The research-group Classical (con)texts focuses on two themes:
Members of the research group work together closely with colleagues from the VU within ACASA.
We organize twice each year an international research lecture in the context of our ‘Amsterdam Classics seminar’. Previous speakers include I. Nilsson (Uppsala), B. Fowler (Bristol), R. Webb (Lille), and A. Cooley (Warwick).
We run a monthly Style Seminars on Thursday afternoons to engage in discussions about the concept of style. Through these seminars, our aim is to eventually develop a theoretical framework for understanding style.
We run an international research seminar on Friday afternoons, which discuss research projects and specialisms of Amsterdam classicists: e.g. immersion or conversation analysis.
A considerable number of our research group actively participate in the national research school OIKOS, esp. the research groups ‘The Language of Literature’, ‘Classical Receptions and Traditions’, and the platform ‘Learning and Instruction’.
A considerable number of our research group actively participate in the OIKOS gravitation grant ‘Anchoring Innovation’ (AI). Anchoring is a label for the many different ways in which people connect the new to the old, the traditional, the already known. What is called or considered ‘old’ or ‘new’ is not always a matter of objective diagnosis: it is a judgment established through discourse and societal negotiation. Anchoring innovation is about the way in which people in antiquity coped with ‘newness’, and about the question under what conditions new things became ‘anchored’, and thus successfully implemented - or not. The project involves numerous different Humanities disciplines: linguistics, literary studies, cultural studies, history (including the history of technology, history of religion, socio-economic history, political and intellectual history), archaeology (material culture), and philosophy. C. Kroon is leader of the AI domain ‘Discourse & Rhetoric’; I. de Jong is one of the two leaders of the AI domain ‘Literature and Art’; L. Huitink is AI fellow, M. Heerink supervises an AI PhD project conducted by Koen Vacano (VU) on classical epic and modern epic movies, I. de Jong the AI PhD project of Caterina Fossi (UvA) on Platonic myth as an anchoring device.
R. Risselada and L. Huitink participate in ‘Conversation in Antiquity. Analysis of Verbal Interaction in Ancient Greek and Latin’, a project of the Universidad Autonóma de Madrid, which is led by dr. Rodrigo Verano Liaño. This research group will organise a Workhop on ‘Conversation and Dialogue in Latin’ at the 21st International Colloqium on Latin Linguistics in Santiago de Compostela, May 2021.
Apart from these structural activities, we regularly organise conferences and workshops, e.g. ‘Workshop Communicative Anchoring’ as part of the International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics’ (17-23 June 2019 Las Palmas); ‘Innovating objects? Reading spolia in Greek and Latin literature’ (digital 22 January 2021); ‘Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense on the Maccabean Books’ (digital 1-3 February 2021).
M. Heerink, I. de Jong and C. Kroon are editors of the series ‘The Language of Classical Literature’, Brill Leiden, I. de Jong (with E. Moormann) of the AI series Euhormos, Brill Leiden.
Virtually all members of the group perform acts of valorization such as writing in Dutch daily papers and periodicals, writing schoolbooks, offering ‘nascholing’ for teachers, or giving public lectures for a larger audience. M. Heerink and R. Risselada (editor) are members of the board of Lampas, the Dutch periodical for school teachers.
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