The international conference series entitled ‘Nonnus of Panopolis in Context’ (NiC) was initiated in 2011 by Konstantinos Spanoudakis at the University of Crete. Since then, interest in Nonnus has continued to flourish and colleagues at the Universities of Vienna (Herbert Bannert and Nicole Kröll: 2013), Warsaw (Filip Doroszewski and Katarzyna Jażdżewska: 2015), Ghent (Berenice Verhelst: 2018), and Madrid (David Hernández de la Fuente and Laura Miguélez Cavero: 2023) have been organising subsequent NiC conferences to bring together students and scholars interested in the poetry of Nonnus of Panopolis and its contexts.
Fifteen years after the first NiC conference, we are delighted to invite 20-minute papers from established scholars and younger researchers alike for ‘Nonnus of Panopolis in Context VI’, which will take place in Athens, Greece, in 23–25 September 2026. Given that research on Nonnus, his poetry and contexts has been moving in a swift pace and towards innovative directions, the aim of the sixth conference in this series is to explore current trends and new perspectives. We are particularly interested in papers that will highlight the relationship between Nonnus’ works both with the earlier literary tradition and with various contexts (e.g. literary, visual, philosophical, theological, educational, cultural) within the framework of Late Antiquity. We hope that the contributions will open discussion for further research on various aspects of Nonnus’ poetry and its reception.
Registration is free, but we would kindly like to ask anyone intending to attend the conference to register by Wednesday 16th September, 2026.