Oxford Classical Archaeology Seminar
Mondays, 5 pm
Lincoln College, Lower Lecture Room
The Archaeology of Athens and its Empire in the fifth century BC
Week 1: 15 January: ***NEXT MONDAY AT 5PM*** Jack Kroll(Oxford), The
internal and international significance of Athenian silver coinage
Week 2: 22 January:
Graham Oliver(Liverpool),
Word and empire: the power of monumental epigraphy in 5th century Athens
Week 3: 29 January:
John Walsh(Hofstra University, New York), Archaeology, history, and
chronology, 480-430 BC: some aspects
Week 4: 5 February:
Alain Duploy(Paris),
Thasos, Athens, and Kimon: Hegemonic policies
Week 5: 12 February:
Barbara Borg(Exeter),
Dangerous images? On the promotion and avoidance of violence in Athenian
iconography
Week 6: 19 February:
John Camp(ASCA Athens),
The Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron
Week 7: 26 February:
Emanuele Greco(Italian School of Archaeology, Athens), The Plan of Thurii:
a Search for the Principles of Hippodamean Town Planning
Week 8: 5 March:
Joseph Carter(Austin, Texas),
Democratic Chersonesos in
Crimea
Organizers:
Professor Bert Smith, Ashmolean Museum ([log in to unmask]) Maria
Stamatopoulou, Lincoln College ([log in to unmask]
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GRAECO-AEGYPTIACA/AEGYPTO-GRAECA
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GREECE AND EGYPT 700BCE-300CE
The relationship between ancient Greek writers and the Egyptian literature
and discourse of the Graeco-Roman period is emerging as an area of intense
debate, stimulated by two factors. First, there have been a series of
stunning new discoveries, e.g. a Demotic Egyptian text published by Kim
Ryholt which is close to the story of Pheros in Herodotus' history Egypt,
or the Demotic Book of Thoth which provides an Egyptian equivalent to the
Greek Hermetica - both of which appeared in 2005; and secondly, a number
of important new interpretations have been published, e.g Phiroze
Vasunia's Gift of the Nile (2001), Susan Stephens' Seeing Double (2003)
and Jacco Dieleman's Priests, Tongues and Rites (2005).
In this context, the Classics Department of the University of Reading will
host a conference on September 17th-19th of 2007, with the aim of
exploring the transmission and translation of literature between Egypt and
the Graeco-Roman world, covering the period 700BCE- 300CE. Central issues
that it is hoped will be addressed include the following:
a. THE SCOPE OF BILINGUAL LITERATURE. Conceived narrowly, "Graeco-Egyptian
literature" comprises texts that circulated in both Greek and Egyptian
versions, including narratives (such as the Sesostris-novel), prophecies
and magical texts; in a broader sense, it covers texts of either language
which seem to engage with the texts or discourses of the other. Key
questions here include: which specific texts are we talking about? And how
can it be established that a relationship exists between texts or
discourses from different languages or cultures? What terms and categories
are appropriate to describe such relationships? And how do they change
over time?
b. CONTEXTS OF TRANSLATION AND PRODUCTION. When and how should we
understand transmission between the cultures as taking place? Who carried
out the translation? What was the role of bilingual priests (cf. e.g. P.
Derchain in RdÉ 41 (1990), 9-30 on Greek echoes in the Papyrus Jumilhac).
Can the direction of the translation be determined in every case? Do texts
show traces of linguistic interference or code-switching? If Egypt's
relation to the Greco-Roman world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods
resembles one between a colony and an imperial power, can the process be
illuminated by the contemporary model of postcolonial theory?
c. THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONTACT. What results for either tradition did
interaction with the other bring about? For example, it has been argued
that contact with Greek culture may have led to radical changes in late
Egyptian literature, or even to the development of entirely new forms and
genres, such as the heroic narratives of the Inaros Cycle (cf. J. Quack,
Die demotische und gräko-ägyptische Literatur (2005), 171-5); or satiric
poetry (H.-J. Thissen, SAK 27 (1999), 369-387); conversely, Manetho's
Aegyptiaca has be seen as an innovative fusion between native Egyptian
forms of chronology and narrative with Greek historiography (cf. John
Dillery, ZPE 127 (1999) 93-116).
Papers are invited which address interactions and engagements between
Greek and Egyptian literature and discourse, including narrative-texts,
religious-texts and magical texts, and the underlying issues of
translation and transmission. Those interested in participating should
send an abstract of 300-500 words as soon as possibl an at any event by
February 16th 2007 to [log in to unmask] For further
information about the conference and updates, visit the conference website
at http://www.reading.ac.uk/AcaDepts/lk/GraecoAegyptica/.
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The Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University
invites applications for an appointment to being July 1 2007, at the level
of Assistant Professor of untenured Associate Professor in any
specialization in Greek and/or Roman art and architecture between the
Archaic period and Late Antiquity. The appointee will teach and advise
students at the undergraduate and graduate level. A strong doctoral
record is required. Candidates should demonstrate a promise of excellence
in both research and teaching. Salary and benefits are competitive.
Applications, to include a CV, two writing samples, and letters from three
referees should be sent to Prof. Jeffrey Hamburger, Chair Classical
Search Committee, Harvard University, Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02138.
The deadline is February 1, 2007.
Harvard is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Applications from women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged.
Jeffrey Hamburger
Harvard University
Dept of History of Art and Architecture
Phone + 617 495-2377
Fax + 617 495-1769
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A FUTURE FOR THE PAST: PETRIE'S PALESTINIAN COLLECTION An Exhibition
> staged by UCL at the Brunei Gallery which is part of the School of
> Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
> http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/palestine/home.html
> The Exhibition is on from 9th Jan to 24th March 2007 and is open
> Tuesday to Saturday 10.30 am to 5.00 pm Admission FREE
>
> This unique exhibition celebrates the diversity of ancient Palestine,
> and its rich heritage.
> The exhibition highlights the extraordinary finds made by the
> archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, who taught at UCL and spent many
> years working in the area around modern Gaza in the 1920s and
> 1930s.The sites he dug are now divided between the modern states of
> Israel and the Palestinian Authority. They include major towns and
> trading centres which flourished over 5000 years ago. He found
> beautiful pottery and jewellery and a huge variety of tools. This is
> the first time that many of these unique artefacts - housed in UCL's
> Institute of Archaeology - have been on public display.
>
> But the exhibition is much more than a showcase for remarkable
> artefacts.
> It draws on the letters, notebooks and photographs kept by Petrie and
> his colleagues. These help recreate what daily life was like for the
> European archaeologists and for the Palestinian men, women and
> children who worked on these excavations in the 1930s. Visitors can
> see into a 'dig house', explore a trench and sit inside a Bedouin tent
> to watch a short film about life on the dig. Special interactive areas
> allow visitors to explore what archaeology can - and cannot - tell us.
>
> The exhibition aims to be a positive force for change. An
> understanding of the past should lead to dialogue, tolerance and the
> courage to take a long term view.
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Epigraphy North
For details of Epigraphy North you may wish to consult the website:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/sace/events/seminar/epigraphynorth.htm
Current Programme of events in 2007
Tuesday 23rd January 2007 at 5.30 pm
Venue: Humanities Lime Grove (Arts Building), A112, The University of
Manchester
Dr Claire Taylor
Cocks on rocks: rupestral inscriptions in Attica
Tuesday 24th April 2007 at 5.30 pm
Venue: Bosanquet Seminar Room, 12-14 Abercromby Square, The University of
Liverpool
Robert Pitt
Inscribing for a purpose: the evidence of the public building contracts
All welcome, particularly those interested in learning epigraphical
skills. Funding is available to assist graduate students in attending
Epigraphy North events.
For further details, please contact Graham Oliver ([log in to unmask]).
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MATERIALITAS: WORKING STONE, CARVING IDENTITY March 9-10th 2007 The UCD
School of Archaeology and Humanities Institute of Ireland, University
College Dublin present a conference on the materiality of stone, with an
evening reception and keynote address by Richard Bradley on Friday 9th
March, and papers by invited speakers including specialists on stone
monuments, lithic objects, rock art and quarrying, on Saturday 10th March.
Confirmed speakers include Lara Bacelar Alves, Stefan Bergh, Gabriel
Cooney, Mark Edmonds, Andy Jones, Katina Lillios, Blaze O’Connor, Muiris
O’Sullivan, Yvan Pailler, Colin Richards, Chris Scarre, Annelou Van Gijn,
Aaron Watson, and Chris Gosden (Discussant).
We welcome anyone with an interest in people’s engagement with stone, and
more broadly in the theme of approaches to material culture, to attend.
Further details on registration, getting to UCD, maps, eating out, and
accommodation are available on the conference website:
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/materialitas.
Places are limited, so PRE-REGISTER BY 28th FEBRUARY 2007 to ensure a
place!!
We look forward to seeing you in Dublin for what promises to be a
stimulating and productive conference.
Conference organisers: Blaze O’Connor ([log in to unmask]) and Gabriel
Cooney.
CONFERENCE ABSTRACT
Stone monuments and objects represent material that is both highly
accessible to archaeologists today, and formed a focus for engagement,
transformation and re-use in the past, because of its paradoxically
enduring yet malleable quality. This enduring character means that stone
is inextricably linked to notions of monumentality and remembrance, and
formed an active medium in the creation of identities and memory life in a
range of social contexts and practices. It can be argued that the material
presence and physical character of stone objects and monuments are not
only actively harnessed in these encounters, but are also the very stuff
from which social relations are derived, perceived and thought through. As
well as highly visible statements in the form of finished objects and
monuments, stone was encountered in the embodied, performative, and
incorporated practices of daily activities and remembrance traditions. We
have recently, and increasingly, seen exciting evidence arise for the
active use and re- use of quarrying and carving locations, natural, worked
and carved stone surfaces, and quarried and fragmented stone objects and
blocks.
This area is therefore a rich arena within which to develop our narratives
and interpretations, and one that recognises the agency and effect of
material forms in the creation of social relationships.
Rather than thinking of stone simply as a blank and passive slate onto
which meanings were inscribed, we can explore its power and effect in
terms of the ways meanings emerged out of people’s engagement and
encounters with its physical properties. This conference will bring
together speakers working on the materiality (materialitas) of stone via
different forms of stone objects, rock art, monuments and quarrying
activities.
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Oxford University Faculty Ancient History Seminar, Hilary Term 2007: The
Athenian Empire Revisited
Revised Schedule (to replace that in the printed lecture list)
Tuesdays at 5 p.m. Venue: Weeks 1-3 (Old) Classics Centre (George Street);
Week 4 lecture room 4, New College; Weeks 5-7 (New) Classics Centre (66 St
Giles).
Tuesday, January 16: Peter Liddell, ‘Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
perspectives on Athenian power’.
Tuesday, January 23: Nikolaos Papazarkadas, ‘The Athenian Empire:
reshuffling the chronological cards’.
Tuesday, January 30: Lisa Kallet, ‘Depoliticizing Empire: approaching the
arche as an economic phenomenon’.
Tuesday, February 6: Roger Brock, ‘Did the Athenian Empire promote
democracy?’.
Tuesday, February 13: Maria Stamatopoulou, tba
Tuesday, February 20: Peter Thonemann, ‘Amorges and the battle of Mt
Thorax’
Tuesday, February 27: Teresa Morgan, ‘Athens Enslaved? Theories of empire
and the corruption of power’.
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Edinburgh Classics Research Seminar, Semester 2 All papers take place in
the David Hume Tower around 5.30 pm - precise location and times can be
obtained from the seminar organiser (for contact details see below).
All welcome!
10/01/07 Dominic Rathbone (KCL)
'Poverty, wealth and political structures in the Roman Republic'
17/01/07 R.R.R. Smith (Lincoln, Oxford)
'Sarcophagi and citizenship at Aphrodisias'
26/01/07 Eddie Peltenburg (Edinburgh)
'A prehistory for Aphrodite? Edinburgh's excavations at Souskiou, Cyprus'
(This is a joint seminar with the subject area of Archaeology.)
31/01/07 An evening with Virgil and Vergil at 5 pm: Anton Powell (The
Classical Press of Wales/Swansea) on 'Virgil and Sex'
and
at 6 pm William Dominik (Otago) on 'Vergil's geopolitics'
07/02/07 Elizabeth Gebhard (Edinburgh)
'Macedonians and Romans on the Corinthian Isthmus: 198-196 BC'
14/02/07 Ian Ralston (Edinburgh)
'Bourges - Avaricum c. 500 BC - piecing together the past'
21/02/07 An (Ash-Wednesday) evening with Pliny and friends at 5 pm Dominic
Berry (Edinburgh) on 'Pliny's "Vesuvius" narratives (/Epp/. 6.16, 6.20)'
and
at 7 pm Roy Gibson (Manchester) on 'Generalising about Pliny the Younger'
(This is a joint event with the Classical Association of Scotland,
Edinburgh and South East Branch.)
28/02/07 David Scourfield (Maynooth)
'The Sophoclean Forster'
14/03/07 Irene de Jong (Amsterdam)
'Metalepsis in (early) Greek literature'
21/03/07 Bill Allan (Univ., Oxford)
'Tragedy and Athens revisited'
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ASPROM, the Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics,
is now offering grants up to a maximum of £500 to support research into
ancient mosaics. There are two annual deadlines for application, June 30
and December 31. Full details, including a downloadable application form,
can be found on the Association’s website, www. asprom.org.
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DOVER FUND 2007: GRANTS TO POSTGRADUATES AND YOUNG SCHOLARS
The Dover Fund, set up in honour of Sir Kenneth Dover, is administered by
the Hellenic Society. Its purposes are: to further the study of the
history of the Greek language in any period from the Bronze Age to the
15th century AD, and to further the edition and exegesis of Greek texts,
including papyri and inscriptions, from any period within those same
limits. Grants will be made for such purposes as: books; photography
(including microfilm and xeroxing); visits to libraries, museums and
sites. The sums awarded will vary according to the needs of the applicant,
but most grants will be in the range £50 - £250; larger grants may be made
from time to time at the discretion of the awards committee. Grants can be
considered to: currently registered research students, and, within the
first five years of their appointment, to lecturers, teaching fellows,
research fellows, postdoctoral fellows and research assistants, who are
based at UK institutions.
Applications must be received by 14 February 2007; awards are made at the
end of March 2007.
Further particulars and application forms may be obtained from:
The Secretary, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, Senate
House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
telephone: 020-7862-8730, fax: 020-7862-8731,
email: [log in to unmask]
THOMAS WIEDEMANN MEMORIAL FUND
Potential applicants are also reminded of the existence of the Thomas
Wiedemann Fund, specially designed to assist with the costs of visits to
universities, libraries or museums in the UK or in Eire - cf
www.thomaswiedemann.org.uk The Hellenic Society is supporting the
Wiedemann Fund with bursary assistance so that the Society can help UK PG
students of Hellenic Studies working outside Dover’s areas of interest.
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Intensive Course on the Study and Performance of Ancient Greek Drama, 2007
The fifth Summer School, organised under the auspices of the European
Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek
Drama, will be held at Epidauros from the 1st to the 15th July 2007. The
theme this year will be "Exploring European Identities/Ideologies by means
of (re)presentations of ancient Greek drama". There will be a focus on
Theatre Festivals from ancient to modern times.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified graduate students to
attend this unique course, which centres academic and theatrical
activities around the performances taking place in the ancient theatre of
Epidauros at the time.
Participants also attend lectures by well-known European scholars,
rehearsals, and meetings with artists.
The British members of the European Network are Oxford University and The
Open University. In the first years of this course applications were
submitted only from these two institutions, but applications are now
invited from all British universities. Since it is likely that at most
five places on the Intensive Course will be allocated to applicants from
Britain, there are some criteria for selection which will be seriously
taken into account:
1. Applicants should be engaged on a postgraduate degree.
2. They should have a special interest in ancient Greek drama and its
performance.
3. They should explain why they think that this course will be of
particular interest to them.
4. They should ask their supervisor to send an academic reference under
separate cover.
The fee for the course is 500 euros, which will cover accommodation,
meals, ticket for performances, and archaeological visits. Travel to and
from Epidauros has to be at the expense of the student. Please would
applicants also indicate how likely it is that they will be able to raise
sufficient funding to attend the course.
Please address applications to:
Professor Oliver Taplin
Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, The Old Boys' Grammar
School, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL.
Applications must be received by Monday 29th January 2007 at the latest.
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