Our Mythical Childhood...
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges
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Our Mythical Childhood Survey – Miriam Riverlea, “Entry on: The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave”.
Olga Strycharczyk for Our Mythical Childhood Blog about Classical Antiquity in Wednesday TV-series.
The project #ModernArgonauts, for which Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak received a European Research Council #ProofofConcept Grant, presented in an article by Karolina Zylak in the summer issue of the UW journal.
We are proud to share an animation, created from a vase showing Dionysus, prepared by Sonya Nevin and Steve K. Simons from the Panoply Vase Animation Project within Our Mythical Childhood project: https://youtu.be/yqv4kiP7z5U. The animation was created from a vase made in Athens c. 450–425 BCE. The vase is now housed in the National Museum in Warsaw, in Poland (number 142355).
Our Mythical Childhood Survey – Yauheni Pipko, “Entry on: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick”.
Our Mythical Adventure goes on! #ModernArgonauts
Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak from the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW received the ERC Proof of Concept Grant for the project “The Modern Argonauts: A Multicultural Educational Programme Preparing Young People for Contemporary Challenges through an Innovative Use of Classical Mythology”. This is the first ERC Proof of Concept Grant in Polish humanities. Thank you, European Research Council!
May the 4th... Numen vobiscum!
For more see “The Force Awakens New Greek Vase-Scenes” by Panoply Vase Animation Project.
23.04.2023 – Susan Deacy (Bristol and Leicester University), Katarzyna Marciniak (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw), and Sonya Nevin (University of Cambridge / Panoply Vase Animation Project) participated in the Classical Association Conference, University of Cambridge. They had the honour and pleasure to present the Our Mythical Childhood results at the panel organized by Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton) and Effrosyni Kostara (Hellenic Open), “Emancipatory and Reflective Pedagogies in the Teaching of Classical Antiquity”. We wish to thank the organizers and all the participants for the mythical time together! Programme.
The “Antiquity Today” conference talk by Lauren Cox (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge) on “Odysseus in Colour and Text: A Case Study Exploring How Reception Studies Can Help 17-year-old Students’ Understanding of Homeric Heroism”. The “Antiquity Today” conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
We invite you to watch the registration of the lecture by Dr Juan Coderch (Senior Language Tutor in Greek and Latin, School of Classics, University of St Andrews) on Ancient Greek and Latin translations of Little Prince, Sherlock Holmes and Oskar Wilde: “Reaching the Classical Authors through Oscar Wilde and Sherlock Holmes”. The lecture was held as part of the cycle “OBTAmistic Meetings” (30 March 2023, Ośrodek Badań nad Tradycją Antyczną / Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradution – OBTA, Faculty of “Artes Liberales” UW)
The “Antiquity Today” conference talk by Sonya Nevin (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge / Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw / University of Roehampton / Panoply Vase Animation Project) on “Sappho Centre Stage: Sappho, Panoply, and the Revised Cambridge School Classics Project Cambridge Latin Course”. The “Antiquity Today” conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme
We are most happy to present the new volume in the Our Mythical Childhood series at the University of Warsaw Press: Elizabeth Hale and Miriam Riverlea, “Classical Mythology and Children's Literature... An Alphabetical Odyssey”, ill. Steve K. Simons. The book is a result of the ERC Consolidator Grant. We are pleased to provide the Gold Open Access here:
Congratulations to the Authors!
We are most pleased to share the great news. Agnieszka Maciejewska defended successfully her PhD dissertation “The Reception of Queen Cleopatra VII Philopator in Children’s and Youth Culture”, written within Our Mythical Childhood ERC Grant. Adviser: Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak, co-adviser: Dr Karolina Anna Kulpa, reviewers: Prof. Katarzyna Jerzak (Johns Hopkins University) and Prof. Magdalena Kamińska (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu). Congratulations, Dr Agnieszka Maciejewska! (Fot. 1, Fot. 2, Fot. 3)
The “Antiquity Today” conference talk by Jillian Schleiden (University of Cambridge) “Different (Oar)strokes for Different Folks”: https://youtu.be/BDCtTtaSj-A. The “Antiquity Today” conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
The “Antiquity Today” conference talk by Marta Selleri (Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna), “The Adventurous Myth of Mino Milani”: https://youtu.be/VJGa6q4CtQA. The “Antiquity Today” conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
The “Antiquity Today” conference talk by Berkan Sariaydin (Department of Greek and Latin Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), “Living Books in the Chamber of Death: The Myth of the Labyrinth in Walter Moers’ ‘The City of Dreaming Books’”. The “Antiquity Today” conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
The “Antiquity Today” conference talk by Marta Pszczolińska (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw), “Archimedes of Syracuse in Children’s Books and Animations”: https://youtu.be/yPmm62tjivI. The “Antiquity Today” conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
The “Antiquity Today” conference talk by Markus Janka (Department of Greek and Latin Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) and Michael Stierstorfer (Gymnasium Kloster Schäftlarn), “Dystopian Latin Teaching?! Multilingual Rejuvenated Antiquity in 'The Hunger Games' from a Philological and Didactical Perspective”: https://youtu.be/QW1Ck_Tsgag. The “Antiquity Today” conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
Our mythical preview! Elizabeth Hale and Miriam Riverlea (University of New England, Australia), “Classical Mythology and Children's Literature... An Alphabetical Odyssey”, ill. by Steve K. Simons (Panoply Vase Animation Project), a publication arisen from Our Mythical Childhood project. Coming soon in print and Open Access!
Here a short note from the publisher Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego:
We are proud to share an animation, created from a vase showing the Libation ritual and prepared by Sonya Nevin and Steve K. Simons from the Panoply Vase Animation Project within Our Mythical Childhood project: https://youtu.be/5B5l7R8mdq8. The animation was created from a vase made in Athens in the 6th century BC. The vase is now housed in the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (number 198042).
The “Antiquity Today” conference talk by Angelina Gerus (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Unibersity of Warsaw), “Transformations of Plato’s Dialogues in ‘Les Petits Platons’ Book Series”: https://youtu.be/c9CgpDfkAlY. The “Antiquity Today” conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
The “Antiquity Today” conference talk by Maria Pia Napolitano de Majo (Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), “The Past in the Present – Homer and Margaret Atwood: A Methodological Proposal”: https://youtu.be/c9CgpDfkAlY. The “Antiquity Today” conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
The “Antiquity Today” conference talk by Chiara Festa (Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna), “The Multiple Faces of Medea: An Itinerary from the Greek Sources to the Contemporary Writer Roberto Calasso”: https://youtu.be/nnDaUxAa750. The “Antiquity Today” conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
The “Antiquity Today” conference talk by Clare Mahon (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge), “The ‘Burden’ of Disability in Two Key Classroom Texts”: https://youtu.be/LX6wufsDO-0. The “Antiquity Today” conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
Our Mythical Childhood Survey – Anna Mik, “Entry on: The Centaurs (fragments) by Winsor McCay”
We are proud to share an animation, created from a vase showing the Libation ritual and prepared by Sonya Nevin and Steve K. Simons from the Panoply Vase Animation Project within Our Mythical Childhood project: https://youtu.be/UEbbSkY8ZXE. The animation was created from a vase made in Athens in around 450 BC and housed in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, in Poland (No. inv. 142460MNW).
We wish you a mythical and magical New Year MMXXIII!
We wish you a wonderful Holiday season – full of childlike joy and mythical memories!
We are proud to share an animation, created from a vase showing the poet Sappho, prepared by Sonya Nevin and Steve K. Simons from the Panoply Vase Animation Project within Our Mythical Childhood project: https://youtu.be/ZSn63s88InI. The animation was created from a vase made in Athens in the 6th century BC and housed in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, in Poland (No. inv. 142333).
We are pleased to share the great news: Marta Pszczolińska received a Grant Preludium from the National Science Centre for her project "Classical Antiquity in Periodicals for Children and Young Adults in Polish People’s Republic (PRL) – Classical Education, Promotion of Political Ideology, or Expression of Resistance? Changes in the Reception of Classics in the PRL from 1945 to 1989". Congratulations, Marta!
We are proud to share an animation, created from a vase showing Iris, the rainbow goddess, prepared by Sonya Nevin and Steve K. Simons from the Panoply Vase Animation Project within Our Mythical Childhood project: https://youtu.be/gpMMrjDxUdI. The animation was created from a vase made in Athens around 450 BC and housed in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, in Poland (No. inv. 142289).
Our Mythical Childhood Survey – Elżbieta Olechowska, "Entry on: Regulus by Joseph Rudyard Kipling"
The "Antiquity Today" conference talk by Fabio Spadini (Free University in Berlin / ANHIMA Research Center in Paris), "Greek Mythology and Magic: The Gathering Card Game": https://youtu.be/VSSV0Qit1Lw. The "Antiquity Today" conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
Our Mythical Childhood Survey – Margaret Bromley, "Entry on: The Seven Sisters by Reggie Sultan"
The "Antiquity Today" conference talk by Alessia Borriello (Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna / Department of Greek and Latin Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich – Erasmus Plus Mobility Stay), "Magical Latin in 'The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' (Netflix)": https://youtu.be/sR1L_sz3PBI. The "Antiquity Today" conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
Katarzyna Marciniak on "'I Found Hope Again That Night…': The Orphean Quest of Beauty and the Beast". Available in Open Access via the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.669-720
The "Antiquity Today" conference talk by Patrick König (Department of Greek and Latin Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), "Socrates' Trial – Plato's Reception in Assassin's Creed Odyssey": https://youtu.be/gwkcQ6iYtxl. The "Antiquity Today" conference took place online on 27th June 2022 at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, within the project Our Mythical Childhood and within the activities of The Cluster: The Past for the Present – International Research and Educational Programme.
Owen Hodkinson on "Orphic Resonances of Love and Loss in David Almond’s 'A Song for Ella Grey'". Available in Open Access via the publisher's website:
Krzysztof Rybak on "All Is (Not) Lost: Myth in the Shadow of the Holocaust in 'Bezsenność Jutki' [Jutka’s Insomnia] by Dorota Combrzyńska-Nogala". Available in Open Access via the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.629-644
Jerzy Axer on "Kotick the Saviour: From Inferno to Paradise with Animals". Available in Open Access via the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.613-628
Elżbieta Olechowska on "Between Hope and Destiny in the Young Adult Television Series 'Once Upon a Time', Season 5, Episodes 12–21 (2016)". Available in Open Access via the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.593-612
Anna Mik on "'Et in (Disney) Arcadia ego': In Search of Hope in the 1940 'Fantasia'". Available in Open Access via the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.577-592
Ayelet Peer on “Growing Up Manga Style: Mythological Reception in Yoshikazu Yasuhiko’s 'Arion' Manga” available in “Our Mythical Hope” in Open Access at the Publisher’s website and Zenodo platform
Elizabeth Hale on “Mystery, Childhood, and Meaning in Ursula Dubosarsky’s ‘The Golden Day’” available in “Our Mythical Hope” in Open Access at the Publisher’s website and Zenodo platform.
Katerina Volioti on “Images of Hope: The Gods in Greek Books for Young Children” available in “Our Mythical Hope” in Open Access at the Publisher’s website and Zenodo platform
Marta Selleri’s post about Mino Milani’s “The Classical Myths” at Our Mythical Childhood Blog
Lisa Maurice on “‘Percy Jackson’ and Israeli Fan Fiction: A Case Study” available in “Our Mythical Hope” in Open Access at the Publisher’s website and Zenodo platform
Helen Lovatt on “Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey’s Melanie Stories” available in “Our Mythical Hope” in Open Access at the Publisher’s website and Zenodo platform
Babette Puetz on “When Is a Robot a Human? Hope, Myth, and Humanity in Bernard Beckett’s Genesis” available in “Our Mythical Hope” in Open Access at the Publisher’s website and Zenodo platform
Susan Deacy on “All about Roehampton, autism and classical myth – including some updates!”
A new post on Our Mythical Blog about Our Mythical Childhood Educational Activities in Ukrainian
Our mythical volumes on the cover of the recent catalogue of the University of Warsaw Press, both volumes available in Open Access at the publisher’s website
A new publication arisen from the Our Mythical Childhood project - the book by Dr. Anna Mik based on her PhD thesis prepared within the project. Open Access available here
Susan Deacy on "Outstanding 'autism' book for young people match no. 4 – Planet Earth is Blue"
A feast of beasts - Prof. Elizabeth Hale on the Open Access for “Chasing Mythical Beasts”
The volume "Chasing Mythical Beasts... The Reception of Ancient Monsters in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture", ed. Katarzyna Marciniak, presenting the results of the projects supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and ERC Consolidator Grant is available in Gold Open Access on the publisher's website:
https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-7874-5/Marciniak_Ed_Chasing_Mythical_Beasts_PDF/
"Dioscuri, the Divine Protectors of Rome" - OMC blog post by Michał Kuźmiński - student of Kulturoznawstwo - Cywilizacja Śródziemnomorska, from his Erasmus stay in Rome:
https://ourmythicalchildhoodblog.wordpress.com/2021/10/02/dioscuri-the-divine-protectors-of-rome/
The conference "Our Mythical Nature: The Classics and Environmental Issues in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture", meetings focused on discussions - most of the lectures available at http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/our-mythical-nature
Our Mythical Education has reached Prof. Markus Janka and Dr Michael Stierstorfer, the co-authors of the chapter on Ovid's myths in the school system in Germany.
"Animating the Ancient World" – launch event at the University of Cambridge Sappho will sing thanks to Sonya Nevin and Steve Simons (Panoply Vase Animation Project): https://www.teaching.cambridgescp.com/animating-ancient-world
Susan Deacy about the Autism Awareness Week:
https://myth-autism.blogspot.com/2021/04/connecting-autism-and-myth-during.html
In the Autism Awareness Week, the Network ACCLAIM (Autism Connecting with CLAssically-Inspired Myth) invites to the ACCLAIM Twitter: https://twitter.com/AcclaimNetwork
See also Prof. Susan Deacy’s post.
The launch of the mythical animations by Panoply Vase Animation Project on Saturday 24th April.
Karagiozis and the Golden Fleecing on Liz Hale's Antipodean Odyssey:
https://antipodeanodyssey.wordpress.com/2021/03/26/karagiozis-and-the-golden-fleecing/
The 15th International Child and the Book Conference "Transformation and Continuity: Political and Cultural Changes in Children's Literature from the Past Century to the Present Day" (24-26 March 2021) with the participation by Our Mythical Childhood Community: Owen Hodkinson (Leeds), Bettina Kuemmerling-Meibauer (Tuebingen), Katarzyna Marciniak (Warsaw), Anna Mik (Warsaw), and Karoline Thaidigsmann (Heidelberg), and many great colleagues researching children's literature.
https://www.cbc2020.org/_ressourcen/CBC2020_Program_Schedule.pdf
Chapter Sixteen in "Chasing Mythical Beasts..." - Karoline Thaidigsmann "(Non-)Flying Horses in the Polish People’s Republic: The Crisis of the Mythical Beast in Ambivalent Polish Children’s Literature"
Chapter Fifteen from "Chasing Mythical Beasts...- Elena Ermolaeva "Centaurs in Russian Fairy Tales: From the Half-Dog Pulicane to the Centaur Polkan"
Chapter fourteen from the publication "Chasing Mythical Beasts..." – Edith Hall about "Cheiron as Youth Author: Ancient Example, Modern Responses"
A respect for diversity "Show and Tell" event by Susan Deacy at the University of Roehampton
Why science needs more diversity – a new campaign by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
A quick and simple video explaining application system for European Research Council grants
A report from the conference "Child-friendly 'Explorations of the Myth': Modern Reception Strategies from Adaptation to Transformation" by the Austrian Society for the Research into Children's and Young Adult Literature (ÖGKJLF) with the participation of the OMC team members
Prof. Susan Deacy on the Our Mythical Childhood Show and Tell event "How classics can be more diverse and inclusive", organized for Black History Month 2020 at the University of Roehampton
Krzysztof Rybak, PhD-student at the Wydział „Artes Liberales” Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, who has taken part in many OurMythicalChildhood initiatives, has been awarded a National Science Centre Preludium Grant for the project "Informational children's book in the 21st century: trends – research methods – models of reading"
“‘Abi in malem cursem’: The Latin of Magic in ‘The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’” – a summary of the BA Thesis by Alessia Borriello, a student from the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna and an Erasmus student within the Our Mythical Childhood project at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Presenting Our Mythical International Childhood in the International Week 2020 at the University of Roehampton, contact: Prof. Susan Deacy. The event will share the research by the project team members at the Universities of New England (Australia), Yaoundé 1 (Cameroon), Bar-Ilan (Israel), Roehampton (UK), and Warsaw (Poland).
Friday 13th November: Child-friendly “Explorations of the Myth”: Modern Reception Strategies from Adaptation to Transformation, an event organized by the Austrian Society for Children and Youth Literature Research (ÖG-KJLF) in Vienna, with the participation by early-stage scholars from the Our Mythical Childhood team. Programme.
Karolina Kulpa on Cleopatra & Co. in the Playmobil Series on Liz Hale’s Antipodean Odyssey blog
26-27 October: "HISTORMYTHOS: Intermediale, interkulturelle und diachrone Perspektiven der Antikenrezeption" – International Interdisciplinary Conference at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / Cluster The Past for the Present. Organizer: Prof. Markus Janka. Programme.
Prof. Markus Janka (LMU Munich) has just chased Our Mythical Beasts!...
Time to show what is waiting for you in Chapter Seven! “Chasing Mythical Beasts...” - coming soon!
Chapter Six in “Chasing Mythical Beasts...” – coming soon!
Przemysław Kordos “Familiar Monsters: Modern Greek Children Face the Minotavros, Idra, and Kerveros”
Chapter Five in “Chasing Mythical Beasts...” - coming soon!
Katarzyna Marciniak talked on the expression “Hearth and Home” in Agnieszka Strzemińska’s programme on Radio Katowice
First fragment of Chapter Four – “Chasing Mythical Beasts...” coming soon!
Katarzyna Marciniak talked on the expression “Achilles’e Heel” in Agnieszka Strzemińska’s programme on Radio Katowice
Katarzyna Marciniak had online classes with the high-schoolers at the VII Juliusz Słowacki High School in Warsaw, Po co mity? Recepcja mitologii w kulturze, cz. 1 [Why Myths? The Reception of Mythology in Culture. Part 1]
Katarzyna Marciniak had online classes with the high-schoolers at the VII Juliusz Słowacki High School in Warsaw, Po co mity? Recepcja mitologii w kulturze, cz. 2 [Why Myths? The Reception of Mythology in Culture. Part 2]
Sonya Nevin (Panoply Vase Animation Project) on Greek Warfare and Modern Education (incl. Sappho animation TBP soon) – available online.
“Iris – Rainbow Goddess” with our mythical message of Hope in Belarusian
Animation and text: Sonya Nevin and Steve Simons, translation into Belarusian: Hanna Paulouskaya and Maria Pushkina
Sonya Nevin talked about the fantastic Panoply vase animations as part of the Warfare Wednesday seminar series held by Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. The recording of the talk is available on the Wolfson College website.
Susan Deacy on Choosing with a Hercules at Roehampton in the Primary Schools Partnership Newsletter
Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak took part in the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Annual Meeting
Katerina Volioti about “Leadership in Children’s Books about Classical History and Myth” (Part 3)
"Our Mythical Education", ed. Lisa Maurice - a volume in the "Our Mythical Childhood" series coming soon! (Warsaw University Press, 2020). Design of the cover: Zbigniew Karaszewski
Table of contents: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/our-mythical-education
Mythology of Hope: Autism and the Classics on Susan Deacy's
https://myth-autism.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-mythology-of-hope-mythology-and.html
and Lisa Maurice's blogs
https://mauril68.wixsite.com/voxofisrael/post/what-should-have-been
Children's Day with the Classics in a creative way - we invite you to colour the Muses: http://www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/paint-the-muses
and Iris - the Rainbow Goddess: http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/iris
Katerina Volioti on “Leadership in Children’s Books about Classical History and Myth (Part 2)”
Katerina Volioti on Leadership in Children’s Books about Classical History and Myth (Part 1)
Humboldt-Kosmos (the journal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) on Our Mythical Childhood
#stayhome with Our Mythical Childhood and paint the Muses! A new activity for children great and small. Please share your works with us.
Paint your own Rainbow and share her with us! An activity by Sonya Nevin and Steve Simons
Liz Hale on a trip to Narnia. Narnia Business – Mr Tumnus and the culture of intertextuality.
What Cicero might have to say to autistic children – with an animated surprise – by Susan Deacy
Two monster stories... from Hydra heads to Hydra babies on Susan Deacy’s Mythology and Autism blog
Mythical Hope 6 – Hope: gateway between worlds on Susan Deacy’s blog Mythology and Autism
Happy Birthday from Our Mythical Childhood to all our Friends and Colleagues! We have just accomplished the third year of the ERC Consolidator Grant
Katarzyna Marciniak held a lecture on the need of interdisciplinarity, at a workshop for teachers on "The Interdisciplinarity in Education" organized in "Strumienie" High School
Anna Mik at IRSCL Congresswith the paper: "Silenced Beasts: Study of the Voiceless Monster in Marcin Szczygielski’s 'The Heart of Nemphthys' and Other Works for Children and Young Adults"
Anna Mik’s paper on Grover the Satyr (“Percy Jackson”) in “Dzieciństwo: Literatura i kultura”
Anna Mik took part in a conference organized by the Association of Polish Librarians in Warsaw
Elżbieta Olechowska took part in the panel on “Classics and Communism” at FIEC Congress in London
Katarzyna Marciniak and Justyna Olko took part in the Networking Meeting with the UW PhD-Students Council.
Susan Deacy on talking about emotions via Hercules in the “Życie jest fajne” (“Life is Cool”) cafe'
Katarzyna Marciniak gave a short communicate on the OMC Project (via Skype) at the Round Table “Children’s Literature Scholarship in Europe”, a post-conference event organized by Prof. Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer within the 14th International Child and the Book Conference Beyond the Canon (of Children’s Literature), Croatian Association of Researchers in Children’s Literature and the University of Zadar.
Hercules, autism and classical myth: a meeting over time on Susan Deacy’s Mythology and Autism blog
Susan Deacy - learning about autism from autistic people - for World Autism Awareness Week, Day 5
Katarzyna Marciniak and a presentation on the OMC Project at the Greek course by Prof. Valentina Garulli, within the Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility, at the Department of Classical and Italian Studies, University of Bologna.
Katarzyna Marciniak had a lecture Das Programm „Our Mythical Childhood“ – Idee, Methoden, Etappe und die ersten Ergebnisse, within the Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility, at the Department of Classical and Italian Studies, University of Bologna.
Agnieszka Maciejewska and Anna Mik took part in the conference "Varium et Mutabile Semper Femina..." at the Univeristy of Warsaw with their talks on Cleopatra in children’s culture and female monsters from Classical Mythology
Report by Daniel A. Nkemleke from his research expedition to the village of Loua, Cameroon
A new initiative within the OMC project: 45 Seconds Reception! Fabula 1: Krzysztof Rybak, “Atlantis”
Katarzyna Marciniak led workshops organized by the Regional Contact Point Łódź for the candidates for the ERC Grants, Warsaw.
The Cluster The Past for the Present and the OMC Project invites you to the seminar on The Reception of Caesar in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture and to a concert by Rafał Janiak Many Languages of Music. See the poster, invitation English, invitation Polish
Michael Kleu (Köln) on reception in “The Hobbit” and “The Neverending Story” on Antipodean Odyssey
How to write entries for the Our Mythical Childhood Project? A class discussion on field research techniques by Daniel A. Nkemleke and Divine Che Neba with their students in Cameroon
“Championing Odysseus (2)”: an interview with David Hair on Antipodean Odyssey by Liz Hale
Sonya Nevin and Steve Simons on the adventures in Switzerland and London: Games and Comic Books
Viktoryia Bartsevich and Agnieszka Maciejewska, PhD students at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", presented their research results within the OMC project at the conference “We are not afraid of death – the transformations of the concept of death across the ages” in Katowice (Silesia)
Liz Hale talks to Cath Mayo – a New Zealand author of the novels inspired by Classical Antiquity
Liz Hale on her participation in Classical Languages Teachers Association conference in Sydney
“Blending Styles and Cultures. Part 2: The Unity of Style” by Katerina Volioti on the OMC Blog
“Blending Styles and Cultures. Part 1: Framing Classical Art and Myth” by Katerina Volioti
Prof. Susan Deacy on a staging of "A Midsummer Nigth's Dream" for children on the autistic spectrum
“Gray Matter” – Aleksandra Bondarczuk (MA student) on a computer game with classical motifs
Susan Deacy’s Herculean resources set 1 gathered in one PDF file and waiting for your feedback!
Liz Hale's interview with Trent Denham, the author of an award-winning picture book "Jerome's Gift"
Lisa Maurice, Liz Gloyn, and Susan Deacy at an OMC-working meeting in the Docklands Museum London
Liz Hale on Our Mythical Childhood at the Children's History Society's conference in London
The Early Childhood Research Centre is hosting a seminar by Katerina Volioti (University of Roehampton) on teaching ancient culture to young children.
Our Mythical Workshops II under the banner “The Present Meets the Past” will take place from 14th to 20th May 2018.
Elizabeth Hale interviews the New Zealand novelist Phillip Simpson on writing classical fantasy.
Susan Deacy's thoughts on the Institute of Classical Studies' first Public Engagement Workshop.
Katarzyna Marciniak a lecture on “Das Erbe der Antike und die Kinderkultur im Zeitalter der Globalisierung” at the international conference Topographien der Globalisierung / Topographies of Globalization (Humboldt-Kolleg supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at the Institute of German Studies, University of Warsaw.
Katarzyna Marciniak held a lecture on “Wer wird Millionär? Der unermessliche Wert des Kontakts mit der Antike für die Kinder und Jugendliche im 21. Jahrhundert”, at the international conferece Verjüngte Antike trifft The Past for the Present: Griechisch-römische Mythologie uund Historie in Kinder- uund Jugendmedien der Gegenwartskultur, University of Munich.
Katarzyna Marciniak held a lecture on “Polen sucht den Superstar. Ovid zwischen Zensur und Freiheit”, at the Zwischen Kanon und Zensur. Ovid als Bildungsgegenstand Workshop (Ovid’s Year Celebration), at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Katarzyna Marciniak gave a lecture on “Upowszechnianie nauki” [Research Popularization] and moderated the subsequent panel, via Skype, at the conference of Polish Young Academy at the Polish Academy of Science Kierunki reformy PAN i AMU [Directions of Reforms at PAN and AMU], Polish Academy of Science Conferences and Congresses House, Jabłonna.
Katarzyna Marciniak held the lecture “Tam, ale nie z powrotem. Pinokio Carla Collodiego i Dziwoląg Potężny Rodmana Philbricka o nieodwracalności metamorfozy” [There, but not back again. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi and Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick on the irreversibility of a metamorphosis], at the conference O czym mówią rzeczy? [What are the things talking about?], organized by the Laboratory for Research on Literature for Children and Youth UW and the Museum of Children’s Book in Warsaw.
Katarzyna Marciniak gave a presentation on “ERC Grants from the Perspective of an ERC Laureate SH5” at an ERC Workshop, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Next, together with Elizabeth Hale, partecipated in a consultation session for the ERC candidates.