information is available at www.tellusmagazine.co.uk.

If you would like to pre-order a free copy for yourself or for general access in a school, library or university department, please contact orders@tellusmagazine.co.uk. If you would like to submit work to Tellus, please email poems by 30th November 2009 to poetry@tellusmagazine.co.uk, or post them to Ailsa McDermid, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, UK.

New Launch: Classical Receptions Journal

Edited by Professor Lorna Hardwick

Classical Receptions Journal covers all aspects of the reception of the texts and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome from antiquity to the present day. It aims to explore the relationships between transmission, interpretation, translation, transplantation, rewriting, redesigning and rethinking of Greek and Roman material in other contexts and cultures. It addresses the implications both for the receiving contexts and for the ancient, and compares different types of linguistic, textual and ideological interactions. Classical Receptions Journal is edited by a prestigious, international team.

Visit www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3581/1 for details.

Now inviting submissions:The journal promotes cross-disciplinary exchange and debates at the interface between subjects. It therefore welcomes submissions from researchers in Archaeology, Architecture, Art History, Comparative Literature, Film, Intellectual History, History of Scholarship, Political Science, Theatre Studies and Translation Studies as well as from those in Classics and Ancient History.
In addition, the editorial team welcomes proposals for 'Special Editions' on topics that involve cross-disciplinary collaborations.
How to submit : Full guidelines for authors are available at
www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3581/2
To submit your paper online go to www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3581/3
Further information: The journal will publish its first issue in November 2009. Visit www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3581/4 for more information and to sign up for email table of contents alerts.

Deadline : 31 October 2009
New Voices an online Journal for new authors
Classical Reception Studies is still a relatively new field of research and there is a growing number of new scholars investigating issues of performance and reception of ancient drama across different cultural contexts and within different media.
This site aims to provide a showcase for scholars who have reached the stage where they wish to publish the results of their research. We particularly encourage research that crosses discipline boundaries.
Papers contributed to the site will be subject to peer review prior to acceptance for publication. Refereed publications are of course of particular importance to those starting out on an academic career or those feeling their way in an academic area of research outside their usual discipline.
Papers (which should not exceed 6,000 words) for consideration by the editorial team, should be sent, in the first instance, to Anastasia Bakogianni at a.bakogianni@open.ac.uk by 31st October, 2009.
If you would like to make informal contact at an early stage, prior to submitting your paper, please email Lorna Hardwick at l.p.hardwick@open.ac.uk.

Deadline: 30 April 2009 -
Translation, Performance, and Reception of Greek Drama, 1900–1950: International Dialogues A Special Issue of Comparative Drama
Proposals are invited for essays on the translation, performance, and reception
of ancient Greek drama in the period between and around the two
world wars—so, very broadly speaking, 1900 to 1950. Essays that have an
international focus or dimension are particularly encouraged: for example,
discussions of translations and adaptations which engage with international
politics; considerations of intercontinental trends in Greek play performance;
or essays on the various receptions of internationally touring productions
(such as Max Reinhardt’s Oedipus, 1910–12, Harley Granville-Barker and
Lillah McCarthy’s American tour of Trojan Women and Iphigenia in Tauris,
1915). This special issue, which will be published in late 2010, seeks to
encourage and promote research into engagements with Greek drama after
the Victorian era and before the 1960s, a significant and interesting period
which—though often overlooked—repays close study.
Abstracts of up to 300 words should be sent by 30 April 2009 to Amanda
Wrigley, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University
of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LU, UK or to amanda.wrigley@classics.ox.ac.uk.
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