The CRASIS Annual Meeting and Masterclass is a two-day event, designed to promote discussion and the exchange of ideas about the ancient world across traditional disciplinary boundaries among graduate students, postdocs, and established scholars. This year, our theme will be

*Approaching the Ancient World from Below*

and we are honored to welcome Prof. Peter Kruschwitz (University of Vienna) as keynote speaker.

Call for Papers

This year’s CRASIS Masterclass and Annual Meeting is dedicated to studying what has been called ‘the other 99%’: the worlds, realities, and lived experience of millions of non-elite individuals who populated the wider Mediterranean world in antiquity. What are the challenges our disciplines face in understanding, narrating, and reconstructing non-elite experience? How can we study and understand the agency of non-elite actors? How can we read certain types of sources ‘against the grain’? Which methodological innovations offer new ways forward? And how do new insights into the lives of marginalised or ‘invisible’ groups impact contemporary receptions of antiquity and contemporary heritage management? We welcome contributions from all disciplines and subfields in the study of Mediterranean and Near Eastern antiquity, including classical literature, ancient history, archaeology, art history, linguistics, philosophy, religious studies, legal history and heritage studies.

The full call for papers can be found here: https://www.rug.nl/research/centre-for-religious-studies/research-centres/crasis/research-teaching/annual-meeting/?lang=en.

PhD and Master students submit a proposal of a topic (500 words) for the Master Class, explaining how their own research relates to the theme. All other researchers are invited to submit a title and abstract (250 words) for a lecture at the Annual Meeting. Submission via email: crasis.aws@rug.nl.

Deadline for abstracts is *December 9, 2024*.

For the full Call for Papers and all further particulars, see our website: https://www.rug.nl/research/centre-for-religious-studies/research-centres/crasis/research-teaching/annual-meeting/?lang=en

Any queries can be addressed to the CRASIS coordinator Maya Xinyu Dong at crasis.aws@rug.nl.

Registration: TBA

Credits:

3 EC for presenting your paper during the Masterclass (submit your presentation to secretary@archonline.nl) and attending the Annual Meeting.

1 EC for attending the Annual Meeting and handing in a report (to secretary@archonline.nl).