International Conference. Valencia, October 5–6th, 2023
The Group of Research on the Reception of Classical Literature (GIRLC in catalan) organizes an international interdisciplinary conference whose main topic analyzes the treatment and presence of Foreignness and Barbarism in both Greek and Latin literature and its reception. The main goals are, on the one hand, to show the results of the research group in its own field of studies, namely the reception of both Latin and Greek literature, and, on the other, to create an open exchange of ideas and research in order to establish a connection among scholars from different fields and academic milieus.
To do so, we will accept proposals on the presence of Otherness, mainly centred on the concepts of Foreignness and Barbarism in any of its manifestations in every literary genre in both Greek and Latin literature and its reception. Any proposal related to the main topic of this conference will be reviewed. Communications could be focused on a single work, author or genre or present a multidisciplinary or comparative approach, by studying, i.e., the presence of a precise motif on different genres, literatures, centuries…
