SYDNEY DEMOCRACY FORUM
Democracy and War: The Case Study of Ancient Athens

INVITATION 
2 to 5.45 pm
Friday 31 August 2007
Woolley Lecture Theatre
University of Sydney

The Sydney Democracy Forum and the Department of Classics and Ancient 
History cordially invite you to this afternoon of talks on democracy and 
war in ancient Athens and the importance of this case study for 
understanding contemporary political and security challenges.

This afternoon is a follow-up to the Sydney conference of last year on 
war, culture and democracy in classical Athens. It is free and open to the 
public. Please RSVP to the Program Coordinator of the Sydney Democracy 
Forum by 24 August ([log in to unmask]; (02) 9351 6815). For 
further information contact Dr David Pritchard 
([log in to unmask]; (02) 9351 6815) or visit the web page of the 
forum at: 

http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/cah/news/sdf.shtml 

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First circular and call for papers for BANEA 2008, which will kindly be 
hosted by Liverpool BANEA members.
Friday 29th February - Sunday 2nd March, 
http://www.liv.ac.uk/sace/events/confer/banea/index.htm

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Change to British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme

The timetable for applications for British Academy Postdoctoral 
Fellowships has been brought forward in order to provide for earlier 
announcements, to give universities more time to plan to integrate 
Postdoctoral Fellows into departmental teaching and other programmes. The 
process will be conducted over two stages instead of one, in order to 
reduce the burden on HEIs. The deadline for outline submissions is 15 
October 2007 for awards to be taken up from September 2008. Institutions 
are required to countersign outline applications but need provide no 
further information at this stage. Applicants will be notified of the 
outcome in December 2007, and those who successfully pass the initial 
selection stage will be invited to submit full bids by the deadline of 28 
February 2008. Institutions are required to provide detailed information, 
including a complete statement of support and the financial appendix 
showing Full Economic Costs (FEC), only at this second stage. Awards will 
be announced in May 2008. 

Details and application forms are available from 
www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/pdfells.html 


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Lectureship in Roman History, ANU, Australia:

http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/Jobs/Academic_Positions/_FA4204.asp

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Villa of the Papyri: archaeology, reception and digital reconstruction

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies and Christ Church, 
Oxford Saturday 22 ­ Sunday 23 September 2007


We are pleased to announce that a limited number of bursaries for 
registration only and registration plus accommodation will be available 
for postgraduates wishing to attend this event. For further information, 
please contact Mantha Zarmakoupi ([log in to unmask]) by 
August 20. 

The event is generously sponsored by The Friends of the Herculaneum 
Society, the British Academy and the Faculty of Classics (University of 
Oxford).

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UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

LECTURER: CLASSICS

The School of Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Humanities invites 
applications for the above post for appointment from 01 January 2008, or 
as soon as possible thereafter.

Applicants should possess a PhD (or ABD) and be able to demonstrate 
research activity. The appointee must be competent to teach both Latin and 
Greek from beginners to advanced level and should be willing and competent 
to lecture courses on Greek and Roman civilisation in English.

The 2007 annual remuneration package, including benefits at Lecturer 
level, is: R284 850.

Please send a letter of motivation, a full CV (no certificates), a 1-page 
condensed CV, the names, email and telephone details of 3 contactable 
referees, to: Mrs R Daniels (Ref: 1447), Staff Recruitment & Selection, 
University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, South Africa 7701 by 
31 August 2007.

Telephone: +27 (021) 650-2220 email: [log in to unmask] ; Faculty 
Website: www.humanities.uct.ac.za

Informal enquiries may be directed to Professor David Wardle at 
[log in to unmask]

We are committed to equity in our employment practices.  It is our 
intention to appoint individuals with the aim of meeting our equity 
objectives.

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University of St Andrews
Teaching Fellow in Greek and Classical Studies School of Classics Salary - 
£22,650 - £27,045 per annum pro rata You will be expected to contribute to 
teaching in both Greek language/literature and Classical Studies at sub-
honours and Honours level. You must have a good Honours degree in 
Classics, and should have completed, or be near to completing, a PhD in 
any area of Classics. A good knowledge of Greek language is essential.

The post is fixed term to 30 June 2008 effective from 16 September 2007, 
or as soon as possible thereafter.

Please quote ref: SK301/07

Closing date 14 August 2007

Application forms and further particulars are available from Human 
Resources, University of St Andrews, College Gate, North Street, St 
Andrews, Fife KY16 9AJ, (tel: 01334 462571, by fax 01334 462570 or by e-
mail [log in to unmask] The advertisement and further particulars 
and a downloadable application form can be found at http://www.st-
andrews.ac.uk/employment/.

The University is committed to equality of opportunity.

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Temporary Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature, St. Anne's 
College, Oxford.

Applications are invited for an 8-hour Stipendiary Lecturership in 
Classical Languages and Literature at St. Anne's College, Oxford. The post 
will run for 9 months from January to September 2008 and will cover the 
study leave of Prof. Matthew Leigh. Applicants should have completed or be 
about to complete a doctorate in Classics and should be confident to teach 
both Greek and Latin language and literature to a high level.

Full details of the post are available at www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk or from 
Zoe Sparrowhawk, Personnel Officer, St. Anne's College, Oxford, OX2 6HS.
Potential candidates are also invited to discuss the post with Prof. Leigh 
at [log in to unmask]


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Call for papers
migrations & identities is a new journal published bi-annually by 
Liverpool University Press. The title represents a programme: We aim to 
interrogate notions of ‘identity’ while asking how the fact of mobility 
and displacement shapes understandings of self and the wider world, among 
both migrants and ‘host’ societies.  By the same token, we seek to 
understand how ideas and concepts are transformed as they ‘migrate’ from 
one place and culture to another.
Multi- and interdisciplinary in both conception and management, migrations 
& identities aims to cover the widest possible range of places, periods 
and methods, subject only to a shared curiosity and enthusiasm about the 
possibilities of working at the interface between the investigation of the 
material conditions of migration processes and the study of ideas and 
subjectivities.
In particular, we hope that scholars working in many fields will find in 
migrations & identities a forum for discussion of the methods appropriate 
to a project of linking observable experience and mentalities in 
difference times and places, and that among the topics of discussion will 
be the real challenges involved in conversing across disciplinary 
boundaries.
We are now inviting proposals for contributions for the inaugural issue, 
to be published in the summer of 2008.  We welcome both critical surveys 
considering how particular disciplines or fields of study have dealt with 
the relationship between migration and identity, and case studies which 
exemplify a self-conscious approach to the methodological issues it raises.
Your proposal should be for an article of 5-8,000 words, and should take 
the form of an abstract of no more than 300 words.  
Please send abstracts to Mark Choonara at [log in to unmask] no later than 
15th September 2007.

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6th POSTGRADUATE TAUGHT COURSE 
THE HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY OF THE GREEK SANCTUARY
An eight week intensive, residential course: 
Monday 14 JANUARY to Sunday 9 MARCH, 2008

Full details of the Course and the British School at Athens are available 
on our website www.bsa.gla.ac.uk

The postgraduate course is designed to be taken either by Masters students 
or by students in the first or second year of a Ph.D, and has been very 
successfully enjoyed by both categories in the past. Please pass this on 
to any graduates who might be interested. Early applications are 
encouraged. 
Robin Osborne (Chairman, BSA Courses and Teaching Committee)

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The Oscan Fringe: Research Agendas for the Ancient Central-South 
Apennines. 
An international workshop at the University of Exeter, 11-12 September 
2007.

The need to bridge the divide between History and Archaeology has become 
particularly clear in the study of the ancient central-south Apennines, 
where more holistic and alternative histories are beginning to be written 
by combining the information in ancient literary accounts with a growing 
body of archaeological and epigraphic data. Better articulation between 
recent contributions is essential for the development of the field, 
especially by evaluating how the latest archaeological finds and 
approaches to texts and material culture are being used to continue 
developing the themes of community transformations in the central-south 
Apennines.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together historians and 
archaeologists with the latest contributions to the study of the ancient 
central Apennines, in order to establish dialogue, systematize an updated 
view of the current state of knowledge and envisage major lines of 
research, with special attention to the building of more coherent 
theoretical and methodological frameworks for linking History and 
Archaeology. This is particularly important since the time lag for 
publishing the archaeological material can be 10 to 20 years. Furthermore, 
the last three years have seen a resurgence of archaeological projects 
after more than a decade of inactivity due to economic and political 
issues in the regions.  Hence an update on the current state of the 
archaeology is essential. The impact of milestone projects such as 
archaeological surveys in the Biferno Valley (Barker et al., 1995) are 
still very much felt, and a pause to review where we are now is timely.

The key speakers from Italy, Brazil, Australia and the UK will be: Angela 
Di Niro, Marlene Suano, Martin Sterrey, Gennaro Tarasco, Edward Bispham, 
Nikoletta Farkas, Amy Richardson, Luigi Scaroina, Rafael Scopacasa, 
Gabriella Colucci-Pescatori, Vincenzo Di Giovanni, Amalia Faustoferri, 
Robyn Veal, Gianfranco De Benedittis, Elena Isayev. 

Since the papers are intended to act as catalysts for discussion we very 
much welcome all who are interested in participating.

The first session will start at 11:30 on Tuesday 11 September and the last 
session will end at 14:30 on Wednesday 12 September. For more information 
please consult the detailed schedule at the end of this message.

There is no workshop fee but we would still like you to register by 
sending an email to:  [log in to unmask]  simply indicating if you will 
be attending the whole workshop or just one day. Lunch will be provided on 
both days for those who have registered.

For information regarding accommodation, please contact Fay (01392 215566) 
or access the University Accommodation webpage:
http://www.admin.ex.ac.uk/hospitality/visitors/accommodation/index.shtml.

Most of the speakers will be staying at Holland Hall which provides on 
suite B & B facilities.

For additional information please see the list of web sites or contact the 
workshop convenors, below.  


Useful web site links:
Map of Exeter
http://www.stockphotography.co.uk/UK/Maps/Exeter.asp

Map of the University (Streatham Campus)
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/about/streatham.shtml

Directions to Streatham campus
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/about/directions_streatham.shtml

Exeter city centre
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/about/exeter_city.shtml

Directions to the University of Exeter
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/about/directions.shtml

Nearest airports from Exeter (Heathrow excluded)
http://www.upmystreet.com/local/transport/airports/l/Exeter.html

Holland Hall - contact, prices, online booking (bottom of page)
http://www.admin.ex.ac.uk/hospitality/visitors/accommodation/b_and_b.shtml

Workshop Convenors:
--
Rafael Scopacasa
Research Student
Department of Classics and Ancient History
University of Exeter
Amory Building, Rennes Drive
Exeter, UK
EX4 4RJ

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-- 
Dr. Elena Isayev
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History
Department of Classics and Ancient History
University of Exeter
Amory Building, Rennes Drive
Exeter, UK
EX4 4RJ

Tel: 0044 (0)1392 264200
Fax: 0044 (0)1392 263305

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The Oscan Fringe: Research agendas for Central and South Appennines

University of Exeter, 11 – 12 September  2007

Tuesday 11 September

Location: Northcote House Committee Room A

10:30 – 11:30 		Coffee and Tea (in the Hall Foyer)

11:30 – 1:30 		Panel A: Samnite? Communities and State

Nikoletta Farkas - Samnite political institutions
Gianfranco De Benedittis - Da Safini a samnium: aspetti di un 
processo storico-topografico
Angela Di Niro – Cercemaggiore a central place?

1:30 – 2:00 		Lunch (in the Hall Foyer)

2:00 – 4:00 		Panel B: Habitation and Communication Networks

Martin Sterrey - A Fistful of Sherds: Exploiting the potential 
of GIS in the surveys of central Adriatic Italy
Gennaro Tarasco – Rethinking history in the Biferno Valley
Robyn Veal - Interactions between Pompeii and the hinterland: 
evidence for the wood supply from charcoal analysis

4:00 – 4:30 		Coffee and Tea (in the Hall Foyer)

4:30 – 6:30 		Panel C:  Microhistories in Irpinia 4th – 1st c BC

Gabriella Colucci-Pescatori - Note di topografia irpina
Vincenzo Di Giovanni - Compsa tra Irpini e  Romani
Elena Isayev – The Mopsii and the Magii in the Gracchan period


Wednesday 12 September

Location: Xfi Building Conference Room 1

9:00 – 11:00 		Panel D:  Central Appennines Sanctuaries and 
Settlements

Luigi Scaroina - Samnites: vicatim habitantes
Amalia Faustoferri - Dal culto al santuario
Edward Bispham – Samnium revisited

11:00 – 11:30 		Coffee and Tea in Xfi Conference Room 1

11:30 – 1:30 		Panel E:  Mortuary Histories
		
			Marlene Suano- Cemeteries as boundary markers
Amy Richardson - Addressing the Samnites: expressions of collective 
identities in Samnite personal adornment.
Rafael Scopacasa – Mortuary Practice – questioning identity

1:30 – 2:30 		Lunch in Xfi Seminar Room C

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The Herculaneum Society will again this year offer a studentship to a 
currently registered student to pursue a research project pertaining to 
Herculaneum. The award, which carries a stipend of up to £1000 plus travel 
expenses, is open to students applying from universities both in the UK 
and abroad. Applications, consisting of a letter of application, a 1-2 
page description of the project, and at least one letter of 
recommendation, should reach the Society's office by 15 September 2007 
(The Herculaneum Society, The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine 
Studies, 66 St. 
Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU). For more information about the Society please see 
<http://www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/>.

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IDENTITY, REPRESENTATION AND THE PRINCIPATE AD14-68 University of St 
Andrews


The School of Classics at the University of St Andrews will host a 
conference from the 18th - 20th June 2008, which concerns the nature of 
the principate during the early years of the first century. 
There have been important developments in research on individual emperors 
and the historiography of the first century offering different approaches 
to examination of the individual principates. However, there have been 
relatively few attempts to draw out the continuities and disjunctions 
between different members of the imperial family, both in their political 
practice and (more importantly for this project) their representation. 
There have of course been studies of individuals over the past century - 
from biographies containing intimate portraits to more wide-ranging 
political examinations, and detailed literary studies. Nevertheless, there 
have been few opportunities to debate the range of issues in a post-
Augustan world.  
This conference is an opportunity to explore the links between different 
patterns of representation of the emperors in the sources across a wide 
variety of different contexts -  ranging from textual and visual images 
sponsored by the emperors themselves through to the equally subjective 
rendering left to us in literature. What is the relationship, if any, 
between the distortions coming from opposite sides of an imperial portrait?
 The conference is to allow key researchers in the field to promote new 
approaches to the study of the Julio-Claudian emperors and to come 
together to present papers on a range of issues around the representation 
or self-representation of individual emperors from the accession of 
Tiberius to the fall of Nero. While the conference is based around Julio-
Claudian representations in order to maintain focus, it is not committed 
to seeing that category as a self-evident one.  In fact the conference 
organisers would welcome papers which explore and challenge the boundaries 
of Julio-Claudian identity as a concept.  
There are a number of themes that can be examined by historiographers, art 
historians, archaeologists, prosopographers and numismatists. While these 
are not necessarily all new questions, it is hoped that the speakers will 
bring fresh ideas and new interpretations of the evidence. Scholars will 
deliver papers which either take an overarching view of individual 
emperors within the context of the Julio-Claudian imperial family or will 
focus on particular elements of a specific principate using literary or 
material evidence. Possible questions for discussion might include:


•	How do ancient sources envisage, or characterise, the relation 
between
outwards representation and inner self-perception of a princeps? 
•	Are there traces of imperially-sponsored literary portraits of the 
princeps? 
•	How is myth exploited and represented by the four emperors and by 
those
who wrote about them? 
•	What differences do we see in the way the legions behaved toward 
different
emperors and in the way different emperors presented themselves in 
military contexts? How is that reflected in imperial representation?
•	Was the relationship of the emperor with the population of Rome a 
dynastic
or an individual affair?
•	What, if anything, characterises the relationship between the 
princeps and
the east and how is this reported in the sources?


Please send a provisional title and a 300 word abstract in Word format to 
Alisdair Gibson at [log in to unmask] by the 7th December 2007. Papers 
will be 30 minutes in duration. Abstracts sent by mail to the postal 
address below should arrive by the deadline. 

Additional information and details about the conference will be posted on 
the School website http://www.st-
andrews.ac.uk/classics/conferences/index.shtml. 

Contact:
Dr Alisdair Gibson
School of Classics
University St Andrews
Swallowgate
St Andrews
KY16 9AL, Scotland

Email: [log in to unmask]

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