GIKS Bericht 2010-07-01

WIJ WENSEN U EEN PRETTIGE VAKANTIE

GIKS berichten worden regelmatig (maar niet dagelijks en ook enkel als er iets te berichten valt) toegestuurd aan iedereen die op de mailing list van het Gents Instituut is ingeschreven.

De GIKS berichten hebben een min of meer vaste structuur. Eerst is er de 'Kalender' die de wekelijkse en maandelijkse evenementen in verband met Klassieke Studies aan de UGent of georganiseerd door medewerkers van de UGent in herinnering brengt. Daarna volgt de rubriek 'Berichten', waar u calls for papers, jobaanbiedingen, summer courses e.d.m. vindt die voor senior en junior onderzoekers en studenten interessant kunnen zijn.

Als u aankondigingen wil toevoegen, kunt u deze per mail sturen aan: Koen.Verboven@ugent.be. Indien u deze berichten niet meer wenst te ontvangen, volstaat een eenvoudig mailtje aan Koen.Verboven@ugent.be

UGent reminders (uit de GIKS Kalender)

De activiteiten van het jaar 2009-2010 zijn voorbij. De kalender voor 2010-2011 is in aanmaak en zal in de loop van augustus beschikbaar zijn.

Jobs & beurzen

KUL LECTIO. The Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
1 Project Doctorandus

We are pleased to place a job announcement for a four year doctoral project funded by the Research Council of K.U. Leuven, Belgium. Our research group (the dept of Greek philology and the De Wulf-Mansion centre for ancient, medieval and renaissance philosophy) is involved in the recently established centre "LECTIO. The Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance".

Candidates will be asked to do doctoral research into the the influence of philosophical theories of matter on 5th-9th c. byzantine treatises on the combination of body and soul. The text corpus is a little known and largely unedited collection of texts, influenced by Gregory of Nyssa and Nemesius of Emesa, but with many medical/scientific/philosophical side issues. The texts will be edited by the promoters and another collaborator. The aim of the part of the project concerned in this announcement is to study the sources of the texts, within the framework of the development of a Christian anthropology in Early Middle Ages.

The project starts on Oct. 1, 2010.

For more details, please contact Prof. G. Van Riel ) or Prof. C. Macé ().

Call for papers

Pretoria, 21-23 Oct., 2010
Unisa Classics Colloquium

A final call for papers for this year’s Unisa Classics Colloquium, 21-23 October in Pretoria. Papers concerned with any aspect of the conference theme in the ancient world will be considered. Scholars working on historical, literary, oratorical, religious, philosophical, epigraphical and other material are welcome to contribute.

Invited guest speakers to this year’s conference are:

Clifford Ando (Chicago), “Two revolutions in government”
Emily Greenwood (Yale), “The corruptible logos: the politics of speech and silence in Greek historiography”

Some four slots are still open. Please submit title proposals as indication of intent as soon as possible, and abstracts of appr. 200 words by 15 July to . Papers will be limited to 45 minutes. Speakers may request a shorter slot of 20-30 minutes.

The Unisa Classics Colloquium is held for the 11th time this year. The conference is deliberately kept small enough to avoid parallel sessions, to provide enough time for discussion and to promote interaction between delegates. It presents an excellent platform for young scholars to present their work. We are at pains to maintain an old tradition of South African hospitality and attempt to show guests from abroad a little of our city and country during and after the conference.

The Unisa Classics Colloquium is hosted by the Department of Classics and World Languages at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. Further information regarding the conference may be found on the departmental website at
http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=23613

For other enquiries, please contact Philip Bosman at .