Updates: book chapter, Bright-Eyed study, paper on myth as bearer of autistic hope for diversity event

Here is a quick update on some of my activities to date since my previous posting. The month or so after that posting was spent writing a paper of c. 9000 words for the book growing out of the conference on Mythical Hope on which I blogged in that posting.  Since then, I've begun work on another paper linked with the Our Mythical Childhood project - on a topic that might well end up resonating with my autism work, through I'm too early on in the project to make any confident assertions yet. I have written a couple of postings to date on this paper - which concerns a work of children's literature, Richard Woff's Bright-Eyed Athena - for another blog I keep. This is a blog on misc. aspects of the deity Athena. Thirdly, I am, right now, preparing a paper on my autism and classical myth work for a conference later this week at Roehampton on diversity and Classics. This event takes place under the aegis of Classics and Social Justice, from whose social media presence comes the image at the head of this posting. I plan to blog about this paper soon.