Roads Less Travelled, Sixth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Online and Ghent University, September 21–24, 2022
Proposals are hereby invited for papers and panels for the Sixth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN VI) with the theme ‘Roads Less Travelled’. The conference is open to all areas of study related to the ancient novel.
The conference will take place from 21st to 24th September 2022 and will be hosted in hybrid form.
In the tradition of ICAN, the conference is open to all areas of study related to the ancient novel. We particularly invite papers on the following topics:
- Crosscultural exchanges, e.g., contributions to novelistic and/or fictional traditions in ancient languages other than Greek or Latin; medieval vernacular; Byzantine, Jewish, early Christian, or Near Eastern traditions; Greek and Latin interactions
- Reception of ancient novels, e.g., late antique and medieval reception; afterlives of fragmentary novels; concepts of reception relevant to our understanding of the novel
- Textual reception and transmission (e.g. material culture of the novel, sociology of reading)
- Multimediality, e.g. novels in material culture and visual arts
- Intra and intergeneric intertextuality
- Conceptualizations of genre and fiction in novels, hagiography and/or other narrative
- Innovative theoretical approaches
- Rhetoric and the novel
The default language of the conference is English, but German, French, Italian, and Spanish are accepted.