The Annual Meeting and Masterclass is a two-day event, designed to promote discussion and the exchange of ideas about the ancient Mediterranean world across traditional disciplinary boundaries among graduate students, postdocs, and established scholars. Each year, an internationally acknowledged expert in one of the fields represented by CRASIS is invited to teach a masterclass for MA and PhD students and to deliver the CRASIS Keynote Lecture at the annual meeting.

This year we are honoured to welcome Prof. Roberta Mazza (University of Bologna), who will teach the masterclass and deliver the keynote at the Annual Meeting. The theme of the 2026 Masterclass and Annual Meeting will be: The Materiality of Texts. For more information please visit the CRASIS website.

PhD and Master students are invited to submit a proposal of a topic (500 words) for the Master Class (5 March 2026), explaining how their own research relates to the theme. Proposals must be accompanied by a short CV of no more than 150 words and submitted no later than 10 December, 2025 via crasis.aws@rug.nl. All other researchers are invited to submit a title and abstract (250 words) for a lecture at the Annual Meeting (6 March 2026). If possible, CRASIS will contribute to travel and accommodation costs of graduate students, up to a limit of €200 for participants from outside the Netherlands, and up to €100 for participants from the Netherlands.

Information for PhD/ReMa Students
To participate in the Masterclass, Research Master students are expected to submit a paper of 3,000–4,000 words. PhD students submit a paper of 5,000–6,000 words. These papers will be circulated among the master and the participants and are therefore to be submitted no later than 31 January, 2025. During the Masterclass, the participants will introduce their paper, followed by responses from a fellow student and Prof. Roberta Mazza.