The Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) online annual conference will take place from Friday, 6 November 2026 through Wednesday, 11 November 2026. Registration is free. You may register here. The schedules can be found here. (A schedule at a glance is also listed below).
Sincerely,
AIMS Professional Development Committee
AIMS November Conference 2026
Schedule-at-a-Glance
Friday 6th November / Saturday 7th November: 12 PM
- 12:00 ET Edinburgh UP Meet the Editor
- Presenter: Helena Heald
- 13:15 ET American Journal of Classical Reception Meet the Editors
- Presenters: Monica Cyrino and Christopher McDonough
- 14:30 ET Welcome and Social Hour
- Presenters: AIMS Officers
Saturday 7th November / Sunday 8th November
- 14:00 ET Panel 1: Monsters
- #Me(Dusa)Too: Tattoos of Medusa & Survivors of Sexual Violence – Natalie J. Swain
- Sympathy for the Monster: Demythologising and Humanising the Minotaur in KAOS – Theshira Pather
- “Do You Talk to Ants?”: Polyphemus and the Question of Divine Agency in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – Melanie Naples
- 16:00 ET Panel 2: Homer
- De-Eroticising the Amazon: Revisioning Epic Desire in Troy: Fall of a City – Connie Skibinski
- Reimagining Nostos: Arya Stark and Homeric Homecoming in Game of Thrones – Jo Messore
- Fellini Satyricon (Fellini, 1969), Homer, and The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998) – Seán Easton
- 18:00 ET Panel 3: Digital Media
- Patch Notes for a Hero: Hercules and Mechanical Adaptation in the DisneyVerse – Joel Gordon
- Ruining Minecraft: Procedurally Generated Antiquity in a Game with ‘No’ Story – Teg Ward
- Filling the Sea-Lung: Ultima Thule and the Far Right’s Counterfeit Greco-Roman Antiquity – Jake Ballinger
Sunday 8th November / Monday 9th November
- 09:00 ET Panel 4: Powerful Females
- Rewriting the Fall of the Roman Republic in Xena – Gabriel Evangelou
- The Three Gorgon Sisters: On the Classical Background of the One Piece Boa Sisters – Laura Massetti
- Reimagining Hera: Female Anger in Netflix series Kaos – Vilma Losyte
- 11:00 ET Panel 5: Musical Adaptations
- Dubstep Antiquities? Exploring Ancient World Reception in EDM – Alexander Vandewalle
- Musical and textual elements of Epic: the Musical through the lens of adaptation – Martin Valach
- “Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?”: Taylor Swift and the Tradition of Latin Love Elegy – Alicia Matz
- Achilles Last Stand: A Musical Aristeia – Ana María Núñez
- 13:00 ET Panel 6: Re-imagining Greek Myth
- ‘The Teiresias Wars’: Gender fluidity in Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol – Tony Keen
- Tyresia, Aedipus or both? Blindness, destiny and free will in Dune’s Paul Atreides – Michele Ambrogio Lanza
- 14:45 ET #ACademic Odyssey Roundtable Discussion
- Panelists: Hamish Cameron, Kira Jones, Richard Cole, Alexander Vandewalle
Monday 9th November
- 10:00 ET Panel 7: Ovid in Europe
- ‘Why I Love Ovid’: Ovidian Myths in Polish Magazines for Children and Teenagers during the Communist Era (1945–1989) – Marta Pszczolińska
- Animating Desire: Ovid, Myth, and Violence in Anatoly Petrov’s Late Films – Hanna Paulouskaya
- The Hidden Poet: Ovidian Themes in Narrative Digital Games – Anna Baranek
- 13:00 ET Palgrave Macmillan Meet the Editor
- Presenter: Carly Silver
- 16:00 ET AIMS Business Meeting
- Presenter: AIMS Officers
Tuesday 10th November
- 07:30 ET Committee-Sponsored Panel (DEI): The Reception of Classics in the Contemporary Singaporean University
- Presenters: Daniel Jew, Mira Seo, Thu Truong, Kevin Wong
- Moderator: Leslie Wong
- 10:00 ET Meet the Editor: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Presenter: Alice Wright
- 14:00 ET Committee-Sponsored Panel (Source Database): A Conversation with the Source Database Committee
- Presenters: Alex Claman, Eduardo Garcia-Molina, Alexander Vandewalle
- Moderator: Source Database Committee
- 17:00 ET Social Hour and Closing
- Presenter: AIMS Officers