Various conference notices:
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Classical Subjects and Modern Subjectivities
a one-day conference on reception
to be held in the Department of Classics
at the University of Reading
Friday 25 June 2004

The study of reception, or of the role of classical culture in post-
classical times, is an increasingly important part of what classicists do.
Recent work has often focussed on the public dimension of this role, for
instance in architecture, political discourse, and representations of
empire (see e.g. Edwards Roman Presences 1999, Wyke and Biddiss The Uses
and Abuses of Antiquity 1999).  Yet for much of the history of the west,
and of areas where the west was influential, classical culture played a
substantial part in those discourses, such as gender and sexuality,
education, aesthetics, performance and psychoanalysis, where a ‘private’
subjectivity is exposed to and formed by practices with a public
dimension.

This one-day event at the University of Reading seeks to foreground the
role of classical culture in such practices, and invites papers on a
variety of topics, not limited to those indicated above, which can
contribute to an understanding of this aspect of reception.  Speakers will
include Professor Edith Hall (Durham).  Papers (30 minutes) or abstracts
(500 words) please, by 15 September 2003, to Dr Barbara Goff, Department of
Classics, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AA ([log in to unmask]).
Please include a brief c.v., noting any relevant publications.

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Wednesday 4 June 2003
  Royal Holloway, University of London

  Textuality and Ideology in Latin Literature

  Programme

  10.45        Arrival and coffee
  11.15        Welcome
  11.30        Theodore Papanghelis (University of Thessaloniki), Virgil's
Eclogues 1 and 9:  The politics of textuality'
  12.15        Ellen Greene (University of Oklahoma), Propertius 2.7 and
Augustan ideology
  1.00 Lunch
  2.00 Alessandro Schiesaro (King's College, London), The metamorphosis of
Ovid's Ibis
  2.45 Gianpiero Rosati (University of Udine), Eros and encomium:
negotiating power relationships in post-Augustan poetry
  3.30 Coffee
  4.00 Alison Sharrock (University of Manchester), Stage, script, text:
Roman comedy and the ideology of writing
  4.45         Efi Spentzou (Royal Holloway, University of London), Paper
Wars: Self and Other in Silius' Roman history
  5.30 End

 Everybody is welcome. MAs and PhD students are particularly welcome.
 There will be a small fee of £10.00 (£5.00 for
 students and unwaged) that will go towards the cost of lunch and
 refreshments. For catering purposes, please write to Efi Spentzou, at the
 Department of Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham,
 Surrey, TW20 0EX by Friday 30 May. Cheques payable to RHUL, please.  You
 are also welcome to email ([log in to unmask]) with any further
 inquiries regarding the event or if you are interested in meeting any of
 our international speakers. The event will be followed by a meal in a
 local restaurant: please get in touch if you would like to join us.

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http://anthrop.med.uoa.gr/English/international_congress.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Congress of Anthropology
Athens, NOvember 21-23, 2003

Papers are invited to address current debates in the proposed subjects of
the Congress concerning: Evolution of upper Primates, Evolution of the
genus Homo, Phylogeny of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens, Skeletal Biology,
Paleopathology, Paleodemography, Ethnology and Molecular Anthropology,
Dental Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Development and Senescence,
Behavioral Anthropology, Man and Cave Environment, Archaeology and
Anthropology, Science and Religion, Anthropology in Education.

The central idea of each paper should be based on the concept of
communicating and establishing strong relations among the above mentioned
fields.

Closing date for proposals is August 30, 2003.
Please send an one page proposal (350 words) and a brief(100 words)
biographical note to one of the contacts:

Museum of Anthropology, University of Athens School of Medicine
Mikras Asias 75, 115 27 Athens - GREECE
Tel: 210-7462358-60
Fax: 210-7462359
Email: [log in to unmask]

Laboratory of Histology and Embryology
University of Athens School of Medicine
Tel: 210-7462347, 210-7771193
Fax: 210-7462340
Email: [log in to unmask]

Laboratory of Biological Anthropology
University of Athens Biology Department
Tel: 210-7274637-40
Fax: 210-7274635
Email: [log in to unmask]

Laboratory of Anthropology, Dimokreition University of Thrace
Tel: 25310-23365
Fax: 25310-25212
Email: [log in to unmask]

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Project Theophrastus 2003
Heraclides of Pontus
University of Leeds, 25th-28th June

We are pleased to announce our final programme.

Reading Heraclides
Dr Matthew Fox (Birmingham, Heraclides and the dialogue form
Professor Jxrgen Mejer (Athens), Heraclides' intellectual context
Professor Tiziano Dorandi (Paris), The papyrological traditions of
Heraclides of Pontus.
Professor Johannis Taifacos (Cyprus), Heraclides of Pontus and Clearchus of
Soloi conjoined in the Deipnosophistai of Athenaeus

Heraclides' Thought
Professor Eckart Schtrumpf(Colorado), Observations on Heraclides' Peri
hedones
Professor Andrew Barker (Birmingham), Heraclides and the invention of Greek
musical history
Professor Robert B. Todd (Vancouver), Heraclides of Pontus and the motions
of the heavenly bodies
Dr Paul Keyser (New York), Heliocentrism in Heraclides of Pontus
Professor Alan C. Bowen (Princeton), Discussion on Heraclides' astronomical
fragments
Dr Timothy P. Bridgman (New York), Heraclides of Pontus and the Hyperboreans

For booking forms and further information, please see our website:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GrandLat/people/sharples/conf2003.htm
or
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/events/theophform.htm

I shall be happy to assist with any enquiries.
Elizabeth Pender
E. E. Pender,
School of Classics
University of Leeds
LEEDS
LS2 9JT
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