FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
The Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values were established in 2000 as a
biennial venue for presenting research on Greek and Roman values. Each
colloquium focuses on a single theme, which participants explore from a
diversity of perspectives and disciplines. Previous colloquia have
addressed “Andreia Manliness and Courage in Classical Antiquity”
(2000), “Free Speech in Classical Antiquity” (2002) and “City,
Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity”
(2004). Papers from the first two of these colloquia have been published
by Brill in separate volumes, edited by the co-organizers, Ineke Sluiter
and Ralph M. Rosen. The third volume will appear in 2006.
The topic of the fourth colloquium, to be held at the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, June 2-3, 2006, will be:
KAKOS: Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity
In this fourth conference, we will explore the negative foils, the anti-
values, against which positive value notions are conceptualized and
calibrated in Classical Antiquity. What is it, for example, that people
feel that they themselves and others must avoid or repudiate? We have
chosen the deliberately broad Greek term kakos as the organizing principle
of this colloquium, with the expectation that papers will venture well
beyond this lexical starting point. We will be equally interested in its
Latin analogue malus, and the many other cognate terms for concepts
of ‘badness’ in Roman culture (such as pravus, nequam, or vitiosus). The
colloquium will explore the ways in which such terms were applied across
Greco-Roman antiquity to such concepts as ‘functional’ badness or low
quality, social badness or inferiority, moral badness, and cosmic or
theological evil.
For this fourth colloquium, therefore, we invite abstracts for papers (30
minutes) on all aspects of our proposed topic, linguistic, literary,
historical, philosophical and religious. Selected papers will be
considered for publication by Brill Publishers. Those interested in
presenting a paper are requested to submit a 1-page abstract, by email
(preferable) or regular mail, before October 1st, 2005.
Contact (please copy both with email correspondence):
Prof. Ralph M. Rosen
Department of Classical Studies
University of Pennsylvania
202 Logan Hall
Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
USA
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Phone: +1 (215) 898 7425
Professor Ineke Sluiter
Classics Department/Center for Language and Identity
University of Leiden
Doelensteeg 16 # 1174
POB 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
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Phone: +31 (71) 527 3311
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Ted Hughes and the Classics
School of History and Classics, Edinburgh University Faculty Room South,
David Hume Tower 25th-27th November 2005
The provisional programme
Friday 25th
6pm wine reception
6.30-8.00
Session 1 Origins and Poetics
1 Michael Silk ‘Ted Hughes: Allusion and Poetic Language’
2 Christine Finn, ‘‘My first six years shaped everything’: the
childscape and pre-history of Ted Hughes’s classical world’
Saturday 26th
Session 2 Myth
9-11.30am
1 Keith Sagar on Hughes and myth
2 Neil Roberts, ‘Hughes’s Myth and the Classics’
3 Vanda Zajko ‘‘Mutilated towards alignment?’: Prometheus On His
Crag
and the ‘Cambridge School’ of Anthropology’
4 Sema Taskin on Hughes’ Prometheus
5 Janne Drangsholt, ‘A Mythic Poet’
11.30-12.00 Coffee
Session 3 Tragedy
12.00-1.30pm
1 Lorna Hardwick on Hughes and classical tragedy
2 Felicity Rosslyn, ‘Hughes in search of the tragic’
1.30pm Lunch
Session 4 Oresteia
2.30pm-3.45pm
1 Alison Burke, ‘From Page to Stage: Hughes’ Oresteia at the Royal
National Theatre’
2 Hallie Marshall on Ted Hughes and Tony Harrison
3.45-4.15pm Tea
Session 5 Minor Genres
4.15-6.30pm
1 Roger Rees ‘The classical genre in Ted Hughes’s Laureate poetry’
2 Genevieve Lively, ‘Birthday Letters from Pontus: Hughes, Ovid, and
the white noise of elegy’
3 Elina Dagonaki ‘The Hidden Orestes: A ‘Euripidean’ reading of the
Orestes’ myth?
4 David Johansson ‘Of Pictures, the Discloser: Song for Phallus’
Sunday 27th
Session 6 Epic
9-11am
1 Jennifer Ingleheart ‘Transformations of the Actaeon myth: Ovid,
Metamorphoses 3 and Ted Hughes’ Tales from Ovid’
2 Anne-Marie Tatham, “Passion in extremis”: a study of love, fate
and
metamorphosis in Hughes’s Tales from Ovid
3 Garrett Jacobsen ‘Ovid Unbound: Ted Hughes and the Metamorphoses’
4 Stuart Gillespie on Hughes’ Odyssey
11.00-11.30 Coffee
Session 7 Seneca
11.30-12.30pm
1 John Talbot ‘Eliot’s Seneca and Lowell’s Senecanism in Hughes’s
Oedipus’
2 Katie Flemming ‘‘That stately horror’: Ted Hughes’ translation of
Seneca’s Oedipus
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
Session 8
1.30-4pm Alcestis
1 Sarah Brown on Hughes, Alcestis and poetic predecessors
2 David Gervais ‘Ted Hughes, Racine and Euripides’
3 Lenore Smith, ‘Inner Music - Naked Cadences’: Ted Hughes' Alcestis
4 Nephie Christodoulides, ‘Ted Hughes’s Alcestis: dans le fond des
forêts votre image me suit’
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The next of the series of summer seminars held under the aegis of the
American Society of Papyrologists will be held at Columbia University in
June and July, 2006. The faculty members will be Roger Bagnall, Heike
Behlmer, and Raffaella Cribiore. The application deadline is December 1,
2005. Full details and an application form are available at
<http://www.columbia.edu/cu/classics/>.
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Paul Weaver, der im Januar dieses Jahres starb, hat ueber Jahrzehnte an
einem Repertorium der servi und liberti Augustorum gearbeitet. Den
groessten Teil hat er vollendet. All dieses ist nun postum zugaenglich
gemacht und kann unter der
Adresse:
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/altg/eck/weaver.htm
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The British Epigraphy Society and Oxford University are pleased to
announce the 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, to
be held in Oxford 2-8 September 2007, on the subject of 'Epigraphy and the
Historical Sciences'. Details of the programme, of accommodation
arrangements, and of the pre-registration procedure can be found in the
attached document and at the web-site:
http://ciegl.classics.ox.ac.uk/index.shtml .
Academics and students with interests in inscriptions and the history of
Classical Antiquity are warmly invited to pre-register. Scholars are
invited to make proposals for (i) delivering individual papers of 15
minutes, and (ii) perhaps the organising of thematic panels comprising
four individual papers, or (iii) for presenting posters in any one of the
conventional languages of AIEGL (English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish). A proposal is not essential at this stage however, since you
can return and modify your pre-registration at a later date. A bursary
scheme is also available.
Please note that we have already received numerous proposals for thematic
panels and, therefore, because the number of slots for these is somewhat
limited, we would urge those who wish to organise a thematic panel to pre-
register (and submit their panel proposal) before 1 December 2005.
The Organising Committee
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Humanism and Medicine in the Early Modern Era
Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, 22-
23 September 2006
The symposium will explore the complex, and sometimes troubled,
relationship between humanism and medicine from the fourteenth through
eighteenth centuries. The father of humanism, Francesco Petrarca, famously
attacked the medical profession in Against the Doctors (1352). Humanism
spoke a new language – theoretically a natural, classical Latin, as
opposed to the ‘barbaric’ scholastic idiom of the philosophers and the
Galenist gobbledygook of the doctors. But the cultures of humanism and
medicine inevitably enriched one another: doctors and humanists shared a
professional interest in the ancient texts (from Dioscorides to
Lucretius), and a vested interest in preserving Latin as a professional
argot. Humanism had its own healing pretensions through poetry and moral
philosophy. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, doctor and
humanist sometimes co-existed in the same person such as Girolamo
Fracastoro, Girolamo Cardano, Julius Caesar Scaliger, François Rabelais,
and Pierre
Petit.
The symposium’s keynote speakers include Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls
College, Oxford) and Professor Vivian Nutton (Wellcome Trust Centre for
the History of Medicine, University College, London).
Papers (30 minutes) should consider various aspects of this broad theme,
including but not limited to the interface between learned and non-learned
medicine, vernacular humanism and medicine, the evolution of the identity
of the humanist physician over the early modern era, and the extent to
which a consciousness of ‘two cultures’ prevailed in different local and
institutional contexts.
Please send a 300-word abstract before 1 December 2005 to the conference
organisers A/Professor Yasmin Haskell and Dr Susan Broomhall at
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(We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian Research Council
Network for Early European Research, and the Cassamarca Foundation.)
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A couple of years ago I circulated the list with news that the historical
journal, the European Review of History/ Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, was
planning to extend its chronological range to embrace the ancient world.
This plan is now developing strongly. The latest issue (Vol. 12.1, March
2005) includes a two-article 'Dossier' on 'The Trial in Ancient Greece'
(by Paul Millett and Stephen Todd). Future issues will include ancient
contributions to the journal's recent conference on 'War, Culture and
Humanity', and a special issue on 'Greek archaeology and modern European
culture and politics' is in preparation. There is also a regular section
of ancient history book reviews.
The journal sponsors regular multi-period conferences which generate
themed groups of articles: the next conference on 'Pleasures in History'
will take place in Florence in spring 2006. But the journal would also
welcome further unsolicited contributions on antiquity: either individual
articles or dossiers containing two or more articles on a common subject.
In future, two of our four issues per year will be special issues of 6-10
articles on a shared theme edited by a guest editor, and we welcome
proposals from prospective guest editors for thematic issues focused on or
including the ancient world. Contributions should be informed by a
commitment to communication to historians of other periods.
The journal publishes articles in English or French and is available to
individuals and institutions both in print and online at
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13507486.asp
Stephen Hodkinson
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NIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF SLAVERY
Call for papers: The Sixth International ISOS Conference
"Slavery, Citizenship and the State"
This conference will take place in Nottingham from 4th to 6th September
2006. Those interested in participating should send one-page abstracts of
papers on any aspect of the above theme in any geographical area, and all
periods to Prof Dick Geary (address below).
Established by the late Thomas Wiedemann as the International Centre for
the History of Slavery in 1998, ISOS now seeks to pursue and develop
research on contemporary, as well as historical, slavery in all parts of
the globe and through all historical periods.
Director: Professor Dick Geary, School of History, University of
Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Deputy Director: Professor Stephen Hodkinson, Department of Classics
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Oxford Classics
A one-day conference on the study and teaching of classical subjects in
Oxford in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, convened by Chris Stray
and Stephen Harrison.
The conference will be held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on Saturday,
4 February 2006, 9.30-c.6.00. Speakers will include Heather Ellis, Stephen
Harrison, Isobel Hurst, August Imholtz, James Morwood, Chris Stray and
Graham Whitaker.
Offers of papers on any aspect of the topic are invited. The programme
allows for 30-minute papers, but offers of shorter papers are also welcome.
Please send a title and a summary (maximum 100 words) by 30 October to
Chris
Stray: [log in to unmask]
Bookings for attendance are also now invited. The cost of the conference,
to include tea, coffee and light lunch, will be £10. Please send payment
to Professor Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford OX1 4JF.
Cheques should be made payable to 'Corpus Christi College, Oxford'.
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