CALL FOR PAPERS

CLASSICS: THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE

UNIVERSITY OF HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ

(CZECH REPUBLIC)

(1-3 June 2024)

The international research team based at the University of Hradec Králové is organising a conference on the past, the present, and the future of the Classics in the frame of the project Oral History and the Classics. We primarily aim at the personal experience of being a classical scholar. What was my intellectual path? How did I think about my discipline in the past and what do I think about it know? How have the Classics evolved during my career? What influence have educational policy and politics in general exerted upon the Classics as a part of humanities? These are only a few of the questions and problems we intend to raise and address.

We consider specialists in classical philology, archaeologists, historians, historians of ancient philosophy, politics, and culture to be a part of a large classics family that also includes researchers of classical traditions. We invite academics to submit their ideas and to share their experience of the Classics. We hope that our programme will include four keynote speakers, Prof. Neville Morley (University of Exeter) and Prof. Cinzia Bearzot in the section Classics: why it matters? and Prof. Filip Karfík (Universität Fribourg) and Prof. Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina) in the section My intellectual path.

CONFERENCE THEMES

  • My intellectual path: motivations, aims, obstacles, achievements, people, institutions, politics
  • Classics: Why It Matters?
  • Transformation of the Classics
  • Digital Classics
  • AI and the Classics
  • Politics and the Classics
  • Decolonising the Classics
  • Classics and War
  • The Greatest Challenges of the Classics

SUBMISSION OF A PAPER

You are welcome to submit an individual abstract for a 30-minute paper, which if accepted will then be allocated to a panel by the organising committee. 

Submissions should be sent to jaroslav.danes@uhk.cz

  • Your name, academic institution, title of your paper
  • Max. 300-word abstract of your paper


CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Deadline 10 March 2024

CONFERENCE VENUE: Hotel Nové Adalbertinum, Velké náměstí 32, 500 03 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic 


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Prof. Neville Morley, Prof. Sophie Mills, Prof. Filip Karfík, Prof. Cinzia Bearzot

CONFERENCE FEE: PARTICIPANTS €80/$80, ATTENDEES €30/$30

More detailed information about practical issues will be distributed when the programme is finalised in April 2024.