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UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
SECOND PASSMORE EDWARDS SYMPOSIUM
Literary Careers
An international conference
at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
2-4 September 2004
Speakers include Alessandro Barchiesi, Patrick Cheney, Joseph Farrell,
Stephen Hinds, Niklas Holzberg, Raphael Lyne, Ellen Oliensis, Patricia
Parker, Michael Putnam, David Quint and Brian Vickers
The Passmore Edwards Symposia are dedicated to the study of the
interactions between classical and English literature and culture, and
related areas such as art history. The subject of literary careers has
recently attracted considerable interest. The self-consciously fashioned
careers of Virgil, Ovid, and Horace in particular offered models, positive
or negative, for the self-fashioning of the writer from antiquity to the
early modern period. Other models were also developed, during that time and
beyond, in response to changing social, political and professional contexts.
Papers on any aspect of the theme of the literary career are invited. The
focus of the conference will be largely on Roman and English authors, but
papers on authors in other languages are welcome. Papers should be no more
than 20 minutes in length.
To offer a paper or for further details contact one of the conference
organisers, Prof. Philip Hardie ([log in to unmask]) and Dr Helen
Moore ([log in to unmask]).
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Whitehall Roman Villa: open day
(visit the excavations, see the finds, etc.)
Sunday 20 July, 10am to 5pm
Whitehall Farm, Weedon Road, Nether Heyford, Northants
Tel. 01327 342581
http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk
Adults £5, children under 14 free.
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Seminars and lectures at Oxford can be found at:
http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/lectures/
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Après "Alexandria docta" (plus de 600 titres à l'adresse
http://www.ulg.ac.be/facphl/services/cedopal/ALEXDOCT.htm), en janvier
2003, le Centre de Documentation de Papyrologie Littéraire (CEDOPAL) de
l'Université de Liège annonce la mise en ligne, à l'adresse
http://www.ulg.ac.be/facphl/services/cedopal/pharmeg.htm , de la
bibliographie "Pharmacopoea Aegyptia et Graeco-Aegyptia", préparée au
CEDOPAL par Pierre Koemoth et Marie-Hélène Marganne. Cette bibliographie de
près de 300 titres, que l'on projette de compléter régulièrement, a pour
but essentiel de proposer aux chercheurs des matériaux bruts pour servir à
l'identification des produits animaux, végétaux et minéraux utilisés dans
les pharmacopées de l'Égypte pharaonique, gréco-romaine et byzantine. Les
ouvrages et articles qui y sont répertoriés, sont fondés non seulement sur
des sources tant littéraires que papyrologiques, épigraphiques et
archéologiques, mais aussi sur l'analyse scientifique des ressources
naturelles de l'Égypte contemporaine.
Marie-Hélène Marganne
Directrice du CEDOPAL
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Late antiquity and villas:
Vi informiamo che da pochi giorni è aperto il sito del
Convegno Internazionale di Gavi (AL) 8 - 10 maggio 2004
DOPO LA FINE DELLE VILLE. Evoluzione delle campagne tra VI e IX secolo.
Il sito è destinato, con l'aiuto di tutti, a realizzare una sorta di
tribuna aperta attraverso la quale arrivare al convegno con temi di
discusione già sviluppati e vivi. Dall'andamento della discussione on-line
potranno uscire elaborati, sintesi e poster "telematici" che verranno
presentati dagli autori sia in rete sia nella stessa sede del convegno.
E' attiva una sezione testi scaricabili nella quale inserire contributi
inerenti al tema del convegno.
Invitiamo quindi coloro che hanno articoli inediti o saggi anche già
pubblicati su riviste, ad inviare il materiale per un suo inserimento on-
line.
Metteremo a disposizione nei mesi seguenti i pre-atti del convegno stesso.
Ci aspettiamo, o meglio auspichiamo, un successo di tale iniziativa in
quanto rappresenta, a parere nostro, uno strumento di discussione diretto e
collettivo che è possibile realizzare solo attraverso le risorse della rete.
Sperando nella collaborazione di tutti, vi salutiamo (e vi aspettiamo),
Gian Pietro Brogiolo (Università di Padova), Marco Valenti (Università di
Siena)
http://archeologiamedievale.unisi.it/dopoleville/index.htm
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Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds : An international, interdisciplinary
conference 19-20 May, 2004, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Further details may be found on the conference page at
<http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/Webpages/Projectsite/con
fpage.htm>
[NB, this webaddress crosses a line break, so you may need to cut and paste
it]
or by contacting:
Carol Gillespie (01908) 655141 ([log in to unmask])
Project Officer
Reception of Classical Texts
Dept. of Classical Studies, Arts Faculty
The Open University
Walton Hall,
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
UK .
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[Mediaeval, so only possibly of interest]
Advances and Methods
in
Medieval Mediterranean History and Archaeology
Numerous publications exist which discuss the differences between
archaeological and historical evidence and the conclusions based on each.
Unfortunately, this discussion is often part of an attempt to show how much
more accurate, important, or valid one is than the other. The aim of the
planned book is to counter this tendancy and to show the great advances in
our knowledge of the medieval Mediterranean that can be made and have been
made by working together or combining information. Interdisciplinary
research including scholars from the hard sciences, for example, has
already proven itself to be very fruitful.
As such the editors would like to solicit contributions from scholars that
discuss new conclusions reached or research undertaken as a result of
combining the evidence available from these fields or as a result of
working together on a specific project. Although this book is not meant to
be a forum for field or site reports per se, the results of synthetic
studies including those carried out in the field are entirely welcome. Also
welcome are contributions discussing the various methodological aspects
involved in working across the disciplines of archaeology and history. The
editors would like to encourage studies that stress the integration of the
information gained from research in both fields. Co-authored submissions
are also welcome.
This collection of papers will ultimately be published by Brill as part of
its Mediterranean studies list. This preliminary call is for abstracts
concerning the Medieval Mediterranean (AD 700-1500). The provisional title
of the book is Advances and Methods in Mediterranean History and
Archaeology.
Please send a 1-2 page abstract along with a copy of your CV by September
30 to the either of the addresses given below. Abstracts should be in
English, although other modern European languages will be considered. Final
papers should be 8000-11000 word papers (including notes and illustrations)
in English or another modern European language and will be due 1 year from
the acceptance of the abstract.
Please include your e-mail, telephone and fax numbers, and postal addresses
for your home and office.
James G. Schryver
Medieval Studies Program
Cornell University
259 Goldwin Smith Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Julian Deahl
Senior Acquisitions Editor
Brill Academic Publishers
POB 9000
2300 PA Leiden
The Netherlands
tel. +31-71-5353520
fax +31-71-5317532
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Reposting requested:
Could I draw people's attention to this Call for Papers for a multi-
period international conference on "State Violence and
Humanitarian Response" in Manchester on 15-17 April 2004? The
conference organisers are keen to attract proposals for papers
dealing with any region or period of the ancient world.
Most of the conference sessions will be organised thematically
rather than by period. Hence proposals for papers, whilst located in
particular historical periods, should engage with the conference
themes in a way that will create opportunities for dialogue with
historians of other periods.
The two conference organisers are both graduate students and we
hope that there will be a good response from graduate students in
classics and ancient history.
Stephen Hodkinson
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CALL FOR PAPERS
‘STATE VIOLENCE AND HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE’
The Centre for the Cultural History of Modern War (University of
Manchester) and the European Review of History invite proposals from
panels or individuals for a multi-disciplinary conference on the history of
state violence and humanitarian response. Our objective is a genuine
historicisation of state violence that counters the tendency to treat
twentieth-century practices as a prism through which to interpret
organised violence in previous centuries. We are especially concerned
with violence against civilian populations (necessarily involving
reflection on the varying historical interpretations of ‘non-combatant’
status). The conference will focus on Europe and European violence and
will consider the techniques and representations of state violence,
ideologies of humanitarian response, and the possibilities of
transcendence through processes of redress and reconstruction. We
would particularly welcome papers which develop the following themes:
State violence: the practices and techniques associated with genocide
and ‘ethnic cleansing’, forced migration, incarceration, enslavement and
cultural devastation; material perspectives on state violence;
representations of violence and ‘atrocity’ (especially the significance of
race, ethnicity, religion, race and the use historical precedents in these
contexts); the Shoah and its significance for interpreting other acts of
organised violence.
Perpetrators and Victims: attributing levels of individual responsibility,
criminality and guilt; the perpetration of state violence as a symbol of
inclusion or citizenship; the contested ascription and appropriation of
‘victim’ status; representations of ‘victimhood’, and problems of
powerlessness, ‘voicelessness’ and justice; experiences of exclusion,
statelessness or refugeedom engendered by state violence.
Humanitarianism: legitimacies for inter-state intervention, from notions
of international ‘religious brotherhoods’ to universal Human Rights; the
construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ in the late modern period as a
corollary of the international legal codification of ‘legitimate’ state
violence; the theoretical and practical dilemmas associated with
international policing and armed humanitarian intervention; the
formulation of humanitarian ideology as a form of anti-state protest, and
conversely a form of ‘belonging’.
Aftermaths: the possibilities of redress, restitution and reconstruction,
either at state level (e.g. in modern times through international war crimes
tribunals) or personally (e.g. through testimony, or oral and written
histories); the processes of historicising, memorialising and
commemorating atrocity or humanitarian intervention; the significance of
these practices for both agent and subject in terms of citizenship,
community or national identity.
Please submit proposals for panels or individual papers by email to the
addresses below by the end of November 2003. Proposals should be no
more than 500 words in length. Papers will be published on the Centre
for the Cultural History of Modern War’s website and may be selected
for a ‘special edition’ of the European Review of History.
Confirmed Speakers:
Jacques Semelin, Peter Gatrell, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Ido de Haan.
Date: 15-17 April 2004 (accommodation also available for night of
Saturday 17th if required)
Location: Hulme Hall, Oxford Place, Manchester, M14 5RR
Academic Advisory Board:
Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Peter Gatrell, Stephen Hodkinson, Penny
Summerfield, Bertrand Taithe
Conference organisers:
Rebecca Gill and Jo Laycock
History Department
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
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It is with regret that the death of Margaret M. Roxan is reported, 30 June
2003.
She will be best remembered for her continuation of the corpus of Roman
military diplomas collected in CIL XVI: Roman Military Diplomas 1954-1977
(Institute of Archaeology Occasional Publications 2: London 1978); vol. 2,
1978 to 1984 (IofA Occ. Pub. 9: London 1985); vol. 3, 1985-1993 (IofA Occ.
Pub. 14: London 1994). Vol. 4, with Paul Holder, is currently being
finalised and will appear this autumn as a Bulletin of the Institute of
Classical Studies Supplement.
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