Full list of Panels for Maynooth 2026
- The Spartan Politeia (HERE)
- Roman Poetry and Philosophy (HERE)
- Magic and Society in Re-Founded Roman Cities: Corinth and Carthage (HERE)
- Herodotus and the Emotions (HERE)
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Competing Historiographical Discourses on Rome: Engagement, Emulation, Intertextuality, and Reception (HERE)
- Thessalian History, Culture and Archaeology: New Perspectives, New Approaches (HERE)
- Epic through Numbers. Digital and Quantitative Approaches to Greek and Latin Epic (HERE)
- The Signifying Body: Voluntary Gesture, Involuntary Sign, and the Construction of Identities in the Ancient World (HERE)
- Receptions of Homeric Scholarship in Antiquity (HERE)
- Roman Foreign Relations (HERE)
- Intensity in Greek Literature (HERE)
- Children of a Lesser God? Minor Divinities in Greek Religion: A Reassessment (HERE)
- Eunapius’ World: Philosophy and Historiography in Late Antiquity (HERE)
- Who Gets Forgotten: Power and the Politics of Oblivion in the Graeco-Roman Culture and Beyond (HERE)
- The Geopoetics of Imperial Latin Literature (HERE)
- Lyric Forms, Modern Worlds (HERE)
- Spoken Interaction in Greek and Latin Sources. The Benefits and Challenges of Applying Conversation Analysis in Classics (HERE)
- Multicultural Eros: Comparative Poetics of Desire in the Ancient World (HERE)
- Classical Antiquity and Northern Ireland (HERE)
- Regime Change in the Ancient World (HERE)
- KYKNOS: Layered Narratives (HERE)
- Late Antique Microhistories (HERE)
- Mimesis in the Socratic Tradition (HERE)
- Paranomia: Transgression of Norms in Ancient Greek Culture (HERE)
- Lives in Motion: Condisciplinary Approaches to Mobility in the Classical World (HERE)
- Gramsci, Marx, and the Pre-Capitalist World (HERE)
- Old Age and Renewal/Rebirth in Late Antiquity (HERE)
- Myth Doesn't Work That Way (HERE)
CCC Further Advice on Recruiting a Panel
In our experience a very effective model in general is the panel with two organizers, a younger one (whose original idea the panel may well be) and a senior one. Each will contribute to recruiting the balance of youth and experience that a panel usually needs in its speakers. Even the most experienced scholars and organizers do well, at the earliest stages of recruitment, to seek advice from trusted (and especially overseas) colleagues in their field, about who – in the world – should be invited.
The title of a panel should perhaps err on the side of precision. Potential speakers may be put off by the appearance of over-generality in the subject matter. There is, on the other hand, an art in identifying precise themes – and especially methods – which are shared by apparently disparate fields.
The wording of initial invitations to speakers is a delicate matter. Here the input, and influence, of a senior colleague may be especially valuable. Where a particularly promising colleague accepts, organizers may wish immediately to offer them a special input, as in recommending an additional speaker or in chairing a session.
Where organizers are thinking of eventually making a collective volume based on their panel, the number and length of the initial, oral contributions is especially important. A panel of 25 excellent colleagues poses a problem. Papers will tend, at least initially, to be too short to be properly developed or assessed. And publishers commonly refuse huge multi-author volumes. Appraising and addressing the characteristics of 25 different authors is a burden for any editor, and huge books are usually uneconomic – or inaccessible because of their price.
Once invitations to potential speakers have gone out, almost everyone who does eventually participate says 'Yes' firmly and within a few days of receiving their invitation. Equivocation rarely turns out well, and long silence is the worst of omens. Invitees who pose special conditions, such as 'I would only be able to speak on the Thursday', very often generate other difficulties later and quite often end by cancelling entirely.
In the months between a speaker’s acceptance and the event, organizers should send to each a circular message or two, not just to give news but also to reassure and check that all is well.
