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To submit items for this page, please send announcement as attached files to Robin Mitchell-Boyask, robin@temple.edu.- ASCS The 32nd annual conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies
- AMPHORA IV ‘Breaking Down Borders: Transgressing Boundaries in the Ancient World’
- ‘A magic stronger than the governors’ power’. Literature and Society in the Fourth Century A.D
- Linguistic Society of America 85th Annual Meeting
- The Association of Ancient Historians 2011 Conference
- ΜΟΥΣΑ ΠΑΙΖΕΙ. GREEK AND LATIN TECHNOPAEGNIA, RIDDLES, ACROSTICHS, POETIC PUNS, METRICAL CURIOSITIES, ETC.
- A Sickness unto Death: Pain, Suffering, and Despair in the Ancient World
- Between Byzantium and the West: the Revival of the Greek Language in the Renaissance
- ‘Diodorus Siculus: shared myths, world community, and universal history’
- Language, Myth and Society in the Ancient World
- Ancient Drama in Performance: Theory and Practice
- UCLA Graduate Conference 2010: "That's What She Said: The Construction and Expression of Women's Voices in Antiquity"
- The 2011 Classical Association Annual Conference
- Conference on ‘Integrity and Corruption in Antiquity’
- The Beast Within (and Without): Animals in the Ancient World
- Internet Conference: “Crisis, Conflicts and Disorders in Antiquity”
- International Conference: Poesia, musica e agoni nella Grecia antica / Poetry, music and contests in ancient Greece
- Formal Linguistics and the Teaching of Latin
ASCS The 32nd annual conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies
University of Auckland - Auckland, New Zealand
The Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland is pleased to host the 32nd annual conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS), which this year will also incorporate the Triennial Conference of New Zealand Universities' Classics Departments. The conference will be held from Monday 24 January 2011 to Thursday 27 January 2011 at the University of Auckland’s main city campus (Auckland, New Zealand).
We hereby invite abstracts for papers (20 – 25 minutes long, followed by discussion) from academic staff, graduate students and other interested parties on any aspect of the classical world. We are particularly keen to encourage papers on a broad range of literary, historical, and archaeological topics.
Some suggested areas of interest include:
- Classical literature
- Greco-Roman history
- Ancient Egypt
- Late Antiquity
- Ancient Philosophy
- Warfare
- Trade and Economy
- Ancient Art and Material Culture
Please register and submit individual abstracts via the conference website (www.ascs32.com). Offers of coordinated panels are also welcome. Please contact the conference conveners (Info@ascs32.com) for additional information. All abstracts should be submitted by 1 October 2010.
There is an ‘early-bird’ reduction in the registration fee for those registering (and paying) before 1 October 2010 – look for the ‘early-bird’ button on the website. Student travel subsidies are also available. Information may be found on the website.
Contact details: Info@ascs32.com - for general information about the conference; Register@ascs32.com - for information about registration and payment.
Conference convenors: Dr Jeremy Armstrong [js.armstrong@auckland.ac.nz] Assoc. Prof. Anne Mackay [anne.mackay@auckland.ac.nz]
AMPHORA IV ‘Breaking Down Borders: Transgressing Boundaries in the Ancient World’
Wednesday, September 29th- Friday, October 1st, 2010
Abstract submissions are invited for the fourth Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic Or Roman Antiquities (AMPHORA), to be held at the Caulfield campus of Monash University (Melbourne) from Wednesday, 29th September until Friday, 1st October, 2010. AMPHORA is a conference designed for Postgraduate and Honours students from Australia and New Zealand to interact and share their current work among peers in a friendly and stimulating environment. This year, we would also like to invite international postgraduate students to take part in the conference.
The theme of this year's conference: ‘Breaking Down Borders: Transgressing Boundaries in the Ancient World’, is intended to accommodate research from (but not limited to) all of the fields of Classical Philology, Classical Art and Literature, Ancient History, Philosophy, Archaeology, Late Antiquity Studies, and all other areas of Ancient World Studies, and abstracts addressing any interpretation of the topic are welcome.
Abstract submissions of 200-300 words for papers of 20 minutes duration are requested. Please send your submissions and a brief biography by Friday September 3rd, 2010 to amphoraiv@gmail.com. If you would like to attend the conference, but will not be presenting a paper, please inform us of your attendance, as well as any dietary requirements, by Friday, September 17th, 2010.
Conference registration is free, but there will be a fee for attending the conference dinner on the Friday evening, which has yet to be advised.
For more information contact Siobhan Privitera at smpri3@student.monash.edu.au, or Ellie Mackin at iespe1@student.monash.edu.au, or visit the conference website at https://sites.google.com/site/amphoraiv/.
‘A magic stronger than the governors’ power’. Literature and Society in the Fourth Century A.D
(23-24th of September 2010). Organised by Lieve Van Hoof (K.U.Leuven) and Peter Van Nuffelen (UGent) On September 23rd – 24th 2010, the Universities of Ghent and Leuven (Belgium) will be hosting a joint two-day workshop under the title ‘A magic stronger than the governors’ power’. Literature and Society in the Fourth Century A.D. The aim of the workshop is to explore literature as a social phenomenon in the period from Constantine to Theodosius I. Recent decades have seen a boom in studies on Late Antiquity. Hand in hand with this upsurge, texts by a variety of fourth-century authors have been made accessible through new editions and translations. Whilst these have led to stimulating analyses of extra-textual elements such as the educational system or religious history, no comprehensive study exists, as yet, of late antique literature as a social phenomenon. This workshop aims to open the path for such a study by bringing together specialists of both Greek and Latin as well as ‘pagan’ and Christian literature in order to study the social role and function of literature in the fourth century A.D. Often the impression is created that literature lost much of the social relevance it had in the earlier Roman Empire. This impression is based on some statements of important late antique authors, who assume a society with huge cultural tensions - between Latin and Greek, between Roman law and Greek rhetoric, between Christianity and paganism, between the requirements of empire and devotion to the cities. Statements about the relationship between literature and society should, however, be read as rhetorical strategies which authors deploy in view of specific aims and contexts. It is this approach that lays at the core of this workshop: How do different fourth century authors present the relationship of literature and society? What are their aims and objectives in doing so? What strategies do they adopt in order to convince their readers and audiences? And which factors (audience, subject, genre, etc.) influence their practice? Confirmed speakers include: S. Bradbury, P. Heather, G. Kelly, M. Ludlow, N. McLynn, P.-L. Malosse, S. Mratschek, and R. Rees. We invite abstracts for 30 minute-papers on the following topics:- the role of literary culture in defining the elite, in political promotions, in selecting members for the senate,
- networking through literature: recommendation letters, dedications and prefaces, literary patronage
- chronological, geographical, and generic differences in the social status of literature
- the use of literature by Christian authors to acquire a prominent position in the church
- the rivalry for status between rhetoric and other disciplines such as philosophy, law, and medicine
- modern theories about the social status of culture; parallels with the perceived declining status of humanities today
- hetoric/literary culture in epigraphy and law
Linguistic Society of America 85th Annual Meeting
Meeting URL: http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cfm Dates: January 6-9, 2011 Venue: Pittsburgh Hilton, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Abstract submission: June 1 – July 30, 2010 Abstracts URL: http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/callforabstracts2011.pdfThe Association of Ancient Historians 2011 Conference
- Maritime Interconnectivity in the Mediterranean (Chair, Elizabeth Green of Brock University)
- Greek and Roman Historiography (Chair, John Marincola of Florida State University)
- Ancient Political Theory (Chair, Ryan Balot of the University of Toronto)
- Tyranny and Response (Chair, Sian Lewis of the University of St. Andrews )
- New Directions in the History of War (Chair, Lee Brice of Western Illinois University)
- Swords and Sandals: The Ancient World in Modern Media (Chair, Rachael Goldman of CUNY)
- Religious Innovation and Empire (Chair, Robert von Thaden of Mercyhurst College)
- Women and Religion in the Ancient World (Chair, Michele Salzman of UCR)
- Egypt (Chair, Carlis White of Slippery Rock University)
- The Ancient Near East (Chair, Cindy Nimchuk of Mercyhurst College)
- Open panel(s) for strong papers in other categories (Chairs, TBA)
- by having a welcome reception on the opening Thursday night
- holding all sessions in plenary format
- providing a banquet on Saturday night
ΜΟΥΣΑ ΠΑΙΖΕΙ. GREEK AND LATIN TECHNOPAEGNIA, RIDDLES, ACROSTICHS, POETIC PUNS, METRICAL CURIOSITIES, ETC.
Institute of Classical Studies, University of Warsaw, May 6th and 7th, 2011 We invite scholars of Greek and Roman literature, as well as those interested in its reception (limited to the classical languages), to engage in a discussion of poetic and para-poetic riddles, acrostichs, anagrams, figure-poems, metrical tours de force, literary puns, alliterative artefacts, etc. Possible topics include the following:- ancient and modern theoretical approaches to Greek and Latin riddles, technopaegnia etc.;
- jeux de mots: tradition and innovation (from the archaic riddling devices and alliteration to the Alexandrian and Roman poetic experiments);
- ancient riddles in the Indo-European context (e.g. ancient griphoi vs. Old English riddles);
- riddles and technopaegnia in the light of the orality/literacy debate;
- riddles and riddling devices at the symposium;
- the epigraphic and papyrological evidence for ancient jeux de mots;
- in and around Book 14 of the Greek Anthology;
- the Alexandrianism of the technopaegnia of Laevius, Iulius Vestinus, and Optatian Porfyry;
- the Byzantine, Renaissance, and 17th-century readers and scholars of the Greek technopaegnia;
- continuity and change in the history of figure-poems since Simias;
- a matter of taste: critical attitudes toward jeux des mots (e.g. the Greek technopaegnia).
A Sickness unto Death: Pain, Suffering, and Despair in the Ancient World
The Classics Graduate Student Association of the University at Buffalo is pleased to solicit proposals for our third biannual Graduate Student Conference A Sickness unto Death: Pain, Suffering, and Despair in the Ancient World to be held October 30, 2010. Ancient literature is filled with fictional and historical examples of individuals who suffered from physical conditions, such as Philoctetes, as well people who, like Cicero, experienced depression and despair in their private and public lives. Equally, archaeological techniques are increasingly able to identify environmental and personal factors that may have affected the quality of life for individuals. The keynote speech will be delivered by Brooke Holmes, Professor of Classics at Princeton University. The purpose of this conference is to explore the many facets of suffering, the endurance of suffering, and its alleviation in the ancient world. Topics may include but are not limited to:- chronic illness and physical handicaps in archaeology and literature
- torture
- depression and mental anguish
- political and social oppression
- methods for coping with or alleviating these and other afflictions.
Between Byzantium and the West: the Revival of the Greek Language in the Renaissance
2011 Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, 24-26 March, Montreal (Quebec, Canada): PANEL TITLE: "Between Byzantium and the West: the Revival of the Greek Language in the Renaissance". Although our knowledge of Greek studies in Renaissance Europe has improved in the last few years, a thorough and broad investigation of the topic is still to be made, as many of the sources are still unpublished or little known. This panel aims at collecting papers dealing with all topics related to the teaching and learning of the Greek language and literature during the Renaissance. Particular emphasis will be placed on unedited or neglected materials like teaching tools (grammars, commentaries, lexica etc.), books and manuscripts with annotations by students or teachers, and writings addressing the importance of Greek studies (for instance praelectiones, pedagocical treatises etc.). We also welcome papers dealing with teaching theories and methods and profiles of illustrious as well as less famous Hellenists who worked as teachers in European universities. Proposals (paper title and an abstract of 150 words) and a short CV with contact information and academic affiliation should be submitted by 15 May 2010 to Federica Ciccolella, Texas A&M University (ciccolella@tamu.edu) and/or to Luigi Silvano, Università degli Studi di Torino (luigi.silvano@unito.it). Papers will be accepted in English, French, Italian, and Spanish. See: http://www.rsa.org/meetings/cfp_view.php?cfpid=57‘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 the only two Hellenistic historians whose work is extant in any substantial part. Moreover, his Bibliotheke, because it is largely based on the works of his predecessors, is a source for the study of many lost Greek historians. That he has rarely been studied in his own right, despite all of this, is the result of 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. This conference will be, as far as we know, the first international gathering on the author and our aim is to bring together scholars interested in the study of Diodorus in order to clarify our understanding of this crucial, but enigmatic and often misunderstood historian. We welcome papers which — through either traditional or newer approaches — increase our understanding of how and why Diodorus researched, organized and wrote the Bibliotheke: e.g. his views on history, myth, and the human condition, his relationship with his sources, his compositional and narrative techniques, his value as a historical source, his place within the tradition of ancient history writing, or any other issue that will enhance our comprehension of the Bibliotheke as a work of Hellenistic historiography and Diodorus' role as its author. Abstracts of papers should be between 300 and 500 words and should be sent to one of the three conference organizers. Deadline for expressions of interest: 30 June 2010 Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 September 2010 The conference proceedings will be published as a volume in the Studia Hellenistica series (Peeters publishers, Leuven). Confirmed keynote speakers: John Marincola, Florida State University Catherine Rubincam, University of Toronto Kenneth Sacks, Brown University Conference organizers: Lisa Irene Hau, University of Glasgow: l.hau@classics.arts.gla.ac.uk Alexander Meeus, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: alexander.meeus@arts.kuleuven.be Brian Sheridan, National University of Ireland, Maynooth: brian.sheridan@nuim.ieLanguage, Myth and Society in the Ancient World
Ancient Drama in Performance: Theory and Practice
Ancient Drama in Performance: Theory and Practice (October 9, 2010) will coincide with the 2010 Randolph College Greek Play: Euripides’ Hecuba, an original-practices production. The play and response to it will be the culmination of a day of scholarly and practical exchanging of ideas on ancient theatre. We are inviting proposals from scholars and practitioners of all levels for papers on topics to do with ancient drama in performance, including but not restricted to the staging, texts, design, repertory, personnel, and the social impact of plays in the ancient Greek and Roman world, as well as of plays as re-performed in the modern world. Papers will be delivered in an outdoor Greek theatre (or a round indoor space if it rains), which means that papers that deal with original practices in some way would find a comfortable setting, but all topics concerned with the plays as a practice are welcome. Presenters who would like to demonstrate their performance ideas will be provided with student actors (with or without masks), with whom arrangements can be made prior to the meeting. Papers are limited to 10 minutes (presentation without actors) and to 13 minutes (presentations with student actors).* Presenters should be aware that they will hear the sound of a drum when two minutes remain and will exit pursued by a Fury when time is out. The conference will feature a keynote address by Kenneth Reckford, and a response to Hecuba by Mary-Kay Gamel. Please submit a 300 word abstract and a short bio to ancientdrama@randolphcollege.edu by 21 May 2010. A longer description of the conference is at http://faculty2.randolphcollege.edu/ancientdrama/about. Another notice will go out when general registration for the event opens. * Ten minutes is a perfect amount of time to present one idea very well and to tantalize an audience into wanting to know more from you when you meet later.UCLA Graduate Conference 2010: "That's What She Said: The Construction and Expression of Women's Voices in Antiquity"
The UCLA Department of Classics invites abstracts for its third biennial graduate conference, "That's What She Said," which will examine the construction and expression of women's voices in antiquity using both literary and material sources. This conference will focus on women in an active role: how women speak, think, and desire in both male and female-authored texts. We encourage submissions that challenge or rethink previous scholarship on the suppression and appropriation of women's voices, and also papers that explore the role of women at the temporal and geographical borders of the Greco-Roman world. By incorporating a variety of approaches and perspectives, we hope to reach a new understanding of the role of women's voices in the Classical world. The following questions are suggested for consideration:- How do women express their desire? Is there a difference between how male authors construct desiring women and how women represent themselves?
- How do silenced or silent women find ways to communicate? Are non-verbal forms of expression, such as weaving, akin to speech?
- What can visual representations of women tell us about how and when women speak?
- Is there a difference between the voices of "real" women, as revealed by graffiti or personal letters and other documentary papyri, and the voices of textually constructed women?
- How do women in literature appropriate traditionally masculine types of speech, such as epic, legal, or philosophical?
- Is there such a thing as female humor? How do jokes about women differ from jokes by women?
The 2011 Classical Association Annual Conference
The 2011 Classical Association Annual Conference will be hosted by Durham University. The conference involves around 50 panels with a distinguished array of international and national speakers, and is attended by several hundred delegates. The conference will run from the evening of Friday 15th April until lunch on Monday 18th April. (details on practical arrangements at: http://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/events/ca_conference2011/) We welcome proposals for papers (20 minutes long followed by discussion) and coordinated panels (comprising either 3 or 4 papers) from academic staff, graduate students, and school teachers on the topics suggested below, or on any aspect of the classical world. We are keen to encourage papers from a broad range of classical, historical, and archaeological perspectives. Suggested topics: attitudes towards the future in Greece and Rome; memory and forgetting; archives and libraries; Greek epigraphy; display practices and public space; beauty; concepts of authorship and forgery; the identity of the artist; the disciples of Socrates; Greek and Roman historiography; Greek law; Greece and the Near East; Greek epigram; the reception of Augustan poetry; the 'long' third century AD; iconicity of materials; sites of heritage; regionalism in Roman art and architecture; landscape and the environment; reconstruction of ancient remains; e-learning. Please send your title, abstract (no more than 300 words), and any enquiries to the address below (preferably by email) not later than 31 August 2010: Paola Ceccarelli, CA 2011, Department of Classics & Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham University, Durham DH1 3EU, UK. Email: CA.2011@durham.ac.uk Tel.: +44 (0)191 3341686Conference on ‘Integrity and Corruption in Antiquity’
(Unisa Classics Colloquium, 21-22 October 2010) Proposals for papers are hereby solicited on topics related to the conference theme that might contribute to a multi-faceted discussion. Of concern is not merely proving corruption to be common to ancient and modern societies, but rather to elucidate both notions in the theme from a historical distance and to grapple with the real issues (social, historical, personal) involved. The organizing committee will be interested in papers dealing with definitions of corruption, philological analyses of the Greek and Roman terms within the field, to what extent the two notions were juxtaposed, philosophical discussions of personal morality and power abuse, root causes, responses, remedies and counter-measures. Scholars working on historical, literary, oratorical, religious, philosophical, epigraphical and other material are welcome to contribute. The Unisa Classics Colloquium is hosted by the Department of Classics and World Languages at the University of South Africa. We have invited two quest speakers to this year’s conference: Proff. Clifford Ando of the University of Chicago and Emily Greenwood from Yale. Papers will be limited to 45 minutes. Please submit abstracts of appr. 200 words via e-mail attachment to bosmapr@unisa.ac.za by the end of June 2010.The Beast Within (and Without): Animals in the Ancient World
Madison, WI, October 1-2 Ever since rational animals began to record their thoughts, they have portrayed the creatures around them as friend, foe or food. Since that time, the defining line between man and beast has preoccupied artists and authors. While some, such as Pliny and Aristotle, have taken a scientific approach to describing animal behavior, others have chosen a more artistic path, using animals as a way to think about humans or vice versa. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:- Depictions of tame, wild or mythological animals in art or literature
- Encounters between man and animal in the hunt, in the house or in the arena
- Metamorphoses, whether brought on by the gods, by natural forces or by magic
- Bestial behavior displayed by humans (or humane behavior by beasts)