Colloquia

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Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar
Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

We are now inviting abstracts from postgraduate students who would like to present a paper at the seminar during the year 2011/12. Submissions will be accepted for all three terms, with a second call for papers in January, if necessary.

Speakers give a paper of about 45 minutes duration dealing with any subject connected with the ancient world (broadly defined), the reception of antiquity, or classical scholarship. They have the opportunity to receive questions, moderated by the joint chairs, from an audience of postgraduate students, mainly, but not exclusively, from the University of London, and to continue the discussion over wine and nibbles. The seminar provides a friendly environment in which speakers are able to talk about their research, take part in stimulating discussion of their paper, and extend their social and academic network. During the past three years we have been pleased to attract speakers from twenty-nine different institutions in the United Kingdom, the EU and North America.

The seminar will take place at Senate House at 4.30 p.m. on Fridays during term (28 Sept- 16 Dec, 9 Jan- 23 Mar, 23 April- 8 June).

Please submit: an abstract of about 300 words, a working title for your paper, ONE Friday during term on which you are unavailable (for preliminary scheduling purposes)

Submissions should be directed to the seminar’s joint chairs, Jessica Baxter-Lloyd, Gillian Bentley, Beth Rowell and Gabrielle Villais at postgradwip@gmail.com.

The deadline for submissions is 12 midday on 22 August 2011.

For further information please visit our website, facebook page or follow us on Twitter @pgwip.

With all good wishes.
Jessica Baxter-Lloyd, Gillian Bentley, Beth Rowell and Gabrielle Villais

Announcement en posters
International Colloquium: Gender and the Roman city
Amsterdam, 14-17 Dec., 2011

Meer informative zie: http://www.hum.uva.nl/gender_and_the_roman_city_2011

Er is nog ruimte voor 6 posters, abstracts in te dienen tot 1 september

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Ancient Jewish Texts and the ‘Literary’
14,15 March 2012, Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp)

The Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp) in collaboration with Ghent University is happy to announce an international seminar on Ancient Jewish Texts and the ‘Literary.’ The aim is to bring together scholars working on various ancient Jewish texts and their distinct textual – often called literary - features. The goal is to exchange ideas on the ‘literary’ in these works and stimulate future research and collaboration.

Invited keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Ellen Van Wolde, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (Netherlands), Prof. Dr. Wilfred Watson, Newcastle University (United Kingdom), Prof. Dr. Robert Gordon, Cambridge University (United Kingdom)

Since the 60s and 70s of the previous century the form and exact wording of ancient Jewish texts has been the focus of attention of a literary approach within biblical/Jewish studies. This subfield relies on the insights of narratology on the one hand and rhetoric on the other. Resulting from this approach any research involving the creative use of language, e.g. in the Hebrew Bible, is considered literary.

In recent years this term has increasingly been questioned as being a presupposition rather than the result of research. ‘Literary’ therefore should be understood as the common though not necessarily apt umbrella term for all studies focusing on the form of ancient texts. Contributors are encouraged to interpret the term either in defense of literariness or against it.

We invite participants from all related fields: Jewish studies, biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern studies, classical studies, literary studies, and stylistics. Possible approaches include among others analyses of the Hebrew Bible, its old translations, early commentaries and retellings, as long as they can be considered ancient (i.e., pre-medieval) and Jewish (i.e., written by Jews or in a Jewish setting).

Proposals up to 300 words can be submitted no later than July 31 2011, to Karolien Vermeulen (karolien.vermeulen@ua.ac.be or karolien.vermeulen@ugent.be).

Oud-historici dag 2012: Religie als sociaal fenomeen
27 januari 2012, PC Hoofthuis, Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134

Wij nodigen oud-historici uit Nederland en België, van promovendi tot senior-onderzoekers, uit om voorstellen in te zenden voor voordrachten rond dit thema. Sprekerstijd: 30 minuten (of, indien gewenst, 20 minuten) gevolgd door 15 minuten discussie.

Voorstellen graag richten aan Inge Mennen (I.A.M.Mennen@uva.nl) of Emily Hemelrijk (E.A.Hemelrijk@uva.nl). Het programma zal in het najaar rondgestuurd worden.

Hartelijke groet,

Prof. Dr. E.A. Emily Hemelrijk
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen

Call for Sessions
22nd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC),
29 March - 1 April 2012, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Goethe-University, Campus Westend

The 22nd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) will be held at Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 29 March to 1 April 2012 together with the 10th Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC).

Proposals are now invited for conference sessions. Sessions are normally 3 hours 30 minutes long and consist of five presentations and a discussion. Those wishing to organise sessions should submit an abstract of no longer than 500 words on the proposed topic, content and aims, together with a list and contact details of the chair, two confirmed speakers, and the titles of papers. Each speaker included in the proposal must provide an abstract of no longer than 300 words of his/her presentation. Candidates are reminded that successful session proposals will be advertised to encourage other speakers to apply to join their session. An individual call for papers/posters will follow in August after the sessions have been approved. All submissions will go through a peer review process.

Proposals must be submitted by 25 July 2011. They should be sent by email to the organising committee: contact@trac2012.com

For further information see: www.trac2012.com

TRAC 2012 Organising Committee: Annabel Bokern, Marion Boos, Stefan Krmnicek, Dominik Maschek, Sven Page

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Reading the Way to the Netherworld: Education and the Representation of the Beyond in Later Antiquity
14-16 October 2011, Göttingen.

The Courant Research Centre EDRIS (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen) and the Graduiertenkolleg “Götterbilder-Gottesbilder-Weltbilder” (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen) are pleased to announce the organisation of a Conference on Education and the Representations of the Beyond in Later Antiquity. The Conference will take place in Göttingen from the 14th to the 16th of October 2011. We welcome papers from the disciplines of Classics, Byzantine Studies, Religion Studies, and … Beyond that will help us to explore this theme.

Until the Middle Ages, Aeneas’ descent to Hades was one of the most popular readings. All the more, Later Antiquity is characterised by a larger interest in the afterlife or other liminal situations: mystery cults, various philosophical doctrines, magic, holy men, philosophical and/or political utopias, and other aspects of the supernatural open up different paths to the spheres of reality beyond man. The tapestry of the afterlife in Later Antiquity is therefore a multi-colour, multi-religious, and multicultural artefact. This plurality, whose common thread is Graeco-Roman education, encourages the dialogue and the exchange between the different religions, philosophical schools, and individuals of different educational background and opens the following questions (the list here is suggestive):

What is the influence of classical education and of philosophy on the shaping of the Beyond?
What does each group think about their ‘opponents’ ideas about the Beyond?
How does the development and canonisation of Christianity influences the representations of the hereafter?
What is the reception of Homeric and/or Virgilian Hades in Late Antique literature, Christian and/or pagan?
What is the medieval reception of Late Antique perception of the afterlife in the East and the West?

All the above will define the framework of the Conference. Confirmed speakers include Prof. Ken Dowden, Prof. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Prof. Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Prof. Helmut Seng, and Prof. Spyridon Rangos. The deadline for abstract submissions is July 31st, 2011. Abstracts should be between 250-and 300 words.

For further information please contact the organisers: Prof. Dr. Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler (email: ), dr. Anna Lefteratou (email: ) Mr. Konstantinos Stamatopoulos (email: )

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Feminism and Classics VI: Crossing Borders, Crossing Lines
Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
May 24-27, 2012

Note abstract deadline of June 30th, 2011.

Ancient Mediterranean society was crisscrossed by multiple boundaries and borders. Firm boundaries between male and female, slave and free, gods and mortals (to name just a few) defined social identities and relationships, even as these lines were regularly crossed in religious ritual, social practices and artistic imagination. In current scholarship, Feminism is now Feminisms, encouraging multiple, and even transgressive, approaches to the study of women, gender, and sexuality in the ancient world. But has Feminism itself become a boundary, dividing fields of study or generations of scholars? Or is it a threshold, encouraging crossings between literary, historical and archaeological evidence? What new approaches are scholars using to push the boundaries of the evidence and the limits of our knowledge of the ancient world?

This conference will focus on boundaries, liminality, and transgression. What kinds of crossings did ancient people experience and what control did they have over such crossings? How did borders and border crossings differ in relation to gender, ethnicity, age, or legal status? If the masculine and feminine were clearly demarcated categories of being, how do we interpret homosexual, transvestite and gender-labile aspects of the ancient world? What points of contrast and connection exist between different types of gendered space (literal or metaphorical) and do they change when geographic or national boundaries are crossed?

We invite submissions for abstracts of papers and workshops that explore these and related themes, and encourage proposals from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives.

Abstracts of 300 words can be submitted electronically to the conference website: www.brocku.ca/conferences/feminism-classics-vi. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is June 30, 2011.

For inquiries, please contact .

The Department of Classics at Brock University is pleased to host Feminism and Classics VI. Brock University is the only Canadian University to be located in a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve. It is within an hour's drive of Toronto, Ontario and Buffalo, NY, and thus easily accessible and close to major attractions, shopping and airports. The Niagara region is framed by Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and the Niagara River, and is in the heart of Ontario's vineyard country, and visitors can enjoy the culinary and wine trail. More information about Brock University and its location can be found at http://www.brocku.ca/about/why

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Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages V: Infirmitas. Social and Cultural Approaches to Cure, Caring and Health
August 23-26, 2012, University of Tampere, Finland

History/School of Social Sciences and Humanities Trivium Centre for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies The fifth international conference on Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages will focus on social and cultural approaches to health and illness, cure and caring, and notions of ability and disability. These topics are of major importance for communities and societies both in Antiquity and during the Middle Ages, yet research is still fragmentary and more synthetic and interdisciplinary approaches are rare.

We welcome papers which focus on different actors – institutions, communities, families or individuals - and have a sensitive approach to social differences: gender, age and status. Thus, our focus lies on society and the history of everyday life, on the differences and similarities between elite and popular culture, and on the expectations linked to gender and life-cycle stage, visible in the practices and policies under scrutiny. How were physical and mental disability/ability defined within daily life; what were the social consequences of illness; how was social interaction reflected in caring for the sick; how were cure and caring organised in families, communities and in society? We aim not to concentrate on medical or technical aspects of health and illness, but rather to integrate them in a larger social and cultural context.

The conference aims at broad coverage not only chronologically but also geographically and disciplinary (all branches of Classical and Medieval Studies). Most preferable are contributions having themselves a comparative and/or interdisciplinary perspective. The speakers of the conference will include Nancy Caciola (University of San Diego), Véronique Dasen (University of Fribourg), William V. Harris (Columbia University), and Christian Krötzl (University of Tampere).

If interested, please submit an abstract of 300 words (setting out thesis and conclusions) for a twenty-minute paper together with your contact details (with academic affiliation, address and e-mail) by e-mail attachment to the conference secretary, . The deadline for abstracts is September 15th 2011, and the notification of paper acceptance will be made in November 2011. Conference papers may be presented in major scientific languages, however supplied with English summary or translation if the language of presentation is not English. The registration fee is 100 euro (post-graduate students: 50 euro).

For further information, please visit http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages/ or contact the organizers by e-mailing to . The registration opens in November 2011 at http://www.uta.fi/trivium/passages/.

Organizing Committee: Prof. Christian Krötzl, Prof. Katariina Mustakallio, Dr. Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Dr. Ville Vuolanto

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WORKSHOP "Greek and Roman Armies in Northern Balkans : Conflicts and Integration of the Warrior Communities, Vth c. B.C.- IIId c. A.D."
Annual Conference of the Metropolitan Library of Bucharest, Sinaia, Romania, 20-22 September 2011. Section IV c.

This workshop is part of the research project "Warrior Structures and Exchanges between ancient Balkan Peoples", Metropolitan Library of Bucharest, Bucharest University, Archaeological Institute of Tirana, University of Paris IV Sorbonne, UMR 8167 "East and Mediterranean ". The first workshop on this subject was hold in Bucharest in Sept. 2010 and the proceedings for 2010 will be published in the journal Dacia, Revue d'archéologie et d'histoire ancienne, 55 (2011).

Strabo, in the seventh book of his Geography, distinguished as a coherent geographical set the regions located "between the Adriatic and the left part of the Euxine, separate from the first [ie other areas of northern and Eastern Europe] by the Ister and go south to Greece and Propontis" (Strabo, VII, 1, 1). We propose here to consider the consistency of this whole Balkan area, in terms of military relations between the peoples of the Balkans and the Greeks and the Romans, between the fifth century B.C. and the third century A.D.

The different forms of these relationships and the exchanges that have accompanied them can inform us about the structures of these warrior societies, who are among the least known of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. The exchanges are not limited to purely commercial transactions : we will be interested in men and value products exchanged in warrior contexts.

These relationships, in a military point of view, are conceived through two components : conflict, conquest and looting raids in one hand, and, in the other hand, the integration of warrior communities of the Balkans within the Greek and Roman armies.

We will focus on the progressive integration of the Balkan peoples, Illyrians, Paeonians, Thracians, Celts and other peoples of the Danube valley, in Greek and Roman armies, from the classical area to the Roman rule, which seems to have put an end to a certain form of social and military organization in the region.

The establishment of Roman rule seems indeed to be a break in the history of these peoples, whose bellicosity, channeled through the Hellenistic kingdoms by massive enlistments in the armies, then expressed through a resumption of looting raids and enduring conflicts with the Romans.

The study of the modalities of the integration of these warriors in the Roman armies could allow a better understanding of the changes in the local warrior structures that occurred during the Roman period.

We will focus particularly on coins, which can contribute significantly to the knowledge of the military operations led in the region and of the relationships between the warriors communities of the Balkan area and the Greek and Roman armies. Contributions covering literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources are also very welcome.

Proposals should not exceed 300 words and are expected before 15 June 2011.

Accepted languages: French and English.

A limited number of travel bursaries may be offered.

Papers should be sent by e-mail to Aliénor RUFIN SOLAS, Paris IV Sorbonne University, France : alienor.rufinsolas@gmail.com and Adrian DUMITRU, Metropolitan Library of Bucharest : seleukosnikator@yahoo.com

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Theory in (Ancient) Greek Archaeology (TiGA)
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Friday 4th and Saturday 5th May 2012

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tiga

The organizing committee at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is pleased to announce a conference on Theory in (Ancient) Greek Archaeology (TiGA). This event is intended to offer an opportunity to explore approaches to the archaeology of the ancient Greek world which are informed by explicitly theoretical frameworks. We invite expressions of interest in participating from both established scholars and graduate students.

Our goal is to highlight certain changes which have been taking place, often unacknowledged, in the study of ancient Greek archaeology. In recent years, colleagues in Aegean prehistory and Roman archaeology have placed increasing emphasis on overtly theoretical approaches, informed by discourse primarily in the social sciences and in historical archaeology. A variety of conferences have facilitated this development, providing fora for exchange of ideas. While archaeologists of ancient Greece have not ignored these developments, there is a widely-held perception that, as a field, we have been slow to put comparable ideas into practice. This is partly because we have lacked a venue for discussion of theoretical issues in relation to our data. TiGA is intended to fill that gap: while not in any way wishing to devalue empirical approaches, our specific aim is to offer archaeologists studying the ancient Greek world an opportunity to discuss the potential benefits of overtly theoretical frameworks for enhancing our understanding of ancient Greek society and culture.

We welcome proposals for 20 minute papers or for posters which explore the potential benefits of well-articulated theoretical concepts in the context of data-sets from the ancient Greek world. (We define ‘ancient Greek world’ to encompass material which might be viewed as culturally-Greek, from anywhere in the Mediterranean, dating from the period ca. 1000 BCE to mid second century BCE – while also allowing that such boundaries are often imprecise and permeable).

Abstracts should be 500-600 words in length and should show clearly how the authors propose to address the goals of the conference. To facilitate the refereeing process, please include a separate cover page giving your name, affiliation and poster or paper title. Your abstract should include only your title and no other identifying information.

Submissions may be emailed as PDF attachments to: tiga-conf@umich.edu

Alternatively, they may be sent to:

TiGA Conference,
Department of Classical Studies,
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
1260 Angell Hall, 436 S. State St.,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (USA)

Review of proposed contributions by the organizing committee will begin on 1st October 2011 and will continue until all slots are filled (please refer to the conference website for up-to-date announcements):

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tiga

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The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL) Conference 2011: Theme: Power and Manipulation
Saturday 10th – Sunday 11th September 2011, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX

AMPAL is a two day residential conference where postgraduate students in the field of Classics can present their research, take part in discussion, exchange ideas and meet other postgraduates and academics. It is also an ideal forum for students to present their first conference paper in a friendly and supportive environment, as well as offering peer review feedback for speakers and chairs.

The theme of the conference is “Power and Manipulation”, which can be interpreted in a variety of ways in order to encompass many different specialisations within the field of Classics. This can include consideration of the power of manipulation or the manipulation of power in Greek and Roman literature, language, politics, historiography, religion, mythology, drama, philosophy, and archaeology.

Some suggestions are given below, although we welcome other interpretations on the theme:
Language (hidden influence or manipulation of language)
Literature (power and authority in epic / flattery vs. praise in encomiastic literature / dominance of love in poetry)
Rhetoric and oratory (persuasion and influence / relationship between the speaker and the audience)
Politics (propaganda / power struggles / success or failure of powerful leaders)
Historiography (manipulation of historical or military events)
Archaeology (control of physical space: architecture and landscape)
Mythology (transmission and manipulation of mythology in literature and art)
Drama (gender power struggles / manipulative characters / power of the gods)
Religion (control of religion as instrument of power / imperial cults / transformation of ideas of power in late antiquity and early Christianity)
Philosophy (ethics of power / balance of power in constitutional theories)
Reception (reception and use of ancient concepts of power)

Postgraduates and postdoctoral students from the UK and internationally are invited to participate in this conference and to offer proposals for papers of 20 minutes. Please send a title and an abstract of 300-500 words to AMPAL.RHUL2011@gmail.com by 1 June 2011, with “Abstract” as the email title, and include your name, level of study and academic institution. Proposals for panels of co-ordinated papers are also welcomed.

Organisers:

Christina Pouros, Giulia Brunetta, Katie East
Department of Classics and Philosophy,
Royal Holloway, University of London

Contact:

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/classicsandphilosophy/events/home.aspx

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Poetic Language And aeligion in Greece And Rome
Santiago De Compostela, May, 31 May / 1 June, 2012

We welcome paper proposals for the Conference on «Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome», organized by the Research Group on Classical Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela. A maximum of 20 proposals will be included in the Conference programme.

Studies on the ‘Indogermanische Dichtersprache’ ('Indo-European poetic language') have proved fruitful thanks to the successful combined application of philological and linguistic methods when researching the spiritual background of ancient peoples, especially in Greece and Rome.

This Conference intends to benefit from this methodological tradition to incorporate the new approaches to the analysis and exegesis of poetic texts, as privileged bearers of the religious thought of Greece and Rome.

Our aim is to join researchers in the fields of classical studies and linguistics to discuss key issues such as:

The Indo-European poetic language and its reflection in the Greek and Roman context.
Phonic, rhythmic and lexical elements in Greek and Latin poetry: its religious character.
Greek and Latin poetic genres: religious origins and developments.
The interrelation of literary expression, religion and thought.
Overlapping of related areas: elements of poetry in the Greco-Roman magic.

Keynote speakers [provisional titles]:

José Luis García Ramón (University of Cologne): «Religious Onomastics in Greece and Italy and Indoeuropean Poetic Language» -Manuel Garcia Teijeiro (University of Valladolid): «The Language of the Gods and of the Ghosts» -Alex Hardie (University of Edinborough): «Eastern Muses» -Emilio Suárez de la Torre (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): «Poetic Language or Religious Language? On the Interplay of Poetry and Ritual in Ancient Greece»

Communications should not exceed 25-30 min. We welcome abstracts addressing, among other topics:

Survival of formulas of the Indo-European poetic language
Poetic language and religious language
The language of magic and the language of poetry
Poetic and prophetic language
Characterization of Greek and Roman cultic poetry
Greek and Roman poetry on religious antiques
The possibility of secular poetry in Greece and Rome

Titles and abstracts (about 200 words) should be sent to J. V. García Trabazo [josevirgilio.garcia@usc.es] or A. Ruiz Pérez [angel.ruiz@usc.es] before 27 November 2011. Answers on the acceptance of paper proposals before 01.20.2012. The fee will be €40 (€20 for undergraduates)

PostaI address and Conference Venue: Departamento de Latin y Griego, Facultad de Filología, Universidad de Santiago, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN.

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Ancient and Medieval Interpretations of Aristotle’s Categories
Franciscan University of Steubenville, April 12-14, 2012

Keynote Speaker: Lloyd Gerson, University of Toronto

We are pleased to invite proposals for an interdisciplinary workshop on Ancient and Medieval interpretations of Aristotle’s Categories hosted by the Franciscan University of Steubenville. To be held April 12-14, 2012.

The purpose of this workshop is bring together scholars interested in sharing their work on the ancient and medieval traditions of ontological interpretations of Aristotle’s Categories. Possible classical and medieval figure may include:

Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Dexippus, Simplicius, Olympiodorus, Syrianus, Proclus, Boethius, Avicenna & Al-Farabi, Albertus Magnus, William of Ockham, John Duns Scotus, Henry of Ghent, John Buridan, Francisco Suarez, Radulphus Brito, Thomas of Erfurt, Martin of Dacia, Simon of Faversham & Peter of Auverne, Thomas a Vio, etc.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

How categories or other topics in the Categories are to be understood in relation to other metaphysical notions such as being, form, universals, etc., and other ontological topics;
Ways in which philosophers sought to reconcile Aristotle both with himself (viz., his other works) and with a Platonic philosophy;
Techniques or arguments for establishing the list of Aristotle’s categories;
The nature of particular categories such as quantity, quality, relation, etc.;
How categories relate to the disciplines of logic, grammar and metaphysics

Papers can pertain explicitly to commentaries on the Categories or to the use of, and reference to, the ten categories in other works.

Please submit an abstract of approximately 500 words electronically by September 1st, 2011 to Paul Symington (psymington@franciscan.edu) or Sarah Klitenic Wear (swear@franciscan.edu).

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Warfare in Antiquity: Approaches and Controversies Conference
August 12-13th 2011 in University College Dublin, Ireland

The study of ancient warfare is a broad and well established subject that stretches across a range of disciplines. However, persistent controversies regarding interpretations of and approaches to the subject matter remain. In light of this and in celebration of the recent 2,500 year anniversary of the battle of Marathon, the UCD Schools of Archaeology and Classics will be co-hosting a two-day interdisciplinary conference entitled ‘Warfare in Antiquity: Approaches and Controversies’ .

The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas on current approaches and controversies regarding the study of ancient warfare. The conference is aimed equally at postgraduate students, early career researchers and established academics. There are no specific spatial or temporal parameters regarding the subject matter of papers, although it is anticipated that contributions will focus on the Mediterranean basin and North Western Europe from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity.

Keynote speakers:

Jon Coulston, St. Andrews
Philip de Souza, UCD
Nick Secunda, University of Gdansk
Hans van Wees, UCL

Proposals/abstracts for 20 minute papers should be no longer than 250 words and should be sent to by June 18th, 2011.

For more information contact Peter Myler or Kevin de Groote at: ; ; http://www.ucd.ie/artsceltic/graduateschool/newsandevents/warfareinantiquity/

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New York University Classics Graduate Student Conference December 3, 2011 Keynote Speaker: TBA
Ancient Aitia: Explaining Matter between Belief and Knowledge

Why does a shepherd’s song echo in the mountains? What causes epilepsy? Why does the priest of Herakles on Kos wear women’s clothes? Graeco-Roman sources abound in myths of origins, and they are equally prominent in Near Eastern wisdom literature, apocalyptic texts, and biblical narratives. These texts tell aitia in order to explain names, religious rituals, civic institutions, crafts, natural phenomena or medical conditions. Aitia are a form of collective knowledge, created through tradition and living memory rather than through systematic inquiry. Because they treat topics also covered by ancient sciences such as history, medicine or natural philosophy, aitia sit at the juncture of divine and research-based accounts. Such causation narratives differ also from historical accounts, insofar as the aition replaces the complexities of diachronic evolution with a single, transcending moment of creation.

conflict and co-existence between scientific and divine explanation; the modern question of the relation between science, religion and the natural world
aetiological time vs. historical time
socio-cultural and political functions of aitia; transmitting aitia; the significance of sharing explanations of origins; ancient critiques of aetiology
cult-aetiology; the religious significance of origins; material remains of cults and their local aitia
artistic representations of aitia; aitia about art; aitia of skills
the origins of aetiology; what questions invite aitia; the believability of aitia
the organization of knowledge through aitia in oral and highly illiterate societies

Graduate students wishing to present a paper at the conference should submit a titled abstract of 300 words or less to by August 17, 2011. Please write your name, institution, contact information, and the title of your abstract in the body of the email. Notifications will be sent in the first half of September. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes in length, and NYU and other local students will prepare 5 minute responses. Questions about the conference can be directed to Inger Kuin and Katia Kosova at the same email address.

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The XVIth World Economic History Congress (8-13 July 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Ancient History Session Panel Title: “Transport infrastructure and economic development in the Roman World (1st c. BC – 6th c. AD)”

We are organising a panel at the XVIth World Economic History Congress (Ancient History session)

According to the analyses of modern scholars, the Roman Empire developed one of the most successful pre-industrial economies. This said, in what ways and to what extent could the Roman economy perform better than previous (and indeed later) economies? Factors of economic development such as the favourable conditions offered by internal peace and the unification of the Mediterranean World in one empire have often been explored.

However, much less attention has been paid to understand what impact the Roman network of infrastructures had on economic growth. Doubtless, the establishment of a network of land, river and sea routes greatly fostered communication between the different areas of the Empire. Yet, what was its bearing on the development of the Roman economy?

In the wake of the main theme of the congress, "Exploring the Roots of Development", this panel aims to demonstrate how the infrastructure built by the Romans helped the economy and especially trade to develop. More significantly, this session will attempt to reconstruct the official policy conceived by Roman rulers and administrators in order to create and constantly improve this network.

By combining theoretical and case-study papers with a specific focus on the Eastern part of the Empire, this panel will explore the possibility that an integrated transport system existed in the Roman World and that its establishment and improvement represented major factors of economic development and growth.

We welcome papers that meet either of the following criteria:

a) Theoretical studies. These papers should investigate how public initiative (whether driven by imperial action or promoted by local administrators) aimed to develop a coherent and Empire-wide system of communication and transport which triggered economic growth.

b) Regional studies. Ideally, papers that qualify for this criterion will concentrate on a region within the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. Such papers should aim to bring out the economic effects that the development of a network of infrastructures had on the region studied and show how the newly established links contributed to connecting this and other areas thus creating a global economy, albeit in an embryonic stage.

Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to Dario Nappo or to Andrea Zerbini by 31 May 2011.

CFP (deadline Tuesday 31 May 2011)
Ancient Carthage: Models Of Cultural Contact,
Durham, Friday 5 - Saturday 6 August 2011

The aim of this networking project is to address the Carthaginian-Phoenician nexus in the wider Mediterranean context from the 9th century BCE to the fall of Carthage to Rome in 146 BCE, as well as the rediscovery and reception of Carthage and her Phoenician motherland from the 18th century.

This international conference, building on workshops already held at Durham, will adopt a cross-disciplinary approach going beyond word-based evidence (whether archival, epigraphic or literary) to gain a clearer picture of this complex and significant culture, drawing upon current archaeological work and upon the findings of epigraphy and linguistics. As well as in Tunisia itself, archaeology and a range of relevant disciplines are practised throughout the Mediterranean world, from Italy, Spain and Greece, via Cyprus and the North African lands, to the Middle East and beyond.

Topics to be examined include materiality, migration, colonial encounters, and connectivity, and their important contribution to the understanding of the social, cultural and political identity of the Punic-Phoenician diaspora.

Equally important is the study of the engagement with Phoenician and Carthaginian culture in the modern colonial period through to the present day on the part both of the inhabitants of the successor lands and of incomers of all kinds (travellers, settlers and scholars).

Papers will be welcomed from scholars working within the field of Punic-Phoenician studies from all relevant disciplines, such as ancient history, classics, archaeology, art history, reception, and Old Testament studies.

The following scholars have agreed to participate:

Edward Bragg (Havant College)
Robert Kerr (Wilfrid Laurier)
Richard Miles (Sydney)
Luke Pitcher (Oxford)
Louis Rawlings (Cardiff)
Mark Woolmer (Durham).

Papers should be either 20 or 40 minutes long (please state) PLEASE SEND ABSTRACTS TO: BY TUESDAY 31 MAY 2011

Clemence Schultze, Mark Woolmer,
Department of Classics & Ancient History University of Durham
38 North Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU, United Kingdom

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Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII: Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity
University of Leiden, the Netherlands, June 15-16, 2012

The Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values were established as a biennial venue in which scholars could investigate the diverse aspects of Greek and Roman values. Each colloquium focuses on a single theme, which participants explore from a diversity of perspectives and disciplines. A collection of papers from the first colloquium, held at Leiden in 2000, was published in 2003 under the title ‘Andreia’— Manliness and Courage in Classical Antiquity, edd. Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter. This was followed by Free Speech in Classical Antiquity, (2005), City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity (2006), KAKOS: Badness and Anti-Values in Classical Antiquity (2008), Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity (2010), and Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity (in preparation).

The topic of the seventh colloquium, to be held at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, June 15-16, 2012, will be: Valuing Antiquity in Antiquity

Short description of the topic: The ‘classical tradition’ is no invention of modernity. Already in ancient Greece and Rome, the privileging of the ancient over the present and future played an integral role in social and cultural discourses of every period. In this colloquium we want to examine this temporal organization of value and the mechanisms by which it was produced and sustained—in other words, ancient valuations of antiquity as expressions of lived value-systems. How did specific Greek and Roman communities use notions of antiquity to define themselves or others? What models from the past proved most acceptable or desirable (or not) for political practice or for self-fashioning? What groups were the main agents, or audiences, of such discourses on the value of antiquity, and what were their priorities and their motivations? What were the differences between Roman and Greek approaches, or between antiquarianism, genealogy, classicism, nostalgia, canonization and their opposites? How did temporal systems for ascribing value intersect with the organization of space, the production of narrative, or the espousal and application of aesthetic criteria?

For the seventh Penn-Leiden colloquium, we invite abstracts for papers (30 minutes) that address ‘the past in the past’ along these lines. We hope to bring together researchers in all areas of classical studies, including literature, philosophy, linguistics, history, and visual and material culture, and hope to discover the significant points of intersection and difference between these areas of focus.

Selected papers will be considered for publication by Brill Publishers. Those interested in presenting a paper are requested to submit a 1-page abstract, by email (preferable) or regular mail, by Friday November 18th, 2011.

Contact (please copy both with email correspondence): Dr. Christoph Pieper, Classics Department, University of Leiden, P.O.Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Email: ; Prof. James Ker, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 201 Cohen Hall , Philadelphia PA 19104-6304, USA , Email:

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Crossing the Divide: Ancient History and Archaeology 10 Years After ‘Breaking Boundaries’.
Workshop: School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester November 19, 2011

The relationship between ancient sources, material culture and contemporary scholarship is an uneasy one. The Classical world is typically studied either through the lens of ancient text or material culture; when they are brought together it is usually as a complementary or subsidiary source of information. Historians use material culture to either amend or support ancient texts, and archaeologists use text to aid in the interpretation of remains, or to dispute the assertions of historians. But the role of texts and objects in contemporary conceptions of the ancient world cannot be understated – rarely are the divisions between the two as clear cut as we would like. Ten years ago, these ideas were examined in a Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) session (published as Sauer (ed) 2004. Archaeology and Ancient History: Breaking Down the Boundaries. London: Routledge).

What, if anything, has changed in the last decade? This workshop will examine a range of approaches to dealing with these complex and frequently contradictory relationships. Placing emphasis on how the relationship between people and things changes over the long term, and how we present that relationship, the workshop participants will critically question the importance of places, artefacts and texts in our understanding of the ancient world.

Potential topics might include: the 'ruin' in text and material remains; notions of monumentality in the ancient world; the use of the past in the past; reception of text in classical archaeology; or, specific case studies incorporating author(s) and archaeology.

Keynote speaker: Prof Eberhard Sauer, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Potential speakers, including postgraduates, are encouraged to submit abstract of c.300 words by email to the organiser by July 1st, 2011.

For more information, contact: Dr Daniel Stewart, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester

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The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities
An international conference to be held at Durham University, 17th-18th April 2012, under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition.

Confirmed speakers include: David Halperin (U Michigan), Ralph J. Hexter (University of California), Caroline Vout (Cambridge), Craig Williams (Brooklyn, CUNY).

This conference will analyse the importance of ancient Rome in constructing Western homosexual identities. Much scholarship exists on the contribution of ancient Greek culture and literature to discourses of homosexuality, but the originary contribution of Rome has been overlooked. It matters, however, not least because of its impact and presence during the 'Latin Middle Ages' and beyond. Latin literature provides the best known versions of homosexual myths such as Orpheus, Narcissus, Iphis and Ianthe (collected in that mythological compendium, Ovid's Metamorphoses) and explores distinctively Roman homosexual relationships (for instance, Virgil's Nisus and Euryalus), to which a multitude of later artists have responded. Conversely, authors such as Juvenal and Martial censure homosexual behaviour. There have also been many influential instances of homosexuality from Roman history, from allegations that the youthful Julius Caesar was the 'queen of Bithynia'to the celebrated relationship between the emperor Hadrian and Antinous.

This one-off international conference aims to bring together scholars working in a range of fields (Classics, Reception Studies, Queer Studies, Modern Languages, Comparative Literature, Art History) to assess the broad impact of Roman culture on the construction of Western homosexual identities. Exploring this previously neglected area will afford scholarship a better understanding of the ways in which the reception of Roman and Greek culture are different and the importance of Rome as a model for later artists with homosexual leanings and, conversely, the attempted erasure of Roman homosexuality in societies where Rome is idealised. It is hoped that a wide variety of media, approaches, and research interests will be represented, particularly from those working outside the discipline of Classics, and that contributions will result in a substantial publication.

Proposals for papers of 30 minutes should include a title and an abstract of no more than 500 words, and should be received by 20 May 2011; submissions from postgraduate students are particularly welcome.

Proposals for papers and further enquiries should be sent to Dr Jennifer Ingleheart (), Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham University, Durham, UNITED KINGDOM, DH1 3EU.

Dr Jennifer Ingleheart
Lecturer in Classics
Department of Classics and Ancient History Durham University
38 North Bailey
Durham

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Philologisches Schubladendenken: Epochen und Gattungen auf dem Prüfstand
Stereotyped Thinking in Classics: Literary Ages and Genres Re-Considered
University of Vienna, Wed., May 30 - Fri., June 1, 2012

Organizers: Farouk F. Grewing (Vienna) and Christine Walde (Mainz)

Call for Papers This conference is supposed to be the first of a series of conferences or workshops (and publications) on the present, 21st century, condition and self-conception of Classical Philology. 'Stereotyped Thinking in Classics: Literary Ages and Genres Re-Considered' is primarily meant to critically examine the long-lasting problem(s) of categorizing literature according to 'ages', 'genres', etc. At first sight, the advantage of such classifications in various categories seems to be evident, for they purport to lend stability and clarity to otherwise chaotic forms. This includes purely temporal classifications by historical and literary ages, systematic ones by 'genres' or 'types of texts'. Often enough, such simplistic concepts result in aesthetic judgments, such as 'high/low', 'good/bad', etc., which entail the development of canons or lists (e.g., 'must-reads'

vs. 'don't-reads'). The standard companions to, and histories of, Greek and Latin Literature are full of classifications and simplifications that are for the most part handed over from one generation to another. It is the aim of this conference to critically re-assess the pros and cons of such categorizations and to bridge the undeniable gap between traditional philology and modern literary theory. Conference languages: German and English.

Individual talks: 30 minutes plus ca. 15 minutes of discussion each.
Those who wish to contribute a paper should send an e-mail to Farouk F. Grewing () and/or Christine Walde (). Please include a brief abstract in your mail.

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Classics Scholars: their work and methods
University of Turin, June 30th, 2011

‘The nature of classical scholarship is defined by its subject–matter: Greco–Roman civilisation in its essence and in every facet of its existence. The task of scholarship it to bring that dead world to life by the power of science – to recreate the poet’s song, the thought of the philosopher and the lawgiver, the sanctity of the temple and the feelings of believers and unbelievers, the bustling life of market and port, the physical appearance of land and sea, man at work and play. In this as in every department of knowledge a feeling of wonder at the presence of something we do not understand is the starting point, the goal was pure, beatific contemplation of something we have come to understand in all its truth and beauty’

Many things have changed in classics since Wilamowitz wrote this opening for his famous History of Classical Scholarship (Geschichte der Philologie, Berlin 1921). Different literary theories have emerged, producing a variety of new methods and approaches, challenging and redefining Wilamowitz’s naive trust in the ‘power of science’. In parallel, the perception of the value and importance of classical scholarship within contemporary culture has changed. Recent discussions on the history of classical scholarship and its theory (e.g. S. Gurd, Philology and its histories, Ohio 2010; J.P. Schwindt, Was ist eine philologische Frage? Beiträge zur Erkundung einer theoretischen Einstellung, Heidelberg 2009) attest the need of a renewed reflection on the historical progress of classical studies.

We seek papers with fresh perspectives on classical scholars, their works and methods. In particular, we are looking for presentations outlining the answers that classical scholars would give to a number of theoretical questions: what is ‘philology’ and how can we attend to it? What is the point of studying the classical world? Is it possible to attain an objective reconstruction of the classical world? How? Which methods are more likely to yield successful results? What is the contribution of classical scholarship to contemporary thought? What is the relationship between different disciplines within classical studies (such as textual criticism, linguistics, metrics, literary interpretation)?

Papers are invited from young researchers (no more than 5 years after PhD) and graduate students. Prof. Alessandro Schiesaro (Sapienza Università di Roma) will give the keynote lecture. Interested students and scholars are invited to submit titles and abstracts (250–350 words) for a 25–minute research paper to Giuseppe Pezzini and Stefano Rebeggiani at by 15 May 2011. Programme decisions will be communicated by May 20.

For further information about the conference, please contact us at .

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The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL) Conference 2011
Saturday 10^th – Sunday 11^th September 2011
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX
Theme: Power and Manipulation

Some suggestions are given below, although we welcome other interpretations on the theme:

Language (hidden influence or manipulation of language)
Literature (power and authority in epic / flattery vs. praise in encomiastic literature / dominance of love in poetry)
Rhetoric and oratory (persuasion and influence / relationship between the speaker and the audience)
Politics (propaganda / power struggles / success or failure of powerful leaders)
Historiography (manipulation of historical or military events)
Archaeology (control of physical space: architecture and landscape)
Mythology (transmission and manipulation of mythology in literature and art)
Drama (gender power struggles / manipulative characters / power of the gods)
Religion (control of religion as instrument of power / imperial cults / transformation of ideas of power in late antiquity and early Christianity)
Philosophy (ethics of power / balance of power in constitutional theories)
Reception (reception and use of ancient concepts of power)

Postgraduates and postdoctoral students from the UK and internationally are invited to participate in this conference and to offer proposals for papers of 20 minutes. Please send a title and an abstract of 300-500 words to by 1 June 2011, with “Abstract” as the email title, and include your name, level of study and academic institution. Proposals for panels of co-ordinated papers are also welcomed.

Organisers: Christina Pouros, Giulia Brunetta, Katie East
Department of Classics and Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London

Contact:

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Materiality and the materials of research: theory and practice in the humanities
The Open University, Milton Keynes, 24 June 2011

A one-day seminar for current approaches to working with material culture.

The status of material culture, in which we include the visual, varies between and within humanities disciplines. Literary scholars have in recent decades engaged more closely with the ‘history of the book’ to co-produce new accounts of book culture that integrate or foreground aspects of the material, physical, or topographical presence of the media that supports the text. Book historians have developed distinctions between the work (intellectual product) and the text (physical form), and art history and archaeology frame their disciplinary practice and identity in part by their distinctive material cultural repertoires. How far have other disciplines worked through the implications of materiality for their research? Away from the technical, conservation understandings of materials science, how much about the materiality of our research materials and the consequences of materiality/immateriality is ignored, undervalued, or misunderstood?

This one-day current research seminar invites contributions addressing some of the following questions:

Archaeologists create their material data, historians go to museums and galleries: perspectives on where to start with object research

What are the issues around questions of authenticity, copies, transfers and selective survival of material culture for humanities researchers?
The relationship of making to materiality, historically and as a possible research tool for hands-on researchers?
How can lost material culture be rematerialised to enhance research, rather than as a theatrical prop?
Are the historical applications of material culture research quantitatively constrained? If so, does that matter?

Proposals for 20 minute discussion papers, drawing on current research that shows method and theory questions for material culture in the humanities, are invited by Friday 29 April 2011. This seminar is funded by The Open University Arts Faculty, Material Cultures research theme: speakers’ costs may be supported.

Correspondence to: ; Seminar convenors: Dr Sara Pennell, Humanities Dept, Roehampton University ; Dr Susie West, Dept of Art History, The Open University

Organized jointly by Prof. Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wroclaw), Dr. Volker Grieb (Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg), Dr. Agnieszka Wojciechowska (University of Wroclaw – conference secretary). Those wishing to present a paper at this conference please submit the title and a short abstract (ca. 100-150 words) by 15 June 2011 to:

Dr. Agnieszka Wojciechowska,

Call for papers
Interdisciplinary Methodology: The Case of Comics Studies
Friday 14 - Saturday 15 October 2011 at the University of Bern.

Our motivation for this event is to reduce what we see as a stark discrepancy between the popularity of Comics Studies on the one hand and the virtual lack of encompassing methodological reflection on the other.

We have planned one keynote speech for each of the two days: Dr. Thierry Groensteeen (freelance lecturer and curator; founder of www.citebd.org) will hold an introductory speech on Friday 14 October, and Dr. Roger Sabin (lecturer at Central St. Martins University of the Arts, London) will give a paper on Saturday 15 October. Each speech shall be followed by several thematic panels, in which researchers will present their papers and thereby introduce a broader discussion.

We intend to choose papers that include or stimulate reflection on the methodological issues Comics Studies and Intermediality Studies raise, as well as on possibilities to tackle these issues.

If you would like to present a paper or have questions, please contact us at or . Please do not hesitate to forward this information and attachment to other researchers working in the field. We are looking forward to welcoming you at our workshop.

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Stephanie Hoppeler and Lukas Etter

2nd Specialisation Forum of the European Radio-Past Project
"Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites: geophysical and geoarchaeological survey".
Portugal (at the ancient Roman town site of Ammaia) from July 3 to 9, 2011.

Click for here full program, and here for registration form. Both can also be downloaded from our website (www.radiopast.eu). Registrations have to be submitted before April 8, 2011, to:

Call for papers
“Burial and social change in ancient Italy, 9th-5th century BC: approaching social agents”.
The workshop will be held at the British School at Rome on June 7th 2011.

With its great regional diversity and variety of community forms and networks, Italy offers a unique context for exploring how and why communities developed towards socio-political complexity from the Iron Age (9th century BC) to the Archaic period (6th-5th century BC). By analysing the rich funerary evidence from this period, the aim of this workshop is to investigate the role people had in promoting and directing social change as well as the impact that major historical phenomena (e.g. ‘urbanisation’) had on individuals or specific groups of individuals. We are especially interested in how the social role of women, children, the elderly and non-elite individuals can be reconstructed from the way in which these roles are expressed/negotiated through mortuary ritual. We wish to maintain a broad geographical scope, and are especially keen to have contributions on less ‘mainstream’ regions (such as the Veneto and Samnium), preferably addressing the following questions:

Does the presence of women, sub-adults, elderly and non-elite people vary through time and/or in different regions of Italy?
Can these fluctuations indicate changing definitions of community based on access to formal burial?
What is the relationship between social status and gender/age identities?
When does gender/age become more/less important in ritual expressions of status and social structure?
How do we interpret the involvement of women and sub-adults in empowering activities such as ritual drinking? How does the ritual use of alcohol/food in the funerary sphere function as a means to negotiate the role and status of the dead and the mourners?
Is the placement of the dead in the landscape indicative of issues of territoriality, and when is the use of cemeteries suggestive of communal commitment to specific places?

The deadline for abstracts is April 15th. Later submissions may be considered but we advise potential speakers to contact us by the deadline above. There will be flexibility regarding the length of papers (20-45 min).

Titles and abstracts (around 200 words) should be sent to the workshop

convenors: Elisa Perego () and Rafael Scopacasa (). The deadline for registration is April 30th, but we strongly advise those interested in accommodation at the BSR to contact Rafael Scopacasa before that date.

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International Conference: Menander In Contexts
July 23-25, 2012, University of Nottingham, UK

It is now over a century since Menander made his first great step back from the shades with the publication of the Cairo codex, and over half a century since we were first able to read one of his plays virtually complete; since that time our knowledge of his work has been continually enhanced by further papyrus discoveries. This international conference is designed to examine and explore the Menander we know today in the light of the various literary, intellectual and social contexts in which they can be viewed – for example (this is not an exhaustive listing) in relation to

the society, culture and politics of the post-Alexander decades
the intellectual currents of the period
literary precursors and intertexts, dramatic and other
the reception of Menander, from his own time to ours

Papers (of no more than 30 minutes) are invited on any aspect of this theme.

The conference will be held at Derby Hall, on the University's parkland campus just outside the historic city of Nottingham, a few days before the Olympic Games open in London.

Enquiries or abstracts (300-400 words; please state your institutional affiliation) should be sent, preferably by email, not later than 30 June 2011, to: prof. Alan H. Sommerstein

Call for Papers
The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities:
An international conference to be held at Durham University, 17th-18th April 2012, under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition.

Confirmed speakers include: David Halperin (U Michigan), Ralph J. Hexter (University of California), Caroline Vout (Cambridge), Craig Williams (Brooklyn, CUNY).

This conference will analyse the importance of ancient Rome in constructing Western homosexual identities. Much scholarship exists on the contribution of ancient Greek culture and literature to discourses of homosexuality, but the originary contribution of Rome has been overlooked. It matters, however, not least because of its impact and presence during the 'Latin Middle Ages' and beyond. Latin literature provides the best known versions of homosexual myths such as Orpheus, Narcissus, Iphis and Ianthe (collected in that mythological compendium, Ovid's Metamorphoses) and explores distinctively Roman homosexual relationships (for instance, Virgil's Nisus and Euryalus), to which a multitude of later artists have responded. Conversely, authors such as Juvenal and Martia censure homosexual behaviour. There have also been many influential instances of homosexuality from Roman history, from allegations that the youthful Julius Caesar was the 'queen of Bithynia' to the celebrated relationship between the emperor Hadrian and Antinous.

Call for papers
Postgraduate conference: Identity and Representation
King's College London Classics Postgraduate Conference, 4 June 2011, London

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2011

The Classics Department of King's College London is delighted to announce a Postgraduate Conference on identity and representation in the ancient and late antique worlds. The conference will take place on Saturday 4 An email regarding registration will be sent out with a program at a later date.

Presentations are limited to twenty minutes in length. Abstracts of about 250 words should be submitted by e-mail to rebecca.littlechilds@kcl.ac.uk.

Members of the Organizing Committee: Ellie Mackin, Hazel Johannessen, Becky Littlechilds

Call For Papers
Angles 3: Another Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference On Cultural History Birkbeck College, University Of London Saturday 28 May 2011

www.bbk.ac.uk/angles

Following the success of the Angles conferences in 2009 and 2010, we are returning in 2011 with another one-day event. The aim of the conference is to bring together a range of postgraduate perspectives on cultural history from across the disciplinary spectrum. The focus will be on unusual topics or unconventional approaches to otherwise familiar topics. For instance, papers might deal with cultural practices that have been neglected by traditional history, or engage with emerging fields, trends or themes that may have been overlooked by existing scholarship. We would especially welcome papers that reflect on the challenges of dealing with discipline-specific responses to the way in which you approach your topic, or the particular advantages or limitations of taking on an unusual topic.

We invite all interested postgraduates to submit proposals for 20 minute papers. Please send a 200 word abstract, including your name, institutional affiliation and thesis title (if applicable), along with your most recent CV to Natalie Joelle at no later than Friday 8 April 2011. Angles 3 continues the model established by James Emmott, Rachel Richardson and Thomas Turner and is generously supported by the Roberts Career and Skills Development Fund, Birkbeck College.

School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London: www.bbk.ac.uk/arts Department of History, Classics and Archaeology: www.bbk.ac.uk/hca

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Enduring Monsters: Harryhausen and The Classical Tradition
Wed 9 November 2011 at the National Media Museum in Bradford

co-organised by Steve Green (Leeds) and Penny Goodman (Leeds)

Classics at Leeds, in collaboration with the National Media Museum at Bradford, is pleased to announce a one-day conference this November based around the film work of Ray Harryhausen. Harryhausen’s distinctive brand of film animation of classical myth has captured the imagination of generations of viewers – his animation of skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and Medusa in Clash of the Titans (1981) are of course legendary.

This one-day conference seeks to explore reciprocal issues: the creative ways in which the Harryhausen films engage with the classical tradition and, conversely, the influence that the Harryhausen films have had on the visualisation of the classical world in more recent culture. The conference will take place at the National Media Museum at Bradford to coincide with, and mark a celebration of, the arrival of the Harryhausen animation collection to the Museum. Classically-themed items from the Harryhausen collection will be available for viewing on the day. Moreover, as this date also marks the opening of the Bradford Animation Festival at the Museum, the conference will finish with a drinks reception to mark the occasion.

At this point, the co-organisers of the conference are putting out a call for papers. Confirmed speakers so far are: Penny Goodman (Leeds), Steve Green (Leeds), Helen Lovatt (Nottingham), Dunstan Lowe (Reading) and Gideon Nisbet (Birmingham). The following areas of focus have been identified as particularly relevant and of interest to both Classics at Leeds and the National Media Museum

classical v. contemporary influence in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and Clash of the Titans (1981)
the creation of classical landscape/ architecture in Jason and the Argonauts (1960) and Clash of the Titans (1981)
classical engagement in less-obvious/ less well-known Harryhausen outputs
the influence of Harryhausen’s classical animations on subsequent visualisations of the classical world in (sub-) culture, esp. art, film, video/computer games
the ‘remake’ of Clash of the Titans (2010)

Papers should last 20-25 minutes; abstracts should be no more than 300 words. Please send abstracts to both Steve Green (s.j.green@leeds.ac.uk) and Penny Goodman () by Friday 29 April 2011. If you have any further queries, please feel free to contact the co-organisers.

A dedicated webpage for the conference will be constructed shortly.

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Roman Family VI: LIMITS AND BORDERS OF CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY
17-19 May 2012, Villa Lante al Gianicolo, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Rome

The conference sets out to continue the tradition of the previous Roman Family Conferences, held in Canberra, Hamilton and Fribourg in the period 1981-2007. In this conference, 'limits and borders' will be understood in three different ways:

1) the borders of the Roman Empire which have so far not been in the centre of the discussion

2) the limits of human life, by which we mean dangerous or 'darker' sides of childhood and family

3) the borderline between childhood/youth and the adult world.

Moreover, we will also touch upon chronological borders, by focusing on Late Antiquity, a period which has been intensively studied in the last years and has become a new and flourishing branch of family studies. The poster session gives to scholars and PhD students an occasion to be in contact with the best specialists of the topic in the world by presenting their posters.

The poster should have a topic, the name(s) of the presenter(s) and should elaborate on its topics through text and/or graphics such as tables, drawings or charts. The poster size could be at maximum 100 X 80 cm, at minimum 30x40 cm (appr. A3 size paper). Please notice that the font size should be larger than on normal print, as the text should be able to be read from further off. Ideally, poster forms the starting point for a brief and interactive presentation to interested viewers; therefore, it is recommendable that handouts are provided by the posters.

The conference organizers will provide poster boards. Presenters are responsible for bringing the poster with them (no printing services can be offered) and for being present at the board during breaks and the special poster session.

Conference fee 50€ (PhD students) / 150€ (other scholars).

A poster proposal should be no more that 250 words in length, identify the presenter(s) with their academis affiliation, and include the title of the poster with an abstract explaining its intent/main points.

The preliminary program of the conference: http://www.irfrome.org/ei/images/Roman%20Family.pdf

For further information and poster proposals, please contact:

Empowerment and the Sacred. An Interdisciplinary Conference
Institute of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Leeds
24th-26th June, 2011

http://www.empowermentandthesacred.com

At a moment when the 'resurgence of religion' is calling into question the secular orientation of global futures, we ask: isn't it time for cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary debate about the role that the sacred plays in our ideas and our histories of personal and collective agency, power and change?

This conference will bring together scholars, arts-practitioners and professionals to investigate the ways in which sacred traditions - in diverse historical and cultural contexts - have shaped discourses and practices of empowerment, emancipation, change, resistance and survival.

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations, which address the relation between the sacred and empowerment, to be given at the conference. For more information on conference themes or on submitting a proposal please see our Call for Papers (attached) or visit our website at http://www.empowermentandthesacred.com. The deadline for submissions has now been extended to March 30th 2011.

Call for papers - Postgraduate Conference
Ancient Ideas in the Modern World: Reinventing the Legacy of Greece
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, Friday 8th July 2011

This postgraduate conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for those working on the reception of classical Greek thought, specifically vis-à-vis the conceptual life of the polis in modern theory and practice.

Why does Greek political thought continue to fascinate western political theorists from wildly divergent ideological traditions?
Why have the ideas behind the Athenian paideia and Spartan agoge had so strong an influence across so many different societies?
How significantly have our own perceptions of the ancient world been coloured by the interpretations of 19th century Classicists?
Why are classical foundations so important in the work of post-modern critics such as Derrida and Kristeva?

We welcome contributions in any of these areas, both from Classicists, and from those working in other relevant humanities disciplines. Interested students are invited to submit titles and abstracts (c. 300 words) for 20 minute papers to Helen Roche () and Carol Atack () by Friday March 25th 2011

We envisage there being two panels - one more focused on theory and theorists, the other on political actors and cultural history. In addition, there will be a keynote address given by Professor Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University.

For further information please contact the organisers: Carol Atack: () or Helen Roche ().

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The XVIth World Economic History Congress (8-13 July 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa) Ancient History Session Panel Title:
“Transport infrastructure and economic development in the Roman World (1st c. BC – 6th c. AD)”

We welcome papers that meet either of the following criteria:

a) Theoretical studies. These papers should investigate how public initiative (whether driven by imperial action or promoted by local

administrators) aimed to develop a coherent and Empire-wide system of communication and transport which triggered economic growth.

Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to Dario Nappo or to Andrea Zerbini by 31 May 2011.

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Soul to Soul – Orality in the Platonic Tradition
Friday, 1 July to Sunday, 3 July, 2011
Ivy House, Warminster, Wiltshire, UK

The 2011 Prometheus Trust Conference will invite participants to consider the Platonic tradition as primarily an oral one – for in both the Phaedrus and in his Epistles, Plato indicates the superiority of the spoken above that of the written word in philosophy. Further, it is clear that where Plato does commit his philosophy to writing, the very form chosen – that of the dialogue – draws the reader as closely as possible to the oral experience. If this hypothesis is correct, it presents major difficulties to those investigating the Platonic tradition from our modern perspective, which sees the text as the safe arbiter of true understanding. How can we overcome these difficulties? And for those who seek to continue the tradition, how can we embrace orality as the central instrument of philosophical progress?

Papers are invited from those interested in these areas for presentation at the sixth Prometheus Trust conference. We hope that the subject will attract speakers from both academic and non-academic backgrounds who share a common love of wisdom.

Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and should be with us at the latest by Friday, 1 April 2011. Acceptance of these will be confirmed as quickly as possible.

Papers should be around 2500-3000 words or 20 minutes’ presentation (we usually allow a further 20 minutes for a question and answer session after each presentation).

Bookings should be received by us not later than Friday, 6 May 2011.

We are delighted that Dr Deepa Majumdar has agreed to give the keynote address on the Friday evening. Deepa is originally from India and now resides in the US where she is a tenured faculty member (Associate rank) at Purdue University North Central. In 2000, she received her DSSc degree in Philosophy at the former Graduate Faculty of The New School, where she wrote her dissertation on the philosophy of Plotinus. She has a prior PhD in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University. She has published one book entitled Plotinus on the Appearance of Time and the World of Sense (Ashgate Publishers 2007) and two papers on Plotinus. She has also published a paper each on Plato and Ghandi. Her current work includes a paper on Plotinus and the Bhagavad Gita, a book on Plotinus and Advaita Vedanta and a work on the nature of love. She has prepared reviews on papers on Plotinus for The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, Ancient Philosophy, and the 2009 Conference volume of The International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, as well as a review on a book on Plotinus in The Classical Review, volume 60. Deepa believes in disseminating academic knowledge as widely as possible, engaging in many public educational projects and writing copious op-ed pieces for Indian newspapers. She believes deeply in being a writer and thinker for the people, as it were, and is critical of the hyper-formalism of academia.

One of the highlights of our conferences is the annual Thomas Taylor lecture given on Saturday evening: this year we are very pleased indeed that Prof John Dillon of University College Dublin has agreed to give this lecture.

Accommodation: The conference will take place at Ivy House, a retreat centre in Warminster, which is comfortable and well appointed. Residential prices are for full board for the weekend (from Friday supper to Sunday tea) and are £120 (£90 for students). Students are requested to share a bedroom if there are no single rooms available when they book. Please contact the Treasurer if you cannot afford these fees as it may be possible to offer you a bursary.

For those who wish to attend the conference but who do not wish to stay or eat at Ivy House, there are inexpensive residential pubs in Warminster and several take-aways/cafes/restaurants. It would be your responsibility to arrange accommodation and food; attendance at Ivy House on a non-residential basis costs £18 per day (to include refreshments and lunch) plus the conference fee. We can forward a list of local accommodation.

Conference fee: This charge is £30 and is payable with your booking. It is non-refundable in the event of cancellation. Accommodation fees are payable by end of May. Ivy House has its own cancellation policy – details if required from the Conference Secretary.

Booking forms are available from the Conference Secretary at the above address, phone or email. Completed forms with your deposit of £30 should be returned by FRIDAY, 6 MAY at the very latest.

The Prometheus Trust, 28 Petticoat Lane, Dilton Marsh, Westbury, Wilts BA13 4DG, Tel: 01373 825808, email:
www.prometheustrust.co.uk

Travel: Warminster is on the main train line from South Wales and the South Coast and is easily reached from London via Bath or Salisbury. Buses run from Bath, Bristol and Salisbury and coaches from London.

Second Specialization Forum of the European Radio-Past Project.
"Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites: geophysical and geoarchaeological survey"
Portugal, at the ancient Roman town site of Ammaia, July 3 to 9, 2011.

Further information can be found in the attached Call and the Registration Form, which both can also be downloaded from our website (www.radiopast.eu). Registrations have to be submitted before April 8, 2011, to:

click here for full call

Final Call For Papers
Text, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late antiquity to 1550
The University of Melbourne 13^th to 15^th July 2011

Convenors: Andrew Turner, Giulia Torello Hill

In 2011 the University of Melbourne, in association with the University of Queensland, will host an international conference with the title Text, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late antiquity to 1550. Illustrated manuscripts of classical authors often transmitted an insight for much later readers into how ancient illustrators (and thus audiences) visualized these works, but also provided current reinterpretations of the texts. Both tendencies are best exemplified in a cycle of illustrations to the plays of Terence, which provides an almost unbroken continuum from the Carolingian era through to the dawn of the age of printing. But despite the fact that these illustrations represented the action on stage, even down to details of masks and props, there is no evidence at all that the plays were performed in the mediaeval period—they were simply literary texts, to be studied and at the most recited by a lector. Rather, revivals of the Classics on stage began in the Italian Renaissance, and the theoretical knowledge which critics gleaned from writers like Vitruvius were poured back into the illustrated tradition, providing an extraordinary amalgam of ancient and ‘modern’. This conference will explore the connections between text, illustration, and revival.

Confirmed speakers so far include Gianni Guastella (University of Siena), who has written several seminal publications on the reception of Roman comedy in the Italian Renaissance, Dorota Dutsch (University of California, Santa Barbara), author of Feminine Discourses in Roman Comedy (Oxford 2008), who has most recently been investigating the semiotics of gesture in the illustrated Terence manuscripts; and Bernard Muir (University of Melbourne), a world authority on the digitization of manuscripts, who has published extensively on Latin palaeography and on the mediaeval transmission of texts, and who most recently, with Andrew Turner, is the editor of a digital facsimile of a 12^th-century manuscript of Terence from Oxford (Terence’s Comedies, Bodleian Digital Texts 2, Oxford 2010). We are hopeful that selected proceedings will eventually be published following the conference.

You are now invited to submit proposals for papers (lasting 30 minutes). We are particularly interested in submissions on the following topics, although we will look at other submissions on the broad area of classical drama between Late Antiquity and 1550 sympathetically.

• The manuscript traditions of the classical dramatists;

• Mediaeval scholia and commentary traditions;

• Illustrations of drama in the manuscript and early printed traditions;

• The physical environment of performances of ancient drama;

• Reception and translation of Greek dramatists in the West before 1550.

The deadline for submission of a title and an abstract of 100 words is 25^th February 2011. We intend establishing a web site early next year which will progressively include information on the conference, registration, and accommodation. For the meantime, please direct any enquiries (including proposals for papers), to:

Andrew Turner or Giulia Torello Hill email:

Call for papers/sessions
Sociale geschiedenis van de Oudheid, European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow 11-14 april 2012

[Bericht van prof. A. Zuiderhoek (UGent)]

De negende bijeenkomst van de European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) zal plaatsvinden in Glasgow, 11-14 april 2012. Het doel van de ESSHC is om historici van alle perioden die interesse hebben in sociale geschiedenis en het toepassen van inzichten uit de sociale wetenschappen in historische analyse samen te brengen. De conferentie vindt om de twee jaar plaats, steeds in een andere Europese stad, en trekt gewoonlijk honderden onderzoekers aan van over de hele wereld. De conferentie bestaat uit een groot aantal kleine workshop-sessies georganiseerd in Networks die betrekking hebben op een periode (Antiquity), of op een thema (bijvoorbeeld Culture, Family & Demography, Religion, Economics). Veel sessies vallen zowel binnen een thematisch als een periodegebonden Network, wat oudhistorici de kans geeft tot interactie met onderzoekers die gelijksoortige onderwerpen bestuderen in andere perioden.

Samen met Neville Morley (University of Bristol) coördineer ik het Antiquity Network van de ESSHC, en bij deze zou ik een oproep willen doen aan oudhistorici om bij de ESSHC een voorstel in te dienen voor het geven van een paper, of liever nog, het organiseren van een sessie rond een sociaalhistorisch thema binnen de Oude Geschiedenis.

'Sociaalhistorisch' mag hier zeer breed worden opgevat. Er is ruimte voor in totaal 8 Antiquity sessies. De deadline voor de eerste registratie van paper- en sessie voorstellen is 1 mei 2011, zie de website van de ESSHC voor instructies http://www.iisg.nl/esshc

Sessie organisatoren dienen zelf hun sessie te registreren, en hun sprekers uit te nodigen dit te doen voor de individuele papers.

Een sessie duurt twee uur en heeft gewoonlijk 3 à 4 door de organisator bijeen gebrachte sprekers, die elk een presentatie geven van zo?n 20 minuten. De ESSHC sessies volgen het ?workshop model?, in de zin dat papers van tevoren worden rondgestuurd onder de deelnemers en ook op de ESSHC website kunnen worden geplaatst, waardoor er veel ruimte is voor gerichte discussie. Elke sessie heeft behalve de sprekers ook nog een chair en een commentator, functies die de organisator van de sessie echter ook zelf op zich kan nemen.

Organisatoren van sessies hoeven niet per se zelf een paper te geven, al kan dit natuurlijk altijd. Ik wil, naast senior scholars, ook vooral jongere onderzoekers (PhD studenten, postdocs) oproepen een sessie te organiseren rond hun eigen onderzoek of een paper te geven, de ESSHC biedt een ideaal forum om je onderzoek voor te leggen aan een breed interdisciplinair publiek van sociaal historici, en om je academische presentatie- en organisatievaardigheden verder aan te scherpen. Sessies die aansluiten bij de bredere thematische Networks van de ESSHC zijn zeer gewenst, evenals sessies die bestaan uit zowel oudhistorici als historici van andere perioden, maar in principe is elk sociaalhistorisch onderwerp van harte welkom. Voor meer informatie, zie de website van de ESSHC, maar aarzel vooral niet om mijzelf () of Neville Morley

() te contacteren in geval van vragen.

Marking Coin Issues: Mint Administration and Mint Archives in Antiquity
Brussels, Friday May 13^th 2011

click here for program in pdf

Following our international one-day conferences in 2005 and 2008, the Royal Library of Belgium is pleased to announce its third international numismatic conference to be held on Friday May 13^th 2011. The theme will be "Marking Coin Issues: Mint Administration and Mint Archives in Antiquity".

You are cordially invited to attend this meeting that will take place in the
Lucien de Hirsch-Conference Room in the Coin Cabinet of the Royal Library (conveniently situated near the central Railway station of Brussels).

This meeting is open to all and free of charge. Please confirm your attendance (by May 3^th) as participation is limited to 40 people (reply to: paulette.ramakers@kbr.be). There will be the possibility to have lunch with the speakers for a € 25 fee upon reservation (please RSVP when you confirm your attendance). We also have a self-service cafeteria, no reservation required.

It would be our great pleasure to welcome you in Brussels.

Yours sincerely,

François de Callataÿ (), Johan van Heesch ()

Timing	Title	Speaker
9.15	Welcome	Patrick Lefèvre, Director general of the Royal Library of Belgium
9.30	Les marques de contrôle des monnaies argiennes au loup, de l’époque archaïque à l’époque hellénistique : essai d’interprétation	Christophe Flament
10.00	Control Marks on Hellenistic Royal Coinages	François de Callataÿ
10.30 - 11.00	BREAK
11.00	Names and Mintmarks at the Mint of Dyrrachium (ca. 270 - 60/55 BC): a Case-Study	Albana Meta
11.30	The Use of Control Marks on Roman Republican Coinage	Rick Witschonke
12.00	Not Marking Imperial Coin Issues: System and Product in Roman Mints from the Late Republic to the High Principate	Bernhard Woytek
12.30 – 14.00	LUNCH
14.00	Numerical Letters on Syrian Coins: Officina or Sequence Marks?	Kevin Butcher
14.30	Rome et les ateliers périphériques au milieu du IIIème s. de n. è. : régionalisation ou décentralisation ?	Jean-Marc Doyen
15.00 – 15.30	BREAK
15.30	Control Marks and Mint Administration in the Fourth Century AD	Johan van Heesch
16.00	Control Marks on Medieval Coinages (working title)	Benedikt Zäch
16.30	Conclusions

Call for papers
Feminism and Classics VI: Crossing Borders, Crossing Lines
Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada May 24-27, 2012

We invite submissions for abstracts of papers and workshops that explore these and related themes, and encourage proposals from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives. Abstracts of 300 words can be submitted electronically (starting January 31, 2011) to the conference website: www.brocku.ca/conferences/feminism-classics-vi. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is June 30, 2011.

For inquiries, please contact .

The Department of Classics at Brock University is pleased to host Feminism and Classics VI. Brock University is the only Canadian University to be located in a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve. It is within an hour’s drive of Toronto, Ontario and Buffalo, NY, and thus easily accessible and close to major attractions, shopping and airports. The Niagara region is framed by Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and the Niagara River, and is in the heart of Ontario’s vineyard country, and visitors can enjoy the culinary and wine trail. More information about Brock University and its location can be found at http://www.brocku.ca/about/why

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Economic Role of Greek Fineware Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean.
Colloquium for Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting 2012Philadelphia, PA 5^th-8^th January 2012.

While quantitative studies on the location, use, amount, and artistic value of ancient ceramics abound, few of them take the further step of examining the role that the production and distribution of ceramics had within the context of economic transactions. In this session we seek to draw together recent work on the way in which Greek fineware is being used to trace economic connections and mechanisms of trade in all regions of the Mediterranean from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. The focus on fineware pottery aims to encourage considerations of economic transactions that deal with neither high-end “luxuries” nor basic subsistence goods. We are particularly interested in contributions which use specific case-studies to advance the understanding of the ancient economy through fineware distribution and use.

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words for 15 or 20 minute papers to Catherine Cooper () and Ulrike Krotscheck () before March 1st 2011. Also feel free to contact us with any questions you might have. Presenters should be prepared to attend the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia 5^th -8^th January 2012.

Call for papers
11th ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT DRAMA, JUNE 2011
‘Journeys’

We are happy to announce the Eleventh Annual Postgraduate Symposium organised by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford and the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome, Royal Holloway, University of London. This two-day event will take place on Monday 27th June at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford (66 St Giles) and Tuesday 28th June at Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham (Noh Studio).

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: Organised by postgraduates, this annual symposium focuses on the reception of Greek and Roman drama, exploring the afterlife of ancient dramatic texts through re-workings of Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy by writers and practitioners. At previous symposia, speakers from a number of countries have given papers on the reception of Greek and Roman drama related to theme selected that year. Abstracts of papers from previous symposia are accessible online: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events.htm

PARTICIPANTS: Postgraduates from across the globe working on the reception of Greek and Roman drama are welcome to participate, as are those who have completed a doctorate but not yet taken up a post. The Symposium is open to speakers from different disciplines, including researchers in the fields of classics, modern languages and literature, or theatre studies.

Practitioners are welcome to contribute their personal experience of working on ancient drama. Papers may also include demonstrations. Undergraduates are very welcome to attend.

Those who wish to offer a short paper (15 mins) or performative presentation on ‘Journeys’ are invited to send an abstract of up to 200 words outlining the proposed subject of their discussion to BY Thursday 31st MARCH 2011 AT THE LATEST. (Please include details of your current course of study, supervisor and academic institution).

Please note that ‘Journeys’ should be broadly interpreted to include journeys of all kinds (for example, physical, psychological, emotional)

There will be no registration fee, but participants will have to seek their own funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses.

ORGANISERS: Helen Slaney (University of Oxford), Lucy Jackson (Oxford University), Katie Billotte (Royal Holloway, University of London), Lottie Parkyn (Royal Holloway, University of London), and Jarrid Looney (Royal Holloway, University of London).

CONTACT FOR ENQUIRIES:

CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Alexander in Africa' (12th Unisa Classics Colloquium, Grahamstown, South Africa 28-30 June 2011)

Proposals for papers are hereby solicited on topics related to the theme, which is seen as covering the following: Alexander’s sojourn on the African continent (founding of Alexandria, Siwah, interaction with local populace, politics, myth and religion, ‘last plans’, other related issues from the sources including the Romance); legacy of Alexander in Egypt and Roman Africa (Ptolemaic and otherwise); ancient and modern receptions of Alexander relating to Africa (Arabic histories; colonial aemulatores; South African and other African literature e.g. Mary Renault, etc.).

Please submit abstracts of appr. 200 words to by 14 March 2011. Scholars working on archaeological, epigraphical, religious, philosophical, and interdisciplinary material are encouraged to submit proposals.

The Unisa Classics Colloquium this year forms a running parallel session at the Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa (CASA), hosted by the Classics Department at Rhodes University, Grahamstown. The conference website can be accesses at http://atashost.co.za/CASA/. Papers at the conference are limited to 20 minutes in 30 minute sessions.

Please note that registration will be dealt with by the CASA Conference organisers, but proposals for the Alexander panel should be send to the address given above. Being part of a larger conference unfortunately limits the number of papers we will be able to accept. The following Alexander specialists are currently signed up for the conference: John Atkinson (Cape Town); Timothy Howe (St Olaf), Corinne Jouanno (Caen); Daniel Ogden (Exeter), Frances Pownall (Alberta), Richard Stoneman (Exeter), Adrian Tronson (New Brunswick), Pat Wheatley (Otago).

The Unisa Classics Colloquium is organised annually by the Department of Classics and World Languages at the University of South Africa.

CALL FOR PAPERS
ENCOUNTERING THE DIVINE: BETWEEN GODS AND MEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF READING, SEPT. 1^ST and 2^ND 2011

We invite offers of papers for the forthcoming conference, Encountering the Divine: Between Gods and Men in the Ancient World, to be held at the University of Reading, Thurs. 1^st and Fri. 2^nd September 2011. The deadline for abstracts is FRIDAY 4^TH MARCH, 2011.

How and why did mortal men (and women) relate to their gods – and their gods to them? This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the relationships between gods and mortals in the ancient world. The gods were an integral part of Greek and Roman life. Ancient men and women encountered the divine in the course of their daily lives and on special religious occasions, in contexts both unexpected and carefully planned, in their homes and their cities and their countryside and their dreams. Relationships with the gods ebbed and flowed with the human life cycle, punctuating the physical (and social) changes of the aging mortal body. Priests, seers, magic-workers, and even poets and sculptors were, in different ways, responsible for defining and regulating the interactions of gods and men. Moreover, just as the mortal world encompassed diversity and inequality, so too did the divine world. Human worshippers navigated a divine topography, mapped out in myth, tradition and ritual inheritance, which traversed Olympian deities, heroes, apotheosis and deified emperors, nymphs, demigods and divine creatures – and much more besides.

We aim to bring together researchers from a range of classical disciplines to discuss some fundamental questions:

How did Greek and Roman worshippers imagine their relationships with their gods? In what ways did they construct their gods through those relationships?
How did those relationships define and construct the ontology of the gods – their similarity and difference to mortals? In what ways do other figures – heroes, animals and ritual professionals, for instance – act as mediators between gods and men? As our title suggests, gender is built into relationships with the divine: how are mortal-divine relations refracted and negotiated through gender – on the part of mortal men and women, but also on the part of gods and goddesses?
How do changes over time – in ritual practice, in religious space, in political and social dynamics – map out and produce changes in mortal-divine relations?
How far have modern attitudes and ideologies historically influenced the study of humans’ relationship with divinity, particularly in the twentieth century?

Papers should be 25-30 minutes in length. We welcome research in a wide variety of fields, but the following topics would be especially warmly received:

Representing the gods in visual culture (in the temple and elsewhere)
Ritual actions (including sacrifice) and ritual professions
Divine agency: oracles, portents and miracles, poetic inspiration
Literary representations of mortals, heroes and gods
Introducing new gods (including imperial apotheosis)
Divine constraints: curses, oaths and magic-working in text and material culture
Regional and ethnic variation in religious experience and practice
The archaeology and topography of ritual and myth

Titles and abstracts (around 200 words in length) should be sent to the conference organisers: Dr. Susanne Turner () and Alastair Harden ().

announcement
'Diodorus Siculus: shared myths, world community, and universal history'
An international conference at the University of Glasgow, 31st Aug. - 2nd Sep. 2011

Diodorus Siculus, the most voluminous historian to survive from classical antiquity, is an important but neglected author. Not only is he our main source for significant periods of Greek, Roman and Sicilian history, he is also one of the few preserved ancient universal historians and one of only three Hellenistic historiographers whose work is extant in any substantial part. Moreover, his Bibliotheca, because it is largely based on the works of his predecessors, is a source for the study of many lost Greek historians. Despite his importance, he has rarely been studied in his own right, owing to the traditional view that he was a slavish compiler of earlier works.

Although Diodorus, like many other ancient historiographers, has been the subject of a (partial) rehabilitation, the question of his independence remains a controversial one.

The conference programme consists of three keynote addresses and 28 papers arranged in eight panels: 'Diodorus and his World', 'Military History in the Bibliotheca', 'Diodorus and his Sources: the New Quellenforschung', 'Speeches in the Bibliotheca', 'Gods, Heroes and Myths', 'Compositional Techniques', 'Geography and Ethnography', and 'Writing and Historiography'. All of these topics are traditionally covered in the discussion of any ancient historiographer, but - apart from Quellenforschung - they are all under-developed in the study of Diodorus. The broad range of panels and papers will allow us to develop a more nuanced picture of Diodorus and the Bibliotheca. In particular, we hope to expand our understanding of Diodorus' historical aims and compositional methods as well as gaining a better appreciation of the dynamic between Diodorus and the lost historiographers who are 'preserved' only by his Bibliotheca. This will open up new avenues of research and constitute a move away from the stalemate which exists between the old and new views on Diodorus.

For a list of speakers and abstracts of papers, see the conference website: http://ldab.arts.kuleuven.be/diodorus/

Registration will open in April. For more information contact one of the organisers: Lisa Irene Hau, University of Glasgow: Alexander Meeus, University of Wales Trinity Saint David: Brian Sheridan, National University of Ireland, Maynooth:

Call for papers
'CONTINUITY AND DESTRUCTION IN ALEXANDER'S EAST - THE TRANSFORMATION OF MONUMENTAL SPACE FROM THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD TO LATE ANTIQUITY'

An international conference to be held at the University of Oxford on 6-7 May, 2011

Alexander the Great's campaigns from Greece to India brought a vast, disparate region together under a shared cultural umbrella on a scale and at a speed that had not been seen before. This conference will explore the ways in which this cultural hegemony was expressed, or deviated from, by the many peoples and powers that lived in the Hellenized parts of Asia Minor, Egypt, and the Levant - specifically how this expression was manifested in changes and use of monumental space from the early Hellenistic period (4th century BCE) to the Arab conquests (7th century CE). Monumental space is here taken to refer to various public spaces: temples and cult spaces; necropoleis; palaces; military installations, etc. The term space refers to geographical as well as topographical space. Topics for consideration include, but are not limited to:

- the veneration and/or restoration of monumental spaces of earlier periods

- the destruction and rehabilitation of towns

- shifting values as expressed through space and monuments

- Theoretical approaches to the transformation of monumental space

Proposals should be between 300-500 words and the time allocated for each paper will be 20 minutes. We welcome submissions from postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and other interested academics. Please send an abstract with your name, title, and institution together with a short CV to one of the three conference organizers no later than February 15, 2011. Any enquiries about the conference should be addressed to the organizers.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Marlena Whiting (), Sujatha Chandrasekaran (), Anna Kouremenos ()

CALL FOR PAPERS
To Receive is Never Neutral: A multi-disciplinary workshop towards an Ethics of Reception
September 7-8, 2011: University of Bristol

Deadline March 1st 2011

With confirmed invited participants and speakers: Greg Gerrard (Bath Spa); Edith Hall (RHUL); Katherine Harloe (Reading); Genevieve (Liveley); Sarah Wood (Kent). Calling for: Original, Innovative and Provocative papers in any discipline engaging with reception and classical narratives, based around but not limited to discussions of: Aesthetics; Class; Eco-Criticism and Sustainability; Feminism; Gender; Ideology; Narrative Inquiry; Pedagogy; Performance; Politics; Race; Re-reading; Sexuality; Theory; Translation; Trauma
Submissions accepted from any stage of academic career, specialty and format.

Is there a place of ethics within reception theorising; is it necessary, achievable, or even desirable? What can “reception” bring to re-thinking ethics in the 21st century? Can ethics be re-embodied in terms of reciprocal narratives; can ethics be given (and received) differently? Do “ethics” mean anything to classics, reception, re-reading and performance; what are the ethical concerns of the text?- Just some questions that keep cropping up. Through a series of roundtable debates, plenary discussions and respondent sessions, the places of “ethics” and “reception” within academic theory and practice will be critical re(con)ceived. We would like papers from any branch of thinking concerned with “reception” and “ethics,” with a particular focus on how “classical” narratives are received and interacted with. This event will lay the groundwork for future workshops and discussions. We will pre-circulate the papers to ensure open, provocative, and communal debate; creating a self-reflexive and creative place for people to share, perform and re-form different knowledges. Making this workshop cross-disciplinary necessitates levels of openness and accessibility in the papers: the audience will never be singular.

Abstract submissions of no more than 400 words by March 1st 2011 to .
Final papers of no longer than 5000 words by July 20th. For more information see http://ethicsofreception.wordpress.com/

A further Call for Participants and Programme will be circulated in March 2011.

Call for Papers
"In the Bosom of the Family? Aging and the elderly in joint- and stem families"
36th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association in Boston, Massachusetts, 17-20 November 2011

The deadline for submission of proposals is February 15, 2011

Dr. Mikolaj Szoltysek () Priv.-Doz. Dr. phil. habil. Sabine R. Huebner ()

The use of scientific samples of census data that are comparable across space and time is revolutionizing research into demography, economics, and family history. Among the many issues discussed in association with these new developments in data infrastructure, the questions of who lives with whom, and for what reasons, remain central. Variations in components of the co-resident domestic groups are often considered the most crucial indicators of diversity in family systems. Diversity in people’s living arrangements reflects a variety of preferable or achievable residential patterns, and likely indicates differential notions regarding the way obligations to kin from outside the immediate family are structured. The study of residence patterns not only contributes to a better understanding of household composition; it is also of primary importance in explaining demographic outcomes. As recent research suggests, domestic groups formed according to stem- and joint-family rules would make for different fertility outcomes. Moreover, these groups may perform welfare functions towards their members on a different basis, and may cope with economic hardships in a different manner (Gruber and Szoltysek 2010).

With this research perspective in mind, we would like to invite you to take part in a scientific panel "In the Bosom of the Family? Aging and the elderly in joint- and stem families" we are organizing at this year’s meeting of the Social Science History Association in Boston, Massachusets. The 2011 conference will be held in downtown Boston, at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers in Boston. The theme for this year’s conference is "Generation to Generation".

The organizers encourage a wide range of submissions, chronologically, geographically, and in terms of methodology. Prof. Monica Das Gupta has agreed to act as discussant for the papers in this session.

Call for papers
Text, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late antiquity to 1550
The University of Melbourne: 13^th to 15^th July 2011

• The manuscript traditions of the classical dramatists;

• Mediaeval scholia and commentary traditions;

• Illustrations of drama in the manuscript and early printed traditions;

• The physical environment of performances of ancient drama;

• Reception and translation of Greek dramatists in the West before 1550.

Andrew Turner, Classics and Archaeology Programme, Old Quadrangle Building The University of Melbourne, 3010, AUSTRALIA
or email to:

Call for papers
2011 Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conference:
"The Archaeology of Recovery: Adaptive Strategies in Response to Crisis"
Oxford, 18-19 March 2011.

In the second call, the Committee would especially like to encourage abstracts for posters and from Master's and first-year PhD students.**

Abstract submission deadline: 7 February 2011** email abstracts to:

Themes and questions to consider

1. Society, economics and politics

The archaeological response to political crisis can viewed through material culture, through changing settlement patterns and landscape use. How can we employ archaeological evidence to identify cultural continuity in the face of political and social change? How meaningful are concepts of identity in times of cultural transition? How can archaeological evidence be used to track population movements in the past?

2. Climate change

Climactic, social and political crises could have had enormous effects on the health and demography of past populations. How did ancient cultures respond to ill-health and population decline? How have humans managed episodes of plague and famine in the past? How can burial and skeletal evidence supplement the archaeological record?

3. Health and demography

Climactic, social and political crises can have enormous effects on the health and demography of past populations. How have ancient cultures responded to ill-health and population decline? How have humans managed episodes of plague and famine in the past? How can burial and skeletal evidence supplement the archaeological record?

4. Scientific techniques

How can scientific techniques (e.g. isotopic analysis, environmental reconstruction, residue analysis, computer modeling, ancient DNA) be used to infer population change, movement or continuity in response to crisis? How well can we correlate scientific evidence with other artistic, archaeological and textual records?

5. Archaeology and academia

The recent economic crisis and subsequent cut backs in heritage funding requires archaeology to adapt to this new situation. What strategies can be implemented to ensure the continued advancement and integration of research within academic, commercial and community archaeology? How do we ensure continuing development and advancement of archaeology research and protection of cultural heritage?

If you are interested in exploring any of these themes in an exciting interdisciplinary conference, please send your name, institution, presentation title and abstract (up to 500 words) to by 7 February 2011. We will be offering both presentations and posters, and we will notify you of our decision by 14 February 2011. Presenter fees for the conference will be £35 and include the conference dinner on the Friday.

For more information, or to download a registration form, visit our website: http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/conferences/articles/751.html

Call for papers
2e ronde tafel van Belgische classici / 2ème table ronde des antiquistes belges:
"Municipaal Leven / Vie Municipale" in de oudheid"
Brussel / Bruxelles <1ste of 2e zaterdag oktober>

Deadline: 1 maart 2011

meer info klik hier of mail naar : of

Call for papers
APPROACHES TO ANCIENT MEDICINE - UNIVERSITY OF EXETER 22-23 August 2011

Deadline: 28 Feb. 2011

Continuing the annual series held at Newcastle, Reading and Cardiff since 2000, the 2011 "Approaches to Ancient Medicine" conference will be held at the University of Exeter on Monday and Tuesday 22-23 August 2011, hosted jointly by the Centre for Medical History and the Department of Classics and Ancient History.

If you are interested in giving a paper at the conference, please send an abstract of up to 200 words to Robert Leigh by 28 February 2011 at the latest. Papers should be of 20 minutes duration. In addition to papers relating to the classical Greek and Roman period we welcome proposals relating to medicine in late antiquity, to the transmission of classical medicine including via the Syriac/Arabic traditions and to its reception at all periods up to the early modern. It is hoped that the programme will be finalised in late March 2011.

Please direct any enquiries to Robert Leigh ().

Call for papers
La Méditerranée antique à l'heure de la pluridisciplinarité: enjeux et méthodes
April 8th and 9th 2011 at the M.M.S.H. of Aix en Provence.

Deadline 16 Feb. 2011

Researchers dealing with the antiquity and ancient worlds often face a major difficulty which is typical for this field: the incompleteness of evidence. Historians, archaeologists and philologists deplore the lack of material and would like to be able to compare sources, to clarify facts or to support their hypotheses. But this difficulty is just one of several. Documents from the past are often highly problematic. Exploring these difficulties then will be the main topic of this conference.

To pursue the discussions initiated last summer during the « Journées de l'Antiquité » that dealt with methodological questions, we will revisit this fundamental aspect of historical research, by broadening the focus to all difficulties facing a researcher when he/she must confront different types of sources to achieve results in his/her study. Only the multidisciplinarity can offer more answers to those questioning ancient worlds.

During these two days, researchers from different scientific and geographical areas, countries, universities, schools, and with different approaches and methods, will meet to compare their opinions and theories.

This conference aims to bring together all those who want to take part in this reflection, PhD students or academics. Short presentations (20 minutes) and posters will permit focussing on discussions, in order to make this conference a meeting of archaeologists, historians, philologists and those interested in the Antiquity.

An application form, together a form for submission of abstracts is available on request. If you want to participate in this project, you are asked to send us an abstract (1000-1200 characters) and the completed form before Feb 15th. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

Contact :

Second call for papers
Postgraduate Conference Belfast, 25-26 March, 2011

On Friday March 25th and Saturday March 26th 2011, Queen’s University Belfast will be hosting the Royal Irish Academy Postgraduate Conference in Classical and Near Eastern Studies. The conference, which is envisaged as a recurring Irish event, gives postgraduate students the opportunity to present ongoing work and discuss their research with peers in an informal, interdisciplinary setting.

We welcome contributions on any aspect of Greek, Roman and Near Eastern literature, history, religions and material culture. Papers will be grouped in thematic panels.

Interested postgraduate students are invited to submit a title and abstract (250-350 words) for a research paper of 20-25 minutes to Dr Martine Cuypers at by 24th January 2011. Programme decisions will be communicated by 1st February 2011.

For further information about the conference, please contact .

Call for papers
Cinema and Antiquity: 2000-2011
The First J.P. Postgate Colloquium, University of Liverpool
12-14 July 2011

Deadline 31 Jan., 2011

Keynote speakers: Monica Cyrino, Pantelis Michelakis, Jon Solomon, Martin Winkler (tbc), Maria Wyke

The resurgence of cinema's interest in antiquity that was triggered by the release of Gladiator in 2000 shows no signs of abating. In 2010 alone, five ancient world films are appearing on our screens (Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief; Clash of the Titans; Agora; Centurion; Eagle of the Ninth; not to mention the TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand). The public appetite for films that deal with ancient history and mythology apparently remains strong, and 'classics and film' courses have established themselves in universities worldwide, leading the way in the increasing prominence of reception studies within classics and ancient history. The time is ripe for reflection on these developments. This major international conference seeks to explore the directions that have been taken in a decade of moviemaking and scholarship, and to advance the field by concentrating on issues too often overlooked. We invite papers on all aspects of ancient world films released between 2000 and the present, but would particularly encourage engagement with any of the following areas:

The filmmaking process, including film design, editing, cinematography, music.
Marketing and publicity.
Assessing audience receptions.
Actors and stars.
Television and the ancient world, including documentaries.
Animation in film and television.
Future directions in 'classics and film' scholarship.

We now invite proposals for 20 minute papers. Please send a 300 word abstract to the conference organisers, Joanna Paul () and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (). Abstracts must be received no later than 31 January 2011. More details will appear on the conference website, http://sace.liv.ac.uk/cinemaantiquity, in due course.

Dr Joanna Paul, J.P. Postgate Early Career Fellow in Classics, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE), University of Liverpool,
http://www.liv.ac.uk/sace/organisation/people/paul.htm

Call for papers
Postcolonial Latin American Adaptations of Greek and Roman Drama
143rd Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association
January 5-8, 2012, Philadelphia, PA

Deadline Feb. 1st, 2011

Organized by Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph's University)

Research on the reception of classical drama has focused on Europe, Northern America, Africa, and Australasia, but has ignored, for no justifiable reason, Latin America. Greek and Roman tragedies regarded as canonical in the West migrated to this region since the early colonial years and have been rewritten, especially in recent decades, to suit modern social and political concerns. For example, Griselda Gambaro's Furious Antigone (1986) and Jose Watanabe's Antigone (1999), two of the many Latin American adaptations of Sophocles' play, appropriate a seminal story of protest against state oppression to discuss the issue of the desaparecidos, the thousands of "missing"

civilians who were abducted, tortured, and murdered in secret by military and paramilitary forces during the Dirty War in Argentina and Peru respectively. Similarly, in Medea in the Mirror (1960) Jose Triana blends motifs from Euripides and Seneca to comment on the social and racial inequalities in pre-Revolution Cuba, whereas Jorge Ali Triana revisits Sophocles in his film Oedipus Mayor (1996) to document aspects of the Colombian Civil War waged between the army and peasant guerillas.

The attention that Latin American adaptations of Greek and Roman drama have so far received from Anglophone classicists (Nelli 2009, 2010; Nikoloutsos 2010, 2011; Torrance 2007) is disproportionate to their number and geographical spread. Seeking to raise awareness about this important area of research, this panel--the first of its kind to be organized at a national level-- solicits papers that examine case studies and approach the topic from a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives. Questions to be discussed include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. What is the artistic and sociohistorical context for these adaptations?

2. Are they direct derivates of the Greek or Roman original, or are there other texts or traditions involved in this hybridization?

3. Are these rewritings dominated by or emancipated from the ancient prototype in terms of narrative structure, character development, and ideology?

4. Does this blending of classical themes with postcolonial experiences leave room for indigenous, mestizo, mulatto, or other mixed-race identities to be expressed?

5. What conclusions about the migration of ideological topoi and stylistic features across Latin America can we draw from these adaptations?

Abstracts must be received in the APA office by February 1, 2011. Please send an anonymous abstract as a PDF attachment to . Be sure to mention the title of the panel and provide complete contact information and any AV requests in the body of your email. In preparing the abstract, please follow the APA's formatting guidelines for individual abstracts. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously. Inquiries can be addressed to .

Call for papers
To receive is never neutral: a multi-disciplinary workshop toward an Ethics of Reception
University of Bristol, Sept; 7-8, 2011

Deadline: 1 March, 2011

“The narratable self...re-enters into what we would call a relational ethic of contingency... an ethic founded on the altruistic ontology of the human ...as finite....She wants and gives, receives and offers, here and now, an unrepeatable story...” (Cavarero). This workshop re-addresses the diverse responses, receptions, and rejections of ethical theorising to “Classical” narratives, here and now.

Calling for Original, Innovative and Provocative papers in any discipline engaging with reception, based around:

Aesthetics; Class; Eco-Criticism and Sustainability; Feminism; Gender; Ideology; Narrative Inquiry; Pedagogy; Performance; Politics; Race; Re-reading; Sexuality; Theory; Translation; Trauma

Through a series of roundtable debates, plenary discussions and respondent sessions, the places of “ethics” and “reception” within academic theory and practice will be critical re(con)ceived. We would like papers from any branch of thinking concerned with “reception” and “ethics,” with a particular focus on how “classical” narratives are received and interacted with. This event will lay the groundwork for future workshops and discussions. We will pre-circulate the papers to ensure open, provocative, and communal debate; creating a self-reflexive and creative place for people to share, perform and re-form different knowledges. Making this workshop cross-disciplinary necessitates levels of openness and accessibility in the papers: the audience will never be singular.

Abstract submissions of no more than 400 words by March 1st 2011 to . Final papers of no longer than 5000 words by July 20th. For more information see http://ethicsofreception.wordpress.com/ A further Call for Participants and Programme will be circulated in March 2011.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Irony and Humour as Imperial Greek Literary Strategies: The Playful Plutarch
Oxford, IOANNOU CENTRE FOR CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE STUDIES,
12-13 July 2011

Deadline Feb.1st, 2011

Plutarch of Chaeronea is always taken very seriously. The old image of a sober moralist, whose words should be taken at face value and whose ethical judgements are clear and simple, still dominates research. Even readers who are willing to grant him a sense of humour are seldom prepared to see this as anything more than a flash in the pan.

Yet Plutarch often employs irony; almost no other ancient author is more receptive to the different intellectual and cultural uses of humour. From the Table Talk’s concern with identifying appropriate uses of jesting at the symposium, to the Political Precepts’ admonition to make measured use of witticism in political discourse; or from the lively interest exhibited by the Lives in joking as evidence of good or bad character, to the various effects that irony achieves in the Moralia, Plutarch’s corpus consistently testifies to the importance of humour as a means of intellectual engagement and communication in the period of the high Roman Empire.

This conference aims to examine the centrality of humour in Plutarch’s works, both as a literary device and as a topic in its own right. By ‘humour’, we wish to encompass a broad spectrum of discursive and intellectual practices, literary devices and manifestations of psychological processes: laughter, wit, anecdote, ridicule, joking and jesting, mockery, derision, satire and the satirical, parody and irony.

We welcome papers exploring specific passages in Plutarch’s writings where humour features, as well as papers tracing his views and works to broader cultural practices of playful engagement in public festivals or elite symposia. In particular, we suggest the following key topics for investigation:

Types and styles of humour in Plutarchan discourse, and their various uses: literary-aesthetic, ethical, philosophical, pedagogical, political and otherwise.
The role that laughter, jesting and humour play in various communicative contexts in Plutarch’s writings: their underlying psychology and their cultural significance.
Wit and humour as an appropriate technique in social encounters, and in the mode of self-presentation appropriate to those encounters, as seen in Plutarch’s works and other imperial Greek authors.
Irony within the Lives and the Moralia as manifested by narrative, style and phrasing, and displayed by the characters or the narrator.
Plutarch’s theoretical views on wit, humour, jesting, irony and their various media.
Plutarch and the various traditions of comic dialogue and satirical writing in the Roman Empire.

Organisers: Dr Eran Almagor (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/ University of Leipzig) ; Dr Katerina Oikonomopoulou (University of Patras) ; Prof. Christopher Pelling (University of Oxford)

Confirmed speakers: Prof. Aristoula Georgiadou (University of Patras); Dr Jason König (University of St Andrews) ; Prof. Christopher Pelling (University of Oxford) ; Prof. Luc van der Stockt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) ; Dr Alexei Zadorozhny (University of Liverpool).

We welcome paper proposals by both professional scholars and postgraduate students.

Abstracts of up to 300 words should be sent to Dr Eran Almagor () and Dr Katerina Oikonomopoulou () by 1st February 2011.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History (AMPAH)
Saturday, 12th March 2011 University College London

The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. on Monday, 17th January 2011.

AMPAH provides a friendly environment in which students are able to talk about their research, discuss their paper, and develop social and academic networks, with their peers and academics. Students should be prepared to speak for 20 minutes on any aspect of the ancient world from the fourth millennium BC to the end of the seventh century AD, or on the reception of antiquity, or the history of scholarship. The geographical scope of the conference will extend from Britain and the Iberian peninsula in the north and west to India in the south and east. Abstracts are welcomed from both taught and research postgraduates (although we do expect that most speakers will be research students).

Please submit a title and abstract (about 300 words), as well as your institution and year of study, to Sushma Jansari ().

meer informatie: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/events/ampah_2011

The Hellenistic Court
Centre for the Study of the Hellenistic World (CSHW), School of History, Classics & Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh, 25-27 feb. 2011

This conference aims to demonstrate the centrality of palace institutions in the cultural and political milieu of the disparate societies that made up the Hellenistic world, and will re-establish the importance of recognizing the royal court as a major component in the culture of the Greek-speaking world in the period c 323-31 BCE.

meer informatie en volledig programma: http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/conferences/HellenisticCourt.htm

call for papers
World Economic History Conference 2012
Stellenbosch, Zuid-Afrika, 9-13 Jul. 2012

meer informatie op www.wehc2012.org

Call for papers
The Roman Archaeology Conference 10
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 29.3 - 1.4.2012

Deadline 28 feb. 2011

Under the aegis of the Roman Society, RAC 2012 will be hosted by the Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in rankfurt am Main, Germany from Thursday 29 March to Sunday 1 April 2012 roposals are now invited for conference sessions

Organising committee: Peter Guest, Fraser Hunter, Friedrich Lüth, Egon Schallmayer, Felix Teichner, David Wigg-Wolf

more information http://www.rac2012.org/Home.html (flyer)

CALL FOR PAPERS
SENECA PHILOSOPHUS
Paris, American University, 16-17 May 2011.

Deadline: 31 Jan. 2011

We are pleased to invite proposals for a two-day workshop on Seneca Philosophus hosted by the The American University of Paris (www.aup.fr) in cooperation with GANPH (Gesellschaft für Antike Philosophie, Work Group “Practical Philosophy”). The purpose of this workshop is to bring together scholars interested in Seneca the Younger as a philosopher. Papers on philosophical aspects in the tragedies and reception are also welcome. Provided there is sufficient interest, we will organize a round table for discussion of current projects and work in progress. To facilitate comprehension, we would ask colleagues wishing to present in languages other than English to either supply a detailed English summary or a reading copy of their paper. For questions or proposals please contact Jula Wildberger at . If you wish to present a paper, we would need your abstract by 31 Jan 2011 so that we can send out final invitations by the beginning of February. For a place at the round table session, just let us have a short note indicating your project by the same date. No registration fee will be charged.

Matheus di Pietro, State University of Campinas, Brazil; Visiting Scholar at the American University of Paris

Jula Wildberger, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature The American University of Paris

CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: MENANDER IN CONTEXTS
July 23-25, 2012, University of Nottingham, UK

the society, culture and politics of the post-Alexander decades
the intellectual currents of the period
literary precursors and intertexts, dramatic and other
the reception of Menander, from his own time to ours

Papers (of no more than 30 minutes) are invited on any aspect of this theme.The conference will be held at Derby Hall, on the University's parkland campus just outside the historic city of Nottingham, a few days before the Olympic Games open in London. Enquiries or abstracts (300-400 words; please state your institutional affiliation) should be sent, preferably by email, not later than 30 June 2011, to: Prof. Alan H. Sommerstein,

Call for Papers
Continuity and Destruction in Alexander’s East: The Transformation of Monumental Space from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity
An international conference to be held at the University of Oxford on 6-7 May, 2011

Alexander the Great’s campaigns from Greece to India brought a vast, disparate region together under a shared cultural umbrella on a scale and at a speed that had not been seen before. This conference will explore the ways in which this cultural hegemony was expressed, or deviated from, by the many peoples and powers that lived in the Hellenized parts of Asia Minor, Egypt, and the Levant - specifically how this expression was manifested in changes and use of monumental space from the early Hellenistic period (4th century BCE) to the Arab conquests (7th century CE). Monumental space is here taken to refer to various public spaces: temples and cult spaces; necropoleis; palaces; military installations, etc. The term space refers to geographical as well as topographical space. Topics for consideration include, but are not limited to:

the veneration and/or restoration of monumental spaces of earlier periods
the destruction and rehabilitation of towns
shifting values as expressed through space and monuments
Theoretical approaches to the transformation of monumental space

Proposals should be between 300-500 words and the time allocated for each paper will be 20 minutes. We welcome submissions from postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and other interested academics. Please send an abstract with your name, title, and institution together with a short CV to one of the three conference organizers no later than January 31, 2011. Any enquiries about the conference should be addressed to the organizers.Marlena Whiting ; Sujatha Chandrasekaran ; Anna Kouremenos

CALL FOR PAPERS
West meets East: Contact and Interaction between India and the Mediterranean World from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity.
History Department of University College London, Monday, 20th June, 2011

Abstracts are invited from postgraduate students who would like to present a paper related to any subject connected with relations between

India

and the Mediterranean World. These include, but are not limited to:

Trade
Religious exchange, e.g., Early Christianity and/or Buddhism
Diplomacy
Medicine

ArtThis colloquium will provide students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research within the context of broader themes of contact between East and West. The aim is to foster greater collaboration among those studying under the umbrella of East-West relations.Please submit an abstract of about 300 words, together with a working title for your paper, to . The length of papers will be c.20-30 minutes. The deadline for submissions is Monday, 14th February 2011.

call for papers Post-graduate meeting
Bologna 2011 (date to be announced)

Deadline: 20 Jan., 2011The Phd and Master Students of the Dipartimento di Storia Antica - Università di Bologna, are now inviting postgraduate students to present abstracts (200-250 words) for a series of informal meetings to be held in Bologna in 2011. We invite you to send abstracts on any kind of topic related to classical and near eastern studies, including papyrology, numismatic, epigraphy, digital humanities, anthropology, sociology. This is, a new occasion in Italy to have feedback and a good, informal discussion on the topic each of us care more about: it will be an opportunity for everybody to meet other young researchers, share knowledge and exchange impressions. The meetings will take place between March and May 2011, on Thursdays or Fridays, according to the speaker availability, approximately every 15 days. We will aim to 40 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes for discussion and some snacks. We can guarantee the speakers hospitality (in families) and a meal. The cultural association RODOPIS, who supports this series, will also release a certificate to those asking.Abstracts can be sent before 20 January 2011, with two or three proposed dates in the given range, to Pietro Liuzzo (), who can also be contacted for any further information. The final calendar will be published shortly after, around the 31st of January.Master dissertations are more than welcome.

Announcement
Prähistorische und antike Göttinnen. Befunde – Interpretation – Rezeption
Heilbronn, 25-27 März 2011

Aus Anlass des 20jährigen Bestehens unseres Netzwerkes möchten wir in Kooperation mit den Städtischen Museen Heilbronn zu einer Tagung einladen, die dieses Mal weder die Lebenswelt der prähistorischen und antiken Frauen noch die Berufswelt der Archäologinnen zum Thema hat, sondern Göttinnen der Vorgeschichte in den Mittelpunkt stellen soll. Während in der Archäologie der mediterranere Kulturen Göttinnen aufgrund der zahlreichen Schrift- und Bildquelle ein immer beachtetes Forschungsthema waren, scheint auf Seiten der Archäologie schriftloser Kulturgruppen selten der Schritt über die Identifizierung von Göttinnenbildern hinaus gewagt zu werden. Der Schwerpunkt ruht auf einer archäologischen Annäherung an die prähistorische und antike Verehrung von Göttinnen, wobei der regionale und zeitliche Rahmen den Vorderen Orient und Europa vom Paläolithikum bis zur Spätantike umfassen soll, um ein Vergleich des regional unterschiedlichen Forschungsstandes zu erreichen.For more info, see: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=14198 and
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=1ZlKCBZcN9pRi1dm2JRegvpU5CStvIqAADl9YrLIscO8qegE5Sr0z-_h_vWhT&hl=de&authkey=CKP4regPDr. Saskia Roselaar
www.romanrepublicresearch.com

Travaux du groupe SICMA (Séminaire Identités et Cultures dans les Mondes Anciens, UMR 8210 ANHIMA)
« CULTURE(S) MATÉRIELLE(S) ET IDENTITÉS ETHNIQUES »
VENDREDI 10 ET SAMEDI 11 DÉCEMBRE 2010,
INHA, 6 Rue des Petits Champs (ou 2 rue Vivienne), 75002 Paris (M° Pyramides, Louvre-Palais-Royal, Bourse)

Organisatrices de la table-ronde : Christel MÜLLER (Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne) et Anne-Emmanuelle VEÏSSE (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) Avec le soutien de l’UMR 8210 ANHIMA, de l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne et du CERHIC EA 2616 (Université de Reims)

Vendredi 10 décembre 2010 (salle G. Vasari)

14h00 : accueil des participants par Bernard LEGRAS (Université Paris I),
Modérateur : Roland ETIENNE, Professeur émérite (Université Paris I)
14h30 : Christel MÜLLER (Université de Reims) : « Introduction »
15h30 : Joseph SKINNER (Université de Liverpool) : « Greek ethnography and archaeology : limits and boundaries »
16h30 : pause-café
17h00 : Jean-Marc LUCE (Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail) : « Les modes funéraires et la Parole dans la Grèce de l’Age du Fer ancien »

Samedi 11 décembre 2010 (matin salle W. Benjamin ; après-midi salle F. de Peiresc)

Matin : Péninsule italique et Sicile (salle W. Benjamin)
Modérateur : Pierre ROUILLARD, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS (Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense)

9h30 : Gillian SHEPHERD (Université de Birmingham) : « Archaeology and Ethnicity : Untangling Ethnic and Status Identities in Western Greece »
10h30 : Julie DELAMARD (Ecole française de Rome) : « Le pot commun ? Céramiques quotidiennes et identités collectives dans les colonies grecques de Sicile à l'époque archaïque »
11h30 : pause-café
12h : Olivier DE CAZANOVE (Université Paris I) : « Dans les lieux de culte aux marges de l’Italie romaine : la diversité des offrandes »
13h00 : déjeuner-buffet offert aux participants et au public (salle A. Warburg)

Après-midi : Égypte hellénistique (salle F. de Peiresc)
Modérateur : Anne-Emmanuelle VEÏSSE (Université Paris I)

14h : Gaëlle TALLET (Université de Limoges) : « Pratiques funéraires et appartenances ethniques: quelques questions posées par les nécropoles d’El-Deir (oasis de Kharga, Egypte) »
15h : Silvia BUSSI (Università degli Studi, Milan) : « Se représenter pour l’éternité : l’expression de l’ethnicité en Egypte dans les "portraits du Fayoum" »
16h : pause-café
16 h 30: Irad MALKIN (Université de Tel-Aviv) : « Conclusions ».
17 h 30 : fin de la table-ronde

All queries should be directed to:

call for papers
7th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics: Variation in Grammar and Discourse
Ghent University, September 22-23, 2011

deadline January 31, 2011The theme of ICAGL7 is “Variation in Grammar and Discourse”, with a focus on word order and tense-aspect phenomena. The conference will consist of four sessions, addressing variation in time, variation in space, variation in register/style and contact-induced variation. The sessions will be chaired by the following experts, who will give an overview of the field and lead the discussion:

Variation in time: Brian Joseph (Ohio State University)
Variation in space: Geoffrey Horrocks (St. John’s College, Cambridge)
Variation in register/style: Andreas Willi (Worcester College, Oxford)
Contact-induced variation: Mark Janse (Ghent University)

The organizing committee invites all Greek linguists (both senior and junior researchers) to submit a one-page abstract to (Times New Roman, 12 pt.; please use a Unicode-based font for Greek text) dealing with any aspect related to these topics, by January 31, 2011 at the latest. Notification of acceptance will be given by the end of February 2011.We encourage papers treating linguistic phenomena of various stages of the language, ranging from Archaic to Byzantine Greek. Speakers may focus on the interplay between variant constructions, e.g. the development of syntactic next to pragmatic principles governing clitic-placement, or discuss one specific variant construction in greater detail, e.g. the use of the periphrastic progressive in different registers.We expect speakers to submit a written paper of about ten pages (4,500 words) by June 31, 2011 at the latest. All papers will then be made available to the participants through the website at www.icagl7.ugent.be, so that all can read them beforehand. At the colloquium, each speaker will be asked to summarize his or her paper (about 10 minutes). Afterwards, the paper will be open for discussion, both a prepared response (about 10 minutes) and a general discussion (15-20 minutes).The organizing committee,
Mark Janse, Klaas Bentein & Jorie Soltic

announcement
5^th Trends in Classics, International Conference on Latin Genre
Generic Interfaces: Encounters, Interactions and Transformations in Latin Literature
27-29 May, 2011, Archaeological Museum Thessaloniki

The Department of Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity,

Oxford.

For further information please contact: Stavros Frangoulidis ()

aankondiging
NKV Themadag: Griekenland van Mykene tot Byzantion
Zaterdag 4 december 2010, MSI: 03.18

In samenwerking met Classici Lovanienses, Thiasos, het Instituut Klassieke Studies en de studentenkring Historia.
De toegang tot de themadag is gratis, maar we vragen dat u op voorhand inschrijft ( of 016/22.07.40) zodat we de koffie bij het onthaal enigszins kunnen inschatten. Wie wil deelnemen aan de broodjeslunch, dient voor 26 november 2010 8,00 euro te storten op het rekeningnummer van NKV Vlaams-Brabant, 001-4041508-79.

9.45-10.15: onthaal in de hal op het gelijkvloers (met koffie of fruitsap) [aangeboden door Classici Lovanienses]
10.15-11.00: Prof. Dr. Ilse Schoep, Griekenland in de Mykeense tijd
11.00-11.45: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schorn, Isocrates en Xenophon over Griekenland
11.45-12.30: Prof. Dr. Katelijn Vandorpe, Griekenland in de hellenistische en de Romeinse tijd
12.45-13.45: broodjeslunch (voor wie zich inschrijft)
14.00-14.45: Prof. Dr. Geert Roskam, Verscheurd tussen Griekse idealen en Pax romana. Griekenland in de letterkunde van de 1e-2e eeuw n.C.
14.45-15.30: Prof. Dr. Peter Van Deun, Byzantijns Athene: de moeder van alle wijsheid
15.30-16.15: Dr. Herbert Verreth, Het antieke Griekenland vanuit moderne ogen

aankondiging
doctorandi-middag IKS,
dinsdag 30/11, 14u tot 16u in de raadzaal van het HIW

U kan uw komst nog altijd melden bij ondergetekende ()."Op dinsdag 30 november organiseert het IKS zijn semesteriÃ«le doctorandi-namiddag. Een doctorandus en een ZAP-lid, elk verbonden aan het IKS, zullen hun lopend onderzoek presenteren. In de marge kunnen we elkaar informeel ontmoeten. Sprekers zijn:Drs. Jeroen Lauwers (OE Literatuurwetenschap: tekst en interpretatie) "To read or not to read? Performatieve aspecten van paideia in de Griekse Tweede Sofistiek"Prof. Johan Leemans (OE Geschiedenis van Kerk en Theologie) "Diadochus van Photice en zijn In ascensionem Christi".Instituut Klassieke Studies, Leuven, www.klassiekestudies.be

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Postgraduate Conference in Classical and Near Eastern Studies Queen's University Belfast,
25-26 March 2011

Queen’s University Belfast and the Royal Irish Academy’s Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies are hosting a postgraduate conference in Belfast on Friday March 25th and Saturday March 26th 2011. The conference, envisaged as a recurring Irish event, will give postgraduate students the opportunity to present ongoing work and discuss their research with peers in an informal, interdisciplinary setting.We welcome contributions on any aspect of Greek, Roman and Near Eastern literature, history, religions and material culture. Papers will be grouped in thematic panels.Interested students are invited to submit titles and abstracts (250-350 words) for a 25-minute research paper to Dr Martine Cuypers at by 21 January 2011. Programme decisions will be communicated by 1 February 2011.For further information about the conference, please contact Further information about the Royal Irish Academy’s Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies can be found at http://www.ria.ie/

announcement
AESTHETICS AND CLASS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
A Conference at the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London
5-6 July 2011.

Convenors: William Fitzgerald and Edith Hall The language of aesthetics in the ancient world is permeated by the language of class and vice versa. The conference will explore this nexus, and what we should make of it, as broadly as possible. What are its consequences and its legacy? How does the recognition of this nexus re- orient our understanding of aesthetics or class in the ancient world? Is it helpful or problematic to use modern terms, such as ‘aesthetics’ and ‘class’ to unpick ancient concepts? There will be contributions on individual works or authors, but also on ancient words and concepts, the reception of ancient culture and theoretical issues.Speakers include: David Konstan, Christopher Rowe, Thomas Habinek, Page duBois, Penelope Murray, Alison Sharrock, Joy Connolly, David Roselli and Katherine Harloe.

call for papers
SILIUS ITALICUS AND FLAVIAN CULTURE
4^th-6^th July 2011
The University of Sydney, Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA)

Pacific Rim Latin Literature Conference 2011 in association with the Flavian Epic Network Convenor: Robert Cowan (University of Sydney)
more information: http://classics.org.au/silius/ or enquiries to Bob Cowan Papers on any aspect of Silius and the Punica are invited, but particularly welcome will be those which relate the poet and/or his poem to their Flavian context, be it literary, political, artistic, cultural, social, intellectual, or any combination of these. Papers which focus on the Flavian context with Silius in a subordinate role are also invited. Submissions from postgraduates are also especially welcome.Please submit a title and an abstract of 150-200 words to by 12^th February 2011.Keynote speaker, Assoc. Prof. Raymond D. Marks, (University of Missouri)

call for papers
Legal Documents in Ancient Societies IV: Archives and Archival Documents in Ancient Societies
Trieste on 30 September-1 October 2011

deadline 29 Jan. 2011more information: click here or mail to

Vrijdag 17 december 2010, 14u
RSRC Workshop: Fighting, justifying and negotiating power in the Roman World

Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde
Koningstraat 18, 9000 Gent

Johannes Hahn (Münster), Fighting Paganism under the Theodosian Dynasty
Adam Bartley (Kent), Embracing and rejecting power. The use of Greek historians by Sallust and Caesar
Wouter Vanacker (Ghent University), Native rebellions in the Roman empire
Sam Van Overmeire (VUB), Legitimating power in the early Roman Empire

Organisatie: Roman Society Research Center (http://www.rsrc.ugent.be)
meer informatie: Koen.Verboven@ugent.be

Vrijdag 21 januari 2011, 10u
Oudhistorici Nederland-Vlaanderen: Sociale mobiliteit in de oudheid

Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde
Koningstraat 18, 9000 Gent

Ed van der Vliet (Groningen), Status inconsistentie in het vroege Griekenland
Marloes Deene (Gent), Sociale mobiliteit in Klassiek Athene
Simon Speksnijder (Groningen), Greetings and hierarchy in Roman society
Coen van Galen (Nijmegen), Nieuwe rollen? De veranderende positie van Romeinse vrouwen in het 'gezin' in de eerste eeuw voor Christus
Inge Mennen (Nijmegen), Sociale mobiliteit in tijden van crisis
Sofie Remijsen (Leuven), De sociale status van atleten in de Late Oudheid

klik hier voor volledig programmaOrganisatie: VG Geschiedenis, sectie Oude Geschiedenis
meer informatie: AndriesJohan.Zuiderhoek@ugent.be

Colloquia

CFP Postgraduate Work-in-Progress SeminarInstitute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Announcement en posters International Colloquium: Gender and the Roman cityAmsterdam, 14-17 Dec., 2011

CFP Ancient Jewish Texts and the ‘Literary’ 14,15 March 2012, Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp)

Oud-historici dag 2012: Religie als sociaal fenomeen 27 januari 2012, PC Hoofthuis, Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134

Call for Sessions 22nd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC), 29 March - 1 April 2012, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Goethe-University, Campus Westend

CFP Reading the Way to the Netherworld: Education and the Representation of the Beyond in Later Antiquity14-16 October 2011, Göttingen.

CFP Feminism and Classics VI: Crossing Borders, Crossing Lines Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada May 24-27, 2012

CFP Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages V: Infirmitas. Social and Cultural Approaches to Cure, Caring and HealthAugust 23-26, 2012, University of Tampere, Finland

CFP WORKSHOP "Greek and Roman Armies in Northern Balkans : Conflicts and Integration of the Warrior Communities, Vth c. B.C.- IIId c. A.D." Annual Conference of the Metropolitan Library of Bucharest, Sinaia, Romania, 20-22 September 2011. Section IV c.

CFP Theory in (Ancient) Greek Archaeology (TiGA) The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Friday 4th and Saturday 5th May 2012

CFP The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL) Conference 2011: Theme: Power and Manipulation Saturday 10th – Sunday 11th September 2011, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX

CFPPoetic Language And aeligion in Greece And Rome Santiago De Compostela, May, 31 May / 1 June, 2012

CFP Ancient and Medieval Interpretations of Aristotle’s Categories Franciscan University of Steubenville, April 12-14, 2012

CFP Warfare in Antiquity: Approaches and Controversies Conference August 12-13th 2011 in University College Dublin, Ireland

CFP New York University Classics Graduate Student Conference December 3, 2011 Keynote Speaker: TBA Ancient Aitia: Explaining Matter between Belief and Knowledge

CFP The XVIth World Economic History Congress (8-13 July 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa) Ancient History Session Panel Title: “Transport infrastructure and economic development in the Roman World (1st c. BC – 6th c. AD)”

CFP (deadline Tuesday 31 May 2011) Ancient Carthage: Models Of Cultural Contact, Durham, Friday 5 - Saturday 6 August 2011

CFP Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII: Valuing Antiquity in AntiquityUniversity of Leiden, the Netherlands, June 15-16, 2012

CFP Crossing the Divide: Ancient History and Archaeology 10 Years After ‘Breaking Boundaries’. Workshop: School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester November 19, 2011

CFP The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities An international conference to be held at Durham University, 17th-18th April 2012, under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition.

CFPPhilologisches Schubladendenken: Epochen und Gattungen auf dem PrüfstandStereotyped Thinking in Classics: Literary Ages and Genres Re-ConsideredUniversity of Vienna, Wed., May 30 - Fri., June 1, 2012

CfpClassics Scholars: their work and methodsUniversity of Turin, June 30th, 2011

CfpThe Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL) Conference 2011Saturday 10th – Sunday 11th September 2011Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EXTheme: Power and Manipulation

CfpMateriality and the materials of research: theory and practice in the humanitiesThe Open University, Milton Keynes, 24 June 2011

Call for papersInterdisciplinary Methodology: The Case of Comics StudiesFriday 14 - Saturday 15 October 2011 at the University of Bern.

2nd Specialisation Forum of the European Radio-Past Project"Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites: geophysical and geoarchaeological survey".Portugal (at the ancient Roman town site of Ammaia) from July 3 to 9, 2011.

Call for papers“Burial and social change in ancient Italy, 9th-5th century BC: approaching social agents”. The workshop will be held at the British School at Rome on June 7th 2011.

Call for papers (recirculated)International Conference: Menander In ContextsJuly 23-25, 2012, University of Nottingham, UK

Call for PapersThe Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities:An international conference to be held at Durham University, 17th-18th April 2012, under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition.

Call for papersPostgraduate conference: Identity and RepresentationKing's College London Classics Postgraduate Conference, 4 June 2011, London

Call For PapersAngles 3: Another Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference On Cultural History Birkbeck College, University Of London Saturday 28 May 2011

Call For PapersEnduring Monsters: Harryhausen and The Classical TraditionWed 9 November 2011 at the National Media Museum in Bradford

CFP for the POSTER SESSION Extended Deadline 31.3.2011Roman Family VI: LIMITS AND BORDERS OF CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY17-19 May 2012, Villa Lante al Gianicolo, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Rome

Empowerment and the Sacred. An Interdisciplinary ConferenceInstitute of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Leeds24th-26th June, 2011

Call for papers - Postgraduate ConferenceAncient Ideas in the Modern World: Reinventing the Legacy of Greece Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, Friday 8th July 2011

Call for PapersThe XVIth World Economic History Congress (8-13 July 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa) Ancient History Session Panel Title:“Transport infrastructure and economic development in the Roman World (1st c. BC – 6th c. AD)”

Call for papersSoul to Soul – Orality in the Platonic TraditionFriday, 1 July to Sunday, 3 July, 2011Ivy House, Warminster, Wiltshire, UK

Second Specialization Forum of the European Radio-Past Project."Non-destructive approaches to complex archaeological sites: geophysical and geoarchaeological survey"Portugal, at the ancient Roman town site of Ammaia, July 3 to 9, 2011.

Final Call For PapersText, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late antiquity to 1550The University of Melbourne 13th to 15th July 2011

Call for papers/sessionsSociale geschiedenis van de Oudheid, European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow 11-14 april 2012

Marking Coin Issues: Mint Administration and Mint Archives in AntiquityBrussels, Friday May 13th 2011

Call for papersFeminism and Classics VI: Crossing Borders, Crossing LinesBrock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada May 24-27, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERSThe Economic Role of Greek Fineware Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean.Colloquium for Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting 2012Philadelphia, PA 5th-8th January 2012.

Call for papers11th ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT DRAMA, JUNE 2011‘Journeys’

CALL FOR PAPERS‘Alexander in Africa' (12th Unisa Classics Colloquium, Grahamstown, South Africa 28-30 June 2011)

CALL FOR PAPERSENCOUNTERING THE DIVINE: BETWEEN GODS AND MEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLDCONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF READING, SEPT. 1ST and 2ND 2011

announcement'Diodorus Siculus: shared myths, world community, and universal history'An international conference at the University of Glasgow, 31st Aug. - 2nd Sep. 2011

Call for papers'CONTINUITY AND DESTRUCTION IN ALEXANDER'S EAST - THE TRANSFORMATION OF MONUMENTAL SPACE FROM THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD TO LATE ANTIQUITY'

CALL FOR PAPERSTo Receive is Never Neutral: A multi-disciplinary workshop towards an Ethics of Reception September 7-8, 2011: University of Bristol

Call for Papers"In the Bosom of the Family? Aging and the elderly in joint- and stem families"36th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association in Boston, Massachusetts, 17-20 November 2011

Call for papersText, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late antiquity to 1550The University of Melbourne: 13th to 15th July 2011

Call for papers2011 Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conference: "The Archaeology of Recovery: Adaptive Strategies in Response to Crisis" Oxford, 18-19 March 2011.

Call for papers2e ronde tafel van Belgische classici / 2ème table ronde des antiquistes belges:"Municipaal Leven / Vie Municipale" in de oudheid"Brussel / Bruxelles <1ste of 2e zaterdag oktober>

Call for papersAPPROACHES TO ANCIENT MEDICINE - UNIVERSITY OF EXETER 22-23 August 2011

Call for papersLa Méditerranée antique à l'heure de la pluridisciplinarité: enjeux et méthodesApril 8th and 9th 2011 at the M.M.S.H. of Aix en Provence.

Second call for papersPostgraduate Conference Belfast, 25-26 March, 2011

Call for papersCinema and Antiquity: 2000-2011The First J.P. Postgate Colloquium, University of Liverpool12-14 July 2011

Call for papersPostcolonial Latin American Adaptations of Greek and Roman Drama143rd Annual Meeting of the American Philological AssociationJanuary 5-8, 2012, Philadelphia, PA

Call for papersTo receive is never neutral: a multi-disciplinary workshop toward an Ethics of ReceptionUniversity of Bristol, Sept; 7-8, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERSIrony and Humour as Imperial Greek Literary Strategies: The Playful PlutarchOxford, IOANNOU CENTRE FOR CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE STUDIES, 12-13 July 2011

CALL FOR PAPERSAnnual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History (AMPAH) Saturday, 12th March 2011 University College London

The Hellenistic CourtCentre for the Study of the Hellenistic World (CSHW), School of History, Classics & Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh, 25-27 feb. 2011

call for papersWorld Economic History Conference 2012Stellenbosch, Zuid-Afrika, 9-13 Jul. 2012

Call for papersThe Roman Archaeology Conference 10Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 29.3 - 1.4.2012

CALL FOR PAPERSSENECA PHILOSOPHUSParis, American University, 16-17 May 2011.

CALL FOR PAPERSINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: MENANDER IN CONTEXTSJuly 23-25, 2012, University of Nottingham, UK

Call for PapersContinuity and Destruction in Alexander’s East: The Transformation of Monumental Space from the Hellenistic Period to Late AntiquityAn international conference to be held at the University of Oxford on 6-7 May, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERSWest meets East: Contact and Interaction between India and the Mediterranean World from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity.History Department of ﻿﻿University College London, Monday, 20th June, 2011

call for papers Post-graduate meetingBologna 2011 (date to be announced)

AnnouncementPrähistorische und antike Göttinnen. Befunde – Interpretation – RezeptionHeilbronn, 25-27 März 2011