The Department of Classics and the Centre for Ancient Drama and Its Reception (CADRE) cordially invites participants to the following conference:

MARS AND VENUS: GENDER-SPECIFIC COMMUNICATION IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
Arts Centre, University of Nottingham, Saturday December 6 2008

10.00 ARRIVAL AND COFFEE

10.30 JENNIFER COATES (ROEHAMPTON) ‘Gender myths and gendered reality: a sociolinguistic overview’

11.15 TONI BADNALL (NOTTINGHAM) ‘Gendered speech in Lesbian love-lyric?’

12.00 EVERT VAN EMDE BOAS (OXFORD) ‘Gender-specific communication and speaker-line attribution in tragedy: two test cases’

12.45 LUNCH

2.00 JUDITH MOSSMAN (NOTTINGHAM) ‘A man’s a man for a’ that: male speech in Euripides, Trojan Women’

2.45 STEPHEN COLVIN (UCL) ‘The koiné: a common language (for men, that is)’

3.30 LUUK HUITINK (OXFORD) ‘Xenophon's gallery of women: speaking women in Xenophon's works’

4.15 TEA

4.30 ALISON SHARROCK (MANCHESTER) ‘Further voices in Ovid's Metamorphoses’

5.15 HELEN LOVATT (NOTTINGHAM) ‘The eloquence of Dido: speech and gender in Virgil's Aeneid’

6.00 CLOSING REMARKS AND WINE RECEPTION

DINNER AFTERWARDS FOR THOSE WHO WISH AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT

All are welcome. Cost will be £30 (including coffee, lunch, and tea) plus £20 (£10 for postgraduate students) for dinner. If you wish to attend, please contact Judith Mossman, Department of Classics, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, preferably by email (judith.mossman AT nottingham.ac.uk).