Although Greek and Roman lit­er­a­ture rarely focus­es explic­it­ly on pop­u­lar cul­ture, a sub­stan­tial body of evi­dence allows us to recon­struct what may be described as the folk­lore of the ancient world. From pre­cious tes­ti­monies emerge beliefs and ‘super­sti­tions’, folk­tales and proverbs, imag­i­nary beings, songs and oth­er types of musi­cal forms, folk-phar­ma­copoeia and med­i­c­i­nal reme­dies, apotropa­ic ges­tures and […]

The con­fer­ence draws atten­tion to the hith­er­to large­ly neglect­ed aes­thet­ic, eth­i­cal, and intel­lec­tu­al impli­ca­tions of AI-gen­er­at­ed imagery in reli­gious con­texts. We invite schol­ars and researchers to sub­mit paper pro­pos­als that crit­i­cal­ly exam­ine how AI tech­nolo­gies are reshap­ing reli­gious images and imag­i­na­tions across tra­di­tions, cul­tures, and social con­texts. We seek con­tri­bu­tions, which explore the ways in […]