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 Applications: Africa-Oxford Fellowships
“This scheme aims to bring an African scholar in classical studies to Oxford. It is open to earlier career scholars in any branch of classical studies who hold a permanent post in an African university; we particularly encourage application from scholars who are still engaged in studying for a PhD. Corpus Christi College will make the fellow a Visiting Member of their Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity and provide free weekday lunches for the duration of their visit.”
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.”
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