The African Classics Network: For African Classical scholars and anyone interested in Classics in Africa.
As African academics involved in Classics (or academics working on Classics and Africa), we are aware of our specific context and conditions and want to develop channels to connect and collaborate, sharing research, teaching interests, and experiences.
Call for Papers: Res Difficiles & Classics and/in Africa
“Recent scholarship in Classics has both redirected the exclusive focus on ancient Greece and Rome to study of the broader ancient Mediterranean as a space of diversity and connectivity and traced the transmission of classical antiquity in cultures and regions beyond the West. Such work includes the study of ancient African cultures, representations of Africa by Greco-Roman authors, and African receptions of the Classics.”
Online Talk: Deconstructing Eurocentric Universalism in Greek Literature.
“The study interrogates the Eurocentric claim of universality in classical Greek literature by comparing four Euripidean plays with four Ghanaian plays. Drawing on African feminist criticisms, it examines representations of gender, patriarchy, and women’s experiences of subjugation, agency, and resistance across two distinct cultural contexts.”
Call for Papers: Cultures of Violence and Female Resistance: Receptions of Ancient Greek Myths from the 14th to the 21st Century, in Europe and Beyond.
“Among modern and contemporary interpretations of Antiquity, there is a striking proliferation of writings about mythical female figures from ancient Greece. In numerous dramatic adaptations, novels, and comic books—the list is not exhaustive, and these works are often linked to visual representations—authors give voice and interiority to female figures who, in ancient texts and many of their later interpretations, were often subordinated to male heroes, rendered invisible, reduced to supporting roles, or depicted as deserving of the symbolic, physical, psychological, and/or political violence inflicted upon them.”
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