JOBS
The School of Classics is about to appoint to a Teaching Fellowship in
Latin and Classical Studies.
This is a fixed term position of 11 months beginning 1st February 2008,
and the salary will be in the range £22,650- £27,045 per annum pro rata.
The person appointed will be expected to teach some Latin language, as
well as Latin literature and a range of topics in Classical Studies.
Application forms and further particulars are available from Human
Resources, University of St Andrews, College Gate, North Street, St
Andrews FIFE KY16 9AK (TEL: 01334 462571 (24 hrs); fax 01334 462570) or 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/. Informal enquiries may be made to the Head of
School, Prof. Greg Woolf via e-mail to [log in to unmask]
The closing date is 5th November 2007
PLEASE QUOTE THE REFERENCE NUMBER: SK051/07
The University is committed to equality of opportunity.
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The Department of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo is a
vibrant, innovative academic unit showcasing a new MA program in Ancient
Mediterranean Cultures. This program will have a cross-disciplinary focus
emphasizing the cultural interchange in the Mediterranean basin from the
Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages. We are inviting applications for an
incremental position, with a preferred starting date of July 2008. Area of
expertise and rank of appointment are open; salary will be commensurate
with qualifications and experience. The successful applicant should have
obtained the Ph.D. degree by the time of taking up the appointment, and
demonstrate a commitment to excellence in both research and teaching, at
the undergraduate as well as graduate levels. The successful candidate
will be instrumental in supporting and guiding the new graduate program as
it grows within the context of a University at the global forefront of
academic research and teaching at all levels and in all faculties.
Applications should include a full curriculum vitae, a plan of research,
and samples of publications. These materials and three confidential
letters of reference are to be sent to: Dr. R. Faber, Chair, Department of
Classical Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1. Phone:
519-888-4567 x 32817; E-mail: [log in to unmask] Consideration of
applications will begin on January 2, 2008. All qualified candidates are
encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and Permanent Residents will be
given priority. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from
all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities,
native peoples, and persons with disabilities. This appointment is subject
to the availability of funds.
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LECTURES:
ACCORDIA & INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINARS AUTUMN 2007
October 23rd: Vedia Izzet (Southampton): The Romanization of Etruscan women
November 20th: Federico Russo (Pisa): Rome between Latins and Greeks.
The idea of consanguinitas in Ancient Italy
Seminars will take place on Tuesdays @ 5.15 in Room NG16, Senate House,
North Block, London WC1E. For further details, please contact Dr Kathryn
Lomas, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY
(email: [log in to unmask]).
ALL WELCOME
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Hellenic Society joint event with the
Ancient History Seminar of the Institute of Classical Studies
Thursday 15 November 2007
starting at 5-30 pm
PROFESSOR FRANK KAMMERZELL
(Humboldt University of Berlin)
‘FOREIGN POTENTATE’ AND ‘LORD OF THE TWO LANDS’: DAREIOS IN EGYPT
Room 336, Third Floor, North Block, Senate House, Malet Street, London
WCIE 7HU
ALL WELCOME
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THESE LECTURES ARE AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
We hope that these two lectures will be of interest to you. Booking
information, including a special offer for both lectures, can be found at
the bottom of this page.
The Portland Vase and Beyond: New research on Roman Cameo Glass Dr David
Whitehouse of the Corning Museum of Glass, New York State, and Dr Paul
Roberts of the Greek and Roman Department Friday 30 November 2007, 18.30
For over four hundred years the Portland Vase has captivated people with
its mysterious scenes, its intriguing technique and its sheer beauty. Yet
within the collections of the British Museum there is another, near-
complete cameo glass piece, the Auldjo Jug, as well as the remains of
almost eighty other vessels and decorative plaques that all belong to the
fascinating tradition of Roman cameo glass. Dr David Whitehouse of the
Corning Museum of Glass, New York State, and Dr Paul Roberts of the Greek
and Roman Department, the British Museum, take a fresh look at the Roman
cameo glass in the British Museum and elsewhere, to see what new light can
be shed on this most beautiful and innovative Roman art form.
BP Lecture Theatre, includes wine and refreshments
£12
Annual Eva Lorant Memorial Lecture
Etruscan ritual practice: excavations at the sanctuary of Poggio Colla
Greg Warden, Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas Friday 7 December 2007, 18.30 The acropolis sanctuary of
Poggio Colla, about 35 km NE of Florence, is providing dramatic evidence
for Etruscan votive religion and ritual destruction. The finds include a
series of deposits consisting of architectural elements of a destroyed
temple, gold jewellery, coins, bronzes, and statue bases. The
archaeological evidence is a testament to Etruscan rituals previously
reconstructed from historical sources.
Professor Warden is the Principal Investigator of the Mugello Valley
Archaeological Project. Since 1995 this international project has trained
students from over 60 universities.
BP Lecture Theatre, includes wine and refreshments
£12
These two lectures can be purchased for a special combined price of £18.
For tickets contact +44 (0)20 7323 8195 or [log in to unmask]
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Publicity for Public Lecture by Prof. Dr. Markus Stein (Duesseldorf),
Cardiff University, 14th November 2007, Humanities Building, 2.03. 4-6pm.
‘Aspects of Manichaeism in the Latin West.’
Hosted by the Cardiff Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture:
Markus Stein is the world-renowned expert on the western form of
Manichaeism as it took root in the Roman Empire of late antiquity. He is
the principal editor for the series ‘Manichaica Latina’ in the collection,
Papyrologica Coloniensia. Prof. Stein has produced valuable editions with
extensive commentaries on the key sources for Latin Manichaeism, including
one of the few remaining works written by Mani, the Epistula Fundamenti,
along with the only surviving Manichaean source written originally in
Latin, the Tebessa Codex.
In this public lecture, Prof. Stein will discuss the nature and dimensions
of Latin Manichaeism. Moving beyond the presentation of Mani’s religion
offered by hostile polemicists like Saint Augustine, Prof. Stein will
offer a critical reappraisal of Manichaean thinking on a variety of
topics, including free-will, salvation and church organisation.
This is an open lecture: all members of the public are invited to attend.
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Professor Blake Morrison (Goldsmith’s College, London),
will give a lecture on ‘Turning Classical Plays into Contemporary Theatre’.
at 2:15pm on Monday 26 November 2007 in the Lecture Theatre, Classics
Centre, 66 St Giles’,
All are welcome. Contact [log in to unmask]
‘Sirens: The Seductive Lure of the Female Voice’,
a lecture recital featuring Hannah Rosenfelder (Mezzo Soprano),
with Merel van der Knoop (Piano) and Anneke Hodnett (Harp)
at 5pm on Wednesday 31 October 2007 in Magdalen Auditorium.
For more information, see www.onassis.ox.ac.uk.
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Lampeter Seminar Series:
Thursday 18 October
(week 4) Dr Emma Stafford (Leeds) ‘Herakles heros theos: how
to worship a hero-god’
CA
Thursday 25 October
(week 5) Dr Ruth Parkes (Oxford) ‘What’s in a name? The ambushers
of Statius’ ‘Thebaid’’ KYKNOS - Lampeter
Thursday 1 November
(week 6) Dr Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham) ‘Ancient
Commentary: Asconius and Cicero on Milo and Papirius’
Tuesday 6 November (week 7) Prof. Helen Lovatt (Nottingham)
‘Monumentally epic: Medusa, heroism and the epic gaze?’ KYKNOS -
Lampeter
Thursday 15 November
(week 8) Dr Sarah Hitch (Bristol) ‘Horses and hair. The
trouble with sacrifice in the Iliad.’ KYKNOS - Lampeter
Thursday 22 November (week 9) Charlotte Greenacre (UCL)
Numbers from Nowhere. A Critical Analysis of Scheidel’s Human
Mobility
Thursday 29 November (week 10) Owen Hodkinson (Lampeter)
‘Philostratus’ /Erotic Epistles/ and Latin elegy’. KYKNOS –
Lampeter
Thursday 17 January (week 2) Dr Peter Liddel (Manchester) The Decree-
Cultures of Ancient Greece
Thursday 24 January (week 3) Errietta Bissa (University of Wales
Lampeter) ‘Man, Woman or Myth? Gender Trouble in Lucian’s Dialogues
of the Courtesans.’ KYKNOS - Lampeter
Thursday 31 January (week 4) Prof. Andrew Laird (Warwick) The
Creation of Virgil KYKNOS-Lampeter
Thursday 7 February
(week 5) Dr Helen van Noorden (Cambridge) ‘Apocalypse how?’
KYKNOS – Lampeter
Thursday 21 February
(week 7) Dr Victoria Moul
(Oxford) TBC KYKNOS – Lampeter
Thursday 28 February (week 8) Dr Matthew Wright (Exeter)
‘Aristophanes Frogs: agony and irony’ KYKNOS?
Thursday 6 March (week 9) Dr Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge)
‘Strabo on cultural centres across the Mediterranean’
Thursday 17 April (week 1) Dr Carrie Roth-Murray (Lampeter)
‘Ritual interaction in colonial contexts’
Thursday 24 April (week 2) Prof. Geoffrey Eatough (Lampeter)
‘How to write the history of the New World: Peter Martyr's De Orbe
Novo’
Thursday 1 May (week 3) Dr David Fearn (Oxford) TBC
Thursday 8 May (week 4) Dr Katerina Oikonomopolou (St Andrews)
‘Athenaeus’ Ethnography’ KYKNOS – Lampeter
Thursday 22 May
(week 6) Prof. John Rich (Nottingham)
‘Lex Licinia, Lex Sempronia: B.G. Niebuhr and the limitation of
landholding under the Roman Republic’ Lampeter
Thursday 29 May (week 7) Prof Tom O’Loughlin (Lampeter)
‘Cassiodorus the Dialectician’
"For any queries, please contact Dr Mirjam Plantinga
([log in to unmask])."
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GRANTS
ASPROM (Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics)
www. asprom.org.
Grants
The Association offers grants up to a maximum value of £500 (its funds
permitting) to support costs of travel and/or publication to do with the
study of ancient mosaics. The deadline for this round of applications is
December 31 2007, and candidates will be informed of the outcome by late
March 2008. For terms and conditions and a downloadable booking form
please see the ASPROM website: www.asprom.org.
SYMPOSIUM
The 57th Symposium on Roman Mosaics will be held in Kings College London,
Strand Campus, Room 2c on Saturday, December 1 2007, 2pm- 5.30pm.
Speakers:
John Allan, Early Roman mosaic materials in southern Britain: a
geological perspective
Shelly Hales, Reflections of Aphrodite: Venus mosaics in Roman North Africa
Ruth Leader-Newby, ‘Always read the label’ : inscribed Roman mosaics in
the late Empire
Refreshments included. Cost £11; for details about booking, and about the
lunch available beforehand (cost £17) please see the ASPROM website:
www.asprom.org/news/symposium57.html
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SUETONIUS CONFERENCE: CALL FOR PAPERS
University of Manchester, 26-27 June 2008
Submission of abstracts on Suetonius is invited for a conference to be
held at the University of Manchester, 26-27 June 2008. Provisionally
confirmed speakers
include:
Rhiannon Ash (Oxford)
Erik Gunderson (Toronto)
John Henderson (Cambridge)
Donna Hurley (New York)
Tim Parkin (Manchester)
Jeff Tatum (Sydney)
Peter Wiseman (Exeter)
Ruth Morello (Manchester)
Roy Gibson (Manchester)
Papers may be on any aspect of the lost or surviving works of Suetonius,
his context or influence; but we are particularly seeking papers of a
broadly literary or cultural bent which seek to understand Suetonius and
his text, either directly or through his inheritors. The aim of the
conference is to galvanize and revitalize study of this fascinating early
imperial author.
Abstracts should be no longer than one side of A4 and should be sent to
either of the conference organisers by 31 January 2008.
For further information, do not hesitate to contact us.
Roy Gibson ([log in to unmask]) Ruth Morello
([log in to unmask])
Classics & Ancient History, University of Manchester
Note on Conference Series: this is the fifth in an informal series of
biennial conferences organised by Latinists at the University of
Manchester. The first three have been published as Re-imagining Pliny the
Younger (Arethusa 36.2, 2003); The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on
Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris (OUP, 2006); and Ancient Letters:
Classical and Late Antique Epistolography (OUP, 2007). A fourth - Pliny
the Elder: Themes and Contexts
- is in preparation for publication with Brill in late 2008. For further
information, see:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/arethusa/
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199277773
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199203956
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Cardiff Univeristy's Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture (CLARC)
is launching a new journal for inter-disciplinary research into the post-
classical and late antique period.
The Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture (JLARC)is a full text,
open access online Journal edited by members and associates of CLARC and
published by Cardiff University.
Contributions are welcome for a wide range of topics in the research area
as defined on the homepage of the centre.
ISSN: 1754-517X
Further information, including details of the editorial board, may be found
at:
http://www.cf.ac.uk/clarc/jlarc/jlarc-home.html
The launch of the journal is planned for the end of November 2007.
ISSN: 1754-517X
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CELTIC CONFERENCE IN CLASSICS - first notice
The next Celtic Conference in Classics, the fifth, will be at University
College Cork, 9-12 July 2008 (Wednesday-Saturday). All are welcome.
The panels (provisionally) are to be:
` "Aristocracy" and Social Mobility in Antiquity'
Chairs: Nick Fisher (Cardiff) and Hans van Wees (London)
`New Approaches to Greek Comedy'
Chair: Keith Sidwell (Cork)
`Les femmes et la religion dans le monde gre/co-romain'
Pre/sidants: Pierre Brule/ (Rennes II), Ve/ronique Mehl (Lorient)
‘Authority and Authenticity in Ancient Narrative’ - a KYKNOS panel.
Chairs: John Morgan (Swansea), Mirjam Plantinga (Lampeter), Ian Repath
(Swansea)
`Vision and Power: The Theory, Practice and Representation of Viewing in
Ancient Greece'
Chairs: Sue Blundell (London), Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh), Nancy
Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)
`Medieval Ireland and the Classical Past'
Chair: David Woods (Cork)
`Herodotos and Sparta' and `Thucydides and Sparta'
Chairs: Stephen Hodkinson (Nottingham), Ellen Millender (Reed), Anton
Powell (UWICAH)
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The Celtic Conference aims to develop collective projects in a setting
which is hospitable intellectually and socially. The timetable is
designed to encourage members to move between panels as they wish.
Further information from Anton Powell (Organiser):
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MA/PhD Studentships in Classics, University of South Africa
The Department of Classics and World Languages at Unisa offers
studentships in Classics from January 2008 or the earliest date
thereafter. The studentships (two, depending on the quality of
applications) are renewable annually to a maximum of four years, subject
to satisfactory progress. Applications are awaited from students who have
completed or are about to complete a postgraduate qualification in any
field of Classics (Greek, Latin, Classical Culture, Ancient History). The
successful applicants will be appointed as postgraduate student assistants
at the University, for which registration for a masters or doctoral degree
in Classical Studies at Unisa is a prerequisite. Current ranges for
remuneration are ZAR 50 855 - 60 490 part time and ZAR 76 287 - 90 735
full time.
The incumbents will be required to show satisfactory progress in their
studies and to complete the dissertation within the required period. They
will also be expected to assist in first level teaching of Classics
modules offered at Unisa and to become involved in research and other
academic activities of the Department. Ability to teach either Greek or
Ancient History on the lower levels will be a distinct advantage.
The closing date for applications is 30 November 2007. To apply, students
should first contact the Department to indicate intent, after which a
research proposal of approximately 5 pages, a recent CV, proof of
qualifications and contact details of two referees will be required.
Please contact Dr. Philip Bosman by e-mail at [log in to unmask]
For more information on Classics at Unisa, visit our website at
http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=144.
The University of South Africa (Unisa) is an equal opportunity employer.
It is the largest distance education university in the southern hemisphere
and its main campus in Pretoria boasts the best research facilities for
classical studies in South Africa. Pretoria has the largest population of
tertiary students in the country and may be considered the education
capital of the Republic.
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