Classical Reception Studies Network

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Call for Papers and Articles/Chapters

Classical Reception Projects and Publications around the UK

On-line journals

New Voices in Classical Receptions Studies previous issues are available at www2.open.ac.uk/newvoices. Issue 6 is now available.

Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies is available at www2.open.ac.uk/practitioners

History of the network and member institutions

The Classical Reception Studies Network was formed in early 2004 as a collaboration between six universities with research specialisms in various aspects of Classical Reception Studies (Bristol, Durham, Nottingham, Open, Oxford and Reading). In 2007 we were pleased to welcome as partners the University of St. Andrews, Royal Holloway University of London, Goldsmiths University of London, and the Institute of Classical Studies, and, in 2008, University College Dublin joined as an overseas affiliate partner. In 2009 both the University of Birmingham Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, and the University of Liverpool, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology became partners (The School is also the home of the Higher Education Academy's Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology). The Contexts for Classics research centre at the University of Michigan also joined as an overseas Partner, together with the Outreach Division of the American Philological Association. Subsequently we welcomed Northwestern University and Yale University as overseas partners.

In the autumn/winter of 2011 the network welcomed new partners both in the UK (University of Leicester and Warburg Institute, University of London) and abroad (The University of Algarve in Portugal: Department of Languages, Communication and Arts, Universidade de Coimbra: Instituto de Estudos Classicos, University of Florida: Classics and Center for Greek Studies, The University of Ibadan, Nigeria: Department of Classics, Open University of Cyprus: Theatre Studies), Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands: Classics, University of Maryland: Classics and the Research group Oikos: http://www.ru.nl/oikos/research-groups/classical-receptions/)

In 2012 the network welcomed new partners in the UK (Roehampton University) and abroad (Universität Münster, Germany: Institut für Klassische Philologie, University of British Columbia: Classical, Near Eastern & Religious Studies, Case Western Reserve University: Department of Classics, Shaker Heights High School in the US: Foreign Languages).

The aims of the Network include the promotion of rigorous debate about all aspects of classical reception studies and the development of seminars and workshops to encourage the exchange of expertise and growth of collaborative projects (including the supervision of graduate students). Data is being collected on the research and teaching currently undertaken in Classical departments in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Collection of information about classical reception studies in other Arts and Humanities departments will follow and it is intended to extend the survey to international contacts. Data collected to date is now available as a searchable online database (see link in menu on left). The web site will, in the future, also provide links to research and teaching resources.

Archive of CRSN Events

site last updated: April 2012