Term will shortly be upon us, so I imagine these will pick up again in
frequency (if I can find the time...).
The website (www.classicsinfo.org) has not been updated for a while, but I
hope to get back to that shortly.
A reminder that anyone can post to the list if they have something they
wish to share; and a second reminder, please do not post attachments.
Hope everyone had a good summer!
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Fifth Keeling Colloquium: Philosophy and the Sciences
in Antiquity
University College London, Wednesday 5th-Friday 7th November 2003
Provisional timetable:
Wednesday 5th November 2003
10 a..m.: Professor André Laks (Université de Lille-Charles de Gaulle III)
How does the distinction between philosophy and sciences help us in
understanding the beginnings of Greek thought?
Respondent: Dr Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway, University of London)
3 p.m: Professor Dominic O'Meara (University of Fribourg)
The Music of Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Respondent: Dr Anne Sheppard (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Thursday 6th November 2003
10 a.m: Professor Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin)
Can One Science Employ the Axioms of Another? Aristotle on 'Kind-Crossing'
Respondent: Dr Lindsay Judson (Christ Church, Oxford)
3 p.m: Professor Jim Lennox (University of Pittsburgh)
The Place of Zoology in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
Respondent: Dr Lindsay Judson (Christ Church, Oxford)
Friday 7th November 2003
10 a.m.: Professor Philip van der Eijk (University of Newcastle)
Between Hippocrates and the Alexandrians: Medicine, philosophy and science
in the fourth century BCE
Respondent: Dr Manuela Tecusan (Wellcome Trust/UCL)
3 p.m.: Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd (University of Cambridge)
Mathematics as a model of method in Galen
Respondent: Professor Vivian Nutton (Wellcome Trust/UCL)
All meetings will take place in the Garden Room (formerly Eisai Lounge),
UCL, accessible from the South Junction in the Wilkins Building (the
original College building: the Garden Room is directly behind Jeremy
Bentham’s Auto-Icon). No advance notification is required from those
attending; participants (other than speakers and respondents) are asked to
make their own arrangements for meals and accommodation. For further
information please e-mail [log in to unmask], or write to Professor R.W.
Sharples, Department of Greek and Latin, University College London, Gower
Street, London WC1E 6BT.
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FAREWELL-EVENT FOR PROF. DONALD E. HILL
to mark his retirement from the Classics section at the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne
Date: Friday 12th September, 2003
Time: papers start at 10.00 am
Venue: Armstrong Building, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
This one-day colloquium will mark the (much regretted) retirement of Donald
Hill, Professor of Classics, Head of Department 1992-2002. There will be
six papers by scholars from outside Newcastle - research collaborators,
former colleagues and students - and three mini-papers by present
colleagues. In keeping with the celebrand's own style, we hope for a light,
but not light-weight event.
A reception for those attending the colloquium as well as others will take
place between 3.05 and 4 p.m., coinciding with an extended tea-break during
the programme.
Programme: below
Registration:
Please contact Jaap Wisse or Susanna Phillippo (addresses below)
Fee (covering the cost of lunch, coffee etc.): £ 10 (students: £ 5), to be
paid cash or by a cheque made payable to the University of Newcastle upon
Tyne
Venues:
All venues are in the Armstrong Building, which houses most staff in the
School of Historical Studies, of which Classics is now a part.
· Signs will be posted in the main hall (entrance Queen Victoria Road,
opposite the Royal Victoria Infirmary), directing you to the locations.
(Due to construction work, the main entrance to the Armstrong building may
not be available; in that case signs will be put up outside, guiding you to
the side entrance of the building in the "Quadrangle").
· Campus map: www.ncl.ac.uk/travel/maps/navigator_large.php?x=7&y=2
· General travel info with links to maps: www.ncl.ac.uk/travel/info
· An announcement on the Classics website includes specifics of the
venues:
http://historical-studies.ncl.ac.uk/classics.asp
Contacts:
Jakob Wisse or Susanna Phillippo
School of Historical Studies - Classics
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle NE1 7RU
tel. 0191 - 2227974 / 2537929 (JW) or 0191-2225723 (SP)
email: Jakob.Wisse@ ncl.ac.uk, [log in to unmask]
PROGRAMME
10.00-11.10 Session 1 (chair: Jaap Wisse)
10.00-10.05 Introduction
10.05-10.30 David West (Newcastle emeritus): Shakespeare: nimium amator
ingeni sui?
10.30-10.55 Jonathan Powell (Royal Holloway): Honorius the Advocate
10.55-11.10 Discussion
11.10-11.40 Coffee
11.40-12.30 Session 2 (chair: Leslie Murison)
11.40-12.05 Ceri Davies (Swansea): Horti Donataei Descriptio: a Latin
poemfrom South Wales
12.05-12.15 mini-paper: Susanna Phillippo (Newcastle): Vel umbra satis
es: Senecan transformations and Euripidean resonances in French drama
12.15-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.05 Session 3 (chair: Bruce Gibson)
14.00-14.25 Hans Smolenaars (Amsterdam): A disturbing scene from the
marriage of Venus and Vulcan: Aeneid 8.370 ff.
14.25-14.50 James Reeson (Newcastle PhD): Things-not-to-be-taught:
an adidactic miscellany
14.50-15.05 Discussion
15.05-16.00 Tea & Reception: Shefton Museum
16.00-17.. Session 4 (chair: Philip van der Eijk)
16.00-16.25 Ken Dowden (Birmingham): Novel colours, epic colours
16.25-16.35 mini-paper: John Moles (Newcastle): Antisthenes, Dio and
Virgil on the education of the strong
16.35-16.45 mini-paper: Jaap Wisse (Newcastle): Good grief! An alleged
meaning of dolor and a misapplication of rhetoric to Latin
love poetry
16.45-17.00 Discussion
17.00 Rounding off
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To mark Professor Harold Mattingly's 80th birthday, a 2-day conference is
being held at the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge on 'Words on Things' on
October 3-4 (programme below). The conference will end with a reception in
the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge from 5.15
to 7.00 p.m. on Saturday 4th October. There is a cordial invitation to
anyone who would like to to come and join that celebration. Those
interested would also be very welcome to any or all of the conference
papers. Lunch will be provided on Saturday 4th but no accommodation can be
offered. Would anyone who intends to come please let Robin Osborne know
([log in to unmask]).
Words on things
A conference to celebrate the 80th birthday of Harold Mattingly
Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge. All sessions will be held
in Room G21.
Programme:
Friday 3 October
2.15 p.m. Polly Low (Manchester) 'Imperial words on things'
3.30 Tea
3.50 p.m. Graham Oliver (Liverpool) 'Controlling word, image and space:
statues and state decrees in the Athenian Agora'
5.10 p.m. Tracey Rihll (Swansea) 'Sparta and Tegea: khrestous poiein and
all that'
Saturday 4th October
9.00 a.m. Jonathan Williams (British Museum) 'Coin-inscriptions, writing,
and literacy, in Iron Age Europe'
10.15 a.m. Coffee
10.30 a.m. Andrew Meadows (British Museum) 'A Spartan Standards Decree'
11.50 a.m. Chris Howgego (Oxford) 'Vespasian and the Blood of Richard the
Lionheart'
1.05 p.m. Lunch (sandwiches)
2.15 p.m. Richard Alston (Royal Holloway, University of London) 'Land
registers and Land Holding in the Roman Oxyrhynchite'
3.30 p.m. tea
3.50 p.m. Roger Tomlin (Oxford) 'Reading Books in Roman Britain'
5.15- 7.00 p.m. Reception in Museum of Classical Archaeology
Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History ([log in to unmask])
Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 9DA
fax 01223-335409. phone 01223-335158
and King's College, Cambridge,CB2 1ST
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Department of Classics, University of Nottingham
Research seminars - Autumn 2003
All seminars take place in the Department of Classics, University Park,
Nottingham at 5.00pm. Tea from 4.30pm. Everyone welcome.
Tuesday 7 October
Professor Robert Parker (Oxford): 'Polytheism and Society at Athens'
Tuesday 14 October
Dr Ian Repath (Nottingham) & Dr Tim Whitmarsh (Exeter): 'Intertextual
Symposia in the Greek Novel'
Tuesday 28 October
Ms Elizabeth Speller (Cambridge): ''Know thyself!' - The Modern Greek
Manipulations of their Past'
Wednesday 12 November (Nottingham CA and Roman Society Lecture)
Professor Greg Woolf (St Andrews): 'Making New Gods in the Roman World'
Tuesday 18 November
Dr Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck): 'Dining with Death'
Tuesday 2 December
Dr Polly Low (Manchester) & Ms Katie Fleming (Cambridge):
Classics and World Wars I and II
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The Classical Association of the Canadian West
Competition in Ancient Society:
Contesting, Controlling, Subverting
March 19-20, 2004.
Call for Papers
The Classical Association of the Canadian West (CACW) invites papers
for a conference to be held March 19-20, 2004 at the Hotel Fort
Garry, Winnipeg, hosted by the Department of Classics at The
University of Manitoba.
Competition permeated all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman society.
Although the athletic and dramatic competitions of ancient Greece and
the blood sports of ancient Rome spring to mind as the most vivid
examples, in fact the concept of competition is fundamental to
understanding many elements of ancient society. Competition is
manifest in political and judicial systems, patterns of benefaction,
and decor of homes and tombs, to name a few examples. Controls on
competition may be seen in ostracisms, divisions of the citizenry
into particular political units, and sumptuary laws. Efforts to
subvert or undermine 'fair' competition appear in curse tablets
enlisting divine assistance against rivals, flouting of sumptuary
laws and perhaps even in attempts to 'stuff the ballot box' in
Athenian votes for ostracism. We seek papers exploring ways in which
competition, its control, or its subversion influenced or created
aspects of Greek and Roman society and culture.
Possible organizing themes for sessions include competition between
cities, competition between individuals, legal aspects of
competition, economic competition, competition in literary culture,
competition in material culture, and the undermining of competition.
These are only suggestions, and the final schedule will depend
entirely on the topics of the papers submitted. While papers closely
related to the conference theme are especially encouraged, papers on
other topics are also welcome.
Questions and expressions of interest can be sent to Dr. Lea Stirling
([log in to unmask]). Proposals including a title and short
abstract (150-250 words) should be sent to Dr. Stirling by email
(preferable) or by paper mail to: CACW Conference, Department of
Classics, University of Manitoba, 220 Dysart Rd., Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada, R3T 2M8. A conference website will be linked to the website
of the Department of Classics:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/classics/
We are seeking support for the conference from SSHRC and local
sources, so it may be possible to offset some of the costs of
participation in the conference. In order to facilitate applications
for conference funding, abstracts and other documentation should be
received by October 1, 2003.
--
Dr. Lea Stirling
Canada Research Council Chair in Roman Archaeology
Associate Professor, Classics
University of Manitoba
220 Dysart Rd., Winnipeg MB R3T 2M8
tel: 204.474.7357 fax 204.474.7684
www.chairs.gc.ca
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The Marquette University Mid-West Seminar on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
>
>Deadline: Nov. 7, 2003
>
>The Marquette University Mid-West Seminar in Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy
>invites applications from faculty members, advanced graduate students and
>independent scholars to present a paper to the Mid-West Seminar on Ancient
>and Medieval Philosophy at Marquette University in Spring 2004. Presenters
>are reimbursed up to $500 for travel, room and board expenses only. In most
>cases this amount should cover all expenses.
>
>Application Procedure: Send a précis of the proposed presentation with
cover
>letter and cv. Applications from advanced graduate students are welcome but
>must include a letter of support from the student's dissertation director.
>E-mail applications are preferred.
>
>Submit applications or requests for information to: Owen Goldin, Department
>of Philosophy, Marquette University P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
>USA. Email: [log in to unmask] Telephone: (414)-288-5649.
>
>MU Philosophy Department Website: http://www.marquette.edu/phil
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