The usual eclectic collection of 'recently seen'...
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The Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London
The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
The Logos Conference
9-11 September, 2004, London
CALL FOR PAPERS
Controlling Language: The Greek Experience
The long history of the Greek language has been marked by a
recurrent concern with issues of correctness, hierarchy and purity of
language. Throughout the last 2,500 years a concern with
establishing and maintaining norms can be and has been described
as essential to the continuity of the language, or as stifling creative
activity. This conference is exploratory, in that we want to address
questions and practices of control, such as the standardization and
planning of language, norms and perceptions of correctness, across
the millennia - from the Hellenistic world to the present day - in order
to see whether a fruitful dialogue can be established between
students of the language in different periods. The papers will
necessarily have to be addressed to an audience that crosses the
different periods, since the participating scholars will come from very
different disciplines.
The conference will be held at the Institute of Classical Studies,
London. Practical information, registration details and conference
events will be communicated later.
We welcome papers on any aspect of defining and responding to
correctness in the Greek language. Themes we hope to address are
as follows:
_Constructions of canons for language forms, styles, and registers:
literature and the past as vehicles for standardization; language
reforms and the language "question".
_Perceptions of "high" and "low", purity and impurity in language:
official and lay strategies of dealing with the improper; infiltration
between registers; language ideologies and debates.
_Interrelationships with other languages: levels and types of
acceptance of influence from other languages; perceived hierarchies
and values attached.
Abstracts for papers should be no more than 300 words in length
(including references) and should describe original work; either
completed research, or significant work in progress. Individual papers
will be allocated 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation and 10
minutes for questions).
There will be a dedicated poster session during which presenters are
expected to be available in order to discuss their work with attendees
and, if they wish, provide hand-outs. Abstracts for posters should have
the same format as the abstracts for papers: they should be no more
than 300 words in length (including references). When deciding on
any of these two modes of presentation, please bear in mind that
posters are more informal than paper presentations and leave more
room for presenting early stages of work in progress.
Submission guidelines
Abstracts can either be submitted via e-mail or via postal mail (faxed
abstracts will not be accepted). In each case please provide the
following information on a cover page:
o last name
o first name
o title of abstract
o affiliation
o postal address
o telephone number
o e-mail address
o category of submission: paper or poster.
Four copies of the abstract should be sent not later than October 15,
2003 to the organizers:
Dr Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies
King’s College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
U.K.
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Dr Yumna Khan
Department of Classics
King’s College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
U.K.
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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MA Dissertation Workshop
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London (Room 331)
Thursday, June 12
The workshop offers an opportunity for all students working on an MA
dissertation in the field of Late Antique or Byzantine Studies to present
their work. Each presentation should be no more than 20 minutes long,
allowing 10 minutes for questions and discussion
Programme
10.30 Bertrand Marceau, The Pope, the Byzantine Emperor and the Frankish
King. The Birth of the Papal State from Paul I (757-767) to Hadrian I
(772-795) according to the Liber Pontificalis
11.00 Alice Rio, The Formulae Andecavenses (a handbook for Merovingian
notaries)
11.30 Elini Ramphou, The autobiographical poems of Gregory Nazianzen
LUNCH
1.30 Joji Min, The classical tradition and Jewish motif in De Mortibus
Persecutorum
2.00 Helen Bakalis, The portrait of Moses in Byzantine Art
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INTERNATIONAL PLATO SOCIETY
CALL FOR PAPERS (2004 CONFERENCE ON GORGIAS AND MENO)
INTERNET JOURNAL, 'PLATO' (CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS)
I am writing as a member of the International Plato Society Executive
Committee to urge you (1) to join or rejoin the Society and (2) to submit
a proposal for a paper for the 2004 IPS symposium on Meno and Gorgias in
Wuerzburg July 26-31 2004. Abstracts can only be considered from paid-up
members. These Platonic gatherings are a good way to meet Platonic scholars
from all over the world and to hear (or give) some good papers on Plato,
and Wuerzburg is a congenial place for a week in the summer, so I do
encourage you to think seriously about this.
To join/rejoin, you need to pay US $75 or its equivalent in euros (not
pounds sterling)And either send a bank order (or cheque if you have a
dollar or euro account)made out to 'The International Plato Society' to:
Prof. Michael Erler, Institut für Klassische Philologie
Lehrstuhl 1 (Gräzistik)Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität
Residenzplatz 2/ Südflügel 97070 Würzburg
GERMANY
Or transfer the fee directly to:
Michael Erler,International Plato Society
Account no: 683 919 500
Branch code: 790 40047
Bank: Commerzbank Würzburg
And notify Michael Erler by email (address below) that you have done this.
Call for papers:
Abstracts (600-700) words for a paper on any aspect of Meno or Gorgias,
should be submitted by email (as regular text, not attachment) to
[log in to unmask] or by FAX to Michael Erler at
+49(0)931/312419 by 15 November 2003.
Please indicate whether the paper is intended for a plenary (45 minutes) or
parallel (20 minutes) session. Acceptance letters will be sent out by
January 10 2004, and final versions of accepted papers should be received
by April 15 2004.
NB appraisal by the Executive Committee is based solely on the quality of
the abstract so it should be prepared with some care and should indicate
clearly the line of thought of the paper. Acceptance of the paper for the
symposium does not guarantee inclusion in the Proceedings.
Do put any further queries to me or Michael Erler.
INTERNET JOURNAL: PLATO
Also, if you have not viewed the IPS internet journal, Plato, at
http:www.ex.ac.uk/plato
please do so; the latest issue contains pieces by David Sedley, Malcolm
Schofield, Andrew Mason and others. There have been three issues so far and
submissions for the next issue are very welcome. Short papers (up to
4,000-words) on topics of wide interest to Plato scholars world-wide are
especially suitable. Publication is swift and is copy-righted (via the
URL). See further Editorial statement for Issue 3.
Best wishes
Christopher Gill
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Dept of Classics and Ancient History,
University of Exeter, EX4 4QH, UK.
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Final call: the IAMS Summer School on
"Ancient Mining Technology" and "Ancient Smelting and Metallurgy",
this will take place from
Monday June 16 until Friday June 27 2003
at the
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
31-34 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PY
United Kingdom
(For a map, see www.streetmap.co.uk, using the London post code WC1H 0PY).
A Schedule of the various sessions is at the www address below. All
sessions take place in room B13, and start at 9:30am. Both Mondays
registration will be at 9:30am, and sessions will start at 10:00am.
You can attend both weeks, one week, or separate days of your choice. Fees
are GBP 50 per week, GBP 85 for both weeks, GBP 15 for a day. We regret
that we can not assist with accommodation and meals, but London offers a
wide range of options here... (IoA students attendance is FREE)
The courses are intended for anybody interested in early mining and
metallurgy, and require no existing specialist knowledge. However,
opportunity will be given to explore specific aspects in more detail,
within the given schedule. Both weeks can be taken independently from each
other.
Further details can be found at www.ucl.ac.uk/iams/
or contact Thilo Rehren at the Institute of Archaeology / IAMS at
[log in to unmask] for bookings and requests.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
‘STATE VIOLENCE AND HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE’
[note from Steve Hodkinson:
Could I draw colleagues' attention to this Call for Papers for a multi-
period conference on "State Violence and Humanitarian Response"
in Manchester on 15-17 April 2004? The conference is part-
sponsored by the European Review of History (about which I
circulated the Classicists' list last month). 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 possibilities for dialogue with
historians of other periods.]
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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The Greek City After the Classical Age
The Classics Department, Royal Holloway, (RHUL) and the History Department,
RijksUniversiteit Groningen (RUG) have secured funding from the Leverhulme
Trust to establish a network and series of workshops on The Greek City after
the Classical Age. This project will focus on four key themes to be treated
across the long history of the post-Classical polis from an
interdisciplinary perspective:
* political culture,
* communities within the city.
* the economy,
* cultural interaction,
The first workshop on Political Culture of the Post-Classical City will be
held on 23-25th October in Groningen. Speakers include John Ma, Ed. van der
Vliet, Rolf Strootman, Thomas Corsten, Christina Kokkinia, Arjan Zuiderhoek,
Rens Tacoma, Jan Willem Drijvers, Arjan Zuiderhoek, James Tuck, Kaja Harter
Uibopuu, Hans van Rossum, Giovanni Salmeri.
The second workshop will be on Communities within the City and will be held
at Royal Holloway in June 2004.
A third workshop will be held in Athens as part of the Seventh International
Conference on Urban History 27th - 30th October on the theme of Feeding the
Ancient City.
For further information, offers of papers, etc, please contact the workshop
organisers [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
The European City in Comparative Perspective:
Feeding the Ancient City
Call for papers:
From 27 to 30 October 2004 the Seventh International Conference on Urban
History will take place in Athens and Piraeus. The overall theme is 'The
European City in Comparative Perspective. Within this framework Prof. Onno
van Nijf (University of Groningen) and Dr. Richard Alston (Royal Holloway,
University of London) are organising a panel on the Ancient city with the
title Feeding the Ancient City.
This session will consist of c. 10 precirculated papers. We aim to have an
equal distribution of Greek and Roman topics. Although we shall consider
all proposals, including those on the urban history of Athens and Rome
itself, we explicitly invite papers on aspects of ancient urbanism outside
these two capitals.
For further information, offers of papers etc., please contact the panel
organisers before 1 October 2003.
Prof. Dr. Onno van Nijf [log in to unmask]
Dr. Richard Alston [log in to unmask]
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Warburg Institute, London, June 27 2003:
http://www.sas.ac.uk/warburg/lectures/ptolemy.htm
Ptolemy’s Geography in the Renaissance
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