A new website for your bookmarks:
'Postgraduate Forum' School of Historical Studies, University of
Newcastle Upon Tyne
http://historical-studies.ncl.ac.uk/postgrad_forum/index2.htm
Its aim is to provide postgraduates with the unique opportunity to
publicise their work to the wider academic and public communities and
provide a stepping stone to further online publication.
We are currently developing a conference diary area on the pgf website and
would greatly appreciate it if you could inform us of any conferences that
you are holding that would be of interest to archaeology/classics/history
students and researchers.
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ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
ROME IN BLOOMSBURY
Tuesdays, Spring Term 2004
Room 328 (2030), Birkbeck College, Malet Street
Papers begin at 1.10 pm
Please feel free to bring your lunch
Tuesday, 20th January City of the Dead: Forum Novum 2003 (Paul Roberts)
Tuesday, 27th January Senua: A British Minerva? (Ralph Jackson & Gil
Burleigh)
Tuesday, 3rd February The Portland Vase: A New Reading (Susan Walker)
Tuesday, 10th February Who was Mars Camulos? (Francis Grew)
Tuesday, 17th February Recent work at Castelporziano: Rome's Maritime
Façade (Amanda Claridge)
Tuesday, 24th February Recent research at Noviodunum, a Roman Naval Base
on the Danube (Kris Lockyear)
Tuesday, 2nd March Samian sets from London (Gwladys Monteil)
Tuesday, 9th March Excavations in the Sanctuary of Liber Pater at
Apulum, Alba Iulia, Romania (Ian Haynes)
Tuesday, 27th April Reflections on Roman London (Harvey Sheldon)
Rome in Bloomsbury is a series of informal lunchtime seminars. All those
with an interest in Roman archaeology are warmly welcome to attend. Papers
will run for 25-30 mins, followed by 10-15 mins of questions and
discussion. Speakers will be provided with a slide projector and OHP.
They are kindly asked to arrive at the room around 1.00pm. Enquiries
may be addressed to Ian Haynes at [log in to unmask] Offers of papers
gratefully received.
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Department of Classics
Research Seminars
spring term 2004
Seminar Room, Blandford Lodge, 4pm
28 Jan Jim Aitken,
The Bible in a Classics Department?
(AHRB Bible Project) Palmer Building G02, 2pm
4 Feb Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway, London),
Representations of Greece in Historical Fiction & Fantasy
(Centre for Hellenic Studies) Palmer Building 1.05, 4pm
11 Feb Henry Blyth (Engineering department),
What his military engineering instructor failed to teach Vitruvius
Faculty of Humanities 127, 2pm
3 Mar Richard Clogg (Oxford),
Greeks bearing gifts: Arnold Toynbee and the Koraes Chair
(Centre for Hellenic Studies) Palmer Building 1.05, 4pm
17 Mar Frank Salmon (Paul Mellon Centre, London)
The representation of Rome in Archaeological and Architectural History
(Spons. by depts of Classics, Art History and Archaeology, and the Centre
for Roman Studies)
All welcome. If you have any further inquiries, please contact Dr Maria
Wyke, Director of Research, Department of Classics, University of Reading
([log in to unmask]).
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Séminaire interuniversitaire
L'AME : GENESE ET DEVENIR
Département de Philosophie et des Sciences des Religions (ULB)
Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes des Religions et de la Laïcité
Institut Supérieur de Philosophie
Centre De Wulf-Mansion (UCL)
Centre d'Etudes des Religions du Livre
(EPHE-CNRS)
Colloque international " Le démon de Socrate "
18 & 19 décembre 2003
Le colloque se tiendra au CIERL (ULB), 17 Avenue Roosevelt, 1050
Bruxelles
Organisation: Baudoin Decharneux, Pierre Destrée, Jean-Luc Solère
Joachim Lacrosse
14 avenue Jean Volders
1060 Bruxelles
Belgique
Ph. (32 2) 538 38 12
E-mail [log in to unmask]
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Classical Arabic Philosophy: Sources and Reception
Venue: Warburg Institute, London
Date: April 29-30, 2004
If you are interested in attending this conference or have any
questions about it, please contact the conference organizer, Peter
Adamson, whose contact information may be found below.
(Preregistration is not required, but we hope to have a general idea
of how many people plan to attend.) Feel free to distribute this
advertisement to anyone who might be interested in coming to the
conference.
Please note that the Classical Association is sponsoring small
stipends intended for use by students who wish to attend the
conference. If you are a graduate student and would like to attend,
please contact Dr Adamson to ask about having your travel costs
defrayed through one of these stipends.
Peter Adamson
Philosophy Department
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
UK
Email: [log in to unmask]
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The CSAD is hosting a conference in Oxford next year entitled "Alphabetic
Responses to Western Semitic Writing" to be held at St. Hilda's College,
1st - 3rd July, 2004. This will examine the emergence of
alphabetic Greek scripts in the context of the use and development of
other writing systems in the Mediterranean World during the Early Iron
Age. Further details, including an abstract and the provisional
programme, may be viewed on the conference web pages:
http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/LSAG/conference2004
Please note that a number of bursaries will be available to students to
defray the costs of attending.
Dr Peter Haarer
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
67 St. Giles
Oxford
OX1 3LW
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MYTH AND IMAGE: EASTERN INFLUENCES IN AUGUSTAN ROME
An International Conference organised by the Department of Classics,
University of Wales Lampeter, with the support of the University of Wales
Institute for Classics and Ancient History will be held at Pantycelyn Hall,
University of Wales Aberystwyth
8-10 July 2004.
The conference aims to explore aspects of Roman myth and images that have
their basis in eastern cults and traditions and to understand how these
traditions were understood and employed by Augustus in establishing and
justifying his right to imperial rule.
The following scholars have shown an interest in participating:
Graham Anderson, Evi Anagnostou, Michelle Cottier, Sabine Grebe, Keith
Hopwood, Kathleen Kolman, Doug Lee, David Noy, Mirjam Plantinga,
AntonPowell, Jane Rowlandson, John von Sickle, Susan Sorek, Rosemary
Wright.
Offers of papers are still welcome; deadline for submission of proposals to
the organisers is 31st march 2004.
The setting in Aberystwyth by the sea is very attractive. Full-board
accommodation (Thursday tea to Saturday lunch) is 65 pounds sterling and
conference fee 25.
For offers of papers and details of the academic programme contact the
organisers: (Evi Anagnostou <[log in to unmask]> or Susan Sorek
<[log in to unmask]>
For accommodation details and booking form contact: Moira Shearer,
Conference Office, Penbryn, Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 2BY; email
<[log in to unmask]>
Conference website (after 1 January): www.augustan-east.org.
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