David Meadows: Classical Events

~ CONF: Portus

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:23:34 GMT

PORTUS: Liverpool Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar will be
hosting the following papers in Semester 2, 2004/2005:

15 February
Bob Cowan (Oxford)
'My Enemy's Enemy. Carthage's African Other through Roman Eyes'

1 March
Elena Teodorakopoulos (Birmingham): 'cacata carta: Writing and Performance
in Catullus'

15 March
Barbara Kowalzig (Oxford): 'The Aetiology of Empire? Hero-Cult and Athenian
Tragedy'

19 April
Barbara Graziosi (Durham)
'Migrant gods: Homer, Xenophanes and Herodotus on divine movement'

The seminars take place at 5pm, Lecture Room 1, 12 Abercromby Square,
University of Liverpool. All are welcome!

Further enquires to:
Dr Alexei V. Zadorozhnyy
avzadoro@liv.ac.uk

and/or Dr Bruce Gibson
bjgibson@liv.ac.uk

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~ CONF: The Atlantis Hypothesis

Sun, 06 Feb 2005 14:31:08 GMT

Atlantis 2005. International Conference
The Atlantis Hypothesis: Searching for a Lost Land.

The first scientific congress of the history about the Plato's Atlantis! 11 - 13 July 2005, Milos Island, Greece.
/noticias.info/ AIM

This Conference aims to serve as a forum for the presentation and constructive discussion of all the issues related to the hypothesis of the lost land of Atlantis. The purpose of the meeting is to gather specialists of all the different disciplines involved in highlighting the scientific aspects of this fascinating subject.

Greece is the most appropriate location for hosting this conference, as the ancient Greek great mind Plato formulated the Atlantis hypothesis.

LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference will be English. There will be simultaneous interpretation to/from Greek.

TOPICS

Scientific approaches to the three main questions: if, when, and where based on research and evidences related to the following disciplines:

- Volcanology

- Seismology, Palaeoseismology, Geodynamics

- Tectonics, Palaeomagnetism

- Geology, Geophysics

- Meteors, Impactors

- Geochemistry

- Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology, Geoarchaeology

- Oceanography

- Geography, Physiography

- Cartography

- History, Mythology, Geomythology

- Archaeometry

- Palaeoceanography, Palaeoclimatology

- Philosophy, Philology

- Plato and History, Plato and Myth

Oral or poster presentations are welcome on the topics mentioned on the Topics.

Interested contributors are kindly asked to submit the Abstract Submission Form by 15th February 2005.

All abstracts will be reviewed by the International Program Committee, and the authors will be notified about acceptance of their paper by 15 March 2005. All the accepted abstracts, will be published in the Abstract Book that will be given to the conference participants.

A CD of the conference proceedings will be published after the conference. Detailed instructions on paper submission will be given at a later stage.

List of Submitted Abstracts -as per 3.2.2005-

1. "The Geology of Gibraltar Strait and the Myth of Atlantis"
Jacques COLLINA-GIRARD, University Aix-Marseille I, France

2. "The Search of Atlantis in Cuba"
Andrew COLLINS, Historian, UK

3. "Scientific Atlantology. Atlantis in Gibraltar, between Iberia and Morocco. The only possible location of Atlantis."
Georgeos DIAZ-MONTEXANO, Scientific Atlantology International Society (S.A.I.S.) and Sociedad epigráfica de España (S.E.E.), Spain

4. "Scientific Atlantology. New proofs locates the origin of the story of Atlantis in time previous to Plato."
Georgeos DIAZ-MONTEXANO, Scientific Atlantology International Society (S.A.I.S.) and Sociedad epigráfica de España (S.E.E.), Spain

5. "Scientific Atlantology. The Plato's Atlantis, an historical-geographic and mythological description of Iberia and Morocco."
Georgeos DIAZ-MONTEXANO, Scientific Atlantology International Society (S.A.I.S.) and Sociedad epigráfica de España (S.E.E.), Spain

6. "A Geographic Comparison of Plato's Atlantis and Ireland as a Test of the Megalithic Culture Hypothesis"
Ulf ERLINGSSON, Geologist, USA

7. "The Geography of Atlantis:Neither Allegorical Nor Exaggerated"
Rand FLEM-ATH, International Best Selling Author, Canada

8. "The Santorini Volcano: Geology and Atlantis Mythos"
Walter FRIEDRICH, University of Aarhus, Denmark

9. "Old and New Tools and Approaches in the Search of the Lost Land"
Michael FYTIKAS, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and
George VOUGIOUKALAKIS, Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration, Greece

10. "The Topos of Atlantis: Some Philosophical Insights"
Amihud GILEAD, University of Haifa, Israel

11. "Results of Russian Expeditions in Azoro-Gibraltar Tectonic Zone and Various Geophysical Model Atlantis Destruction"
Alexander GORODNITSKY, Shirshovs Oceanology Inst., Academy of Sciences, Russia

12. "Plato's Atlantis Tale III: Geographical Elements"
Rainer KUEHNE, Individual Researcher, Germany

13. "Palaeogeographic reconstructions of the Aegean. Was Atlantis on the doorstep of Athens?"
Kurt LAMBECK, The Australian National University, Australia

14. "The Constitution of Atlantis"
Manolis MIKROGIANNAKIS, University of Athens, Greece

15. "Linking Myth, Religion, Philosophy of Science, and Geology – The Atlantis Example"
Amos NUR, Stanford University, USA

16. "Dating of a Catastroph in the 12th century B.C, pre-hestoric Athens. Evidence from Platon's Critias"
Stavros PAPAMARINOPOULOS, University of Patras, Greece

17. "Platon's Phaeton and Homer's Phaethousa. Cometary Fragments in the 12th century B.C"
Stavros PAPAMARINOPOULOS, University of Patras, Greece

18. "Atlantis - The Lost Land Hypothesis and the Cataclysmic Mass Edifice Failure of the Volcano of Santorini in the Bronze Age."
George PAPARAS-CARAYANNIS, Retired Director International Tsunami Information Center (UNESCO - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission), USA

19. "Interpreting Myths; Catastrophism and New Catastrophism"
Spyros B. PAVLIDES and Alexandros CHATZIPETROS,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece

20. "The Novelty of the Atlantis Myth in the Light of Freudian Interpretation"
Yair SCHLEIN, The College of Managment Academic Studies, Israel

21. "A Possible Asiatic Origin for Key Elements of Plato's Atlantis Story"
Robert SCHOCH, Boston University, USA
Logan K. D. YONAVJAK, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

22. "The Deucalion Catastroph"
Emilio SPEDICATO, University of Bergamo, Italy

23. "Atlantis in Quisqueya"
Emilio SPEDICATO, University of Bergamo, Italy

More information about VENUE-LOCATION, USEFUL INFORMATION, REGISTRATION, SPONSORING & ADVERTIZING and ORGANIZERS in http://milos.conferences.gr/index.php?id=917

~ TALK: The Jew and the Other in Antiquity

Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:23:07 GMT

What: "The Jew and 'the Other' in Antiquity: Alienation or Integration?"

When: Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 7:00 PM

Who: Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley

Where: Kane Hall, Room 110, University of Washington Campus

About the lecture:
The lecture will address the standard perception of ancient Jews as anti-social and xenophobic, sticking to their own kind, keeping gentiles at arm's length, and endeavoring to maintain their own traditions unsullied by contact with others. It attempts, however, to draw out a contrasting strain in Jewish thinking and practice that places Jews in a very different light - - and one that should have some resonance for contemporary circumstances in the Middle East.

About the speaker:
Erich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been on the Berkeley faculty for thirty eight years, and received a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987. He helped to found the Graduate Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology and served for seventeen years as its chair. He has overseen the PhD dissertations of more than 65 students in AHMA, History, Classics, and the Graduate Theological Union. He has also been a visiting professor at Princeton, Cornell, the Hebrew University, University of Minnesota, and University of Colorado.

Gruen has twice held Guggenheim fellowships and twice been a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and served as President of the American Philological Society in 1992. In 1999 he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Arts and Letters. Gruen has written extensively in the areas of Roman and Greek political, diplomatic, and intellectual history. His more recent books have explored the cultural interconnections between the classical world and that of the Jews. Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition was published in 1998, and Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans appeared in 2002. He is currently engaged in ongoing research on cultural appropriation and collective identity among peoples and ethnic groups in antiquity.

Sponsors:
Graduate School, Department of Classics, Department of History, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Jewish Studies Program, Northwest Chapter - American Research Center in Egypt,

For more information see: http://www.grad.washington.edu/lectures/schedule.htm#Gruen

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~ CANE Summer Institute

Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:20:40 GMT

CANE Summer Institute 2005
GOLDEN AGES

The Classical Association of New England Summer Institute (CSI) will hold its 23rd annual program at Dartmouth College from July 11-16, 2005. Our theme for 2005 will be Golden Ages. Lectures and courses will investigate and challenge the concept of a golden age and of antiquity as a golden age of the West.

The program will be of interest both to teachers in all humanities disciplines and to members of the general public who are interested in the ancient world. Faculty and participants share a dormitory and cafeteria, making informal time together as valuable as class time. Teachers will meet colleagues refreshing their skills (and their spirits) with adult-level reading and discussion of ancient texts and artifacts. In its 23rd year, CSI is known for its comfortable and collegial atmosphere, its excellent faculty, and its openness to all those with an interest in the classics.

The lecture program includes:

The Matthew I Wiencke Memorial Lecture (reception following)

"Ariadne, I love you": European Opera's Torch for Athenian Tragedy

Roger Travis, University of Connecticut

Past Perfect; Future Conditional. The Concept of a Golden Age
Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College

Haghia Sophia: Realizing the Perfection of Wisdom
Roger Ulrich, Dartmouth College

The Romans Invent "The Glory that was Greece"
Miranda Marvin, Wellesley College

The Midas Touch: Freedmen and the Golden Age of Augustus
Barbara Kellum, Smith College

Reading and Believing Greek Beauty in Renaissance and Early Modern Empires
Miranda Marvin, Wellesley College

What Men or Gods are These? Nineteenth Century Visions of Antiquity
Margaret Williamson, Dartmouth College

Golden Legends, Greek Revivals
Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College

The Golden Age of Psychology: Classics and Our Understanding of the Mind
Mark Adair, Clinical psychoanalyst and independent scholar

Courses offered include:

Ovid and the Augustan Golden Age
Elaine Fantham, Princeton University, Emerita

Starting with Ovid's description of the original Golden Age in Metamorphoses 1, the course will discuss connections with Catullus 64, Georgics 1, and Aratus. It will consider also Ovid's representation of the Augustan city and its social activities in Ars Amatoria 1 and 3, Tristia 2, and selected other exile poems.

The Golden Age of Augustan Rome

Barbara Kellum, Smith College

The first emperor boasted that he had found Rome ˜built of brick and left it clothed in marble.™ The ghost of Mussolini still haunts the interpretation of the Augustan golden age and the emperor™s transformation of the capital city. However, by examining the monuments of Augustan Rome in relation to their appropriations in municipalities throughout Roman Italy, especially at Pompeii, the social alchemy of the golden age comes into focus as does the nature of artfulness in the Augustan era.

World Enough and Time: The Biblical Apocalyptic Tradition
Peter Machinist, Harvard Divinity School

From the book of Daniel to Waco and beyond, the theme of Apocalypse and the attractions and dangers it poses remains with us to expose the corruption and oppression of the present situation and purvey promises of a world-wide transformation that will usher in a new and better future; indeed, a new and ideal world. While apocalyptic is not exclusive to any one human group it has particularly strong ties to the scriptural traditions of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament and the contemporary and later literature associated with these texts. In the present course, we shall explore aspects of this Biblical apocalyptic universe by focusing on several of its major literary products: the book of Daniel, selections from the Qumran (Dead Sea Scroll) community, the book of Revelation, and if time permits, a piece of Biblicizing apocalyptic of recent vintage.

Opera and Tragedy: The Nostalgia of European Music-Drama
Roger Travis, University of Connecticut

On the day of his mental breakdown, Friedrich Nietzsche sent Cosima Wagner a postcard that said only "Ariadne, I love you." Monteverdi, Gluck, and Wagner are only the most obvious examples of great composers of opera whose faith and interest in their operatic projects stemmed from a belief that they were bringing back to life the greatest artistic form of all, the tragedy that flourished in Athens in the 5th C. BCE. In this course, we will discuss their understandings of what tragedy was, and trace the effect in their works. At the same time, we will try to discover what elements of tragedy escaped the composers of opera, and what this can tell us about the practice of tragedy in classical Athens.

Hippocrates and Asklepios: Scientific Medicine and Healing Art in a Golden Age.

Arnold Katz, M.D. University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Dartmouth Medical School

This course will examine disease and treatment as described in works attributed to Hippocrates and testimonials from Temples of Asklepios and other healing Gods. Differences between medical "science" and "art" in the Golden Age of Greece will be compared briefly with differences between scientific medicine and the healing art in today's Golden Age of Medicine.

Restoration Greek: Review, Relearn, Rejoice in Reading Ancient Greek

Edward Bradley, Dartmouth College [Greek Reading Course]

This is a course for those who would like to polish up their "rusty" Greek. We will review the grammar of Ancient Greek through the close reading of short passages from Thucydides, Euripides, Hesiod and Plato, focusing particularly on the splendid (but trying?) intricacies of the Greek verb. Content of the passages will be relevant to the larger theme of the Institute. Anyone who has studied Ancient Greek at any level in the past and would like to get "up close and personal" with Greek again is welcome to participate.

The Golden Age of Athens
Blaise Nagy, Holy Cross College

"And we will be admired by present and future generations" (Thuc. II. 41.4)

With these words, Pericles proclaims the greatness of Athens, a city unlike any other in his estimation. Most of us today would share in this estimation and see in Periclean Athens a kind of a Golden Age. But Athens, along with its institutions, had its critics in antiquity, some harsher than others, and it is this admixture of ancient sentiments towards the Athens of the Periclean Age that we will examine in this course

Cosmology and Architecture
Roger Ulrich, Dartmouth College

This course will explore how scientific and philosophical ideas about the organization of the universe influenced architects and their buildings in Greece, Italy, and the world of Early Christianity.

Islam and the Western Mind: Greek to Arabic to Latin

Frank Peters, New York University

Between 750 and 1000 AD, Muslim intellectuals engineered one of the most spectacular technology transfers in human history. Under caliphal patronage the greater part of Greek scientific and philosophical learning was translated from Greek into Arabic. Two centuries later this broad stream of Arab-Islamic learning returned to the West. Europe rediscovered its own Greek past in Arab garb and began re-translating texts into their own scientific vernacular, Latin. They discovered Islam as well. The course will look at these two moments and will inspect what was (and was not) translated, how and why.

Revisioning Cassandra and Medea
Phyllis Katz, Dartmouth College

German novelist Christa Wolf takes the myths of two women and rewrites them in the context of the modern world. This course looks at the ancient tellings of the stories of Cassandra and Medea and at Christa Wolf™s retellings. Wolf transforms and vindicates her heroines: Cassandra™s prophecies are not madness, but the truth that no one wants to hear; Medea has murdered neither her brother or her children. Wolf™s Cassandra sees the futility of external war, Wolf™s Medea the corrosive and destructive nature of internal political power. The novelist™s re-visioning of these myths suggests that women can save mankind; as such Wolf™s myths are utopian, imagining a Golden Age without external war or internal struggles for political power.

Aristophanes & Michael Moore: The "Golden" Boys of Art & Social Criticism

Lon Winston and Valerie Haugen, Thunder River Theatre Company

Aristophanes and Michael Moore share the comedian's courage to risk an impudent attack on the popular opinion. Aristophanes' Knights was the Fahrenheit 9/11 of ancient Greece. This course will compare Knights and Lysistrata with Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. We will consider whether these golden boys achieved the results they wanted. Through theatrical ritual and mask, the students will create their own "Fahrenheit.

Those Whom We Love to Hate: Literary Portraits of The Enemy in Roman Literature [Latin Reading Course]
J. Douglas Marshall, St. Paul's School, Emeritus

Enemies of Rome - Jugurtha, Catiline, Vercingetorix, Cleopatra, and Calgacus -- are described Sallust, Cicero, Caesar, Horace, and Tacitus. We will analyze the language used to describe these hostes. We will also consider the degree to which these literary inventions are intended to furnish a commentary on Rome. Are Rome's hostes barbarians who lack the civilizing graces that furnish greatness or are they noble savages devoid of the corrupting vices that haunted their conquerors?

Additional Events Include:

Optional Greek and Latin reading groups. The Latin group will be led by Elaine Fantham and be based on readings from her course on Ovid. The Greek group will be led by Blaise Nagy and based on his forthcoming Thucydides reader.

Special exhibit and discussion group at Dartmouth™s Hood Museum. Ellen Perry of the College of the Holy Cross will lead three lunch hour sessions at the Museum, discussing several objects from the Museum™s collections related to our theme, which will be gathered in a special study space for our use. Please note: due to space limitations and the Museum™s rules for the protection of the objects, only the first 45 registrants will be able to participate.

Banquet and opera presentation. The closing banquet will be followed by a presentation by Ann Suter, University of Rhode Island, and Geoffrey Gibbs, the librettist and composer respectively of Potnia, a new opera based on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Professional singers will perform arias from the work.

All lectures are open to the public. Courses and other CSI events are open only to registered participants. Registered participants attend all lectures and two courses of their choice from the list of twelve given above. Course assignments are made on a first-come, first-served basis. Except for the two designated Greek and Latin reading courses and the optional reading groups, all readings are in English. The registration fee for the six-day Institute is $410 for CANE members and $450 for non-members. The fee includes all events, room (double), lunches, and dinners, including banquet. The fee for attendees who choose not to stay at the college during the Institute is $260 (member commuters) or $310 (non-member commuters.) The commuter fee includes all events, lunches, and banquet.

For a registration form and further information on courses and faculty, go to www.wellesley.edu/ClassicalStudies/cane or contact:

Erin Perkins Bennett
Erin.P.Bennett@Dartmouth.edu
Classics Department
Reed Hall 6086
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

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~ CONF: Greek Religion and the Orient

Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:15:46 GMT

The Department of Classics at the Florida State University announces the 2005 Langford Symposium:

Greek Religion and the Orient: From Ishtar to Aphrodite
Friday and Saturday February 25-26, 2005

Broad Auditorium, Pepper Center, Florida State University

* Introduction:   Ian Rutherford , FSU
* Prof. Sandra Blakely, Emory "Black Hephaistos? Gender, magic and metallurgy between Greece and Africa"
* Prof. Ian Moyer, Pomona College "Craftsmen of the Sacred and their Golden Fetters: Models of Mobility in the Graeco-Egyptian Evidence"
* Prof. Billie-Jean Collins, Emory      "Pigs for the Gods. Sacrifice East and West"
* Prof. Fred Naiden, Tulane     "Greek and Hebrew Examples of Rejected Sacrifices"
* Prof. Jan Bremmer, Groningen    "Jason, Medea and the Ancient Mediterranean/Anatolia Cultural Koine"
* Carolina-Lopez Ruiz, Chicago "Old gods for new spirits. The function of some oriental elements in the Orphic cosmogonies"
* Prof. Jane Carter, Tulane   "Dining with the Dead in Greece and the Near East"
* Dr. John Franklin      "Lyre Gods East and West"
* Prof. Margalit Finkelberg, Tel Aviv      "Ino-Leukothea between East and West"
* Prof. Mary Bachvarova, Willamette      "Divine Justice Across the Mediterranean: The Context of Orestes' Trial in Aeschylus"

The Symposium schedule is to be found at: http://www.fsu.edu/~classics/langford/LangfordProgramFeb2005.htm
for more information, please contact Ian Rutherford (irutherf@mailer.fsu.edu)

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~ CFP: Ancient Roman Manhood

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:32:12 GMT

Deadline extended to February 15, 2005

"Exploring Roman Manhood: Formations, Transformations, and Contestations"

Three-Year Colloquium
2006 Annual Meeting of the APA (Montreal)

Call for Papers

Organizers: Jill Connelly, Texas Tech University; Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College; Mark Masterson, Hamilton College

Ever since the publication of Sarah Pomeroy's Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves, the study of women has been a prominent feature of classical studies, and courses on women in antiquity have become a staple of college course offerings. The study of men, however, as an outgrowth of women's studies and now gender studies, is a more recent field of exploration and one that has begun to receive attention. Increasingly, scholars of the ancient world have endeavored to problematize understandings of Roman male culture as merely political, military, or voluptuary and to suggest instead that Roman manhood is the dynamic product of social processes of enculturation. The research of Carlin Barton, Virginia Burrus, Maud Gleason, Erik Gunderson, Mathew Kuefler, Amy Richlin, and Craig Williams, among others, has helped to deepen our understanding of masculinity in Rome by focusing on Roman men's formative relationships with sexuality, women/femininity, and the social expectations for viri.

In our colloquium's second year, "Transformations of Roman Manhood," we would like to focus on the various changes to which Roman manhood was subject. Authors are encouraged to construe "transformation" broadly. Papers may approach this topic from various perspectives, including (but not limited to) social/historical, literary, feminist- and/or queer-theoretical, archaeological, art-historical, or anthropological. Questions addressed by individual papers might include:

1. How do concepts associated with Roman manhood change over time?
2. Women can possess virtues (e.g., virtus, fortitudo, etc.) marked as masculine by the Romans. Does this relative independence of masculine virtue from the male body transform Roman manhood? (If so, how and according to whom?)
3. How does the change from a small republic of citizen soldiers to an empire supported by mercenaries alter the realization of Roman manhood? Or, put differently, what effect does the removal of elite males from the ranks of the soldiery have on Roman manhood?
4. What impact does the coming of Christianity have on Roman concepts of masculinity?
5. How do various literary genres (epic, elegy, historiography, drama, etc.) and/or philosophy/theology/rhetoric portray or interact with transformations of Roman manhood?

Abstracts of 500-800 words are due by February 15, 2005. Submit abstracts, by email (preferred) or as a hard copy, to Elizabeth Manwell, Department of Classical Studies, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo MI 49006. Abstracts will be judged anonymously by two referees.

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~ CONF: Talks at UNottingham

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:29:02 GMT

University of Nottingham
Classics Research Workshop & Additional Classics Seminars
Spring Term 2005

Tuesday 1 February
Professor Tim Cornell (ICS, London) Back to Basics with Augustus (Thai Lecture Theatre, Trent College, Long Eaton. 5.00pm)

Tuesday 8 February
Dr A. M. Burnett (British Museum) What were Coins for? (Cecil Roberts Room, County Library, Angel Row, Nottingham. 6.45pm)

Tuesday 15 February
Dr Mark Bradley (Nottingham) The Importance of Colour on Ancient Sculpture (B7, Archaeology & Classics Building, University Park. 5.00pm. Tea from 4.30pm)

Tuesday 22 February
Lynn Kozak (Nottingham) Trust Among Warriors (B7, Archaeology & Classics Building, University Park. 5.00pm. Tea from 4.30pm)

Tuesday 8 March Lilia Hachiya (Critical Theory & Cultural Studies, Nottingham) & Matthew Hiscock (Classics, Cambridge)
Theorising Suicide Ancient and Modern (B7, Archaeology & Classics Building, University Park. 5.00pm. Tea from 4.30pm)

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~ CONF: Mediterranean Encounters

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:40:54 GMT

Mediterranean Encounters: People, History and Literature
11-12 February 2005

CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
Supported by:
CRASSH
Middle East Graduate Association (MEGA)

The Mediterranean world has a rich history of encounters between people of various cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Given the often contentious nature of current discourse on the region, it is beneficial to adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to its study. Thus the Middle East Graduate Association of the University of Cambridge is hosting this conference to bring together studies on the exchange and interaction between various peoples within the Mediterranean in areas of trade, culture, literature and relations of power. The conference will be organized along several main themes: European and Middle Eastern historiography of the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean as a trade zone, Relations of power within the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean in literature and culture.

Conveners:
Murat Menguc (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge)
Amina Elbendary (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge)
Academic Advisor:
Irad Malkin (Professor of Ancient Greek History, Tel Aviv University)

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Programme:

Friday 11 February
10.00-10.30 Coffee and Registration
10.30-11.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
David Abulafia (Professor of Mediterranean History, University of Cambridge)
11.00-13.00 Session One
Chair: Ludmilla Jordanova (CRASSH, University of Cambridge)

The Mediterranean Option
Irad Malkin (Professor of Ancient Greek History, Tel Aviv University)

The Forgotten History of Cosmopolitanism
Dr William Gallois (Mellon Fellow in History, School of Oriental and
African Studies, Unive rsity of London)

The Legacy of Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism and the Political Rhetoric
of Identity in Modern Egypt: The Case of Women
Mona El- Sherif (Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of
California Berkeley)

13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.45 Session Two: Identities
Chair: Murat Menguc (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge)

East meets West: Constructing a Mediterranean Identity in Albert
Camus's La nouvelle culture méditerranéenne
Neil Foxlee (University of Central Lancashire)

Orienting the Mezzogiorno: The Italian Southern Question and the
Mediterranean Races, 1861-1911
Aliza S. Wong (Faculty of History, Texas Tech University)

Beirut: A Case-Study in the Limits of Hellenisation
Nadine Boksmati (University of Cambridge)

15.45-16.15 Tea and Coffee
16.15-17.45 Session Three: The Mediterranean City
Chair: Paul Cartledge (Professor of Greek History, University of Cambridge)

Grog Shop Encounters in Alexandria, 1880-1900
Will Hanley (History Department, Princeton University)

Profile of a Mediterranean City: The Case of Medieval Scutari (XIV-XV Century)
Mag. Enriketa Pandelejmoni (Department for Southeast European History,
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)

Levantine Christians and Muslims in Early Modern Venice: Communities,
Networks and Identities
Georgios Plakotos (Department of Modern History, University of Glasgow)

Saturday 12 February
9.30-10.30 Mediterranean History as World History
Peregrine Horden (Reader in Medieval History, Royal Holloway,
University of London)
10.30-11.00 Tea and Coffee
11.00-13.00 Session Four: Session 4: Historical Constructs
Chair: TBC

The Map of the Christian Topography and its Influence
Maja Kominko (University of Oxford)

Religious Borders, Mobility and Conversion in the Mediterranean around 1600
Kim Siebenhüner (Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford)

Trade, Western Merchants and Ottoman Law in the Mediterranean: The
Evidence of a Manuscript from the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris
Viorel Panaite (University of Bucharest)

13. 00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Session Five: Europe and the Mediterranean
Chair: Irad Malkin (Professor of Ancient Greek History, Tel Aviv University)

Similarities and Differences between the Regional Development
(Policies) of Turkey, Greece, Italy and Spain as Mediterranean
Countries in the Globalization Process
Levin Özgen (Süleyman Demirel University)

Trade and Security in the Mediterranean: Comparing EU and US Free
Trade Strategies in the Maghreb
Jean F. Crombois (Alakhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco)

Turkey's Straits: A Contested Conduit between Europe and Asia
Susan Allen (Providence College, USA)

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Registration
A booking foorm is available to download here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2004-5/medencounters.html . Please return booking forms by 4 February. Please direct any enquiries about the conference to events@crassh.cam.ac.uk with your details.

For more information about the academic content of the conference, please contact the convener Murat Menguc mm499@cam.ac.uk.

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~ CFP: Rhetoric and Historiography

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:38:49 GMT

Colloquium « Rhetoric and historiography »

On the 13th, 14th and 15th of October, 2005, the Université Laval (Quebec City, Canada) will have the pleasure of hosting this Colloquium, which takes place within the framework established by the cooperation agreements signed with the Université Marc-Bloch (Strasbourg, France). A second meeting will be hosted in Strasbourg in October 2006. The goal of the conference is to foster critical reflection on the links that exist between historiography and rhetoric. If one may say that historians and orators share a common will to persuade their audience and the same belief that their respective arts represent the sole path to discovering the truth, it must also be recognized that the two arts do not use the same means to reach that end. And yet the two fields intersect at various points: the historiographer, for example, must master a kind of rhetoric that will lend credibility to his words, while the orator must make frequent allusions to historical facts to illustrate and reinforce his arguments.

Conference organizers invite papers from anyone who is interested in exploring the relationship between these two genres; contributions may consider such various aspects as the points of convergence and divergence between the two fields, the notions of generic ambivalence, truth or exemplarity, or ancient perspectives on the two literary genres.

Scholars interested in participating to the colloquium in Quebec City should send a 300-words abstract before the 15th of March 2005 to: <alban.baudou@lit.ulaval.ca>.

Fees will be of $ 30 CAN, payable on arrival. Details about the organization of the Colloquium will be available in June on the web site of the Institut d’études anciennes de l’Université Laval: <www.ftsr.ulaval.ca/iea>

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~ CFP: Roman Virtues and Vices

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:34:37 GMT

Roman Virtues and Vices

Organizers: Karla Pollmann, St Andrews; Eric Casey, Sweet Briar College; William Harris, Columbia University; Brad Inwood, University of Toronto; Robert A. Kaster, Princeton; David Konstan, Brown University; Irmgard Männlein-Robert, Würzburg; Matt Roller, Johns Hopkins; David Wray, University of Chicago.

The cultural centrality and conceptual rigor of ancient "virtue language" provides a rich ground for exploring notions, representations and transformations of ancient virtues and vices. In the last decade or so, "virtue ethics" has become an increasingly prevalent avenue of investigation in modern ethical reflections, focusing on aretaic concepts of excellence and (in fewer cases) their opposites, and on the moral character and motives of actions. This new departure within ethical philosophy, which is influenced by Aristotle but has so far hardly taken any Latin texts into account, will provide the questions to be considered in the panels of the proposed colloquium and may also be challenged by papers. The colloquium focuses on Roman culture, from the beginnings of Latin literature through Late Antiquity, including early Christianity. It aims at contextualizing the academic conversation about virtue ethics in a new way by paying more attention to ancient social contexts-for example, through examining and questioning the specific "Romanness" of given ethical values, as well as their relation to Greek culture. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, especially those involving philosophy, history with its subdisciplines, as well as linguistic and literary investigations. Junior scholars are welcome.

For the APA meeting in 2006 we solicit papers on the following topic:

Roman Virtues, Vices & Their Transformation The panel will explore the development of Roman morality in all periods through Late Antiquity. We invite authors to ask the following questions by using a diachronic approach and/or comparing contemporaneous cultures in contact with one another: how stringent are the demands of 'Roman' morality through time? what is the good life as opposed to the bad life, and what part do virtues and vices play in it? how do human needs and economic, social, and political changes interrelate with virtues and vices?

For the APA meeting in 2006, abstracts (no more than 800 words) are due by February 4, 2005. Submit abstracts, by email (preferred) or as hard copy with disk, to Eric Casey (ecasey@sbc.edu), Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA, 24595. Abstracts will be judged anonymously by two referees.

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~ CFP: Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:32:29 GMT

THE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY FOR NEO-LATIN STUDIES

2005 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM - CALL FOR PAPERS

The Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies will take place at Clare College, Cambridge, between Friday and Sunday, 9-11 September 2005. 'Pastoral' is the theme of this year's symposium, and we invite proposals for 30-minute papers on any aspect of this genre in the cultures of Neo-Latin writing (for example, the novel, theatre, commentary, pedagogy, poetry, translation, court entertainments).

Abstracts of c.150 words should be sent by 15 April 2005 to the Secretary of the CSNLS, Andrew Taylor, at awt24@cam.ac.uk. Information about the programme, accommodation arrangements, and costs will be circulated soon after this closing date. We would hope to be able to offer assistance towards accommodation and meals for those unable to attract institutional funding to support their attendance at the symposium, but unfortunately we are unable to help with travel expenses.

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~ CFP: Classics in North America

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:48:02 GMT

APA MONTREAL MEETING JAN. 2006: PANEL ON NORTH AMERICAN CLASSICS

Canadian input is being sought for an American Classical League (ACL) panel on North American Classics: Past, Present, Future, to be held at the APA's 2006 meeting in Montreal. Organizers are Paul Properzio (Boston Latin Academy) and Kenneth Kitchell (ACL President). The panel will focus on the
history, present state, and future challenges facing the study and teaching of the Classics at all levels in the United States and Canada. Questions which may be addressed: Are conditions for Classics different in the two countries? Do they differ region to region within the same country? What are the driving forces behind change in the respective countries? Are there programs of distinction that could be recognized as models for training pre-collegiate teachers? What is the state of the supply of pre-collegiate teachers of the Classics and how might the two countries collaborate in this area? Papers may focus on a single problem or time period or take a historical or comparative approach. Papers addressing possible joint ventures between Canadian and American classics programs and organizations are especially encouraged. Deadline for receipt of submissions is February 1, 2005.

Each potential panelist should submit his/her own 500 to 800-word abstract on the subject of "North American Classics: Past, Present, Future," double-spaced, for papers of 15-20 minutes to Geri Dutra, Administrative Secretary, The American Classical League, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. E-mail: <info@aclclassics.org>. Tel: (513) 529-7741, Fax: (513) 529-7742. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is FEBRUARY 1, 2005.

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~ CFP: Health, Disease, etc. in the Prehistoric Aegean

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:55:55 GMT

Health, Disease and Medicine in the Prehistoric Aegean

1. Complimentary to my own research on disease, healing and medicine in the Aegean Bronze Age, I am proposing to organise and host in September 2007 an International Colloquium on Health, Disease and Medicine in the Prehistoric Aegean, with specific reference to Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations. The aim of the colloquium will be not only to expand our understanding in this field but also to allow researchers from various disciplines to meet and work together, particularly as a number of important developments have taken place in our understanding of health (and medicine) in the period, particularly through advances in the field of archaeological science.

2. This colloquium would be the fourth in a series of interdisciplinary conferences on the general theme of the Archaeology of Medicine organised by the Centre for the History of Medicine of the University of Birmingham Medical School (UK). The first in 1998 was entitled ‘The Archaeology of Medicine’ [published as Robert Arnott (ed.), The Archaeology of Medicine, Oxford, 2002 - BAR International Series 1046]; and the second in 2000 concerned ‘Cranial Trepanation in the Ancient World’ [published as Robert Arnott, Stanley Finger and C. U. M. Smith (eds.), Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory, Lisse, Swets and Zeitlinger, 2003]. The third was in the summer of 2004 (organised jointly with the Society for Ancient Medicine) on the subject of ‘Anatomical Knowledge in the Ancient World’, the proceedings of which will be edited by Lesley Dean-Jones and myself and published later this year.

3. As with the other meetings, it is anticipated that this would also be of a multi-disciplinary character, with hopefully contributions from archaeologists, Linear B scholars, physical anthropologists (especially palaeopathologists), archaeological scientists, medical historians and others who have more of a general interest. The theme of the colloquium is broad enough to encompass all aspects of health and disease – such as health status, diet, pubic health and hygiene, water supply and sanitation, disease, trauma, occupational health, medicine and surgery and other forms of healing.

4. A number of colleagues have already expressed an interest in attending and offering papers, and I am encouraged to proceed. I am now seeking to establish wider interest from other established scholars, graduate students and others in potentially participating and/or offering papers. Please reply directly to me offline on R.G.Arnott@bham.ac.uk if you are interested.

ROBERT ARNOTT
Reader in the History and Archaeology of Medicine
Sub-Dean of Medicine
Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine
The Medical School
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT   (UK)
Tel.:      0121-414 6804 (Voicemail)
Fax:      0121-414 4036
Email:   R.G.Arnott@bham.ac.uk

Personal Assistant: Miss Michelle Lee
Tel.:      0121-415 8174 (Voicemail)
Email:   M.Lee.3@bham.ac.uk

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~ CONF: Seminars at Royal Holloway

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:46:32 GMT

Royal Holloway, University of London
Humanities and Arts Research Centre and Classics Department present:

Traces from the Past: Antiquity in Dialogue with Modernity An Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

Wednesday 19th January

Caesar in Italy and the USA: Cinema, Ancient History, and National Identity in the 1910s

Professor Maria Wyke (University of Reading)
Respondent: Barry Langford (Department of Media Arts, RHUL)

Wednesday 26th January

Politics of Classics and Film

Professor Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)
Respondent: Ahuvia Kahane (Department of Classics, RHUL)

Wednesday 2 February

'Always historicise'? Derrida and the Politics of Reception

Dr Miriam Leonard (University of Bristol)
Respondent: Ewan Fernie (Department of English, RHUL)

Wednesday 9th February

Queering Pygmalion in Henry James

Dr Sarah Brown (University of Cambridge)
Respondent: Ruth Livesey (Department of English, RHUL)

Wednesday 23 February

Revolutionary Oedipuses

Dr Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford)
Respondent: David Wiles (Department of Drama, RHUL)

Wednesday 2 March

Robert Browning's Euridiparistophanising

Dr Adam Roberts (RHUL)
Respondent: Robert Hampson (Department of English, RHUL)

Wednesday 9 March

Little Iliads: The Matter of Troy in Popular Fiction and Fantasy

Dr Nick Lowe (RHUL)
Respondent: Adam Roberts (English, RHUL)

Wednesday 16th March

Myth and Masculinities: Black Athena and the Study of Ancient Religion in the Eighteenth Century

Dr James Moore (University of Lancaster)
Respondent: Professor John O'Brien (Department of French, RHUL)

The seminar will be chaired by Efi Spentzou and Nick Lowe. For further details contact jim.samson@rhul.ac.uk.

All seminars will be held in the Common Room of the International Building (IN243). Sessions will begin at 5 p.m. and will last for up to 90 minutes. All are welcome.

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~ CFP: Classical Association of South Africa

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:41:18 GMT

The 26th Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa
will be held at the University of KwaZulu Natal from 5th-7th July, 2005.

CONFERENCE THEME: THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: PROFESSOR LORNA HARDWICK

In her 2003 publication Reception Studies (Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics No. 33), Lorna Hardwick defines 'The Classical Tradition' as 'the transmission and dissemination of classical culture through the ages, usually with the emphasis on the influence of classical writers, artists and thinkers on subsequent intellectual movements and individual works. In this context, the language which was used to describe this influence tended to include terms like 'legacy'' (p. 2).

With increasing scholarly interest in this field, our understanding of what is meant by the Classical Tradition has broadened its scope considerably. Instead of having a narrow Eurocentric focus, it has become a global enterprise, and now includes Postcolonial Studies and the cultures of developing nations, an aspect which is of obvious significance in the context of African, even South African, scholarship. Instead of limiting itself to high culture, the effects on popular or even trash culture have become a point of interest. Instead of taking a subordinate position, the modern work has gained the right to its own value and has become a partner of equal standing with the ancient original. With the incorporation of modern disciplines such as Literary Studies, Gender Studies, and Media Studies, the Classical Tradition has acquired many additional dimensions.

The aim of the conference to be held by the Classical Association of South Africa in July 2005 is to explore as many aspects of the Classical Tradition / Reception as possible, to establish an overview of the state of the art in the various sub-disciplines and to foster exchange among interested colleagues. A list of selected sections could include Language, Literature, Arts, Music, Media, or Popular Culture. For a more detailed discussion please monitor developments on the conference website:

http://www.expertise.und.ac.za/casa/casa_conference_2005.htm

Papers no more than twenty minutes in duration are invited, on the conference theme or on other classical topics, or with a related multi-disciplinary focus. Proposals for panel discussions, and offers to coordinate panels, will be welcome.

Abstracts (not more than 250 words) should be sent to

Professor J.L. Hilton (or, after 5th February, to Mrs Anne Gosling)
Classics,
University of KwaZulu-Natal,
Durban
4041
South Africa
Tel: +27 31 2602312,
Fax +27 31 2602698,
e-mail hilton@ukzn.ac.za, gosling@ukzn.ac.za

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~ CFP: Women Writers and the Classical Tradition

Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:44:15 GMT

Women Writers and the Classical Tradition

Organized by Laura McClure, University of Wisconsin, and Yopie Prins, University of Michigan

On the absence of a literary tradition for female writers, Virginia Woolf once remarked, "For we think back through our mothers if we are women." This process involves not only the recovery of neglected female writers, but also the re-examination of the male literary tradition from a feminist perspective. Like many other women writers, Woolf repeatedly, and often paradoxically, returned to the classical past as a source of inspiration and as a means of reframing the literary agenda.

The Women's Classical Caucus invites abstracts for its panel session at the Montreal meeting of the American Philological Association in 2006. This session will focus on the ways in which the classical past inspired or engaged the minds of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American women writers. Topics that might be addressed include the influence of classical mythology on women writers, "ladies' Greek" or the study of classical languages by women, the importance of Euripides for the suffragettes, travel narratives about ancient monuments and sites, and the use of classical models in modernist poetry.

For more information on the panel, please contact the panel organizers, Laura McClure (lmcclure@facstaff.wisc.edu) or Yopie Prins (yprins@umich.edu). Abstracts may be up to 600 words in length and should not contain the author's name, as they will be refereed anonymously. Send by February 1, 2005 to lmcclure@facstaff.wisc.edu. Abstracts sent by regular mail should be postmarked by February 1, 2005, and addressed to Laura McClure, Classics, University of Wisconsin, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706.

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~ CFP: Cinematic Rome

Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:16:31 GMT

CINEMATIC ROME

An international conference organised by Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture (NIRVC), September 2005.

CALL FOR PAPERS

From the early days of filmmaking to the present, Rome has been both an important centre for film production, and a compelling location for cinematic narrative. The city as a cinematic subject inherits a rich tradition of literary, artistic, and architectural representations - an inheritance which has hardly been investigated. Whether capitalising on the unique spectacle of Ancient Roman remains, exploring the social conflicts arising from the imposition of modern urbanism on the city, or mythologising touristic encounters with the Eternal City, filmmakers have seized on Rome as a symbolically resonant setting.
This conference aims to bring together historical and interpretative explorations of these complementary dimensions of the city's evolving cinematic identity. Proposals for papers are invited on any relevant topic. Papers which address the following themes would be particlarly welcome:

The city as mis-en-scène
Antique Rome as theme and narrative
Film under Fascism
Cinecittà - origins and development
Rome as a site of crisis and destabilisation
Tourism in film: cliché and critique
The postwar city as modern ruin and international playground

Keynote speakers:
Professor Maria Wyke (University of Reading), author of Projecting Rome, and Jacopo Benci (Assisant Director, Fine Art, British School at Rome).

For enquiries and proposals, please contact;
Richard Wrigley, Department of Art History, University of Nottingham richard.wrigley@nottingham.ac.uk
Tel. 0115 951318Craig Kallendorf (University A&M Texas)
Virgil, Filelfo, Foucault

Stefano Carrai (Università di Siena)
Fra canzoniere e 'liber carminum': due modelli per la poesia rinascimentale italiana

Hugo Tucker (University of Reading)
A Roman Dialogue with Virgil and Homer: The 'Centones ex Virgilio' of Lelio Capilupi

Roberto Tissoni (Università di Genova)
Aspetti del classicismo letterario italiano da Giuseppe Parini a Giacomo Leopardi

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~ CONF: Italy and the Classical Tradition

Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:07:13 GMT

AN UNINTERRUPTED DIALOGUE
ITALY AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

The University of Warwick, 12th-14th May 2005

The Department of Classics and the Department of Italian of the University of Warwick announce a series of lectures followed by a two-day symposium on the topic: 'An Uninterrupted Dialogue: Italy and the Classical Tradition'.

This message includes the provisional programme of the symposium only (12th-14th May 2005). The programme of the lecture series will be announced shortly.

Given the limited number of B&Bs and hotels in and around the campus at Warwick, anyone interested in attending the symposium is warmly invited to contact the organisers in order to receive information about travel and accommodation.

For further information please contact:

Sue Dibben, Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick (hrc@warwick.ac.uk)
or
Carlo Caruso, Department of Italian / Department of Classics, University of Warwick (c.caruso@warwick.ac.uk)

AN UNINTERRUPTED DIALOGUE
ITALY AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

The University of Warwick, 12th-14th May 2005

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Thursday 12th May - 5.30pm

Giulio C. Lepschy (University College London)
The Classical Languages and Italian: Some Questions about Grammar and Rhetoric

Friday 13th - Saturday 14th May

Philip Burton (University of St Andrews)
'Itali dicunt ozie': Ancient Descriptions of Non-Standard Latin

Nigel Wilson (Oxford, Lincoln College)
'Utriusque linguae peritus': How Did One Learn the Second Language and Acquire the Texts?

Claudia Villa (Università di Bergamo)
'Renovatio' e 'translatio': la riscrittura della letteratura classica in Dante

Jonathan Usher (University of Edinburgh)
Daphnean Fronds Intertwined: Poetic Coronation in Late Medieval to Early Modern Italy

Martin McLaughlin (Oxford, Magdalen College)
Alberti and the Classical Canon

Jill Kraye (London, Warburg Institute)
'Marsilius Ficinus vir nostra tempestate inter Platonicos facile princeps': The Role of Marsilio
Ficino in Cristoforo Landino's 'Disputationes Camaldulenses'

Craig Kallendorf (University A&M Texas)
Virgil, Filelfo, Foucault

Stefano Carrai (Università di Siena)
Fra canzoniere e 'liber carminum': due modelli per la poesia rinascimentale italiana

Hugo Tucker (University of Reading)
A Roman Dialogue with Virgil and Homer: The 'Centones ex Virgilio' of Lelio Capilupi

Roberto Tissoni (Università di Genova)
Aspetti del classicismo letterario italiano da Giuseppe Parini a Giacomo Leopardi

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~ CFP: Workshop on the Aegean World

Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:13:53 GMT

The OU Greek Society, with the support of the University of Oxford, the University of Athens and the University of the Aegean (Lesvos), is organising a graduate-student workshop about the Aegean Koine : The Aegean and its cultures through the centuries. Contributors from other Greek and UK universities are also welcome.

The workshop will take place in Oxford on the 22nd and 23rd April 2005 and is planned to be the first in a series of research-exchange meetings. Short papers (c. 20 minutes) will be presented about different aspects of the Aegean history, archaeology, ethnology and literature from Prehistoric times to the 20th c. AD.

*** Keynote speakers of the workshop will be Professor Angelos Chaniotis (University of Heidelberg) and Professor Elizabeth Zachariadou (University of Crete)***

THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE WORKSHOP: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~greeksoc/aegean/

The participants will be asked to speak about their research, so that they contribute to an inter-disciplinary discussion concerning different levels of interaction among Aegean societies (of the coastal areas and the islands) and their links with other areas of the Mediterranean world (Anatolia, Middle East, N. Africa, the West) in different periods. Among the crucial questions of the workshop will be the extent to which we can speak of a cultural Aegean koine. Other topics will involve the impact of a central power over the large geographical area, the study of trade links vis-a-vis the movement of ideas, the long-term interaction between island, coastal territories and inland areas, the cohabitation among different cultural groups, population movements, local dialects, literature and more.

The central aim of this workshop is to encourage the exchange of knowledge and the transfer of research experience for a variety of disciplines among graduate students on the basis of annual meetings alternating between Oxford and Greece, which could eventually lead to future research cooperation between the universities. UK-based students will have the opportunity to become familiar with parallel research projects organised by Greek universities and foster links with Greek scholars.

The UK participants are requested to send an abstract of their work in English (c. 1000 words) to the organising committee (consisting of a mixed group of graduate students and Oxford fellows) by 31st January 2005. English will be the official language. All papers will be published online and in print, and will be accompanied by short abstracts in both English and Greek. A number of travel grants will be available for the participants.

The OU Greek Society will be responsible for organising the first meeting of the Oxford/ Athens/ Aegean partnership. The second meeting of the workshop is planned to take place in Greece in 2006, organised by the Societies of Graduate students and the Faculties of the Athens and the Aegean university.

For more information and paper submissions:

Greek Society
c/o Georgios Deligiannakis
Lady Margaret Hall
Oxford OX2 6QA (UK)

greeksoc@herald.ox.ac.uk
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~greeksoc

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~ CFP: The Public Festival

Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:28 GMT

Scholars and specialists, and especially those working within the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, sociology and philology, are kindly invited to partcipate in an international congress which is going to be held in Greek Thrace within November 2005. The subject of the conference will be

"The public festival: a diachronic look at its social and political function", the term festival taken here to mean a general gathering of people, associated with feasting and trading, on the occasion of a religious celebration - a sociocultural practice originating in the Neolithic.

The proceedings will be published.

A second circular with further details will follow soon.
For applications and correspondence, please address, if possible no later than April 1 2005, the congress' scientific co-ordinator ass. Professor Manolis Melas, University of Thrace, Dpt of History & Ethnology, Komotini, 69100 Greece - email: emelas@he.duth.gr - fax +2531039466 - tel. +2531039475, +6947579434

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~ CONF: Herod and Augustus

Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:09:12 GMT

3-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

21st, 22nd & 23rd June 2005

HEROD AND AUGUSTUS

Conference Advisers: David JACOBSON and Nikos KOKKINOS

The past few decades have seen a blossoming of Herodian scholarship. This has been largely stimulated by a series of excavations at sites in Israel and Jordan associated with Herod the Great (37-4 BCE), such as Caesarea, Paneas, Masada, Herodium, Machaerus and the enclosure of the Temple in Jerusalem. These results are shedding important new light on various facets of the life and times of Herod, encompassing the art, architecture, technology, and economy of Herod's kingdom and its political, social and religious character. This new information is adding clarity to our understanding of the culture of Herodian Judaea and its relationship with Hellenistic and Roman culture. It is also helping to provide new insights regarding the interaction between Jews and Graeco-Roman society, and of the origins of Christianity.

The conference will bring together eminent experts in Herodian studies to present the results of their research, and create a forum for discussion.

Participants include:
Donald ARIEL, Jerusalem; Dan BAHAT, Toronto; Anthony BARRETT, Vancouver; Barbara BURRELL, Cincinnati, Ohio; John CREIGHTON, Reading; Gideon FOERSTER, Jerusalem; Karl GALINSKY, Austin,Texas; Joseph GEIGER, Jerusalem; David GOODBLATT, San Diego, California; Ittai GRADEL, Copenhagen; Erich GRUEN, Berkeley, California; Malka HERSHKOVITZ, Jerusalem; Achim LICHTENBERGER, Muenster; Ehud NETZER, Jerusalem; Joseph PATRICH Jerusalem; Silvia ROZENBERG, Jerusalem; Denis SADDINGTON, Johannesburg; Maurice SARTRE, Tours; Daniel SCHWARTZ, Jerusalem; Joseph SIEVERS, Rome; Mark TOHER, Schenectady, New York

*******

The IJS is supported by voluntary contributions ADMISSION IS FREE

For further information please contact:
Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London, Gower Street, WC1A
6BT
tel. 020 7679 3520; fax 020 7209 1026
e-mail uclhvtm@ucl.ac.uk; webpage http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew jewish/ijs

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~ CFP: Approaches to Ancient Medicine

Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:10:33 GMT

APPROACHES TO ANCIENT MEDICINE

Newcastle University, 22-23 August, 2005

Call for Papers

Following on from the earlier conferences at Newcastle (2000) and Reading (2001 and 2003), the next "Approaches to Ancient Medicine" Conference will be held at Newcastle University on Monday-Tuesday 22-23 August, 2005.

If you are interested in giving a paper at this conference, please send an abstract of up to 200 words to me at the address below by 31 January 2005 at the latest. There is no theme, and any proposal within the broad definition of Ancient Medicine (including Egyptian and Near Eastern medicine) will be considered.

PhD students and researchers at an early stage of their career are also strongly encouraged to send in a proposal.

It is hoped that the programme will be finalised in March 2005.

Philip van der Eijk
Professor of Greek
University of Newcastle
Classics
School of Historical Studies
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
Tel. (+)44.191.2228262
Fax: (+)44.191.2228262
email: philip.van-der-eijk@ncl.ac.uk
http://historical-studies.ncl.ac.uk/people/philip_van_der_eijk/index.htm
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/hom/index.htm

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~ CFP: 2006 APA Panel

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:54:26 GMT

[the APA in Montreal next year? I just might have to crash the party ... .ed]

APA MONTREAL MEETING JAN. 2006: PANEL ON NORTH AMERICAN CLASSICS

Canadian input is being sought or an American Classical League (ACL) panel on North American Classics: Past, Present, Future, to be held at the APA's 2006 meeting in Montreal. Organizers are Paul Properzio (Boston Latin Academy) and Kenneth Kitchell (ACL President).The panel will focus on the history, present state, and future challenges facing the study and teaching of the Classics at all levels in the United States and Canada. Questions which may be addressed: Are conditions for Classics different in the two countries? Do they differ region to region within the same country? What are the driving forces behind change in the respective countries? Are there programs of distinction that could be recognized as models for training pre-collegiate teachers? What is the state of the supply of pre-collegiate teachers of the Classics and how might the two countries collaborate in this area? Papers may focus on a single problem or time period or take a historical or comparative approach. Papers addressing possible joint ventures between Canadian and American classics programs and organizations are especially encouraged. Deadline for receipt of submissions is February 1, 2005.

Would anyone interested in contributing to this please contact both Martin Cropp (mcropp@ucalgary.ca) and Catherine Rubincam (rubincam@utm.utoronto.ca) as soon as possible. Catherine Rubincam is hoping to discuss plans for the panel with the organizers at the APA meeting in Boston later this week.

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~ CFP: The Hippocratic Tradition Reconsidered

Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:58:40 GMT

ANGLO-DUTCH WELLCOME SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT MEDICINE

The Hippocratic Tradition Reconsidered

Aim of the Conference

In 1979 Wesley D. Smith (Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies, The University of Philadelphia) published The Hippocratic Tradition (a free copy of the book can be downloaded from http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/amn/, see Œdocuments¹) Now, 25 years later, the moment has come to reconsider the questions he has raised, in the light of recent research. How was the Hippocratic Tradition established and how was the Hippocratic Myth, formed subsequently? How did it influence medical practice? It is time to reconsider the formation of the Hippocratic Tradition in the light of recent research from Mesopotamian and Egyptian medicine onwards, until the 18th century, the last century when Hippocratic medicine still had actual relevance in Western society. The relationship to the medical practice and theory of the Egyptian and the Mesopotamian world should be considered in view of the traditional claims that Hippocratic medicine has been superior to them both in attitude and in method.

For the full programme and registration see: http://www.gltc.leidenuniv.nl

II. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS

XIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum

Universiteit Leiden, 24, 25 and 26 August, 2005

Medical Education

Training of doctors, midwives, and other medical professionals and amateurs; teaching in theory and practice; the role of the oral and written tradition in medicine; the role of medicine in general education; the social status of teachers and pupils; the influence of ancient medicine in later medical education; such are only a few of the possible topics that come readily to the mind when one thinks of education in ancient medicine.

The XIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum will be dedicated to the theme of medical education in Antiquity and the way in which it contributed to the medical education in later periods. We invite proposals for papers but we are also looking for scholars willing to organize a panel about relevant themes. Contributions by young scholars are very welcome. Specialists in other medical traditions and medical anthropologists are especially encouraged to participate in order to stimulate the comparative perspective.

We envisage three main fields of interest:

I. Philosophy
Theory and practice, empiricism, experiments, theoretical concepts.

II. Practice
Schools, sects, the formation of the curriculum, theory and practice, the formation of the canon, literacy and orality, status of masters and pupils, anatomy, handbooks, catechism (questions/answers), access to training and education.

III. Tradition
The role of tradition in medical education, the role of commentaries

Proposals for papers (max. 1 A4, 30 minutes) and/or panel sessions may be submitted by 15 January 2005. N.B. The deadline for submittance has been extended from 1 December 2004 to 15 January 2005.

Organizing Committee:
Bert van den Berg (Ancient Philosophy)
Harm Beukers (History of Medicine)
Manfred Horstmanshoff (Ancient History)

For all information see: http://www.gltc.leidenuniv.nl

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~ CFP: Technology, Knowledge, and Society

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:57:33 GMT

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY
University of California, Berkeley, Friday 18 - Sunday 20 February 2005 http://www.Technology-Conference.com

This conference takes a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to technology in society. With a particular focus on digital information and communications technologies, the interests addressed by the conference include: human usability, technologies for citizenship and community participation, and learning technologies. Participants will include researchers, teachers and practitioners whose interests are either technical or humanistic, or whose work crosses over between the applied technological and social sciences.

As well as an impressive line up of international main speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. Papers submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the new International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings. The deadline for the first round call for papers is 30 November 2004. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission.

Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website.

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