Tagungen

(15.04.2026-08.07.2026)

The upcoming online lecture series is part of the Lebenshilfe project at JGU Mainz (carried out by Christine Walde, Annemarie Ambühl and Matthias Heinemann), an interdisciplinary initiative that explores how ancient texts, ideas, and practices are a form of Lebenshilfe—practical orientation and support in dealing with fundamental challenges of human life both in antiquity and today. Bringing together perspectives from Classics, Philosophy, Theology, Literary Studies, Psychology, Psychotherapy and related fields, the project asks how ancient reflections on suffering, happiness, illness, ageing, or loss can still resonate with, challenge, or enrich modern experiences.
The lecture series aims to create a shared space for dialogue across disciplines and perspectives. Each session will focus on a broadly relevant life theme and approach it through ancient texts and their reception, with a clear eye toward questions of coping, resilience, and the good life. We are aiming to publish the series (whether as a digital recording or in another form).

Programme:

1. Mourning and Consolation (15 April) – Stephanie Holton (Classics / Milton Keynes), Fabio Tutrone (Classics / Palermo)

2. Exhaustion and Sleep (29 April) – Emma Scioli (Classics / Kansas), Christine Walde (Classics / Mainz)

3. Mental Health and Illness (27 May) – Chiara Thumiger (Classics / HU Berlin), Jessica Wright (Medical Humanities / Independent)

4. Childhood and Coping with Life (17 June) – Vered Lev Kenaan (Classics / Haifa), Katarzyna Marciniak (Classics / Warsaw)

5. Ageing (24 June) – Kathrin Gabler (Egyptology / Mainz), Albertina Oegema (Theology / Mainz)

6. Pain (8 July) – N.N., Elina Pyy (Ancient History / Helsinki)

Practical Details

1. Time: Wednesdays, 6:15–8:00 pm (CEST)

2. Format: Online (via MS Teams) via this link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/389477821316625?p=jJXSjKNgM4XHDtpesA

Kind regards,

Christine Walde, Annemarie Ambühl and Matthias Heinemann

Matthias Heinemann
FB 07 | IAW | Klassische Philologie
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Journées d’études internationales organisées par le
laboratoire HeRMA, sous la coordination d’Andrzej Chankowski : Regards sur la cité grecque (polis) 3.
Idéologies et représentations
Dates : jeudi 23 et vendredi 24 avril 2026
Lieux : Université de Poitiers (Faculté des Sciences
humaines et arts, Hôtel Berthelot, salle Crozet, 24 rue de la
Chaîne – Bât. E13) et en visioconférence

https://herma.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/journees-detudes-regards-sur-la-cite-grecque-polis-3-ideologies-et-representations/

Die ‘denkmal‘ ist die Europäische Leitmesse für Denkmalpflege, Restaurierung und Altbausanierung. Alle zwei Jahre trifft sich die nationale und internationale Fachwelt in Leipzig. Wir freuen uns, Sie vom 5. bis 7. November 2026 in Leipzig begrüßen zu dürfen!

Erstmals gibt es auf der ‘denkmal‘ eine eigene Sektion „Archäologie“, auf der sich Dienstleister und Firmen, archäologische Institute und Denkmalfachämter präsentieren: https://www.denkmal-leipzig.de/de/ausstellen/ausstellungsbereich-archaeologie/

Daten & Fakten zur ‘denkmal‘:

• Europäische Leitmesse für Denkmalpflege, Restaurierung und Altbausanierung.
• Aussteller: Hersteller von Materialien und Werkzeugen (darunter nationale und internationale Marktführer), spezialisierte Handwerksbetriebe, Restauratoren, Institutionen (Verbände, Vereine, Stiftungen).
• Besucher: Fachbehörden/Denkmalpfleger, Fach- und Handwerksbetriebe, Restauratoren, Architekten/Planer, Eigentümer historischer Gebäude, Investoren, Branchennachwuchs, Ehrenamtliche.
• Zuletzt 499 Aussteller aus 26 Ländern und 13.400 Besucher (gemeinsam mit der MUTEC).
• Ideelle Träger: Verband der Restauratoren (VDR), Vereinigung der Denkmalfachämter in den Ländern (VDL), Dachverband der Restauratoren im Handwerk (DRH), Deutsches Nationalkomitee für Denkmalschutz (DNK).

Begleitend zur Messe finden dort auch die Fachtagungen der DGUF (Thema Archäologie auf den Stromtrassen) und von CIfA Deutschland (Thema Nachhaltigkeit in der Archäologie) statt – mit Vortragenden, die dann auch gewiss Ihren Messestand besuchen werden.

Die Messe bietet nicht nur Gelegenheit für Kontakt zu Kunden, Arbeitssuchenden, Studenten und Denkmalämtern, sondern auch den Austausch zwischen den Firmen.

Bis zum 31.03. besteht Gelegenheit, als Frühbucher vergünstigt Standflächen zu buchen.

Informationen bei Svenja Partheil, Email: praesident@cifa-deutschland.de

CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITÀ DI TRENTO

30 SEPTEMBER – 2 OCTOBER 2026

Audience in Archaic lyric performance and Classical theatre:

a synaesthetic continuity?

Organised by Anna Novokhatko and Bernhard Zimmermann

WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER

9.30-9.45  Opening words (Bernhard Zimmermann, Anna Novokhatko)

9.45-10.30    Laura Swift (Magdalen College, Oxford), Mental Imagery and Visual Perception in Partheneia

10.30-11.15    Daniel Anderson (Merton College, Oxford), Flower Music, and Other Song Metaphors

11.15     COFFEE BREAK

11.45-12.30    Samantha Newington (University of Aberdeen), Poetic catharsis and the beauty of performance: Sappho, Hesiod and Euripides

12.30-13.15    Anna Novokhatko (Università di Trento), Comparing Synaesthetic Immersion Techniques in Epic, Lyric, and Dramatic Performance

15.00-15.45    Lawrence Kowerski (Hunter College, New York), Sympotic Senses: The Sympotic Context and Sensory Imagery in Early Greek Elegy

15.45-16.30    Cecilia Nobili (Università di Bergamo), The Dramatic Experience of the Symposium: Mimesis and Synaesthetic Perception

16.30 COFFEE BREAK

17.10-17.45    Ronald Blankenborg (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Is Rhythm ‘a dancer’? Embodied Prosody as the Parser of Anapestic and Trochaic Speech

17.45-18.30    Chenxi Zhang (University of Chicago), The counter-palinodic gesture of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon

THURSDAY 1 OKTOBER

8.30-9.15    David Wilson (King’s College London), Pathways to Epiphany at the Dionysia

9.15-10.00    Peter Agócs (UCL London), Poetics of the Voice in Pindar and Bacchylides

10.00-10.45    Simone Corvasce (Sapienza Università di Roma) A Kinaesthetic Approach to the Performance-Reperformance Duality of the Epinician Genre

10.45 COFFEE BREAK

11.15-12.00    Ettore Cingano (Università Ca‘ Foscari Venezia), Setting up Choruses All Over Greece: the Context and Gist of Choral Performance and its Relevance to Stesichorus

12.00-12.45    Edith Hall (University of Durham), ‘I Stand on Light Feet and Draw Breath’: Breathing and the Experience of Greek Choral Performance

15.00-15.45    Jonathan L. Ready (University of Michigan), Kinaesthetic Empathy, Inhabitable Scenarios, and the Enjoyment of Ancient Greek Tragedy and Choral Lyric

15.45-16.30    Theodora Hadjimichael (University of Birmingham), On coming after: Cultural knowledge, Memory, and Reperformance

16.30 COFFEE BREAK

17.10-17.45  Andrea Giannotti (University of Durham), Synaesthetic Lamentation: Multisensory Experience and Affective Imagery in the First Stasimon of Euripides’ Suppliant Women

17.45-18.30    Margaret Foster (University of Michigan), Off the Ground: Spatial Syntax in Ancient Greek Lyric and Tragedy

18.45-19.15 PERFORMANCE

Carina de Klerk (Binghamton University) and Lynn Kozak (Université McGill),

Ephemer-illz: an Improvised Greek Poetry Performance

20.00 CONFERENCE DINNER

FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER

9.15-10.00    Chiara Di Maio (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Διθυραμβοποιός or τραγῳδοποιός? Tracing the Cross-Generic Expressions of the So-Called New Music

10.00-10.45  Massimo Giuseppetti (Università Roma Tre), Modelling Cultic Effects: Synaesthetic Ecologies of Audience Response in Late Archaic Choral Song and Fifth-Century Drama

10.45 COFFEE BREAK

11.15-12.00    Giambattista D’Alessio (Sapienza Università di Roma), A Meta-Performative Text: New Readings and a New Interpretation of Pindar. fr. 140b

12.00-12.45    Richard Hunter (Trinity College, Cambridge), Plato on the Audiences of Epic, Lyric and Drama

12.45-13.00  Concluding remarks (Bernhard Zimmermann, Anna Novokhatko)

Journée d’étude organisée par Pierre Bourrieau (CeTHiS, UR 6298) : Νόμιμος. Institution et institutionnalisation dans l’Occident Grec (VIe-Ier s. a. C.)

Dates : mercredi 1er avril et jeudi 2 avril 2026
Lieux : Université de Tours ‒ salle 240 ‒ UFR ASH (site des Tanneurs)

Cette journée d’étude contribuera à questionner le fait institutionnel, dans une démarche prospective, transversale et synthétique. Polysémique et d’un usage fluide recouvrant des réalités variées et des approches diverses, le terme d’institution intéresse la communauté des citoyens dans différents domaines de leur vie politique, religieuse, quotidienne. Cela autorise par ailleurs à colorer de bien des manières le sujet, inconnue des Grecs sous ce nom, mais pas dans sa réalité, ni dans sa matérialité. L’institution sera par conséquent, et a minima, entendue comme une forme d’organisation destinée à répondre à un besoin politique (au sens premier).
Parmi les questionnements, la contextualisation et la périodisation, l’expression matérielle, discursive ou gestuelle, les enjeux d’identité(s), les interactions seront particulièrement valorisées, de même que la réflexion épistémologique et historiographique. En postulant qu’à la genèse de l’institution peuvent succéder l’institutionnalisation, un processus inscrit dans le temps et l’espace, et l’obsolescence, la disparition, la réflexion s’ouvre à une discussion élargie, autour de l’exemple de Marseille, à d’autres cités de Gaule méridionale, de Sicile, ainsi qu’aux institutions autochtones. S’inscrivant dans un projet de recherche financé par la MSH Val de Loire (« Monnaie et Argent de Marseille dans l’Antiquité »), cette journée d’étude sera également l’occasion de rendre publics des résultats inédits et d’entreprendre une histoire renouvelée du monnayage massaliète.    

Programme:
https://cethis.hypotheses.org/10489

Programm

18.02. – 27.05.2026

IAKA | Institut für Archäologie, Klassische Philologie und Altertumswissenschaften Klassische Philologie

15.–16. Mai 2026

Programm: 
https://www.iaka.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:5c74f918-1335-431e-98f5-7b4fd952b38c/flyer_tagung_uebersetzungen_zuerich_2026.pdf

A conference by the subcluster Urban Roots / Cluster of Excellence ROOTS

Chairs: Patric-Alexander Kreuz (Urban Archaeology) / Ulrich Müller (Historical Archaeology)
Venue: Kiel University (Germany), IBZ Kiellinie

Date: 17/07/2026 – 18/07/2026. Evening lecture on Thursday, 16/07/2026
Chronological frame: c. 1 to c. 1200 CE

Target group: Archaeologists and related historical disciplines focusing on premodern urban
spaces.

Setting: The conference language is English. A publication of the contributions is envisaged.
Contributions should be no longer than 25 minutes to allow for intensive exchange and
discussion.

Within the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, boundaries function as a key analytical concept for
understanding dynamic social, spatial, ecological, as well as symbolic constructions that
simultaneously enable, structure, and constrain connectivity. They can illuminate how social order
is produced, stabilised, and contested, and why processes of division are as constitutive of history
as those of connection—particularly in urban settings.
Cities in the past, as well as today, are places of density, interaction, and negotiation. They are
characterised by shared places, spaces, and topographies, as well as by a supposedly shared
understanding of what constitutes an urban community and its lifestyle(s). However, urban
environments have always been characterised by intriguing differences—differences lived,
embodied, shaped, and articulated through material, social, and mental boundaries: not only
walls, but especially markets, neighbourhoods, ritualised settings, forms of social affiliation,
patterns of behaviour, or “invisible” lines of belonging, attribution, and exclusion. As such, urban
boundaries were never static but constantly subject to configurations that were reshaped,
stabilised, inscribed, or dissolved through transgression and disruption. However, boundaries
should by no means be understood solely in negative terms, as obstacles, restrictions, or means
of exclusion. They also have enormous potential, for example in their ability to shape and structure
an undifferentiated environment.
Configuration is in this context understood not only as the process of “making”, but also as
highlighting the specific arrangement of heterogeneous elements—actors, practices, discourses,
and spaces—that together form a patterned and meaningful whole. Configurations are thus always
relational, dynamic, and context-dependent: as configurations change (especially through social
practices, technological shifts, or political contestations), boundaries are renegotiated. While
boundary-making produces distinction, configuration captures the relational arrangement in
which such distinction becomes meaningful and effective. In this understanding, both concepts
offer a promising perspective on urban orders as dynamic, situated, and contested formations.
The conference seeks to approach boundaries and boundary-making as a ubiquitous and
pervasive facet of the urban phenomenon and aims to explore this phenomenon by bringing
together archaeological and text-based perspectives. Especially in premodern urban contexts (c.
1–1200 CE), we can observe how boundaries were created, maintained, shifted, crossed, or
broken, and how they impacted urban societies and urban dynamics. The conference invites
archaeologists (Classical Archaeology, Historical Archaeology) to explore the role of the
configuration of boundaries and boundary-making in the urban historical landscape. We will
address the topic in four closely interconnected sections, focusing on (Roman) Antiquity,
Mediterranean Late Antiquity as a transitional phase (“long Late Antiquity”), and the European
Middle Ages. In addition, we will examine transitional urbanity, including Sub-Saharan and East
African as well as Central Asian perspectives.
While the contributions will primarily focus on archaeological approaches to the analysis of
material and immaterial boundaries—especially when developed in dialogue with cultural studies
concepts of boundary-making—we explicitly encourage contributions that approach the topic
from a comparative or intercultural perspective.

If you are interested in joining us in the summer on the Firth of Kiel, we kindly ask you to let us
know by 28/02/2026.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions (umueller(at)ufg.uni-kiel.de;
kreuz(at)klassarch.uni-kiel.de)    

Cycle de conférences

Les chaires de littérature française et de philologie classique de l’Université de Neuchâtel organisent ce printemps un cycle de cinq conférences ouvert au public sur „Le Barbare: héritages antiques, échos contemporains“.

Université de Neuchâtel

Programme

Aristotle University, Department of Classics

21^st Trends in Classics International Conference

«Euripidean Stagecraft: New Perspectives»»

Thessaloniki, 12-14 Νοvember, 2026

Auditorium Ι

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Research Dissemination Center
September 3^rd Avenue, University Campus

https://kedea.rc.auth.gr

Conference Description

The fresh perspectives on Euripidean dramatic and staging techniques gained in the last decades, in conjunction with performance theory, give much scope for a re-evaluation of Euripides‘ stagecraft that takes into account extant and fragmentary evidence. Ancient performance encompasses seen and unseen action, speech, song and dance. This conference investigate and re-assess the rich material for Euripides‘ stage action and theatre production, as well as the relation of vision and understanding, illusion and fantasy, conveyed through performance. The open-endedness of ancient dramatic texts does not restrict the evidence to a fixed reading and gives rise to challenging questions about the ways in which Euripidean drama is performed and experienced. For instance, in what ways can the play define its own interpretation in performance? How does Euripides use and challenge conventions through variation, experimentation and surprise? In turn, how can a play shape its communication with its audience? At the same time, critical responses to Euripidean stagecraft, as well as the impact of ancient staging practices on modern performance similarly need to be addressed.

Conference Speakers

Rosa Andujar (Barnard College, Columbia University)

Aikaterini Arvaniti (University of Patras)

Joshua Billings (Princeton University)

Claire Cattenaccio (University of Georgetown)

Armand d’ Angour (Oxford University)

Paul Eberwine (College of William and Mary)

Stavros Frangoulidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Melissa Funke (University of Winnipeg)

John Gibert (University of Colorado Boulder)

Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

Edith Hall (University of Durham)

Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)

Ioanna Karamanou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Poulheria Kyriakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Rebecca Laemmle (University of Cambridge)

Anna Lamari (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Vayos Liapis (Open University of Cyprus)

C.W. Marshall (University of British Columbia)

Hallie Marshall (University of British Columbia)

Chiara Meccariello (University of Exeter)

Sarah Miles (University of Durham)

Judith Mossman (University of Coventry)

Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania)

Jessica Paga (College of William and Mary)

Rush Rehm (Stanford University)

Hanna Roisman (Colby College, Maine)

Elizabeth Scharffenberger (Columbia University)

Niall Slater (Emory University)

Stavros Tsitsiridis (University of Patras)

Erika Weiberg (Duke University)

Naomi Weiss (Harvard University)

David Wiles (University of Exeter)

Rosie Wyles (University of Durham)

For further information, please contact:

Ioanna Karamanou (ikaramanou(at)lit.auth.gr)

Organizing Committee

Ioanna Karamanou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

C.W. (Toph) Marshall (University of British Columbia)

Antonios Rengakos (Academy of Athens & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Stavros Frangoulidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

The organizers would like to acknowledge the kind and generous support of the AUTh Research Committee, the Kostas and Eleni Ouranis Foundation of the Academy of Athens, De Gruyter Brill, and University Studio Press.