Opening the Ancient World Virtual Conference (English)

Opening the Ancient World

Theme: “Representations of the Past in Ancient and Modern Times”

Sunday, July 21st & Monday, July 22nd, 2024

Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) announces our fourth annual free public virtual conference. We invite you and our presenters during this two-day conference to consider Representations of the Past in Ancient and Modern Times.

While the issues of reception, representation, and use of the past in modern times have been hot topics in recent decades, this has been the case mainly in connection with Western colonialism and contemporary mass media representations. This narrow focus in thinking about representations of pasts misses the universality of this cultural exercise.

This interdisciplinary conference examines exploration, representation, and reception of pasts in the broadest cross-cultural, global, and atemporal world context. This conference employs the framework of interdisciplinary “Ancient Studies,” the study of the deep past of all societies, exploring the reception and…