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Dear all, The organising committee for "All Roads Lead From Rome: The Classical (non)Tradition in Popular Culture" would like to announce that the deadline for the submission of abstracts has been extended until December 12th. This is the 2010 conference of the Classics Graduate Student Organization at Rutgers University; the Call for Papers is reproduced below. Best wishes, LIZ GLOYN *** All Roads Lead From Rome : The Classical (non)Tradition in Popular Culture 9th April 2010 Department of Classics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. Keynote speaker: Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania. The aim of this conference is to bring together papers that consider the many ways that classics informs the world around us. What is reception? Where does it fit within the discipline? Where do we find Classical influence in modern culture? How do modern uses of the ancient world change the way we think about antiquity? The Classics Graduate Student Organization at Rutgers University is delighted to invite submissions for papers that explore and expand ideas of classical reception from graduate students in the fields of classics and related fields, such as film studies; comparative literature; English; cultural studies; history; American studies; women's and gender studies; philosophy and art history. The organizers especially encourage papers that examine forms of reception in popular culture, broadly construed, such as song lyrics; modern literature; modern art; architecture; furniture and decorative objects; toys; poetry; theatre and performance; politics and political rhetoric; computer and video games; texts (lost) in translation; opera; the history of classical scholarship; science fiction; uses of the classics in education; television; fashion design; YouTube; comics and cartoons. Papers should last twenty minutes; abstracts are limited to 300 words. Please specify in your cover e-mail whether you will need any presentation aids, such as a projector. The extended deadline for abstracts is 12th December 2009. Abstracts and queries should be sent to [log in to unmask] Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 31st December 2009. -- 2009-2010 University and Bevier Fellow Department of Classics School of Arts and Sciences - New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Archive of list messages may be found at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/classicsgrads Visit the same site to change your subscription settings. All queries regarding the list should be directed to: [log in to unmask]