Call for Papers ¤ Call for Papers ¤ Call for Papers
Conference 10 - 13 June 2004, at
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar (near Leiden),
organized by Willemien Otten (Utrecht) and Karla Pollmann (St Andrews/NIAS)
Poetry and Exegesis.
Modes of Interpretation in Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity
and the Middle Ages.
Especially in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages forms of poetry can be
found that incorporate exegetical methods and interpretations as a
substantial part of their poetical message, thus adding a potentially
heterogeneous quality to it and establishing a specific nature for this
genre. This conference intends to contribute to this still relatively
neglected area of scholarly activity, covering the period from the very
beginning of Late Antique poetry at the end of the 3rd century up to the
heyday of Mediaeval literature around 1200.
The focus of this conference will be on the wide range of exegetical
techniques as employed in Latin poetry, including e.g. the interpretative
integration of pagan and Christian material, the poetic usage or adaptation
of exegetical statements and principles taken from prose treatises or the
direct versification of exegetical material as such. Greek material can be
considered by way of comparison. Moreover, an important question will be
whether and, if yes, how poetry added a distinctive level of exegetical
sophistication to interpretative possibilities in general. Another
investigative criterion could be that of transformation - either the poetic
transformation of earlier pagan and/or Christian material in a given poem,
or, especially, the transformation of exegetical modes and mechanisms in
poetry from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
Contributors are invited to consider a topic within the frame of this theme
as outlined above; theoretical reflections or the analysis of other
exegetical modes in poetry would be welcome, though generally a
demonstration in specific poetic texts is desirable. Particularly welcome
would also be papers that reflect on the continuity and change of the
poetic genre from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in this context. Each
contributor will have 30 to 45 minutes for his or her presentation that
will be followed by discussion. We will attempt to secure funding for this
event to subsidize participants' travel expenses, but you are requested to
explore possibilities at your home institution as well.
Proposals including a one-page abstract should be sent to Professor K.
Pollmann ([log in to unmask])
by 15 September 2003.
Decisions about the acceptance of proposals will be made as soon as
possible there-after.
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PAPERS for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Montréal, Québec, Canada, March 31 - April 4, 2004
Student Affairs Committee Sponsored Electronic Symposium
Deadline: 28 August, 2003
Session Organizers: Ethan E. Cochrane [[log in to unmask]]
Elizabeth de Grummond [[log in to unmask]]
The SAA Student Affairs Committee is pleased to announce that it is
accepting abstracts from students for consideration to be included in their
2004 Sponsored Electronic Symposium: "Active, Passive, Interactive:
Rethinking Agency and Material Culture"
Session abstract:
Although archaeologists have traditionally explored a wide range of
topics-- religion, technology, economy, society, culture, to name a
few-- the relationship between people and the material world has always
been the fundamental focus of archaeological inquiry. Both processual
and postprocessual investigations have utilized many different
approaches in order to better understand the complex relationship
between people and their material world, often with very different goals
and conclusions. Recently, the concept of agency has been invoked by
many archaeologists to focus archaeological studies on the role of
humans in shaping their physical, cultural, and social worlds. Within
discussions of agency theory, however, the definition of agency and the
utility of the concept itself are debated, and its relationship to
social structure and social constraints as passive reflection or active
interference remains open to discussion. Furthermore, agency theory has
in turn provoked a renewed interest in the significance and importance
of material culture: agency theory is criticized for being anthropocentric,
and the concept of material agency has been introduced as a corrective.
The papers in this symposium address the relationship between humans and
material culture in light of recent discussions and applications of agency
theory and, through case studies, discuss its usefulness in archaeological
inquiry.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON SESSION FORMAT: Please note that this is an
electronic paper session. The papers in the session will be made available
on the world wide web by the session organizers at least one month prior to
the SAA meeting, so that both participants and attendees may read the
papers before the meeting. No papers will be read during the session; all
meeting time will be spent in in-depth discussion of the issues raised by
the papers. A link to all papers will be available via SAAweb. This
session will present an excellent opportunity for students to receive a
degree of feedback and commentary on their work that would not otherwise be
possible in a large conference setting.
Electronic submission of paper abstracts are due to Ethan E. Cochrane,
co-organizer of the session, by 28 August, 2003 and should conform to
SAA guidelines (guidelines can be found at
http://www.saa.org/meetings/index.html). Full texts of papers will be due to
the session organizers in advance of the 2004 SAA meeting in order that they
may be posted to the world wide web for consultation prior to the meeting.
Details about submission of completed papers will be sent to session
participants upon acceptance of their abstracts.
Please direct all abstracts and inquiries to:
Ethan E. Cochrane
Student Affairs Committee
Society for American Archaeology
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I write to announce a Symposium on Classical, Hellenistic, and Late
Antique Texts in the Eighteenth Century to be held at the Kellogg
Conference Center of Columbia University on September 18-20, 2003. The
symposium director is Martha K. Zebrowski. For additional information,
please go to
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/seminars/Special/Symposium2003/
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The eighth annual meeting for postgraduate researchers in Mediterranean
Archaeology will take place this coming February 20th to 22nd at Trinity
College Dublin. The symposium provides an informal setting for predoctoral
researchers across Europe and beyond to come together to present and discuss
their works in progress. Researchers from a wide range of archaeological and
related backgrounds are invited and encouraged to participate.
This year, the organisers hope to make the symposium inclusive of regions
and time periods outside the eastern Mediterranean region, and the Bronze
Age and Classical periods, which in the past have been the subject of
strong focus.
Researchers working on the Western Mediterranean, North Africa, and other
time periods are strongly encouraged to participate.
The Committee of SOMA 2004
School of Classics
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Republic of Ireland
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JUDITH BUTLER, AL ALVAREZ, DANIEL BOYARIN, MICHAEL MACDONALD -
Scenographies of Suicide Conference,
Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck College, University of London
September 22nd-23rd, 2003
See the conference webpage at
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/conferences/suicide.htm
Fees: Standard #90 (2 days); #50 (1 day);
#50 (students/unwaged, 2 days); #30 (1 day)
For further details and a booking form contact Dr Catharine
Edwards at Birkbeck College on [log in to unmask]
"Suicide has long been an uneasy yet somehow privileged site of
attention for the humanities and social sciences. And yet in
spite of this sense of the troubled importance of suicide,
recognition of its relativity as a cultural practice has been
restricted to what seems like a rather basic dichotomy
separating the modern West and 'other societies'. What such a
binarism tends to suppress is the extent to which acts of
suicide tend to be, albeit in highly variant ways, performative
acts or at least acts that are situated in determinate frames,
assemblages or discourses of enactment and belief. This
conference aims to explore the sense in which suicide is
typically the object of such kinds of practices of enactment,
framing and performance; to explore, that is, the sense in
which there is a whole scenography of suicide."
Other speakers: Vikki Bell, Catharine Edwards, Rebecca
Flemming, Mike Gane, James Laidlaw, Alexander Murray, Thomas
Osborne, Charles Turner
Classics, History, Social Theory, Anthropology: an
interdisciplinary conference. Sponsored by Economy and Society,
The British Academy and Birkbeck College.
Please forward this e-mail to others who may be interested.
Catharine Edwards
Senior Lecturer, School of History, Classics and
Archaeology,
Birkbeck, University of London
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Tom Osborne
Reader in Social Theory
University of Bristol
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TRAC 2004
The Fourteenth Theoretical Roman Archaeological Conference
will be held at the University of Durham on the 26th and 27th of March 2004
Call for Sessions
Email: [log in to unmask]
Or post to:
James Bruhn
Department of Archaeology
University of Durham
South Road
DH1 3LE
Deadline for session proposals will be the 1st of October 2003
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CFP: "Re-Imagining the Ancient World in 19th-Century Britain"
An Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by Contexts for Classics, the
Department of English Language & Literature, the Department of Classics,
and the C.P. Cavafy Professorship in Modern Greek at the University of
Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Friday, January 30, 2004
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 October 2003
In the past twenty years, several scholars have focused broadly on the
ways in which "the Classical tradition" informed the cultural milieu of
19th-century Britain. These studies explore why and how Classical studies
contributed to the shaping and validating of English political ideologies,
social hierarchies, academic institutions, and aesthetic values. However,
this current work also seems to suggest that the 19th-century Britons'
relationship with antiquity derived from an unexamined sense of cultural
heritage, a common ancestry located in ancient Rome and Greece. This
conference seeks to interrogate this relationship between antiquity and
the
19th century: is it still useful to rationalize 19th-century Classicism as
an effect of mythologized national genealogies? How else might we account
for the reception and transmission of Classics in this period? In what
ways did educators, writers, artists, and musicians engage with the
ancient
past? Are there manifestations of this engagement that intimate a greater
heterogeneity of response to antiquity than the term "Classical tradition"
implies?
This international, interdisciplinary conference brings together faculty
and graduate students from various fields within the humanities (e.g.,
literature, Classics, history, art history, anthropology, music, drama) to
explore collectively representations of antiquity from the beginnings of
British Romanticism to the early 20th century. Primary in focus are the
ways in which British artists re-imagined the ancient world in the fine
arts: literature (drama, fiction, poetry, or nonfiction); art (painting,
sculpture); architecture; and music. However, the conference will also
encourage dialogue about the ways in which the period re-considered
knowledge of the ancient past through advances in the professional fields
of archaeology, history, philology, anthropology, ethnology, paleontology,
and mythography. Papers may be about the use of Classical themes or
subject matter, translations of ancient texts, Classical education, and
other creative or scholarly representations of ancient civilizations
(including Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Assyrian cultures).
Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please send paper proposals
(maximum: two double-spaced pages) by October 15, 2003 to:
Meilee D. Bridges
Department of English Language & Literature
University of Michigan
3187 Angell Hall
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003
By email: [log in to unmask] (attachments welcome)
NB: As abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, please include your title
but no other identifying information on your proposal. Please do include
your name, institutional and email addresses, phone number, proposal
title,
and potential audio-visual needs in a cover letter that accompanies the
abstract.
A forthcoming conference website will provide this call for papers as well
as any relevant updates and further information:
<http://www.umich.edu/~cfc/c19antiquity.htm. Please contact Meilee D.
Bridges at the email above if you have any questions.
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