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POCA 2006: Island Dialogues.
Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland-UK) is proud to be
hosting the sixth annual POCA (Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology)
conference on the 27th and 28th of October 2006.
This event is an international forum for postgraduates and new scholars of
Cypriot archaeology and cognate subjects, and is an opportunity for the
developing research community to present work, exchange new ideas, and
meet in an informal context.
Interested scholars from archaeology, classics, and related disciplines
studying the prehistory and later periods of Cyprus are invited to attend,
or participate by submitting abstracts for POCA 2006.
On the evening of Friday 27th of October there will be a plenary lecture
by Dr Susan Sherratt.
The call for papers is available on the conference website at:
www.arcl.ed.ac.uk/poca2006/callforpapers.htm
POCA 2006 will also be hosting a workshop on "Formal Ritual Practices in
Cypriot Antiquity: Internal Social Phenomena and Complex External
Dialogues". The call for papers for this session is available on the
conference website at:
http://www.arcl.ed.ac.uk/poca2006/sessions.htm
The proceedings of the conference will be published through the University
of Edinburgh's Archaeology Occasional Papers' series.
The POCA 2006 committee kindly request that you alert any persons within
your research community who would be interested in participating at POCA
2006 by forwarding this email.
If you have any queries please contact us at [log in to unmask]
Vasiliki Koutrafouri on behalf of the POCA 2006 organising committee.
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UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE: School of Historical Studies Research Seminar
Professor John Moles (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
What the synthesist saw: Ethics and philosophy in Horace
Date: Thursday 9th March 2006, 4 pm
Venue: Armstrong Meeting Room, Armstrong Building (2nd floor)
ALL WELCOME!
Speaker's abstract:
Was Horace a philosopher? How much philosophy did he know? What functions
do ethics and philosophy play in his poetry?
This paper argues that in his late literary epistles Horace himself
suggests a 'story' about these matters and that this 'story' can largely
be substantiated by the analysis of his various collections of poems. In
the course of this analysis, exciting new readings of individual poems are
offered and some comfort is provided for an overall Epicurean, even 'anti-
Augustan', interpretation of Horace's oeuvre.
John Moles is Professor of Latin at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
He has published widely on a Latin poetry, ancient philosophy and ancient
historiography. Recent publications include articles about Horace Odes 1.7
('Reconstructing Plancus', Journal of Roman Studies 2002) and Epistles I
('Poetry, Philosophy, Politics and Play', in Traditions and Contexts in
the Poetry of Horace, Cambridge 2002).
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Reception Studies Colloquium, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House
North Block 14, 22nd of March, 10:30 – 4:30
ART
Kate Nicholls (Birkbeck) : The Geek and Roman cast courts at the crystal
palace, 1854
In 1854, the Crystal Palace was reopened in south London, having been
sold, disassembled and rebuilt after the close of the Great Exhibition. It
was restocked with plaster casts of sculpture from ancient Egypt to
present day Scandinavia, in chronologically ordered ‘courts’, seeking to
provide a visual encyclopedia of world art. My research is on the four
courts dedicated to Greece and Rome, and the impact they had (if any) on
public knowledge of the ancient world. This paper will give a general
outline of my research so far, and lead into discussion of audience
response in analysis of museums.
Yvonne Owens (UCL): From Pliny to Virgil: Menopause and Mare's Blood in
the Art of Hans Baldung Grien
This paper will discuss Renaissance humanism's appropriations from
classical science and poetry, their theological applications in the Witch
Hunt, and their representations in the art of Durer's most prominent
apprentice, Hans Baldung Grien. Examples of text from classical natural
science and poetry, Medieval medicine, and Renaissance theology would be
compared against Baldung's 'humanist' iconographies of malefic feminine
physiology and witchcraft.
Modern Media
Antony Makrinos (UCL): Modern reception of Homer: the deviations from the
mythography.
During the last decades and especially after Wolfgang Petersen's Troy
there has been great work on Homer reception concerning the relationship
between the different presentations of Homer to a modern audience and
their relationship to the treatment of Homer. One of the most important
aspects concerning modern reception of the Homeric text is the deviations
from Homer’s version of the myth. What are the main deviations taking
place in different categories of modern Homeric reception (cinema, TV,
radio, paintings, cartoons, comics, novels etc.)? Is there a changing
balance or even a gap between the traditional and the modern way of
reading, painting, watching or listening to the Homeric tales? How does
this affect the modern audience?
I propose to explore these issues by focusing on a small group of modern
receptions and underlining the main aspects of their relationship to
Homeric epic and to the aforementioned general points.
Amanda Wrigley (Oxford): Greek Tragedy on BBC Radio, 1920s-1970s:
Performance and Reception
Dramatic productions of Greek tragedy in translation were broadcast by the
BBC with perhaps surprising frequency from the mid-1920s. This unexplored
area of research offers fresh insights to those who focus on classical
reception studies in 20th-century Britain. As a medium quite different
from either the printed page or the theatrical stage, radio also poses new
challenges in terms of performance reception. This work-in-progress paper
will discuss my methodological and theoretical approaches to the ‘theatre
of the mind’.
Amanda Potter (Open University): Pandora and the Pythia: Classics meets
9/11 in the current US TV Series Battlestar Galactica
Classical myth has influenced science fiction from its beginnings when
intrepid travellers first set out on a quest to explore the world beyond
our planet, as their forbear Jason explored lands beyond the limits of the
known world. Battlestar Galactica, televised post-apocalyptic science
fiction at its most bleak, where the goal of humanity is not to explore,
but to survive, may seem far from the heroic exploits of the classical
heroes. However, the strong female characters from the series have
explicit links with the classical world.
The two main human female characters, President Laura Roslin and
Lieutenant Kara Thrace, are believers in a pantheon of gods, including the
deities Apollo, Artemis and Athena. The peaceful secretary of education
made president when all other cabinet members are killed, and the tomboy
maverick pilot, are brought together to fulfil an ancient ‘Pythian’
prophecy. Opposing them is the disciple of one God, female
android ‘Cylon’, Number Six. Six is a Femme Fatale and Pandora-like
beautiful evil created to bring about the destruction of the majority of
the human race.
My paper will discuss how elements of Battlestar Galactica drawn from
classical myth are woven into a 21st century self-consciously post 9/11
drama.
Modern Productions
Stavroula Kiritsi (Royal Holloway) : Menander's Samia in a modern Greek
theatrical production: form and ideology of the performative text.
The paper will present a theatrical production of Menander's play, Samia,
performed by the National Theatre of Thessaloniki. This performance is of
particular importance for the following reasons: first, because of the
social, cultural and theatrical setting of the performance. Secondly, on
account of the form of the Greek language chosen for the translation of
the play, namely kathareuousa and thirdly, because of the structure of the
performative text.
Charles A. MacDougall (Durham) : ‘The Julie Thesmo Show' - Greek Comedy on
the Anglo-American Stage in the Early Third Millennium.
This study takes it impetus from the 2006 Durham Classics Play production
of 'The Julie Thesmo Show', an adaptation of Aristophanes'
Thesmophoriazusae’ by Mary-Kay Gamel (first staged in the US in 2001).
Katerina Gotsi (UCL) : 'The figure of Ismene in modern Irish adaptations
of Antigone'.
The myth of Antigone has become increasingly popular in Ireland in the
last twenty years, with prominent Irish poets, scholars and directors
revisiting the well-known Sophoclean tragedy. Contrary to Antigone, who
sacrifices her life in order to bury her dead brother Polyneices, her
sister Ismene refuses to turn against the city and disobey Creon's decree.
This paper examines the treatment of Ismene by contemporary Irish writers.
The sole survivor of the Oedipus family has been subject to different
readings; seen either as a practical, even cynical young girl, or as the
embodiment of 'commonsense and feeling for the living', Ismene is always
the voice of logic that helps to shed more light to Antigone's action and
motives.
Receptions and their Dangers
Ed Richardson (Cambridge) : The painful birth and troublesome infancy of
the classical tradition.
'The ancient world's awkward seduction of nineteenth-century Britain was
structured by shifting notions of tradition, and of the intermediate space
between past and present. 'Ancient tradition' tended, in the early part of
the century, to be a deeply unpopular concept; its gradual rehabilitation
led to the explosion of (uniquely inventive) 'classical traditions' which
fill mid-Victorian public discourse to overflowing (with everyone from
gymnastics instructors to suicidal schoolmasters keen to give their
actions and their ideas an ancient pedigree). Attempts to rein in and
control such 'traditions' began to emerge during the latter part of the
century, finding their focus in the newly-minted concept of ‘the
[authoritative and singular] classical tradition,’ which came to the fore
from the 1890s onwards.'
Stephen Moorby (UCL) : Problems of exclusivity in scholarly readings
Literary texts are not in the first place produced for scholars, but for
a ‘general’ audience. Texts that attract attention to themselves then
attract the attention of scholars. In the longer term, it is this
attention that ensures the survival of literary texts for other scholars –
and for a ‘general’ audience.
But is there something inherent in the scholarly enterprise that, while
preserving texts for future readers, by its very nature tends to exclude
members of the ‘general’ audience? Brief extracts from commentaries on
Catullus, Horace and Vergil are used to illustrate possible dangers.
Dr Anastasia Bakogianni,
Institute of Classical Studies. School of Advanced Study
University of London,
Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
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A Symposium on “The Mask in Classical Greek Theatre”
Friday 28 April 2006
A research symposium sponsored by the Department of Drama and Theatre,
Royal Holloway University of London, with the Society for the Promotion of
Hellenic Studies and the Institute of Classical Studies.
The aim of the Symposium is to bring together scholars of diverse
backgrounds to consider why the Greeks used masks in classical theatre,
examining the significance of the convention in theatrical, aesthetic,
anthropological and psychological terms.
The venue is the RHUL building at 11 Bedford Square, London WC1B (adjacent
to Senate House, entrance in Montague Place.) Time: 10-30 am to 5-00 pm
Programme:
10.30 coffee
11.00 David Wiles (RHUL): introduction.
11.20 Chris Vervain (RHUL): “The fifth-century masks – a practical
interpretation of the evidence”
11.50 Sandra Kemp (Royal College of Art): “Mirror or mask: the face and
identity”
12.20 Mike Burton (University of Glasgow): “The psychology of viewing
faces”
12.50 sandwich lunch
1.50 Stephen Halliwell (University of St Andrews): “What do masks
represent?”
2.20 Richard Seaford (University of Exeter): “The mask in Dionysiac cult”
2.50 Richard Williams (University of Durham): “Facing the mask: issues of
perception and categorisation”
3.20 C. W. Marshall (University of British Columbia) "Tresses in
distresses: hair on tragic masks"
3.50 Tea
4.20 Plenary discussion
5.00 end
There is no registration fee (coffee, sandwich lunch and tea are kindly
sponsored by the Hellenic Society) but places are limited and early
booking is advised. Those wishing to attend are asked to contact the
organizer in advance, Professor David Wiles, at email: [log in to unmask]
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The Society for Ancient Medicine will sponsor one or more panels on
medicine in antiquity at the 2006 conference of the International Society
for the History of Medicine meeting in Budapest, Hungary, August 26-30,
2006. Scholar working in all ancient medical traditions are strongly
encouraged to submit abstracts of their recent research.
Please send a summary of your paper to Professor Julie Laskaris at
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Abstracts must conform to the following criteria:
Font: Times New Roman, font size: 12 points, line spacing: single
Dimensions: 80 characters per line x 19 lines
Title: to be written in CAPITAL letters (maximum 2 lines)
Abstract text: the entire abstract (title, authors, address, body text,
references and footnotes) must fit within the space of 1760 characters.
NB: the abstracts SAM selects for submission to the ISHM must be in both
English and French; the first round of abstracts may be in either
language, though authors of accepted papers should be ready to provide the
other version promptly.
Conference details are posted at: http://www.ishm2006.hu/index.html
Please note that it will be possible for ISHM participants to attend
the “Approaches to Ancient Medicine” conference to be held at the
University of Reading, UK, August 21-22 (for details, see
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/classics/medicine.htm).
For more information on the Society for Ancient Medicine, please visit the
Medicina Antiqua website: http://www.medicinaantiqua.org.uk/mm_sam.html
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A reminder that this conference takes place on Saturday 11 March, 2-6pm.
Please notify [log in to unmask] if you are planning to come.
"Future Music and the Classical Past. Wagner and his Legacy"
Location: Department of Music, University of Bristol: Victoria's Rooms
Date: Saturday 11 March 2006, 2-6 pm.
Organized by Bristol's Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical
Tradition
Conference speakers: Professor John Deathridge, Professor Simon Goldhill,
Dr. Martin Ruehl, Professor Thomas Grey.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘CLOSE RELATIONS : THE ‘SPACES’ OF GREEK AND ROMAN
THEATRE’
An international, multi-disciplinary conference linking theatre and
performance studies, classical studies, archaeology and reception studies
September 19-23, 2006 at the University of Melbourne, Australia
http://www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/close/
Convenors: Prof. Frank Sear, Paul Monaghan, Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Conference web site: http://www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/close/
PROPOSALS for presentations of 20 or 40 minutes duration, including title
and abstract of up to 200 words must be received by April 10, 2006. Please
send proposals to [log in to unmask]
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