26.03.2024
Katarzyna Marciniak in the interview by Agnieszka Krzemińska on Classical Antiquity, education, and the projects carried out within the ERC Grants, weekly “Polityka” 14, 2024.
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22.03.2024
Katarzyna Marciniak in the research podcast Pulsar of the weekly “Polityka”, host: Agnieszka Krzemińska.
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18.01.2024
The European Research Council has chosen the Modern Argonauts for the Highlighted Projects in the ERC Proof of Concept Grants competition. We are deeply grateful for this recognition.
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21.12.2023
We are happy to share the news about the public reading of Aristophanes within the Festival Européen Latin Grec, at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies of the Universtity of Bologna, by our colleagues from the Cluster: The Past for the Present.
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14.12.2023
Susan Deacy on her blog Autism and Classical Myth about Emma Astra’s review of the conference at the Archaeology and Ancient History Department, University of Leicester, 14 September 2022.
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13.12.2023
We are delighted to share information about initiatives that are taking place as part of the celebrations marking the centenary of the publication of Jan Parandowski’s Mythology: Mr Wojciech Konieczny, Polish language teacher at the Władysław Hasior State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Koszalin, runs the blog Sto książek na stulecie mitologii [One Hundred Books for a Century of Mythology].
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11.12.2023
A registration of Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak's talk in the University of Warsaw's Radio Kampus, interview by Bartosz Pergół, is available on the YouTube.
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09.12.2023
Sonya Nevin (Panoply Vase Animation Project) on her and Steve K. Simon’s creations within the Locus Ludi, Galateo, and Our Mythical Childhood projects.
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05.12.2023
Marta Pszczolińska for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about “Sweet Greetings from Ancient Gods”.
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01.12.2023
Davide Iengo’s presentation on “I understand the deaf-mute and hear the words of the dumb: Framing the Depiction of Disabilities in Herodotus’ Histories” at the International Students’ and PhD Students’ Conference “Antiquity Today II: Inspiring, Inclusive, Universal”, 16 October 2023, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw.
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24.11.2023
We are most pleased to present Prof. Susan Deacy’s book What Would Hercules Do? Lessons for Autistic Children Using Classical Myth, Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2023, pp. 202.
The book has been prepared within the Our Mythical Childhood Project and is available in Gold Open Access via the Publisher’s website.
23.11.2023
Dr Sonja Schreiner’s inaugural lecture on “Deep in the Water & High in the Sky: Inspiring, Inclusive, and Universal Aspects of Antiquity Today in Christoph Ransmayr and Jessie Sima” at the International Students’ and PhD Students’ Conference “Antiquity Today II: Inspiring, Inclusive, Universal”, 16 October 2023, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw.
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17.11.2023
The launch of Prof. Elizabeth Hale and Dr Miriam Riverlea’s book Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature… An Alphabetical Odyssey, ill. by Steve K. Simons, at the festival organised at the University of New England Sydney Campus by the UNE Storytelling Hub and the Our Mythical Childhood Project.
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10.11.2023
Sonya Nevin’s presentation “A Moving History of the Panoply Vase Animation Project” at the University College Dublin School of Classics Research seminar.
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27.10.2023
“The Ancient Key to Our Times” – an interview with Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak by Anna Zawadzka in the Polish academic journal “Forum Akademickie”, on The Modern Argonauts project, carried out within the European Research Council’s Proof of Concept Grant.
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25.10.2023
Martin Lindner for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about “The Tom Stern Collection: (Not Just) a Film Archive for the Classics”.
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23.10.2023
Katarzyna Marciniak’s review of Olivier Devillers and Séverine Garat, eds., L’Antiquité dans la littérature jeunesse, Scripta receptoria, 20. Bordeaux; Pessac: Éditions Ausonius, 2021, on “Bryn Mawr Classical Review”.
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20.10.2023
The competition that we announced for the essays inspired by Jan Parandowski’s Mythology, on the centenary of its publication (1924), is underway. School Students are invited to participate! The deadline for submitting an essay for the competition is 31 October 2023.
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13.10.2023
We invite you warmly to the second edition of the Students’ and PhD Students’ international conference “Antiquity Today II: Inspiring, Inclusive, Universal”, organized within the Cluster: The Past for the Present and the Our Mythical Childhood programme. The conference will take place online, on Monday, 16 October 2023, at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw. You will find the programme and the abstracts here.
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03.10.2023
Susan Deacy on her blog Autism and Classical Myth about “Live blogging Hera’s Terrible Trap in the Hopeless Heroes series where, TLDR, I’m half way through and taking a pause to process after some experiences to date of Medusa-receptions for young people”.
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01.10.2023
We are pleased to announce the launch of the project “The Modern Argonauts: A Multicultural Educational Programme Preparing Young People for Contemporary Challenges through an Innovative Use of Classical Mythology”, led by Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak within the ERC Proof of Concept Grant.
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