Thanks to the generosity of the Classical Association and the Hellenic Society we are able to offer a number of graduate bursaries to attend this conference (programme below). Please contact Professor Judith Mossman at judith.mossman AT nottingham.ac.uk if you wish to attend or to apply for a bursary. The deadline for both is close of play next Friday, 28 November.
The Department of Classics, University of Nottingham, and the Centre for Ancient Drama and Its Reception (CADRE) cordially invites participants for 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).
The Department of Classics, University of Nottingham, and the Centre for Ancient Drama and Its Reception (CADRE) cordially invites participants for 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).