The Department of Classics at the University of Reading is pleased to
announce the following events for the period from April to September 2007:
CONFERENCES
'Classics Hell: Re-Presenting Antiquity in Mass Cultural Media'
Tuesday, 17 April 2007
See http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/hell/
'Migrations'
Friday, 27 April 2007
A conference sponsored by the University of Reading and the Classical
Reception Studies Network.
See http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/migrations
'Violent Commensality: Animal Sacrifice and its Discourses in the Ancient
World'
Friday, 11 May 2007
See http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/sacrifice.htm
'Greece, Rome, and Colonial India'
Friday, 29 June 2007
This conference, which is to be held at SOAS (London), is sponsored by the
University of Reading, Royal Holloway, SOAS, the British Academy, and the
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
See http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/grci/
'Why Athens? Reappraising Tragic Politics'
Monday & Tuesday, 10 and 11 September 2007
This conference is sponsored by the University of Reading and the British
Academy.
See http://www.rdg.ac.uk/humanities/why_athens.htm
'Graeco-Aegyptica/Aegypto-Graeca. Interactions between Greece and Egypt
700 BCE - 300 CE'
Monday-Wednesday, 17-19 September 2007
See http://www.reading.ac.uk/GraecoAegyptica/
SEMINARS
Wednesday, 9 May, 4 p.m., HUMSS 301
'Locus datus: Latin inscriptions and the Roman state'
Gregory Rowe, University of Victoria
Thursday, 17 May, 4 p.m., HUMSS 301
'How the Ethiopian Changed His Skin'
Daniel L. Selden, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wednesday, 23 May, 4 p.m., HUMSS 301
'Alciphron's Attic Idylls: reading pastoral in the Second Sophistic'
Owen Hodkinson, University of Oxford
Wednesday, 13 June, 4 p.m., HUMSS 301
'Delayed punishment and ancestral characteristics: Croesus (and others?)
in Herodotus'
Neil Sewell-Rutter, University of Reading
For further information, please contact Phiroze Vasunia at
[log in to unmask], or write to the organizers at:
Department of Classics
The University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading RG6 6AA
U.K.
Telephone: 0118 378 8420
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/classics/
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, MAYNOOTH
DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT CLASSICS
LECTURESHIP/ ASSISTANT LECTURESHIP IN CLASSICS
Applications are invited for the above post, tenable from 1 September
2007. Candidates should have, or be about to complete, a PhD, and be
capable of contributing both to language courses and to courses in Greek
and Roman Civilization. A record of research and publication commensurate
with career stage is expected. The successful candidate is likely to have
special expertise in Greek and Latin literature and its cultural context,
and a high level of competence in both languages; a particular interest in
non-dramatic Greek poetry, especially epic, may be an advantage.
Salary Scales: Lecturer €50,499 - €81,861 p.a. (7 points)
Assistant Lecturer €34,911 - €56,345 p.a. (12 points)
Further details of the post may be had from the University website:
http://personnel.nuim.ie/ancientclassicspost.shtml
For information about the Department of Ancient Classics, please see:
http://ancientclassics.nuim.ie/
The closing date for applications is Tuesday 17 April 2007.
Informal enquiries relating to the post may be directed to the Head of
Department, Dr Mark Humphries by email at [log in to unmask]
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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
21st Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar, 25th-28th June 2007 Australian
National University, Canberra
'Epic and Anti-Epic'
Papers of approximately thirty minutes are invited on the above theme for
the 21st Pacific Rim Seminar. As in the past, potential participants
should feel free to treat the theme with a reasonable liberty of
interpretation.
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to the convenor, Dr.
Claire Jamset, at the address [log in to unmask] by Monday 30th
April.
A link with more details regarding registration, etc. is available at
http://arts.anu.edu.au/languages/classics/pacific_rim_conference.asp. Or
direct any enquiries to [log in to unmask]
--
Dr. Claire Jamset Leach
Convenor of Classics,
Classics Program,
AD Hope Building (#14)
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
T: +61 2 6125 2912
F: +61 2 6125 5039
W: http://arts.anu.edu.au/languages/classics/classics_homepage.asp
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Encyclopaedism before the Enlightenment
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
13-15 June 2007
Registration details
Over recent years there has been increasing scholarly interest in pre-
modern intellectual practices and the scientific texts which they
generated. Particular attention has been paid to treatises, handbooks and
other shorter works. There have also been a series of important studies
of Pliny's Natural History and its role as a proto-encyclopaedia. This
conference will build on these strands of research to explore the nature
and variety of encyclopaedic projects in the age before the work of
Diderot and his contemporaries created the modern vision of an
encyclopaedia.
We start with no preconceived definition of an encyclopaedia. Instead, we
hope that connections, and differences, will emerge from discussion of a
range of texts that broadly share the visions and claims to comprehensive
and or varied knowledge associated with the modern genre. To this end we
are bringing together a group of scholars with wide knowledge of large-
scale compilatory and synoptic works of knowledge composed in antiquity
and afterwards. Papers will address classical, Byzantine, Islamic, Chinese
and early modern encyclopedias and compilations. Our primary aim is to
discuss encyclopedic and miscellanistic projects from a comparative
perspective. We will examine the social and political worlds in which they
were produced, including in some cases the context of empire. The
conference will build on ongoing work in the Logos Centre in St Andrews on
the compilatory and scientific writing of the ancient world.
The conference will include approximately twenty papers, running from
early afternoon on Wednesday 13 June to the afternoon of Friday 15th.
Conference programme and list of titles to follow soon. The conference
website, including full programme, will be available from the middle of
next week—link from http://www.st-
andrews.ac.uk/classics/conferences/index.shtml.
The conference is generously funded by the British Academy, the Leverhulme
Trust, the Classical Association and the Hellenic Society.
Speakers include:
Mary Beagon (Manchester), Aude Doody (UCD), Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge),
Hugh Kennedy (St Andrews), Teresa Morgan (Oxford), Claire Preston
(Cambridge), Neil Rhodes (St Andrews), Christopher Smith (St Andrews),
William West (Northwestern), Harriet Zurndorfer (Leiden)
The cost for delegates booking before 15 May is £200, including conference
fee, two nights'
accommodation, and all meals up to the afternoon of Friday 15th. Prices
may rise very slightly after that date, depending on availability of
rooms. Additional nights will be available for £40 per night. Prices for
shorter stays are available on request. We will organise dinner in a local
restaurant on the Friday night for those who are able to stay.
We have a small amount of funding available to help with travel costs for
postgraduate delegates:
if you would like to be considered for this funding, please contact Jason
Koenig (jpk3@st-
andrews.ac.uk) by 30 April at the latest.
To register, please contact the conference secretary, Mrs Margaret Goudie
([log in to unmask]) with details of accommodation requirements.
For more general queries please contact one of the conference organisers:
Jason Koenig (jpk3@st-
andrews.ac.uk) or Greg Woolf ([log in to unmask]).
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THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, CLASSICS AND EGYPTOLOGY
SENIOR LECTURERSHIP/ READERSHIP AND 2 LECTURERSHIPS IN ARCHAEOLOGY
£27,465 - £52,628 pa
These opportunities come at a time both of expansion in staff numbers and
of exciting change in the profile of Archaeology at Liverpool.
You will have expertise and an excellent research profile/potential in any
area of archaeology which complements the research of the School.
Applications are particularly welcome in the following fields: European
prehistory; science-based archaeology; hominin palaeontology;
Assyriology/Near Eastern culture or history. You will also be expected
to teach undergraduate and postgraduate students at all levels, and to
develop attractive new modules of your own. All three posts are
available from 1 August 2007.
Quote Ref: A/303
Closing Date: 4 May 2007
For full details, or to request an application pack,
visit www.liv.ac.uk/university/jobs.html or e-mail [log in to unmask]
Tel 0151 794 2210 (24 hr answerphone),
please quote Ref: in all enquiries
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THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, CLASSICS AND EGYPTOLOGY
UNIVERSITY TEACHER IN CLASSICAL STUDIES (PART-TIME 0.95 FTE)
£23,002 pa (pro rata)
You will have expertise in Greek literature or culture or of its later
reception, will teach undergraduates at all levels and be able to develop
an attractive new module related to your research for advanced
undergraduates. It is envisaged that the post will attract scholars
entering the profession and hoping to progress to permanent academic
positions. The post is available for nine months from 1 September 2007.
Quote Ref: A/304
Closing Date: 4 May 2007
For full details, or to request an application pack,
visit www.liv.ac.uk/university/jobs.html or e-mail [log in to unmask]
Tel 0151 794 2210 (24 hr answerphone),
please quote Ref: in all enquiries
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PERCEPTIONS OF HORACE
An international Conference to be held at the Department of Greek and
Latin, University College London, 5th-6th July 2007
Speakers: Tina Chronopoulos, Martin Dinter, John Eidinow, Denis
Feeney, Bernard Frischer, Russell Goulbourne, Emily Gowers, Barbara
Graziosi, Stephen Harrison, Luke Houghton, Jennifer Ingleheart, Roland
Mayer, Victoria Moul, Ruurd Nauta, Marden Nichols, Niall Rudd, Alessandro
Schiesaro, Jane Stevenson, John Talbot, Penelope Wilson.
Sessions will be chaired by Rhiannon Ash, Chris Carey, Armand
D'Angour, Anna Holland, Anne Rogerson, Maria Wyke, and others.
Full programme details and booking information for this event are now
available online at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GrandLat/horace.html
The Department of Greek and Latin acknowledges the generous support of
the British Academy in funding "Perceptions of Horace". A number of
bursaries will be available to assist postgraduate students to attend the
conference.
For all enquiries please contact Luke Houghton
([log in to unmask]) at the Department of Greek and Latin.
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, MAYNOOTH
JOHN AND PAT HUME RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP IN CLASSICS OR FRENCH
The Department of Ancient Classics and the Department of French at the
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, invite applications from
qualified candidates for a John and Pat Hume Research Scholarship,
beginning in September 2007 and tenable for up to three years.
The John and Pat Hume Research Scholarships at NUI Maynooth are open to
full-time research students intending to pursue a PhD. The award
comprises the payment of fees at EU level plus a maintenance sum of €5,000
per year for a maximum of three years. In the case of the Scholarship in
Classics or French, the successful candidate may also be invited to
undertake teaching in the Department concerned; payment for such teaching
will be made at the University’s fixed hourly rates for occasional staff,
up to a maximum of €3,000 per year.
One Scholarship only will be awarded in 2007, and it will be awarded in
either Classics or French. Applicants should normally have a
distinguished academic record at the BA and MA levels, though outstanding
candidates currently in the final year of their BA degree are also
encouraged to apply.
Applicants for the Scholarship in Classics are expected to have attained a
high level of competence in Greek and/or Latin and to be able to
demonstrate the capacity for high-quality research at PhD level. The
Department can offer supervision in a wide range of areas. It has
particular strengths in late Antiquity and the ancient novel, but other
areas of special interest include Greek tragedy, Latin poetry, Greek and
Roman social and cultural history, Roman Italy, and Hellenistic and
Neoplatonic philosophy. Further information on the Department of Ancient
Classics may be obtained from the University website at
http://ancientclassics.nuim.ie/
Applications by post (and not by e-mail), which should consist of a
curriculum vitae, a statement of between 300 and 500 words outlining the
area in which the applicant envisages undertaking PhD work, and a covering
letter, with the names and postal and e-mail addresses of two academic
referees, should be sent to:
Professor David Scourfield
Department of Ancient Classics
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Maynooth
Co. Kildare
Ireland
to arrive by 15 May 2007.
Informal enquiries may be made by e-mail to Professor Scourfield at
[log in to unmask] or to Dr Mark Humphries at [log in to unmask]
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Translation and the Classical Tradition, Durham University
Call for Papers: Classics in Translation In conjunction with the HEA
project 'Texts Transformed'
26 September 2007.
Organisers: Dr. Ingo Gildenhard and Dr. Barbara Graziosi
Key-note speaker: Prof. Lorna Hardwick
The conference investigates the role of translations in the discipline of
classics. Most students today appoach the study of Greece and Rome mainly
or entirely through translations: in some contexts, this fact is lamented
or ignored; in others, it stimulates new pedagogical developments. This
conference takes its cue from the student experience in order to explore
some fundamental questions about the discipline of classics, its history,
and the role of translations in it. It aims to shed light not only on the
pervasive role played by translations in the study of Greece and Rome, but
also on the reluctance to acknowledge that role within the discipline.
We invite papers on the following topics:
1. Translation and the making of a classic: from Rome as a culture of
translation to contemporary mass-market translations.
2. Translation and cultural difference: explorations and transformations
of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis through the study of classical receptions,
cf. 'Homer in the Arab World' (A. Etman, Durham, 18 June 2007).
3. Translation and the sacred: Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian attitudes
to sacred texts and sacred languages; syncretism and the practice of
translating divine names; the relationship between Classics and Theology.
4. Translation and the politics of empire: monolingual Greece, polyglot
Persia, bilingual Rome; the British empire and classical education; the
hegemony of the USA and the practice of reading classics in English.
5. Translation through different media: from architectural translations of
Vitruvius, to visual translations of Ovid, to cinematic translations of
Homer.
Please send one-page abstracts (500 words), by 31 May 2007, to:
Dr Barbara Graziosi ([log in to unmask])
General enquiries should be addressed to:
Dr Ingo Gildenhard ([log in to unmask]) or Dr. Barbara Graziosi
([log in to unmask]
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