SEMINAR
The Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at the University of
Nottingham will be holding the following seminars during the Autumn
Semester, which anyone is very welcome to attend:
§ Wed. October 17 (4.30 pm - Archaeology Seminar Room [A48])
Dr Joanita Vroom (Sheffield)
'The archaeology of late antique and early Byzantine dining habits in the
eastern Mediterranean'
§ Wed. November 21 (4.30 pm - Archaeology Seminar Room [A48])
Prof. Raymond Brulet (Louvain)
'The character of urbanism in late Roman Gaul'
§ Wed. December 5 (4.30 pm - Classics Seminar Room [C6])
Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos (King's College London)
'The plague in stone'
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Dr Doug Lee
Department of Classics
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD
0115 9514801
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JOB
Assistant Profesor
Classics and History
Willamette University
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/DE096/
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TRAINING DAY
The History, Classics and Archaeology Subject Centre has organised a
training day for "Supporting Teaching and Learning in Archaeology and
Classics: Graduate Teaching Assistants, Part-time Teachers, Short-term and
New Lecturers", although all members of UK HEI and FE staff are welcome
because this particular event focuses upon the practical application of
Learning Styles in Teaching and demonstrations of different kinds of
technology which are becoming more prevalent in teaching today.
The day takes place in the Council Chamber of the Glamorgan Building and
the programme for the day is:
10:30 Arrival and refreshments
11:00 Learning Styles
12:15 Lunch
Teaching with technology
1:15 Using Moving Images in Teaching
2:15 The Archaeology Image Bank
2:30 Podcasting
3:30 Coffee and Discussion
4:00 Close
Further details are available at http://tinyurl.com/2o4pcu, although
difficulties with the link mean that the map of the building and its
location may be better ascertained from:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/locations/locationsaz/index.html#glamorgan.
The event is no-charge and refreshments and lunch are included. However,
booking is essential to secure lunch, so could you please notify Lyn at
[log in to unmask] of your intention to attend by 5pm
on 11th October.
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GRADUATE SPRING SCHOOL
University of Erfurt Dept. of Religious Studies
9th International Spring School
9th-13th March 2008
Tombs as Places of Cult and Imagination
Death is certainly not only the biological end of one’s life, but
moreover the very starting signal for a whole sequence of ritual
practices connected to the preparatory aspects of the burial, the burial
itself and various activities aiming at the remembrance or continuation
of the deceased. Nonetheless, archaeological remains of burial practices
are often our only path for understanding local communities and their
social structures and this demonstrates how deeply connected to
materiality death actually is. The so-called history and archaeology of
death can offer invaluable information on aspects as diverse as family
interrelations, sanitary and alimentary habits, economic and social
status, and demography. As regards the intense interconnection between
death and religion, burial practices are an undisputable manifestation
of a society’s respect or disrespect towards its immediate past. Their
inherent fixation towards the past is perhaps one of the reasons for the
burial practices being so astonishingly neutral to major religious
changes (for example the spread of Christianity). Beyond this, tombs can
function as an important sign underlining one’s and his family’s social
and even ethnic identity (the tomb of Eurysaces the baker in Rome or the
conscious use of funeral /cippi/ by Phoenicians in Late Geometric and
Archaic Greece), but they can also create an imaginary, artificial
picture of the deceased (Cestius’ pyramid in Rome).
The 9th International Spring School will focus on the Ancient
Mediterranean. Based on the literary, archaeological, and epigraphic
evidence, our goal is the understanding of the religious and social
issues involved in burial practices and rituals at the tomb. This will
constitute a point of departure in order to investigate the mythical,
philosophical, and theological conceptualisation of the life to death
transition, of the “ontology” of the dead. Lectures and seminars will
offer insights into different periods and contexts, from Archaic Greece
down to texts by Lucian and the martyrological discourse of the Second
Sophistic or Christian practices of Late Antiquity.
M.A., Ph.D. and post-doctoral students from the disciplines of Classics
(including its various sub-disciplines), Religious Studies, and Theology
are invited to participate. The maximum number of participants is 30.
The course will be conducted in English; knowledge of Greek and Latin is
desirable. Participants can present their own research projects, if
related to the general topic. *Please apply via email by 30th November,
2007*, supplying also a brief CV with your application. Confirmation
will be sent by mid-December, to be followed by a reader including
primary texts and some secondary literature by the end of January. There
will be a participation fee of 40 EURO covering the costs of the reader,
coffee breaks etc. Inexpensive accommodation is available, and can be
booked by the organizers, if required.
Comparative Religion – Faculty of Philosophy - University of Erfurt
PO Box 90 02 21 – D-99105 Erfurt, Germany
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Announcing the release of version 3.1 of Diogenes, a free program for
reading the databases of Latin and Greek texts published on CD-Rom by the
Packard Humanities Institute and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/
The major new feature in this version is that, thanks to the generosity of
the Perseus project, morphological data and dictionaries for Latin (Lewis-
Short) and Greek (LSJ) and are built-in. This means that you can:
* Click on a word in the texts and get a morphological analysis and
the corresponding dictionary entry instantly, even if you are not
connected to the Internet.
* Click to analyze words in the dictionary entries themselves, or
click on the citation information of a passage cited in the
dictionary to jump to the context of the passage in the Latin or
Greek database.
* Do morphologically intelligent searching, i.e. search for all of the
inflected forms of a given dictionary headword.
* Look up words in the dictionaries.
In addition, version 3 of Diogenes is newly based on the Firefox browser
and should be very easy to install, much more so than previously. Easy-to-
install packages are provided for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Installation just takes a couple of clicks.
Version 3.1 also includes a number of new features that had long been
requested:
* Unicode input (now the default).
* Saving user-defined subsets of the databases for repeated searching.
* Running marginal numeration when browsing through a text.
* Improved Unicode output.
* For network installations, individual user settings (via cookies).
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CONFERENCE
We are pleased to announce, as part of new collaboration between the
School of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology at the University of
Liverpool, and the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews in
the field of Latin Panegyric, a one-day conference to be held on Saturday
16 May 2009 at St Andrews on ‘Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity’.
Speakers will include: Bruce Gibson (Liverpool), Roy Gibson (Manchester),
John Henderson (Cambridge), Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh), Roger Rees (St
Andrews). Expressions of interest and enquiries should be directed to
Bruce Gibson or Roger Rees (contact details below).
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COLLOQUIUM
THE OXFORD ROMAN ECONOMY PROJECT
Directors: Alan Bowman, Andrew Wilson
NEW RESEARCH ON THE NON-AGRICULTURAL ROMAN ECONOMY
Colloquium, Thursday 15-Friday 16 November, 200
Stelios Ioannou Classics Centre, St Giles, Oxford
Thursday 15th November
10:45 Registration / Coffee
11:20 Welcome and IntroductionSession 1: Stone-working and
mining techniques
11:30 Ben Russell (LMH): Mass-production in the Roman world:
the evidence from stone objects
12:15 Katja Schörle (Corpus): Advances in the technology of
Roman underground mining
13:00 Lunch
Session 2: Mining in the Balkans
14:00 Kristina Glicksman (Exeter): Mining in Roman Dalmatia
14:45 Dragana Mladenoviæ (St Hugh's): Roman Mining in Moesia
Superior
15:30 Tea
Session 3: Finance and Growth
16:00 Philip Kay (Wolfson): Financial intermediation in the 2nd
century BC
16:45 Karen Heslin (Merton): Identifying economic growth in
Roman North Africa and Gaul
17:30 Discussion
18:00 Drinks
Friday 16th November
Session 4: Imperial expenditure
9:30 Christina Triantafillou (Keble): Labour requirements for
Trajanic building projects
10:15 Merav Haklai (University): Some observations about the
monetary policy of Aurelian
11:00 Coffee
Session 5: Trade
11:30 Victoria Leitch (Hertford): Trade in North African
cookwares
12:15 Matthew Gibbs (Brasenose): Economic functions of trade
associations in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
13:00 Lunch
Session 6: Cities in the economy
14:00 Candace Vaden (Exeter): Merchant cities?
14:45 Alex Sofroniew (Brasenose): Urban development and
settlement spread in Graeco-Roman Egypt
15:30 Concluding discussion
The colloquium is an open event, free of charge, although numbers are
restricted to about 100. If you would like to attend, please register as
soon as possible by email to [log in to unmask]
mailto:[log in to unmask]> and copy to
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JOBS
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
School of Language Studies
Associate Lecturer In Classics (Greek)
Academic Level A
Salary Range: $48,502 - $64,832 pa plus 17% superannuation
Reference: CASS4377
The Faculty of Arts, in the College of Art and Social Sciences is looking
for an associate lecturer in classics who is excited about their research,
enthusiastic about their teaching, committed to collegiality, and keen to
make a contribution to the Faculty of Arts and the wider ANU community.
The Faculty invites applications from Classicists for a continuing
position as Associate Lecturer. The Faculty seeks candidates with
competence in Ancient Greek and Ancient Greek History/Culture. Candidates
will be expected to teach Greek History/Culture and Ancient Greek language
and literature at all undergraduate levels and to supervise postgraduate
students. Candidates who are also able to teach Latin language and
literature will be well regarded.
The successful applicant will have a record of research and undergraduate
teaching in Classics/Ancient History.
Selection Criteria: http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/jobs/ or from Elizabeth
Minchin T: 02 6125 5106, E: [log in to unmask]
Enquiries: Elizabeth Minchin, T: 02 6125 5106, E:
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Closing Date: Friday 19 October 2007
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts
School of Language Studies
Associate Lecturer in Classics (Latin)
Academic Level A
Fixed term 3 years
Salary Range: $48,502 - $64,832 pa plus 17% superannuation
Reference: CASS4360
The Faculty of Arts, in the College of Arts and Social Sciences, invites
applications from Classicists for a three-year fixed-term position as
Associate Lecturer from candidates with competence in Latin and Ancient
Greek language and literature. Candidates will be expected to teach Latin
and Ancient Greek language and literature and in-translation courses in
Ancient History/Culture at all undergraduate levels and to supervise
postgraduate students.
The successful applicant will have a record of research and undergraduate
teaching in Classics.
Selection Criteria: http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/jobs/ or from Elizabeth
Minchin, T: 6125 5106, E: [log in to unmask]
Enquiries: Elizabeth Minchin, T: 6125 5106, E:
[log in to unmask]
Closing Date: Friday 19 October 2007
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CONFERENCE CFP
Thinking the Olympics: Modern Bodies, Classical Minds?
18th-19th September 2008 at the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate
House, University of London
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2008 Olympics in Beijing, poised between the return of the Games to
Athens in 2004, and the future return to London in 2012, present a
striking opportunity to reassess the role of the classical tradition in
the modern, post-classical Olympic Games. Certain versions of a so-called
Hellenic ideal have regularly been a feature of public discourse about the
Olympics, and have occasioned much of the inventing of traditions that has
surrounded the Games since their revival in the nineteenth century.
Classical references were very visible in the 2004 Games, and the Athens
celebrations were also accompanied by a number of books that together
helped to redefine the understanding of the ancient games and their
commemoration in poetry and pottery. The classical figures are
considerably more muted in the publicity for the Beijing Games, so that it
is legitimate to question how much and under what conditions the classical
tradition has further relevance for contemporary Olympics, or contemporary
Olympics for the classical tradition.
This interdisciplinary conference invites submissions that consider the
versions of ancient Greece legible, or suppressed, in the iconography,
histories, literature, and ceremonies, both official and unofficial, of
the revived Olympic Games. Papers will centrally address some classical
aspect of the modern Olympic Games, but may be substantially focussed on
topics including, although not limited to
the poetics of athletics
Olympic ideals in statuary, painting, ceramics and iconography
epic figures and the Olympics
the Games as theatrical performance
international games and globalisation
nationalism at the Olympics
sport and war
race/ethnicity at the Olympics
gender and the Olympics
the Paralympics and classical ideals
the ethics of sportsmanship
Perspectives from a variety of relevant disciplines, including classical
reception studies, history ancient and modern, literary criticism,
cultural studies, history of art, anthropology, media studies, political
science, philosophy, sports science, and the history of medicine, are all
welcome.
The conference is supported by Goldsmiths, University of London and the
University of Reading.
Please send a 300 word abstract, suitable for a 20 minute paper, to
Michael Simpson ([log in to unmask]), Department of English and
Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London or to Barbara
Goff ([log in to unmask]), Department of Classics, University of
Reading. The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is 31st March 2008.
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