Seen on the Classicists list:
Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Conflict in World Fiction since 1989
This conference kindly funded by and hosted at the British Academy, July 5th
and 6th 2012, is co-organised by Edith Hall (soon to be in the Classics
Department, King’s College London) and Katie Billotte (the Centre for the
Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway). This unprecedented
conference will bring together a global team of writers and scholars to
discuss the importance of ancient Greek myths in the recent fictional
narration of war. Novels from every continent will be discussed, including
works by Maori, Chinese, African, Brazilian and Japanese authors. The
conference will ask whether it is the very difficulties involved in
addressing large-scale trauma that have elicited this new ‘mythical turn’ in
the medium; it will also explore the tensions involved in the use of
canonical ancient Greek texts central to the western ‘colonial’ curriculum
in self-consciously anticolonial and postcolonial writing. Speakers will
include Aleksandar Gatalica, Yan Lianke,Anna Ljunggren, Tom Holland, Fiona
Macintosh, Patrice Rankine, Efie Spentzou, Adam Ganz, Girgio Amitrano,
Justine McConnell and Ferial Ghazoul. Further information about registration
will be available soon; meanwhile, please put it in your diaries if you are
interested and address any enquiries to edith.hall4 AT btinternet.com.
