[Commlist] CFP for AIMS 2021 Annual Meeting: "What Has Antiquity Ever Done for Us?"

_FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS (and other forms of presentation):_

*“What Has Antiquity Ever Done for Us?”
*
*The Vitality of Ancient Reception Studies, Now *
An international virtual conference presented by Antiquity in Media 
Studies (AIMS)
15-18 December 2021
*Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2021*

The officers of Antiquity in Media Studies invite proposals for 
presentations that illuminate the ongoing vitality of antiquity in 
recent discourses. Despite decades of institutional disinvestment in the 
study of antiquity, a venerated deep past figured as a powerful shared 
imaginary remains a perennial, emotionally evocative, even highly 
lucrative concept in myriad contemporary media, around the world and 
across all manner of identity lines. Among antiquities, of particularly 
widespread interest has been the millennia of history centered on the 
Mediterranean and dubbed “classical” among successor societies, both 
self-appointed and colonized. From Ubisoft’s /Assassin’s Creed Odyssey/ 
to Luis Alfaro’s /Mojada/, from Hideki Takeuchi’s /Thermae Romae/ to Pat 
Barker’s /Silence of the Girls/, to politicians' and pundits' 
invocations of the Persian Wars and the fall of Rome, each year produces 
more receptions of this antiquity. Beyond the Greco-Roman-centered past, 
all antiquities mobilized for such cultural work today are welcome at 
this ancient reception studies conference.

As an area of inquiry, ancient reception studies recognizes the currency 
of “antiquity” in media as diverse as e.g., television, comics, video 
games, fashion, film, fiction, and body art. Scholarly engagements with 
textual and visual phenomena recombine a variety of humanistic and 
social sciences theories and methods in analyzing cultural objects that 
can simultaneously enchant and trouble diverse audiences beyond academic 
specialists, from fanfic authors to game designers to deans and school 
board members. Part of AIMS’ mission is to connect engaged and invested 
participants in the reception of antiquity across the scholarly divide. 
To that end, at the plenary session of the conference we will workshop 
how to become more effective advocates in our own communities for 
informed engagement with the study of antiquity and its receptions.

We invite proposals on any topic in ancient reception studies. Proposals 
for this year’s annual meeting may include individual 20-minute papers, 
three-paper panels, roundtables, workshops, poster sessions, 
play-throughs, games, technical demonstrations, creative showcases, 
creator interviews, and other activities that can fit within a 60-90 
minute time slot and be delivered remotely at this online conference. 
Proposals that take advantage of the online format are especially 
welcome; we’re open to experimenting with a mixture of live and 
pre-recorded elements in the program.

Please submit proposals of up to 500 words (plus bibliography) as an 
anonymized Word doc or PDF, including the title that would appear on the 
program and the type of presentation, as email attachments to AIMS 
Secretary-Treasurer Roger Macfarlane at 
<(staims /at/ antiquityinmediastudies.org) 
<mailto:(staims /at/ antiquityinmediastudies.org)>> by *15 October 2021*. (For 
three-paper panels, each presenter and the panel proposal as a whole may 
use up to 500 words, for a total of up to 2000 words.) In the body text 
of the email, please include the name(s) and current institutional 
affiliation(s) of applicants, or “independent scholar”. Please direct 
questions to AIMS President Meredith Safran at 
<(presidentaims /at/ antiquityinmediastudies.org) 
<mailto:(presidentaims /at/ antiquityinmediastudies.org)>>.

You can manage your subscription and view message archives at 
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html


---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------