We are a cross-disciplinary and international research network interested in the dialogues between the Ancient and the Modern worlds. Our focus of attention is the reception of Antiquity in the visual and performing arts and more generally in visual culture and media in all its renderings and representations.
The workshop “Multimodal Landscapes of Mediterranean Antiquity” was supported by and held at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Ruhr University Alliance, Essen on 25-27 April 2024. Several members of Imagines, including both organisers, participated in this exploratory event which catalogued and study existing and remembered imageries of ancient pasts in the city of Essen. Co-organised by Senior Fellow Marta García Morcillo (Durham University, UK) and her tandem partner Florian Freitag(University of Duisburg-Essen), this experimental project united researchers from different fields to investigate cultural artifacts and signs on site, including advertising, branding, photographs, and street art as well as permanent, ephemeral, and vanished architectural elements and recorded events that establish connections between ancient Mediterranean cultures and Essen’s modern cityscape (19th to 21st centuries). This pilot project will serve as a case study for an interactive...
News: Imagines 8 is coming! Here the poster, programme, and information to attend: Pagan Pornotopias? The Reception of Antiquity in Eroticism and Pornography, Madrid, 27 to 29 September 2023.
LECTURE GIRL TO WOMAN: THE MYTH OF PERSEPHONE IN YOUNG ADULT FICTION Cristina Salcedo González Universidad Complutense de Madrid 5th July 2023 / 18.00 CAMPUS Am Neuen Palais House 9 / Room 1.02 This lecture investigates the representation of a very popular figure from ancient myth, Persephone, in young adult fiction, analysing a series of examples from a range of anglophone cultures and contexts (New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA). It will be shown that Persephone can represent and cover a broad range of diverse actual issues, ranging from LGBTQI+ desire to eating disorders, from partner violence to parental mental health, from PTSD to caring responsibility. Through Persephone’s example it will be shown how relevant Greek mythology still is in contemporary cul- ture – and specifically in the entertainment and forma- tion of young adults in the anglophone world. WORKSHOP GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITY FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS 7th July 2023 / 10.00 WIS Bildungsforum Potsdam 10.00...
Volume 14 of the Imagines book series announced The Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media by Gregory N. Daugherty
Antiquity in silent films from the Tom Stern Collection shown at the 5th Göttingen Night of Science (5 July 2022) Cinema Méliès, Göttingen
Organizers: Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University, New Zealand) and Barbara Goff (University of Reading, UK)