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. At the same time, classicists working in African countries may or may not choose to thematize an African connection to the Classics. This conference is intended to facilitate a flexible and open-ended dialogue, where Africa is at once the focus of research and the site of current disciplinary praxis—it both invites contributions on Classics and Africa and on lines of research currently pursued in Africa.

Keynote Presentation: A Reading from Femi Osofisan’s Medaayé, overseen by the playwright in collaboration with Olakunbi Olasope, ‘Tunde Awosanmi, and Heavy Wind Media.

This conference is organized in collaboration with the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, the University of Ghana, Legon, King’s College London, The Department of Greek and Latin at University College London, and Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is part of a collaborative project, Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, Nigeria, and Canada, funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada Partnership Development Grant (Co-directors: Olakunbi Olasope, Hasskei Majeed, and Luke Roman).

This conference forms part of a collaborative project funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada Partnership Development Grant (Co-directors: Olakunbi Olasope, Hasskei Majeed, and Luke Roman).

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Location: University College, London

Date and Time: Thursday, Jul. 3 at 08:00 AM - Friday, Jul. 4 at 05:00 PM (NDT)

For more information: https://www.classicscrossroads.com/classics-and-in-africa

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